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  • @DasTubemeister
    @DasTubemeister Год назад +14

    I was growing up in a children’s home in Scotland in 1973. I remember many bus trips like this, singing, “ Ye canna shove yer granny off the bus”, and “Stop the bus, I need a wee wee” Happy days.

    • @jaymac7203
      @jaymac7203 10 месяцев назад

      😭 lol 😂

  • @hilaryepstein6013
    @hilaryepstein6013 2 года назад +71

    What a heartwarming (and heartbreaking) film. Thank goodness for people like Mr Murphy and his volunteers, then and now. I hope those children's lives worked out ok.

    • @bradford_shaun_murray
      @bradford_shaun_murray 2 года назад +1

      cheers 6:17🍺

    • @randomtux1234
      @randomtux1234 Год назад +2

      @@bradford_shaun_murray heartwarming even in 2023 came to mind, just before reading your 'heartwarming' comment too

  • @oxouk
    @oxouk 2 года назад +38

    I loved the double decker buses. I always used to sit upstairs at the front seat pretending I was driving.

    • @BadgerBotherer1
      @BadgerBotherer1 Год назад +5

      I still do - and I'm 55!

    • @oxouk
      @oxouk Год назад +1

      @@BadgerBotherer1 I’m sure I would also if I was around them.

  • @carlwilson6631
    @carlwilson6631 2 года назад +31

    I was 9 years old when this film was made. I lived in Netherton before moving to the”Four Squares” off Soho street. I can certainly relate to the images shown, any one of those kids could have been me, my mates, my brothers or my sisters. It was like that everywhere close to the city centre. I’ll never forget growing up in Liverpool in the 70’s. I have some vivid memories both good and bad. People often talk about the good old days, but proud as I am to be a scouser raised in that era I for one have no desire to return to it. I never knew about the LTC but I just looked it up and I’m really happy to say that they are still going and doing a pretty similar job! Coming from a poor one parent family, one of my brothers and myself were sent to Colomendy near Mold in North Wales for a free holiday. I remember most of our teachers from school came along too. That was probably my first experience of nature from outside of urban Liverpool. I have some fond memories of that too. Nowadays I live and work in Burlington just outside of Toronto Canada, but Liverpool is in my blood, warts and all!

    • @sandraford4235
      @sandraford4235 2 года назад +2

      I wondered if it was still going ,I hadn’t heard of it either ,

    • @carlwilson6631
      @carlwilson6631 2 года назад +3

      Yeah I Googled it and their website came right up. It’s awesome to know that they’re still going and looks like they still do pretty much the same thing and more. I tried to find out what happened to Bill Murphy but I drew something of a blank. Incidentally, I showed the video to my Canadian wife to give her an idea of my upbringing, she immediately fell in love with Bill after what he said about the kids in his interview :).

    • @jazztheglass6139
      @jazztheglass6139 2 года назад +4

      I was 7 when this came out, I grew up in dingle. 1973 the year of my first trip to colamendy. First time I saw a cow. I've got great memories of my childhood in Liverpool. People were poor, but very resilient and part of a close community.
      The old time socialists in Liverpool weren't bad. They're a disgrace these days

    • @misspurrr-fect3684
      @misspurrr-fect3684 2 года назад

      Carl Wilson ...
      Here’s a blast from your past .
      ruclips.net/video/okU_2gCA4L0/видео.html
      Used to do this walk down Soho street most Saturdays in 70s/80s from TJ Hughes , London road to Great Homer Street Market.
      All demolished now , except the Richmond Pub ( now flats ) , the Yard next-door & a couple buildings facing the yard on Soho Street.
      ❤️ Huyton .

    • @stephensmith4480
      @stephensmith4480 22 часа назад +1

      @@jazztheglass6139 I was 14 when this was filmed and I was also from The Dingle, born and bred in Caryl Gardens, Hill street end. We had next to nothing but the sense of community spirit was amazing. Everyone looked out for each other and kept an eye on the kids as we played out. There was some unpleasant times but on the whole, I really do have happy memories from my childhood. We only moved because the Tenements were getting knocked down.

  • @Ology3121
    @Ology3121 2 года назад +55

    I was 7 in 73 growing up in a pub on Prescott Street not far from Scotty road. Liverpool was still a bomb site. We had prefabs around the pub from the war and had a bonfire every night on the waste ground. I never saw us as poverty kids. Just little scallies doing no harm and having the city centre as our play ground. In around 1975/76 BBC North West filmed me dancing around a bonfire for bommy night. I've never found the footage. If BBC archives reads messages see if you can find that broadcast. You'll know me in the video. I was wearing a duffle coat with a 6 million dollar man tshirt beneath it. It was shown in tv the following night.🤞

    • @JohnnyBlaze5100
      @JohnnyBlaze5100 2 года назад +1

      We Americans don’t really know what “scallies” mean lol, but I understand the meaning.

    • @Danuk1996
      @Danuk1996 2 года назад +2

      @@JohnnyBlaze5100 it’s means thugs idk what the American term is

    • @noteverton
      @noteverton 2 года назад

      I was 15 then, growing up on Melwood Drive.

    • @greenbunnyinabongo7299
      @greenbunnyinabongo7299 2 года назад +1

      I hope you manage to find your clip buddy

    • @NoosaHeads
      @NoosaHeads Год назад +4

      ​@OMERTA it doesn't mean thug. It's short for "scalliwag" ie, rascal..

  • @stephaniehayden7630
    @stephaniehayden7630 2 года назад +21

    I was born down the road two months before this package originally went out but I can just about remember Scotland Road as a very young child in the late 1970s. The deprivation was real but there was a character to that area that simply vanished by the early 1990s. Liverpool was full of similar estates, Gerard Gardens in the City Centre comes to mind. Not much money, but a community spirit that is not replicated in 21st century UK.

    • @jackchapman5451
      @jackchapman5451 Год назад

      Community spirit murdered by Mrs Thatcher in the 80s

  • @bencoatesworth7731
    @bencoatesworth7731 2 года назад +13

    Sadly we never see or hear of anything like this anymore

  • @chillired5389
    @chillired5389 2 года назад +7

    Wow, an absolutely brand new Merseyside PTE Walter Alexander-bodied Leyland Atlantean 1384 (DKC384L) at 10:18😍😍 She was new in March 1973, so the film must’ve been just after
    The government brought in the New Bus Grant Scheme, so the PTE’s could get rid of the backloaders and the Merseyside PTE managed it by 1977
    Interesting for me to see how my favourite kind of bus came in to replace the backloaders from 1972 and I think a valid point was made in how the old buses could’ve been saved more to help the communities rather than just being sent to the scrap yard as they were replaced by the Atlanteans and other rear engine buses

  • @Springamatul
    @Springamatul 2 года назад +16

    It would be nice if this free service today would be offered to people who are worse off. Especially in this day and age.

    • @johnq4951
      @johnq4951 2 года назад

      The health and safety Nazis would never allow it. they'd drown them in red tape

  • @manalive1623
    @manalive1623 2 года назад +33

    My United-fan ears caught George Best’s name near the start. Think they were singing “Georgie Best, Superstar, he wears frilly knickers & a lacy bra” 😄

    • @GhastlyCretin
      @GhastlyCretin 2 года назад +6

      Lmfao 🤣

    • @johnmcgahern3946
      @johnmcgahern3946 2 года назад +7

      Yes, I recall singing that one around that time, I was 8 in '73.

    • @BadgerBotherer1
      @BadgerBotherer1 Год назад

      We used to say, "Georgie Best, superstar, looks like a woman and he wears a bra."

    • @johnwilson1549
      @johnwilson1549 4 месяца назад +1

      I remember that one 😁😂🤣 Better days 👍🇬🇧🙏❤️

    • @manalive1623
      @manalive1623 4 месяца назад +1

      @@johnwilson1549 All in good fun 😄

  • @yozza4978
    @yozza4978 2 года назад +7

    0:43...that drivers like "help me"

  • @calmac938
    @calmac938 11 месяцев назад +2

    Once lovely fact is this charity still exists. That makes me feel alot better about today.

  • @zulfiqarali9808
    @zulfiqarali9808 2 года назад +13

    Hilarious
    Such people and ideas make communities proud and happy

  • @NoosaHeads
    @NoosaHeads Год назад +5

    It sounds like nothing but £3 in 1973 was the price of a nice dinner for two at a good restaurant. I reckon you can multiply 1973 prices by at least 20 to get a 2023 equivalent - ie £60. Whilst this for a week's trip is still cheap, it would have been still an amount to save up for, over a period of time. I wonder if the service is still operating?

    • @liamkatt6434
      @liamkatt6434 Год назад

      Yes in 1973 that would have bought you over fifteen pints of lager,. Today's price 60 pound in the cheap areas. Correct.

    • @jimdavis6448
      @jimdavis6448 Год назад

      £3 was 2hrs day work at Vauxhall (Production worker )in 1973

  • @lizaluk
    @lizaluk 2 года назад +2

    Grateful to all the relevant for this vedio

  • @1969Kismet
    @1969Kismet Год назад +12

    Would you Adam & Eve it! Liverpool Community Transport still exists!
    They have a website and still go with the same idea: transport for everyone, every day. Fancy that!

  • @sandraford4235
    @sandraford4235 2 года назад +7

    I’m from the Dingle not far from the town center,We never had much money but we went to Formby ,Ainsdale etc often on the train,My Gran had a marquee which we used to pick up from this old mans garden shed in either Gronant or Talacre I forget which ,She paid him a few pence to store it till the next time,Aunties and cousins we would all go pitch the tent and stay all day ,Us kids would go off on adventures while our Mums put the kettle on the primus stove,we had great days out ,Then the tent would be pulled down ,folded and dropped off in the old man’s shed till next time ,

  • @JohnnyBlaze5100
    @JohnnyBlaze5100 2 года назад +5

    Quite lovely ❤

  • @jaymac7203
    @jaymac7203 10 месяцев назад +2

    The council allowing the busses to stay rent free in those buildings would definitely be a huge help with the budget! Wow.

  • @ChrisPollitt
    @ChrisPollitt 2 года назад +3

    Wonderful!

  • @paulmatthews5470
    @paulmatthews5470 2 года назад +8

    I’m getting Our Day Out vibes

  • @Ian-gw2vx
    @Ian-gw2vx 2 года назад +18

    There is a great Willy Russel play called "Our Day Out" made in 1977 which was probably inspired by this film. ruclips.net/video/yC94IOtTJrc/видео.html

    • @ste2442
      @ste2442 2 года назад +6

      Thought that straight away meself mate

    • @linny6466
      @linny6466 2 года назад +3

      Yes, that’s a nice film. I was also thinking about it.

    • @MayaJagger
      @MayaJagger 2 года назад +2

      He worked in a school for a little while which was meant to have inspired the film, so I’ve read. However there’s no way he won’t have known about LCT, even if he never saw this serial he strikes me as a man who was embedded into his community. It’s too uncanny

    • @stephensmith4480
      @stephensmith4480 22 часа назад

      @@MayaJagger He Taught English in The School which I attended.

  • @MayaJagger
    @MayaJagger 2 года назад +2

    I wonder if Willy Russell ever saw this. Straight out of Our Day Out

  • @flyby2300
    @flyby2300 2 года назад +1

    The image-contrast & -brightness of digitised programme is very low. Contrast & brightness could have certainly be adjusted before uploading it to Y/tube, could it not?

  • @jaybee2402
    @jaybee2402 2 года назад +4

    That bird at 07:43 is yummmm...sod Dorset, I'd take her to Waikiki on a whim ❤️❤️❤️

    • @Evemeister12
      @Evemeister12 2 года назад

      She'll be nearly 80 years old now

    • @FenceThis
      @FenceThis 2 года назад +1

      @@Evemeister12 early to mid 70’s

    • @jaybee2402
      @jaybee2402 2 года назад

      @@Evemeister12 and I was the grand old age of 5 back then, a little too young I'm sure you agree, hence the conditional "I'd"...

  • @NoosaHeads
    @NoosaHeads 2 года назад +10

    There is no way on God's earth that Bill Murphy was a Irishman brought up in Liverpool. That accent is from east of Northampton or thereabouts.

  • @audreysimon696
    @audreysimon696 4 месяца назад +1

    Those we’re happy days I was 17 at this time if anyone remembers we call the coaches Charabangs and marbles Olies sorry for the spelling errors can anyone else think of anything like this long ago for me I forgetting lately am 68 years old and the over head railway xx

  • @swanvictor887
    @swanvictor887 2 года назад +4

    half a century on...what happened? how long did the scheme survive? How long did they nurse those old buses....? Are those scallies still alive....

  • @1BCamden
    @1BCamden Год назад +2

    Still going 2023, wow very impressive

  • @onlypendants
    @onlypendants 2 года назад +13

    Looking at these kids ( i was about 4 myself in 73 ) i realize what a childhood we had. We had 'real' friends, real toys, real nature. Today's kids sadly have none of it. Thank God i was born then & not today 🙏🏼🙂

    • @arilebon
      @arilebon 2 года назад +5

      Each generation thinks the same of the other. The pattern continues.

  • @petermurphy8580
    @petermurphy8580 Год назад +4

    My mum giving out the chips

  • @matthewmiller8048
    @matthewmiller8048 6 месяцев назад

    Our day out. wonderful play

  • @davesmatedave
    @davesmatedave 4 месяца назад

    Wonder if Georgie Best was wearing his frilly knickers under his footie shorts?!

  • @donner101
    @donner101 11 месяцев назад

    For the people of Liverpool it was a dream to go to Dorset, for the people of Dorset it was a nightmare to go to Liverpool.

  • @ctcurry1777
    @ctcurry1777 2 года назад +7

    The 70s was such a definitive decade for modern life.

  • @TheHarrip
    @TheHarrip 2 года назад +2

    Where did this idea disappear to? Could you even do such a thing nowadays?

  • @myalfie
    @myalfie 2 года назад +11

    These people back then had qualities some people today will never have.

  • @mus139
    @mus139 2 месяца назад +1

    Those chips look nice.

  • @bongeyedbill9355
    @bongeyedbill9355 2 года назад +3

    Folk back then had nothing.
    Salt of the earth people as they say.
    But, they all knew each other and looked out for each other!!
    What the fk has happened to us???

  • @IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou
    @IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou 2 года назад +1

    Is that Bernard Falk doing the voiceover?

  • @Osman-mj5rf
    @Osman-mj5rf 10 месяцев назад +1

    We also had the community unity in L8. I tell my grandkids I use to play with bricks on the olla. 😂

  • @MrLiverpoolfilms09
    @MrLiverpoolfilms09 2 года назад

    Doe anyone know if Eddie Cartwright was involved in this, as i know he was a social worker in that area at that time, let me know.

  • @herbz2hot2
    @herbz2hot2 Год назад

    woman at 7:44 fit the man at 9:30 has a foot print on his head loooooool

  • @Luna.3.3.3
    @Luna.3.3.3 4 месяца назад +1

    What a brilliant, Smart_ idea! I'm from across the pond, but I highly doubt this still exists. What a shame. Mr. Murphy had it exactly right about raising a 'whole child'. If this were still around, maybe there'd be less gangs and crime.

    • @stephensmith4480
      @stephensmith4480 22 часа назад +1

      It's still going today 👍👍

    • @Luna.3.3.3
      @Luna.3.3.3 21 час назад +1

      @@stephensmith4480 That's great news! Thank you! I hope it's still helping the community. 😊

    • @stephensmith4480
      @stephensmith4480 8 часов назад

      @@Luna.3.3.3 No problem my friend. I think they now have a website.

  • @farhanatoerien3437
    @farhanatoerien3437 8 месяцев назад

    We need this in SA

  • @simonlunt353
    @simonlunt353 2 года назад +3

    I wonder if LTC is still running for these good people 😊

    • @EVERSMAN42
      @EVERSMAN42 2 года назад +2

      I think it is, just looked it up

  • @Danuk1996
    @Danuk1996 2 года назад +2

    I live in Scottie road

    • @jimbo50
      @jimbo50 2 года назад

      Was you born there? Or are you a tourist.

    • @Danuk1996
      @Danuk1996 2 года назад +2

      Yes all my life

    • @FenceThis
      @FenceThis 2 года назад

      @@Danuk1996 ah, but were your grand parents born there or are you a tourist ?

    • @Danuk1996
      @Danuk1996 2 года назад +1

      @@FenceThis yes from there

    • @FenceThis
      @FenceThis 2 года назад

      @@Danuk1996 ;-)

  • @parvezahmedjalil7310
    @parvezahmedjalil7310 2 года назад +3

    Nothing like this can happen in 2022 UK

  • @martinmanifold2241
    @martinmanifold2241 2 года назад +8

    I was one of 7 and my dad always had the time to take us to crosby or formby . Some parents just fail their children no matter what the decade. It still goes on today ...prioritise all the wrong things

    • @martinmanifold2241
      @martinmanifold2241 2 года назад

      @@jpross68survival and life decides what is nessesary ...

    • @noteverton
      @noteverton 2 года назад +3

      I was one of six. There was no money for holidays.

    • @martinmanifold2241
      @martinmanifold2241 2 года назад +1

      @@noteverton yep ..days out was as good as it got..

  • @Fludded
    @Fludded 2 года назад +5

    Just looked up this charities accounts. Of the £700k donations raised in 2021, £450k went to paying staff wages.

    • @lindakeyes9353
      @lindakeyes9353 2 года назад +2

      Sadly that's how it usually ends.

    • @Mr_Spliffy
      @Mr_Spliffy 2 года назад

      Just morally wrong

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 2 года назад +2

      @@lindakeyes9353
      Far too much of that goes to a few at the very top. You'll find the head of a charity that size is usually on £100K or so. That's not why people donated.

    • @lindakeyes9353
      @lindakeyes9353 2 года назад

      @@anonUK
      Yes.

    • @Blackcrow2077
      @Blackcrow2077 2 года назад

      Charity's are created for this very purpose

  • @lockethomas7165
    @lockethomas7165 8 месяцев назад

    The people of Dorset were petrified when the NCT bought the thieves down to roam.

  • @gavindouglas3196
    @gavindouglas3196 2 года назад +5

    And no Drugs or knives anywhere bring back my once Great Britain

    • @richiewilliams6875
      @richiewilliams6875 2 года назад +1

      Spot on and my city lpool what is going on a city run by so called and wannabe gangsters Argh I used to live in black stone street late 70s

  • @grahamross6397
    @grahamross6397 2 года назад

    The red squirrels still there at Formby?
    That lad presenting (not narrating) is driving the "Liverpudlian" accent to the limits. Puts McCartney to shame.
    Those families that never went on holiday never attended Welly Road Mission. Legendary coach trips back in the day.

    • @BadgerBotherer1
      @BadgerBotherer1 Год назад +1

      Red Squirrels at Formby were decimated for a time by the squirrel-pox brought in by the invading Greys, but I think they are making a comeback now.

  • @andrewdaley3081
    @andrewdaley3081 2 года назад +8

    Unfortunately today you would have that many health and safety laws this would not be possible. 🇬🇧👍

    • @Ian-gw2vx
      @Ian-gw2vx 2 года назад +3

      Today, all the kids would be on their phones all the way there, at the location and all the way back.

    • @theculturedthug6609
      @theculturedthug6609 2 года назад +1

      @@Ian-gw2vx You can can a train just around the corner from scotty Road to Fromby and Southport.

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 2 года назад +5

      @@Ian-gw2vx not exactly the kids fault . The parents are partly to blame. Easier to sit them in front of a screen than be a decent parent and they take that behaviour into the school

    • @yamiwarai1737
      @yamiwarai1737 2 года назад +2

      @@Ian-gw2vx - typed from a phone

    • @Ian-gw2vx
      @Ian-gw2vx 2 года назад +1

      @@yamiwarai1737 A desktop pc actually! 😀

  • @michaeldowd8422
    @michaeldowd8422 2 года назад +4

    God help the sweet shop owners of Formby that day.

  • @joaquinwilson6668
    @joaquinwilson6668 2 года назад +2

    This is almost exactly the same way it used to work in the USSR

  • @willowbrooke1215
    @willowbrooke1215 2 года назад +11

    GenXers were a tough lot. Had no choice

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 2 года назад +3

      I think every generation had/has their challenges . All different but all equally as hard as each other .

    • @johnq4951
      @johnq4951 2 года назад +2

      @@ctcurry1777he's talking about the kids. this was 1973. Most of the kids are

    • @Mick_Ts_Chick
      @Mick_Ts_Chick Год назад

      ​@@ctcurry1777 Baby boom gen was 46-64. Some of these older kids were tail end boomers like me (63).

  • @captur69
    @captur69 2 года назад +6

    When England was England...now its a multi cultural jungle...

    • @tomwilson5108
      @tomwilson5108 2 года назад +4

      most people in this film were irish immigrants so no.

  • @jaymac7203
    @jaymac7203 10 месяцев назад +1

    Bacchhpacchh

  • @christopherwinrow3878
    @christopherwinrow3878 2 года назад +1

    Are day out

  • @angusmeigh5141
    @angusmeigh5141 2 года назад +1

    There was such a lot of poverty way back in the 1970s! The kids of today don't know what real hardship is!

  • @detectingadventuresscotlan6177
    @detectingadventuresscotlan6177 2 года назад

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