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This video has filled in a large gap in my own history. Some sneer at council houses or lambaste them for being too 'socialistic' and 'uniform' but the leap is standards was immense. As a scouser I am disgusted as to the deprivation our forbearers had to endure and proud of post war 1 efforts to eradicate. Post war 2 the blitz exasperated the housing problem and took far too long to rebuild - a follow up video dealing with this period would be nost welcome. The basic problem remains today - those with means are catered for, those without have to 'slum it' and at a time when community is a dirty word.

When I left shcool i worked on the demolition of the top 2 floors of myrtle gardens but the rest is still there and it’s lovely

They knocked a slum down to build one

Looks like Myrtle Gardens. Anyone know what became of Christy and Ann Ryland at #55. Thanks very much from San Rafael, California🌈😀

They converted old slums into sardine cans of flats that quickly became new slums! No wonder people want to leave the UK!

Fabulous video thank you 🥰 people looked after their homes back then & each other 😢 it’s sad how society has changed

UK is full today. No more immigration is needed.

Having left as a child to Canada, I remember well playing in bombed out buildings. And people were still poor, the lions share went to the Alehouse.

Go and have a look at yourself.

Awful place...regardless of the year

Sir Thomas White Gardens was a great place to live.

so if this film is 1939...paddy s wigwam wasn t built then ,or am I wrong.

All these beautiful homes are still standing around Liverpool. Springwood Avenue has the same buildings...they are stunning..

I worked in Radiant House on Bold St in 1971..Meter Control..a lovely building. I remember George the lift man..The building is still vibrant art deco and stands out amongst the other buildings. "Good morning,meter control"

Two cathedrals?????????eh?

The narrator seems like a decent public servant with concern for the young and the elderly, unlike todays crop of nest featherers.

How near sighted young people are about living conditions for the elderly. Most elderly will end up in a nursing home, we know this for a fact. So it would be beneficial for future citizens to put more pressure on politicians now to make changes to the standard of living and care in nursing homes. Look after the workers in these home's, happy workers happy residence. We all get old and have a thke notice, it could be you 👇👵🏾👴🏽

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Narrated by Harry Enfield as Mr Cholmondley Warner 😆

no black kids in sight happy days

1939 was an unfortunate time to be building multi storey tenements as the occupants would have had to dash down flights of stairs to an air raid shelter.

It must have been hard moving into the top-floor flats.

Apparently council estates took a nose dive when councils starting giving priority to the most desperate people in society - drug addicts, unemployed etc.

at 1:12 he stated liverpool was proud of it's two great Catheadrals. e=he was speaking in 1939....the Cathedrals were not finished until 1967 and 1977

6:21. Those flats on Muirhead ave are still absolutely STUNNING to this day They now have listed building status . I doubt we will ever see the building standard & craftsmanship like this for social housing ever again . 🙁

YEP---but first, we need to flatten all these disgusting piles of crap, wait a minute, the LUFTWAFFE have offered to do it for free.

So that was the Liverpool accent back in 1939. How I've got an accent, the one I have today, is beyond me. Most of those tenements that were built, in and near the city centre, most have been pulled down having been deemed as slum's, and yet a few remain, now privately owned? Strange that those owned and run by the council were slums and yet those privately owned are still sought after? All those beautiful new housing developments are all classed as deprived areas today. Dovecot, Norris Green, Speke are hives of criminality by the few, and that has an adverse effect on the majority. It's not property that are slums, it's the people you put in them. One bad tenant harms all around them.

I lived in Portland Gardens...knocked down in the 80s as they were considered slums. Yet i have NEVER had a bedroom as big as the bedroom i had there as a child,nor ever felt as safe as i did when i lived there nor have i ever had as good neighbours as i did when i lived there. Even now as a fully grown adult home owner...Portland Gardens was my favourite home. I may be looking back through my childhood mind but i never wanted to leave there & was horrified when my parents made us move into a house that was much smaller.

see kids, this is why drugs are bad

Those new estates of flats and houses looked extremely attractive. A vast improvement to the dreadful slums that these people had left. These were decent hard working people with standards and I am sure that they took pride in their new homes and kept both them and the surrounding areas clean and safe. It was nice to hear a local lady's account of living in her new home. One thing that struck me the most was the absence of traffic which meant that in spite of the playgrounds children could play safely in the streets - heaven.

Why do all the owl women, them days "Look like my nan"?

No children's playgrounds now, greedy politicians fleecing the funds.

Ironic, these beautiful buildings erected in 1939 and flattened by Germans in 1940

coal only 3/10 per week.. thats about 17p in todays money... wow soooo cheapb!

What a wonderful piece of documented social history.

WHO'SE?

Anybody got anything nice to say... faceless people hiding behind a keypad...🤣🤣

The opening shot is of Norris Green where my grandmother lived - the geometric patterns on such a scale were a feature of these new estates but Norris Green and Speke had the grandest of the schemes

The new building tenement style was called the bull ring , it's supposed to be demolished so most of the tenants were removed , it was not demolished but used as student accommodation ,trees were planted, gates were put on the archway, tress planted for the students but not for the original inhabitants so much lies and a community was broken. Housing had no idea of what it meant or did they care, no! The lady speaking has the Lancashire accent which was strongly intertwined with the irish, Scottish and welsh the Lancashire in many cases had not been submerged, it is not surprising liverpool was in Lancashire county, that was the original accent we can still here the Lancashire dialect even we don,t all speak like Harry Enfield joke accent future councils made new ones.

They might be classed as slums, but people had pride back then, no litter or graffiti to be seen and the community spirit was high.

All them gardens/tenemants gone now and the large council estates are mainly sold off(right to buy)

Cholmondley Warner.

The flats and amenities for the residents looked pretty good. I would have been very happy. If only this were happening today.

Liverpool accents seem to have changed since way back then, the woman speaking doesn't even sound like a scouser

lmao

I grew up in Speke, to see Speke from so long ago was wonderful, thank you for the video

Five storey flats with no lifts. Tenants, I presume, were expected to drag their furniture (and shopping) up five floors of stairs! Most of the flats shown were not renovated in turn and deteriorated into bad housing and were demolished in the 1970s. Typical of L'pool City Council wasting money.

there is still inner city slums specially Manchester

*pissez self!!* He's just been told the Courts joke!!!