My uncle was an apprentice at Grayson Rollo beside the landing stage, during the war until he was called up in 1943. He was recruited into the RE, Port Reconstruction Battalion. Served until 1947 with his last deployment at Nagasaki.
Progress ? Birkenhead? Meh. The place was more modernised, civilised and more pleasant in 1934. Well done Wirral Council & owned affluent businesses for literally doing f-all in 90 years.
Thatcher dismantled and privatised our national industries on Merseyside, that led to mass unemployment and addiction. Don't blame the local folk! "EvertonFC" - I thought you'd know better.
Yes but its so easy to look back at the past through " rose tinted spectacle's " I am very interested in ships and hanker after Lpool and Bhead when they were full of ships. But I would be viewing them from a bicycle, not a car and I would be going home to an outside toilet and tin bath with perhaps only a radiogram for entertainment. On balance perhaps life was not as charming !!
@@joebish6629 that's funny; the vast majority of families living in Woodchurch are hard-working folk. A handful of criminals doesn't warrant the generalisation, really, and says more about you than anyone else.
@@joebish6629 I'm from there, born and bred. There's far more hard-working families on the estate than there is criminals; they're a minority who don't and shouldn't represent the genuine residents of Woodchurch. Thatcher was the root cause with privatisation of national industries which led to unemployment and addiction. Her and her establishment were complicit in the flooding of drugs into Merseyside - that unfortunately these estates are still feeling the affects of. If you grew up there then shouldn't you know better?
Outstanding... Could almost feel I was their ... it's a sobering thought that the world now in 2016 is populated by a completely different human race...whilst almost everyone in this video of busy Liverpool area 1930s is no longer with us.. A true look in time
@@colinhamlet2425 *you're (as in you are going to make statements, use some grey matter ffs), 'you're' is a shortened version of 'you are'. 'if your going to make statements' makes no sense. I hope this basic school level grammar doesn't go over any heads/grey matter (ffs)
Are you unaware of Thatcher's dismantling and privatisation of the country's nationalised industries - particularly in Merseyside - that made many folk unemployed and straight into addiction? People like the turd above are quick to blame certain estates and look past the actual root of the cause; Marxism. Thatcher was known for it and the repercussions of that are seen today - albeit our governments have their communist tentacles wrapped even more tightly around the rest of the country.
@@joebish6629and who do you think pumped those estates full of drugs and criminality? Or are you too blind and dumb to actually see the root cause, and just open your mouth without any real logic?
why am i reminded of when rodney makes a film at the art college and del has sold advetising to all the local businesses so the story gets lost amoungst the continuous mentions of local firms
"Why Greyson they look like people from the north do they smell" Full on Mr Chumley Warner in this clip. Harry Enfield had obviously researched well. I drive through a fair bit of it every day to work in Liverpool and its quite sad how things have been chaved along the way
As a softie southern - it's good to know Chumley Warner was as real as I expected and this documentary of modern northern life has solidified my prejudice and characterture of 'The North' as a living museum ... A wonderful time capsule of life before that hateful hun Hitler had his evil way - life was so positive and progressive... Even in the north! This was early industrial-scale property marketing at it's pre-war finest.
the Wirral is a beautiful place spoilt by a small percentage of human pond life just like every other area in UK nowadays.. its pretty sad to see the amount of homeless in the once thriving shopping center. that's what 40 years of neo liberalism has done.
@@fredworks4907 I'm not sure you understand what neoliberalism means? A political approach that favours free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending. Pretty much the complete opposite of a Nazi state? Or are you saying master plan is a Nazi for being against the Thatcher years of cutting anything that wasn't the "City"
You say pond life . But society is the way it is by design. Government flooding the streets with heroin. In the 70s. Don’t say it was some idiot of the ford . Obviously government. Then the constant peppering of guns gangs and drugs in the music people listen too.
@@sniffmearse i knew many people who got addicted to heroin back in the late 70's 80's, under the pretence that it was not addictive, i was not referring to the so called smack heads of the day,
@@cbrboy76 my dad started work in 1931 at 15. He worked a 57 hour week including all day Saturday, half a day off midweek. He earned 9s 6d a week, about 48p. No paid holidays.
i'm 33 2018 and i'd give anything to go back raise my kids and live in a socirty like this , manufacturing jobs generally your own country no islam no muggings most ppl are English look how it's ruined nearly 100 years later .mass unemployment , multi cultural hell hole if your working class your considered scum ,zero hour contracts no decent work no chance of owning a decent home oh god how i'd yearn for these days back .
I feel you on this man. 21, born & bred here & I honestly can't wait to take my partner & leave this place. The destruction of local industry by successive neoliberal governments & their lapdog councils have completely decimated this area.
Fuck off mate no one wants you here anyway. Try going to an all white society... oh wait you can’t because you wouldn’t have enough money. How does it feel that my dad is Nigerian and I’m going to do my masters in a month when your probably on the dole with a shitty house and family😂😂multiculturalism all the way.
Imagine this these days, "and here we have a section for the none binary transsexual vegetarian left wing everything must be giving to you on a plate because life is too hard" kind of people, HAHAHA
Ha, that gave me a laugh. It is hard to believe these weirdos actually exist, my step daughter had to educate myself and my wife a couple of years ago as we had not heard of these binary people, poly wotsits, and all the rest of the alphabet pronoun wacko’s, we were both under 50 at that time ( at least, I still am). These wackos make Autistic people look normal ..
Yeh we had it all on the wirral but then wirral council wrecked it all now its a shit hole full of money laundering barbers shops kebab shops and all the crap we dont need and nothing we do
@@tropicalnofruit1419 Said in the voice of the narrator in this video: "And here's a pair of delinquents whose sole purpose in life is to seemingly ruin it for everybody, every word uttered from their mouths are vulgar, and almost certainly points to an upbringing of very meagre schooling"
A great place to live! Lived in South wirral all my 45 years my mates call it "gods best kept secret" Eastham village is beautiful in the summer 😉👍
Used to go thru there on Crosville single decker C7 through Hooton passing the old aerodrome and Rivacre swimming baths...
My uncle was an apprentice at Grayson Rollo beside the landing stage, during the war until he was called up in 1943. He was recruited into the RE, Port Reconstruction Battalion. Served until 1947 with his last deployment at Nagasaki.
I like that a lot. Very good clear footage. Would love to see more like that of the Wirral and surrounding area.
Progress ? Birkenhead? Meh. The place was more modernised, civilised and more pleasant in 1934. Well done Wirral Council & owned affluent businesses for literally doing f-all in 90 years.
Thatcher dismantled and privatised our national industries on Merseyside, that led to mass unemployment and addiction. Don't blame the local folk! "EvertonFC" - I thought you'd know better.
The park was the model for Central Park in New York.
Life just seemed more charming back then
Yes but its so easy to look back at the past through " rose tinted spectacle's " I am very interested in ships and hanker after Lpool and Bhead when they were full of ships. But I would be viewing them from a bicycle, not a car and I would be going home to an outside toilet and tin bath with perhaps only a radiogram for entertainment. On balance perhaps life was not as charming !!
The Wirral looks absolutely delightful. I'm quite tempted by that little Woodchurch village next to Upton.
Wait til 50 million Afghans arrive you won't be sarcastic then.
Thing is, the Woodchurch Estate won prizes when it was built. The houses are fine. The inhabitants are not.
@@joebish6629 that's funny; the vast majority of families living in Woodchurch are hard-working folk. A handful of criminals doesn't warrant the generalisation, really, and says more about you than anyone else.
@@Wotanharo I grew up there and there's more than a handful of crims.
@@joebish6629 I'm from there, born and bred. There's far more hard-working families on the estate than there is criminals; they're a minority who don't and shouldn't represent the genuine residents of Woodchurch. Thatcher was the root cause with privatisation of national industries which led to unemployment and addiction. Her and her establishment were complicit in the flooding of drugs into Merseyside - that unfortunately these estates are still feeling the affects of. If you grew up there then shouldn't you know better?
Outstanding... Could almost feel I was their ... it's a sobering thought that the world now in 2016 is populated by a completely different human race...whilst almost everyone in this video of busy Liverpool area 1930s is no longer with us.. A true look in time
I live on the Wirral and it certainly doesn't look like this anymore!
Angels Arehere no shit sherlock
Well well well.. a twat has learned to use a keyboard..there's hope for the underclasses after all. 🤔
Angels Arehere if your going to make statements use some grey matter ffs
Well I think seacombe is a beautiful place to get your socks robbed
@@colinhamlet2425 *you're (as in you are going to make statements, use some grey matter ffs), 'you're' is a shortened version of 'you are'.
'if your going to make statements' makes no sense.
I hope this basic school level grammar doesn't go over any heads/grey matter (ffs)
Better world in some ways, worse in others. But in the fundamentally important ways, those which made most people happier, better.
Nothing worse than this.
@Morocco Mole agreed.
Narration by Mr Chumley Warner.
What on earth had happened to the wirral since then? Parts of it are still nice but the whole area looked lovely back then
Woodchurch and Ford, to name just two.
Are you unaware of Thatcher's dismantling and privatisation of the country's nationalised industries - particularly in Merseyside - that made many folk unemployed and straight into addiction? People like the turd above are quick to blame certain estates and look past the actual root of the cause; Marxism. Thatcher was known for it and the repercussions of that are seen today - albeit our governments have their communist tentacles wrapped even more tightly around the rest of the country.
@@joebish6629and who do you think pumped those estates full of drugs and criminality? Or are you too blind and dumb to actually see the root cause, and just open your mouth without any real logic?
A gem . Thanx for posting
wow so quiet , noticed the house in upton looks like grafton drive and the car was driving along noctorum road and ford hill
hill!!
I thought exactly the same
brilliant loved it,my home town,30 years before i was born.
Alot of these "new" houses still look the same today
That Co-Op on Mount Road only changed to a different shop a few years back!
What a fantastic video 👍👍
To think that little baby is now 85!
why am i reminded of when rodney makes a film at the art college and del has sold advetising to all the local businesses so the story gets lost amoungst the continuous mentions of local firms
This is great, what an ace little insight.
"Why Greyson they look like people from the north do they smell" Full on Mr Chumley Warner in this clip. Harry Enfield had obviously researched well.
I drive through a fair bit of it every day to work in Liverpool and its quite sad how things have been chaved along the way
Spelled "Cholmondley".
@@greenisnotacreativecolour 'Spelt' ... Glass houses and all that.
@@philcliffe6909 Either is fine - look in a dictionary.
@@greenisnotacreativecolour If you are outside the UK then I will accept that. If not then you are a hypocrite.
@@philcliffe6909 You really think the whole of the UK uses the same word? Are you still in school?
lol i love how the house from wallasey has no windows
I noticed that too!
No point in putting any in!
Regular folk couldn't afford such a luxury in those days.
It’s under construction silly.
It was most fashionable method of ventilation in 1934
the co-op on Mount road is still there! it is still a co-op supermarket!
our local shop as a kid
Sounded like they were about to mention the Co-op funeral service. Cut scene?
is there any footage or maybe more photos of woodside dock i want to see how the whole thing looked like before it got all ripped out
More modern videos on the Wirral channel
A window on a vanished world.......
*random obligatory comment for exposure hi everyone*
As a softie southern - it's good to know Chumley Warner was as real as I expected and this documentary of modern northern life has solidified my prejudice and characterture of 'The North' as a living museum ...
A wonderful time capsule of life before that hateful hun Hitler had his evil way - life was so positive and progressive... Even in the north!
This was early industrial-scale property marketing at it's pre-war finest.
Great 👍 film, really enjoyed it
Ridden past those houses in Burton
the Wirral is a beautiful place spoilt by a small percentage of human pond life just like every other area in UK nowadays.. its pretty sad to see the amount of homeless in the once thriving shopping center. that's what 40 years of neo liberalism has done.
Nazi
@@fredworks4907 I'm not sure you understand what neoliberalism means?
A political approach that favours free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending.
Pretty much the complete opposite of a Nazi state? Or are you saying master plan is a Nazi for being against the Thatcher years of cutting anything that wasn't the "City"
You say pond life . But society is the way it is by design. Government flooding the streets with heroin. In the 70s.
Don’t say it was some idiot of the ford . Obviously government. Then the constant peppering of guns gangs and drugs in the music people listen too.
@@sniffmearse i knew many people who got addicted to heroin back in the late 70's 80's, under the pretence that it was not addictive, i was not referring to the so called smack heads of the day,
@@Imfat8888 no but it’s there kids kids kids running around today shooting people and stabbing other kids of the nocky etc . Your just a moron mate
We need to go back to when every thing was in
black and white
Filmed in a better time before greed and corruption comes into politics and ruins our country 😢
It was before the 2nd world war. We must of lost as look at the whole state till now !
"Like everything else in the world has become corrupted.
I wonder how much the houses cost back then?
An average semi would cost less than £500.
@@peterc9153 yes but they probably only earned about 3 shillings a week lol.
Thirty Bob an a bottle of Guiness.
@@cbrboy76 my dad started work in 1931 at 15. He worked a 57 hour week including all day Saturday, half a day off midweek. He earned 9s 6d a week, about 48p. No paid holidays.
hi bfi! wanted to use this footage for non commercial purposes, obviously ill credit the source...
Good old "Lino?"
Were was the co-op dairy situated?
Woodchurch Road, on the right, before you get to the Swan pub, if you're coming from Birkenhead. Now a car showroom. Was knocked down in the 1980s.
My hometown back in the day looked amazing. Shame the Tories took all the jobs and turned a blind eye to all the drugs.
I want to know the road names
One in Prenton is 24 waterpark road off storeton
Which is the house at 0.43?
0.48 does anyone know what stately home that is and where?
I think it is Burton Manor
Since Frank field left Birkenhead
Mr whitley has opened the flood gates to the wirral and we will be the next Rotherham in 5 years time.
Product placement is obviously not new!!
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Wirral or the Wirral?
The Wirral (peninsula).
Wirral.
Wonderful! and 84 years later we have litter all of the place, plastic filling the oceans and the Tories still in power
Actually, Ramsay MacDonald was the Prime Minister at the time.
And doing a jolly good job.old boy.
When Wirral was pure! Now it's "Wheele kumm tou de Wirral "
Harumph!
Bet it dont
i'm 33 2018 and i'd give anything to go back raise my kids and live in a socirty like this , manufacturing jobs generally your own country no islam no muggings most ppl are English look how it's ruined nearly 100 years later .mass unemployment , multi cultural hell hole if your working class your considered scum ,zero hour contracts no decent work no chance of owning a decent home oh god how i'd yearn for these days back .
I feel you on this man. 21, born & bred here & I honestly can't wait to take my partner & leave this place. The destruction of local industry by successive neoliberal governments & their lapdog councils have completely decimated this area.
dont get islamaphobic when you cant spell society and your name is fucking leonard
Fuck off mate no one wants you here anyway. Try going to an all white society... oh wait you can’t because you wouldn’t have enough money. How does it feel that my dad is Nigerian and I’m going to do my masters in a month when your probably on the dole with a shitty house and family😂😂multiculturalism all the way.
Leonard Davies horrible racist hope I see you in the street. I’ll be asking all the 35 year olds I see about if their name is Leonard Davies.
@@tropicalnofruit1419 haha wee man thinks his masters will automatically make him rich, precious!
Imagine this these days, "and here we have a section for the none binary transsexual vegetarian left wing everything must be giving to you on a plate because life is too hard" kind of people, HAHAHA
Ha, that gave me a laugh. It is hard to believe these weirdos actually exist, my step daughter had to educate myself and my wife a couple of years ago as we had not heard of these binary people, poly wotsits, and all the rest of the alphabet pronoun wacko’s, we were both under 50 at that time ( at least, I still am). These wackos make Autistic people look normal ..
Yeh we had it all on the wirral but then wirral council wrecked it all now its a shit hole full of money laundering barbers shops kebab shops and all the crap we dont need and nothing we do
"Oh how hairy and smelly my dear ladies moo-moo is, along with the rest of the other dear ladies moo-moo's 🤤
Shithole now! Gota shotgun pulled on me lastweek.
hahaha good
*random obligatory comment for exposure hi everyone*
Scouse mac pebb1 ye gang of wools
Cameron Bateman fuck off lad
@@tropicalnofruit1419 Said in the voice of the narrator in this video: "And here's a pair of delinquents whose sole purpose in life is to seemingly ruin it for everybody, every word uttered from their mouths are vulgar, and almost certainly points to an upbringing of very meagre schooling"