Living in central London | Tenant eviction | 1970s London | Something to say | 1973
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Central London residence being forced out of their homes in order to build office blocks.
First shown: 09/08/1973
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I hope this lady found happiness in a new community again
Just bullying really. People swept aside by councils wanting £££
Very true bullying my sentiments 😔
Irony - evict those who have lived in central london for many generations with great communities, only to build office blocks that eventually became empty (and accelerated by the pandemic) and then turned into multi million pound flats !!!
Matching bedroom furniture (wardrobe, dressing table, chest of drawers) were often a principal wedding present. What was this poor woman meant to do with hers? Put it up at a local saleroom? Disgusting way to treat people.
They were probably her pride and joy. God this makes me so cross.
These elders speak so properly
Still treated like scum of the earth speaking so properly aint going to get them any were
OMG these ladys in the face of heartless Westmister council taken they home away for real good reason, one lady having to go to a bedset and leave all her bedroom stuff is just as bad as it gets, and here we are today 2020 and the poor being pushed out of London all togather just to help the super rich, these people who have to leave are the real backbone of London and central London now has lost so many of the old communitys gone forever, no good reason to take they homes away, truely shocking, shame on Westmister council, shame.
Boo hoo. Its subsidized housing, dude. They don't own it.
@@GUITARTIME2024 Don't mug yourself.
So sad - just dismissed by pompous councillors...
Yes rich councillors living in the lap of luxury, who don't give a toss
Those poor women.
Weren't asking for much.
What articulate and well spoken women. I guess the education system functioned better when there was less money thrown at it and focus was on reading, writing and arithmetic.
It certainly did.
Education today is a large disadvantage to men how it's set out especially the physical education side. 70s P.E was nothing like today. You're left with bored young men with too much energy. No wonder crime is up and attendance low.
Such a good point. There are too many excuses now - education needs to be correctly funded but it is the fundamentals that have been lost.
Ok boomer 👌
She,s still poor
Almost 50yrs ago unbelievable
Bless them all. I hope that they all found some hope and help in their lives.
Aparently the poor people of England have got No right if they are normal working class they have got No rights aparently the working class aparently !!! Think !!they own there council houses that's according to a yank with some cement on u tube this has got my back up ,how dare some one from another country slag my working class fellow english man
I saw a documentary where they said good solid attractive Victorian terraces that were structurally good and with long standing community's were deemed unfit as there had not been a modern bathroom installed and so street after street was demolished to make way for hideous concrete housing estates .All that demolition on top of what was lost in the blitz too makes for so much depressing ugliness we have nowadays .
I saw a documentary where good houses built is the 70,s were being knock down
Lots of backhanders between planners and developers mate
So very true 👍
@@seansands424 very true wonder what's behind all this ripping down good solid buildings to build ugly square buildings, that don't stand for long as they fall down, there more to this pulling our country down than meets the eye I tell you.
Must be horrible to be thrown out of your house like that, and no one even caring !!
Tina something are beyond your control
They didn't own their houses, they were council owned. They were tenants.
Res Non Verba Even if they were council tenants, it’s still not right to just throw them out of houses that they had occupied for decades !
@@tina5203 They weren't just thrown out, they were offered alternative accommodation. I don't think it's right for the taxpayer to fund those that often don't want to work. I think if the alternative were the workhouse or living on the streets, you'd be surprised just how many got a second wind.
Res Non Verba Go away, and take your ridiculous opinion with you 🙄
I would still rather be back in this time era than having to face the times now.
Since you are on the Internet, most certainly you would not.
@@utl94 , LOL 🤣
That is so very true 👍
Bless, she fought a war to just be evicted by the council....
@A O WW2 started because of British government greed?? Really?
@A O It sounds like you're justifying all of Germany's actions in the 30s because of her loss of territory and colonies in WW1? I suppose the central powers wouldn't have taken anything from the Allies if the outcome of WW1 had been different? 😂
In any event the comment still has relevance as the point of it is that the state should take care of those who fought on its home front in war
That's this country all over
@@Quetzalcoats true
i was thinking to me: perhaps they went too quiet and should have put up a bit of a fight. but no point. good people normally dont want a fuss..
NO ONE person ever wins with the council , they are a law unto themselves they are the richest landlord's of the land, when they say jump, you say how high, so only winner's will always be council, so heaven help us all
so basically they were forced out their homes to then have the plans change and other people move in to live there :/ crazy
Yes
Who needs poor people and communities anyway?! (Sarcasm btw).
Major Backhanders to remove the tenants..
This is so true 👍
So they evicted everyone TWO YEARS before deciding what to do with the building. Two years lying empty.
Not to mention smashing it up before deciding what to do with it...
Yes, developers often do that. 'Beyond economic repair'....
It's called state ruling people they are doing it now ,but on a even bigger scale
Well council are the biggest liar's of the land
I lived in a area that was half housing half owners and they knocked down 100s of houses, you cant do a thing about it even if you owned your house, a young nurse just bought her house for 90 grand and not even a year later she found out they were knocking them down and they only give her 70 grand so she had that mortgage still to payback. Alot of the older people in the area died during and not long after they knocked the houses down, probably born in the houses and lived there all their lives.
They knocked down so many historic buildings here 🥴🙃
It's ruling people ,England has never been free of being ruled, and today we are ruled even worse what to not eat what to notsay or think it's Ruled ,we as humans ,only filthy rich, live where they want ,eat and speak what they want
Economic apartheid. As bad as it is/was, London was a kind of paradise 50 years ago.
Utterly bonkers.
2:20, this lady looks an AWFUL lot like the wonderful old lady from the documentary 'where the houses used to be'
I wonder if she ended up being as contented as that lady was. I'll remember her story forever, hard as nails, they don't make people with that sort of fire in their belly anymore.
I very much doubt it
@@jean2740 doubt what?
The rise of the man presenting the piece is an ironic symbol of the fact that ordinary people must be turfed-out. It's still happening today (2023) as places like Kentish Town & along the canals of Camden, Islington & even Hackney have become impossible to live in affordably due to the developers, designers, media types & well-off students from far away places.
_Get'em out by friday_
Assured tenancy agreements obviously didn't exist at the time. Surely this would have given them some sort of legal standing to stay in that particular building?
Tenants have far more rights these days ...it wouldn't wash today ..
Ten years later and right to buy would have turned them into millionaires by 2019 (if the building still stood).
@@booth2710 Not true. Look up the Hendon Waterside development. It is a private development that required the eviction and removal of an entire council estate. People fought against it for years, but still had to go.
why should taxpayers have to pay for some people to have subsidized flats in central london? council flats in charing cross road? what genius thought of that?
Those apartments above those shops are still there. I wonder if the council just sold them off to private developers
Ofcourse they did its all about money ,and sod the poor working class they don't care about the poor
The poor moved on so profiteers can move in.Money talks.
Yes everything now is to do with money not the welfare of people
The fact that the presenter very good looking lol *i mean the last presenter
The biggest mistake that councils / housing authorities still make is the ‘dream’ of better accommodation for tenants, whilst sacrificing common community and good neighbourly relations, which are often actually more important.
True
Wow, so regular, decent English people have always been treated like sh*t in this country; it's so sad. London is so dislocated, with many people from the Paddington/Little Venice area now in Milton Keynes, of all places!
Conservatives in Westmisnster Cleansing / Jerry Mandering Go figuer !
I wouldn’t call pimlico the outer reaches of the city.
Lacoste Alot yip 16 mins away on a bus. People would be moved enmasse. New legislation would be to improve these people’s environment and councils had to act
Forty years ago remember, before pimlico got gentrified.
@A O Or worse, Harlow or Stevenage!!
So what actually did happen to this building?
@@omkr0122 Okay, so does some someone not trolling know what actually happened?
It's still standing and now in a much better state. Located just past Cambridge Circus as you head south. At least part of it is still residential.
@@thomasingram7146 Thanks for that. My impression was many of those old tenement blocks were pretty awful places to live. One of the problems of living in council housing is you're at the mercy of the government.
Still there today ... just up from Leicester Sq tube station ,,
Turned it into flats
lol imagine being able to get a council flat
That's the impossible in this country
Cmonnn England is the best
Pure vandalism
gentrification
Local government logic : "Let's chuck everyone out "
Local government logic 2 mins later ..." Let's chuck everyone out and then fill the place with homeless people" 🥴😵💫....clowns 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Austin powers was on the television before he became the international man of mystery spy.
Blah blah I'll going to do what ever I want money 🤑🤑🤑💰
As an American, I don't get why Council tenants feel they have a claim on a certain area. You are getting free or low cost housing. As long as it's safe, you should go where units are available. The audacity, even in 1973, to think you get prime Central London real estate!
Good point...
Maybe ask why it's not like that in America??? Also America is far bigger...
Central London was all some of these people knew.....they weren't thinking of it like that. To this day there are council flats all over Central London. Except the quality of tennants is decreasing year on year
@@foleyu2 all they knew? Well, you deal with it. My British ancestors got on wooden ships and puked for a month in steerage to get here to America.
Yes but not to many council estates are safe places to life so if these poor people liked where they lived and felt safe ,why the he'll should they be forced out of there own homes to live in some god forsaken he'll hole
Hello old bean
Oowow! Glasses were hideous!
It was a different era mate ,the glasses fitted with that era ,have you seen the glasses of today they are the size of wagon wheels
£££££££
That happened to you for rejecting Phillip II invasion lol, enjoy your protestant happiness