ITV SCHOOLS - CITIES: Kirkby (1980)
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- We're off to Kirkby to see what's going on in the town for school leavers. A great piece of nostalgia! Made in 1980 by ATV. Thanks to Scott Petrie for finding this recording on video tape. Uploaded purely for educational and nostalgic purposes only.
Hey, thanks ! I haven't seen this one before - Unusual for ATV who were based in Birmingham to go so far out of their region.
Yes it would have been too.
I've seen one of these about Weston-super-Mare so it appears they went UK wide. Interestingly they played 'Same old scene' by Roxy Music in that episode.
I'm from Liverpool originally, only been to Kirkby a couple of times; it always felt disconnected but so close. The estate reminds me a bit of Netherley flats and that was a similar situation. I was only 4 when this was broadcast but my grandparents watched schools TV so I do remember the name 'Cities'.
Their are some lovely parts of Kirkby,they were just showing the deprived areas,the flats in tower hill were due to be demolished,new houses built,then they were about 2 miles away in West vale,some lovely countryside just half a mile walk,parts of London still has them style of flats
Hello Children.
It's time to wheel in the big Telly with the video in the thief proof box on wheels again.
Oh yes - we had those in our school!
Yes that's right 😂
Don’t know what to do .. laugh or cry..!! It’s quite sad really to think that people thought that livin’ a life means getting tied down b4 leaving school and then finding a Life.. then finding out it was the wrong move..
Are they still together, does anyone know them???
I was working in kirkby, had to laff we where in a shop and had a small generator on top of the van roof, next thing our drill stopped working and my boss ran outside, there where two lads running off with the generator, they ran into kwick save, and they where being chased up and down the aisle, they dropped it an ran off 😂😂
Hated the 80s I left school in 84 had to take a YTS £15 quid a week for almost 60 hour week, hated it, my Brother who left in 81 was on a YOP. Was a crap time under Thatcher everything was closing down or being knocked down a very depressing time.
I was only 10 and living my best life.... 😂
I am sure you are so right there too alas not nice really at all.
Great in Liverpool as we romped around Europe winning everything.
Wonder what happened to him ?
Real Scouse accent not this mad way the kids talk now
presume that is makro at kirkby liverpool
It was the Kraft Foods factory - huge job losses there in 1983.
Was the macro his girlfriend worked at the kraft
2024 Makro is still there. But a tenth of the size now.
france the country situated in (eu) based in swansea called the dvla ????
Bring back the pingwood , cracking ale house
Wonder what he's doing now. Anyone know?
@@WillScarlet1991 Senior Lecturer in Philosophy during the day and running a tea van 3 nights a week in Bootle.
@@LANCSKID Wow! Amazing!
@@WillScarlet1991 no truth in the rumours regarding pimping or crack dens in Birkenhead. 🤵♂️
Those flats in Tower Hill where only about 20 years old when they filmed this!
They were built 69/70 I was offered one brand new in March 1970 just built l went to Skem instead
The margarine girls....They spread easily :D
Well, that just about puts the lid on it.
Krafty Bird’s…whatever, they all slip in easy)!
@@DL-go1xh That was certainly my experience. 🤵♂️
Who sings the catchy tune in the middle
Roxy Music
Roxy Music in the market … Roxy Music in the pub … wtf?
Bet sof’lad didn’t get paid for this either…just a music request as a fan of Roxy. Sad.
Anyone know where the shopping centre/market scenes were filmed ?
Kirkby Town Centre.
Kirkby shopping centre
@@sen5908Never seen so much litter in me life,what a depressing shithouse.
Kirkby is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, it is not a City, the borough is within the County of Merseyside.
I knew Cantril Farm got a bad rap. Another new town with problem communities. I knocked about with a couple kids from care there. Weren’t bad lads just had a bad start)
@DL-go1xh and then they renamed it Stocksbridge village so too did they not I guess albeit later of course too.
You look at Kirby then and in general how Britain was back in 1980 (when i was just 7 years old) and the UK now looks very different today it's completely unrecognisable for instance no digital technology whats-so-ever, no mobile phones, very basic computers (home computers) the 1980s was the age of the microchip. I bet that cafe in Kirby Town centre now is a Costa Coffee probably and i bet those blocks of flats at 10:10 have long since been demolished. This programme is very much a piece of social history as is all the videos on Vintage Schools Tv (it's a brilliant archive of schools programming nostalgia) many of the programmes i remember watching when i was at school too. Roxy Music and Brian Ferry were a great band too. The music back in the 1980s was excellent and i loved many of the artists and bands, today's music is bloody dreadful and i can't understand a single word of what any of today's artists are singing about. I remember Kraft margarine in those plastic tubs too our school always used it, food products were bigger in size then a lot of today's food has shrunk in size over the years and were paying more for it. I would sooner have the 1980s back then compared too today it was a lot simpler way of life back then even though there was mass unemployment.
God you are so right there too alas. Changes go on I know with time but not for the best it seems as well.
And I am older than you but know what you mean too.
Why would it be the same? It was last century. Do you honestly expect things to stand still? What you fail to mention about the 80s is the utter misery. Mass unemployment, AIDS, constant threat of nuclear war, riots, strikes. You're talking about the 80s with the naive eyes of a child, which suggests that what you really want is to be a child again. The 80s were actually pretty grim.
@th8257 you are so right there too.
Dunno. Some highlights. Mass GB Pride albeit after war. Royal Wedding-sense of community. LFC- Legend and Legacy. Yozzer did more for Liverpool than Derek Hatton. Remember Society. Bring it, bring it back?
Calm down … calm down.
I'm pretty sure that's not what we SAY in Liverpool
@@barbaraannecortina7899 …and not a shell suit in sight, either.
Trackie mert
Hated the place. St kev's was a beacon under Charlie Morehead and gave us the chance to leave the place behind
Aye, don’t forget getting a ‘bill’ for the strap, kept me in line. Left in ‘66, was never out of work ‘till I retired at 65, despite Thatcher.
@@bartram33 at least the economy was stronger under Thatcher to allow you to retire which would not have happened if Benn or Corbyn had been in charge
@@terrysmith9362 She sold all of the people’s assets, The Railways, Gas, Electricity and Water to keep herself in power, remember 3 million unemployed under her, the poll tax, the closure of viable pits, the engineered Falklands war. The 18% interest rates because of the economy that Major inherited from her. Wonder why her own party ‘sacked’ her.
"A better area" ?? LMFAO !!
Knowsley is one of the better councils
Are you sure!!!wtf!!!
@@michaelgaskell7408 yip
@@michaelgaskell7408yep unfortunately true. Just shows how bad other council's are in 2024
@@mikegrace Where do you live!!!???
@@michaelgaskell7408 Liverpool, croxteth
The 80s were pretty grim. When you had Thatcher in charge of the country what do you expect? Mass unemployment, miners strikes etc. And the only thing available for school leavers was a poxy YTS scheme which was just a ephemism for slave labour. Yes indeed the 80s were definitely grim from what I remember😂😂
@12:02 - I'm struggling not to laugh from here
you would think this would have been made by.granada tv.not atv!
You would have done too. I guess there must have been a reason too.
And it was in their area too.