0 seconds ago At 35 seconds - the family home where I grew up is down the road on the right , with the exception of the gatehouse nearly all the houses featured have been demolished to make way for Oligarch mansions . I remember the binmen well , they always enjoyed a chat with the residents.
Pretty sad really. Fine if they are far less able. But most of St George's Hill would have been inbred toffs with no talents of their own. Slightly different today, but not massively so. Today it will have large proportions of foreigners eg oligarchs with ill-gotten gains. Or the silver spoon toffs who inherited the money. (V few have a salary to buy a house on St G's).
@@annabellaandrewkingdon7972 According to the Bank of England £100K in 1975 is circa £850K in 2020. I'm reliably told you could only get a mortgage worth 2.5 to 3 times salary in those days (rather than 5 times odd today). Deposits and interests rates were higher too. Property prices in that manor have generally increased way beyond inflation however...
Talking as a modern day binman ... The poor housing bins contain take away pizza boxes, beer tins, scratch cards & nappies. The posher houses mostly have upmarket newspapers, glossy magazines, wine bottles & generally a better class of crap !! 😉
Those 100k pads have since matured quite nicely just like their gracefully aging owners - Engelbert, Cliff Richards, Tom Jones, etc. Wonder if the "Binmen" are still around in 2022? 🤔
I've not seen rubbish collected like that....the brown bags they carry??? Were they too posh to have the metal dustbins we used to have as kids....lol....? Or did the bin men literally have to sift through the rubbish for the wine bottles to keep them separate...early recycling?
Bill Bryson wrote in his recent book that a lot of the old houses in this area have been demolished and replaced with a style of house he amusingly labels as "Russia gangster".
Good old boys, and probably happier than the residents they served.
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At 35 seconds - the family home where I grew up is down the road on the right , with the exception of the gatehouse nearly all the houses featured have been demolished to make way for Oligarch mansions . I remember the binmen well , they always enjoyed a chat with the residents.
Used to live in Addlestone, Weybridge, at this time. Watched Thorpe Park being dredged and built !
Fascinating footage
I lived in a village calledbyfleet next door to weybridge in 1975 .Buster merryfield lived in byfleet at the same time in kings avenue byfleet
They knew their place these fellas. No hint of bitterness
Pretty sad really. Fine if they are far less able. But most of St George's Hill would have been inbred toffs with no talents of their own. Slightly different today, but not massively so. Today it will have large proportions of foreigners eg oligarchs with ill-gotten gains. Or the silver spoon toffs who inherited the money. (V few have a salary to buy a house on St G's).
They used to hang on the back of the lorry in those days.
"£100k houses" woo! um, they cost millions now.. wish i could go back in time and buy some
You can go back in time and buy a £100k house, provided you also have the national average wage of £1k at that time.... Lol
£100K in 1975 - when this was broadcast - is about £850K in today's (2020) money 💰. Still a fair wack!
@@shahzadayub7191 its way way more than £850k miles out.
@@annabellaandrewkingdon7972 According to the Bank of England £100K in 1975 is circa £850K in 2020. I'm reliably told you could only get a mortgage worth 2.5 to 3 times salary in those days (rather than 5 times odd today). Deposits and interests rates were higher too. Property prices in that manor have generally increased way beyond inflation however...
@@shahzadayub7191 more like £2 million range
Monty's initial tricky, somewhat patronising question for the binmen of St George's Hill "Are they wealthy people do you reckon ?"
Talking as a modern day binman ...
The poor housing bins contain take away pizza boxes, beer tins, scratch cards & nappies. The posher houses mostly have upmarket newspapers, glossy magazines, wine bottles & generally a better class of crap !! 😉
😂
Those 100k pads have since matured quite nicely just like their gracefully aging owners - Engelbert, Cliff Richards, Tom Jones, etc.
Wonder if the "Binmen" are still around in 2022?
🤔
They have partys at home because they’re too famous to go out to the pubs or clubs like a normal person. Thats why theres so many booz bottles
'Give us an hand'👍👍
I've not seen rubbish collected like that....the brown bags they carry??? Were they too posh to have the metal dustbins we used to have as kids....lol....? Or did the bin men literally have to sift through the rubbish for the wine bottles to keep them separate...early recycling?
Look its Onslo working at his job before retiring on the dole!
i immediately thought of Onslow too....lol
Onslow, played the part of a binman called Eddie Yates in Coronation Street in the 70's
Most shocking thing about this is all those binmen were in their late twenties. Must have been a hard life
😂
😅 yeah these lads are in their late 30s at the youngest 😂
@3:19 "yeah, fuck yeah!"
Happier days when there were real Londoners.
old war veterans. Been bin men.
Have you ever been given anything nice? 😃
Nope 😐
Ahrr... being Phil Space for the day in pre-recycling era.
The guy at 2:57 😂
That security man looks about 80
Interviewer trying to be a man of the people sounds like he's interviewing 8-year olds.
100000 pound houses, 😂😂 if only they knew the prices today
bril ............
What a load of old rubbish!
No, seriously.😁
It sounds like there would have been an interesting find, or two.
All those fancy bottles and that..
Bet them lads were only in there 30s 😂😂
Yer man certainly accentuates his gor blimey accent talking to the bin men. “The good old days…” uurgh 🙄
Today if full of Russians. The famous Dustman Uniform the tank-Top.
Bill Bryson wrote in his recent book that a lot of the old houses in this area have been demolished and replaced with a style of house he amusingly labels as "Russia gangster".
@@ajs41 Most of those places resemble an American house, mimicking an old English house.
I drink shit loads of wine and Im a cûnt, not rich.