Clean up London | 1970s London | North Kensington | Today | 1977

Monty Modlyn visits North Kensington to have a look at scheme where local artists and probationers try and clean up the local area and provide a safe and child friendly environment.
First shown: 21 1977
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Quote: Today & Thames at Six clean up london wk19 21 1977 VT348797

[@metalman4141]

Well done lads you did good 👍

[@ITSMYOPINIONNOTYOURSDOYO-bi5sr]

Brilliant and thank you 🙏🏽

[@buddha1736]

Probation = basically poor folk doing jobs for the rich parts of the U.K. that nobody wants to do, come along everyone on probation dig a hole, become a landscape gardener lol. 😂

[@brightonduder]

Yes - they should be made CEOs of FTSE 250 companies

[@moominmay]

Given they committed a crime it’s a better way to repay society than just sitting idly in a tiny cell surely?

[@charlesmaximus9161]

Oh, boo hoo.

[@danjensen2695]

Lol it wasn't rich then - Ladbroke Grove and north Kensington some of the most deprived areas of London in the early 70s

[@bridiesmith5110]

It was a slum clearance project. Families were promised if they moved out they would be able to move back once the new housing was built. Families lost contact as many were not on the phone and you had to rely on snail mail. No internet or social media. middle classes bought up the houses as they became available and to be fair, they did the houses up nice and put bathrooms and toilets in them where there wasn’t any. Only the outside loos shared by three or four family. None of my family was able to move back.

[@alisonlee3314]

Monty Modlyn.

[@jamesisabeastieboysfan]

21 May 1977?

[@kiuk_kiks]

Emily Young, the featured artist was 26 when this was made. She is now 69 and wealthy.

[@EC-yq4im]

She's always been rich. She was born into wealth.

[@kiuk_kiks]

@@EC-yq4im
Ah, that upperclass English wealth.

[@patrickwatters7555]

I've always said " it's all down to luck, the first bit is who your parents are".

[@61rbrooks]

Turned out to be a great place for the drunks and the druggies

[@nkt1]

See Emily work.

[@Ritff666l-e9e]

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