I love how you equate the damage caused by WW2 bombing by the Germans as "slums2. Liverpool was the second-most bombed city after London during the War.
I agree. I would love to see many cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, London etc before the 1st world war when there were still houses with servants etc and before the bombings of WW2 and the subsequent slum clearances.
Oh yeah. History is great, as long as you're not living in it of course. Overcrowding, freezing cold, damp, outside toilets, tin baths, coal fire in only one room, cockroaches, no NHS, a couple of world wars thrown in. A veritable paradise. If only we could get those days back.
@@Makeyourselfbig I quite agree. I did some research on a family friend who's ancestors lived in Everton around 1900. They lived in a terraced house, one room ground floor, one room upstairs, no kitchen (obviously no bathroom). Another family lived in two tiny rooms in the basement. L'pool City Council eventually passed a law to stop people living in basements because they were so squalid and unhealthy. These houses never had an electricity supply installed. Only gas lights until they were demolished 1940s/50s. Ah, the good old days!
So many memories of growing up in the 50s and 60s. No drug addled morons to worry about, no kids murdering each other with knives outside of school and no religious nut cases blowing us up. They were for me, care free days.😊
@@stormytempest6521 . So you were there as well, so much fun with little to no interference fron the adults. I think the main reason was, the copper that walked the streets was plucked straight from the military. So he had self discipline, and he'd been there done that. Not a chance of getting one over him as a cheeky nipper. Also all the men were in work, earning a wage that covered all of the running costs of a home. If mum went out to work, it was for pin money for emergencies and Christmas. Me and my brother would go to me nans for our tea after school then me grandad would walk us home at about 6 o'clock if it was the dark winter months.
Lots of places like this in Hull around Boulevard and St Georges Rd area at the time. We used to play in them and call them bombed buildings , some still had the air raid shelters in the back .
I lived in Godfrey St by the water tower in the 50's & 60's it wasn't a slum good people lived there? the clearance destroyed family's and community's. Sad 😟😟
I was born in the sixties in Everton. A slum clearance area. When you moved out to go to Cantril Farm, or Norris Green..lol, me and the mates went in the empty house and got all the goodies. The stuff people left behind would now be classed as valuable antiques. My mate got a Napoleonic sword, which we used to chop the heads off the newel posts ( round bit on the bannister). Great fun. Never got bored. Never had any money…just loved it. 😂😂
I lived in Liverpool during this act of wholesale Liverpool City vandalism. Yes there where a lot of Slum houses but also a lot of better quality houses where demolished. For what? The likes of John F Kennedy Heights and others that have gone the same way!!!
need a new video Len of the beautiful docks and the buildings at the pier head and lark lane and its beautiful parks, that was the 70s can we have a update please thx Terry Moogan the Hollywood Butler
Oh, yes! This is only a place in time when I lived there, I go back so often and how lovely is it now? Shows you what you can build. My love video to this place will come soon...
thanks Len take a look at my life story on shaun attwoods podcast my book comes out in December. liverpool bank robber to the Hollywood Butler thx mate.
As there are more than 70 slums shown in this excerpt, shouldn't the title be 'Liverpool's 70's slums' rather than 'Liverpool70slums' or are letters and numbers all mashed together one and the same thing in Liverpool ? ? ?
No matter how poor, the kids always find ways to have fun .
Used love playing in the empty houses (bomdies) as a kid. Lovely memories ✌🏻
I love how you equate the damage caused by WW2 bombing by the Germans as "slums2. Liverpool was the second-most bombed city after London during the War.
I would like to of seen old Liverpool, like a hundred years ago, before they bulldozed most of it. It's sad to see all that history being torn down.
I agree. I would love to see many cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, London etc before the 1st world war when there were still houses with servants etc and before the bombings of WW2 and the subsequent slum clearances.
@@footballsoccerx2021 yes around 1900
Oh yeah. History is great, as long as you're not living in it of course. Overcrowding, freezing cold, damp, outside toilets, tin baths, coal fire in only one room, cockroaches, no NHS, a couple of world wars thrown in. A veritable paradise. If only we could get those days back.
@@Makeyourselfbig I quite agree. I did some research on a family friend who's ancestors lived in Everton around 1900. They lived in a terraced house, one room ground floor, one room upstairs, no kitchen (obviously no bathroom). Another family lived in two tiny rooms in the basement. L'pool City Council eventually passed a law to stop people living in basements because they were so squalid and unhealthy.
These houses never had an electricity supply installed. Only gas lights until they were demolished 1940s/50s. Ah, the good old days!
My home was a "slum"...Portland Gardens...but i loved it there.
So many memories of growing up in the 50s and 60s. No drug addled morons to worry about, no kids murdering each other with knives outside of school and no religious nut cases blowing us up. They were for me, care free days.😊
SPOT ON WACKER !
@@stormytempest6521 . So you were there as well, so much fun with little to no interference fron the adults. I think the main reason was, the copper that walked the streets was plucked straight from the military. So he had self discipline, and he'd been there done that. Not a chance of getting one over him as a cheeky nipper. Also all the men were in work, earning a wage that covered all of the running costs of a home. If mum went out to work, it was for pin money for emergencies and Christmas. Me and my brother would go to me nans for our tea after school then me grandad would walk us home at about 6 o'clock if it was the dark winter months.
Lots of places like this in Hull around Boulevard and St Georges Rd area at the time. We used to play in them and call them bombed buildings , some still had the air raid shelters in the back .
So basically England has always been a shithole ,but to make yourself feel better you blame everything on black people nowadays 😂😂😂
We used to sing that tune in the 80s on school trips 😁 you knew the scousers were there 😂
The best times of my life the seventies lived in four squares museum and art gallery were our play ground and the fountain ❤️👌😊
Aah, The Radcliffe Estate ..or Legoland. Knocked about there sometimes.Weird af design like.
I can recommend 'Those Were The Days' by Dave Kirby. Set in 1974 and Liverpool's FA Cup run but also lots of tales about growing up in this year.
Lots of those slums had hot and cold running cockroaches.
Thanks Len - brilliant - so many memories
I lived in Godfrey St by the water tower in the 50's & 60's it wasn't a slum good people lived there? the clearance destroyed family's and community's. Sad 😟😟
Great times great memories
Great that Len 👍
Great footage
i came from englefield green toxteth as a child the band the real thing lived in the home above my home
I was born in the sixties in Everton. A slum clearance area. When you moved out to go to Cantril Farm, or Norris Green..lol, me and the mates went in the empty house and got all the goodies.
The stuff people left behind would now be classed as valuable antiques.
My mate got a Napoleonic sword, which we used to chop the heads off the newel posts ( round bit on the bannister). Great fun. Never got bored. Never had any money…just loved it. 😂😂
I lived in Liverpool during this act of wholesale Liverpool City vandalism. Yes there where a lot of Slum houses but also a lot of better quality houses where demolished. For what? The likes of John F Kennedy Heights and others that have gone the same way!!!
need a new video Len of the beautiful docks and the buildings at the pier head and lark lane and its beautiful parks, that was the 70s can we have a update please thx Terry Moogan the Hollywood Butler
Oh, yes! This is only a place in time when I lived there, I go back so often and how lovely is it now? Shows you what you can build. My love video to this place will come soon...
thanks Len take a look at my life story on shaun attwoods podcast my book comes out in December. liverpool bank robber to the Hollywood Butler thx mate.
Look at how they made our people live, we didn’t have long before the final betrayal.
Interesting
Now do a flim of what the place looks like now.
You ok love? Liverpool hasn’t changed much in the last 50 years?! Maybe visit again and open your eyes. 😆😆😂
In your Liverpool slums 🤣
As there are more than 70 slums shown in this excerpt, shouldn't the title be 'Liverpool's 70's slums' rather than 'Liverpool70slums' or are letters and numbers all mashed together one and the same thing in Liverpool ? ? ?
Anyone know if the trams went from Broadway as far as Breck Road?.
Why show the bad side of places you visit to gain points
70's? This was filmed last week.
We were going to visit Liverpool - however, we boarded the wrong train at Euston and ended up in Morecambe Bay.
That's what we thought until we came back with all our luggage and a pint of shrimps.
@@tomthomas9708 oh, they were 2'6d a pint but i don't think the stall is on the promenade anymore. I can check and confirm if you like?
@@envsf03 Yeah great.
envs.. They were ten bob here. 2".6' that's to cheap.
Morecombe, where they stand the dead up in bus stops to make it look busy? Lmao.
Unfortunately they rebuilt it.
Look in the dustbin for something to eat find a dead rat and think its a treat in your Liverpool slums 😂 our version when we played LFC.
in your head rent free us scousers ha thats why your on here
That’s hilarious that...🤮
IF you're a Manc..dig into your cellar dwelling history. Your slums were the worst anywhere.
This is liverpool today isn't it.....
I’d match today’s Liverpool against wherever you live.....you’ve never been here!...
@@frankhornby6873 I have been to Liverpool many times, and it is depressing...
@@AttillatheHun-ph5eu And where do you come from?
@@ratatat9790 Wilmslow.
Hate that song in my liverpool home. Gets on your nerves.
Funny tne
70s were awful, don’t miss that decade at all.
Neither do I, I was pleased to move but now when I go back I realise what a great place it is now!
Hasn’t changed much to be fair
How would you know, mouth !!
I hope Russia knows about Liverpool 😂
Ahaahaah ha (wtf is he on about?)
That area is Everton not Anfield
Yes you cannot see the seafront ie liver buildings from Anfield you can from Everton x
@@teresataubman2860 Very true what you say Teresa, I know because I was born and bred in Everton
The area is Everton not Anfield.
I remember that in bootle subway estate St. John’s road we played on the rubble and looted the bombed houses we had absolutely nothing