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Youv'e Never Had It So Good.
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We talk about "increased child poverty", "food banks", "putting illegal immigrants in London hotels on humanitarian grounds" and yet this is how some of our people lived during the 60s.
We talk about "increased child poverty", "food banks", "putting illegal immigrants in London hotels on humanitarian grounds" and yet this is how some of our people lived during the 60s.
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\\\ no heating in the bedrooms, certainly no double glazing. \\\
Never heard of double glazing. Heating in the bedroom..yes, the bedroom had a fireplace, but one only lit the fire if one was ill in bed. Cold in the winter until you lit the fire downstairs.
\\\ one sink in the whole house, no sink in the outside loo; \\\
That was the norm.....what is the problem?
\\\ People hiding from the rent man because they didn't have the money for rent;\\\
Maybe, maybe, but the vast majority in my experience "saved" the rent money.........the rent was priority.
\\\tv so expensive it was rented, with a slot in the side to pay for the rent and licence \\\
TV? what TV? couldn't afford TV but could afford a battery powered wireless.
\\\shopping on the slate at the corner shop;\\\
The modern version of that is credit card debts.
Played football in the "recs", cricket with stumps chalked on the walls, went to the woods (despite the marauding paedophiles), had Grammar and Secondary schools and yes, there was rich and poor.....as there is today.
Very happy times despite the specially selected photographs.
Never heard of double glazing. Heating in the bedroom..yes, the bedroom had a fireplace, but one only lit the fire if one was ill in bed. Cold in the winter until you lit the fire downstairs.
\\\ one sink in the whole house, no sink in the outside loo; \\\
That was the norm.....what is the problem?
\\\ People hiding from the rent man because they didn't have the money for rent;\\\
Maybe, maybe, but the vast majority in my experience "saved" the rent money.........the rent was priority.
\\\tv so expensive it was rented, with a slot in the side to pay for the rent and licence \\\
TV? what TV? couldn't afford TV but could afford a battery powered wireless.
\\\shopping on the slate at the corner shop;\\\
The modern version of that is credit card debts.
Played football in the "recs", cricket with stumps chalked on the walls, went to the woods (despite the marauding paedophiles), had Grammar and Secondary schools and yes, there was rich and poor.....as there is today.
Very happy times despite the specially selected photographs.
I had 4 brothers, 5 in a bed top to tail, Army Coats over us, Oilcloth on the Floor, no carpets, father was a chimney sweep I often went with him to skip school ( I regret that now) money hardly ever came in, Remember the first Bush B/W tv we had to duck down when the rent man came or the coop bloke, but we got on with life, you had no choice, first job I had was in the British Hotel Bangor £2.00 P/W. the managers wife was a right snooty ***, I had to take her breakfast in to their room, but I got my own back! ( Not in the way you may think about) but do you know, neighbours used to help each other, "Youv'e Never Had It So Good" We never starved, but there was no fruit or the likes, if you could afford them you were rich.
AOG, if you were lucky you got to read one national newspaper a day and watch one tv news programme.
If there was a stabbing, as an example, you'd read and/or hear about it the day after. If it got to court you might hear about the sentencing.
Now, you will read about it online within an hour of it happening, you will get regular tweets about the progress of the investigation, you will see it several times on numerous tv news programmes. Within a day or two you will see photos of the victim and the family, hear appeals to help catch the killer. Then you will get all the details of the arrest, not once or twice but many times - then you'll hear all the neighbours saying how shocked they are, he's such a quiet, normal bloke.
Then of course there is the actual prosecution. Daily updates online, in print and on tv. And finally the sentencing is reported, with comments from the victim's family and the world at large stating how lenient the sentence is.
For one offence there will be hundreds of reports across the media, it is relentless.
If there was a stabbing, as an example, you'd read and/or hear about it the day after. If it got to court you might hear about the sentencing.
Now, you will read about it online within an hour of it happening, you will get regular tweets about the progress of the investigation, you will see it several times on numerous tv news programmes. Within a day or two you will see photos of the victim and the family, hear appeals to help catch the killer. Then you will get all the details of the arrest, not once or twice but many times - then you'll hear all the neighbours saying how shocked they are, he's such a quiet, normal bloke.
Then of course there is the actual prosecution. Daily updates online, in print and on tv. And finally the sentencing is reported, with comments from the victim's family and the world at large stating how lenient the sentence is.
For one offence there will be hundreds of reports across the media, it is relentless.
AOG...even I remember when we didn't have day time TV. We had no internet, no mobile phones, communication was very limited.
I know for a fact that (in my world at least|) that there was far more violence in the 70s/80s.
People went out Paddy Whacking!! Cos we're all a bunch of terrorists....
Didn't see that reported much.
I know for a fact that (in my world at least|) that there was far more violence in the 70s/80s.
People went out Paddy Whacking!! Cos we're all a bunch of terrorists....
Didn't see that reported much.
hc4361
/// For one offence there will be hundreds of reports across the media, it is relentless. ///
Yes but it will still be a crime that we knew about no matter how much we got to know about it.
Some make out that we did not get to hear about them because we didn't have the means of getting to know about them.
/// For one offence there will be hundreds of reports across the media, it is relentless. ///
Yes but it will still be a crime that we knew about no matter how much we got to know about it.
Some make out that we did not get to hear about them because we didn't have the means of getting to know about them.
ummmm
Yes and I can remember when all we had was the Newspapers, The Cinema Newsreels and a Radio (if you were well off), and that ran off an accumulator, which you had to take to a shop to charge up, and the radio also had to have an aerial that consisted of a large pole at the bottom of the garden, with a cable attached from the top of the pole to the radio, it also needed a copper pipe driven into the ground with a wire attached from that to the radio.
But we still heard of the murders which must have been fewer than today because we didn't hear about many hangings back then.
Yes and I can remember when all we had was the Newspapers, The Cinema Newsreels and a Radio (if you were well off), and that ran off an accumulator, which you had to take to a shop to charge up, and the radio also had to have an aerial that consisted of a large pole at the bottom of the garden, with a cable attached from the top of the pole to the radio, it also needed a copper pipe driven into the ground with a wire attached from that to the radio.
But we still heard of the murders which must have been fewer than today because we didn't hear about many hangings back then.
jackthehat
/// When I have time, I'll ask my parents (both serving Police Officers in 1960s) to lists the cases they were involved with.........it might be quite enlightening if you could confirm the number of which you were aware.... ///
Most likely to be serious cases such as riding a bicycle with a back light out, someone pinching a hub cap from a parked car, climbing a lamp post, or leaving one's back gate or a shop's door unlocked, etc.
/// When I have time, I'll ask my parents (both serving Police Officers in 1960s) to lists the cases they were involved with.........it might be quite enlightening if you could confirm the number of which you were aware.... ///
Most likely to be serious cases such as riding a bicycle with a back light out, someone pinching a hub cap from a parked car, climbing a lamp post, or leaving one's back gate or a shop's door unlocked, etc.
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