1968: How COMPULSORY PURCHASE reshaped a TOWN | Man Alive | Voice of the People

1968: How COMPULSORY PURCHASE reshaped a TOWN | Man Alive | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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Like many local authorities across the country, Oldham Borough Council used compulsory purchase powers when redeveloping and modernising areas of the town in the 1960s. Man Alive spoke to some of those affected, including Mrs Quinlan, who faced losing her family home, and gentlemen's outfitter Danny Corallo, who had to relocate his business.
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@Budbrothers420 2 ай бұрын

That danny was preaching the truth more so now then ever what a lad

@theeggtimertictic1136 2 ай бұрын

He mentioned the book '1984' ... just think 1984 was the future back then!

@suitcase_carwash 22 күн бұрын

I reckon Danny would only get a 30 second sound bite on any BBC piece these days

@babs675 2 ай бұрын

This happened to our house, in Salford. My uncle had the house before my mum. He was a lovely carpenter. He even built an add-on, in the backyard for a kitchen. The house was in great shape, as was the rest of our neighbour’s homes, but the council decided to take over and pull them down. My Poor widowed 70 year old mum was devastated and out a lot of money, with the pittance the council gave her. She ( scared stiff of heights) was sent to a high rise flat. 13 th floor, where the lift was out of order just about every day. It was an absolute disgrace that her home could just be taken off her, like it was.

@-_-11k52 2 ай бұрын

Yes completely wrong. Council should have had to pay through the nose! Daylight robbery!

@theeggtimertictic1136 2 ай бұрын

Put into a shoebox in the sky ... the poor woman 🥺

@rensha8635 2 ай бұрын

At her age, a high rise flat, what a disgrace. Your poor mother.

@SpeccyHorace 2 ай бұрын

Bloody awful.

@michaelroberts7374 2 ай бұрын

Same here, in Salford, mam and gran and me moved to 11th floor tower block in 1970. Gran had had a stroke, and only left the flat a handful of times before she died in 1980

@hilaryepstein6013 2 ай бұрын

I felt so sorry for that couple. They put everything into their home only to have it snatched from them. The move from terrace to tower block broke up not only families but whole communities.

@JJONNYREPP 2 ай бұрын

1968: How COMPULSORY PURCHASE reshaped a TOWN | Man Alive | Voice of the People | BBC Archive 0929am 8.6.24 narrator sounded like Vyvian Stanshall.

@growlerthe2nd712 2 ай бұрын

@@JJONNYREPPAnd now back to the Earl Court Olympia for the shirt event, I’ll repeat that the shirt event ……..😂👍

@allykhan8594 2 ай бұрын

Tyranny of gvernment.

@jow6845 2 ай бұрын

💯👎🏻

@JJONNYREPP 2 ай бұрын

@@jow6845

@tjm3900 2 ай бұрын

These people suffered and fought through a war. Only to be treated like this.

@JohnSmith-ei2pz 2 ай бұрын

That's councils wanting land to house immigrants!

@siwynjones 2 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-ei2pzThey fought through a war, and it was people like you they were fighting.

@JohnSmith-ei2pz 2 ай бұрын

@@siwynjones You could not fight yourself out of a wet paperbag! Racist!

@Lav9944 2 ай бұрын

@@siwynjonesYou've got it completely backwards 🤦‍♂️ We fought to protect our country and keep it english, we fought against a group of people who wanted flood other countries with there own people and eventually replace the indigenous people. Ever heard of living space or the final solution? I find it funny how it's wrong when the Germans do it but everyone else gets a pass.

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-ei2pz oh , really come on 😞 it has nothing to do with it it is about re-housing mistakenly making life "better" for people

@Bookmarkerer 2 ай бұрын

Time travelling back to 1968; thanks BBC Archive; and a good day to all of you in the present.

@heinkle1 2 ай бұрын

Oldham shows up quite a lot on this channel. A place that has experienced a lot of change over the decades.

@sutapasbhattacharya9471 Ай бұрын

One of its Labour MPs Michael Meacher wrote that property should be for housing people but ended up as Environment Minister [don't be wasteful] owning a portfolio of about a dozen properties and leaving millions in his will.

@bill3641 2 ай бұрын

@4:30 He's described so well what happens at city council and school board meetings today. Thats not much in the way of progress....

@googlesucks6029 2 ай бұрын

I hope everything turned out ok for the shopkeeper. He had some good points though which are still valid today.

@kieronparr3403 2 ай бұрын

The tailor?

@theeggtimertictic1136 2 ай бұрын

@@kieronparr3403 Did he make the suits? .. I think he just bought them to sell

@kieronparr3403 2 ай бұрын

@@theeggtimertictic1136 nah you can see his fabric, tools etc

@astalavista_84 2 ай бұрын

People actually made stuff in this country back then, rather than importing it from sweatshops in Asia

@johnmartinez7440 19 күн бұрын

@@astalavista_84 People still do.

@cb01ttr 2 ай бұрын

I wouldn't mess with Danny.

@skyrocketautomotive 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, totally agree. An old school kinda guy. But an honest and hardworking one it would seem. I really hope things worked out for him wherever he ended up.

@cb01ttr 2 ай бұрын

@@skyrocketautomotive Definitely not afraid of a day's work.

@factoryfactory7142 2 ай бұрын

Nae! Nae! Nae!

@johnwhitehead1305 2 ай бұрын

Watching these films makes me cry, all those communities and hard working, decent people like Danny swept aside without any proper representation in the name of "progress ".

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

I agree with you. My heart goes out to those honest folks.

@sarahcox9284 15 күн бұрын

Agree. In the name of Progress,what Progress? Absolute disgrace!

@jazztheglass6139 2 ай бұрын

Now PFI Schools, hospitals etc are all built through the compulsory purchase system. Planning permission is granted through central goverment automatically. Local authority is by-passed completely, local residents concerns and objections are ignored. I experienced this first hand in Wembley Park 20 years ago. A Academy school was built on TFL land, my leased 3 bed cottage and a sports ground was demolished despite strong local opposition. The company involved in the project got a 30 year contract for construction, maintance and servicing of the school. Over the 30 year period the fees paid were massive. The school is also exempt from local authority control

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

well written thank you

@samuelsstuffyt 25 күн бұрын

Quite scary that the State can effectively just repossess your property with no input or consent from the property owner whatsoever. Even worse, it is never middle class neighbourhoods and streets that get demolished for these sorts of developments, only ever lower income neighbourhoods.

@jazztheglass6139 25 күн бұрын

@@samuelsstuffyt Give it time. If Labour puts its full weight behind PFI housing and other infrastructure. It will affect middle class areas. Cricket and tennis club grounds, sports fields, Church halls etc. The land is too valuable, the profits are vast. The government can say its built developments and bought it on hire purchase, so to speak. My old cottage in Wembley, was on the edge of Wembley, almost a middle class area.

@theoldcoot55 2 ай бұрын

People are annoyed yet not once is the F Word used during the interview How times have changed

@whiteonggoy7009 2 ай бұрын

So sad especially those having gone through war then new start taken away

@MrACOUSTICPETE 2 ай бұрын

Opportunity for a an investigative journalist to see who was making money from this scheme and how they influenced the decision making ! Like the Ernest Marples scandal which led to lots of motorways and the destruction of the rail network by Beeching !

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

Oh yes the odious corrupt Marples destroying the railways and profiting from motorways.

@benohanlon Ай бұрын

Tell me more?

@zippy963 2 ай бұрын

Wise woman.

@thomassmiththekingbee 2 күн бұрын

Danny is really well spoken, and every word he said is true

@JohnHMarsden 2 ай бұрын

Great people from Oldham.

@NTRSN-Archive 2 ай бұрын

And there are still believers in rich criminals 😢

@richardjames3356 2 ай бұрын

Just under a month, we get to vote for them.

@theeggtimertictic1136 2 ай бұрын

I wonder what became of Danny and his business?

@art-fw7ci 2 ай бұрын

I'm not british, in 1968 my father hadn't been born yet, but the story of that lady brought some tears to my eyes.

@andscholovideos312 19 күн бұрын

I love the way they speak. Proper Oldhamers.

@magravy1 2 ай бұрын

Real working people being crushed then and it still continues today 😢

@pen2199 2 ай бұрын

English people are been irradiated

@WilliamSmith-mx6ze 2 ай бұрын

Crushed? Uh?

@magravy1 2 ай бұрын

@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze Hopes and dreams The cost of living!

@stephenholmes1036 2 ай бұрын

Labour councils were the worsed

@DOCTORWHOcentral 25 күн бұрын

@4:48Since his talking in 1968 he mentioned 1984 like his living in that era ???? Did anyone else find that weird and scary cause his mentioned the future 😮😮

@RobertMulhern 20 күн бұрын

I guess he was on about Orwell’s book 1984

@yammyrob Ай бұрын

Good ol danny. What a great man.

@andrewp1075 2 ай бұрын

Danny knew

@gordonspond 2 ай бұрын

NEVER EVER let the government "help" you!!

@stephenholmes1036 2 ай бұрын

Correct they despise us.

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

good advice!

@AnthonyMonaghan 2 ай бұрын

Nothing has changed...if anything, things have got worse. What a shameless bunch of criminals.

@JJONNYREPP 2 ай бұрын

1968: How COMPULSORY PURCHASE reshaped a TOWN | Man Alive | Voice of the People | BBC Archive 0932am 8.6.24 then everyone who watches this goes off to watch Little Malcolm and his struggle against the proletarian eunuchry...

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

Agree 100%

@JJONNYREPP Ай бұрын

@@daydays12 1968: How COMPULSORY PURCHASE reshaped a TOWN | Man Alive | Voice of the People | BBC Archive 23.6.24 when i was a lad......

@gordonspond 2 ай бұрын

Nothing's changed in 56 years!

@WillScarlet1991 2 ай бұрын

All that history gone 😢😢

@OldManRunning-dj7qi Ай бұрын

BBC back in the day. The days when they had good journalists who looked out for the common people of this country and exposed the murky underworld of the political class who made and passed laws that suited their own agenda. I felt for both the couple and the local business man. I’m sitting here wondering how they got on. Their spirits seemed crushed however I like to think these people gave the two-fingers and got in with rebuilding their lives.

@simon-oy6um 2 ай бұрын

Knocking down old slums to build new ones 😂😂😂

@denzel270 20 күн бұрын

Remember, this was under Labour.

@EMEL-hr4ut Ай бұрын

They eventually brought us grenfell tower

@BeatUpRecordsCDs 2 ай бұрын

Danny the Tailor sounds like he is cutting a promo in a wrestling promotion.

@kieronparr3403 2 ай бұрын

The challenger "Danny the Tailor"

@pen2199 2 ай бұрын

Danny fury

@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor 2 ай бұрын

Humans should take a break from breeding for a few decades

@josilvester9159 2 ай бұрын

This is going to happen again if people can't afford to keep up with all the 'climate' demands on how there home is insulated etc.

@donnasmyth45 2 ай бұрын

I thought exactly the same thing!

@jackstrop7520 21 күн бұрын

not much changes does it!!!!

@garethjudd5840 2 ай бұрын

This appalling act cause social collapse and a subsequent drug and crime wave.

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

Indeed

@lodersracing 7 күн бұрын

I'd love to know the history of Danny and his life.

@buffplums 7 күн бұрын

Such injustices…and after each new generation comes along, the hardships, injustice, pain and anger of the previous is swept under the carpet…. Those at the top don’t have an empathy for the working class, treat them lower than dirt. Nothing changes.

@jerryorange6983 Ай бұрын

Even houses can be stolen.

@neverfeltguilty1786 28 күн бұрын

2024 and nothings changed. Same struggle for all time..

@factoryfactory7142 2 ай бұрын

Shopkeeper was a reet dude!

@SteveSmith-zo4ml Ай бұрын

CPO legislation requires the market value to be paid for land and property. Obviously if you condemn a property as unfit for human habitation, then it has a very low market value. So it’s really the ‘public health regulations’ used to condemn the property that I’m wondering about. They probably doesn’t exist any more, but one would think that people had the right to challenge a proposed condemnation. Unfortunately, that would probably be beyond these people.

@1972hermanoben 2 ай бұрын

Greed in action. Instead of investing in improvements, pile ‘em all into tower blocks where they take up less space, leaving room for more buildings. Disgraceful, disrespectful and dehumanizing, this policy sowed the seeds of the neoliberal nightmare of a political landscape we live in today. No wonder Thatcher seemed to offer such a lifeline to working people.

@NoosaHeads Ай бұрын

The tyranny of governments "doing what's best for the community". Some government is necessary, of course, but give a little man a bit of power and he becomes drunk with the delight of ruling over his "inferiors." The problem is that those who are best suited to be politicians never want to become one. Those least suited to be politicians are often the ones in power. Politicians should be personally liable (in civil courts) for grossly irresponsible or financially unreasonable decisions. That would make them think very carefully before they caused their citizens to be socially or financially disadvantaged. Compulsory purchase should be something permitted only as an absolute last resort. (Otherwise, it's legalised theft).

@Evemeister12 26 күн бұрын

This is why people nowadays don't look after council properties. Why put your blood, sweat and tears into something that can be so easily destroyed at any time?

@celestialteapot309 2 ай бұрын

What possessed their children to vote for Margaret Thatcher?

@paulhargreaves1680 29 күн бұрын

In 1968. All this under a labour govt and local labour mp too probably. I felt very sorry for those people, worked hard all their lives and for what.... absolutely disgraceful.

@sarahcox9284 15 күн бұрын

Compulsory purchase should not be allowed. It is disgusting and disgraceful that people lose their homes and have no say in the matter.

@GeoffDavis1974 13 күн бұрын

Still happening

@user-ji5hb8wl4b 2 ай бұрын

"Streets in the sky"!

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

Shameful. These disgusting 'planners' don't live in their blocks

@northwaleslife4844 20 күн бұрын

They had no right to do this, they should have restored these houses

@mariacrouch7109 13 күн бұрын

I TOTALLY AGREE PAST GOVES HAVE RPPED THE HEARTS OUT OF STRONG COMMUNITES SOME OF THESE HOUSES COULD OF BEEN RESTORED

@doodle3161 Күн бұрын

Nothing has changed.

@JonnyInfinite 2 ай бұрын

This was pure theft

@Sawk_King 14 күн бұрын

I know it said Oldham but she sounds like she’s from Bolton … That’s a very Lancashire accent

@JoeK25301 2 ай бұрын

Ah, the days of house-proud wives.

@johnmartinez7440 19 күн бұрын

...what?

@urbanplanner7200 2 ай бұрын

You can't fight city hall.

@RussellAlami 24 күн бұрын

A Labour Government - in power ! ! 😮

@joycejackson9315 27 күн бұрын

Blackrock 1960s.

@bonnetdedouche437 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic narration by Lawrence Lewllyn Bowen! 👌

@antmerritt 2 ай бұрын

For real?!?

@shakmo8810 Ай бұрын

6 minute 30second Danny

@techElephant 2 ай бұрын

Nice cuddly Labour government...

@user-ne2uw8ji7h 26 күн бұрын

Won't be long before there's no more Humans with human nature. 💔 AI, FIAT.🤖

@Rowenzz 6 күн бұрын

They destroyed Salford

@birdsnest69 21 күн бұрын

So you don’t own anything in the UK?

@sallyarmstrong8612 25 күн бұрын

Still happening today. Now we have the likes of Sadiq Khan in London telling people they’re cars are suddenly “not compliant” and demanding money from them.

@johnmartinez7440 19 күн бұрын

That wasn't 'sudden' at all. That's just correctly taxing pollution.

@Hullabaloolah 25 күн бұрын

This looks like a propaganda promo for today to allow compulsory purchase of your home so you can go live in a ' 15 minute city' tower block. You will own nothing but be happy

@johnmartinez7440 19 күн бұрын

"I don't know what a 15-minute city is but I'm still mad about them."

@torgeirbrandsnes1916 2 ай бұрын

Damn! What happend here? Anyone?

@alibali2656 2 ай бұрын

They uprooted communities, added unnecessary stress and in return built the slums of the future that only survived for 40 years. Already been replaced with the same cheap houses that no one aspires to live in. We'll done Oldham Council. Stop treating good folk like idiots.

@BOZ_11 2 ай бұрын

The old boy at the end is a bit of an anarchist. You can't allow a private individual (even 100 of them) to block e.g. a much needed cross country railway service, or some other piece of critical infrastructure. He'll receive the market rate for his business, and he can open another shop half a mile away with the proceeds from the sale. Out of respect, it should be market rate plus 50% for the anguish

@saltedmutton7269 2 ай бұрын

I'd agree with you on that if it wasn't for the fact that it seems most of the time nowadays infrastructure doesn't even get built. With HS3, for example, the government took the houses before it was cancelled, and rather than giving them back when it was, they rented them out to earn a little more money! Also, what qualifies infrastructure as critical? Allowing the government to decide that would give them too much power over what they can take (especially in areas with high-value properties... the more they can charge for rent the better!)

@BOZ_11 2 ай бұрын

@@saltedmutton7269 They're not taking, they're opening up Govt coffers to compensate the property holders under the CPO. It's not like MP's added his business to their investment portfolio 🤣🤣 Representatives are democratically elected, that's the process. You act like they're lords.

@alankent2849 2 ай бұрын

It was a way of moving these people into cheap council accommodation and removing any influence they had over the future of their communities. Give them a few quid a week dole money to keep them quiet and they won't be politically motivated anymore.

@Seminal_Ideas 2 ай бұрын

Well said.

@ShubhamBhushanCC 2 ай бұрын

It was a way to house them from unsanitary unsafe old crumbling houses into more up to date houses for no cost or very low cost. Most people considered it an upgrade. Remember those early houses didn't have integrated bath/toilets. They were outdoors and shared and poor sewage systems often broke down. They were already living in cheap council accommodations, this was just to move them into cheap, modern and safer council accommodations

@ChartreuseDan 2 ай бұрын

@@ShubhamBhushanCC Councils don't have to forced purchase order council property. These were privately owned properties. The official line was that the tenants were mostly low-income renters in poor conditions with uncooperative landlords but ultimately, given that if regulators were concerned about the conditions landlords were providing they could have tried to implement legislation to protect renters, the choice to draw a line around an area and say it all comes down to be replaced with concrete tower blocks was one made of political expediency. If the national government HAD tried to implement total adequate reform to the rental market the landlords and the fiscal right at large would have kicked up a fuss so it was "better" to empower local councils to blunder about like this and avoid most culpability for any of it in the public consciousness for the parliamentary party.

@nicolad8822 2 ай бұрын

It was paternalistic but that’s what the immediate post war generation voted for. Many people were more than happy to escape these environments.

@eleanorwalmsley635 Ай бұрын

@@ShubhamBhushanCCthat is a myth and a PR lie.. Those houses were built by the Victorians, therefore built to last. Any restorations would have been a hell of a lot better than what replaced them. These people were robbed of their homes, given a derisory one time offer for potential profit, naked greed.

@ShubhamBhushanCC 2 ай бұрын

Back when governments housed people.

@JohnSmith-ei2pz 2 ай бұрын

They were white working people who paid their way! Not scum wanting free housing!

@lordbrennanofsealand5772 14 күн бұрын

The roots of discord were sowed then, now they are starting to bare fruit and the nation says enough.

@mushroomhead3054 2 ай бұрын

I don't know how we managed back then without half the 3rd world on our doorsteps.

@JohnSmith-ei2pz 2 ай бұрын

Theproperty was used to house the shy-te, of the world!

@stephfoxwell4620 2 ай бұрын

Was it climate change or slavery?

@Mumasarah 16 күн бұрын

You dont own anything . Why bother buying really?

@crozwayne 2 ай бұрын

"I want my country back" says 30p Lee Anderson! what, to this sad state of affairs? god no!

@luiathmorgan7709 2 ай бұрын

Thats the "Part they dontvtell those buying Cluncil housing !" Its a con!

@margin606 2 ай бұрын

Danny is a nasty bit of work

@Rasle500 2 ай бұрын

NOT

@redacted629 2 ай бұрын

Danny isn't a nasty bit of work. He doesn't like theft, bullying and bull crap.

@Budbrothers420 2 ай бұрын

@redacted629 seems like margin is a Torrie

@theeggtimertictic1136 2 ай бұрын

Why do you say that?

@margin606 2 ай бұрын

@@theeggtimertictic1136 He was threatening violence

@user-wb7lv7qj2t 16 сағат бұрын

It was the same for poor old ALFGARNETT.He only got the land value but he certainly let the council know wha he thought.

@stephenholmes1036 2 ай бұрын

People still treated like rubbish by local authorities.

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

and by central government

@brijones 2 ай бұрын

happened to us in battersea 1968 we moved out all houses demolished and a big estate built

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

££££££££ for the developers. Shameful 😞

@clairebibby4519 2 ай бұрын

These terrace houses in Oldham were are part of history of the working classes of the North of England..there was o thought from the council went into knocking these properties down.. at least Lowry was able to paint these industrial towns and keep.their memories and history alive..

@stuartr8356 2 ай бұрын

Sad. Repelled the Nazi's only to have home grown evil at their door.

@robsin2810 2 ай бұрын

Nothing has changed. Oppress the working class………

@elkpaz560 2 ай бұрын

Danny gives the most articulate rationale for the need to respect property rights in a good society. What was happening here was communism and we will be seeing more of it under StarWEFmer.

@nicolad8822 2 ай бұрын

Thing is every British city still has crumbling rows of old terraced houses which no one maintains properly even if they own them. Trees growing out of brickwork, dirty yards, it has only got worse. At what point does regeneration happen?

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

Absolutely true. Then once beautiful country is built over for up market houses to make ££££££ for developers.

@Olivia-vn1tf 8 күн бұрын

@@daydays12 The "plastic" new build estate properties may have upmarket price tags but the build quality is very poor and they are densely packed.

@suzannehaigh4281 2 ай бұрын

Yep, happened in Leeds, classed perfectly good houses as slums, bought them very, very cheap and then did they build more houses? NO, they built the already planned ring road, cheaper to buy slums than houses for redevelopment.

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

Yes. The same everywhere in UK. Shameful

@TeddyBoy1962 2 ай бұрын

This happened to family friends in the mid sixties in Bow, London. The entire street of Victorian terraced houses were compulsorily purchased and demolished. The Lovering family had one of the cleanest, soundest, neatest houses in the street. Jim was retired and spent time freshening up the exterior paintwork and Gertrude was an excellent homemaker. Many of the other houses were run down although not slummy. However, every house owner got what they were given - three hundred quid, regardless of condition. They were then moved to Loughton - to a council house. From hardworking, fiscally proficient, working class homeowners to rent paying council tenants. No choice given.

@WillScarlet1991 2 ай бұрын

That was disgusting 😠😢

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

Callous, ignorant , possibly corrupt, 'planners' with their idiotic ideas

@PaddyWV 2 ай бұрын

They were still bulldozing stuff in the early 90's. I remember seeing half pulled down streets around Limeside then. Social Cleansing is another word for it

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

Yes 😞 So sad

@bavariansleeper 2 ай бұрын

It’s appalling. Local councils caused more damage to the landscape, social fabric and communities than the Luftwaffe did! 🤬

@Tiggy808 2 ай бұрын

Remember my great grandma had a house on Middleton Rd in chadderton, was compulsory purchased at a 'knock down' price about 1981, new houses sprang up and she moved to a flat in Rhodes. They can wreck your life at the stroke of a pen.

@seanrm 2 ай бұрын

"reshaped" is doublespeak for, "destroyed"

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

Exactly.

@bowwowrapha7790 2 ай бұрын

Danny is fantastic. I really feel for him.

@EdsCafe 2 ай бұрын

Heartbreaking. These wonderful people treated like s***e.

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

I so agree

@Ian-gw2vx 2 ай бұрын

You ain't seen nothing yet Danny.

@bryanmceneaney 2 ай бұрын

it was only just the beginning of the end of civilisation. I wonder how he got on after?

@vantheman1238 2 ай бұрын

This was happening under a Labour Government led by Harold Wilson.

@WillScarlet1991 2 ай бұрын

No different if it were a Tory one.

@vaughanrichards7438 2 ай бұрын

@@WillScarlet1991 That's the point. You would expect better from Labour.

@WillScarlet1991 2 ай бұрын

@@vaughanrichards7438 True.

@jamesburke2094 2 ай бұрын

Nb Worth bearing in mind that leyton was once quite prim Then, in the 80s pretty junky It's how the locals behave that matters. Things move on

@tangerinedream7211 2 ай бұрын

And what they built became slums very quickly, incredibly bad construction on 1960s flats. Councils still paying for them long after these new flats have been flattened.

@Novacastrian 2 ай бұрын

Just because houses are old doesn’t make them slums,these were communities,where people looked out for one another,they may have replaced the buildings but couldn’t replace the community or the way of life,disgraceful!

@apb3251 2 ай бұрын

Truthfully although some were looked after they were slums. 100 years old even then, damp cellars, single skin brick, no heat or insulation apart from a fire place. Social housing should have been good in 60s but quickly became slum estates or overspill for cities

@Novacastrian 2 ай бұрын

@@apb3251 Local authorities aloud a lot of these areas to go to ruin, because the plans to replace the housing stock were already in place, if the people who lived there wanted to move fair enough, they may have received a better house, but a home is something personal, a community an extended family . On Tyneside these communities were scattered and replaced by real slums were no one wants to live now, according to an article in our local paper, I grew up in one of these slums, but I remember a place were people looked out for each other, we played in the street and used our imagination to invent games, yes we had an out side toilet , but I’d go back to that time and place in a flash if I could,this country was a better place to live then compared to now. Sad

@apb3251 2 ай бұрын

@@Novacastrian seems to be a viscous cycle. Happened again in Liverpool in the 80s when Thatcher put it into “managed decline”

@gregorymalchuk272 2 ай бұрын

The bolshevist central planners thought they knew better.

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

Scandalous uncaring greedy exploitative behaviour cloaked as doing good