when did those people start having tge bathtub? my husband was born in 1959. He had a tin bath in front of the fireplace w hen he was small.

Did you get moved out of London?

the funny thing is ,thehouses they didnt pull down are now worth an arm n a leg , all said n done change was needed and is always a comeing

All owned by British elite landowners who didn’t pay for up keep. So blaming the poor was the thing. The poor get the blame for everything even now. The middle class housing inspectors moral imperatives lorded over the poor. So after 2 world wars. The government had to reward the people who lost all their men folk. But the Peabody housing association gives housing to ‘ the deserving poor’

Same here!

for that i am gratefull

+manofweed1 It just goes to show how overpriced London is. The recurring debt bubble will burst again.

Surely many of these were demolished?

Yeh, they didn't keep the real slums like this

Same in Harlem after the crack epidemic

@@GiveMeAnOKUsername its 1935 limehouse next to docks literally on it. they all would have been flattened ww2 but many did survive

Didn't know what Billysweet was... found this... Many of the buildings in the Old Nichol contravened the Building Acts. Builders leasing land from owners who did not care what use was made of the acreage, so long as it was profitable, created an instant slum. The use of cheaper lime-based substances derived from the by-products of soap-making at local factories was the most important factor in the swift deterioration of the building fabric in the Old Nichol. Speculative builders used this cement, which was known as "Billysweet", instead of traditional lime mortar; it quickly became infamous for never thoroughly drying out, leading to sagging and unstable walls. Other architectural features that contributed to urban decay in the Old Nichol included the lack of foundation of most early 19th-century houses, which were built with floorboards laid on bare earth, cheap timber and half-baked bricks of ash-adulterated clay. The roofs were badly pitched, leading to rotting rafters and blooming plasterwork. The houses were permanently soggy, as damp from the roof and the earth seeped through the buildings. By 1836, the whole 15 acres (61,000 m2) of land which would form the Old Nichol had been built or rebuilt upon.[7] "A back garden in Nichol Street, Bethnal Green" from The Builder(1863)[8] Over the following fifteen years, backyards and other open spaces were built upon with shanty-style developments, creating illegal courts, small houses, workshops, stables, cowsheds and donkey stalls. As surveyors and cartographers struggled to maintain accurate maps of the Old Nichol, the already high population density increased further.[9] Families with more than one child often lied to be able to obtain a room, and were thrown out if the rent collector or landlord found out that more than one child lived with family in one room. Monday was rent day, known as "Black Monday", and in the Old Nichol women would form queues outside the pawnshops with their belongings. The rent was collected by house agents who would evict te

@@007JHS Super interesting. Do you think many of the slums could have been refurbished rather than demolished? Or were they just too badly built?

@@l0ndon429 In the video the lady stated that they were too rotten to repair and had to be demolished. What is so sad is that the huge concrete prefabs the councils were so excited about, turned out to be expensive slums in the making themselves...what a waste of money they were!

@@l0ndon429 much too badly built to withstand remodeling.

@@alexac3098 too bad, would be great if some were still standing (modernised of course)

@Simon Robson Wait, you actually believe that the Tory government are encouraging maximal house building in order to house immigrants? Not to, say, win votes with the middle classes while lining the pockets of their house developer mates?!

The Thatcher sell-off was total lunacy (... or deliberate intent) of what should have been a stable and reliable housing resource. I've always noticed Council brickies did a better job. The present housing shortage is shameful upon the United Kingdom. Seems we have assholes in charge.

I know exactly who you are talking abt. I shall google further re Ruby, tks.

Peter B my grandma used to use that word. She was born in 1906.

In Harry Potter, Harry’s friend was called Ronald bilious Weasley!

+Rhoda Miller I Dont remember any houses in the 50s without a toilet in the back yard. I never ever felt cold even when the snow was on the ground,And u had to feel your way in the dark.

goinghomesomeday1

Sounds like the Germans did the Brits a huge favour.

and unfortunatley killing innocents , but as you mean it kick started a clean up, yin n yang

It also destroyed numerous historical buildings and also killed thousands of people! Nothing good about the blitz!

If not worse...

And lot of people who rent are NOT SAINTS either !!!! THEY THINK that, because they paid the rent it gives Them the right to destroy the property!!!!

london52uk ,

The solution to the problems of housing in this video was Tower blocks and estates, look how that turned out

.... 'Comments' like That Woman's (4:15) - were greeted with an Embarrassing Silence ...... 'Please don't 'rock the boat' syndrome 🖕🖕🖕 PS. & THEN the F****n War came!!!

The Queen was only 9

@@philipwilliams9060 random

Queen Victoria did do something

Interesting to watch this in conjunction with "The Proud City", a 1946 film outlining the County of London plan to rebuild neighbourhoods with their own amenities to replace the slums.

@@pedrogarbanzo Yes, but unfortunately the neighborhoods too often went up without the amenities. Planners seemed to follow the principle of 'if you build it, the infrastructure will come.' Community facilities such as shops, meeting rooms and police posts were lacking. The growth of private motoring led to neglect of public transit. And the new high-rise blocks were too often shoddily built, so they had to be detonated a couple of decades after being occupied. Dispersal of slums and their kinship networks, television, package holidays abroad and the segregation of workplaces on industrial estates or office districts all played their part in weakening community ties; but architectural theories did not counteract the trend. Instead of becoming 'streets in the sky' for pedestrians, the elevated walkways and shared spaces such as lift entrances soon became vandalized, littered, scary after dark. People flitted quickly into their private domains, and when they reached ground level they fled in a dozen different directions.

As a student of history in Contemporary Britain (1900-2000), I can indeed confirm that this was filmed in 1935.

@@davidanderson7986 we don't care

your joking the private rented I moved from recently had wet walls and no central heating everyone isn't out of touch with reality and not everyone is well off I had an unheated bathroom for 20 years also that was so cold there was ice in there

Norma Thomas. We're in a 1960s flat with no heating in the bathroom, night storage heaters we can't afford to actually use as their so expensive to use, we have a silverfish infestation and damp bugs in the main bedroom. But we keep it as nice as we can and it is decorated and fitted out to a modern standard. Nothing anywhere near as bad as what these people had to go through though. I feel like I'm very very lucky

British-mechanic unfortunately unless people have money to buy property this is what we have to put up with the house I lived had not been up dated to modern standards the kitchen was a 1950 era disgusting mess that I myself did my best to improve the sink leaked like a sieve old rotten work tops drawers falling to bits they should have hung there heads in shame I spent more on that house than they ever did who owned it new flat roofs the lot that house was well below modern standards not even rewired

Norma Thomas. We went to view a flat before this one and it was half of an old mans house split into two. I'm not even joking it didn't look like it had been decorated since the 1940s. Was really creepy inside and the furniture was so old. Still had single glazed sash widows too

It’s got too expensive through increased demand. If you increase the population by 10% in 20 years, largely through immigration and don’t increase the supply why do you expect.

Yep, rats, lice, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, ricketts, polio, bombs and outdoor privvy's and a zinc bath 😄

Indeed. And this was only 80 years ago

our slavemasters , nwver

Worse I would imagine

Good, hope it's still like that for you.

Your nose? Luxury!

born in china ?

You lucky b!@#tard!

mumof3 they say his name is mr burner

Interested to hear more - Mr Berner was my grandad.

Nice person you are laughing at the misery of other people and a man's two little children dying.

Bet the dog did though, putting up with yous lot

@@wodenravens true!!

10 of usused to live on three Bob a week & a horse shit sandwich….. times was hard Guvnor

@@1964douglas1 that’s luxury. We only had horse shit sandwiches at Christmas if we were lucky!!