Don’t forget the Spanish Flu pandemic from 1918-1920.

They would be turning in their graves if they saw what the EU have done with open borders. Europe is totally destroyed

@@EssexWolf1993 and that was about as real covid lol 😂

Exactly ❤️

Lmao colonisednthe entire planet and we must feel sorry for you

She would also have been a girl of about 7 years of age when Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the East End of London.

I’m pretty sure she said she was 89 years old so she would have been about 18 at the turn of the century.

She was born in either 1881 or 1882 as she said it was her 89th birthday on Xmas day - programme went out in 1971 and there was snow on the ground outside, so not clear clear whether she was 89 on Xmas day 1970 or whether this went out a few days after Xmas day 1971. Either way, this old bird was a blinder🏆♥️

@@heatherceridwen160This is a British working class slang adjective, which means something that is brilliant i.e. something or someone who shines.

@Heather Ceridwen no she said Christmas after she told her accident when she was 89 so she might have been a little bit older when she recorded this.

How would we know? It is a big difference though.

The lady would have had more opportunities than the Queen believe it or not.

Victorian terraced houses werent the mae west... damp from lack of damp proofing, no central heating. Shared wc out the back etc...

@@mrcostelloe5802 I remember Icicles inside my bedroom window, my Mum had to dry clothes on a line in the house. But we were bloody well fed and She cooked all day for my Daddy coming home from the Mine. I could have a bath 2 inches cause my Dad had to have his and absolutely right, then My Wonderful Mother had to wash his Pit Clothes and dry them on a boiler. My Daddy in 48 years never complained, he hD a garden and did decorating our home after a 12hr shift. No Computer, No TV in my bedroom. I ended up as an Naval Officer. Retired and Honoured. Thank you all and to all a goodnight. 🇬🇧🇫🇴🇬🇧🇫🇴🇬🇧

@@sylviasimpson3280 my heart goes out to you.

They'd be about 130 by now so it's probably for the best.

We're lucky to of had them in our life bud. The further we get from the genuine old timers the worse communities seem to be.

And now we get gen Z... Can we swap them all?

There's still 90yo's talking like this day.

I've always loved old people. If you help them they so grateful.

True

@@nellybranth eversince I can remember I had and have always preferred the company of our elders as they have so much to share and many life teachings.💗

Do more then say hello, they need company. No one should be on their own 24/7 unfortunately this is often the case

In all honesty in modern times of this millennium loneliness is not just reserved for our elders/ teachers but has also deeply affected to many whom are down to many generations younger.

I was thinking the same dear, the very same.

Excellent thought, I would be one of those people to sit, talk and listen. Rare a joy I loved so much as a child, to sit and go through my grandparent's picture albums .. the old black ones, where the pictures were held in place with corner tabs of sorts. I remember the faces, names and stories ... they brought such a special feeling to see.

@@theblissfullone Makes you wonder what they'll say when we are... yano.

@@ltipst2962 Yes, that's for sure.

Go and visit her then. She’s still alive

@boris blade So true. Makes me count my blessings. I am in awe of these people from the distant past.

boris blade they’re a different breed, strong & dignified. No whinging, content with her life & what she’s made of it. Luv ‘em!

Brilliant lady, so wise

@@annem9195 yes! when you walk in their shoes you are grateful. We came home to Ireland in '83 to my grandmothers and we lived as she did out in the sticks until my parents got a house, an out house toilet and no running water. Creamery cans of water taken from the lake to drink and wash dishes and washed our hair in freezing water with our mum holding us off a wooden jetty. To say we had gratitude when we moved into a house of our own would be an understatement. These old people were as tough as they come.

Suuure then everybody was great and now everybody's an arse. Everyone is the same in one time period because personality only depends on the time of birth. Please reflect your nonsense before inflicting it on the world ;)

I was told many residents in London still didn’t have running water after WWII. People took baths in a metal tub. Would they have had to draw bath water from downstairs and bring it up?

Kat Sew stfu

Kat Sew shut up

I work in a deprived area, I see this stoicism every day. It's humbling.

Exactly what i thought!

@EastEndery Snowflake DESTROYED!!!! 🤣🤣🤑🤪😭

👌

She sounded wonderful!

This world is missing the matriarchal Grandmother 🙏💕

@@aprillroberts as we move ever further away from nature, we move ever further away from all that is natural. It's not natural that kids parents have to both work all day, and quality time is an absolute luxury and the grandparents are in homes and strangers have to be paid to look after the young and old! Families were never meant to be 2.4 children or whatever that figure is now - it was meant to be a bosom of warmth and support that the whole family needed, and grandma and grandpa embodied that! It's a sad loss!

@@gee-wizz.5050 I’m thankful that all my siblings are law abiding citizens but then we did have a wonderful mom who stayed at home to bring 5 of us up on her own. My Father thought the grass was greener and we didn’t really know him at all. So all credit to mom. She’s blind now so it’s our turn to care for her. Blessed 🙏

She was, I doubt she's around anymore.

@@kjsbadfkjlasbdg She would have probably passed away in the 70s.

@@jackwalker8424 I thought the same Jack, doubt she saw the decade out bless her heart

She didn't really have a choice

@@lopezdecastilla Or, somebody will say "she's white, I'm glad she's dead". Sad, sad world with people who bring nothing but bad tidings. 🇺🇸

@@lopezdecastilla Bollocks to them.

@@lopezdecastilla yes because they have too much, never had a hard life to contend with,

Efraín Fernando López De Castilla Achata you say the exact same thing I keep saying it’s a world full of highly offended people it’s a world that you have to watch what you say crazy

Liyani Bernier we live in the West, in an age where statements of common sense of wisdom known down the ages are now considered blasphemous and the offender subject to ostracism and public humiliation. The so called education system brain washes our children into believing politically correct lies with the intention of destroying everything our ancestors betrothed us.

Lovely

Thanks for sharing! Great story! Wish there was pics of their house! Or a book! Beautiful!

Gorgeous. Thank you for sharing xxx

What year was that?

Beautiful put. They were you for a short while. ...

Happens today if not more so with the privatisation of everything and councils abandoning any pretence of providing services unless they can be seen ticking some Woke Box. They spend more time discussing pulling down a statue than whether they should increase funding of meals on wheels

Alexandrina Rose o'Learty You would offend a woman of her grit and determination by feeling sorry for her.

Did she emigrate, please?

Flower gal Power Time flies, huh? One day there will be people saying the same about us. I’m 43 this month. I wonder how many generations it will be until I’m forgotten forever?

@@cappsie1 whether you like it or not you've already made a mark on this planet, you just walking out the front door changes the world forever (butterfly effect). So although not forgotten, you're there one way or another. As a knock on effect or energy. This may sound weird but since I'm younger, if you were never born I'd have never been born.

@@Isleofskye oh no. I'm 16 but I already feel like time is out of reach. One day I'm turning 10 years old and now I'll be 17 this year. Your comment is making me panic. I know that growing up is a part of life, but honestly I'm scared for the future. My family members will eventually die, my friends too. And I have to figure out what on earth to do with my life. Honestly I want to stay young forever.

vivi im 14 and i have this crisis nearly every day its absolutely horrible to be constantly plagued by these thoughts

Ben C u are so right! This is why I hate today’s world, because this generation are gone!

Cheer up! Go spend 5 minutes in Syria, then you'll know what falling apart is! Things are grand here...

So her generation were the ww1, ww2 era, great depression, cold War, mass genocide, mass death from poverty and severe wealth gap, sexist, homophobic and racist and built a Britain built on a racist empire. Add to that the fact the UK couldn't even keep the lights on in the 70s and had food shortages in the 40s to 50s. Amd you think the modern world is worse? Her world was horrible and you know it. We have built a better world.

Shane Hughes don’t think so! Disgusting world we live in now

pollypineapple28 give some examples of why?

And 30 when the Titanic sank

How old is she now ?

@@wellmike3369 Description says she was born in 1882, so she'd be 137 this year.

@@StateOfErin not a bad innings

@@wellmike3369 I fear she was bowled out some time ago.

Yes, she is truly a woman of very strong spirit. Many people today could learn something from her, God bless her wherever she is now.

@@paulph12002 Gif*

@@paulph12002 Given the video was first shown in 1971 it is pretty safe to assume she has passed on by now.

@@andrewnoonan4044 she may have passed by now but is representative of many seniors on our/their own.

Andrew Noonan 😭

Yep 👍 great idea ... Awwwwh on her own at Xmas wen she couldn't even walk from broken hip terrible .. I would defo invite an older person 2 dinner I dnt know anybody elderly and on there own ... 💚

@The Englishman Gimmegrants thats a gudun, will remember that lol

I've lived in my house for 15+ years and I don't even know a single neighbours name. Welcome to the UK.

Of course they won't. Too wrapped up in themselves and their hellish mobile phones and televisions. Thoroughly despicable and malevolent 'society' .

Too true

@Chris Dooley There is a resilience to these people from the past that would put most people to shame these days. They just don’t make them like that anymore. God Bless their souls ♥️

My nan spoke like that but she moved out of London and she had her teeth in. Miss my man

Did the family look after her?

Mrs.G moh

​@Caroline The genocide did not last until 1905, it ended in 1852. I am from Mayo, Ireland and you have no idea what you're talking about. Secondly, it wasn't the "Irish rebellion of 1916". It was the Easter Rising of 1916, which was a disaster and did nothing to progress Ireland. Nothing but a few thousand Irishmen, many of who were American and socialists launched the uprising. Meanwhile, 250,000 Irishmen were fighting for the Empire in Europe. Easter Rising was a terrible and stupid incident that did nothing but ensure that Ireland would be divided. You probably didn't know more Irishmen died in the Irish Civil, Irish men killing Irish men. But yeah, you comment on a British KZfaq channel with your American-Irish rubbish. You're not Irish, you're American.

It’s not being soft! It’s called,compassion and empathy!

Youlle be old soon. Will u like people saying they are softies over you lol. Probably not

I agree!... very sadly long gone due to the immigration policies that ruined that stoic spirit and replaced it with “ entitlement”.

Where did the old people like her go then??

Aww what a wonderful legacy 😊

Aw, people like that are epic : ) I love their quick wit and their energy. These were the people who knew how to party, and in the days when everybody took a turn at singing. God I miss those days and those people. It's all so different now. God bless your friend's grandfather, he sounds lovely : )

Yes sorry for the loss. Yes we have a neighbor age 97 she doesn't take any medicines and crawls on the floor to clean under chairs.

...Hear Hear, @tamarafeliz

Indeed!

Totally agree! What an amazing woman, she had such a hard life but never complained, I would have spoiled her rotten love her.

@@mehhandle I THOUGHT THE WAR ENDED IN 1945? 🤔

@@popesarmyyeehaapopesarmyye1499 Yes but Britain was under rations for some years after the war.

Wow. I thought British grandmas were completely different than American grandmas. Thanks for letting us know!

@@dickiegreenleaf750 really curious-in what way did you think they were different?

Hello are you doing today Tracey

Selfish boomers.

I think you are now drinking a nice strong cuppa 💗💗Lord love you and keep you well 🙏🙏 they should be ashamed.

The family proberly were all dead. She was 89yrs old and came through the 1800s.

@@tristanthomas5006Boomers? Do you realize this woman was 89 in 1971? 😳 her children were likely elderly themselves and born well before WW 1. They were not boomers. How about learning some history?

Ha - I just wrote exactly that - 'tough old bird'. It suits her, meant most respectfully, don't you think?

@@MsZoedog66 Indeed!

Exactly like our families who lived near the £20 Billion new complex being built at The Elephant and Castle in South East London. These new builds are replacing the tower blocks that in the early 1960's replaced our Terraced Houses.. My Nan lived in a house backing onto ours at the bottom of the garden.Our Aunt in the same terraced street. We were all re-housed.We ( I suddenly right NOW am realising HOW lucky !!) as we were put in a lovely small British block where anyone could come in or out right over a very busy market ( Put in You Tube "East Street 1971" and that was us, not literally. lol but the others were put in isolated tower blocks which got vandalised and those walkways made the elderly very vulnerable. The flats were nice but soulless and they were cut off on the 8th and 12th floor,respectively after living in a very tight local Community. By The Way the indigenous British have long been replaced in those Council blocks and now our lovely 24 Flat block has CCTV AND TWO seperate security numerical systems and even then some of the ground and 1st floor flats have grills on their windows. Progress,innit ! Innit? lol

So, I'm just gonna put this out there: I hear that the elderly in the UK are fed up because invaders are taking their pensions.

@@Isleofskye what is/was 'the british culture' you talk about?

Bang on, puts it in perspective doesn’t it. We live in a time now where we have a generation that thinks the world and everyone else owes them a living! Don’t appreciate anything. Drives me nuts. I was born 71’ too.

​@@Thorny5718 I don't think that's true. Young people are now poorer than they were, because wages have not kept pace with living costs, which must also mean they spend less. Not to mention housing crisis. You lived in one of the most prosperous times in human history. It is not the norm. People assume things can only get better, progress, but as it stands things will only slowly decline and never recover (socially too).

​​​​@@skyworm8006 there are inequalities at present, and the numbers of 'breadline poor' are increasing since the 1970s (see Dorling et al., 2007, Joseph Rowntree Foundation report). However, it would be utter folly to compare the living conditions of people born in the Victorian era and through to the mid-1950s to today. They did not have the basic amenities and essentials at that time such as food, heating, sanitary facilities, and housing which was not overcrowded.

​@@pauladdae3130 And they also lived in an era before the advancements of modern medicine and the invention of antibiotics. The mortality rate for infections that are easily treated now was staggering right the way up through the 1950s.

I was born in 1970. We weren’t rich by any means but we weren’t the poorest, but for all that I felt rich. There was always food, the house was warm and clean and I was loved. I wouldn’t swap growing up then for anything

Gratitude..that's the word that came to my mind almost instantly..real organic Gratitude is a rare thing in our world today..RIP sweet mama.

Hello are you doing today Elinas

She is right no one is really your friend when you are in trouble.

Yes I understand your feelings.

Old Generation of today are rude and weak and behave like Zombies in the UK.

Moss Foster they do, just that no one visits them

There will always be old people, maybe you need to check them out in your local community.

yes, they do, they're called people

Freeatlast, Moss was referring to her positive attitude, not her age.

@@maunster3414 I've worked with elderly for over a year now and they are definitely still like this.

Problem is, the majority of people who vote now who are her age (75+) do so in a bigoted way (eg, Tories, Reform, etc) to keep people in poverty and give money to the already richer in society. I suspect this woman would have not done that as she knew what it was like to suffer, unlike those born frm late 1940s to mid-60s who had the best the state could provide. And they are STILL not happy!

It depends which culture you come from bro because in the Indian culture we will never let our parents, grandparents go through what this poor lady went through.

@@IYC0370, that will depend on which indian "culture" you are talking about. I work in healthcare and 20 yrs ago I would have agreed with you. But sadly, there is a generation now that do not seem to care as much as the ones before them. Western life have caught up with most of us unfortunately.

@@IYC0370 Nah not true. My mom & grandma never had any good relationship so she forced my grandma to live in our other house, which was old house (and originally my grandparents') even tho a part of the cost our house we currently live in was paid by my grandmother

@@junior2404 I blame them Saas-bahu vale serials. Some braindead audiences watch it & get influenced by it. Yes I've heard of such cases too

Exactly true.

This video should be shown to everyone who is talking about 'poverty today' and the hardships of living on benefits. Maybe they would start counting their blessings......or maybe not. We as a nation have lost our backbone.( Now is 28th December 2022)

You say that she was the backbone of the UK, but even during her time no one even visited her! The 'other cultures' you deride have something which many of the English have lost due to changing values, irreligious attitudes and family breakdown - that being community and respect for elders. These values were ushered in by English people and Europeans, cannot blame "other cultures" for that my dear fellow.

Yes me too bless her (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤

i was brought up by elderly relative,s & used to love to sit & listening to them talking about what it was like when they were young.. & how they rememberd their elderly relative,s & how they lived & earned a living, that were long dead, by which obv,s they were my ancester.s too, & i would ask if they could show me where they where burid, which they did, (which i still visit their grave,s aswell as the grave,s of the realative,s that showed me, & if you just asked questions & showed interest in what they could talk about(which i was 100% & learnt more off them, than i ever did at school), of which i was never interested in, but the difference now to back in the 70/80s.. young people mixed more with older generations, when i started going out for a pint in local pubs with mate,s same age,( age 18 ) we would sit & mix & have a laugh with people in their 70s etc, not like now, if ya happen to say hi to younger people today, if they can be botherd to look away from their phone, this is all you,d get, a funny look, cos they are prob wondering why yer speaking to them when they don,t know you..its sad, cos this generation will never learn anything from older folk, cos they are to engroced with their phone..of which i think they,ll learn nothing from.

Hello are you doing today Bead

Same here,I had a stroke and live alone.Went to hospital for 3 days then came home and was scared for the first real time in my life.I comfort myself with youtube lol What helps me is,alan watts and charles Bukowski in living an unconventional life,the crunch by charles Bukowski and the Chinese farmer by alan watts.Did I mention alan and charles lol

That video brought tears to my eyes. And you are blessed to have had your grandma living with you.

@@chattygran thank you.

But some elderly want to live alone. I’ve discussed with my 78 year old mother about that if one day when my dad dies she should come and live with us; she says no. They are proud of their independence.

I can beat that! My paternal grandfather was born in 1884!

I'm very glad Boris is in Power. Thank you all and to all Goodnight, now going to have a large G&Tand a Cocteau Sabroni.

@@sylviasimpson3280 are u alright sylvia?

Hello Pam, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??

The older generation today in the UK are sheep's and don't have their own minds or backbone .

@@jonesroberts3640 And any one of them is still worth 10 of you.