Literally same 😂

Same 😂

I’m not the only one :D

Same

same tho ngl

A TV license? Why would you need a license to watch TV?

how did you learn foul language for youtube poop

@@baberoot1998 are you American?

do you by any chance drink a lot of guinnes

I’m sure you wouldn’t. That’s easy to say when you don’t have one - how convenient.

So you’re Mr Dong...

That's my hometown Liverpool accent haha. I was 10 when this came out and remember it well, just watched again for first time in over 30 years, thoroughly enjoyed and glad you did too.

The accent of The Beatles. It was a play not a movie. Transmitted originally on BBC TV. In those days superior to anything from 👉 🇺🇸 Think Shakespeare. The accent of the man collecting the thievery, from the bus is Welsh 👉 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧

🫡👍❣️🇬🇧

Loved your reply and glad you did.

i can see that

The weighing of the pig became more important than the quality of the meat. Never heard that one before. A cracker!

i play carol in my school play of this

FACTS BRO

!!

lol yup

Facts

English

They are your kids …so they are not middle class. You came from poverty but they have less poverty. They are children of the working class. Middle class are not from working class.

Do it!

Just found this link Hannah Louise. www.foundthatfilm.co.uk/epages/es133404.sf/en_GB/?ObjectID=45244317

groovygraham oh thank you so much! :D great price too haha

Hannah Louise thats so sweet

Just looked on Amazon,you can pre order it for £12.99.It is due to be released on DVD on October 1st.Hope this helps.

haha I was in this, we wouldn't let them film if they didn't let us in it so I am the kid with white headband playing tick on the roof ;) can also see my old house and of course my school, Tiber Street. Fond memories!

I read this in a irish accent

not sure why he ruined the film, could be many reasons, maybe not to undermine his needed discipline

I am definitely going to watch this Only seen a few minutes and saving it to savour later My era ...

This bought back a lot of memories for me, just like it was back then for us poorer kids, I was still at school when this was made and this is how life was for many of us back then. A lovely little film and well worth the watch.

Very well written. When they are at the zoo and stand by the bear enclosure the teacher states that "it was born in captivity so it won't know any other sort of life" The thinking child responds with "I bet it does sir." Another child states "If it was born in a pit and lived its life in a pit, it won't know anything else, so it won't want anything else will it!".... "Why does it kill people then?"..."It kills em cause their cruel to it, they keep it in a pit so when it gets out its bound to be mad and want to kill people, don't you see?"... "Alright Sir, let's go to the childrens zoo" 😉😂 Absolutely briilliant script!

That lollipop man would be listed as a sex offender today.

@@katherinesgrannysquares Not quite 50 years ago yet.I left school the year this was made and you had me worried there, for a moment. lol!

It was like this in my primary school lad and that was between 05 and 11, we were proper bastards haha

and now there's more stuff for kids to do and kids claim they're bored

Absolutely! I was there in the late 70s, albeit in primary school.

No medicine Racism No std awareness Ah yes the good times

Kids weren't obese in those days because they had no computers, mobile phones etc. Instead we all played out and were always burning off the fat. Hence no kids with obesity

i hope so too, bless her little heart

It gives us comfort to hope she does OK for herself. I always think similar with Billy Casper in Kes. I want to believe he moved down south and became a bird of prey handler at a National Trust property and had a nice life.

Yeah well that's better than the alternative that she died of a heroin overdose at 16 😢

That's a wonderful thought! That she got her dream of living in a beautiful house by the sea, tending to the plants in her garden, out in the fresh sea air every day! With a husband that treats her well and loves her. They have a couple of kids, all healthy with rosey cheeks because they run around and breathe in the fresh air. They've left the dinghy streets of Liverpool behind them, and no longer have to breathe in the fumes that the factory chimneys belch out 24/7. They even build an extension onto their home so that Carol's parents can come and live with them too! Maybe they run a smart, tidy little cafe on the sea front and serve cream teas to all the tourists. They make such a good living during the summer months that they can afford to live off the profits all year.

But you had the benefit of a thriving community and Villette Road where the four corners of the world met.

Stuart no one got £2 pocket money mid to late 70s

I think the term is Shed load! LOL!

@@Havanacuba1985 I think by late 70s I got about 4-5 pounds a week. Probably 8 pounds a fortnight. Depended on if I was definitely going to pics. If nothing on that my mates and me wanted to see then reduced accordingly. 🤗👍

In the early 90s 2 quid got me 200 sweets from the pick a mix penny counter

@@davidmarchant9386 That sounds right - mojos and black jacks were 4 to a penny at one time. by the late 70s they were 2 to a penny

Watched this when it was first broadcast in 1977. This was when the BBC made top class drama, before the PC brigade screwed everything up as usual. Used to love being a kid in the 70's, and was so much happier without all the technology that kids have these days.

ok boomer

I don't like black stuff :people, black people. I was born in 1960, so it is normal for men of my age

My drama class loved it lol

@@lellowlobster2143 No it’s not...

Same here. I'm very glad you didn't.😊

Yes,it was very true what she said.

Liberal codswallop. The myth of equality, that if we educate them properly, they will all be great mathematicians, physicists, biologist, scientists Doctors, and top Judges. Yeah, as if we’re all equally brilliant and super intelligent, if only we all had the equal opportunity. That is a liberal wet dream, we are all of different intelligence, besides who would build the homes and factories, who would work the water plants, the sewage facilities, lay the bricks, slate the roofs, wait in the cafes, serve the coffee, all equally valid jobs and nothing to be ashamed of. I was born in 1970, the same year as this excellent play was made, I went to a modern comprehensive school and all us supposed ‘poor’ kids all had the same opportunity to learn maths, physics, biology, science, as well as metalwork, woodwork, car mechanics etc. us ‘poor’ kids had lots of opportunities,yet a lot of us wasted those opportunities by trying to be cool or rebellious, or some just couldn’t grasp some of the harder subjects, so there were subjects those students could grasp. This rubbish that working class kids don’t have a chance, is defeatist liberal hogwash, and once that defeatism is passed onto young kids, they take that in and run with it. Now, if that monologue had been said in the 1800’s, well, it would have been valid, but not in 1970, with free education and all that went with it. Liberals just don’t get, that we’re not all built equally and a good job too.

It's a shame really because she's painted as the good person and he the villain, when in reality she's given up on the kids, and she's just another cog in the system that's failing them, while he actually, really, truly wants to see them succeed. He believes they can succeed. And that's the dichotomy between the liberal mindset and reality: Kindness is often just cruelty.

​@@fredmercury1314 My thoughts exactly as she was delivering the speech. A more well intentioned, but equally flawed belief as the modern day divisive victimhood narrative: "you won't get anywhere without us [insert chosen group here] to fight the oppressor for you" rather than "here are the skills you need to succeed".

​@@fredmercury1314Well said FRED 😮🙏🇬🇧

People like Willy Russell, Alan Bleasedale and Carla Lane have a lot to answer for, its people like them that have created the stereotypical scousers through productions like this. Carla Lane and Willy Russell werent even from Liverpool but made a living out of making out all Liverpool being under privaleged scroungers

@@johnbarton3252 Have to agree, love Willy but the whole "deprivation of the North" idea has caused a number of self-pitying generations and Coronation Street still pushes the idea and so did Brookside for a long while.

@@johnbarton3252 I agree with you. Their writing always looked down on the working classes, is fantasy and depicts a totally pointless, dreary life. I am working class but a bit younger than these kids. We had very few single parents/broken families, less people on welfare and most of the working classes were still well mannered and bought their children up better than many do today. It was very wrong to show poor kids with 'learning difficulties' as unruly thieves. I remember a few were like that but most were shy and would never steal. Carla Lane even got it wrong with Butterflies, middle class wives choose to work in jobs they liked and were less frustrated than those who had to work.

@@jamara3330 I think you are mistaken; Russell's work never patronised the working class, on the contrary, it showed that they had legitimate aspirations to leave the underprivileged environment they were born into but were stifled by the lack of opportunity. You only have to read or see "Educating Rita" to understand his ideas on what could be possible.

@@johnbarton3252 Willy Russell was born in Whiston in the metropolitan borough of Merseyside, Liverpool, and Carla Lane was born in West Derby in the city of Liverpool. Russell's work never patronised the working class, on the contrary, it showed that they had legitimate aspirations to leave the underprivileged environment they were born into but were stifled by the lack of opportunity. You only have to read or see "Educating Rita" to understand his ideas on what could be possible.

not even that now

lol anecdote but yes bang on assessment

Knowledge is Power. Which is why we have poor schools for working class kid's. .....😮

​​@@jaywalker3087We don't. Far more complex than that. Kids BTW.

Which explains why an 11 year old Boris Johnson (His age at the time) was not on this particular school trip!@@jaywalker3087

I’m doing this in year 8 rn

I did this in year 7

@@chloewhetton3155 same

@@hpr_amin9713 lol it was funny lol xx

It actually made me sad to

It was so sad ;c

R hay sir .i dont wanna go home .ye .remember that scene .he was a nasty teacher he destroyed all the camerra pictures. Love the way mrs kay bribes the driver..R I P

Ye ikr I did this play in school and i was Carol

Same

Have you watched One Summer?

@@EA7SC with Billy and Icky? Yes, I saw it when it was first broadcast in 1980's and again last summer.

Go ed Phil Jones. Will you be gigging when all this shi**s finished ?

Me

me

same here my guy

ME AND I NEVER WATCHED IT SO-

Me too

Back when every teenager with an authentic regional accent didn’t speak like they were from London .

​@@leopoldstotch3524 like big tuff blik gangsta bredrin from da hood lol 🤣😂🤣

That lolly pop man was brilliant

lolly pop man is god

+FireIceBoyGaming I played him in the school play

I'm 18 and in year 8 we studied this and I was the only one who enjoyed it everyone else thought this was so boring but I appreciated this classic such good memories

I just finished watching it in English today and I have know idea why were watching it

And Blood Brothers & the brilliant Shirley Valentine.

@@Muswell And the short series (5 eps) One Summer. Unforgettable.

Good teachers are hard to come by and a real godsend, I had a very eccentric art teacher when I was in school in Liverpool and he saw I had a bit of talent for pencil drawing and helped me become very good at portrait drawing, I also had a good English teacher who helped me get good handwriting and grammar. Kids will always learn from the more experienced and compassionate teachers who take time out to help individual kids who run into difficulties. I thank Mr Gil and Ms Hay for their teaching me some cool stuff back in the day.

You have a beautiful face.

What area? Liverpool or Conway?

me for drama! Im watching this all bundled up in my quilt and sweets and my book to take notes lmao

same, but i cant find out what the name of the lollipop man is!

@@ChaR_OfTheK0Rn i had this for English TT

@@dumbledwarf8888 oh damn same

@@tajveen Cool :)

Thanks luv.

Oops his name is Jennings, not Jenkins sorry Joey 👍❤️

I am watching this for the same reason no school tho as quarantime

Im performing a big play on this in a Theatre and im playing colin😂

were they reasonable actors ? did they stay in the acting profession ?

Interestingly ... I know some of the cast (and was in this myself in a ten second part haha), a few of these kids in the film became well known criminals, gangsters in Liverpool. Two of them even became mortal enemies (literally) ... so the conversations between teachers are all the more salient.

@@MrRileyColeman great story. dont know if the little girl carried on acting but what a performance

Did u know Carol?

@@MrRileyColeman do you know which ones became criminals and gangsters and who became enemies with eachother

omg how did u know

I love Nuts In May, my favourite Mike Leigh play.

I'm mr Briggs in an up coming production I'm nervous

I’m Colin doing this in year 8 rn

then what are they supposed to do, teach with their eyes shut?

pyrostrike uk lol

Oh the driver was right I always insisted on mints sent a letter to parents first pointing out that if they brought chocolate toffees crisps etc etc they would share and make themselves sick If they brought mints it wouldn’t matter!

I stand with jayne

I remember my school days back in the 1970s. Schools were rough back then but at least the teachers were allowed to keep order and use discipline unlike the schools of today. By the way we were not bad all the time. I remember on one school trip on the way back we all had a whip round for the driver and gave him a tip.

My dad told me about this, I searched for it on here and luckily I found it. I’m from Conwy, so this is intriguing to me.

i'm from Llanberis:)

So are you like 80-

@@charlottebest7023 No seventy next January, born in nineteen fifty two.

@@abitrickett9188 I grew up in Bala. Have you ever been on the Bala Lake Railway? My Dad built that in the nineteen seventies.

Bile duct My raging know what ye mean mate we used to do that all the time Anglesey barmouth Betsy coed loved it soon as ye got back u started coughing LOL shows you how bad the pollution was in Liverpool after breathing clean air in Wales 😊😋

You can't achieve anything you want just by working hard. That's not how life works.

@@moonwalk6896 Very true. It's often not what you know but who, that's not just a cliched line

Mr Briggs wanted to educate them, because educated people can make educated choices, uneducated people can',t they are reliant on advice from others. The liberals don't want kids educated, because they would see through their BS.

It’s a delusional mindset unfortunately. We need to stop telling people the lie they can be anything, because they can’t. Some kids are just doomed from birth. It’s sad but it’s reality.

Lol im 12 so i dont know anyone in it XD.

@@user-sl1lx9sw1x i would be surprised if you did lol, it was filmed back 1978. The kids in that are old enough to be your grand parents. I did this for GCSE English back in 2001.

It was known as a 'cue dot'. Good old days

It was a BBC show. No ads. Maybe recorded from the re-airing on C4 years later

I remember watching this on tv when it was first broadcast. I have fond memories of Carrick on Suir. The first place I visited on my first trip to Ireland. I particularly remember the New Inn (?), across the road from the Garda.

23 now and still enjoying this

My daughter is doing the same in English

Im doing it in english rn

I'm doing it rn

not a brummie accent fool

oh hey I'm back again

Same man

He destroyed the photos at the end though, maybe he thought he had a reputation to maintain?

Same omg

Lol

I agree. I was at school in the 90s and it was so much nicer than the horrible system now.

I am lolipop man and do the same to all audi drivers ..

I was briggs I got the sweets sweets but wrong in every

I said it like in SPONGEBOB with chocolate CHOCOLATE

Don't jump Carol!