Morning In The Streets 1958

But, but, but everything was so much cleaner and easier and lighter and better back then! So I’ve heard!

I was born 2 years after this and as children we never felt afraid outside either with our friends or alone. Materially we might have more but we've lost community.

As a foreigner watching this documentary, I think that Charles Chaplin reflected very well the life of the British worker already in his time, clearly more difficult

I.was.4.at.the.time

Look at footage TV company footage from this era. You’ll see nothing like this. The accent, the fashion the streets were all carefully managed. TV was trying to manipulate people from the very start.

Nah you got me all wrong.
I'm not disputing the reproductive nature of the human kind under stress merely the fact California is a nicer place to grow up than the shit holes most of us did!
West Ham are massive.....

I was a child of this time and place, grew up in Liverpool,different area, Clubmoor, better housing parks etc. But the culture was very much the same, I trained as a teacher and taught in Liverpool in the 70's, but in the end did what I was advising the kids I taught to do, I emigrated to New Zealand.. 44 great years since . My kids , 2 born in Liverpool, others here, have a great life, and their kids too. I have been back about 6 times, love the people and some of the life there, but I made the right choice. Bloody tories!

I was born in 1958 in Sefton general. And lived in Earls field road in Wavertree.

Go left young Brits! When the poor were an a
amusement for others.Why tolerate such abuse? With love from a flawed Canada.A BBC mockery of those who payed the price.

What a great film about real life then myself was born 1942 was the youngest of 8 My mother and father and my 5 sisters and two brothers we lived in a three bedroom house Kitchen and Living room and inside Bathroom Father was a Labourer working in many of the factory's then Mother went out two or three mornings a week cleaning at some of the better houses as we said posh Houses a got few shilling s a week se you through some clean days people around where all in the same boat , our parents Sen us through the worse years WW 2 watching this film as someone said should show this now and show how dam lucky there are today

my father was one of 9 children in Accrington in a small house, born before this film. I have wondered how they all found somewhere to sleep, maybe like this. Grim.

My wonder so many people immigrated to the best country on Earth Australia lol at least we have trees

In spite of the desperate circumstances, kids' knew how to have fun and made the most of what they had. I remember searching the local tip for pram wheels to make a "boggy" - we were geniuses, although I never dare tell my parents where I got the wheels!

You’d think our generation, I was born in 60, could have somehow passed on the fact that warfare is pointless and very non productive to humanity. When you look at Britain, the number of men killed off, as we see today in Ukraine results in needed mass migration from a less affected area, this changes the country forever!

So many memories .thank you

I lived in Manchester in the late 50s and 60s. I remember going to Salford college on day release and the streets were just like some of the ones in the film. We 15 yo students went in a few pubs and l remember they were very smelly and old. These were hard times for sure but local people were generally positive for a better future after all that post war deprivation. For sure people today dont know what real hardship is compared with then.

i am from this generation great days in the late 50s to late 60s .i wish i could go back to them than the corruption we have today 2023

I was 10 in 1958. To watch that nice movie was just great, my 2nd time watching it. it just appeared on one of the frames so I clicked it and it was nice to watch. Some of those kids will be my age now if still living. I am 74.
I watched a bit of the London Palladium to from 1960 with Brucy. bye folks.

6oooooooo huts to let in Africa... 😂😂😂😂

Why didnt they put HAPPY music lol looks like everyone was having soooooooooooooooo MUCH FUN lol

A brilliant film.
Yes we were poor, long drop toilets in the yard and tin bath that we all took our turns in. We didn't realise what poverty was.
Somehow poverty today is crueller and cruder, more to be feared today.
Hope a change of government helps but greed is worse today so not much hope.

To think that I was born into this world, how different it is now.

Like a movie by the late Terence Davies. Check out "The Long Day Closes," a valentine to his family circa 1956.

Wonder where the picture of little girl was taken it looks like me.i lived on bean st hessle road hull

Looking at the description, it’s strange to think that it’s possible that some of Shipman’s patients may have featured here; bHyde, Hattersley, Mottram and Stockport being not far apart. They may have been in the prime of life, his murderous activities the furthest thing possible in their minds at that time.

I had some friends living in Hattersley ... it was a bleak place even then, in the 90s.

A lovely glimpse into times gone by....When the world was not full of Woke W/Anchors......Much happier times.

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Street corner bookies ,penny up the wall shebeens loved it

Central Hall was methodist

This was real austerity not like today when people think not having the latest IPhone equates to poverty

How ironic many these terraces in Hackney,London are changing hands for £1 million or more.But not for the original residents

And not a single pot hole in the roads😂

My era born 1957. Agree 🤗

I was born in 1957 at Havinton Hill it was so polluted by the ICI chemical Co they had to demolish the whole town and move everyone out I have been disabled all my life and blame the ICI pollution

I was born in London in 1958 my sister was born in 1957 then mum went on to have two more children in the mid 1960s happy days.

Yep, all that so called "white privilege"..... It's still all about class.

I was born in 1953 in the Scottish Borders but moved to Corby, Northants when i was 4. We moved as no work where we lived. My dad worked in the steelworks. Life wasn't as hard as in this film but it brought so many great memories back of playing outside all day long. The skipping games. Hopscotch. Out on your skates. Rhyming games. The clothes worn by the kids. The boys wearing short trousers and that was all year round. Magical, adventurous times. So much freedom although probably not so great for the adults.

I was born in 1952, this film brings back the good old days. As a family we would all go round the neighbours house to watch tv.

how nice not to see my country smothered in immigrants.

I was born in 1954, From the maternity hospital, We lived in the front room at my grandparents house, which was a Two bedroom town house, My grandparents, My Aunt, My mum and dad and myself, My bed was a wooden kitchen drawer. The bath was a tin tub, The toilet was outside. The only heating was a coal fire in the back room, Which served the whole purpose of cooking, plus the only form of heat. Cold water tap, Hot water was boiled in a kettle. We had an Anderson shelter at the top of the back garden. Looking back I can see that it wouldn’t have protected anyone in a hit. So I thank God it never had too.

I was born in 1950 and this film brought back so many memories. Not a mobile phone in sight, no game box, not a television in any of the houses, just making do with whatever you find. The boys on the soapbox made from old pram. Wheels, a couple of wooden planks and a few bent nails that were straightened with a broken brick or stone.

The good old days were you respected the old and was out all day coming home having your tea a wash and bed .You never skipped school .went to work as soon as you left school. You never dared to argue with your parents our people who were older than you and if you was late home you had a wak and wasn't load out ..

Many of the young generation now live in Spain.

So many memories after watching this film. Hardly a car in sight. Just as I remember it in the 1950s - and we weren't as badly off as some of the folk in the film. Fortunately, we had a garden and my parents knew how to grow things. Apart from the rare occasions we had fish and chips, all our meals were home made.

Yup born 1959 in Leeds and this is what l remember before we left for NZ … my 3 younger brothers all born in NZ have no idea how lucky they were to have done so. As grim as it was back then we had no idea that life could have been any other way.

We were all happier as kids then. We had pride in our country, and great family values. Now the UK has gone soft and woke.

It was called white privilege, black slaves were treated better