1970s London | Poverty in the 70s | North Islington | Community Tension | This week | 1970

They should have kept these houses instead of modernism abominations

i was in school in the 70s the council estate i grew up in in southend was a paradise compared to this

@9:10 evidence that the British are and will always be a lazy self entitled bunch … never want to work or earn a crust ! … shame on us

This is why my family left in 1968 for Canada.

When I think of 1970s I'm thinking it's still 30 years ago. 50 years plus since then. I'm in my early 20s but would love to see that timeline back for a month.

This channel is brilliant, so interesting to look back at our history

I worked in Islington for over 20 years and there are still some of these adventure playgrounds still running! Still open and still there children to play together X

One thing that I remember and Is illustrated in this film, poverty is no respecter of race. We played together, went to school together, went in each others houses and called each others parents Mr and Mrs. The only time I saw any racism was when I attended a basketball match with my black mate and his white girlfriend where he was berated by black members of a visiting American team. Being from London we gave more back than we got.

Thanks for uploading, having grown up in South London in the 1970s, we used to think North London was 'posh'. When people talk about 'poverty' in 2021, they have no idea.

nice, 50 years later – Islington is almost unaffordable 🙂 Also, the very last guy in the documentary is BOSS. #dosomething

When I grew up in the 1970s in the westcountry, in a concrete Cornish unit, we had no heating. It was basic living. It sounds like a 1960s sketch show, but if you tell the youth of today, they don't believe you (think Yorkshire accent and four Yorkshiremen in a gentlemen's club). What really angers me is the sanctimonious middle class of today, who have adopted woke as their cultish religion, wittering on about 'white privilege'. Yeah, the middle class woke have privilege, most of us didn't, and still don't. Cornwall (one of the poorest parts of the UK and western Europe, still).

Give the man at 11:00 an honorary sociology degree. He's knocks the whole situation right on the head there.

Is that place not posh now?

Regeneration decimated so many of Islington’s communities. We grew up poor in Islington in multi-occupancy housing. Poverty, homelessness, unemployment were constant issues for us all. Regeneration saw mass redevelopment, all sold to the highest bidders. The poor working class communities had to leave as it became too expensive to rent there never mind buy. Communities and families were broken up as a result of this. Very sad 😢

Please upload more of these. It's so important to look back and learn from our history. Plus it's just fascinating to see social attitudes and commentary from decades ago