Poverty in 1930s Britain
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Ha, you call that poor? I saw a kid getting butter on his bread. When I was a lad we were so poor we couldn't afford crust on our bread!
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Why did they continue to breed kids by the dozen?
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One of the richest cities in the world
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These are the very people of my country , including my own family who sacrificed their own lives to fight a globalist war ,to what end . ?????
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SORRY FOR ERRORS BUT WHEN U GET OLD SO DOES VISION AND SENSE OF FEELING BUT I HAD TO SAY WHAT WONDERFUL PEOPLE MY FAMILY WERE SO THINK OF THEM I MISS THEM BOTH WE WONT SEE THE LIKES OF THEM EVER AGAIN.
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I LIVED IN THE 1030S IN lONDON I KNOW HUNGER AND HOW HAD T WAS MY SISTER WENT TO WORK TO PAY OUR RENT AT THE AGE OF 14 SHE WON A SCOLLARSHIP BUT LEFT SCHOOL TO SUPPORT MOM AND A NEW BABAY mE THAT WAS IN 1927 SO DONT TALK ABOUT WWEWLFARE ELP THERE WAS NONE!! BELIEVE MA AS I WALKED THE STEETS OF BRIXTON AND HEARN HILL IN BROCKWELL PARK AND ALONG TYHE STREETS SITTING BY DRAINS AND CRYING WAITING FOR SOE LADY TO PASS AND GIVE ME A PENNY.
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in many parts of the uk today a new kind of poverty is very much alive. you just dont see it. you have the new super rich who now have most of the housing and the poor have to leave communitys they grew up in, in many parts of london homes sell for millions and a new kind of landlord can do what the hell they like. people in private accom have little rights, you even now have sheds in peoples gardens where again landlords can do what they like, beds in sheds and great risk of fire and damp but for some this is home. yes we have come a long way from the 1930s but i fear things are going backwords and housing is the main reason and i cant see it geting better any time soon.
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I turned 85 years yesterday, so that makes me one of those who were shown in the beginning of this film. Yes this is how I spent my childhood for the first five years of my life anyway. I lived in Jakeman Road and then Balsall Heath Road, Bimingham. It was not until 1935 that we were moved to Billesley, a new estate built on farmland belonging to Baron de Billesley in the early 1800's. I remember mother crying when she saw our new home "We do not have enough furniture even to fill one room" she said.
I remember some of the ruins of some of the farm houses, but as children my two twin brothers and sister were delighted to see that at the bottom of the garden was a huge field, I had never seen so much green grass in all my life. Balsall Heath is still there in name only and the last I saw of my old home at No.1 Back of 250 Balsall Heath Road, it had taken a direct hit by a bomb during the war. -
Wow , so much suffering and struggle just to stay alive for so many - malnourished children - what is wrong with our world ? No child deserves that .... Yet the up side for those who had work , lovely new houses & architecture & a rising middle class .... And it must have been bad in other countries such as Germany? Russia? Italy? China ? America too.
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A fascinating look at late 1930s Britain from Pathe newsreels. Semi-detached house for 500 Pounds, an automobile for 100 Pounds. It is always interesting to contrast the very rich (Ascot) with the very poor. The far right wing would undo the welfare state in a minute without realizing those meager assistance programs put food on the table and make sustenance possible for the down and outers. Or worse, they wouldn't care about the ensuing hardship from dismantling of the welfare state.
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whooping cough , Diphtheria ,polio ,were also killers
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i million British troops in ww1 lost their lives for this, what were they fighting for?
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Thank you for sharing this interesting post. I was delighted to see my old company building (Pyrene) in the video. I did my training there in 1968.
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Some of the people in this film were actors.
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When the narrator says "a million families in Britain lived in conditions like these," she is actually understating the sheer quantity. More shocking is to consider that with the size of families in those days, we could be talking upwards of six million people living in abject squalor.
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We don't hear the early caveman complaining to much. Do we?
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is it ok if i could have a reference to this video as i would like to use it my assignment
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No wonder people were dying of TB.
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