@@liamb8644 For a start, I was a child in the 1970s, and I don't remember seeing many programs on the TV that weren't in colour. Not to say they didn't get made but black and white TV was much more a thing of the 1960s. Also, in the 1970s it was very typical to see council workmen wearing council-issued donkey jackets with canvas shoulders. These men don't seem to have any particular standard-issue clothes at all. One other thing is the hair style of the man's wife near the end looks to be much more of a Mary Quant-esque. That was much more a thing of the 60s. In the 70s hair styles grew longer and looser. Of course I could be completely wrong. It just feels less 70s and more 60s to me.
@@johnbellamy3406 ..no its definitely 70s ..if you look closely at the end Les is flicking through Plenty Of Fish on an iPhone 6 and that phone wasn't released until 1974 ....
@@johnbellamy3406 1970-71, perhaps? The binmen uniforms are by Mary Quant, Bill Gibb, Ozzy Clarke, Barbara Hulanicki, and Celia Birtwell (of course) and are predictably fabulous. This is the range that would routinely sell out at Biba (at least, when the clothes were not being stolen). Penelope Tree showcased the look on the cover of "Nova" at about this time.
Home at 1:30 ! They were the Days , nowadays if your finished early these private Dusty companies see an opportunity to give you loads more work without considering how tiring the job is!! .Work work and more work .
I worked for 6 London boroughs at various times driving refuse collection vehicles and it was more or less a full day on each one, 9½-10 hours per day, finishing more than an hour early was uncommon - and a few shitty long days experienced In one depot, crews were going home 11am, others were struggling to finish at 6.00pm *AND THAT WAS AN "EARLY" FINISH* I would be finished but on several occasions worked on to to "pressure valve" other crews struggling to finish their work Job and finish seems rare these days - very rare
@@Keithbarber Keith let me thank you for the service you provided. No community could exist without the laborious and needed hard work you and your mates put in. I can only hope your relaxing drink at the end of your workday was refreshing. Again, thank you.
I would say that if they got breakfast paid for through the totting then it was well deserved!Good for them!👍The state of those dustbins,looks like they had quite a bit to put up with, of course these days there's also the risk of hyperdermic needles etc aswell.One group of people who have my sincere admiration!
Todays binmen, wheel a bin to the truck, and press a button. Yesterdays binmen lifted metal bins, carried it to the truck the. Lifted it to empty it. They’re not cut from the same cloth
@@Buddhavibez have to been a bin man? Literally 2000 bins a day we do, most 7am till 5 monday until friday. Roughly 15 miles on foot. Tiniest stone on the road stops the bins moving. You think we get it easy you idiot
What they call totting, I have to wonder how they effectively did it. I mean they toss everything into the truck it gets all mixed together. Must have been tedious put pull out the bits of value, be it clothing, metals, returnable bottles, etc.
The Dustmen provide a necessary task for us all. Public hygiene is a must lest we end up with rats and other vermin totally underfoot right? These are all honorable men doing a honorable job and are rightfully proud of the service they provide for us all.
@@ex-scientia4234 You evidently have never enjoyed much traditional english comedy then. Carry on films of the 50's/60/s for example are crafted round bawdy innuendo....And nowadays we are forced to endure living in an age when sanctimonious puritans insist they and only they know what is good and appropriate for us
No such thing as a female bin person?
Those were the days of just chucking every thing in.
Great post
"i woulndt change my job for anything" thatcher "hold my beer"
A very poor piece of BBC journalism. Weak questions & no balance. Where were the interviews from residents ? What a shame & missed opportunity.
This looks to me more like the 1960s rather than the 1970s.
Why?
@@liamb8644 For a start, I was a child in the 1970s, and I don't remember seeing many programs on the TV that weren't in colour. Not to say they didn't get made but black and white TV was much more a thing of the 1960s. Also, in the 1970s it was very typical to see council workmen wearing council-issued donkey jackets with canvas shoulders. These men don't seem to have any particular standard-issue clothes at all. One other thing is the hair style of the man's wife near the end looks to be much more of a Mary Quant-esque. That was much more a thing of the 60s. In the 70s hair styles grew longer and looser. Of course I could be completely wrong. It just feels less 70s and more 60s to me.
@@johnbellamy3406 ..no its definitely 70s ..if you look closely at the end Les is flicking through Plenty Of Fish on an iPhone 6 and that phone wasn't released until 1974 ....
official bbc channel that this has come from dates it at 1970. These fellas on £17 a week. Average weekly wage that year in UK was £24.
@@johnbellamy3406 1970-71, perhaps? The binmen uniforms are by Mary Quant, Bill Gibb, Ozzy Clarke, Barbara Hulanicki, and Celia Birtwell (of course) and are predictably fabulous. This is the range that would routinely sell out at Biba (at least, when the clothes were not being stolen). Penelope Tree showcased the look on the cover of "Nova" at about this time.
Proper grafting hard working men 👍
Home at 1:30 ! They were the Days , nowadays if your finished early these private Dusty companies see an opportunity to give you loads more work without considering how tiring the job is!! .Work work and more work .
I worked for 6 London boroughs at various times driving refuse collection vehicles and it was more or less a full day on each one, 9½-10 hours per day, finishing more than an hour early was uncommon - and a few shitty long days experienced In one depot, crews were going home 11am, others were struggling to finish at 6.00pm *AND THAT WAS AN "EARLY" FINISH* I would be finished but on several occasions worked on to to "pressure valve" other crews struggling to finish their work Job and finish seems rare these days - very rare
@@Keithbarber Keith let me thank you for the service you provided. No community could exist without the laborious and needed hard work you and your mates put in. I can only hope your relaxing drink at the end of your workday was refreshing. Again, thank you.
they confused that time for a time stamp.
I would say that if they got breakfast paid for through the totting then it was well deserved!Good for them!👍The state of those dustbins,looks like they had quite a bit to put up with, of course these days there's also the risk of hyperdermic needles etc aswell.One group of people who have my sincere admiration!
Todays binmen, wheel a bin to the truck, and press a button. Yesterdays binmen lifted metal bins, carried it to the truck the. Lifted it to empty it. They’re not cut from the same cloth
@@Buddhavibez have to been a bin man? Literally 2000 bins a day we do, most 7am till 5 monday until friday. Roughly 15 miles on foot. Tiniest stone on the road stops the bins moving. You think we get it easy you idiot
@@Buddhavibez exactly mate… like robots, and on good money, job for life with plenty of perks. ( todays binmen ).
@@Buddhavibez Some area's are still manual, including mine.
What they call totting, I have to wonder how they effectively did it. I mean they toss everything into the truck it gets all mixed together. Must have been tedious put pull out the bits of value, be it clothing, metals, returnable bottles, etc.
White guys?
Shut up
The Dustmen provide a necessary task for us all. Public hygiene is a must lest we end up with rats and other vermin totally underfoot right? These are all honorable men doing a honorable job and are rightfully proud of the service they provide for us all.
Thank you im a bin man its great now they have wheels hard work them days
Deserve a better pay
People would be living in their own filth if it were not for the cleansing workers,
9 30 time for the first dump ? dont they have a dump a bit earlier than that just saying
Because it was filmed during an era where childish innuendos didn’t exist
@@ex-scientia4234 what are you a snow flake
@Paul Mcbride good on ya
@@ex-scientia4234 I bet your fun at parties
@@ex-scientia4234 You evidently have never enjoyed much traditional english comedy then. Carry on films of the 50's/60/s for example are crafted round bawdy innuendo....And nowadays we are forced to endure living in an age when sanctimonious puritans insist they and only they know what is good and appropriate for us