How The Sixties Changed Britain | Turn Back Time: The Family | Absolute History
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- In this episode, the families are thrown into the swinging sixties and the street is introduced to a new family, the Hawkes, who are walking in the shoes of their ancestors who arrived as immigrants from the Caribbean. Brother and sister Jonathan and Rachel arrive on Albert Road first, and are shocked by life in the sixties. They discover life in the sixties was a difficult time, with racism, isolation and separation from loved ones taking its toll.
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I'm jealous that in the '60s two teenagers could work in a boutique and afford a flat and a car
Rarely could.
the literal dream😭😭😭
It’s back to being seen and not heard
@@karinasankarsingh5707like hell.. Women nowadays are louder than ever. Women have more rights than back then. That's why they walk around half-naked and scream "girl boss" 😒
U definitely couldn't do that now as a 20 yr old. Things in 21st century are so expensive!
Historian: ''Ya girls! Here's your new flat! Remember... parties, drinks, drugs, s*x and rock n roll!''
Girls: ''Yaaaaaaay!!!''
Dad's Face: * Wait... what?? WHAT??? I didn't sign up for this!!! *
His face was priceless 👀👀👀
Lmao and moms over there like DONT MESS UP MY KITCHEN
Does anyone else think that vintage gadgets guy was a bit sleazy ? Flirty with the older girls
That historian is just vile
Um I bet the girls parents were 70s babies . They look older in their 50s. How can the parents not have a clue of the period?
"this is garlic isn't it? ........this is garlic."
no honey, that's ginger.😂
I totally LOLd at that part. She was so sure it was garlic. Too cute!
OMG, that flat was the most horrible. And I only say it cause I've moved into places like that and had to work my tail off to fix it up!!
@@fallionwater117 pol
@Anni Runaway waitwaitwait... let me make a note of that. I had no idea Japanese food worked well with a vegetarian diet...
That was hilarious.
Seeing the living conditions and hearing the stories from the Hawkes literally brought tears to my eyes. That's just appalling and heartbreaking. On the positive side, this show is absolutely fascinating.
It's soo sad. I have heard these stories a million times over.
Yes it is very sad. That said, most poor working class people (of all ethnic groups) were living in flats and bedsits like this right up til the mid 1990s. This was due to the lack of wall cavity insulation, double glazing and central heating. I lived in places like this until about 2005! I'm now in a co op owned flat which has the wall insulation, central heating and double glazing and it feels like luxury! Because this standard was for many working class people actually luxury: only middle class and above had these in their homes ( home owners). Rented properties rarely had any of this unless classed as luxury rentals ( and the the rental prcies reflected that). Jonathan is such a sweet man and was cheerful despite the poor quality flat.
but you don't have an issue with the other apt that is just as bad for the white girls? give the SJW tears a rest...
@@vkngwmn6636 I do have an issue with the other girls living situation. However, based on the context of the circumstances of this situation, the Hawkes have it much harder since they would have literally no one to fall back on for support like the girls do. They would have to move back out of the country or be on the streets in hard times. And being my family is of minority descent, I have a bit more sympathy for the Hawkes. There's nothing SJW about what I'd said.
It's interesting to see how blacks were treated in the UK. Similar to the US.
I have always wondered how people managed to deal with moving from the sunny tropical Carribean to the cold grey old UK which in those days were full of people full of prejudice. It must have been shockingly depressing and the homesickness must be been devastating.
Oh the UK is pretty warm in summer the last few years..
It was horrid.
My mum and sisters hated it. Snow and fog she said were the worst.
@@mrsapplez2007 Here in CA we ain’t get no snow
@@realhuman4396 🍀
Better than where they came from
The "teenage rebellion" has not worked out very well for Medows girls, because they have absolutely different background to the teenagers of 60s-70s-80s and even 90s. Medows daughters have very loving, understanding & intelligent parents, who are also well-educated & comparably wealthy. Many rebellious teenagers of the past had totally different family situation. Their working class/farmers fathers were scarred by the war and were mentally&physically abusive, often "drinking to forget". Mothers were working very hard, often double shifts, just to support the children. Oldest daughters, when they were like 7-8 y.o., started to take full care of the house& younger siblings. Handwashing laundry for the entire family, including heavy bedlinen, because parents could not buy washing machine or were affraid, that machine would make clothes worn out quicker. Cleaning the house, including toilets&bathtubs. Cooking for the siblings and feeding the babies, changing their nappies. All that after spending morning in the school,- and later they had to find a quiet spot, where they could make their school homework without smaller children disturbing them non-stop. No own room, of course. No privacy. No place to relax in peace. No pocket money. No freedom. Practically,- no nothing, which is associated with happy childhood. And imagine after this hell for many years - since 7-8 y.ol. till 16-18-20 y.o.,- finally getting own job, own money, own flat for the first time in your life! Of course, teenagers were eager to leave home! In their own little studios they could relax properly after work without interruptions; sleep late on weekends without younger siblings, jumiping on their bed and asking for breakfast; clean only after themselves, and not after the entire family; buy whichever food they wanted,- not what father preffered; buy - for the first time in their lives! - own pretty clothes! No angry fathers around, no cryng babies, no piles of dirty nappies and dirty dishes to wash. That was the life!
I was lucky. My dad worked very hard in an iron foundry. We had no mod cons. Dad never swore, drank or lifted a finger to any of us. I miss him so much.
Thank you for this. The Meadowes are really atypical because of the tight-knit family background they came from and their wealth, education, and worldly outlook. They're really not the kind of people whose teenagers would've moved into a bedsit in a northern city in the 60s. But I think looking at it as how modern families take to their ancestors' social conditions, it shows how far Phil's family has come, and the privilege his girls have. They seem like lovely people, and Phil's a great dad. But I don't think there were many men like him in the 60s, especially with the culture of stiff upper lip and keeping up appearances that they as newly middle class folks would've held to. It's just as interesting to see how masculinity changes over the century, and the Meadowes and the Taylors have been great examples of that. (And the Goldings, I do miss them, the 60s saw a lot of changes for Jewish families and I wish they'd have dug more into the antisemitism the Goldings would've experienced in the first four decades of the 20th century, even middle class as they were!)
You are basically describing my life minus the siblings. My father was a very angry emotionally abusive man and I couldn't wait to get away!
Statistically in the 1960s most housewives stayed at home, because one wage was enough to support everyone. That was around Thatcher that wages fell so that by then and since then you need two breadwinners.
We didn't really have "Vietnam Veteran"-style dads over here, because we were not in Vietnam. There has been a social pattern noticed where, the WWI generation said and acted out practically nothing of the horrors they experienced, the WWII generation often "didn't want to talk about it" but b the 1960s onwards, everyone wanted to talk about it, because it was more socially acceptable for men to do so.
Typically the WWII generation took their sons to football, which underwrote the whole golden era of football post-war.
I don't really recognise your gritty, urban vista of abuse and depression, probably because it's lifted from some HBO programme set in Chicago in the 1990s, and does not really reflect the British experience specific to the 1960s, does it? That's the problem when you want to talk about history, don't know anything, make some shit up based on what you saw on the telly once.
There was little teenage rebellion because it wasn't the done thing and we were not as exposed to other ways of living via the mass media yet. Father had absolute rule and say, because they were usually the only ones with jobs, apart from that was the way handed down to them. There was no war-traumatised Dad thrusting out his Bayonet from the desert to manners the kids, because he would not see being like that as manly and he wouldn't need to do that anyway, he'd just say it and throw the kids out as teenagers if they did not obey. Usually that was enough and the state would not exactly force them back together like social services can now, they'd just put them in a home discretely.
The idea of a studio flat comes from the 1980s, no one used it before then, you just had to have lodgings in the 1960s. My Dad absolutely used to get pocket money in the 1960s and I don't think he and my uncles were the only ones.
Yes, it was like this for most, or a close version of modern absent parenting.. I had a bit of a mix really, and i'm from the 90s! But in general its a good point and you're absolutely right..for a long time, children really didn't have as long a childhood as people do now, which is probably the problem. More and more people are "less grown up" at the same age than previous generations and its apparently growing exponentially! Not even the children of a few decades ago say the same thing the young do now..look it up! "Children in the 60s predicting the future"
As a fan of classic Dr.Who and watching the documentaries I appreciate the accuracy of the kids playing Daleks. Very authentic to the period.
That made me incredibly happy to see 😄
Same haha
Did you see the episode where these families were in the blitz!? The boy had a gas mask and very discreetly said “are you my mummy?” !! 😁
🥹🥹🥹🥹 I was so happy to see this part!
"Guys.....shut up!!" 😝😂😁😂 I love this family.
you forgot the best part of this moment: Her annoyed face and this polite british "One moment"
I would have hanged on at the end. "Or the next time you leave because I kicked you out 🤣😂"
If my mum told me to shut up I would have moved out again and I wouldn’t go back it’s a shamE the meadows girls didn’t do that
In 1966 I said "shut up" to a classmate and my 3rd grade teacher overheard me. She made me stay in the classroom while the other kids went to lunch. She then told me to stand in the corner, which I did. She then came to where I was standing, put her hands firmly on my arms holding them down, and shook me very hard repeatedly, angrily telling me to never say "shut up" again. I had heard my mother say it and didn't know it was something I wasn't supposed to say.
@@jennynott3841 Back in the day you would have had more respect for your parents and did as you were told. Sorry about that.
The Taylor kids cracked me up. I love how creative they were with their play. They had the saucepan-plunger Dalecs and standing in the window behind the underwear waving at people. What fun. And the dads freaking out about 50 year old fashion LOL
The Taylor children are so sweet!
I see Dalek, I like
I was a teenager in the 1960's, and we thought about pop music a lot of the time. The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. My friends and I went to the only boutique in the West Highland town I came from, and the owner had to practically throw us out, as we kept looking at all the fabulous clothes, which we could not afford till we left school! This brings it all back, even though it is being shown in a large English City. The TV with "Top of the Pops, Ready Steady Go, Juke Box Jury etc. etc." showed us what was hip, regarding clothes and hairstyles too!
Groovy! ☮️
Yes Ready steady go Friday night Eileen
I turned 13 in 1969. I remember my skirt having to be at least as long as as the tip of my fingers with my arms straight down by my sides. And remember my church Sunday School teachers doing lessons on modesty. The “mini-skirt” was a big issue for teen girls, LOL.🤩
I love this series so much!
I would watch this series with different families again if they made it.
They made a similar series but with just one family, an Australian family which spent a week in each decade. It seemed to be a spin off/copy. Further back in time for dinner. On the ABCIVIEW
💯 agree. It's been such a fascinating series. I've been bingeing it. I would love to see them go back even further in time also. I would also be fascinated by how medicine has changed through the eras. Also, I would like to see even the "uglier" aspects of society like workhouses/poor house. Schools etc.
Ditto. It will be great if there’s different types of view in detail.
I love how the Meadows have worked and prospered so far, especially Saskia and the father! Its nice to see them go up a class :)
Yeah and they were really struggling with the Edwardian era
@@TxcaBxbbles yeah but their modern situation is privileged lol.
Moriartery…this is what the Brits hate, from what I have read etc…their class system, but they always go back to that. There is always the class comparison (implication that if the child is from a set of parents who don’t have much or aren’t in a job that helps them earn better wages/salary the child won’t be likely to get far) instead of comparing someone’s potential, because we have seen how the children of wealthy parents don’t always do well or better than their parents.
@@marinazagrai1623 yeah most of us who hate the class system do because we are at the bottom of it. and it's hard to go up. I'm hoping I'll get somewhere one day though. I'm only 16 but I'm studying to be a mechanical engineer. maybe I'll get out of lower class. my single mum is trying really hard to get me and my brother to college to have a good life. and when we move out, she will have more money for herself and will be better off.
@@AlyxAesthetics Had no idea you are only 16, but regardless of class system (I don’t believe in this, but there is a new wealth system), pursue a college degree and of course get the equivalent of a Masters (US) which you must have for management positions..
That decade was the best decade of my life. I'm now 78 and miss it like mad. I feel sorry for those who never experienced it. It was hard for a lot of people. Many young girls coming from the sticks to London were in a very precarious position. Most young people renting in Brixton (my home town), lived in slum conditions, unable to get a Council flat. The Caribbean immigrants were badly treated, but I had some good times with them, eating soused pigs trotters and drinking a rather potent punch and listening to their music. Even so, there was an air of excitement about the sixties that I haven't experienced again since. Everything died in the seventies and now life is about the self, money, consumerism, and greed.
Hello to you you have just discribe the Bible book of Timothy C3v2 it says men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money boastful haughty disobedient to parents unthankful disloyal having no natural affection Eileen
"We have to wash up in the toilet!"
That perfectly described how it feels like the first time I leave my parents.
As late as 2005 I had a bedsit like that. I had a bathroom basin in my bedsit's "kitchen area "instead of a kitchen sink to wash the dishes. The hot water was heated by a small boiler fixed above it with one tap. The bathrooms were shared with other tenants. It was a 3 floor Victorian house. That said, I did have some good times there despite it as we had a back garden with tons of wild poppies and we tenants would sit out in the sun, and one would put on Jazz on his stereo.I knew there were fancier flats of course, but I couldn't afford one (neither could the other tenants) but we just got on with it and would enjoy the garden and have a laugh about the landlord's nutty son (who lived in one of the ground floor bedsits) who had a thing about the cellar.. It was quite comical at times, a bit like that sitcom Rising Damp!
Really really love how you have included actual history of non-European immigrants like black people and brown people, and not just threw in some random black family for "diversity"
I feel so sad to see how the Hawkes were treated just because of their skin color, while European countries have imposed themselves on black and brown people for years and pillaged their countries.
Wait until you see how Africans treat Chinese migrant workers. It's human nature to not want foreigners in your land
Are black people and brown people not one and the same? Lol
@@Lassieandfriends No …
The Jamaican family life is almost a copy of what I had to come through in 00's when EU opened the borders and I came to England. I was 19 years old. Of course, I didn't see the signs "no foreigners", but I remember when I kept a booklet for foreigners "Your rights in the UK" one chief on the kitchen where I worked said, "Rights?! Ha ha, what rights?! You have no rights, you are a slave here!". And no one wanted to rent a house to us so we had to live in the same conditions that are shown here paying a lot. Good old times. They are with me forever. But thank you England, now I am much stronger.
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Yeah, same story. Came to England in 2012 when I was 15, with my mom. No school, just work straight away, some language classes and lots of harrasment. But it definatley made me stronger.
It's really painfull to watch them struggle.
@@kotdrot42 good luck in your future 👍 The people who had to overcome such struggles in young age either break or become prosperous. I wish you the second path 🙂
God im so sorry.
I've always been very much like "hell yeah open borders, I love that people come to the UK to live/work/escape where they don't feel safe" But in my ignorance, I guess i'd turned a blind eye to the actual conditions that are put upon people when they get here. I've got some self educating to do!
Nice to see scummy landlords renting out disgusting "flats" hasn't changed since the 60s.
Yes, I know! As late as 2005 bedists and flats were like this. I lived in many like it! Damp on the walls, shared kitchens and bathrooms, no central heating etc.
@@mabel8179 you say that like it's not still a problem now. Landlords have too much power and the tenants have none. No repairs, mouldy houses, landlords taking up to 80% of your income etc. Not even being able to afford bills or decent food.
That's what I just said!
1971 I was 19 yrs old, sharing single bed in a 60 sq ft bedsit in West Hampstead with my 17 yr old girlfriend from Lancashire. We both made 17 pounds week from West End jobs. Shilling bits fed power meter. One would be enough to heat water for the bathtub down the hall. Tub was big enough for the two of us together. My Rose was beautiful. Weekends in the parks high on trips or Durban Poison. Ah, to be young again!!
@@Jefferson0702 I'm literally as white as possible 😂 muppet
My mother was an au pair in London (from Finland) in the sixties. Her English is beautiful, they taught her a lot that family. I wonder whatever happened to them.
Great video!!!
My mother was too! (Also Finnish) Although she went in the late 70s! We’ve actually been to visit her host family in Bournemouth a few times :) This video is very eye opening.
I was a teen in the sixties in Canada and that is what is was like. I couldn't wait to move out and be on my own and I loved it. Even while living in a dive I loved the freedom.
I was born in the 90s in Germany and also couldn‘t wait to get out. I couldn’t afford much to eat the first year but it was still better than still living with my brother and mother.
I was born in the early 1950s to a working class family in the east end of London and can remember part of the 50s, the 1960s, the 1970s, 1980s and the 1990s well.
The only thing the show cannot recreate are the mindsets of the participants because those involved are of a 21st century mentality.
One has to mentally relate to and ways of thinking to fully understand how society was during those eras.
This series is so interesting! I grew up in the 60's & 70's in the U.S. Wish we had shows like this in America. Well done!
Yes, UK Friends. We loved our Twiggy, mini-skirts & the Beatles.😎🇺🇸❤🇬🇧
I wonder what happened to that other family… hope they’re doing well
In their real family history, after WWII the Grandparents moved to the suburbs. Thus ending their time on Albert Rd.
I also think Tha show wanted to add a new family and show the life of immigrants in the UK.
I think they may have had a spat and quit. The father went a little far in his role last time
@@loopoo4766 That was in the first era, 3 episodes ago. I think it was pre planned, as the carved up the large house. They briefly reappear in the last episode
Love how she decided that the ginger was garlic 😂 not sure I would let her loose in my kitchen.
🤣
Love this series, seeing history
I hope that they do a season 2
I'd love to see this in all kinds of countries
These series are so amazing!!!! Better than Netflix!!
“Mom- stop throwing us away!!” Bwhahaha
OMG, that girl has no idea how garlic looks like 😂😂😂😂 I hope her brother can take a lot of ginger 😂😂😂😂
And the next thing she says is that white people can't season meat or something of the kind xD
Then she says, 'people tell me I'm no good at cooking, so I don't do it'. That's why she's crap, she hasn't had any practice!
@@OstblockLatina because yall don't bby, colonized most of the world for spices and other shit and yet you don't use it
@@claret275 racist
I am a custodian and it is NOT an unskilled job. The fact we have always need seen as less makes me so mad! Just like an disrespected mom in a house, we make the place run and function and not nasty!
What Jonathan and Rachel Hawkes faced (a run-down, filthy and very substandard flat in a once beautiful building) was absolutely horrible! What their grandparents' generation faced was way worse that the off-campus apartment I lived in as a student several decades ago. (I found out from Google-Earthing the old neighborhood that 30 years ago the Victorian style building in which I lived was condemned and torn down. I know from city life that too many people are still forced by their poverty and other people's bigotry to live this way and it's heartbreaking.
My heart breaks for Jonathon and Rachel. What a way to meet a new country. 💔
MY MUM and Dad were immigrants in the 60s and had Jamaican lodgers. IT WAS a beautiful time
The brother and sister’s mom and sister who visited came across horribly. I felt so bad for the sister who had done her best to make that dump into a home. They totally disrespected and hurt her, and obviously didn’t care. Ugh
I'm obsessed with Mary Quant and 60s fashion, so I love seeing this. Thank you!
Mary who!!
My mother moved to the UK from Jamaica in 1961, I wish so badly she was still alive to watch this with me.
OMG YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I NEEDED THIS. I WATCHED THE TURN BACK TIME SERIES WITH THE SHOPS AND NOW HERE IS THIS. IM SO EXITED!!!!!!
There's a series about farm life going from Victorian to Edwardian Era. A xmas special too. 3 episodes. Then running a 19th century pharmacy/chemist shop. Moving into an era of regulation and actual laws about what you could sell.
There was 2 American series 1900 house and WW2 house as well that aired on Public Telivision Stations around 2000. Great content.
@@Ozzy_2014 thanks, i will watch it! :)
I’ve waited so long for this and I’m so happy
Great to see what life would of been like for a family of colour like The Hawke Family. My mother moved to England in the summer of 1987 at the age 13 from Barbados with her mother, her disabled sister and her elderly grandmother. Her mother had only just divorced her father and left him in Barbados. My mum is mixed race, with her father being black Caribbean and mother white British. She was visibly mixed race and she unfortunately was racially bullied in secondary school. I can’t imagine how horrible and lonely it must of been. And yes I must admit that her mother and grandmother were British (mums sister was born in England) and were natives of England but my mum was born and spent her childhood in Barbados so this was her very first time here and she did speak English but with the Barbadian accent and she was made fun of because of it. I can’t imagine how horrible it was for her.
Acts 10 c34 says At this Peter said now I truly understand that God is not partial Eileen
Sorry for your mum no one should be treated like your mum was what ever colour or belief it is not called for Jesus said that you must love your neighbor as yourself And in the Bible book of Acts c10 v34 Peter says I understand that God is not partial Eileen peace to you
I was literally thinking they need to include a black family because experiences were so different even in the older eras it would've been interesting to see
When she said “that view, that view is gorgeous “. (41:46) I a bought died laughing! The view of flat nothing? Well to each their own I guess.
It was shocking to me that the two girls wanted to be back with their parents. When I was their age I would’ve loved to have had my own place, no matter how bad it was. It wasn’t that I had a bad home life; I just think the girls’ parents are less restrictive than their own parents were.
A video about the UK that’s available in the UK makes a nice change for this channel.
Exactly
Heartbreaking the racism these poor souls had to go through it was so hard for them I am crying watching this I am ashamed been English and the amount of racism there was in this country I am so happy it has changed I know there is still racism in the uk but we all need to play our part and stop this bless you all stay safe xx
White British people protested in their millions against mass immigration
but were blatantly ignored.
It has proved to be a failure as we see all around us as civilisation and the
excellence of white society has been destroyed before our very eyes. Tragic.
I enjoy seeing families relive the past sooo much! I wish we could do this in the US!!
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Racial Prejudice still horrifies me. I am a descendant of Native Americans and my heart still weeps for the senseless slaughter of my ancestors.
Me to the Bible book of Acts c10 v34 says that God is not partial peace to you Eileen
I’m white English and my ancestors were slaughtered by the Viking,Romans and Normans hundreds years ago and that’s in the past WHY do different culture keep going on about there past history and think life owes them something.Look to the future and be happy
One of my colleagues immigrated to Australia from Sri Lanka and works as a cleaner in the hospital, actually has an engineering degree from home, but it is not recognised in Australia and he can’t afford to return to uni to be qualified in Australia as he has three kids to support. There are many days where he finds his jobs boring and tedious and feels frustrated, and I don’t blame him.
How can it not be recognised in Australia? It is recognised.. because the government allowed him to migrate. Just that the employers here are too picky.
One of my secondary school janitors had been principal of a secondary school in Cuba. Then Castro came to power and they fled with nothing, escaping by boat. They nearly drowned but the Coast Guard saved them. He was the kindest, most grateful person I ever met. He joyfully made our old school shine and said he was happy to be working again at a school. He spoke Spanish and his English was very poor. His children went to university. Son was studying pre-medicine and daughter graduated as a teacher. What amazed me is he wasn't bitter. If I had lost everything, maybe I'd be bitter about it.
I migrated from Spain to Australia and my English Language degree was not recognised in many places either and I migrated in 2008! And I dont speak broken English
I can tell you that rooms in London, of that low quality for a ridiculous price and rented mainly to immigrants, hasn’t changed.
"Mom, stop throwing us away." 🤣
Love the history of this series! Has helped me understand the lives of other so much better.
It’s so touching to see those loving families.
And people say teenagers act "so grown" nowadays lol. It all started somewhere at some time.
Omfg this is a genius idea!!! This would be so much fun. I need more!!! I love history and love learning about my ancestors so this is a phenomenal concept
I don't think the girls should have been allowed to give up so quickly and easily...
Any working class Gen Xer will tell you that bedsits were like this in the 1980s, and even into the 1990s. And in fact I lived in a bedsit like this as late as 2005!
At 18 I had a three bedroom house and garden to look after, shopping, cooking, cleaning and work. I loved it.
Lol we've lived in rougher student digs and slum flats between 2006-2010 than that rough flat! Hospitalised several times across 4 really awful homes because of toxic mold - this type of poverty exists today and doesn't discriminate x
This is such an awesome series.
Guys thanks for this, I literally went back in time to when my grandparents first arrived in England from Jamaica. Seeing them living it really hit home, esp recently losing ma grandma and knowing the housekeeping jobs she had to do. Then seeing the same punch cups I still have till today!!!🥲🥲🥲
@Digby Dooright Glad for new faces as well. I wish they had replaced the Taylor family though. I'm just not feeling them for some reason.
@@jenniferlawrence9473 it’s the mom! It’s the mom!
The Hawkes situation made me cry.
I'm loving this channel but I find it extremely hard to see how racist the times were. We are all human beings and why should someone have to see a sign saying 'no coloureds'. The saddest part is that there is still so much racism today when we should know better. It's one thing to study it but it's so different to see it and how it made people feel.
Yes I agree we are all human beings what ever colour we are the Bible book of Acts c10 v34 says that God is not partial in the words of a famous man Jesus who said that you must love your neighbor as yourself and in the words of a famous song if people did that then what a wonderful world it would be
@@jager896 I agree wholeheartedly. The hate that is happening with Russia and the Ukraine really tells me that so many people have not learnt from history. It's always the innocent that gets hurt including killing children. I live in New Zealand but my sister and her family live in England. Both my sister and brother in law work for the BBC and the things they have told me that haven't been shown is the stories of individual people and what they have experienced. They know one of the reporters that were shot at and have been able to communicate directly with him. The atrocities he has witnessed are too hard to hear nevermind repeat. There was an agreement that Russia would allow a cease fire tunnel so that the innocent could leave without the risk of being killed and they used it as a way of killing people en masse. I don't know how people can be so heartless to do such a thing. There is something wrong with people who can kill or hurt another so callously. I try to stay as positive and I try to find the positives in any situation but with racism, hate, evil I just can't see any positives. I hope that you and your family are well and safe especially with covid. The only family I have other than my sisters family is my Mum and Dad who I moved back in with when I was too sick to work. I've lived nine years longer than my lifelong specialists gave me. We spent a lot of time together but 14 months ago my Mum passed away of cancer and about 6 weeks ago I went to wake my Dad up and realised that he had passed away in his sleep. The positive in that is there were no signs of him being in distress and that he is now with Mum and our Lord in heaven. I not only lost my parents but also my two best friends. I can understand why they died but people killed from hate is senseless. Xx
Thank you 😊 for your reply it has always puzzled me as to why people have a hatred towards people of colour there is good and bad in any race white is a colour I so sorry that you have lost your loved ones my mother died many years ago and I miss her very much but I have a hope from my study of the Bible that there is going to be a reserecshion of both the righteous and unrighteousness Acts24v15 and the Bible book of Timothy C3v1 discribes the times we are living in so I know it is not far off it says that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here for men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money boastful haughty disobedient to parents unthankful disloyal having no natural affection without love of goodness this accurately describe the times we are living in thank you for your reply stay safe and peace to you Eileen
@@jager896 my grandmother was called Eileen and we were the only let's say active Christians in our family and she was very dear to my heart. Your comment about boastful, money hungry and disobedient to parents has so much relevance in my own life right now. I have one sister who lives in England with her husband and two kids. After Mum passed away Dad and I did a lot of research into a new house and we settled on a new build. Everything was going well, we liked all the same things etc. Dad also bought a new electric vehicle with the vision of petrol prices rising and so that we would have a house that doesn't need much maintenance as the family home was way to big for us. Anyway the day before Dad passed away he had just signed off on the house and land package etc and we intended to take the papers down to the builder later that week. My sister knew that Dad wanted me to stay in his home after he passed away and intended to see the lawyer the following week to change his Will. He had spoken to her and she was happy with that plan. My sister is now demanding most of Dad's cash assets and the majority of the money after the house is sold. She owed my parents a lot of money and she is trying to tell me that Dad told her that she didn't have to pay it back however she didn't expect Dad to write that in his Will and she is furious. She told me that I had to wipe the debt off. I never thought that this would happen to my family and I know my parents will be devastated with all the things she is demanding. All I need is a roof over my head, food to eat and a car to get me to my hospital appointments and she is trying to treat me like I have no idea but Dad told me that I would have to stick up for myself with her. It's really sad what people do when it comes to money. Sorry for telling you all this I just wanted you to know that the scripture was something that was a major part of my life at this point in time. It's amazing how God can bring two strangers together at a certain point in time when there is a connection in each other's thoughts. I think we may meet in Heaven one day. Xx
@@amyrivers4093 Amy thank you for your reply no idont think you went on it is good to share problems Ido fell sorry for you when you said all you need is somewhere to live a car to get you from a to b you have the right attitude the Bible book of Timothy 1 c 6v 7 says for we have brought nothing in to the world neither can we carry anything out so having food and covering we will be content with these things in the same chapter v6 it says to be sure there is great gain in Godly devotion along with contentment the Bible is a book full of wisdom - I do hope that your sister sees sense and is more kinder to you do let me know the outcome hope all goes well with you peace to you Eileen
The generation that didn’t know how good they had it, were happy with nothing and ruined everything for everyone after them.
right? wouldn't it be amazing if you could still pay for college by working for a summer at a fast food joint.
Not generation.. but generations..
The quality that makes humans special is perseverance.
I love the white go-go boots! Sad to say, I remember them. Even had a pair!
I like how they do these. I feel for the new family. Had this been in the US it would've been so much worse. These have changed so much.
I felt awful for them. It was uncomfortable to watch, as it should be.
I identify with the Maddows. I have 4 girls and the older 2 are (2 years apart in age) teenage girls and they are close like the Meadows girls. They are best friends. The older one is responsible and nurturing and the younger more careless and funny. Just like theses 2 young girls. I could totally see my husband talking to our oldest the way Daddy Meadows was talking to his oldest."You have to look out for your little sister. She needs it. She's not as responsible as you and may get into some trouble without you"..... I giggled because totally get it.
Throughout the series, commentors deplore the physical and mental hardships, yet the participants see the hardships as what made their ancestors strong.
I couldn't stop laughing when the mother from the meadows family was dancing in the kitchen 😂 17:14
The Dalek costumes made my day!
"Mum, stop throwing us away..." 🤣🤣🤣👍🏼 That's what I say to my mom too. Guess not everyone likes the 1960s.
Yup, the era that wrecked the family to rock and roll.
omg this show has such a great concept it's rlly fascinating
How can the lady get a souffle wrong? That's the same cooker I grew up with in the 60s - 70s! I also note she has the Kenwood mixer - ideal for getting those egg whites to a stiff peak! 🙂
(my late 70s kenwood only just broke down - I might have a go at repairing or changing the motor 🙂)
My dad was a foreman at the steelworks (Llanwern Newport) and my mother was a home help (home care assistant?) for the council in the late 60s. I think our car was a Ford saloon - a Corsair? I was too young for the 'teen rebellion', but we had some Tommy Steel, Cilla Black & Joe Brown 78s
I've heard stories of people moving out in the 60's and the parents then letting their rooms out, so it probably wouldn't have been an option for Saskia and Gene to move back home in some family homes.
I absolutely love this series
How can Miss Hawkes, who claims to like to cook, use Ginger as Garlic. For Petes sake!
Yes, I noticed that too. Ginger looks nothing like garlic. Lol bet that dish she was preparing tasted a bit off.
Lol 😆 I couldn't believe it 🤣
Well she did say she wasn’t good at it 😂
Yup... I'm not surprised that people tell her that her cooking is off.
It's sad that people discouraged her so much! The only way to learn how to cook is to keep doing it, but she's had nasty enough comments thrown at her that she stopped trying. It's a real shame, everyone should be encouraged to learn how to feed themselves.
I really feel for the Hawks family and what they arrived to. It especially was shocking when their family friend came over and said it was taking him back
I love these series. History 1000 times better than grammar school. real life real issues. now you need to do a series on women in trouble from the 1700s through the time of equal rights. what were their lives like? how many women committed suicide due to pregnancy, widow hood, arranged marriages. Brigerton touched on those issues making the series great. now do a real series on when women who had advance degrees could practice in their profession, how many women were turned away from jobs they were qualified for. may throw in some men that got turned down for jobs as nurses and teachers too!
I was born in Liverpool in 1948. My family immigrated to Canada in 1966. I could really relate to the show - I loved the sixties things. I had to laugh when I saw the Gay Box on the wall of the working class house. I had one in my bedroom to collect all those little ornaments we got free in tea 🙂
Modern society still has its shortcomings but there are a lot of perpetual complainers and victims of all walks that could benefit from experiencing what their ancestors went through to see how far things have come.
Nostalgia of the sixties, there are the good oldies years!!
What an iconic decade for fashion.
The anti-Irish thing is weird to me cus I've never experienced it myself despite my Irish grandparents starting their family in the 60s. They never tried to live in England, but it's weird to thing of the backlash they would've faced, especially being Catholic.
Thank you for this video ! 😊🌼
The well off family has left town by this time.
The dad of that family was in his 50s so he was alive during the sixties. I'm not sure why they left but I assume it'd have something to do with that
No, not the most well off family. It was the middle class family, at house #2, that moved out. They were thriving on the father's earnings as an estate agent, so they moved to the suburbs.
@Joanne Exactly, they kind of missed the 50s, the concept of families and children (Baby Boomers) after the war encouraged. Many families moved to the suburbs.
U all do a rally good job on here keep up the great work on here
The Hawkes family are gorgeous! Especially ladies. Totally top-model level of beauty.
In reality in the 1960s no matter how dire the accommodation was, you were desperate to get away from your parents so tolerated it and parents would have been harsher and not just allowed the kids to move back in after a few days
I like this series. But I would like to watch all the episodes
See the playlist on my channel.
@@7rotorhead I like your channel
@@katarzynawalczak3901 Thank you
25:15 Hello cameraman.
I have no time for class. People are nice or not regardless of class it what's in a person heart that counts not their class.
Doesn't matter how much money you have you cant buy class, unfortunately the rich think they can. I've seen more rats with class than rich people.
You are missing what it was like to live in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.
*starts peeling ginger*
"I know this is garlic."
I grew up in the 70’s ,80’s in Australia and would have been quite happy in a bedsit by myself at 15. Parents were different back then. They weren’t your friends and were always checking up where you were. I would have loved the independence as long as I had a roof over my head. I could quite easily live on Weetbix and toast.
Oh these days many parents also check up on you.
They were caring for your well-being
It is cool to learn about past . Kids has to grow up sometimes. Good work on the video.
These teens leaving, then coming back .... that would not have happened in the 60s. Even in 1980, when I left home, it was expected that I could make my own way .... I would've never asked to come home, or even asked for assistance ... it just wasn't done. I skipped many meals to make my rent, but it never crossed my mind to ask my parents to help me out. Times were so different .......
The mum's reaction at 43.28 had me dying laughing lol
Personally, I can’t imagine moving away from my family at 15. I could barely do it in my late 20’s.
This series is brilliant!
Someone has kindly uploaded to yt the show “love thy neighbour” it was one of my favourite shows as a child
My husband and I lived in Louisiana in the mid 60s as newlyweds, for 3 months. He was stationed in Fort Polk. We went to a close by launderette to do our laundry! Just like this place!!!
My dad was stationed at Ft. Polk in 1976! Poochie's Catfish Kitchen was where we ate our first dinner there. Very hard to find any accommodation. My parents built a house there and while it was being built Dad rented a trailer in East Leesville's Finest Trailer Park. Man, oh man was that a dump! Dad said him and 2 others were competing to rent that one available shack of a trailer. 🤭🤣 I was pretty young but remember that place vividly including the tornadoes and the winter ice-storms that knocked out power for days. When the town got their first McDonald's, the town threw a parade.
05:15 "Teenagers, this is *your* era", but she doesn't explain why, even though it's really easy to explain it specific to the UK. It seems to be implied that this happened spontaneously, or as if teenagers took some rights in a revolutionary way, but in 1960s Britain, that was never going to happen, even with the counterculture later on.
The main reason was marketing from the US. In the 1950s, US marketers identified the teenager as a group that often had disposable income that they were not targeting, so they did. In order to make the concept work, they really needed to invent the whole idea of a teenager, which they also did, because the tail needs to wag the dog in these things.
So, again in the US television programming, clothes, magazines, records and much else besides was aimed at this newly created "teen" segment of the market.
That's not really going to happen in austerity Britain, now is it? No, which is why it happens later and the second easy reason, full employment. The full employment of the time meant that a lot of British teenagers going into the 1960s got full or part time work and could then become economic factors with spending power that could physically buy the teen stuff they could not before, because they didn't have the money like US kids did.
It's really not that complicated, but that's why pop history is so shit.