Poverty in Northern England, 1950s - Archive Film 1005392

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Manchester, possibly Salford, Inner city study.
Morning signs, empty swings, milk crates, broken beer bottles. Close ups of street signs such as Hope, Paradise, Energy St, Love Lane & Every St. Graffiti on walls saying “God Save The Queen”, “Save the Rosenbergs” & “God Bless Fr Matthew”. Puddles, pigeons and run down residential buildings. Doll repair shop. Man rides off on a motorbike. Two policemen on foot patrol in the street. A man avoids the police as he walks along the street and into a building with broken windows. A man asleep on the pavement. A dog sleeping on the footpath. An elderly man in bed. Poor, overcrowded accommodation, a family share beds in one room. View through the residential streets. Child on a push bike delivers milk. Woman picks up pint of milk from the doorstep. Panning view of the docks, quiet and deserted.
Alarm clock shows 7:47. Children getting out of bed. A teddy bear on the bed. Old man waking. Child feeding a caged bird. Mother shouts up the stairs. Children wash. Old man shaves. Woman stirs a pot on the stove and behind are walls papered with newspaper. Man gives himself a dry shave. Family at breakfast table.
Children playing in the street, swinging around a lamp post, roller skating, hop scotch, skipping, boys on a soap box cart. Boys chewing gum and kicking a ball around, splashing water beside a pond and rolling a tyre with a stick.
Woman cleaning the door step. Kids cleaning a step with rags. Boys walk to school, past people standing in doorways and young kids in prams. Smiling girl. Boy slides down a lamp post. Boys running out the house with books under their arms. Boy pumping up a bicycle tyre. Man asleep outside. Girls walk to school. View down onto a large school playground where boys are fighting and girls playing and dancing in a circle. Boys picking their mates for a game. Girls skipping with a large skipping rope. Boys arguing. Older boys making their way to school and hanging around some railings. Older man blows a whistle. Two late comers run across open space. One boy clambers over some railings.
Woman peels potatoes at a table. Young kids pretending to be at school as they play on the pavement. Man’s face in close up. A panning view of a scrap yard full of various metal bits. Young men smoking cigarettes in doorways. Lads play a game of bowls or petanque with small balls in an open space.
Drips falling into a bucket. Run down housing, rooms with damp stains and holes in the ceiling. A cat. A very wobbly banister. Another car indoors. Close up of middle aged woman complaining about her leaking house. Drips keep falling into a bucket.
Man using a jack hammer in the street while another pumps water down the street. Woman window cleaning at a house. A street lamp is cleaned. Man up a ladder cleans pub windows. Women working in a commercial laundry. Laundry workers gossiping at work.
Man working in the road. Men working in a team as they haul steel cable. A man wanders along a street in a poor area. Making or repairing pavements.
Public library, a librarian stamps a book out and an elderly man takes the book to a table and begins reading. Close up of the bespectacled man in his cap. Other men reading, mainly newspapers.
Kids in the street. Boys play soldiers with sticks as swords. A makeshift bow and arrow. Women with a pram. A young boy plays with toy soldiers on the doorstep.
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