BBC 40 Minutes Documentary on Cardross Street Hammersmith. 1218pm 21.9.24 indeed. as sad as that statement reads... there are a few of us who feel that way. and i wonder if bottom, the vastly underrated and much maligned comedy show, was based on this expose?
@@londonnodippydolly6635 BBC 40 Minutes Documentary on Cardross Street Hammersmith. 1757pm 21.9.24 ummmmmmmmm... i never heard amazingly pithy sayings or tidbits of interest re: ye olde worlde of yesteryear's vernacular... allegedly, the Lancastrian drawl is akin to yorkshire whereas elements of rochdale and whitworth of Lancashire relate to Lincolnshire. odd how little pockets populations cane have totally different back stories/histories to the general populace of a certain locale... if you do have a different history to your immediate vicinity i suggest converse as little as possible with the locals to preserve that identity... .........the topics up for conversation in the pub etc.........
I was so happy to find this documentary as my Grandparents Rose and Albert Ransley lived in No 24 Cardross Street and my parents lived with them for a few years after marrying and I did too when I was born. It was so lovely to see Harry and Gladys Weller from No.26 I remember them from my childhood. My grandfather is listed as living there with his first wife, seven children and a boarder in the 1911 census! I'm not sure how long before that he occupied it but I am researching family history. My grandmother Rose died in 1971 and my uncle Don (Donald Stuart) lived there for a while after that before he sold the property. I loved that house so much and have many happy memories over the 17 years of my own life connected to it. Having seen it sold in 2012 for £760,000 and barely recognisable inside now it's unbelievable that I think my Uncle bought it for £600. How the world has changed.......progress is a strange phenomenon!
Imagine living in the same house, married to the same person, for 66 years. Harry and Gladys would have married in 1923. One cannot fathom the social, political and economic change they witnessed in that time.
oh wow, I would have put it before that! That is even more appalling to think that people were living in those conditions at that time. I thought it was maybe the 70s or early 80s.
I lived on a neighbouring st and know the area really well. Our neighbour. Lilly Davis, was born in her house and lived there until she died aged 102. I loved hearing about how life was during the war. It’s s lovely village like part of London.
There's an awful lot of dilapidated properties these days. I'm not sure if that's from the expense of maintaining them or just neglectful freeholders freeholders
@@annoyingbstard9407that's why surrounding yourself with children helps ease that. I understand some people can't have children. But there are many people today who are deciding to not even try out of fear it will cramp their "lifestyle".
They would have greeted him before they recorded the segment. Maybe even had a little chat. They probably had to film the same segment 2 or three times.
I lived in Tasso Road W6, a dead end street, in the mid 90’s. I was very lucky as it was still full of the lovely original families who were in the majority. Everyone did know each other, pub and shop at the end of the road etc, but within 10 years or so the place had become much more transitory . Much like Cardross Street. Lovely programme of a time too long gone
I moved to Cardross Street in 1990 and lived there for eight very happy years. The Andover Arms at one end of the street and The Anglesea Arms at the other. I do recall a very few elderly residents and some of them dying or moving on during my time there. Inevitably younger people like me moved in and spruced up the old places. Just like pretty much everywhere else in central London. I went back to visit five years ago and not much has changed (apart from the prices). Still a lovely street to live in.
I enjoyed the lady who have bought the house of her (lovely) neighbours and the way she talked to them (and was aware of their standards) ❤ Love from Holland
Dennis Neale, Oh my goodness, this brings back memories. I saw this when I lived in Iffley Road (1983-1989). It was such a good, slice of life little documentary about the changing times of “Brackenbury Village” and the people who lived there (the original residents and the newcomers like me). I loved the area. It had a lovely villagey feel. Cardross Street was picture-postcard pretty with wonderful cottage gardens in summer. It is all now 30 years ago for me. I went back last year and walked through the village which did not seem to have changed (apart from the astonishing house prices). However, the areas to the south (Hammersmith Broadway) and the north (Goldhawk Road) had really changed.
@@LeeEnfield-iw3qk Hi, Lee. I remember Hebron Road well. I was back in Iffley Road last summer, just walking through the area out of curiosity. Not in touch with anyone from the area any longer. Hope life is good for you.
I was really enjoying this, but the last ten mins is missing. What a shame. 😢. Still, terrific to see real people as they used to be. I’ve lived in my terraced house for 33 years - suppose I’m one of the old boys now . . .
I lived in Raynham Rd in the 70's & 80's and that was the best years of my life, so much things to do as a kid, Bradmore youth club, brackenbury school, Hammersmith palais all great times 👍🏾👋🏾👊🏾😀
Same here in USA. I saw it begin in the 1980s. We had a good run. Population collapse will make a country suffer. You can’t sustain civilization, once prized, when you live at the alter of self. I remember when staring a family was a good thing, not something many today under 30s have contempt for.
Thank goodness someone made this documentary. I'm not sure, but think it is at least 30 years old and all those lovely elderly have gone. How different London is now. All the family I had there have gone now too.
Wonder what this street is like now ??? All those old folks will be gone now .and the young ones will be old folks themselves THE CIRCLE OF LIFE I SUPPOSE.!! Something about this film makes me very sad
"We've got butchers and bakers close to hand..." You mean we did have until our clients priced them out of the area. The yuppies who moved into these streets were so ashamed of how down market King's Street was with the paddy taverns that they all got black cabs to Chiswick or down to Fulham Broadway to be closer to their chums. As for the estate agents: glorified apple and pear sellers.
I lived for three years at 27 Brackenbury Road above (what was then in the 1970s) the fish and chip shop (the proprietor of which was Petros, the landlord) next to the Post Office. Gas central heating and hot water included for £9 / £11 per week. Two pubs: the Wheatsheaf at the Goldhawk corner of the Road and the Andover Arms at the other end (up market, adjacent to Cardross Street), from which a pleasant and memorable evening comes to mind with Linda. A travel agency (in which an episode of 'The Sweeney' was filmed), a mini cab office, newsagent and hard ware / grocery store. Banim Street saw the Royal Oak (a 'drag act' on Saturday nights) but now a so called 'gentlemen's club' in pink and black .Fond memories of families (like Pearce) that befriended me. Now the 'village' seems to be just soft furnishing outlets, et alia.
I lived on Furber street just round the corner for 7 years from 2000. I loved the area everyone greeted each other when passing in the street. Sadly the landlords sold the house so I had to move out.
BBC 40 Minutes Documentary on Cardross Street Hammersmith. 21.9.24. a very rare event the spectacular man. Sadly lost to the four corners...... who you kidfin'?
I lived in Hammersmith in 1986 -1989 Rainville rd, fascinating time the River Cafe opened up there and the whole place changed so quickly but the area played second fiddle compared to Fulham and Chelsea.
I don't understand why we disregard the elderly. We should think 🤔. We all have to get old but don't give it a taught. When you arrive at this stage of life you will say a, we should have made thing's better when we had the chance. Never to late to start. ✌️ ☘️
£150,000 was expensive then and with inflation it would be like paying £350.000 now. My M&D bought their 3 story, 4 bedroom house on the east cost for £56,950 same year. As someone else mentioned these houses would be easily well over a million now.
I was born in netherwood road about 5 minute's away... properties in that area will be at least a million quid now.. incidentally Holland park avenue is only ten minutes away where property goes for 5 million and much more...
I feel sorry for Harry when he was dusting the mantle piece and his awful bossy wife telling him off . Then asking him what's dor sinner. Bossy ole mare.
That lady landlord owns 8 houses but moans that she has to do repairs . Slum landlord at it's best . Yet she's happy to take the rent money every week !!
She's a disgrace. When approached to fix the damp she brushes off the tenant because "I've got damp down in the cun.t.y, and I don't know where it comes from either". Throw her into the Thames I say.
Nice to see the early development of Metropolis Studios , iconic studios that recorded with some of the modern best. Amy Winehouse, MJ, U2 Queen. Shame the last 10 mins is missing.
I completely respect these individuals who have lived in their homes/street all their lives etc and have such history of the community that once was. Personally though, I have always been self aware not to stay in the same area/house if possible due the fact that I feel everyone moves on through life and the fear of being 'stationary' etc. I suppose that came from living my teens to my adulthood in the same home for 38 years having family and neighbors move on or die around me. But what a great insight and documentary. (and when dogs were welcomed in pubs, shops etc...when we all knowingly knew that they were better behaved then children 😆).
Where do people who do low paid jobs live in London? I mean minimum wage or thereabouts. Some of them must have long and expensive commutes on top of rent.
Romans, North africans, germanic lived there once upon a time. Not to mention the french moved in, in 1066. London was a hub of global trading during the middle ages and ever since. London has been a hot pot of different cultures for a lot longer than some people choose to believe. "Denying the truth doesn't change the facts."
@@jasonleon1976 exactly it was all these traders of different nationalities with their different wares and skills that helped lay the foundations of London and send it on a nonstop growth and make it an exciting place to be which in turn further accelerated its growth. It’s usually the uneducated who make such nonsense observations and deny England was ever anything but fully white until the 50s or so.
It's quite something that this was 32 years ago, and yet it feels like Cardross Street and environs are being gentrified *now* with almost the same extent and speed. And yet Hammersmith still somehow feels diverse and lively. I worry that this wave of gentrification will be the hardest yet, push less wealthy people into ever-smaller pockets and then ultimately sanitise the whole place.
The Yuppies and Thatcherism. When I think back there was a massive disconnect between even the indigenous Brits back then. London doesn't even seem to be England any more.
As a former 1980s “Brackenbury Village” “yuppy” (who came and went), I had a great mix of local friends which included people who had lived there all their lives and newcomers, including, yes, yuppies and luvvies (BBC studios at Shepherds Bush were 10 mins away on foot). Thatcherism and the economic boom certainly added fuel to what happened but London has always been a mix of locals and newcomers as have most British communities (think villages with new housing estates), with all the (often exaggerated) accompanying sense of “them” and “us”. PS: I think even John Pitman (who made this documentary) may have lived locally!
How about Kerry in his Mercedes 280 Pagoda Back then they was between £7,000 to £10,000 1989 yes same like the houses CHEAP but was they no no not really was still big money car back then. Today they are anything between £180,000 and £250,000 house on Wheels. I know because I owned one in 1987 gave £7,000 cannot believe it and the thing is it doesn’t seem that long ago, but as I remember it like yesterday right from the 80s and the 90s. I’d imagine a lot of those people passed away now I wonder if some of the young people still live there I’d be fascinated to know
Give it a rest ffs people like you make the same hateful comment on any film that’s old. You do realise elderly people still exist why don’t you go ask them instead of posting your stupid Q to strangers on TH-cam? 🙄
7:53 she’s 72?!?!?! Jesus! Sharon Osbourne is 71… Oprah Winfrey is 70! It’s crazy how she nowadays is so different to how it was back then. 72 is not old. It’s older
When you stop having babies and tell god to leave the room. And when you live at the alter of self. Civilization so prized is over. Population collapse is eminent. We had a good run. We used to know one should overcome the ego, not live in it. What a mess.
people forget that the reason the older community were able to afford to stay in these properties was RENT CONTROL a way of making sure that working class people weren't gentrified out of the area they knew and were familiar with. their homes might have been bought and sold under them many times but they had secure tenancies and couldn't be evicted ! unlike todays precarious assured shorthold tenancies with the dredded section 21 notices bought in by the tories in the 1988 housing act! how times have changed for the worst
Exactly the same now in the New Forest. The soul & character of the village I was born is gone along with every tree shrub or old building ‘too expensive’ to repair or adapt in spite of land values of half millions for a bungalow without land. Apart from the church , railway station & the 300 ft Victorian folly , the place is almost full of folk whom aren’t interested in retaining the authenticity of the place let alone the locals whom are regarded as simple , scruffy or a nuisance for not concreting or tiling over the ground of their properties & having trees & shrubs with deposits that require a sweep once a week but are too difficult to manage .Every Sunday features Loud Jet Washing & Leaf Blowing followed by utter silence & is not only the present but future of Sway & Hordle. Funny thing is , the residents consider themselves staunch Conservatives 😂😔
You know, I had to stop watching this. It made me so sad to see these elderly people living in such terrible conditions with landlords that didn't care and who were just waiting for these tenants to die so they can sell the house. The difference in living conditions between the elderly and the new yuppies was so stark and really awful. I'm not sure what year this was? Probably the 70s or 80s I imagine. I bought a flat in a Victorian house in south London in the mid 80s for 18,000 pounds. I remember when I was flat hunting, seeing houses with a bath installed in the kitchen and covered in a work top to disguise it. Some flats had no bathroom or inside toilet and I'm presuming those were flats where the elderly had just passed away. Those flats the same street are now on the market for around 450,000 pounds. The estate agent in the red jacket that was showing the prospective buyer around was so ignorant that she couldn't even say "good morning" to the elderly gentleman standing on the front step. The prospective buyer was just as bad as she could have spoken too.
Rather lovely story of old London before all the yuppies took over and stripped out all the fittings and renovated the places. Bit sad. Lovely to hear their old English voices chattering along.
How beautiful London was when it was a British capital 😢 They were yuppies but at least they were British people! I bet there's no British people living in that street now
“I’ve been taken off the shelf and dusted once or twice” absolute gold!
Brilliant!
I wondered how thorough the dusting was❓🤔
I loved that bit too. 😂
BBC 40 Minutes Documentary on Cardross Street Hammersmith. 1218pm 21.9.24 indeed. as sad as that statement reads... there are a few of us who feel that way. and i wonder if bottom, the vastly underrated and much maligned comedy show, was based on this expose?
@@londonnodippydolly6635 BBC 40 Minutes Documentary on Cardross Street Hammersmith. 1757pm 21.9.24 ummmmmmmmm... i never heard amazingly pithy sayings or tidbits of interest re: ye olde worlde of yesteryear's vernacular... allegedly, the Lancastrian drawl is akin to yorkshire whereas elements of rochdale and whitworth of Lancashire relate to Lincolnshire. odd how little pockets populations cane have totally different back stories/histories to the general populace of a certain locale... if you do have a different history to your immediate vicinity i suggest converse as little as possible with the locals to preserve that identity... .........the topics up for conversation in the pub etc.........
I was so happy to find this documentary as my Grandparents Rose and Albert Ransley lived in No 24 Cardross Street and my parents lived with them for a few years after marrying and I did too when I was born. It was so lovely to see Harry and Gladys Weller from No.26 I remember them from my childhood. My grandfather is listed as living there with his first wife, seven children and a boarder in the 1911 census! I'm not sure how long before that he occupied it but I am researching family history. My grandmother Rose died in 1971 and my uncle Don (Donald Stuart) lived there for a while after that before he sold the property. I loved that house so much and have many happy memories over the 17 years of my own life connected to it. Having seen it sold in 2012 for £760,000 and barely recognisable inside now it's unbelievable that I think my Uncle bought it for £600. How the world has changed.......progress is a strange phenomenon!
Still looking good babe
@@aloheyio6335 Cringe
I used to go brackenbury school in the 70's and had a friend called Portia and her mum used to live on Cardross Street 😁
You won’t get that kind of price increase for a house nowadays that’s for sure!!
How wonderful to have your family generations history living in that street and to be able to see it on this documentry.
Imagine living in the same house, married to the same person, for 66 years. Harry and Gladys would have married in 1923. One cannot fathom the social, political and economic change they witnessed in that time.
And renting the whole time.
The artist in the beginning of this video, Luciana Arrighi, went on to win an Oscar in 1993 for Best Art Direction for Howards End.
Broadcast: 4th May 1989 - according to the BBC.
Thank you!! 🙏🏻
oh wow, I would have put it before that! That is even more appalling to think that people were living in those conditions at that time. I thought it was maybe the 70s or early 80s.
The piece of mail said 1983
Thankz. I thought so but the footage looked aged.
I lived on a neighbouring st and know the area really well. Our neighbour. Lilly Davis, was born in her house and lived there until she died aged 102. I loved hearing about how life was during the war. It’s s lovely village like part of London.
There's an awful lot of dilapidated properties these days. I'm not sure if that's from the expense of maintaining them or just neglectful freeholders freeholders
@@maddang1797land banking! A pernicious practice of deliberate devaluation of housing
Makes me want to cry looking at those old people all by themselves
Prepare yourself…..half of us end up alone.
@@annoyingbstard9407that's why surrounding yourself with children helps ease that. I understand some people can't have children. But there are many people today who are deciding to not even try out of fear it will cramp their "lifestyle".
@@baylorsailor Ease that? I’m alone now and love it.
@@annoyingbstard9407Let’s see if you still feel the same in 20 years.
@@VicFlange The chance of me being alive in 20 years is remote to say the least. 😀
Number 77 where Charlie George lived is now worth £1,254,325.
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11:34 Terrible that the Estate Agent was too ignorant to even say Hello to Charlie George. Treated like he was some sort of low life.
Maybe she might have said hello to Charlie before the recording of the video. We will never know.
What a rude woman,let's hope someone treats her like that,
I thought that,both these women completely ignored the old gentleman 😢
They would have greeted him before they recorded the segment. Maybe even had a little chat.
They probably had to film the same segment 2 or three times.
I like Charlie Georges' attitude..."as long as they're alright.."
John Pitman...that voice, brings back childhood memories.
I lived in Tasso Road W6, a dead end street, in the mid 90’s. I was very lucky as it was still full of the lovely original families who were in the majority. Everyone did know each other, pub and shop at the end of the road etc, but within 10 years or so the place had become much more transitory . Much like Cardross Street. Lovely programme of a time too long gone
I moved to Cardross Street in 1990 and lived there for eight very happy years. The Andover Arms at one end of the street and The Anglesea Arms at the other. I do recall a very few elderly residents and some of them dying or moving on during my time there. Inevitably younger people like me moved in and spruced up the old places. Just like pretty much everywhere else in central London. I went back to visit five years ago and not much has changed (apart from the prices). Still a lovely street to live in.
"It's a charming little street" and then they move in and destroy everything that was charming about it! The irony.
instablaster...
Hoxton, Shoreditch.... Peckham FFS!
And the film being produced by the very people responsible for the destruction.
As Vera Duckworth would say, those damm yappies!
Lovely old people, lovely old houses.Why does everything have to change??😢😢😢
I enjoyed the lady who have bought the house of her (lovely) neighbours and the way she talked to them (and was aware of their standards) ❤ Love from Holland
Dennis Neale, Oh my goodness, this brings back memories. I saw this when I lived in Iffley Road (1983-1989). It was such a good, slice of life little documentary about the changing times of “Brackenbury Village” and the people who lived there (the original residents and the newcomers like me). I loved the area. It had a lovely villagey feel. Cardross Street was picture-postcard pretty with wonderful cottage gardens in summer. It is all now 30 years ago for me. I went back last year and walked through the village which did not seem to have changed (apart from the astonishing house prices). However, the areas to the south (Hammersmith Broadway) and the north (Goldhawk Road) had really changed.
Hiya I lived in Hebron Rd and had lots of friends in Iffley Rd, I got married and left when I was 21 in 1966.
@@LeeEnfield-iw3qk Hi, Lee. I remember Hebron Road well. I was back in Iffley Road last summer, just walking through the area out of curiosity. Not in touch with anyone from the area any longer. Hope life is good for you.
"Mind you... I do like a man's company but I couldn't settle down with one"!!!! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾👌🏾
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BBC 40 Minutes Documentary on Cardross Street Hammersmith. 1220pm 21.9.24 "not too bad, not too good." indeed...
I was really enjoying this, but the last ten mins is missing. What a shame. 😢. Still, terrific to see real people as they used to be. I’ve lived in my terraced house for 33 years - suppose I’m one of the old boys now . . .
I lived in Raynham Rd in the 70's & 80's and that was the best years of my life, so much things to do as a kid, Bradmore youth club, brackenbury school, Hammersmith palais all great times 👍🏾👋🏾👊🏾😀
Harry is really the son of Diana's horse-riding teacher.
these lovely people had a lovely simple life. Fishmongers, veg, ice cream. So much better than going to Sainsburys.
We’re all guilty for the demise of the local shops.
@@jintsfan yes but greedy landlords asking impossible shop rents are more to blame
Same here in USA. I saw it begin in the 1980s. We had a good run. Population collapse will make a country suffer. You can’t sustain civilization, once prized, when you live at the alter of self. I remember when staring a family was a good thing, not something many today under 30s have contempt for.
I would hate to live in the USA🫥🥺🫤🥺
Thank goodness someone made this documentary. I'm not sure, but think it is at least 30 years old and all those lovely elderly have gone. How different London is now. All the family I had there have gone now too.
I live in the local area, great to see and hear the history.
Wonder what this street is like now ??? All those old folks will be gone now .and the young ones will be old folks themselves
THE CIRCLE OF LIFE I SUPPOSE.!! Something about this film makes me very sad
Thank goodness the Barnes allotments are still there.
Love watching these historic BBC documentaries - thanks for posting them! Is the Part 2 of the Cardross St ep available?
Enjoyed that,shame the last 10 minutes are missing though!!
"We've got butchers and bakers close to hand..." You mean we did have until our clients priced them out of the area. The yuppies who moved into these streets were so ashamed of how down market King's Street was with the paddy taverns that they all got black cabs to Chiswick or down to Fulham Broadway to be closer to their chums. As for the estate agents: glorified apple and pear sellers.
Glad this is taped, we are losing our history, people in the future will think it was all iPads, smartphones and new age houses
I lived for three years at 27 Brackenbury Road above (what was then in the 1970s) the fish and chip shop (the proprietor of which was Petros, the landlord) next to the Post Office. Gas central heating and hot water included for £9 / £11 per week. Two pubs: the Wheatsheaf at the Goldhawk corner of the Road and the Andover Arms at the other end (up market, adjacent to Cardross Street), from which a pleasant and memorable evening comes to mind with Linda. A travel agency (in which an episode of 'The Sweeney' was filmed), a mini cab office, newsagent and hard ware / grocery store. Banim Street saw the Royal Oak (a 'drag act' on Saturday nights) but now a so called 'gentlemen's club' in pink and black .Fond memories of families (like Pearce) that befriended me. Now the 'village' seems to be just soft furnishing outlets, et alia.
I lived on Furber street just round the corner for 7 years from 2000. I loved the area everyone greeted each other when passing in the street. Sadly the landlords sold the house so I had to move out.
It’s weird that those terraced houses that were built for the working classes, are now being inhabited by ‘posh’ people!!
Thanks so much for uploading. Great film.
Really enjoyed watching this documentary, I live on Hammersmith Grove and walk via Cardross Street to go to Ravenscourt Park...
I'm 47 and just remember this generation with my gramps being in war,all were so nice even though they grew up through two wars with no luxury
BBC 40 Minutes Documentary on Cardross Street Hammersmith. 21.9.24. a very rare event the spectacular man. Sadly lost to the four corners...... who you kidfin'?
Thank you for sharing; that is truly fascinating!
I lived in Hammersmith in 1986 -1989 Rainville rd, fascinating time the River Cafe opened up there and the whole place changed so quickly but the area played second fiddle compared to Fulham and Chelsea.
I was in Iffley Road from 1983-1989. The speed of change was amazing. Very happy memories of the area.
Indoor baths only came about in the last few decades in the UK. Previous tp that people used bath houses. Quite fascinating.
Dennis Neale, I forgot to thank you for uploading this in my previous comment.
I don't understand why we disregard the elderly. We should think 🤔. We all have to get old but don't give it a taught. When you arrive at this stage of life you will say a, we should have made thing's better when we had the chance. Never to late to start. ✌️ ☘️
Advertising and marketing man Nigel Mersh: that's straight out of the Fast Show!
People wete still going to communal baths as late as 1989!? 😲
by Ambulance!!!!
£150,000 was expensive then and with inflation it would be like paying £350.000 now. My M&D bought their 3 story, 4 bedroom house on the east cost for £56,950 same year. As someone else mentioned these houses would be easily well over a million now.
I was born in netherwood road about 5 minute's away... properties in that area will be at least a million quid now.. incidentally Holland park avenue is only ten minutes away where property goes for 5 million and much more...
I feel sorry for Harry when he was dusting the mantle piece and his awful bossy wife telling him off . Then asking him what's dor sinner. Bossy ole mare.
£150,000???!!!!! that house would be worth about £1.3 million now!!
10 years before this it would have been worth about £15,000 probably.
That lady landlord owns 8 houses but moans that she has to do repairs . Slum landlord at it's best .
Yet she's happy to take the rent money every week !!
that's never changed, there's 1,000s of private tenants trapped living in mould infested shitholes
She's a disgrace. When approached to fix the damp she brushes off the tenant because "I've got damp down in the cun.t.y, and I don't know where it comes from either". Throw her into the Thames I say.
I couldn’t live there b/c I’m so bad at parallel parking.
It's horrible how people with plenty of money move to poorer areas and drive up prices but they aren't even interested in the community.
Do you have the other 10 minutes?
Nice to see the early development of Metropolis Studios , iconic studios that recorded with some of the modern best. Amy Winehouse, MJ, U2 Queen. Shame the last 10 mins is missing.
I completely respect these individuals who have lived in their homes/street all their lives etc and have such history of the community that once was. Personally though, I have always been self aware not to stay in the same area/house if possible due the fact that I feel everyone moves on through life and the fear of being 'stationary' etc.
I suppose that came from living my teens to my adulthood in the same home for 38 years having family and neighbors move on or die around me. But what a great insight and documentary. (and when dogs were welcomed in pubs, shops etc...when we all knowingly knew that they were better behaved then children 😆).
Such a gentleman.
Million + now
House prices have increased by almost £1000 a month since this was made 35 years ago.
More like £4000
lack of community even in the 80s
A few miles from the middle of London, not surprising.
BBC 40 minutes Doc but it’s only on 30 mins!
Adore the young yuppie couple talking about having a kid. The slicked back hair, button up shirt and chinos, pure 80s stylee.
Current prices for a two bed terrace: £1,450,000
great documentary! when was it originally broadcast?
1989. The elderly couple who had been married for 66 years celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in '83.
Someone should've taken care of that old gentleman
Where do people who do low paid jobs live in London? I mean minimum wage or thereabouts. Some of them must have long and expensive commutes on top of rent.
I've often thought this too
where’s the rest of it! this was wonderful,
I worked there as a cabbie , full of bin divers + doing a runner customers
This was back when actual English people lived in the capital city of England.
And? 🙄
Romans, North africans, germanic lived there once upon a time. Not to mention the french moved in, in 1066. London was a hub of global trading during the middle ages and ever since. London has been a hot pot of different cultures for a lot longer than some people choose to believe. "Denying the truth doesn't change the facts."
@@jasonleon1976 exactly it was all these traders of different nationalities with their different wares and skills that helped lay the foundations of London and send it on a nonstop growth and make it an exciting place to be which in turn further accelerated its growth. It’s usually the uneducated who make such nonsense observations and deny England was ever anything but fully white until the 50s or so.
It's quite something that this was 32 years ago, and yet it feels like Cardross Street and environs are being gentrified *now* with almost the same extent and speed. And yet Hammersmith still somehow feels diverse and lively. I worry that this wave of gentrification will be the hardest yet, push less wealthy people into ever-smaller pockets and then ultimately sanitise the whole place.
Its good to get the peasants out.
I somehow doubt that a humble personnel officer would be able to afford to buy two houses in this street today!
Gladys Weller was an extraordinarily beautiful young woman and remained so. Lucky Harry! What a lovely couple❤
The Yuppies and Thatcherism. When I think back there was a massive disconnect between even the indigenous Brits back then. London doesn't even seem to be England any more.
As a former 1980s “Brackenbury Village” “yuppy” (who came and went), I had a great mix of local friends which included people who had lived there all their lives and newcomers, including, yes, yuppies and luvvies (BBC studios at Shepherds Bush were 10 mins away on foot). Thatcherism and the economic boom certainly added fuel to what happened but London has always been a mix of locals and newcomers as have most British communities (think villages with new housing estates), with all the (often exaggerated) accompanying sense of “them” and “us”. PS: I think even John Pitman (who made this documentary) may have lived locally!
I've just discovered this was filmed in 1989.
Now worth over £1.5 million per house on average
from 1989
Been looking for that, thanks.
Sad you missed off the last few minutes of the video
How about Kerry in his Mercedes 280 Pagoda
Back then they was between £7,000 to £10,000 1989 yes same like the houses CHEAP but was they no no not really was still big money car back then. Today they are anything between £180,000 and £250,000 house on Wheels.
I know because I owned one in 1987 gave £7,000 cannot believe it and the thing is it doesn’t seem that long ago, but as I remember it like yesterday right from the 80s and the 90s.
I’d imagine a lot of those people passed away now I wonder if some of the young people still live there I’d be fascinated to know
Charlie George has gone very thin on top since his Arsenal playing days...😀
But what was the year?
1989
The right to buy statute has proven to be extremely damaging, and for the most part, irreversible.
the old bat with 8 houses died and made someone else rich.
Wasn’t that really nice how the estate agent and neighbour totally blanked 80 year old Charlie George. How much does it costto say “good morning”
Does anyone know the year in which this was made?
1989
What would those dear old people think of their London today....crime, out of control immigration, woke policing and government.
Give it a rest ffs people like you make the same hateful comment on any film that’s old. You do realise elderly people still exist why don’t you go ask them instead of posting your stupid Q to strangers on TH-cam? 🙄
Elderly people still exist go ask them if you really care but you probably don’t and just want to moan 🙄
What does woke mean mate?
What year is this?
it's 1989
7:53 she’s 72?!?!?! Jesus! Sharon Osbourne is 71… Oprah Winfrey is 70! It’s crazy how she nowadays is so different to how it was back then. 72 is not old. It’s older
Hardly the best example😂 Sharon Osborne looks absolutely dreadful 😂 Far better to age with grace and dignity.
That’s two women that have had loads of plastic surgery. Hardly typical.
I wish I knew what year this was.
Sides, not side's.
Incredible series of videos. Gentrification, eh
When you stop having babies and tell god to leave the room. And when you live at the alter of self. Civilization so prized is over. Population collapse is eminent. We had a good run. We used to know one should overcome the ego, not live in it. What a mess.
a house there cost £150k lol oh man they'll be at least £1m each now.
I'm gettin Chris Morris vibes from the narrator, that silly put on voice and tone
2000 investment in 1989 1 million pounds now. Good return 😮
Shows how far the £ has dropped
Original broadcast year 1989? because the custume designer used the word yuppie. I first heard that word around 1988 I think.
I heard that in 1985
The Yuppie Handbook was published in 1984.
people forget that the reason the older community were able to afford to stay in these properties was RENT CONTROL a way of making sure that working class people weren't gentrified out of the area they knew and were familiar with. their homes might have been bought and sold under them many times but they had secure tenancies and couldn't be evicted ! unlike todays precarious assured shorthold tenancies with the dredded section 21 notices bought in by the tories in the 1988 housing act! how times have changed for the worst
Exactly the same now in the New Forest. The soul & character of the village I was born is gone along with every tree shrub or old building ‘too expensive’ to repair or adapt in spite of land values of half millions for a bungalow without land. Apart from the church , railway station & the 300 ft Victorian folly , the place is almost full of folk whom aren’t interested in retaining the authenticity of the place let alone the locals whom are regarded as simple , scruffy or a nuisance for not concreting or tiling over the ground of their properties & having trees & shrubs with deposits that require a sweep once a week but are too difficult to manage .Every Sunday features Loud Jet Washing & Leaf Blowing followed by utter silence & is not only the present but future of Sway & Hordle. Funny thing is , the residents consider themselves staunch Conservatives 😂😔
You know, I had to stop watching this. It made me so sad to see these elderly people living in such terrible conditions with landlords that didn't care and who were just waiting for these tenants to die so they can sell the house. The difference in living conditions between the elderly and the new yuppies was so stark and really awful. I'm not sure what year this was? Probably the 70s or 80s I imagine. I bought a flat in a Victorian house in south London in the mid 80s for 18,000 pounds. I remember when I was flat hunting, seeing houses with a bath installed in the kitchen and covered in a work top to disguise it. Some flats had no bathroom or inside toilet and I'm presuming those were flats where the elderly had just passed away. Those flats the same street are now on the market for around 450,000 pounds. The estate agent in the red jacket that was showing the prospective buyer around was so ignorant that she couldn't even say "good morning" to the elderly gentleman standing on the front step. The prospective buyer was just as bad as she could have spoken too.
10:43 this one's hilarious. I'd want her as a neighbour!
Rather lovely story of old London before all the yuppies took over and stripped out all the fittings and renovated the places. Bit sad. Lovely to hear their old English voices chattering along.
What year was this made?
I think it was 1986/87 ish. I was living nearby and saw the original broadcast.
@@davidlondon2810 thanks for the insight! Was struggling to place it.
@@selfraisingsugar898 I’ve since read a few comments here which state that it was 1989 so I might be out by a couple of years!
lol they said 1970s/80s yuppies "worked too hard".. hahaha they should see 1990s and 21st century yuppies. holy shit. they had it so easy
Never take up with the posh and rich love joy
1989 documentary
How beautiful London was when it was a British capital 😢
They were yuppies but at least they were British people!
I bet there's no British people living in that street now
2018 cost £1'500'000 house cardross st (form £150'000 1980s )
How much 30 years prior to 2018 and so on?