I bet the people still alive in this film are singing a different tune now and wishing their council estates hadn't been pulled down because it was all part of a bigger more sinister plan of social cleansing for the future of hackney & london on a whole!!!
The one that the kids were playing on in the video actually still exists and still has a lot of the same swings. I’m 17 now but used to play in that playground
Childhood Vandalism in London. Broke in to a skeleton key factory in wapping once. Happy memories of when London was an adventure playground of wild bombed out abandoned cool!
Fascinating to hear at 11:35 some vowels which are beginning to sound something like the modern London accent, Multicultural London English. Hasn't it always been assumed that it didn't really develop until well into the 80s? Most participants in this video though speak very traditional Cockney rather than M.L.E.
Wow, nice hear the original East London accent , from the black and white youth, Now in 2017 all the youths from all colours and backgrounds sound like they were born in Jamaica.
6:43 "do you think you would have been better off if you had more discipline?" i think he wants to say "yes!" not that he wants to get "the stick" harder or more often, but that someone, probably male, would impose some structure on him. he's like a dog looking for an alpha leader. could be at school, a family member, or some really cool guy at a boxing club. (hopefully not an alpha who leads a pack about doing robberies or such). someone strong enough to tell him what's-what, and stick to it, no matter what test or challenge Charlie threw back at him. especially when you add that bit from him at 14:20. as of 2018, all the kids featured in here are in their fifties -at least if they've not been forced into dirt naps. hopefully they found and made their ways alright.
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1976 was a blistering hot summer, everyone was acting up with the heat!
I bet the people still alive in this film are singing a different tune now and wishing their council estates hadn't been pulled down because it was all part of a bigger more sinister plan of social cleansing for the future of hackney & london on a whole!!!
Land prices in this area are some of the most expensive in the country now.
@@PiperTMTotalWar That's Labour councils for you
“If me Mum as a garr at me… I just garr outsyde an kick fings…”
Thanks for posting! Very interesting! Hackney hasn't changed all that much!
@Donnell Okafor Most of the estates still exist, including the one in this video.
very good documentary. thx for the upload.
Where have all the adventure playgrounds gone?
The one that the kids were playing on in the video actually still exists and still has a lot of the same swings. I’m 17 now but used to play in that playground
Childhood Vandalism in London. Broke in to a skeleton key factory in wapping once. Happy memories of when London was an adventure playground of wild bombed out abandoned cool!
extraordinary insight to the way it was.
My Estate. Kingsmead, E9. (1970-92). ❤
No worries Steven, the 80's is coming, where stealing money is called ' enterprising' mate!!!
Love the doll they are playing with at 4.42 :-)
I remember them. Its a Frankenstein ventriloquist dummy. There's one for sale on ebay for £100.
Sold for £226!! And it had broken arms and legs.
Fascinating to hear at 11:35 some vowels which are beginning to sound something like the modern London accent, Multicultural London English. Hasn't it always been assumed that it didn't really develop until well into the 80s? Most participants in this video though speak very traditional Cockney rather than M.L.E.
Oh, yes! 😲
Lived there for a short while in the mid 80s and it was a scary place .
That's how londerners spoke then. It don't exist no more.
Offs_here_we_go it still does in south London, and Essex and Kent
Wow, nice hear the original East London accent , from the black and white youth, Now in 2017 all the youths from all colours and backgrounds sound like they were born in Jamaica.
G P yes I grew up in the 90s when all the kids spoke like Jamaicans, and remember thinking their own Jamaican parents actually sounded more cockney
And they all say ‘like’ and ‘innit’,drives me mad.
Nice to see you again Terry,are you still about,thanks for D.O.A.
Mate hardly anyone speaks English in London
Wha gwarn general 😂😂
Just wander what they doing now...
Was born in London..
The white kid is "Terri" from the punk band "terri and the idiots".there is live footage of him playing.
Yeah thought I recognized him
Terry from Terry and the Idiots is in this
What a legend, wonder what became of him.. I still pass by the estate now and then, unfortunately the golden shoe is long gone. Great days..
Guttersnipes and Tearaways. Those "Adventure Playgrounds" wouldn't stand up to Health and Safety standards today.
rumour has it that some of these kids (now men in their 50s) are still doing pretty much the same!!
6:43 "do you think you would have been better off if you had more discipline?" i think he wants to say "yes!" not that he wants to get "the stick" harder or more often, but that someone, probably male, would impose some structure on him. he's like a dog looking for an alpha leader. could be at school, a family member, or some really cool guy at a boxing club. (hopefully not an alpha who leads a pack about doing robberies or such). someone strong enough to tell him what's-what, and stick to it, no matter what test or challenge Charlie threw back at him. especially when you add that bit from him at 14:20. as of 2018, all the kids featured in here are in their fifties -at least if they've not been forced into dirt naps. hopefully they found and made their ways alright.
Up until summer 1975 I played at the rec next to the Kingsmead. That estate was very dodgy especially after dark.
put a microphone in front of a 14-16yr olds and your just asking for it they will make up say anythink to get attention!!
I lived round there at that time very nice now it is full of yuppies
Love it!!!!
Didn’t many people take advantage of Thatchers right to buy your council house? That’s what I did in a different town.
"Hackney Vandal Patrol" sounds like a graffiti crew. could picture HVP or HVP76 tagged up everywhere
1.47 I'm Sure thats oddbod jr from carry on screaming.
"zanzalism"
@mdee64. He certainy has his teeth and beard. I wonder when he'll give em back...
Where I was born 1994 baby
Cool!
Isnt that the estate Sir Alan Sugar grew up on?
No it’s Not. Alan sugar was from Northwood estate upper Clapton
Yes, we had loads of games we invented their and played great games especially in the rec playground
@@Maya-tv6kf I thought he grew up on Kingsmead Estate!
@@liverbird956 He grew on up Northwold Estate, looks similar to Kingsmead.
Kids nowadays are a lot more better behaved.
I like Sheena Wilson. She is beautiful.
She's old enough to you great grandmother you dirty bastard.
5:10 poor Ron 😂
Drop me out 6 months delay foa a broken window 8:58
Is the publisher entitled to use that lad's photo as the header for this film?!! I think not!!!!
In Singapore they give them a good hiding Poverty is no excuse
mobile charlie
like that guys teeth ,I wonder if he is dead now?/
Just needs a good hiding.
Do a documentary round there today lol looks like Pakistan 🇵🇰
@@billykray2082 angry man...well Muslim
Ok
Not quite
Just give the kids a good clump!!
Ann Other lol