I thought I was bad off in 1970s ,was working hard to pay me bills ,bit at least back then the country wasn't over run by free loading migrents, at least we british english ,had a little chance ,but now we live on the pavement while they live in our homes, only difference is ,they never paid a pennies piece in income tax ,we did ?
Anyone remember ice on the INSIDE of their window frames? Watching their parents lighting a coal fire in the freezing cold, and then pushing each other out of the way to get in front of it? Putting coats on top of blankets for extra warmth at night? I thought those days were a thing of the past but I'm not sure now.
Yep, I remember ice on the insides of windows. And running down the garden to the outside loo! In the dark and the cold, bare feet in shoes, crunching on the frost on the ground!
Yes, my bedroom was a NE facing ice box, no heating at all. There was one coal fire in the living room down stairs. I had a stone pig hot water bottle at 8.30pm, bedtime. No wonder I had colds all the time, half way to pneumonia. Just ridiculous. We had a bath once a week, there wa😢s a Valor oil burner so one could get undressed and in to warm bath, with a jug o😅f water to wash hair. Sometimes had to share, and ended up with taps sticking in to one's back. We were not poor, father owned our semi detached. Treating kids like that nowadays they would be taken in to a home,
❤and toasting thick Slice of Bread over a coal fire then spreading thick butter yummy yummy 😂 at Christmas throwing the pulls from Christmas crackers and watching the crackel sparks go up the chimeny 😂
@@anthonyclegg1511 🤣🤣🤣🤣no lived in Plymouth uk my dad was resident water Bailiff for M.O.D we had a coal fire in the house thar came with the Job 😹mind it were no grand house mind it was three floors and attic rooms very cold house ,big gardens old Stables it was short walk from the Hang mans cell 😊look up the Rope masters House Devonport Dockyard Plymouth Devon Uk was also in a Ghost paranormal investigation reported on the BBC it was known from ww2 as the Turncocks house 2 East Avenue H.M Dock yard (we had a one up one down cottage in the court yard 😂😍dad used as his workshop a boiler for coal n logs in the kitchen lovely n warm
I think they should switch the heating off in the Houses of Parliament. Either that, or make them foot the heating bill from their own pockets. Oh wait, they’ll claim that as expenses!
Most of us didn't have central heating in the 70s. Houses in the winter had that all-pervading cold dampness. We relied on coal fires, electric bar fires, paraffin heaters and beds with layers of fleece sheets, wool blankets and an eiderdown if you were lucky. I remember scraping the ice off the inside of the windows and getting dressed for school by grabbing my clothes and getting dressed under the bed covers where it was still warm. I guess we didn't know any different though.
@@irenemorley75 You must've come from a rather posh home because we had the fire in the "sitting" room on full blast with coal and coke, polluting up the cities air like every other home, except for those using oil fired central heating. Our kitchen had a "chippy" going in the morning. Mum would've got up earlier and got it going and preparing custard and rice or porridge on the frostiest mornings. I remember sleeping in my school uniform, so I didn't have to get undressed in my cold room. Of course one of my sisters told on me. I will never forget the smell and the distinct grittiness in the that you could almost taste because of that awful coal.
@@annakeye I remember in the 70s my dad covering the windows of our tiny terrace with plastic sheeting in the winter. Only had a gas fire in the living room otherwise it was a freezing bedroom and bathroom lol
I'll be 70 in January. Back in the day, cold nights meant adding an old hand knitted cardigan on top of flannelette pj's. A stone hot water bottle at my feet. Flannelette sheets❤ extra blankets and a feather quilt. If needed, there was the candlewick beadspread to pull right up. Our Mum made the three beds every day. She was called a housewife.❤❤❤❤
It was lovely having a mum at home whose job was the care & feeding of the family. Cooked 3 meals a day. Made us clothes & treats. Sometimes she would make doughnuts or cupcakes for every kid on the street & we were so proud.
We have all been conned, there is no equality, they have destroyed the housewife by making it impossible for working class people to run a household with one wage, if there was true equality then either the husband or wife would need to work and the couple could choose who would work depending on who could earn the most. We then wouldn’t need to pay for childcare or breakfast clubs or after school clubs because there would be someone at home to help, obesity wouldn’t exist because someone would be home to cook proper meals like meat and two veg instead of pizza or ready meals or the other rubbish we eat because nobody has time anymore.
Yep agree I be 7o. Next April. Yeh I wore cardi on top of the flannelet PJ's or nightie . Sox and a hat sum times . Family laffed at me, .blankets and bedspread but no feathers .water bottle, ice on windows 😮
Have you actually been to Westminster palace? It's a pretty cold building. Winters are as cold as they used to be, and winters in the UK are very mild. People are so soft and entitled now! Energy is expensive, but unnecessary to have the heating on in the winter so you can sit at home in a t-shirt!
@@womblediehard123 all the cost cutting tips last year when the bills skyrocketed. Obviously didn’t kill enough of us off. Turn the screw a bit more. But we are made of sterner stuff.
Sorry, my dear, but GenX'ers don't begin to know what cold was like! Read about the winter of 1963 and imagine it with no heating, but still having to go to school in shorts because the headmaster would cane you for wearing long trousers.
@drmoss_ca my parents talk about the river dramatically freezing over while they were on a date at the cinema and dad having to do manoeuvres in Germany during that winter A year to remember..! I read that the sea around the coast froze over.. now we get excited at the slightest flurry. Only my electric blanket used so far, that greedy gas company can whistle for it... (That's one mean headteacher.!)
@@pmacc3557 Yes, the water would run down the glass and pool on the window ledge. Single glazed, steel framed windows that never formed a seal when they were shut, and in winter they iced up inside and out. Get out of bed then go downstairs and get into a sleeping bag on the sofa to eat a bowl of porridge.
@@anthonyclegg1511 I was. A big family in a big council house, never a lot of money but that just made the things we had even more precious. I once asked my mom how she managed to buy us all our Christmas presents every year. “You never asked for a lot”, she said. But I had all the love and care a boy could ever want, so I was very lucky that way.
It wasn't happier. Shite on the telly, dreading the winter, trying to buy enough food,the diet was awful and boring. As for following fashion you could only dream of having what the women's magazines featured. It was miserable apart from Led Zeppelin 😂
@@maryj5593 at least women had some fashion then. fewer choices on ‘telly’ but more talent imo and people weren’t tranced out by media. listening to ppl today one can almost predict what they will say due to mimicry of presented talking points. not going to get a ‘Led Zep’ in digital, it’s the anthesis of what is probably appreciated about this or similar bands of that era and up until the 90s or thereabouts.
As a child I visited Portadown to meet my grand-aunts who lived on Church street. I remember everyone wearing sweaters indoors. and when we sat on the couch we had blankets on our legs. We also used hot water bottles in our beds. which i thought was great. the bottle was ice cold in the morning .and we had to get dressed quickly it was so cold. and the outhouse was a tiny wooden shed in a tiny enclosed yard. I loved it over there. except for the street corners that had wooden barricades on them. it was the mid sixties and there was a lot of unrest and fear.
@@fabolvaskarika7940 it's actually how I live. My partner is self employed joiner and carpenter and I stay at home and do some voluntary work twice a week.
I took up crocheting during the lockdown and knitted granny blankets for all my family, knowing that this catastrophe was on its way. Now they are all arguing over who got the nicest blanket. Comforting to know they are all jealous for my attention. 😅
I recall a DIY/home improvement book from the 70s, it stated that any more than 2 inches of insulation in the loft could not be justified, no wonder we were cold.
@@irenemorley75 It would be about 1965 when my mum went and bought 2 Monogram electric Over blankets , no more cold beds, still use an electric over blanket
I'm 56 and live alone and this is what I do after work, and then get into bed really early with a hot water bottle. Peggy is missing a trick though in not wearing a hat, and for any viewers who don't own a hat, I recommend sewing up an old tea cosy
☝🏻And don’t forget if you have boiled too much water in the kettle for your hot water bottle or hot drinks and don’t want to waste it, pop it in a thermos flask and when you go to reuse it you’ll not need as much electricity to heat it up as if form cold. That’s a tip my parsimonious father taught me from his wartime upbringing!
I remember watching this as a child , even then I was disgusted that old people froze to death. Now 50 years later I'm using a hot water bottle, heating or eating, SHAMEFUL governments
@@PatrioticDuty-cv6es Especially as the new Chancellor has claimed £3000 for her own heating. Our father - 86 years old - will be £600 worse off this year.
Everyone should be able to keep warm.....not just pensioners, their are also young people that are very sick/women coming out of hospital with new born babies.
Almost every British show I watched here in the U.S. had the characters struggling to keep warm. Steptoe, Alf Garnet, Are you being Served, etc... Great shows, better that U.S.!
There were widespread power cuts and gas shortages in the 1970s due to union strikes, so that's likely why in those shows. Now its just down to incompetent government devoted to "Net zero".
I'm an 80s UK baby and don't recall struggling to keep warm at home. We had one of those heaters with 2-3 bars attached to the wall. It was always warm and cosy at home. Maybe things had improved by the 80s. Or maybe certain types of households had it better than others (e.g. families with young kids might've had extra government assistance vs pensioners trying to survive on the measley state pension they received). My parents are no longer here, so I can't ask them 😢
Doesn't matter, what you come up with to keep yourself warm. Sitting in a house, that has no heating, is like sitting outside, waiting for a bus. It's a disgrace that in this day and age, the elderly and indeed those still working. Have to resort to sitting in houses like tombs. Because they can't afford to put the heating on. Shelter, warmth and nourishment are vital, to sustaining life. Here we are 2024 and nothing has changed.
@@rosedunphy8725 yes, well we had to put up with it in the 50s 60s 70s. . And the weather is warmer now. Than then. It used to b bitter with ice in inside of windows.. today they want everything and too soft
@@beverlygannon4141what nonsense. My dad coughed his way through every cold damp winter and mum had what was called rheumatism. Both magically disappeared when we got central heating. A godsend. No wonder poorer people tended to die before they could even draw their pension.
And what of children. I recall some kids had permanent runny noses so a permanent chest infection from infancy. Not conducive to a long and healthy life.
We had coal fired central heating put into our house in 1962. When it was really cold (as it often was in Sheffield in the sixties) Mum would place a parafin stove in the hall so the heat would flow upstairs and warm the whole house. Blankets on the bed and proper clothing when out and about; we were never cold or suffered damp and we were far from well-off; Mum was a housewife, Dad worked a fairly lowly job in engineering. There's an awful lot of poo talked about the 60s and 70s. They were fabulous times. People had less but seemed much happier.
@@JanetNgaire I know people today just like to complain and moan about everything. They are over indulged and spoit and pampered especially the young. Pity help them if we ever had a serious disaster like other countries.
I carry medical conditions that in the winter time especially are nasty and chronic in part due to the cold weather . I asked my GP some years ago when i was first diagnosed ,about any hints and tips he could give me to try and stay warm and healthy . He looked me right in the eye and stated ....pack up and move to Florida . Nice caring and considerate NHS advice . Needleess to say ,he moved Practice a while later !
@@fabolvaskarika7940 I'm pretty sure that the doc was having a stressful day ...a bit of the old sarcasm methinks ! Needless to say he left the practice soon afterwards to Alaska ,I heard ? Har de har har ...
I enjoyed myself in the 70s, but anyone who says that they were better than today is delusional. I cannot imagine going back to the life I had then. I'd get home from work in the cold months, change out of my work clothes and put on lots of layers. Over the top I'd wear a blanket like a cloak, keeping it in place with a large kilt pin. This allowed me to stay warm and walk around the house doing chores. I used to use a sleeping bag when I went to bed, with often a blanket over the top. I had no central heating, no double glazing, and only the sitting room was heated, though to a bare minimum. What I did have was ice on the inside of the windows in the morning. Often, I wore hats and gloves in the house. This was commonplace.
Or mould. I had a shower this morning. And the towel was damp. The heated rail was not on of course and the towel hadn’t dried out. What you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabout.
@@JillLawton-zt8mewell said. People who don’t put the heating on, are storing up expensive problems with damp and mould. They don’t realise that the bricks need to warm up too. Eradicating damp is expensive once it sets in. It’s a false economy, plus sitting in the cold is bad for health, and it’s unpleasant and uncomfortable. You can’t even move around a cold house, because you’re afraid to remove the blanket.
@@jaijai5250it's not just about putting the heating on, but opening windows every day. People on low incomes often keep their windows closed and dry clothes inside. Moisture just accumulates in the air and condenses in the walls. People lose about a cup of water from their bodies when they sleep, which adds to the moisture in the air. Double glazing and poor ventilation is the cause of most performs with damp. Cavity insulation also traps water in the walls.
When I was a kid, we only had underfloor heating, and there was no heating upstairs, in the winter getting up in the mornings it would be freezing cold the windows would be icy on the inside. We went to bed with layers of blankets and we wore gloves, that was the late 70s early 80s. I think we are heading back to those days at this rate.
@amandafriel1865 My mam only put the underfloor heating on in the morning before us lot went to school she couldn't afford to run it all the time even though she worked. When that heating was switched off, we had nothing. We had to wear extra clothing and use plenty of blankets to keep warm. I remember getting chapped skin because of the cold. I definitely don't miss that.
My gran would knit covers for the glass pop bottles that were empty, fill them up with near boiling water, kept us warm all night great to rest your feet on. The outside loo would freeze over in winter, you had to break the ice with a broken shovel handle before using it, lol…happy memories tbh.
I remember the winter of 1978/9 that was a bitterly cold one snow outside and ice on the inside windows ... the dead could not be buried due to strikes and power cuts we crept around inside trying to keep warm using candles and gas burners on the cooker for some heat!! no doubt our politicians were not living like us anymore than they are today!
Yes we had power cuts and that was a Labour government too...seems like we will rely on a windmill this time ...another Labour government...Good luck 😢😮
As a child in the 70’s, we didn’t have central heating, no double glazing, just the fireplace in the sitting room. We used to crack off ice from the inside of our bedroom window and suck it like a lolly. Maybe we were tougher back then, but I never remember feeling cold. Dressed well in woollen jumper.
So much appears to have changed since 1977, and yet fundamentally, very little really has changed. The "Peggy" of 2024 is struggling with energy bills just as much 1977 Peggy was.
If you can sew, even basic stitches, you can make up a rice/wheat bag to heat in the microwave. Rice is cheap and can be bought in bulk so you can make up several. If you can't sew, you can fill and tie an old sock. They're so nice on the back of your neck/shoulders and warm hands and feet quickly!
❤yes good job I have a sleeping bag handy 😄 although I have graduated to an electric blanket,and also my cat has graduated to a cat electric blanket,,,then I can wear an jacket with a battery powered heating,,,,no I can't afford the central heating system on ,,,,love from a British pensioner 😊
Thank you Peggy from the 1970s 😊 As my winter fuel payment has now been removed by our beloved Labour Party, this seems the moment to dig out my sleeping bag and get the hot water bottle on the go. Terrific!
Not just the pensioners either. Younger people are trying to get warm and stay warm. What is tragic though, there will be more pensioners dying of hyperthermia due to hyperthermia. That's what labour government wants. A scrooge party!!! " THEY RE BETTER DIE AND DECREASE THE POPULTATION"
Oh, come on! The Tory government caused the extreme rise in fuel. Personally, I don't agree with the way fuel allowance has been removed, but there were many receiving it who didn't need it. When you hear of people giving it to grandkids or using it for their wine allowance, you know the system is wrong. By the way, I'm sitting here in a cardigan and a snoodie myself!
@@dee4174And labour will make it more expensive with stupid net zero ...while the rest of the world has cheap energy while our virtual signaling gets us lost jobs freezing homes and a ruined economy...
In the 1960s and 1970s my mother was at home while my dad was at work and the kids at school. My mother NEVER put the heating on when she was alone at home. She would be doing her housework wearing her outdoor coat and if she sat down she would put on gloves. I generally don't put my heating on until November. And when I've had younger relatives staying (people in their 20s) they complain about how cold my home is (my fuel bills come out as average for the nation). Young people have got no idea of hardship, their homes must be over-heated relative to us older people. I saw a politician on TV a couple of days ago, filmed in his home, with the thermometer set to 25C. Mine is set to 19C.
Our thermometer is set to 18, our landlord demanded it to be kept at that temp, haven't used the heating in two years, last winter was rough, wearing thermals & coats, hats & gloves indoors. Doubled up the quilts & blankets on the beds.
@@susanalderson8267 30 months ago a young friend with a PhD from Cambridge was complaining about the cost of heating his 3 floor open plan house. I told him "you will be paying 100% more in a few years". He wouldn't believe me. I was in a house today where I was wearing a tee shirt whilst teenagers in sweaters and blankets were complaining of being cold. The west's war against Russia is going to hurt ordinary people, as I predicted.
@@susanalderson8267 If it was set to 18 then why didn't it come on? 18 is quite warm. It feels cold simply because of low humidity in the house, yet in summer 18 is just right, with it quickly becoming unbearable when it enters the 20's.
My Greyhound (first dog) in the early 70's was called Peggy and i would snuggle up to her to get warm but usually i had to fill/saw/chop wheelbarrows daily from local woodlands and my mum used to burn the logs quicker before i got back with the second load. No central heating back then, just one small fireplace to heat whole house. Good Ol' days🤣
It's unbeleivable and utterly shameful that the new government has taken away their fuel allowance which helped to keep them warm during the winter. They need to give it back to help the elderly survive the coming winter
I remember you inside iced windows, stone hot water bottles and coats on the bed,3 kids to a bed, corned beef legs ,sodding chilblains, nutty slack, coin fed tvs and sodding mangles, good old days my arse 😂
I'm from the US living in the UK and find it unsettling how the UK has issues like this STILL in 2024. It's not like there aren't HUGE glaring issues in the US too but energy usage and easily keeping people warm in the winter feels like something the UK should have gotten a grasp on by now.
@@aprilapril2Clearly you don't remember either the deaths from respiratory problems on account of the smog from coal fires in British cities, or the Public Information Films concerning house fires.
The UK government thinks it can save the world with stupid net zero...ruining the economy by dismantling of the uk oil industry and paying 7 times as much for the same stuff the gov is trying to stop ...and sending jobs to the far east making windmills and solar panels and ruining the UK economy. The USA energy is cheaper because they have an energy policy that looks after their economy as the uk energy is 75% dearer 😮 therefore ending any cheap manufacturing in the UK at a competitive price...and any cheap heating of the uk in the cold northern hemisphere 😢...but hey at least we are doing well at virtual signaling stupid net zero of 0.95% of co2 while we freeze to death 😢 well done gov at least they will achieve de population 😢😮 am I bitter ...we all soon will be ..bitterly cold.
This programme had over 8 million viewers and won a BAFTA award before going on a national tour. People today can’t imagine its cultural significance. Its worth noting that Peggy sadly past away when she froze to the toilet.
Remember when we had frost on the inside of the windows, cosy nights, coats on top of the bed sleeping with jumpers on No double glazing or central heating then Flanelette sheets and candlewick covers xx Keep warm everyone I predict it’s going to be an icy one as it’s done nothing but rain in the UK our summer was one day this year in England 😂 and to thinking purchased factor 30 that’s what you call optimism xx 😂
Should've voted for Corbyn. Energy companies would be nationalised by now and run in the interests of the people. That won't happen under Starmer, and definitely won't happen if Farage came to power.
Foreign aid is nothing more than a laundromat service for the already rich how else could they legitimately get their hands on billions of taxpayers money
They don't get that charity begins at home. Send all the freeloaders back home then you wouldn't have to screw the pensioners and other vulnerable people.
another thing to think about is a warm knitted hat that covers your ears.....and thick wool socks....feet & head warm and wear it all winter long while you are in the house..
In the 70s, our only heating/hot water was a coal fired boiler in the kitchen and an immersion heater. In the winter, there were always beautiful ice patterns on the inside of the windows.
You had a coal fired boiler - you must have been rich - we had a just had a packet of fire lighters and a box of matches. ( Acknowledgements to Monty Python )
I was born in 1955. We had no central heating. We had a coal fire in the living room until I was six or seven years old, when mum got a new gas fire. No double glazing. I remember playing with the ice on the inside of the bedroom windows. No house insulation. An outside loo. No fridge. No bathroom. Not very many of the things we take forgranted now. We will get through because we've been there before. The Brits are made of the right stuff.
I remember in the 70’s we didn’t have central heating, getting dressed for school in front of the fire in the living room. Our bathroom had an electric bar heater above the bath and frost on the inside of the windows! Somehow we survived
I remember the 70's very well Nothing has really changed I still dread the winter cold It's just something to get through I remember the Sleeping bags, hot water bottles and early nights Replaced these days by an electric over blanket and thick fleecy onesies. Much easier to wash but basically the same I still manage the house by sometimes lighting a fire.. and occasionally putting my central heating on once in a while to dry washing and prevent the house from getting totally damp and mouldy. Urgh! No progress in my lifetime that's for sure
Various governments have so improved the quality of life since then though. For them f'kin selves.......when will people learn and see all of them for what they are.
What people don't hold in account is moisture. You need the heat to dry your house enough to prevent damp and mold. I had someone, who is well off by the way, brag about not needing to turn on the heater at all only to tell me that she had someone over to take care of mold in her house.... So, austerity or no austerity, September and October are always a first world problem for me, because of the rain but not cold enough for the heater to turn on. I set mine on 18 Celsius.
@@nigelpamment3629 No it wasn't. Oil prices quadrupled because the oil producing nations wanted to punish UK, US and the few other nations that were funding Israel in the 1973 Middle East war.
Doing homework and exam revision in candlelight. Other than that I didn’t notice. !! TV news didn’t seem to carp on 24/7 about the woes of every country on the globe. Life was simpler.
Peggy is the true inventor of the Snugglie, though with the added hot water bottle in it, she's really got something. I'm old enough to remember, in the US, being reminded by the government to save energy by 1)driving 55 mph or less, and 2)turning your thermostat to 58 degrees F in winter. So even with an oil furnace in our home, we did pile on the blankets as we sat watching TV in the living room. It's kind of like living in certain parts of Alaska: you adjust to it well, always wearing your sweater and wooly socks indoors.
I used to wake up early at 5 am and climb into the hot press because the Emersion had some heat in it. Curl up and go to sleep again on a shelf with the sheets or old huge pink blankets until 8 am. Happy days. 😂
One thing i get from this is whoooooooo in the holy rincewinding heck thought those wall papers and carpets were what everyone should be decorating their houses with. I was born in the mid 70s and just about remember that stuff, and whilst decorating a few years ago discovered some wallpaper of the 70s kind behind a radiator, in the kitchen! Must have been a psychadelic trip every time you walked into the living room.
It does. Back then the energy companies were only the Gas board and the Electricity board, they were nationalised companies. Inflation was high at 10% and there was a wage cap of 5% to try and bring it down. This resulted in no-one having enough for anything while prices soared in line with inflation. Now they're de-nationalised they're allowed to rip us off.
Silicone ones are very small, but microwaveable and they actually don't dry out! I used to replace mine every year, now I am on 3rd winter with my silicone one
There's always wheat bags too. Microwave to heat up. I swear by mine 😊 if you have a b&m near you they've got tonnes of hot water bottles at the moment, including some really long ones too 😊
For non-UK viewers: this was a real interview 😂. Timing by YT algorithm is perfect as pensioners not on any government benefits will no longer receive help to pay for winter fuel.
My mom would run the central heat but once I moved out on my own, I preferred wrapping up in several layers of blankets and keeping the heat low when reading or watching tv. Once I have a blanket on my legs, my cats know that's their sign to jump up and snuggle in. I have a drawer full of thin socks that I wear while sleeping. If it is especially cold, I'll wear something on my head to help keep me warm as I don't run the heat once I've gone to bed. My mom liked to say that I was going to suffocate to death because of all the blankets and comforters I have piled up on top of me at night.
I remember the other year watching an advert for charity that featured a miserable looking little boy with a quilt cover over him in the living room and thinking and genuinely thinking that he actually looked really cosy. We'd sit like that but with blankets as quilts weren't so common and play cards or board games and think it was great fun
The coldest winter I ever experienced was in a military home in Colchester in 1986/87. We only had heating on the ground floor. Upstairs, the windows were icy from the inside and we had frost on the wallpaper 🥶
Trouble being a home needs heat to each room to prevent damp in books , furniture , and all your possessions . And home does starmer and family sit like that in the evening
This was nearly 50 years ago in 77. Nothing has changed in 50 years. People are still struggling to stay warm. Imagine if someone was a child in 1927 and by 1977 things hadn't changed. That's what we are looking at.
Das ist ja sowas von herzig. VIelen Dank für das sympathische Gespräch. :D Und ja natürlich - ich gehe gleich meinen Schlafsack holn und die Wärmeflasche für diese wohlig wärmende Idee.
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At least living through the 1970’s prepared me well for the 2020’s.
I thought I was bad off in 1970s ,was working hard to pay me bills ,bit at least back then the country wasn't over run by free loading migrents, at least we british english ,had a little chance ,but now we live on the pavement while they live in our homes, only difference is ,they never paid a pennies piece in income tax ,we did ?
Yes I don't know what they are all complaining about we had no double glazing or central heating and went to bed hungry. 😂
@@tedoneilclark4710 you were lucky, a bed, I slept in a cardboard box
Loved the 70s , simpler times , good food and tv
@@FiFi-wt9zjI’ll agree to that 😊
Anyone remember ice on the INSIDE of their window frames? Watching their parents lighting a coal fire in the freezing cold, and then pushing each other out of the way to get in front of it? Putting coats on top of blankets for extra warmth at night? I thought those days were a thing of the past but I'm not sure now.
Yes indeed. And old woolies on top of pyjamas and old coats on top of the blankets.
Yep, I remember ice on the insides of windows. And running down the garden to the outside loo! In the dark and the cold, bare feet in shoes, crunching on the frost on the ground!
Yes, my bedroom was a NE facing ice box, no heating at all. There was one coal fire in the living room down stairs. I had a stone pig hot water bottle at 8.30pm, bedtime. No wonder I had colds all the time, half way to pneumonia. Just ridiculous.
We had a bath once a week, there wa😢s a Valor oil burner so one could get undressed and in to warm bath, with a jug o😅f water to wash hair. Sometimes had to share, and ended up with taps sticking in to one's back. We were not poor, father owned our semi detached.
Treating kids like that nowadays they would be taken in to a home,
I miss the smell of a good coal fire.
We’ll be back to these times in the very near future
I remember when I was a kid, the whole family would huddle round the fire place and sometimes my dad would actually light it. 🤪
I used to go to the gas works when a child and pinch coal.
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❤and toasting thick Slice of Bread over a coal fire
then spreading thick butter yummy yummy 😂
at Christmas throwing the pulls from Christmas crackers and watching the crackel sparks go up the chimeny 😂
@@Glory3823 did you live in Buckingham Palace.?.
@@anthonyclegg1511 🤣🤣🤣🤣no lived in Plymouth uk my dad was resident water Bailiff for M.O.D we had a coal fire in the house thar came with the Job 😹mind it were no grand house mind it was three floors and attic rooms very cold house ,big gardens old Stables it was short walk from the Hang mans cell 😊look up the Rope masters House Devonport Dockyard Plymouth Devon Uk
was also in a Ghost paranormal investigation reported on the BBC
it was known from ww2 as the Turncocks house 2 East Avenue H.M Dock yard (we had a one up one down cottage in the court yard 😂😍dad used as his workshop
a boiler for coal n logs in the kitchen lovely n warm
MPs are warm, that's the main thing.
Like all civil servants
and well fed and never have to rub shoulders with the average pleb being ferried about in ministerial vehicles
I think they should switch the heating off in the Houses of Parliament. Either that, or make them foot the heating bill from their own pockets. Oh wait, they’ll claim that as expenses!
bless their corrupt...selfish hearts....
Not as warm as they will be...
Most of us didn't have central heating in the 70s. Houses in the winter had that all-pervading cold dampness. We relied on coal fires, electric bar fires, paraffin heaters and beds with layers of fleece sheets, wool blankets and an eiderdown if you were lucky.
I remember scraping the ice off the inside of the windows and getting dressed for school by grabbing my clothes and getting dressed under the bed covers where it was still warm. I guess we didn't know any different though.
If it wasn't ice it was pools of condensation every morning on the windows and windowsills
We had central heating and a gas fire in the 70s,but I remember the fleece sheets and wool blankets/eiderdown.
@@leightonolsson4846 yeah ice on the inside of windows, cardigans in bed
@@irenemorley75
You must've come from a rather posh home because we had the fire in the "sitting" room on full blast with coal and coke, polluting up the cities air like every other home, except for those using oil fired central heating. Our kitchen had a "chippy" going in the morning. Mum would've got up earlier and got it going and preparing custard and rice or porridge on the frostiest mornings. I remember sleeping in my school uniform, so I didn't have to get undressed in my cold room. Of course one of my sisters told on me. I will never forget the smell and the distinct grittiness in the that you could almost taste because of that awful coal.
@@annakeye I remember in the 70s my dad covering the windows of our tiny terrace with plastic sheeting in the winter. Only had a gas fire in the living room otherwise it was a freezing bedroom and bathroom lol
Seeing that Thames intro just took me back to my childhood in the 80s when I used to watch Rainbow.
I saw that Thames screen and clicked on this video hoping to hear the tune, I don't know why but I got a shudder from it!
My first thought on hearing the Thaes bit was Rainbow too, how funny.
I like it!!! 😍
When it used to be cold enough in the winter to have snow!
Same here 🥰
I'll be 70 in January. Back in the day, cold nights meant adding an old hand knitted cardigan on top of flannelette pj's. A stone hot water bottle at my feet. Flannelette sheets❤ extra blankets and a feather quilt. If needed, there was the candlewick beadspread to pull right up. Our Mum made the three beds every day. She was called a housewife.❤❤❤❤
It was lovely having a mum at home whose job was the care & feeding of the family. Cooked 3 meals a day. Made us clothes & treats. Sometimes she would make doughnuts or cupcakes for every kid on the street & we were so proud.
@@hensonlauranowadays most mums are high flyers, working all hours.
We have all been conned, there is no equality, they have destroyed the housewife by making it impossible for working class people to run a household with one wage, if there was true equality then either the husband or wife would need to work and the couple could choose who would work depending on who could earn the most. We then wouldn’t need to pay for childcare or breakfast clubs or after school clubs because there would be someone at home to help, obesity wouldn’t exist because someone would be home to cook proper meals like meat and two veg instead of pizza or ready meals or the other rubbish we eat because nobody has time anymore.
Yep agree I be 7o. Next April. Yeh I wore cardi on top of the flannelet PJ's or nightie . Sox and a hat sum times . Family laffed at me, .blankets and bedspread but no feathers .water bottle, ice on windows 😮
You say one salary was enough to sustain a family? Unbelievable.
Someone in the electricity company should turn off the heating to no 10 and parliament. Would love to see them trying to stay warm in that big heap
😂😂😂
Poor old Larry the cat if they did that
Haha trouble is they’re all so full of hot air anyway they’ll not notice 😉
Have you actually been to Westminster palace? It's a pretty cold building.
Winters are as cold as they used to be, and winters in the UK are very mild. People are so soft and entitled now!
Energy is expensive, but unnecessary to have the heating on in the winter so you can sit at home in a t-shirt!
Totally agree.
Things haven't changed in 2023 people still trying to save a way of saving energy bills!
Lets live together to stay worm
@@womblediehard123 all the cost cutting tips last year when the bills skyrocketed. Obviously didn’t kill enough of us off. Turn the screw a bit more. But we are made of sterner stuff.
@@plejadyworm?
@@JillLawton-zt8meScary thing is you’re right, they’re definitely trying to bump us off one way or another.
Illegals arent cold
I miss my grandparents so much
Me, too. Life was better with them around.
@@motherhood234same. My favorite people
Me too 😢
Gen Xer here, my childhood was literally a rehearsal for 2024
Sorry, my dear, but GenX'ers don't begin to know what cold was like! Read about the winter of 1963 and imagine it with no heating, but still having to go to school in shorts because the headmaster would cane you for wearing long trousers.
@drmoss_ca my parents talk about the river dramatically freezing over while they were on a date at the cinema and dad having to do manoeuvres in Germany during that winter
A year to remember..! I read that the sea around the coast froze over.. now we get excited at the slightest flurry.
Only my electric blanket used so far, that greedy gas company can whistle for it...
(That's one mean headteacher.!)
As a kid I spent most of the 70’s in a sleeping bag, the house was bloody freezing.
Condensation on the windows in the mornings?
@@pmacc3557 Yes, the water would run down the glass and pool on the window ledge. Single glazed, steel framed windows that never formed a seal when they were shut, and in winter they iced up inside and out. Get out of bed then go downstairs and get into a sleeping bag on the sofa to eat a bowl of porridge.
Yeah, but at least you were happy.
1970s!!! - I grew in the 1950s, we enjoyed being cold, we enjoyed being miserable, that’s how it was
@@anthonyclegg1511 I was. A big family in a big council house, never a lot of money but that just made the things we had even more precious. I once asked my mom how she managed to buy us all our Christmas presents every year. “You never asked for a lot”, she said. But I had all the love and care a boy could ever want, so I was very lucky that way.
The 70s had it's own problems, but it still seems like a happier and fun age than 2024!!!!
The wall paper was a complete nightmare though
😂😂😂😂😂
@@eleanorwalmsley635 Fifty Shades of Brown😵💫
@@bumblebee568 don't forget the oranges and yellows to contrast the brown ...
What a headache for the eyes
🤣🤣🤣🤣
It wasn't happier. Shite on the telly, dreading the winter, trying to buy enough food,the diet was awful and boring. As for following fashion you could only dream of having what the women's magazines featured.
It was miserable apart from Led Zeppelin 😂
@@maryj5593 at least women had some fashion then. fewer choices on ‘telly’ but more talent imo and people weren’t tranced out by media. listening to ppl today one can almost predict what they will say due to mimicry of presented talking points. not going to get a ‘Led Zep’ in digital, it’s the anthesis of what is probably appreciated about this or similar bands of that era and up until the 90s or thereabouts.
As a child I visited Portadown to meet my grand-aunts who lived on Church street. I remember everyone wearing sweaters indoors. and when we sat on the couch we had blankets on our legs. We also used hot water bottles in our beds. which i thought was great. the bottle was ice cold in the morning .and we had to get dressed quickly it was so cold. and the outhouse was a tiny wooden shed in a tiny enclosed yard. I loved it over there. except for the street corners that had wooden barricades on them. it was the mid sixties and there was a lot of unrest and fear.
Still have a blanket on my legs when I'm sitting on the couch.
Those were the days..my husband is a work and I knit and read..sounds good to me
But probably no freedom… not everything is gold, what shining!
@@fabolvaskarika7940your kidding, that sounds like pure freedom to me. Don't have to worry about pronouns or nothing.
@@outoforbit00 you would figure out how different is it in reality, than in your head…
@@fabolvaskarika7940 it's actually how I live. My partner is self employed joiner and carpenter and I stay at home and do some voluntary work twice a week.
How olds her poor husband? 😮
I'm sat here watching the clip - with a hot water bottle under my feet at my computer desk - keeping the old tradition going ;) x
Me too!!!!😂
@@antoinettecastle4739 🤣 x
I took up crocheting during the lockdown and knitted granny blankets for all my family, knowing that this catastrophe was on its way. Now they are all arguing over who got the nicest blanket. Comforting to know they are all jealous for my attention. 😅
So you have not managed at all to improve your status in life from when you were a youth? Thats an impressive level of under-achievment!
@@TRPGpilot rude!!!
I recall a DIY/home improvement book from the 70s, it stated that any more than 2 inches of insulation in the loft could not be justified, no wonder we were cold.
This reminds of what a huge blessing it is to live in a tropical country
Peggy basically pioneered a manual version of an electric blanket lol 😊
We had electric sleeping blankets in the 1970s.
@@user-xy1dw1pe1delectric blankets were invented in 1912 and popular with the public by the 1930s.
@@Marcel_Audubon We had electric blankets in the 70s, I have had them since, they don't cost much to run.
@@irenemorley75 the '70s came after the '30s where I live
@@irenemorley75 It would be about 1965 when my mum went and bought 2 Monogram electric Over blankets , no more cold beds, still use an electric over blanket
I'm 56 and live alone and this is what I do after work, and then get into bed really early with a hot water bottle. Peggy is missing a trick though in not wearing a hat, and for any viewers who don't own a hat, I recommend sewing up an old tea cosy
precisely what I did in the 80s.
You don’t own a hat but you have a tea cosy? In 2024? Pull the other one, let the bells jingle…
Very funny..
@@theresanolan1157 🤣🫖🧶
☝🏻And don’t forget if you have boiled too much water in the kettle for your hot water bottle or hot drinks and don’t want to waste it, pop it in a thermos flask and when you go to reuse it you’ll not need as much electricity to heat it up as if form cold. That’s a tip my parsimonious father taught me from his wartime upbringing!
I remember watching this as a child , even then I was disgusted that old people froze to death. Now 50 years later I'm using a hot water bottle, heating or eating, SHAMEFUL governments
So you have not managed at all to improve your status in life from when you were a youth? Thats an impressive level of under-achievment!
@TRPGpilot if you don't live in the UK then you really haven't a clue of the country under a Labour government ...😢
@@TRPGpilot What a rude and ignorant remark.
@@PatrioticDuty-cv6es Especially as the new Chancellor has claimed £3000 for her own heating. Our father - 86 years old - will be £600 worse off this year.
@@PatrioticDuty-cv6es Dont blame the government. Blame your lack of drive and upward mobility . . .
Flash forward 2024 and our pensioners are STILL struggling to keep warm,
Well done both Tories and Labour….
well done 👏👏
It's not only the pensioner's everyone's bill is high
Not just pensioners, I was out of work last winter and couldn't afford to put the heater on at all, or cooker and washing machine
Everyone should be able to keep warm.....not just pensioners, their are also young people that are very sick/women coming out of hospital with new born babies.
Anyone know the name of the presenter? I want to see what he looks like now.
@@chrism1102 Tony Bastable, presented on a kids TV show called Magpie in the 70s
I can knit and crochet warm garments. That’s how I keep myself warm too. Thankyou. ❤
Almost every British show I watched here in the U.S. had the characters struggling to keep warm. Steptoe, Alf Garnet, Are you being Served, etc... Great shows, better that U.S.!
There were widespread power cuts and gas shortages in the 1970s due to union strikes, so that's likely why in those shows.
Now its just down to incompetent government devoted to "Net zero".
I'm an 80s UK baby and don't recall struggling to keep warm at home. We had one of those heaters with 2-3 bars attached to the wall. It was always warm and cosy at home.
Maybe things had improved by the 80s. Or maybe certain types of households had it better than others (e.g. families with young kids might've had extra government assistance vs pensioners trying to survive on the measley state pension they received).
My parents are no longer here, so I can't ask them 😢
Born 72 ...rising damp great comedy representing British life lol
It was likely that the shows were made in the 1970s when there were general strikes in the UK, gas and power were often off due to union action.
@@lesigh1749i remember loads of electricity power offs when i was a kid ..and water shortages too
Doesn't matter, what you come up with to keep yourself warm. Sitting in a house, that has no heating, is like sitting outside, waiting for a bus. It's a disgrace that in this day and age, the elderly and indeed those still working. Have to resort to sitting in houses like tombs. Because they can't afford to put the heating on. Shelter, warmth and nourishment are vital, to sustaining life. Here we are 2024 and nothing has changed.
@@rosedunphy8725 yes, well we had to put up with it in the 50s 60s 70s. . And the weather is warmer now. Than then. It used to b bitter with ice in inside of windows.. today they want everything and too soft
@@beverlygannon4141what nonsense. My dad coughed his way through every cold damp winter and mum had what was called rheumatism. Both magically disappeared when we got central heating. A godsend. No wonder poorer people tended to die before they could even draw their pension.
And what of children. I recall some kids had permanent runny noses so a permanent chest infection from infancy. Not conducive to a long and healthy life.
never enough to go around and constantly importing more and more people to share the supposedly scarce resources
@@PalisUK Resources aren't scarce in England, they're just highly concentrated in the possession of the most wealthy
We had coal fired central heating put into our house in 1962. When it was really cold (as it often was in Sheffield in the sixties) Mum would place a parafin stove in the hall so the heat would flow upstairs and warm the whole house. Blankets on the bed and proper clothing when out and about; we were never cold or suffered damp and we were far from well-off; Mum was a housewife, Dad worked a fairly lowly job in engineering. There's an awful lot of poo talked about the 60s and 70s. They were fabulous times. People had less but seemed much happier.
Thames TV...ah the memories
I like the way people didn't feel so sorry for themselves back then
@@JanetNgaire I know people today just like to complain and moan about everything. They are over indulged and spoit and pampered especially the young. Pity help them if we ever had a serious disaster like other countries.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s from working class parents, but with very hardworking parents. I have no memories of ever being deprived of warmth.
I do! And that was upper middle class in sunny California. Why? My father was a cheap selfish so and so.
Tony Bastable, a real blast from the past.
I carry medical conditions that in the winter time especially are nasty and chronic in part due to the cold weather . I asked my GP some years ago when i was first diagnosed ,about any hints and tips he could give me to try and stay warm and healthy . He looked me right in the eye and stated ....pack up and move to Florida . Nice caring and considerate NHS advice . Needleess to say ,he moved Practice a while later !
To be fair given a choice between 6 months in a sleeping bag with a hot water bottle and a beach side apartment in Florida…
Florida gets a lot of rain and the occasional hurricane, maybe not such a good idea 😕
Florida is,awful humid and for many it's difficult to breath
Did he recommend how to get health insurance there? 🤔
@@fabolvaskarika7940 I'm pretty sure that the doc was having a stressful day ...a bit of the old sarcasm methinks ! Needless to say he left the practice soon afterwards to Alaska ,I heard ? Har de har har ...
I enjoyed myself in the 70s, but anyone who says that they were better than today is delusional. I cannot imagine going back to the life I had then. I'd get home from work in the cold months, change out of my work clothes and put on lots of layers. Over the top I'd wear a blanket like a cloak, keeping it in place with a large kilt pin. This allowed me to stay warm and walk around the house doing chores. I used to use a sleeping bag when I went to bed, with often a blanket over the top.
I had no central heating, no double glazing, and only the sitting room was heated, though to a bare minimum. What I did have was ice on the inside of the windows in the morning. Often, I wore hats and gloves in the house. This was commonplace.
At least the films and tv shows were better. and women looked female 😂
Thank you peggy❤
I'd give her one too 🍌
The problem is in some houses if you don't keep some sort of heating about your going to get burst pipes.
Or mould. I had a shower this morning. And the towel was damp. The heated rail was not on of course and the towel hadn’t dried out. What you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabout.
@@CarlStJohn-x9w when it was below freezing my Dad had to get up during the night to flush the toilet or it froze solid !
@@JillLawton-zt8mewell said. People who don’t put the heating on, are storing up expensive problems with damp and mould. They don’t realise that the bricks need to warm up too. Eradicating damp is expensive once it sets in. It’s a false economy, plus sitting in the cold is bad for health, and it’s unpleasant and uncomfortable. You can’t even move around a cold house, because you’re afraid to remove the blanket.
@@jaijai5250opening windows on dry or dryer days regularly gets rid of that problem.
@@jaijai5250it's not just about putting the heating on, but opening windows every day. People on low incomes often keep their windows closed and dry clothes inside. Moisture just accumulates in the air and condenses in the walls. People lose about a cup of water from their bodies when they sleep, which adds to the moisture in the air. Double glazing and poor ventilation is the cause of most performs with damp. Cavity insulation also traps water in the walls.
When I was a kid, we only had underfloor heating, and there was no heating upstairs, in the winter getting up in the mornings it would be freezing cold the windows would be icy on the inside. We went to bed with layers of blankets and we wore gloves, that was the late 70s early 80s. I think we are heading back to those days at this rate.
People get too comfortable wearing almost nothing inside and complaining they’re cold 🤷🏾
Try all that with NO underfloor heating and a one bar heater in the kitchen where we all virtually lived to keep warm when not at school or work...
@amandafriel1865 My mam only put the underfloor heating on in the morning before us lot went to school she couldn't afford to run it all the time even though she worked. When that heating was switched off, we had nothing. We had to wear extra clothing and use plenty of blankets to keep warm. I remember getting chapped skin because of the cold. I definitely don't miss that.
Workhouse next in the coming years . Betrayal of the UK 🇬🇧 Country and Citizens.
My gran would knit covers for the glass pop bottles that were empty, fill them up with near boiling water, kept us warm all night great to rest your feet on. The outside loo would freeze over in winter, you had to break the ice with a broken shovel handle before using it, lol…happy memories tbh.
It was colder then, we had snow most Winters, we also had power cuts.
Winters are quite warm since the 90's. I miss snow. Obviously some random fluctuations made exceptions in recent years.
I remember the winter of 1978/9 that was a bitterly cold one snow outside and ice on the inside windows ... the dead could not be buried due to strikes and power cuts we crept around inside trying to keep warm using candles and gas burners on the cooker for some heat!! no doubt our politicians were not living like us anymore than they are today!
And food was always on short supply 😂
Such fun tho
Yes we had power cuts and that was a Labour government too...seems like we will rely on a windmill this time ...another Labour government...Good luck 😢😮
Expect this to be Starmers winter policy for all the pensioners who will be freezing
As a child in the 70’s, we didn’t have central heating, no double glazing, just the fireplace in the sitting room. We used to crack off ice from the inside of our bedroom window and suck it like a lolly. Maybe we were tougher back then, but I never remember feeling cold. Dressed well in woollen jumper.
That's back in the days when people worked 25 hours a day, got up before they went to bed... 😊
@@thoughtfortheday7811 😂😂😂😂 My dad worked 3 jobs, a 17 hour day to be precise. My mum had 6 small children, so full time for her too.
@@CazPea wow,that's seriously intense!
Lard and beef dripping kept you warm, now everyone's on oil.
We all just accepted it back then because we didn't know any different and just assumed everyone else was the same.
Peggy was an absolute delight.
So much appears to have changed since 1977, and yet fundamentally, very little really has changed. The "Peggy" of 2024 is struggling with energy bills just as much 1977 Peggy was.
I’ve already started wearing two jumpers and fluffy socks and I still get cold. But the hot water bottle, and sleeping bag idea is genius! ❤ thank you
A crocheted granny blanket round the waist and knees is even better, easy to remove when you need a hot Horlicks!
@@outoforbit00 great idea thanks. I need to get another hot water bottle, but they keep going up in price every year
If you can sew, even basic stitches, you can make up a rice/wheat bag to heat in the microwave. Rice is cheap and can be bought in bulk so you can make up several. If you can't sew, you can fill and tie an old sock. They're so nice on the back of your neck/shoulders and warm hands and feet quickly!
@@MrsBrit1 Agree about the sock!
@@MrsBrit1put it under your crochet hat
Nearly 2024 and the Cabal of crooks in Downing Street g street will always have the poor peasant swimming against the tide , financially !
Stuggling people don't have much time to think and rebell, if tgey still have something left to lose... 😑
❤yes good job I have a sleeping bag handy 😄 although I have graduated to an electric blanket,and also my cat has graduated to a cat electric blanket,,,then I can wear an jacket with a battery powered heating,,,,no I can't afford the central heating system on ,,,,love from a British pensioner 😊
The clash going on between the wallpaper, carpet and sofas would be enough to keep my brain permanently frazzled.
It was to give an illusion of warmth....
@@amandafriel1865 😂😂😂 hilarious, cheers
Filmed in October ,dead with hypothermia in early Jan , Thanks Govt
😂😂😂😂
Not looking to blame anyone - there’s a problem and a practical solution was found with the minimum of fuss. That’s what I miss about the 70s and 80s
the solution is to be sedentary?
Thank you Peggy from the 1970s 😊 As my winter fuel payment has now been removed by our beloved Labour Party, this seems the moment to dig out my sleeping bag and get the hot water bottle on the go. Terrific!
Buy an electric throw blanket - they don’t cost much to use and keep you really warm
Don't forget, it was ONE piece of goal a night, then bed to keep warm, 1969
And wear a hat or knitted cap :)
@@lounolastname4477but they use to much electricity we can’t win 😩
MPs need the electricity for their electric vehicles that each cost more than I earn in 3 years
I always wanted to go back to the 70s because of the music, but never in a million imagined to go back because of the high cost of energy. 😢
I bet Starmer&Co won’t be having to wrap up like the Brrrritish pensioners 🥶
Some things never change and Labour is one of them. Always a disaster.
@@philthycat1408 he will no doubt get a free goose down sleeping bag from a friend ..
Not just the pensioners. Younger people to. Much younger.
Not just the pensioners either. Younger people are trying to get warm and stay warm. What is tragic though, there will be more pensioners dying of hyperthermia due to hyperthermia. That's what labour government wants. A scrooge party!!! " THEY RE BETTER DIE AND DECREASE THE POPULTATION"
Nope, they will still get their tax payer funded fuel allowance
From sleeping bag to a bodybag that's the Labour Party way
😂
Oh, come on! The Tory government caused the extreme rise in fuel. Personally, I don't agree with the way fuel allowance has been removed, but there were many receiving it who didn't need it. When you hear of people giving it to grandkids or using it for their wine allowance, you know the system is wrong. By the way, I'm sitting here in a cardigan and a snoodie myself!
@@dee4174And labour will make it more expensive with stupid net zero ...while the rest of the world has cheap energy while our virtual signaling gets us lost jobs freezing homes and a ruined economy...
🥱🥱🥱
The Tory Way
I remember the '70s as a very Brown time
In the 1960s and 1970s my mother was at home while my dad was at work and the kids at school. My mother NEVER put the heating on when she was alone at home. She would be doing her housework wearing her outdoor coat and if she sat down she would put on gloves. I generally don't put my heating on until November. And when I've had younger relatives staying (people in their 20s) they complain about how cold my home is (my fuel bills come out as average for the nation). Young people have got no idea of hardship, their homes must be over-heated relative to us older people. I saw a politician on TV a couple of days ago, filmed in his home, with the thermometer set to 25C. Mine is set to 19C.
Our thermometer is set to 18, our landlord demanded it to be kept at that temp, haven't used the heating in two years, last winter was rough, wearing thermals & coats, hats & gloves indoors. Doubled up the quilts & blankets on the beds.
@@susanalderson8267 30 months ago a young friend with a PhD from Cambridge was complaining about the cost of heating his 3 floor open plan house. I told him "you will be paying 100% more in a few years". He wouldn't believe me. I was in a house today where I was wearing a tee shirt whilst teenagers in sweaters and blankets were complaining of being cold. The west's war against Russia is going to hurt ordinary people, as I predicted.
@@susanalderson8267 If it was set to 18 then why didn't it come on?
18 is quite warm. It feels cold simply because of low humidity in the house, yet in summer 18 is just right, with it quickly becoming unbearable when it enters the 20's.
@susanalderson8267 useful as curtain liners too
Okay
My Greyhound (first dog) in the early 70's was called Peggy and i would snuggle up to her to get warm but usually i had to fill/saw/chop wheelbarrows daily from local woodlands and my mum used to burn the logs quicker before i got back with the second load. No central heating back then, just one small fireplace to heat whole house. Good Ol' days🤣
It's unbeleivable and utterly shameful that the new government has taken away their fuel allowance which helped to keep them warm during the winter. They need to give it back to help the elderly survive the coming winter
I remember you inside iced windows, stone hot water bottles and coats on the bed,3 kids to a bed, corned beef legs ,sodding chilblains, nutty slack, coin fed tvs and sodding mangles, good old days my arse 😂
So if you’re cold, put a cover on? Genius! 😂
I'm from the US living in the UK and find it unsettling how the UK has issues like this STILL in 2024. It's not like there aren't HUGE glaring issues in the US too but energy usage and easily keeping people warm in the winter feels like something the UK should have gotten a grasp on by now.
We were always warm when we had open fires
In fairness USA did grab most of the earths oil!
@@aprilapril2Clearly you don't remember either the deaths from respiratory problems on account of the smog from coal fires in British cities, or the Public Information Films concerning house fires.
This explains it: th-cam.com/video/oYrAff3CklQ/w-d-xo.html
The UK government thinks it can save the world with stupid net zero...ruining the economy by dismantling of the uk oil industry and paying 7 times as much for the same stuff the gov is trying to stop ...and sending jobs to the far east making windmills and solar panels and ruining the UK economy. The USA energy is cheaper because they have an energy policy that looks after their economy as the uk energy is 75% dearer 😮 therefore ending any cheap manufacturing in the UK at a competitive price...and any cheap heating of the uk in the cold northern hemisphere 😢...but hey at least we are doing well at virtual signaling stupid net zero of 0.95% of co2 while we freeze to death 😢 well done gov at least they will achieve de population 😢😮 am I bitter ...we all soon will be ..bitterly cold.
This programme had over 8 million viewers and won a BAFTA award before going on a national tour. People today can’t imagine its cultural significance.
Its worth noting that Peggy sadly past away when she froze to the toilet.
Remember when we had frost on the inside of the windows, cosy nights, coats on top of the bed sleeping with jumpers on
No double glazing or central heating then
Flanelette sheets and candlewick covers xx
Keep warm everyone I predict it’s going to be an icy one as it’s done nothing but rain in the UK our summer was one day this year in England 😂 and to thinking purchased factor 30 that’s what you call optimism xx 😂
Cut foreign Aid, don't let pensioners freeze to death ☠, starmer out
Should've voted for Corbyn. Energy companies would be nationalised by now and run in the interests of the people.
That won't happen under Starmer, and definitely won't happen if Farage came to power.
Foreign aid is nothing more than a laundromat service for the already rich how else could they legitimately get their hands on billions of taxpayers money
They don't get that charity begins at home. Send all the freeloaders back home then you wouldn't have to screw the pensioners and other vulnerable people.
@@John-l3t7gso looks like get to rely on a stupid windmill now then ...well done corbyns mate starmer 😢
DON'T LET ANYONE FREEZE would be nice.
another thing to think about is a warm knitted hat that covers your ears.....and thick wool socks....feet & head warm and wear it all winter long while you are in the house..
In the 70s, our only heating/hot water was a coal fired boiler in the kitchen and an immersion heater. In the winter, there were always beautiful ice patterns on the inside of the windows.
You had a coal fired boiler - you must have been rich - we had a just had a packet of fire lighters and a box of matches.
( Acknowledgements to Monty Python )
-Tea?
- In a thermos!
Yer its great when your in but as you get older you need the loo more often
I was born in 1955. We had no central heating. We had a coal fire in the living room until I was six or seven years old, when mum got a new gas fire.
No double glazing. I remember playing with the ice on the inside of the bedroom windows. No house insulation. An outside loo. No fridge. No bathroom. Not very many of the things we take forgranted now.
We will get through because we've been there before. The Brits are made of the right stuff.
I remember in the 70’s we didn’t have central heating, getting dressed for school in front of the fire in the living room. Our bathroom had an electric bar heater above the bath and frost on the inside of the windows! Somehow we survived
@@po12chris That's exactly how it was for me in the 60's and early 70's as a child.
The rolling blackouts in Scotland in the early 70s were great....
Love that all of us Brits are watching this. 1970s - now, the in between and the regression! I feel like we are in danger of going all the way back.
Hardly any adverts then. Now you can hardly watch tv as it’s mostly very loud adverts.
It won't stop in the 70s, it'll be all the way back to the middle ages for sure😅
@@Noname-sf2rmalready is considering the quality of the water!
I remember the 70's very well
Nothing has really changed
I still dread the winter cold
It's just something to get through
I remember the Sleeping bags, hot water bottles and early nights
Replaced these days by an electric over blanket and thick fleecy onesies.
Much easier to wash but basically the same
I still manage the house by sometimes lighting a fire.. and occasionally putting my central heating on once in a while to dry washing and prevent the house from getting totally damp and mouldy.
Urgh! No progress in my lifetime that's for sure
We can live together to survive cold and miserable society heating. By our happiness
To stop damp and mold you need to change the air. Layer up and open doors and windows.
We was never cold in the 70s.
@@irenemorley75 because you are extremely posh
I appreciate the wisdom- thanks for sharing
its not only keeping the body warm but the air we breath must be warm too breathingj in cold air affects the airways causing bronchitis and asthma
@@Daisy-tl2lh so true. When my Mum tried to defrost a frozen chicken by leaving it out in the kitchen, it didn’t defrost, it was so cold in the room !
And dampness in the house too. But as long as she put the heating on once her husband came home it was probably fine for that,
Exactly
cold air also causes mould
That’s why living in a warm climate is best. Britain will never be that.
What struck me was the 'decor' shades of brown. And the lady even wore a matching jumper.
Various governments have so improved the quality of life since then though.
For them f'kin selves.......when will people learn and see all of them for what they are.
Modern people have absolutely no idea how good they have it today.
Too keep warm we open the fridge Door.
I practice living in the fridge in autumn preparation for winter and living in an Ice box.
Fridge? You can afford a fridge?
@@richardcummins5465 they can, but not afford to plug it in.😅
What people don't hold in account is moisture. You need the heat to dry your house enough to prevent damp and mold.
I had someone, who is well off by the way, brag about not needing to turn on the heater at all only to tell me that she had someone over to take care of mold in her house....
So, austerity or no austerity, September and October are always a first world problem for me, because of the rain but not cold enough for the heater to turn on. I set mine on 18 Celsius.
Many people have apparently forgot the great oil crisis of the 70s...
I remember it. International oil prices quadrupled overnight. Inflation was at 20%. Value of people's savings plummeted.
It was a scam.
@@nigelpamment3629 No it wasn't. Oil prices quadrupled because the oil producing nations wanted to punish UK, US and the few other nations that were funding Israel in the 1973 Middle East war.
I was a child at the time, but I remember it.
Doing homework and exam revision in candlelight. Other than that I didn’t notice. !!
TV news didn’t seem to carp on 24/7 about the woes of every country on the globe. Life was simpler.
Peggy is the true inventor of the Snugglie, though with the added hot water bottle in it, she's really got something.
I'm old enough to remember, in the US, being reminded by the government to save energy by 1)driving 55 mph or less, and 2)turning your thermostat to 58 degrees F in winter. So even with an oil furnace in our home, we did pile on the blankets as we sat watching TV in the living room.
It's kind of like living in certain parts of Alaska: you adjust to it well, always wearing your sweater and wooly socks indoors.
I used to wake up early at 5 am and climb into the hot press because the Emersion had some heat in it. Curl up and go to sleep again on a shelf with the sheets or old huge pink blankets until 8 am. Happy days. 😂
Nice! Very cosy.
One thing i get from this is whoooooooo in the holy rincewinding heck thought those wall papers and carpets were what everyone should be decorating their houses with. I was born in the mid 70s and just about remember that stuff, and whilst decorating a few years ago discovered some wallpaper of the 70s kind behind a radiator, in the kitchen! Must have been a psychadelic trip every time you walked into the living room.
I remember this, bed socks, hot water bottles 😂. I’m doing it today still. I’m damned if those greedy b****** are getting my money 😂
Good for you!
Here, here.
God bless her.
OMG! We had a 3-piece with that exact same pattern on it in the early 1980's🤣🤣🤣🤣
So did my aunt and uncle!
Just like 300,473 other people 😂😂
The patterns on the wallpaper and carpets crack me up ! People actually did think that was trendy !
And STILL the energy companies are allowed to RIP US OFF. Nothing changes does it?
It does. Back then the energy companies were only the Gas board and the Electricity board, they were nationalised companies. Inflation was high at 10% and there was a wage cap of 5% to try and bring it down.
This resulted in no-one having enough for anything while prices soared in line with inflation.
Now they're de-nationalised they're allowed to rip us off.
I am so blessed
Now I know what to ask for my 60th birthday - a hot water bottle. I am sitting on my bed FREEZING.
Silicone ones are very small, but microwaveable and they actually don't dry out! I used to replace mine every year, now I am on 3rd winter with my silicone one
There's always wheat bags too. Microwave to heat up. I swear by mine 😊 if you have a b&m near you they've got tonnes of hot water bottles at the moment, including some really long ones too 😊
An electric blanket or mattress pad would be a nice way to keep your bed toasty.
For non-UK viewers: this was a real interview 😂. Timing by YT algorithm is perfect as pensioners not on any government benefits will no longer receive help to pay for winter fuel.
Was a kid in the 70s and remember well how cold it was in winter. even with a coal fire and storage heaters!
Nothing changes does it ! If it it's not for the better . ❄
We were very British back then on the telly. 😂
My mom would run the central heat but once I moved out on my own, I preferred wrapping up in several layers of blankets and keeping the heat low when reading or watching tv. Once I have a blanket on my legs, my cats know that's their sign to jump up and snuggle in. I have a drawer full of thin socks that I wear while sleeping. If it is especially cold, I'll wear something on my head to help keep me warm as I don't run the heat once I've gone to bed. My mom liked to say that I was going to suffocate to death because of all the blankets and comforters I have piled up on top of me at night.
Good lord, all that 1970s brown. 😂
I remember the other year watching an advert for charity that featured a miserable looking little boy with a quilt cover over him in the living room and thinking and genuinely thinking that he actually looked really cosy. We'd sit like that but with blankets as quilts weren't so common and play cards or board games and think it was great fun
The coldest winter I ever experienced was in a military home in Colchester in 1986/87. We only had heating on the ground floor. Upstairs, the windows were icy from the inside and we had frost on the wallpaper 🥶
Wow real wallpaper 😂
@@markhedger6378 Nobly the world perishes 😁
Trouble being a home needs heat to each room to prevent damp in books , furniture , and all your possessions . And home does starmer and family sit like that in the evening
This was nearly 50 years ago in 77. Nothing has changed in 50 years. People are still struggling to stay warm. Imagine if someone was a child in 1927 and by 1977 things hadn't changed. That's what we are looking at.
Das ist ja sowas von herzig. VIelen Dank für das sympathische Gespräch. :D
Und ja natürlich - ich gehe gleich meinen Schlafsack holn und die Wärmeflasche für diese wohlig wärmende Idee.
Und den warmen Tee nicht vergessen.😊
@@miri-dz9oy Und die Näharbeitsstücke.
@@MsRaspberry86 Genau!😂💕
Wow what a brill idea. If your cold put a blanket on
Eiderdown,,,,,, a word I’ve not heard in donkeys yonks