1970s Liverpool | Poverty | Education priority areas | Teaching in the 70s | This Week | 1971

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  • The Government has proposed 'Education priority areas' as a way to help improve educational performance of those who live in deprived areas. Thames TVs factual programme 'This Week' visits one such area in Liverpool .
    First show: 06/05/1971
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  • @anthonyhulse1248
    @anthonyhulse1248 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I come from Wythenshawe, south Manchester. Many of the same issues, poverty, deprivation, lack of investment in kids. I’m grateful in many ways for the Catholic grammar school that literally thrashed a decent education into me. I was the first of my family (30 first cousins and all previous generations) to go to university. I’m now a teacher and love working with students from similar backgrounds to these kids.

  • @Theocracy8
    @Theocracy8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Poverty yes, but not deprived in morality. Now we have both.

    • @MrDanielfff777
      @MrDanielfff777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      True

    • @stockgorilla4999
      @stockgorilla4999 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lol I haven't seen uk kids playing in dirt the last several years 😂

    • @missmuffet3874
      @missmuffet3874 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are deluded. So there were no murders, rapes or domestic abuse years ago? There were no red light districts or dodgy goings on? If you think there is more crime and immorality about today it’s because it’s reported more frequently. A lot of cover ups and sweeping things under the carpet in those days.

    • @missmuffet3874
      @missmuffet3874 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @peoplearedumbnow3886what about our homeless problem or were you being sarcastic?

  • @CA999
    @CA999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Are they allowed to say the word "poverty" anymore on television about domestic issues? Thank you for the upload to remind us of what television was and still should be.

  • @j.m.4444
    @j.m.4444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    50 years later same problems. Nothing has changed. Well done!

  • @buddha1736
    @buddha1736 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I lived down south it was grim in School and our council estate wasn’t much better, the best thing I learned from School was to Read, I do love reading a good Book. 😍

    • @mindblast3901
      @mindblast3901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Reading and writing bit of maths that will do work the rest out 70,80,s school south east oh what fun we had LOL

    • @buddha1736
      @buddha1736 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mindblast3901 Deffo mate, do you remember the old Damp, Cold 🥶 Portacabins things lol. 😂

    • @mindblast3901
      @mindblast3901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@buddha1736 oh yes with odd one leaking roof catching rain drops in those grey class room rubbish bins

    • @buddha1736
      @buddha1736 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mindblast3901 😂👍🏻

    • @stevefoster5138
      @stevefoster5138 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@buddha1736 I can see a wedding coming on here !!!

  • @markallan3842
    @markallan3842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    2021 and we still have all these problems when will it ever change ?

  • @DC-wp6oj
    @DC-wp6oj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A degree today has been totally devalued. You can be a complete failure at school and college and still get accepted to university and get a degree. Not worth the paper its written on.

    • @FN_FAL_4_ever
      @FN_FAL_4_ever 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That is only becoming increasingly apparent with each passing year. The entire college/university education system (and I use the word "education" very loosely) is a money pit.

  • @gerardrimmer1601
    @gerardrimmer1601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I enjoyed my childhood in Liverpool , l was born 1950 the standard of education growing up was absolutely shite , the employment situation was dire when l left school not that l had a choice about having a job it was basically trying to decide what kind of shit l preferred to shovel etc, l had to leave Liverpool to find a better life for myself and l succeeded, l raised a family worked hard and l bought my own house along with my wife of course.

    • @markydee1133
      @markydee1133 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well done mate

    • @OTMM22
      @OTMM22 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good for you. Went to Liverpool last year and was shocked by the level of deprivation. It was quite sad really.

  • @RetroReminiscing
    @RetroReminiscing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Llove watching all the uploads for this channel, thank you

  • @mt6271
    @mt6271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Liverpool has come a long way since this video. Still more investment needed but I remember the docks back then and it’s looking better all the time.

  • @thomastereszkiewicz2241
    @thomastereszkiewicz2241 ปีที่แล้ว

    kids look pretty happy in this film, hurrah for Liverpool, with all its challenges, still keeping their children a priority, well done indeed!

  • @Nortekman
    @Nortekman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The UK in the 1970’s and 1980’s always looks bleak, depressed and polluted.

    • @TheStevenWhiting
      @TheStevenWhiting 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And cold

    • @TheStevenWhiting
      @TheStevenWhiting 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      This was up North. It never was great up North with all the coal mines closing etc. But also have to remember the filming quality back then was never great.

    • @4-dman464
      @4-dman464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The media now makes it look that way. Is the planet LESS polluted now? Any study by any environmental team would have to observe that the planet is far more polluted now than then, and the gap between rich and poor far more extreme now than then, and the number of homeless people far more prevalent now than then, and tenants' rights far more eroded now than then, and human rights generally (starting with the right to privacy and on up) far more eroded now than then, and overpopulation far more problematic now than then.... so if the 1970s was troublesome, how would we characterise today?

    • @earthredalert
      @earthredalert 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was - although the planet is even more screwed today than it was back then. By a long long way.

    • @sutapasbhattacharya9471
      @sutapasbhattacharya9471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And yet the surveys show that the British people were at their happiest in 1977 when there was far less inequality in housing etc.

  • @jasonayres
    @jasonayres 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Out of curiosity, Liverpool FC is an internationally renowned club.
    The Beatles, and their ilk, were internationally known.
    This is not the first video on poverty in the region, at the time.
    Were any of these celebrities, in their own way, helpful to the region, back in the day?

    • @civlyzed
      @civlyzed 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Those are interesting questions, and I'd like to know the answers as well.

    • @marklola12
      @marklola12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i actually tried to look this up a while ago and i found nothing saying the beatles when they had fame did anything for liverpool or their communities as such as giving money to local charities etc, i know Lennon supported some charities but they were not local ones or ones to do with liverpool

    • @jasonayres
      @jasonayres 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@marklola12 Thanks.
      This is a sad shame, considering what we saw in the above video.

    • @dogdayaftertaste
      @dogdayaftertaste 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@marklola12 Paul McCartney, founder of LIPA, is an ex-Beatle I believe.

    • @dogdayaftertaste
      @dogdayaftertaste 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @WhatHappenedToSociety for some strange reason you seem to think I gave you permission to tell me what to do. You couldn't be more mistaken.

  • @janeporter818
    @janeporter818 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is sad to watch even if it was 50 years ago💔

    • @shizueleighhicks6174
      @shizueleighhicks6174 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Friendly, down-to-earth people is what I remember from the mid1970s. Sense of humor? Even the kids used to make me laugh.
      I (an American) was in my mid-twenties,fell in love with a Scouse and enjoyed the pleasure of his company with two other native Liverpudlians in a nineteenth century humongous former mansion turned into three bedsits and an apartment for the elderly landlady and her middle aged son.
      Shillings in the meter for gas for cooking and more shillings in another meter in the bath for bathwater boiled 10 gallons at a time in a geezer.
      The 70s were very romantic. Showed me a new way to live in an 8 pound per week bedsit with share bath and kitchen.
      At one point during those couple of years the bin men went on strike. A big corner empty lot near us turned into a temporary garbage “tip.” Smelly and covered with rats by the end of the first week.
      From what I see of the gentrification of Edge Lane and the rest of Liverpool, the place has changed a million-fold. For the better? I don’t know. I don’t remember homeless and food banks.
      Would I give up the chance to be there in the 1970s? No chance! Would I want to be there now? No chance!

  • @noteverton
    @noteverton 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was 13 then, growing up in Liverpool.

  • @Herlrzax
    @Herlrzax 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you very much for upload.

  • @MargaretPinard
    @MargaretPinard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Paddington Playmobile! That's fun.

  • @ctcurry1777
    @ctcurry1777 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nothings changed apart from a population explosion. This is hard world and its getting harder. Parents must take more responsibility for thier children's education.

  • @joanne26
    @joanne26 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Liverpool was like most big metropolitan cities like Birmingham and Manchester they had the same issues of POVERTY, Education issues and Teaching issues back then. I started school in Birmingham in 1971 and enjoyed the first 6 years but education did nothing for me.
    When TONY BLAIR came to power in 1997 it was all about EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION and aiming to get a huge % to go to UNIVERSITY. Where has that got us? I feel we need to learn about LIFE SKILLS and more learning hands on SKILLS TO MAKE THINGS and i feel that the SUBJECTS/CURRICULUM needs to change to cope with the world today

  • @helenhughes9420
    @helenhughes9420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Government have made this kind of help with learning impossible because it wasn't profitable!!

  • @lindabishop7266
    @lindabishop7266 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I lived in river Avon street I don't think we lived in poverty I passed my 11 plus went for a year in grammar school before moving only because my step father got offered a new job and a house loved my childhood in Liverpool

  • @albear972
    @albear972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What the heck? Some instincts came out at 4:37

  • @syedadeelhussain2691
    @syedadeelhussain2691 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would advise you to read Dr Amartya Sen.

  • @marklola12
    @marklola12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The state of that bus lol they could have even back then clean the inside where the kids go lol

  • @earthredalert
    @earthredalert 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Liverpool is still mostly a socialist cesspit all these years later, unfortunately. Very red, oh what good that ideology did for them. The only good thing about Liverpool is its glorious victorian buildings, great maritime history and museums and of course LFC. Worth a weekend visit if you've not been.

    • @philipcurnow7990
      @philipcurnow7990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think your grammar needs some work. I don't quite understand your point.

    • @AA-jj6jv
      @AA-jj6jv 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Liverpool much like Manchester and other cities have those problems. However Liverpool has more then just what you've stated. Yet it is ran by a bunch of woke socialist idiots.

    • @bt3743
      @bt3743 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AA-jj6jv again how is Liverpool socialist. In what way is the economy of liverpool controlled by workers

    • @Jason-Scott
      @Jason-Scott 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agree Liverpool is proper communist.

    • @Simnuvo
      @Simnuvo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "what good that ideology did for them", you're talking as if there's been any socialist governments since Clement Atlee's in the 1940's or as if Liverpool is an independent country... Liverpool had the misfortune of being deliberately put on a "managed decline" by Thatcher - mistreatment on steroids compared to the other mistreated Northern cities and towns that have degraded dramatically thanks to successive conservative and neoliberal governments. If the people of Liverpool actually got what they voted for, the story would've been very different and misguided people like you wouldn't leave such ignorant comments.

  • @simonba9944
    @simonba9944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    👍🏻👍🏻

  • @thehoneyeffect
    @thehoneyeffect 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Notice how they all say ‘his’ instead of they when referring to all of children. How have assets back a poverty stricken boy was in Liverpool, a girl was more sad

  • @michaelsalt4565
    @michaelsalt4565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Education only works if the students want to learn. There appears amongst many from deprived areas that there is no motivation to learn, better to live off benefits then actually work for a living is the attitude of some

    • @JerkerDahlblom
      @JerkerDahlblom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      What a load of nonsense.

    • @michaelsalt4565
      @michaelsalt4565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@JerkerDahlblom my daughter is a teacher at a school in one of the most deprived areas in England. Now give me your source for your comment.

    • @JerkerDahlblom
      @JerkerDahlblom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@michaelsalt4565 You will find people with the same attitude in all social classes. Your daughter speaks for all impoverished people?

    • @michaelsalt4565
      @michaelsalt4565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@JerkerDahlblom so my comment isn't nonsense then, you agree it's the reality of the situation.

    • @JerkerDahlblom
      @JerkerDahlblom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@michaelsalt4565 It is a nonsense comment as such, the problems these people faces are complex. Your comment makes them one dimensional people with only one goal in life - live off benefits (as if the monetary amount of benefits you get enables a "comfortable life" ).

  • @barbaraannecortina7899
    @barbaraannecortina7899 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    not even a full fucking programme...disappointing!

  • @vasili1207
    @vasili1207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that's white privilege

  • @Layla-mt9pc
    @Layla-mt9pc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We were empty in pockets full in life❤boss la🫶💋🫶