For some reference of money purposes, £15 in 1954 is just over £510 per week. £2000 a month. Rent for 2 bedroom flat (not house with garden) is £1250 without a single bill. Council tax on top of £200 -that’s £1450 gone without even eating a bit of toast!! So picture that! You’ve given away 3/4 of your wages and you haven’t bought ANYTHING yet. Would that reporter even survive a year like that? THE UK IS A CORRUPT CESSPIT.
@Weegus
4 ай бұрын
Couldn't agree more.
@brosephyolonarovichstalin2915
4 ай бұрын
Agree 2
@andypicken7848
4 ай бұрын
jamessones4044 I can agree with expensive but where is the corruption ?
@AnthonyLauder
4 ай бұрын
true, but nowadays a 2 bedroom flat means you probably have a husband or wife, and so have two wages coming in, so 4,000 quid a month rather than 2,000. If you are living on your own, and so only have one wage, you probably have a 1 bedroom flat which is going to be cheaper.
@q.p.r9957
7 күн бұрын
🤯👍
@John-lp5xh
5 ай бұрын
Brilliant documentary, not one "ya get me blud" to be heard
@seanoconnor5737
5 ай бұрын
Was about to say the same thing. "innit bruv" 🤣
@Weegus
4 ай бұрын
I totally agree with you can't stand that noise they spout now.
@Danstarrrr88
4 ай бұрын
The word moves forward unfortunately for you boys. 😂
@Ryan-zv3os
4 ай бұрын
Init Bruv, its sick!
@tech9auto223
5 ай бұрын
Prisoners back then seem more intelligent and eloquent than today's these days they're trying to sound yardy with all sorts of stupid speak
@riffraff4657
5 ай бұрын
I was thinking the very same. There has definitely been a dumbing down in society in general the last 20-30 years
@eamonnevans8005
5 ай бұрын
That's because there were no drugs flying around the place. When prison authorities banned smoking tobacco, the smuggling in of illegal drugs increased threefold.
@jamessones4044
5 ай бұрын
And why’s that then? Seriously? It’s exactly the kind of price the decision makers wanted for us. Go see what Tony Blair said about this country and how he hates it then look at his decision to let millions in! Now you NEVER hear accents like this,it’s all some ghetto version of a black mans accent. We’ve been having certain people decide Britain’s path that actually hate us today.
@w1lf1ewoo
5 ай бұрын
@@eamonnevans8005 thats not thee reason… theres a huge vacuum of decades between those events
@TS-1267
5 ай бұрын
... They've never been able to Spoke Good England Property 😂😂😂 1:59
@AnthonyMonaghan
4 ай бұрын
That opening theme music...so familiar and comforting. Fantastic programme. Thank you for uploading.
@seymourwithem7154
5 ай бұрын
Remember my dad doing 18 months in Wandsworth, would have been 70/71 I think. Strange seeing what he would have lived through. Once a month visits, taking him his bit of Old Holborn. He worked in the kitchens, so when he came home his speciality was spam fritters 🤣
@senecaknowledge2274
4 ай бұрын
Did you end up going the same way ?… many people of your ilk tend to.
@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
4 ай бұрын
What an appalling thing to say to someone! What makes you so superior?
@seymourwithem7154
4 ай бұрын
@@senecaknowledge2274 How very perceptive of you! Yes, I did end up going the same way. Even at 8 years old I could see that prison life was the life for me. Well, it was bound to happen, you know what people of my ilk are like. If only I could have been like you, if only I'd had that feeling of superiority and the confidence to name myself for such an intellectual giant. Things could have been so different.
@mattgosling2657
4 ай бұрын
@@seymourwithem7154lol
@1stBowman
12 күн бұрын
@@senecaknowledge2274 Clown.
@eddyk2016
5 ай бұрын
Makes me laugh how the cons would get told off for not having their buttons done up. Now, in 2024, the landings are smelling of spice and crack. How far its standards have dropped since 1970
@robashton8606
5 ай бұрын
It also makes me laugh how one of them is complaining about being locked up for 22 and a half hours at weekends when it's now common for prisoners to be behind there doors for 23 you're a day all bloody week. No wonder everyone's on drugs.
@redskyz483
4 ай бұрын
@@robashton8606that's why is called a prison. You get locked up.
@smith2781
18 күн бұрын
The landings smelt much worse back then. They had no toilets in the cells back then. They had to slop out and 💩in a bucket or what most people would do is 💩on newspaper and throw it out the window ( shit parcels they were called).
@Mat-kr1nf
8 күн бұрын
30:59 Sounds bloody posh for someone who grew up on a council estate!🤔😬Somehow, I don’t think council estates back then were what they are now!
@th8257
7 күн бұрын
Hilarious that you thought there were "standards" back then. We certainly have serious problems now, but you clearly know nothing about how bad jails were in that era. Go and have a read up about what was happening in Medolsmley Road detention centre back then for example. Paedophile officers abusing young prisoners. Violence that was off the scale. And you're talking about buttons? It shows the superficiality of your mind.
@sugashakeshakeshake852
5 ай бұрын
5:57 lol…proper old timey “right load of old cobblers”
@mickymantle3233
5 ай бұрын
Mainly an 'allocation' nick back in those days. Wandsworth was run like a militaristic regime right up into the late 1980's. It could be brutal if it was your first time passing through that place. I remember being ordered to clean that Centre star with wire wool. The screws would stand in the middle & step on your hands. Needless to say, it was on purpose to send you over the top & I ended up in the block.
@buy.to.let.britain
5 ай бұрын
stay out of trouble lad.
@th8257
7 күн бұрын
@@buy.to.let.britainbecause prison will make you twenty times worse
@JoshJackson-lq7tj
5 ай бұрын
Can’t believe they have ties ,nothing better for strangling someone ,very strange
@mgdwcb1
4 ай бұрын
They had razors too 😮
@aaarrrggghhhh
4 ай бұрын
Typical self pity from the dunce, complaining that his kids run around in rags but he doesn't think of them when he's out thieving or make any effort to be there with them even if it meant working a boring job. Absolutely selfish attitude to life.
@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
4 ай бұрын
The large pile of books on the shelf in the corner... without a telly in every cell it was amazing how much and how widely the average man read while inside.
@southlondon86
4 ай бұрын
There was nothing else to do for them.
@terencehennegan1439
4 ай бұрын
Excellent documentary. No loud unnecessary banging noise. 👍
@mackfin8869
16 күн бұрын
The good old days
@gazpaul1217
5 ай бұрын
17.15 anyone else notice he has a whole finger missing? Days of the slop out, no tv and all screws ex military,.
@alfiesolomons434
5 ай бұрын
Yes ,I noticed that
@goodie8567
4 ай бұрын
"Getting what you deserved " brilliant answer!
@matthewjones9565
5 ай бұрын
Whenever I watch one of these they're all whinging about being locked up. The answer is relatively simple. STOP BREAKING THE LAW!!!!!!
@senecaknowledge2274
4 ай бұрын
It’s not that simple, you’re a sheep who accepts the system as it is. Alpha type personalities push back
@jeffreybail353
5 ай бұрын
all the old prisons were once workhouses and have an even darker history. the truth is the best story never told
@buy.to.let.britain
5 ай бұрын
I was a PO here for 5 years. I used to get a lot of joy stepping on the hands of prisoners who were cleaning the centre star with wire wool.
@noeldarby1635
5 ай бұрын
U wouldn't do it outside prison tho would you.
@jamiecunningham1565
5 ай бұрын
True!!!! He'd have to phone the police like a coward
@Jdac333
5 ай бұрын
Big man. Wouldn’t be so brave 1-1, no uniform.
@buy.to.let.britain
5 ай бұрын
its a long time to spend in there each day watching people, so these things help officers pass the days. its like a game. another one was to meddle with the workshop clocks. moving them backwards and forwards to play with perceptions. that used to make them very confused. @@Jdac333
@Eleventhearlofmars
5 ай бұрын
He is joking you know folks. 😂
@RascalMcBants
5 ай бұрын
Didn't know Trevor from GTA 5 served time here.
@s4squatch1
5 ай бұрын
I was in Wandsworth in 1962 and the yard was controlled by the East L.A. Crips.
@Jack_Warner
5 ай бұрын
I was born in '62. But I wish I'd been born in 1942, then I would have had a great time living the 1960s, and probably be off this mad planet by now.
@londonereast5676
5 ай бұрын
I was there in 1970 and the yard was being controlled by nuns
@southlondon86
4 ай бұрын
Wrong, it was controlled by the same corrupt officers who locked Sylvester Stallone up.
@AnthonyLauder
4 ай бұрын
yeah, but who held the keys to the yard? Who was the shotcaller?
@mackfin8869
16 күн бұрын
I was in there then .iwas blood
@danl5592
5 ай бұрын
Wandsworth is 5 star compared to the Moorish castle in Gibraltar . Brixton is much nicer but nowadays for would need to learn Albanian to get by.😂😅😂😅
@danrobinson572
5 ай бұрын
4:48 he says how much rent was. Cheap back than.
@galaxion62
5 ай бұрын
That geezer being interviewed at the end did raise a valid point, & with all the current inflation, not a great deal has changed for the majority in these current times. Most mundane task jobs still pay pittance wages today. I maintain the word job stands for just over broke in many instances. Not unless we are skilled individuals with a trade, or possess the acumen to run our own business.
@adrinathegreat3095
5 ай бұрын
Yea but back then you worked longer hours for the same equivalent wages, and it was easy to fire some slacker on the spot. My grandfather worked as a full time delivery driver 48 hrs a week to pay all the bills with, then he worked 2 hrs each evening cleaning to pay for his cigarettes. And every Sunday in a pub to pay for other luxuries. He didn't consider himself hard done by, and past away at 68 years old, this was back in the late 70s. Life itself was tougher for the average person back then, he'd wander around local dumping grounds and back alleys picking up brown bottles and lemonade bottles that you get 3p or 5p for in the shops, he'd give his grandkids this money, he never owed anybody anything and would never buy anything on tick, credit, he'd save up and buy. Would seem odd to young people today, but there was nothing unusual in what he did, many people lived like this.. In his younger days it was even worse, joined the military served in ww2, was captured escaped, recaptured escaped again, and recaptured, spending 3 years in a pow camp in Germany. Again his life wasn't that much different to those of his friends
@AnthonyLauder
4 ай бұрын
@@adrinathegreat3095 same here. My grandfather worked in a factory during the daytime, but (this is astonishing to people now) was a postman in the mornings too, doing early morning deliveries.
@diamond66ist
2 күн бұрын
One of the first lessons i learnt was when someone asks for a snout (cigarette ) dont give them your tobacco ,they will roll themselves a burn the size of a sausage !!!
@RascalMcBants
5 ай бұрын
Wouldn't the insurance rate go up though in the area?
@johnmclaughlin1946
5 ай бұрын
Thanks
@JoshJackson-lq7tj
5 ай бұрын
Very true a product of your environment
@keithpilkington907
5 ай бұрын
Old stool jail reminded me of strangeways
@Cameraman61
5 ай бұрын
"Dare-gradiation" lol
@1stBowman
12 күн бұрын
What does one expect from a nation that once dumped petty criminals and poor people on the other side of the world?
@Emerald007007
12 күн бұрын
Not so much drugs in prisons back then such as spice to make the prisoners loose their minds
@stephenallison1522
5 ай бұрын
Filmed in 1965.
@salus1231
5 ай бұрын
Says June 1970.
@southlondon86
4 ай бұрын
To be fair the hairstyles and clothes seem more mid-1960s. By the late 60s, the long hair, sideburns and crap styles all came in.
@georgekaritzis2374
5 ай бұрын
Like Porridge but without the punchlines
@Ron.M-yo9ht
4 ай бұрын
This is totally interesting Especially around this time not many people had a TV 24/7
@Jamie_Wulfyr
14 сағат бұрын
Most people had TV by the late 60s. It was a little different 20 years or so before that. My Grandparents,my Dad and other people from their village piled into the local Squire's house to watch Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on his TV because they were rare in the 50s. By the mid 60s my Grandparents and most of the local working class owned their own TV sets.
@Ron.M-yo9ht
12 сағат бұрын
@@Jamie_Wulfyr I agree but not everyone had a chance to see this programme It would depend on what part of the UK / region Not like today 👍
@Jamie_Wulfyr
12 сағат бұрын
@@Ron.M-yo9ht That's true. BBC was the same for everyone nationwide but ITV was run on a regional basis and every region had different broadcast scheduling. Good point.
@robanderson1155
5 ай бұрын
Just dont get yaself in jail
@RobertHayes-tu5fp
5 ай бұрын
Quite fascinating in many ways. I'd really love to know what became of all these guys. Many sad stories here.
@danrobinson572
5 ай бұрын
I agree ☝️
@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio
5 ай бұрын
Life long criminals who wasted most of their lives in jail I most likely.
@danrobinson572
4 ай бұрын
@@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio yes 👍
@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio
4 ай бұрын
@@danrobinson572 Yes Dan 👊🏾
@rjglennon2219
5 ай бұрын
My wing as well i was on c4
@ricdavid7476
5 ай бұрын
i was in brixton in the early 80s and it was a victorian nightmare and overcrowded but at the time wandsworth was considered to be more brutal.
@robharding5345
5 ай бұрын
prisons are for mugs,I hope you saw sense !
@Weegus
4 ай бұрын
Every jail the length and breadth of the country was the same hence why the riots stated mid eighty's well the once that made the news .there all cess pits
@fredflintstoner596
4 ай бұрын
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
@AwesomeAngryBiker
5 ай бұрын
Even on this the comments section is full of braggers 🙄🙄🙄
@Jack_Warner
5 ай бұрын
I don't suppose you have the Man Alive programme about skinheads and Hells Angels? I think it was made 1969.
@ELLIOTNEWPIP
5 ай бұрын
There's a uk hells angels documentary on KZitem, it's actually quite good and is around 1969. It should be easy to find
@jameskingston6175
12 күн бұрын
great theme music. who wrote it
@danrobinson572
5 ай бұрын
At 10 :28 you hear a very loud fart!!!!!!
@Robbie176
7 күн бұрын
5:33 Stop taking things that don’t belong to you and then you can enjoy your weekends at home instead of in the nick ( is what I would of told him at the time) -
@melvinnolan
5 ай бұрын
They shouldn't degradiate that man
@rjglennon2219
5 ай бұрын
I remember Wandsworth pf2190
@rjglennon2219
5 ай бұрын
As a con that brass centre the screws stood on we had to walk round
@1stBowman
12 күн бұрын
That fellow was explaining what it was like to be part of the working poor. No future. No way of ever owning your own home. Just working yourself to death just to survive. And all around you is the landed gentry. My ex father in law was from Hull and he said his greatest regret in life was not coming to Australia in the 1960's when he had the chance. It's harder here now but back then a working man could get ahead in Australia, raise a family, and buy his own home. England has always been bleak for the average working man.
@mackfin8869
16 күн бұрын
I was in Brixton for two weeks and Wandsworth for four weeks.little sample
@petemullen842
5 ай бұрын
That’s exactly how prisons should be run today instead of these holiday camps with absolutely no discipline. This country has gone far too soft in more than one way. Bring back the old style of Britain get rid of undesirables. go back to basics when a man was a man, and a woman was a woman instead of what we’ve got. Now Arthur wants to be. Martha and Martha wants to be Hartha. What a strange set up we have today with all the do gooders
@CaveRescueMedic
5 ай бұрын
This doesn’t work though. The most successful prison systems are those in Scandinavia.
@chris379202
5 ай бұрын
There's zero respect these days or should I say fear.
@hhuodod2209
4 ай бұрын
So some kind of dictatorship. You can leave the UK if you like😂
@petemullen842
4 ай бұрын
@@hhuodod2209 yes exactly, we can start with you. I’ve changed to a wall feed your bread and water and leave you there at least 12 months you would come out a better person believe me
@petemullen842
4 ай бұрын
@@hhuodod2209 you can stay if you like, I will think of something good for people like yousomething you wouldn’t like, giving you a job and making you earn your living instead of scrounging off the state how do you fancy that dosser?
@danrobinson572
5 ай бұрын
I wonder what year this is??
@RascalMcBants
5 ай бұрын
1970.
@danrobinson572
5 ай бұрын
@@RascalMcBants okay 👍 thought 💭 it was earlier than that since it’s black and white.
@RascalMcBants
5 ай бұрын
Same, mate. Just Googled it, I was surprised too. I could be wrong like.@@danrobinson572
@danrobinson572
5 ай бұрын
@@andysmith8890 ok
@CornishLiving8
5 ай бұрын
@@danrobinson5721965
@Weegus
4 ай бұрын
When doing time was doing time no computers or hypnotic propaganda boxes to stew you mind with
@robanderson1155
5 ай бұрын
Degraidiation I think he meant."degradation"
@kenneth2656
5 ай бұрын
Rugby player 46:24
@danrobinson572
5 ай бұрын
I agree ☝️
@truthseeker9945
5 ай бұрын
I wonder what happened to him?
@danrobinson572
5 ай бұрын
I’m curious myself.
@melvinnolan
5 ай бұрын
Is that Alan Whicker.
@andypicken7848
4 ай бұрын
melvinnolan Yes that was him, at the time he was serving a 12 months sentance for car theft
@iancameron6124
4 ай бұрын
funny...how....we...use...too....be..!
@mwd331
5 ай бұрын
Is this 60s?
@swaneknoctic9555
5 ай бұрын
1860s by the looks of it. Shame it wasn't filmed in colour.
@danrobinson572
5 ай бұрын
@@swaneknoctic9555I agree 👍
@mwd331
5 ай бұрын
@@swaneknoctic9555 well, as colour wasn’t widely used in the 60s then I guess we can forgive it?
@swaneknoctic9555
5 ай бұрын
@@mwd331 we can. However if it were a North American production chances are it would have been recorded in color.
@CornishLiving8
5 ай бұрын
1965
@darrinredmond6038
13 күн бұрын
sw16 nick they was all corrupt
@danwilson1040
5 ай бұрын
One million and a half pounds,shouldn’t it be one and a half million pounds?
@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
4 ай бұрын
No
@danwilson1040
4 ай бұрын
@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts why
@rjglennon2219
5 ай бұрын
I understand what this man is saying your punishment is being there your not there to be punished
@kingkong81icloud
5 ай бұрын
I got 12 months because the police said I would get 3 years if I went not guilty, so I went guilty for attempted burglary when I was young, I could not stop going back , police messed me up luckily my dad would always send me my money an clothes, in years 2000 to about 05
@rjglennon2219
5 ай бұрын
Shit.
@tompo7467
5 ай бұрын
3 fingered bald man was cool as fuck…
@southlondon86
4 ай бұрын
Why
@tompo7467
3 ай бұрын
@@southlondon86 because he was sharp and menacing whilst relaxed in his cage. Interesting and cool as fuck.
@Fitness121
5 ай бұрын
The hate factory.
@1stBowman
12 күн бұрын
Cruel. No other way to describe it.
@rjglennon2219
5 ай бұрын
We all know the pigs are bent
@kevinmarsden8102
5 ай бұрын
How about not breaking the law and then you dont have to spend any time a the cell :)
@user-vg5rv5xf4u
6 күн бұрын
2024 man fucking the screws
@1stBowman
12 күн бұрын
I always wondered why prison officers were hated so much. Listening to these men it's easy to understand. They were nobodies in society who when given a little bit of power exercised it unlawfully and without compassion. I get these were different times but clearly the culture of the prison officers was completely toxic.
@PSI-qf8bq
10 күн бұрын
Try thinking of victims of crime first. Lots of poor me, poor me. Spend money on schools, hospitals, or prisons? Humain conditions, yes, of course, absolutely. In society we all have to live by rules. The prisoner saying he breaks into business having insurance who does he think pays increased premiums.
@TS-1267
4 ай бұрын
... 8:17 Wouldn't Liked to Have Been His 'Pad-Mate' "WHINGE MOAN MOPE" Every 2 Minutes. Probably Ticked ✅ His Day's Off Like a Xmas Advent Calendar 🗓️. Long Sentence's with Moaning Malcolm's Who Do Their Television Interview's Whilst Showering 🚿... JOLLY DECENT DOCUMENTARY... 🏴✌️👍
@John-lp5xh
5 ай бұрын
Brilliant documentary, not one "ya get me blud" to be heard
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