Does anyone appreciate how much work goes into these series? Getting together the clothing, fixing up the apartments- it was TONS of preparation
@cbryce9243
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds more like fun than work to me, but yes, there was a lot of thought put into this series.
@msjessicahall
2 жыл бұрын
I do I do!!!!!!
@danone2414
2 жыл бұрын
it's just such perfect job
@becgedge7609
2 жыл бұрын
Yes that's exactly why I joined!! I'm obsessed with this channel and this show!
@sarahhumphreys3980
Жыл бұрын
I do. Great job.
@honeyvitagliano3227
3 жыл бұрын
I’m sad this series has come to an end, and I hope Absolute History releases another living back in history series soon
@mariamacdonald2245
3 жыл бұрын
On. Kp
@pinknotthebarbie
3 жыл бұрын
The BBC does back in time series. Try and find back and further back in time for tea. They also did a corner shop version and highstreet version
@dxsty_
3 жыл бұрын
@@pinknotthebarbie Do you know what the BBC series is called
@pinknotthebarbie
3 жыл бұрын
@@dxsty_ look up bbc back in time in u Your search engine ul find it
@amyrivers4093
3 жыл бұрын
@@pinknotthebarbie I saw the high street series. I was was only recommended this channel about a week ago and I'm really enjoying seeing what life was like (I'm 43 so I was born in 1978). It is so different to hearing about these times and some parts have been hard to see, namely how the Hawkes family had to see the signs 'no coloureds' in the sixties. In some ways we haven't learnt anything from the past and how people treated each other. We need programs like this so that we can change. I'm not English however my ancestors were descendants and my sister lives in England with her family. I live in New Zealand where we grew up.
@sallybutton6237
3 жыл бұрын
I loved the power cuts as a child because it meant the candles would come out which to me made everything cosy & magical, I still love candles to this day because of this at the age of 58.
@AlyxAesthetics
2 жыл бұрын
thats only a 70s thing? im 16 and that happened in my home all the time when i was little
@gayehunter-gornall9628
Жыл бұрын
All the way through this series Saskia has been the most impressive. She has shouldered hardships and changes with fortitude, maturity and good nature. I'm sure she has gone far
@dokidokidokidokidoki
Жыл бұрын
her sister however...
@gbritaney
3 жыл бұрын
When the Dad was singing. He was living his best life 😆
@rosemerrynmcmillan1611
3 жыл бұрын
I think he was living his best life before this series he got involved in.. He has a close and loving relationship with his wife and children and they with him. THATS the BEST life!
@kasner23
3 жыл бұрын
His singing voice was giving me a headache.
@Aaron-kq7rd
2 жыл бұрын
He could be a movie star, if he could get out of that place...
@charmerci
2 жыл бұрын
@@Aaron-kq7rd - if it's the last thing he ever does.
@Zaners82123
2 жыл бұрын
Oh my yes he was. Couldn't tell what song that was but all the same
@traceybeagle9934
3 жыл бұрын
I was a teenager in the 70s and loved the black outs. Really fire, candles and radio Luxembourg
@hogwashmcturnip8930
3 жыл бұрын
It had a kind of magic didn't it? We would spend ages with tinfoil and mirrors, trying to get maximum light, then play cards and draughts or do shadow nonsense! People seem to have lost the art of inventiveness/resourcefulness. Which is a bit worrying as they are going to need them again soon
@infrasleep
3 жыл бұрын
I couldn't 100% enjoy them as our road was rostered for the power cut on Thursdays when Top of the Pops was on. The kids at school who weren't cut off used to rub it in saying Slade/T Rex were brilliant last night or simply asking "Did you watch TOTP last night" knowing we couldn't, Arrogant swine's, but I'd have done the same :D
@DEROUGET
3 жыл бұрын
Yes remember it well. I was 16. It was quite exciting. We knew it wouldn’t last so we just enjoyed the moment.
@pjschmid2251
3 жыл бұрын
It makes me a bit sad to hear that these kids aren’t allowed to go out and play. I grew up going out and playing all day long and not even seeing my parents until the street lights came on was pretty normal. It gave us a sense of confidence and independence. What’s going to happen to these kids when they grow up?
@caseyflorida
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly! I would do the same back in the 1970s. Meet friends outside and bike around the neighborhood, play games, etc., all day long, and as long as I was back home for dinner time, then all was fine.
@lexiburrows8127
3 жыл бұрын
I loved the '70's. My mother was not so keen with the power-cuts, bread and sugar shortages etc. but I didn't care back then. We did not have a T.V., (my Grandparents did) and so playing out all day was normal. I remember my Grandad complaining about all the strikes - they seemed to be on the news about it on a daily basis, plus stuff about the Lebanon, Beirut, bombings, the I.R.A., Henry Kissinger, Idi Amin (who scared me to death as a kid). Gosh. Memories.
@caseyflorida
3 жыл бұрын
@@lexiburrows8127 I grew up in the US, and we didn't have power or water cuts or sugar or bread shortages. But we did have gasoline shortages around 1973. I remember seeing on the news cars lined up for hours waiting to get as much gasoline as they could, but I was only 11, so it didn't really matter to me.
@Victoria_Phoenix
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the 90's and early 2000's in a rural area in Ontario my siblings and I were always outside playing even in the forest and all that with the other neighborhood kids. In the summer we were outside from after breakfast until dinner accept for a quick lunch break.
@geigertec5921
3 жыл бұрын
State imposed serfdom
@zarci7009
3 жыл бұрын
I like how they tell about their real feelings in the moment and it isn't all acting I mean children tell the truth
@dannybruff
2 жыл бұрын
Our government have done a terrible job educating the generations since...
@isabelleteh5655
3 жыл бұрын
Wait, you mean kids "these days" just play with their ipads all day? I was LITERALLY born in 2006, and everyone in the neighbourhood would just get together right after school to cycle and play on the streets until around 2015
@kkdinogirl
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!!
@msmlolmanpolybrige0335
3 жыл бұрын
well it depends on A the country B the type of person and C the neighbourhood, i was born 2005 and we did go out and play however i was never too social, my father was very introverted so i guess i inherated that, i would go out from time to time and play whit the little friends i had, of course when technology came i guess i got carried by it, however my parents weren't able to afford a lot of stuff, such as laptops, computers or a ps2, but one my uncles who lived in the US who you know had some money bought me a ps3 and hell i had fun whit that, i don't think staying in home is all that bad, but definitevely a balance between both is very important and i guess being a city dweller also has an effect on you, since i live in a city as population dense as london
@yvonnewalesuk8035
3 жыл бұрын
LITERALLY 😂
@iliketurtles2843
3 жыл бұрын
@The Blue Max 713 They were probably trying to add emphasis. Yes the grammar is incorrect, but these are KZitem comments, not an English essay.
@shahanaxo
3 жыл бұрын
Tbh im struggling with the idea that someone born in 2006 is allowed to use the Internet without parental controls right now lmao
@wendymudkins6870
3 жыл бұрын
I was a seventies kid I remember the power cuts and the strikes and three day week the water shortage and getting water from a stand pipe with the hot summer we were given a jam sandwich and a bottle of orange juice and told be in when the street lights come on or else this brings back a lot of memories
@jonc4403
3 жыл бұрын
Britain was a bit different from the US in the '70s. No water shortage, no power outages unless there was a storm or somebody ran into a pole. Hot summers meant staying inside where there was air conditioning, I hated the heat, still do. "Washing up" was putting the dishes in the dishwasher. And of course at the end of the '70s we got a computer. Oh, and yes of course I learned to shoot a gun as a kid. I was probably 7 or 8 the first time I fired a rifle. Wasn't really my thing, I got my first soldering iron in the '70s, took a lot of things apart.
@harlowblackadder356
3 жыл бұрын
"Who is it???" THAT IS DAVID FREAKING BOWIE!!!!!! 🤣
@margaretsmallallan28
3 жыл бұрын
I was a young Mother in 1972, and had to prepare every bottle for my daughter each day, working out around the powercuts .I had moved south to a city, and our young family were in a multi-storey flat, which meant that the lifts did not work when rhe electric supply was off. You had to make sure that your shopping was done when the lifts were working, as managing a pram and a couple of bags of shopping could not be done, if you had to bring it up 9 flooors of stairs! Happy days!
@dbseamz
2 жыл бұрын
Very glad this episode didn't go the "oh, back in the day kids played OUTSIDE with each OTHER and weren't GLUED TO SCREENS" route without mentioning the fact that 21st century kids often aren't *allowed* that kind of outdoor freedom.
@2_thumbs_up_baby
3 жыл бұрын
I'm going to miss these families. We just start to grow fond of them and they are snatched away 💣💨 LOVED IT!!!! ❤
@alpinechick53
3 жыл бұрын
This was a wonderful series and I really enjoyed it. The children were SO well spoken, and were very good at verbalizing their feelings and insights on the era's. I know it's not possible, but I would be interested to see what everyone is up to now that almost 10 years has passed since the experiment.
@realisticequestrian8229
3 жыл бұрын
Facebook search them. The Meadowses are still into polo.
@Justsomebody009
3 жыл бұрын
“I’m more worried about hearing mum and dads stories of the 70s” dude one day you’ll wish you listened to all their stories
@julienielsen3746
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. I wish I had asked my parents more questions about the past. Now they're gone.
@astroterf.
11 ай бұрын
That was my EXACT thought hearing that, so sad 😢 When they are gone, the stories have gone with them 😭
@paddybpaddyb9940
3 жыл бұрын
17:00 " As night falls single mother Lisa reflects on her first day on the street" Priceless
@mrsapplez2007
2 жыл бұрын
Haha I didn't even notice that bit
@specialk5994
3 жыл бұрын
I'd love a "Where are they Now?" Follow up on these individuals and their perspectives.
@mixe
2 жыл бұрын
Yes! I tried googling the show and "where are they now" but nothing.
@krenakrneki7636
2 жыл бұрын
I was really surprised by Sandra....she was so shocked by the place they lived in in the 60's, and than she became a land lady, renting out same dirty and horrible rooms she was living in and (rightfully so) complaining about.
@joeottsoulbikes415
3 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1970. My dad had just returned from Vietnam a year before I was born and was scheduled to get out of the Army. He was afraid he did not have the job skills to support my mom and me so he rejoined the Army as a Private First Class (E2) a very low rank. More secure than his only hob skill as a farmer of hops which do not grow in Indiana where we were. My mom always worked part time as a store clerk or office typist. The first 5 years of my life were lean with uncles or aunts living with us to share money. I shared a bedroom with my uncle Mike from 4 to 7 years old. My dad made rank pretty quick and my mom got lucky with some well paying office manager jobs for electrical, plumbing repair and pest control companies. During my teen years my mom was a civilian employee of the military as a Colonel's public liaison as a GS-10 Step 3 (A pretty high civilian pay rank) while my dad had made E-9 1st Seargeant (a very high enlisted rank) We lived an upper middle class life most of the time from age 8 on getting better as I turned 13 years old.
@letsgoletsgoletsgoletsgoletsgo
3 жыл бұрын
I read your whole story, thanks
@annic7995
3 жыл бұрын
💗
@hettyscetty9785
3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering how someone could be so excited over a glass fish and then remembered that my Grandpa still has one on his window ledge.
@tonylouis4907
3 жыл бұрын
15:04 Don't let the suuuuuuuuuun go down on meeeeeeeeee ♫
@trendywipp3715
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Good giggle
@MrEmichan
2 жыл бұрын
These turn back series have been absolutely great! (Both this family series as well as the high street one). I could easily watch the same set up with new set of families. I would love to see how things were even further back from the Victorian era as well. I thank the families who participate. They selected fantastic families for the documentary/experience.
@Rinihime
2 жыл бұрын
Loved the Meadows the most, they worked so hard in nearly every era, so it was nice to see that they started to finally get a leg up.
@eileenbass952
3 жыл бұрын
That was brillaht, going through the decades like that. More of this type of films please.
@thorajuliusdottir8911
3 жыл бұрын
Absolut history have so many awesome docs like these, been binchwatching here in my illness days 🙈😉
@IonIsFalling7217
3 жыл бұрын
I hate vacuuming. Would never sign up for furry walls 😂
@missdemeanor3524
3 жыл бұрын
Shag carpeted walls that matched the floors were so cool in the 1970's. They were usually in the basement rec room or as we called it the 'rumpus room'.
@OstblockLatina
3 жыл бұрын
I have a pollen and dust allergy and just the thought of those makes me itch on my whole body.
@vylbird8014
3 жыл бұрын
Looks like they predate the concept of fire safety too.
@missdemeanor3524
3 жыл бұрын
@@vylbird8014 yeah, in the US there was a debate that lasted into the late 1970's as to whether or not it was better to make children's pajamas and stuffed animals out of synthetic fabric that could burst into flames or fabric that was flame-retardant but caused cancer. Good times.
@hogwashmcturnip8930
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the 7os and I Never knew of anyone having furry walls! Some of this was like parallel universe for me. I was like 'Which planet 70s was this?' I don't remember that!'
@Stemo1978
3 жыл бұрын
"Every household had a glass fish" - I still have one of these glass fishes in my living room XD. I've recognized so many items from my childhood but I've never seen someone having furry walls!
@trendywipp3715
3 жыл бұрын
LOL we had a glass fish too, and a bowl of wooden fruit. I too recognized a lot of the decorative items. I enjoyed being a child in the 70's. Loved my bike with the banana seat, called her Lucy lol.
@glennoc8585
3 жыл бұрын
@@trendywipp3715 my mother still has her glass fish in a cabinet. It was an expensive one for the time but i just can't take to it.
@hogwashmcturnip8930
3 жыл бұрын
We never had a glass fish! my mother thought they were 'common!' My aunt, on the other hand, collected them, and those creepy glass clowns. Remember the handkerchief point vases/bowls? I won one of those on a tombola at the school fete and was so proud to take it home to mom. She kept it for years. Looking back she probably hated it, but I had won it for her, so it was special! It got broken by my dad, along with other stuff when he did something stupid and fell into the wall unit He wasn't drunk, (his idea of a night out was half a pint of mild) I think he fell off a stepladder or something, doing some DIY, which he was singularly unsuited for and my mom had asked him not to do. So he was out of favour for some time! Lol
@musicloverlondon6070
Жыл бұрын
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Hahah, thank you for reminding me about those glass clowns! Yes, they were creepy. I had completely forgotten about them and laughed out loud when I read your comment. Always liked those glass fish though. There was something endearing about them, probably because they were so common. 😄🤡🐠
@rita590
3 жыл бұрын
I m not yet a british citizen, but i love this episode. It s soo different from my childhood back in the '80 in Romania. I ve always wonder myself how it would be to live in such a beautiful and free country. Watched nearly every single episode from Ansolute History and sometimes i even cried watching the workhouses stories.
@rachelcaullay172
Жыл бұрын
Growing up in the 70s & 80s were great times mostly. Playing out until tea time and could be trusted to be on my own till my parents came home from work after sch. I remember the power cuts and usually on the weekend😩.
@ChrissyAnderton-FunkyJunky
3 жыл бұрын
Great series filmed in my hometown, Morecambe. As a teenager, bride and mother in the 1970's the film sets, cars and fashions were very accurately portrayed and I realise a lot had to be packed into the one episode covering the whole decade. But I have to add the first plastic carrier bag made its appearance in 1975 sold by the co-op (where I worked on Saturdays) alongside the change to supermarket shopping in place of the corner shops where you got served by the shopkeeper! By 1976 I was married and pregnant and it was horrble as it was the hottest summer ever and having to go and get water from a standpipe!! (1973-had all David Bowie's L.P.'s and saw him 'live' in May, great memories!).
@alisonsmith4801
3 жыл бұрын
No the first plastic carrier bags were before 75, my Dad fed up working in the mines got a job at a local factory making carrier bags, and one of their big customers were Mark's and Spencer's a thick white plastic bag with the dark green logo on it, my Dad brought a massive roll home with him one time, people thought we were posh and shopped at M& S all our neighbours had them as well, this was about 1970/ 71.
@janicel5926
3 жыл бұрын
I remember my Grandad saying why should he carry a plastic bag with advertising all over it. He didn’t like the plastic bags for that reason!
@jennymichelle81
2 жыл бұрын
@@alisonsmith4801 You're right that it was well before 75' because it was actually the 60's with the idea for them arising in the 50's !
@noongourfain
Жыл бұрын
In first grade, in 1972, I was 6. The teacher was allowed to to grab a naughty kid and spank them in front of the class. But even us kids knew it was an old fashioned move and I never saw it done but once.
@chrishall8705
3 жыл бұрын
I was a kid in the 70s and a teen in the early 80s. I'm pretty sure VHS players were an 80s thing?
@albee8165
3 жыл бұрын
I don't remember them before about 1983
@erikamilo6784
3 жыл бұрын
Depends on how well off you were.
@thepenultimateninja5797
3 жыл бұрын
They had only just become available around this time, and would have been out of reach for the vast majority of families. I doubt the family portrayed here would have been able to afford one.
@julienielsen3746
3 жыл бұрын
They were expensive and huge.
@AJ-qn6gd
3 жыл бұрын
We had one at school in my last year 75/76 my dad bought a Betamax in 1980 !
@jwhit804
3 жыл бұрын
I was born in the 70s and raised my kids similarly. They did have a limit on how far they could go but they had HOURS of unsupervised play in the neighborhood. They will tell you themselves that they are glad for it. When I was young, we rode our bikes across town to swim and soccer practice. I hate that many children have so little freedom to just play outside anymore.
@gaggymott9159
3 жыл бұрын
Although very rare in 2021, I love a power cut....The feeling of helplessness, the light from candles, a sense of everyone being in the same boat, to making tea on a little gas camping stove...I love it
@kasner23
3 жыл бұрын
If your washing was in the washing machine, Gaggy and a power cut and suddenly came and stopped it mid-cycle, you would not like it.
@wmr9019
3 жыл бұрын
I remember the power cuts it was like a cool adventure, we had a coal fire so wasn't an issue , toasted cheese bread off the fire nothing like it, life was more simple then 😔😔😔
@fowellmountain3211
3 жыл бұрын
This was a wonderfully educational series I really enjoyed watching all of them ! Thank you
@geoffashden2
Жыл бұрын
The one flaw with this concept is that when going back to a past era, you are constantly aware of what is missing from your present day life. I was a teenager and young adult at this time leaving school in 1974 and I don't remember being unhappy or discontent, we just got on with life and accepted it. May be I was lucky but I remember the 70s as being the happiest decade of my life. As a new young adult, everything was very exciting. My first job, passing my driving test, getting a car (Ford Cortina of course), my first legal visit to a pub, voting for the first time (1979) starting my carreer in the Police, I wish I could relive it all!
@YugeYun
Ай бұрын
True. We can't miss what hasn't been invented yet.
@toomanythings
3 жыл бұрын
British television is so good! I don't even watch it here in America anymore. I'm so glad to have found your channel, I've subscribed and am discovering all of this television treasure you've uploaded. Thank you!
@chikentendersandfries
3 жыл бұрын
IKR? The brits know how to make an interesting show!
@hankiedave
2 жыл бұрын
Im Filipino and dont watch philippine movies and shows...i just love British tv, documentaries etc.
@johneeeemarry34
4 ай бұрын
British television is vile woke shit.
@conjuarez
3 жыл бұрын
Loved each episode of the show! Do you by chance have What's for dinner? Which is also a look through the decades of how eating habits and availability has changed... it would be so great to watch it. Thank you for all your programming @Absolute History
@camrenwick
3 жыл бұрын
As an early 70s teenager, I loved it. Played outside, the music, discos, fashion, TV., etc. It remains the best time of my life.
@loonylinda
2 жыл бұрын
yeah summer holidays from school, never saw our mums from morning til evening
@annedunne4526
3 жыл бұрын
I was 15 in 1970 so grew up in the 60s. As kids we spent all our time outside playing games and playing in tree houses or wandering the fields. Those poor modern day kids don't know what to do with themselves without today's technology.
@questionmark9819
3 жыл бұрын
But they're brought up by the parents who were brought up by people who lived in the 1970s so it's just how things evolve
@mewesquirrel6720
3 жыл бұрын
Okay but kids were being kidnapped back then because they weren't told not to talk to strangers 🙄
@annedunne4526
3 жыл бұрын
@@mewesquirrel6720 That just didn't happen in Ireland then.
@kasner23
3 жыл бұрын
Nowadays, children are being told how dangerous the outside world is.
@midlight9758
3 жыл бұрын
“If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down”
@amyrivers4093
3 жыл бұрын
I remember that saying.
@kevinpotts-z1w
11 ай бұрын
I was born 1966, The 1970s was alright, definitely better than things are today in this horrible world.
@BedsitBob
3 жыл бұрын
I was a teenager, in the mid to late 70s. I remember the power cuts.
@lmo7724
3 жыл бұрын
The same age but in the US. What we had was gas rationing, sitting for hours in your car in line at the pump.
@dianemercer9916
3 жыл бұрын
In Canada in '74 I remember the sugar shortage and the cost of all things rising. $5 for a bag of sugar, unreal.
@catholicfaithofmine2664
3 жыл бұрын
And the gas shortages. I remember as a teen in the 70s I would sit on the hood of the car in the summer and tan. We would wait for hours in gas lines. I remember when they issued certain days to get gas too.
@MartysWhiteSuit
3 жыл бұрын
Really good programme. I was coming into my teens in the seventies'. My dad had taken on his first mortgage and was plunged into a lengthy strike only months later. My mother was a pub cleaner, but had to go for longer hours working in a children's home. I remember having to do my homework by candlelight. God, what the older generation left us with. My dad went back to work eventually, but the damage was done and the factory closed down a few years later. He never worked again. Exciting times in many ways. Great music and toys etc, but hard to establish yourself. The jackboot of the unions rang hard.
@stischer47
3 жыл бұрын
As my mother would say when people talked about "the good old days"...NOW are the good old days. People forget how rough life could be.
@rebeccavarkevisser8830
3 жыл бұрын
Omg exactly!! I think that the people remember the "good old days" when they were kids. They didn't have all the problems the adults were having. They just nostalgic about their childhood without realizing all the hard things from it.
@baronvonlimbourgh1716
3 жыл бұрын
The past sucked.
@hogwashmcturnip8930
3 жыл бұрын
@@rebeccavarkevisser8830 I think you have a valid point. But I also think you overlook the fact that kids have eyes and ears. Maybe they just chose not to use them. I used mine, and my ears, when my grandparents talked. I will admit that I didn't realise how hard it must have been for my parents until I was married myself. They always made sure I had food, clothes, even holidays. I wonder now what they deprived themselves of to do that. But I think that gave them something too. We had no car and never went anywhere much, and if we did it was like some big excursion. Holidays were like the Grand Tour. My mother would store up tinned food and other things and send them by train, along with our clothes and bedlinen. We were only going to a caravan in Devon! But because we had no car, we had to walk miles from the train station. It made perfect sense to send food and clothes on, as we would be in a remote place. We couldn't have carried it. We would catch a bus that dropped us at a crossroads and then we walked. this was in the 60s, not the Middle Ages! But it was so special Turning a certain bend in the road and seeing the sea ... At the risk of sounding boring, most kids are deprived of that kind of experience now, which is why they are obnoxious! Lol
@yvonnewalesuk8035
3 жыл бұрын
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 I agree with you. Life was hard, and we had very little, but we made the best of the little we had.
@kasner23
3 жыл бұрын
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Kids do not understand adult problems. If you tell them that an economic situation is bad, they would look at you as if you were mad because they do not understand. It is not until they reach adolescence that they realise how bad a situation is.
@philipmcdonagh1094
3 жыл бұрын
When you could afford to buy a house, car and have several kids on one wage.
@TallPoe
Жыл бұрын
VHS didn’t actually become available in shops until early 1980’s. And most families were still using blankets. And everything came in a brown paper bag and cellophane was new.
@antejl7925
Жыл бұрын
Yes I noticed that too, Soda Stream and roller skates were also big around 1981
@mr.145
Жыл бұрын
Correct ,although our school in Angus had a Philips v2000 video recorder in 75/76
@Erika-kw7ur
3 жыл бұрын
Please bring this show back. I am so sad to not see these families anymore as each and every family unit was so lovely and interesting. I wish them all nothing but happiness.
@jonathanbennetts2632
2 жыл бұрын
I remember sitting doing my homework with my granddad under an old lamp. Thank god we still had coal fires back then. It is going to be hard when the guys of today cannot just turn on the gas central heating when the next shit hits the fan. Another point here is how easy it became to divorce, my dad left my mother in debt until the day she died. I'm a guy and women were treated like shit . My old man re-married and had a nice house and a good life while my mother struggled to bring three kids up.
@musicloverlondon6070
Жыл бұрын
Good comment and thank you for making it! 👍
@rosarose3443
3 жыл бұрын
Lol I love these programs ordinary working class families are never represented.. In 1970s no one I knew had a freezer, telephone or video recorder (pmsl did not have these until the 80s). Everyone rented a black and white TV. A small fridge with a very small freezer compartment at the top big enough for ice cubes. We never ate TV dinners or takeaways. We ate fresh homemade meals using vegetables from our small garden. We only had sweets or crisps on a Saturday out of our pocket money that we did chores for. There were three flavoured crisps to choose from Smith's ready salted with sachet of salt, Chipmunk Beef Oxtail and Golden Wonder Chicken crisps or we saved our pocket money up for something special. Christmas we had a small stocking, one big main present e.g a bike and a couple of smaller gifts. In winter we had stalagmites on the inside of bedroom windows it was so cold because there was no heating upstairs. We were lucky we had heating downstairs many families did not. We had hot water bottles. We played outdoors but as others have already said children were kidnapped, murdered and abused then as they are now, the only difference is that then we had only 3 channels on the TV and children were not allowed to watch the news or read newspapers. If you look on KZitem for UK 1970s children's information adverts you will find plenty warning children not to speak to strangers etc but unlike today they were actually very frightening adverts that you did not forget whether it was crossing the road, playing on railroad lines, playing around pylons, cesspits or farm machinery these adverts would be banned today lol Today news is all day every day and available through different mediums that children have easy access to. My father worked long shift work including over Christmas, but also grew vegetables in our small garden to supplement his poor wages. Hence so many strikes due to poor pay and working conditions in the 70s. My father also recycled old bicycles so that they looked like new for our Christmas presents. We never knew that we were poor because everyone we knew were poor. We ate seasonal vegetables and fruit. All the family sat down together to eat the same freshly homecooked meals, including babies whose meals were moulered. We did not have different choices of what to eat and we did not waste food. If we did not like something then we went without e.g I did not like certain texture meats or fish so I would have vegetables instead. My mother knitted our cardigans and jumpers using wool unravelled from jumble sale clothes. We wore hand-me-down clothes, newspaper was used for the guinea pigs bedding, cardboard boxes were often cut to shape and used as insoles in our shoes and also put in the compost. Milk bottles and pop bottles were returned. So contrary to common belief recycling is not a new concept it was part of normal life. Ordinary working class families did not own their own homes, cars, have time saving kitchen gadgets or fridge freezers, fashionable clothes or the latest toys as depicted in the documentary. How nice it would be if these programs actually reflected the true reality of ordinary working class families throughout the centuries. The reality for most working class families was actually depicted by the single mother's situation, and again can be seen on KZitem in UK documentaries of that time showing working class families and the poverty they endured including poor housing etc.
@amyrivers4093
3 жыл бұрын
My Mum used to do Tupperware parties when I was young. It was about 45 years ago and we still have some of her collection to this day.
@andrewcox4386
3 жыл бұрын
WOT no Silver Jubilee? Yes I can remember all of this. Not sure it was realistic that everyone had cars - we certainly didn't
@WifeMamaArtist
3 жыл бұрын
Really? Everyone in my little street did!
@tommytit1618
3 жыл бұрын
There was two or three cars in my whole street,my dad and friends dads rode bikes to the dockyard
@fredrickaappletree3402
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I agree not a lot of car ownership it can be goggled more people didn’t have cars than did where as now it’s the over way round now and lots of the cars were a bit rust buckety (in the uk anyway) and I’m talking about the north east. I also think when watching things like this that there is a lot of artistic license and misinformation. I can’t remember the power cuts or food shortages but the power went off a lot more in those days normally anyway so it was kind of a thing and not that alarming. The paper and media were scaremongering a lot then too.
@fredrickaappletree3402
3 жыл бұрын
@@tommytit1618 my did too we had a car but he didn’t want it getting “spoilt” at the docks (Smiths Docks) 🙂.
@dee4174
2 жыл бұрын
You are so right. We had a car, but many of my friend's familes did not. Towards the end of the 70s it was more common. We only had 1 car and my mum didn't even ,earn to drive till 1980.
@catholicfaithofmine2664
3 жыл бұрын
O my gosh I had that same wallpaper in my bedroom as on this show with the Orange flowers. I had a tweety bird poster on top of it.
@hogwashmcturnip8930
3 жыл бұрын
I had a Saturday job from the age of 13 on a wallpaper stall on the local market. I prided myself on being able to unroll the samples with a flourish and show them where the join was. By god's we had some freaky stuff. Ancient Egyptian (ta, the obsession with King Tut) and sepia fairies I had that in my first 'front room'. They weren't obvious, and it was hilarious watching stoned friends going 'Wow, do you know you have fairies crawling up your walls? Err YES! That was 78, not 72, but they have not got anywhere near that with this. Where is punk? And I never knew any man, apart from my father whot did this 'New Man' stuff in the early 70s. But back to wallpaper I got my wartime parents to put black wallpaper on their chimney breast! I still think it was cool! The tupperware thing is crap too. I got dragged to a couple. You had tea and rich tea biscuits and some woman trying to tell you how great their plastic salt and pepper pots were!
@doriangray2454
3 жыл бұрын
Little did we kids know that some television presenters and some of our pop stars were child predators. All that Glitters is not gold. And don't ever let him fix it for you, and keep an I on those two little boys with two little toys, they could be in danger.
@DavidPaulMorgan
Жыл бұрын
apart from "everything in this show that I remember growing up in the 70s" I just saw the combination green bowl and slicer/grater lid from my mother *that I still use today* . Actually, I just noticed a few more 70s Tupperware items that are still going strong in my kitchen draw! My mother bought here chest freezer from Macross in Cardiff in '71. the payment card was in £sd & £pp. It only failed in 2011, so I think she had her money's worth!
@bruji2001
Жыл бұрын
😊🤣🙌
@pch2230
Жыл бұрын
I was watching reruns of Bless This House before Xmas and they were using plates we've still got in our kitchen.
@karolynko
3 жыл бұрын
I put real salted butter & some half & half in my instant mash & it's almost passable haha!
@jacquelinewilliamson8933
3 жыл бұрын
A bag of spuds was cheaper
@Griselda_Puppy
3 жыл бұрын
Yes to the butter & salt, also I use MILK in place of water. I like to add a dash of garlic powder in mine as well, the kids love it!
@juliejanesmith57
2 жыл бұрын
I love this series. 80’s and 90’s PLEASE!
@tabitha4135
2 жыл бұрын
They did that on another channel here ! bbc 2 I think ! 🏴🌹
@comfycomfy6469
3 жыл бұрын
I had the yellow and orange flower wallpaper in my bedroom when I was seven, I chose it myself.
@ReasonAboveEverything
3 жыл бұрын
Did it give you epilepsy.
@julienielsen3746
3 жыл бұрын
I like that wallpaper. Wish I had, had some in my bedroom as a kid. I just had painted walls.
@cynm1821
3 жыл бұрын
im so sad the series is ovet T,T i enjoyed it thoroughly
@MrKaskad
3 жыл бұрын
My father worked construction in the 70's, I remember the strikes , one lock out was 6 months. You couldn't scab, what ever your politics . You'd never get rehired . Once the site you were on was over no foreman would hire a scab because it would cause trouble. Welfare and social services wouldn't help as they'd tell the wife and mother, "your man has a job to go to .it's his choice that's causing your problem".
@simtime7591
3 жыл бұрын
well that was a bit of an understatement, saying that Black people faced prejudiced, i was a kid in the 70s, in a mixed raced family, and the racism was unbearable at times. People go on about racism today, but they dont really have a clue about real racism. We had a black dad, and because of this, we would get our windows smashed, dog poo through the letter box, and my white mum would get called bad names walking down the street with her black husband. These are not thugs doing this, but your nieghbours, Mr and Mrs ordinary.. the 70s was hell if you were black or mixed raced.
@Necroinannacom
2 жыл бұрын
Strikes! YES, that's what we're living today in "marvellous" (not) conservative brexiter UK, 2022!! AWFUL to see so much regress instead of the so much needed progress we supposed to have been aiming for!!! Rail strikes causing extreme loss + inconveniences, what's next?!? We're the new modern 70" back again. I rather have the old 70"! At least the Rock music & other good things were compensating for the lack of so much, pretty much unlike now!!!
@michaelcostigane552
Жыл бұрын
The good old days, power cuts, 3 day week, standing in queues for bread, just as well we had good music ❤😊
@barnabyhughes5643
3 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed watching this documentary but felt that some of the costumes and interiors (apart from Lisa's flat) were stereo-typically contrived, over the top 1970's. If you watch classic 70's programs like The Sweeney, you will find that people of all walks of life had far more taste than suggested by the props department of this program. I for one, don't recall any of my friends and relatives houses in the 1970's looking as gaudy as you have here.
@The3Storms
3 жыл бұрын
Well she clearly didn’t marry him for his singing, good lord 😖
@Buttefliesandrainbows
3 жыл бұрын
I think that was literally the cutest part of the entire show. So funny!
@julienielsen3746
3 жыл бұрын
I think it was because he had his headphones on and couldn't hear himself.
@pamelaadam9207
3 жыл бұрын
I remember the power cuts and 3 day week. Mum let everyone come and cook in our kitchen as we had a gas cooker
@LanceHarding
3 жыл бұрын
I remember the power cuts in South East London, the electric would go off for about a minute, then come back on, you then had 2 minutes to get candles & if you had them, they were a luxury item torches ready, then you were plunged into darkness until the following day. We were fortunate to have gas central heating & a gas cooker, so, we could still cook or boil water in a saucepan for washing up or making tea & coffee, but of course there were those who had electric cookers which made the country help those who were less fortunate.
@thomaslucas6079
3 жыл бұрын
I would give anything to go back. But it's not the same because when I was a child what made it so wonderful and peaceful was I couldn't see the evil in the world nor had the concept of my own mortality.
@Dexy83
2 жыл бұрын
What I loved the most is how the best parts of 21st century treatment of people carried over to all the centuries. IE: People of color/single mother accepted instead of judged. Hope that makes sense...
@kristinamittelbach1908
3 жыл бұрын
Cool series. I learned something about life in the past even though I don’t live in the UK
@jeangrainger8304
3 жыл бұрын
Oh no everyone did not work a three day week! I worked 5 1/2 days a week at my local Maternity Hospital running a ward. We did finally get down to a 40 hour week but my Hospital was still working a 42 hour week so we had 2 hours a week compulsory overtime. My husband was working 6 days a week but less daily hours.
@Merlin-lc4zu
3 жыл бұрын
Who is it ?.When shown a picture of David Bowie.For a generation who have access to more information and technology and things we could only have dreamt of in the 70s as far as self education goes it is quite frightening how little they know about the past.A teenage girl last week was clueless as to who Hitler was.
@adampeters7947
2 жыл бұрын
I remember talking to an 19 year old who didn't know who Bob Marley was.
@duvessa2003
Жыл бұрын
The flat Lisa has looks better than the one we had when we moved with our single mom to London in the 1970’s. I remember that it was challenging getting anything at all and we stayed at a hotel for at least a month. We finally got a 1 bedroom, cold water flat in Alberts Buildings. There was a tin tub in the kitchen and a little wooden closet containing a toilet and that wax-paper toilet paper that was popular in England at the time for some reason completely unfathomable to us. The flat was always cold and we could hear rats scratching in the garbage chute. The living conditions were a far cry from our 3 bedroom ranch-style home in the CT suburbs. I still remember our Albert’s Building neighbors though; they were wonderful, welcoming, down-to-earth people. ❤
@musicloverlondon6070
Жыл бұрын
To be fair that wax toilet paper was unfathomable to most people in those days. It actually repelled moisture! Awful stuff but ever-present in schools at the time. 😄
@duvessa2003
Жыл бұрын
@@musicloverlondon6070 I really feel someone should get to the bottom of that mystery. I imagine the inventor was a sadist who kept soft, absorbent TP at his own house.
@kasner23
3 жыл бұрын
No help for single mothers until 1976? Disgusting! Makes you think how lucky you are to live in 2021.
@Cherabreena
3 жыл бұрын
This series was amazing! Binge watched it all. Hoping for something similar in the future.
@Bamboule05
Жыл бұрын
I'm always amazed how the brits can find their past so well documented. My parents were refugees from WW2 from different countries. I know there were anchestors in Eastern Germany, Austria, Hungary, Croatia and most likely Russia, but tracing a family tree beyond my grand parents is simply not possible. So I could never participate in such an experiment as I will never know how my ancestors lived. I imagine they were probably farmers, barely making a living.
@seanirishterrier6588
3 жыл бұрын
I recognised so much from my childhood, but kids today have no idea how hard it was. My grandma still had an outside loo, there was blackouts & the drought of 76 & jubilee year 77
@ahuddleston6512
3 жыл бұрын
I love this!!!! Keep them coming!!¡!
@avrilroberts42
2 жыл бұрын
wow so many memories from the 70's, not a good decade for me as my mum died in 76 leaving my dad to bring up 2 little girls and work at the same time. Not something he had ever contemplated. I remember the power cuts and dustman strikes. Rubbish all piled up in the streets and the rats. Some things you never forget.
@johneeeemarry34
4 ай бұрын
Mums die in all decades… Rubbish temporarily in the streets due to dispute is preferable to the permanent rubbish in the disgusting streets of repulsive ‘modern’ Britain…
@WooShell
3 жыл бұрын
omg a Tupper party.. last one like this I was in was in the early 80s. Are these still a thing nowadays, or has this also been killed by the Internet?
@jennyknopps1291
3 жыл бұрын
Tupperware is still ongoing
@marnie9063
3 жыл бұрын
Tupperware is akin to modern multi level marketing schemes, and they're ten a penny these days. Avon, scentsy, primerica, forever living, lularoe, herbalife etc etc. I could go on for ages! Absolutely terrible scheme though, quite frankly mlms are pyramid schemes, where you only really make money if you sign up other people underneath you. It's a terrible business model and bankrupts so many people. You have to be really scummy to choose to form an mlm.
@mj9412
3 жыл бұрын
No I wasn't killed by the internet,rather the "C"word. Your welcome.😔
@emilian7052
2 жыл бұрын
Tupperware parties are not a thing anymore. My mum used to work at a cosmetic company that sold remedies for skin and essential oils. I remember her sending my sister and I to bed very early and the clients would arrive at our home and look at the products an discuss all things skin care, the nearest I could think of.
@loonylinda
2 жыл бұрын
mid 70;s my mum got herself a "little part time job"..dad didnt speak to her for quite a while, and never lifted a finger in the house. she felt guilty so done everything at home too. with my help.
@Dawn-Songs
3 ай бұрын
A lot of men acted that way and they didn't really even know their kids very well .
@mmmfun77
3 жыл бұрын
Born in 1970, when I get upset about my age , I just think of this... People that are my age were one of the last generations to know what society was like before technology really hit. As far as I’m concerned, technology has ruined society as a whole.
@dianemercer9916
3 жыл бұрын
I agree 100%
@Asplera
3 жыл бұрын
It doesn't. Technology just brings out the ugly side hidden before.
@baronvonlimbourgh1716
3 жыл бұрын
Truth
@yvonnewalesuk8035
3 жыл бұрын
@@Asplera Really...?! Well, all I can say is that back then the people that I socialised with must have kept it to themselves, because I agree, wholeheartedly, with Fun4Life.
@yvonnewalesuk8035
3 жыл бұрын
I agree with you. I feel so sad when I see parents pushing buggies, staring down at their phones, while they ignore their own children; or the silence in a train carriage while everyone just sits staring at their phones. Even in busy crowded areas, people will still walk with their heads down, just blankly staring at their phones, leaving it to others to try to walk around them. They don't half jump when they hear, "Look up!"
@ForceFreeTrainergirl06
Жыл бұрын
I remember those power cuts vividly. Sitting with the light of candles several nights a week. At least we had gas so we could eat and make hot drinks. I remember playing board and card games with my Dad until it was time to go to bed.
@michellefalleur960
7 ай бұрын
You're lucky, my father died at the beginning of 1974
@pumpkinseeds768
3 жыл бұрын
My Mom had one of those fish, and my Dad had a green Cortina. I was 16 and working in a shoe shop during the power cuts. I thought it was great, because when the power went off the boss used to close the shop and send us all home, lol! 😀
@duvessa2003
Жыл бұрын
So good to see the kids playing outside as children should 🍀
@ingridfong-daley5899
3 жыл бұрын
@12:45 She called the dirty dish rack "mingin" and my heart smiled. :)
@csharpe5787
3 жыл бұрын
Now in 2021, I would go back 2012 any day. I'm a lot worse off today then I was then. Prices are going up dramatically and my income is only going backwards..
@Highice007
3 жыл бұрын
The water shortage, and loss of power and garbage clean up was nothing my grand parents, and parents had to go through here in North America, in the 70's, but they did have to go through a gas crisis where it was hard to get ⛽petrol, and they had to wait for hours in line.
@thornbird6768
3 жыл бұрын
I loved the 70’s , great music , crazy wallpaper , Advocat & lemonade , £1 notes and lava lamps 👍🏻👍🏻
@midlight9758
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, the 70s were rough in the UK. I was born in 75 in the US, I don’t think they had things so rough here in regards to power outages and utilities. I do remember issues with gasoline shortages, but I don’t think it had a severe effect on my family personally.
@mabel8179
3 жыл бұрын
Yes it was quite austere in the 1970s. I remember it!
@julienielsen3746
3 жыл бұрын
I remember the meat shortage too. Dad got us a few steers for our small pasture. Until they got loose and ended up down by the river. I named them Ritchie, Potsie, Ralph, and Fonzie. No more happy days for those steers after that.
@joanne4850
Жыл бұрын
It wasn't rough atall. This program is condensed. I loved the 70s.
@musicloverlondon6070
Жыл бұрын
The 1970s was a grim decade as I remember it. Definitely wouldn't want to go back. 😐
@pheart2381
Жыл бұрын
It could be quite grim. We hired our tv from a rental shop. Every so often the tv would bust(sometimes actually making wierd banging and crackling noises) and be sent back,and no tv for 3 weeks! But we could safely play outdoors all day,or read books,or draw. I dont remember ever being bored. And the power cuts were quite fun. Most people only had a bath or washed their hair once a week. Handed down clothes and shoes. Talc and bubblebath for Christmas presents. No jewellery. No heating upstairs!!! I got chilblains every winter.
@solidstateresistor2485
3 жыл бұрын
I wasn't that bad of a time. Most of us had bikes and where out most of the time. It was a lot more sociable ,a time when we had real friends who we visited daily.
@akioaslan
2 жыл бұрын
The fact this was made 10 years ago. I would love to see new families from todays world
@dinoduckling2662
2 жыл бұрын
Yeahhhhhh 10 years ago totally wasn't made in 2021
@infrasleep
Жыл бұрын
They always make the same mistake ; the 70's house is just filled out/decorated in 70's décor/furniture /equipment-sounds right but it's wrong ! All the houses back then had stuff from the 30's 40's 50's 60's as well as some 70's gear ,no average 70's home looked like these-solely made up from 70's things-as if everything else had been dumped. The War may have been history to us kids back then-but in truth it was barely 25to30 years post 1945-i.e; very recent-and make do and mend/use things 'til they fall apart was still the ethos-hence no -or at least very few-70's homes would have been solely 70's décor etc etc.
@irenestrmnss4496
Жыл бұрын
I was born 1962, remember well these days of the 70 s😊 Remember the oil crisis some months mid 70 s. People were not allowed to drive cars in the weekends and after special hours during the week. Us kids thought it was great cause we could walk and run in the middle of the roads cause there were no cars. 😂I remember the terrible wallpapers and the cool clothes, the great music. I had orange and brown room. In Norway we did not have shortages of water or electricity I think. Cant remember that, but my mom was a widower and single mom so money was short. Grandparents helped alot. We were out playing, independant and active without grownups looking after us. Looked after eachother I guess, but had to be home before dark😊
@JoannaLamont333
3 жыл бұрын
This took me back to the days when I was out on my bike with friends all day, only coming home for lunch & back out again & home only when the street lights came on for dinner. On school days we would rush home after school, get changed & out with friends. Kids were far more social in those days & more independent. Everyone looked out for each other & neighbours were all friendly. I knew everyone by name in my street. I bet it’s not like that now?
@dinoduckling2662
2 жыл бұрын
I love how the mother said, you gotta be careful, candles are not toys, the biggest danger of a candle is it toppling over, see that, that's quite secure. Candle falls.
@sandrascott5299
3 жыл бұрын
I remember the power cuts, we lived in an all electric house and had to cook on camping stoves for four people! I was a teenager and thought it was a giggle at the time!
@daviniarobbins9298
Жыл бұрын
My first five years of life was the 1970s so I don't remember a great deal about it but I do know I wouldn't want to go back there. No computers, no internet, no smart devices. If you were lucky you had a colour tv set. And you were flipping freezing during the winter. If your parents were well off you might have had a games console. Atari was popular at that time. Most had a pong games machine. A lot of kids probably ruined their eyesight playing pong. I couldn't play pong longer than 30 minutes, any longer and you get a headache. Oh, and everything was a shade of beige. Carpets, curtains, sofas, chairs and so on.
@pch2230
Жыл бұрын
As a boy in a white, working class family, I have to say I absolutely loved the 70s. There was a lot of unfairness though, and from that point of view I realise I had it a lot better than many people.
@EM2theBee
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a little shocked at how privileged and dismissive these people are about the 70's. As kids, we were outside playing. We took bike rides and mom would pack us sandwiches. We had roller skates or went ice skating. We listened to records, for hours, and we talked with each other. I can understand that the most difficult life in the 1970's would be the single mom. Between work, and raising children while maintaining a roof over their heads was as precarious then as it is today. The living situation was much better off than the family playing her landlord had.
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