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# Is this the train I'm on?

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# Do you know that I am gone?

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# You can hear the whistle blow

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# 500 miles

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# 500 miles

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# You can hear the whistle blow

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# 500 miles... #

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Well, I was a bit fed up, you know?

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There didn't seem to
be much there for me.

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You know how these little towns are -
one coffee bar.

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It was closed on a Sunday.

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Didn't even tell 'em I was going.

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I sent 'em a card
when I got down there.

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That house over there -
yeah, that one with the broken steps.

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That's where I went for a room,

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and the fella kept touching me.
Where did I get a room, in the end?

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Oh, yeah, down there -
Mantua Street, £3 a week.

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That's where I got my first job -
petrol-pump girl. Mad.

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They were going along in hearses
to this "unusual supper party",

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and the bloke who was going in, the
chandelier falls down on him, y'see,

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and he gets strangled
with all these diamonds.

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Then this big woman,
who'd grown to about 40ft high...

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That was through the radioactive
dust, was it? Oh, yeah. Ah.

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She sticks her hand
through this window

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and she gets hold of this little
piece he's been doing it with -

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they've been jitterbugging away...
It was an old film? Quite old.

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But unbeknownst to this
big 40ft girl, y'see,

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there's been a bit
of swapping around,

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and it's not her husband
at all any more.

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As the bloke's jumping her,
his mask slips. It slips right down.

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Who d'you think it was?
The Duke of Edinburgh(?)

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# If the sky that we look upon

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# Should tumble and fall

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# Or the mountain

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# Should crumble to the sea

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# I won't cry, I won't cry

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# No, I won't shed a tear

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# Just as long

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# As you stand, stand by me

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# And, darling, darling, stand by me

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# Oh, stand by me

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# Whoa, stand now

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# Stand by me... #

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We'll have a motor. An E-Type, eh?

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Well, help me down, then!
How about an E-Type, eh, Cath?

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An E-Type?! Yeah!

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Reg, they're expensive!
No, we'll have an E-Type.

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I mean, why not,
the money I'm earning.

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Then what d'you think we'll do? Eh?

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I don't know. Shunt it, I suppose.

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"Shunt it"? What are you talking
about? I'm an A1 driver, I am.

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No, we'll take the brakes out.

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That's what we'll do.
We'll take the brakes out.

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Take the brakes out?!

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Yeah! This bloke, he was telling me.
He's a fitter down at the Lotus.

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He says you just don't need brakes.

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Drive it on the gears.
The gears'll stop you.

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Brakes spoil a good drive, don't
they? They spoil a good engine.

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No brakes,
you're not tempted to use 'em.

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Well, I feel as if I've got
a few drinks inside me.

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When you've had two or three drinks,
you don't see nobody, you don't...

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D'you wanna sit down?

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What, you mean you're a bit drunk?
No!

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I just don't notice anybody else
when I'm out with you, that's all.

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Oh.

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Is that nice?

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Mm. How do you feel?

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I'm not telling you.
Oh, go on, I told you. No!

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Well, you can tell me!
I'd feel embarrassed.

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There's only me here.
And that old fella who's asleep.

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That's a horrible thing to say.

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Let's go and have a drink.
I never knew you swore.

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That's not swearing.
It just came out, that's all.

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Nice boys don't say
things like that.

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Well, I was upset.
Get your hand off me.

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I was just upset, that's all.

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I think I'm going home.
No, don't be silly.

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Let's go and have a drink.

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I put my best suit on
to come out with you tonight.

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I'm sorry, I can't help it.

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The least you could've done was...

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# Do you love me? Do you love me?

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# Well, do you love me?
Do you love me?

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# Yes, do you love me?
Do you love me? #

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That's the advantage of working
for a small firm like this.

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They just ain't particular, y'know?

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They don't worry about the hours
or whether you get your stamps,

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flog yourself to death or take it
easy. They don't care.

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Same about lifts. If you give a bird
a lift, they just ain't particular.

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I've ruined my stockings.
I'll get you a new pair.

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Same with birds - just don't care.

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It's not the first time you've given
a lift to a bird? Don't be silly.

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Reg, whose is this place?
The firm I work for.

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Is it safe? Course it is!

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I bet you've brought
other birds up here.

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Look! You can see a bit already.

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You can see half the town
from here, nearly.

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No, Reg, I don't like it. It's shaky.

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Ah, come on! Get your sea legs.
No, I'm scared. Come on!

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No, I'm not coming.
Come on, come on!

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Oh... Come on. C'mon.

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Whoa!

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Trust you! Come on, up you get.

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Careful. Come on.

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There.

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Trust you to bring me up to
a rotten old place like this.

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How are we gonna get down?
Don't worry.

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Live in the present, eh, Cath?

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It IS rotten, innit? This whole
place is gonna come down soon.

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I was scared, Reg.
Now don't be silly.

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No, I was, really.

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I haven't got much courage.

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I reckon it's just us now, innit?

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Just us. Just you and me, eh?

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I wouldn't mind.

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Have some babies, Cath?

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I'd like that, Reg.

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Sod to all the rest. Yeah.

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Along comes this sanitary man, what
they calls a health doodah, y'see?

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You all right, darlin'?

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You don't look at all well!
Anyway....

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She's terrible!

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He perceives that these beetles
are nesting in this clapped-out tree

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at the back of May's caff.

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So he sprays all this
disinfectant into the tree.

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Some of it gets into May's dinner
and kills two of the customers off.

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Well, someone's got to eat! What
about Coming To The End Of Love?

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How does that one go?

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Coming to the end of love...

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I wrote that an' all. Never got
no credit for that neither.

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When you lived in the country,
did you like living there?

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Ooh, no, it was horrible.

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There was nothing there for me.

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Ahhh! Now what's the matter?

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I'm one of them little
beetles down her back!

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..and a slight history
of incontinence.

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Oh, yes, there's that.

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Rambling in his mind at all?

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Finding it difficult to remember
the odd little thing?

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A little, aren't you, Granddad?
I don't know. I never been...

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No. No, thank you.

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And has to be helped with dressing?

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Yes, well, I certainly think
you've got a case

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for having your father
taken into care.

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What do you feel about it, Granddad?

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If you ask me, I'm not in agreement.

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Besides, there's the fact
we need the space.

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There's the two boys, see?

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They're coming back out the Army,
so we can't keep him.

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And the council say
it's overcrowding.

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Yes. Yes, of course.

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And the incontinence
is getting pretty bad.

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Well, Granddad, you'll be
in one of our larger homes.

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Rivermead? I expect you've
noticed it by the Town Hall.

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It's, erm, it's especially
suitable for you,

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because they have all kinds
of facilities on offer

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that you mightn't get
in a smaller place.

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And, as well as that,
there's always plenty to do.

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You'll find there's plenty
to keep the time passing,

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what with dances
and hobby clubs of various kinds.

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And there is help available

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for the things that might be
getting a little complicated,

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like dressing
and attention to your feet.

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Come 'ere!

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Cathy... Come on, Cathy! NO!

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Cathy! Cath! Please, Reg!

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Now get out of there!

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I just wanna talk to you, Cath.

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Hey, Reg, that's good, isn't it?
What is it? It's double windows.

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Keeps all the sounds
of the traffic out.

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And it keeps heat in, as well. Oh.

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Y'know, I was thinking. Hm?

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You know that table
we saw in the shop? Yeah.

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Don't you think it'd look
good over there? Yeah.

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I could get one of those
rubber plants to put on it.

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Oh, yeah. Cath, where d'you think
we ought to have the telly?

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The telly. I don't know, really.

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There. I reckon that's a nice
little picture, Cath.

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Do you think we're overstepping
it a bit, taking on this place?

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Oh, I dunno. It's a bit late
now we've got it, innit?

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But there's no point taking on a
posh place if we can't afford it.

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Well, course we can!

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I mean, I'm earning £25 a week,
and then there's you.

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What is it, £6 a week plus tips?

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Mm. That's £34, £35 a week.

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Bloody millionaires, ain't we?
Are we worth 35 a week?

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Funny - a place like that
even smells different.

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Must be the central heating.

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Felt different, too, in your bones.

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Oh, what a place!

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Parquet flooring, tin openers
fixed to the wall, double glazing.

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And the neighbours -
talk about stylish!

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All right, now,
we're going to try something

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which sounds a little
complicated but isn't really.

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Now, can you put your arms
at the side of you?

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Just down by the side of your body.
Completely relaxed.

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Now, when you contract a leg,
your toe turns up,

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you make a sort of square, heel...

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It came as quite a surprise when
I found out. ..Let it down.

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I was sick all the time, and
it never occurred to me why.

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So the doctor, he said,
"Can it be that you're pregnant?"

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And then I realised.

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Now the other leg. I got to dreaming
then about what it would be like.

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Now, this is a diagram
to show what's happening

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right at the beginning,
before labour really starts.

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You can see that the baby
is surrounded by fluid,

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and it's quite intact,
hasn't broken it at all.

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And this is the neck
of the uterus here,

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or the cervix, as we call it.

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Me and my husband are looking
for a house to buy,

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I wondered if you could help us.

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We have a number of properties
in the lower price ranges,

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that's £3,500 to £5,000, if that's
what you're interested in... Mm.

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On which we could probably arrange
a 90% mortgage,

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other things being equal.

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May I ask how big
your deposit would be?

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I'm off work now, so we haven't
got quite so much at the moment,

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but I reckon we could
manage about £100.

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£100 would barely cover
the legal costs involved.

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You might be lucky and find a new
flat with a deposit of only 400,

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but you'd be very lucky.

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We do have cheaper houses, but
they're in such a bad condition

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that a building society
would normally require you

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to spend about £700 on improvements.

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They'd withhold a proportion of the
loan until the work was complete.

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So, you see, really, the cheapest
houses are bought by the people

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with the money in hand
to improve them. Oh.

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So, really, it was waste
of my time coming here.

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ENGINE RATTLES

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BRAKING

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I need compensation!

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I told you about that camshaft
knocking through!

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Reg, look, I would compensate
you, but I'm skint!

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I ain't had no insurance on me lorry.
You're making a bomb here!

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I don't want any argument about it.

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Well, it's not argument -
I've had an accident,

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I'm injured and
I want some compensation.

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00:11:48,780 --> 00:11:49,980
But it's not up to me.

239
00:11:49,980 --> 00:11:52,780
My lorry's gone. I've got nothing
to compensate you with.

240
00:11:52,780 --> 00:11:55,460
How well off do you think we'll be?

241
00:11:55,460 --> 00:11:58,540
Well, it's not so good, Cath.
We won't have so much now.

242
00:11:58,540 --> 00:12:00,300
Never mind, though - Reg'll fix it.

243
00:12:03,020 --> 00:12:07,300
Look, Reg, how much will we have?

244
00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:11,460
Well, you're not earning no more
and I'm down to sickness benefit.

245
00:12:11,460 --> 00:12:13,100
How much is that? Do you know?

246
00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:15,140
No, but it's not very much.

247
00:12:15,140 --> 00:12:17,060
How much we got on the HP, then?

248
00:12:17,060 --> 00:12:19,500
Nearly £5 a week. Five?

249
00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:21,460
Well, there's ten on the flat...

250
00:12:21,460 --> 00:12:23,820
Nothing else? No.

251
00:12:23,820 --> 00:12:26,940
Oh, there's the life insurance,
as well. Oh, yeah.

252
00:12:26,940 --> 00:12:29,140
Still, we got savings, ain't we?

253
00:12:29,140 --> 00:12:31,100
Yeah. £30.

254
00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:41,460
I suppose we'd better find
somewhere cheaper to live, then.

255
00:12:41,460 --> 00:12:44,020
I suppose so.

256
00:12:44,020 --> 00:12:45,420
It doesn't matter, anyway.

257
00:12:45,420 --> 00:12:48,380
We'd have had to get out of here -
they don't allow children.

258
00:12:48,380 --> 00:12:51,900
Westminster. How about sharing?
Do you fancy sharing?

259
00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:55,100
Sharing with who? I don't know.

260
00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:57,380
Get some nice young couple
to share with us.

261
00:12:57,380 --> 00:13:00,060
Took me a long time to get used to
sharing with you. Thank you(!)

262
00:13:00,060 --> 00:13:03,900
There's 200,000 more families in the
London area than homes to put them.

263
00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:08,740
And there's 60,000 single persons
living without sinks or stoves.

264
00:13:08,740 --> 00:13:10,620
In seven central London boroughs,

265
00:13:10,620 --> 00:13:13,500
at least one in ten of all
households is overcrowded,

266
00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:17,020
that is to say, living more than
one and a half people per room.

267
00:13:17,020 --> 00:13:20,100
Oh, hello. Is your room still to let?

268
00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:22,860
No. Is it still in that place?
Yes, it is.

269
00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:27,940
It'll be a week tomorrow since I
told them to take it out, because...

270
00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:31,060
Pardon? It'll be a week... Really?

271
00:13:31,060 --> 00:13:33,820
On the Thursday last week,
I asked them to take it out,

272
00:13:33,820 --> 00:13:35,340
because I'd got suited.

273
00:13:35,340 --> 00:13:37,740
A few years back,
figures released by the LCC

274
00:13:37,740 --> 00:13:41,380
revealed families of certain sizes,
at the rate of building in force,

275
00:13:41,380 --> 00:13:43,460
would be 350 years
on the housing list

276
00:13:43,460 --> 00:13:45,220
before they were offered a house.

277
00:13:45,220 --> 00:13:47,380
Oh, it's a scourge here.

278
00:13:47,380 --> 00:13:50,980
The present target of 500,000 set by
the Government is not high enough.

279
00:13:50,980 --> 00:13:52,180
Even if it is reached,

280
00:13:52,180 --> 00:13:55,140
there's still people living
in slums ten years from now.

281
00:13:55,140 --> 00:13:58,180
What's needed is a government
that realise this is a crisis

282
00:13:58,180 --> 00:13:59,580
and treats it as such.

283
00:13:59,580 --> 00:14:01,940
We can't stay at Mum's.
There's no room!

284
00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:03,940
The council said it was overcrowded.

285
00:14:05,060 --> 00:14:08,700
They needn't find out, need they?
Oh, Mum'll fix it, don't worry.

286
00:14:08,700 --> 00:14:11,780
You're gonna have better eyes
than your dad, aren't you, eh?

287
00:14:11,780 --> 00:14:14,980
Yeah. He's squinting a bit, though.

288
00:14:14,980 --> 00:14:16,860
They all squint. Oh.

289
00:14:16,860 --> 00:14:20,140
'Funny how a baby makes
a place quite different.

290
00:14:20,140 --> 00:14:22,500
'And Reggie said so, too.

291
00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:25,020
'Well, goodbye to freedom.

292
00:14:25,020 --> 00:14:26,500
'I didn't mind, though.'

293
00:14:28,780 --> 00:14:31,460
SHOUTING

294
00:14:31,460 --> 00:14:34,060
This is what you call
the island of paradise.

295
00:14:34,060 --> 00:14:37,100
The kids here, they've seen rats
running around the place

296
00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:38,300
nearly as big as cats.

297
00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:46,940
DOG BARKS

298
00:14:49,060 --> 00:14:52,780
And any time the children have
accidents, nine out of ten times

299
00:14:52,780 --> 00:14:56,220
all the mothers come down to see
if they can do anything to help you.

300
00:14:56,220 --> 00:14:58,540
They're so old.
They're damned old places.

301
00:14:58,540 --> 00:15:00,660
They're so old.
They want pulling down!

302
00:15:00,660 --> 00:15:02,740
Still, we've got plenty of company.

303
00:15:02,740 --> 00:15:06,420
And I think we're reasonable people
that we all get on together.

304
00:15:06,420 --> 00:15:09,380
We have our ups and downs.
You can fight over the kids.

305
00:15:09,380 --> 00:15:12,420
But, erm, apart from that,
we're lucky, I suppose.

306
00:15:12,420 --> 00:15:14,220
Better off than some people.

307
00:15:14,220 --> 00:15:17,500
I don't like one half
of the people in it.

308
00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:20,620
And what is more, there's
none of 'em neighbourly.

309
00:15:20,620 --> 00:15:24,740
They've always got something to say
about you behind your back.

310
00:15:24,740 --> 00:15:27,140
I had a friend live next door to me.

311
00:15:27,140 --> 00:15:30,740
She really would have give
£1,000, as she used to say,

312
00:15:30,740 --> 00:15:32,740
to move out of here,
but now she's gone -

313
00:15:32,740 --> 00:15:34,620
she's got a brand-new maisonette -

314
00:15:34,620 --> 00:15:38,100
she said she'd like to come back if
she could bring her flat back here.

315
00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:40,100
She likes the company, the friends.

316
00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:43,300
Of course, Reggie's Uncle Matt,
he was the adventurous type.

317
00:15:43,300 --> 00:15:45,940
He spent a lot of time in India.

318
00:15:45,940 --> 00:15:49,460
He wanted to see foreign parts.
He never has.

319
00:15:49,460 --> 00:15:53,460
Then his Uncle Tom,
he was in the Merchant Navy.

320
00:15:53,460 --> 00:15:56,540
Uncle Jim -
well, he was the ne'er-do-well.

321
00:15:56,540 --> 00:15:59,180
When he got married,
I remember Granddad saying,

322
00:15:59,180 --> 00:16:00,780
"Of course, he's a nice fella,

323
00:16:00,780 --> 00:16:03,420
"but he'll never be no good
to no woman, not never."

324
00:16:03,420 --> 00:16:05,820
CHILDREN SHOUT

325
00:16:13,460 --> 00:16:18,140
When I first came here,
we never had none of this lot.

326
00:16:18,140 --> 00:16:20,100
We never had no children in here.

327
00:16:20,100 --> 00:16:27,300
This was only for a married couple
or one on their own. No children.

328
00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:29,060
You had ladies here then.

329
00:16:29,060 --> 00:16:31,700
There was rats under the floorboard,
I had the council down

330
00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:34,780
to take the floorboards up and
put poison down for the rats.

331
00:16:34,780 --> 00:16:37,500
They said that definitely
rats had been there

332
00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:40,180
but they'd probably gone somewhere
else, to annoy somebody else.

333
00:16:40,180 --> 00:16:41,900
Reg, we've got a new girl at work.

334
00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:45,180
You knew her when you went to school.
Who's that?

335
00:16:45,180 --> 00:16:48,620
Christine something or other.
Rowbotham or something.

336
00:16:48,620 --> 00:16:50,900
Oh, I know. Er, Jenkins, wasn't it?

337
00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:53,460
That's it. She's on the bra counter.

338
00:16:53,460 --> 00:16:55,300
Well suited, I tell you!

339
00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:02,420
Wasn't it George?
You remember George?

340
00:17:02,420 --> 00:17:04,900
What, George that had the accident?

341
00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:06,980
Did he have an accident?
What was that?

342
00:17:06,980 --> 00:17:09,500
Didn't you know? He had his leg off.
Oh, dear.

343
00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:11,620
Oh, that's terrible.
Yeah, wasn't it?

344
00:17:11,620 --> 00:17:13,940
He was very keen on sports,
too, I remember.

345
00:17:13,940 --> 00:17:17,140
He was a lovely little runner,
really was.

346
00:17:17,140 --> 00:17:19,820
Well, he won't be able
to run any more, will he?

347
00:17:19,820 --> 00:17:22,500
Well, I don't think it's funny.
Do you?

348
00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:25,220
I think this is the only
tenement block in Islington

349
00:17:25,220 --> 00:17:27,900
where you can sit in your toilet
with you door open

350
00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:31,180
and cook breakfast at the same time.
We've only got one bedroom.

351
00:17:31,180 --> 00:17:33,100
I mean, you've got no married life.

352
00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:35,500
It's sort of...

353
00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:38,580
Half your questions and half
your rows is over sex,

354
00:17:38,580 --> 00:17:41,180
because you have to see that they...

355
00:17:41,180 --> 00:17:43,580
And you're always on nerves
with the children.

356
00:17:43,580 --> 00:17:46,860
I don't think it's fair to a man,
or if you're married and that -

357
00:17:46,860 --> 00:17:49,300
if you have children,
you're entitled to another room.

358
00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:51,900
You can look out your door
up the other woman's passage.

359
00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:53,980
You can't do that in
any new flats, can you?

360
00:17:53,980 --> 00:17:57,180
I gave Reg some of those
frozen chips last week.

361
00:17:57,180 --> 00:17:58,900
He didn't like them very much.

362
00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:01,860
Frozen chips? Do you know what
I think about them things?

363
00:18:01,860 --> 00:18:04,340
Do you know what Mr Ward used
to say? "Most unhealthy."

364
00:18:04,340 --> 00:18:06,540
We'll go and make one another
a cup of tea,

365
00:18:06,540 --> 00:18:08,460
we sit outside and have a laugh.

366
00:18:08,460 --> 00:18:12,220
Better to keep yourself to yourself.
Then you can't get into no row.

367
00:18:12,220 --> 00:18:13,820
Cook your dinner now, dear,

368
00:18:13,820 --> 00:18:16,460
and then I'll cook ours
for Eileen and the boys.

369
00:18:16,460 --> 00:18:18,900
No, I'm gonna put the baby to bed.
He's asleep.

370
00:18:18,900 --> 00:18:21,260
You know it don't work
when we all have it together.

371
00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:25,820
I'll clear up after him this time.

372
00:18:25,820 --> 00:18:29,060
I do think it's a bit hard the
council won't do nothing for you.

373
00:18:29,060 --> 00:18:32,140
I mean, I've done my bit,
I've brought up five children.

374
00:18:32,140 --> 00:18:34,980
But if we all picked where we live
none of us'd live here, would we?

375
00:18:34,980 --> 00:18:38,220
Stop your fella putting his feet
all over the furniture

376
00:18:38,220 --> 00:18:40,860
and picking up the baby
with his filthy hands.

377
00:18:40,860 --> 00:18:44,420
He's your son.
But you've taught him dirty habits.

378
00:18:44,420 --> 00:18:45,700
"Dirty habits"?!

379
00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:49,020
You don't wash your hands before
you touch the baby or his bottle.

380
00:18:49,020 --> 00:18:50,860
I was only doing it to help.

381
00:18:50,860 --> 00:18:53,860
And don't put Daz
in his bottle, either.

382
00:18:53,860 --> 00:18:57,060
And then there's the toilet.
What about the sodding toilet?

383
00:18:57,060 --> 00:19:00,060
You know what I mean about
the toilet. It's disgusting.

384
00:19:00,060 --> 00:19:03,020
Well, of all the things to bring up!

385
00:19:03,020 --> 00:19:06,260
You got on my boy's nerves with
worry so that he ran off the road.

386
00:19:06,260 --> 00:19:08,660
It's about time you was going.

387
00:19:08,660 --> 00:19:11,820
All right, we'll go.
You can keep your rotten old flat.

388
00:19:11,820 --> 00:19:15,140
I can't stand it, anyway. It's
driving me round the bloody bend.

389
00:19:22,380 --> 00:19:24,340
I got you a cup of tea!

390
00:19:33,780 --> 00:19:35,700
Say "See you after dinner".

391
00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:37,900
You're not going to
throw it, are you? Eh?

392
00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:40,700
We moved right away from the
parts we'd been living in,

393
00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:45,100
and Reg found quite a good job, too,
and we soon fitted in.

394
00:19:45,100 --> 00:19:47,300
Then Stevie came along,

395
00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:49,740
and we got quite settled, really.

396
00:19:49,740 --> 00:19:52,820
These streets, they looked rough,
and there were rats.

397
00:19:52,820 --> 00:19:55,340
But life was quite good here.

398
00:19:55,340 --> 00:19:59,060
Some of the places were boarded up,
with the upstairs windows empty.

399
00:19:59,060 --> 00:20:02,340
Others were crammed full
with people and kiddies.

400
00:20:02,340 --> 00:20:05,780
Once, I heard sounds coming from
one of the boarded-up houses.

401
00:20:05,780 --> 00:20:08,820
It sounded like, well -
a baby crying.

402
00:20:08,820 --> 00:20:10,540
CHILD SHRIEKS

403
00:20:10,540 --> 00:20:13,940
I went to a house the other week.

404
00:20:13,940 --> 00:20:17,620
A woman come out.
It's not too good, I tell you.

405
00:20:17,620 --> 00:20:20,540
And she come out in
her knickers and bra.

406
00:20:20,540 --> 00:20:22,260
That's the sort of people I meet.

407
00:20:22,260 --> 00:20:25,100
The women used to scrub
the pavements every morning

408
00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:26,620
to keep 'em clean.

409
00:20:27,820 --> 00:20:31,180
Me sister came to see me
last week from Yardley,

410
00:20:31,180 --> 00:20:34,060
and when she seen the street,
she says, "My God, Violet,

411
00:20:34,060 --> 00:20:36,980
"whatever possessed you to
live in a street like this?"

412
00:20:36,980 --> 00:20:39,500
You knew everybody,
and everybody was friendly, y'know?

413
00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:41,300
You don't know anybody now.

414
00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:43,940
A different class altogether
from what they was.

415
00:20:43,940 --> 00:20:48,860
You'll meet friends in here,
and they're very, very nice friends.

416
00:20:48,860 --> 00:20:50,900
You could have a laugh and a joke.

417
00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:55,860
I might have me funny ways, but
I'm a kind-hearted old bit of sugar.

418
00:20:55,860 --> 00:21:01,660
I'm harmless. I'm just an old bag,
as has got nobody to turn to.

419
00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:03,500
Whatever happened to Mr Alley?

420
00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:05,820
Things have gone far enough
with these places.

421
00:21:05,820 --> 00:21:07,540
Too much pressure, too many people.

422
00:21:07,540 --> 00:21:09,300
The plaster keeps coming off
the wall.

423
00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:10,700
The plaster? I ain't noticed that.

424
00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:14,020
I could pull the chain, half the
ceiling comes down on you. No?!

425
00:21:14,020 --> 00:21:16,500
It's a bloomin' old system.
It wants a new one.

426
00:21:16,500 --> 00:21:19,340
There's a sizeable queue waiting.
one can follow the other.

427
00:21:19,340 --> 00:21:24,700
I've seen all sorts of changes,
from better to worse.

428
00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:27,540
Everybody had window boxes
when I first come up here.

429
00:21:29,180 --> 00:21:32,500
Now, my dear,
once I had a profession.

430
00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:34,260
Can you guess what it was?

431
00:21:34,260 --> 00:21:37,420
Ooh, I don't know.
I was an 'ore, dear.

432
00:21:37,420 --> 00:21:40,260
Ooh, you weren't, Mrs Alley,
I don't believe you.

433
00:21:40,260 --> 00:21:42,660
An 'ore.

434
00:21:42,660 --> 00:21:45,460
A long time ago,

435
00:21:45,460 --> 00:21:47,500
but I was lovely then.

436
00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:49,820
I had the fellas wild for me,
I did... Did you?

437
00:21:49,820 --> 00:21:51,420
..When I was an 'ore.

438
00:21:51,420 --> 00:21:56,060
Oh, I've got something
I want you to do for me.

439
00:21:56,060 --> 00:21:58,780
Would you read this letter
for me, dear? Yeah!

440
00:21:58,780 --> 00:22:03,460
It's one of me old favourites, and
me eyes are not so good these days.

441
00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:10,860
Ooh, Mrs Alley, it's all about sex!

442
00:22:10,860 --> 00:22:13,940
Fancy you getting me to read
your sexy letters for you!

443
00:22:13,940 --> 00:22:17,500
Well, there's a caff down the road,
and they have a striptease.

444
00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:20,380
Every night there's kids hanging
round, waiting to see 'em.

445
00:22:20,380 --> 00:22:22,900
That's putting ideas in
the kids' heads, innit?

446
00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:24,660
Stephen, what are you doing?

447
00:22:24,660 --> 00:22:27,860
That's dirt! I told you
not to play with the dirt!

448
00:22:27,860 --> 00:22:30,780
Look at your clean jeans.
Now put that down. And you, Sean.

449
00:22:30,780 --> 00:22:32,860
Look at you. You're filthy.

450
00:22:32,860 --> 00:22:35,020
Now I was pregnant again.

451
00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:37,580
Some would say it was wrong
to have another kiddie

452
00:22:37,580 --> 00:22:40,500
when you're overcrowded as it is,
but I don't think so.

453
00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:42,900
I think kiddies are God's gift.

454
00:22:42,900 --> 00:22:46,260
You don't do right to deprive
anyone of the chance of life.

455
00:22:46,260 --> 00:22:48,780
Love's what's important
in a child's life.

456
00:22:48,780 --> 00:22:52,180
Love is more important to a child
than nice surroundings.

457
00:22:52,180 --> 00:22:55,620
I know, cos I lived in what
they call a respectable" home,

458
00:22:55,620 --> 00:22:56,980
and I didn't have it.

459
00:22:56,980 --> 00:23:00,820
The attic - we had to sleep in
the attic, like. It was quite damp.

460
00:23:00,820 --> 00:23:04,180
We wallpapered it about
three weeks before I had the baby,

461
00:23:04,180 --> 00:23:07,820
and the far wall, it's starting
to come down already.

462
00:23:07,820 --> 00:23:08,860
HELP!

463
00:23:08,860 --> 00:23:11,740
Oh, Mrs Alley, are you all right?
I fell through the bed!

464
00:23:11,740 --> 00:23:13,820
Oh, thank you, ducks, thank you.

465
00:23:13,820 --> 00:23:16,500
I'm very grateful to you, ducks.

466
00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:19,620
Mrs Alley, I can't pull any harder.
I'll hurt the baby!

467
00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:22,620
Aren't I a silly girl?

468
00:23:22,620 --> 00:23:24,540
Pull me.

469
00:23:24,540 --> 00:23:27,060
I wets the bed, see?

470
00:23:27,060 --> 00:23:30,620
I wets the bed, and
the springs get rotted.

471
00:23:30,620 --> 00:23:36,220
You may see one of these
pigeons flying across,

472
00:23:36,220 --> 00:23:39,860
There's the pigeon there!

473
00:23:39,860 --> 00:23:41,460
Come on!

474
00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:46,380
I'll send that cat up after you!
Now come in! Come on!

475
00:23:47,780 --> 00:23:50,420
Come on! Come on!

476
00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:55,380
Bang! Ssh!

477
00:23:55,380 --> 00:23:57,140
Sean, be quiet.

478
00:23:57,140 --> 00:23:59,540
I felt we were honoured, somehow,

479
00:23:59,540 --> 00:24:01,740
that pigeon coming
all the way back to us.

480
00:24:01,740 --> 00:24:04,460
Mrs Alley, can I have a word
with you for a minute?

481
00:24:05,780 --> 00:24:08,820
Give me a lift up, dear.
Oh, thank you.

482
00:24:08,820 --> 00:24:10,940
Can you manage? Thank you.

483
00:24:10,940 --> 00:24:13,260
Mrs Alley, I was wondering
if it'd be all right

484
00:24:13,260 --> 00:24:15,060
if we owed the rent for a few weeks.

485
00:24:15,060 --> 00:24:19,140
Only, what with the pigeons, and
Reg isn't earning very much now...

486
00:24:19,140 --> 00:24:21,140
Owe the rent, ducks? Mm.

487
00:24:21,140 --> 00:24:24,300
Course you can owe the rent,
but I want to be paid.

488
00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:27,020
We will pay you, course we will.
I'll have to be paid.

489
00:24:27,020 --> 00:24:32,420
You see, as old as I seem,
I don't qualify for a pension.

490
00:24:32,420 --> 00:24:34,740
Ah! I look older than I really am.

491
00:24:34,740 --> 00:24:36,900
The children tries
to have a good time

492
00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:39,900
if people mind their own business
and let them have it.

493
00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:44,500
One's name was Sean and
the other one's was Stephen,

494
00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:48,100
and they lived in a little
cottage by the seaside,

495
00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:50,740
and every day... Did they? Yes!

496
00:24:50,740 --> 00:24:53,380
Reg! Reg!

497
00:24:53,380 --> 00:24:56,500
It's Mrs Alley! She's dead!

498
00:25:02,340 --> 00:25:07,300
The men from the council came along,
took away her odd bits and pieces.

499
00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:09,060
They looked through the letters

500
00:25:09,060 --> 00:25:11,300
for notes of any relatives
she might have,

501
00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:13,180
but she hadn't got none.

502
00:25:13,180 --> 00:25:16,060
Only letters from her
old clients, that's all.

503
00:25:16,060 --> 00:25:18,820
So there was no-one to pay
the death grant to.

504
00:25:27,620 --> 00:25:29,980
Oh! Yes?

505
00:25:29,980 --> 00:25:32,820
I'm representing a nephew
of the deceased, Mrs Alley,

506
00:25:32,820 --> 00:25:34,060
what died last week,

507
00:25:34,060 --> 00:25:36,900
and the fact is my client
now needs the unpaid rent

508
00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:39,100
for the current week
and the back period,

509
00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:42,060
during which he gathers from the
rent book you was in arrears.

510
00:25:42,060 --> 00:25:44,060
In arrears? You sure? Yeah.

511
00:25:44,060 --> 00:25:47,460
Well, I didn't know Mrs Alley had
any relatives. Well, she does.

512
00:25:47,460 --> 00:25:49,820
I'm sorry, but I can't
oblige at the moment.

513
00:25:49,820 --> 00:25:52,860
You see, Mrs Alley said we could
owe the rent for a few weeks

514
00:25:52,860 --> 00:25:54,900
because my Reg has been ill.

515
00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:58,220
Now he's better we'll pay you,
course we will. Yes...

516
00:25:58,220 --> 00:26:00,780
But just give us a
few weeks, that's all.

517
00:26:00,780 --> 00:26:03,460
And I'll even go out
to work, as well.

518
00:26:03,460 --> 00:26:07,180
What Mrs Alley said
and what my client wants
are completely different.

519
00:26:07,180 --> 00:26:09,620
So you'd better find
some way to pay up. OK?

520
00:26:09,620 --> 00:26:10,980
You couldn't talk to him.

521
00:26:10,980 --> 00:26:13,660
It was like it was hopeless
trying to talk to him.

522
00:26:13,660 --> 00:26:16,900
What, three months in arrears?
Well, I'll knock his block in!

523
00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:19,940
I mean, who does he think
he's talking to?

524
00:26:19,940 --> 00:26:23,580
How long is it since he's been
round here? Well, it's four weeks.

525
00:26:23,580 --> 00:26:26,900
What, four weeks? He says here
we owe him three months!

526
00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:29,620
I mean, well, who are we
supposed to pay this rent to?

527
00:26:29,620 --> 00:26:32,420
He never comes round.
How does he expect to collect it?

528
00:26:32,420 --> 00:26:34,340
Have another look at the letter.

529
00:26:34,340 --> 00:26:36,780
Well, it says here
he's gonna kick us out.

530
00:26:36,780 --> 00:26:38,460
They can't evict you these days.

531
00:26:38,460 --> 00:26:41,660
I thought they passed a law about it.
It's nonsense.

532
00:26:41,660 --> 00:26:42,900
Well, he says here he can.

533
00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:48,300
Look, I've told you once we'll pay
you if only you'll give us time.

534
00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:49,620
I know your game.

535
00:26:49,620 --> 00:26:52,620
You wanna get us out so you can
charge someone else key money.

536
00:26:52,620 --> 00:26:55,540
for himself and his relatives,

537
00:26:55,540 --> 00:26:56,900
so you'd better get out.

538
00:26:56,900 --> 00:26:59,220
You may have heard eviction
isn't legal these days,

539
00:26:59,220 --> 00:27:02,580
but with a relative what wants an
'ouse, you can still be evicted.

540
00:27:02,580 --> 00:27:05,940
Are you sure about that? And we'll
get a court order to prove it.

541
00:27:05,940 --> 00:27:07,540
But we're protected tenants!

542
00:27:07,540 --> 00:27:10,980
I've been here every week now for
a month. You've had time to pay up.

543
00:27:10,980 --> 00:27:13,940
The defendant not only persistently
refused to pay his rent,

544
00:27:13,940 --> 00:27:16,900
but the landlord will be forced
to put the premises right

545
00:27:16,900 --> 00:27:19,740
at the cost of some several
hundred pounds to himself.

546
00:27:19,740 --> 00:27:21,300
What have you got to say?

547
00:27:21,300 --> 00:27:23,660
Well, I say it's all a pack of lies.

548
00:27:23,660 --> 00:27:25,860
I mean, listen, now,
for the first thing,

549
00:27:25,860 --> 00:27:29,180
Mrs Alley said we didn't have to pay
any rent cos I wasn't working.

550
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:32,620
And then this bloke comes round
and says he wants the rent.

551
00:27:32,620 --> 00:27:34,860
When I goes round with the rent,
he won't accept it.

552
00:27:34,860 --> 00:27:39,500
I'm not satisfied in this case that
the defendant is telling the truth.

553
00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:42,380
In addition, he appears to have
"mislaid" the rent book

554
00:27:42,380 --> 00:27:44,860
given to him by Mrs Alley.

555
00:27:44,860 --> 00:27:46,380
I take the case as proved.

556
00:27:46,380 --> 00:27:49,340
We'll grant an eviction order
dated four weeks from now.

557
00:27:49,340 --> 00:27:52,780
So we tried. We wrote letters,
we wrote after places.

558
00:27:52,780 --> 00:27:54,780
Never got no answer.

559
00:27:54,780 --> 00:27:57,140
The next answer we got
was "No children."

560
00:27:57,140 --> 00:27:59,500
"No children accepted."

561
00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:03,820
I went to an agent, and he said yes,
they'd guarantee to find us a place,

562
00:28:03,820 --> 00:28:06,740
providing we gave them twenty
per cent of a year's rent

563
00:28:06,740 --> 00:28:11,060
and ten per cent of fixtures and
fittings, which I thought was unjust.

564
00:28:11,060 --> 00:28:14,020
And I wrote letters
and the rent was too high.

565
00:28:14,020 --> 00:28:15,780
Oh, there was one place we did go to

566
00:28:15,780 --> 00:28:18,020
and I thought we were
gonna have a chance.

567
00:28:18,020 --> 00:28:22,260
They said £6, and the next thing we
heard, someone had offered 'em eight,

568
00:28:22,260 --> 00:28:24,060
so that put the cap on that.

569
00:28:24,060 --> 00:28:27,500
Then other letters we got -
"£10 a week".

570
00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:30,500
Because Reg couldn't afford it,
not on his wages,

571
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:33,580
it meant that all the week we'd
be living on next to nothing.

572
00:28:33,580 --> 00:28:36,900
In Birmingham, there are
39,000 families on the waiting list.

573
00:28:36,900 --> 00:28:39,340
Leeds, 13,500.

574
00:28:39,340 --> 00:28:40,980
Liverpool, 19,000.

575
00:28:40,980 --> 00:28:43,220
Manchester, nearly 15,000.

576
00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:47,420
It wasn't long before
I realised something -

577
00:28:47,420 --> 00:28:49,380
we'd been lucky to get the old place.

578
00:28:49,380 --> 00:28:51,860
There didn't seem to be
anything for us any more.

579
00:28:51,860 --> 00:28:55,300
In Liverpool, one household
in nine is on the waiting list.

580
00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:57,780
In Manchester, it's one in 14.

581
00:28:57,780 --> 00:29:00,900
In Birmingham, there are
4,000 overcrowded houses,

582
00:29:00,900 --> 00:29:02,140
12 people to a house.

583
00:29:02,140 --> 00:29:03,460
Is that yours?

584
00:29:03,460 --> 00:29:05,660
Well, yes, there's just us
and my husband.

585
00:29:05,660 --> 00:29:07,540
Sorry, love, no children accepted.

586
00:29:07,540 --> 00:29:10,340
If I had a couple of elephants,
they might have said,

587
00:29:10,340 --> 00:29:12,580
"You can leave 'em
outside in the yard."

588
00:29:12,580 --> 00:29:16,060
But children, they'd say, "Sorry,
we can't have nothing like that."

589
00:29:16,060 --> 00:29:18,380
It was as if it was a crime
to have children.

590
00:29:18,380 --> 00:29:20,660
A million families are
without homes of their own.

591
00:29:20,660 --> 00:29:22,860
You may have a teenaged
brother and sister

592
00:29:22,860 --> 00:29:24,420
who have to share the same bed,

593
00:29:24,420 --> 00:29:27,820
or maybe a crippled person on
the top floor as can never go out.

594
00:29:27,820 --> 00:29:30,060
Perhaps they're sharing
with relatives.

595
00:29:30,060 --> 00:29:34,740
Or maybe, like yourselves,
they've had an order of eviction.

596
00:29:34,740 --> 00:29:39,660
To house these 8,000 units, we
have 500 new dwellings every year.

597
00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:45,060
Now, people's needs are assessed on
points. One point for health risk,

598
00:29:45,060 --> 00:29:47,420
one for every year
they've lived in the borough,

599
00:29:47,420 --> 00:29:49,180
and one if they haven't got a bath.

600
00:29:49,180 --> 00:29:52,460
And you just haven't got
enough points to qualify.

601
00:29:52,460 --> 00:29:56,460
But...in view of the gravity of the
situation I will investigate

602
00:29:56,460 --> 00:29:59,380
and see if it isn't possible
to jump you up the queue a bit.

603
00:29:59,380 --> 00:30:02,220
Thank you. And also,
in view of the situation,

604
00:30:02,220 --> 00:30:05,780
I'll try and get you a place
on the Smithsonian estate,
which is near completion.

605
00:30:05,780 --> 00:30:08,660
We had a little girl next.
We called her Marlene.

606
00:30:08,660 --> 00:30:11,020
It was Reg's choice, not mine.

607
00:30:11,020 --> 00:30:14,340
She weighed 8lb5 at birth.
Quite a little heavyweight.

608
00:30:14,340 --> 00:30:16,940
One day we had a visit
from the man from the council.

609
00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:18,220
Mr Ward? Yeah.

610
00:30:18,220 --> 00:30:22,500
Good morning. I'm from the
Public Health department. Oh, yeah.

611
00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:27,620
I understand that you're living in
one room because the room upstairs is
too damp for the kiddies to sleep in.

612
00:30:27,620 --> 00:30:28,740
Is that right? Yeah.

613
00:30:28,740 --> 00:30:32,180
Well, I'm sorry but I'm afraid
we shall have to move you out.

614
00:30:32,180 --> 00:30:34,380
We're gonna be evicted anyway.
Are you?

615
00:30:34,380 --> 00:30:36,780
When's that then? Next Tuesday.

616
00:30:36,780 --> 00:30:38,940
Well, that saves me a bit of trouble.

617
00:30:38,940 --> 00:30:41,620
In any case,
it saves me having to do something

618
00:30:41,620 --> 00:30:43,460
that I don't really believe in.

619
00:30:43,460 --> 00:30:45,220
Good day to you.

620
00:30:45,220 --> 00:30:47,740
Oh, faceless man. Why doesn't
he do something about it

621
00:30:47,740 --> 00:30:49,980
instead of doing things
he doesn't believe in?

622
00:30:49,980 --> 00:30:53,380
Like a mad house. They pulled the
washing down from the line,

623
00:30:53,380 --> 00:30:57,980
the lights pulled out from their
sockets, we even had windows
taken from their frames.

624
00:30:57,980 --> 00:31:01,540
Someone turned the water off and the
electricity wires got pulled out.

625
00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:04,300
There is another side - our side.

626
00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:07,260
I'm speaking, by the way,
with authority.

627
00:31:07,260 --> 00:31:09,620
CRASH!
..responsible for the property
in question.

628
00:31:09,620 --> 00:31:13,220
I know it's common for the police
to be brought in for an eviction.

629
00:31:13,220 --> 00:31:17,540
There's nothing unusual about that.
But it does get people's backs up.

630
00:31:17,540 --> 00:31:20,140
It's bad publicity for the company
that owns the place,

631
00:31:20,140 --> 00:31:26,580
particularly when it is a reputable
body of churchmen who, through the
application of good business methods,

632
00:31:26,580 --> 00:31:29,460
have landed themselves
in the unfortunate position

633
00:31:29,460 --> 00:31:31,100
of seeming to do an injustice.

634
00:31:42,020 --> 00:31:45,340
Come on, then. That's it then, Cath.

635
00:31:45,340 --> 00:31:48,020
Come on Stephen. Up you come.

636
00:31:48,020 --> 00:31:49,940
That's it. Good lad.

637
00:31:52,380 --> 00:31:55,100
It's all right, it's all right.

638
00:31:55,100 --> 00:31:56,540
All right, Cath?

639
00:32:10,340 --> 00:32:13,020
Hey, mister,
could I have a word with you?

640
00:32:13,020 --> 00:32:16,420
You want me to store your furniture
for a pound a week? Go away!

641
00:32:30,220 --> 00:32:32,060
Now, move out of the way, will you?

642
00:32:32,060 --> 00:32:35,100
Leave the kid alone!
Now, look, I'm only doing my job.

643
00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:38,540
Come on, don't be silly.
Come on over here. Calm down.

644
00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:42,940
He only wanted his toys.
Not asking TOO much, is it?

645
00:32:42,940 --> 00:32:44,860
It's not too much to expect, surely?

646
00:32:44,860 --> 00:32:47,100
I mean, we still own the property,
don't we?

647
00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:49,340
Be careful with that chair!

648
00:32:50,940 --> 00:32:52,980
What? How much longer?

649
00:32:52,980 --> 00:32:55,140
Don't worry.
It's only about five minutes.

650
00:32:55,140 --> 00:32:58,540
Is it? It's just down there.
I'm getting tired, Reg.

651
00:32:58,540 --> 00:33:02,140
We're nearly there. My legs. Hang
on. Do you want to swap over? Yeah.

652
00:33:02,140 --> 00:33:04,140
Here, have the pram.
Stay here, Sean.

653
00:33:04,140 --> 00:33:07,460
I told you not to buy them ice
creams. Look at the state they're in.

654
00:33:07,460 --> 00:33:10,060
I know. There you are.

655
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,660
They're gonna get this road
done up, they told me.

656
00:33:14,660 --> 00:33:17,420
In a couple of months.
It gets very bad in the winter.

657
00:33:17,420 --> 00:33:19,220
It's not very nice, is it, Reg?

658
00:33:19,220 --> 00:33:21,580
Why are all these cars here?
It's a sort of dump.

659
00:33:21,580 --> 00:33:24,420
The council are trying to do
something about that as well.

660
00:33:24,420 --> 00:33:28,140
I wouldn't go back to a house. I
never look at housing adverts now.

661
00:33:28,140 --> 00:33:30,420
I never look in house
agents' windows.

662
00:33:30,420 --> 00:33:33,820
We tried councils, we tried welfare.

663
00:33:33,820 --> 00:33:37,060
We even tried to get tied cottages.

664
00:33:37,060 --> 00:33:39,940
And it just fell through.

665
00:33:39,940 --> 00:33:42,340
A caravan was the last resort.

666
00:33:42,340 --> 00:33:43,860
And I hate it.

667
00:33:45,540 --> 00:33:49,260
Er...up that way.
Well, which one is it then?

668
00:33:49,260 --> 00:33:51,500
That one over there. That way.
Which one?

669
00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:55,580
That one, there. That's it.
Well, we're here then.

670
00:33:55,580 --> 00:33:58,900
..Used to go to big fairs and
sell horses and buy horses.

671
00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:02,260
That was mostly the live-ins.
I'd love to go back on the roads.

672
00:34:02,260 --> 00:34:05,700
If we pull in, side of the road,
like we used to years ago,

673
00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:08,020
the police come along,
and summons you,

674
00:34:08,020 --> 00:34:10,580
and you go to court and we
don't know where to go to.

675
00:34:10,580 --> 00:34:14,420
Are you gonna live here, mister?
Yeah, love. Mind out, love.

676
00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:20,900
Now put that down, Sean.

677
00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:22,420
Leave it alone.

678
00:34:26,820 --> 00:34:29,900
Well, what do you think
of it then, Cath?

679
00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:33,780
Could be worse.
Oh, come on love, it's not that bad.

680
00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:36,100
Is there any light? Yeah.

681
00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:38,380
I'll show you in a minute.

682
00:34:38,380 --> 00:34:41,060
Like the wood?
Yeah, it's a bit dirty.

683
00:34:41,060 --> 00:34:43,220
Sit down there. I'll show you.

684
00:34:43,220 --> 00:34:46,940
That's it. Now,
it's quite easy to operate, Cath.

685
00:34:46,940 --> 00:34:48,700
It's not so difficult.

686
00:34:48,700 --> 00:34:51,780
When I'm out of the place
you'll be able to do it yourself.

687
00:34:51,780 --> 00:34:53,220
I'll show you how it works.

688
00:34:53,220 --> 00:34:55,220
Now, you need a box of matches.

689
00:34:55,220 --> 00:34:56,700
Er...

690
00:34:56,700 --> 00:35:00,220
Now... Stick the match through there.

691
00:35:02,580 --> 00:35:04,700
And...

692
00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:07,100
That's it. It's gone out, Reg.

693
00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:08,660
Oh...

694
00:35:08,660 --> 00:35:10,820
It wasn't too bad, really.

695
00:35:10,820 --> 00:35:13,620
The wind was getting up
outside in the marsh.

696
00:35:13,620 --> 00:35:16,780
It made it feel quite snug inside.

697
00:35:16,780 --> 00:35:19,220
It felt funny to be in a caravan.

698
00:35:19,220 --> 00:35:23,140
I'd only been in one once before,
and that was on summer holiday.

699
00:35:23,140 --> 00:35:25,620
It was a relief though, really.

700
00:35:25,620 --> 00:35:29,180
I think it was because of
the tension we'd been living under

701
00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:30,380
the past few weeks.

702
00:35:30,380 --> 00:35:32,060
And you got the light, you see?

703
00:35:32,060 --> 00:35:34,540
It's very efficient.
It does the whole room.

704
00:35:34,540 --> 00:35:38,460
And it's warm as well. Like it?

705
00:35:38,460 --> 00:35:40,580
BABY CRIES

706
00:35:40,580 --> 00:35:44,420
Is she going to sleep?
Yeah, she's tired. Night-night!

707
00:35:44,420 --> 00:35:49,180
Have we got some bacon? We better
have that before it goes off,
and all. Come on now.

708
00:35:49,180 --> 00:35:52,780
Go to sleep now. Goodnight!

709
00:35:52,780 --> 00:35:56,500
Goodnight!
..I don't know how we're going
to fit another bed in here, Reg.

710
00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:58,020
Don't worry, I'll show you.

711
00:36:01,700 --> 00:36:05,740
Oh, I see! That's very clever, isn't
it? It's all right, it's all right.

712
00:36:05,740 --> 00:36:08,180
It's quite comfy, too.

713
00:36:09,460 --> 00:36:11,660
Are you sure we're safe here, Reg?

714
00:36:11,660 --> 00:36:14,260
I mean, they won't come
and get us, will they?

715
00:36:14,260 --> 00:36:17,740
They won't move us on. What, from
'ere? Nah, don't worry about it.

716
00:36:17,740 --> 00:36:21,220
They won't come and look for us
here, not amongst all this lot.

717
00:36:21,220 --> 00:36:24,540
We may have dropped a peg, but
I think we'll be a lot contenter.

718
00:36:24,540 --> 00:36:28,940
Later the wind got stronger.
It began to rock the place
around quite a lot.

719
00:36:30,940 --> 00:36:34,060
I like a van. You get all the air
round you in a van.

720
00:36:34,060 --> 00:36:35,820
You know I'm 86?

721
00:36:35,820 --> 00:36:38,780
You're not! You 86? 86!

722
00:36:38,780 --> 00:36:42,060
And I don't think a house'd suit me.

723
00:36:42,060 --> 00:36:44,380
You know, in a house,
you can't breathe.

724
00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:47,180
And I like air. I like fresh air.

725
00:36:47,180 --> 00:36:50,820
You know, it makes...
It's beautiful, fresh air.

726
00:36:50,820 --> 00:36:54,060
There's no roadway at all.
It's just a road of mud

727
00:36:54,060 --> 00:36:59,780
and scrap heaps all the way
up the lane, which we get fires
every day of the week burning.

728
00:36:59,780 --> 00:37:01,900
The caravans are very close together.

729
00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:07,740
We have to walk a couple of hundred
yards to empty a chemical toilet.

730
00:37:07,740 --> 00:37:10,060
In a house, it's all four walls.

731
00:37:10,060 --> 00:37:14,620
And we seemed closed in,
like a bird penned up in a cage.

732
00:37:17,020 --> 00:37:20,100
To get the fuel to come down
to us, well, it's...

733
00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:21,540
They just won't come.

734
00:37:21,540 --> 00:37:25,340
The state of that road, and the mud,
and the bumps and that...

735
00:37:25,340 --> 00:37:28,820
Another thing I can't understand,
it's the drivers that stop this.

736
00:37:28,820 --> 00:37:30,340
The drivers won't come down.

737
00:37:30,340 --> 00:37:32,700
And yet, they're
the same sort of people as us.

738
00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:36,980
People look at me and say, "Oh, him?
He's just a dirty old gypsy."

739
00:37:36,980 --> 00:37:39,220
But we're not dirty, we're clean.

740
00:37:39,220 --> 00:37:41,420
And we keep ourselves clean.

741
00:37:41,420 --> 00:37:44,940
I tell you why.
Cos we wash ourselves.

742
00:37:44,940 --> 00:37:47,780
And we don't need any
of them flush baths either.

743
00:37:47,780 --> 00:37:51,980
Get a bucket of water, and we wash
ourselves down, down to the waist.

744
00:37:51,980 --> 00:37:55,860
Then when that part's done, roll your
shirt down, take off your trousers,

745
00:37:55,860 --> 00:37:59,100
and you wash yourself down and up,
up and down, up to the bottom.

746
00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:01,460
What, in the open air?
Yeah, of course!

747
00:38:01,460 --> 00:38:03,180
I'll tell you something else.

748
00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:05,700
You'll never find no fleas,
lice nor louse,

749
00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:09,860
cos we know how to thwart them. With
the Devil's Dung. What's that, then?

750
00:38:09,860 --> 00:38:12,340
Well, Devil's Dung,
you get that in the chemist.

751
00:38:12,340 --> 00:38:15,140
It does have a bit of a stink,
I'll grant you that...

752
00:38:15,140 --> 00:38:17,180
You can always tell a traveller,

753
00:38:17,180 --> 00:38:19,620
by the way he walks
and the way he acts.

754
00:38:19,620 --> 00:38:24,740
Same as I can tell a policeman.
I could really smell a policeman.

755
00:38:24,740 --> 00:38:28,940
We feel free because we can look
at the open fields from our window.

756
00:38:28,940 --> 00:38:32,540
We have our own front door. We don't
have people living all on top of us.

757
00:38:32,540 --> 00:38:35,620
And yet we can live in a decent,
civilised manner.

758
00:38:35,620 --> 00:38:37,500
Next door, there's a load of rats.

759
00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:40,820
At night you can hear 'em under
our caravan - all squeaks, you know?

760
00:38:40,820 --> 00:38:42,460
Makes all funny noises.

761
00:38:44,380 --> 00:38:47,580
I mean, if you end up in a caravan,
you've gone as low as you can go.

762
00:38:47,580 --> 00:38:49,180
You can't go no lower than that

763
00:38:49,180 --> 00:38:51,940
unless it's on the street
or in the halfway houses.

764
00:38:51,940 --> 00:38:57,020
When Mr Jones came out the Forces,
they tried hard to find places.

765
00:38:57,020 --> 00:38:59,180
But the money they got was no good.

766
00:38:59,180 --> 00:39:02,060
As the kids came along,
it got worse.

767
00:39:02,060 --> 00:39:06,580
He went down the mines,
he went as a driver on the buses,

768
00:39:06,580 --> 00:39:09,380
but each time,
the rent asked was far too much.

769
00:39:09,380 --> 00:39:10,820
Too much for his wages.

770
00:39:10,820 --> 00:39:12,980
He tried to get jobs
in the Forestry.

771
00:39:12,980 --> 00:39:15,060
But each time we were turned down.

772
00:39:15,060 --> 00:39:17,180
Can't get anything really regular.

773
00:39:17,180 --> 00:39:20,020
He did the Forestry
when he was a Prisoner of War.

774
00:39:20,020 --> 00:39:21,980
Reg got a job picking blackcurrants

775
00:39:21,980 --> 00:39:24,540
and when the job
with the blackcurrants was over

776
00:39:24,540 --> 00:39:26,980
he got work at the airport
on the new runway.

777
00:39:26,980 --> 00:39:29,540
Then picking gooseberries
and loganberries.

778
00:39:29,540 --> 00:39:31,420
And the kids like life here, too.

779
00:39:31,420 --> 00:39:35,620
They were for always finding things
that fascinated them among the trees.

780
00:39:35,620 --> 00:39:38,660
I got to like it here as well.
I don't know why.

781
00:39:38,660 --> 00:39:41,900
I know it was squalid
but it was easy-going.

782
00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:44,420
Only sometimes
the filth got on my nerves.

783
00:39:44,420 --> 00:39:47,620
I felt as if we'd sunk, somehow,
out of the race.

784
00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:50,060
Things didn't seem to matter
down here no more.

785
00:39:50,060 --> 00:39:52,820
There was no-one to move us on.

786
00:39:52,820 --> 00:39:55,980
Reg and me reckoned we might
stay here for a while.

787
00:39:55,980 --> 00:39:57,900
Well, it was a life. We were happy.

788
00:39:57,900 --> 00:40:00,980
What we are pressing for is
the fencing off of the common land

789
00:40:00,980 --> 00:40:04,980
so that the gypsies and layabouts
can no longer get on it.

790
00:40:04,980 --> 00:40:09,060
Now, it is the traditional camping
place of the gypsies, of course.

791
00:40:09,060 --> 00:40:12,300
No-one is denying that -
but these are not real gypsies,

792
00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:14,580
they're just scroungers, layabouts.

793
00:40:14,580 --> 00:40:15,940
Bloody vagabonds!

794
00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:18,220
These are the words
that spring to one's mind

795
00:40:18,220 --> 00:40:20,100
when contemplating these people.

796
00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:23,540
And, of course,
with the new housing development,

797
00:40:23,540 --> 00:40:25,380
of which we are all part,

798
00:40:25,380 --> 00:40:29,260
the character of the area
must be expected to change.

799
00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:35,180
We can accept no hindrance
from those who wilfully try
to keep us in the past.

800
00:40:35,180 --> 00:40:37,860
There is no longer room
for slums on wheels.

801
00:40:37,860 --> 00:40:39,580
Many of these people are not gypsies.

802
00:40:39,580 --> 00:40:42,420
They are here because they
can't find anywhere else to live.

803
00:40:42,420 --> 00:40:45,740
Where would the sympathies
of the association lie

804
00:40:45,740 --> 00:40:47,500
in the event of violence?

805
00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:51,660
I'm afraid our sympathies will be
very much with ourselves.

806
00:40:51,660 --> 00:40:55,420
The council has wasted enough time
on these gypsies.

807
00:40:56,580 --> 00:40:59,100
They give nothing towards
the council...

808
00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:00,420
Right mate, I'll get you!

809
00:41:00,420 --> 00:41:01,900
Why should we support them?

810
00:41:01,900 --> 00:41:05,660
Young respectable couples
in the borough can't get housing.

811
00:41:05,660 --> 00:41:08,220
Who would we rather have the money?

812
00:41:08,220 --> 00:41:11,780
Cherries, apples... Fruit picking.
That's right. Hops.

813
00:41:11,780 --> 00:41:14,260
Bert and I helped to make that,
didn't we? Yeah.

814
00:41:14,260 --> 00:41:17,540
D'you want another pint?
I'll get it. No, I'll get 'em.

815
00:41:21,220 --> 00:41:22,780
Potato picking.

816
00:41:22,780 --> 00:41:24,980
That's how I met the missus. No!

817
00:41:24,980 --> 00:41:27,700
I'd been out potato picking
and had a few pints.

818
00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:31,180
And I had to go into this ditch -
and there she was - the future wife.

819
00:41:31,180 --> 00:41:33,660
She asleep, was she(?)
Nah, she'd had a few pints, too.

820
00:41:36,380 --> 00:41:39,900
If you'd got it off someone you
know's OK, you can get his name...

821
00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:42,940
Mum! The caravan's burning!

822
00:41:44,820 --> 00:41:47,500
Get back! Get back!

823
00:41:49,380 --> 00:41:52,900
Why were you living there
in the first place?

824
00:41:52,900 --> 00:41:55,540
We was evicted from a
council house in Stoke.

825
00:41:55,540 --> 00:41:57,180
Where were you on the
night of the fire?

826
00:41:57,180 --> 00:41:59,460
We went out to buy some dolls
for the kids.

827
00:41:59,460 --> 00:42:01,660
On the way back
we stopped for a quick one.

828
00:42:01,660 --> 00:42:04,660
Did you and your wife
have to be out together?

829
00:42:04,660 --> 00:42:08,180
Mrs Jones can't drive and
I wanted her advice about the dolls.

830
00:42:08,180 --> 00:42:11,140
There are times when a husband
and wife have to go out together,

831
00:42:11,140 --> 00:42:12,420
and this was one of them.

832
00:42:12,420 --> 00:42:15,020
And would say, sir,
that this was murder.

833
00:42:15,020 --> 00:42:17,900
It's the kids from the new estate.
And the adults?

834
00:42:17,900 --> 00:42:20,260
Well, they just seem
to encourage them.

835
00:42:20,260 --> 00:42:22,740
You are the health inspector
for this region.

836
00:42:22,740 --> 00:42:27,780
And you have made orders for
the demolition of houses 1,000
times better than these caravans.

837
00:42:27,780 --> 00:42:31,100
The local authority do have
sympathy for these people...

838
00:42:31,100 --> 00:42:33,500
That's my baby in there!

839
00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:35,580
Somebody go and get it out!

840
00:42:35,580 --> 00:42:40,300
Pauline Jones,
were you asleep in your caravan
on the night of April 25th?

841
00:42:40,300 --> 00:42:44,220
Yes. We was all six in the bed.

842
00:42:44,220 --> 00:42:48,580
I woke up cos the place
was full of smoke.

843
00:42:48,580 --> 00:42:52,220
So I grabbed little Gary
in me arms and got out. I see.

844
00:42:52,220 --> 00:42:56,020
And do you remember
what happened then?

845
00:42:56,020 --> 00:42:58,260
Well, all the others got burned out.

846
00:43:03,540 --> 00:43:04,780
When they get the ban,

847
00:43:04,780 --> 00:43:07,860
they're tight over the boundary
into the next district.

848
00:43:07,860 --> 00:43:09,620
They leave it on the
side of the road

849
00:43:09,620 --> 00:43:11,780
and then the police
in that district come

850
00:43:11,780 --> 00:43:14,140
and nick you for being
on the side of the road!

851
00:43:14,140 --> 00:43:17,580
It's because you can't cause
obstructions on a public highway.

852
00:43:17,580 --> 00:43:19,660
Reg was working at the airport.

853
00:43:19,660 --> 00:43:22,300
Some nights when he got back,
he couldn't find us.

854
00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:26,740
He'd be worried about us.
So he got behind in his working.

855
00:43:26,740 --> 00:43:28,340
We can't go on like this, Cath.

856
00:43:28,340 --> 00:43:30,580
We're going to have
to sell the caravan.

857
00:43:30,580 --> 00:43:32,820
I mean, there must be
somewhere for us.

858
00:43:32,820 --> 00:43:36,900
Fancy you paying out money
before you've even seen the place.

859
00:43:36,900 --> 00:43:40,220
I didn't know. He said we could have
the first-floor front.

860
00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:43,420
We used to have people living here
but now we can't allow it.

861
00:43:43,420 --> 00:43:45,660
The fact is people
tend to deteriorate

862
00:43:45,660 --> 00:43:47,460
when they're living in a boat.

863
00:43:47,460 --> 00:43:49,220
'Ere, we used to have 'em.

864
00:43:49,220 --> 00:43:51,340
But they turned the place
into a slum.

865
00:43:51,340 --> 00:43:54,180
If people want to come here
with their pleasure boats

866
00:43:54,180 --> 00:43:56,940
and take them out occasionally,
it's all right by us.

867
00:43:56,940 --> 00:44:01,420
But living in 'em the whole time,
in my opinion, it's not helping
anybody. We had to ask them to go.

868
00:44:01,420 --> 00:44:05,060
But what if they're homeless?
Say they've got nowhere else to go?

869
00:44:05,060 --> 00:44:07,260
Even so, it's not helping them.

870
00:44:07,260 --> 00:44:09,140
In my opinion,
we had to get rid of 'em.

871
00:44:09,140 --> 00:44:11,580
It's not helping them
to help themselves, is it?

872
00:44:11,580 --> 00:44:15,300
You people let yourselves get so run
down, no wonder they won't help you.

873
00:44:15,300 --> 00:44:17,940
We get run down because
we ain't got no house.

874
00:44:17,940 --> 00:44:21,140
We've got a Welfare State now -
you can't come to any real harm.

875
00:44:21,140 --> 00:44:24,620
Are you an inhabitant of this
borough? Are you on the housing list?

876
00:44:24,620 --> 00:44:25,900
Yeah.

877
00:44:25,900 --> 00:44:29,300
Whereabouts on the list are you?
Surely you must be pretty high?

878
00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:32,340
They say they'll get us a place
on the Smithson estate.

879
00:44:32,340 --> 00:44:35,580
Come on, mind the fire.
Play with the rope properly.

880
00:44:42,660 --> 00:44:44,820
I'll tan your arse
when I get hold of you!

881
00:44:44,820 --> 00:44:46,140
CHILD GRIZZLES

882
00:44:46,140 --> 00:44:51,420
Hold on. Is she yours?
Yes, she is. We're next door.

883
00:44:51,420 --> 00:44:55,420
D'you live here, too? Yes. Next
door. Next door? How's your place?

884
00:44:55,420 --> 00:45:00,140
It's leaking everywhere.
Have you got enough wood?

885
00:45:00,140 --> 00:45:04,060
I'm going to light up a fire
and make her something to eat now.

886
00:45:04,060 --> 00:45:07,580
She's starving, I suppose.
Hasn't had any food all morning.

887
00:45:10,380 --> 00:45:11,980
There's quite a few, I suppose.

888
00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:24,140
Can't you come round
and give me a hand?

889
00:45:24,140 --> 00:45:26,300
All right, love.
I've got another one here.

890
00:45:26,300 --> 00:45:27,940
Here you are.

891
00:45:29,260 --> 00:45:32,500
Got it? Nice and tight.
I'll put this one in here.

892
00:45:32,500 --> 00:45:35,340
This is bloody ridiculous.
You all right?

893
00:45:35,340 --> 00:45:38,540
Sean's not very well either.

894
00:45:38,540 --> 00:45:41,580
I don't know what you think, Reg,
but I think we've had it.

895
00:45:41,580 --> 00:45:45,300
I mean, they turned us out
the caravan, didn't they?

896
00:45:45,300 --> 00:45:47,740
And they turned us out
the derelict house.

897
00:45:47,740 --> 00:45:50,740
They're gonna find us here,
I know they will.

898
00:45:53,380 --> 00:45:55,420
I think we'll have to give up soon.

899
00:45:55,420 --> 00:45:58,580
Else they'll take the kiddies away,
like that man said.

900
00:45:58,580 --> 00:46:00,540
Don't worry, love,
I've got five pound.

901
00:46:05,780 --> 00:46:09,460
Know what you're going
to do tomorrow then, Cath?

902
00:46:09,460 --> 00:46:11,860
Pity about that place,
that maisonette.

903
00:46:11,860 --> 00:46:14,100
But you know what
you're going to do now.

904
00:46:14,100 --> 00:46:16,980
You have an aunt in Northumberland?
Yes, I did have.

905
00:46:16,980 --> 00:46:18,580
But you don't know her address?

906
00:46:18,580 --> 00:46:21,500
I haven't seen her since I was seven.
She might be dead.

907
00:46:21,500 --> 00:46:25,100
Mrs Ward, have you any friends
or other relatives?

908
00:46:25,100 --> 00:46:27,140
Who might help with accommodation?

909
00:46:27,140 --> 00:46:29,580
Look, if I had,
I wouldn't be here, would I?

910
00:46:29,580 --> 00:46:33,180
I have to draw your attention to a
fact which is not very pleasant.

911
00:46:33,180 --> 00:46:37,140
But in our emergency accommodation,
it's not very nice.

912
00:46:37,140 --> 00:46:39,580
Some of the people
are a little rough.

913
00:46:39,580 --> 00:46:41,940
Now, are you sure you want to go in?

914
00:46:41,940 --> 00:46:43,620
Look, I don't want to be cheeky,

915
00:46:43,620 --> 00:46:45,860
but we've been waiting
here for six hours.

916
00:46:45,860 --> 00:46:49,460
If I had any choice, do you think
I'd have stayed? All right. Sit down.

917
00:46:49,460 --> 00:46:50,860
Mr Ward, please.

918
00:46:55,020 --> 00:46:58,180
If you've got a bit of chocolate,
keep him quiet, please, Cath.

919
00:47:01,260 --> 00:47:04,100
Mr Ward, I'd just like
to check one or two facts.

920
00:47:04,100 --> 00:47:07,140
You and your wife
lived at your mother's house

921
00:47:07,140 --> 00:47:08,820
up to what date, exactly?

922
00:47:08,820 --> 00:47:10,940
January '62.

923
00:47:10,940 --> 00:47:12,620
And what address would that be?

924
00:47:12,620 --> 00:47:15,380
97 Maysoule Buildings,
Maysoule Street.

925
00:47:15,380 --> 00:47:17,500
Really? Not Mayberry?

926
00:47:17,500 --> 00:47:18,980
No, Maysoule.

927
00:47:21,580 --> 00:47:23,420
Now, Mr Ward...

928
00:47:23,420 --> 00:47:26,420
Your wife's mother. What is
your wife's mother's address?

929
00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:30,940
Do you have any sisters? No.

930
00:47:30,940 --> 00:47:32,620
I thought you said, Mr Ward...

931
00:47:32,620 --> 00:47:35,140
There's my teenage sister
but she don't count.

932
00:47:35,140 --> 00:47:38,580
She hasn't a house, she's courting.
Grandmother or grandfather?

933
00:47:38,580 --> 00:47:40,820
I've got a grandfather,
but he's in a home.

934
00:47:40,820 --> 00:47:46,340
Now, Mr Ward, how many rooms does
your mother occupy at Maysoule Road?

935
00:47:46,340 --> 00:47:47,980
One bedroom and a living room.

936
00:47:47,980 --> 00:47:50,380
But there's three adults
there already.

937
00:47:50,380 --> 00:47:53,260
The accommodation we have
available is for wives only.

938
00:47:53,260 --> 00:47:55,260
We can't accommodate husbands.

939
00:47:55,260 --> 00:47:58,100
But why can't you accommodate
the husbands, then?

940
00:47:58,100 --> 00:48:00,100
We used to house husbands
at one time,

941
00:48:00,100 --> 00:48:02,980
but we had to discontinue it.
They used to tear up the sheets.

942
00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:10,700
We've no objection
to you seeing your wife

943
00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:13,700
on a weekday evening,
provided you're gone by eight.

944
00:48:13,700 --> 00:48:17,500
The front entrance must not
be used by you homeless.

945
00:48:17,500 --> 00:48:19,180
There's a good reason for that.

946
00:48:19,180 --> 00:48:22,380
It upsets the old people we
accommodate here and, of course,

947
00:48:22,380 --> 00:48:25,820
this accommodation really
was meant for them.

948
00:48:25,820 --> 00:48:27,500
No alcohol in the building.

949
00:48:27,500 --> 00:48:30,580
About this we're fairly strict.

950
00:48:30,580 --> 00:48:32,940
Inmates are expected
to take a regular bath

951
00:48:32,940 --> 00:48:35,460
and get as much fresh air
as possible.

952
00:48:35,460 --> 00:48:39,180
Rent, we charge five shillings
a night for each adult

953
00:48:39,180 --> 00:48:42,340
and three bob for a child,
payable in advance.

954
00:48:42,340 --> 00:48:43,940
Now, there are other rules

955
00:48:43,940 --> 00:48:47,220
but you'll find it easier to
pick them up as you go along.

956
00:48:47,220 --> 00:48:50,300
Any questions?
Well, I don't think very much of it.

957
00:48:50,300 --> 00:48:53,780
In many places in England,
the families are not kept together.

958
00:48:53,780 --> 00:48:56,140
They are broken up as soon
as they're homeless

959
00:48:56,140 --> 00:48:57,620
and the children put in care.

960
00:48:57,620 --> 00:48:59,380
If we rehouse homeless families

961
00:48:59,380 --> 00:49:03,020
people would say it was an easy way
to jump the queue, wouldn't they?

962
00:49:03,020 --> 00:49:05,300
So we can't do it
for obvious reasons.

963
00:49:05,300 --> 00:49:07,220
And it must be strictly understood

964
00:49:07,220 --> 00:49:09,620
that this accommodation
is only temporary.

965
00:49:09,620 --> 00:49:13,700
After three months, make no mistake
about it - we turn you out.

966
00:49:13,700 --> 00:49:16,300
So keep searching.
CHILD CRIES

967
00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:17,300
Sit down.

968
00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:22,340
CHILD CRIES

969
00:49:22,340 --> 00:49:23,660
Well, don't eat it then.

970
00:49:23,660 --> 00:49:25,220
I'll eat it. Give it to me.

971
00:49:33,660 --> 00:49:35,100
Mrs Ward?

972
00:49:37,260 --> 00:49:41,940
You will be in Room E72.
E72 - don't forget it.

973
00:49:46,260 --> 00:49:48,020
Go on, out!

974
00:49:48,020 --> 00:49:51,140
Well, I'm just taking her
up to her room, see?

975
00:49:51,140 --> 00:49:52,740
We've only just come!

976
00:49:52,740 --> 00:49:55,100
I see. You're newcomers, are you?

977
00:49:55,100 --> 00:49:57,260
Well, no men beyond the lodge.

978
00:49:57,260 --> 00:50:00,500
I'm afraid you'll have to get out
and say goodbye to your wife now.

979
00:50:03,100 --> 00:50:07,740
Not you, girl!
Look, she's just arrived.

980
00:50:07,740 --> 00:50:11,020
Let me just take her up, please?
If he could stay I'd be all right.

981
00:50:11,020 --> 00:50:12,820
No, I'm sorry.

982
00:50:12,820 --> 00:50:16,060
I don't make the rules.
He'll have to go.

983
00:50:16,060 --> 00:50:18,020
She's got a lot to get through yet.

984
00:50:18,020 --> 00:50:21,300
Now, listen, lady. Don't be saucy
with me... Reg, don't. Shut up.

985
00:50:26,020 --> 00:50:28,020
Come on, love.

986
00:50:30,500 --> 00:50:36,540
Many social workers feel
that all homeless families
are problem families.

987
00:50:36,540 --> 00:50:40,380
They may not be when they arrive
in our hostels

988
00:50:40,380 --> 00:50:43,180
but they usually are
when they leave.

989
00:50:43,180 --> 00:50:48,740
It was considered that, if a man
couldn't provide a home for his wife
and children, he wasn't much good.

990
00:50:48,740 --> 00:50:51,380
But that is certainly
not true today.

991
00:50:51,380 --> 00:50:54,460
The great majority of the
homeless families we deal with

992
00:50:54,460 --> 00:50:58,580
are decent citizens and all
they want is a home of their own.

993
00:50:58,580 --> 00:51:00,660
Try to keep the children clean.

994
00:51:00,660 --> 00:51:02,340
Because there is disease here.

995
00:51:02,340 --> 00:51:05,020
Why do they send us here,
if there's disease here?

996
00:51:05,020 --> 00:51:06,460
It's in all these places.

997
00:51:06,460 --> 00:51:09,380
We try to keep it down by
swabbing them as they come in.

998
00:51:09,380 --> 00:51:11,340
OK, what you have to do, Sean,

999
00:51:11,340 --> 00:51:13,100
is take your panties down.

1000
00:51:13,100 --> 00:51:16,860
And then they're going to put
something up your bottie.

1001
00:51:16,860 --> 00:51:19,620
'Sean always was the worst
at taking his pants down.

1002
00:51:19,620 --> 00:51:22,340
'He never liked anyone
to see him without them.'

1003
00:51:22,340 --> 00:51:28,300
There exists in local authorities
a kind of punitive attitude

1004
00:51:28,300 --> 00:51:32,260
which means that the whole problem
of homeless families

1005
00:51:32,260 --> 00:51:35,420
is the Cinderella
of the Cinderellas.

1006
00:51:35,420 --> 00:51:39,340
So I came out of this welfare place
and I said goodbye to the missus,

1007
00:51:39,340 --> 00:51:41,740
not knowing when I should
see her again.

1008
00:51:41,740 --> 00:51:45,540
Some men don't seem to bother whether
they are living with their wife,

1009
00:51:45,540 --> 00:51:46,980
but I have always been...

1010
00:51:46,980 --> 00:51:48,500
We have been happy together.

1011
00:51:48,500 --> 00:51:50,340
We have been married 18 years.

1012
00:51:50,340 --> 00:51:55,220
And when you get like that, it
upsets you - breaks your heart.

1013
00:51:55,220 --> 00:51:59,220
Bus drivers, lorry drivers,
coal men, GPO sorters,

1014
00:51:59,220 --> 00:52:03,300
general labourers, scaffolders,

1015
00:52:03,300 --> 00:52:06,940
all sorts of groups of workers
have become homeless.

1016
00:52:06,940 --> 00:52:09,140
CHATTERING

1017
00:52:15,020 --> 00:52:17,500
Don? Donnie?

1018
00:52:17,500 --> 00:52:22,060
Any sugar? No. Got milk.

1019
00:52:28,700 --> 00:52:32,820
Till we either build houses in the
areas where there's work,
or redistribute

1020
00:52:32,820 --> 00:52:37,140
the work to those areas where
there are empty houses,
we'll get homeless families.

1021
00:52:37,140 --> 00:52:39,380
It seems amazing to us
in this department

1022
00:52:39,380 --> 00:52:41,980
there are tens of
thousands of homeless families,

1023
00:52:41,980 --> 00:52:43,340
instead of just thousands.

1024
00:52:45,540 --> 00:52:48,060
VOICES ECHO

1025
00:52:54,180 --> 00:52:56,260
I think you'll be all right in here.

1026
00:53:22,540 --> 00:53:24,020
(Cathy?)

1027
00:53:24,020 --> 00:53:25,820
(Cathy!)

1028
00:53:25,820 --> 00:53:27,340
(Reg?)

1029
00:53:27,340 --> 00:53:29,500
(What are you doing here?)

1030
00:53:29,500 --> 00:53:32,620
(I climbed in.
I met one of the husbands outside.)

1031
00:53:32,620 --> 00:53:34,740
(He showed me a way
through the wall.)

1032
00:53:38,140 --> 00:53:40,780
(Couldn't leave you alone, Cath.)

1033
00:53:42,540 --> 00:53:44,540
(I'm pleased you've come, Reg.)

1034
00:53:44,540 --> 00:53:47,020
(I really am. Come on.)

1035
00:54:03,700 --> 00:54:06,620
SHE SOBS

1036
00:54:29,180 --> 00:54:30,900
(I'm sorry. I am.)

1037
00:54:35,900 --> 00:54:38,020
CLAMOUR OF VOICES

1038
00:54:51,340 --> 00:54:55,580
We were living in a rented
house in Margate that was
needed by the works department

1039
00:54:55,580 --> 00:54:58,860
for road workers.
So we got an eviction order.

1040
00:54:58,860 --> 00:55:02,500
They couldn't rehouse us
because they wasn't
the welfare authority

1041
00:55:02,500 --> 00:55:06,140
and they didn't have any houses.
Never do that again.
Get another cup.

1042
00:55:06,140 --> 00:55:08,100
Why? What's the matter with it?

1043
00:55:08,100 --> 00:55:11,140
Keep away from the cracked mugs.
There's sickness in them.

1044
00:55:11,140 --> 00:55:14,420
My first thought is,
I feel like a refugee.

1045
00:55:14,420 --> 00:55:16,060
I've lived here all me life.

1046
00:55:16,060 --> 00:55:17,900
Now I feel I'm like a refugee.

1047
00:55:17,900 --> 00:55:19,820
Send us back to where?

1048
00:55:19,820 --> 00:55:23,620
To where you're from. But not before
you've taken all our houses away.

1049
00:55:23,620 --> 00:55:25,820
You ask the warden,
he'll explain. Go on.

1050
00:55:25,820 --> 00:55:28,820
You lot, coming here with all
your kids... I'm not going back!

1051
00:55:28,820 --> 00:55:31,100
That's why we have to come
to places like this...

1052
00:55:31,100 --> 00:55:33,900
I'm not going back.

1053
00:55:33,900 --> 00:55:36,220
Too many of you now.
It doesn't matter.

1054
00:55:36,220 --> 00:55:38,660
IRISH ACCENT:
I was in a council house.

1055
00:55:38,660 --> 00:55:43,460
My husband buggered off and they've
a scheme - if you're an abandoned
woman, they turn you out.

1056
00:55:43,460 --> 00:55:45,260
And then I came here.

1057
00:55:45,260 --> 00:55:47,580
They say it's to stop men
leaving their wives.

1058
00:55:47,580 --> 00:55:49,340
But it didn't work in my case.

1059
00:55:49,340 --> 00:55:53,980
It's nonsense to say that
coloured people are responsible
for our housing crisis.

1060
00:55:53,980 --> 00:55:57,980
The Holland report showed that if
immigrants didn't come, either their

1061
00:55:57,980 --> 00:56:01,500
places would be taken from migrants
from other parts of the country,

1062
00:56:01,500 --> 00:56:04,260
or a large number of jobs
would remain unfilled.

1063
00:56:04,260 --> 00:56:09,780
My second point is more people leave
Britain each year than come
into it. So there you are.

1064
00:56:09,780 --> 00:56:11,420
Go and hurry back to Mummy.

1065
00:56:11,420 --> 00:56:13,540
There's a good boy. Quick!

1066
00:56:13,540 --> 00:56:19,380
Scrubbing, scrubbing, that's all.
It is all day here.

1067
00:56:19,380 --> 00:56:23,700
We have to scrub the place
twice a day. We'll see.

1068
00:56:25,540 --> 00:56:27,900
The children's the ones
that feels it most.

1069
00:56:27,900 --> 00:56:34,500
They miss their toys,
the little things they have had
since they were tiny kiddies.

1070
00:56:34,500 --> 00:56:37,260
It's too far to take them
back to their old school,

1071
00:56:37,260 --> 00:56:39,260
even if we could afford the fares.

1072
00:56:39,260 --> 00:56:41,580
I mean, what are we expected to do?

1073
00:56:41,580 --> 00:56:44,340
Put them in a new classroom
without any preparations?

1074
00:56:44,340 --> 00:56:45,980
How did you get that in here?

1075
00:56:45,980 --> 00:56:50,740
There's ways when you've been in
here long enough. Give us your cup.

1076
00:56:50,740 --> 00:56:53,980
Want a little drop? Steady on.
I don't want to get drunk.

1077
00:56:53,980 --> 00:56:56,900
They come in at night to see
that your husband has gone.

1078
00:56:56,900 --> 00:56:58,740
And they come at one or two
in the morning.

1079
00:56:58,740 --> 00:57:00,700
There's no place for family life.

1080
00:57:00,700 --> 00:57:03,460
That is why they have quarrels.

1081
00:57:03,460 --> 00:57:05,740
The women, they get so frustrated.

1082
00:57:05,740 --> 00:57:09,220
We used to have money once,
didn't we? And I had a good job.

1083
00:57:09,220 --> 00:57:14,620
And well, I don't know, I had an
accident, and lost the job but...

1084
00:57:14,620 --> 00:57:16,020
We had that house.

1085
00:57:17,820 --> 00:57:20,620
And then, of course, we got evicted.

1086
00:57:20,620 --> 00:57:26,420
But there was a caravan. And when
we got, I got £10 for that.

1087
00:57:26,420 --> 00:57:29,860
And I gave it to that bloke in the
pub for that number 13, that house.

1088
00:57:31,540 --> 00:57:35,820
Every time, we just seemed
to sort of lose on the deal.

1089
00:57:35,820 --> 00:57:38,060
I just don't seem to understand it.

1090
00:57:38,060 --> 00:57:40,940
And here we are -
we are right at the bottom.

1091
00:57:40,940 --> 00:57:43,340
I just don't understand.

1092
00:57:43,340 --> 00:57:46,780
And as time goes on, we just seemed
to sort of get lower, don't we?

1093
00:57:46,780 --> 00:57:50,580
We're down now but we will be up
again, Reg. Yeah, we'll get up again.

1094
00:57:50,580 --> 00:57:52,740
There's no question about that. No.

1095
00:57:54,500 --> 00:57:55,940
That's funny...

1096
00:57:55,940 --> 00:58:00,500
But now I'm on my own,
I just don't seem to tick over.

1097
00:58:00,500 --> 00:58:05,700
I got married, and my wife,
and I had the children.

1098
00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:09,780
I got to sort of need you
and the kids.

1099
00:58:09,780 --> 00:58:13,820
And we just seemed to be
OK, we would tick over and
everything would be fine.

1100
00:58:13,820 --> 00:58:15,660
But it's very funny, but...

1101
00:58:15,660 --> 00:58:17,740
now I'm on my own again -

1102
00:58:17,740 --> 00:58:19,700
it's all gone wrong.

1103
00:58:19,700 --> 00:58:22,740
Mrs Ward, I've come to
ask you a favour. Oh yeah?

1104
00:58:22,740 --> 00:58:25,500
Well, it's about Sean.

1105
00:58:25,500 --> 00:58:27,700
I've come to a decision.

1106
00:58:27,700 --> 00:58:31,020
I've decided I can't bear to
see him in that place any more.

1107
00:58:31,020 --> 00:58:33,980
He's pining. I can see it.

1108
00:58:33,980 --> 00:58:36,860
So, what I was wondering,
if it's all right with you,

1109
00:58:36,860 --> 00:58:38,900
I'd like to leave him for a few days?

1110
00:58:38,900 --> 00:58:41,060
Leave him with me? What do you mean?

1111
00:58:41,060 --> 00:58:43,980
You can't walk out
on your children just like that.

1112
00:58:43,980 --> 00:58:47,260
Leave Sean with me? You must
be out of your bleeding mind!

1113
00:58:49,820 --> 00:58:52,500
You don't understand.

1114
00:58:52,500 --> 00:58:54,860
I don't want to leave him.

1115
00:58:54,860 --> 00:58:56,580
I mean, it really gets me.

1116
00:59:00,700 --> 00:59:04,980
I can't stand to see him
taking it so badly.

1117
00:59:04,980 --> 00:59:06,780
I can't stand it!

1118
00:59:10,660 --> 00:59:13,140
Bye bye, darling. Be a good boy.

1119
00:59:15,620 --> 00:59:17,100
Bye.

1120
00:59:32,820 --> 00:59:36,260
I've told you before about using
my bloody basin, haven't I?

1121
00:59:36,260 --> 00:59:37,980
Oh, will you shut up about it?

1122
00:59:37,980 --> 00:59:39,820
My kids have got to wash in there.

1123
00:59:39,820 --> 00:59:43,140
Your bleedin' kid's always
got her behind hanging out.

1124
00:59:43,140 --> 00:59:46,020
Sit down, Reg. You look uneasy.

1125
00:59:46,020 --> 00:59:48,260
Sit down then!

1126
00:59:48,260 --> 00:59:50,980
All right, I'm sorry.
I am uneasy, that's all.

1127
00:59:50,980 --> 00:59:53,340
What about me?
I have to live in this place.

1128
00:59:57,380 --> 01:00:00,580
Reg, I don't like to ask you this...

1129
01:00:02,300 --> 01:00:04,540
But Stevie needs some new shoes.

1130
01:00:04,540 --> 01:00:09,380
Look, Cath, I'm only getting £11
a week and I give you six of it.

1131
01:00:09,380 --> 01:00:12,420
And I mean there's
15 bob for National Insurance.

1132
01:00:12,420 --> 01:00:14,900
And there's £1 a week for
that furniture we got in store.

1133
01:00:14,900 --> 01:00:16,780
But that leaves you £3.05.

1134
01:00:16,780 --> 01:00:19,220
It's £2.10 for my lodgings,
isn't it?

1135
01:00:19,220 --> 01:00:20,940
Go play with the kids, go on.

1136
01:00:20,940 --> 01:00:23,020
It's £2.10 for my lodgings.

1137
01:00:23,020 --> 01:00:26,500
I got 10 bob a week on travelling,
leaving me five bob a week
for clothes and food.

1138
01:00:26,500 --> 01:00:28,940
How am I going to clothe myself
on five bob a week?

1139
01:00:28,940 --> 01:00:30,980
What meals do you get
at your lodgings?

1140
01:00:30,980 --> 01:00:33,540
I only get my breakfast.
How do you manage then?

1141
01:00:33,540 --> 01:00:37,420
I don't. I was going to ask you
if you couldn't do on a bit less.

1142
01:00:37,420 --> 01:00:41,140
Reg, that's not possible. How much
rent are you paying here then?

1143
01:00:41,140 --> 01:00:45,140
Well, it's five bob a day for a grown
up, three bob a day for a child.

1144
01:00:45,140 --> 01:00:48,220
That's £3 a week. What are you
doing with the rest of it then?

1145
01:00:48,220 --> 01:00:49,620
Reg, don't be like that.

1146
01:00:49,620 --> 01:00:52,180
We have to get out of this place.
We spend it on food.

1147
01:00:52,180 --> 01:00:53,780
You get meals here, don't you?

1148
01:00:53,780 --> 01:00:55,900
Yes. But there's disease here.

1149
01:00:55,900 --> 01:00:58,220
I can't let them eat here.
Once was enough.

1150
01:00:58,220 --> 01:01:00,180
You're gonna have to. Why?

1151
01:01:00,180 --> 01:01:02,420
Well, they're going
to starve otherwise.

1152
01:01:04,860 --> 01:01:06,100
I bumped into this fellow

1153
01:01:06,100 --> 01:01:08,260
who said he knew a bloke
who could help us.

1154
01:01:08,260 --> 01:01:09,940
So I went down to see this bloke.

1155
01:01:09,940 --> 01:01:12,700
And he was filling in all
these forms and things.

1156
01:01:12,700 --> 01:01:15,340
And he says to me,
"Where are you living?"

1157
01:01:15,340 --> 01:01:19,380
So I told him the address of this
new lodgings I've moved to.

1158
01:01:19,380 --> 01:01:21,100
He said, "Well, I'm very sorry,

1159
01:01:21,100 --> 01:01:23,140
"but I'm afraid
I can only help people

1160
01:01:23,140 --> 01:01:25,060
"that are resident
in this borough."

1161
01:01:35,100 --> 01:01:38,140
I've failed you, Cathy.
You've been here three months.

1162
01:01:38,140 --> 01:01:40,980
This is the maximum period
we allow homeless families

1163
01:01:40,980 --> 01:01:43,260
to remain in our
temporary accommodation.

1164
01:01:43,260 --> 01:01:46,420
I understand all that.
This is only temporary, you know.

1165
01:01:46,420 --> 01:01:48,940
We do, in fact,
have the power to evict you.

1166
01:01:48,940 --> 01:01:52,860
We can quite easily say, "That's
enough of that, so much for her."

1167
01:01:52,860 --> 01:01:55,540
As they still do in
many towns in Britain.

1168
01:01:55,540 --> 01:02:00,300
We could take your children into
care and turn you out, just like
that. Please don't do that.

1169
01:02:00,300 --> 01:02:03,700
But we're not going to. We're
going to give you one more chance.

1170
01:02:03,700 --> 01:02:07,380
But I must emphasise,
this is your last chance.

1171
01:02:07,380 --> 01:02:10,500
You must make your own arrangements.

1172
01:02:10,500 --> 01:02:15,220
Now we've arranged for you
to go to what we call our
part three accommodation.

1173
01:02:15,220 --> 01:02:20,820
Now this, like the place here,
is one of our accommodations
where husbands are not admitted.

1174
01:02:20,820 --> 01:02:22,580
But you're not going to like it.

1175
01:02:22,580 --> 01:02:27,980
The amenities are nothing like
as good in this place, but there
you are, it's the best we can do.

1176
01:02:27,980 --> 01:02:29,860
But don't you think the thing is...

1177
01:02:29,860 --> 01:02:33,180
Couldn't you find me a place
where I could be with my husband?

1178
01:02:33,180 --> 01:02:37,140
Some families here have really been
trying to get back on their feet.

1179
01:02:37,140 --> 01:02:40,220
Well, who are they?
And how? I've not met any.

1180
01:02:40,220 --> 01:02:41,740
I mean, it's not possible.

1181
01:02:41,740 --> 01:02:44,900
They can smell you from this place.
They can smell you a mile off.

1182
01:02:44,900 --> 01:02:47,060
Don't talk like that, Mrs Ward.

1183
01:02:47,060 --> 01:02:48,620
I'm sorry.

1184
01:02:48,620 --> 01:02:51,380
But something's happening to me.

1185
01:02:51,380 --> 01:02:53,460
I don't know how to explain it.

1186
01:02:53,460 --> 01:02:57,820
But all this is having a
bad influence on my family life.

1187
01:02:57,820 --> 01:03:02,060
Somebody told me that you've got
these places you call halfway house.

1188
01:03:02,060 --> 01:03:05,740
And I thought if I could get
into one of these places,

1189
01:03:05,740 --> 01:03:07,700
Reg might come back to me.

1190
01:03:07,700 --> 01:03:10,980
You see, he's drifting away from me.

1191
01:03:10,980 --> 01:03:13,740
And the children, they need him.

1192
01:03:13,740 --> 01:03:16,420
And the other thing is
that in a month's time

1193
01:03:16,420 --> 01:03:18,100
we've got a place to go to.

1194
01:03:18,100 --> 01:03:20,580
You've got a place
in a month's time?

1195
01:03:20,580 --> 01:03:24,900
Yes, on the new Smithson estate.
They're giving us a new flat there.

1196
01:03:24,900 --> 01:03:28,580
We're told that you lost
your place on the list
long ago owing to moving.

1197
01:03:28,580 --> 01:03:30,140
500 families have moved in already.

1198
01:03:30,140 --> 01:03:32,940
But we was meant to be
one of those families.

1199
01:03:36,220 --> 01:03:40,100
Runts! I saw you laughing.

1200
01:03:40,100 --> 01:03:43,060
Wipe that smile off your face!

1201
01:03:43,060 --> 01:03:46,420
Haven't you got a room
in one of your houses?

1202
01:03:46,420 --> 01:03:50,740
Haven't you got flats
that are empty half the night?

1203
01:03:50,740 --> 01:03:52,420
You don't care.

1204
01:03:52,420 --> 01:03:54,500
You only pretend to care.

1205
01:03:56,540 --> 01:03:58,500
I'm sorry.

1206
01:03:58,500 --> 01:04:00,620
I didn't mean to say that.

1207
01:04:00,620 --> 01:04:02,140
All right, Mrs Ward.

1208
01:04:03,700 --> 01:04:05,220
That will be all.

1209
01:04:17,780 --> 01:04:20,020
Well...

1210
01:04:20,020 --> 01:04:22,500
what's your opinion, Gordon?

1211
01:04:22,500 --> 01:04:25,460
Well, of course she's not an
easy person by a long chalk.

1212
01:04:25,460 --> 01:04:30,140
She keeps the children tidy but, as
you can see, she's not cooperative.

1213
01:04:30,140 --> 01:04:33,500
But, in my opinion, the trouble
rests with the other half.

1214
01:04:33,500 --> 01:04:37,540
But don't you think we
could fit her in somewhere
she could be with her husband?

1215
01:04:37,540 --> 01:04:40,300
No, there's nowhere at all.
We're full up as it is.

1216
01:04:40,300 --> 01:04:43,980
We've reached a state that if we had
two other families come in tonight,

1217
01:04:43,980 --> 01:04:45,900
we'd have to evict
to make room for them.

1218
01:05:14,620 --> 01:05:16,900
Stephen and Marlene live here.

1219
01:05:16,900 --> 01:05:21,820
Six years I've put up with this sort
of thing. Six years I've been here.

1220
01:05:21,820 --> 01:05:24,740
When I come here, they said,
"Who told you to come here?"

1221
01:05:24,740 --> 01:05:26,900
I said, "No-one told me, did they?

1222
01:05:26,900 --> 01:05:28,700
"I grew up here."

1223
01:05:28,700 --> 01:05:31,860
My old man was in the army
for six years.

1224
01:05:31,860 --> 01:05:34,780
He was a regular.
Well, that don't seem to count.

1225
01:05:34,780 --> 01:05:37,060
Don't cry, love. What's the matter?

1226
01:05:37,060 --> 01:05:38,660
You should leave her alone.

1227
01:05:38,660 --> 01:05:40,700
But why is she crying?

1228
01:05:40,700 --> 01:05:43,980
She got the letter. What letter?
The letter that evicts you.

1229
01:05:43,980 --> 01:05:45,780
They come and took
her kids away now.

1230
01:05:45,780 --> 01:05:48,420
I went in front of the committee
and they said, "Why not

1231
01:05:48,420 --> 01:05:50,660
"put your two eldest
in institutions,

1232
01:05:50,660 --> 01:05:52,260
then we can re-house you?"

1233
01:05:52,260 --> 01:05:54,180
Do you mind if I
give you a tip, dear?

1234
01:05:54,180 --> 01:05:56,940
Don't go taking a bath
cos tramps get in it.

1235
01:05:56,940 --> 01:05:58,540
And the toilets get blocked.

1236
01:05:58,540 --> 01:06:00,860
There are cockroaches
behind the plumbing.

1237
01:06:00,860 --> 01:06:03,380
They come out at night and
are about an inch long.

1238
01:06:03,380 --> 01:06:05,740
This little girl and little boy,

1239
01:06:05,740 --> 01:06:11,060
they had a lovely garden as well
in their house by the seaside.

1240
01:06:11,060 --> 01:06:13,380
I was bombed out in Plymouth.

1241
01:06:13,380 --> 01:06:15,820
Then it was two years
in a mental home.

1242
01:06:15,820 --> 01:06:17,820
I'm not to blame for that, am I?

1243
01:06:17,820 --> 01:06:19,900
Somehow I didn't feel
I could do that.

1244
01:06:19,900 --> 01:06:22,180
I couldn't say goodbye
to the kiddies.

1245
01:06:22,180 --> 01:06:26,660
It's not... You know, you find
you can't carry on without them.

1246
01:06:26,660 --> 01:06:28,980
Last June, it was, I lost him.

1247
01:06:28,980 --> 01:06:30,860
A disease, it was.

1248
01:06:30,860 --> 01:06:34,380
He was only ten weeks old,
poor little soul.

1249
01:06:34,380 --> 01:06:36,980
They say, go out
and get looking for houses.

1250
01:06:36,980 --> 01:06:39,940
But we know it's nonsense
going out looking for houses.

1251
01:06:39,940 --> 01:06:43,260
They call us the Cubies
because we live in cubicles.

1252
01:06:43,260 --> 01:06:46,540
Everybody round here thinks
we're either unmarried mothers

1253
01:06:46,540 --> 01:06:48,780
or girls from borstal doing
corrective training.

1254
01:06:48,780 --> 01:06:49,860
But that's not so.

1255
01:06:49,860 --> 01:06:53,620
My children were ill
and my husband hadn't seen them.

1256
01:06:53,620 --> 01:06:56,380
So I asked if he could
come up and see them.

1257
01:06:56,380 --> 01:06:58,060
They said no.

1258
01:06:58,060 --> 01:07:00,460
So he tried to force his way in.

1259
01:07:00,460 --> 01:07:03,020
They soon called the
police and shut him out.

1260
01:07:03,020 --> 01:07:04,860
And the police laughed at him.

1261
01:07:04,860 --> 01:07:09,140
Even if we found houses,
there'd be other people here
because there's not enough houses.

1262
01:07:09,140 --> 01:07:13,100
It's silly when a girl gets
married thinking a bloke's
going to stay faithful.

1263
01:07:13,100 --> 01:07:14,700
But I'm better off with Len,

1264
01:07:14,700 --> 01:07:17,300
being married to him
than being without him.

1265
01:07:17,300 --> 01:07:19,460
If you love a person,
why leave him?

1266
01:07:19,460 --> 01:07:23,500
Do you know we have to be
back home by eight and you
have to be in bed by ten?

1267
01:07:23,500 --> 01:07:28,740
He's got a fancy girl now. You see,
men don't have it like women.

1268
01:07:28,740 --> 01:07:30,900
He's got his freedom, ain't he?

1269
01:07:32,940 --> 01:07:36,260
What do you do all day then, Cath?
What do you think I do?

1270
01:07:36,260 --> 01:07:38,380
Nothing to do.

1271
01:07:38,380 --> 01:07:40,940
Just sit about all day.

1272
01:07:40,940 --> 01:07:42,620
I feel like running away.

1273
01:07:45,620 --> 01:07:47,060
What about the kids then?

1274
01:07:48,860 --> 01:07:51,700
They're restless.
They've had so many changes

1275
01:07:51,700 --> 01:07:54,220
they don't know
what's going to happen next.

1276
01:07:54,220 --> 01:07:56,620
It's not good.

1277
01:07:56,620 --> 01:07:59,620
If you go out at night, you've
got to be back by nine o'clock.

1278
01:08:02,860 --> 01:08:04,740
How are you getting
on with the food?

1279
01:08:04,740 --> 01:08:06,380
Just potatoes.

1280
01:08:06,380 --> 01:08:08,780
Yeah.

1281
01:08:08,780 --> 01:08:12,020
The kids woke me up last night.

1282
01:08:12,020 --> 01:08:15,020
They were crying, they were hungry.

1283
01:08:15,020 --> 01:08:18,100
I wish you could
come more often, Reg.

1284
01:08:18,100 --> 01:08:19,860
I can't afford to, Cathy.

1285
01:08:21,780 --> 01:08:24,620
You know, I really long for
the nights here sometimes.

1286
01:08:24,620 --> 01:08:28,220
Yeah, I bet you do.
But not like we used to.

1287
01:08:28,220 --> 01:08:32,380
Reg? Till all this happened, it
was a happy marriage, wasn't it?

1288
01:08:32,380 --> 01:08:34,020
Oh, yeah.

1289
01:08:34,020 --> 01:08:36,500
If it weren't for the kids,
we wouldn't be here.

1290
01:08:36,500 --> 01:08:39,100
I'm glad we had them.
You can't wish the kids away.

1291
01:08:39,100 --> 01:08:42,060
Oh, no. But I don't know,

1292
01:08:42,060 --> 01:08:44,660
I wish we could start all over again.

1293
01:08:44,660 --> 01:08:48,100
I'd choose the same.
Oh, I'd choose you, Reg.

1294
01:08:48,100 --> 01:08:50,660
But now, I don't know,

1295
01:08:50,660 --> 01:08:53,780
I just feel I want to look away.

1296
01:08:53,780 --> 01:08:57,700
I'm practising very hard. And
with a little bit of recognition,

1297
01:08:57,700 --> 01:09:00,340
I shall be all right
in some money, I hope.

1298
01:09:00,340 --> 01:09:03,900
I know me age is against me,
but I'm hoping to win.

1299
01:09:05,500 --> 01:09:07,780
Give us a song then, come on.
All right.

1300
01:09:11,180 --> 01:09:13,900
It went through my mind to
chuck the whole thing up.

1301
01:09:13,900 --> 01:09:16,820
Turn my back on the kids and go off.

1302
01:09:16,820 --> 01:09:19,420
You see, I felt I'd failed them.

1303
01:09:19,420 --> 01:09:22,500
Well, I knew they weren't fit
to be in a place like that.

1304
01:09:22,500 --> 01:09:25,940
I thought about how I used to be
before we were married.

1305
01:09:25,940 --> 01:09:28,420
Without anyone depending on me.

1306
01:09:28,420 --> 01:09:33,540
And I had boyfriends, money in my
pockets. And some good times.

1307
01:09:33,540 --> 01:09:35,660
Look, why don't you go, Reg?

1308
01:09:35,660 --> 01:09:37,540
I mean, you need a job, love.

1309
01:09:37,540 --> 01:09:39,980
I've heard there's jobs
up in Liverpool too.

1310
01:09:39,980 --> 01:09:42,740
And then when you've got a job,
you can find a place.

1311
01:09:42,740 --> 01:09:45,860
That's what I thought, Cath.
They say it's easier up there.

1312
01:09:45,860 --> 01:09:48,660
I'm bound to be able to get
a place up there, ain't I?

1313
01:09:48,660 --> 01:09:50,540
Yeah.

1314
01:09:50,540 --> 01:09:53,020
And then when the Smithson
estate's finished,

1315
01:09:53,020 --> 01:09:56,180
we'll have no more
worries then. Yeah.

1316
01:09:56,180 --> 01:09:57,460
If I can't fix up a place,

1317
01:09:57,460 --> 01:10:00,340
I should be back by the time
the other place is finished.

1318
01:10:00,340 --> 01:10:03,420
'It was all so...
sort of strange really.

1319
01:10:03,420 --> 01:10:05,540
'Cos kids do seem...

1320
01:10:05,540 --> 01:10:08,420
'Well, they do seem to
sort of need their dad.

1321
01:10:08,420 --> 01:10:12,860
'They like to look forward to being
with their dad as well as their mum.

1322
01:10:12,860 --> 01:10:14,700
'To have a bit of a laugh with him.'

1323
01:10:14,700 --> 01:10:17,300
That baby was in tiptop
medical condition.

1324
01:10:17,300 --> 01:10:21,100
Yeah, if it was in tiptop medical
condition, how come it's dead now?

1325
01:10:21,100 --> 01:10:24,900
You tell me. The mother mustn't
have looked after it properly.

1326
01:10:24,900 --> 01:10:28,300
She's a marvellous mother. Don't
you bleedin' say that about her!

1327
01:10:28,300 --> 01:10:30,540
I'm only stating the truth.

1328
01:10:30,540 --> 01:10:33,780
The way some of you women
keep your children...

1329
01:10:33,780 --> 01:10:36,860
What do you mean? How much chance
have we got in this dump?

1330
01:10:36,860 --> 01:10:40,540
Just a minute, just a minute - what
about hygiene? What about bathing?

1331
01:10:40,540 --> 01:10:43,740
Eh? How often do you change
your baby's nappy? You tell me.

1332
01:10:43,740 --> 01:10:47,500
She changes it three times a day.
Three times a day? You cow! Get out!

1333
01:10:47,500 --> 01:10:51,220
You bloody come here, my dear!
You don't care!

1334
01:10:51,220 --> 01:10:53,180
Look at you... Come here.

1335
01:10:53,180 --> 01:10:56,380
Accusing us... You'll be very
sorry about this, my dear.

1336
01:10:56,380 --> 01:10:59,340
We're bloody clean, we are.
We're clean, aren't we? Yes!

1337
01:10:59,340 --> 01:11:00,860
We keep our kids clean. Clean?

1338
01:11:00,860 --> 01:11:03,380
You don't know what the meaning...

1339
01:11:03,380 --> 01:11:05,260
Look at this.

1340
01:11:05,260 --> 01:11:09,420
Nice carrying on. Look, nice
carrying on, making the babies cry.

1341
01:11:09,420 --> 01:11:12,820
You're a cow. You're a cow, you are.

1342
01:11:12,820 --> 01:11:15,060
She couldn't care about us,
could she?

1343
01:11:15,060 --> 01:11:17,260
Look at this bloody dump we're in.

1344
01:11:17,260 --> 01:11:20,100
Yes, it's a dump...

1345
01:11:20,100 --> 01:11:21,740
It's all your fault. MY fault?!

1346
01:11:21,740 --> 01:11:23,700
Yes, it's your bloody fault.

1347
01:11:23,700 --> 01:11:26,220
You were the one that brought it
back, wasn't she?

1348
01:11:26,220 --> 01:11:27,900
Where's my cap? Where's my cap?

1349
01:11:27,900 --> 01:11:30,900
I don't know where your silly old
cap is. Go on, get out.

1350
01:11:30,900 --> 01:11:33,220
Go on, get out.
I shall be reporting you...

1351
01:11:33,220 --> 01:11:36,660
You do that! You do it! Bugger off.

1352
01:11:36,660 --> 01:11:38,260
I wonder who said this?

1353
01:11:38,260 --> 01:11:40,500
You see, it's about this place.

1354
01:11:40,500 --> 01:11:42,860
I wonder who told those lies.

1355
01:11:42,860 --> 01:11:44,460
It wasn't me.

1356
01:11:44,460 --> 01:11:47,140
Listen, young lady, I'm not
as stupid as I may look.

1357
01:11:47,140 --> 01:11:49,420
It was a blonde who talked
to the reporter.

1358
01:11:49,420 --> 01:11:53,180
A blonde like you.
Well, I don't know who it was.

1359
01:11:53,180 --> 01:11:55,460
There have been other reports
about you too.

1360
01:11:56,980 --> 01:11:58,700
About Mrs Selby?

1361
01:11:58,700 --> 01:12:02,260
I was just telling her about the poor
little baby that died, that's all.

1362
01:12:05,180 --> 01:12:10,020
Mrs Ward, I see here that your
husband hasn't been paying the fees.

1363
01:12:10,020 --> 01:12:12,180
Paying the fees?

1364
01:12:12,180 --> 01:12:15,820
Of course he is.
We'd know if he was or wasn't.

1365
01:12:15,820 --> 01:12:18,260
Didn't he tell you
he hasn't been paying?

1366
01:12:19,460 --> 01:12:22,660
I haven't seen him.
He's been away on business.

1367
01:12:22,660 --> 01:12:24,660
You haven't seen him?

1368
01:12:24,660 --> 01:12:26,460
Not for a while.

1369
01:12:26,460 --> 01:12:29,420
What is going on here?
Are you married or aren't you?

1370
01:12:29,420 --> 01:12:31,660
Oh, shut up, you! Shut up!

1371
01:12:43,780 --> 01:12:50,620
"It must be clearly understood that
the temporary accommodation will no
longer be available after that date."

1372
01:12:50,620 --> 01:12:52,140
What does it mean?

1373
01:12:52,140 --> 01:12:55,460
I shouldn't worry about it.
It doesn't mean what it says, maybe.

1374
01:12:55,460 --> 01:12:58,100
These people are casualties
of the Welfare State,

1375
01:12:58,100 --> 01:13:00,140
perhaps the worst casualties
of all.

1376
01:13:00,140 --> 01:13:03,980
They're pushed around like so much
human litter and nobody will
help them.

1377
01:13:03,980 --> 01:13:08,300
Originally homelessness was regarded
as a passing post-war phase.

1378
01:13:08,300 --> 01:13:12,940
But the problem now appears to be
with us for the foreseeable future.

1379
01:13:14,500 --> 01:13:16,900
Oh, excuse me, I called about a room.

1380
01:13:16,900 --> 01:13:20,220
How many of you? Well, there's
just me and the two kiddies.

1381
01:13:20,220 --> 01:13:22,260
Sorry, I don't take children.

1382
01:13:22,260 --> 01:13:26,260
Don't be a fathead
when your time comes.

1383
01:13:26,260 --> 01:13:30,060
Let us take them away
without making any fuss, huh?

1384
01:13:30,060 --> 01:13:33,060
What right have you got
to take my kids from me?

1385
01:13:33,060 --> 01:13:35,700
Well, you can't find a
place for them, can you?

1386
01:13:35,700 --> 01:13:38,340
Now, look, you've had your chance.

1387
01:13:38,340 --> 01:13:40,340
We're not interested in you now.

1388
01:13:40,340 --> 01:13:43,780
It's the kids we're worried about.
We can't have them sleeping out.

1389
01:13:43,780 --> 01:13:45,380
From the time they leave here,

1390
01:13:45,380 --> 01:13:47,580
they'll be in need
of care and protection.

1391
01:13:47,580 --> 01:13:49,300
Come on, Stevie, help Mummy pack.

1392
01:13:51,540 --> 01:13:53,180
They're too heavy.

1393
01:13:54,780 --> 01:13:56,260
That's a good boy.

1394
01:13:59,100 --> 01:14:00,980
You're coming out
with me in a minute.

1395
01:14:24,620 --> 01:14:26,420
We had a bite to eat
from the cafeteria.

1396
01:14:26,420 --> 01:14:30,140
Of course, the kiddies didn't
know what was going to happen.

1397
01:14:30,140 --> 01:14:34,340
But I knew they'd catch up with us,
wherever we tried to bed
down for the night.

1398
01:14:41,380 --> 01:14:45,620
You're not having my kids!
You're not having 'em!

1399
01:14:51,620 --> 01:14:54,260
Give me my kids!

1400
01:16:49,180 --> 01:16:53,380
# I'm a fiver

1401
01:16:53,380 --> 01:16:57,500
# Caught miles away

1402
01:16:57,500 --> 01:17:02,340
# From a home. #