Another depiction of the "working class" north vs the "middle class" south. They never compare a wealthy northern area with a poor one in the south - and there are many examples of both.

@jamesswindley9599

Жыл бұрын

So true. I’m a southerner, and my northern family is posher and more stuck up than anyone I know near me 🤣😂🇬🇧

@LRC92

Жыл бұрын

Especially in the South West, the poorest county in England is Cornwall.

@paulhunter123

Жыл бұрын

thats true

@oddities-whatnot

Жыл бұрын

The media has always liked to depict the north as poor because the media has always been biased towards the south.

@catgladwell5684

Жыл бұрын

@Funky Monk Not at all. The premise of the Man Alive episode was the north-south divide, and they chose somewhere that looked like Coronation Street as a paradigm of the north of England. They could have used some leafy Cheshire village. Or a Corry equivalent in the south. In fact, as I am sure we all realise, you can't prove anything anecdotally.

The interviewer is a blatant troublemaker, running back to the northerners to tell tales on the southerner just to stir up a bit of hate lol 🤣

@sidvyas8549

Жыл бұрын

Gotta stir the pot lmao

@pdillon1987

Жыл бұрын

@@sidvyas8549 then eat from the lid ;-)

@harryf1ashman

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Why not go to Bristol or Plymouth. The reality is that this is london/surrey vs the rest

@fuckdefed

Жыл бұрын

That must be his Northern sense of humour as Melvyn Bragg is Northern himself!

@AMPProf

Жыл бұрын

but was it true?

What I was thinking during this was; if the Northerners all cooked everything in one pot, then how did they have so many saucepan lids to all eat from?

@stuffandfaff

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! 😂

@northfolk6991

Жыл бұрын

🤣😂👍

@valeriemcwilliam7933

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha that's great , I love that

@sammuddel7751

Жыл бұрын

Lmao! Nice one

@Tester-sh1mn

Жыл бұрын

Saucepan lids are forever, pots are temporary.

As an American, it took me a while to realize that the English North is treated like the American South in the national media of each country.

@aaanawaleh

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the working class and neglected portion of society is often thought of as the north. The south (with London and the posh countryside) is often thought of as posher and a bit snobbish. Of course, this is the general stereotype and it’s changed a bit over time. Nowadays, London is well known for the roadman culture and isn’t thought of as being as posh.

@tommiatkins3443

Жыл бұрын

Not exactly. There are many racists in the North, but very few white supremacist. The North is also very similar to the south as in belief in fairy tales such as religion. The UK doesn't have guns, except in Manchester they have a few, and of course that's where the deaths happen.. About five a year. Northerners in the UK don't tend to drive pick up trucks shooting fully automatic weapons into the sky. They never turned traitor to the UK so they could enslave humans and fought a war over it. Generally they vote left wing, because being stupidly rich is seen in the UK as something seedy and disgusting. There IS more obesity in the North, such as you get in your South. Education is poorer like your South, but decency is still a value there unlike the southern states. There is also more homophobic bigotry in the North of England. People tend to rage about pathetic childish stuff like a man wearing a dress and other meaningless trivial things , and our media is set up to fuel this rage, but even that's different. Almost nobody is beaten to death or no go areas for sections of the public. We went very different directions when your revolt succeeded. We progressed. Taken a few steps back since trump made being awful acceptable, but still Generally a land of peace and freedom.

@thePronto

Жыл бұрын

@@aaanawaleh they definitely don't have working class people in the South. They are all toffs, living in mansions. Even their servants are toffs, and so are their servants. The problem is, that all their stately homes are freezing, because there are no coal delivery men. And the place stinks of rotting rubbish because there are no midden men to collect the mountains of leftover food from their banquets. And there are no children, because they are all poufters.

@emilydavison2053

Жыл бұрын

In Italy, the north is the posh part. Watch the end of laurel and hardy's 'way out west'. 'Shut my mouth, I'm from the south!' Although Stan Laurel was from the north of England.

@tkokflux6322

Жыл бұрын

@@aaanawaleh quite frankly its sad that London is getting that kind of a rep considering that its a capital city in usa being capital city doesnt have that much influence but here over europe due to our small size capital cities usually r representative of our nations

I’m a east end cockney and my step father was from Hull or as he said it Ull. One thing that I noticed was the humour up north it’s a dry sense of humour which I absolutely love and makes me laugh no end. Working class is working class no matter north or south. Both the salts of the earth.

@MrNanomonkey

Жыл бұрын

Ah when I lived in London one of the things I really missed was the Yorkshire wit.

@dannyward673

Жыл бұрын

@DnB and Psy Production I don’t eat ells and besides the traditional pie houses serve steamed ells not jellied. I see you have DnB as your name ? Actually the sound that you affiliate too began in a warehouse club in Marshgate Lane, Stratford east London called telepathy back in 1990/91 I was a early raver to it. Funny how we southerners adopted the pies from northern dockers back in the day and now you have adopted a sound that started from the very council estates I grew up on. 👍🏼

@adailydaughter6196

Жыл бұрын

Northerners are a great antidote to people who take themselves too seriously 😅 and I'm a southerner 🤣

@joesmith8701

Жыл бұрын

@DnB and Psy Production pie and mash is lovely dispite how horrible it looks but sod jellied eeles

@banna1150

Жыл бұрын

Northern comedians are just funnier. It’s the delivery and accent (I’m a southerner)

You can see the light going out in the husband’s eyes with every word the wife speaks 😂

@1969Kismet

Жыл бұрын

He must have thought of the welcome commitee he would be getting if he so much as dared crossed that North/South divide.

@zacmumblethunder7466

Жыл бұрын

Watching them play cribbage is one of the most dismal things I've ever seen. It's like slow euthanasia.

@baabaabaa2293

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, poor man married Dame Edna!

@Patrick3183

Жыл бұрын

He’s handsome AF

@MrGoneTroppo

Жыл бұрын

Game of cribbage, dear? Yes love 😀

As a Yank, I had the privilege of living in North Yorkshire for five years, 85-90, and I dearly loved it.

@johirsty7392

Ай бұрын

Ooh some parts in North Yorkshire are beautiful - it's quite expensive to live there these days.

@phillipl2267

Ай бұрын

Menwith Hill I presume. I was there in the 80s and 90s, great place.

@williamwilson6499

Ай бұрын

@@phillipl2267 I will neither confirm nor deny.

@sadakamber5843

14 күн бұрын

​👌 🤫 😂?​@@williamwilson6499

@alisonmckie3818

10 күн бұрын

We.r a friendly bunch 🎉

This reminds me of my childhood in the 70s in the North. Never saw or heard of anyone eating off saucepan lids LOL Fish and chips were a once-a-week treat on Fridays to give my gran an evening off cooking for 5 people.

@Freedom4Palestine3672

3 ай бұрын

Much like what most people do now with a Friday night takeaway.

@fidelismcall6890

Ай бұрын

Was it pot noodles the rest of the week😂

@aliorr9356

Ай бұрын

You say that like pot noodles are cheap 😆

@danielle5360

27 күн бұрын

Exactly 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻❤️❤️✌🏻🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 I'm northan from Yorkshire, born in the 70s and totally agree with you 100% 8 neither new of anyone who ate off sauce pan lids never thats a right load of rubbish, thay must of bin proper poor if thay couldn't afford to eat l off a plate, never met a family yet5at did have plates. 🤬🤬🤬

@pizzamad3334

16 күн бұрын

i go camping and eat off the saucepan lid .. bread and jam will do !

Lol not the reporter going back to the mill with the gossip 😂

@annawithaj1

2 ай бұрын

🤣 you're sharp

@DownInFraggleRock977

Ай бұрын

Yes. Must of been like " guess what she said"😂

@pizzamad3334

16 күн бұрын

we've not got over it still haha. immigration is so bad right now here in Yorkshire. 2024.

I'm a south Londoner now living in Grimsby. People are people. Some good, some bad...just different accents. It's all perception.

@swaneknoctic9555

Жыл бұрын

I have said this for years. People are people, the same the world over, they cry they laugh etc.

@carolineridlington5010

Жыл бұрын

Good old Grimsby...am from Grimsby and moved south...🥰... l do lunch with the southern dwags....dog walking ladies..who do lunch...gossip just the same....😂

@paulcarruthers8646

Жыл бұрын

Just how the government planned it they don't want a united England it's easier to control fighting eachother

@GuessMyName234

Жыл бұрын

I'm from the North but I think Grimsby is a miserable place clues in the name

@carolineridlington5010

Жыл бұрын

@@GuessMyName234 it wasn't when I lived there...Great Grimsby...clue is in the name..🥰

This channel is underrated. For a lifelong language learner like me, these glimpses into the UK's past are THE BOMB.

@claredavies21

Жыл бұрын

Amazing to be honest.

@t.castro4493

Жыл бұрын

For sure. I'm Brazilian and it's cool to see the evolution of British dialects and the cultures of the countries in the UK.

@Helen-vb3nh

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure you’ll soon realise British people never think to slow down, speak clearly or try to tone down the accent! I’m a northerner who’s lived abroad and I really realised how people’s expectations of us is not often the reality, unfortunately! Is this north/ south divide something your country has too?!

@LuPoj

Жыл бұрын

@@Helen-vb3nh It was a thing before the war. Now: Definitely not. After WW2 borders were reshaped, which forced massive exodus westwards. Those who lived on the eastern frontier had a specific sway and soft ring. However, forced to relocate to different parts of the country, plus massive job-seeking movement, people reduced the differences over time.

@al1665

Жыл бұрын

"These glimpses into the UK's past are THE BOMB". Any resemblance to real events is merely coincidental.

As a bury ‘lass’ I very much enjoyed listening to this- their voices reminded me of my grandparents who have both now passed away. All my family in past generations have worked the cotton mills. Was lovely to listen and look in on their lives ❤

@mariabolt3881

3 ай бұрын

N'ther Bury Lass, born 'n bred. Am still 'ere, n' all!

@gwdesign1

Ай бұрын

Broadcast a week after I was born, in Bury.

Working class is working class. Whether its North, south, scottish Welsh, or English. We're all under the same boot.

@darynweir97

Жыл бұрын

Being Scottish is better but & any english man and Irishman would agree

@tub19

Жыл бұрын

Here you for got us in the Midlands lol.

@bethhague8470

Жыл бұрын

Statistically not really. Northern working class children do much worse at school and have a lower age expectancy in comparison to Southern working class children. Funding for free buses, schools and sports programmes overwhelmingly afforded to southern children improves their quality of life

@jessrabbit1877

Жыл бұрын

do not resign yourself to your parents classage. you can be whatever you want to be. class terminology is nobody's friend.

@Sigma-xb6kn

Жыл бұрын

@@jessrabbit1877 Well, that's just an excuse to ignore the systemic problems poor people face.

I’m seventeen and American and I can’t get enough of stuff like this 👍

@JustDaniel6764

Жыл бұрын

🤣 Absolute mad lad

@jayveebloggs9057

Жыл бұрын

wow what do you make of it? Pray tell...

@Belfastboi

Жыл бұрын

How brilliant

@richardg5942

Жыл бұрын

Then you should watch Spring and Port Wine (1970)!

@iamgod6464

11 ай бұрын

Yes these people are where your ancestors came from.😂🇺🇸🇬🇧

Lady: “None of them cooked” 20 seconds later: “Yes, they worked in the factory” Um, maybe that’s why they don’t have the time or energy to cook an elaborate meal from scratch?

@janebaker4912

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@annnee6818

Жыл бұрын

Yeah really

@peezebeuponyou3774

Жыл бұрын

Lasted literally five minutes in t'mill.😂

@danielsmith5143

Жыл бұрын

@@peezebeuponyou3774 aye, she were buggered after one day! Bet she didn't do any cooking when she got home that day either. Probably why she married a chef a nall

@Jkk55

9 ай бұрын

My mother worked in the mill all day then came home and cooked for all the family fish and chips on a Friday (payday)

When we moved from Kent to Cornwall in the early 80s, I remember everyone at school thought my accent was Australian, lol. I had a real hard time understanding the Cornish accent, it was like learning a foreign language. So many accents for such a small country.

@sgabig

4 ай бұрын

I needed to read the closed captioning of this video

@kubhlaikhan2015

4 ай бұрын

That's funny. I moved in the reverse direction and everyone thought I was American.

@deserteagle-nx1hl

2 ай бұрын

Medieval England's serfs were confined to their villages by their aristocratic lords so every village developed its own accent. Such is one theory.

@cycillak4918

28 күн бұрын

Its really weird cos when i moved up to York everyone thought i was australian too

@christschool

22 күн бұрын

@@kubhlaikhan2015 Cornwall contributed much of America's Anglo population. As an American, I understand people from Cornwall better than any other region of Britain.

No one can afford fish n chips for a family more than once a week now

@gooderspitman8052

3 ай бұрын

We couldn’t then.

@Saltine_the_clown

3 ай бұрын

​@@gooderspitman8052Debatable

@heatherives8646

2 ай бұрын

So true and also the fish 🐟 always taste better in the 70's wrapped in newspaper.

@jacko717

2 ай бұрын

Family of 3, no change out of £20 for fish chips and peas now!

@petermilburn1214

Ай бұрын

Last time my wife and I had fish and chips it was £25, not cheap.

I'm from the south and moved up to Geordie land, never regretted it. Love living in the Northeast

@jayveebloggs9057

Жыл бұрын

Great to have you here!

@angelofthenorthgirl

Жыл бұрын

Aye we're a canny bunch

@fellspoint9364

Жыл бұрын

What’s the rent up north? I’m trying to flee Baltimore before I get shot. The murder rate is crazy .

@tytube3001

Жыл бұрын

you must be a coffee addict

@Stevenhamer82

Жыл бұрын

@@tytube3001 you're right 😂

I must say watching this is fascinating and I really like the lady in the factory who does most of the talking. Looking at clips like this makes me wonder what the rest of their lives were like. Now I find myself thinking if they were 25 then they’d be nearly 80 now if they’re still alive. These are like a time machine.

@Freedom4Palestine3672

3 ай бұрын

It'd be nice if they managed to track anyone down from the episode, if they're still around.

@sandponics

Ай бұрын

Yes we are still alive. Baby boomers rule, and now we have all of the money.

The interviewing was really stirring the pot. "She said this and she said that". Oh lord.

It was tough growing up with a class divide when as an intelligent northern lad I couldn't get a second look from a southern company as soon as I spoke my stereotypical accent. The best thing about the internet is that divide is being whittled away. Game of Thrones helped a bit too :D

@al201103

Жыл бұрын

Pretty disgusted to read about your experience. Born and raised in the South and wouldn't dream of judging someone on their accent. Shame on those that overlooked you for such a ridiculous bias. Hope you're hugely successful in whatever you do!!

@tehf00n

Жыл бұрын

@@al201103 I am now. I work for myself as a freelance game developer where accents mean nothing and skill experience is everything.

@al201103

Жыл бұрын

@@tehf00n Fantastic!!

@stephenhumphrey7935

11 ай бұрын

E by gum lad.

@tehf00n

11 ай бұрын

@@stephenhumphrey7935 bit right of norf tho. I drink PG Tips not Yorkshire tea. :D

I think today its more of a class / income divide than an actual North/South thing. But it is definitely still true to say that northerners are generally more friendly and open towards others. Spend half an hour listening to people at a bus stop in Leeds, then do the same in London, and you'll see exactly what I mean. As for eating off pan lids, what a load of tosh! I feel a bit sorry for the bloke in that clip being married to such a snooty old madam! He looks proper miserable..

@josephcole8046

Жыл бұрын

I'd say its more of a community, but a community that don't like outsiders so I certainly wouldn't say northerners are more open to others as a general rule. I'm basing this on my experience living in Liverpool where one would constantly be called a 'wool' etc.

@chubbec

Жыл бұрын

London isn't the entire south and isn't really comparable to Leeds

@Alfred5555

Жыл бұрын

@@josephcole8046 Liverpool is particularly and increasingly insular area haha. Scouser has for over 100 years practically been it's own ethnicity.

@Alfred5555

Жыл бұрын

@@josephcole8046 That probabaly plays a role. But most people in England would absolutely recognise a difference between the North and South as being a real and fair distinction to make. There's just different layers and resolutions you can look at the cultures of Britain, but in England the main distinction is North and South.

@josephcole8046

Жыл бұрын

@@Alfred5555 Yep, although I'm sure it stems more from economic factors. It just so happens that, in England, that fits perfectly with the North and South divide. Although, London, Manchester etc are fast becoming essentially the same place, but in different locations. Very little community, identity or cultural differences outside of architecture these days from my experience. There are subtle differences, but when a city is built for tourists, they all become the same and the people living there follow the same trajectory.

As a Salford lad living down south , this had me going down memory lane from the 70's. Loves the man in the mill summing up the southerners, he's bang on by the way.

@rozdoyle8872

2 ай бұрын

As an Irish Woman who lived in Irlam of the Heights for 10 years ,I absolutely loved the place , the people were good old fashioned down to earth decent souls . Bury Market was one of my favourite haunts .

I was brought up in Bury in the 50s - 70s and we had proper meals and NEVER ate off pan lids!

The Southern lady didn’t appear to be very happy…. Happiness can’t be bought! ❤️

@Wagoo

Жыл бұрын

Not a peep out of 'er poor old long sufferin' 'usband 'n' all

@johnp8131

Жыл бұрын

She doesn't sound very Southern though? If you listen carefully she has a mild Mildland twang?

@Darthshearer

Жыл бұрын

That is southern to us northerners

@paul64774

Жыл бұрын

No she didn’t look happy. Probably mentally damaged form her time up North.

@MrGroganmeister

Жыл бұрын

Sad bitter woman with an inferiority complex and a bad attitude. Poor hubby.

Doesn't sound like my Mum I was brought up in West Yorkshire and Mum had a cooked meal on the table every night if we had Fish and Chips it was on a Saturday after doing the shopping. My parents both worked hard as did all the parents on our street it was a warm wonderful place to grow up.

@SenorTucano

3 ай бұрын

British fish and chips is simply awful. Heavy batter, soggy chips and all soaked in grease.

@kanderson4417

3 ай бұрын

Fish and chips was the only tae away back then.

@hho200812345

3 ай бұрын

Sounds just like my upbringing.. 3 square meals a day and both my mum and dad worked. My dad ran 20 looms and when someone on his shift was off sick he ran 40. He never stopped.. my mum was a spinner but then went to work in the local school kitchen so that she could be at home when it was school holidays. I miss those streets and that feeling of community.. gone forever I’m afraid..

@kashd4668

2 ай бұрын

@@SenorTucano Aaahhh! Lovely! That's made me feel hungry. Can't wait for the Chippy to open later today! Yummy!😊😊❤❤

Lived both north and south - and I do miss that northern hospitality. A spades a spade as it should be.

@ajs41

Жыл бұрын

Have you lived in the Midlands? There are about 10 million of us here.

@Bonypart

Жыл бұрын

Except you might be accused of being of a certain leaning if you used that expression these days. Got to be so careful in this woke world.

@AMPProf

Жыл бұрын

not a sheep wolf.. but the crimes

How sad that woman is like "oh in the north they just hang out drinking coffee and socializing, how terrible!". The way we've been beaten into thinking that not working for one second is sinful...

@edp3202

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Women demonized all around.

@happyuk06

Жыл бұрын

Or eating fish and chips?? I've never understood the snobbery associated with eating fish and potatoes (which man has been eating for millennia).

@edp3202

Жыл бұрын

@@happyuk06 it's seen as poor man's meal?

@happyuk06

Жыл бұрын

@@edp3202 Yes, it traditionally has been, though fish is much more expensive now. The people doing the denigrating of working class diets were not scientific in any way, merely snobbish.

@painfulsilence316

Жыл бұрын

@@happyuk06 I've never been to the UK but I say keep that snobbery alive and well, lest it become like lobster in the USA. Nobody should be paying $30 for "fancy" fish and chips

You can just feel how much calmer and content people were back then just by watching these videos. If they time travelled forward to today I'm pretty sure they'd have a heart attack within a week.

@TrueFilter

Жыл бұрын

Yes so much more content. Hiding their sexuality. Open racism. Feeling pressured to live as a housewife.

@maskedavenger2578

Жыл бұрын

I lived back then & I am still around today ,the difference back then working people didn’t expect the luxury’s that those even unemployed enjoy today They also called things out for what it is & none of that political correct nonsense or victimhood . People just got on with it .this lot today would have a heart attack if they ever had to go back to our times ,now they get offended by comedy .

@scottw.3258

Жыл бұрын

@@maskedavenger2578 You hit the nail on the head!!

@maskedavenger2578

Жыл бұрын

@@scottw.3258 Funny you should mention that . I have been hitting nails on the head most of my life ,as I am a retired Joiner 👍

@nektekket852

Жыл бұрын

I was around then too, and in my opinion people were just more docile and uneducated back then, readier to tug the forelock for the ruling classes, which it seems northerners these days are keen to get back to. And if by "political correctness" , you mean "not being a rude a***hole" , I'm all for it!

Absolutely love these types of documentaries. A wee snapshot into the not so distant past. Plenty of work but conditions and pay were terrible.

@icydsting6037

Жыл бұрын

has much changed? lol

@CJ-ji1pq

Жыл бұрын

Takes me back to my childhood, when about 8 or 9 of us family members from Fife would travel down to stay with our Yorkshire relatives in Donnie & Barnsley during the summer holidays. I remember running in and out of the smoky, loud Working Mens Clubs (just like the one shown) with my cousins while all my family, grandparents, great aunts and uncles, drank and laughed inside. Those people and time, just a memory now.................

@gitsurfer27

Жыл бұрын

£3.50 for a 4 bedroom house....conditions we're terrible in certain areas in certain times, but in general they didn't have it worse than we do now.

@valuetraveler2026

8 ай бұрын

face it it was far better then

@oliverhendrick393

4 ай бұрын

@@icydsting6037plenty of work maybe?

As a Southerner I always love the North for the reasons the male worker said! Less pretentious and much more friendly. Cosy feeling of being part of things when you're out and about. Like in a pub. I know the North are supposed to dislike southerners but that's probably those who don't respond to the warm ambience and set themselves apart.

@ajs41

Жыл бұрын

Don't you think those are stereotypes? I've encountered plenty of rude people in the north, and plenty of friendly people in the south. I'm from the Midlands myself.

@richardboswell9306

11 ай бұрын

​@@ajs41that explains it you don't know where you belong north Derbyshire, North Nottinghamshire ,North Lincolnshire all will say they are northern

@holdtightadele8017

5 ай бұрын

But it’s hard to draw parallels. I’m from the south east in what used to be a humble little town. Pretence is not something g I’ve seen an abundance of.

@RichPickingsBT41

4 ай бұрын

😂👍@@richardboswell9306

@nigelreardon7535

2 ай бұрын

My mate said that Northerners are more laid back than Southerners and Channel Islanders

I’m from Bury now living in the south and I can’t wait to retire so I can go home back to my friendly welcoming people … it makes me proud to be northern!

@ConfusedAlien-th1ls

Ай бұрын

I live in bury, never met people so lazy, everyone thinks they are part of green street

@Bogna1

14 күн бұрын

@@ConfusedAlien-th1ls lazy or unemployed?

@ConfusedAlien-th1ls

10 күн бұрын

@Bogna1 both unfortunately

Not even for thirty quid? By heck,he had some principles on him that lad

@stormy3307

Ай бұрын

😂

I'm originally from east London and when i moved to Newcastle just over 10 years ago everyone told me it was grim up north, but I don't see a problem with eating fish and chips everyday, it's delicious. And I have a lot more free time now I've stopped brushing my teeth and started drinking larger in bed. I couldn't be happier.

@mokisan

3 ай бұрын

😂

@judegrindvoll8467

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 that’s hilarious

@johncaygill878

Ай бұрын

You have probably stopped being a bender also.

My family were/are working class Northerners from the North East, and my Mother ALWAYS cooked, for NINE of us. Sometimes in one pan, if she made a stew or cassetole. But often we had meat and three or four veg. So my memories are quite different to that Southern bint In The glasses, a typical Southern SNOB! Fish and Chips was a rare treat in our house, even though my mum worked part time during school hours, and my Dad worked full time, always. I live in the South now, and the Coffee and Gossip culture is WAY more prevalent down here, than it ever was where I was brought up.

As an American the main thing that hits me is how entrenched everyone is. The north and south of England are SO close together. The journey would take just a few hours by train or a bus. But I get the impression that there is very little travel. The fact that you travel 50 miles and the accent is totally different suggests the same thing--that the English stay where they were born.

@ACC_org_uk

9 ай бұрын

And each half of England thinks the other is a breed apart.

@fredkay6743

8 ай бұрын

Because traditionally, that's how life was for the vast majority of people. Forget England, pretty much everyone in the whole world before the invention of trains would live and die within the same area because travel was difficult, dangerous and often expensive. This is why we have accents within a relatively short distance by modern standards, because there was once a time when pockets of people were living isolated from the rest of the world and were only mixing with people within their own community.

@davidconcannon5927

8 ай бұрын

Back in days gone by, your perception would be true. However, this video was filmed 53 years ago. It's nothing like the same now. Even the accents are very much diluting now. The idea that English all stay where they are born is very much outdated.

@ethelthecat1

8 ай бұрын

You're right to extent, but the rich, young and marginalised have always travelled. Hence the British Empire & Navy that a colonised a quarter of the world including the US. The entrenchment has more to do with class. It was waged slavery, for both the north and south, but because the British are so class and hierarchy obsessed, the Southern poor liked to think they were superior to the north, mainly due to their accent. For those who couldn't stand it, they left and moved to the colonies.

@ianmuir3640

8 ай бұрын

You can travel a couple of miles in Scotland and the accents are completely different

I was born in the south, but my parents were from the north. When I visited Gateshead in the 70s I went out for a walk on my own - next thing there was ten kids after me - I reckoned I was in for a hiding - they just wanted to know who I was and did I want to play football. Where I came from it was usually 'If I don't want someone to play - I'll take my ball in'..

7:25 "We sleep in beds you know, we're quite normal" This lady is hilarious. I live in the South. There are 2 places I'd love to of lived at this time: East London, and the North. People just seem so funny and interesting. I could imagine having a cup of tea with these people and a good ol' chat

@pureboxofscartcables

Жыл бұрын

I think I am in love with her..

@spudwish

Жыл бұрын

*have

@richardsawyer5428

Жыл бұрын

The same with the North East and South West. It's definitely the people that make the place.

@Greenpoloboy3

Жыл бұрын

@spud spuddy All adds to the flavour

@Greenpoloboy3

Жыл бұрын

@@richardsawyer5428 Exactly!

As a southerner who moved north growing up, I was badly bullied for years just because of my accent. I trained my voice so I could fit in. Everyone assumed i was rich because I sounded 'posh'.

@ALBUMOF2008

Жыл бұрын

Aww that must’ve been so hard for u 🥺👉🏻👈🏻 try being a northerner in the south.

@alicelight2633

Жыл бұрын

@@ALBUMOF2008 what was that like for you?

@ajs41

Жыл бұрын

Not talking about you, but, say, an Estuary accent doesn't sound posh at all despite being from the south.

@ommk9650

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the idea southerners are all horrible and northerners are all lovely is one of the most enduring British bullshit myths.

@TheZumph

Жыл бұрын

Good

Loved the 70s n 80s growing up best years ever.simple but also exiting.theses ladys r my mum n dads age.fun to watch especially for an Aussie.

Wish the BBC would make quality programmes like this now!

@illstuffamattresswithyou5657

Жыл бұрын

People change and making a show like this now just wouldn’t work with the way people are

@Greenpoloboy3

Жыл бұрын

They can't . It might upset someone

@GEricG

Жыл бұрын

@@illstuffamattresswithyou5657 that's true but most people's reason for having a go at the BBC is for cultural reasons. Of course the BBC has changed over the years just like a lot of media and of course it has had to become more representative. One cannot ignore the fact that we live in a more diverse society - like it or not.

@paulhunter123

Жыл бұрын

@@illstuffamattresswithyou5657 why wouldnt it people are still people just in a later time

@spritesheets

Жыл бұрын

@@Greenpoloboy3 I bet you get upset about a lot on TV...

Everyone in this video looks around 40, but I can guarantee the vast majority were in their 20's!

@sarahjones-jf4pr

Жыл бұрын

Matt It is the hard graft for putrid wages that ages these down to earth souls.

@Canyouseeanypartofme

Жыл бұрын

Bc you think there style is old

This channel is a time machine. Great content.

I come from wigan. Im proud of it. Love the northerners they are the friendliest people you will ever meet. I live in France now.

I'm a northerner and I feel that since we've been able to communicate and travel more the divide is less than what it was. We're all flesh and blood and I'll always welcome my southern brothers and sisters.

@jaxcoss5790

Жыл бұрын

Spot on!

@adonaiyah2196

Жыл бұрын

I got family up north and ive lived in London for a lot of my life

@oo--7714

Жыл бұрын

No just look at job opportunities, or placements, all in the south

@carltonlambert7608

Жыл бұрын

Definitely and I totally agree. People aren't funny like that anymore unless your quite old or super rural.

@oasis4life014

Жыл бұрын

Im from the midlands I wouldn’t ever wanna live down south

I'm a Southerner living up North - I'm peeing myself laughing - funniest thing I've watched in years.

@AMPProf

Жыл бұрын

Why?

@sutty8526

Жыл бұрын

Why?

As an American I find it fascinating that in such a small constituent country as England there are such sharp social and cultural divides

@molimolinana

Жыл бұрын

Take into consideration that this was the 70s. That said, however, there are many divides to be found across the UK, depending on perspective and location (arguably moreso between the different countries)... Of course, this is not the case for everyone, and the Media will often look to emphasise differences. I'm from London, have lived in Bristol (Southwest of England), and also elsewhere in Europe for over a decade... Since returning here in 2019, as Brexit was approaching and has now taken place, I have been incredibly shocked by the increased regionalism and racism which the Brexit propaganda, politicians and certain parts of the Press (e.g. Daily Mail) have stirred up.

@tonyclifton265

Жыл бұрын

yup, and the accents are totally different

@reasonablyserious

Жыл бұрын

Social and cultural divides are more pronounced in most old countries.

@blotski

Жыл бұрын

As molimolinana said don't forget this film is pretty old and England has changed a lot. However, the north south divide is still real with different accents and attitudes. I don't think we have such negative attitudes about each other. I hope.

@claredavies21

Жыл бұрын

Our country is Great Britain not England

I have no idea what the old dude at the end is saying but he definitely drinks beer every day.

@HaiLsKuNkY

Ай бұрын

that is the local accent

I was born in the late fifties in rural Hertfordshire, before most of the "New Towns" were built. In the sixties, every Easter we would drive, up to see my "posh" Aunt in Co Durham. That was pretty much the opposite of what's shown here?

Look as an Anglophile Irish man, I love ‘em all, however as a tourist, the North has always felt more at peace with itself.

@usarugbyleagueunionfan

Жыл бұрын

Me too as a Yank.

@dylanmurphy9389

Жыл бұрын

Me Three

@chillijoe8264

Жыл бұрын

can’t stand the place.

@chillijoe8264

Жыл бұрын

@Lily Wood it’s towns are dire, the weather is awful, and they seem to have this childlike belief that everyone from the south is wealthy.

@educational1651

Жыл бұрын

@Lily Wood I’m a southerner living in the north and I think the weather is better up here so far.

My dad was from Bury and he married a southern girl (my mum) we lived in the south but my dad and I took a holiday to Bury to see my aunt every year so I'm half northern and saw both sides of the divide and it's true what they say people in the north are much more relaxed and friendly than southerners but prejudices run deep my mother still believes to this days that northerners eat nothing but fish and chips pies etc etc inspite of being married to my dad for 50 years before he died and being repeatedly told the stereotypes were false.

@thomasranjit7781

Жыл бұрын

Pity women can't get into kitchen and prepare some lovely meals for family due to work...

@reddragon3163

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting comment. Translate that over to how people must of viewed foreigners then and you can see why so many old people hold so many illogical racists views.

@robertclive491

5 ай бұрын

You spread false stereotypes about southerners so you're hardly immune.

@DaniG.German883

2 ай бұрын

@@reddragon3163hop off

I’m from Wakefield , a Yorkshire lass born and bred and proud and I’ve got family from Barnsley too. Leeds united till I die!!xx

@georgem8744

Ай бұрын

Sexy northern lass never change..... To a Londoner like me your more exotic then any bird from the other side of the world ❤❤❤

@micheledibenedetto7780

Ай бұрын

Im a cockney and burds from wakey are tip top bang on , love a rump and up the gary too plus you get a nice slap up pie n chips after youve done the bizzo . Bootiful

1:37 Man i miss workmans clubs like that. Used to go on trips and that. All dead now. If you see one still open and go in they're depressing places now. You can see the past remnants of old glory days. Theres one near me thats huge and has a whole floor with its own bar and snooker hall and everything never has a single sole in it apart from maybe a couple people will play snooker once in a while. Its very like grand victorian and a huge ornate space with high ceilings etc. and you can imagine it being packed and full of life. but its totally dead 😔even the bar downstairs doesnt fill up even on a weekend. years back would have been full every night.

@MahiTanMazy

2 ай бұрын

What changed to make it empty?

The southern woman seems to be fighting a one woman battle to prove the north's contention that southerners are snobs. She seems to have totally mixed up dire poverty with lack of standards and as for her children refusing to eat food given to them as a guest, well a few lessons in good manners wouldn't have gone astray. I live in the south and am glad to say that she is not really representative of southerners and her examples are not representative of northerners and they never were. I know this is an old video but even when it was made it was rubbish.

@ticketyboo2456

Жыл бұрын

Polly Parrot I think northerners are more likely to get their knickers in a twist over stereotypes than southerners.... you for instance....

@pollyparrot8759

Жыл бұрын

@@ticketyboo2456 You are of course welcome to think what you like, my own thinking is that the producers of the original programme had deliberately looked for and found a southerner with ridiculous stereotypical views. Anyway, I can't waste time lollygagging with you I have a whippet to walk, a flat hat to clean and the pigeons to feed before cracking on and making hisself's snap for work tomorrow. By eck a wuman's wurk is never dun!

@queeniegreengrass3513

Жыл бұрын

As ever the BBC spends time dividing people rather than uniting them, over petty or indeed real differences...

@pollyparrot8759

Жыл бұрын

@@queeniegreengrass3513 Yes they've been doing it for decades.

@mattylamb9194

Жыл бұрын

She actually sounds like she is from the Midlands anyway

Fish and chips is bloody expensive these days.

I'm from Essex and a proud southerner, but working class is working class isn't it? The north south divide is real, but really the bedrock of the country is the same, apart from accents. This feels like the BBC trying to create differences, but for the life of me I don't know why seeing as we're all in this together.

@meditationforgrowth

Жыл бұрын

You do realise that this was recorded back in the 70s. Time was very different back then

@hmu05366

3 ай бұрын

@@meditationforgrowththey are from Essex lol.

@RMetsy

3 ай бұрын

COYS

I find you can have a good chat with people you don't know when out and about up north more so than down south ,not to say it never happens in the south .I always think the northern attitude comes from the industrial revolution when large numbers of people leaving villages and small towns to work in the big industrial places had to get on as incomers together , rather than the south where though its changed a lot more recently, more people stayed in the same small towns and villages and were a bit untrusting of outsiders.

@Alfred5555

Жыл бұрын

@@aduantas Only London has a much higher population density, the North as a whole has more and larger cities than the South. Of the top 10 most populated cities in Britain right now, 6 are in the North, 1 in Scotland, 1 in the Midlands, and 2 in the South, one of which is London. Excluding London the North is much more densely populated than the South.

@thedarkness111

Жыл бұрын

People always say that as if southerners are somehow missing out. I don't want random people talking to me on the bus etc. I literally can't imagine anything worse...

@TREVASLARK

11 ай бұрын

@@thedarkness111 I'm an American, and I find it rather fun.

@user-mi5tu2rq6r

3 ай бұрын

It’s a lot more multicultural down south though, it was weird moving back north after uni

I find it strange how our accents are so different, when we're all on the same relativley small island. From scouse, to cockney, geordie and brummy.

@booth2710

Жыл бұрын

due to centuries of multiple invasions ..

@sandrafinbar

Жыл бұрын

Due to villagers not moving far from their home in years gone by.

@rscoops3986

Жыл бұрын

Yet in the US (albeit a relatively new country) the UK is the same size of Kansas which I doubt has much variation at all.

@karlosthejackel69

Жыл бұрын

@@booth2710 it is due to the industrial revolution, not invasion

@urmum3773

Жыл бұрын

​@@booth2710 Many places have been invaded far more than Britain, but don't have such a variety of accents.

Chippy Friday 🙌 Friendliest ,most down to earth people. No fuss, no frills but bloody good hearts.

I lived in South London in the 60s, and didn't have anything. My grandparents came from service and finally rented a 2 bedroom flat in camberwell.

This is absolute gold! 🤣🤣

How everything changed . I cannot imagine in 30 years from now

@karlosthejackel69

Жыл бұрын

In 30 years, the BBC will say this footage is fiction

Man: Do you eat fish and chips everyday? Woman: Rubbish, we eat them twice a week lol...

Time is so weird - it goes by so fast and so slow at the same time!

Even to this day, im a southerner living in liverpool and I been asked by a person since I been up here if I had a golf course near me and what it's like living in a poorer area now 😄 I grew up on a council estate in Portsmouth, some northerners think we all live in Downton Abbey or something

@SallySturman

Жыл бұрын

🤣 Some people love their sweeping generalisations

@molimolinana

Жыл бұрын

As an English teacher in Spain I have heard endless, often hilarious stereotypes about English/British/Londoners... Not only does most of the world seem to believe we *all* live off fish and chips (and it's tough to convince them otherwise 😅), most people thought my freckles were a skin disease like ezcma, and once I was even asked - straight-up - if I'm a hooligan 🤣🤣🤣 Often comments and questions are down to innocent ignorance though, and we all do it in our different ways wherever we are in the world... That's why it's important to communicate with people of all backgrounds, and to travel as much as possible - including within one's own country of birth.

@jdlc903

Жыл бұрын

@@molimolinana deary me, those Spaniards.

@molimolinana

Жыл бұрын

@@jdlc903 well, to be fair, the Brits (and people from all over the world) make their fair share of stereotyping clangers too! 😉 This is one reason reason why being a teacher is a fun and creative opportunity to break /down/ barriers and open up people's minds :)

@jdlc903

Жыл бұрын

@@molimolinana yo pienso que los Españoles tiene un prejudicia anti ingles muy fuerte.en general puede ser algo simpatico y buen educado pero tambien solo tienen cosas negativo que dice sobre los ingleses .he vivido en España por mucho años.pero tambien me gusta España mucho.

Absolute gold! 😎🎸🤘

Even to this day people up north are warm, genuine and friendly, they give you everything they got- down south it’s all about survival

@AMPProf

Жыл бұрын

It is/they are right up.. till ya get stabbed

What a shame to see England disappear in front of our own eyes

My dad was Yorkshire through and through and he always used to say 'Huh London ... ya can keep it!"

At 7:42 when he mentions drinking so much beer her hand rubs her neck in guilt uh oh 😭

Love how the husband just sits there and listens to it all. No objections

Live in the north west I’m from Hong Kong and I love it here.

Fish and chips used to be cheap here in the south, bloody expensive now. Great doc btw.

@scottw.3258

Жыл бұрын

Chippies are expensive everywhere now. Long gone are the days when the Chippie was the refuge of the working class. If you have a family of four you'll be lucky to change out of £25.

@Embracing01

Жыл бұрын

@@scottw.3258 Go to Harry Ramsden's and see how much fish and chips cost lol. I agree they are expensive now, but I suppose that can't be a bad thing as it will encourage people to eat healthily, in theory lol.

@samhirst2830

Жыл бұрын

It's still £5.25 for fish and chips where I live. But I do prefer going to a particular chippy run by a Chinese couple who charge £6.30 but the haddock is absolutely massive and they pile on loads of chips.

@Embracing01

Жыл бұрын

@@samhirst2830 I popped round to my local chippy the other day for a portion of ships, carton of BBQ sauce, 3 meat & potato pies, egg fried rice and a fishcake and it came to about 14 quid lol. Imagine the people back then paying that.

I'm from the South and I've visited the North and people are just generally so much nicer up north, it feels like it's more of a community up north. Down here everyone has there heads down with grim looks on their faces. We certainly are not all snobby rich people though.

@summerrr1

Жыл бұрын

You’ll get sick of everyone knowing your business after a while.

I like the talkative lady in the factory. She's sassy and cute lol. As an American I just love these old school British women

@3.10 That is how I remember my mum cooking, all separate and not in the same pan and we lived in a central UK village in a mining community.

Oh my gosh look at the social clubs, look how happy people were even though they thought they had it tough. Now days there is no social clubs and pups are going fast. I would love to go back to those days.

@seansmith445

6 ай бұрын

There are still quite a few social clubs left actually.

As someone from the South I've never harboured any hate for anyone and wouldn't discriminate anyone due to tone of voice accent dialect etc anything... how far we've come 💪

@TREVASLARK

11 ай бұрын

That's good news.

@TREVASLARK

11 ай бұрын

@Rooskie J Not fair to say this. You don't know this person !

@TREVASLARK

11 ай бұрын

@Rooskie J Indeed. And you did.

@TREVASLARK

11 ай бұрын

@Rooskie J 😄👍

Harry Enfield is a genius with the make up you can’t tell it’s him. 6:50 what a great lady. Brilliant snapshot of a past reality.

My childhood was in North London & then disaster I went up North I absolutely hated it Depressing & I was home sick But it could have been the other way around I think it’s where you start your life There’s wonderful people in the North & the South, we’re just a small island

@edp3202

Жыл бұрын

Those childhood memories stay with you.

@moaningpheromones

Жыл бұрын

Try moving UK to NZ age 8. Yikes.

@edp3202

Жыл бұрын

@@moaningpheromones you hated NZ?

@TheZumph

Жыл бұрын

He loves being surrounded by foreigners now

@mick4247

6 ай бұрын

No we're not. We're the 9th biggest island in the world.

I grew up in Surrey, and ‘northern’ people are friendlier. 100% true. People don’t look at you strange if you pass the time of day at a bus stop. Of course there’s grumpy so-and-so’s everywhere, it isn’t down to location. And also I think people from the north have been demonised and put down (mostly by Tories) for so long that they’re bound to be…. a bit unsure of southerners. And I think by southerners we really mean London/South-East vs the rest of the country! 😂🤣😂🤣 I think the northern clubs are a perfect distillation of England. We used to be outgoing shouting laughing singing, and then at some point we turned into that awful snob at 2:45 halfway into this. Those Millie’s had it right.

@jemmajames6719

Жыл бұрын

My Auntie is from Surrey, she preferred the North straight away she thought it was far more friendlier. My family never had food like this woman said,I don’t know where she lived but that’s not the North I knew.

@richardsawyer5428

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more. There's a very different attitude in the South West to that where I grew up in the South East. That's probably why many of us have moved.

@WeMuckAround

Жыл бұрын

I'm also from Surrey and I will admit that I find *SOME* Northerners to come across quite blunt and standoffish. I know its just a cultural thing but as a born and bred Southerner, I do notice the difference.

@jemmajames6719

Жыл бұрын

@@WeMuckAround Northerners are more friendly as a norm, but obviously people are people and you met some people who were for whatever reason not so friendly. I haven’t been to London for twenty years can’t stand the place but last time I went everyone was lovely,friendly and helpful, whereas my sons have been a number of times and had the complete opposite experience.

@robertkarol8324

Жыл бұрын

@Al Akazam ok Abdul

"Keep them divided and we'll continue to rule over both sides." .... Every national leader.

"It's rough, it will probably smell of beer but its warm, and thats what the North's about": pure gold.

This is brilliant

As a southerner from eastern England I have been told its grim up north. But there's no doubt the best music comes from up north.

@neil8194

Жыл бұрын

I’m an American and stayed in Yorkshire for two months where my girl lives. York is a beautiful city. You’re right about the music. The Beatles are everything. 👊

@Gray504

Жыл бұрын

As someone’s who’s travelled lots in Britain I think you will soon find that it’s grim everywhere. North straight to Lands End, they all have there nice points, they all have their grim points. But I am from Liverpool and I am proud that our city has kind of shaped modern music 🎵

@williamtoner8674

Жыл бұрын

tbf the south has plenty of good bands too eg pink floyd, led zeppelin, rolling stones, kinks, queen etc

@GuessMyName234

Жыл бұрын

I'm from the Lake District it's a beautiful place

@sim6699

Жыл бұрын

Depression provides more creativity and being on the dole gives them time to practice

I am originally from 70s West Yorkshire where my mum never went to coffee mornings (though she was far from antisocial) and all our meals were home cooked. I don't know if she was typical but most folk I knew from the north are hard working and down to earth.

@joannamillan8882

4 ай бұрын

My mam cooked all are meals too.

I’m from Midlothian Scotland this reminds me of our community before all the pits were closed

Mlim north east born and bred my dad was born north London seven sisters road Holloway he moved up here in 1962 as a thirteen year old my grandparents were from canning town they stayed up here till they died my dad's 74 now he says London has changed so much he would never go back and he still has the accent never lost it.

5:56 The way other girls went quiet when Nosey Nora said she doesn’t like to gossip…

@catnior

2 ай бұрын

Such an accurate depection of woman-hood. When your bestie is clearly lying so u gotta stay quiet.

@TheAwesomeCookielord

Ай бұрын

The woman who started "Coughing" lmaooo

I was born in Manchester in 1970. Lived in the south since 1977. Cannot say which would be best, but happy to be near London.

6.20 reminds me of "To Sir With Love" ladies chatting on the bus.😅

@kendrapratt2098

Ай бұрын

One of my favorite movies!

I love watching these films ….. so educational

God bless them all hope they had happy lives

Live in Suffolk I worked for 42 years on the railway. Earned the same money as everyone else nationwide in the same grade. Most of my income for 15 years went to pay for my home. Thats the biggest north South devide. Way less disposable income in the south for working class folk

@jessiemurkin3936

3 ай бұрын

Oh really? Where abouts in Suffolk?

"we don't have straw on the floor".. great line!

"Is it the truth that hurts?" her face was priceless

Even though people were poorer they were happier because they had each other and their communities.

This feels closer to the 1800s than the 2020s 👀

The great I love you BBC you nailed it 👌🙃🐝

Great bunch of Mancunians. Loved it