Fascinating. If we'd realised how precious interviews with those born in the 19th century were, TV companies would have interviewed ten times more in the seventies.

@painstruck01

2 ай бұрын

America had a guy on one of their gameshows that witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Incredible to be watching this over half a century later. She was born 133 years ago 🤯 What an valuable record. RIP.

Such a dear old soul. Our ancestors of her generation were the salt of the Earth. The sacrifices they made built modern civilisation.

She is a delight to listen too. She has a soft voice, and loved her stories. God bless her.💛

Wonderful my mum is 90 and its2024 god i had to call mum as this lady made me think of her. God bless this lady

This pioneering afternoon TV programme with Mavis Nicholson was far better than 'it should have been' - and really showed up those who sneered at it as 'housewife's TV'. And Mrs Turner here was quite right about Queen Victoria - she really was almost as broad as she was tall.

my beloved old england, fast changing into a place i don't recognize.

@user-qi8mq8fb6s

Ай бұрын

I know. Its so sad

@gabriellaj.o.6180

27 күн бұрын

It is sad.

@ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968

27 күн бұрын

@@gabriellaj.o.6180 i agree.

@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385

24 күн бұрын

it will continue to change forever and ever….best get used to it rather than fight against the inevitable

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

11 күн бұрын

The interesting thing is that you never hear people of this time being either sentimental about the past or negative about the future. The Victorian culture was full of enthusiasm. A time of discovery, travel and invention as well as great social change. and although there were some terrible faces to that people could see great changes taking place and instead of being fearful they were hopeful for the future. Now, maybe we've gone further than most people need or even want and we understand that the world isn't just a resource for us to plunder.

Watching these pulls my heart strings. I love England.

Bless her! I could sit and listen to her all day .. ✌🏼❤️

Lovely. How sad her choices in life were determined by her mother. I said to my mum whose nearly 83 now that i feel like a relic from a bygone age and yes the uk of 2024 is not the uk i remember as a child.

God bless her. Nobody alive now from Victorian times. May she RIP. ❤

Same age as my grandmother..I taped a conversation with her and was searching for it just yesterday.❤

Oh wow , I love this , more please 🙏

i love how she's basically describing a culture of prostitution.

@beatdizzy

Ай бұрын

Aldershot, yes! The officers. 'we knew what they were'

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

11 күн бұрын

Yes, those lucky privileged white girls! Prostitution was huge in Victorian times because wages for the poor were not enough to keep a person fed, especially women. Shop girls were notorious for obliging extras in the back of the shop. Rural girls & their parents were duped with offers of apprenticeship to leave their homes and travel to the cities to find that they were kept imprisoned in brothels. And to this day, wherever there are large numbers of men in barracks, poor women will gather to a ready market! Even though my small rural town has not housed soldiers for over 200 years, there are well recorded accounts of the women at the other end of town, which was a collection of shacks and hovels by the river (so also prone to flooding) who would donate white apron as a code for 'being available '! The workhouse was such a feared institution that most people would rather do anything, including selling themselves as indentured labour,than being taken into one.

It's this sort of thing that makes me sure that modern British people shouldn't have to bear the responsibility or guilt of the empire. The vast majority of Brits had such a lowly existence in the 19th century. The fact that this wonderful lady was quite high in the social hierarchy and still seems to be totally subservient to the aristocracy is so telling

@honeyfungus4774

14 күн бұрын

All that white privilege, 🙄

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

11 күн бұрын

There was no white privilege for the majority of the population who lived to their dieing day in fear of the workhouse. Living conditions were unimaginable for the poor, urban and rural. Starvation was real and common. If you think that history is portrayed in costume dramas and social media then you might be able to throw 'white privilege' around, but if you actually read accounts of those lucky poor white people you might gain a little deeper understanding about how class and social privilege is the root of all evil, not skin colour.

Wonderful. We could worse than go back to those days when people spoke politely and clearly

@itsweb1584

Ай бұрын

The good old days of malnutrition, poverty, disease and racism ❤

@honeyfungus4774

14 күн бұрын

@@itsweb1584 You had to bring racism into it didn't you.

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

11 күн бұрын

It's an English film, not American.

@velevetyy

5 күн бұрын

lol ok julie

To think she was born in 1889 seems surreal.

Live in the past, hate the constant hassle of life today.

More of these please!

LOVE this! What a character! :-)

Mavis was great, interesting woman 🙏 8 Sept 2022 rip Mrs🇬🇧 Edit- 91 year's ❤️

@BimBop83

2 ай бұрын

gtfo with your BS. She was 82 years old in this video, and the video is from 1972. She would have been 132 y/o in 2022.

❤❤

My God older people were healthier, sharper and better looking than a lot of pensioners today!! I wonder why?

❤

She says about being a very highly trained nanny, I wonder if she is a Norland nanny.

Ask her if she meet bethovan

It's sad what the UK has become now.

I would of loved living in them days

@BimBop83

2 ай бұрын

I’m guessing you’re not a woman, or non-white lol. Or if you are then you’re just incredibly naïve.

@s.m975

2 ай бұрын

Really? overcrowding of cities, the exploitation of women and children (because they work more and cost less), the building of Workhouses and the growth of slums. Disease and early death were common for both rich and poor people.

@Tom_Ka_Guy

2 ай бұрын

Dental care was likely non-existent for most people then.

@PETMonique

2 ай бұрын

True, but they sure did live long lives . It's rare to see people living past there 70's and 80's

@sneakerfreak2002

2 ай бұрын

Riiiiiight

If the Tories get in again, we'll be back there again soon 😢

@michellebooth327

2 ай бұрын

I don’t think you have a clue what could be in store for us,especially when you think different parties are different from each other and not just different cheeks of the sam arse.

@michellebooth327

2 ай бұрын

Same*

@robp8218

2 ай бұрын

@@michellebooth327 This is the common response of someone who kind of realises, but won't fully admit they backed the wrong horse: THEERE ALLL THE SAAAME. lazy thinking 😏

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts

11 күн бұрын

A lot of places already feel like they are. Just that now we have cocktails of drugs to add to the misery. Although such choice Victorian careers as mudlark,'pure' collectors (dog mess, for the tanning trade) tanners(who rub 'pure' into hides),bone grubbers&sewer hunters have not yet made a comeback!

+++###I hope/pray that every African nation and people of African-descent file lawsuits for reparations from the Royal families, and Western nations including the USA🇺🇸 every day to the coming again of JESUS CHRIST🙏.And thank JESUS CHRIST FOR MAKING AFRICA GREAT AGAIN(MAGA).###++

@michellebooth327

2 ай бұрын

🤣 clueless.

@jackr1779

2 ай бұрын

Piss off with your reparations & greed.

Ok boomer this isn’t story time

@michellebooth327

2 ай бұрын

Silly child.

@A..Shadow..

24 күн бұрын

Definitely not a boomer. Learn to speak facts before you speak next time princess. 👸🏼

@honeyfungus4774

14 күн бұрын

Bugger off, Yank.