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just watch this, it just wouldnt be allowed to happen now adays would it,

Never seen it Hayley.

What's it about? xx

Such a sad film.

Muffy, it's about a single mum in the 1960s, much different to these days. (If I'm thinking of the right film)

Its set in the early 60's young couple both working get married and set up home together, she gets pregnant and he has an accident in work, so they loose their home and move in with his mother, that doesnt go well so they move in to lodgings she has another baby and her landlady dies they get evicted and it just from bad to worse from then in. it was to show the bad housing crisis in Britain at the time, at the end ofthe film it says that 500,000 house were bulit in Germany after the war and just 10,000 in the UK, her OH leaves her and she ends up losing her children really sad.

Blimey !!! Sounds lke a real tissue grabber :0(

In one scene they are living in a caravan site in a caravan and they seem really happy, howver the council wants to move them on and the site is attacked and vanalised one caravan is set a lite with children sleeping in it and they burnt to dealth, no one was charged just they shouldnt of been their it was the parents fault, all the way through the film its like theyare running becasue they keep making refereances to they wont find us here,

I remember it caused a massive reaction when it was broadcast. There was an awful lot of denials in the press that it could happen in the way it was portrayed.

It does still happen to a degree but social housing is supposed to scoop up families with young children. I saw a programme about a family being evicted as they were in serious arrears with their mortgage. They were given exactly one hour to get as many possession out of the house as they could. The distress on the childrens' faces was so upsetting.

Sue x

They also move from there to a house which is boarded up, he paid a bloke in the pub £10.00 as a deposit for that place and by then she had another tiny baby, she was quiet to make a home there till they were evicted from there as well.

I remember it when it came out. It caused quite a shock and was full of unremitting misery. Just the film for a wet Bank holiday!......BC XX

As a last resort the family were seprated and he has to find lodgings and she goes to live in a sort of mother and baby unit, to start with he visits her often and gives her £6.00 aweek ( he earns £11.00) as she has to pay for her keep in the unit, he visits less and less then stops so does the money and she is unable to to pay, the last scene is of her sat on a train station platform and with no where to go, they just come take her children and leave her there.

I remember seeing the film / play when I was a youngster , it frightened me .

I've just been reading up about it on Wikipedia.......apparently a lot of good did come from it ( after all it was very powerful stuff ).......the organisation " Shelter " became a national organisation not long after it was first screened .

The man who wrote it also wrote " Edna , the Inebriate Woman " ( which was another powerful play back in the early 70s . His wife penned " Up the Junction " , so the pair of them must have been very interested in social change.........hats off to them .

Up the junction another powerful drama the Ken Louch ??? I think also directed them and Kes.

I remember this well Hayley.It part of the popular Wednesday play series in 1966
Very emotional and highlighted Shelter which had been started earlier,it's sad to think the charity is still needed today! and sadly there are families even now who are being evicted due to mortgages not being met. Although I would hope they will be rehoused.

~~~~~to BC how's yer poorly feet me dear? XX

There was also another one called Walter.It was about a man who had mental health issues and lived with his mother.His mother died in bed and Walter let all his pigeons fly around the house.He was eventually put into a instituion and was treated very bad. Annie

whats up with yer feet BC....



You see back in the day we had powerful dramas to watch what do we get now Jeremy flipping Kyle.

You're so right Hayley,who watches that rubbish anyway?

There were very good social dramas in the sixties and seventies.

Annie was that play called 'Who's a good boy then' with Thora Hird as the mother?

Was it Edna who said "I'm not the Vagrant" Emma

It was indeed Emma .......if she had a few pennies in her pocket she " was not the vagrant ".......it became a bit of a "catch phrase " in my family ......lol

Ditto was with mine too. Great actress so many wonderful
memories from then, good entetainment. Emma

Did she do the " eggs is 'appiness" advert that used to be on telly years ago ? or was that someone else ?

It was good and stimulating entertainment back then .