Liverpool - Morning In The Streets 002

One of Denis Mitchell's best remembered documentaries, made for the BBC in 1958 and transmitted in early 1959, it depicts working-class life in the back-to-backs of an unnamed northern city. Much of the shooting took place in Liverpool, but areas of Manchester, Salford and Stockport also make an appearance.

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• Salford

[Merseyjuke]

Hard to believe people were living like this in the 50's. In one shot we can see the old HIGSONS Brewery tower ( now Cains Brewery) to the left and the Anglican Cathedral Tower to the right where my Grand Father worked as a crane driver for many years.So obviously shot in South Liverpool.

[SuperLillyjo]

@godienafirenow,you are wrong about the accent sounding more Lancashire. There is obviously a strong Irish intonation to the accent then. I'm of that generation and we spoke with a nice accent ,not like today's gutteral grunt and sloppy sing song accent .

[godieinafirenow]

@Bartoflex This is the "old scouse" accent more Lancashire like than today, my uncle was a child at these times and he says book and cook where as i speaking more modern scouse would pronounce such words "buck and cuck" he in old scouse would say he's (his) where modern scouse would be propper english and i say his, for example; that's his in old scouse would be that's he's and the h is often left out. you can hear some aspects of new scouse in the film.

[Yetti0]

Today most these people would be on welfare and having multiple babies and not working

[vonroon23]

Which alehouse is it at 0.03 ? Which street is it ?

[Bartoflex]

Great video, but why the almost complete absence of Liverpool accents?

[Cresta59]

I used to have a gokart, mine was posh though, painted corporation silver !! - I can still remember my gran going to the bagwash once a week in the mid 60's !!