Cathy Come Home

0:00:02 > 0:00:05# Is this the train I'm on?

0:00:05 > 0:00:10# Do you know that I am gone?

0:00:10 > 0:00:16# You can hear the whistle blow

0:00:16 > 0:00:21# 500 miles

0:00:21 > 0:00:24# 500 miles

0:00:24 > 0:00:26# 500 miles

0:00:26 > 0:00:29# 500 miles

0:00:29 > 0:00:32# 500 miles

0:00:34 > 0:00:37# 500 miles

0:00:37 > 0:00:39# 500 miles

0:00:39 > 0:00:41# 500 miles

0:00:41 > 0:00:44# 500 miles

0:00:44 > 0:00:48# You can hear the whistle blow

0:00:48 > 0:00:51# 500 miles... #

0:00:54 > 0:00:55Well, I was a bit fed up, you know?

0:00:55 > 0:00:57There didn't seem to be much there for me.

0:00:57 > 0:01:01You know how these little towns are - one coffee bar.

0:01:01 > 0:01:02It was closed on a Sunday.

0:01:02 > 0:01:04Didn't even tell 'em I was going.

0:01:04 > 0:01:06I sent 'em a card when I got down there.

0:01:08 > 0:01:11That house over there - yeah, that one with the broken steps.

0:01:11 > 0:01:13That's where I went for a room,

0:01:13 > 0:01:17and the fella kept touching me. Where did I get a room, in the end?

0:01:18 > 0:01:22Oh, yeah, down there - Mantua Street, £3 a week.

0:01:22 > 0:01:26That's where I got my first job - petrol-pump girl. Mad.

0:01:26 > 0:01:29They were going along in hearses to this "unusual supper party",

0:01:29 > 0:01:33and the bloke who was going in, the chandelier falls down on him, y'see,

0:01:33 > 0:01:35and he gets strangled with all these diamonds.

0:01:35 > 0:01:38Then this big woman, who'd grown to about 40ft high...

0:01:38 > 0:01:41- That was through the radioactive dust, was it?- Oh, yeah.- Ah.

0:01:41 > 0:01:43She sticks her hand through this window

0:01:43 > 0:01:46and she gets hold of this little piece he's been doing it with -

0:01:46 > 0:01:49- they've been jitterbugging away... - It was an old film?- Quite old.

0:01:49 > 0:01:52But unbeknownst to this big 40ft girl, y'see,

0:01:52 > 0:01:54there's been a bit of swapping around,

0:01:54 > 0:01:56and it's not her husband at all any more.

0:01:56 > 0:01:59As the bloke's jumping her, his mask slips. It slips right down.

0:01:59 > 0:02:02- Who d'you think it was? - The Duke of Edinburgh(?)

0:02:02 > 0:02:07# If the sky that we look upon

0:02:07 > 0:02:10# Should tumble and fall

0:02:10 > 0:02:12# Or the mountain

0:02:12 > 0:02:16# Should crumble to the sea

0:02:18 > 0:02:22# I won't cry, I won't cry

0:02:22 > 0:02:26# No, I won't shed a tear

0:02:26 > 0:02:29# Just as long

0:02:29 > 0:02:33# As you stand, stand by me

0:02:33 > 0:02:38# And, darling, darling, stand by me

0:02:38 > 0:02:43# Oh, stand by me

0:02:43 > 0:02:46# Whoa, stand now

0:02:46 > 0:02:48# Stand by me... #

0:02:48 > 0:02:50We'll have a motor. An E-Type, eh?

0:02:50 > 0:02:53- Well, help me down, then! - How about an E-Type, eh, Cath?

0:02:53 > 0:02:55- An E-Type?!- Yeah!

0:02:55 > 0:02:58- Reg, they're expensive! - No, we'll have an E-Type.

0:02:58 > 0:03:00I mean, why not, the money I'm earning.

0:03:00 > 0:03:02Then what d'you think we'll do? Eh?

0:03:02 > 0:03:04I don't know. Shunt it, I suppose.

0:03:04 > 0:03:07"Shunt it"? What are you talking about? I'm an A1 driver, I am.

0:03:07 > 0:03:09No, we'll take the brakes out.

0:03:09 > 0:03:11That's what we'll do. We'll take the brakes out.

0:03:11 > 0:03:13Take the brakes out?!

0:03:13 > 0:03:16Yeah! This bloke, he was telling me. He's a fitter down at the Lotus.

0:03:16 > 0:03:18He says you just don't need brakes.

0:03:18 > 0:03:20Drive it on the gears. The gears'll stop you.

0:03:20 > 0:03:23Brakes spoil a good drive, don't they? They spoil a good engine.

0:03:23 > 0:03:25No brakes, you're not tempted to use 'em.

0:03:25 > 0:03:28Well, I feel as if I've got a few drinks inside me.

0:03:28 > 0:03:32When you've had two or three drinks, you don't see nobody, you don't...

0:03:32 > 0:03:33D'you wanna sit down?

0:03:33 > 0:03:35- What, you mean you're a bit drunk? - No!

0:03:35 > 0:03:39I just don't notice anybody else when I'm out with you, that's all.

0:03:39 > 0:03:40Oh.

0:03:42 > 0:03:43Is that nice?

0:03:43 > 0:03:45- Mm.- How do you feel?

0:03:45 > 0:03:49- I'm not telling you. - Oh, go on, I told you.- No!

0:03:49 > 0:03:52- Well, you can tell me! - I'd feel embarrassed.

0:03:52 > 0:03:56There's only me here. And that old fella who's asleep.

0:03:56 > 0:03:58That's a horrible thing to say.

0:03:58 > 0:04:00- Let's go and have a drink. - I never knew you swore.

0:04:00 > 0:04:03That's not swearing. It just came out, that's all.

0:04:03 > 0:04:05Nice boys don't say things like that.

0:04:05 > 0:04:07- Well, I was upset. - Get your hand off me.

0:04:07 > 0:04:09I was just upset, that's all.

0:04:09 > 0:04:11- I think I'm going home. - No, don't be silly.

0:04:15 > 0:04:17Let's go and have a drink.

0:04:17 > 0:04:20I put my best suit on to come out with you tonight.

0:04:20 > 0:04:22I'm sorry, I can't help it.

0:04:22 > 0:04:24The least you could've done was...

0:04:24 > 0:04:27# Do you love me? Do you love me?

0:04:27 > 0:04:29# Well, do you love me? Do you love me?

0:04:29 > 0:04:33# Yes, do you love me? Do you love me? #

0:04:33 > 0:04:36That's the advantage of working for a small firm like this.

0:04:36 > 0:04:38They just ain't particular, y'know?

0:04:38 > 0:04:41They don't worry about the hours or whether you get your stamps,

0:04:41 > 0:04:43flog yourself to death or take it easy. They don't care.

0:04:43 > 0:04:47Same about lifts. If you give a bird a lift, they just ain't particular.

0:04:47 > 0:04:49- I've ruined my stockings. - I'll get you a new pair.

0:04:49 > 0:04:50Same with birds - just don't care.

0:04:50 > 0:04:53- It's not the first time you've given a lift to a bird?- Don't be silly.

0:04:53 > 0:04:56- Reg, whose is this place? - The firm I work for.

0:04:56 > 0:04:58- Is it safe?- Course it is!

0:04:58 > 0:05:00I bet you've brought other birds up here.

0:05:00 > 0:05:02Look! You can see a bit already.

0:05:02 > 0:05:04You can see half the town from here, nearly.

0:05:04 > 0:05:06No, Reg, I don't like it. It's shaky.

0:05:06 > 0:05:09- Ah, come on! Get your sea legs. - No, I'm scared.- Come on!

0:05:09 > 0:05:11- No, I'm not coming. - Come on, come on!

0:05:11 > 0:05:12- Oh...- Come on. C'mon.

0:05:12 > 0:05:14Whoa!

0:05:15 > 0:05:17- Trust you!- Come on, up you get.

0:05:17 > 0:05:19Careful. Come on.

0:05:20 > 0:05:23There.

0:05:23 > 0:05:26Trust you to bring me up to a rotten old place like this.

0:05:26 > 0:05:28- How are we gonna get down? - Don't worry.

0:05:28 > 0:05:30Live in the present, eh, Cath?

0:05:30 > 0:05:33It IS rotten, innit? This whole place is gonna come down soon.

0:05:36 > 0:05:39- I was scared, Reg. - Now don't be silly.

0:05:39 > 0:05:41No, I was, really.

0:05:41 > 0:05:43I haven't got much courage.

0:05:43 > 0:05:45I reckon it's just us now, innit?

0:05:45 > 0:05:48Just us. Just you and me, eh?

0:05:48 > 0:05:51I wouldn't mind.

0:05:51 > 0:05:54Have some babies, Cath?

0:05:54 > 0:05:55I'd like that, Reg.

0:05:55 > 0:05:57- Sod to all the rest.- Yeah.

0:06:00 > 0:06:04Along comes this sanitary man, what they calls a health doodah, y'see?

0:06:04 > 0:06:05You all right, darlin'?

0:06:05 > 0:06:08You don't look at all well! Anyway....

0:06:08 > 0:06:09She's terrible!

0:06:10 > 0:06:15He perceives that these beetles are nesting in this clapped-out tree

0:06:15 > 0:06:16at the back of May's caff.

0:06:16 > 0:06:18So he sprays all this disinfectant into the tree.

0:06:18 > 0:06:22Some of it gets into May's dinner and kills two of the customers off.

0:06:22 > 0:06:25- Well, someone's got to eat!- What about Coming To The End Of Love?

0:06:25 > 0:06:27How does that one go?

0:06:27 > 0:06:29Coming to the end of love...

0:06:29 > 0:06:32I wrote that an' all. Never got no credit for that neither.

0:06:32 > 0:06:34When you lived in the country, did you like living there?

0:06:34 > 0:06:36Ooh, no, it was horrible.

0:06:36 > 0:06:37There was nothing there for me.

0:06:37 > 0:06:40- Ahhh!- Now what's the matter?

0:06:42 > 0:06:44I'm one of them little beetles down her back!

0:06:44 > 0:06:46..and a slight history of incontinence.

0:06:46 > 0:06:49Oh, yes, there's that.

0:06:49 > 0:06:50Rambling in his mind at all?

0:06:50 > 0:06:53Finding it difficult to remember the odd little thing?

0:06:53 > 0:06:57- A little, aren't you, Granddad? - I don't know. I never been...

0:06:57 > 0:06:58No. No, thank you.

0:06:58 > 0:07:01And has to be helped with dressing?

0:07:01 > 0:07:04Yes, well, I certainly think you've got a case

0:07:04 > 0:07:07for having your father taken into care.

0:07:07 > 0:07:09What do you feel about it, Granddad?

0:07:09 > 0:07:11If you ask me, I'm not in agreement.

0:07:11 > 0:07:13Besides, there's the fact we need the space.

0:07:13 > 0:07:15There's the two boys, see?

0:07:15 > 0:07:18They're coming back out the Army, so we can't keep him.

0:07:18 > 0:07:20And the council say it's overcrowding.

0:07:20 > 0:07:22Yes. Yes, of course.

0:07:22 > 0:07:25And the incontinence is getting pretty bad.

0:07:25 > 0:07:30Well, Granddad, you'll be in one of our larger homes.

0:07:30 > 0:07:33Rivermead? I expect you've noticed it by the Town Hall.

0:07:33 > 0:07:36It's, erm, it's especially suitable for you,

0:07:36 > 0:07:39because they have all kinds of facilities on offer

0:07:39 > 0:07:41that you mightn't get in a smaller place.

0:07:41 > 0:07:45And, as well as that, there's always plenty to do.

0:07:45 > 0:07:48You'll find there's plenty to keep the time passing,

0:07:48 > 0:07:52what with dances and hobby clubs of various kinds.

0:07:52 > 0:07:53And there is help available

0:07:53 > 0:07:56for the things that might be getting a little complicated,

0:07:56 > 0:07:59like dressing and attention to your feet.

0:07:59 > 0:08:02Come 'ere!

0:08:02 > 0:08:04- Cathy... Come on, Cathy!- NO!

0:08:04 > 0:08:06- Cathy! Cath!- Please, Reg!

0:08:13 > 0:08:15Now get out of there!

0:08:18 > 0:08:21I just wanna talk to you, Cath.

0:08:21 > 0:08:24- Hey, Reg, that's good, isn't it? What is it?- It's double windows.

0:08:24 > 0:08:27Keeps all the sounds of the traffic out.

0:08:27 > 0:08:29- And it keeps heat in, as well.- Oh.

0:08:29 > 0:08:30- Y'know, I was thinking.- Hm?

0:08:30 > 0:08:33- You know that table we saw in the shop?- Yeah.

0:08:33 > 0:08:35- Don't you think it'd look good over there?- Yeah.

0:08:35 > 0:08:38I could get one of those rubber plants to put on it.

0:08:38 > 0:08:42Oh, yeah. Cath, where d'you think we ought to have the telly?

0:08:42 > 0:08:43The telly. I don't know, really.

0:08:43 > 0:08:46There. I reckon that's a nice little picture, Cath.

0:08:46 > 0:08:50Do you think we're overstepping it a bit, taking on this place?

0:08:50 > 0:08:53Oh, I dunno. It's a bit late now we've got it, innit?

0:08:53 > 0:08:56But there's no point taking on a posh place if we can't afford it.

0:08:56 > 0:08:58Well, course we can!

0:08:58 > 0:09:01I mean, I'm earning £25 a week, and then there's you.

0:09:01 > 0:09:04What is it, £6 a week plus tips?

0:09:04 > 0:09:06- Mm.- That's £34, £35 a week.

0:09:06 > 0:09:09- Bloody millionaires, ain't we? - Are we worth 35 a week?

0:09:09 > 0:09:12Funny - a place like that even smells different.

0:09:12 > 0:09:14Must be the central heating.

0:09:14 > 0:09:17Felt different, too, in your bones.

0:09:17 > 0:09:19Oh, what a place!

0:09:19 > 0:09:25Parquet flooring, tin openers fixed to the wall, double glazing.

0:09:25 > 0:09:28And the neighbours - talk about stylish!

0:09:28 > 0:09:31All right, now, we're going to try something

0:09:31 > 0:09:35which sounds a little complicated but isn't really.

0:09:35 > 0:09:38Now, can you put your arms at the side of you?

0:09:38 > 0:09:40Just down by the side of your body. Completely relaxed.

0:09:40 > 0:09:44Now, when you contract a leg, your toe turns up,

0:09:44 > 0:09:47you make a sort of square, heel...

0:09:47 > 0:09:50- It came as quite a surprise when I found out.- ..Let it down.

0:09:50 > 0:09:53I was sick all the time, and it never occurred to me why.

0:09:53 > 0:09:56So the doctor, he said, "Can it be that you're pregnant?"

0:09:56 > 0:09:58And then I realised.

0:09:58 > 0:10:02- Now the other leg.- I got to dreaming then about what it would be like.

0:10:02 > 0:10:05Now, this is a diagram to show what's happening

0:10:05 > 0:10:09right at the beginning, before labour really starts.

0:10:09 > 0:10:12You can see that the baby is surrounded by fluid,

0:10:12 > 0:10:17and it's quite intact, hasn't broken it at all.

0:10:17 > 0:10:19And this is the neck of the uterus here,

0:10:19 > 0:10:21or the cervix, as we call it.

0:10:21 > 0:10:23Me and my husband are looking for a house to buy,

0:10:23 > 0:10:25I wondered if you could help us.

0:10:25 > 0:10:27We have a number of properties in the lower price ranges,

0:10:27 > 0:10:32- that's £3,500 to £5,000, if that's what you're interested in...- Mm.

0:10:32 > 0:10:35On which we could probably arrange a 90% mortgage,

0:10:35 > 0:10:36other things being equal.

0:10:36 > 0:10:39May I ask how big your deposit would be?

0:10:39 > 0:10:42I'm off work now, so we haven't got quite so much at the moment,

0:10:42 > 0:10:46but I reckon we could manage about £100.

0:10:46 > 0:10:49£100 would barely cover the legal costs involved.

0:10:49 > 0:10:53You might be lucky and find a new flat with a deposit of only 400,

0:10:53 > 0:10:54but you'd be very lucky.

0:10:54 > 0:10:59We do have cheaper houses, but they're in such a bad condition

0:10:59 > 0:11:02that a building society would normally require you

0:11:02 > 0:11:04to spend about £700 on improvements.

0:11:04 > 0:11:09They'd withhold a proportion of the loan until the work was complete.

0:11:09 > 0:11:13So, you see, really, the cheapest houses are bought by the people

0:11:13 > 0:11:16- with the money in hand to improve them.- Oh.

0:11:16 > 0:11:19So, really, it was waste of my time coming here.

0:11:19 > 0:11:21ENGINE RATTLES

0:11:21 > 0:11:22BRAKING

0:11:30 > 0:11:31I need compensation!

0:11:31 > 0:11:33I told you about that camshaft knocking through!

0:11:33 > 0:11:37Reg, look, I would compensate you, but I'm skint!

0:11:37 > 0:11:41- I ain't had no insurance on me lorry. - You're making a bomb here!

0:11:41 > 0:11:43I don't want any argument about it.

0:11:43 > 0:11:45Well, it's not argument - I've had an accident,

0:11:45 > 0:11:47I'm injured and I want some compensation.

0:11:47 > 0:11:49But it's not up to me.

0:11:49 > 0:11:51My lorry's gone. I've got nothing to compensate you with.

0:11:51 > 0:11:54How well off do you think we'll be?

0:11:54 > 0:11:57Well, it's not so good, Cath. We won't have so much now.

0:11:57 > 0:11:59Never mind, though - Reg'll fix it.

0:12:02 > 0:12:06Look, Reg, how much will we have?

0:12:06 > 0:12:10Well, you're not earning no more and I'm down to sickness benefit.

0:12:10 > 0:12:12How much is that? Do you know?

0:12:12 > 0:12:14No, but it's not very much.

0:12:14 > 0:12:16How much we got on the HP, then?

0:12:16 > 0:12:18- Nearly £5 a week.- Five?

0:12:18 > 0:12:20Well, there's ten on the flat...

0:12:20 > 0:12:22- Nothing else?- No.

0:12:22 > 0:12:26- Oh, there's the life insurance, as well.- Oh, yeah.

0:12:26 > 0:12:28Still, we got savings, ain't we?

0:12:28 > 0:12:30Yeah. £30.

0:12:37 > 0:12:40I suppose we'd better find somewhere cheaper to live, then.

0:12:40 > 0:12:43I suppose so.

0:12:43 > 0:12:44It doesn't matter, anyway.

0:12:44 > 0:12:47We'd have had to get out of here - they don't allow children.

0:12:47 > 0:12:51- Westminster.- How about sharing? Do you fancy sharing?

0:12:51 > 0:12:54- Sharing with who?- I don't know.

0:12:54 > 0:12:56Get some nice young couple to share with us.

0:12:56 > 0:12:59- Took me a long time to get used to sharing with you.- Thank you(!)

0:12:59 > 0:13:03There's 200,000 more families in the London area than homes to put them.

0:13:03 > 0:13:07And there's 60,000 single persons living without sinks or stoves.

0:13:07 > 0:13:09In seven central London boroughs,

0:13:09 > 0:13:12at least one in ten of all households is overcrowded,

0:13:12 > 0:13:16that is to say, living more than one and a half people per room.

0:13:16 > 0:13:19Oh, hello. Is your room still to let?

0:13:19 > 0:13:22- No. Is it still in that place? - Yes, it is.

0:13:22 > 0:13:27It'll be a week tomorrow since I told them to take it out, because...

0:13:27 > 0:13:30- Pardon?- It'll be a week...- Really?

0:13:30 > 0:13:33On the Thursday last week, I asked them to take it out,

0:13:33 > 0:13:34because I'd got suited.

0:13:34 > 0:13:36A few years back, figures released by the LCC

0:13:36 > 0:13:40revealed families of certain sizes, at the rate of building in force,

0:13:40 > 0:13:42would be 350 years on the housing list

0:13:42 > 0:13:44before they were offered a house.

0:13:44 > 0:13:46Oh, it's a scourge here.

0:13:46 > 0:13:50The present target of 500,000 set by the Government is not high enough.

0:13:50 > 0:13:51Even if it is reached,

0:13:51 > 0:13:54there's still people living in slums ten years from now.

0:13:54 > 0:13:57What's needed is a government that realise this is a crisis

0:13:57 > 0:13:58and treats it as such.

0:13:58 > 0:14:01We can't stay at Mum's. There's no room!

0:14:01 > 0:14:03The council said it was overcrowded.

0:14:04 > 0:14:07They needn't find out, need they? Oh, Mum'll fix it, don't worry.

0:14:07 > 0:14:10You're gonna have better eyes than your dad, aren't you, eh?

0:14:10 > 0:14:14Yeah. He's squinting a bit, though.

0:14:14 > 0:14:16- They all squint.- Oh.

0:14:16 > 0:14:19'Funny how a baby makes a place quite different.

0:14:19 > 0:14:21'And Reggie said so, too.

0:14:21 > 0:14:24'Well, goodbye to freedom.

0:14:24 > 0:14:25'I didn't mind, though.'

0:14:27 > 0:14:30SHOUTING

0:14:30 > 0:14:33This is what you call the island of paradise.

0:14:33 > 0:14:36The kids here, they've seen rats running around the place

0:14:36 > 0:14:37nearly as big as cats.

0:14:43 > 0:14:46DOG BARKS

0:14:48 > 0:14:51And any time the children have accidents, nine out of ten times

0:14:51 > 0:14:55all the mothers come down to see if they can do anything to help you.

0:14:55 > 0:14:57They're so old. They're damned old places.

0:14:57 > 0:14:59They're so old. They want pulling down!

0:14:59 > 0:15:01Still, we've got plenty of company.

0:15:01 > 0:15:05And I think we're reasonable people that we all get on together.

0:15:05 > 0:15:08We have our ups and downs. You can fight over the kids.

0:15:08 > 0:15:11But, erm, apart from that, we're lucky, I suppose.

0:15:11 > 0:15:13Better off than some people.

0:15:13 > 0:15:16I don't like one half of the people in it.

0:15:16 > 0:15:19And what is more, there's none of 'em neighbourly.

0:15:19 > 0:15:23They've always got something to say about you behind your back.

0:15:23 > 0:15:26I had a friend live next door to me.

0:15:26 > 0:15:29She really would have give £1,000, as she used to say,

0:15:29 > 0:15:31to move out of here, but now she's gone -

0:15:31 > 0:15:33she's got a brand-new maisonette -

0:15:33 > 0:15:37she said she'd like to come back if she could bring her flat back here.

0:15:37 > 0:15:39She likes the company, the friends.

0:15:39 > 0:15:42Of course, Reggie's Uncle Matt, he was the adventurous type.

0:15:42 > 0:15:45He spent a lot of time in India.

0:15:45 > 0:15:48He wanted to see foreign parts. He never has.

0:15:48 > 0:15:52Then his Uncle Tom, he was in the Merchant Navy.

0:15:52 > 0:15:55Uncle Jim - well, he was the ne'er-do-well.

0:15:55 > 0:15:58When he got married, I remember Granddad saying,

0:15:58 > 0:15:59"Of course, he's a nice fella,

0:15:59 > 0:16:02"but he'll never be no good to no woman, not never."

0:16:02 > 0:16:05CHILDREN SHOUT

0:16:12 > 0:16:17When I first came here, we never had none of this lot.

0:16:17 > 0:16:19We never had no children in here.

0:16:19 > 0:16:26This was only for a married couple or one on their own. No children.

0:16:26 > 0:16:28You had ladies here then.

0:16:28 > 0:16:30There was rats under the floorboard, I had the council down

0:16:30 > 0:16:33to take the floorboards up and put poison down for the rats.

0:16:33 > 0:16:36They said that definitely rats had been there

0:16:36 > 0:16:39but they'd probably gone somewhere else, to annoy somebody else.

0:16:39 > 0:16:41Reg, we've got a new girl at work.

0:16:41 > 0:16:44- You knew her when you went to school. - Who's that?

0:16:44 > 0:16:47Christine something or other. Rowbotham or something.

0:16:47 > 0:16:50Oh, I know. Er, Jenkins, wasn't it?

0:16:50 > 0:16:52That's it. She's on the bra counter.

0:16:52 > 0:16:54Well suited, I tell you!

0:16:57 > 0:17:01Wasn't it George? You remember George?

0:17:01 > 0:17:04What, George that had the accident?

0:17:04 > 0:17:06Did he have an accident? What was that?

0:17:06 > 0:17:08- Didn't you know? He had his leg off. - Oh, dear.

0:17:08 > 0:17:10- Oh, that's terrible. - Yeah, wasn't it?

0:17:10 > 0:17:13He was very keen on sports, too, I remember.

0:17:13 > 0:17:16He was a lovely little runner, really was.

0:17:16 > 0:17:19Well, he won't be able to run any more, will he?

0:17:19 > 0:17:21Well, I don't think it's funny. Do you?

0:17:21 > 0:17:24I think this is the only tenement block in Islington

0:17:24 > 0:17:27where you can sit in your toilet with you door open

0:17:27 > 0:17:30- and cook breakfast at the same time. - We've only got one bedroom.

0:17:30 > 0:17:32I mean, you've got no married life.

0:17:32 > 0:17:34It's sort of...

0:17:34 > 0:17:37Half your questions and half your rows is over sex,

0:17:37 > 0:17:40because you have to see that they...

0:17:40 > 0:17:42And you're always on nerves with the children.

0:17:42 > 0:17:46I don't think it's fair to a man, or if you're married and that -

0:17:46 > 0:17:48if you have children, you're entitled to another room.

0:17:48 > 0:17:51You can look out your door up the other woman's passage.

0:17:51 > 0:17:53You can't do that in any new flats, can you?

0:17:53 > 0:17:56I gave Reg some of those frozen chips last week.

0:17:56 > 0:17:58He didn't like them very much.

0:17:58 > 0:18:00Frozen chips? Do you know what I think about them things?

0:18:00 > 0:18:03Do you know what Mr Ward used to say? "Most unhealthy."

0:18:03 > 0:18:05We'll go and make one another a cup of tea,

0:18:05 > 0:18:07we sit outside and have a laugh.

0:18:07 > 0:18:11Better to keep yourself to yourself. Then you can't get into no row.

0:18:11 > 0:18:12Cook your dinner now, dear,

0:18:12 > 0:18:15and then I'll cook ours for Eileen and the boys.

0:18:15 > 0:18:18No, I'm gonna put the baby to bed. He's asleep.

0:18:18 > 0:18:20You know it don't work when we all have it together.

0:18:22 > 0:18:24I'll clear up after him this time.

0:18:24 > 0:18:28I do think it's a bit hard the council won't do nothing for you.

0:18:28 > 0:18:31I mean, I've done my bit, I've brought up five children.

0:18:31 > 0:18:34But if we all picked where we live none of us'd live here, would we?

0:18:34 > 0:18:37Stop your fella putting his feet all over the furniture

0:18:37 > 0:18:40and picking up the baby with his filthy hands.

0:18:40 > 0:18:43- He's your son. - But you've taught him dirty habits.

0:18:43 > 0:18:44"Dirty habits"?!

0:18:44 > 0:18:48You don't wash your hands before you touch the baby or his bottle.

0:18:48 > 0:18:49I was only doing it to help.

0:18:49 > 0:18:53And don't put Daz in his bottle, either.

0:18:53 > 0:18:56- And then there's the toilet. - What about the sodding toilet?

0:18:56 > 0:18:59You know what I mean about the toilet. It's disgusting.

0:18:59 > 0:19:02Well, of all the things to bring up!

0:19:02 > 0:19:05You got on my boy's nerves with worry so that he ran off the road.

0:19:05 > 0:19:07It's about time you was going.

0:19:07 > 0:19:10All right, we'll go. You can keep your rotten old flat.

0:19:10 > 0:19:14I can't stand it, anyway. It's driving me round the bloody bend.

0:19:21 > 0:19:23I got you a cup of tea!

0:19:32 > 0:19:34Say "See you after dinner".

0:19:34 > 0:19:37You're not going to throw it, are you? Eh?

0:19:37 > 0:19:39We moved right away from the parts we'd been living in,

0:19:39 > 0:19:44and Reg found quite a good job, too, and we soon fitted in.

0:19:44 > 0:19:46Then Stevie came along,

0:19:46 > 0:19:48and we got quite settled, really.

0:19:48 > 0:19:52These streets, they looked rough, and there were rats.

0:19:52 > 0:19:54But life was quite good here.

0:19:54 > 0:19:58Some of the places were boarded up, with the upstairs windows empty.

0:19:58 > 0:20:01Others were crammed full with people and kiddies.

0:20:01 > 0:20:04Once, I heard sounds coming from one of the boarded-up houses.

0:20:04 > 0:20:08It sounded like, well - a baby crying.

0:20:08 > 0:20:09CHILD SHRIEKS

0:20:09 > 0:20:13I went to a house the other week.

0:20:13 > 0:20:16A woman come out. It's not too good, I tell you.

0:20:16 > 0:20:19And she come out in her knickers and bra.

0:20:19 > 0:20:21That's the sort of people I meet.

0:20:21 > 0:20:24The women used to scrub the pavements every morning

0:20:24 > 0:20:25to keep 'em clean.

0:20:26 > 0:20:30Me sister came to see me last week from Yardley,

0:20:30 > 0:20:33and when she seen the street, she says, "My God, Violet,

0:20:33 > 0:20:36"whatever possessed you to live in a street like this?"

0:20:36 > 0:20:38You knew everybody, and everybody was friendly, y'know?

0:20:38 > 0:20:40You don't know anybody now.

0:20:40 > 0:20:43A different class altogether from what they was.

0:20:43 > 0:20:48You'll meet friends in here, and they're very, very nice friends.

0:20:48 > 0:20:50You could have a laugh and a joke.

0:20:50 > 0:20:54I might have me funny ways, but I'm a kind-hearted old bit of sugar.

0:20:54 > 0:21:00I'm harmless. I'm just an old bag, as has got nobody to turn to.

0:21:00 > 0:21:02Whatever happened to Mr Alley?

0:21:02 > 0:21:05Things have gone far enough with these places.

0:21:05 > 0:21:06Too much pressure, too many people.

0:21:06 > 0:21:08The plaster keeps coming off the wall.

0:21:08 > 0:21:09The plaster? I ain't noticed that.

0:21:09 > 0:21:13- I could pull the chain, half the ceiling comes down on you.- No?!

0:21:13 > 0:21:15It's a bloomin' old system. It wants a new one.

0:21:15 > 0:21:18There's a sizeable queue waiting. one can follow the other.

0:21:18 > 0:21:23I've seen all sorts of changes, from better to worse.

0:21:23 > 0:21:26Everybody had window boxes when I first come up here.

0:21:28 > 0:21:31Now, my dear, once I had a profession.

0:21:31 > 0:21:33Can you guess what it was?

0:21:33 > 0:21:36- Ooh, I don't know. - I was an 'ore, dear.

0:21:36 > 0:21:39Ooh, you weren't, Mrs Alley, I don't believe you.

0:21:39 > 0:21:41An 'ore.

0:21:41 > 0:21:44A long time ago,

0:21:44 > 0:21:46but I was lovely then.

0:21:46 > 0:21:49- I had the fellas wild for me, I did...- Did you?

0:21:49 > 0:21:50..When I was an 'ore.

0:21:50 > 0:21:55Oh, I've got something I want you to do for me.

0:21:55 > 0:21:57- Would you read this letter for me, dear?- Yeah!

0:21:57 > 0:22:02It's one of me old favourites, and me eyes are not so good these days.

0:22:07 > 0:22:09Ooh, Mrs Alley, it's all about sex!

0:22:09 > 0:22:13Fancy you getting me to read your sexy letters for you!

0:22:13 > 0:22:16Well, there's a caff down the road, and they have a striptease.

0:22:16 > 0:22:19Every night there's kids hanging round, waiting to see 'em.

0:22:19 > 0:22:22That's putting ideas in the kids' heads, innit?

0:22:22 > 0:22:23Stephen, what are you doing?

0:22:23 > 0:22:26That's dirt! I told you not to play with the dirt!

0:22:26 > 0:22:29Look at your clean jeans. Now put that down. And you, Sean.

0:22:29 > 0:22:32Look at you. You're filthy.

0:22:32 > 0:22:34Now I was pregnant again.

0:22:34 > 0:22:36Some would say it was wrong to have another kiddie

0:22:36 > 0:22:39when you're overcrowded as it is, but I don't think so.

0:22:39 > 0:22:42I think kiddies are God's gift.

0:22:42 > 0:22:45You don't do right to deprive anyone of the chance of life.

0:22:45 > 0:22:47Love's what's important in a child's life.

0:22:47 > 0:22:51Love is more important to a child than nice surroundings.

0:22:51 > 0:22:54I know, cos I lived in what they call a respectable" home,

0:22:54 > 0:22:56and I didn't have it.

0:22:56 > 0:22:59The attic - we had to sleep in the attic, like. It was quite damp.

0:22:59 > 0:23:03We wallpapered it about three weeks before I had the baby,

0:23:03 > 0:23:07and the far wall, it's starting to come down already.

0:23:07 > 0:23:08HELP!

0:23:08 > 0:23:10- Oh, Mrs Alley, are you all right? - I fell through the bed!

0:23:10 > 0:23:13Oh, thank you, ducks, thank you.

0:23:13 > 0:23:15I'm very grateful to you, ducks.

0:23:15 > 0:23:18Mrs Alley, I can't pull any harder. I'll hurt the baby!

0:23:18 > 0:23:21Aren't I a silly girl?

0:23:21 > 0:23:23Pull me.

0:23:23 > 0:23:26I wets the bed, see?

0:23:26 > 0:23:29I wets the bed, and the springs get rotted.

0:23:29 > 0:23:32You may see one of these pigeons flying across,

0:23:32 > 0:23:35cos I got one coming from Barcelona, and he's very tired.

0:23:35 > 0:23:38There's the pigeon there!

0:23:38 > 0:23:40Come on!

0:23:41 > 0:23:45I'll send that cat up after you! Now come in! Come on!

0:23:46 > 0:23:49Come on! Come on!

0:23:52 > 0:23:54- Bang!- Ssh!

0:23:54 > 0:23:56Sean, be quiet.

0:23:56 > 0:23:58I felt we were honoured, somehow,

0:23:58 > 0:24:00that pigeon coming all the way back to us.

0:24:00 > 0:24:03Mrs Alley, can I have a word with you for a minute?

0:24:04 > 0:24:08Give me a lift up, dear. Oh, thank you.

0:24:08 > 0:24:10- Can you manage?- Thank you.

0:24:10 > 0:24:12Mrs Alley, I was wondering if it'd be all right

0:24:12 > 0:24:14if we owed the rent for a few weeks.

0:24:14 > 0:24:18Only, what with the pigeons, and Reg isn't earning very much now...

0:24:18 > 0:24:20- Owe the rent, ducks?- Mm.

0:24:20 > 0:24:23Course you can owe the rent, but I want to be paid.

0:24:23 > 0:24:26- We will pay you, course we will. - I'll have to be paid.

0:24:26 > 0:24:31You see, as old as I seem, I don't qualify for a pension.

0:24:31 > 0:24:33- Ah!- I look older than I really am.

0:24:33 > 0:24:36The children tries to have a good time

0:24:36 > 0:24:39if people mind their own business and let them have it.

0:24:39 > 0:24:43One's name was Sean and the other one's was Stephen,

0:24:43 > 0:24:47and they lived in a little cottage by the seaside,

0:24:47 > 0:24:49- and every day...- Did they?- Yes!

0:24:49 > 0:24:52Reg! Reg!

0:24:52 > 0:24:55It's Mrs Alley! She's dead!

0:25:01 > 0:25:06The men from the council came along, took away her odd bits and pieces.

0:25:06 > 0:25:08They looked through the letters

0:25:08 > 0:25:10for notes of any relatives she might have,

0:25:10 > 0:25:12but she hadn't got none.

0:25:12 > 0:25:15Only letters from her old clients, that's all.

0:25:15 > 0:25:18So there was no-one to pay the death grant to.

0:25:26 > 0:25:29Oh! Yes?

0:25:29 > 0:25:32I'm representing a nephew of the deceased, Mrs Alley,

0:25:32 > 0:25:33what died last week,

0:25:33 > 0:25:36and the fact is my client now needs the unpaid rent

0:25:36 > 0:25:38for the current week and the back period,

0:25:38 > 0:25:41during which he gathers from the rent book you was in arrears.

0:25:41 > 0:25:43- In arrears? You sure?- Yeah.

0:25:43 > 0:25:46- Well, I didn't know Mrs Alley had any relatives.- Well, she does.

0:25:46 > 0:25:48I'm sorry, but I can't oblige at the moment.

0:25:48 > 0:25:52You see, Mrs Alley said we could owe the rent for a few weeks

0:25:52 > 0:25:54because my Reg has been ill.

0:25:54 > 0:25:57- Now he's better we'll pay you, course we will.- Yes...

0:25:57 > 0:25:59But just give us a few weeks, that's all.

0:25:59 > 0:26:02And I'll even go out to work, as well.

0:26:02 > 0:26:06What Mrs Alley said and what my client wants are completely different.

0:26:06 > 0:26:08So you'd better find some way to pay up. OK?

0:26:08 > 0:26:10You couldn't talk to him.

0:26:10 > 0:26:12It was like it was hopeless trying to talk to him.

0:26:12 > 0:26:16What, three months in arrears? Well, I'll knock his block in!

0:26:16 > 0:26:19I mean, who does he think he's talking to?

0:26:19 > 0:26:22- How long is it since he's been round here?- Well, it's four weeks.

0:26:22 > 0:26:26What, four weeks? He says here we owe him three months!

0:26:26 > 0:26:28I mean, well, who are we supposed to pay this rent to?

0:26:28 > 0:26:31He never comes round. How does he expect to collect it?

0:26:31 > 0:26:33Have another look at the letter.

0:26:33 > 0:26:35Well, it says here he's gonna kick us out.

0:26:35 > 0:26:37They can't evict you these days.

0:26:37 > 0:26:40I thought they passed a law about it. It's nonsense.

0:26:40 > 0:26:42Well, he says here he can.

0:26:42 > 0:26:47Look, I've told you once we'll pay you if only you'll give us time.

0:26:47 > 0:26:48I know your game.

0:26:48 > 0:26:51You wanna get us out so you can charge someone else key money.

0:26:51 > 0:26:54My client needs this place for himself and his relatives,

0:26:54 > 0:26:56so you'd better get out.

0:26:56 > 0:26:58You may have heard eviction isn't legal these days,

0:26:58 > 0:27:01but with a relative what wants an 'ouse, you can still be evicted.

0:27:01 > 0:27:05- Are you sure about that?- And we'll get a court order to prove it.

0:27:05 > 0:27:06But we're protected tenants!

0:27:06 > 0:27:10I've been here every week now for a month. You've had time to pay up.

0:27:10 > 0:27:13The defendant not only persistently refused to pay his rent,

0:27:13 > 0:27:16but the landlord will be forced to put the premises right

0:27:16 > 0:27:18at the cost of some several hundred pounds to himself.

0:27:18 > 0:27:20What have you got to say?

0:27:20 > 0:27:22Well, I say it's all a pack of lies.

0:27:22 > 0:27:24I mean, listen, now, for the first thing,

0:27:24 > 0:27:28Mrs Alley said we didn't have to pay any rent cos I wasn't working.

0:27:28 > 0:27:31And then this bloke comes round and says he wants the rent.

0:27:31 > 0:27:33When I goes round with the rent, he won't accept it.

0:27:33 > 0:27:38I'm not satisfied in this case that the defendant is telling the truth.

0:27:38 > 0:27:41In addition, he appears to have "mislaid" the rent book

0:27:41 > 0:27:44given to him by Mrs Alley.

0:27:44 > 0:27:45I take the case as proved.

0:27:45 > 0:27:48We'll grant an eviction order dated four weeks from now.

0:27:48 > 0:27:51So we tried. We wrote letters, we wrote after places.

0:27:51 > 0:27:53Never got no answer.

0:27:53 > 0:27:56The next answer we got was "No children."

0:27:56 > 0:27:58"No children accepted."

0:27:58 > 0:28:02I went to an agent, and he said yes, they'd guarantee to find us a place,

0:28:02 > 0:28:05providing we gave them twenty per cent of a year's rent

0:28:05 > 0:28:10and ten per cent of fixtures and fittings, which I thought was unjust.

0:28:10 > 0:28:13And I wrote letters and the rent was too high.

0:28:13 > 0:28:14Oh, there was one place we did go to

0:28:14 > 0:28:17and I thought we were gonna have a chance.

0:28:17 > 0:28:21They said £6, and the next thing we heard, someone had offered 'em eight,

0:28:21 > 0:28:23so that put the cap on that.

0:28:23 > 0:28:26Then other letters we got - "£10 a week".

0:28:26 > 0:28:29Because Reg couldn't afford it, not on his wages,

0:28:29 > 0:28:32it meant that all the week we'd be living on next to nothing.

0:28:32 > 0:28:36In Birmingham, there are 39,000 families on the waiting list.

0:28:36 > 0:28:38Leeds, 13,500.

0:28:38 > 0:28:40Liverpool, 19,000.

0:28:40 > 0:28:42Manchester, nearly 15,000.

0:28:44 > 0:28:46It wasn't long before I realised something -

0:28:46 > 0:28:48we'd been lucky to get the old place.

0:28:48 > 0:28:51There didn't seem to be anything for us any more.

0:28:51 > 0:28:54In Liverpool, one household in nine is on the waiting list.

0:28:54 > 0:28:56In Manchester, it's one in 14.

0:28:56 > 0:29:00In Birmingham, there are 4,000 overcrowded houses,

0:29:00 > 0:29:0112 people to a house.

0:29:01 > 0:29:02Is that yours?

0:29:02 > 0:29:04Well, yes, there's just us and my husband.

0:29:04 > 0:29:06Sorry, love, no children accepted.

0:29:06 > 0:29:09If I had a couple of elephants, they might have said,

0:29:09 > 0:29:11"You can leave 'em outside in the yard."

0:29:11 > 0:29:15But children, they'd say, "Sorry, we can't have nothing like that."

0:29:15 > 0:29:17It was as if it was a crime to have children.

0:29:17 > 0:29:19A million families are without homes of their own.

0:29:19 > 0:29:22You may have a teenaged brother and sister

0:29:22 > 0:29:23who have to share the same bed,

0:29:23 > 0:29:26or maybe a crippled person on the top floor as can never go out.

0:29:26 > 0:29:29Perhaps they're sharing with relatives.

0:29:29 > 0:29:33Or maybe, like yourselves, they've had an order of eviction.

0:29:33 > 0:29:38To house these 8,000 units, we have 500 new dwellings every year.

0:29:40 > 0:29:44Now, people's needs are assessed on points. One point for health risk,

0:29:44 > 0:29:46one for every year they've lived in the borough,

0:29:46 > 0:29:48and one if they haven't got a bath.

0:29:48 > 0:29:51And you just haven't got enough points to qualify.

0:29:51 > 0:29:55But...in view of the gravity of the situation I will investigate

0:29:55 > 0:29:58and see if it isn't possible to jump you up the queue a bit.

0:29:58 > 0:30:01- Thank you.- And also, in view of the situation,

0:30:01 > 0:30:04I'll try and get you a place on the Smithsonian estate, which is near completion.

0:30:04 > 0:30:07We had a little girl next. We called her Marlene.

0:30:07 > 0:30:10It was Reg's choice, not mine.

0:30:10 > 0:30:13She weighed 8lb5 at birth. Quite a little heavyweight.

0:30:13 > 0:30:16One day we had a visit from the man from the council.

0:30:16 > 0:30:17- Mr Ward?- Yeah.

0:30:17 > 0:30:21- Good morning. I'm from the Public Health department.- Oh, yeah.

0:30:21 > 0:30:26I understand that you're living in one room because the room upstairs is too damp for the kiddies to sleep in.

0:30:26 > 0:30:27- Is that right?- Yeah.

0:30:27 > 0:30:31Well, I'm sorry but I'm afraid we shall have to move you out.

0:30:31 > 0:30:33- We're gonna be evicted anyway. - Are you?

0:30:33 > 0:30:35- When's that then?- Next Tuesday.

0:30:35 > 0:30:38Well, that saves me a bit of trouble.

0:30:38 > 0:30:40In any case, it saves me having to do something

0:30:40 > 0:30:42that I don't really believe in.

0:30:42 > 0:30:44Good day to you.

0:30:44 > 0:30:46Oh, faceless man. Why doesn't he do something about it

0:30:46 > 0:30:49instead of doing things he doesn't believe in?

0:30:49 > 0:30:52Like a mad house. They pulled the washing down from the line,

0:30:52 > 0:30:57the lights pulled out from their sockets, we even had windows taken from their frames.

0:30:57 > 0:31:00Someone turned the water off and the electricity wires got pulled out.

0:31:00 > 0:31:03There is another side - our side.

0:31:03 > 0:31:06I'm speaking, by the way, with authority.

0:31:06 > 0:31:08CRASH! ..responsible for the property in question.

0:31:08 > 0:31:12I know it's common for the police to be brought in for an eviction.

0:31:12 > 0:31:16There's nothing unusual about that. But it does get people's backs up.

0:31:16 > 0:31:19It's bad publicity for the company that owns the place,

0:31:19 > 0:31:25particularly when it is a reputable body of churchmen who, through the application of good business methods,

0:31:25 > 0:31:28have landed themselves in the unfortunate position

0:31:28 > 0:31:30of seeming to do an injustice.

0:31:41 > 0:31:44- Come on, then.- That's it then, Cath.

0:31:44 > 0:31:47Come on Stephen. Up you come.

0:31:47 > 0:31:49That's it. Good lad.

0:31:51 > 0:31:54It's all right, it's all right.

0:31:54 > 0:31:55All right, Cath?

0:32:09 > 0:32:12Hey, mister, could I have a word with you?

0:32:12 > 0:32:15- You want me to store your furniture for a pound a week?- Go away!

0:32:29 > 0:32:31Now, move out of the way, will you?

0:32:31 > 0:32:34- Leave the kid alone! - Now, look, I'm only doing my job.

0:32:34 > 0:32:37Come on, don't be silly. Come on over here. Calm down.

0:32:37 > 0:32:42He only wanted his toys. Not asking TOO much, is it?

0:32:42 > 0:32:43It's not too much to expect, surely?

0:32:43 > 0:32:46I mean, we still own the property, don't we?

0:32:46 > 0:32:48Be careful with that chair!

0:32:50 > 0:32:52- What?- How much longer?

0:32:52 > 0:32:54Don't worry. It's only about five minutes.

0:32:54 > 0:32:57- Is it?- It's just down there. - I'm getting tired, Reg.

0:32:57 > 0:33:01- We're nearly there.- My legs.- Hang on. Do you want to swap over?- Yeah.

0:33:01 > 0:33:03Here, have the pram. Stay here, Sean.

0:33:03 > 0:33:06I told you not to buy them ice creams. Look at the state they're in.

0:33:06 > 0:33:09I know. There you are.

0:33:10 > 0:33:13They're gonna get this road done up, they told me.

0:33:13 > 0:33:16In a couple of months. It gets very bad in the winter.

0:33:16 > 0:33:18It's not very nice, is it, Reg?

0:33:18 > 0:33:20- Why are all these cars here? - It's a sort of dump.

0:33:20 > 0:33:23The council are trying to do something about that as well.

0:33:23 > 0:33:27I wouldn't go back to a house. I never look at housing adverts now.

0:33:27 > 0:33:29I never look in house agents' windows.

0:33:29 > 0:33:32We tried councils, we tried welfare.

0:33:32 > 0:33:36We even tried to get tied cottages.

0:33:36 > 0:33:39And it just fell through.

0:33:39 > 0:33:41A caravan was the last resort.

0:33:41 > 0:33:43And I hate it.

0:33:44 > 0:33:48- Er...up that way. - Well, which one is it then?

0:33:48 > 0:33:50- That one over there. That way. - Which one?

0:33:50 > 0:33:54That one, there. That's it. Well, we're here then.

0:33:54 > 0:33:58..Used to go to big fairs and sell horses and buy horses.

0:33:58 > 0:34:01That was mostly the live-ins. I'd love to go back on the roads.

0:34:01 > 0:34:04If we pull in, side of the road, like we used to years ago,

0:34:04 > 0:34:07the police come along, and summons you,

0:34:07 > 0:34:09and you go to court and we don't know where to go to.

0:34:09 > 0:34:13- Are you gonna live here, mister? - Yeah, love.- Mind out, love.

0:34:18 > 0:34:20Now put that down, Sean.

0:34:20 > 0:34:21Leave it alone.

0:34:25 > 0:34:29Well, what do you think of it then, Cath?

0:34:29 > 0:34:32- Could be worse. - Oh, come on love, it's not that bad.

0:34:32 > 0:34:35- Is there any light?- Yeah.

0:34:35 > 0:34:37I'll show you in a minute.

0:34:37 > 0:34:40- Like the wood? - Yeah, it's a bit dirty.

0:34:40 > 0:34:42Sit down there. I'll show you.

0:34:42 > 0:34:46That's it. Now, it's quite easy to operate, Cath.

0:34:46 > 0:34:47It's not so difficult.

0:34:47 > 0:34:50When I'm out of the place you'll be able to do it yourself.

0:34:50 > 0:34:52I'll show you how it works.

0:34:52 > 0:34:54Now, you need a box of matches.

0:34:54 > 0:34:55Er...

0:34:55 > 0:34:59Now... Stick the match through there.

0:35:01 > 0:35:03And...

0:35:03 > 0:35:06- That's it.- It's gone out, Reg.

0:35:06 > 0:35:07Oh...

0:35:07 > 0:35:09It wasn't too bad, really.

0:35:09 > 0:35:12The wind was getting up outside in the marsh.

0:35:12 > 0:35:15It made it feel quite snug inside.

0:35:15 > 0:35:18It felt funny to be in a caravan.

0:35:18 > 0:35:22I'd only been in one once before, and that was on summer holiday.

0:35:22 > 0:35:24It was a relief though, really.

0:35:24 > 0:35:28I think it was because of the tension we'd been living under

0:35:28 > 0:35:29the past few weeks.

0:35:29 > 0:35:31And you got the light, you see?

0:35:31 > 0:35:33It's very efficient. It does the whole room.

0:35:33 > 0:35:37And it's warm as well. Like it?

0:35:37 > 0:35:39BABY CRIES

0:35:39 > 0:35:43- Is she going to sleep? - Yeah, she's tired.- Night-night!

0:35:43 > 0:35:48- Have we got some bacon? We better have that before it goes off, and all.- Come on now.

0:35:48 > 0:35:51- Go to sleep now.- Goodnight!

0:35:51 > 0:35:55Goodnight! ..I don't know how we're going to fit another bed in here, Reg.

0:35:55 > 0:35:57Don't worry, I'll show you.

0:36:00 > 0:36:04- Oh, I see! That's very clever, isn't it?- It's all right, it's all right.

0:36:04 > 0:36:07It's quite comfy, too.

0:36:08 > 0:36:10Are you sure we're safe here, Reg?

0:36:10 > 0:36:13I mean, they won't come and get us, will they?

0:36:13 > 0:36:16- They won't move us on.- What, from 'ere? Nah, don't worry about it.

0:36:16 > 0:36:20They won't come and look for us here, not amongst all this lot.

0:36:20 > 0:36:23We may have dropped a peg, but I think we'll be a lot contenter.

0:36:23 > 0:36:28Later the wind got stronger. It began to rock the place around quite a lot.

0:36:30 > 0:36:33I like a van. You get all the air round you in a van.

0:36:33 > 0:36:34You know I'm 86?

0:36:34 > 0:36:37- You're not! You 86?- 86!

0:36:37 > 0:36:41And I don't think a house'd suit me.

0:36:41 > 0:36:43You know, in a house, you can't breathe.

0:36:43 > 0:36:46And I like air. I like fresh air.

0:36:46 > 0:36:49You know, it makes... It's beautiful, fresh air.

0:36:49 > 0:36:53There's no roadway at all. It's just a road of mud

0:36:53 > 0:36:59and scrap heaps all the way up the lane, which we get fires every day of the week burning.

0:36:59 > 0:37:01The caravans are very close together.

0:37:01 > 0:37:06We have to walk a couple of hundred yards to empty a chemical toilet.

0:37:06 > 0:37:09In a house, it's all four walls.

0:37:09 > 0:37:13And we seemed closed in, like a bird penned up in a cage.

0:37:16 > 0:37:19To get the fuel to come down to us, well, it's...

0:37:19 > 0:37:20They just won't come.

0:37:20 > 0:37:24The state of that road, and the mud, and the bumps and that...

0:37:24 > 0:37:28Another thing I can't understand, it's the drivers that stop this.

0:37:28 > 0:37:29The drivers won't come down.

0:37:29 > 0:37:31And yet, they're the same sort of people as us.

0:37:31 > 0:37:36People look at me and say, "Oh, him? He's just a dirty old gypsy."

0:37:36 > 0:37:38But we're not dirty, we're clean.

0:37:38 > 0:37:40And we keep ourselves clean.

0:37:40 > 0:37:44I tell you why. Cos we wash ourselves.

0:37:44 > 0:37:46And we don't need any of them flush baths either.

0:37:46 > 0:37:51Get a bucket of water, and we wash ourselves down, down to the waist.

0:37:51 > 0:37:54Then when that part's done, roll your shirt down, take off your trousers,

0:37:54 > 0:37:58and you wash yourself down and up, up and down, up to the bottom.

0:37:58 > 0:38:00- What, in the open air? - Yeah, of course!

0:38:00 > 0:38:02I'll tell you something else.

0:38:02 > 0:38:04You'll never find no fleas, lice nor louse,

0:38:04 > 0:38:08- cos we know how to thwart them. With the Devil's Dung.- What's that, then?

0:38:08 > 0:38:11Well, Devil's Dung, you get that in the chemist.

0:38:11 > 0:38:14It does have a bit of a stink, I'll grant you that...

0:38:14 > 0:38:16You can always tell a traveller,

0:38:16 > 0:38:18by the way he walks and the way he acts.

0:38:18 > 0:38:23Same as I can tell a policeman. I could really smell a policeman.

0:38:23 > 0:38:28We feel free because we can look at the open fields from our window.

0:38:28 > 0:38:31We have our own front door. We don't have people living all on top of us.

0:38:31 > 0:38:34And yet we can live in a decent, civilised manner.

0:38:34 > 0:38:36Next door, there's a load of rats.

0:38:36 > 0:38:40At night you can hear 'em under our caravan - all squeaks, you know?

0:38:40 > 0:38:41Makes all funny noises.

0:38:43 > 0:38:46I mean, if you end up in a caravan, you've gone as low as you can go.

0:38:46 > 0:38:48You can't go no lower than that

0:38:48 > 0:38:51unless it's on the street or in the halfway houses.

0:38:51 > 0:38:56When Mr Jones came out the Forces, they tried hard to find places.

0:38:56 > 0:38:58But the money they got was no good.

0:38:58 > 0:39:01As the kids came along, it got worse.

0:39:01 > 0:39:05He went down the mines, he went as a driver on the buses,

0:39:05 > 0:39:08but each time, the rent asked was far too much.

0:39:08 > 0:39:09Too much for his wages.

0:39:09 > 0:39:12He tried to get jobs in the Forestry.

0:39:12 > 0:39:14But each time we were turned down.

0:39:14 > 0:39:16Can't get anything really regular.

0:39:16 > 0:39:19He did the Forestry when he was a Prisoner of War.

0:39:19 > 0:39:21Reg got a job picking blackcurrants

0:39:21 > 0:39:23and when the job with the blackcurrants was over

0:39:23 > 0:39:26he got work at the airport on the new runway.

0:39:26 > 0:39:28Then picking gooseberries and loganberries.

0:39:28 > 0:39:30And the kids like life here, too.

0:39:30 > 0:39:34They were for always finding things that fascinated them among the trees.

0:39:34 > 0:39:37I got to like it here as well. I don't know why.

0:39:37 > 0:39:41I know it was squalid but it was easy-going.

0:39:41 > 0:39:43Only sometimes the filth got on my nerves.

0:39:43 > 0:39:46I felt as if we'd sunk, somehow, out of the race.

0:39:46 > 0:39:49Things didn't seem to matter down here no more.

0:39:49 > 0:39:51There was no-one to move us on.

0:39:51 > 0:39:55Reg and me reckoned we might stay here for a while.

0:39:55 > 0:39:57Well, it was a life. We were happy.

0:39:57 > 0:40:00What we are pressing for is the fencing off of the common land

0:40:00 > 0:40:04so that the gypsies and layabouts can no longer get on it.

0:40:04 > 0:40:08Now, it is the traditional camping place of the gypsies, of course.

0:40:08 > 0:40:11No-one is denying that - but these are not real gypsies,

0:40:11 > 0:40:13they're just scroungers, layabouts.

0:40:13 > 0:40:15Bloody vagabonds!

0:40:15 > 0:40:17These are the words that spring to one's mind

0:40:17 > 0:40:19when contemplating these people.

0:40:19 > 0:40:22And, of course, with the new housing development,

0:40:22 > 0:40:24of which we are all part,

0:40:24 > 0:40:28the character of the area must be expected to change.

0:40:28 > 0:40:34We can accept no hindrance from those who wilfully try to keep us in the past.

0:40:34 > 0:40:37There is no longer room for slums on wheels.

0:40:37 > 0:40:38Many of these people are not gypsies.

0:40:38 > 0:40:41They are here because they can't find anywhere else to live.

0:40:41 > 0:40:44Where would the sympathies of the association lie

0:40:44 > 0:40:46in the event of violence?

0:40:46 > 0:40:50I'm afraid our sympathies will be very much with ourselves.

0:40:50 > 0:40:54The council has wasted enough time on these gypsies.

0:40:55 > 0:40:58They give nothing towards the council...

0:40:58 > 0:40:59Right mate, I'll get you!

0:40:59 > 0:41:01Why should we support them?

0:41:01 > 0:41:04Young respectable couples in the borough can't get housing.

0:41:04 > 0:41:07Who would we rather have the money?

0:41:07 > 0:41:10- Cherries, apples...- Fruit picking. - That's right. Hops.

0:41:10 > 0:41:13- Bert and I helped to make that, didn't we?- Yeah.

0:41:13 > 0:41:16D'you want another pint? I'll get it. No, I'll get 'em.

0:41:20 > 0:41:21Potato picking.

0:41:21 > 0:41:24- That's how I met the missus.- No!

0:41:24 > 0:41:26I'd been out potato picking and had a few pints.

0:41:26 > 0:41:30And I had to go into this ditch - and there she was - the future wife.

0:41:30 > 0:41:32- She asleep, was she(?) - Nah, she'd had a few pints, too.

0:41:35 > 0:41:39If you'd got it off someone you know's OK, you can get his name...

0:41:39 > 0:41:42Mum! The caravan's burning!

0:41:44 > 0:41:46Get back! Get back!

0:41:48 > 0:41:52Why were you living there in the first place?

0:41:52 > 0:41:54We was evicted from a council house in Stoke.

0:41:54 > 0:41:56Where were you on the night of the fire?

0:41:56 > 0:41:58We went out to buy some dolls for the kids.

0:41:58 > 0:42:00On the way back we stopped for a quick one.

0:42:00 > 0:42:03Did you and your wife have to be out together?

0:42:03 > 0:42:07Mrs Jones can't drive and I wanted her advice about the dolls.

0:42:07 > 0:42:10There are times when a husband and wife have to go out together,

0:42:10 > 0:42:11and this was one of them.

0:42:11 > 0:42:14And would say, sir, that this was murder.

0:42:14 > 0:42:17It's the kids from the new estate. And the adults?

0:42:17 > 0:42:19Well, they just seem to encourage them.

0:42:19 > 0:42:21You are the health inspector for this region.

0:42:21 > 0:42:26And you have made orders for the demolition of houses 1,000 times better than these caravans.

0:42:26 > 0:42:30The local authority do have sympathy for these people...

0:42:30 > 0:42:32That's my baby in there!

0:42:32 > 0:42:34Somebody go and get it out!

0:42:34 > 0:42:39Pauline Jones, were you asleep in your caravan on the night of April 25th?

0:42:39 > 0:42:43Yes. We was all six in the bed.

0:42:43 > 0:42:47I woke up cos the place was full of smoke.

0:42:47 > 0:42:51- So I grabbed little Gary in me arms and got out.- I see.

0:42:51 > 0:42:55And do you remember what happened then?

0:42:55 > 0:42:57Well, all the others got burned out.

0:43:02 > 0:43:03When they get the ban,

0:43:03 > 0:43:07they're tight over the boundary into the next district.

0:43:07 > 0:43:08They leave it on the side of the road

0:43:08 > 0:43:10and then the police in that district come

0:43:10 > 0:43:13and nick you for being on the side of the road!

0:43:13 > 0:43:16It's because you can't cause obstructions on a public highway.

0:43:16 > 0:43:18Reg was working at the airport.

0:43:18 > 0:43:21Some nights when he got back, he couldn't find us.

0:43:21 > 0:43:25He'd be worried about us. So he got behind in his working.

0:43:25 > 0:43:27We can't go on like this, Cath.

0:43:27 > 0:43:29We're going to have to sell the caravan.

0:43:29 > 0:43:31I mean, there must be somewhere for us.

0:43:31 > 0:43:36Fancy you paying out money before you've even seen the place.

0:43:36 > 0:43:39I didn't know. He said we could have the first-floor front.

0:43:39 > 0:43:42We used to have people living here but now we can't allow it.

0:43:42 > 0:43:44The fact is people tend to deteriorate

0:43:44 > 0:43:46when they're living in a boat.

0:43:46 > 0:43:48'Ere, we used to have 'em.

0:43:48 > 0:43:50But they turned the place into a slum.

0:43:50 > 0:43:53If people want to come here with their pleasure boats

0:43:53 > 0:43:56and take them out occasionally, it's all right by us.

0:43:56 > 0:44:00But living in 'em the whole time, in my opinion, it's not helping anybody. We had to ask them to go.

0:44:00 > 0:44:04But what if they're homeless? Say they've got nowhere else to go?

0:44:04 > 0:44:06Even so, it's not helping them.

0:44:06 > 0:44:08In my opinion, we had to get rid of 'em.

0:44:08 > 0:44:10It's not helping them to help themselves, is it?

0:44:10 > 0:44:14You people let yourselves get so run down, no wonder they won't help you.

0:44:14 > 0:44:17We get run down because we ain't got no house.

0:44:17 > 0:44:20We've got a Welfare State now - you can't come to any real harm.

0:44:20 > 0:44:23Are you an inhabitant of this borough? Are you on the housing list?

0:44:23 > 0:44:25Yeah.

0:44:25 > 0:44:28Whereabouts on the list are you? Surely you must be pretty high?

0:44:28 > 0:44:31They say they'll get us a place on the Smithson estate.

0:44:31 > 0:44:34Come on, mind the fire. Play with the rope properly.

0:44:41 > 0:44:44< I'll tan your arse when I get hold of you!

0:44:44 > 0:44:45CHILD GRIZZLES

0:44:45 > 0:44:50- Hold on. Is she yours? - Yes, she is. We're next door.

0:44:50 > 0:44:54- D'you live here, too?- Yes. Next door.- Next door? How's your place?

0:44:54 > 0:44:59- It's leaking everywhere. - Have you got enough wood?

0:44:59 > 0:45:03I'm going to light up a fire and make her something to eat now.

0:45:03 > 0:45:06She's starving, I suppose. Hasn't had any food all morning.

0:45:09 > 0:45:11There's quite a few, I suppose.

0:45:21 > 0:45:23Can't you come round and give me a hand?

0:45:23 > 0:45:25All right, love. I've got another one here.

0:45:25 > 0:45:27Here you are.

0:45:28 > 0:45:31Got it? Nice and tight. I'll put this one in here.

0:45:31 > 0:45:34- This is bloody ridiculous. - You all right?

0:45:34 > 0:45:37Sean's not very well either.

0:45:37 > 0:45:40I don't know what you think, Reg, but I think we've had it.

0:45:40 > 0:45:44I mean, they turned us out the caravan, didn't they?

0:45:44 > 0:45:46And they turned us out the derelict house.

0:45:46 > 0:45:49They're gonna find us here, I know they will.

0:45:52 > 0:45:54I think we'll have to give up soon.

0:45:54 > 0:45:57Else they'll take the kiddies away, like that man said.

0:45:57 > 0:45:59Don't worry, love, I've got five pound.

0:46:04 > 0:46:08Know what you're going to do tomorrow then, Cath?

0:46:08 > 0:46:10Pity about that place, that maisonette.

0:46:10 > 0:46:13But you know what you're going to do now.

0:46:13 > 0:46:16- You have an aunt in Northumberland? - Yes, I did have.

0:46:16 > 0:46:17But you don't know her address?

0:46:17 > 0:46:20I haven't seen her since I was seven. She might be dead.

0:46:20 > 0:46:24Mrs Ward, have you any friends or other relatives?

0:46:24 > 0:46:26Who might help with accommodation?

0:46:26 > 0:46:28Look, if I had, I wouldn't be here, would I?

0:46:28 > 0:46:32I have to draw your attention to a fact which is not very pleasant.

0:46:32 > 0:46:36But in our emergency accommodation, it's not very nice.

0:46:36 > 0:46:38Some of the people are a little rough.

0:46:38 > 0:46:41Now, are you sure you want to go in?

0:46:41 > 0:46:42Look, I don't want to be cheeky,

0:46:42 > 0:46:45but we've been waiting here for six hours.

0:46:45 > 0:46:48- If I had any choice, do you think I'd have stayed?- All right. Sit down.

0:46:48 > 0:46:50Mr Ward, please.

0:46:54 > 0:46:57If you've got a bit of chocolate, keep him quiet, please, Cath.

0:47:00 > 0:47:03Mr Ward, I'd just like to check one or two facts.

0:47:03 > 0:47:06You and your wife lived at your mother's house

0:47:06 > 0:47:08up to what date, exactly?

0:47:08 > 0:47:10January '62.

0:47:10 > 0:47:11And what address would that be?

0:47:11 > 0:47:1497 Maysoule Buildings, Maysoule Street.

0:47:14 > 0:47:16Really? Not Mayberry?

0:47:16 > 0:47:18No, Maysoule.

0:47:20 > 0:47:22Now, Mr Ward...

0:47:22 > 0:47:25Your wife's mother. What is your wife's mother's address?

0:47:27 > 0:47:30- Do you have any sisters?- No.

0:47:30 > 0:47:31I thought you said, Mr Ward...

0:47:31 > 0:47:34There's my teenage sister but she don't count.

0:47:34 > 0:47:37- She hasn't a house, she's courting. - Grandmother or grandfather?

0:47:37 > 0:47:39I've got a grandfather, but he's in a home.

0:47:39 > 0:47:45Now, Mr Ward, how many rooms does your mother occupy at Maysoule Road?

0:47:45 > 0:47:47One bedroom and a living room.

0:47:47 > 0:47:49But there's three adults there already.

0:47:49 > 0:47:52The accommodation we have available is for wives only.

0:47:52 > 0:47:54We can't accommodate husbands.

0:47:54 > 0:47:57But why can't you accommodate the husbands, then?

0:47:57 > 0:47:59We used to house husbands at one time,

0:47:59 > 0:48:02but we had to discontinue it. They used to tear up the sheets.

0:48:07 > 0:48:09We've no objection to you seeing your wife

0:48:09 > 0:48:12on a weekday evening, provided you're gone by eight.

0:48:12 > 0:48:16The front entrance must not be used by you homeless.

0:48:16 > 0:48:18There's a good reason for that.

0:48:18 > 0:48:21It upsets the old people we accommodate here and, of course,

0:48:21 > 0:48:25this accommodation really was meant for them.

0:48:25 > 0:48:26No alcohol in the building.

0:48:26 > 0:48:29About this we're fairly strict.

0:48:29 > 0:48:32Inmates are expected to take a regular bath

0:48:32 > 0:48:34and get as much fresh air as possible.

0:48:34 > 0:48:38Rent, we charge five shillings a night for each adult

0:48:38 > 0:48:41and three bob for a child, payable in advance.

0:48:41 > 0:48:43Now, there are other rules

0:48:43 > 0:48:46but you'll find it easier to pick them up as you go along.

0:48:46 > 0:48:49- Any questions? - Well, I don't think very much of it.

0:48:49 > 0:48:52In many places in England, the families are not kept together.

0:48:52 > 0:48:55They are broken up as soon as they're homeless

0:48:55 > 0:48:56and the children put in care.

0:48:56 > 0:48:58If we rehouse homeless families

0:48:58 > 0:49:02people would say it was an easy way to jump the queue, wouldn't they?

0:49:02 > 0:49:04So we can't do it for obvious reasons.

0:49:04 > 0:49:06And it must be strictly understood

0:49:06 > 0:49:08that this accommodation is only temporary.

0:49:08 > 0:49:12After three months, make no mistake about it - we turn you out.

0:49:12 > 0:49:15- So keep searching. - CHILD CRIES

0:49:15 > 0:49:16Sit down.

0:49:18 > 0:49:21CHILD CRIES

0:49:21 > 0:49:22Well, don't eat it then.

0:49:22 > 0:49:24I'll eat it. Give it to me.

0:49:32 > 0:49:34Mrs Ward?

0:49:36 > 0:49:41You will be in Room E72. E72 - don't forget it.

0:49:45 > 0:49:47Go on, out!

0:49:47 > 0:49:50Well, I'm just taking her up to her room, see?

0:49:50 > 0:49:51We've only just come!

0:49:51 > 0:49:54I see. You're newcomers, are you?

0:49:54 > 0:49:56Well, no men beyond the lodge.

0:49:56 > 0:49:59I'm afraid you'll have to get out and say goodbye to your wife now.

0:50:02 > 0:50:06- Not you, girl! - Look, she's just arrived.

0:50:06 > 0:50:10- Let me just take her up, please? - If he could stay I'd be all right.

0:50:10 > 0:50:11No, I'm sorry.

0:50:11 > 0:50:15I don't make the rules. He'll have to go.

0:50:15 > 0:50:17She's got a lot to get through yet.

0:50:17 > 0:50:20- Now, listen, lady. Don't be saucy with me...- Reg, don't. Shut up.

0:50:25 > 0:50:27Come on, love.

0:50:29 > 0:50:35Many social workers feel that all homeless families are problem families.

0:50:35 > 0:50:39They may not be when they arrive in our hostels

0:50:39 > 0:50:42but they usually are when they leave.

0:50:42 > 0:50:47It was considered that, if a man couldn't provide a home for his wife and children, he wasn't much good.

0:50:47 > 0:50:50But that is certainly not true today.

0:50:50 > 0:50:53The great majority of the homeless families we deal with

0:50:53 > 0:50:57are decent citizens and all they want is a home of their own.

0:50:57 > 0:50:59Try to keep the children clean.

0:50:59 > 0:51:01Because there is disease here.

0:51:01 > 0:51:04Why do they send us here, if there's disease here?

0:51:04 > 0:51:05It's in all these places.

0:51:05 > 0:51:08We try to keep it down by swabbing them as they come in.

0:51:08 > 0:51:10OK, what you have to do, Sean,

0:51:10 > 0:51:12is take your panties down.

0:51:12 > 0:51:16And then they're going to put something up your bottie.

0:51:16 > 0:51:18'Sean always was the worst at taking his pants down.

0:51:18 > 0:51:21'He never liked anyone to see him without them.'

0:51:21 > 0:51:27There exists in local authorities a kind of punitive attitude

0:51:27 > 0:51:31which means that the whole problem of homeless families

0:51:31 > 0:51:34is the Cinderella of the Cinderellas.

0:51:34 > 0:51:38So I came out of this welfare place and I said goodbye to the missus,

0:51:38 > 0:51:40not knowing when I should see her again.

0:51:40 > 0:51:44Some men don't seem to bother whether they are living with their wife,

0:51:44 > 0:51:46but I have always been...

0:51:46 > 0:51:47We have been happy together.

0:51:47 > 0:51:49We have been married 18 years.

0:51:49 > 0:51:54And when you get like that, it upsets you - breaks your heart.

0:51:54 > 0:51:58Bus drivers, lorry drivers, coal men, GPO sorters,

0:51:58 > 0:52:02general labourers, scaffolders,

0:52:02 > 0:52:06all sorts of groups of workers have become homeless.

0:52:06 > 0:52:08CHATTERING

0:52:14 > 0:52:16Don? Donnie?

0:52:16 > 0:52:21- Any sugar?- No. Got milk.

0:52:27 > 0:52:31Till we either build houses in the areas where there's work, or redistribute

0:52:31 > 0:52:36the work to those areas where there are empty houses, we'll get homeless families.

0:52:36 > 0:52:38It seems amazing to us in this department

0:52:38 > 0:52:41there are tens of thousands of homeless families,

0:52:41 > 0:52:42instead of just thousands.

0:52:44 > 0:52:47VOICES ECHO

0:52:53 > 0:52:55I think you'll be all right in here.

0:53:21 > 0:53:23(Cathy?)

0:53:23 > 0:53:25(Cathy!)

0:53:25 > 0:53:26(Reg?)

0:53:26 > 0:53:28(What are you doing here?)

0:53:28 > 0:53:31(I climbed in. I met one of the husbands outside.)

0:53:31 > 0:53:33(He showed me a way through the wall.)

0:53:37 > 0:53:40(Couldn't leave you alone, Cath.)

0:53:41 > 0:53:43(I'm pleased you've come, Reg.)

0:53:43 > 0:53:46- (I really am.- Come on.)

0:54:02 > 0:54:05SHE SOBS

0:54:28 > 0:54:30(I'm sorry. I am.)

0:54:35 > 0:54:37CLAMOUR OF VOICES

0:54:50 > 0:54:54We were living in a rented house in Margate that was needed by the works department

0:54:54 > 0:54:57for road workers. So we got an eviction order.

0:54:57 > 0:55:01They couldn't rehouse us because they wasn't the welfare authority

0:55:01 > 0:55:05- and they didn't have any houses. - Never do that again. Get another cup.

0:55:05 > 0:55:07Why? What's the matter with it?

0:55:07 > 0:55:10Keep away from the cracked mugs. There's sickness in them.

0:55:10 > 0:55:13My first thought is, I feel like a refugee.

0:55:13 > 0:55:15I've lived here all me life.

0:55:15 > 0:55:17Now I feel I'm like a refugee.

0:55:17 > 0:55:18Send us back to where?

0:55:18 > 0:55:22To where you're from. But not before you've taken all our houses away.

0:55:22 > 0:55:24- You ask the warden, he'll explain.- Go on.

0:55:24 > 0:55:27- You lot, coming here with all your kids...- I'm not going back!

0:55:27 > 0:55:30That's why we have to come to places like this...

0:55:30 > 0:55:33I'm not going back.

0:55:33 > 0:55:35- Too many of you now. - It doesn't matter.

0:55:35 > 0:55:37- IRISH ACCENT: - I was in a council house.

0:55:37 > 0:55:42My husband buggered off and they've a scheme - if you're an abandoned woman, they turn you out.

0:55:42 > 0:55:44And then I came here.

0:55:44 > 0:55:46They say it's to stop men leaving their wives.

0:55:46 > 0:55:48But it didn't work in my case.

0:55:48 > 0:55:53It's nonsense to say that coloured people are responsible for our housing crisis.

0:55:53 > 0:55:57The Holland report showed that if immigrants didn't come, either their

0:55:57 > 0:56:00places would be taken from migrants from other parts of the country,

0:56:00 > 0:56:03or a large number of jobs would remain unfilled.

0:56:03 > 0:56:08My second point is more people leave Britain each year than come into it. So there you are.

0:56:08 > 0:56:10Go and hurry back to Mummy.

0:56:10 > 0:56:12There's a good boy. Quick!

0:56:12 > 0:56:18Scrubbing, scrubbing, that's all. It is all day here.

0:56:18 > 0:56:22We have to scrub the place twice a day. We'll see.

0:56:24 > 0:56:27The children's the ones that feels it most.

0:56:27 > 0:56:33They miss their toys, the little things they have had since they were tiny kiddies.

0:56:33 > 0:56:36It's too far to take them back to their old school,

0:56:36 > 0:56:38even if we could afford the fares.

0:56:38 > 0:56:40I mean, what are we expected to do?

0:56:40 > 0:56:43Put them in a new classroom without any preparations?

0:56:43 > 0:56:45How did you get that in here?

0:56:45 > 0:56:49- There's ways when you've been in here long enough.- Give us your cup.

0:56:49 > 0:56:53- Want a little drop?- Steady on. I don't want to get drunk.

0:56:53 > 0:56:56They come in at night to see that your husband has gone.

0:56:56 > 0:56:57And they come at one or two in the morning.

0:56:57 > 0:56:59There's no place for family life.

0:56:59 > 0:57:02That is why they have quarrels.

0:57:02 > 0:57:04The women, they get so frustrated.

0:57:04 > 0:57:08We used to have money once, didn't we? And I had a good job.

0:57:08 > 0:57:13And well, I don't know, I had an accident, and lost the job but...

0:57:13 > 0:57:15We had that house.

0:57:16 > 0:57:19And then, of course, we got evicted.

0:57:19 > 0:57:25But there was a caravan. And when we got, I got £10 for that.

0:57:25 > 0:57:29And I gave it to that bloke in the pub for that number 13, that house.

0:57:30 > 0:57:34Every time, we just seemed to sort of lose on the deal.

0:57:34 > 0:57:37I just don't seem to understand it.

0:57:37 > 0:57:40And here we are - we are right at the bottom.

0:57:40 > 0:57:42I just don't understand.

0:57:42 > 0:57:45And as time goes on, we just seemed to sort of get lower, don't we?

0:57:45 > 0:57:49- We're down now but we will be up again, Reg.- Yeah, we'll get up again.

0:57:49 > 0:57:51There's no question about that. No.

0:57:53 > 0:57:55That's funny...

0:57:55 > 0:57:59But now I'm on my own, I just don't seem to tick over.

0:57:59 > 0:58:04I got married, and my wife, and I had the children.

0:58:04 > 0:58:08I got to sort of need you and the kids.

0:58:08 > 0:58:12And we just seemed to be OK, we would tick over and everything would be fine.

0:58:12 > 0:58:14But it's very funny, but...

0:58:14 > 0:58:16now I'm on my own again -

0:58:16 > 0:58:18it's all gone wrong.

0:58:18 > 0:58:21Mrs Ward, I've come to ask you a favour. Oh yeah?

0:58:21 > 0:58:24Well, it's about Sean.

0:58:24 > 0:58:26I've come to a decision.

0:58:26 > 0:58:30I've decided I can't bear to see him in that place any more.

0:58:30 > 0:58:33He's pining. I can see it.

0:58:33 > 0:58:36So, what I was wondering, if it's all right with you,

0:58:36 > 0:58:38I'd like to leave him for a few days?

0:58:38 > 0:58:40Leave him with me? What do you mean?

0:58:40 > 0:58:43You can't walk out on your children just like that.

0:58:43 > 0:58:46Leave Sean with me? You must be out of your bleeding mind!

0:58:49 > 0:58:51You don't understand.

0:58:51 > 0:58:54I don't want to leave him.

0:58:54 > 0:58:55I mean, it really gets me.

0:58:59 > 0:59:04I can't stand to see him taking it so badly.

0:59:04 > 0:59:06I can't stand it!

0:59:09 > 0:59:12Bye bye, darling. Be a good boy.

0:59:14 > 0:59:16Bye.

0:59:31 > 0:59:35I've told you before about using my bloody basin, haven't I?

0:59:35 > 0:59:37Oh, will you shut up about it?

0:59:37 > 0:59:39My kids have got to wash in there.

0:59:39 > 0:59:42Your bleedin' kid's always got her behind hanging out.

0:59:42 > 0:59:45Sit down, Reg. You look uneasy.

0:59:45 > 0:59:47Sit down then!

0:59:47 > 0:59:50All right, I'm sorry. I am uneasy, that's all.

0:59:50 > 0:59:52What about me? I have to live in this place.

0:59:56 > 0:59:59Reg, I don't like to ask you this...

1:00:01 > 1:00:03But Stevie needs some new shoes.

1:00:03 > 1:00:08Look, Cath, I'm only getting £11 a week and I give you six of it.

1:00:08 > 1:00:11And I mean there's 15 bob for National Insurance.

1:00:11 > 1:00:14And there's £1 a week for that furniture we got in store.

1:00:14 > 1:00:15But that leaves you £3.05.

1:00:15 > 1:00:18It's £2.10 for my lodgings, isn't it?

1:00:18 > 1:00:20Go play with the kids, go on.

1:00:20 > 1:00:22It's £2.10 for my lodgings.

1:00:22 > 1:00:25I got 10 bob a week on travelling, leaving me five bob a week for clothes and food.

1:00:25 > 1:00:28How am I going to clothe myself on five bob a week?

1:00:28 > 1:00:30What meals do you get at your lodgings?

1:00:30 > 1:00:32- I only get my breakfast. - How do you manage then?

1:00:32 > 1:00:36I don't. I was going to ask you if you couldn't do on a bit less.

1:00:36 > 1:00:40- Reg, that's not possible.- How much rent are you paying here then?

1:00:40 > 1:00:44Well, it's five bob a day for a grown up, three bob a day for a child.

1:00:44 > 1:00:47- That's £3 a week.- What are you doing with the rest of it then?

1:00:47 > 1:00:48Reg, don't be like that.

1:00:48 > 1:00:51We have to get out of this place. We spend it on food.

1:00:51 > 1:00:52You get meals here, don't you?

1:00:52 > 1:00:55Yes. But there's disease here.

1:00:55 > 1:00:57I can't let them eat here. Once was enough.

1:00:57 > 1:00:59- You're gonna have to.- Why?

1:00:59 > 1:01:01Well, they're going to starve otherwise.

1:01:04 > 1:01:05I bumped into this fellow

1:01:05 > 1:01:07who said he knew a bloke who could help us.

1:01:07 > 1:01:09So I went down to see this bloke.

1:01:09 > 1:01:11And he was filling in all these forms and things.

1:01:11 > 1:01:14And he says to me, "Where are you living?"

1:01:14 > 1:01:18So I told him the address of this new lodgings I've moved to.

1:01:18 > 1:01:20He said, "Well, I'm very sorry,

1:01:20 > 1:01:22"but I'm afraid I can only help people

1:01:22 > 1:01:24"that are resident in this borough."

1:01:34 > 1:01:37- I've failed you, Cathy. - You've been here three months.

1:01:37 > 1:01:40This is the maximum period we allow homeless families

1:01:40 > 1:01:42to remain in our temporary accommodation.

1:01:42 > 1:01:45- I understand all that. - This is only temporary, you know.

1:01:45 > 1:01:48We do, in fact, have the power to evict you.

1:01:48 > 1:01:52We can quite easily say, "That's enough of that, so much for her."

1:01:52 > 1:01:54As they still do in many towns in Britain.

1:01:54 > 1:01:59- We could take your children into care and turn you out, just like that.- Please don't do that.

1:01:59 > 1:02:02But we're not going to. We're going to give you one more chance.

1:02:02 > 1:02:06But I must emphasise, this is your last chance.

1:02:06 > 1:02:09You must make your own arrangements.

1:02:09 > 1:02:14Now we've arranged for you to go to what we call our part three accommodation.

1:02:14 > 1:02:20Now this, like the place here, is one of our accommodations where husbands are not admitted.

1:02:20 > 1:02:21But you're not going to like it.

1:02:21 > 1:02:27The amenities are nothing like as good in this place, but there you are, it's the best we can do.

1:02:27 > 1:02:28But don't you think the thing is...

1:02:28 > 1:02:32Couldn't you find me a place where I could be with my husband?

1:02:32 > 1:02:36Some families here have really been trying to get back on their feet.

1:02:36 > 1:02:39Well, who are they? And how? I've not met any.

1:02:39 > 1:02:40I mean, it's not possible.

1:02:40 > 1:02:44They can smell you from this place. They can smell you a mile off.

1:02:44 > 1:02:46Don't talk like that, Mrs Ward.

1:02:46 > 1:02:47I'm sorry.

1:02:47 > 1:02:50But something's happening to me.

1:02:50 > 1:02:52I don't know how to explain it.

1:02:52 > 1:02:56But all this is having a bad influence on my family life.

1:02:56 > 1:03:01Somebody told me that you've got these places you call halfway house.

1:03:01 > 1:03:04And I thought if I could get into one of these places,

1:03:04 > 1:03:06Reg might come back to me.

1:03:06 > 1:03:10You see, he's drifting away from me.

1:03:10 > 1:03:12And the children, they need him.

1:03:12 > 1:03:15And the other thing is that in a month's time

1:03:15 > 1:03:17we've got a place to go to.

1:03:17 > 1:03:19You've got a place in a month's time?

1:03:19 > 1:03:24Yes, on the new Smithson estate. They're giving us a new flat there.

1:03:24 > 1:03:27We're told that you lost your place on the list long ago owing to moving.

1:03:27 > 1:03:29500 families have moved in already.

1:03:29 > 1:03:32But we was meant to be one of those families.

1:03:35 > 1:03:39Runts! I saw you laughing.

1:03:39 > 1:03:42Wipe that smile off your face!

1:03:42 > 1:03:45Haven't you got a room in one of your houses?

1:03:45 > 1:03:49Haven't you got flats that are empty half the night?

1:03:49 > 1:03:51You don't care.

1:03:51 > 1:03:53You only pretend to care.

1:03:55 > 1:03:57I'm sorry.

1:03:57 > 1:03:59I didn't mean to say that.

1:03:59 > 1:04:01All right, Mrs Ward.

1:04:02 > 1:04:04That will be all.

1:04:17 > 1:04:19Well...

1:04:19 > 1:04:21what's your opinion, Gordon?

1:04:21 > 1:04:24Well, of course she's not an easy person by a long chalk.

1:04:24 > 1:04:29She keeps the children tidy but, as you can see, she's not cooperative.

1:04:29 > 1:04:32But, in my opinion, the trouble rests with the other half.

1:04:32 > 1:04:36But don't you think we could fit her in somewhere she could be with her husband?

1:04:36 > 1:04:39No, there's nowhere at all. We're full up as it is.

1:04:39 > 1:04:43We've reached a state that if we had two other families come in tonight,

1:04:43 > 1:04:45we'd have to evict to make room for them.

1:05:13 > 1:05:16Stephen and Marlene live here.

1:05:16 > 1:05:21Six years I've put up with this sort of thing. Six years I've been here.

1:05:21 > 1:05:23When I come here, they said, "Who told you to come here?"

1:05:23 > 1:05:26I said, "No-one told me, did they?

1:05:26 > 1:05:27"I grew up here."

1:05:27 > 1:05:30My old man was in the army for six years.

1:05:30 > 1:05:33He was a regular. Well, that don't seem to count.

1:05:33 > 1:05:36Don't cry, love. What's the matter?

1:05:36 > 1:05:37You should leave her alone.

1:05:37 > 1:05:39But why is she crying?

1:05:39 > 1:05:43- She got the letter.- What letter? - The letter that evicts you.

1:05:43 > 1:05:44They come and took her kids away now.

1:05:44 > 1:05:47I went in front of the committee and they said, "Why not

1:05:47 > 1:05:49"put your two eldest in institutions,

1:05:49 > 1:05:51then we can re-house you?"

1:05:51 > 1:05:53Do you mind if I give you a tip, dear?

1:05:53 > 1:05:56Don't go taking a bath cos tramps get in it.

1:05:56 > 1:05:57And the toilets get blocked.

1:05:57 > 1:06:00There are cockroaches behind the plumbing.

1:06:00 > 1:06:02They come out at night and are about an inch long.

1:06:02 > 1:06:04This little girl and little boy,

1:06:04 > 1:06:10they had a lovely garden as well in their house by the seaside.

1:06:10 > 1:06:12I was bombed out in Plymouth.

1:06:12 > 1:06:15Then it was two years in a mental home.

1:06:15 > 1:06:16I'm not to blame for that, am I?

1:06:16 > 1:06:19Somehow I didn't feel I could do that.

1:06:19 > 1:06:21I couldn't say goodbye to the kiddies.

1:06:21 > 1:06:25It's not... You know, you find you can't carry on without them.

1:06:25 > 1:06:28Last June, it was, I lost him.

1:06:28 > 1:06:30A disease, it was.

1:06:30 > 1:06:33He was only ten weeks old, poor little soul.

1:06:33 > 1:06:36They say, go out and get looking for houses.

1:06:36 > 1:06:39But we know it's nonsense going out looking for houses.

1:06:39 > 1:06:42They call us the Cubies because we live in cubicles.

1:06:42 > 1:06:45Everybody round here thinks we're either unmarried mothers

1:06:45 > 1:06:47or girls from borstal doing corrective training.

1:06:47 > 1:06:49But that's not so.

1:06:49 > 1:06:52My children were ill and my husband hadn't seen them.

1:06:52 > 1:06:55So I asked if he could come up and see them.

1:06:55 > 1:06:57They said no.

1:06:57 > 1:06:59So he tried to force his way in.

1:06:59 > 1:07:02They soon called the police and shut him out.

1:07:02 > 1:07:03And the police laughed at him.

1:07:03 > 1:07:08Even if we found houses, there'd be other people here because there's not enough houses.

1:07:08 > 1:07:12It's silly when a girl gets married thinking a bloke's going to stay faithful.

1:07:12 > 1:07:13But I'm better off with Len,

1:07:13 > 1:07:16being married to him than being without him.

1:07:16 > 1:07:18If you love a person, why leave him?

1:07:18 > 1:07:22Do you know we have to be back home by eight and you have to be in bed by ten?

1:07:22 > 1:07:27He's got a fancy girl now. You see, men don't have it like women.

1:07:27 > 1:07:30He's got his freedom, ain't he?

1:07:32 > 1:07:35- What do you do all day then, Cath? - What do you think I do?

1:07:35 > 1:07:37Nothing to do.

1:07:37 > 1:07:40Just sit about all day.

1:07:40 > 1:07:41I feel like running away.

1:07:44 > 1:07:46What about the kids then?

1:07:48 > 1:07:50They're restless. They've had so many changes

1:07:50 > 1:07:53they don't know what's going to happen next.

1:07:53 > 1:07:55It's not good.

1:07:55 > 1:07:58If you go out at night, you've got to be back by nine o'clock.

1:08:02 > 1:08:03How are you getting on with the food?

1:08:03 > 1:08:05Just potatoes.

1:08:05 > 1:08:08Yeah.

1:08:08 > 1:08:11The kids woke me up last night.

1:08:11 > 1:08:14They were crying, they were hungry.

1:08:14 > 1:08:17I wish you could come more often, Reg.

1:08:17 > 1:08:19I can't afford to, Cathy.

1:08:20 > 1:08:23You know, I really long for the nights here sometimes.

1:08:23 > 1:08:27- Yeah, I bet you do. - But not like we used to.

1:08:27 > 1:08:31Reg? Till all this happened, it was a happy marriage, wasn't it?

1:08:31 > 1:08:33Oh, yeah.

1:08:33 > 1:08:35If it weren't for the kids, we wouldn't be here.

1:08:35 > 1:08:38I'm glad we had them. You can't wish the kids away.

1:08:38 > 1:08:41Oh, no. But I don't know,

1:08:41 > 1:08:43I wish we could start all over again.

1:08:43 > 1:08:47- I'd choose the same. - Oh, I'd choose you, Reg.

1:08:47 > 1:08:49But now, I don't know,

1:08:49 > 1:08:52I just feel I want to look away.

1:08:52 > 1:08:56I'm practising very hard. And with a little bit of recognition,

1:08:56 > 1:08:59I shall be all right in some money, I hope.

1:08:59 > 1:09:03I know me age is against me, but I'm hoping to win.

1:09:04 > 1:09:07- Give us a song then, come on. - All right.

1:09:10 > 1:09:13It went through my mind to chuck the whole thing up.

1:09:13 > 1:09:15Turn my back on the kids and go off.

1:09:15 > 1:09:18You see, I felt I'd failed them.

1:09:18 > 1:09:21Well, I knew they weren't fit to be in a place like that.

1:09:21 > 1:09:25I thought about how I used to be before we were married.

1:09:25 > 1:09:27Without anyone depending on me.

1:09:27 > 1:09:32And I had boyfriends, money in my pockets. And some good times.

1:09:32 > 1:09:34Look, why don't you go, Reg?

1:09:34 > 1:09:36I mean, you need a job, love.

1:09:36 > 1:09:39I've heard there's jobs up in Liverpool too.

1:09:39 > 1:09:41And then when you've got a job, you can find a place.

1:09:41 > 1:09:45- That's what I thought, Cath. - They say it's easier up there.

1:09:45 > 1:09:47I'm bound to be able to get a place up there, ain't I?

1:09:47 > 1:09:49Yeah.

1:09:49 > 1:09:52And then when the Smithson estate's finished,

1:09:52 > 1:09:55- we'll have no more worries then.- Yeah.

1:09:55 > 1:09:56If I can't fix up a place,

1:09:56 > 1:09:59I should be back by the time the other place is finished.

1:09:59 > 1:10:02'It was all so... sort of strange really.

1:10:02 > 1:10:04'Cos kids do seem...

1:10:04 > 1:10:07'Well, they do seem to sort of need their dad.

1:10:07 > 1:10:12'They like to look forward to being with their dad as well as their mum.

1:10:12 > 1:10:13'To have a bit of a laugh with him.'

1:10:13 > 1:10:16That baby was in tiptop medical condition.

1:10:16 > 1:10:20Yeah, if it was in tiptop medical condition, how come it's dead now?

1:10:20 > 1:10:24- You tell me.- The mother mustn't have looked after it properly.

1:10:24 > 1:10:27She's a marvellous mother. Don't you bleedin' say that about her!

1:10:27 > 1:10:29I'm only stating the truth.

1:10:29 > 1:10:32The way some of you women keep your children...

1:10:32 > 1:10:36What do you mean? How much chance have we got in this dump?

1:10:36 > 1:10:39Just a minute, just a minute - what about hygiene? What about bathing?

1:10:39 > 1:10:42Eh? How often do you change your baby's nappy? You tell me.

1:10:42 > 1:10:46- She changes it three times a day. - Three times a day?- You cow! Get out!

1:10:46 > 1:10:50- You bloody come here, my dear! - You don't care!

1:10:50 > 1:10:52- Look at you...- Come here.

1:10:52 > 1:10:55- Accusing us...- You'll be very sorry about this, my dear.

1:10:55 > 1:10:58- We're bloody clean, we are. We're clean, aren't we?- Yes!

1:10:58 > 1:11:00- We keep our kids clean.- Clean?

1:11:00 > 1:11:02You don't know what the meaning...

1:11:02 > 1:11:04Look at this.

1:11:04 > 1:11:08Nice carrying on. Look, nice carrying on, making the babies cry.

1:11:08 > 1:11:11You're a cow. You're a cow, you are.

1:11:11 > 1:11:14She couldn't care about us, could she?

1:11:14 > 1:11:16Look at this bloody dump we're in.

1:11:16 > 1:11:19Yes, it's a dump...

1:11:19 > 1:11:20- It's all your fault.- MY fault?!

1:11:20 > 1:11:22Yes, it's your bloody fault.

1:11:22 > 1:11:25You were the one that brought it back, wasn't she?

1:11:25 > 1:11:27Where's my cap? Where's my cap?

1:11:27 > 1:11:30I don't know where your silly old cap is. Go on, get out.

1:11:30 > 1:11:32- Go on, get out. - I shall be reporting you...

1:11:32 > 1:11:35You do that! You do it! Bugger off.

1:11:35 > 1:11:37I wonder who said this?

1:11:37 > 1:11:39You see, it's about this place.

1:11:39 > 1:11:42I wonder who told those lies.

1:11:42 > 1:11:43It wasn't me.

1:11:43 > 1:11:46Listen, young lady, I'm not as stupid as I may look.

1:11:46 > 1:11:48It was a blonde who talked to the reporter.

1:11:48 > 1:11:52- A blonde like you. - Well, I don't know who it was.

1:11:52 > 1:11:54There have been other reports about you too.

1:11:56 > 1:11:57About Mrs Selby?

1:11:57 > 1:12:01I was just telling her about the poor little baby that died, that's all.

1:12:04 > 1:12:09Mrs Ward, I see here that your husband hasn't been paying the fees.

1:12:09 > 1:12:11Paying the fees?

1:12:11 > 1:12:15- Of course he is. - We'd know if he was or wasn't.

1:12:15 > 1:12:17Didn't he tell you he hasn't been paying?

1:12:18 > 1:12:21I haven't seen him. He's been away on business.

1:12:21 > 1:12:23You haven't seen him?

1:12:23 > 1:12:25Not for a while.

1:12:25 > 1:12:28What is going on here? Are you married or aren't you?

1:12:28 > 1:12:30Oh, shut up, you! Shut up!

1:12:42 > 1:12:49"It must be clearly understood that the temporary accommodation will no longer be available after that date."

1:12:49 > 1:12:51What does it mean?

1:12:51 > 1:12:54- I shouldn't worry about it. - It doesn't mean what it says, maybe.

1:12:54 > 1:12:57These people are casualties of the Welfare State,

1:12:57 > 1:12:59perhaps the worst casualties of all.

1:12:59 > 1:13:03They're pushed around like so much human litter and nobody will help them.

1:13:03 > 1:13:07Originally homelessness was regarded as a passing post-war phase.

1:13:07 > 1:13:12But the problem now appears to be with us for the foreseeable future.

1:13:13 > 1:13:16Oh, excuse me, I called about a room.

1:13:16 > 1:13:19- How many of you?- Well, there's just me and the two kiddies.

1:13:19 > 1:13:21Sorry, I don't take children.

1:13:21 > 1:13:25Don't be a fathead when your time comes.

1:13:25 > 1:13:29Let us take them away without making any fuss, huh?

1:13:29 > 1:13:32What right have you got to take my kids from me?

1:13:32 > 1:13:34Well, you can't find a place for them, can you?

1:13:34 > 1:13:37Now, look, you've had your chance.

1:13:37 > 1:13:39We're not interested in you now.

1:13:39 > 1:13:42It's the kids we're worried about. We can't have them sleeping out.

1:13:42 > 1:13:44From the time they leave here,

1:13:44 > 1:13:46they'll be in need of care and protection.

1:13:46 > 1:13:48Come on, Stevie, help Mummy pack.

1:13:50 > 1:13:52They're too heavy.

1:13:53 > 1:13:55That's a good boy.

1:13:58 > 1:14:00You're coming out with me in a minute.

1:14:23 > 1:14:25We had a bite to eat from the cafeteria.

1:14:25 > 1:14:29Of course, the kiddies didn't know what was going to happen.

1:14:29 > 1:14:33But I knew they'd catch up with us, wherever we tried to bed down for the night.

1:14:40 > 1:14:44You're not having my kids! You're not having 'em!

1:14:50 > 1:14:53Give me my kids!

1:16:48 > 1:16:52# I'm a fiver

1:16:52 > 1:16:56# Caught miles away

1:16:56 > 1:17:01# From a home. #