Comments by "Faithless Hound" (@faithlesshound5621) on "1968: How COMPULSORY PURCHASE reshaped a TOWN | Man Alive | Voice of the People | BBC Archive" video.

  1. Before the motorways were built, main roads went through every town and village and driving across country meant going down every High Street and across every market square. By that time city traffic was nose-to-tail. The road haulage lobby got the weight limits for lorries progressively increased too. That replaced a lot of rail traffic. Imagine if all of that was trundling past your front door day and night, instead of fenced off on the motorways!
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  2. A rare sighting of the P word! Racism lives on in genteel county towns long after the rest of us have grown up.
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  3. I wonder ... I think they would have code-switched their accents and vocabulary somewhat for the TV, after the BBC's make-up girl had powdered their noses so as not to reflect the lighting.
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