Comments by "Brian Quigley" (@brianquigley1940) on "1980: GROWING UP in the CITY | It's a Great Life | Voice of the People | BBC Archive" video.

@mr.x9566 2012? Wow!.... "Can you imagine??? Doing your business indoors! How dreadful. What are young people coming to today?" 😄 ... I spent a few winters living with relatives in a fishing village as a very young child and can still remember the chamber pot under the bed pungently stinking up the room shared by five children. There was an outdoor toilet but it was too cold to use at night. That was in the late 1960s. I was not surprised to see Russians stealing toilet bowls(!) in Ukraine.... what a world we live in!
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1980... were those "dumps" the remains of buildings destroyed in WW2? In the 60s, my family rented a flat in a condemned building (yes, it was illegal and there was only one toilet for the entire 3-storey buidling). There were still lots of bombed terraces awaiting demolition back then in Archway.
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