It amazes me how they got the character names on Capt. Pugwash through the BBC censors - and it was broadcast on a Sunday!!!!
I remember WTPS being a Granada programme,when the modern version was shown on BBC2 I'm sure it was the first Granada produced programme to be broadcast by the BBC
The character names on Captain Pugwash are an urban myth.Unfortunately there was no Seaman Stains,Master Bates or Roger the Cabin Boy
If that's true (couldn't be arsed checking) then I'm sad! History is a little poorer for the loss of a bit of anarchy!!!! hang on though, there was Master Mate and Willy (the sailor from Wigan) but the cabin boy was Tom
Cym's right. I checked this out a few years ago, because I didn't remember the naughty names. They're apocryphal.
So it was deprived. We didn't have a in-door bog. Bath's were taken in front of the fire. Loads of people lived the same way. But it was clean and the kids could play in the street and the front door was always open and only locked when you went to bed. So we moved to a corpy house in Childwall that had modern services and a garden front and back. Yes it was more comfortable but when we left (and the others), the community was broken and it was all downhill for our part of Toxteth from then on.
Progress can be painful Dave but if losing the slums and breaking up the communities was what it took to improve children's health and lives it was worth it. Admittedly Liverpool City Council down the years has criminally demolished some beautiful buildings needlessly but some of the post war inner city infrastructure was disgraceful and antiquated and deservedly had to go.
Totally agree. The Council started off well. In the 50's and early 60's they built good solid houses on mostly well planned estates that have stood the test of time. After that the quality of what they built to re-house people was a disgrace! They faced a dramatic need after the war. The prefabs in Belle Vale were loved by the residents but were always supposed to be temporary. The bombing meant that people needed to be re-housed. We were living with my grandparents in a 2up/2down. But the council buily quality houses. Then we have the abortions that they built from the 60s onwards like Netherley! They should have been strung up for it.
We had an outside bog, a tin bath in front of the fire and one electric socket for the whole house. Like most people, I can't avoid a few pangs of nostalgia for my past, but certainly not the conditions.
saint, I think the Council did the right thing after the war and for the most part did it as well as they could. But somehow they lost their way and built rubbish that is now becoming the new slums. It wasn't until I went to Uni that I found that people thought I came from a deprived background because I came from Liverpool. I thought I had come from God's own city!!
Ha. Wait until some of the younger ones read what we've written on the last couple of pages. They'll think we come from the ****ing dark ages.
I feel as if I have stumbled into the "four Yorkshiremen sketch" from Monty Python. "Eeee you try tellin the kids of today, and they won't believe yer"
