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Just found these on youtube, thought i`d post them here as i think you will find them very interesting.
Mark, i was gonna post these in the old wirral pictures section but thought it would be wrong, i`ll leave it up to you to decide if its in the right section & to take action accordingly Thanks

In 1980's Around the UK Unemployment was at its worsed percentage this program looks at a Street which tried its best to get by.. This is also a good look back at birkenhead back in its day.. part1... remember tees street birkenhead? Well everyone who lived in this street was unemployed, Granada done a documentry on this in the eightys, here it is....
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part2
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part3
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Enjoy

This next video set is a look around wirral with lots of footage everywhere, very good. 1920-1930 amazing collection

Part1
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part2
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part3
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part4
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part5
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And finaly wirral history....
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Thanks to soundlad of youtube who converted and posted these videos, respect

Wow some really great finds there fella, keept me busy for the last hour or so watching em lol!!

The unmeployment video is great, on YouTube is says basically that apparently the street was demolished probably because of the bad publicity generated by the documentary. But the problems didnt end, they were just moved to another street, albeit in the same area.

Lol, i`m working security in a garage at the mo, this has kept me entertained, heres another unemployment video with more shots of birkenhead, this one is a better one than the last.
Once again, thanks to soundlad of youtube....

This is a Program from Granada back in the 80's.(world in action) This program is about Unemployment back in the 80's its focused on Birkenhead my home town as Unemployment was quite bad back then.. Some people on the video might be known to locals of birkenhead and some people might appriciate the Back in the day.
Part1
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part2
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part3
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Yeah, ive just watched that second video on the unemployment, it is a bit better, its a lot more hard hitting, and shows how well off we are nowadays.

Lol, the old world in action tune at the end I havent heard that for yonks lol

wow some great vids there.

Great find.

I've have a video tape of a program about unemployment and crime in Birkenhead from the 1990's....somewhere lol

Joe that's your family Birthday doo....

Excellent find Totopop

Lol I wouldn't be surprised if it was!

Thanks totopop ive got more comming 1940s - 1950s and 1960s - 1970s wirral ive just goto find time to Convert the VHS tapes ive got and make em 10minute clips for YouTube im also in the process of Doing my own History commentary on different places of intrest and giving my points of few of what to expect when you visit the likes of Birkenhead Pirory, Bidston Hill and so on but untill i get around to doing it these will have to do for the time being again thanks for the intrest

Brilliant collection you have there Soundlad, thanks for sharing

Quite hard to come by this stuff.

Tees Street as it is today 2008

With the single house left standing! Right on for the council to demolish the buildings ... and then leave it as a wasteground for decades.

lmfaooooooooo @ how old that 42 yr old guy looks... was expecting 72 at least

how do I look at these videos
When I click in space underneath text I just get a blue square
screen

update your flash degsy

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/