Senile moment.

Never had this trouble in the good old days.

Samp

Re - the scouse accent and the BBC archive film. I was born in 1941 and was in my early teens by the mid fifties, which was about the time most of that footage was filmed. I think the original film was meant to portray the North West working class life. The accents clearly are a mixture of broad Lancashire as well as Liverpool but plenty of pictures of Liverpool. Plenty of shots around Everton area as well as the south end. A number of the scenes took me back, (I may have been in some shots!).

The film was very accurate and did portray the fifties as I remember it, although some of the elderly where speaking of there own childhood times and made the time span stretch from the thirties up to the Fifties.

I am jotting my own memories down to pass on to my grandsons. Many of the games and pastimes the children where playing are similar to what I have jotted down, I have even explained how we made the steering carts (as seen in the film with the three boys racing by.)

I noticed how well dressed and smart the little girls were.

If you have a look at the video on www.bbc.co.uk you'll hear some Liverpool women talking, in the 1960s. The change in the accent of today is remarkable. I do not ever emember people speaking with such a thick accent when I was a child in the 1950s/60s- it has obviously developed since then. I think a light Liverpudlian accent is quite nice but when spoken with the thick throaty sound you hear so often, the magic quite disappears, in my opinion.
Well, am gowneravva cuppatee now and wotch a gud fillum!

Tried the link, but could'nt find the video!!?:PDT_Xtremez_12:

Tried the link, but could'nt find the video!!?:PDT_Xtremez_12:

See my original post Norm

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9153