I watched an old documentary yesterday from the 80s, it was a TV Eye documentary.
It was filmed on Tees Street in Birkenhead, only 1 adult male on the street had a job.
This was after the local workforce in the ship yards had been reduced from 40,000 to 1300 !!
The street was all white British people and what struck me was, despite their predicament, the street was immaculate, well kept gardens, neat houses, you could have eaten your dinner off the pavement as they say.
These people had nothing, but they had their pride and a sense of how things should be that was no doubt