General Chat

Just watched it on iplayer and having not read the books .thoroughly enjoyed it...

I am no expert on the midwifery of the times nor was I around in the 1950s so I'm happy with any poetic license displayed and enjoy it for the stories.
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I watched it with my friend Sasha,The smog was thicker and dirtier than shown and the midwifery was nothing at all like it was shown on there, ( She should know because she was one of "Charlottes Harlots" as they were known),the Eastend was part of her patch. some of the places she had to go to were not all that clean,but a lot of them even though money was short,were too houseproud to let their homes degenerate as was shown.**M**.

I am in a pushchair well wrapped up aged about 3 have a scarf across my mouth and nose and I think it is funny because I cannot see my feet.

I still haven't watched it but I am surprised at the several people who have said it wasn't like depicted. I assume they have stuck to the book and I thought the book was a true story, not fiction by Jennifer Worth. How strange.

All mine went outside in the pram or front garden by the open front door whist I did my housework, even my youngest born 1992, would happily sit watching the world go by, old dears would stop for a chat and she would babble back her brown curls bouncing 10 to the dozen on her head...awww happy days..

the east india dock area was poor housing and dog rough and hundreds had compulsary orders placed on them as unfit..and by late 1960s was declared a slum area,

so the tv drama has been adapted is that any surprise it shouldnt be, as thats what producers do for a bit of drama......and I bet most have forgotten the smog and fog that bathed London even into the early 1970s thats why boroughs declared no smoke areas and insisted the use smokeless fuel...

Looking forward to seeing Miranda Hart playing Chummy the midwife :-D :-D :-D


Such fun !

Even if it is a straight role :-)

my toes curl and my legs go stiff when the woman are pushing, i think its a brilliant series well so far xx

who is she mildred i dont reconice her xx

http://mirandahart.com/

A very funny lady, star of Miranda comedy show :-D

oh I wonder if I was dangled leg free at my breech birth,,,,,,no wonder mother said I was trouble from the start.....

yes it was pretty good this week......just a blip one young boy about 9/10 was wearing,,,,,,,,jeans.!!.

Thanks mildrid x ive uncurled my toes now .

its warts and all and it wasnt showing anything more than some of these women singers or those in shows,

plus it went on all round many parts of London and still does.... :-D

It all seemed a bit prettied up to me. Pretty, soft spoken midwives, very reasonable patients and doing the hokey cokey in the street. I think the characters playing the nuns should have been the midwives. Even the baby came out spotless.

Vera

LOL..........
"Even the baby came out spotless"

well in view of the "clean up tv"campaigns ...I suppose childbirth is a good place to start?

Bob
women must've been tough in those days...........I mean, a breech birth with no anaesthetics?

I remember the district nurse living locally to us in custom house,in a flat, above a hardware store....... maybe she did midwifery as well, ?

Morning Everybody
Really enjoyed this again last night.
Neither of us are very fond of Miranda Hart in the other parts she has played, But last night thought she was great.

Take Care All

Julia in Derbyshire

oh its FANTASTIC ive watched all three episodes so far....Reads far better in the book.....But still a FANTASTIC program :-) :-)
What abt "BIRDSONG" very good viewing truly enjoyed :-) :-) :-)

I have just watched the recording. I thought Roy Hudd's acting was excellent and the storyline was so sad. Annoyingly though the recording cut off just as Jenny was on the bench and Jimmy walked up to her. Did much happen after that? I need to check the book.

I am a big fan of Roy Hudd. Thirty years ago I worked on the taxi rank in Chichester when he was appearing in Underneath the Arches at the Festival Theatre.

Nobody could understand why I always drooled when he was on TV. Well,I can tell you the camera hates him. He looks dead gormless in photographs and on TV but I can tell you that in those days he was absolutely gorgeous up close.

Yesterday on Alan Titchmarsh show - there was a retired midwife (retd 3 yrs) who began work in 1957 in an area./close to Paisley. Said factually it was spot on, that she recalls no sheets for the bed but newspapers and borrowing a cup and saucer so she (midwife) could have a cup of tea as they drank out of jam jars. She actually brought her original kit with her and last birth was twins the second being breech. A younger midwife began in Poplar two years ago and some rep of widwives.