Classic Eastenders on the Drama channel

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So, classic Eastenders starts airing on the UKTV Drama channel from tomorrow! Two episodes from noon, and they’ll also be on UKTV catchup.

Use this thread to talk about Den, Angie, Arthur, poodle perms, poor fashion choices and Ethel’s Willy.

There were a lot of YTS achemes when i left school so they must have been around in the 80,s too?

Apparently was changed so was more even. So guess a C O level was same as CSE 1 but probable was lot of snobbery over them. I did lower paper in maths,highest I could get was C (which I did) but I wasn’t wasting time learning harder stuff which would have failed.

Oh yes I’m old enough remember them. They were joke then. Guess some were proper training like hairdressing but many were working in cafe. Where instead of getting paid £2 hour for 40h you got paid £35 for doing same Hours and work and no skills at the end of it.

Yes i did that paper in maths i rhink there was an even lower paper though where the highest grade was an E ? Not sure what the point would have been though wirh an E?

Yes and a lot of people didnt get taken on at the end of the year or two years!

I was the first year to sit GCSEs and your could either sit the hard paper (graded A-C) or the lower one (graded C-E). I remember we were confused because the whole point of GCSEs was that it was a universal qualification but in practice at first at least it wasn't.

We used to call YTS 'young thick and stupid' including those of us who had one - they were cheap labour.

Yes i remember tpeople calling it young , thick and stupid mu boyfriend (at the time did ome) he got taken on by the company at the end of his "training" he got paid about £80 /week thos was early 90,s.

Yes when Mim wage came in 1999 was
£3.75 an hour which was big jump for lots of people. I remember seeing lots of jobs for £2 an hour working 70 hour week. Stillwould of meant struggling pay bills and rent.

Cant remember what Sharon does - I take it she didn’t make it as a singer in the band. Seems waste though, just be doing bar work all her life.

I had a fair few friends who did them - they had to, pretty much, as there were no jobs. Working on factory lines and calling it training. Mind you, I also remember when zero hours contracts came in a bit later and all the previously full time factory workers were sacked, taken on by agencies doing the same jobs but zero hours and being paid £2.50 an hour with £1 going to the agency in "commission", again 90s. I think a lot of people don't realise just how bad things were before minimum wage and some protections for agency workers were brought in.

X post Akire.

Sharon's years of bar work eventually paid off with her eventually running Walford's Premiere Nite Spot (with the quietest music in town) and thus cementing her place as shootin bad girl gangsta supreme.

x2 eventually bah

I got £2.10 an hour working in a nursing home. Between 1991 and 1993i was doing Alevels at the time and was doing the job at. Weekends for extra cash and experience i started my nurse training in 1993

Snap! I worked in a nursing home around the same time for £2 an hour! I got the same for my 2nd job which was working in a pub. Mind, it was a rough pub. 😀 It was probably that much because danger money. 😁😁 (Boss was bona fide gangster like Sharon - ended up getting shot 😮 - survived though.)

The boss ended up getting shot, that is, not me!

Yeah wages were bloody awful before minimum wage came in. My first job was 1999 and I got 2.50 an hour to work in a shop. My manager who worked 6 days a week was on 11k! I remember moving onto a job for £4 an hour and thinking I was rich!

I’m not sure what Sharon does nowadays. She seems to be an investor of sorts, with stakes various pubs and clubs. I think she must have some inheritance too. I was thinking the other day how clean Phil and Sharon’s house is, so maybe she’s scrubbing the place all day. Without breaking a fake nail.

Mond you regarding wages i qualified as a mental health nurse in 1996 and my wage for a month bearing in mind i did weekends and nights etc was about £850-£950 / month i was living with my parents so i thought i waa loaded but still and nurses were not badly paid .

She really is an old Battle axe isnt she Lou ? They dont make characters like her anymore .

Just watching on catch up.

Lou demanding everyone spend the whole day at the cemetery. No idea of that was common or not for that generation. I've been to great grandparents graves but only now and then and tidy them up a bit.

Wicksy singing "Every loser wins" on his own. In the dark. In the pub. Sharon singing "Something out of nothing " Chart toppers! Those were the days

Lou is a complete old bag. How horrible to Arthur in the pub.

Well my Grandparents. Would have been around the same age mayne a bit older i dont ever remember going to my Grandads grave (he died when my mum was a child) i l like how Arthour calls her mum, my Dad called my maternal Grandma mum, and my mum called my Dads parents Mum and Dad, Michelke and Lofty feesing Vicky some gooey stuff imagine rhe outrage in this day and age shes only abour 3 months!

I dont ever remeber going to my Grandads grave who died in the early 50,s when my mum was a child , i like how Arthur calls Lou mum. my mum always called my dads parents Mum and Dad and my Dad called my mateenal Grandma mum Lofty and Michelle feeding Vicky some Goo, Baby Rice? Shez only about three months imagine the outrage on Aibu!

Aaargh disnt realise the first poat haf posted!