Call the Midwife - nuns but no Nonnatus

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Just caught up then realised the thread was full.

Sister Monica joan’s flowers.

Cried like a seal.

My garden didn’t bloom and for me the sunshine failed. My buds were perfect but not for here.

And the hairy bud who grew and blossomed in my care soaked up the love.

Missing the three of you more than you know. X

Gritty is probably the wrong word. I was musing to myself that more people died earlier on but I actually think it’s to do with better medicines, more access to healthcare. I think pp also mentioned it.

Paul McGann definitely the most handsome brother.

True and better housing conditions, cleanliness etc. Having less children too with the pill.

Yes I was thinking this last week- the insides of the houses have come a long way since the early series.

I think that's realistic. I was a child in the 60s. There was lots of new housing and disposable income had gone up. Lots of interest in new things, e.g. music, fashion, design, technology; plenty of kneejerk assumptions that old meant outdated/should be scrapped. Those attitudes started changing during the 60s and that gathered pace in the 70s. It was in the 60s that the Victorian Euston station was demolished and replaced with the utilitarian shed that's there now. St Pancras came close to following it, but John Betjeman rallied opposition and managed to save it. A great deal of housing that could have been regenerated was lost. Have to admit, though, that much of the housing stock in Poplar was beyond saving.

In 1965 the flats in the tower blocks are still pristine and people feel lucky to have them. The problems of shoddy building and social problems stemming from the break up of communities haven't struck yet.

Yes, that's been in my mind too.

I have been binge watching from the beginning...I did see them when they were originally broadcast.
I am on series 5...half way through!

Just started S6 here. It's definitely evolved, whether that's Dr Turner taking over because he's married to Heidi Thomas, or just the changing emphasis on medicalisation as they speed through time, I don't know.

It’s the breaking up of communities as well. Families were close but if you are moved around based on need then the extended family becomes fractured & distant.

Still on series 6 ...and have just watched Shelagh take a BP without a stethoscope...magic sphygmomanometer!

Yes that's interesting Gaspode about valuing or not valuing, the past, in a northern town (i've forgotten which one) there was a programme about whole roads of old houses, and flats, that were marked for demolition but are being properly modernised and repaired now. It is much better for the communities too.

It needs to happen everywhere rather than 'jerry' build new properties on green belt land.

Much of the old terraced housing was Jerry built, though, by Victoria speculative builders and never meant to last. Some terraced houses had shared outside toilets, some had bomb damage from the war, even into the early 60s. When I started school in 1959 there were houses near the school which, even as a small child shocked me. They were demolished in the mid 60s, I believe. On the other hand, you only have to watch Homes Under the Hammer to see what can be done with delapidated terraced housing, I expect the worst sort were mostly demolished in the 60s and 70s. There were some in my current town still standing in the late 80s with a solitary toilet on the end of a short terrace, they were not lived in at this time though.

Yes I know, but they can be repaired, modernised, which would hopefully also include correcting the BAD aspects of their original build. If they needed it. Even the spec. built Victorian places were built better than they're doing now.

We lived in an Edwardian semi which will certainly outlast the stuff they're building now. It's already well over a 100 years old.

I think the really rotten badly built stuff needed to be demolished but some better buildings were lost with them. It was probably cheaper at that time to build new with dodgy building methods than carefully renovate which was a shame. The planners thought they were doing a good thing creating homes with bathrooms and modern kitchens.

Even in the 70s there were beautiful large houses which were made into squalid bed sits and squats because there was no money to renovate. I lived in places like that and so did most of my friends at the time now they are lived in by millionaires. I'm thinking of Islington, Stoke Newington etc.

I didn't know that Daniel Laurie was Leslie Grantham's son!

I didn’t know that either Lost.

I just looked up Leslie Grantham, there is no mention of Daniel on his Wikipedia page, but I did discover that Grantham had served ‘life’ for murder!

I didn't know that either @lostinleaves but I have also just disvover that LG is dead 🤦

*dicovered

The prison sentence was quite widely publicised at one time.

I didn't know that either - about Daniel Laure (Reggie) being Dirty Den's son! Well, well, well.

Who called it? Well done that poster. Poor Elsie & Valerie

Oh poor Val

Doctor McNulty dances nearly as badly as my dh

I thought was the same bloke but I was like maybe they just look similar