Probably not the 70s but the late 60s, they are talking about old money, so pre 1971
Sick of seeing this video. It’s been put all over Reddit 5 times that I’ve seen in the last few days
I wouldn’t say posh. My gran was taught to talk this way and so was my mum. Didn’t want them to sound too Welsh back then. My grandma used to correct me all the time. A lot of kids just repeat their parents at this age
I don’t think they’re posh, rather that they’ve been taught to enunciate which was the standard back then if you were to appear on television.
And when shared on Facebook, there will be about 15023 comments saying about how kids “don’t talk properly anymore” and spend all their money on chai lattes.
I don’t *think* so – quite a few of them have what sounds like a bit of a Cockney accent to my ear. Some of the perception that they’re posh is probably coming from them using what are now old-fashioned terms for ‘old money’, like ‘thruppence’.
Edit: [the clip is taken from a 1970 episode of the BBC’s *Nationwide*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJj5P-Ds7To), and was apparently filmed in Finchley. I don’t know that bit of London too well, but isn’t it middle class rather than posh? Things have probably changed in the last 50 years.
Also, eight shillings in 1970 would be somewhere in the region of £10 today, and a pound would be in the region of £30 (depending on how you [measure it](https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/)). I wonder if the boy claiming the latter as his pocket money was fibbing a bit?
They seem at least middle class. I’m a bit puzzled by the lack of uniform though. Any idea where it was filmed?
HAMSTA FEWD N PREEMEUM BAWNDS
No people on the whole used to be able to string a sentence together in the UK, now if you don’t say bruv or fam after every other word its considered posh.
No.
It’s amazing how worldly they all are and understand the concept of money, inflation, and the price of a football.
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No they is just learned to talk proper like everyone is back in the day.
Proper poshos, in the 70’s my pocket money was 10p a week 😂
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Finchley where this was filmed is a suburban district of London. A lot of the areas around Finchley were built up in the 1930s as “overflow” for East London factories. It was where working and some (predominantly lower) middle class families lived.
Finchley, part of the borough of Barnet has a history with Cockneys and Rhyming Slang. To such an extent that for a gimmick there was a bank that installed some ATMs which would allow you to use them in Cockney Rhyming Slang. One of these ATMs was installed in Barnet.
This history with the East End would certainly account for the cockney twang some of these kids exhibit.
As for being posh or not? No, not posh just taught to speak properly. I find it despairing that things that started initially as bad jokes and piss takes such as “MLE” have now made it so that if you were taught to enunciate clearly and properly you are viewed as Posh.
I grew up in Finchley and the surrounds myself which is why I understand the local history quite well but going there now you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone younger than 60 who can speak properly.
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No avacado toast here. Pay attention peasants.
How far we’ve fallen in just 50 years
They knew more about managing money than most do adults today
If they were posh, they’d be in uniform, especially in the late 60’s or early 70’s.
This is the standard of education that regular comp kids used to get.
No. Not posh. They have a London accent, albeit dated because accents change. Not everyone in London sounds like Eastenders. I think they sound rather like early days Grange Hill.
Make no mistake, this reprisents a small slice of a certain demographic of 60/70’s children. Pocket money in pensions…. turn it in.
Not posh. Very middle class.
No, they were just average kids in the 1960’s.
I think they’ve just been taught to speak properly. It’s admirable when you hear so many Jafaican accents these days I guess.
Can someone please help me to understand why people’s voices sounded like this back in the 60s/70s? The tone of the voice itself has this old fashioned quality – nothing to do with the accent or the enunciation. Is it to do with the recording itself? I know that voices and accents change over the years but my mum was born in 1958 and I’ve never known her to sound like this. Her voice is near enough exactly the same as mine
They don’t sound posh to me.
No. This is what normal middle class used to be.
Good old days
The young lad obsessing over the price of a football at the front 😂 bless his heart.
this is what the threat of being beaten by the rod does to children.
they are alert and have clearly paid attention to their teacher. they fear the rod.
bring back the rod!
£1 in 1970 = £13 in 2024
Quite obviously posh. Middle class.
Just being on TV at all is the major clue. Talking about the Poor’s as if they are an “out” group. Getting pocketmoney.
There’s a lot of clues here but Reddit skews middle class and he middle class like to pretend they aren’t posh.
This kind of resubmitted content is continually shrinking with each resubmission, and it will eventually reach a point where the resubmitted material becomes just a pixel in the middle of a white background.
Your friend Billy is a liar, mate! *Pound* a week? He’s yanking ya chain!
the fact they’re talking in the abstract about poor people suggests they’re all pretty well to do tbh. they’re talking about getting a pound pocket money, while “other people” have £2 for the family to live off.
but they don’t exactly sound like royalty either
The real question is “did the subtitle guy fuck off to research premium bonds after the first kid”
Am trying to slack off at work and I don’t have headphones lmao
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I love how the boy in the stripes is outraged by the cost of things. He seems much older than his years.
I don’t think they’re especially posh, I think kids just spoke differently then.
I would never in a million years have selected “Hamster food and premium bonds” as a possible answer from any child.
Fairly acceptable, although I’m pretty sure you have to be 16 for the premium bonds bit..
Wise words from blondie in the back there.
“There are more important things than pocket money”
Really, what’s that?
“Food! You’ve gotta have food to live!”
I’d be in his camp if I got stranded on a desert island with a bunch of nippers. Sensible chap.
Also, curly in the front with the social conscience already.
Stirring stuff.
Not posh, just spend their day out on the world learning how things work and being taught about these things by parents. There wasn’t any internet to stick your child in front of in place of being an actual parent like there is now.
Not posh
Just society is in a constant state of decline
I’d say London suburbs, parents 1930s semi detached house types. If they were in a posh school they’d have them sitting there in uniforn even in primary.
As others have said, kids will have been taught to speak “proper” in formal setting, such as being on TV. Their accents could be quite different in normal conversation.
For context of currency, the rich kid with 1 pound per week in 1970 is equivalent to £13/week now. Quite a lot for a child that’s not even a teenager, but not an absurd amount. The girl who gets 3 shillings is roughly equivalent to £2/week now.
So these kidd haven’t grown up in poverty, but I don’t think there’s any evidence that they’re rich.
lol, nope! This is how normal UK kids acted before mass US media influenced how children thought and acted. Go watch Grange Hill on YouTube
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Probably not the 70s but the late 60s, they are talking about old money, so pre 1971
Sick of seeing this video. It’s been put all over Reddit 5 times that I’ve seen in the last few days
I wouldn’t say posh. My gran was taught to talk this way and so was my mum. Didn’t want them to sound too Welsh back then. My grandma used to correct me all the time. A lot of kids just repeat their parents at this age
I don’t think they’re posh, rather that they’ve been taught to enunciate which was the standard back then if you were to appear on television.
And when shared on Facebook, there will be about 15023 comments saying about how kids “don’t talk properly anymore” and spend all their money on chai lattes.
I don’t *think* so – quite a few of them have what sounds like a bit of a Cockney accent to my ear. Some of the perception that they’re posh is probably coming from them using what are now old-fashioned terms for ‘old money’, like ‘thruppence’.
Edit: [the clip is taken from a 1970 episode of the BBC’s *Nationwide*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJj5P-Ds7To), and was apparently filmed in Finchley. I don’t know that bit of London too well, but isn’t it middle class rather than posh? Things have probably changed in the last 50 years.
Also, eight shillings in 1970 would be somewhere in the region of £10 today, and a pound would be in the region of £30 (depending on how you [measure it](https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ukcompare/)). I wonder if the boy claiming the latter as his pocket money was fibbing a bit?
They seem at least middle class. I’m a bit puzzled by the lack of uniform though. Any idea where it was filmed?
HAMSTA FEWD N PREEMEUM BAWNDS
No people on the whole used to be able to string a sentence together in the UK, now if you don’t say bruv or fam after every other word its considered posh.
No.
It’s amazing how worldly they all are and understand the concept of money, inflation, and the price of a football.
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No they is just learned to talk proper like everyone is back in the day.
Proper poshos, in the 70’s my pocket money was 10p a week 😂
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Finchley where this was filmed is a suburban district of London. A lot of the areas around Finchley were built up in the 1930s as “overflow” for East London factories. It was where working and some (predominantly lower) middle class families lived.
Finchley, part of the borough of Barnet has a history with Cockneys and Rhyming Slang. To such an extent that for a gimmick there was a bank that installed some ATMs which would allow you to use them in Cockney Rhyming Slang. One of these ATMs was installed in Barnet.
This history with the East End would certainly account for the cockney twang some of these kids exhibit.
As for being posh or not? No, not posh just taught to speak properly. I find it despairing that things that started initially as bad jokes and piss takes such as “MLE” have now made it so that if you were taught to enunciate clearly and properly you are viewed as Posh.
I grew up in Finchley and the surrounds myself which is why I understand the local history quite well but going there now you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone younger than 60 who can speak properly.
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No avacado toast here. Pay attention peasants.
How far we’ve fallen in just 50 years
They knew more about managing money than most do adults today
If they were posh, they’d be in uniform, especially in the late 60’s or early 70’s.
This is the standard of education that regular comp kids used to get.
No. Not posh. They have a London accent, albeit dated because accents change. Not everyone in London sounds like Eastenders. I think they sound rather like early days Grange Hill.
Make no mistake, this reprisents a small slice of a certain demographic of 60/70’s children. Pocket money in pensions…. turn it in.
Not posh. Very middle class.
No, they were just average kids in the 1960’s.
I think they’ve just been taught to speak properly. It’s admirable when you hear so many Jafaican accents these days I guess.
Can someone please help me to understand why people’s voices sounded like this back in the 60s/70s? The tone of the voice itself has this old fashioned quality – nothing to do with the accent or the enunciation. Is it to do with the recording itself? I know that voices and accents change over the years but my mum was born in 1958 and I’ve never known her to sound like this. Her voice is near enough exactly the same as mine
They don’t sound posh to me.
No. This is what normal middle class used to be.
Good old days
The young lad obsessing over the price of a football at the front 😂 bless his heart.
this is what the threat of being beaten by the rod does to children.
they are alert and have clearly paid attention to their teacher. they fear the rod.
bring back the rod!
£1 in 1970 = £13 in 2024
Quite obviously posh. Middle class.
Just being on TV at all is the major clue. Talking about the Poor’s as if they are an “out” group. Getting pocketmoney.
There’s a lot of clues here but Reddit skews middle class and he middle class like to pretend they aren’t posh.
This kind of resubmitted content is continually shrinking with each resubmission, and it will eventually reach a point where the resubmitted material becomes just a pixel in the middle of a white background.
Your friend Billy is a liar, mate! *Pound* a week? He’s yanking ya chain!
the fact they’re talking in the abstract about poor people suggests they’re all pretty well to do tbh. they’re talking about getting a pound pocket money, while “other people” have £2 for the family to live off.
but they don’t exactly sound like royalty either
The real question is “did the subtitle guy fuck off to research premium bonds after the first kid”
Am trying to slack off at work and I don’t have headphones lmao
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I love how the boy in the stripes is outraged by the cost of things. He seems much older than his years.
I don’t think they’re especially posh, I think kids just spoke differently then.
I would never in a million years have selected “Hamster food and premium bonds” as a possible answer from any child.
Fairly acceptable, although I’m pretty sure you have to be 16 for the premium bonds bit..
Wise words from blondie in the back there.
“There are more important things than pocket money”
Really, what’s that?
“Food! You’ve gotta have food to live!”
I’d be in his camp if I got stranded on a desert island with a bunch of nippers. Sensible chap.
Also, curly in the front with the social conscience already.
Stirring stuff.
Not posh, just spend their day out on the world learning how things work and being taught about these things by parents. There wasn’t any internet to stick your child in front of in place of being an actual parent like there is now.
Not posh
Just society is in a constant state of decline
I’d say London suburbs, parents 1930s semi detached house types. If they were in a posh school they’d have them sitting there in uniforn even in primary.
As others have said, kids will have been taught to speak “proper” in formal setting, such as being on TV. Their accents could be quite different in normal conversation.
For context of currency, the rich kid with 1 pound per week in 1970 is equivalent to £13/week now. Quite a lot for a child that’s not even a teenager, but not an absurd amount. The girl who gets 3 shillings is roughly equivalent to £2/week now.
So these kidd haven’t grown up in poverty, but I don’t think there’s any evidence that they’re rich.
lol, nope! This is how normal UK kids acted before mass US media influenced how children thought and acted. Go watch Grange Hill on YouTube