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You make a great point about being freezing in the winter. We had gas hot air heating, every 30 minutes you would smell gas and it would go BANG! Instead of getting the council in to fix it my Dad would just say Fire number one. The hot air never made it upstairs and when we had freezing winters...

As far as I was aware. Nobody thought about or took drugs. Nobody drank excessively. Nobody stole cars and had the police chasing them through the streets. When the police did have to turn up, there was not a gang of kids and parents giving the old bill a hard time. Nobody had fridges, long...

I am sure that had something to do with it but something has changed over a generations whereas people are like caged animals and don't mind living in a zoo. Most places have a couple of really bad areas, unfortunately Plymouth has at least 7 and whilst there are many decent people living there...

I am from Council house stock, absolutely nothing like it today. You always had a couple of problem families but they were ok. Everyone knew each other, the houses and gardens were clean and looked after, no trouble, no drugs, very rarely saw the police. That was for about 20 years, I don't...