The way we live now Two Sides of a Street with John Pitman
A real life soap opera is unfolding in Cardross Street, west London.
A Royal Ballet star, a man who owns a share in a race horse, and a peer's daughter now live side by side with old folk who have rented their houses all their lives.
Once the street was filled with families. Now it's being taken over and tarted up by the young rich with no children. 'Funeral today - skip tomorrow' is how the locals describe what's happening.
Had they been able to afford it, the old timers could have bought their homes for E200. Now unmodemised two-up two-downs with outside loos are snapped up at £150,000.
'For the old people the street is a way of life,' says the Hon Henrietta Roper-Curzon . 'For us it is just a transitory thing. When they leave it's in a hearse. We leave in the removal van.'
Photography JOHN RECORD Research RHONDA EVANS
Film editor ANDREW WILLSMORE Producer JOHN PITMAN
40 Minutes editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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