Description: Children stand round a piano singing an old song, 'Knocked Em In The Old Kent Road'.(Albert Chevalier). Voiceover, presenter talks about the old kent road as we see a car at the service station. Gvs of new council estates and high rises in Camberwell, compares the old buildings to the new with electricity and privacy. A mother puts out the rubbish. Waterloo Square. Children play outside the flats. Water is shared by two or three families on each floor, and there is no light. A boy climbs onto the wall by the dust bins. On the other side children play with an inflatable ball on grass next to newer modern estate housing. Children on the roof of Waterloo Square look down through railings. Views of Peckham Rye park, children look at the tulips and others walk in the sun. Toddlers club in the park. Children on the swings in Camberwell Green. A lady carries a bucket of water up the stairs. Children in the playground. Wren Road. Monument (by Christopher Wren). Fish at Billingsgate market. Aerial/high level views of London.

Painting of early countryside Camberwell. Denmark Hill. The Fox on the Hill pub sign. Views of Denmark Hill housing. Brick rubble as buildings next to a church in Denmark Hill are dismantled/demolished. Painting of 174 Denmark Hill, Mendelssohn's house. Ruskin Park. Children at the sundial in the park. Mothers with prams, girls and boys run through arboretum Ruskin Park. Cafe. Spring flowers, ducks on pond, bluebells, blossom. (11:40) Kings College Hospital, Maudsley Hospital, De Crespigny Park (Huguenots). Pre fab housing. Boys by a pond, and with rabbits. 188 Camberwell Grove, home of Joseph Chamberlain. People walk up Camberwell Grove, grand houses and some derelict. Sultan Street – derelict houses by the railway line. Classic line dubiously justifying the demolition of Victorian housing: “Everyone was looking for land to build on. Mean little streets were crammed full of houses, and houses were crammed full of families, often one in every single room” Now the slums are down new development is going up. A doss house for down-and-outs, north of Camberwell. Salvation Army building, William Booth Memorial College – marching band outside. Christians – the life boys march along Peckham Road to South London Tabernacle. Baptist church, Rye Lane. Congregational Church. Methodist. Elim Foursquare Gospel Church. Catholic church. St Giles. Congregation leaving St Lukes church, of modern design.Views of children in dining room of Peckham comprehesive school for girls. Girls in the classroom, domestic science, cooking. Learning useful skills. Class of O Level history students. Girls sit on the grass outside the school. Sports activities, girls doing javelin and hurdles. Miss Smart headmistress. Wilson's Grammar School, boys walk in playground. Mary Datchelor Girls school, new wing being built. (22:00) Oliver Goldsmith primary school, children in playground skipping and playing. Sceaux Estate in background, 1960s building. Emphasises nice views, mother using her new kitchen, built in fridge, modern electric cooker, central heating. A mother and children watch television together. Children outside the flats and in the corridors. Compare curtains of high rises and victorian terrace at Lugard Road, and community, neighbourly spirit. Ivydale Road new buildings alongside the old terraces. In change is “The balance of loss and gain”. Rosemary Branch pub. Workmen use picks to dismantle piles of bricks. Camberwell Beauty Butterfly. The last farm, cows and farmer. Dairy farming. Elderly people stand outside modern bungalows. Coach and horses buses, old photos and view of heritage outing in 60s to Oxford Street. Views of Surrey Canal, barges and timber. Newly filled in land becoming a park. (30:00) St George's church. Views of many of the children seen throughout the film – wilstful voiceover, how will their lives develop.