Quote from: Alex on Today at 07:28:22 PMWhat was the UK population in 1947 when NHS was born, 40 million  ?  Now we don't exactly know how many people the NHS is trying to cope with. 

I'd guess at at least 60 million, but with all the ones we don't know about, probably 70 million or more.

Of course, this also explains why it is so difficult to see a doctor these days.

Quote from: Alex on Today at 07:36:45 PMWhich places are almost all white British ?
 

I'd guess that quite a lot of small villages are all-white, but I'm pretty certain that there are few if any large towns or cities which are.

Today at 09:27:30 PM
Ah, but Knutsford and Macclesfield are about ten miles to the south of us.

Ten miles to the north is Manchester, which is a different kettle of fish!

Being equidistant from both, I feel that our locality is quite a decent place.  Not as posh as the former, but nowhere near as bad as the latter.
Yes, there are a small number of brownies here, but they are exceptionally good people, at least the ones I know.

Quote from: GrannyMac on Today at 08:18:21 PMHere's one place not a million miles away from you, my son lives in the area.
https://macclesfield.nub.news/news/local-news/more-census-data-on-identity-for-cheshire-east-revealed-165750

Knutsford seems to be of a similar ilk.  

JBR, I don't recall ever seeing a non-white person til the late 60s in Dundee.  I remember it was when an Asian family took over a local shop.   Moved to Doncaster a few years later, and at first we lived in a cheap area, our neighbours included Indians, West Indians and Pakistanis.  The area now is full of Eastern Europeans.  Then we bought a house in a pit village, exclusively white! 

We moved to a suburb where there were other incomers, and good schools.  There were a few Asian families, one who'd made lots of money on the markets, and others who worked at the hospital.  Their kids were bright! 

Here's one place not a million miles away from you, my son lives in the area.
https://macclesfield.nub.news/news/local-news/more-census-data-on-identity-for-cheshire-east-revealed-165750

Good old Alexa, I've spend a couple of hours listening to Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Rogers & Hammerstein songs.  In the 60s we had some great music and some will never be forgotten, but there was something special about these old songs.

Quote from: dextrous63 on Today at 06:59:33 PMWhat about if we make it a legal obligation for pedestrians to wear inflatable smimming rings around their waists and heads?  Sort of personalised buoys?

No, I disagree.
It would serve them better if they continued to walk into each other, hopefully banging their heads together and knocking a bit of sense into themselves.

The pub was packed on Saturday night
Ethel and Maggie pole dancing, what a sight
The pole was greased with thick beef dripping
It stank something horrid, and the pair kept slipping
Their green wooly drawers gave everyone a fright !

Reverend Brown was new to the church

Which places are almost all white British ?
 

Quite.  Plus, of course, life expectancy has risen which has created its own problems.