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Thanks for this as I lived in Tadema Rd from the late 50s then into Stadium Rd for a couple of years. Primary school was Ashburnham Rd all off Lots Rd..played in bombed out warehouses fished in the creek and had a fight in is with some lads that had walked across the rail bridge from Battersea 😂 also played on sunken boats on the Thames where the embankment turned up towards the Kings Rd. Fantastic childhood 👍

What were Saxons doing building a church in the Angle Kingdom of Northumbria? I think someone has got their history mixed up.

Very interesting. Thank you.

The pedestrianisation is horrible. Very rarely go into town now, fosse park is much better. The city just looks dirty constantly, beggars and tramps everywhere, people stopping you asking if you have a minute to talk about your energy or broadband. The city council is pretty useless and really dont invest in making the city beautiful, preferring to make it dull and drab

A fantastic trip down memory lane. I lived near the top of Broomhill Road from 1982 to 2012. Spent far too much time in the bar at The Cricketers next door to the Common. :>) A few yards to the left of Lingfield's in Broomhill Road is the Old Forge Garage where I had my cars serviced and MOT'd. It's still there today. My son still resides in Orpington so I have seen most of the changes that have taken place over the ensuing decade.

Thanks - I have to visit!

I went to see Dead Poets Society in 1989 on its release. I was studying at the university in Leicester from 1988 to 1991 and then for my PGCE from 1992-1993. It is fascinating seeing the differences between 1989 and 2024. I hold Leicester in high regard. I have not been there for about twenty years. I know it is important to live in the moment but I am nostalgic for the eighties and would turn the clock back if I could, notwithstanding the fact that it was a tumultuous time politically and the Cold War was at its height. There are some beautiful buildings in Leicester. The people are friendly and down to earth, too. I have been thinking of going back to spend a couple of days there and I am sure I will before long.

We left the Shoddy EU. The British still use imperial

The location you ringed on the map for Ocean Cruise Terminal is in fact the Town Quay - you’ll only catch ferries to Hythe (across Southampton Water) and the Isle of Wight from here. You need to go a bit further along Platform Road to get to the Ocean Terminal. Not sure if you can reach it via Dock Gate 5 on foot, or if you have to carry on further down the road to Dock Gate 4 (which is certainly the only way to access Ocean Terminal if you are arriving by car).

I just returned myself after 7 years and this video mirrors a walk around just last week. Fascinating

what a great study. thanks

i remember pikes aquatics i think building has gone and orpington model car centre

Thanks for this, I was born in '88 and lived on Hearns Road till I left home at 18. Those old pics brought back some old memories, especially the old Blue Anchor and Red Lion pubs.

Thank you for this very helpful information. Do you think it would be safe to do the walk from the train station to the Ibis hotel late at night?

The 1989 photos are of incredibly good quality, so much so that they don't actually look that old! If I had to guess, I'd have said they were from the late 90s/early 00s.

The commodore cinema certainly brings back many romantic memories. Great days gone by growing up and living in Orpington. Bring those days back please. Now living in West Sussex

Nice video, unfortunately my friend & I are leaving out of Ocean Terminal, a 30 Minute walk according to Google. I’ve been to mayflower terminal twice before, far away from Ocean terminal. It looks easy on a map but …..no, it’s far from Ocean Terminal (completely separate entrance)✌🏻safe cruising everyone

I was on the lots road site april to August 2022 renewing tge chimneys. Great project. It looks fantastic now. I will have to have a look next time in London.

Which way do you turn once you walk through the Gate? Although the Horizon terminal is directly in front of you, there is a long perimeter fence. Is there a way through that car park for pedestrians or do you have to walk right around the fence?

Amazing video 😍👑❤️😘🤩👍

Don't go anywhere near that place !!?

Thank you that was very interesting as always. It’s done very well if it was a ruin by Henry the eighth.

Makes you realise how much pedestrianisation has improved our cities from the horrors of the 1970s.

its a shiteole, Granby Street, omigod,,, be careful. lunatics druggies, beggars, v unsafe

Fantastic content sir i've really enjoyed watching it. I've lived in Leicester in early 2000s its still the same.

Excellent video, thank you for posting. I was brought up in the Crays during the 1950's/60's. We didn't have much but as a kid I thoroughly enjoyed it all. I can still recall the sense of camaraderie and the troubles shared with neighbours. Went back on a visit recently and couldn't believe my eyes - a traffic nightmare and swarthy foreign types everywhere. What on earth happened to our world?

That looks amazing, Steve! Think I'll be booking a quick trip up to Northampton soon, cheers! 😄

My grandad used to be the organist at St. Giles from around the early 1980s until the mid-late 1990s.

When the bridge was built it was said that WHEN THE BRIDGE WAS PAID OFF THERE WOULD NO LONGER BE A TOLL..... That was UNTRUE and we STILL pay to use it....... Politicians... And they wonder (don't care what we think) why we hold them with contempt.

Great to see it comming to an end. I have been working there for 2 years as a technical manager for basements contruction. I have for plenty of photos from the inside.

Thank you for this! You definitely earned all the extra cruise calories you lost! 😂

Yes, that does look amazing thank you, didn’tRenni Macintosh school of art burn down twice a few years ago while being renovated??

Very interesting.

Great advice. I'm going to probably opt for an uber?

It's an awful place now run by a mayor who doesn't understand people or care. Leicester for the few, not the many.

Great video , I grew up in Orpington it is interesting how it change's without one realizing , the building at 6:34 used to be a coal merchants office.

Croydon is a disgusting place to be these days. Mostly boarded up and run down shops, even the last survivor WH Smith in North End only occupies the downstairs area. I noticed your 1997 picture of Surrey Street market, full of barrows, now only the lower half of the street is the market. Croydon is now plagued with homelessness, begging and crime.

Many years ago I was a student at Simmaries, Strawberry Hill nearby. The existence of Pope's Grotto wasn't exactly a secret then, but I never did get round to visiting it. Many of the residences along the Thames originally had gardens that ran directly down to the river.

On the old police station the ladder next to the left hand chimney actually led to the "Air Raid" siren which is just visible and was still operative until the Station closed. The Station was at the time part of the Metropolitan Police "P" Division which included, Biggin Hill, Bromley, Catford, Lewisham, Brockley and if memory serves me also Deptford. Most of the stations were built in 1839.

Very interesting, thank you. I didn’t know the place existed and I lived at one time in Yorkshire.

After visiting the Popes Grotto pub frequently in the 80s, i had no idea it was named after this.

I couldn't watch beyond 1 minute. That irritating background music was so distracting. Intro music is fine, but to have is throughout the video is a bad idea.

I was born here in 1961 and we left in 1972. Fond memories of fishing for Sticklebacks in the River Cray.

Excellent 👍

Really good vid, thanks for posting.

Why brain dead music?

My wife and I were staying in the Pig in the Wall on the Western Esplanade and we boarded a cruise ship to Norway. I googled the route and it looked like a pretty easy walk, by my wife wasn't keen on doing it with 4 bags saying about 50 kilos in total so we took an Uber.

Do you have any views of the interior?

idk, it's not that cray

During construction of the bridge i was living in Nth London but working on a building site right next to the M25 on the South side, you can see the roofs of the site on the right of the video @ 2:14 behind the wall. And i remember the daily traffic i had to put up with getting to and from work, all so long ago now!