In a nicely strange way, July '96 doesn't seem that long ago. Crazy to think that it was 26 years ago!! Glad that Covent Garden hasn't changed that much. Good video!
It's amazing to think that people existed in color back then. I've seen videos further back in the past. Some as early as 500 BC and color hasn't been invented yet.
This takes me back - Covent Garden hasn't really changed that much since 1996, quite honestly, but I think my attitude towards it has. Back when I was at university in Portsmouth I had friends on the south coast but during term breaks would be at my parents house in Essex. For whatever reason, it felt like the perfect central spot to catch up with someone in an afternoon over the summer break - we could grab a pizza, drink in one of the nearby pubs (The Essex Serpent was always my fave in those days) and enjoy ourselves before going our separate ways again. The older I got, the less I used it for socialising partly (I think) because it increasingly became a bit of a tourist trap and therefore more expensive. Most of my good memories stem from this period.
Charing Cross road, the Chinatown side, going up to the Palace Theatre has changed, but like you wrote, it mostly hasn't changed. Tottenham Court Road has a facelift though.
26 years later...... Women: oh, FFS I'll get it myself! .....🤔🤨 No, the guys still haven't won anything......and yes the temperature really did hit 40c a few weeks back (July 2022)🌡️☀️🔥🔥🔥
In the days before the New York Candy Company money launders arrived and British people weren't saying "Guys, I'll take some like Candy for like Halloween...' etc
was in london that summer, hard to believe london was still so white back then and still so slim, obesity hadnt taken hold, wish i could go back, feel sad thinking about it
I notice men's builds in those days were mainly slim, these days literally every guy is a mini arnie schwarzenegger, or seems to be n my area. Must be evolution , can't all be gym related.
Its scary how fast life flashes by. 96 seems like yesterday
In a nicely strange way, July '96 doesn't seem that long ago. Crazy to think that it was 26 years ago!!
Glad that Covent Garden hasn't changed that much.
Good video!
It's amazing to think that people existed in color back then. I've seen videos further back in the past. Some as early as 500 BC and color hasn't been invented yet.
To kids today this is how we thought about the 60s.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 exactly.
great summer! The country was buzzing from Euro 96. It was the summer before I went to uni.
I went for a poo❤
Straight in at the start. An Oasis style chequed shirt.... Everyone was wearing those
So how come he's the only person in the entire video wearing one?
At a time you could drive a car into central London and pay at a meter.
This was the time when no one had cameras and when no one was filming anything. Blissful times!
Apart from the guy with the camera filming this 😉
@@MrTim207 I think it is probably a memory capture
Well apart from me
This takes me back - Covent Garden hasn't really changed that much since 1996, quite honestly, but I think my attitude towards it has. Back when I was at university in Portsmouth I had friends on the south coast but during term breaks would be at my parents house in Essex. For whatever reason, it felt like the perfect central spot to catch up with someone in an afternoon over the summer break - we could grab a pizza, drink in one of the nearby pubs (The Essex Serpent was always my fave in those days) and enjoy ourselves before going our separate ways again.
The older I got, the less I used it for socialising partly (I think) because it increasingly became a bit of a tourist trap and therefore more expensive. Most of my good memories stem from this period.
Shirts and ties
Thankfully unlike Soho, Charring X Road etc it hasn't changed that much and still has its character mostly intact
Charing Cross road, the Chinatown side, going up to the Palace Theatre has changed, but like you wrote, it mostly hasn't changed.
Tottenham Court Road has a facelift though.
Good times
It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming, football's coming home...
26 years later......
Women: oh, FFS I'll get it myself! .....🤔🤨
No, the guys still haven't won anything......and yes the temperature really did hit 40c a few weeks back (July 2022)🌡️☀️🔥🔥🔥
Football is never coming home. ENGLAND SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the days before the New York Candy Company money launders arrived and British people weren't saying "Guys, I'll take some like Candy for like Halloween...' etc
was in london that summer, hard to believe london was still so white back then and still so slim, obesity hadnt taken hold, wish i could go back, feel sad thinking about it
Hi8 or Video 8 format? or S-VHS?
London was still just about an English city then. Then that nice Mr Blair came in and declared war on the indigenous population.
A nice place then.
Even though it was 28 years ago 96 feels a bit too recent to me to seem to be interesting
Look reader! No phones. People present. Wow. Different times!
Really lol
I notice men's builds in those days were mainly slim, these days literally every guy is a mini arnie schwarzenegger, or seems to be n my area. Must be evolution , can't all be gym related.
Evolution happens over millions of years. Can’t change anything in 26 years
Now the kids all speak like they're black.
That’s because most of them are blackies
Now all the kids are black.
What a stupid comment. What is 'speaking black'? Imagine thinking all black people speak the same.
That's a good thing. It means that we have diverse community which means that sesh is propa authentic isn't it yeah?
Wow not everyone is obese!
Just before forced cultural enrichment took full hold
Lots of white people.
Not so different from now :)
Eh?? I think not.