Highfields, Leicester, UK : Vintage TV news reports - 1984 to 1989

Highfields, Leicester, UK : a compilation of local TV news reports from between 1984 to 1989 covering major news stories that occurred in Highfields in the 1980's :
1984 - Kerb crawling in Highfields
1985 - Rioting in Highfields
1986 - Government improvement scheme for Highfields
1987 - Stop & search laws & Black youths in Leicester
1989 - Leicester Caribbean Carnival
BIG RESPECT to Guvna Gregah for enabling this video to be shared !

[@JustMe-ip9xn]

Amazing, literally my childhood. Thank you for this. I seen Dips, Kevin Brown, The HYCC, my street!!

[@lemonbade]

Did you know David Carr?

[@andymurday4538]

Please release more videos of old Highfields. My Childhood is there.

[@saffronsaffron4848]

Andy murday - I'll see what I can do mate

[@lemonbade]

@@saffronsaffron4848 did you know David Carr?

[@rainynate3244]

I lived there and i can honestly say they were the best days of my life!! I

[@hydrophonix9021]

I love u bro

[@pudddingpie]

6:49 R.I.P Dips Highfields Legend

[@eddie1273]

Who remembers the big mural that they painted at the top of Evington Road by the supermarket?

[@djkyzr7660]

Yep I remember that when the solo shop was there

[@djdoolittle1315]

Yeah I do 😉

[@NoRockinMansLand]

I'm 18 so I wouldn't know 😂 still cool to see what my hometown looked some decades ago. What was the racial makeup of highfields at that time?

[@1stclassknowledge144]

Lol gateways

[@bestdisco1979]

I grew up in highfields and thought the term “ do you want business “ was in the dictionary,,I heard it so much.

[@rainynate3244]

Brilliant

[@drunkenmaster6434]

Used to live in S Wigston in the early 2000s but my girlfriend lived in Highfields. Our capoeira group uses to perform in the carnival. Did the 04 and 05

[@tdarg8919]

Rest in peace my uncle Craig highfields legend 💯💯💯

[@Onkarr]

10:50 so many years later and they have even more power!

[@imranqureshi2100]

Do you have an email that I can reach out to? in regards to clearing some of this footage for a documentary

[@stockgorilla4999]

Miss Highfields

[@TrapperMilan]

2.25, think his name is Trevor.
Might have gone Charnwood school with him :)

[@MaleNotForSale]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TrapperMilan]

Jason, can't read your reply.

[@harryroberts2403]

Very different place now Highfields ...
And David Pleat wouldn't be able to go up and get a brass 😉😂

[@benmiler]

The Braunstone story👍

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

Chief Constable Alan 'pay for it' Jenkins says his force will not swoop down on kerb crawlers, because... it's much worse in Nottingham.

[@TheProdigy1982]

9:01 looks like a curb crawler his self 🤣🤣🤣

[@wayneboxerhall1262]

That red newsagent was called Sams I think they were the days in the arches Ghetto

[@lk2816]

Come bk in 3 years and it's still the same lol.

[@yusufpatel5356]

What's the name of the Asian ? shopkeeper

[@soloist9495]

whos the kid bodypoppin

[@unclefunclef5059]

Kevin brown !!!

[@djsherran]

AkA Spider

[@1stclassknowledge144]

Hahaha Kevin brown 🤣

[@terry.chootiyaa]

*His name is Little Winston (lickal..)* 😁😆💃

[@wayneboxerhall1262]

Spider lol

[@hydrophonix9021]

Glad iv left

[@rodrodi9130]

Was there before the game we played Darby 5 of us ran 150 Darby when they came to the coin exchange pub after the game the coppers would not let us out of the ground so we went mad and caused a roit for two days because we was not going to get no action from the Darby fans saddess firm out along with Tottenham so when firms tell me up north like middlesbrough and Wednesday they got done Darby I can't believe it