ahhhh what a beautiful video. i lived up by the girls school at the time, and still live in wallington. that brown office block which you see a small flash of just after the rail bridge, on the right at the bottom of the high street, the canon building..is where i am now. yes, major differences, sadly that distinctive church was demolished some 10 years later and also the car park next to that tall block of flats (Rosemount) was demolished as part of the new sainsburys development. Lots of shops i so fondly remember in the square long gone now and that footbridge too!! lots still look the same which is super lovely. top stuff to you buddy for filming this at the time. also lots of very famous actors and singers who would of been around then, now sadly no longer with us. awwww good old days guys..and it was british rail!!! hehe
I was 5 when this video was filmed. Wallington still looks more or less the same. biggest differences are the reduction of trees, and the church & cavalier pub which has ben replaced by that massive Sainsburys. Wallington when I was younger was definitely more of a country town then compared to today. Even though we were still part of Greater London, we always referred to ourselves as Surrey. It's still a great place to live, but it's definitely not the same town from the video.
Thanks for posting this.....i remember most of them shops lol!! Down past Woolworths used to be the fruit and veg shop 'Gerrards' and the flower shop next door.....i used to work in that florist shop on a Saturday......it was my first ever Saturday job :-) x
I used to live right in the flats (Braybrook court??) just next to Holy trinity church at this time. Every Friday we used to do a food shop and Superdrug shop and if I was good, I was allowed Hubba Bubba gum and Panda pop drink whilst I sat outside on the concrete benches. 😆 Moved to the Helier estate in 88.
I was 14 at that time. The 157 and 154 were the buses I took to school. That might have even been me crossing at the pelican crossing, you never know. I practically lived n the library lol book work that I was. Although Sutton library was better. I worked in Granada tv rentals as a Saturday girl, but usually in the Croydon branch. My mum worked round the corner from that Christian book shop in the accounting firm. Haven't been back there for over 20 years. Memories!
We moved from Wallington just 4 years ago butter hill estate,I do miss it just a little, but not the traffic,66 years I lived there,and now in Newark Notts, when you set out for somewhere here, you can arrive in good time mostly,
his don't half bring back the memory's, going to capellos on staford road to get my hair cut then going to woolworths to look at the saga games.. I was only 2 when this video was taken
I lived at 24 Rosemount 1966-1971 my family was one of the first to move in - it was a diplomatic ghetto with many foreign government representatives like my father as tenants. I attended school "across the border" in Croydon. Wallington was very "country" then and Surrey, not London was the point of reference as the GLC was only created the year before. I last saw Wallington in 2009, still some green spaces like nearby Beddington Park and the Grove in Carshalton but really run down. Budget cuts I suppose, what a shame.
lived worked in LBS about 43 years worked for Post office royal mail and Parcelforce till 2002 Wallington changed so much since was born 1n 1959 majority landmarks gone even police station closed down
oh my days this is sick! Imagine walking down the street with a camcorder back in the day! i cant even remember what was there before the big sainsburys
Just watch this again and couldn't spot a car shop in Wallington precinct called Russ Auto's I think. And what was the name of the night club in the high street? My parents used to go there leaving me and my brother to our own devices. We were good little soldiers and didn't burn the house down.
copshop now a block of flats. BP NOW A Do IT TYPE STORE. The church on Woodcote Rd. now Sainsburys. Barclays bank now derelict. Most of the shops in the sq. now coffee n cheap shops.
@@Louisthesaxman1 the boundaries changed in 1965 . It was deemed to expensive to change postcodes then . Sutton ,Croydon ,Mitcham ,Wallington etc have not been in Surrey since then . Whether you feel like your in Surrey is another matter , but the boundaries now put Wallington firmly in Greater London .
@@Louisthesaxman1 your not in Surrey unfortunately , where the London Borough of Sutton finishes and Reigate and Banstead starts is the border ,where you are , and the London Borough of Sutton ,is as its name suggests is London . As i said if you feel Wallington is in Surrey that is up to you but the facts are Wallington comes under Greater London .
@@croydonable hmmm you might be right after further research but the fact remains that we don't have a London postcode and our post is addressed to Surrey so I would say it's ambiguous.
I lived in Wallington in the 1980's. To me this was middle England, even quite posh in those days. Now its a typical squalid English dump with lots of single Mums and louts. And also more Islam because the pubs are all closing including the Windmill shown in this video. All very sad.
What total bollocks, nothing like what you write, single mums muslims and pub closers, we all work together in Wallington, it's the grammar school boys that are drunk and loud ones.
@@paulchappell9606 Can't back up your response with any facts. Just swearing and nonsense. If you were living in Wallington in the 1980's then you would understand what I'm talking about. The grammar school is one of the only good things that Wallington has to offer.
I found the narration on this somewhat patronising..."There's a police station, look. The sign says "POLICE"." Really. "There's the court. C-R-O-W-N C-O-U-R-T. There's a butchers, there's a bakers!" You don't have to point out the name and purpose of each shop, you make it sound as though you're a presenter on "Sesame Street" !
OUR UNUSUAL NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN SURREY - CHEAM, EPSOM, SUTTON, WEYBRIDGE & WALLINGTON Few people living in Surrey really know their neighbours but how would you know your neighbour if he or she worked for MI6? Most who knew Bill Fairclough didn’t have a clue that from the seventies he was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps. So if you lived, worked in or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered Fairclough and his colleagues, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs! Details including some full addresses of where Bill Fairclough et al lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974 and he still seems to be operational as Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings might have noticed (theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2021.07.21.php).
ahhhh what a beautiful video. i lived up by the girls school
at the time, and still live in wallington. that brown office block which you see a small flash of just after the rail bridge, on the right at the bottom of the high street, the canon building..is where i am now. yes, major differences, sadly that distinctive church was demolished some 10 years later and also the car park next to that tall block of flats (Rosemount) was demolished as part of the new sainsburys development. Lots of shops i so fondly remember in the square long gone now and that footbridge too!! lots still look the same which is super lovely. top stuff to you
buddy for filming this at the time. also lots of
very famous actors and
singers who would of been around then, now sadly
no
longer with us. awwww good old
days guys..and it was british rail!!!
hehe
I was 5 when this video was filmed. Wallington still looks more or less the same. biggest differences are the reduction of trees, and the church & cavalier pub which has ben replaced by that massive Sainsburys.
Wallington when I was younger was definitely more of a country town then compared to today. Even though we were still part of Greater London, we always referred to ourselves as Surrey. It's still a great place to live, but it's definitely not the same town from the video.
@0:27 The 157 still going to crystal palace :). Great nostalgic video thnx for posting
Thanks for posting. Lived there from 1972 to 1986 - Happy memories :)
I lived there for 10 years before returning to Australia , remember the Cavalier pub very well ...
It was the most soul less depressing place. Spend many evenings in there
First pub i got served in , playing truant from school in 1983
Hard to believe we had more trees back then...
AND WOOLWORTHS!!!
Lived in Beddington 1955- 1970. Went to Collinwood Boys school in the 60's. God this brought it all back!
I have lived here my whole life
Thanks for posting this.....i remember most of them shops lol!! Down past Woolworths used to be the fruit and veg shop 'Gerrards' and the flower shop next door.....i used to work in that florist shop on a Saturday......it was my first ever Saturday job :-) x
It's changed there so much. I lived in Wallington 1976 to 1991. I remember Auto Russ ! Happy days.........
I used to live right in the flats (Braybrook court??) just next to Holy trinity church at this time. Every Friday we used to do a food shop and Superdrug shop and if I was good, I was allowed Hubba Bubba gum and Panda pop drink whilst I sat outside on the concrete benches. 😆 Moved to the Helier estate in 88.
Oh the 157. Bus of my youth
long time ago 157 bus back to 1970s
Did you know a 'Marcus Whittle' back then, by any chance?
@@original-pilgrim The name sounds familiar. Carshalton Boys??
@@PhilTaylorTBH .. I think Darren Whittle went there, they were brothers .. Marcus was the curly-haired little brother of the two.
Basil Bunker. History teacher.
I was 14 at that time. The 157 and 154 were the buses I took to school. That might have even been me crossing at the pelican crossing, you never know. I practically lived n the library lol book work that I was. Although Sutton library was better. I worked in Granada tv rentals as a Saturday girl, but usually in the Croydon branch. My mum worked round the corner from that Christian book shop in the accounting firm. Haven't been back there for over 20 years. Memories!
Auto Russ, Mawani Opticians, Mr Snob, the double fronted WHS - brilliant memories, thank you 😀
Such a lovely video@channel,hope you have a amazing 2022! and stay safe debs
This is great. My mum used to work in Clark’s bakery, which is 3 cooks in the vid. I remember, Mr Snob, Auto Russ - brilliant 😀
We moved from Wallington just 4 years ago butter hill estate,I do miss it just a little, but not the traffic,66 years I lived there,and now in Newark Notts, when you set out for somewhere here, you can arrive in good time mostly,
Wow! I spotted my racing Powerboat parked outside Gigs's!
thankyou so much for uploading this great memories.
his don't half bring back the memory's, going to capellos on staford road to get my hair cut then going to woolworths to look at the saga games.. I was only 2 when this video was taken
Wow things seem to have really changed over the years, almost looks unrecognisable nowadays compared to this footage taken 10 years before I was born!
I lived at 24 Rosemount 1966-1971 my family was one of the first to move in - it was a diplomatic ghetto with many foreign government representatives like my father as tenants. I attended school "across the border" in Croydon. Wallington was very "country" then and Surrey, not London was the point of reference as the GLC was only created the year before. I last saw Wallington in 2009, still some green spaces like nearby Beddington Park and the Grove in Carshalton but really run down. Budget cuts I suppose, what a shame.
Thankyou for sharing.
Thankyou for this.
lived worked in LBS about 43 years worked for Post office royal mail and Parcelforce till 2002 Wallington changed so much since was born 1n 1959 majority landmarks gone even police station closed down
6 seconds in and I already clicked like. '87 is when I moved here
oh my days this is sick! Imagine walking down the street with a camcorder back in the day! i cant even remember what was there before the big sainsburys
The early ones used full size VHS tape and were so big you had to carry them on your shoulder.😄
Nice video, brings back good memories
What a great video, I live on Onslow Gardens! We moved here in 2017! Do you still live in the area?
Just watch this again and couldn't spot a car shop in Wallington precinct called Russ Auto's I think. And what was the name of the night club in the high street? My parents used to go there leaving me and my brother to our own devices. We were good little soldiers and didn't burn the house down.
Ginos!
I go to the local primary school Bandon Hill Meadow field
I did too. I left back in 2014 tho. It’s a good school imo. Teachers are really nice.
Surreal!
Is this really just a video of the lady with the pram being stalked?
Fab going back to that year can you remember the month you filmed this?
Old town hall is a college now
This place is name after me 😂
Use to use Ross motorcycles back then
Why does this voice sound like Ric
What a pity that Wallington Square is now a total s***hole. It looked so much better in 1987!
copshop now a block of flats. BP NOW A Do IT TYPE STORE. The church on Woodcote Rd. now Sainsburys. Barclays bank now derelict. Most of the shops in the sq. now coffee n cheap shops.
Not Surrey ,Wallington is in Greater London , in the London Borough of Sutton
This is the end of my address.
Wallington,
Surrey,
SM6 ***
@@Louisthesaxman1 the boundaries changed in 1965 . It was deemed to expensive to change postcodes then . Sutton ,Croydon ,Mitcham ,Wallington etc have not been in Surrey since then .
Whether you feel like your in Surrey is another matter , but the boundaries now put Wallington firmly in Greater London .
We are in Greater London and Surrey.
@@Louisthesaxman1 your not in Surrey unfortunately , where the London Borough of Sutton finishes and Reigate and Banstead starts is the border ,where you are , and the London Borough of Sutton ,is as its name suggests is London .
As i said if you feel Wallington is in Surrey that is up to you but the facts are Wallington comes under Greater London .
@@croydonable hmmm you might be right after further research but the fact remains that we don't have a London postcode and our post is addressed to Surrey so I would say it's ambiguous.
3:32 Auto Russ.
Nice to see no litter strewn everywhere. In 2022 we live in shit because no one cares anymore.
I lived in Wallington in the 1980's. To me this was middle England, even quite posh in those days. Now its a typical squalid English dump with lots of single Mums and louts. And also more Islam because the pubs are all closing including the Windmill shown in this video. All very sad.
What the fuck are you on about 😂
What total bollocks, nothing like what you write, single mums muslims and pub closers, we all work together in Wallington, it's the grammar school boys that are drunk and loud ones.
@@paulchappell9606 Can't back up your response with any facts. Just swearing and nonsense. If you were living in Wallington in the 1980's then you would understand what I'm talking about. The grammar school is one of the only good things that Wallington has to offer.
Peace and love brother peace and love.
@@Whh1978 born here in 88 never had any trouble at all it's a nice place to live. Perhaps you dwell on the negatives.
dump area rural live there roundshaw estate omg glad moved weybridge
I found the narration on this somewhat patronising..."There's a police station, look. The sign says "POLICE"." Really. "There's the court. C-R-O-W-N C-O-U-R-T. There's a butchers, there's a bakers!" You don't have to point out the name and purpose of each shop, you make it sound as though you're a presenter on "Sesame Street" !
OUR UNUSUAL NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN SURREY - CHEAM, EPSOM, SUTTON, WEYBRIDGE & WALLINGTON
Few people living in Surrey really know their neighbours but how would you know your neighbour if he or she worked for MI6? Most who knew Bill Fairclough didn’t have a clue that from the seventies he was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps. So if you lived, worked in or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered Fairclough and his colleagues, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs!
Details including some full addresses of where Bill Fairclough et al lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974 and he still seems to be operational as Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings might have noticed (theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2021.07.21.php).