@@aspasap I was mugged by two Skins in South London in 1980(I was a bleached blonde punk) who tried to nick my curry - they didn't realise how forcefully it would go down their throats (or over their flight jackets and sta pressed) Happy days! 😉
@@hugodrax71. I agree with you to an extent. The internet was a good advancement but, unfortunately too many chancers ruined it trying to make a quick buck, (particularly with younger people). It saddens me to see them glued to their smartphones playing inane mind numbing games. Absolutely rudderless, and not connected with reality 😞
I was a 19 year old Yank riding my Trek through England and France at the time , just digging life . Great times , beautiful people….. far less traffic !
I've been searching all sorts of these videos and documentaries of England. I've had an admiration and desire to visit the country more than any other abroad since I was a child. As a Yankee I worry for the our Anglo cousins. They're contributions over just the last 100 years cannot be understated. A heritage that should be protected. The same thing is happening in all the western nations. This is not some happenstance. We've tolerated the nonsense long enough.
Thank You,My Friend. I returned to the heart of London over the last 2 days and it is very vibrant though the English are much harder to find away from the working areas.
It’s intentional de-civilisation of The West, by the snakes that run the privately owned central banks. The Great Reset. Depopulation. Neo-feudalism. Slavery.
I remember 1982 my brother and i going up to london just us 2 alone i was 12 he was 14 we bought red bus rovers and traveled on the bus from ilford to Central london visiting museums and other attractions we had a great day
Red bus rover, great value, did the same, great day out, not as busy as now, cheaper of course, I feel London now is living off those times, but it's a hellish place now, no character, soulless, no real choice, British leaders always follow the American bullshit, because they have no imagination,,,
This appears to have been filmed in July/August. I remember Octopussy & Return Of The Jedi being the big summer movies in 1983, along with Wham's "Fantastic" & The Police's "Syncronicity" albums being released around the same time. It's also wonderful to see how well-dressed women & men were back then
Great to see how London was back then, the Thames is very different now surrounded by so called luxury flats. Would love a time machine to return to that era.
I typed in 1983 for some nostalgia,wanting to see London how it was whilst i was young,it was a different world,seemed more stable in UK than now with all thats going on in the world,that year i was driving a Vauxhall Viva,even went to see Siouxie and the Banshee's at the Royal Albert hall on a Friday ,she played 2 nights there and it was made into a live album called Nocturne made up of recordings chosen from the 2 nights,later i saw she wore different attire each night,thanks to watching it on film i worked out which songs id seen but that was nearly 4 decades later, Thank you for a great upload that took me down memory lane,wishing the uploader,friends,family and fellow viewers health,happiness.
Great film (once we get past shots of famous landmark buildings) - I loved London in 1983, great to see advert hoardings and people going about their business. London was negotiable and navigable in 1983 and a pleasant place to be - the atmosphere has completely changed in 2023.
I agree, but I do remember the buses being disgusting - cigarette butts everywhere and rubbish all over the seats. London has been well cleaned, sanitised and gentrified since then!
Ironically, only yesterday after we all left school and started work, we met each other for the first time in 53 years at our School's Memorial Service, so we bypassed each other's whole working life and now everyone has retired. lol
I used to work in London back then, you could have a few pints after work, stagger off to get the last train, then walk home in the suburbs, no bother...
I ❤ London. And around 1983 London gave birth to so many international icons like Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, FGTH, not to mention Acid House shortly later on. I really wish I could go back in time to London at the time.
When London wasn’t full of millions of tourists and London’s population had been in decline as people had be rehoused in the New Towns of places like Milton Keynes, Harlow and Crawley etc. I was in Finchley lad in 1983
Watching this I’m wishing I could jump through the phone and be there. Always gives me a strong sense of peaceful nostalgia watching how the world use to be. Better times , I’d take that over Todays lunacy
No mês passado fomos conhecer Londres, minha esposa e eu. Foi a grande🎉 realização dos nossos sonhos, ficamos hospedados no Hotel Plaza em frente da estação Lambeth North, então ficamos muitos próximos das maiores atrações da cidade e pudemos conhecer muitas delas apenas caminhando. Num dia de sol pegamos o metro e fomos conhecer tbm a famosa Abbey Road dos Beatles que fica próxima da estação St. John's Wood. Em Londres o transporte é facil. Mas a cereja 🍒 do bolo foi caminharmos de madrugada, eu e a minha esposa, debaixo de uma fina chuva prateada cantando a música "London Town" dos Wings, um dos momentos mais mágicos e inesquecíveis ao longo dos meus 64 anos de vida. Vou dormir todas as noites olhando as fotos que tirei de Londres no celular me lembrando desses momentos e pedindo pra sonhar que ainda estamos lá. Pra quem tem esse sonho e puder fazer isso eu digo, vá, vá porque vale a pena, essa experiência acrescentou muita emoção nas nossas vidas e nos deu um novo significado para entendermos o mundo...
@@henrikchristensen7844 This is bollocks Henrick. I was a teenager in 1983 and London was anything but safe. It was full of obnoxious little racist skinheads.
Such good footage and camera work. You've captured all the important aspects of central London, the historic buildings and landmarks, the shops and famous commercial areas, the people and fashions, modes of transport, the parks and Wimbledon..... Thank you for sharing it - and your talents - with us.
I lived in London for over forty years, but moved to the Highlands of Scotland. I've only seen London on screen since 2000, but what I see gives me no desire to return.😢
It was still a bit of a dump as I was living in London still at the time. Plenty of remnants from the 70s Labour run days. Nothing worked and Thatcher had quite tamed the bolshi unions. We haven't progressed at all actually. Regressed in many areas.
@@speakertreatzwhen it felt English / British culture. Not the third world ‘anybody can come’ immigration who are not professionals and don’t wish to integrate and contribute
6:23 The seat moquette on the District Line back then was also the same which was applied to all of London's fleet of modern buses. Routemasters retained their red seats.
From personal experience. I grew up in the UK during the 1970’s and we didn’t know anyone with a cine camera in the UK. The one person I know who had one in 1979 was from Finland. I visited him in Finland yesterday and watched his London home movie for the first time - brilliant. I can say confidently that the ’average’ family living in the UK never owned a cine camera.
@@mikekaraokeNope. Same goes for the 80’s. Not even VHS video cameras. I knew someone who had one of those around 1991. We must be from very different social backgrounds LOL.
@@finnmanproductions9240 No not at all, I'm talking about in general terms here not where you lived lol Iwould see many people when on holiday in UK/abroad with their video cameras in 80's/90's filming! I mean last night watching old retro repeats of Bullseye, 321, Catchphrase, etc and all them were video cameras! Also I remember as a kid seeing many people buy or rent video cameras out from likes of Dixons, Rumbleows, Radio Rentals, Radioshack etc And would also be in loads of films, TV Shows etc If not that many people had Video Cameras back then them companies would of gone bust lol So very confused with your post... Still have some of the retro Argos mags with video cameras to buy or pay monthly in- ESP JVC, Amstrad, Sony, etc Watched a repeat of an 80's documentary about 1985 about all the 80's tech sold gadgets and one of them was video cameras-they are pop culture to the 80's!
The sound track is way over the top, which spoils it somewhat. Cars weren't loud and rickety. Otherwise a nice look at a city and a period which is still fairly recent in my memory. In fact it was in the mid 80s that they started demolishing the older buildings and began putting up the high rise monstrosities that have disfigured the city in the last few decades.
I remember going up to London as a kid around this time. My Dad was complaining about the prices of things back then ! lol. Especially Madame Tussaud’s . “ I’m not paying all that money to see a bunch of dummies! Not even JR bloody Ewing !”
Canary Wharf etc. was a bit later in the 1980s once Thatcher deregulated the banks and yuppie culture set in. We're talking 1986 onwards. I've seen some photos of Bishopsgate from 1986 and it looks like a wartime drop site. It was total chaos, felt like a deserted slum and you wouldn't recognise it compared to today, because it was being demolished at the time. Same goes for Aldgate - someone showed me a photo from 1992 and I didn't recognise it. I've also seen footage of Stratford shot in 2007 just as the construction of the Olympic facilities was being ramped up, and what you see is just a huge hole in the ground. A comparison of the London skyline even from 2008 compared to today is also staggering.
Yes I think you're right, too different companies Sankyo and Sanyo. Must have been Sankyo Sound XL-60S, borrowed from my aunt. Quite expensive those days, I had to save some money to be able to pay the filmcosts...
@@ttuoma9386 And the older expired film stocks can cost even more to develop, if they even still make the chemicals in the case of some older color film. Of course, you cannot even get Kodachrome or its imitators developed in color as they do not make the color chemicals to fini9sh them and the color was never int he actual film in those cases.
Actually the first wave of large scale immigration happened during the 50's, 60's, and 70's; back then there was a good balance of ethnic minorities when it wasn't a problem. It only became a problem since 2002 when our borders were dropped and not regulated
Hot summer that year, no fear of climate change. Thatcher back in after a Spring Election and covered in glory from her Falklands victory… A high point for the Conservative Party, something that’s not likely to be repeated.
Bloody Hell, Carnaby St. Coloured paving, The Cascade, Melanddi the Mod days. Could be well moody around there you had to be on your alert. Many a punch up with other tribes. Skinheads especially . Soho was well sleazy, plenty of nonce cases , pervs , predators, runaways, gangsters etc. If you’ve been hanging about day n night you’d come back with black stuff blowing out your nose and the sleep in your eyes would be black as well from the pollution. London has always been changing. Always had it’s dangerous side. I’ve no problem being there and never will. Seen it , lived it and love it..
Great memories visited London as an 11 year old. we got a all day travel card and went to trafalgar Square . Is it me, or does London seem soulless these days ?
Exactly, it is hard to understand where all those years have gone. I was 16 when I was filming this, just before portable VHS was available, for me at least.
I celebrated my 18th birthday in June 1983 and think where did those years go! It seems so much more old fashioned looking back now and the London skyline is much changed but then it’s 40 years ago!
@@philgraham5341Same age,this upload reminds me of the fashions back then,tv programs,cars and my first beer i think back then it was 80p a pint,music too like Thompson twins and Bowies songs that year,remember it like it was yesterday but watching it on film reminds you it was a while back, Best wishes.
Grubby violent place. Tube stations were dangerous filthy places and the buses stank of piss, as did the telephone boxes, even so I’d prefer that to how it is today.
Yes, the piss smell of phone boxes - I remember that. Having to call a cab or a friend, and trying not to breath in through my nose!! Those later 'open' BT telephone kiosks were better in terms of hygiene.
@@seriousros7280 sometimes I ask myself if extreme obesity we can see everywhere nowadays is unhealthier than smoking (assuming that smoking is a bad habit)
Aaah, happy days, when Britain was British and the government stayed out of our lives. No constant talk of racism, the word misogyny wasn’t in use, no one except housewives worked from home, children played outside and burnt energy and scraped knees. Lost forever as all the immigrants turn our country into exactly the kind of country they are all so keen to leave!
"No constant talk of racism" followed by blatant racism. What a tool. I moved to London the year after this video was made and, coming from Surrey, I was amazed at the huge amount of different faces, races, and skin colours I encountered. It was initially scary, but this middle-class white boy soon grew to love it. "Misogyny" might not have been in use, but there was a lot of it about. You go back to pining for days when the air was polluted and the BNP were out in force. I'll take London as it is today thanks.
Yeah 😂 when I went there last year for my uncles Xmas party 🥳 all Pakistani men everywhere in the streets 😢 and women wore Burks , Sharia law is Londonistan now 😢
The visual quality! The film was only made in 1983, yet due to the poor quality appears to be 1893. Three years later the first mass produced video cameras were sold, and a good thing.
@@toonmag50 The original quality is much much better, but this is filmed from the screen when running the film. To have the full quality Super8 has, this should be transferred picture by picture - but that costs a lot, and I have not yet invested such a money for this. Super8 quality is indeed better than early video quality was mid eighties. When videocameras went digital, the quality got much better, but that was late nineties.
I left school in 1983. The economy was dire with high levels of unemployment. There was a real sense of hopelessness across the country as depicted in dramas such as Made in Britain, Boys from the Black Stuff and even the soap Brookside. Music too eg The Specials' Ghost Town. Universities are now full of students mostly doing BS courses that lead nowhere. If they weren't on these courses ( and getting themselves into a ton of debt in the process) they'd be on the dole; just like in 1983.
Oh sweetie, I was 9 years old in 1983 in the north of England. Looking back it was prehistoric. Waking up for school at 7am and thick ICE on the inside of the bedroom windows in winter. Just fkin mad. No central heating, just a coal fire.
@@brittania1974 much better for the health, not having central heating in the bedroom. It was magical scratching the frozen windows and seeing the snow falling outside. Get oot and enjoy the winter on the way to school.
I dunno which part of London you're referring to. I was a young mum back then and London was very multicultural then. The demographic has shifted a bit but London has always been multicultural
What do you mean exactly? Was there better film available at the time? Any other way for a tourist to film? Videocameras were not an option at that time.
Thanks for uploading. Filmed during the best summer that I can remember and June/July that year were glorious months. Would be good with a soundtrack of the summer hits of that year, there were some great tracks. Thanks again.
@@ttuoma9386 Video cameras were becoming the norm in 1983 and it was quite unusual to still be using cine film. The video cameras were generally pretty bulky though, and not best suited for tourists.
@@StrangeTapes I had a Panasonic video camera also in 1983/4, and this had a separate camera and a recorder - very heavy, impossible to drag around London. The combined camera + recorder sets were only invented at that time, their batteries were poor, and summer 1983 was not yet for VHS or other camcorders. Still, this London film was the last one I did using Super 8. Next winter I moved already to "portable" videos.
Definitely lost it's character since these days. I preferred the old London skyline too. I love tall buildings but the glass towers in central London look gash.
@@speakertreatz Yeah its not good. They look soulless. The walkie talkie building in particular ruins the square mile. Ugliest building i have ever seen.
@@FART-REPELLENT Rather allowed to get out of control to suit big businesses. 1000 come in, 100 get hired by Mc Donalds on minimum wage to help keep costs and wage demands down, tax payer pays for the other 900, GDP looks great because the government gives money to the 900 to sit about, but they still have to eat so spend the money they are given with those same big businesses...and who cares about the crime wave, the overcrowding, the change in culture etc? Bring on the next 1000... And what does the government say? Nothing, they work for big businesses and are never going to be held responsible for their actions.
Love this. It shows Carnaby Street as it was when it really was a destination. Now its all sanitised chain shops with zero atmosphere.
Say thanks to our politicians for that. They have applied regulations in order to regularise everything. Now you can feel safe.
I was mugged by skinheads in a shop doorway off Carnaby Street in 1981. Happy days.
@@aspasap
I was mugged by two Skins in South London in 1980(I was a bleached blonde punk) who tried to nick my curry - they didn't realise how forcefully it would go down their throats (or over their flight jackets and sta pressed)
Happy days! 😉
There are many occasions when I think we were much better off without the internet and smartphones.
Feel free to go offline. We'd be better off.
@@jaybee2402 And you've just illustrated one of the problems of the internet. Thank you!
@@hugodrax71. I agree with you to an extent. The internet was a good advancement but, unfortunately too many chancers ruined it trying to make a quick buck, (particularly with younger people). It saddens me to see them glued to their smartphones playing inane mind numbing games. Absolutely rudderless, and not connected with reality 😞
@@jaybee2402you simply prove their point with your negative comment, well done 👋🏻 give yourself a pat on the back.
@@edwardoleyba3075A lot of young people don’t want to work, they want to be social media stars. Not a good sign for the future of this world.
I was a 19 year old Yank riding my Trek through England and France at the time , just digging life . Great times , beautiful people….. far less traffic !
Trek?
Trek is a bicycle company. Fairly large now. I think they started in 1978-9 ? Good products.
You absolutely would not want to do that trip now. Traffic is much faster, denser and less patience for cyclists.
I've been searching all sorts of these videos and documentaries of England. I've had an admiration and desire to visit the country more than any other abroad since I was a child. As a Yankee I worry for the our Anglo cousins. They're contributions over just the last 100 years cannot be understated. A heritage that should be protected. The same thing is happening in all the western nations. This is not some happenstance. We've tolerated the nonsense long enough.
All planned to destroy the west - they don’t even hide it
where full dont come
Thank You,My Friend. I returned to the heart of London over the last 2 days and it is very vibrant though the English are much harder to find away from the working areas.
You’re not wanted in London with that sort of bollocks. Stay where you are.
It’s intentional de-civilisation of The West, by the snakes that run the privately owned central banks. The Great Reset. Depopulation. Neo-feudalism. Slavery.
Proper London. Back in the days we loved to visit.
Give me that cat 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️
Days of Thatcher destroying British industry and sell off public utilities....Grim times
I remember 1982 my brother and i going up to london just us 2 alone i was 12 he was 14 we bought red bus rovers and traveled on the bus from ilford to Central london visiting museums and other attractions we had a great day
Sounds fantastic.
Red bus rover, great value, did the same, great day out, not as busy as now, cheaper of course, I feel London now is living off those times, but it's a hellish place now, no character, soulless, no real choice, British leaders always follow the American bullshit, because they have no imagination,,,
The Old Red Bus Rovers man...What a blast from the past. You must be in your 50s now like me? 55?
@CARLIN4737 yes 56
This appears to have been filmed in July/August. I remember Octopussy & Return Of The Jedi being the big summer movies in 1983, along with Wham's "Fantastic" & The Police's "Syncronicity" albums being released around the same time.
It's also wonderful to see how well-dressed women & men were back then
Great to see how London was back then, the Thames is very different now surrounded by so called luxury flats. Would love a time machine to return to that era.
Sweet memories of a London that's long gone (well, actually a World that's long gone...). Great video, thanks.
looks exactly the same to me.
Oh my blimey, I was 15 years old London born and bred.
I typed in 1983 for some nostalgia,wanting to see London how it was whilst i was young,it was a different world,seemed more stable in UK than now with all thats going on in the world,that year i was driving a Vauxhall Viva,even went to see Siouxie and the Banshee's at the Royal Albert hall on a Friday ,she played 2 nights there and it was made into a live album called Nocturne made up of recordings chosen from the 2 nights,later i saw she wore different attire each night,thanks to watching it on film i worked out which songs id seen but that was nearly 4 decades later,
Thank you for a great upload that took me down memory lane,wishing the uploader,friends,family and fellow viewers health,happiness.
It was more homogeneous!!!
1983 My favourite year, I never saw the banshees I love them. I would have loved to be there.
Great film (once we get past shots of famous landmark buildings) - I loved London in 1983, great to see advert hoardings and people going about their business. London was negotiable and navigable in 1983 and a pleasant place to be - the atmosphere has completely changed in 2023.
Mass unwanted immigration
I agree, but I do remember the buses being disgusting - cigarette butts everywhere and rubbish all over the seats.
London has been well cleaned, sanitised and gentrified since then!
@@mrmillslee oh bore off will you. Obsessed with brown people. Get over it. Life's too short.
I was 15 and loving life and now look where we are.
London a no go because of Politicians
I remember this london. Left school started work, lot of firsts. Good times.
Ironically, only yesterday after we all left school and started work, we met each other for the first time in 53 years at our School's Memorial Service, so we bypassed each other's whole working life and now everyone has retired. lol
Same here, I started working in London a year earlier. It was great then... Clean, friendly and safe.
That Echo & the Bunnymen poster shot was fantastic, them two gigs at the Albert Hall in July 1983 were legendary.
I was at one of those. They were superb.
I used to work in London back then, you could have a few pints after work, stagger off to get the last train, then walk home in the suburbs, no bother...
And you still can. How queer
You still can. Grow a pair ffs.
The 80s in London was a great time
I ❤ London. And around 1983 London gave birth to so many international icons like Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, FGTH, not to mention Acid House shortly later on.
I really wish I could go back in time to London at the time.
When London wasn’t full of millions of tourists and London’s population had been in decline as people had be rehoused in the New Towns of places like Milton Keynes, Harlow and Crawley etc. I was in Finchley lad in 1983
As the Islamic tourists said they are terrorists not tourists 😂
Watching this I’m wishing I could jump through the phone and be there. Always gives me a strong sense of peaceful nostalgia watching how the world use to be. Better times , I’d take that over Todays lunacy
I miss the old place ! Not the new place.
Brilliant footage and great camera work. Thankyou.
No mês passado fomos conhecer Londres, minha esposa e eu. Foi a grande🎉 realização dos nossos sonhos, ficamos hospedados no Hotel Plaza em frente da estação Lambeth North, então ficamos muitos próximos das maiores atrações da cidade e pudemos conhecer muitas delas apenas caminhando. Num dia de sol pegamos o metro e fomos conhecer tbm a famosa Abbey Road dos Beatles que fica próxima da estação St. John's Wood. Em Londres o transporte é facil. Mas a cereja 🍒 do bolo foi caminharmos de madrugada, eu e a minha esposa, debaixo de uma fina chuva prateada cantando a música "London Town" dos Wings, um dos momentos mais mágicos e inesquecíveis ao longo dos meus 64 anos de vida. Vou dormir todas as noites olhando as fotos que tirei de Londres no celular me lembrando desses momentos e pedindo pra sonhar que ainda estamos lá. Pra quem tem esse sonho e puder fazer isso eu digo, vá, vá porque vale a pena, essa experiência acrescentou muita emoção nas nossas vidas e nos deu um novo significado para entendermos o mundo...
Memorable yesteryear London, remember it all,we bought 1st VCR from T Ct road the mecca of Tv,hifi,video shops,the year before in 82.
Now it is Mecca 😂 indeed Allahu Akhbar lol 😂
Excellent video-i ve been everywhere-Battersea power station is best-Jerry from the Czech Republic
Battersea Power Station is now full of expensive luxury flats that the average person could never afford.
So beautiful and safe town London was in 1983.And now 40 years after it is a hell to live there and we all know why.
@@henrikchristensen7844 This is bollocks Henrick. I was a teenager in 1983 and London was anything but safe. It was full of obnoxious little racist skinheads.
Six people killed and 90 injured in the 1983 Harrods bombing. Was so safe.
@@DustyCustard lt was lRA that do this.
Such good footage and camera work. You've captured all the important aspects of central London, the historic buildings and landmarks, the shops and famous commercial areas, the people and fashions, modes of transport, the parks and Wimbledon..... Thank you for sharing it - and your talents - with us.
I lived in London for over forty years, but moved to the Highlands of Scotland. I've only seen London on screen since 2000, but what I see gives me no desire to return.😢
That’s what London looked like when it was the world’s greatest city. All the charm and character has now been methodically erased.
That's gentrification and the global rich buying up London and stripping the soul for you.
It was still a bit of a dump as I was living in London still at the time. Plenty of remnants from the 70s Labour run days. Nothing worked and Thatcher had quite tamed the bolshi unions. We haven't progressed at all actually. Regressed in many areas.
It has been gentrified in large areas .
Less crime, dirt and poverty but less character
Blames Tony Blair!
Many of the cool vinyl sellers and niknak shops all gone - even Camden seemed on the up (with prices anyway) when I last went it 2019.
The GOOD old days
with 300,000 people on your dole queue
@@speakertreatzwhen it felt English / British culture. Not the third world ‘anybody can come’ immigration who are not professionals and don’t wish to integrate and contribute
Funny to see that some folks were still wearing flared trousers in 1983 - they just couldn't let go of the 70's!!
I'm 70 and mine are still in my London wardrobe, just in case...:)
The Squares!
6:23 The seat moquette on the District Line back then was also the same which was applied to all of London's fleet of modern buses. Routemasters retained their red seats.
The good ol days ❤ now look at it 😢
15:59 The Beatles - Abbey Road. 16:08 Pink Floyd - Animals
Great time capsule.
Nice to see as very few people living in the UK could afford to make home movies at that time.
Where did you get that info from? lol
From personal experience. I grew up in the UK during the 1970’s and we didn’t know anyone with a cine camera in the UK. The one person I know who had one in 1979 was from Finland. I visited him in Finland yesterday and watched his London home movie for the first time - brilliant. I can say confidently that the ’average’ family living in the UK never owned a cine camera.
@@finnmanproductions9240 I'm not talking about the 70's here, but the 80's were loads of people had them!
@@mikekaraokeNope. Same goes for the 80’s. Not even VHS video cameras. I knew someone who had one of those around 1991. We must be from very different social backgrounds LOL.
@@finnmanproductions9240 No not at all, I'm talking about in general terms here not where you lived lol
Iwould see many people when on holiday in UK/abroad with their video cameras in 80's/90's filming!
I mean last night watching old retro repeats of Bullseye, 321, Catchphrase, etc and all them were video cameras!
Also I remember as a kid seeing many people buy or rent video cameras out from likes of Dixons, Rumbleows, Radio Rentals, Radioshack etc
And would also be in loads of films, TV Shows etc
If not that many people had Video Cameras back then them companies would of gone bust lol
So very confused with your post...
Still have some of the retro Argos mags with video cameras to buy or pay monthly in- ESP JVC, Amstrad, Sony, etc
Watched a repeat of an 80's documentary about 1985 about all the 80's tech sold gadgets and one of them was video cameras-they are pop culture to the 80's!
Back in the days when you didn’t have to pay £12.50 from as far afield as West Drayton just to drive in and the Hammersmith bridge was open
And you recognised your country and what it stood for
The sound track is way over the top, which spoils it somewhat. Cars weren't loud and rickety. Otherwise a nice look at a city and a period which is still fairly recent in my memory. In fact it was in the mid 80s that they started demolishing the older buildings and began putting up the high rise monstrosities that have disfigured the city in the last few decades.
Fantastic,thank you.Subbed.
I remember going up to London as a kid around this time. My Dad was complaining about the prices of things back then ! lol. Especially Madame Tussaud’s . “ I’m not paying all that money to see a bunch of dummies! Not even JR bloody Ewing !”
A lot less high rise buildings back then, no Canary Wharf or the Shard etc
Nope-which opened on 26 August 1991, but CW was being built in the 80's!
@@mikekaraoke The DLR was actually up and running before CW was fully built.
Canary Wharf etc. was a bit later in the 1980s once Thatcher deregulated the banks and yuppie culture set in. We're talking 1986 onwards.
I've seen some photos of Bishopsgate from 1986 and it looks like a wartime drop site. It was total chaos, felt like a deserted slum and you wouldn't recognise it compared to today, because it was being demolished at the time. Same goes for Aldgate - someone showed me a photo from 1992 and I didn't recognise it.
I've also seen footage of Stratford shot in 2007 just as the construction of the Olympic facilities was being ramped up, and what you see is just a huge hole in the ground. A comparison of the London skyline even from 2008 compared to today is also staggering.
Nobody overweight then.
Mostly due to smoking.
I was overweight in 83. Still am.
There were.
when people looked normal, not like mini arnie shwarzeneggers or katie prices
😂 or Mini Bin Laden's
Yep our kids kids will be saying…..look at all the W’s back then, where did they all go? 🤔
I hear an echo of the aborigine in you😊
Yep 👍 ethnic cleansing is what happened as the Arabs are racist they hate Whites
I think you meant a SANKYO camera, not Sanyo.
Yes I think you're right, too different companies Sankyo and Sanyo. Must have been Sankyo Sound XL-60S, borrowed from my aunt. Quite expensive those days, I had to save some money to be able to pay the filmcosts...
@@ttuoma9386 And the older expired film stocks can cost even more to develop, if they even still make the chemicals in the case of some older color film. Of course, you cannot even get Kodachrome or its imitators developed in color as they do not make the color chemicals to fini9sh them and the color was never int he actual film in those cases.
The days before we were culturally enriched.
Actually the first wave of large scale immigration happened during the 50's, 60's, and 70's; back then there was a good balance of ethnic minorities when it wasn't a problem. It only became a problem since 2002 when our borders were dropped and not regulated
@@FART-REPELLENT Our borders have always been regulated. That's why you need a passport.
@@StrangeTapes If our borders were regulated there wouldn't be illegal immigration.
Hot summer that year, no fear of climate change. Thatcher back in after a Spring Election and covered in glory from her Falklands victory… A high point for the Conservative Party, something that’s not likely to be repeated.
Bloody Hell, Carnaby St. Coloured paving, The Cascade, Melanddi the Mod days.
Could be well moody around there you had to be on your alert.
Many a punch up with other tribes. Skinheads especially .
Soho was well sleazy, plenty of nonce cases , pervs , predators, runaways, gangsters etc.
If you’ve been hanging about day n night you’d come back with black stuff blowing out your nose and the sleep in your eyes would be black as well from the pollution.
London has always been changing. Always had it’s dangerous side.
I’ve no problem being there and never will. Seen it , lived it and love it..
Great memories visited London as an 11 year old. we got a all day travel card and went to trafalgar Square . Is it me, or does London seem soulless these days ?
40 years ago
Exactly, it is hard to understand where all those years have gone. I was 16 when I was filming this, just before portable VHS was available, for me at least.
I celebrated my 18th birthday in June 1983 and think where did those years go! It seems so much more old fashioned looking back now and the London skyline is much changed but then it’s 40 years ago!
@@philgraham5341Definitely. I was a 5 year old starting infant school lol
@@ttuoma9386I was 18 back then,you have really captured the essence of London back then a little bit of everything,a delight to watch, Thank you.
@@philgraham5341Same age,this upload reminds me of the fashions back then,tv programs,cars and my first beer i think back then it was 80p a pint,music too like Thompson twins and Bowies songs that year,remember it like it was yesterday but watching it on film reminds you it was a while back, Best wishes.
Grubby violent place. Tube stations were dangerous filthy places and the buses stank of piss, as did the telephone boxes, even so I’d prefer that to how it is today.
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight lol.
its even more violent now
Now most places are how you describe.. just much worse and looks and feels like our culture is on its last legs to survive
Yes, the piss smell of phone boxes - I remember that.
Having to call a cab or a friend, and trying not to breath in through my nose!!
Those later 'open' BT telephone kiosks were better in terms of hygiene.
Disused pay-phone booths still stink of piss; on a Saturday night you are also likely to find turds in them.
See how slim everyone was before poisonous food additives, suspect pharmaceuticals and home computers.
There were home computers in 1983 though!
@@mikekaraoke Only just Mikey The point being people were not sitting watching screens as much
@@seriousros7280smoking cigarretes keep people slim back then
@@rafaelprats5710 yes they seemed a lot healthier
@@seriousros7280 sometimes I ask myself if extreme obesity we can see everywhere nowadays is unhealthier than smoking (assuming that smoking is a bad habit)
7:45 is that the centre point?
It's Portland House in Westminster.
Ah yes, no congestion zone and affordable housing.
3:17 Totters independent trading going past 🤓
I was 11 then.
Aaah, happy days, when Britain was British and the government stayed out of our lives. No constant talk of racism, the word misogyny wasn’t in use, no one except housewives worked from home, children played outside and burnt energy and scraped knees. Lost forever as all the immigrants turn our country into exactly the kind of country they are all so keen to leave!
and you were all unemployed
"No constant talk of racism" followed by blatant racism. What a tool.
I moved to London the year after this video was made and, coming from Surrey, I was amazed at the huge amount of different faces, races, and skin colours I encountered. It was initially scary, but this middle-class white boy soon grew to love it.
"Misogyny" might not have been in use, but there was a lot of it about.
You go back to pining for days when the air was polluted and the BNP were out in force. I'll take London as it is today thanks.
@@PeterMoore66 Whereabouts, roughly,in which part of London do you live, please, Peter?
There were immigrants in London from the 1950's, therefore they are not all to blame
@@Isleofskye Mile End
Now it looks like a
3rd 🌍 💩 🕳️ .
Sadly, because it is.
London's decline began from 2010 with successive Tory governments under funding public services and councils.
Yeah 😂 when I went there last year for my uncles Xmas party 🥳 all Pakistani men everywhere in the streets 😢 and women wore Burks , Sharia law is Londonistan now 😢
Nowadays its spot the rice Krispie.
The visual quality!
The film was only made in 1983, yet due to the poor quality appears to be 1893.
Three years later the first mass produced video cameras were sold, and a good thing.
@@toonmag50 The original quality is much much better, but this is filmed from the screen when running the film. To have the full quality Super8 has, this should be transferred picture by picture - but that costs a lot, and I have not yet invested such a money for this. Super8 quality is indeed better than early video quality was mid eighties. When videocameras went digital, the quality got much better, but that was late nineties.
I left school in 1983. The economy was dire with high levels of unemployment. There was a real sense of hopelessness across the country as depicted in dramas such as Made in Britain, Boys from the Black Stuff and even the soap Brookside. Music too eg The Specials' Ghost Town. Universities are now full of students mostly doing BS courses that lead nowhere. If they weren't on these courses ( and getting themselves into a ton of debt in the process) they'd be on the dole; just like in 1983.
Oh sweetie, I was 9 years old in 1983 in the north of England. Looking back it was prehistoric. Waking up for school at 7am and thick ICE on the inside of the bedroom windows in winter. Just fkin mad. No central heating, just a coal fire.
@@brittania1974 much better for the health, not having central heating in the bedroom.
It was magical scratching the frozen windows and seeing the snow falling outside.
Get oot and enjoy the winter on the way to school.
Celular com antena
Fiquei idoso
10:52 return of the jedi 70mm odeon west end
When England was England
WHEN LONDON WAS STILL WHITE
Well why don't white all go back and stay in europe then keep America red and Australia black eta
I dunno which part of London you're referring to. I was a young mum back then and London was very multicultural then. The demographic has shifted a bit but London has always been multicultural
@@mypointofview1111 That's categorically not true when you look at the empirics. But hey, keep gaslighting yourself and everyone else.
@marthasheilds2446Very racist???what utter nonsense you spout.
In 1983? You're clueless.
......before the invasion
Don't get to nostalgic folks, politicians will be calling you far right.
It was when London was culturally poor... I heard that in recent years it has become very culturally enriched...😅
1983? Looks more like 1945 quality
This is before all Muslims arrived
Tommy needs to sort them out and get us all mobilised before the whole UK is an Islamic republic 😢
Looks so dirty and grimmy
Rotten quality.
Even The white people’s country
Kodak super 8 was a waste of money
What do you mean exactly? Was there better film available at the time? Any other way for a tourist to film? Videocameras were not an option at that time.
Thanks for uploading. Filmed during the best summer that I can remember and June/July that year were glorious months. Would be good with a soundtrack of the summer hits of that year, there were some great tracks.
Thanks again.
We're here many years later enjoying the scenery from way back when, so I guess it had some uses.
@@ttuoma9386 Video cameras were becoming the norm in 1983 and it was quite unusual to still be using cine film. The video cameras were generally pretty bulky though, and not best suited for tourists.
@@StrangeTapes I had a Panasonic video camera also in 1983/4, and this had a separate camera and a recorder - very heavy, impossible to drag around London. The combined camera + recorder sets were only invented at that time, their batteries were poor, and summer 1983 was not yet for VHS or other camcorders. Still, this London film was the last one I did using Super 8. Next winter I moved already to "portable" videos.
Must’ve been the good ole days.
Definitely lost it's character since these days. I preferred the old London skyline too. I love tall buildings but the glass towers in central London look gash.
the same thing happened the Dublin skyline, developers keep pushing for more height and more glass
@@speakertreatz Yeah its not good. They look soulless. The walkie talkie building in particular ruins the square mile. Ugliest building i have ever seen.
Not as many foreigners back then
Before the brown s migrated here
Actually immigrants to London have been in London since the 1950's; only in the last 20 years has immigration got out of control.
@@FART-REPELLENT Rather allowed to get out of control to suit big businesses. 1000 come in, 100 get hired by Mc Donalds on minimum wage to help keep costs and wage demands down, tax payer pays for the other 900, GDP looks great because the government gives money to the 900 to sit about, but they still have to eat so spend the money they are given with those same big businesses...and who cares about the crime wave, the overcrowding, the change in culture etc? Bring on the next 1000... And what does the government say? Nothing, they work for big businesses and are never going to be held responsible for their actions.