No work, or stress and worry for those in work these days. I started secondary school when this video was made, and it was definitely a better time to be a Londoner.
wow covent garden looked dead then i was working in london in the 60,s 70,s 80,s and 90,s and early 2000,s it got revived in the late 70,s early 80,s . I lived in earls court for quite a few years and i love these trips down memory lane it helps focus my mind puts dates and places back in perspective
@Alex Mit ...just heard on the radio earlier today that poverty levels in Britain could reach the highest they've been since the 1930's ......so suddenly 1976 doesn't seem all that bad afterall!! It could be worse - it could be 1932 again. Doesn't bare thinking about really. One would hope that our political leaders care enough for this not to happen.....but one can only hope. They may think otherwise.
I finished school in this era and it was easy to walk into a job with the nationalised industries at the time. The big employer for me locally was North Thames Gas, but I joined the railways. A short interview, a six week course to be a drivers assistant and hey presto you were in line to be a driver. A bit different today.
A lot different. I remember the very early 1980s when the council would put an add in the local paper for apprentices that numbered hundreds. Now an apprenticeship is very hard to come by.
Wow . I was 10 then and came in from the suburbs with school and family regularly. Today it looks so old fashioned and distant it might just as well be the 1960s, or 50's or 40's...Life really does pass so quickly and you don't even notice it passing until you are confronted with something like this. Now I will go back to not noticing the next 40 years passing and then Im done.
@@BEN-oi5zu totally. Tory party sabotaged a not perfect but at least functioning social housing system literally just to win votes. People in the right place at the right time snapped those houses up in prime London spots - many knowing at the time they’d be selling up ASAP to bank the profit. There were even some family members paying for their grannies to buy their house and then having it left to them in their will. Absolutely shocking when you think of the legacy of this policy and the lack of social housing for needy families - many of whom are essential workers.
Great film. Pity you just didn't go further down Berwick Street and look up at some of the shops - in particular "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed" SF / Comic store which was located down there in the mid 70s (to see the huge Marvel character on the wall at the time). Now it is mainly all expensive food stalls and the street never ever seems as busy. Loved the 70s but yes, sometimes selective memory of how good (and bad) things were during that time.
Very interesting, thanks, I was in central london two days ago and it was so much cleaner than I ever remembered, car fumes practically non existant and i didnt feel the annimosity from people I once did where they didnt look you in the eye. A brighter and friendlier london all round me thinks.
Thats right mate. Strikes, IRA bombs, power cuts, Yorkshire Ripper on rampage , lucky to earn over £20 a week, tripping over flared trousers . Yeah much better.
London was very English those days but still very multicultural in the 70s its the rest of the UK cities and towns which was very racist and segregated .
Dead as a doornail. Beginning at 4:50, I know Covent Garden stopped trading as a fruit market in 1975, so now we see what it was like after the fruit traders upped and left and before the place became a place of lots of shops selling overpriced and ultimately useless stuff. When I came to live in London in 1991 Covent Garden had reinvented itself.
I am surprised the underground station was open, because not much else was open in them days, strikes strikes strikes, enter Maggie Thatcher, open for business again
Kevin Bradshaw yes my mum was in the Moorgate train crash when i was 9 years old.if a person hadent pushed her out of the front coach she wouldent of been here today.
London was a smaller city back then, compared with now. In 1975 it had about 2.5 million fewer people than it does now, in 2022. Indeed it took until around 2016 for London to get back to the population level it had in 1939, just before WW2.
Wonderful film of shagged out London.The tube wasn't looking too busy for the morning rush hour,perhaps the moorgate disaster had frightened people off
I remember the bomb sites around Covent garden that were still there up until the early 80s. It used to be a no mans land after dark haunt of footpads armed with bicycle chains. All changed now!
1975 COR BLIMEY!! I used the broadstreet to canonbury every week with dad and sister to see my nan thats how i got so interested in the north london line i was what ? 10 yrs old, London has well and truly changed FOR THE WORSE! STILL AT LEAST THE MEMORIES ARE THERE SUPERB TIMES AND RESPECT WAS NORMAL THEN.
and the punk scene produced some of the most talentless collection of bands which music history is finally considering as style over substance (and I'm not just talking about the slits!)
+maxwellfan55 1967-1991 saw the greatest flowering of British pop music - everything since has been on the decline.I am referring to quality not quantity which is why I discount the horror that is Adele.
+bobvidpix I was at the Camden Roundhouse this time last week (to see the newly reformed Lush) what a spectacular venue - I'd be interested to hear if it has changed much since the days of the UFO club when Pink Floyd played....
Glam, reggae, punk, New wave & prog rock - all in the space of 10 years - regardless what you think of any of those bands it was an incredibly creative time....that I was too young to remember!
The beautiful white people going about their business mixed with a smattering of different cultures doing their own thing without fuss. The not so beautiful white people a miniscule minority easily handled by law enforcement. People's sexual attitudes mostly left in the privacy of their homes. Children reasonably safe to play outside and enjoy children's areas without too much fear of predators. Women reasonably safe to go about their business unchaparoned. What went wrong.
These days London is a horrible place. I only ever go there when I have absolutely no choice and I can't get out of it (which is not often.) There's way too many people now, and all the wrong types of people. The population of London needs thinning out, at least by half.
John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
@martha sheilds people aren't bigoted they are simply tribal - that doesn't mean they can't superficially get along together on a transactional level of course. Muslims tend to seek out the company of fellow muslims and even then on ethnic lines, the Chinese community along with the Jewish orthodox are very insular and closed to outsiders, ex-army people prefer the company of people who were in the army as they have a common bond, people in couples - especially those with children seek out others in a same position, single people tend to prefer the company of fellow singletons. It makes for quite a divided society as the UK tends to be and I haven't even factored the massive socio-economic, regional and class divisions which have caused even more splintering of the social fabric of the country.As a Japanese person once asked me "what is more preferable - a multicultural or monocultural society"?
@martha sheilds there will be no levelling up - the UK revolves around London - sucking all the cultural, political and economic talent within the miserable M25 vortex. It's for this reason why I can understand Londoners looking down the rest of the country. Mind you I live In Bristol - the amount of refugees I can across who got so fed up with London they took a one-way train ticket westwards is quite revealing !
@martha sheilds wrong Martha - I have lived in Birmingham and and Bristol - all very multicultural and where superficially people appear to get along. You really are one of those London types who rarely leave the confines of fuck-miserable London or "the centre of the known world" as you would refer to it as !
I lived in the heart of South Inner London then and it was great. Nearly everyone enjoyed the same Culture, humour etc and I would talk to anyone on a Bus etc and I was only young then. It was very safe, as well. I often walked home thru' places like Peckham and Brixton in the early hours without a care in the World and then it changed RAPIDLY and by 1983 I had enough and moved to a house right on the edge of South London and will always be in this house.
London is very wealthy city other UK cities like Birmingham Manchester Liverpool are are poor and full of racist and low life thier cities are riddled with crime segregation and drugs .
No work, or stress and worry for those in work these days. I started secondary school when this video was made, and it was definitely a better time to be a Londoner.
a year after the three day week and when FAT HEATH WENT OUT AND good old Harold came back in.
A quiet seediness. Everyone very polite and low key. I remember it well! Thank you so much.
wow covent garden looked dead then i was working in london in the 60,s 70,s 80,s and 90,s and early 2000,s it got revived in the late 70,s early 80,s . I lived in earls court for quite a few years and i love these trips down memory lane it helps focus my mind puts dates and places back in perspective
This is the era men used to whistle a tune on way to work, loved the 70s
Love the 70s.My favourite decade.
why?
If only we had a time machine, we would all appreciate what we had a lot more, even if it was not much.
Takes me back to childhood trips up west with my nan and aunt.
Take me back the best years
The good old days!! Wish I could go back...hmm
We are back there to all intents and purposes!!! ....2022 is 1976 reincarnated!
@Alex Mit ...just heard on the radio earlier today that poverty levels in Britain could reach the highest they've been since the 1930's ......so suddenly 1976 doesn't seem all that bad afterall!!
It could be worse - it could be 1932 again. Doesn't bare thinking about really. One would hope that our political leaders care enough for this not to happen.....but one can only hope. They may think otherwise.
At least I could still afford to live there back then
I finished school in this era and it was easy to walk into a job with the nationalised industries at the time. The big employer for me locally was North Thames Gas, but I joined the railways. A short interview, a six week course to be a drivers assistant and hey presto you were in line to be a driver. A bit different today.
A lot different. I remember the very early 1980s when the council would put an add in the local paper for apprentices that numbered hundreds. Now an apprenticeship is very hard to come by.
Wow, amazing footage
I could suddenly smell that London Underground smell watching this. The lighting on that platform was a bit on the dim side.
I know exactly what you mean, its a musty sulphur rubbery kind of smell. Quite pleasant actually.
And me the petrol or Diesel from the exhaust fumes of the vehicles.
Wow . I was 10 then and came in from the suburbs with school and family regularly. Today it looks so old fashioned and distant it might just as well be the 1960s, or 50's or 40's...Life really does pass so quickly and you don't even notice it passing until you are confronted with something like this. Now I will go back to not noticing the next 40 years passing and then Im done.
So true
Totally agree!!
are you "done"yet??.
Many thanks for sharing.
I was 15 at the time, now it seems so old fashioned!!
Wonderful.
The market just left convent garden and went to Battersay in 1974.
My first visit to London was 12 years later. I wish I had gone sooner.
Yeah, '70s was really quiet time for London. The tube wagons were nearly empty and the market place was booming!
I was 6 months old during this filming.
Very nice. Thanks for posting!
Great moments. That camera must have cost a fortune, as well as the film.
Can’t believe there is so many English people in London in 1975 it’s all foreign now
Very good times
Very interesting, thanks for the upload!
Almost eerie. I loved London in the 70s and 80s. The 90s weren't too bad, either.
I wouldn't live there now, though.
No sod can afford to buy a house in London nowadays unless they're rich.
@@danw1374 But why is that?
All the cockneys made tidy profits on there council houses and moved out. Me me me. Thatchers wet dream.
There is no society
@@BEN-oi5zu totally. Tory party sabotaged a not perfect but at least functioning social housing system literally just to win votes. People in the right place at the right time snapped those houses up in prime London spots - many knowing at the time they’d be selling up ASAP to bank the profit. There were even some family members paying for their grannies to buy their house and then having it left to them in their will. Absolutely shocking when you think of the legacy of this policy and the lack of social housing for needy families - many of whom are essential workers.
London's never been quiet, just different. It's much to crowded now though and more noisy than ever.
4:40 'Real juicy orange 'ere, Four for 12p!' Bet that was pricey then.
Great film. Pity you just didn't go further down Berwick Street and look up at some of the shops - in particular "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed" SF / Comic store which was located down there in the mid 70s (to see the huge Marvel character on the wall at the time). Now it is mainly all expensive food stalls and the street never ever seems as busy. Loved the 70s but yes, sometimes selective memory of how good (and bad) things were during that time.
Its still ok around canonbury sation its now connected to the east London line. Although a kid was murdered outside the highbury estate recently.
'And we're down in the tube station at midnight'
Very interesting, thanks, I was in central london two days ago and it was so much cleaner than I ever remembered, car fumes practically non existant and i didnt feel the annimosity from people I once did where they didnt look you in the eye. A brighter and friendlier london all round me thinks.
Thats because no one speaks English in London anymore...
I lived in London all through those years. Covent Garden is 'alive' now, but it's just a shop, really.
@@jeddward9464 Rubbish everyone speaks English in London.
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Virtue signalling comment
When life was simpler and much better.
Thats right mate. Strikes, IRA bombs, power cuts, Yorkshire Ripper on rampage , lucky to earn over £20 a week, tripping over flared trousers . Yeah much better.
@@nasdkhan254 Thanks for your contribution.
@@Gritto1445 Dont mention it. I'll buy you a Watneys Red
Quiet there are villages all over the world more exciting and real London souless but 1000 %self important
When London still belonged to Britain.
It still does London will always be the capital city it was multicultural then.
London was very English those days but still very multicultural in the 70s its the rest of the UK cities and towns which was very racist and segregated .
Wow Ur racist remark took me right back to 1975, thanks 😂
Exactly.
Those days are gone forever🙃
Covent Garden was deserted just about to get it’s second lease of life
Dead as a doornail. Beginning at 4:50, I know Covent Garden stopped trading as a fruit market in 1975, so now we see what it was like after the fruit traders upped and left and before the place became a place of lots of shops selling overpriced and ultimately useless stuff. When I came to live in London in 1991 Covent Garden had reinvented itself.
They certainly did sell a lot of crap in many of those shops!
I am surprised the underground station was open, because not much else was open in them days, strikes strikes strikes, enter Maggie Thatcher, open for business again
Wasn't there a terrible tragedy on the Underground early in 1975? A lot of people got killed at Moorgate underground station.
Kevin Bradshaw yes my mum was in the Moorgate train crash when i was 9 years old.if a person hadent pushed her out of the front coach she wouldent of been here today.
345 looks like early punk maybe it's a couple of years later or he's ahead of his time nice clips though
Punk as an idea started to appear back then,reached the peak in 1977.
Well as the purdy haircut was first fashionable in 76 it's more than likely it's after that year .
That's Berwick St market
Was trying to make out Dark They Were and Golden Eyed comic shop, loved that shop, and still fondly remember walking through the market to get there
London was a smaller city back then, compared with now. In 1975 it had about 2.5 million fewer people than it does now, in 2022.
Indeed it took until around 2016 for London to get back to the population level it had in 1939, just before WW2.
Wonderful film of shagged out London.The tube wasn't looking too busy for the morning rush hour,perhaps the moorgate disaster had frightened people off
I remember the bomb sites around Covent garden that were still there up until the early 80s. It used to be a no mans land after dark haunt of footpads armed with bicycle chains. All changed now!
1975 COR BLIMEY!! I used the broadstreet to canonbury every week with dad and sister to see my nan thats how i got so interested in the north london line i was what ? 10 yrs old, London has well and truly changed FOR THE WORSE! STILL AT LEAST THE MEMORIES ARE THERE SUPERB TIMES AND RESPECT WAS NORMAL THEN.
Time travel
lol the only thing that's the changes are the hair styles.
Covent Garden ghostown
All these punk historians need to take a look at the guy at 3:45.
The people living a normal life not relying on technology like today. Life before mobile phones and tablets
How much people use to pay tax that time and car insurance???
And then little John Lydon came along...
and the punk scene produced some of the most talentless collection of bands which music history is finally considering as style over substance (and I'm not just talking about the slits!)
+revol148 Yes, it was rubbish then (mostly) and is now. At least some of us knew that.
+maxwellfan55 1967-1991 saw the greatest flowering of British pop music - everything since has been on the decline.I am referring to quality not quantity which is why I discount the horror that is Adele.
+revol148 I worked the roundhouse 1968-70 .... the music was indeed phenomenal . . .
+bobvidpix I was at the Camden Roundhouse this time last week (to see the newly reformed Lush) what a spectacular venue - I'd be interested to hear if it has changed much since the days of the UFO club when Pink Floyd played....
When London wasn’t a cesspit for the worlds degenerates
Look in the video and see the different cultures just shows how ignorant some people are .
Exactly John.
Would you have any objections to my using this footage Bob?
This was Britain, people looked smart,no trainers much or scruffy people
Politics is poison kids
16p? Not bad I suppose
Filmed using 16mm film which isn't very high resolution anyway. You can't polish a turd!
London went backwards. Color filled fun of the mid to late 1960s...to dreary drab gray 1970s London. At least until punk......
Glam, reggae, punk, New wave & prog rock - all in the space of 10 years - regardless what you think of any of those bands it was an incredibly creative time....that I was too young to remember!
The beautiful white people going about their business mixed with a smattering of different cultures doing their own thing without fuss.
The not so beautiful white people a miniscule minority easily handled by law enforcement.
People's sexual attitudes mostly left in the privacy of their homes.
Children reasonably safe to play outside and enjoy children's areas without too much fear of predators.
Women reasonably safe to go about their business unchaparoned.
What went wrong.
why's that then?
train time
It is even more depressing now, especially for an Englishman.
75?? where's pink floyd
In jail for Breaking The Law.
These days London is a horrible place. I only ever go there when I have absolutely no choice and I can't get out of it (which is not often.) There's way too many people now, and all the wrong types of people. The population of London needs thinning out, at least by half.
Send them to Scotland. They like have a lot of knife crime too.
Not sure if you fishing or have you never heard of the IRA.
all deaders now!
all deaders now sigh
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
fuck me it looks depressing. its like the dementors swept through the city and sucked the soul out of it
those people are so unhappy
it's London - what do you expect?
@martha sheilds Bath, Brighton, Canterbury, Harrogate, Cambridge, Oxford? Clearly you need to see for yourself the world outside depressing London !
@martha sheilds people aren't bigoted they are simply tribal - that doesn't mean they can't superficially get along together on a transactional level of course. Muslims tend to seek out the company of fellow muslims and even then on ethnic lines, the Chinese community along with the Jewish orthodox are very insular and closed to outsiders, ex-army people prefer the company of people who were in the army as they have a common bond, people in couples - especially those with children seek out others in a same position, single people tend to prefer the company of fellow singletons. It makes for quite a divided society as the UK tends to be and I haven't even factored the massive socio-economic, regional and class divisions which have caused even more splintering of the social fabric of the country.As a Japanese person once asked me "what is more preferable - a multicultural or monocultural society"?
@martha sheilds there will be no levelling up - the UK revolves around London - sucking all the cultural, political and economic talent within the miserable M25 vortex. It's for this reason why I can understand Londoners looking down the rest of the country. Mind you I live In Bristol - the amount of refugees I can across who got so fed up with London they took a one-way train ticket westwards is quite revealing !
@martha sheilds wrong Martha - I have lived in Birmingham and and Bristol - all very multicultural and where superficially people appear to get along. You really are one of those London types who rarely leave the confines of fuck-miserable London or "the centre of the known world" as you would refer to it as !
Most londoners have exited from London to Essex for decades now London is too multicultural nowadays.
i remember the 70's 80's vibe, it was shite. absolute shite.
Spot the English person in London , none of whom you now never see anymore!
@martha sheilds And Surrey , Sussex , Hampshire and Hertfordshire. Lots in Devon and Cornwall too.
Weren 't there alot of impoverished people in London and other British cities especially before the EU era?
Yes correct
I lived in the heart of South Inner London then and it was great. Nearly everyone enjoyed the same Culture, humour etc and I would talk to anyone on a Bus etc and I was only young then. It was very safe, as well. I often walked home thru' places like Peckham and Brixton in the early hours without a care in the World and then it changed RAPIDLY and by 1983 I had enough and moved to a house right on the edge of South London and will always be in this house.
London is very wealthy city other UK cities like Birmingham Manchester Liverpool are are poor and full of racist and low life thier cities are riddled with crime segregation and drugs .
@@johnclark7065 Most places have wealthy and poor areas,even london
Nowhere near as many impoverished people as now, & this film was in the "EU era".
Look how multicultural London was those days its the rest of the UK cities and towns that were racist and segregated.
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