What it was like to live in Great Britain in the 1980s

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  • Britain in the 1980's. The decade of British Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher, yuppies, chunky mobile phones and BMX bikes.The "eighties" are also well known for their extreme fashions, such as "big hair", New Wave, punk rock, funk, or preppies. Rap music first started to get big in the 80s, and often went with breakdancing in what is now called the "old school" days.
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  • @LondonPower
    @LondonPower  2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    What it was like to live in Great Britain in the 1960s th-cam.com/video/behw-FRrRNY/w-d-xo.html

    • @BigBomboclaarrt
      @BigBomboclaarrt ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Music choice for this video was very poor mate! Should have been a banging 80s track

    • @dalebenton3354
      @dalebenton3354 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Be interesting history to watch,Was not even born in the 60's,Little way before my time

  • @Zlervo
    @Zlervo ปีที่แล้ว +58

    The styles, the music, the whole vibe was so much better than it is today.

  • @welshie1979
    @welshie1979 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    It was bloody brilliant! Best time of my life and yes britain was britain. Dont ask me explain..the music alone is enough. Take me back!

  • @Lee69111
    @Lee69111 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    spent all my teen years in the '80s...it was an awesome time to be alive :)

    • @colinpumpernickel2605
      @colinpumpernickel2605 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      So did I! It was great wasn't it. If one year encapsulates the 1980's it has to be 1984. There was something special about that year, something in the air.

  • @Steve-gc5nt
    @Steve-gc5nt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Beats the crap out of the 21st century, that's for sure.

  • @vinniechudam1835
    @vinniechudam1835 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    My experience of the 80s: Fresh milk in glass bottles with foil tops for every child at school, delicious and healthy school dinners (not a turkey twizzler in sight), my Dad drove us around in a red classic Mini which was followeed by a Ford Sierra in the 90s, we travelled on Leyland buses, InterCity 125 high speed trains and rode pedal bicycles. We hired VHS tape videos from the corner shop and rented a VHS video recorder from Comet. We never had a washing machine but we did have a spin dryer. My brother and I used to watch a black and white TV before we upgraded to a colour one. We listened to cassette tapes and the radio. I bought my first cassette tape in 1988, Kylie's first album. We could do a week's shopping for a family of four for less than £10. We used coins to pay for telephone calls in phone booths as we couldn't afford a landline, I remember it was 10p for a local call. We had £1 notes back then before they turned into coins. And we read books in the library. The 80s were the best.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We still get milk in glass bottles with foil tops delivered to our house every day. I don't know whether that's unusual or not for most areas.

    • @mrnobody1067
      @mrnobody1067 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Amen to that ❤❤❤🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

    • @otter7527
      @otter7527 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Thatcher famously stopped the milk.

    • @Simon402-x9c
      @Simon402-x9c 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@otter7527Yes in the late 1960s. No free milk in the 80s.

    • @otter7527
      @otter7527 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ it was restored in 1978 using EEC subsidies

  • @davidlloyd3116
    @davidlloyd3116 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    The 80s were the best. I went to university (no fees, no debts), young ones on TV, met the love of my life, partied all night, saw the greatest bands and had an absolute wail of a time. Got a good degree, straight into work as a virologist, affordable digs, no regrets. Bought my first house, but I’m now retired at 55 years old. I wouldn’t want to be a student nowadays with a huge student debt, and unaffordable housing.

  • @rakeshparekh4828
    @rakeshparekh4828 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    What a decade. I grew up in Scotland in the 1980s. Can’t imagine how happy and care free life was then. I’m close to 60 now but will always relive the 1980s again and again as a teenager then in the twenties. Music, culture the sights sounds and fashion. Just loved it. 💕💕

    • @OCONNER-oj3xg
      @OCONNER-oj3xg ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly.not sure about the music though 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @Geraden
      @Geraden 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Grew up in Glasgow. Oh the freedom. I was so privileged. Played outside all day as long as you came in for your dinner, at the right time though. Kids are so mollycuddled today. We’re not doing them any favours. I remember one of the first McDonalds up at the Clydebank cinema, made us feel a wee bit American. 😂Look at us now, because of too many hamburgers.

    • @thenanlife1141
      @thenanlife1141 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Loved the 1980 s best years of my life ❤❤❤

  • @MrAdriancooke
    @MrAdriancooke 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Many people hate the 1980s but it was probably my happiest decade. I'm 64 now.

    • @ronwhite8503
      @ronwhite8503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I am 63 and totally agree.

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You are therefore eleven years older than me, as I am 53 and spent my adolescence during that decade!

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It was without a shadow of a doubt a fun time to grow up in.

    • @marktazzioli2882
      @marktazzioli2882 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’m 61 and it was a great decade

    • @Trish-ql9kz
      @Trish-ql9kz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      for many of us 60 somethings it all happened in the 80’s, I left school, left home, progressed in my career,met and married, bought first property, had two children, I’m now 61.

  • @joeillingworth5867
    @joeillingworth5867 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I like to think in a past life I lived in the 80s, because my god the music alone was beautiful in that decade

  • @johnr7769
    @johnr7769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    The video needs to be properly titled 'What it was like to live in London in the 1980's'

    • @Thurgosh_OG
      @Thurgosh_OG 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Most of this persons videos about 'living in britain' are focused on London, intermixed with American photos. This one did a bit better than the others but...

    • @JJ-ip1ju
      @JJ-ip1ju 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I deffo saw Europe in one. Germany or Belgium/Holland

    • @istvanvilmos8400
      @istvanvilmos8400 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Northern Ireland was featured so not just London.

  • @kevinshaw1387
    @kevinshaw1387 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    Better then living in the 2020s !

    • @truthiskey8625
      @truthiskey8625 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That's why i wish i had a time machine

    • @DynamicMash917
      @DynamicMash917 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Does anyone know the difference between "then" and "than" anymore?

    • @kevinshaw1387
      @kevinshaw1387 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Does anybody care ​@DynamicMash917

    • @spidericemidasiosmusicprod1309
      @spidericemidasiosmusicprod1309 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kevinshaw1387they should if they wish to be understood.

    • @mickymouze1224
      @mickymouze1224 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@DynamicMash917 Teachers are too busy teaching pronouns these days, you wouldn't want to get them wrong.

  • @cambs0181
    @cambs0181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I can remember people use to talk to each other.

    • @LondonPower
      @LondonPower  2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That's it people used to talk to each other !

    • @leavemyrightsalone
      @leavemyrightsalone 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      🤫 big brother is watching!!!

    • @maxthelab8457
      @maxthelab8457 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That'd because most people could speak english then.

    • @leavemyrightsalone
      @leavemyrightsalone หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@maxthelab8457 Close. Pubs sold cheap booze. People used to socialize in pubs.

  • @lazycalm41
    @lazycalm41 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    What was it like to live in Britain in the 1980's? in short, damn brilliant. in fact everything thats missing from living in Britain today, and that makes it so damn awful!

    • @philipchurchill6508
      @philipchurchill6508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Allright for the rich and middle classes maybe , it was great yeah but a lot of unemployment and poverty , but yeah many things were better .

    • @sambrooks7862
      @sambrooks7862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@philipchurchill6508 no mate, nowhere in England in the 80s experienced poverty on the level we're seeing now, it would've been unthinkable to suggest that a household with both parents working couldn't afford to pay for heating.

    • @marks9351
      @marks9351 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@sambrooks7862 bang on

    • @adrianfox9431
      @adrianfox9431 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@sambrooks7862 indeed, and I can't ever remember there being food banks back then

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sambrooks7862 Shhhh,the politicians and their media lackeys are hoping we don't notice.

  • @kung-fuhustle5755
    @kung-fuhustle5755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    All I can say is the 80's were the best, Better than today's Bullshit.

  • @harimadhavan1712
    @harimadhavan1712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    I loved the 80's in the UK. I did experience racism, but I found most people to be friendly and approachable. Nowadays people, save for the older generation, keep themselves to themselves, or stick to their own group of friends or race. Also life was a bit simpler then. Technology was coming up, but at a pace that your brain could keep up with. Now it's advancing rapidly, that it's become a nightmare and is more about control rather than freedoms.

    • @dexocube
      @dexocube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @jones roberts I've seen and heard more racism here in the UK in the last ten years than I ever saw in the 80's. Back then the far right were seen as extremists and weirdos, today far right politics is almost mainstream, it's scary.

    • @bollock1213
      @bollock1213 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@Simon Walters yh its great down in london aint it joker

    • @tichaonamugabe7107
      @tichaonamugabe7107 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@simonwalters912Funny thing is it was the exact opposite for me. I was a naive child who thought race didn't matter. I loved all races of people. smdh. How can you love a group of 'people' who hate you?I foolishly thought racism was a thing of the past until I moved to britain as a child with my parents. I'm about Black people now. NOT white validation. Let's not get it twisted.

    • @Brenda-ny1gw
      @Brenda-ny1gw ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Immigration changed all of that

    • @rayalbion9637
      @rayalbion9637 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      exactly, spot on

  • @timothywebb5100
    @timothywebb5100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I was a teenager in the 1980’s and absolutely loved it.

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So was I, Tim!

    • @timothywebb5100
      @timothywebb5100 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@angelacooper2661 the best and happiest time of my life 😀

    • @timothywebb5100
      @timothywebb5100 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No doubt about it fantastic times

    • @Ladymaryruth
      @Ladymaryruth 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I was teenager in the 1980s

    • @timothywebb5100
      @timothywebb5100 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @Ladymaryruth fantastic times 😀

  • @sambrooks7862
    @sambrooks7862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    It was awful, police attended burglaries and arrested criminals, ambulances turned up the same day you called them and they didn't allow you to doss in the back of them for hours and hours, oh no, you were forced to lie in a bed on a ward, and what's worse the wards were clean. But it didn't end there, people who couldn't afford their own home were shamed into accepting a council house and everywhere you went everyone could be heard speaking English FFS. You could fill your petrol tank, buy a weeks shopping, pay your utility bills and still have enough money left each week for a night out. Thank God those days are gone forever and we are fortunate enough to live in the utopia that we privileged few call England!

    • @coniferclose
      @coniferclose 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My god, it sounds shocking.😂😂🇬🇧🇬🇧

    • @Geraden
      @Geraden 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Excellent!😂😂imagine going back to that, an ambulance even turning up! What horror!

    • @joemcconnell2674
      @joemcconnell2674 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      TV only 4 channels after November 1982 . Now digital TV with loads of channels. The comandor with games where the characters were a blob no facial features whatsoever. Now console characters look like actual people. so much exciting technology. Best thing TH-cam to watch anything you want. Yes some fond memories of the 1980s. But I wouldn't want to go back.

    • @mickymouze1224
      @mickymouze1224 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I agree it was awful. All that overtime I was encouraged to work as an 18 year old and actually getting paid extra for it, time and a half or even double time on a Sunday, I never knew how much money I was gonna earn from week to week. Imagine seeing a doctor while you're still poorly or twice a week there would be a walk in surgery where you could just let reception know you're there and get told to take a seat, some real tough choices there. No treats like fish & chips back then, that was an affordable standard meal for all the family if you couldn't be bothered to cook. TV & the 4 channels were so bad I'd be out virtually every night of the week socialising if I wasn't working. It was terrible I tell thee, Pac-man and Scramble were ace though.

    • @mickymouze1224
      @mickymouze1224 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree it was awful. All that overtime I was encouraged to work as an 18 year old and actually getting paid extra for it, time and a half or even double time on a Sunday, I never knew how much money I was gonna earn from week to week. Imagine seeing a doctor while you're still poorly or twice a week there would be a walk in surgery where you could just let reception know you're there and get told to take a seat, some real tough choices there. No treats like fish & chips back then, that was an affordable standard meal for all the family if you couldn't be bothered to cook. TV & the 4 channels were so bad I'd be out virtually every night of the week socialising if I wasn't working. It was terrible I tell thee, Pac-man and Scramble were ace though.

  • @thepub245
    @thepub245 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    It was better, people were generally happier back then than today I believe. . Life was slower but more satisfying as a result. There wasnt as much choice but you had time to savour and appreciate what there was. Take tv, 4 tv channels in those days but the talent and content was far better. The essence and spirit of the time has been lost and replaced with something sinister, cynical and ugly in my opinion.

    • @thra5herxb12s
      @thra5herxb12s ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Life wasnt slower in any way and plenty of people had cable and sky tv. People were most certainly lees selfish and greedy though.

    • @Shockerpitzwei
      @Shockerpitzwei 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      the AIDS epidemic. The cold war was still going on we had the war on drugs still going on The pmrc was still a thing. People smoking in cars was not taboo yet.
      This one's a personal thing, but we had hair metal.

    • @sonyablackwood4389
      @sonyablackwood4389 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agreed

    • @spidericemidasiosmusicprod1309
      @spidericemidasiosmusicprod1309 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well said

    • @MarkFowler-r8f
      @MarkFowler-r8f 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@thepub245 politicians weren't media coached spivs out to line their pockets but fell into 2 camps-posh old duffers trying to do what they thought was best for the people/country and fiery ex worker Herbert's trying to do what was best for the people/country,especially when set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland,Falklands,inner city riots etc

  • @DavidDoble
    @DavidDoble ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Some fantastic photos. I grew up in the 70 s and 80s ,,, thank god……

  • @alexwatson5507
    @alexwatson5507 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I regret what my children have to grow up in! Thanks for that by the way. The '80s were great.

  • @andrewbriggs6083
    @andrewbriggs6083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Lived that, seen it, done it, Best time of my life.

  • @emmetdonnelly2072
    @emmetdonnelly2072 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Colourful, magical , wonderful, exciting, electronic, mysterious, people talked more, were respectful, modest, disciplined, music was excellent, cars looked great, clothes and hairstyles more confident and exciting.

  • @tonywilliams3229
    @tonywilliams3229 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    No social media, it was fantastic

    • @em6577
      @em6577 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Or mobile phones...went downhill rapidly once technology took over...

  • @alexanderrichardson484
    @alexanderrichardson484 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I wish to God i was alive and around in Great Britain as a full grown proper adult in the 1980's those times and years were much more better and nice not like the bloody 2000's, 2010's and 2020's. I would've had such a fantastic time if I was around as a proper adult in 1980's with all the things that was out and in use then and seriously enjoyed it all definitely no question what so ever

    • @katymagnets
      @katymagnets 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It wasn't nice. There was more racism, more homophobia, more sexism, mental health wasn't taken seriously, Thatcher was PM and a lot of us were worried that there could be a nuclear war.

    • @friendlyattack1181
      @friendlyattack1181 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      People say that shit about every generation/couple of decades since decades were invented in the 50s. Did you like getting your face smashed in with police batons on picket lines? Did you enjoy the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation. White dog shit? Time filters out the shit cause we don't like to look at the banal and monotonous. Sure had it's moment just like every time. The world's still here and there still loads of beauty in it and are you going to wait till the best of reel is playing back to wish you were here now. Your lack of participation and wistful wishful thinking contributes to the general shit we have to tolerate day to day and it's sure as shit not nostalgic counts like yous who make anything worth fucking remembering or being alive for. There the people you malign in your own times the people who understand that life is change and that survival is not the survival of the strongest it's those most adaptable to change.

    • @sambrooks7862
      @sambrooks7862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      But the other side of that coin is that if you were an adult at the start of the 80s you would now be staring down the barrel of retirement and terrified at the prospect of not being able to afford care should you need it.

    • @friendlyattack1181
      @friendlyattack1181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sambrooks7862 yeah we've got to help people as much as we can, economic out look isnt good, the lesiure centre in our area closing down we think

    • @stephengirling7859
      @stephengirling7859 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was 23 in 1980 and i can tell you, it was an awesome time! Never to be seen again!

  • @nevetsgnil1962
    @nevetsgnil1962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Best time ever all my best memories live in the 80s, far better times than today.

  • @evelynwilson1566
    @evelynwilson1566 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    This seems very London-centric. Growing up in a small town in Scotland, you hardly ever saw punks or New Wave-ers(?) , and McDonalds was twenty years away - and only rich teenagers had tvs in their rooms! I remember my town having an air of neglect, the buildings were dirty, most of the youth clubs and entertainments had gone, the industries were not the big employers they had been. Kid had a lot more freedom though and you knew your neighbours. My happiest times were playing in the nearby woods with my dog! I would say that they were friendlier times, but when I think about it, people around my way are still pretty friendly and will help each other out when needed.

    • @philipchurchill6508
      @philipchurchill6508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      your the only person to mention the destruction oof industry which happened everywhere , in Scotland the shipyards and Ravenscraig steel come to mind

    • @derekporter7658
      @derekporter7658 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@philipchurchill6508 Ravenscraig was binned in the 90s.

    • @michaelrodgers7109
      @michaelrodgers7109 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Smashing X I reamber steam driven Traction engines X as boy X going down the road X just pure joy X of it X bike rides to buy music 🎶 then not so many cars X yeah man it was great

    • @chrisr5499
      @chrisr5499 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about The Exploited ? You must of had Bikers, Skins, Casuals and Mods in Scotland as London, Mancester and Dublin had them in 1983 ?

  • @ashdrive
    @ashdrive ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I absolutely loved it, I was in my twenties...brilliant times

  • @oddsandwindsocks5905
    @oddsandwindsocks5905 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Luckily we are in the 2023 era because ive just built a time machine, whos coming back with me to the magic 80s.

    • @martinjenkins8270
      @martinjenkins8270 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Can you drop me off in the 70s and I’ll catch you up later

    • @carriejmichael9377
      @carriejmichael9377 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me me me syraight back to the 80,s please ❤xx

    • @lloydrayner1490
      @lloydrayner1490 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Count me in ❤

    • @TheresaPerkins-y1v
      @TheresaPerkins-y1v 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I loved the 70 and 80s too I come back in time wish we could.

    • @markjenner7199
      @markjenner7199 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes please😊

  • @ianbutler3659
    @ianbutler3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    A damn sight better than nowadays

    • @truthiskey8625
      @truthiskey8625 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      A whole lot better then now it's a hellhole we live in now

    • @wecandothiswarriors
      @wecandothiswarriors 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@truthiskey8625 It is not Britain anymore

  • @thegrimlok7944
    @thegrimlok7944 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thanks for this, brought me back to happier times briefly

  • @masaukochitsamba7808
    @masaukochitsamba7808 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I lived in London from 1984 to 1987. Great times.

  • @eleanordavies9815
    @eleanordavies9815 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Refreshing to see the people on the tube not glued to their phones! People seemed more alive somehow back then

  • @kittyroo-x4p
    @kittyroo-x4p 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It was a golden age to be alive. I am so glad I was young in the 80s. The music was the best the world has ever produced. It could be grim, but rebellious youth was healthy and vibrant, not the mentally disturbed narcissistic Gen Z variety. I miss it terribly. It was a time of hope, laughter and people had free speech.

  • @garypautard1069
    @garypautard1069 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    It is interesting to note the variety of music genre that was around in this period. From boy bands to heavy metal to glam rock and punk . Now we have only black music used on TV ads and dance music stations and other genre seem to fall into minority special categories ,like C&W and Epic music and opera and folk.

    • @museonfilm8919
      @museonfilm8919 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @sabrinabelladonna3200 The commercial radio stations are part of that universal American umbrella that is trying to make a ghetto of every country, and teach the young that everywhere is a 'hood'.

  • @kirstyburden9262
    @kirstyburden9262 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I remember the 1980s well in my childhood days. I was living in Tilehurst in Reading in the 1980s. I look back at the 1980s with fondness and joy.

    • @HarunalRashide123
      @HarunalRashide123 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You must remember the Hungerford Massacre. Wow nearly 40 years ago.

    • @kirstyburden9262
      @kirstyburden9262 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@HarunalRashide123 I very much do remember that 40 years ago.

  • @charmainnosworthy1195
    @charmainnosworthy1195 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    We had the best TV shows, music and toys back then. Chocolate bars were bigger.

    • @michelles2299
      @michelles2299 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We invented live aid 🎉

  • @ultimatemagic2125
    @ultimatemagic2125 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I was born in 79, my childhood was the 80s and I couldn't have asked for a better decade to grow up in. The greatest time of my life. And I'm sure growing up as a teen and a young adult was awesome in the 80s too.

    • @pokemonandfingerboarding7588
      @pokemonandfingerboarding7588 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was born the same year and feel the same. An amazing decade. Glad I got to live through it. It was just so modern and different to what had come before

    • @rayalbion9637
      @rayalbion9637 ปีที่แล้ว

      it was most definitely

    • @elaineb7065
      @elaineb7065 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      74, similar tale. Still love My Little Pony to this day. The 1980s had great toys

  • @Aaron-nq9rh
    @Aaron-nq9rh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Imagine living in the 80s. No phones no social media 😮

    • @traceyculyer5811
      @traceyculyer5811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      We had C.B. radio thanks. We went on eye balls.

    • @adrianfox9431
      @adrianfox9431 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@traceyculyer5811 10-4 to that

    • @milehighclassics
      @milehighclassics 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes we did , the pub or pool hall and a home phone

    • @DWXY
      @DWXY ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes, that’s what was so good about it! You have no idea

    • @NickSBailey
      @NickSBailey ปีที่แล้ว

      you wouldn't be seeing this without social media, we have the best of both worlds now you can use the internet then you can switch it off go out and do what you want, nobody's forcing you to use it

  • @stephendavies925
    @stephendavies925 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I think we had the best of everything in the 80s music football work was good, most teenagers were happy and positive, compared to now things are declining the young people are miserable and think the world owes them a living, I was in my 20s in the 80s hungry for work money and fun and you couldn't do one without the other, I had a blast them times will never be seen again

  • @catherineholdsworth9588
    @catherineholdsworth9588 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The 80s were the best decade .for music. None of the crap we have to day.we could go out and play with our friends till it got dark .how I missed the 80s fab times

  • @AA-mt3jg
    @AA-mt3jg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    If only we could reverse time and go back the cars, the music and the films. It’s all rubbbish now.

  • @rafiqadarr6217
    @rafiqadarr6217 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Would not say it was happier, exactly, but it was a simpler time. In those days everybody was poor, and yet there were no foodbanks like now. People managed. They had enough to eat and to pay their bills. Now life is much tougher. There also seems to be much more social division and isolation.

    • @pabo-qv3nx
      @pabo-qv3nx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Very True .

    • @maxthelab8457
      @maxthelab8457 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wasn't 'poor' nor was anyone I knew! In fact we never worried about money, we always had enough to satisfy our lives. ( mind you we all WORKED ).

  • @redfred70
    @redfred70 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was born 1970, so child/pre-teen throughout the 70's and then teenager throughout the 80's. We had a great time, not perfect, but more fun. The shared experience we had culturally, through minimal tech and tv channels etc helped and created the collective good memories. Music, different tribes e.g. soul boys, rockers, mods, punks, goths, new romantics etc made it an incredibly creatively diverse and exciting time. The improving tech helped drive the changes. I lived in London - all races got on generally very well, we were all in it together. Me and mates would often travel around central London on our own aged 10, it was safe, even at night. Working class in London were the most generous and happy-go-lucky, the wartime generation helped us keep what was important perspective. The fun and laughter we had was off the scale - you were told new jokes many times a day. And then in the early 80's, CB radio became the forerunner for social media - that was a great way to chat and build social skills and have fun in a respectful way. But, not a perfect time, and the years went very quickly ! The 90's were similar to the 80's, have to say Labour coming to power in the late 90's changed things, made things culturally divisive and initiated the decline. Overall, my personal opinion is that the 80's are a nice place to visit - but you wouldn't want to stay there - always best to be right here, right now.

  • @clairecooper197
    @clairecooper197 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watching this sure brings back happy memories of my childhood. ❤

  • @richardsingh5827
    @richardsingh5827 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I was in record shops a lot back then

  • @RetroReminiscing
    @RetroReminiscing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    🥰😍😍Takes me right back , thanks you

  • @angelacooper2661
    @angelacooper2661 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I began the decade at junior school (aged ten) and finished it in my first job (aged nineteen) so went from childhood to adulthood during that period! Remember this era well.

    • @garyleroy6999
      @garyleroy6999 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      As a quinquagenarian I whole heartedly agree.

    • @philipchurchill6508
      @philipchurchill6508 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@garyleroy6999 Did not know we suffered from that Gary is there a cure ? , seriously gaz ,never heard that word before, heard the oct one and the sept one ,but they are childs play top this gobfull , I suppose I will just have to accept that I am one and get on with it .

    • @philipchurchill6508
      @philipchurchill6508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same here born in 71 , though 19 was a prison land mark for me unfortunately , though even the likes of me become , boring old men , a middle aged man well freaked out by the knife wielding,gang affiliated, entitled , rapping youth .

  • @jazzlife8691
    @jazzlife8691 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My teenage years were the 80’s, and they were bloody brilliant! Great time to be young.

  • @electricircuit.solutions
    @electricircuit.solutions 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you so much for this lovely upload .

  • @debsmostexcellentadventure5353
    @debsmostexcellentadventure5353 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice to see alot new punks in this,77 to 82 me debs xx

  • @honeybunch5765
    @honeybunch5765 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I'm an 80's teen, I loved the punk look but we weren't allowed any other hairdo than what the schools dictated. I so would have had a multicolour Mohawk. I did colour my hair with food colouring.😄🥰

    • @andrewcottington3742
      @andrewcottington3742 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My school was the same. However boys were allowed a pierced ear, although it was frowned upon. So my bit of rebellion was to get my left ear pierced as a 15 year old in 1985. When the healing period was up, l was only allowed to wear a small thin gold sleeper hoop earring in it. Wanted a proper gold hoop earring like pop stars of that period wore but could only wear it outside school much to my disappointment.

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@andrewcottington3742Same age as me, Andrew. However, I have a very sensitive skin and get eczema, so piercings of any sort would be asking for trouble. And dying my hair was out of the question!

    • @andrewcottington3742
      @andrewcottington3742 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@angelacooper2661 l bet you found other ways to be rebellious though Angela! A shame you couldn't have piercings because of your skin condition.
      Some time after l left school l got a second hole pierced in my left ear and got my right ear pierced as well, so school never managed to knock the rebellious streak out of me.

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​​@@andrewcottington3742I was never a rebel, Andrew. Admittedly, as a YTS trainee after leaving school in 1986, I was not streetwise and had to end a toxic friendship abruptly. That's the nearest I got to rebellion and I turned my back on dodgy company! Personally, I am very squeamish about body piercings and wouldn't have any even if I had no skin problems.

  • @dawndexter9779
    @dawndexter9779 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wss born in 1966 , so remember both decades so clearly....😊 omgoodness what a treat.... lots I'd forgotten and it comes flooding back. Both equally "ace"!!!!!❤

    • @LondonPower
      @LondonPower  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wonderful

  • @JayB-XS
    @JayB-XS 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Born in 1984 so unfortunately only have a handful of memories from that era - looks like a different world looking back and hard to believe I existed in it.

  • @BritishPaz49
    @BritishPaz49 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Better than what it’s like now. Much better

  • @pauladams838
    @pauladams838 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I loved the 80s ,,life was so easy

  • @andyculf8887
    @andyculf8887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A kid in the 80s and teen in the 90s I thank my lucky stars every day! Hate to be a kid nowadays I feel sorry for them 😔

    • @andyculf8887
      @andyculf8887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @ciao214Z no born 1981, so I don't consider myself a millennial

    • @erdevon3257
      @erdevon3257 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Such a confused lost generation now

  • @baggy79
    @baggy79 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ecstasy arrived and we all went raving all weekend 😂

  • @grummer8537
    @grummer8537 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    A dam better than it is now

  • @roomullan3050
    @roomullan3050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Best years of my life. This video would have been better with some 80s music instead of that racket

  • @Alanardo1989
    @Alanardo1989 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wish I could've expirenced life in the 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s

  • @christopherdean1326
    @christopherdean1326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    7:00 Ahh yes, the days when the Job Centre would actually advertise job vacancies, rather than just giving you a list of f*cking websites!

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    By the time of the 80s, that was cartoon punk. The real thing was 1975-76

    • @adrianfox9431
      @adrianfox9431 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah as I recall it was more of a goth trend in the 80s for those that wanted to be different

    • @jillybe1873
      @jillybe1873 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      New Wave in the 80s

    • @chrisr5499
      @chrisr5499 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Punk split between Goth, Anarcho Punk and Psychobilly.

  • @Clara-ph7my
    @Clara-ph7my 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The 80's had a wide diversity of music, everything. 80's fashion was forever changing. Who can forget luminous leg warmers and fingerless gloves. A bright, creative era. The economy was thriving busting Town Centre's, Public Transport, Leisure Centre's, Cinemas, Roller Skating/Skating Rinks all doing well. Play Schemes at schools open in school holiday periods. . Pubs and social clubs thriving. In fact you could not go anywhere, without bumping into someone you knew. I remember the miners strikes. Best leave unsaid about politics back then, or it be Back to The Future of NOW!

  • @unies176
    @unies176 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Loved it in my early 20s back in the 80s the music. No social media a different generation of people not like the younger attention seeking pouting Instagram Facebook tik tok insecure people today..

  • @stephenbridge4019
    @stephenbridge4019 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Born in the 70's, grew up in the 80's and partied through the 90's. Great times

  • @Hedgehogsinthemist123
    @Hedgehogsinthemist123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was in my 20s in the 80s. Amazing, crazy, fun times. Please bring it back, I miss it so much!

  • @ks-qu4kj
    @ks-qu4kj ปีที่แล้ว +7

    best decade ever❤

  • @ThisWontEndWell
    @ThisWontEndWell ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Early 80s end of punk followed by the start of new wave, Ska and new romantics, kids huffing glue, teens injecting heroin, the North, Scotland and Wales in ruin, the Falklands war and IRA bombs.
    In the mid-80s the blandest most generic manufactured plastic music across all styles in the history of mankind, yuppies, right to buy, Americanisation of everything, crumbling schools and hospitals and IRA bombs.
    The late 80s we made our own music, acid house, raves, the summer of love, grunge, ecstasy, stock market crash, joy-riding teens Tory sex scandals and IRA bombs.

    • @chrisr5499
      @chrisr5499 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I loved the 1980s Scooter Scene from the Revival of 1979 right through the end of the 1980s picking up the remains of the Northern Soul, Trojan Reggae, Psychobilly scenes...the UK Charts really were crap from 1984 till the Rave era.

  • @electricircuit.solutions
    @electricircuit.solutions 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was serving a 4 years apprenticeship as an electrician .
    Shout out to my parents, siblings and friends great times.
    I used to enjoy going to Petticoat Lane Market for clothe shopping .
    Beautiful times .
    To Allah we shall return for His judgement and we won't be wronged !

  • @em6577
    @em6577 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Maccies pizzas were awesome...wish they would bring em back

  • @tarlkoroban3733
    @tarlkoroban3733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Sad to see the London Boys. Hope they are resting in peace.

    • @coniferclose
      @coniferclose 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Na mate, they all moved out.

  • @emmaheyes1694
    @emmaheyes1694 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Life was more peaceful no internet then u had to use phone boxes or landline phone to ring people up i remember the 80s vwry well

  • @LTFC1964
    @LTFC1964 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was sixteen in 1980…..what a fantastic era it was

    • @simeonselmon8318
      @simeonselmon8318 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was 17

    • @maxthelab8457
      @maxthelab8457 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So was I - and raring to go.........................couldn't get out the stands quick enough.

  • @doobiedoo74
    @doobiedoo74 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Born in the 70's, grew up in the 80's, lived the 90's and could not be bothered in the 2000's. Playing football on the streets upsetting all the neighbours 😁. The mobile video man with all the pirates, or spending hours in the video shop as it was 2 for a quid rental night. Mobile pop man. Ice pops, 1p ice cider lolly's in the summer. Summer was sunny, winter was snowing. Building ramps with wood and bricks see who could jump the highest on your boxer. Bboying in the class room. Bulldogs, rounders, enjoying the big shop. Walker, puma, einesse, Adidas colorado. Being poor was just normal, sack of spuds, Sunday tv was the best. Back in the day

  • @richmck007
    @richmck007 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It was great if you had a job, a mortgage, friends who truly valued you, a close knit family and you were fortunate to live comfortable.

  • @gzappa
    @gzappa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You wouldn't have heard music like that very often, It sounds more like the 1970s.

  • @bsport131
    @bsport131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Better than now

  • @pbosustow
    @pbosustow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Number one reason we miss those years? We were young.

  • @Khaos969
    @Khaos969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    no internet no social media no mobile phones …. everyone lived in the moment ;) so glad i experienced that last era before the dawn of the Net

  • @Michelle_Schu-blacka
    @Michelle_Schu-blacka ปีที่แล้ว +6

    For all its woes, it was a great time to be a kid.
    It wasn't fancy, you had to make do with a lot, a great deal of it would be shocking today and I've no doubt that half of those punks are now accountants. But it worked and we had fun.
    It's a good thing time travel isn't possible, otherwise my generation would all disappear and live out our days in the late '70s to early '90s.

  • @WetBandit-qo9xd
    @WetBandit-qo9xd ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ah, the 1980's! Where a girl with dyed green hair was a punk you could talk to and not some gender neutral freak banging on about her pronouns that you run away from.

  • @michaelportaloo1981
    @michaelportaloo1981 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Not having mobile phones was sh t. Ten times harder to hang on to a g/friend, unless you could afford your own place with a landline, which most young guys couldn't.

  • @napoleonsolo7248
    @napoleonsolo7248 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I didn't realise how good we had it back then, unlike now it's shit.

  • @PeardropsTwister-ik6hd
    @PeardropsTwister-ik6hd ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loving the music

  • @davidwright-p9v
    @davidwright-p9v ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was 16 in 1981, i`d go back in a heartbeat.

  • @garylyons6971
    @garylyons6971 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    6:43 man looks like he’s using a mobile phone

    • @LondonPower
      @LondonPower  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He is a time traveler

  • @darrenhaywood944
    @darrenhaywood944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant video great years of my life if only I documented my life with a camera like they do today. But maybe I wouldn't had so much fun if mobile phones was around wed have are heads in them like the youth of today

  • @eurotom288
    @eurotom288 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It was BRILLIANT, Best time ever.😊

  • @OCONNER-oj3xg
    @OCONNER-oj3xg ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A lot better than today i can tell you that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @FHIPrincePeter
    @FHIPrincePeter 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some great photos there. It was a great time. The music across all genres was fantastic but we took it all for granted. The underground scene was a very cool thing. The Capri in front of Woolworths symbolic of the times.

  • @EdVanMeyer
    @EdVanMeyer หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I worked in London in the 80's it was like our 1960's for our generation.

  • @seanrm
    @seanrm ปีที่แล้ว +2

    01:30
    Iconic 70's & 80's in a single frame!

  • @keith2599
    @keith2599 ปีที่แล้ว

    AWESOME PICTURES, YEP ABSOLUTE 1980' GOOD TIMES GOOD FUN GOOD LAUGHS.... LOVE THIS.... ❤😊

  • @trevorjones9706
    @trevorjones9706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I was 16 in 1980 best decade for me.

    • @kevinshaw1387
      @kevinshaw1387 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So was I - great music, great fashion and a freedom that kids these days don't get

    • @truthiskey8625
      @truthiskey8625 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Best horror movies greatest music and the great console nes as well

  • @Wavygravydressedinnavy
    @Wavygravydressedinnavy ปีที่แล้ว +3

    An interesting selection that takes me right back. By the way, the pictures at 3:30 and 9:32 weren’t taken in Great Britain.

    • @kosikumah7249
      @kosikumah7249 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, the first one is Germany, isn’t the second Northern Ireland?

  • @southface6684
    @southface6684 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    best time ever

  • @alisonbailey2636
    @alisonbailey2636 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The time of great music and when I wore shoulder pads, kitten heels and wore lip gloss. Thought I was cool back then 😕

    • @section5760
      @section5760 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You was hen . I could just imagine dancing with you. In Birmingham club called the powerhouse ? If not it must have been someone like you 😉. Great days indeed. Love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 hen 👍🏼❤️🥰🇬🇧

    • @vanessaeden8174
      @vanessaeden8174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We all were Alison.

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​​@@section5760You mean that Alison was classified as fowl species? Cluck, cluck!!

  • @Gaffer96
    @Gaffer96 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Better than now by a mile

  • @ahuddleston6512
    @ahuddleston6512 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I noticed lots of pics from Hackney.