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Geoff Meade
Приєднався 12 гру 2012
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Gas Works Ride
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Six members of St Albans 40 Cycle Club on a close up tour of London's King's Cross Gas Holders. Grade II listed and once the world's biggest gasworks now converted into luxury apartments where a two-bedroom flat can cost £2m
LeJog June 2024 Part 1
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In June 2024 cyclist Geoff Meade raised £5,000 for Prostate Cancer Research by attempting to ride the length of Britain -1,000 miles. A smashed shoulder when he fell on rippled tarmac in Glasgow brought his effort to a painful end. Thanks to the NHS his fractures are being treated and after some months of recovery he hopes to complete the ride. This video diary is a tribute to the five riders w...
Pimlico History 2
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In his second lecture Dr Alan Punter continues to celebrate 200 years of his street and highlights some characterful neighbours down the years.
Looks good, where was this?
I watched your video hope you were ok
Congratulations on your epic ride and excellent video! I doubt my language at the end of that reel would have been so restrained! I hope you return to full fitness before too long.
Thanks for posting. Last week I completed my own London Orbital which was 260 very satisfying miles starting and finishing in Slough of which 80% was on canal towpaths or disused railway lines. The ride was awesome and I'd definitely do it again. My waypoints were Luton, Chelmsford, Dartford cycle crossing, Tunbridge Wells and Guildford. Well done guys for tackling those hills.
full of hippies.pity no skinheads-were out in 1969
Are you still riding guys? Because i want join you. I live in st albans.
That looked painful. Looking around rather than straight ahead? Pleased you are taking a scenic JOG route. So much more pleasurable than busy roads. Scotland is a lot easier, especially north of Inverness. I completed the LeJOG both ways as a solo rider taking routes less travelled though further! Still enjoy assuming your accident does not affect you going forward.
10:18
Nice! You mentioned you rode some of the ride in your younger years, I’m curious to know how the cycle infrastructure has changed over the decades
What a beautiful spring-like morning!
Are silly helmets mandatory in England? Of all places to become afraid of life, this a place I never would have expected.
Looking forward to 90@90! Not sure I'll still be here in a decade but as a 73 year old daily cyclist I say bravo and it gives me a boost to know I might yet have few more spins left in my legs. Well done!
Amazing ride, inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
Your going to have to stop putting up old films because there isn’t a majority of black peoples in the films so going against globalist BBC C4 msm propaganda that Britain is a Black Country and was built by black peoples
Battersea's fun fair
All that biking will keep you fit young'uns😊
What's this annoying drill noise 😊 turned off 😊
Minijupes Minirobes inventeur Lucien David LANGMAN Maître Tailleur Couturier AH 1959-1960 ©️ institution de la Mode Française JEAN RAYMOND Paris. Mary Quant s'habille à Paris et Saint Tropez avec les minijupes Minirobes Lucien David LANGMAN
Inventeur des minijupes et minirobes Lucien David LANGMAN Maître Tailleur Couturier AH 1959-1960 ©️ institution de la Mode Française JEAN RAYMOND Paris les frères Raymond et Lucien David LANGMAN
The 60’s, the decade of never ending roadworks! Should have dubbed the video , with a call to prayer even ,anything would be preferable to the awful noise of jackhammers!
Good morning. In which area do you pedal? I live in Rochester am a bike enthusiast and want to join your group
The projector sound is excruciating to listen to.
Turned the volume down.😊
??? Just turn the volume off !!
This is the London of my teens, living in the NW suburbs we would go into the West End Friday and Saturday night's. Tiffanys night club in Shaftesbury Ave was a regular haunt, then onto a late bar or club in SOHO. Safe to walk around if on your own, few people not born in London wandering around. Leicester Square has been destroyed by over development and tacky fast food joints. Few buskers or street entertainers now. I don't feel at home in Central London anymore.
Done some early mornings around Oxford St when Elizabeth Line first opened and up at Warren Street for some riding old buses but London has changed, some of the films on YT show that skyline change at street level. I will probably get to Hamleys for Christmas but it gets difficult to get out and about. I was always aware of central london - probably from watching Simon Dee time on BBC , but never really went there other than a school coach tour at the end of the 60s yet somehow I knew where everything was. I suppose we went by car from South London to visit relations in Clapton so that covered London Bridge inc its rebuilding and I would go with Dad to a mission hall in waterloo on sunday afternoons doing tea for the rough sleepers in the area travelling on the much reduced weekend rail services. Was much older to do a deliberate trip to Trafalgar Square , then had some monthly meetings of a club in Farringdon (sometimes we used the Lamb and Flag in Kensington) and I must have visited my Cousin in Knightsbridge when she was a trainee nurse at St Georges Hospital Hyde Park Corner. Mid Teens I was all over Greater London travelling most bus services (couldnt afford rail) and it just seemed I knew everywhere and felt at home in the street markets of Fulham or the dying docklands of Canning Town. Went too with Dad early morning to Covent Garden Market to get boxes of produce for the church harvest festival. I should have made more out of the opportunity of working in the city If I had thought at the time.
‘Safe to walk around cos there were few people not born in London’. Had to get that bit in didn’t you. How do you know where people were born - ask to see their birth certificates did you. Or do you mean black and Asian people in which case spell it out.
@@henrysmith883 I am so happy knowing everyone born within the M25 does not aspire to be landed with a criminal record. (TBH there was a problem with EE gangs coming over with a pickpocketing epidemic a few years ago in the touristy street places,. the present wheeze is the street begging - mostly using old (looking) indian ladies - its not agressive , just untidy !
It's weird how you seem to equate safety with people born in London. In fact, London was and always has been absolutely full of people not born in London. Interesting that you don't seem to have mentioned what was going on in and around Piccadilly at the time, which was absolutely notorious for drugs and as a pickup site for dirty old men preying on underage kids.
Get rid of that horrible noise please
Not like that now is it!
yeah , someone took away all the neons at picc circ and changed all the buses.
No shit sherlock. Its been like 60 years. Is anywhere in the whole world the same as it was back then??
Amazing, thank you. This is wonderful.
No migrants or not allowed to say anything else 😢
Yeah you are so oppressed...yet here you are speaking your mind
@@howareyou857 oh dear another knuckledraging woke
@@seekingtruth4105 Still providing us with evidence of your 'oppression' by calling people who disagree with you stupid names. 🙄 Sooooo oppressed....
@@howareyou857 yeah
@@seekingtruth4105 sure you are 🙄🤣
I ate my first pizza in Piccadilly Circus in about 1969…
Any good?
@@stephenspence1192 i realise now it was pretty bad…but as it was my first i thought mm that was reasonable.. But since then Pizza has been developed and have become luxurious… The 1969 Piccadilly one was about the size of a saucer it was hard solid construction with a sprinkle of cheese and a black olive in the middle..it left me confused as to why they were popular in Italy…i would have preferred just a cheese on toast on that day…it was more of a cultural continental foray..i wouldnt describe it as delicious…no way..i dont think you could buy a Dona kebab in London in 1969..but egg and chips was easy to come by at the “golden egg” in Leicester Square
@@griswald7156 I thought as much. The frozen pizzas in the early 1970s were nothing to write home about. I shudder to think what an Italian would have thought of them. Thank you for your reply.
@@griswald7156 Pizza Express in 1975 in Wimbledon Villiage , it was wet. Only had one (maybe two, Pizza Express ones since just to try and see If I was wrong). Used to go when a student to an independent 9pm on Thursdays opposite Liverpool Street station, they were Italians and about 12 of us would go , sharing the slices around was much better. Best Pizza I had was in Morningside, Edinburgh in 1993
Hope you got out as quickly as possible after that. It was an incredibly sleazy and notorious place back then .
when England was England and not full of illegal immigrants.
Don't be ridiculous
Oh, bless you, you've been groomed. It's fascinating how the simple-minded can be controlled so easily.
yes i was groomed back in the 1950's when this country was not full of illegal immigrants and a better place to live. @@horsenuts1831
@@horsenuts1831So where’s all the ethnics in these films?
Get your facts right. Most immigrants are legal. Yes, i agree there are some illegal ones but to say england is 'full' of them is pretty stupid
I really liked the old neon signs at Piccadilly Circus, they had a warmth & character that cold soulless LED screens lack. You often see the neons as ‘scene setting’ shots in 1960’s TV shows like The Saint & Dial 999… also in feature films when a bright lights, big city type theme needs to be established.
Swings and roundabouts. The old neon lights may have been nicer, but back then the rest of Piccadilly was horrific. It was notorious for drugs and dirty old men picking up underage kids.
@@zeddeka…whereas these days it’s notorious for robbery, violent assault, sexual offences & anti-social behaviour. So no change there then!
Is that background noise really necessary?
Simply just turn the sound off !! 🙄
Too much noise to watch.
I don’t understand why my 2013 bmw r1200rt has a buttery smooth transmission. It feels smooth like a Honda transmission whereas my 1997 r850r has the classic clunky trans that feels un-natural when shifting. I can’t help wonder if I’m lucky or I’ll be replacing the trans soon.
Would have been better if it wasn't for the pretend camera noise ( which I turned off ) 60's music would be more appropriate.
But that is exactly the sound you would hear if you were watching a home movie. Really authentic.
Jackhammer
@@lauraarcher1730 Yes I accept what you say but still a bit irritating! Cheers.
1:52 That woman is gorgeous !
wasn't Swinging London in 1966 though?
Lovely footage takes me right back to being a kid in the sixties
That's pretty good quality for film that old.
Geoff great video, you are a warrior battling cancer. You rock! Bunkie
Bloody hippies! Where are the skinheads? 😉
@marthasheilds2446 The original skinheads were from around 1968 to 1972. They evolved from working class mods.
If this was LA , Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention could do the voiceover from 'Plastic People' " I hear the sound of marching feet, down Sunset Boulevard to Crescent Heights and ... there at Pandora's Box .... we are confronted with a vast quantity of Plastic People " .... Substitute 'Pandora's Box' with the Statue of Eros and there's no a great difference 😄
Well the weather and the age of London compared to LA.
At 13:50, the dangers of bending over in a mini-skirt. Looks like the same woman at 11:32 to 11:37
Me too. London was a generous, relaxed, tolerant city. We really believed things would get better for everyone. Thank you.
What helped was that the post-WW2 economic boom was at its peak in the 1960s.
@@cliff-nb6bmand ridiculously expensive…
Stay strong Geoff. Best Wishes Tree..... Nottingham
Dr Burzynski discovered the cause of cancer 40 years ago, Peptide, amino acid deficiency
I have a very good feeling about you :) Strong in mind and body, god bless you sir !
Best of luck and please keep the diary updated! You look fit and healthy so I’m sure you will be fine and have many years of cycling to look forward to. I liked the clip of the wee cat at the end as well lol
What a wonderful attitude to have. I can see your broadcasting experience in your video. Felt like it was part of a news report. Keep cycling. Cancer can't stop you having fun while you can! I hope the surgery goes well!
Good luck to you sir, you certainly have the right mindset and thank you for sharing your experience it will certainly be beneficial to others. Hopefully you will be back cycling sooner rather than later.
A day at at a time, your in my thoughts. x