In a nicely strange way, July '96 doesn't seem that long ago. Crazy to think that it was 26 years ago!! Glad that Covent Garden hasn't changed that much. Good video!
It's amazing to think that people existed in color back then. I've seen videos further back in the past. Some as early as 500 BC and color hasn't been invented yet.
This takes me back - Covent Garden hasn't really changed that much since 1996, quite honestly, but I think my attitude towards it has. Back when I was at university in Portsmouth I had friends on the south coast but during term breaks would be at my parents house in Essex. For whatever reason, it felt like the perfect central spot to catch up with someone in an afternoon over the summer break - we could grab a pizza, drink in one of the nearby pubs (The Essex Serpent was always my fave in those days) and enjoy ourselves before going our separate ways again. The older I got, the less I used it for socialising partly (I think) because it increasingly became a bit of a tourist trap and therefore more expensive. Most of my good memories stem from this period.
Charing Cross road, the Chinatown side, going up to the Palace Theatre has changed, but like you wrote, it mostly hasn't changed. Tottenham Court Road has a facelift though.
I notice men's builds in those days were mainly slim, these days literally every guy is a mini arnie schwarzenegger, or seems to be n my area. Must be evolution , can't all be gym related.
26 years later...... Women: oh, FFS I'll get it myself! .....🤔🤨 No, the guys still haven't won anything......and yes the temperature really did hit 40c a few weeks back (July 2022)🌡️☀️🔥🔥🔥
In the days before the New York Candy Company money launders arrived and British people weren't saying "Guys, I'll take some like Candy for like Halloween...' etc
In a nicely strange way, July '96 doesn't seem that long ago. Crazy to think that it was 26 years ago!!
Glad that Covent Garden hasn't changed that much.
Good video!
It's amazing to think that people existed in color back then. I've seen videos further back in the past. Some as early as 500 BC and color hasn't been invented yet.
Its scary how fast life flashes by. 96 seems like yesterday
Straight in at the start. An Oasis style chequed shirt.... Everyone was wearing those
At a time you could drive a car into central London and pay at a meter.
This was the time when no one had cameras and when no one was filming anything. Blissful times!
Apart from the guy with the camera filming this 😉
@@MrTim207 I think it is probably a memory capture
Well apart from me
This takes me back - Covent Garden hasn't really changed that much since 1996, quite honestly, but I think my attitude towards it has. Back when I was at university in Portsmouth I had friends on the south coast but during term breaks would be at my parents house in Essex. For whatever reason, it felt like the perfect central spot to catch up with someone in an afternoon over the summer break - we could grab a pizza, drink in one of the nearby pubs (The Essex Serpent was always my fave in those days) and enjoy ourselves before going our separate ways again.
The older I got, the less I used it for socialising partly (I think) because it increasingly became a bit of a tourist trap and therefore more expensive. Most of my good memories stem from this period.
Thankfully unlike Soho, Charring X Road etc it hasn't changed that much and still has its character mostly intact
Charing Cross road, the Chinatown side, going up to the Palace Theatre has changed, but like you wrote, it mostly hasn't changed.
Tottenham Court Road has a facelift though.
great summer! The country was buzzing from Euro 96. It was the summer before I went to uni.
I went for a poo❤
Good times
Shirts and ties
I notice men's builds in those days were mainly slim, these days literally every guy is a mini arnie schwarzenegger, or seems to be n my area. Must be evolution , can't all be gym related.
A nice place then.
It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming, football's coming home...
26 years later......
Women: oh, FFS I'll get it myself! .....🤔🤨
No, the guys still haven't won anything......and yes the temperature really did hit 40c a few weeks back (July 2022)🌡️☀️🔥🔥🔥
Football is never coming home. ENGLAND SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the days before the New York Candy Company money launders arrived and British people weren't saying "Guys, I'll take some like Candy for like Halloween...' etc
Look reader! No phones. People present. Wow. Different times!
Not so different from now :)
Now the kids all speak like they're black.
That’s because most of them are blackies
Now all the kids are black.
Too many wannabees who want to fit in in the UK.
What a stupid comment. What is 'speaking black'? Imagine thinking all black people speak the same.
That's a good thing. It means that we have diverse community which means that sesh is propa authentic isn't it yeah?
Wow not everyone is obese!
Just before forced cultural enrichment took full hold