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  • @spensert4933
    @spensert4933 2 роки тому +57

    I'm impressed by how clear and unscathed this film is! Normal people are priceless especially with those accents

    • @andrewdeans3686
      @andrewdeans3686 2 роки тому

      What on earth possessed you to think it was recorded on film? It is evidently recorded on video tape!

    • @superyachtchef
      @superyachtchef 2 роки тому +6

      I'm in that film, with my mum and older brother, I was 10 and this was filmed in 1984 (not the 70s)

    • @chrisjefferies5820
      @chrisjefferies5820 2 роки тому +7

      Those were original romford accents before the redevelopment of romford which is now a complete state.

    • @discharge2331
      @discharge2331 2 роки тому +1

      It's VT and looks more 80s .

    • @superyachtchef
      @superyachtchef 2 роки тому +1

      @@andrewdeans3686 Oxford dictionary film = a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television.

  • @callumkent7155
    @callumkent7155 2 роки тому +15

    The town has changed so much now. All the English people are moving away and there is lots of migrants and foreigners from places like Romania Lithuania there now. Sad to see the town becoming like this. Little amounts of immigration are ok. But they literally taking over the town. So many moving in

    • @Anticommunism99
      @Anticommunism99 Рік тому +2

      Those countries that you mention are not the problem.
      The problematic countries are Pakistan, Bangladesh, India cause they are 3rd world primitive countries. Islam is dominating East London it's ridiculous. It all happened in a range of 40, 50 years. Brits just disappeared and gave their land to Islam.

  • @Harry_84
    @Harry_84 2 роки тому +25

    It looks lovely, and real and it looks how I wish every town in England would look. A great sense of community.

    • @uktravel8341
      @uktravel8341 2 роки тому

      But not in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland of course.

    • @hepthd5245
      @hepthd5245 2 роки тому +1

      I live here, it’s pretty rough tbh, fights basically every few days

    • @Harry_84
      @Harry_84 2 роки тому +1

      @@uktravel8341 Wales and Scotland haven’t had the same problems as us quite yet

    • @Harry_84
      @Harry_84 2 роки тому +1

      @@hepthd5245 haha i know it is now but there’s something about how it looked that is quite special. The community and so on

    • @uktravel8341
      @uktravel8341 2 роки тому

      @@Harry_84 You mean in terms of immigration? I don't think the atmosphere would be any different in the other parts of the UK personally. As many people have left for out-of-town shopping centres at any rate.

  • @Thereishope664
    @Thereishope664 2 роки тому +60

    I've lived in Romford all my life and sad to say that Romford market has now lost its soul. It was once a buzzing throng of people but now a dead husk of its old self.

    • @memyself1566
      @memyself1566 2 роки тому +10

      Romford has, for many reasons, gone the same way as the rest of England - down the pan and very overpriced.

    • @david_ironfist_bristow2462
      @david_ironfist_bristow2462 2 роки тому +3

      Same from Romford to ur spot on brother

    • @minimanukuk
      @minimanukuk 2 роки тому +10

      Same with pretty much all markets. We’ve let the supermarkets ruin them - not pointing the finger, I’m guilty myself.

    • @lindajepson1714
      @lindajepson1714 2 роки тому +4

      I miss how Romford was years ago, I've been here most of my life xxx

    • @Zizoosworld
      @Zizoosworld 2 роки тому +2

      @@lindajepson1714 that's sad. You've lived in Romford your whole life.

  • @wutang6020
    @wutang6020 2 роки тому +12

    Back when home was home unlike today where most of our home towns have been turned into absolute dumps

  • @usualsuspect3071
    @usualsuspect3071 2 роки тому +77

    It's a crying shame what has happened to Romford since this was filmed 🎥...

    • @memyself1566
      @memyself1566 2 роки тому +9

      Ditto the rest of England. Only the wealthy you can live in “nice areas” have access to the best parts of England - but that’s always been the case. Money can get you anything!

    • @guinnessharvey4476
      @guinnessharvey4476 2 роки тому

      Why, what’s happened since? I’m from Canada and my grandfather was from Romford

    • @clementinechristenson
      @clementinechristenson 2 роки тому +7

      @@guinnessharvey4476 SadiqKhan happened.
      That market looks like a car park now, virtually empty!
      Crimes up all over London.
      Romford waa better in Essex than in London.

    • @guinnessharvey4476
      @guinnessharvey4476 2 роки тому +1

      @@clementinechristenson ok:)

    • @jamesgunn7
      @jamesgunn7 2 роки тому

      @@guinnessharvey4476 Crimes up all over the country, Guinness. Don't listen to Clementine. Largely due to the Tory government cutting police officers by 24,000 since 2010

  • @Glitzdglamourous5604
    @Glitzdglamourous5604 2 роки тому +46

    Used to love going to Romford in my teenage years , sadly it’s an absolute dump now and virtually nothing left of the market , very sad .

    • @fearless6947
      @fearless6947 2 роки тому +1

      I remember I used to go swimming and iceskating in Romford lol. Yeah it's changed a lot

    • @usualsuspect3071
      @usualsuspect3071 2 роки тому +3

      You and me both, Romford was a lovely place to live once upon a time....

    • @deesarthafaks
      @deesarthafaks Рік тому

      ​@@ChristineFisher123
      It still has a huge shopping centre and 2 cinemas...

    • @deesarthafaks
      @deesarthafaks Рік тому

      ​@@fearless6947 you can still do both in Romford...

    • @Zlervo
      @Zlervo 6 місяців тому

      All the markets are disappearing. Residents and traders are being pushed away.

  • @dawnknight123
    @dawnknight123 2 роки тому +31

    Lived in Romford 50 years …. Loved growing up here …felt safe had everything nearby… within the last ten years it’s declined drastically …our much loved market is about an eighth of its size…flats going up everywhere!!! Mostly for people born outside Romford , or uk … our housing system , does not hold any loyalties to people born here…the more local u are, the worst you get treated…it’s sad to say but it’s now becoming unrecognisable…going to pot … our crime rate has soared .

    • @Zizoosworld
      @Zizoosworld 2 роки тому +1

      Vote UKIP! Lol

    • @Vloke6
      @Vloke6 2 роки тому

      Browns

    • @Zizoosworld
      @Zizoosworld 2 роки тому

      @@Vloke6 pink

    • @brantdanger
      @brantdanger 2 роки тому

      Your government is antiwhite, just like my government in the states.

    • @madforit2
      @madforit2 2 роки тому

      ​@@Zizoosworld haha UKIP!! BNP or an ethno nationalist candidate. otherwise forget it

  • @fearless6947
    @fearless6947 2 роки тому +1

    I'm 42 years old. I was a kid when I watched ThameTv. Obviously I was watching other stuff because kids don't like the news. Brilliant youtube channel, brings back memories 👍❤️

  • @MatthewOfLondon
    @MatthewOfLondon 2 роки тому +11

    Ignore some of the clothes it felt like this could have been filmed this morning. I felt like I was in 1977. Superb quality film. 😀

  • @WintersWar
    @WintersWar 2 роки тому +16

    Look how everyone yearns for the camera, embracing technology back then. Now that we got it we run away from it.

    • @Sheba_316
      @Sheba_316 2 роки тому

      😅

    • @neilsaunders9309
      @neilsaunders9309 2 роки тому

      That's because we know who's behind the camera now and what their agenda is.

  • @hejla4524
    @hejla4524 2 роки тому +14

    The great Monty Modlyn...it's been a long time.

    • @insertnamehere5146
      @insertnamehere5146 2 роки тому

      you obviously didn't have to listen to the bloke on Sunday nights in the mid 1980s on LBC when there was nothing else to listen to. He used to do my head in with faux cockney dirge for hours on end

    • @hejla4524
      @hejla4524 2 роки тому +2

      @@insertnamehere5146 True, hours of him might be a bit trying, but I liked his interviews and as he was born in Lambeth, I doubt the cockney dirge was 'faux'.

    • @uktravel8341
      @uktravel8341 2 роки тому

      @@hejla4524 Isn't Cockney being born within a mile of Bow Bells? Or so I was told.

    • @tomthomassony8607
      @tomthomassony8607 2 роки тому +1

      @@insertnamehere5146 my Mum used to love Monty! She got me listening to LBC back in the day - Brian Hayes, Janet Street Porter etc. Great to hear your opinion, thank you!

    • @insertnamehere5146
      @insertnamehere5146 2 роки тому +2

      @@tomthomassony8607 I can remember he used to get all the old biddys ringing him up chatting total crap for hours on end. one particular old dear rang him up to tell him about her hospital appointment the following day (Yawn) and that she was having a barium meal to which the clueless Modlyn said goodbye and i hope you enjoy your meal tomorrow. LBC fired him in the end!

  • @paulyflyer8154
    @paulyflyer8154 2 роки тому +33

    I know what you're all thinking. But we daren't say it.

  • @RichyWalsh
    @RichyWalsh 2 роки тому +12

    Romford is still a fun place to be. Yes, it has changed since it became Greater London from Essex in 1965 but nothing stays the same. It still has a great spirit with nice shops, restaurants, and pubs. Romford is still a great place to live with many friendly people and places to see. The only downside is with London came the London prices so property is very exspnsive.
    Luckily it still has that little bit of Essex charm underneath so you are still greeted with the iconic phrase " Alright Mate " ;)

  • @CookwitchCreations
    @CookwitchCreations 2 роки тому +26

    Everyone moaning it's not the same, well GO AND SHOP AT THE MARKET THEN. We make it, and we deserted it. Everybody wanted Lakeside, Bluewater, Tesco...the old stalls are still there, and so should we be.

    • @uktravel8341
      @uktravel8341 2 роки тому

      Tesco UK revenue is about £40 billion a year, Lakeside and Bluewater's is about £300 million each. People spend barely £50 million in the whole UK on market-stalls every year. I think the people have spoken, don't you?

    • @agentsamson6051
      @agentsamson6051 2 роки тому +1

      Because most stuff you get at markets is a load of old rubbish with no guareentee - bit of your only fools and horses scenario. I think people have moved on, are better educated and informed and want good quality items.

    • @CookwitchCreations
      @CookwitchCreations 2 роки тому +1

      @@uktravel8341 I believe that's what I said? Everyone moved on and out, but those very people still moan about how it's not the same.
      I actually go to this particular market, I love it, and I haven't stepped foot in Tesco for 15 years. Out of town shopping malls are my idea of hell.

    • @CookwitchCreations
      @CookwitchCreations 2 роки тому

      @@agentsamson6051 Have you been to the market in question? I have, and it's very good, especially the fresh produce. It's a shame people don't support it.

    • @johnwood2448
      @johnwood2448 2 роки тому

      Wish we had more fresh food and farmers markets Cheaper than delis and supermarkets but guess people vote with their pockets. Times change and people adapt ... for better or worse.

  • @andrewthurlow4824
    @andrewthurlow4824 2 роки тому +5

    The good old days sadly no more 😞

  • @regplasma7906
    @regplasma7906 2 роки тому +19

    2.33 - 3.00 Spot the Conservative who never ever lived in Romford.....really.

    • @BossySwan
      @BossySwan 2 роки тому +2

      *A MARVELLOUS SHOPPING CENTRE REALLEH*

    • @pooter7263
      @pooter7263 15 днів тому

      gidea park inhabitant

  • @ignignokt-6050
    @ignignokt-6050 2 роки тому +35

    Looks like a lovely little english town. Wonder what it’s like now forty five years later.

    • @BG-ef8sk
      @BG-ef8sk 2 роки тому +18

      Exactly how you imagine it will be

    • @richardwager283
      @richardwager283 2 роки тому +18

      It’s actually in London (Havering) and one of Londons major shopping areas. The area was once part of Essex but became part of London officially in 1965. This was the case for the London boroughs of Newham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest and Barking & Dagenham that were all part of the County of Essex. Prior to becoming part of London all these boroughs were largely independent from Essex and were known as urban districts etc.
      No doubt someone will be a long to say it’s still Essex because it says so on my address! Well your writing your address wrong 😝

    • @onsomebits7486
      @onsomebits7486 2 роки тому +1

      45*

    • @dang373
      @dang373 2 роки тому +2

      was nice. there was a big brewery

    • @MatthewOfLondon
      @MatthewOfLondon 2 роки тому +5

      @@richardwager283 it's strange even today, exactly what the geographical status is. My best friend left London ten years ago and moved to Havering-Atte-Bauer. London postcode and Essex telephone area code. Most strange but there ya go. 😄

  • @borderlord
    @borderlord 2 роки тому +5

    2:33...She's an absolute gem!!

    • @chiefrocka8604
      @chiefrocka8604 2 роки тому +1

      Little bit filthy I should coco

    • @borderlord
      @borderlord 2 роки тому

      @@chiefrocka8604 With that accent absolutely!

  • @DeenM2099
    @DeenM2099 2 роки тому +11

    I wonder what's changed now.....

    • @marthasheilds2446
      @marthasheilds2446 2 роки тому +3

      Most Londoners moved to Essex for decades.

    • @edmundblackaddercoc8522
      @edmundblackaddercoc8522 2 роки тому +1

      Hmmmm lol

    • @Harry_84
      @Harry_84 2 роки тому +1

      Romford is still 80% white to be fair. But it’s definitely much less pleasant now

    • @neilsaunders9309
      @neilsaunders9309 2 роки тому +4

      Nothing that would surprise anyone who's been awake for the last few decades.

    • @dazauto1400
      @dazauto1400 2 роки тому +2

      The colour scheme!

  • @plumduff3303
    @plumduff3303 2 роки тому +5

    I still like romford

  • @garylucas7050
    @garylucas7050 2 роки тому +2

    Did you remember trying to park in the main Romford car park in the 70’s before the other shopping centres evolved ..absolute carnage , police waving you on when you was queuing , but I still miss it 😩

  • @Pluschap
    @Pluschap 3 місяці тому +2

    I can't imagine anyone watching this and commenting on it today who hasn't live in or around Romford at some time.
    I won't go back there now. It's changed so much from the town I grew up in that it's actually painful to visit.
    My lasting memory of the market is the sound and scent of the paraffin Primus lamps on the stalls on a winter evening, and the odd greenish glow they gave to the light. I worked at Fine Fare on Friday nights and Saturdays, so those lanterns were a huge part of my life.
    So sad that The Caxton Bookshop and the old library were already gone when they filmed this.

  • @s1lvergee304
    @s1lvergee304 Рік тому +1

    I lived on Old Church Road from '70 to '80. Went to school via the old abattoir, and the strong smell from the brewery. I remember once being chased by gypsy kids on the fields, what is now the Queen's Hospital and the faint smell of TCP from the old hospital on route to cross the railway track to meet friends in town.

  • @chairmanalf7856
    @chairmanalf7856 2 роки тому +7

    I have lived closely to Romford all of my life and worked there for over eight years during the 90’s. The place is a dump now with lots of closed down shops, urban decay, the market is virtually empty on market days and there are beggars everywhere.

  • @chrisjefferies5820
    @chrisjefferies5820 2 роки тому +10

    I will always love Romford. My hometown. Things change, thats life but what they have done to it is a real shame.

  • @shabbos-goy9407
    @shabbos-goy9407 2 роки тому +25

    the uk is now utterly finished

    • @marthasheilds2446
      @marthasheilds2446 2 роки тому

      Well that's your opinion the UK needs to invading countries and learn to stick to their own all you see in the UK is white women pushing out mix race kids with blacks , no one forced them to mix.

    • @memyself1566
      @memyself1566 2 роки тому

      Even Thames water company is owned by a German Corporation. Privatisation of the utilities was Margaret Thatcher’s jewel in one of her crowns - the will of the companies and the banks are paramount.

    • @rolandpotter479
      @rolandpotter479 2 роки тому +5

      Yes the brextreamists messed it all up!! Small minded provincials.

    • @memyself1566
      @memyself1566 2 роки тому

      @@rolandpotter479
      That would depend upon whether you wanted to be part of a communistic system or not - it was Germany’s third attempt at Western - especially European - domination. This time it has worked, but it has worked through legislation and not through war. It has always been and always will be a dictatorship which wastes unlimited amounts of money. It is a black hole that could never be filled.

    • @dazauto1400
      @dazauto1400 2 роки тому +4

      This countries end started in 1948

  • @chriso8485
    @chriso8485 2 роки тому +25

    No tracksuits. No baseball caps. No rainbow flags. Brilliant.

  • @missj.d9187
    @missj.d9187 2 роки тому +9

    The sentence " refugees from East London" says it all !!!! If you know you know.

  • @auxiliary4023
    @auxiliary4023 2 роки тому +13

    Before we gave everything away..

    • @Opbabyyx
      @Opbabyyx 2 роки тому +2

      meaning?

    • @neilsaunders9309
      @neilsaunders9309 2 роки тому +2

      @@Opbabyyx Meaning, time for you to wake up.

    • @Opbabyyx
      @Opbabyyx 2 роки тому

      @@neilsaunders9309 to what

    • @neilsaunders9309
      @neilsaunders9309 2 роки тому

      @@Opbabyyx Oh, go away, you silly person (or words to that general effect)!

  • @Passionbloom52
    @Passionbloom52 Рік тому +6

    Romford isn’t the same any more , born & bred in Romford & my family have lived here as far back as the 1800’s

    • @deesarthafaks
      @deesarthafaks Рік тому +1

      Well done, you noticed Romford has changed since the 1800s.

  • @Pinerocks
    @Pinerocks 2 роки тому +20

    I like that posh lady! 😀

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder 2 роки тому +3

      She reminds me a bit of Sue Nicholls who played Audrey in Coronation Street, and one of the characters in Rentaghost.

    • @therealbettyswollocks
      @therealbettyswollocks 2 роки тому

      REARRRLY?

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder 2 роки тому

      @@therealbettyswollocks Yep, I remember she was a minor milf crush back in the early 80s. By the time of Coronation Street.....not so much.

    • @maximoo9861
      @maximoo9861 2 роки тому +6

      You don't hear posh accents like that nowadays😊

    • @wayinfront1
      @wayinfront1 2 роки тому +4

      Occasional lapses indicate that her accent is not natural, and has been achieved via elocution lessons. Nothing wrong with that, though, because they make you speak and think clearly. Very unfashionable now, of course.

  • @dawngibson1157
    @dawngibson1157 2 роки тому +1

    Good days when I 1st moved to Romford is was eye sore
    Much better now.

  • @CiBi1968
    @CiBi1968 2 роки тому +6

    Wow Agnetha Fältskog (Abba) is there left hand side @1:13 !!!

  • @version736ha2
    @version736ha2 2 роки тому +6

    Go and ask them now

  • @misspurrr-fect3684
    @misspurrr-fect3684 2 роки тому +20

    How the face of the UK has changed ... for the worst...☹️

  • @61sven
    @61sven 3 місяці тому

    Romford moved from being in Essex to a London borough in around 1965.

  • @dslapster64
    @dslapster64 2 роки тому

    I moved to Chadwell Heath in 1976 when I was 12 from Leytonstone and my mother used to go there. Now in the USA since 1982. It was great seeing this … the memories .

    • @krayon_eater
      @krayon_eater 2 роки тому +1

      I moved to Chadwell Heath from Leytonstone in '76, also. Unfortunately, i'm still here.

    • @dslapster64
      @dslapster64 2 роки тому

      @@krayon_eater
      Oh wow, I’d love to go back there though to see what it’s like now. I’m sure it’s changed a lot since then.

    • @si2k
      @si2k Рік тому

      Chadwell Heath back then was must have been amazing especially moving from Leytonstone. Its not the best nowadays hasnt been for years.

  • @Zizoosworld
    @Zizoosworld 2 роки тому +7

    Lol people always complaining how good it was in the past, even in the 1970s. People need to accept that the best days of their youth were in entirety different contexts to the youth of today. Environment and societies change and adapt over time, that's life. Romford was never a paradise to begin with but had some character as these people testify.

    • @jamesgunn7
      @jamesgunn7 2 роки тому +4

      It's nostalgia bias - people always assume things were better when they were a kid

    • @christophercurtis2893
      @christophercurtis2893 2 роки тому

      What's your problem?

    • @Zizoosworld
      @Zizoosworld 2 роки тому

      @@christophercurtis2893 read

    • @brantdanger
      @brantdanger 2 роки тому

      What you wrote is horseshit. The UK government is antiwhite. It treats its own people and traditions like garbage, while importing the third world to replace the British. Life all across Western Civilization has gotten worse because of intentional polices. Saying "societies change" is an excuse for destroying the existing society.

    • @krayon_eater
      @krayon_eater 2 роки тому

      Whilst there is some truth in your comment about nostalgia, claiming that change is a constant and therefore people need to accept it, is fatalistic nonsense. Not all change is positive, and people are allowed to express their discontent if things change to their disliking.

  • @garylucas7050
    @garylucas7050 2 роки тому +1

    Remember Monty Modlin the presenter here opening a suit shop in Romford and trying to flog my dad a suit , my dad was in his 60’s about the same age as Monty I was maybe 14 still at school and my dad ripped him a new one haha …side note the Indian guy in the interview I’m sure was my teacher for maths at Britton’s in rainham essex Ford Lane ..Mr Jolly ….those were the days better than now …

    • @richardwager283
      @richardwager283 2 роки тому

      @Deesar Thafaks and Britton’s school is in Hornchurch not Rainham 👍🏻😝 just to add to the pedantry 👌🏻

    • @richardwager283
      @richardwager283 2 роки тому

      @Deesar Thafaks surprises me how few people know it 😝 Maybe I look at maps to much.

  • @fearless6947
    @fearless6947 2 роки тому +1

    Wish I could go back in time

  • @71ibanez
    @71ibanez 2 роки тому

    Always went to Romford in the 80’s,also The Dolphin swimming pool😊

  • @superyachtchef
    @superyachtchef 2 роки тому +4

    "Trade is hard" but I've been a market trader for 40 years.....🤔

  • @d.d.4703
    @d.d.4703 2 роки тому +11

    Family moved to Romford in 1965 and my final connection to the place was lost last year when my father died. We moved from Canning Town and it felt like going to live in a village. What a hole the place is now. Mass third world and Eastern European migration has completely changed the demographics, atmosphere and character of the place. When my father's house was being sold, not one white English person came to view. I will never be going back there. But, l tell the story of what London has become. (BTW, the posh lady is priceless. One good change about the past has been the loss of those plummy accents - really.)

  • @pmacc3557
    @pmacc3557 2 роки тому +14

    Goid morning to my beautiful English friends from mainland Europa ..

  • @si2k
    @si2k 2 роки тому +3

    Absolute cesspit nowadays, just an extension of London.

    • @deesarthafaks
      @deesarthafaks Рік тому +1

      Not an extension of London, a part of London, and has been for 58 years.

    • @si2k
      @si2k Рік тому

      @@deesarthafaks Your correct but I was referring to the demise of Romford much like what happened to London.
      It's still regarded as being in Essex.

    • @deesarthafaks
      @deesarthafaks Рік тому +1

      @@si2k
      Romford is London so you're talking about the same place.
      Only ignoramuses & begs say Romford is in Essex. Anyone with knowledge of geography doesn't consider it as Essex at all.

  • @pamelamckenzie2685
    @pamelamckenzie2685 2 роки тому

    Oh i love the video

  • @wayneferrier8096
    @wayneferrier8096 Рік тому

    I remember Brian cook .he had a son called Tony. And a daughter Sharon.

  • @uktravel8341
    @uktravel8341 2 роки тому +9

    "Country's gone to the dogs. 'Fing's ain't what they used to be, not what wiv' the Spanish and the Lombards takin' all our jobs."
    Elizabethan market trader, 1577.

  • @vinay7397
    @vinay7397 2 роки тому +4

    3:24 John Lyall

  • @johncorrall1739
    @johncorrall1739 2 роки тому +2

    Monty modlyn

  • @loonylinda
    @loonylinda 2 роки тому +1

    2:59 a charicature of the 70s middle class toffy voice madam

  • @Zlervo
    @Zlervo Рік тому +3

    The Essex accent was completely different then to how it is now.

    • @Garfie489
      @Garfie489 Рік тому

      This isn't Essex is likely the explanation there

    • @Zlervo
      @Zlervo 6 місяців тому

      ​@@Garfie489back then, it was.

    • @Garfie489
      @Garfie489 6 місяців тому +2

      @@Zlervo the video is from the 1970s.
      Back then, it still wasn't Essex

  • @johnblaze8774
    @johnblaze8774 2 роки тому +3

    Market is dead. Most markets are but Romford could have gone with the Times. You go into central London and the thing people are buzzed about are food markets. Take away these old hags selling discount toiletries and dodgy watches, and replace them with modern food stalls with a proper eating area and the place will be buzzing.

  • @jasonayres
    @jasonayres 2 роки тому +2

    (3:48) "Drum roll, please!"

  • @richardsmith3585
    @richardsmith3585 2 роки тому +1

    English culture great

  • @dawngibson1157
    @dawngibson1157 2 роки тому +1

    Romford 1996-present

  • @CrueLoaf
    @CrueLoaf День тому

    2:33 wow. people just dont talk like that anymore do they?

  • @ssj9871
    @ssj9871 5 місяців тому

    See how well spoken the Sikhs are.

  • @jeremystone6641
    @jeremystone6641 2 роки тому +16

    I bet Romford market looks a bit different now.

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber 2 роки тому +5

      Far fewer stalls these days - shopping Centre still doing ok but the market has declined significantly - used more as a car park

    • @jeremystone6641
      @jeremystone6641 2 роки тому +10

      @@Keithbarber Sad. How many of the stall holders are indigenous British?

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber 2 роки тому

      @@jeremystone6641 that I don't know, but another sign is no buses run in from Essex now either - just tfl routes from brentwood and lakeside, but it used to be that on market day, buses from harlow, Chelmsford, Southend on sea, grays/tilbury etc would arrive at St.Edwards way packed solid and carry hordes of shoppers home again, but now it's just local buses picking up, and not always packed out either

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 2 роки тому +3

      They killed it with covic restrictions

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber 2 роки тому +3

      @@annother3350 the market had long been in decline before covid19 hit, but the pandemic didnt help matters

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles Рік тому

    Lookit them gigs ! They look like re-entry shields !

  • @45themojo
    @45themojo 2 роки тому

    Anyone know of the Cohens the markets

  • @bunnystuart3808
    @bunnystuart3808 Рік тому +1

    Used to go to Romford in 1990 until yobbos ruined it

  • @tonyneve2410
    @tonyneve2410 2 роки тому

    QUEENS HOSPITAL, ROMFORD, ESSEX. Having just spent TWO DAYS waiting, it took the better part of seven hour to see a doctor only to be told to come back the next day for a kidney scan (I have kidney stones).
    Went back at 9am the next day, had the scan and was told to wait in A&E for the results, I waited SIX AND A HALF HOURS and then (only after I complained) did I see a doctor who told me I had kidney stones, Something I had told them month's before.
    The hospital lacks organisation, tests and questionnaires where duplicated or even tripled, maddening confusion where nobody seems to know what they are doing, wrong notes being given out (so people have to start again), one couple waited seventeen hours for results.
    The staff insisted it was due to staff shortages but I don't think so, it looked to me as if everyone had given up and where just going through the motions to get the day over with.

    • @tonyneve2410
      @tonyneve2410 2 роки тому

      @Deesar Thafaks Can you tell me where Romford is then????

    • @Garfie489
      @Garfie489 2 роки тому +1

      @@tonyneve2410 Romfords official county is "Greater London" - though most just say London for short.
      Its about 4 miles outside of Essex - which isnt that close really

    • @andrewbolton9613
      @andrewbolton9613 Рік тому

      Oldchurch Hospital.

  • @thealchemistdaughter3405
    @thealchemistdaughter3405 2 роки тому +2

    Sad that the British lay down to the destruction of their wonderful culture.. The EU has destroyed the native culture of every one of its member countries..

  • @lillybeth4308
    @lillybeth4308 2 роки тому

    2022 Romford is alien 👽

  • @SCUN88
    @SCUN88 2 роки тому +3

    2.33 beautiful 🤩

  • @Garfie489
    @Garfie489 2 роки тому +2

    Whys this listed as "Essex"?
    Even back in the 70s Romford wasn't in Essex - 50 years later and its still the case.

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder 2 роки тому +2

      I've always thought of Romford as being in Essex, even though they reclassified it many years ago. Probably because the heart and soul of a place does not change location, just because some bod with a pen and a committee chooses to do so.

    • @Garfie489
      @Garfie489 2 роки тому +1

      @@EgoShredder it changed literally generations ago. There's likely some great grand parents that were not born before the change - at that point you kinda need to accept things have moved on. The "soul" is not really Essex if the majority of people living there have never known it as such

    • @hannahdaisy6905
      @hannahdaisy6905 2 роки тому +10

      I would never say I'm from London. That doesn't feel right at all. It's Essex to everyone who lives here.

    • @Garfie489
      @Garfie489 2 роки тому +2

      @@hannahdaisy6905 "Everyone who lives there"
      Yeh... no its not. Anyone thats even slightly clued up is pretty well aware of where it is - county elections last year were a pretty obvious point for many people

    • @hannahdaisy6905
      @hannahdaisy6905 2 роки тому +3

      @@Garfie489 lol yes I know where it is politically, thanks!

  • @vcwood1203
    @vcwood1203 2 роки тому +4

    It's not that great now, 😕

  • @borderlord
    @borderlord 2 роки тому +9

    Looks like this was back when ethnic minorities were a minority!
    Wonder what the demographic is like these days?!

    • @neilsaunders9309
      @neilsaunders9309 2 роки тому

      The "ethnic minorities" are no longer a minority.
      Also, monstrous, oversize development has run riot and destroyed the fabric of the town.

  • @david_ironfist_bristow2462
    @david_ironfist_bristow2462 2 роки тому

    Im from Romford Essex Romford market not what it used to be

    • @deesarthafaks
      @deesarthafaks Рік тому

      There is no such place as Romford Essex.

  • @DDandrums
    @DDandrums 2 роки тому

    2:33 wtf?

  • @sasshe9240
    @sasshe9240 2 роки тому +1

    What a shame

  • @philip426
    @philip426 2 роки тому +1

    It's now just a glorified car boot sale.

  • @lahtal1
    @lahtal1 2 роки тому

    Water Sports 💧💧💧😂

  • @anthonybanton1415
    @anthonybanton1415 2 роки тому +3

    Romford is now full of too many you know what

    • @deesarthafaks
      @deesarthafaks Рік тому +1

      Racists like you ya mean. Nah, there was more of them about in the 90s. I remember spitting on the swastikas that were spraypainted in the town's subways.

    • @francofan100
      @francofan100 7 місяців тому

      No? Enlighten us.

    • @anthonybanton1415
      @anthonybanton1415 7 місяців тому

      @@francofan100 3rd world minorities you plank

    • @anthonybanton1415
      @anthonybanton1415 7 місяців тому

      @@francofan100 use your brain you spaz

    • @joshuataylor3550
      @joshuataylor3550 4 місяці тому

      ​@@anthonybanton1415I hope you wake up before you die Tony

  • @catclaw7462
    @catclaw7462 2 роки тому

    Strange old language they're speaking it must be old English

  • @Bill-cv1xu
    @Bill-cv1xu 2 роки тому +2

    Say what you will..