Brilliant once again! It must take you ages to do this, thanks so much for doing so, it's a great nostalgia trip. I'm slowly working my way through all the episodes on dvd so for a brief time I can fool myself that I'm not in 2024.
Another great episode, well done tracking down Rodney House! A couple of places I’d like to revisit next time I’m in that area of London the Walmer Castle for sure! Thanks again for your great editing and commentary!
@@Sweenealogy Quality effort my san! With your excellent knowledge of the manor, and of the major Faces who are 'at it' we need to talk. You are just the sort of clued up snout I require. Meet you at the Warrington Hotel at 8pm tonight. There's a century for your sky rocket and a big drink in it for you san- that's just for starters. I want all you know about Frank Kemble.........See you at 8 Nobby, mines a large one...........Jack. :)
Absolutely superb! Great narration to. The streets look so much more cluttered now. Mostly because of cars, but also so much over the top street furniture such as signs, bollards etc. I think in general there’s more litter to. Great to see that boozer survived - I’m planning a Sweeney pub crawl with me mates probably next year. As there aren’t that many I’m fleshing it out with Minder & New Tricks as a tribute to the late great Dennis Waterman RIP
Skeff AKA Boycey! 😅 Brilliant stuff yet again, thanks so much for all your hard work tracking these locations down. These videos take me back to a simpler and, some would say, better time. I know there are plenty of things which have improved over the decades but I would go back to the ‘70s in a heartbeat, given the chance.
Another excellent video from a bygone age. The younger viewers here missed out on "proper" London with "proper" geezers. No lattes or Moccachoccachinos in The Sweeney. It was real boozers and black eyes!
Absolutely essential viewing for any fan. I'm always impressed by your attention to detail while giving informative narration. Easy to watch these on their own or as a watchalong with the episode in question. Brilliant stuff. Can't wait for more 👏👏👏
Another great video, worked in w10 and w11 in the 90s and the Walmer castle was.one of my customers. The mews next door to it is where terry mccann chases one of the thugs in the minder episode 'whose wife is it anyway '. ,and Ledbury road is where alan and Jim had their antique shop.
My Sweeney memory is from 77 78 when I worked for British Relay Special Services in London. We had a contract covering TV/radio/PA systems in all THF locations. I remember being called out to the Tara Hotel just off Kensington High Street and realising it was the hotel where Jack had 'Ugandan discussions' with the American Air hostess. #goodolddays
Excellent video again, your attention to detail is top notch. I was only born in 1974 so my first real viewing of The Sweeney was when Channel 5 started broadcasting episodes at 9pm during the week in the late 1990s. They only showed around maybe 10 episodes, but I was immediately hooked. Then in the early nouties, Network announced they were releasing the entire Sweeney as box sets on DVD so I bought them. Then soddin ITV4 decided to rerun edited versions of The Sweeney over and over again. Then Network announced they were releasing The Sweeney on bluray and I thought I'd hang on until all 4 series were on bluray, but they stopped after series 1 due to lack of demand - which I partly blame on ITV4 for their constant reruns. When Network originally released The Sweeney on dvd around 2004 it wasn't being broadcast on any UK tv channel at the time, fans could only view it by buying the dvds. I still live in hope somone will one day convert all episodes of The Sweeney and Minder to bluray.
Yeah I've got the 4 Network DVD box sets; like you I was hanging on for all of them to be out on Blu-Ray but alas, not as yet. I won't even touch the butchered ITV4 versions; Amazon Prime has nearly all episodes available so at least that's a streaming option if people want it (I do have a Prime sub, but I just watch the DVDs mostly).
Fantastic. I particularly enjoyed the door knob/knocker/hand-rail level of detail, and I’m sure I can’t be the only viewer that sad! Oh, and of course the ever humorous narration, e.g "triple denim action". It was also good to hear a little about the research you had to do. I hope you are enjoying making these.
I lived in London at the time The Sweeney was being made, and I often - as I'm watching episodes - flick over to Google Maps for a 'then and now'. I'm especially familiar with the areas around south London: Putney, Wandsworth, Battersea, Fulham, etc. I remember that 'Aussie' episode with Patrick Mower and George Leyton very well! 'Trojan Bus'. One of my favourites. "You say either, I say either... you say Geisler, I say Gysler. Either, either, Geisler, Gysler... I say it's time to get off!" Excellent. You probably know that the early scenes in the film 'Sweeney 2' were shot by the Riverside Cafe in Putney, just across from Kenilworth Court. I grew up in Putney in the '60s and '70s and I knew that cafe well as a kid. Long gone now. 'Minder' is another one I check out a lot as many episodes were filmed around Putney. Arthur Daley's first lock-up was in Brewhouse Lane, near the church at Putney Bridge. That's gone now. The Winchester Club (exterior) was filmed at a house in Deodar Road - number 200a, near the corner with Putney Bridge Road. Still there, and still recognisable. Great to see these vids. Keep up the good work!
First time viewer, but I have to say finding these places and the detail is very well done. Thank you. I had a mate who was a met cop and he said they hated this series because it gave away a lot of the flying squad secrets, so it was very accurate.
This channel is quite simply the best thing on UA-cam. I always stumbled on Sweeney locations by accident when in London. For instance, I was passing the Copthorne Tara hotel in Kensington about ten years ago and couldn't resist popping round the back to visit the scene of the shootout with Billy Medhurst's firm (of course I could've gone inside and visited the scene of Jack getting lucky (almost) with the air hostess in Selected Target🙂
Fantastic! A note about the music used when Ray crosses the street to catch the 52 bus - it's entitled "Holy Mackarel", composed by Brian Bennett, who was also drummer for The Shadows. And indeed it was used as the Rugby Special theme tune. Brian also composed a piece called "Chaseside Shoot Up" - also used by the BBC as their iconic golf theme tune.
F**king nailed it. Again. Your work is exemplary, a delight for me as an exiled Londoner. A great companion to one of the greatest tv programmes ever, set in the greatest city in the world. Cheers.
Excellent as always. Even your accent adds to the atmosphere Guv’nr. Loved the reference to the lemonade and bag of crisps’ in a beer garden as in the 1970’s that’s exactly what my dad did to us kids …and mum.
absolutely superb! these videos are just great, how i miss 70s london, so much character compared to the sterility of today, what a show the Sweeney was, as you say the greatest telly show ever, john thaw is currently appearing in an obscure 1974 series called the capone investment(on nostalgia channel talking pictures) playing a middle class type, this character is far more like the real john but to me he'll always be jack regan as he played that part so well, he's been seen in the capone investment driving a lovely triumph stag as opposed to his rather shabby mk2 cortina and the red mk1 escort in the pilot episode(tina and escy are both fantastic classics of course like the stag) thanks so much, always a joy to see your stuff
I grew up in and around All Saints Rd in the '70s. Hard to believe now just how run down it was then. Many whole streets were derelict and boarded up. Great channel, keep up the good work.
@@Sweenealogy I think I saw it. Leinster Place where the false buildings are. (First episode?) Blew me away. The pub (Leinster Arms?) is still there but looks a lot better these days. A long time ago for me- 1987. Thanks for doing what you do. I'm sure it means a lot to many people. 🍺
Great work again. Thank you 🙏 I just had a look and last month, on the 4th June, it was the 50th ( 🙈) anniversary of the Armchair Theatre episode REGAN. 50 years! 😅
The Rugby special music is called 'Holy Mackerel' and was written by Brian Bennett, drummer with the shadows, some of his other work was in the Sweeney in the episode 'Hideout' used in the episode Poppy where James Booth's 'Vic Labett' recovers his money and gems from the Thames pier.
@@louminati4318 I know exactly which scene you're referring to; I'm not an R's fan myself, but I did go to Loftus Road a number of times as an 'away fan' in the 80s. It's obviously very different now, in the age of all-seater stadiums - but even so, for the sake of location completeness I'd almost certainly go and take in a game :) I've already done a match at Dulwich Hamlet FC in the course of Sweeney location tracking :)
Absolutely brilliant bit of nostalgia! How I miss the '70s when everyone smoked, and you were ok driving after a few sherbets, provided you sucked a mint!😂😂Happy days! Thanks for doing these vids, really enjoy them.
I absolutely love this series. I wasn't even able to form words when The Sweeney was on (I arrived 1978) but I love social history and this stuff gets me every time. Bravo, sir.
I was just too young to have seen the series when it first aired; but every grimy London frame speaks to my childhood, which is undoubtedly why I became so obsessed with it later on in life.
I love this. Only really found The Sweeney around 5 years ago when I was able to watch a lot of daytime TV after having our first child. It's great to see the then and now shots. Thanks.
Hello mate I don't know if you've done the Maida Vale / Harrow Rd area yet, but about 15 years ago, I was at work driving home going thru maida Vale and needed the loo desperately 😂 so see a pub called the Warrington on Sutherland Road in m.vale and i pulled up, went in ,and after politely asking to use their khazi went up a big flight of stairs and relieved myself 😂 Then 2 or 3 days later, I'm watching the Sweeney (series 1/ episode 6 - Night out),when Jack is doing a stakeout,watching a bank from the same pub 😂 obviously the pub looked different seeing it was filmed in 1975/6 but it was the big flight of stairs that I recognised straight away. The Warrington pub is still there but now a swanky hotel . Brilliant work mate , enjoying it and appreciate your efforts in making these videos Cheers mate ,
As a fellow 'labour of love' UA-cam video producer not only can l appreciate the amout of work you have put in here l can also relate to the level of patience and perseverance required to obtain the necessary footage. l openly admit to once waiting 5 hours for just for a 5 second shot, so very well done.
Thanks mate. Your location work and comments are magnificent and very entertaining. NB it was a pity that Euston Films chose only to use locations in the western part of London. If only they could have spread out to other parts such as the east end, which had its fair share of villains in the 70s - some of our friends of a mature age might remember the well known George Davis who gained incredible publicity in the mid 70s with graffiti everywhere proclaiming his innocence of robbery charges (I have a vivid memory of seeing "George Davis is innocent" on a railway bridge on Bow Road for several years as I travelled regularly to school on the 25 bus). I would appreciate any comments.
Imagine having access to a Tardis, going back to early '70s London, & buying up property in shabby, run-down Notting Hill & Hammersmith...😏 Thanks for another great dose of time travel!
Brilliant, love these trips down memory lane. The Sweeney was by far my favourite programme as a kid. Wow, check out the collar on the shirt of denim man early in the video!
Ha, I had a garage in St.Luke’s Mews where I kept my classic motorbikes circa 2012 till 2015. Good to know Regan + Carter hurtled down it.. great channel. Well done.
The bronze consul 3.0 ltr used in the series is alive and well. Chap I know has it in his collection. Apparently he rescued it from a scrap yard. Now restored looks as new. The other cars used in the later series didn’t survive unfortunately. Excellent work btw..
Fantastic video, brilliantly researched, great bit of banter as well. I'm so looking forward to the next one! You're so right, The Sweeney, probably the best tv series ever!❤👍🙂
Fascinating, the video came up randomly on my UA-cam feed. As a kid in the 70's and early 80s remember watching the odd episode on the TV. Recently caught up with it on ITV4 watching with a couple of older gentlemen when I was their support worker. Great detective work working out the various shooting (yes pun intended) locations, truly fascinating to see how things have changed in the past 50 years ( hurts writing that). Have now subscribed to catch up and get my fix of nostalgia. Yes UA-cam does sometimes serve up an ace or two unknown channel to lose an evening too as you explore the rabbit hole.
Great Episode as usual Guvnor👍👌. I drove past Askew Road W12 the other day and saw the St Elmo's Fish Bar from the ' In from the Cold episode' It looked like it hasn't changed since then😆. Looking forward to your future filming locations Guv👌👍👍
As it happens, St Elmo was on my most recent filming trip, and will feature in one of the next 2 location videos (depending on where I “split” then - I usually find 1 trip works out at 2 decent 12-15 minute vids.)
@@21whosonthethrone I expect it'd knock us sideways if we found out! I paid just under a tenner -which sounds mental when I think of what I used to pay for fish and chips sneaking out of school at lunchtime in the 80s; but at the same time - they were bloody lovely, and I'll happily pay that sort of money if the alternative is that all the old chippies have to close down because they can't afford to stay in business.
@@Sweenealogy When I was a kid in 1970, a bag of chips was a 'tanner' (sixpence old money), that was 2 1⁄2 new pence. Fish & chips would cost the princely sum of 5 bob (shillings) or 25 new pence. It was even cheaper up north! I'd spend the day looking for old pop bottles to take back to the shop for recycling & get one old penny for each. Six bottles was a bag of chips & scrumps!
Just discovered this channel and its made my day, week, month!! 😂😂 Thanks for the effort innputting these videos together, your a true gentleman and geyser!
Excellent, I really enjoy your videos, I'm currently working my way through the series on Itvx. I was slightly too young to watch when it first came out so only vaguely remember a few episodes. Funnily enough the one I watched last night ('Lady Luck') was one of them, the guy's alibi holding out because they didn't think he could get to the bookies and back in time while a souffle was being made, only to find out he'd been to the Isle of Man TT and had a motorbike in the shed! I look forward to your next instalment.
Thank you - working on the next one already :) (Takes a while to put one together, and it's summer holiday season now, but I'll keep ticking over and get the videos out as often as I can.)
Great job thank you. Ah that took me 🔙, 'a lemonade & a packet of crisps in the garden, while your dad's inside downing in a few pints' . Sounds like me when I was a kid, except mine was a coke and a packet of cheese and onion crisps and my dad was having a swift pint watching the races! When I get the time I'm going to visit some of these locations myself, thanks to your painstaking research.🤗 You sound like the guy who does Robs London channel. Sorry I've forgotten your name? 👍🏻🚓
Excellent, loved the shots of Ledbury Road, and Briggs Antiques, opposite the Walmer Pub. Used to know that road well, back in the 70s
Brilliant once again! It must take you ages to do this, thanks so much for doing so, it's a great nostalgia trip. I'm slowly working my way through all the episodes on dvd so for a brief time I can fool myself that I'm not in 2024.
I know how you feel! Film and TV is my Time Machine back to a world that at least didn’t seem so messed up….
@@Sweenealogy Yes, it was a bit grubbier perhaps and we had less 'stuff' but more freedom.
Another great episode, well done tracking down Rodney House! A couple of places I’d like to revisit next time I’m in that area of London the Walmer Castle for sure!
Thanks again for your great editing and commentary!
Brilliant work Sir, thoroughly enjoy these. Amazing research and attention to detail and the comedic narration is perfect!
Many thanks!
What a fantastic piece of work. The quality of research, filming and post-production consistent throughout.
Thank you :)
So thorough, again. A labour of love and genius.
Thank you ☺️
@@Sweenealogy Quality effort my san! With your excellent knowledge of the manor, and of the major Faces who are 'at it' we need to talk. You are just the sort of clued up snout I require. Meet you at the Warrington Hotel at 8pm tonight. There's a century for your sky rocket and a big drink in it for you san- that's just for starters. I want all you know about Frank Kemble.........See you at 8 Nobby, mines a large one...........Jack. :)
Absolutely superb! Great narration to. The streets look so much more cluttered now. Mostly because of cars, but also so much over the top street furniture such as signs, bollards etc. I think in general there’s more litter to.
Great to see that boozer survived - I’m planning a Sweeney pub crawl with me mates probably next year. As there aren’t that many I’m fleshing it out with Minder & New Tricks as a tribute to the late great Dennis Waterman RIP
I've got plans for a "boozers special" video at some point, but not sure when I'll get around to it yet.
@@Sweenealogy superb! Cant wait 😉👍🚔🚨
Excellent vid shame we can never get back the likes of sweeney again the chemistry between top 2 characters were excellentv
Thanks, glad you liked it :)
Skeff AKA Boycey! 😅 Brilliant stuff yet again, thanks so much for all your hard work tracking these locations down. These videos take me back to a simpler and, some would say, better time. I know there are plenty of things which have improved over the decades but I would go back to the ‘70s in a heartbeat, given the chance.
Another excellent video from a bygone age. The younger viewers here missed out on "proper" London with "proper" geezers. No lattes or Moccachoccachinos in The Sweeney. It was real boozers and black eyes!
Absolutely essential viewing for any fan. I'm always impressed by your attention to detail while giving informative narration. Easy to watch these on their own or as a watchalong with the episode in question.
Brilliant stuff. Can't wait for more 👏👏👏
Thank you - I really appreciate the comments :)
I remember this being highly watchable as a kid, the theme tune was enough to get your attention, there is nothing like it now.
I just can't put into words how much I love these!!! The feelings I get are so intense! Please keep up your amazing content.😊
Glad you like them!
Another great video, worked in w10 and w11 in the 90s and the Walmer castle was.one of my customers. The mews next door to it is where terry mccann chases one of the thugs in the minder episode 'whose wife is it anyway '. ,and Ledbury road is where alan and Jim had their antique shop.
You are diamond geezer.Great stuff as usual.Thanks made my day.Love it👍🇬🇧🏴🫶
Fantastic job again, it's so good , keep up the good work, more please 👍
Many thanks - I'm working on the next one :)
My Sweeney memory is from 77 78 when I worked for British Relay Special Services in London. We had a contract covering TV/radio/PA systems in all THF locations. I remember being called out to the Tara Hotel just off Kensington High Street and realising it was the hotel where Jack had 'Ugandan discussions' with the American Air hostess. #goodolddays
'Ugandan discussions' :D Yeah, he seemed to have the knack for it eh...
Excellent video again, your attention to detail is top notch.
I was only born in 1974 so my first real viewing of The Sweeney was when Channel 5 started broadcasting episodes at 9pm during the week in the late 1990s. They only showed around maybe 10 episodes, but I was immediately hooked. Then in the early nouties, Network announced they were releasing the entire Sweeney as box sets on DVD so I bought them. Then soddin ITV4 decided to rerun edited versions of The Sweeney over and over again. Then Network announced they were releasing The Sweeney on bluray and I thought I'd hang on until all 4 series were on bluray, but they stopped after series 1 due to lack of demand - which I partly blame on ITV4 for their constant reruns. When Network originally released The Sweeney on dvd around 2004 it wasn't being broadcast on any UK tv channel at the time, fans could only view it by buying the dvds.
I still live in hope somone will one day convert all episodes of The Sweeney and Minder to bluray.
Yeah I've got the 4 Network DVD box sets; like you I was hanging on for all of them to be out on Blu-Ray but alas, not as yet. I won't even touch the butchered ITV4 versions; Amazon Prime has nearly all episodes available so at least that's a streaming option if people want it (I do have a Prime sub, but I just watch the DVDs mostly).
Fantastic. I particularly enjoyed the door knob/knocker/hand-rail level of detail, and I’m sure I can’t be the only viewer that sad! Oh, and of course the ever humorous narration, e.g "triple denim action".
It was also good to hear a little about the research you had to do. I hope you are enjoying making these.
I certainly do - I couldn’t put this much time and effort into them if I didn’t!
I love this series! I live in Fulham and its great to see all the places filmed in the series. This one is another belter, cheers!
Thanks, glad you're enjoying them :)
I lived in London at the time The Sweeney was being made, and I often - as I'm watching episodes - flick over to Google Maps for a 'then and now'. I'm especially familiar with the areas around south London: Putney, Wandsworth, Battersea, Fulham, etc. I remember that 'Aussie' episode with Patrick Mower and George Leyton very well! 'Trojan Bus'. One of my favourites. "You say either, I say either... you say Geisler, I say Gysler. Either, either, Geisler, Gysler... I say it's time to get off!" Excellent. You probably know that the early scenes in the film 'Sweeney 2' were shot by the Riverside Cafe in Putney, just across from Kenilworth Court. I grew up in Putney in the '60s and '70s and I knew that cafe well as a kid. Long gone now. 'Minder' is another one I check out a lot as many episodes were filmed around Putney. Arthur Daley's first lock-up was in Brewhouse Lane, near the church at Putney Bridge. That's gone now. The Winchester Club (exterior) was filmed at a house in Deodar Road - number 200a, near the corner with Putney Bridge Road. Still there, and still recognisable. Great to see these vids. Keep up the good work!
Your comments make brilliant reading. Thank you!
First time viewer, but I have to say finding these places and the detail is very well done. Thank you. I had a mate who was a met cop and he said they hated this series because it gave away a lot of the flying squad secrets, so it was very accurate.
This channel is quite simply the best thing on UA-cam. I always stumbled on Sweeney locations by accident when in London. For instance, I was passing the Copthorne Tara hotel in Kensington about ten years ago and couldn't resist popping round the back to visit the scene of the shootout with Billy Medhurst's firm (of course I could've gone inside and visited the scene of Jack getting lucky (almost) with the air hostess in Selected Target🙂
Fantastic! A note about the music used when Ray crosses the street to catch the 52 bus - it's entitled "Holy Mackarel", composed by Brian Bennett, who was also drummer for The Shadows. And indeed it was used as the Rugby Special theme tune.
Brian also composed a piece called "Chaseside Shoot Up" - also used by the BBC as their iconic golf theme tune.
Nice one, thanks!
F**king nailed it. Again. Your work is exemplary, a delight for me as an exiled Londoner. A great companion to one of the greatest tv programmes ever, set in the greatest city in the world. Cheers.
Absolutely bang on! I've worked this manor for thirty years in construction. All details are correct. Well done lad!
Thanks!
It’s the 70s cars that I miss, love the series and your detective work. Thanks and hope you keep it going 👍
That's the plan!
I’ve just got my trousers on, had my breakfast and settled down to watch a great video.👍
Great to see the 1970's again 👍
Fantastic as usual! I really look forward to these. They are a real labour of love and must take a lot of work. Thank you so much.
There's more detective work to put this together than there was in the series 😃🔎 well done mate.
Excellent as always. Even your accent adds to the atmosphere Guv’nr. Loved the reference to the lemonade and bag of crisps’ in a beer garden as in the 1970’s that’s exactly what my dad did to us kids …and mum.
Many thanks!
Addictive viewing. Superb work. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it :)
absolutely superb! these videos are just great, how i miss 70s london, so much character compared to the sterility of today, what a show the Sweeney was, as you say the greatest telly show ever, john thaw is currently appearing in an obscure 1974 series called the capone investment(on nostalgia channel talking pictures) playing a middle class type, this character is far more like the real john but to me he'll always be jack regan as he played that part so well, he's been seen in the capone investment driving a lovely triumph stag as opposed to his rather shabby mk2 cortina and the red mk1 escort in the pilot episode(tina and escy are both fantastic classics of course like the stag) thanks so much, always a joy to see your stuff
Absolutely fantastic , this video especially as I live in Powis Square and I go in the Walmer Castle pub…..
Cheers…. 🍺
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Yet another gem. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I grew up in and around All Saints Rd in the '70s.
Hard to believe now just how run down it was then.
Many whole streets were derelict and boarded up.
Great channel, keep up the good work.
Thanks!
Love it. Many thanks. Saw the show as a kid and lived in Bayswater when I moved to London. Incredible to see it. 🍷
I did some filming round Bayswater in a previous video :)
@@Sweenealogy I think I saw it. Leinster Place where the false buildings are. (First episode?) Blew me away. The pub (Leinster Arms?) is still there but looks a lot better these days. A long time ago for me- 1987. Thanks for doing what you do. I'm sure it means a lot to many people. 🍺
Hats off to you sir for your stirling and much appreciated efforts
Cheers!
" Triple denim action here " - superb ! Another magnificent film, what a treat.
Many thanks!☺️
Thanks so, so much for these. Can't wait to see the river locations.
Thanks once again. Really enjoyed this
The greates COP show ever. Brilliant,still watching to this day
Fantastic work I loved it. Thank you !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great work again. Thank you 🙏
I just had a look and last month, on the 4th June, it was the 50th ( 🙈) anniversary of the Armchair Theatre episode REGAN. 50 years! 😅
You may be unsurprised to hear that I watched “Regan” on the very day of its 50th anniversary ☺️
@@Sweenealogy Nice. I wish I'd realised and I would have too 😊
The Rugby special music is called 'Holy Mackerel' and was written by Brian Bennett, drummer with the shadows, some of his other work was in the Sweeney in the episode 'Hideout' used in the episode Poppy where James Booth's 'Vic Labett' recovers his money and gems from the Thames pier.
That music brings back many memories
It was used on many colour climax films
In the days of super 8 mm films
Top bit of background info - thanks!
Love it. Brings back memories. We lived just off Notting Hill gate in 1972 it was such a dump we moved to Shepherds Bush.
And look at the property prices in that 'dump' now eh! You'd never believe it from the state of most of them in the 70s.
@@Sweenealogy I'm hoping being a QPR you will do something on Loftus Road in one of your episodes.
@@louminati4318 I know exactly which scene you're referring to; I'm not an R's fan myself, but I did go to Loftus Road a number of times as an 'away fan' in the 80s. It's obviously very different now, in the age of all-seater stadiums - but even so, for the sake of location completeness I'd almost certainly go and take in a game :) I've already done a match at Dulwich Hamlet FC in the course of Sweeney location tracking :)
Look at the few exterior shots in Steptoe And Son. Notting Hill really was a sh*thole! Only difference now is it's a ridiculously expensive sh*thole!
@@louminati4318Oil Drum Lane?
FANTASTIC AGAIN. THANK YOU FROM ALL SWEENEY FANS
Put together so well, yet again. Thank you
Thanks, glad you liked it :)
Absolutely brilliant bit of nostalgia! How I miss the '70s when everyone smoked, and you were ok driving after a few sherbets, provided you sucked a mint!😂😂Happy days! Thanks for doing these vids, really enjoy them.
Cheers!
Very interesting. Thanks for upload.
Fantastic mate. As a retired London copper and child of The Sweeney... this channel is the absolute Doberman's Danglers. Love it.
Thank you kindly!
Great trip down memory lane.. Shut it!
You are doing a fantastic job with these videos. Keep up the good work👍
Thank you - I'll do my best :)
Fantastic as always
Cheers!
Another fantastic video. Thanks for sharing. Well done👍
Absolutely brilliant as ever.
The amount of research you must put into these is eye watering.
But they are superb. 😊
Thank you ☺️
Thank you so much 😀
Fantastic, love the Sweeney, grew up with it, seen the series loads on DVD, and love the 70s, wish it was like that now.
Me too!
Excellent work once again. Thank you. 👍🏻
Excellent, again. Glad you sussed Rodney House!
Thanks!
We got both Rodney and Boycie in this episode!😂
Marvellous stuff - your research footslogging and editing is greatly appreciated.
Thanks :)
I absolutely love this series. I wasn't even able to form words when The Sweeney was on (I arrived 1978) but I love social history and this stuff gets me every time.
Bravo, sir.
I was just too young to have seen the series when it first aired; but every grimy London frame speaks to my childhood, which is undoubtedly why I became so obsessed with it later on in life.
I love this. Only really found The Sweeney around 5 years ago when I was able to watch a lot of daytime TV after having our first child. It's great to see the then and now shots. Thanks.
Glad you like them :)
Quite excellent. Loved the comparisons, the history and the presentation. Thanks,.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another great Sweeneyology episode. Nice to see some from Loving Arms featuring.
Thank you for these!
Glad you like them!
Hello mate
I don't know if you've done the Maida Vale / Harrow Rd area yet, but about 15 years ago, I was at work driving home going thru maida Vale and needed the loo desperately 😂 so see a pub called the Warrington on Sutherland Road in m.vale and i pulled up, went in ,and after politely asking to use their khazi went up a big flight of stairs and relieved myself 😂
Then 2 or 3 days later, I'm watching the Sweeney (series 1/ episode 6 - Night out),when Jack is doing a stakeout,watching a bank from the same pub 😂 obviously the pub looked different seeing it was filmed in 1975/6 but it was the big flight of stairs that I recognised straight away. The Warrington pub is still there but now a swanky hotel .
Brilliant work mate , enjoying it and appreciate your efforts in making these videos
Cheers mate ,
i've been to the Warrington back when I was blogging / doing still photos, but need to go back to film for the channel :)
As a fellow 'labour of love' UA-cam video producer not only can l appreciate the amout of work you have put in here l can also relate to the level of patience and perseverance required to obtain the necessary footage.
l openly admit to once waiting 5 hours for just for a 5 second shot, so very well done.
Thanks!
You did the walk and the talk, so we can enjoy more Sweeney filming locations. Nice one 👍
Thanks!
Thanks mate. Your location work and comments are magnificent and very entertaining. NB it was a pity that Euston Films chose only to use locations in the western part of London. If only they could have spread out to other parts such as the east end, which had its fair share of villains in the 70s - some of our friends of a mature age might remember the well known George Davis who gained incredible publicity in the mid 70s with graffiti everywhere proclaiming his innocence of robbery charges (I have a vivid memory of seeing "George Davis is innocent" on a railway bridge on Bow Road for several years as I travelled regularly to school on the 25 bus). I would appreciate any comments.
Glad you enjoy the vids, thanks ☺️ And yes, I vividly remember the “George Davis is innocent” graffiti too - it was everywhere!
Imagine having access to a Tardis, going back to early '70s London, & buying up property in shabby, run-down Notting Hill & Hammersmith...😏
Thanks for another great dose of time travel!
The King Charles III banknotes could be a problem.
@@richardm7004 I was going to take my chequebook 😁
Brilliant, love these trips down memory lane. The Sweeney was by far my favourite programme as a kid. Wow, check out the collar on the shirt of denim man early in the video!
AWESOME - WHAT A GEM! loved your coverage and the then vs now. Well done fella!
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Another great trip down The Sweeney's memory lane. Love all the comparison shots and looking forward to the next one.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Fantastic video. Well done for the research. Great stuff. Looking forward to more. Cheers.
Much appreciated!
Thanksfor sharing. Fantastic bit of content.🎉🎉🎉
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)
Ha, I had a garage in St.Luke’s Mews where I kept my classic motorbikes circa 2012 till 2015. Good to know Regan + Carter hurtled down it..
great channel. Well done.
Really enjoyable video thank you great research.
Epic fella, love seeing London and the shooting locations
Beautifully crafted content ..you go from the sublime to the splendiferous👏👏👏
Thank you so much 😀
Another spot on Sweeney tour, thank you for your hard work mate.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊👍
The bronze consul 3.0 ltr used in the series is alive and well. Chap I know has it in his collection. Apparently he rescued it from a scrap yard. Now restored looks as new. The other cars used in the later series didn’t survive unfortunately. Excellent work btw..
Fantastic video, brilliantly researched, great bit of banter as well. I'm so looking forward to the next one! You're so right, The Sweeney, probably the best tv series ever!❤👍🙂
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Well done great detective work finding these locations after all these years.
Fascinating, the video came up randomly on my UA-cam feed. As a kid in the 70's and early 80s remember watching the odd episode on the TV. Recently caught up with it on ITV4 watching with a couple of older gentlemen when I was their support worker. Great detective work working out the various shooting (yes pun intended) locations, truly fascinating to see how things have changed in the past 50 years ( hurts writing that). Have now subscribed to catch up and get my fix of nostalgia. Yes UA-cam does sometimes serve up an ace or two unknown channel to lose an evening too as you explore the rabbit hole.
Great, thank you, takes me back to the Days when I had a tad more Hair and life was happier and simpler.
Another superb video, really enjoy these, thanks for uploading.
Glad you like them!
Great Episode as usual Guvnor👍👌. I drove past Askew Road W12 the other day and saw the St Elmo's Fish Bar from the ' In from the Cold episode' It looked like it hasn't changed since then😆. Looking forward to your future filming locations Guv👌👍👍
As it happens, St Elmo was on my most recent filming trip, and will feature in one of the next 2 location videos (depending on where I “split” then - I usually find 1 trip works out at 2 decent 12-15 minute vids.)
@@Sweenealogy Looking forward to them mate. ps . i wonder how much fish and chips would of cost in the early 70s compared to today's prices :-)
@@21whosonthethrone I expect it'd knock us sideways if we found out! I paid just under a tenner -which sounds mental when I think of what I used to pay for fish and chips sneaking out of school at lunchtime in the 80s; but at the same time - they were bloody lovely, and I'll happily pay that sort of money if the alternative is that all the old chippies have to close down because they can't afford to stay in business.
@@Sweenealogy Thats not too bad for today's prices👍👍 i'l be sure to pop in to St Elmo's next time i'm in that manor👍 👍
@@Sweenealogy When I was a kid in 1970, a bag of chips was a 'tanner' (sixpence old money), that was 2 1⁄2 new pence. Fish & chips would cost the princely sum of 5 bob (shillings) or 25 new pence. It was even cheaper up north! I'd spend the day looking for old pop bottles to take back to the shop for recycling & get one old penny for each. Six bottles was a bag of chips & scrumps!
Superb work again loving the content and attention to detail keep the updates coming all the best….
Thanks, will do!
Can only echo all the other comments - absolutely top work and greatly appreciated!
Thank you, so glad to hear you enjoyed it
Just discovered this channel and its made my day, week, month!! 😂😂
Thanks for the effort innputting these videos together, your a true gentleman and geyser!
Thank you - glad you like them :)
Excellent, I really enjoy your videos, I'm currently working my way through the series on Itvx. I was slightly too young to watch when it first came out so only vaguely remember a few episodes. Funnily enough the one I watched last night ('Lady Luck') was one of them, the guy's alibi holding out because they didn't think he could get to the bookies and back in time while a souffle was being made, only to find out he'd been to the Isle of Man TT and had a motorbike in the shed! I look forward to your next instalment.
Glad you’re enjoying the videos :)
I’ve got some locations for “Lady Luck” researched, and will get to film them eventually I’m sure!
Thanks again for all your effort in doing these.
Glad you like them!
Amusing and fascinating as usual. Keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
Worked and know both his ex wives and my truck was signed by him
Another top video mate. Thanks for all the hard work, research etc you put into these - really appreciated. Keep up the great work 👏🏻
Glad you like them!
Video is great as always keep them coming and thank you for taking the time to make them
Thank you - working on the next one already :) (Takes a while to put one together, and it's summer holiday season now, but I'll keep ticking over and get the videos out as often as I can.)
Excellent stuff, important work you are doing here.
Much appreciated!
Great job thank you. Ah that took me 🔙, 'a lemonade & a packet of crisps in the garden, while your dad's inside downing in a few pints' . Sounds like me when I was a kid, except mine was a coke and a packet of cheese and onion crisps and my dad was having a swift pint watching the races! When I get the time I'm going to visit some of these locations myself, thanks to your painstaking research.🤗 You sound like the guy who does Robs London channel. Sorry I've forgotten your name? 👍🏻🚓
Someone else mentioned Rob’s London, but it’s definitely not me doing that!
@@Sweenealogy Oh right sorry.
Great work as usual mate, Lovely to see good old England
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love it… thanks for the effort and sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
i love a bit of double denim! Great work as usual, lookin forward to the next installment :)
Thank you! 😊
Thanks for this. Keep em coming
Will do!