Pubs around London early 1970's old cine film 194
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- Old 8mm cine film from the early 1970's Of some of the Pubs around London (mainly North London), I have spent quite a long time on this finding out the addresses of the Pubs a few I was not able to find so I have numbered them all so if anyone knows them, they can leave a note in the comments below, some of the pubs have been renamed and some converted into accommodation, but a lot have gone for good. I would not have found out much about them without the help of Google and these two websites, www.pubwiki.co.uk and www.closedpubs.co.uk
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1-Prince Regent,
2-Lord Clyde,
3-Royal Cricketers,
4-Apollo,
5-French Horn,
6-The Packhorse,
7-The Minstrel,
8-Queens Head,
9-White Swan,
10-Chase Side Tavern,
11-Rose & Crown,
12-The Old Crown,
13-The Robin Hood,
14-The Horse & Well,
15-The Prince of Wales,
16-Ship Aground,
17-The Royal Standard,
18-Langton Arms,
19-Duke Of Wellington,
20-The Swallow ?,
21-Constellation,
22-Queens Head,
23-The Prince Edward,
24-The Plough,
25-Fallow Buck,
26-Old Sergeant,
27-Crown & Horseshoes,
28-The Cricketers,
29-Jack Straw’s Castle,
30-The Flask,
31-The Dukes Head,
32-The Bull,
33-Unknown ?,
34-Old White Lion,
35-Whittington & Cat,
36-Unknown ?,
37-The Peacock,
38-The Green Man,
39-Three Brewers,
40-Builders Arms,
41-New Crown,
42-Old Bull and Bush,
43-Hare and Hounds,
44-Railway Tavern,
45-The White Horse,
46-The Cock,
47-Kenilworth Castle,
48-Unknown ?,
49-Duchess of Kent,
50-The Beehive,
51-The White Hart,
52-Duke of Sussex,
53-Duke of Wellington,
54-Willow Tree,
55-The Greyhound,
56-Robinson Crusoe,
57-The Queens,
58-The Trafalgar,
59-Thatched House,
60-Alwyne Castle,
61-Horse & Groom,
62-The Woodman,
63-Sir George Robey,
64-The Drum & Monkey,
65-The Duke of St Albans,
66-The Castle,
67-Bull & Last,
68-Tally Ho,
69-Old Farm House,
70-The Marlborough,
71-Jolly Anglers,
72-Royal Oak,
73-Bird in Hand,
74 Hercules Tavern,
75-The Angel,
76-Ye Old Gate House,
77-Half Moon,
78-Mother Redcap,
79-The Railway,
80-Fonthill Tavern,
81-Holloway Castle,
82-Totnes Castle,
83-The Five Bells,
84-Three Wheatsheaves,
85-The Champion,
86-Old Parr’s Head,
87-Hare & Hounds,
88-Angel & Crown,
89-The Adelaide,
90-Railway Tavern,
91-White Bear,
92-The George,
93-The Adelaide,
94-The Copenhagen,
Blimey, watched it all brought a tear to my eye,it certainly was better in the old days 😢🇬🇧
Rubbish beer though 🙈
@martinthirkettle599
Rubbish food in the pubs then too. You'd be lucky to get a stale ham roll 😂.
Still it was much better then, far less drugs, far less violence and far more respect for each other.
Pubs were for drinking in those days - not restauranting@@lyndoncmp5751
@@lyndoncmp5751 thats what the chippy's for
A wonderful record of how our pubs looked 50 years ago and I remember visiting some of them. Pubs primarily looked to sell beer and spirits in those days and bar snacks were generally limited to crusty rolls of cheese or ham, pork pies or crisps. Personally, I like a crusty roll or pie with a lunchtime pint, but now they are seldom on offer. The beers were virtually all gassy keg beers then such as Courage best, Whitbread Tankard, Ben Truman, Double Diamond, Watney's Red Barrel or Charrington's Toby Ale. Thanks to the efforts of CAMRA there are many decent cask ales available today, together with keg beers and lagers for those who prefer them. I imagine many of the pubs featured are no more.
The Sir George Robey was a great pub in the eighties. Saw some excellent bands there
Used to meet a mate in there before Arsenal home games
Just across the road from the Rainbow theatre where we’d go for a drink before seeing The Clash, Bob Marley, The Who and Steely Dan amongst others!
The Sir George Robey was knocked down and a large Holiday Inn (I think) is now there!☹️
Makes me wish I could step into the screen and go back to those days.
Ah yes, the delightful 1970's
The ONLY reason I would wish to step back and stay there, is because of the state of the planet regarding climate breakdown and decimation of the natural environment.
Everything else right now is pretty much exactly as back then.
The 1970's were bloody awful in many ways ... just like now!
In some ways, the 1970's were far worse.
But I do agree with you, for my own reasons - as much as I'd like to be younger and back in the 1970's, I'd take being my age now (50's) and being in, if I had to pick a year, 1972.
Pubs had their own vibes and identities a little more characterfully than they do now..... in my humble opinion.... and they were part of life.... loads of them, going out, grab a pub meal at lunch, passing by a pub, sit in their ambience for an hour with a drink, wherever you were in London.. history was there.... then they updated them, then they closed most of them
Beautiful memories now long gone but never forgotten, I would give anything to go back there, even with its struggles and hard times that are quite trivial now. Thank you so much for sharing.
#33 is the Wellington Hotel, at the bottom of North Hill N6, where it meets the A1 Archway Rd/Aylmer Rd. This pub was seen in the film "Quadrophenia".
As an old git I’m 😢😢😢😢😢 Goodbye old days, good bye Britain 😢
Still plenty of lovely pubs around if you know where to look, and the food in them is much better than a stale ham roll 😉
nowhere as many and nowhere near the charm and affordability
100% correct mate.
@@lyndoncmp5751there's always one that refuses to acknowledge reality
Thanks for this. As a South Londoner the only pub I've been in here is the Half Moon in Islington but it's so so nice to be back in the 70s, when people were just nicer to each other.
Magnificent reel of old pubs from a once beautiful city.
15:59 The Greyhound brings back some memories! :) As a young Irish lad of 16 (yes, under-age drinking ha ha!) I used to go in there at lunchtime as we were working on renovating a couple of buildings further up (beside the employment exchange - well, it was then!) all the way back in 1983!
Where do the years go, eh?
Was in a right few of them ,The Sir George Robey was the best ,great craic in there but some sessions done in the Half Moon and Mother Redcap as well ,Happy days !
The Apollo at 1:15 was situated on Pinner Road, North Harrow, today a Tesco convenience store stands on the site. The pub itself was only built in the late 60s, it became part of the "Mr Q's" chain of youngster's venues for a while.
Lovely...and all those Breweries!! Wish I had a time machine.
Prince Regent. I lived in Liverpool Road and this pub was at the other end of the road. Happy days.
What an interesting watch. Been to the Robin Hood in Epping / Loughton many times, unfortunately not as a British pub but a Tia restaurant. But still looks from the outside pretty much the same and the last time I passed it, it was still painted olive green.
Loved that. I was 10 in 1970 so remember see some of those pub’s, especially no.88 Angel & crown as I only lived 4 doors away, above my uncles bookie’s.
We're only here for the beer!
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Excellent piece.. really enjoyed revisiting some old haunts. 33. is The Wellington (junction of Archway Road and North Hill)
Those were good times. Lovely pubs, a pint and a pipe!
Great seeing pubs of my teens, Hampstead, happy memories. Thanks for posting
That was brilliant! Such commitment to capturing a unique period in London pubs. Thank you
36 was "The Blue Coat Boy" at Angel Islington
48 was "The Giles" Prebend Street Islington (now demolished)
No 2. I think should be the "Lord Clyde" in Essex Road, Islington
No.37 The Peacock was in Islington High Street
Great film been in more than 50 of them lol.
Drum and Monkey was my local in the mid 80s. Across the road (Bickerton road) their use to be an Odeon where I saw my first film on the big screen in 71,72.
Wow! Excellent content. Thanks.
Time Machine TAKE ME BACK
Why you wanna make me cry?!
Amazing footage. I'm pretty sure that #33 is The Wellington at Highgate, at what was known as the Wellington Pub Junction between East Finchley and Highgate, at the intersection where North Hill & Archway Road meet Aylmer Road & the Great North Road (A1000). Originally the Wellington Inn, 513 Archway Road N6 when built in 1866. Owner was Watney Coombe Reid. Rebuilt circa 1926 when the new road junction was developed and subsequently demolished in 1988. It actually had a famous boxing club attached to it and Frank Bruno trained there in 1986. The view is looking towards East Finchley. An ESSO petrol station now occupies this site (Wellington Service Station) with an EV Charging point and a small landscaped garden area on the actual footprint of where the pub stood.
The Royal @ 5m 35secs I used to stand outside with my bottle of cola with a straw & cheese n onion crisps, listening to my grandad sing inside,,normally what a wonderful world, Louis Armstrong, along to the piano player in the 60's.
At 15:11.
The Giles was on Prebend Street at the junction of Packington Street in Islington N1, on the land where St James Hall now stands.
important to remember how things used to be to compare how sht life has got for us humans who Remember having a drink with friends /dancing etc without a mobile in sight THANKS x
or fear of getting stabbed up
The Apollo was West Harrow Pinner road
Now a Tesco
The Opollo was in West Harrow.
A Tescos is now on the site
the champion was our pub in early 80s with all our lovely yamaha 2strokes lined up outside.
The apollo pub was in west Harrow. It shut down about 10 years ago i think its now a tesco local
And was every day sunny back then? 😃 I'm sure many of those pubs were filmed on the same day, particularly all the Islington ones, but to have such great weather throughout makes me believe the summers were so much better back then........
I wonder how many of these pubs are still open now. The streets looked so much cleaner then. Only one pub in Finchley shown and definitely ugliest (The Minstrel in Ballards Lane). Original pub would have been lovely but that one in footage is underneath an office block. Thanks for memories. The Gate in Highgate still a top pub.
Yes much cleaner and far less signage and advertising.
I went to the Sir George Robey, I had a fun evening there. I went to a few of the others too.
Sorry, just realised it's the same site as closed pubs in your description. Have had a beer or two in some of these when I worked in Queensbury in 1977. Great film, brought back some memories!
I’m sure that’s the Horse and Groom up in Hampstead, lovely pint of Young’s they served.
Lovely music !!
No.36 was next to the old Angel Islington tube station, at the extreme left can be seen Upper st. That corner was redeveloped rather hideously in the late 1980s
The Blue Coat Boy. As a kid I could never understand why the neon sign outside said "Don't Be Vague as for Haig"
49 The Giles was next pub down from Duchess of Kent on Prebend St N1 was knocked down years ago.
Is there any other videos for pubs in South London? Really liked this video top quality 👌
The pub at the start , the clyde was in essex rd islington
The Enfield pubs are still going and worth a visit except for The Fallow Buck No25 which is now a house and The Old Sargeant No26 was demolished for flats a few years back. The Chase Side Tavern was the in pub back in the 80s now called The Winchmore. Prince Regent No1 was a gay venue in the 1990s Regents.
Mate ran the first pub prince regent Liverpool road 80s Dave griffiths
And the ones
Apollo was on the Pinner road in Harrow, it's still there but a Tesco express now.
Most of these pubs are turned into flats or supermarkets now tragic!! The cricketers Old Ford road right next to the regents canal great pub
You wouldn't have a problem getting pissed in Highgate in those days
No.15 survives, as the Princess Of Wales (the name changed in 1997!)
The Horse and Groom I think is Wimbledon beside the rail station.
At least No.14, the Horse and Well, Woodford Green is still going 😀
If there was a Time Machine id be off even though times were tough id still go
36 was The Bluecoat Boy, top of City road EC1
Its sad to think that the majority of these pubs will now be converted into local small supermarkets,restaurants,flats or just standing empty or demolished.
RIP the traditional British pub
Still lots of them around.
Members to treasure ❤
Would you happen to come across any footage of the Rosemary Branch, Islington N1?
Ford cars and Ind Coope pubs.....ahhh. Think I even saw an ex standing in front of one of them.
Number 36 was the blue coat boy at the Angel
For all the ills of those times, the poverty, unions on strike, politics etc I ask you, were we safer then or now? Were we more united or divided when we had a shared identity?
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The Apollo was in North Harrow
Good bit of nostagia and when England was a much nicer, safer place. The title is a bit misleading as it's nearly all old pubs of Islington and surrounding places north of the Thames, not representative of London as a whole, for example no south london, south east or south west London?
So many great pubs...... nothing now really.....😒
If any of the pubs had been in South London. You might have seen me, as a kid, standing outside. With my R Whites lemonade, Smiths Crisps and Arrowroot biscuit. Oh those bye gone day’s. Good riddens. 🤣😂🤣
Salt and shake Smiths?
For sure. 😄
@@Ricka-1960
Haha I knew it. 😁 ✌
I have been to many of them
Funny to read of people waxing poetic about the 70s. Times are different for everyone of course. They were a lousy time for me but every era is either good for bad depending on the person's situation. These videos are fun to watch either way.
Gerard’s cross isn’t in london
The GOOD OLDDAYS. Now look at it finished ruined.
The Bull and Bush in Hamstead is actually an old tube station.
The pub itself never was. There is the deep level remains of a proposed station near by that was abandoned.
Gerrards Cross is not exactly London.
i remember about 7/8 pubs but what struck me the most was the absence of human beings
Nice to see the facades and pavements free of litter, syringes, dog poo etc. Those were the days.
Crikey