I went to London as a student at the North London Polytechnic in September 1976. Great to see London as I remember it. Different times. We all believed things would go on getting better.
@@iraqiguy3389 There has been a huge amount of building work in London since the 1970s. Many old slums replaced by new housing, old houses renovated and repaired, lots of new buildings in the City of London and redevelopment of the old docks that were derelict and redundant. In terms of the conditions of the buildings in my personal opinion they have improved. As I don't live there now I can't really comment, but I do know it is almost impossible to afford a house in London unless you are VERY rich, the prices are so high.
@@Jo1066milton nice informations thank you very much .. i still think the past was better .. even in streets people looked more elegant .. holding newspapers recorders books .. all are useful stuff .. look at us the new generations .. our noses are stuck with mobile screens all the time with full distraction when walking .. some times "simple" means "elegant"
My favorite year. I was 20. I had a wonderful time. A northener living in South London, working as a bus conductor. Six weeks of glorious sunshine, and my life revolved around music, drinking and girls. I was a very fortunate lad to have lived through it
Beautiful and heartbreaking that which has gone. I miss the 1970s so much the culture such as Films, TV, Music, Pop Culture, Fashion and more especially now as I grow older. As it was "my decade" as a child of the 70s.
The ever-increasing gentrification of numerous London boroughs have, most definitely, significantly altered the whole character of the City that I, once, used to both really love and know.
I'm fascinated with footage like this. I would have been six. I visited London for the first time in 1978. We have some now fading photos taken on a Kodak Instamatic, but no cine-film. I wonder who the young woman with long brown hair is? I hope she's doing well.
@@stuartcook2464 no,,patriotic........a love of our country which has been ruined by immigration,,,,,,violence,,bombings,,,drugs,,,,,,,,who can support diversity?
I was 9 yrs old and at the height of my powers, London belonged to me and I belonged to London. I was wealthy but never had a penny, a packet of Rolo's was my currency. Secret missions with action man as my battle buddy, never a dull moment in the city of dreams.
From the boat there was a couple of glimpses of the 1970s South Bank with abandoned grimy warehouses and broken windows. Very different now. If this was 1976 perhaps it was just before the long hot summer?
That was a hot one! I went for a lunchtime ride on my yellow Honda 70 and came back covered in little black flies. It’s funny the things that stick in the memory!
Can’t believe u could just roll up and have ur picture taken with the rosser outside number ten back then how times have changed my memory of that year was six weeks of unbroken sunshine
I was there in 1976 and this (in 2022) brings back many great memories. Flared trousers, film cameras and now no mobile phones. A much simpler time.then too!
@@durhamfox5271 Quite agree I loved that England I would return in a flash better culture, stronger communities, pretty villages and towns and cities, safe streets and parks.
People enjoying the moment,not staggering around with their noses stuck into phones and ear buds stuck into their heads all living in an internet bubble full of (anti) social media crap like they are now.
Hi Mackenzie Thanks for uploading this First of all who is the stunning woman that appears through the video first close-up around 3 minute mark? The main things that stick out for me is the total lack of skyscrapers apart from the post office tower, How grimy the old buildings are, those warehouses & wharves derelict, these days you'd have to win the lotto to afford a flat/appartment there! How misleading the summer of 1976 would have been to all those tourists given our normal weather! I would have been 9/10 in 1976 and even though I grew up less than 30 miles from London (Guildford) It was always an adventure to visit London whether it was the usual school trips, Madame Tussauds, Museums, Going to Highbury to watch Arsenal with my dad where it always blew my mind that there were more people in the ground than lived in Guildford at that time. Thanks again for posting this definitely a feel good clip of days gone by Cheers Jim, Godalming, Surrey
great video, i was in london in summer 76 with my parents visiting relatives in perivale, middlesex, i recall going to madame tussauds, london was brilliant back then, nowhere near as nice now
Fantastic footage, you really caught the essance of the time and place. Ive watched most of your uploads and I really like the London one's. I'm facinated as to who the lady with the long brown hair is as she's in most of your films.Its as if we have watched her growing up.Thanks for the memories.
Thankyou for your reply. Just thought I'd ask asshe appears in lot's of your films like the day trip to the kings rd etc.I thought that these were your own personal films of you and your family and friends. I know that you are a collector as I've seen you on the evening news a few years back.
Yes there are quite a few films with my friends and I in including Carnaby St. in 1968. I amazed that you remember me on London Tonight! That must have been the mid 1990's, here it is:- ua-cam.com/video/0j9xwhNDeYM/v-deo.html
@@mackenzieroughI moved to London for my job in 1973 when I was 18 so I'm 66 now.Looks like you guy's are a little bit older than me.Are you still in touch with your friends from the carnaby st film you must've been about 16-18 then.I'm glad that you had the foresite to record these trips it brings back happy memories of my younger self.I was always exploring the west end and Soho and places like that,one big adventure .Thanks once again for the memories.
How important is this record of the times! Thanks for posting it. I first went to London in 1972 with the Boys Brigade to see the Queen & trooping of the colour. Then a weeks sight seeing in about 1974. Then Chinese new year in 1979, with some of the Chinese community. Back there fairly regularly from 1981-3. Then I spent a year studying in Kent & used to regularly go to London at weekends in 1985/6 & got to know it well. Back regularly in 1997- 2004! Glad to have experienced it through so many years 😊
Wow! Absolutely fantastic; The year I got married. I just love London, especially back then as we had more freedom but now we get hassled by the Police state can't do this and can't do that. Looks like you had the best time. A thumbs up from me:)
In 1976 there were buses other than the classic Routemasters. Newer double deckers were introduced in the early 70's, but most buses in London in 1976 were still Routemasters. Gradually over the next decade they were replaced by newer buses, leaving only some routes that went through central London served by Routemasters by the early 90's. The classic Routemasters became reserved for a few 'heritage routes' from then on, and were phased out altogether by the mid 10's.
The long hot Summer of 1976, i was 17/18 (Birthday in June)working in Victoria St , going to StJames Park lunchtime looking at all the women , damn it was hot . What happened to the London i use to love ?
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I went to London as a student at the North London Polytechnic in September 1976. Great to see London as I remember it. Different times. We all believed things would go on getting better.
Pardon .. do you think London is better or worse now?
@@iraqiguy3389 There has been a huge amount of building work in London since the 1970s. Many old slums replaced by new housing, old houses renovated and repaired, lots of new buildings in the City of London and redevelopment of the old docks that were derelict and redundant. In terms of the conditions of the buildings in my personal opinion they have improved. As I don't live there now I can't really comment, but I do know it is almost impossible to afford a house in London unless you are VERY rich, the prices are so high.
@@Jo1066milton nice informations thank you very much .. i still think the past was better .. even in streets people looked more elegant .. holding newspapers recorders books .. all are useful stuff .. look at us the new generations .. our noses are stuck with mobile screens all the time with full distraction when walking .. some times "simple" means "elegant"
@@iraqiguy3389 Very well said, my friend ..
1976 was apparently 'The peak year of happiness' according to a poll done a few years ago.
My favorite year. I was 20. I had a wonderful time. A northener living in South London, working as a bus conductor. Six weeks of glorious sunshine, and my life revolved around music, drinking and girls. I was a very fortunate lad to have lived through it
Ah brilliant! 👍 Back in the days when peeps in London actually talked and conversed with you unlike the awful place it has become today! 😠
Beautiful and heartbreaking that which has gone.
I miss the 1970s so much the culture such as Films, TV, Music, Pop Culture, Fashion and more especially now as I grow older. As it was "my decade" as a child of the 70s.
@stargazer yes it's true they can never take it away from us.
Wonderful times
I feel the same about the 60s
When it comes to decades; In regards to Cinema; Television; Music...The `70`s was in a league of it`s own.
The ever-increasing gentrification of numerous London boroughs have, most definitely, significantly altered the whole character of the City that I, once, used to both really love and know.
And the millions of immigrants haven't ?
This is lovely. Exactly how i remember things growing up. Many thanks for sharing :)
I'm fascinated with footage like this. I would have been six. I visited London for the first time in 1978. We have some now fading photos taken on a Kodak Instamatic, but no cine-film. I wonder who the young woman with long brown hair is? I hope she's doing well.
what a very special country we had,,,,,,,and still our own people in our countrys capital.
‘Our own people’? Are you being racist with that comment?
@@stuartcook2464 no,,patriotic........a love of our country which has been ruined by immigration,,,,,,violence,,bombings,,,drugs,,,,,,,,who can support diversity?
@@stuartcook2464 pity the ignorance of RACISM....
@@stuartcook2464Oh do me a favour you bloody troll 😠😠😠😠
Few white people now....more like Africa....tragic.
I was 9 yrs old and at the height of my powers, London belonged to me and I belonged to London. I was wealthy but never had a penny, a packet of Rolo's was my currency. Secret missions with action man as my battle buddy, never a dull moment in the city of dreams.
And Jimmy Savile up your back passage.
@@aalexjohnaOh gawd!
From the boat there was a couple of glimpses of the 1970s South Bank with abandoned grimy warehouses and broken windows. Very different now. If this was 1976 perhaps it was just before the long hot summer?
That was a hot one! I went for a lunchtime ride on my yellow Honda 70 and came back covered in little black flies. It’s funny the things that stick in the memory!
So good to reminisce 70s London. But I don't recall such big queues outside Madame Toussauds
Yes very strange, maybe there was a personality making an appearance?
That's a thought, one of the wax figures was animated
@@mackenzierough It
always had huge queues
Really started picking up in the 80s
Can’t believe u could just roll up and have ur picture taken with the rosser outside number ten back then how times have changed my memory of that year was six weeks of unbroken sunshine
My word....able to stand outside number 10 !!!
Yes those where the days!
I can remember being allowed to stand where the press stand now opposite the entrance across the road.
No knife crime and moped mugging the good old days
But IRA bombings were a real threat and no responsible parent would let a child under 10 wonder very far from home alone.
I was 17 in 1976. This is London how I knew and loved it, when it was still English!
I was there in 1976 and this (in 2022) brings back many great memories. Flared trousers, film cameras and now no mobile phones. A much simpler time.then too!
I love these old 8mm home movies. Thanks
I'm glad that you enjoy my home movies.
Great year ! Saw Paul McCartney and Wings at the Empire Pool Wembley in October of that year !. Magic
A very different london now.. 😪
Times have changed ever since the 60s and 70s.
One doesn’t mind things changing for the better, things weren’t perfect, but London, and my country as a whole, certainly hasn’t
@@durhamfox5271 Take of those Rose tinted Spectacles.
@@durhamfox5271 Quite agree I loved that England I would return in a flash better culture, stronger communities, pretty villages and towns and cities, safe streets and parks.
@@duality5503
Gone forever, my friend. And we all know why
@@kerryannestevenson6099 Three murders in 1976 London. One hundred and fifity in 2019 London - Go figure !!
Better time and place back by far, funny though, couldn't spot not one single fat person
People enjoying the moment,not staggering around with their noses stuck into phones and ear buds stuck into their heads all living in an internet bubble full of (anti) social media crap like they are now.
Hi Mackenzie Thanks for uploading this First of all who is the stunning woman that appears through the video first close-up around 3 minute mark? The main things that stick out for me is the total lack of skyscrapers apart from the post office tower, How grimy the old buildings are, those warehouses & wharves derelict, these days you'd have to win the lotto to afford a flat/appartment there! How misleading the summer of 1976 would have been to all those tourists given our normal weather! I would have been 9/10 in 1976 and even though I grew up less than 30 miles from London (Guildford) It was always an adventure to visit London whether it was the usual school trips, Madame Tussauds, Museums, Going to Highbury to watch Arsenal with my dad where it always blew my mind that there were more people in the ground than lived in Guildford at that time. Thanks again for posting this definitely a feel good clip of days gone by Cheers Jim, Godalming, Surrey
Hi Jim, yes how things have changed and not all for the better!
I'm glad that you enjoyed this old movie.
Superb footage.
Thank you.
Anyone got a time machine please 🙂
Lovely, relaxed, happy, clean.. Thank you.
You’re welcome 😊
great video, i was in london in summer 76 with my parents visiting relatives in perivale, middlesex, i recall going to madame tussauds, london was brilliant back then, nowhere near as nice now
Fantastic footage, you really caught the essance of the time and place. Ive watched most of your uploads and I really like the London one's. I'm facinated as to who the lady with the long brown hair is as she's in most of your films.Its as if we have watched her growing up.Thanks for the memories.
I'm glad that you are enjoying my movies, you must be mistaken about the girl as this is not one of my movies, I bought on ebay,fr
Thankyou for your reply. Just thought I'd ask asshe appears in lot's of your films like the day trip to the kings rd etc.I thought that these were your own personal films of you and your family and friends. I know that you are a collector as I've seen you on the evening news a few years back.
Yes there are quite a few films with my friends and I in including Carnaby St. in 1968. I amazed that you remember me on London Tonight! That must have been the mid 1990's, here it is:- ua-cam.com/video/0j9xwhNDeYM/v-deo.html
@@mackenzieroughI moved to London for my job in 1973 when I was 18 so I'm 66 now.Looks like you guy's are a little bit older than me.Are you still in touch with your friends from the carnaby st film you must've been about 16-18 then.I'm glad that you had the foresite to record these trips it brings back happy memories of my younger self.I was always exploring the west end and Soho and places like that,one big adventure .Thanks once again for the memories.
How important is this record of the times! Thanks for posting it. I first went to London in 1972 with the Boys Brigade to see the Queen & trooping of the colour. Then a weeks sight seeing in about 1974. Then Chinese new year in 1979, with some of the Chinese community. Back there fairly regularly from 1981-3. Then I spent a year studying in Kent & used to regularly go to London at weekends in 1985/6 & got to know it well. Back regularly in 1997- 2004! Glad to have experienced it through so many years 😊
I was 8 years old when this was made ...much better times.
Wow! Absolutely fantastic; The year I got married. I just love London, especially back then as we had more freedom but now we get hassled by the Police state can't do this and can't do that. Looks like you had the best time. A thumbs up from me:)
I loved the 70 s my first and only love in the 70 s they say you only fall in love once
Thanks for posting this , we all love to look back.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Great year and wonderful video / music
Many thanks, I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
Wonderful video, thoroughly enjoyable. Remembered a lot of the places
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for sharing. My only gripe is that I got up & started dancing at the beginning, but then the music changed - felt like a right banana!
Ha,ha, sorry about that.
Makes me think. What have this inept government done to my country 🙄
Not just this one,all of them,and the EU too.
Simple times but truly happy times.
I think this is later than 76. Some of the buses look too modern to be 76.
In 1976 there were buses other than the classic Routemasters. Newer double deckers were introduced in the early 70's, but most buses in London in 1976 were still Routemasters.
Gradually over the next decade they were replaced by newer buses, leaving only some routes that went through central London served by Routemasters by the early 90's.
The classic Routemasters became reserved for a few 'heritage routes' from then on, and were phased out altogether by the mid 10's.
The new style buses were introduced in 1972/3 and were designed for one man operation.
6:36 to 7:55 is Portobello Road in Notting Hill.
I was 8 in 76 xx
theres a sale at dear old swan and edgar!
Im sure I spotted a lyons corner house too!
Something's missing and I can't seem to put my finger on it.
Mobile phones
“Enrichment?”
I'll tell you whats not missing ... fred west, gary glitter, jimmy savile, the IRA.
😳😳😳😖🙃
@@_B.M_ You have a keen eye, I didn't see any of them ;)
6:29 glimpsed an AC Cobra. I was 4 in 76
When London was ?.?❤
Great stuff. What's the tune?
The same people appeared maybe they are with the person who filmed this 🤔😀
Yes, it's French friends visiting London.
The long hot Summer of 1976, i was 17/18 (Birthday in June)working in Victoria St , going to StJames Park lunchtime looking at all the women , damn it was hot . What happened to the London i use to love ?
Sorry but it has gone forever!
@@mackenzierough Very true
Very 78?
good video but the music was weirdly distracting
Yes I tend to agree, not sure why I chose that UA-cam track?
Where's all the Somalians and Albanian pickpockets 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 strange that.
Better times!
The girl with the long brown hair, Is she your wife now!
No she is not.
This is my wife in the front of the helecopter.
ua-cam.com/video/d8nlWjusaMQ/v-deo.html
🤔🤭
Take me Back Please so Better Then
Yes you are right, everything is ruined these days!
7,03 gypsy girl
The saucy socialist 70s
Robin Askwith on his window cleaning round.
They where the days what a shit hole today
Yes I agree!
Oh how I wish I could return to 1976 😢
Don't we all!