1980s Romford | Romford Market | 1980s Street market | Essex | TN-85-014-001

Thames news report following historic Romford Market and its traders and the threat a rival market in Ilford could cause.
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Thames News was the flagship regional news programme of Thames Television, serving the Thames ITV region and broadcast on weekdays from 12 September 1977 to 31 December 1992.

[@dannymurphy4199]

I love these old video. I hate the world we live in today. This video looked like so much fun

[@originalpickaxe]

32 years on , it's a pitiful market , dying from the modern day competition of poundshops and online shopping................

[@abigailweir7287]

It's dying from austerity and inequality.

[@stevetayler8833]

I was born in Romford had some great times in my 20s going to Hollywood’s, secrets, etc... now resembles Eastern Europe, I have not been back in years hate the place now.

[@wayneferrier8096]

I used to work in Hollywoods . Great times mate.thats all gone .I was born in Romford to.

[@Headloss]

Hollywoods nightclub. Pulse nightclub. Time & Envy. Jumping Jacks. Mid 90's - early 00's 😍

[@wayneferrier8096]

@DonnellOkafor no mate .got a cousin in Romford Lee Matthews.

[@smartfrogeducation4134]

You obviously haven’t been to Eastern Europe. 😂

[@jennytaylor3324]

1:56 It's Del Boy!

[@trevorbryan9268]

Drove into car park in Romford when I got back to my car took me over 40 minutes to get out of the car park because is card only payment now. Makes you so angry felt like crashing the barrier

[@YKTSketch]

Romford has always been my Mecca & wish it was back in the 90s when it had Hollywood’s Secrets Ritzy the original Moreland Arms & the fountain that was slowly leaning more than the tower of Pisa😂Oh of course the Romford Circuit for hot hatches to speed round💪

[@009morrish]

And boogie time records🎧🇬🇧😍

[@2icelollys1goat]

And the Dolphin leisure centre

[@spidyman8853]

and the Ice rink

[@peterphelps6233]

My Mum used to buy catering sized tins of jam from this market, lasted the two of us months. ...

[@rbrb288]

Fun fact,, that blokes hair at the end was crafted from his coat

[@nunyabizniz1983]

1:57 Del Boy turning up to see if he can jump on the bandwagon.

[@Lord-DJ]

All was well until wrecked by Lakeside which was subsequently wrecked by Blue Water. I used to work in Dixons Romford on Saturdays 1987 and this store took the most turnover of any Dixons apart from Oxford Street.

[@DrP-jd1jf]

That's my nan and my aunt at 09 seconds, then again at 58 seconds...

[@jeffreycordrey1868]

White English my god it like that now

[@keithbanham1851]

Best market ever just a shame that its not like that anymore

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

Still looks great when it's compared to nearby Seven Kings

[@keithbanham1851]

@Great_Western 2020 TVFan I've never been to seven Kings but remember that Romford market so good just miss living there 😔 pity most of the town has changed

[@londonparticulars2968]

@1:58 Del Boy pulls up to drop off some snide perfume

[@shakeenjatt4824]

that london cabbie had some serious swag loook at his furry coat i want one now lol

[@jolewis8317]

Used to get the train from Shenfield on a Saturday an spend all day ag the market an go in Downtown records as I got older I used to drink in the Bull an the Lamb an go clubbing in the Reservation it was the 80,s!

[@darkestserenity6775]

I used to Love shopping at Romford and clubbing in my 20's
Now it's dismal , especially the market place.

[@dawngibson1157]

Good olde romford town how I remember

[@misspurrr-fect3684]

How the face of Britain USED to look ... 😢

[@dunebasher1971]

Oh look, a dog-whistle racist comment on a YT video. How unexpected.

[@shakeenjatt4824]

reap what you sow

[@PaganPunk]

What About Dagenham Market!!!! ..... Used to Work down Romford Market as a kid x

[@keithbanham1851]

This was once a good market but now it seems to have gotten smaller shame

[@davidhayes1950]

My dad has a stall here for years the money used to be brilliant in the early 2000's he had to figure out another way of making an income and closed the stall

[@ghtqwrrt871]

The Ilford market was approved but was very short lived

[@steveday4797]

Great shame that the current lot in the town hall don't feel the same

[@haidershahid8810]

0.45 is that sir bob neill ?

[@Epilepticchefproductions]

Can i have permission to use some of this footage in my project?

[@Headloss]

In the last 5yrs, it has finally fallen, like Ilford & Barking before it, as the crap from greater london creaps outward. Now full of delivery riders, roma gypsies, albanians and mandem roadmen, with their machete's 😔

[@keithchegwin1222]

Great part of Essex

[@sexydudeuk2172]

Used to be. Its a shithole. Now

[@deesarthafaks]

It ain't part of Essex.

[@keithchegwin1222]

@@deesarthafaks We all wrote "Essex" on our addresses when we lived there, I don't know anyone who didn't. If you referred to Romford as part of London to a true EastEnder they would laugh.

[@deesarthafaks]

@@keithchegwin1222
Correctly formatted Romford addresses don't contain the word Essex.
Who cares, if you've got a backbone you say it as it is regardless of the response of ignoramuses.

[@larry2569]

​@@keithchegwin1222fair point but times do change. In the years to come, people will say Romford is part of the East end!

[@chalkfarmcarsquadso1664]

Great market still.going strong

[@whufciironworkes]

Bollocks

[@PE-nyd]

And now ... Romford is 100% Islam.

[@davidoflazarus4601]

This is before black people were put on earth by aliens .

[@traceyhors]

David Rickaby lol we stole your jobs too right...

[@memeagain4106]

traceyhors and thier women.. i love a good white woman!.. lol

[@TheKonga88]

@@traceyhors According to him, with his one G C.S E, the ethnic neurosurgeon stole his job too..😂😂😂😂😂😂🌚🎈🎈

[@alisonlekarev2183]

@@TheKonga88 xD I think 1 GCSE might be optimistic for him.... Thick people always moan about minorities.

[@watermarginramsgate180]

@david albino paranoid bigotry is nothing new and your wife is getting the pipe from delroy