England - 1985 - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- My trip to England with Mike Egan and Su Teears ( / suteears ) in 1985.
The camera I used to shoot this was a Sony CCD-V8AF 8mm Video 8.
Found some more video that I shot - • England - 1985 - Part 2
What's great is that no Englishman would have bothered filming that mundane stuff in 1985...but now in 2022 its bloody fascinating!
Same exact thoughts here lol
It was 1985, you had to be seriously comfortable to afford a personal camcorder, financially the country wasn't in a great state.
No doubt as most of us didn't have video camera's back then, or where they did, they were often the size of those dodgy Russian camcorders Delboy was trying to flog that you perch on your shoulder and are the size of a small car almost!! This is great though, I love this sort of stuff. Maybe its my imaginary rose-tinted specs but the world sort of seemed a better place than the trainwreck it seems to have become over the last few years.
yes sir completely right, some old footages could even be worth a serious amount money
They did. I've seen them.
Was 15, the country was going through some huge economic changes, music was fabulous and without cell phones, was a much better place!
Music,tv & fashions were creative and enjoyable.
I was 15 as well then, just thinking about getting out of school and getting a job, and what the future would be?. Turns out most of the future so far has been nothing like I thought it would be.
Man, you Brits definitely held it down with the music from that era. Tears for Fears, New Order (and Joy Division), ect ect. That New Wave stuff from the UK is my favorite!
Definitely a white guy🤣
But you have a cell phone now, and a laptop too evidently, so how do you square this with yourself ?
This is the future. We currently live in 1984.
Great footage.
Brilliant comment, and sadly true
So , so true ! Im listening to that for the first time atm... how did george orwell get it so right 😳
Lol
Great comment 😂👏🏼👏🏼
So much has changed over the years and yet I can remember the sights and sounds of 1985 like it was yesterday.
Crazy to think it's nearly 40 years ago
Never did I envision the madness of the last few years though...But I must say this Tory government is even more out of touch now than it was in the thatcher days...But it just reminds me of the ill feeling of 1985 when everyone in my village rallied round to help the miners..Soup kitchens paid for by there fellow workers who showed solidarity and compassion for there neighbours who were left in need..That made me proud and I’m sorry but that has gone for ever and it makes me sad..
so can I
yep me n all. The sounds of the Route Master buses. 1985 London. Loved every minute until the early 90s when i left to join the Army.
Friends on a trip taking it all in. Conversations uninterrupted by the ping of incoming messages, and constant checking of phones. Excellent, and nostalgic for those of us who remember the freedom before intrusive tech.
Intrusive tech ????? You can’t get any more intrusive than a video camera 😂
Next to the invention of the TV this is the top of the slippery slope where we find ourselves today
I wonder what will it be like in 50 years from now....r are we heading for a serious overload & combustion
Get off ur phone then mate
'intrusive tech' like a video camera for example??
Says the person on youtube
I wish we could go back to this low tech era. People were happier.
Life was worth living back then
Mate. Life was worth living even in the 2000s... The 90s were even better, so I can only imagine the 80s.
People just got on with life then
@@ADZ01982😂
I'd love to go back to the 80s and be a teenager again in that better time
It was fun that time, much more wonder & spontaneity
You and me both dear.
When England was still beautiful, look at it now and weep.
you mean before the foreigners don't you? why not jusdt say it you racist bore
Same with the majority of western European city's.
It's a proper mess now sadly
Still is beautiful. The world is constantly evolving, of course its not going to be the same.
You are joking? Were you around in the 80s? Remember thatcher and the miners strike?
The 80s was without doubt the very best decade of my life .
Was 21 then, great memories of a great era. Still love the music from that time.
Wow, George! Thanks for posting this. I was 25 years old when we made this trip across the pond. Our first time over. Sightseeing, going to Abby Road. Such fun! I've been there many times since, but this was the best. Much Luv, Su
You still have those pants?
@Susan Teears Wow! It's you! Looking Wham
The good old days! :) I still think best decade for kids ever.
Best years of my life the 80s looking back was such a special decade...!!
yes sir
In 1985 I would have been 4/5. It is great to see something that not many English people would have bothered filming but it is now fascinating to see. Seeing the cars, it brings back to mind a silly little hobby when I was a kid out on day trips with my parents in the 80s: I was fascinated with Ford motor cars, such as the Sierra, Escort, Orion etc. Especially the engine size that they used to have on the back of the boot. It was like I played Top Trumps in my head throughout the day. If I saw an XL, wow! Or the real special ones, like "Oh wow a Sierra Ghia 2.0L golden coloured!". My day was made. I don't think I have thought of that memory since the 80s! Thanks for the nostalgia.
Thats strange i had the same fascination with ford cars when i was a kid. Me and my mate would try and spot them . if we saw a ford granada our day was complete.
Right there with you about the Top Trumps in your head regarding the cars! I was just thinking how I knew every car make, model, engine capacity, insignia etc back then and now I have barely any clue or care.
when england was still a beautiful country
still always will be to me no matter what
Yeah but don't forget dog shit on the street corner..........and Jimmy Saville
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Cesspool now, heartbreaking.
I'm watching this because of nostalgia. This England is dead.
I was born in 1990. I'm mixed black/white and I only ever grew up with my white side of the family. So I'm completely assimilated into this culture and this film is very nostalgic to me.
The culture seems to be all foreign now. Whether it's U.S. culture, or anywhere else. It seems that anything but "British" is cool now. And anything being British is met with heavy suspicion of things like racism etc.
It was not racist or mean. It was a very nice culture. I have never experienced any of that from anyone with that polite traditional British culture. I really miss it. It was good to me and I want to be good back to it.
Nice heartfelt comment, thanks.
I take it you wasn't brought up in London
I hear ya!
Although, you were born in one of the greatest decades too, so don't feel too despondent.
Nationwide 80 percent of the uk is white British, in most areas apart from some cities it is way more than 80 percent, we are not under threat. I was born in 2004 and almost everyone i grew up around was white English, so the culture i grew up in was too. This wasn't because of any choice on my part to avoid certain people, that's just how the people are near me. Ethnicities seem to live really far apart, they form their own little worlds almost, so i think the idea of our culture being obliterated isn't true, because we usually live in different areas from those of other cultures.
Americanisation of Britain has been a slow drip since post World War II. Seen the seismic shift during the 80s under Thatcher and Reagan, has all been by design and fully engineered by neo-imperialism and free market capitalism with the guiding hand of intelligence services, media empires and the quest for wealth transfer and funnelling profit. The dumbing down of the general public has played a huge roll in the passive acceptance throughout society.
As of Dec 2021 there are literally dozens of channels highlighting the streets of cities all over the world.. but this is from 1985!!! AHEAD OF ITS TIME!!
I was 20 in 1985 and it was the single best year of my life so far. I had the most beautiful girlfriend in the world and had a great year together. Relationship didn't last but a year i shall never forget.
Loving the old car spotting. Favorites so far are BMW 6 series (I think), Rover SD1, and Peugeot 205 GTI
Thankyou for uploading this amazing time travel experience!
I loved it so much. It took me right back... people reading newspapers and the sound of many conversations on the train...
The old police car siren, the cars, fashions, hair.... so many memories but such good footage which was rare in 1985 as no one had phone cameras and film facilities. I’m guessing this was done on a cine camera or an early camcorder. “ just buy Time Out” 😂 yes, this was how we rolled before google to get information and we asked other people what they knew .... we talked a whole lot more generally!!
I love the 80's as well, you say fashions/hair yeah some were typical 80-'s and some people still wear now with fashions/hair-wasn't all neon/shoulder pads + big/really big hair after all!
No way was this done on a cine camera with quality of picture/sound def a video camera-I remember my dad had/still has the The JVC GR-C1 camcorder released in March 1984!
Which still look/sound crisp today as it did back then.
Someone give me a one way ticket and leave me there-where in UK you from??
[might very well have been made on a Super 8]...
People told jokes !! Never do now !! They are all texted !! Or they are to scared to be themselves in case anyone is offended !!
Great old stuff video .
This shows that only 4 things have stood the test of time ...
VW Beetles , Volvos , London Black Taxis and Punk Rock
This must’ve been some serious camera equipment - the quality is better here than some modern mobile phone cameras. This is absolutely awesome
Thanks George ! I am an Englishman that would have been 18/19 in ''85'' . Curious to see & hear about England from the perspective of people from outside the UK as somehow it can sometimes be seen as a reflection of how others see us as a nation. I remember the 80's as a significant part of my teenage life. Thanks again !
Same age as me .Much better back then.England was England then.
1985! Left school and got my first job on a factory production line, back breaking work. Twelve hour nights at £2.00 per hour and I still managed to save! Shit wages but the cost of living wasn't anything like it is today.
I 100% believe that the country was a much happier place before the digital age.
I'm 45 and love watching old videos of cities during the 70s, 80s, or even early 90s. I'm from London, but I enjoy looking at videos from other parts of the world during the same era, and thinking where I was during the time. In 1985, I was in primary school in Central London.
For me, I think nostalgia adds to people longing for a return to this. If I travelled back to 1979-87, I'm sure after a few days, weeks or months of living in the time, the novelty would wear off.
I'm sure, there were people moaning about the way things were in 1985, and how much better London was in the 1960s. The only issue I have with London now is, it just seems too busy at times, but I guess it was always like that.
An Englishman (UK person) would have seen nothing worth recording. This is remarkable.
Loved this film. I was 20 in 1985 so was a great time to be young. London was still full of Londoners then.
It still is. Anyone who lives in London can call themselves a Londoner.
i know what you mean. it seems strange and odd to see how London is today if you take a moment to look back.
God you sad racist POS.
And Yorkshire was full of Yorkshire men
There is even more Londoners there now
MINI @ 20:47 untaxed since 1 August 1986
Escort @ 20:56 untaxed since 1st September 1995
5turbo @52:26 untaxed since 1st November 1996
Renault 5 @ 52:31untaxed since 31 December 1998
Renault @52:34 untaxed since 1st March 1989
Hahaha
Good work!
You legend lol someone had to do it lol. The Gordini 5 Turbo last taxed in 96. I do hope it wasn't written off as it's worth loads of money now. As of this minute there is one for sale on eBay for £22000. Also I did see a XR3 ( non injection) near the Abby road crossing. I personally was looking out for a MG Metro but didn't see one in this video. 👍👍
Good work
Woah nice!
I was in my mid-20s at this time and grew up in London. Didn’t appreciate then how much better it was ...than the London of the future was going to be. The tech invasion and out of control immigration have changed the character of the city. Like many others I knew there, I have moved away. I wonder if we will look back at London today 2022, with nostalgia in a similar span of time? Thanks for sharing your trip down memory lane.
You speak words of truth, it's the same in Birmingham too
No
Complete nonsense! I was 22 in 1985 and London born and bred.
It was a total, filthy, poverty ridden, racist shit-hole then….just like it had always been. Why do you think we had just had those massive riots in London?
Take off your rose-tinted glasses!
It's a window on a vanished world. I mean, London is still there, obviously, but it's changed hugely since the 1980s almost to the point where except for a few landmarks, it's unrecognisable.
Wow.....Thank you so much for posting this such a random find on you tube....and.much of this is Horley my home town, the church you visited was where i was Christened and got married, the car sales place was where my now wife worked, i bought a car radio from that stereo shop and lots of us locals drank in that pub the Game Bird...really took me back very nostalgic...thanks again :-)
The opening scene with your train journey showed where I grew up (from Purley to Croydon). I was 21 and this is amazing!
A Mitcham boy myself. Back when this was filmed my Saturdays were spent hanging around the whitgift Centre. Train from Mitcham to west Croydon station. Was certainly "different" back then.
u was 21 so you must be 99 years old lol
Were they on the Gatwick-London train…? Looks familiar to me from previous trips to London…
I'd almost forgotten how loud cars, lorries and most jet aircraft were back then, before noise limits were a thing. Only a Rolls-Royce used to whisper along, nowadays it's commonplace.
And so little "street clutter" compared to now.
It will get better once most people have electric cars.
Wow this is heartbreaking to watch….
I was 12 in 1985. Thank you for sharing nostalgic memories of the 80s 🙂
Fantastic. At once it looks both familiar and alien. From a 52 yo Londoner!
I moved to London 3 years after this was filmed and used to drive through those streets regularly. Brings back many memories.
I would go back to 1985 in the blink of an eye and wouldn't come back to 2022 again. I was 18 then and went to Belgium to see the Ramones. It's a disgrace what we have allowed politicians and big businesses to do to this country.
I was 25. Long ago but I still remember it so well with fondness. Thanks for posting.
And how the cars back then looked so distinctive, not like today where they all look the same.
I was born in Windsor (i was 23 in 1985)and this was great to see,brought back some nice memories,Windsor was never the same when they closed of the castle hill road and made the high street foot traffic only.When you put your vid camera over the castle wall,that was me and my sisters playground in the 60-70's,wow,never would of thought i would see that on video.Thank you for upload.
I love this video for several reasons. I’ve lived in Croydon all my life and would have been 6 years old when this was filmed. I recognised the buildings on the train at the start as you travelled from Gatwick to London Victoria and passed through East Croydon. But it’s the little things you weren’t intentionally filming that makes it so special for me. The shop signage, the fashions, the haircuts, the ‘brand new’ B reg cars in the showroom, the car stereos which are now integrated because so many were getting stolen, the news on the radio… and nobody anywhere looking down on their smartphones!
Was 22 best years I had in london great footage
Where you live now mate, I'm from Kent between Dartford/Bexleyheath way!
Lived in London from' 86 to '97. My best years ever. Wonderful experience!!
Surprisingly good quality. Most UK home videos from the 80’s are really bad quality. Love the everyday street scenes - thanks for sharing!
Thank you for posting this, it's really fascinating, to look back in time especially seeing ordinary things! . cameras /camcorders and cine film cameras, are the only time machines we got.
Me too, and seeing the taxi fare displayed for those times on the meter
When Britain was Britain , I’d love to go back to those days . No chance of life being so free anymore ,forward to 2022 it’s getting like the 1984 novel
Fantastic time capsule of a different era. Many thanks for putting this up!
It’s like a different world, I loved the eighties, and only 16 in 85..
Thank you so much for this . Absolutely superb film footage .
Great Video, loved seeing the cars, which now are classic!!!!
That car stereo shop is at 86 Brighton road, Horley, RH6 7JQ. It's now a unisex hair salon. Apart from that not much has changed in Horley.
I used to drink at the Game Bird pub with my friends three years after this video was made, it was bonkers.
Great to see all those old cars again, but damn they were loud, I'm glad manufacturers have sorted that out now, so much quieter.
Thanks for taking the trouble to share this with us, I'll have to let my old friends know it exists.
Back from 83 until 85 I was stationed at Torrejon in Spain. My buddy and I decided to go to Torremolinos for vacation. There we hooked up with two sisters from Liverpool. Let me tell ya, we had some GOOD TIMES. Thank you Helen and Mary Thompson. Your photos are still in my scrapbook. Yeee haaaa!
Oh boy!! Nostalgic view of my old stomping grounds back in 85. My interest was piqued in the first shots of the train going through South Croydon. Then seeing the Game Bird pub, the shops at Horley, so much has changed but so much hasn't.
This is pure gold
It's a pity love doesn't last , one of the let downs of Life.
Thanks for this. My American relatives visited us in 1985 . This is so nostalgic
I was 6 in 1985 and can remember everywhere looking like this, was a great era to grow up in
thanks for this upload, i noticed how you mainly videoed cars.
It was nice to see you lit up when you seen the car hifi shop ha ha
that's exactly what i would of done too. I was a young Fifteen year old car borrower during Nineteen Eighty Five, XR2, XR3I,SRI, there's even a little cheeky Orion i Ghia in there. But my fave of faves was the Audi Coupe in the hotel car park. Oh the memories.
Diversity is our greatest strength 🙄
The Cure broke with The Head On The Door & U2 were awesome at Live Aid as were Bowie & Queen. I smoked 🚬 Silk Cut which were from the 🇬🇧. Good year.
I was 20 in 1985 right age and everything for the fashion and music and films and culture , i could weep at how things have turned out now in 2020 , today people all over the world are in the fight of thier lives facing total global government control and dictatorship , digital id cards , social credit system , complete control by the global elites .....my dad fought in WW2 and what did the hell did he fight for ?....Communism it seems .....
I agree, but it's not Communism, it's Corporate Fachism that's taken over the world now. Flip sides of the same coin I suppose.
it is all control and lies. am not getting jabbed and am not complying
Sadly The Car Sounds radio shop is no longer with us. Some do say though, that on a foggy autumns night in the wee hours one can still hear the ghostly sounds of 80's car radios in Horley.
Brilliant, nostalgia, seems like yesterday.
Brilliant. Takes me back to my mid-20s - and it really doesn't seem that long ago. Seeing this, though, makes me realise. Thanks for posting.
I'm English and was born in 1985, so it's fascinating to see everyday mundane life captured in the first year I existed. I was wondering if you can remember the rough time of year you filmed this?
August
well done for catching a snippet in time.
Fantastic video buddie thanks for sharing your memories as a English man who was 14 at the time is so lovely to see how my country once was. Unfortunately the London you and your wonderful family filmed in 85 isn't anything like the London of today. As someone who loves his country I could never advice anyone to visit our Capital city now as it's way too dangerous. Please believe me when I say I have tears in my eyes as I say that.
Love this. Reminds me of the Nelson Sullivan videos of New York around the same time.
No poxy mobile phones to be seen, fantastic!!!
The video quality is amazing. Makes it a genuine time travel experience
Barely an immigrant in sight. Back when Britain was Great Britain.
London had plenty of immigrants in the 80s and even before that. Stop using immigration as an excuse for your negativity!
Britain was never great ,I left in the 80s shitty little island
'Muh huh immigration something else something immigration'
*ok*
@@_B.M_ immigration in europe increased crime about 200% on average.
90% of crime in london is committed by non natives ;)
liberals like you are just too worried about the reality.
i am an immigrant from south africa and i can tell you, if you import the third world, you become the third world.
People actually had communication skills back then
I want a time machine. Love seeing it how it was. Much nicer world. 👍
Hi i just saw this video on my reccomended section and clicked it right away! I am from uk and live here ..I am looking forward to watching all of this! This will take me back down memory lane for sure! And i loved 85..very good memories of that year..thanks so much for uploading this...I am watching it as i type! Have a great 2022! Sonique manchester UK
Sonique!
You provided a hefty part of the soundtrack to my misspent youth. 😆
Thank you and have a healthy and happy 2022!!
What a fine year , there was the issue of pending thermonuclear war , but we had Casio watches pop music and art school
Oh how I miss it! I used to travel to London with my grandparents around the time this was taken. I wouldn't go there now, it's become a horrible place. :(
London is great, still. It always will be.
@@Pstephen always? haha
crime is increasing. society is degenerating because of the internet and social media.
Im 35 and this was made before i was born crazy and fascinating to see.
I was 15 in 1985,just left school and on a YTS doing mechanics. My boss made my wages up to £40 as I worked Saturday mornings and life was great, I felt like a rich man. It was also the year I found out what my sausage was really for. Happy Days!
Thankyou for sharing this, its wonderful to see things again from 1985!
I was 15 when this video was shot, such a great time to be alive. I recognise most of the locations too in this video so interesting to see how they have changed over the years.
My "short trip" to London started in 1987, just a couple of years after this was shot.
I'm still here.
Ps. The traffic is much worse! :)
Thanks for this time capsule
Ah this takes me back. I was 18 back then. Good to see people walking around interacting with one and other. No mobile phones no soy boys in tights or women walking round like they're on some damn cat walk.
I was 15 when this was filmed. Never lived in London but did visit at least twice a year with family or friends. The traffic (cars) especially brings back fond memories in an otherwise dismal period of my life.
I was 18 in 1985. MK2 Escort with Hella spots, jumper tucked in 501 jeans and not a care in the world.
George Hajioannou,I hope you do a update of this ,going to all the places now in 2022 or when this Covid calms down.Wow 37 years later, allot of memories when I was a kid.
Take me back please 😢
The 80's: No Steve, we've discussed this! It was good. But now it's over, you'll find another decade, I'm sure ;)
It is different now in Windsor . I am from Windsor and was 8 in 1985. Loads of the shops have been knocked down and rebuilt. The Station area is pedestrianised with lots of shops and eateries. The Waitrose in the video for example is gone and the new one is on the top floor of the building that replaced it. A Holiday Inn has also been built next to the new Waitrose.
Thank you for this, to see our old London town.
Thanks for sharing George brings back lots of great and not so good memories commuting into London on the nine til five around this time period.
Had some uncles who were London black cab drivers & one of them, Bobby was my favourite. He'd let me sit up front in the luggage space when he took me out in the cab. Great memories. Don't come back to London now though. You'd be so disappointed in how far it's fallen. It's a horrid, dangerous place. The only times I've been back recently have been when picking up my son from Woolwich barracks. Thankfully he's based in Cyprus now. Great vid. Thx for the memories
I was born in 86 this is fantastic look back at my parents world
Iconic London black cab going up park lane to marble arch. Absolutely beautiful
I was 19,,,great years and days....
Brilliant. From a Londoner that was 13 at this time
Back in the days when London was a normal city unlike now
What's your definition of a normal city?
@@turntheblueiris4626 pride of culture and commerce. embodiment of the country.
Take me back to that time in. Heartbeat.
Damn I miss GOOD OLD England 🏴
I was born in London in 85 and it’s fascinating to me that I would be watching the video of someone who was there at the time 37 years later!
I was 20 in 1985. 15 years before the madness began to show itself. In the world, not in me. But who knows anymore.