London 1983 archive footage

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  • @Chanesmyname
    @Chanesmyname 2 місяці тому +19

    This is the London I lived, I would never have believed what became of it.

    • @theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea
      @theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea 2 місяці тому +1

      It's stunningly beautiful now! There's so much cultural and racial diversity, not to mention the many different languages that are spoken, as well as knife crime. It blossomed and bloomed into a gorgeous flower that is now the envy of the world. Hic! 🍷🤪🍷

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 25 днів тому

      London was an utter hole back then. dirty, Sleazy, dangerous. So much better these days.

    • @theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea
      @theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea 25 днів тому +1

      @@zeddeka It is cleaner, but it comes at a major cost: the expulsion of British Londoners, as multi-million pound apartments are constructed and bought up as investments by foreigners. London, as a cultural hub, has declined as a result. What's the point of somewhere looking better if you can't live there?

    • @Zlervo
      @Zlervo 7 днів тому

      ​@@zeddeka, I don't think you're talking about the same London. It's more dangerous today.

  • @mpwheatley
    @mpwheatley 4 місяці тому +34

    Who else hit the mute button within ten seconds? And not so much 'hair in the gate' but 'forest in the gate'.

  • @fecardona
    @fecardona 10 місяців тому +20

    Dropped the volume to zero, then watched it.
    So it’s basically like doing London sightseeing but with an 80’s camera tinted lens, old vehicles/clothing

  • @Euclides287
    @Euclides287 Рік тому +30

    The music does not go with this footage. Can you go back and change it, please?

    • @HomemadeBrownies1
      @HomemadeBrownies1 Рік тому

      Just watch it on mute you mug. This UA-camr owes you nothing.

    • @TheBenzer9
      @TheBenzer9 Рік тому +5

      No leave me alone

    • @aliciagabriel8408
      @aliciagabriel8408 Рік тому

      🤦

    • @vinniechudam1835
      @vinniechudam1835 5 місяців тому +1

      18:25 Air New Zealand classic 747 (100 or 200 series) at Gatwick before flight operations to Auckland via LAX moved to Heathrow. In 2020 Air NZ ended UK services. Bonus British Airways 757 too.

    • @tropicalpalmtree
      @tropicalpalmtree 4 місяці тому

      @@TheBenzer9 ur gay

  • @jillybrooke29
    @jillybrooke29 5 місяців тому +12

    I loved the Policeman back then, you could chat to them for ages and they had a sense of humour, My sons were 7 and 3 we had so much fun as Londoners. The place was a lot safer then. Edit:: I moved away from South London where I was born, 23 years ago, never looked back

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be 4 місяці тому

      Police now are a fcking joke. Not all but most. Stupid looking effeminate freaks who couldn't stop an OAP from carrying out a crime on a street

    • @vwright1021
      @vwright1021 2 місяці тому +1

      Thanks, I was one of the Bobbies in central London. Far off , happy (not always) days. 🙂

  • @EdVanMeyer
    @EdVanMeyer 3 місяці тому +3

    Nice, I used to work in London in 1983!

  • @Atticus75
    @Atticus75 4 місяці тому +1

    Thanks for sharing the footage. I will say that some of the buildings such as Westminster Abbey look like they hadn’t been cleaned for decades.

  • @TMarshConnors
    @TMarshConnors Рік тому +19

    You look at London nowadays I do wonder. Where did all the colour go?

    • @JesusLovesYou-w4s
      @JesusLovesYou-w4s 7 місяців тому +1

      It never left

    • @roddaz
      @roddaz 6 місяців тому +3

      You may have achromatopsia, you should book in for a check up.

    • @markofsaltburn
      @markofsaltburn 4 місяці тому

      London was filthy in the 1980s.

  • @MarkSteadman-v5p
    @MarkSteadman-v5p 4 місяці тому +12

    I arrive at the ticket office, what is your destination please? One way ticket back to the 1980's please when life was simpler, nicer, better

  • @tropicalpalmtree
    @tropicalpalmtree 6 місяців тому +14

    I think the skyline looked better in the 1980s, especially city of london with NatWest Tower and all the smaller office blocks around it. Too much glass buildings nowadays with no character.

  • @jazzman1626
    @jazzman1626 2 місяці тому +2

    Gosh, I’m gettin’ old. I was thinking “och that’s not that long ago” cause I like vintage film, but realised it’s 41 years ago! Sheesh where’d it go?

  • @sonnyirish3678
    @sonnyirish3678 11 місяців тому +25

    How did they throw it all away ?

    • @PomazeBog1389
      @PomazeBog1389 5 місяців тому +19

      Reckless Immigration

    • @westaussie965
      @westaussie965 5 місяців тому +1

      Leftism is a disease

    • @PassiveAgressive319
      @PassiveAgressive319 5 місяців тому +3

      @@PomazeBog1389such a predictable thing to say….the old rose tinted comments are the worst

    • @Hashterix
      @Hashterix 4 місяці тому

      @@PassiveAgressive319 before the globalists took power and successfully eroded our national identity.

    • @davidbowie2046
      @davidbowie2046 4 місяці тому +14

      @@PassiveAgressive319 Or, the truth always hurts in your case

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 3 місяці тому +2

    LOOL ! @2:02 The copper straightens his tie when he realises he's being filmed !

  • @jaynetaylor5208
    @jaynetaylor5208 4 місяці тому +17

    Lots of slim people.. what’s gone wrong!

  • @londonroulette
    @londonroulette 7 місяців тому +52

    Music is wrong, should of had a track from that year or tracks, just saying 😁

    • @robtyman4281
      @robtyman4281 5 місяців тому +8

      Some people are just not very good at finding music to suit a video. They think it doesn't matter, but it does. It can enhance a video so much.
      Whereas a bad choice of soundtrack can make people move on after 10 seconds.....even if the video imagery is high quality or interesting. An annoying soundtrack can ruin all of this - like here for example.

    • @johnoneill5884
      @johnoneill5884 4 місяці тому +1

      So you think that track isn’t from 1983? Give me a minute, I’ll look it up.
      No I won’t, because I don’t care.

    • @robtyman4281
      @robtyman4281 4 місяці тому +2

      @@johnoneill5884 if you were around at the time you would. It's a skill finding the right soundtrack to a video - it's alot harder then you think. Many people don't have it..... including you evidently. I'm also guessing you weren't around back then, so no.....you don't know!

    • @elrjames7799
      @elrjames7799 4 місяці тому +2

      Also wrong is 'should of': that should read Should've (should have), not should of.

    • @stumpysteven73
      @stumpysteven73 4 місяці тому +1

      Good footage blimey I remember the ad boards in Piccadilly Circus lol

  • @ianrobert6239
    @ianrobert6239 3 місяці тому +3

    Great times then.

  • @peternagy-im4be
    @peternagy-im4be 4 місяці тому +31

    Before the contamination set in.

  • @Zeequencha
    @Zeequencha 11 місяців тому +37

    Terrible music but great footage.

  • @fegstachops6746
    @fegstachops6746 4 місяці тому

    Nice footage, surprised the lens wasn’t wiped first. The small twig like spider leg bits in the corner became irritating.

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

    Why did they delete Julia walking with Herb Ritts? There was a large field and mature trees along the boundary line - a fence, and beyond that a road. Very dry.

  • @soylentgreennewdealtimeshare
    @soylentgreennewdealtimeshare 3 місяці тому

    When the bad ad comes on, the video is ejected.

  • @miguelmouta5372
    @miguelmouta5372 Рік тому +6

    Q: What is the difference between Paris and London architectures? A: The second is not aggressively artificial.

  • @romiansobieszczanskipaszteski
    @romiansobieszczanskipaszteski Рік тому +14

    Music doesnt make sense

    • @jeshkam
      @jeshkam 3 місяці тому

      Come on, come on! Alright, alright, alright!

  • @jameskvo
    @jameskvo 6 місяців тому +6

    The dead spider in the corner is distracting and the music is horrendous.

  • @jp3622
    @jp3622 4 місяці тому +1

    Was that Beckenham junction ?

    • @davefave4351
      @davefave4351 2 місяці тому

      It was indeed.
      I'll be stepping onto the far left platform when I get off the tram in about half an hours time...

  • @DrRayOlayinka
    @DrRayOlayinka 6 місяців тому +4

    Big Ben always seem in perpetual repairs

  • @joshtaylor1065
    @joshtaylor1065 3 місяці тому +1

    Why was the cameraman hiding in a bush throughout the whole video?

    • @theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea
      @theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea 2 місяці тому

      He's a dwarf. Please, these jokes aren't funny! :(

    • @joshtaylor1065
      @joshtaylor1065 2 місяці тому

      @@theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea What jokes?? His height is completely irrelevant

    • @theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea
      @theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea 2 місяці тому

      @@joshtaylor1065 Just a joke!

    • @joshtaylor1065
      @joshtaylor1065 2 місяці тому +1

      @@theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea Ahh, sorry haha :D I didn't know! :D Sorry

    • @theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea
      @theUSCensorsLikeNorthKorea 2 місяці тому

      @@joshtaylor1065 No worries! It's often hard to tell if someone's joking or not on UA-cam - all sorts of crazies on here! ;)

  • @bernie2108
    @bernie2108 3 місяці тому +1

    Those4 were the days, coppers in shirt order ( no SS style black armour) casr driving round 'buck house looks so much relaxed than today.

  • @The.Last.Guitar.Hero.
    @The.Last.Guitar.Hero. 9 місяців тому +2

    first year I visited London on my own

    • @Bellasie1
      @Bellasie1 День тому

      Same here. It was a fabulous city back then.

  • @jfd1008
    @jfd1008 2 місяці тому

    1983 positively medieval! I started work in London only 3 years later, quill pen, candlelight, Scrooge being mean with the coal. As for music, the lute and minstrels, hey nonny nonny

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

    Alright, darhlie..
    Not long now. Three weeks?

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому +1

    Oh, man..

  • @DennisSalonga-o8b
    @DennisSalonga-o8b 7 місяців тому +1

    🎉i❤memories

  • @jacksugden8190
    @jacksugden8190 5 місяців тому

    I was 8 in 1963, living at Brentwood in Essex, Hornchurch Urban District Council became London Borough of Havering in in that year, also, Severe Winters with -15C heavy snow/frosts and a pee souper Feb/March. Upminster Essex became London Borough Havering, I mentioned Upminster due to my new school.
    Also Sir Alec Douglas-Home only served as Prime Minister for 363 days in 1963, but he oversaw the abolition of resale price maintenance and took a tough stance in dealing with the trade unions.

    • @Mindersonagain
      @Mindersonagain 5 місяців тому +1

      What's 1963 got to do with this?😂

    • @Ohmygawdddde
      @Ohmygawdddde 4 місяці тому +1

      @@MindersonagainThis old git is losing it that’s why 😂

    • @jeshkam
      @jeshkam 3 місяці тому

      ​@@OhmygawddddeDon't be rude. Behave.

  • @Bellasie1
    @Bellasie1 День тому

    Like the rest of Europe, London was so much nicer back then!

  • @AndySmith4501
    @AndySmith4501 3 місяці тому

    @2:18 See the soldier walking ahead of the parade ? He's carrying on his back a bomb remote signal disrupter. It was a huge heavy thing and his job was one of the hardest in ceremonial engagements. We tend to think of terrorism as a modern day phenomena but back then the IRA were using some high tech remote activated explosive devices.

  • @MissRoseLily
    @MissRoseLily Місяць тому

    The good ol days! Had to turn off that slightly annoying repetitive track. Look at the state of today, nice to see this ❤

  • @paulkersey9857
    @paulkersey9857 4 місяці тому +6

    Anyone got a time machine? Only need a single, definitely not a return.

    • @80ssynthfan48
      @80ssynthfan48 4 місяці тому

      Two singles please.

    • @markofsaltburn
      @markofsaltburn 4 місяці тому

      Good luck finding a job in 1983. Up to 25% unemployment in Northern Ireland, Liverpool and the North East.

  • @JimmyDropout
    @JimmyDropout Рік тому +5

    Nice music! Perfectly matches the images!

  • @KB-lz3gq
    @KB-lz3gq 4 місяці тому +2

    Better with sound off

  • @paulchoccyt1303
    @paulchoccyt1303 4 місяці тому +1

    Mute button

  • @js2749
    @js2749 6 місяців тому

    Love the music. What is it? I’m rockin’ babe 😁

  • @RayhanAhmed-qr3vz
    @RayhanAhmed-qr3vz 6 місяців тому +2

    Sounds like a peep show in London
    Soho😂

  • @mikekaraoke
    @mikekaraoke 6 місяців тому

    This was great, however Beckenham is not in London but in Kent! The rest is obviously in London though!

    • @Th3OmegaPoint
      @Th3OmegaPoint 4 місяці тому +2

      Incorrect, it's been part of Greater London since 1965.

    • @mikekaraoke
      @mikekaraoke 4 місяці тому

      @@Th3OmegaPoint I'm very well aware of what happened in 1965, however even Sadiq Khunt says the borough of Bromley is a LB and also Kent as well!!!!
      A friend of mine works at Chislehurst Caves + on the leaflets say in Kent along with being a member of the association of tourist attractions in Kent-FACT!
      Other stuff like-Charles Darwins House in Downe + being owned by-English Heritage- has also been awarded many Kent awards over the decades as well and does say on leaflets/website-Book your tickets now for the lowest price and enjoy a great day out at one of Kent’s best historic attractions-FACT!!!!
      Otherwise wouldn't be on there, enjoy the rest of your day-cheers 🍻

    • @TheWillsy
      @TheWillsy 3 місяці тому

      Perhaps they should move the caves over the border to Kent.

    • @Th3OmegaPoint
      @Th3OmegaPoint 3 місяці тому

      @@mikekaraoke Whether you like it or not they are both wrong, any location in Bromley Borough is part of Greater London, administratively at least. A little research will explain everything.

    • @mikekaraoke
      @mikekaraoke 3 місяці тому

      @@Th3OmegaPoint They are not both wrong, it is part of Greater London + Kent!
      Again hence why: the Caves etc are members of the association of tourist attractions in Kent-FACT so that is administratively!

  • @JamesW577
    @JamesW577 4 місяці тому +6

    Time when UK was still a strong economic power in the world.

    • @earlscourtsw10
      @earlscourtsw10 4 місяці тому

      Fifth country in the world

    • @markofsaltburn
      @markofsaltburn 4 місяці тому +1

      1983? Unemployment hit 3.2 million and Britain’s manufacturing output was in freefall! The country was still at its weakest since the 1930s. Britain only started to recover after the liberalisation of the financial services sector three years later.

    • @davefave4351
      @davefave4351 2 місяці тому

      ​@@earlscourtsw10
      6th largest economy now (10/24) as India have overtaken us...

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

    "Because I'm known."
    Not too much.

  • @elfulano5884
    @elfulano5884 5 місяців тому

    "Your Uber has arrived!" (07:33) 😂

  • @alvzugo4166
    @alvzugo4166 Рік тому +1

    só realeza. triste hot dog

  • @alrichmond4341
    @alrichmond4341 2 місяці тому

    Notable how few people are on the streets (midday, midsummer), how few cars, and how skinny the people are relatively speaking. Compare and contrast to a wet November Saturday in 2024 and it'd be rammed with all of the above.

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

    Tom Shaw - "We're in pain."
    Tracy just lies, man.

    • @phoenixswanson1561
      @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

      Thetan - "I picked that up at school."

    • @phoenixswanson1561
      @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

      Thetan - "We saw each other after school."

    • @phoenixswanson1561
      @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

      He was nice when it counted. I don't need a Dr. Phil saying "I've put on weight now, too." She was black, wasn't she? Ever tried that, Tom? Did you do Yvonne?

    • @phoenixswanson1561
      @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

      It just came out. Sometimes it's preordained --
      Thetan - "It's special."
      -- And sometimes it's not.

    • @phoenixswanson1561
      @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

      It's getting too good. Back to face time. I think Pinny's still going?
      Thetan - "I like Pinny."

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

    That's not Savannah. I thought of that on the train. If it'd last.

  • @Gunnercv
    @Gunnercv 4 місяці тому

    Groovy music man 😂😂

  • @skeelo69
    @skeelo69 4 місяці тому

    Even the dead skin and hair bordering the lens is vintage 😂😂😂

  • @patriciaoreilly8907
    @patriciaoreilly8907 21 день тому

    Music 🎶 all wrong 😊 switched off

  • @Biggestisland
    @Biggestisland 4 місяці тому

    Lose the music

  • @MARTIN-jg6gn
    @MARTIN-jg6gn 7 місяців тому

    England hasn’t changed much of their architecture I can tell lol

    • @aprenderlife
      @aprenderlife 5 місяців тому +4

      We've unnaturally changed our demographics though

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be 4 місяці тому

      ​@@aprenderlifeunfortunately

    • @markofsaltburn
      @markofsaltburn 4 місяці тому

      It’s a lot cleaner now.

    • @markofsaltburn
      @markofsaltburn 4 місяці тому

      @@aprenderlifebecause you stopped having babies, you wouldn’t look after your elderly relatives and you wouldn’t do the dirty jobs, but you still wanted the benefits of growth capitalism.

    • @aprenderlife
      @aprenderlife 4 місяці тому

      @@markofsaltburn rubbish! We didn't need anybody to do any jobs! We should have trained/ incentified our own to do them.
      Same with children, importing other people to keep up birthrates is a lie!

  • @PassiveAgressive319
    @PassiveAgressive319 5 місяців тому

    Music is spot on. OH my days the memories😅😅😅

  • @pureblood101
    @pureblood101 2 місяці тому +1

    What the fuck happened?

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

    Plee-ahe..

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

    Yeah, but..

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

    All those great scenes ruined by hair in the grate.. I wonder if they'll be inserted..

  • @aliciagabriel8408
    @aliciagabriel8408 Рік тому +1

    London calling 😂

  • @Baldieman1
    @Baldieman1 4 місяці тому

    How nice on the footage from the trains,to see clean walls on the sidings etc,not everywhere plastered with mindless graffiti vandalism....sorry "street art"

  • @paulrobbo321
    @paulrobbo321 4 місяці тому +18

    BM. before Muslimisation. I had to stop watching as it was too sad

    • @beastman.330
      @beastman.330 4 місяці тому

      Muslims bring in billions of pounds of revenue each year . Most of what you see is built by stolen Muslim money from India and the Middle East.

  • @viewerabundzu6887
    @viewerabundzu6887 4 місяці тому

    should have had Human League playing

  • @ianinkster2261
    @ianinkster2261 4 місяці тому

    I was being conceived that summer

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

    Wife - "Twenty eight."

  • @tyrusflare9022
    @tyrusflare9022 26 днів тому

    Where are all the benefit claiming lard arses and drug dealing knife carriers?

  • @phoenixswanson1561
    @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

    Baby - "London."

    • @phoenixswanson1561
      @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

      Baby - "I don't like Annabelle anymore. She hurt me. Probably smacked me."

    • @phoenixswanson1561
      @phoenixswanson1561 5 місяців тому

      Baby - "I liked the cars."

  • @jonstevens2899
    @jonstevens2899 3 місяці тому +1

    That music was f***ing awful

  • @johnrider5701
    @johnrider5701 Місяць тому

    Great film footage but terrible soundtrack.

  • @AnyaV
    @AnyaV 5 місяців тому

    Year when i was born,but look like Russia in 90 s😂

  • @Vince-l4k
    @Vince-l4k 2 місяці тому

    Every decent job in London, was a closed shop, every building site which paid decent cash, you had to be Irish or Irish parents, every manufacturing firms you had fat cockneys, shops were mostly Asian, ect all closed shops, things go that way, getthos, same as know

  • @Mr.Clingclong
    @Mr.Clingclong 4 місяці тому +3

    Sadly, there's a lot of knief crime these days. Everywhere you go in London, there seems to be rivers of blood, why weren't we warned?

    • @rightwinggo9694
      @rightwinggo9694 4 місяці тому +1

      As you know, Brits were warned, more to the point; Why did no one listen.

    • @markofsaltburn
      @markofsaltburn 4 місяці тому

      Crime was higher in 1983.

    • @davefave4351
      @davefave4351 2 місяці тому

      Are there rivers of blood? Really?
      Where was the last one you saw?
      Next time you see one message me eh?

  • @XyZ-zb9zl
    @XyZ-zb9zl 4 місяці тому

    Music is really bad and on the nerve

  • @MyCamilla1989
    @MyCamilla1989 2 місяці тому +1

    The music couldn't have been more irrelevant and annoying.

  • @mrdeathgaming1457
    @mrdeathgaming1457 Місяць тому

    ..and look how ruined in 2024....Shameful.

  • @Slash1066
    @Slash1066 4 місяці тому +3

    Same footage today would be spot the Caucasian competition

  • @kevinsmall4308
    @kevinsmall4308 4 місяці тому +2

    And not an immigrant in sight 😍😍😍

  • @amnesiac1975
    @amnesiac1975 2 місяці тому

    What a strange London, it wasnt an Islamic city yet

  • @DennisSalonga-o8b
    @DennisSalonga-o8b 7 місяців тому +2

    🎉i❤memories

  • @DennisSalonga-o8b
    @DennisSalonga-o8b 7 місяців тому +1

    🎉i❤memories