For my late Mum it was Morse. I gave it a go but just couldn't get into it after being a committed Sweeney fan! John Thaw was a huge success with the Sweeney but Morse developed a cult like following.
This is really great and thoroughly informative and enjoyable. It is very well researched and both funny and interesting. It is excellent quality production and is definitely of mainstream television broadcast standard. Well done Sir.
I'm sixty years old so i was around when the sweeney was first broadcast so these videos are a great opportunity for me to compare London then and now . Thanks for bringing back so many wonderful memories...
Great video. The BWM at 1:02 has WLT prefix plate, London Transport used these on early Routemaster Buses i.e. WLT686, the phonebox at 13:28 is a film prop, note the wooden framing on the windows! Another great video.
I am such a misery arse these days with the way the country is and the way London is going. That watching these brilliant episodes of Sweenealogy me happy.Happy Days.Loving it🇬🇧🫶
Love your channel! I was born and raised in Primrose Hill. So know the manor around there so well and with great affection. I lived in Bray Tower Block shown in the clip it was grim! My mate Josh McCrae lived in Oppidans Road! Wish I knew what happened to him? The area has changed so little in the past 50 years … in relative terms!
Thanks - great to hear :) I used to live in Camden, and would often run early mornings along the canal and then up the back of Primrose Hill and into Regents Park. I would pass the end of Oppidans Road several times a week, and never knew till after I'd moved away that that scene was filmed so close to where I passed by!
Once again a really great piece of work. Impressive use of GPS to get the accuracy of the modern day shots. Looking forward to seeing the squad’s next streets they once screeched the “Granny” round.
Loving this channel. They used to film an episode of The Sweeney in 10 days, so the locations had to all be fairly close together. They also used to drive about with a prop telephone box on the back of a truck.
Another fantastic video. Fleet House was an old GPO/BT building as many were back in the 70s and 80s when i worked for BT. its the London i spent my working life in.
The sweeney was such a great programme when growing up I still Wath the reruns on TV such a shame John and Dennis are no longer with us so cool to see Michael Elphick in other programs I remember him in Boon too great actor❤
Brilliant! So much work has obviously gone into making these absolute gems. I can't thank you enough. It'd be great if you could track down the cricket pavilion where Tim Cook hides in 'On the Run'. I once looked for it in Virginia Water where the pub scenes were filmed, but to no avail. Be great if you could find it. Many thanks!
I've been living in London over 20yrs, enjoy trying to spot places from the likes of the Sweeney and Minder etc. Even old WW2 footage can still show buildings in place.....love it
I've been recommending this channel a lot. It's absolutely brilliant and so well produced and put together. A real labour of love. I used to think years ago it was only me that loved location information on bygone classic TV. Thanks again!❤❤😊
You are a scholar, sir. This is a fascinating series which also speaks volumes about the changes in the London skyline in the decades since. As you point out, it's working class homes that have been demolished, whereas the affluent areas have been conserved. The gentry don't gentrify their own, only other peoples' gaffs...
Another great location video for The Sweeney. Looking forward to more locations being covered for episodes like Stoppo Driver.Golden Fleece, Trojan Bus etc.......I could go on forever!
Brilliant! I’ll be checking out the other vids on your channel. I’ve liked the sweeney for years and have been watching a few episodes over the past few days so the Russians are clearly listening and got your vid onto my feed!
Brilliant series. Thanks for sharing 😁At 7:54 in this video there is a young chap walking along who is wearing a pair of denim bell bottom jeans and what looks like a white penny collar shirt! I can confirm this was very de rigueur of the time - being of the same generation. 😂
I absolutely love these films! I watch The Sweeney on DVD regularly, and these just add even more interest to its brilliance. Thank you for making them, as they clearly must take a lot of effort.
Another great video, Sir! Absolutely loved it… And, it’s always great to get a glimpse of Nosher Powell. My late father grew up with Nosher and his brother Dinny in Camberwell. Happy days!
@@Sweenealogy Dad had a million stories about growing up pre-WW2 and then during his WW2 army career and afterwards in Palestine as the Mandate ran out. One of my favourite stories involved dad in our local post office. He was minding his own business when the bloke in front of him called dad a James Hunt. Dad, who by that time was an OAP, said the rest of the queue simply stepped over the bloke to get to the counter as he was now laying prostrate on the floor 😂 In the 60’s we lived next door to where the Richardson’s had their Target scrap yard in New Church Road. My uncle, a chippy, had made new wooden gates for them and they had asked dad to decorate their “offices”. They pinched his bright yellow Ford Anglia from outside our flats and took dad’s unlicensed Hilti Gun 😳 They also had a club in Addington Square where, at Christmas, they laid out wallpaper pasting tables with boxes of crackers and toys for the local kids. When Charlie was released from prison he went to his Club “J Arthur’s” in Catford. I remember sitting in PD2, the Catford nick van unit with half a dozen seasoned coppers as they pointed him out to me, a new wooden top. I hadn’t the heart to mention I’d met him when I was a kid! I met Dinny in the 1970’s when my dad took me to an antiques shop he owned.
Ever Ready battery signs, Gasometers, Triumph Stags dodgy drum breaks and old bill sirens that went Ner Ner Ner Ner. This episode has it all. Best one yet my old China, just keep em coming or else I'll have ta nick ya you slag! Yep the Spurs are effing shit!
I love a cockney diamond geezer accent. Your research is brilliant. Grew up in 70s watching the Sweeney. Its so good its repeated on itv 4 along with minder and the professionals
Another gem! Clerkenwell is quite unchanged in many ways. The low level, distance shots of Farringdon were taken from a small NCP car park, which went in the 80s, on the land that was once Farringdon goods sidings. In the 90s, the area north of Goods Way was still the same as in 1975. Dodgy area after dark back then. Thank you for another great video, and your time and effort to produce it.
Absolutely brilliantly done, extremely well put together and interesting. Fantastically narrated and great to see a lot is still the same. Looking forward to next instalment.
Your location clips shows how far we've come since those dark days. What with strikes, inflation, the 3 day week, only 3 channels and the Austin Allegro, the Sweeney was the only thing that kept me going!
Watch the exterior shots of Steptoe And Son filmed around Notting Hill. The rubbish in the streets, bins overflowing, dirty rundown dilapidated slum buildings, that area really was a s**those in those days now? Those buildings are still there but you now need half a million just to buy a one bedroom flat in one of them. Mind you, to many people it's still a s**those!😂
Superb memories ,I forgot how grimy London was then when we were kids ,the unpainted aluminium C stock train at Farringdon ,the buses etc,looking forward to you doing Hammersmith my area ,all the best mate Mark 😊😊 Just going to do over a Peter 😂😂😂😂
Good stuff. I love that Euston Films captured so much of that original London grime on high quality film. 👮📺👍 The locations for the first episode, "Ringer", would be worth investigating?
Enjoyed watching this, I worked around the Clerkenwell area for many years and Theobalds Rd where the library is hasn't changed at all. I worked in the library building for a long time.
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Brilliant ,The Sweeney was probably the best UK cop show ever 👍
No probably about it.
Without a doubt
Definitely
For my late Mum it was Morse. I gave it a go but just couldn't get into it after being a committed Sweeney fan! John Thaw was a huge success with the Sweeney but Morse developed a cult like following.
As I've said before, a gem of a UA-cam channel..
Thank you kindly :)
No probs. Also, love the commentary. @@Sweenealogy
Agree mate I 2nd that
Totally right @simonkeyse8185
Even the milkmen were hard in the 70s 😂😂
Lotta bottle!
Although you can clearly see he hits the guy in the stomach with an open palm and not a clenched fist.😂
Very have a go hero.
This is really great and thoroughly informative and enjoyable. It is very well researched and both funny and interesting. It is excellent quality production and is definitely of mainstream television broadcast standard. Well done Sir.
Thoroughly enjoying your episodes, so nostalgic. Thankyou for posting excellent entertainment.
As an owner of 4 Stags, i can tell you that RVC 425H has been at a few car shows and was later painted white. Great channel.
Love a stag
Proper motor :) Interesting that it was painted white later!
Early car too.
Also used in the Film Straw Dog's.@@ricardowebbs5207
Fast becoming my fav on UA-cam.
Thanks, that's really great to hear :)
What a brilliant channel, If only we could go back to living in the 70s.
I'm sixty years old so i was around when the sweeney was first broadcast so these videos are a great opportunity for me to compare London then and now . Thanks for bringing back so many wonderful memories...
So glad you've put out another one if these, keep 'em coming! 😊
Fantastic. London is so atmospheric. Then and now.
Thanks for posting. Can remember watching the last series as a kid in 1978 and have since watched all the earlier episodes. Love the Sweeney.
Brilliant work ! For anyone with memories of an iconic TV series and when London was English your channel is absolute nectar.
Great video. The BWM at 1:02 has WLT prefix plate, London Transport used these on early Routemaster Buses i.e. WLT686, the phonebox at 13:28 is a film prop, note the wooden framing on the windows! Another great video.
Thanks! Yes looking closer, you can clearly see that phone box is wooden. Now that I know this, I've spotted the 'prop box' in other episodes too.
I am such a misery arse these days with the way the country is and the way London is going.
That watching these brilliant episodes of Sweenealogy me happy.Happy Days.Loving it🇬🇧🫶
It’s not just you 😂
@@mickydroyboy1542no, sounds just like my hubby
Excellent work!
Love your channel! I was born and raised in Primrose Hill. So know the manor around there so well and with great affection. I lived in Bray Tower Block shown in the clip it was grim! My mate Josh McCrae lived in Oppidans Road! Wish I knew what happened to him? The area has changed so little in the past 50 years … in relative terms!
Thanks - great to hear :) I used to live in Camden, and would often run early mornings along the canal and then up the back of Primrose Hill and into Regents Park. I would pass the end of Oppidans Road several times a week, and never knew till after I'd moved away that that scene was filmed so close to where I passed by!
I grew up around Clerkenwell / Kings cross . Live seeing the old buildings on all your episodes . Ome of the best UA-cam channels easily . Thank you
If only every chanel was this interesting!
Once again a really great piece of work. Impressive use of GPS to get the accuracy of the modern day shots. Looking forward to seeing the squad’s next streets they once screeched the “Granny” round.
I love these so much. Takes me back to a simpler time. Cheers.
Loving this channel.
They used to film an episode of The Sweeney in 10 days, so the locations had to all be fairly close together.
They also used to drive about with a prop telephone box on the back of a truck.
Yes, someone else mentioned the prop telephone box - great bit of insight!
Fantastic narration as I've said before.
Thank you :)
An absolutely cracking video, really enjoyed it. Nice touch filming from inside the phone box. You’ve gone above and beyond for us fans, thank you !
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@Sweenealogy Sure did, very much looking forward to the next one !
Love this channel - when London was London. Say no more!
Brilliantly put together video about my favourite tv show ever. Smashing.
Another fantastic video.
Fleet House was an old GPO/BT building as many were back in the 70s and 80s when i worked for BT. its the London i spent my working life in.
Fabulous entertainment for people of a certain age! Thanks for all the effort you have clearly made to produce this cracking video...
The sweeney was such a great programme when growing up I still Wath the reruns on TV such a shame John and Dennis are no longer with us so cool to see Michael Elphick in other programs I remember him in Boon too great actor❤
This is fun, love this channel.
Brilliant! So much work has obviously gone into making these absolute gems. I can't thank you enough. It'd be great if you could track down the cricket pavilion where Tim Cook hides in 'On the Run'. I once looked for it in Virginia Water where the pub scenes were filmed, but to no avail. Be great if you could find it. Many thanks!
Apparently Stoke Green Cricket Club near Slough?
I'm definitely planning at some point to do 'out of town' locations too
I love these old London locations, here and in The Professionals. Thanks for doing this.
Glad you like them!
Absolutely superb! Great format, great commentary. How you find all these locations makes my mind boggle! Please,please keep 'em coming!❤👍
I've been living in London over 20yrs, enjoy trying to spot places from the likes of the Sweeney and Minder etc. Even old WW2 footage can still show buildings in place.....love it
Thanks for the memories and locations once again
Omg nearly 50 years ago
Another stellar cast - James Booth
❤️❤️👍 👍 🏴🏴
Please keep these going, absolutely superb research and entertaining videos, love it
Thanks! Certainly intend to keep going with this.
Definitely a gem indeed
Hope there are lots more to come
That's the plan!
Superb video. Great commentary. Nostalgia hit from a bygone era....a Better Britain in my opinion.
I've been recommending this channel a lot. It's absolutely brilliant and so well produced and put together. A real labour of love. I used to think years ago it was only me that loved location information on bygone classic TV. Thanks again!❤❤😊
Absolutely brilliant. Has always I thoroughly enjoyed it, amazing work. I look forward to your next video.
Very entertaining and looks like a lot of grafting went into this video 👍🏻
superb work, thanks so much for filming the locations.
Love the work you are doing! I'm enjoying every second of the results of your efforts. 😊 Thank you! Congrats from Sydney
You are a scholar, sir. This is a fascinating series which also speaks volumes about the changes in the London skyline in the decades since. As you point out, it's working class homes that have been demolished, whereas the affluent areas have been conserved. The gentry don't gentrify their own, only other peoples' gaffs...
Great stuff! Really enjoying the episodes 💪
Those onion chaps on bikes were a thing in South Somerset where wot I grew up in the 70s
Another great location video for The Sweeney. Looking forward to more locations being covered for episodes like Stoppo Driver.Golden Fleece, Trojan Bus etc.......I could go on forever!
Brilliant! I’ll be checking out the other vids on your channel. I’ve liked the sweeney for years and have been watching a few episodes over the past few days so the Russians are clearly listening and got your vid onto my feed!
love the sweeney takes me back to the good times
Brilliant series. Thanks for sharing 😁At 7:54 in this video there is a young chap walking along who is wearing a pair of denim bell bottom jeans and what looks like a white penny collar shirt! I can confirm this was very de rigueur of the time - being of the same generation. 😂
Superb! Love these, thanks for making them and all the effort it takes. Love the wit aswel brilliantly done mate
Thank you. Glad you like them!
Amazing research you do , really enjoy your videos.
Thanks, glad you like them!
Superb as always, great narration. Brilliantly researched and match-up footage of yesterday's London with today's. Top marks.
Many thanks!
I absolutely love these films! I watch The Sweeney on DVD regularly, and these just add even more interest to its brilliance. Thank you for making them, as they clearly must take a lot of effort.
Really enjoyed this, very well researched, keep them coming
Glad you enjoyed it! Time for another filming trip soon...
Goodsway was realigned where it meets the railway bridges when the development for Eurostar started in the early 2000s.
Thanks for doing this. Love The Sweeney.
Great stuff...Great memories!
Brilliant commentary… outstanding authenticity…subscribed! 👍🏼
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
@@Sweenealogy loved the Sweeney since ‘Armchair Theatre’ … Reagan… watched ‘em so many times I could act them…😂
Great content. Thanks for putting this together, it's really good.
Much appreciated!
Another great video, Sir! Absolutely loved it…
And, it’s always great to get a glimpse of Nosher Powell. My late father grew up with Nosher and his brother Dinny in Camberwell. Happy days!
Many thanks!
PS - bet your late father had some tales to tell!..
@@Sweenealogy Dad had a million stories about growing up pre-WW2 and then during his WW2 army career and afterwards in Palestine as the Mandate ran out. One of my favourite stories involved dad in our local post office. He was minding his own business when the bloke in front of him called dad a James Hunt. Dad, who by that time was an OAP, said the rest of the queue simply stepped over the bloke to get to the counter as he was now laying prostrate on the floor 😂
In the 60’s we lived next door to where the Richardson’s had their Target scrap yard in New Church Road. My uncle, a chippy, had made new wooden gates for them and they had asked dad to decorate their “offices”. They pinched his bright yellow Ford Anglia from outside our flats and took dad’s unlicensed Hilti Gun 😳
They also had a club in Addington Square where, at Christmas, they laid out wallpaper pasting tables with boxes of crackers and toys for the local kids.
When Charlie was released from prison he went to his Club “J Arthur’s” in Catford. I remember sitting in PD2, the Catford nick van unit with half a dozen seasoned coppers as they pointed him out to me, a new wooden top. I hadn’t the heart to mention I’d met him when I was a kid!
I met Dinny in the 1970’s when my dad took me to an antiques shop he owned.
@@RobinHullBuilds Brilliant! :)
Ever Ready battery signs, Gasometers, Triumph Stags dodgy drum breaks and old bill sirens that went Ner Ner Ner Ner. This episode has it all. Best one yet my old China, just keep em coming or else I'll have ta nick ya you slag! Yep the Spurs are effing shit!
Cheers!
(And yeah, not the best of days for Ange's boys. As bad last night as they were great at Vila. The wild rollercoaster continues...)
Brakes
I love a cockney diamond geezer accent.
Your research is brilliant.
Grew up in 70s watching the Sweeney.
Its so good its repeated on itv 4 along with minder and the professionals
Another gem! Clerkenwell is quite unchanged in many ways. The low level, distance shots of Farringdon were taken from a small NCP car park, which went in the 80s, on the land that was once Farringdon goods sidings. In the 90s, the area north of Goods Way was still the same as in 1975. Dodgy area after dark back then.
Thank you for another great video, and your time and effort to produce it.
Thanks for a great video. I stated to watch the Sweeney in the late 80s early 90s and all my mates could not understand way live loved it so.
What a fantastic channel! Thanks for all the hard work you put into these episodes! They really are a nice trip down memory lane 👍🏾
Glad you like them!
Great stuff, thanks for doing this.
Thank you again for your hard detective work finding these locations, pity about Euston, but there is always another day.
Absolutely brilliantly done, extremely well put together and interesting. Fantastically narrated and great to see a lot is still the same. Looking forward to next instalment.
Thank you :) Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent. Thanks for the time and effort you put in. 👍🏻
“Get your trousers on sunshine you’re nicked” Excellent show
Love these videos, Well done 😎
Thanks!
Your location clips shows how far we've come since those dark days. What with strikes, inflation, the 3 day week, only 3 channels and the Austin Allegro, the Sweeney was the only thing that kept me going!
Watch the exterior shots of Steptoe And Son filmed around Notting Hill. The rubbish in the streets, bins overflowing, dirty rundown dilapidated slum buildings, that area really was a s**those in those days now? Those buildings are still there but you now need half a million just to buy a one bedroom flat in one of them. Mind you, to many people it's still a s**those!😂
@@fus149hammer5I blame Hugh Grant.
Top channel the 1970s London that I grew up in.
Brilliant - highly informative and entertaining. A wonderful addendum to many great London centric channels on YT.. Lovely stuff
Many thanks!
Really enjoyed that, thanks 👍
This is a brilliant premise for a channel. Thank you
Superb memories ,I forgot how grimy London was then when we were kids ,the unpainted aluminium C stock train at Farringdon ,the buses etc,looking forward to you doing Hammersmith my area ,all the best mate
Mark 😊😊
Just going to do over a Peter 😂😂😂😂
The tube rolling stock wasn't that old at the time.
Always well researched, well narrated and above all great fun. Well done and thanks
Great item on my favourite show 😊
Mine too! Glad you liked it.
Love this channel. Thank you.❤
12:16 that 1967 corvette is a thing of beauty.
Pretty sure it’s a 1961 😉
I can’t stop watching your channel. 👍🏻
This is brilliant. Well done my friend!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video, great channel. Keep 'em coming, cheers!
Thanks, will do!
Good stuff. I love that Euston Films captured so much of that original London grime on high quality film. 👮📺👍
The locations for the first episode, "Ringer", would be worth investigating?
I've been to some of the Ringer locations, but wasn't filming at the time, just photographing. They're on my list to go back to :)
Excellent work 👏
Yet more excellent detective work Chief.
Thank you kindly!
Brilliant work
Excellent work again 👍🏻
Thank you!
Enjoyed watching this, I worked around the Clerkenwell area for many years and Theobalds Rd where the library is hasn't changed at all. I worked in the library building for a long time.
Beautifully researched.
Nice one, my son!
Many thanks!
Loving these vlogs keep them coming 👍
Thank you. Planning my next filming trip very soon.
Great Stuff ! I see you took notice of my suggestion of filming Now and Then in the Reel ! Keep up the Good Work !
Great video 😉👍🏴
So well put together and top notch entertainment. Many thanks and look forward to many more.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Thanks for another episode. Brilliant stuff!
Superb stuff this! A lot of work has clearly gone into it too.
Brilliant! well done! i look forward to the next one!
Thanks!
fantastic youtube channel, thanks
Glad you enjoy it!