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Thanks for the upload reminded me of 2001 to 2011, ahh no Bradenham house anymore

Were I was born in and grew up in the 1950s. I works at the garage they pass at 3:39 when it was Morgan & King Motor Works.

Lives in Plumstead for a number of years and used to go to the princess of wales pub on the common with my mates in the eighties , don’t k ow where they are now lost contact

I lived in Abbey wood, and my secondary school was in Charlton lower road. So i remember most of this. Especially going up Herbert road and into Eglington hill. I worked at a Butchers in Herbert road, Nan lived in Nithdale road. Sister worked at Bakers in Lakedale road. Born in 1953, i left the area around 1974 and moved to Essex. It was great to see the old stomping ground, thankyou so much.

Why not have a bicycle and totally ignore any traffic signs that you have!?

Did all the old flats get regeneration?

Red telephone box? Get in!!! This was my old stomping ground in the 50's 60's Lived in Abbey Wood but used to come here to travel on the Ferry which in those days had a lovely glass partition with wood frame like a window that you could look through and see the massive brass oiled crank shaft moving up and down...glorious as a kid, we'd go backwards and forwards totally free, oh dear they really were the days, used to come here also for the Woolwich baths which were the best around and were always hot with hot showers too, and come out with me mates, eyes streaming from the chlorine ha ha. Always get such a good feeling watching these and it puts me back in touch with my roots which ultimately involved the beautiful Thames. Love it mate, thanks so much for this.

I remember travelling to work by tram to work in Woolwich in the mid 1940's and what a place Woolwich was in those! We used to work a five and half day week and Powis Street on Saturdays used to be full of people overflowing into the road with Beresford Square a live and busy activity with its market stalls. I recall the butchers stall on the corner which had auctions of meat on Saturday evenings and the crowds were dense! Woolwich during this time due to it's productivity in the Royal Arsenal must have been one of the wealthiest Boroughs in London. But when Woolwich Borough Council was dissolved into Greenwich Borough Council, Woolwich lost out for sure. It was Greenwich that was trumpeted not Woolwich!

7 minutes in and not really looking like Thamesmead at all. 😉

I live in London

All the places I used to walk my dog and go running even at night in the 80s wouldn’t now days such a shame was so good growing up great people 😢

Thanks for this……glad l don’t live in the area anymore!

Portuguese & angolan ppl mostly live around here

What's it all about? Driving too fast to read any street names, it was only the final seconds that I knew where I was. And I used to live there!

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Thank you very much for this video. For 4 years North Finchley was nothing less, but my home while working in London. Almost 8 years passed by since I've left, and plenty of good memories came back while watching. Much appreciated.

I used to live in Manor Park (on the Romford Road a long time ago). Didn’t recognise any of the video.

My Grandparents, the Pesters, lived at 28 Stansted road, Forest Hill. SE 23 How i remember this address is a miracle as last time i visited was in February 1956, i was 9, and i came to Africa with my parents. Like it was yesterday, they had a grocers not far from their house. My great delight was to spend time with them, they had a television, an electric blanket. Oh sweet memories. Thanks for the chance to share.

THATS HOW IT LOOKS LIKE IN LONDON BECAUSE I LIVE HERE

sam fox lives there

You drove past my school (Oxford Gardens Primary), passed by the hospice where my Dad died (Princess Louise), crossed over the street where my Mum lived (St Quintin Avenue), crossed the road where I was brought up (St Marks Road), past the flats where we moved to just after was born (Ruth House) , crossed the road where I was repeatedly patched up in hospital as a kid (St Charles Square), past the school my Mum went to (Barlby Road), skirted past the East side of the cemetery both my parents were cremated (Kensal Green) and all that before you crossed over the Harrow Road! When people say "where are you from" this is where.

Loved it I grew up on the Sydenham hill estate in the seventies now live in lancaster but I never unfortunately recognised anywhere 😢

Nice video but you should have gone to the top of George Lane past the George, the cinema and Waitrose. It would be nice to see a video of Buckhurst Hill/ Epping, Loughton also could you do a drive in Enfield, Enfield Lock area please?

A totally different Bromley that I went to in the 80s, I am biased I think I prefer the old Bromley

That's not Abbey Wood SE2 it's Thamesmead! I should know. I lived in New Road 30 odd years ago opposite the Woodland on the hill. Grew up with fond memories of Abbey Wood. Now live abroad. Thanks for the tour...

Nice miss the grave digger job I had on Lewisham ❤

Romania, despite the poverty and neglect, their buses still run.

Love it. I was born in forest gate.👍

I live in Thamesmead (crossway)...and I've just realised, after watching this, just how much of a visual difference it makes when the street-trees have foliage... without it the 'MEAD can look even more 'dank+depressive'! (like in winter), ain't complaining! there's worse places to live (up North mostly),good upload👍

Nice drive round areas familiar to me, although technically alot of the roads are actually Stamford Hill N16 and Clapton Common E5 😊

Didn’t go anywhere near Kilburn, very odd, just West Hampstead and Brondesbury, perhaps they got lost.

Sumner estate no longer exists. Swathe’s of the North Peckham@Pentridge and Cronin street still do. Gloucester Grove still exists@Chandler Way and St George’s Way respectively

4:44 omg … I don’t think I could drive there anymore the streets are so narrow… people just jaywalking all over the place!😮

Visited my sister here, from Western Australia in 2022 its very different from what we have in Australia with the wide open spaces, compared to everyone living on top of one and other.

Born in Woolwich in 62. Moved away in the 80s. So many changes, but was surprised to see the Volunteer is still there! 20:11. I never thought that old rough house would survive.

2:30 that prius ran the red light and you got it on camera 😂

born in windsor road its changed alot

This video shows what a dump Walworth is, Southwark council needs to pull their socks up and improve the area.

I lived at 11 Oxonian Street from around 1946 to 1964. Does anyone remember Jones Dairy and White Dent Estate Agents at Goose Green. I remember a huge water holding tank on Goose Green and the Dogs Pond on Peckham Rye. I went to the new Peckham School in Peckham Road. I used to walk to school to save sixpence to buy chocolate to eat on the way but if it was raining I used to get the number 37 bus from Goose Green to near Jones & Higgins in Rye Lane and walk along Peckham Road to school. It was a brand new school. We had moved from an old school building in Sumner Road. The headmistress was Miss Smart. A wonderful lady who kept tight control on the school to make it a pleasant place to be in. I remember Mrs Matkins a cookery teacher and Miss Pavitt a geography teacher. There was also an amazing very tiny, strict needlework teacher who we were terrified of. She made us use a sewing machine with a piece of paper and no thread before we could do anything. She got results though. Happy days.

A Drive Through London Whetstone N20 1052am 3.4.24 let's have a whet, as he used to say.... so let's do that.

A Drive Through London Forest Hill SE23 3.4.24 1039am hey up! as they say... the housing estate streets are not made for cars ie: the town planners, when planning and building, had not reckoned on the mighty automobile taking over the london sprawl..i am enlightened enough to term the place lewisham, though, as opposed to london. people get tetchy about such things and i comprehend that...

that was great not been there since 1975 when i joined up

Thanks for this video, so many memoriea for me, seeing all the changes. Especially a lot of the flats demolished which i used to have to parkour over to avoid being killed by one gang or the other on way to Walworth school.

Shame you didn't mention the names of the roads you were driving down.

every time i go past the cemetery i get emotional i lost my partner of 28yrs ,i woke up one morning he had died 2012, never gets easier ,so many are buried there , makes you think life is just a minute in time yall x Catford used to be lovely place but they friggin took down all the trees and the character of the place has died x concrete madness innit x

Can I ask when did you film this because at 1 minute there is a Craine on the left where some old garages was demolished and right now there is a complete small block of flats there with people living in them. I live maybe 2 minutes from them so I know this part of Canning Town obviously 😋

great video ,it just brought back a lot of memories

Awww Horn Park Estate . My elder children went to Horn Park Primary

Love it

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