This is London - 1981 | The Archivist Presents |
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- Ah, I have moved out of the big smoke, it's lovely to be reminded of all the good things about it. This is a lovely 27-minute documentary about London in 1981 - get yourself a cup of tea and enjoy!
Titles GV Tower Bridge (Title) Air Views Tower Bridge (x 2) MS Tower Bridge opens GV Bridge opening MS Bridge opens towards camera MS Hovercraft passes under bridge Air View Tower of London SEQUENCE ON TOWER (EX GR 2577) including Armoury, Crown Jewels and Beating the Bounds Air view City of London GV Bank of England (x 2) SIGN 'The Stock Exchange' GV Int. Stock Exchange GV Ext. Guildhall (x 3) SEQUENCE ON LORD MAYORS SHOW (1980) Air View St. Pauls Cathedral CU Dome pull back to GV GV St. Pauls SEQUENCE INT. ST. PAULS JUBILEE THANKSGIVING SERVICE (EX GR 2506) LAS Ext. St. Pauls GV Looking down Fleet St. to St. Pauls CU Sign 'Fleet Street' GV 'Sunday Times' Building MONTAGE OF: Newspaper signs and Building GV Pudding Lane CU Sign 'Pudding Lane' GV Pan up the Monument (x 2) GV Across River to Post Office Tower Air View Trafalgar Square CU Nelson GV Nelson's Column GV Fountain in f.g. towards St. Martin in the Field GV National Gallery MS Fountain CU Pigeon CU Pigeons land for grain GV Square covered in pigeons MCU Pigeons on Mans arm CU Pigeons on hand MS Pigeons fed GV Admiralty Arch GV Horse Guard with tourist CU Lifeguard MS Lifeguard as woman pats horse GV Horseguards SEQUENCE: TROOPING THE COLOUR (EX GR 2455) Air View Buckingham Palace GV Queen Victoria Memorial pan to Palace SEQUENCE: CHANGING THE GUARD CU The Royal Standard SEQUENCE: JUBILEE BALCONY APPEARANCE (EX GR 2506) Air View Buckingham Palace to Houses of Parliament Air View Houses of Parliament SEQUENCE: STATE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (EX GR 2370) GV Ext. Houses of Parliament SEQUENCE: REMEMBRANCE DAY (EX GR 2581) GV Whitehall and top of Downing Street CU Sign 'Downing Street' GV Downing St. MS No. 10 (x 3) Air View Westminster Abbey GV Int. Westminster Abbey MS Tourist look at Tomb of Unknown Warrior MS Tomb MS The Coronation Chair (x 2) SEQUENCE: PRINCESS ANNE'S WEDDING (EX GR 2320) TS Westminster Piazza MS Piazza GV Westminster Cathedral (x 2) Air View Lambeth Palace GV Lambeth Palace GV Westminster Bridge GV Country Hall GV River Air View National Theatre GV Festival Hall GV South Bank Complex GV Waterloo Bridge (x 2) GV Piccadilly Circus (x 2) CU Eros GV Piccadilly Circus (x 2) GV 'The Old Curosity Shop' (x 2) GV Harrods CU Sign 'Harrods' CU Window GV Harrods LS Womans pays taxi cab ZOOM OUT 'George & Dragon Clock' on Libertys CU Sign 'Libertys' GV Libertys GV Oxford Street CU Sign 'Oxford Street' MONTAGE: Shop signs GV Selfridges (x 3) GV Shoppers cross Street CU 'Mr. Fortnum & Mr. Mason Clock' GV Fortnum & Mason's CU Window GV Hatchards Book Shop (x 2) GV Burlington Arcade (x 2) ZOOM OUT Aspreys window GV Aspreys GV Garrards (x 2) CU Sign 'Savile Row' MS Tailors Window CU 'Sign 'Hardy Amies' GV Hat Shop LS Street Begetable Market (x 2) GV Pictures for Sale in Bayswater Road (x 4) ZOOM out Gates of Marble Arch GV Marble Arch GV Speakers Corner (x 7) MS Man reads newspaper by Serpentine CU Canada Geese, pigeons and ducks CU Canada Goose & Mallard GV People feeding birds x 2. LS Pleasure boat on Serpentine. GV Riders in Rotten Row. GV Serpentine Bridge. LAS The Albert Memorial x 2. GV The Albert Hall X 2. GV Exterior Madam Tussauds. CU Plaque Madame Tussauds. CU Interior Guard inspects CHamber Of Horrors. GV Entrance Lodnon Zooilogical Gardens. CU Elephant x 2. CU Chimpanzee. MS Crowd. GV Crowd and Rhino. CU Rhino. Zoom in Across River Thames to Windsor Castle. Sequence - Garter Ceremony (Ex GR 2561) and sequence: Interior of St Georges Chapel. GV Hampton Court across River. GV Queen Anne's Gateway, Hampton Court x 2. CU Sign Tudor Tennis Court. GV Real Tennis being played x 4. GV Exterior Centre Court, Wimbledon. CU Jimmy Connors serves in Final. GV Match then Bjorn Borg wins. CU Borg. GV Exterior Wembley Stadium. GV Interior Wembley Stadium. Sequence: Football (Ex 1979 League Cup Final) CU Cricketer waits to receive ball. LS Ball bowled. CU Batsman hits ball. LS Batsmen running. CU Gateway at Lords Cricket Ground. GV Lords. CU Lords Tavern. CU Sign Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese x 2. CU Sign Ye Old Cock & GV. CU Sign The George & GV. CU Pint of beer pulled zoom into froth. CU Pull focus sunset on River Thames. GV Sunset over Houses of Parliament and Thames. CU Sign Strand Theatre. LS People into Theatre. Sequence: London Theatre Signs. LS Along Shaftesbury Avenue. CU, GV & LS Eros against Neon Lights in Piccadily Circus. CU Eros. CU Sign Talk of The Town. CU Sign Leicester Square Theatre. GV Leicester Square. GV Empire Cinema. CU sign Ristorante. Sequence: 5 shots Foreign Restaurant signs. CU Sign Lovecraft London's Leading Sex Shop. CU Sex shop sign. CU Eros Cinema showing Midnight Blue. CU Sign: Raymond Revue Bar. Sequence: Ceremony Of The Keys. GV London at night with moon. Available to licence for commercial use - story number - BM81-14
If you change the people, you change the culture
If you import the third world, you become third world..
The British government invited people from the Commonwealth to help build up the country that was bombed by the Second World War. If there was no immigration the UK would still be in a very dilapidated state. Furthermore, the UK had stolen treasures from many different countries and brutally treated them as slaves and inferiors, a mind-set that many people in the UK still have now. But it is too late. There is a God in heaven who rules and metes out judgment in accordance to the crimes. All that is happening in the UK is because of how it treated people in its Empire. The same people who were robbed are now getting their share. If the UK would have gone forward strengthening its Christian roots and serving, as Queen Victoria desired, rather than oppressing, as it still does now, then it would not have degenerated. Most of the middle-class want to do Yoga and Pilates rather than to pray and repent of their sins. It is an easy religion with no repentance towards God. Most of the working-class worship reality shows and sports and social media rather than the living God. Again, no self-denial there but self enjoyment. Life is to be about serving others not oneself. Ask yourself, how are you spending your money and what morals do you have in life? Blame the UK Labour and Conservative governments who have systematically destroyed the industries that made the UK strong, and allowed some immigrants to come in the UK who are organised criminals. These are the same people who want many people to believe that foreigners are to blame for the country's crisis. They are laughing at people who believe this lie. Only God can clean up the mess, not only in the UK, but in the world as a whole, and He will. He knows full well that there is organized evil in this world, who plan and calculate to stir up hatred and distrust in all sections of society. And you can know this too. Just turn to Psalm 2 and Revelation 18 in your Bible. God bless you.
True now your not french any more lol
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which is one of the goals of Un Agenda 21
The promise of the future back then was so bright. Look what we've done.
Look at what has been done to us, most of us did not agree with any of it, it was imposed on us.
Hang on, who's this "we" you're referring to? Unless you're a politician of course.
@@benhartley2486we as in humanity and society. Not a specific group that I’m a part of. I don’t work in politics. A huge amount of blame can be apportioned to politicians of course. There are many variables
@@lewisjones4158 Fair enough. Are you referring to London in particular or Britain in general?
That would be an ecumenical matter
All gone now in just 40 years.
Vote reform
@@leehighland5435 won't make any difference, we're the minority now.
@@Norfolkbiker50
I thought we would not get brexit, I remember that night, I voted and what a night. Get out and vote, you maybe right, but has an Englishmen, it's in our blood to fight to the last, because what we are fighting is pure evil. I am going to fight, are you?
@@leehighland5435 we have to.
EXACTLY RIGHT
And, in the blink of an eye it’s gone. I’m so glad I was a child in the 80s. It wasn’t all roses, but we had our culture and we’re proud of it, as I still am.
Deffo. I had to move away from London in 1998, it just stopped being home. Was more like some bloody mish mash of cultures and religions. Barbarians all of them.
What are you on about?
@@donaldjuan4934😂😂😂
it was far from rosey in 81. The recession, and the constant threat of nuclear war was very worrying.
@@MrMarcy76 you prefer things today? Take me back any time and I’ll stay there
No boats no machete attacks acid knives, no walking tents or men in bed sheets roaming the streets no Gestapo stopping us from freedom of speech and debate and discussion
Eh? You some kind of troll or is your memory dodgy? 1981, the year the historian Dominic Sandbrook described as one of "unprecedented misery". Mass unemployment. Rioting. The worst recession since the 1930s. If you want to see what 1981 was actually like, go back and listen to "Ghost Town" by the Specials, which was #1 in 1981.
@@th8257better society in general back then
@@th8257 just goes to show it isn’t much better then.
Jesus what a lot of bollocks. Football hooligans,glue sniffers, population decline, mass squatting, riots, bombings
I think it's time you put those rose tinted glasses away.
I grew up in London in the 80s and 90s. That city has gone. Incredibly sad.
London was terrible in the 80s
@@SleepscapeSerenitynot if you were young it wasn't.
It was grimy, dirty and vital.
I was 21 in 1981. The U.K. London included, was a much better place. I would go back to those days in a heartbeat.
The decline started in 1948.
Me too
@@Norfolkbiker50maybe a few years before that
@@Norfolkbiker50 Foundation of the NHS>
@@927ismynumber the year Clement Atlees Labour government decided to start bringing in uneducated 3rd world peasants to replace the English lads who had given their lives,
When London was a good place to live, work and visit.
It still is, the rest of the country is mostly a poor shithole.
It very much still is.
@@NJ-pu4dt I live here. It isn't.
@@NJ-pu4dtused to live in London. It’s unliveable.
@@NJ-pu4dt It's a muckhole.
How beautiful did London look in the 80s to now its heart breaking 😢
'Looking at those great works of Western Man, and remembering all that he's achieved, in philosophy, poetry, science, lawmaking, it does seem hard to believe that European civilisation can ever vanish, and yet it has happened once... when the Barbarians ran over the Roman Empire. For two centuries, the heart of European civilisation almost stopped beating, and we got through by the skin of our teeth.. In the last (few) years, we have developed the uneasy feeling that this could happen again..' Kenneth Clark, 'Civilisation' BBC Series 1969
Much better nowadays
I lived in London in the early 80s I can assure you much of it was a dirty, in desperate need of updating and shut about 10.30pm. Whilst there’s probably too many concrete glass boxes these days it’s a much improved today more deserving of its place as a global capital city
@@bobbennett4813 shut the hell up old man
London in the 80s was an absolute sh*thole.
Back in the 70's and 80's, Londoners used to complain about too many Irish and us Aussies staying there 😅. Now it's like Kuwait City.
I would've said more like the Yemen
@@Norfolkbiker50Beirut 😅
All roads lead to Rome and the Vatican(head of the serpent!) The Jesuit led Roman Catholic Church waging a centuries old "Counter Reformation" war on "Protestant" Countries using "Weaponised Immigration"!
Except Kuwait City is safer
@@tedoneilclark4710 ironically Beirut used to be a stunningly beautiful holiday destination, but then some peaceful people decided that wasn't ok.
October 1981 my first visit to London. I was impressed and I moved there on a Monday in 1985 and got a good paying job on Tuesday and started Wednesday. I bought a nice flat for £60000 and 5% down. Had two interactions with police in 10 years in London, both pleasant. I returned in 2022 to visit and had two unpleasant interactions with police over one weekend and was aghast at what has happened to Oxford Street. After I left London - Blair.
that flat is now £1,200,000
@@dvened😂😂😂😂😂
The British police are corrupt. Bought off by Epstein's pedaphile network.
This is the London I grew up in. Then the politicians gave it away to people who neither know or about it's magnificent history.
"who neither know or about" It seems you did not type all the words you meant.
@@hendriktonisson2915
Johnnies
I’ll help, perhaps ‘care’ should have been included.
@@hendriktonisson2915ooh a typo! 🤓🥸🤓
@@hendriktonisson2915London is a third world cesspit. Do you comprehend that ?
Born in 1960, I moved to the East End of London to get involved in youth work in 1981. It could be rough there (the tail end of the gangster era) but was fascinating and full of culture. Going to old pubs where pearly kings and queens would turn up. And then driving into the West End for nights out. No problem parking even in the centre. Charing Cross bookshops, music shops in Denmark Street, computer/tech shops in Tottenham Court Road, HMV and Tower Records, wine bars all around Leicester Square, and amazing cinemas everywhere for the golden era of movies.
Don't forget all the free museums and galleries. Hundreds of free night classes and free further education, affordable public transport and, most important of all, real indiginous communities.
@@BillyBanter100 Actually IIRC, the major museums and galleries weren't free in the 1980's. And yes, evening classes were a part of my London lifestyle.
Terrifying how little time it's taken for this once great city to become unrecognizable.
Exactly. In the space of a couple of decades, one of the most ancient, and beautiful cities in the world... destroyed.
Its all in your head. Nothing stays the same .Live with it or move out. I wish i could go back to the sixties but i cant. Its the circle of life. And take it from me .There will be more imigration into this country.Its happening all over the world .Not even Reform will change that.Of course they will tell you they can.Its called politics. And there are plenty of mugs on here who believe them.
40 years ago London was 85% English, Today it is 37%. That is a nearly 50% reduction in less than 40 years. This is an unprecedented shift in demographics with no equal cultural assimilation. The only remnants of Old London are the buildings. They are monuments to a people no longer there.
people hate statistics
Dublin and the whole of Ireland has gone the exact same way. 800 years of grief with your good selves to get our independence and currency and what do we do, give it to Germany and the EU. God you couldn't make that up.
@@philipmcdonagh1094 hopefully we can let the past be the past mate, and at least bury most of the hatchet. We presently face a threat greater than I think we both originally realized.
Now its full of people who hate London, and hate British culture. Not everyone though.
It's better nowadays.
I think I prefer the Mayor of 1981 to the idiot we have in 2024. In fact all of London looks so much better than today.
you mean more white
When London was still LONDON. Now look at it....
Well both the Conservative & Labour governments are to blame. The Mayor of London ? He can't even influence the Met Police to stop these endless Pro Hamas protests every weekend in central London.
Vote reform
Londonistan !
Was awful then, too.
Non native people illegally taking over a part of the world thousands of miles from their homeland!
How does it feel?
Back when London was great, thanks for the memories
London was my favorite city back in the 1980s. Today, not so much.
London is still the greatest city on Earth.
@@NickGillings-vf3yetell me you don’t go to London, without telling me etc etc
@@NickGillings-vf3ye It's literally the safest large city in Europe and one of the safest in the world.
@@mildlydispleased3221do you mean Londonderry ?
@@TopCatsBack Londonderry isn't safe at all.
I’d like this London back please
Never will London be like before… London is finished… it will only get worse
The same with Birmingham too
Rip London 🪦
Labor and conservative said no they like the new London.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
Pretty much the peak before the mass imports began.
Certainly to London. But they had already begun in other areas of England.
@@DJ_Dopamine Well said. It had been well under way for 30 odd years at this point.
1981 was the year I realized "my" London of 5 Generations was changing(and not in a progressive way as I was born and raised 27 years earlier just 2 miles from Central London and, also,2 miles from Brixton and Peckham in the other direction. I could walk home from those areas @3am without a care. In 1973,we played The Met Police(Harrow Road Area) at Sport and I could see thry seemed racist so I spoke to them and they said that 90% if crime around Ladbroke Grove and surrounding environs was carried out by members of The Black Community and that was why.It was the same pattern all over Inner London and time to move to the tranquillity and sanctity of The Suburbs just 11 miles away and after 41 years in this house,I still have no lock on my back door.
You're joking? My parents moved out of there in the 60s for that very reason.
@@Norfolkbiker50 My friend's parents moved out from Kennington in 1967 and bought a 3 Bedroom Semi-Detached in Thornton Heath for £5,000 then. That area, further along, The London Road was considered "The Suburbs" but in The 1980's the "Yardies" set up base there and transformed that area so they moved to Croydon, at the end of The London Road and their Son(my M8) left his bike unlocked the Whitgift Centre, while he travelled into London and it was never bothered. Then as their population expanded(due to "averaging" 4 kids as opposed to the indigenous "2 kids" per family, they fled from Croydon, which now has the worst crime stats in any London Borough.
Majestic, handsome London, sadly being slowly destroyed by evil people who just can't respect the ancestors or her history. She will rise again, that's for sure 🇬🇧
Ancestors of your history?, robbers, thieves
@@bond0666
Robbers and thieves? Some of them, perhaps... But at least they were smart and literate robbers and thieves.
What say you now?
@@greatdelusion7654 all of them, not some of them, your royals are perverts
@@greatdelusion7654 not that smart, your country taken over by them, lol, you ain't got say in your own country anymore, you cannot even fly union jack, you muppets
@@greatdelusion7654 now everybody else stealing back what's theirs, so what you say? You clown
When london was beutiful and our history miss how wonderful london used to be to live in thankyou for your vidio uk 🇬🇧 😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤😊
Fascinating. I could watch this type of film for hours.
Great narration too.
Definitely something magical and entertaining about it.😊
Mr Country File himself.
if this film was made today, it would be narrated by a 15 year old black girl
Back in the days when London felt like you where in a British city.
Vote reform
@@leehighland5435and hand the leadership to labour. Because that’s what in effect you’re doing.
You jest, by 1981 London was finished, my parents left that toilet in the 60s because they'd had enough "cultural enrichment".
@@Norfolkbiker50 True. People seem to think that London was still very British in the 80s, but I went to school just off the Edgware Road in the mid-70s and half the kids were ethnic minority, mainly black, back then.
@@apm763 I had cousins in high school in the 70s who were the only white kids in their class.
Poor old London😢
It was made in 1981, but there is a lot of late 1970s footage. You can tell from the clothes, cars, etc. The Connors vs Borg final was 1977 (their 1978 final was only 3 sets, whereas they are in the 4th set here), and the plays were circa 1980, apart from No Sex Please, We're British, which ran for about 16 years. No sign of the 1981 royal wedding, so the film was finished early in the year. It all looks very analogue, but in 1981 video suddenly became more clear and crisp. I cite DVDs of old tennis matches as evidence. If I had known how London was going to turn out, I would have appreciated it more.
This was my first year starting work, was in same job till 2019
What 1981-2019?!?!??! Hahah, what's wrong with you 😢
Blimey !!!!!!!!!!
Who cares
@@JestersDeadUK
Huh?
It was British then. That was only 40 years ago and now look at it. In just 40 years it has turned into a stabby hell hole
the trouble with You sort of people Is that you think RUclips how most people think. but that's not true it's just a little racist Echo chamber bubble for you.
Thank the jews. Their plan of white replacement has succeed
I lived and worked in London at the time. I still visit central London now and then, mostly on business. Visually speaking, the differences are a lot more people everywhere, less native Brits, more rules and restrictions, plus the streets are cluttered with traffic signs, road markings and CCTV. Generally, I would say it feels more claustrophobic and oppressive. And less like a city for normal living and working.
fewer* natives
@@2icelollys1goat Yes, you are correct. I am ashamed and embarrassed at my mistake.
Ahh, London, before Kahnt turned it into Londonistan, The Muslim Brotherhood, Wokeness, Month of Debauchery. Then London had some of the best entertainment and restaurants in the world.
When I was born in 1963 London was around 2% ethnic minorities. Now that figure's heading towards 70%. How on earth has that been allowed to happen?
@thegroovetube3247 it's not being allowed, its maths. White ppl moved out of inner London to posh suburbs, the white ppl don't want to do the rubbish jobs so minorities took them. White ppl choose to have less kids or no kids or be gay so birth rated plummeting. Minorities choosing to have 2 or more children and don't mind accepting tough jobs or poor living standards as they have less ego/snobbery/entitlement than whites
racist biggot
You realise Sadiq Khan has no control over immigration, yeah? and the number of migrants entering the country per year is higher under the Tories than it was under Labour? Didn't think so.
@@thegroovetube3247 so you're saying they are now majorities
Back in the 1970’s it was a wonderful place, despite economic challenges.
We live under the yoke of a regime which appears to consider us - the British people - a mere obstacle, and a bitterly resented one at that. This regime will allow us no more opportunity for hope, comfort or fulfilment in our lives, than is necessary to keep us from mass disobedience while they manage us out of existence as an identifiable people. Globalism devalues a population, to the point of making it worthless. If mass immigration was banned a government would have an incentive to value the population which it ruled over. As it stands the endless flow of human capital allows that government to view the native stock with complete indifference, if not contempt.
Very well said!
When Oxford Street was magnificent in 1981 but in 2024 shadow of its self
That's due to money laundering and chain shops.
It was always ghastly and tacky.
@@2icelollys1goatBut not full of gangs steaming shops, terrorizing people with gang violence and machetes.Yeah! It was always a rip off and a bit grimy.But it had soul and it was ours.
To all those who've left negative and nasty comments. Yes I agree all cities change, grown and modernise with new technologies etc. Yet as we see, London has changed in a very different way to what most are commenting on. My feeling is that although some changes are welcome, there are certain evil people who never stop to ask the indigenous folk what they think, which is where a lot of these current problems stem from. Folk are not racist, ignorant, right wing or any other crass words you can hurl. Wr just love our capital city, our homeland, regardless of race, creed, gender. Go to othe countries and you will know most folk want to make their country and lives better. Sadly due to very bad decisions and vile ideology we're in trouble. To aknowledge that is not wrong or hateful. Freedom of speech that we all enjoy came at a price for those who died in the world wars. Please never forget that. Till we have built Jerusalem on England's green and pleasant land 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😘
To ANNABELLE SAPHIRE.
Remember to vote for the English Democrats party in the election. At the end of party conferences we song "till we have built Jerusalem in ENGLAND's green and pleasant land", as our REAL national anthem - because it actually MENTIONS England. The official national anthem doesn't mention that and is just the King or Queen's birthday song!
FYI there’s nothing wrong with being “right wing” or holding anti immigrant views lol
I used to love visiting London in the 80's. Too scared to go near it now.
Last time I went there, was in 1987, a day long wander around the record shops of Oxford street!
Only been once, back in 2008 was staying for a week but left in under 48 hours and vowed never to return I couldn't believe back then that the least British place in the country was London so no chance I'd ever go now or ever again I think
There is a lot of violence there now. The violence in London today, makes Jack the Ripper look like a Disney princess.
Can't help wondering if the ceremonial passing of the keys would've been shorter if the cameras weren't on.
"Alright, John. Here you go."
"Cheers, pal. Be lucky."
"Best High Street names" followed by a shot of C&A, is probably the most 80s thing of the whole video.
C&A still lives; albeit in Antwerp!!!
@@Kenistyless God bless the Belgians.
And in Poland too C&A
It was always DH Evans for me..I was HiFi fanatic and they showcased all the latest components so bought my stack system from them..I never bought anything from C&A..I liked British Home Stores and Woolworths too..doesn't it make you nostalgic..sigh
@@markianclark9645 Yep much better days back then for sure , loved Woolworths and Benetton too
1981 seems like yesterday to me seeing something something titled. Archivist makes me feel like I should be in a museum.
I can't believe how little traffic there is in all the aerial shots of central London and how fast they are going. As a motorist in London I don't think any other developed city in the world is as bad as London is today.
New York is mess. Rather walk than go in a car. London for it's fault has one of the best traffic management systems in the world. it might not be as good as asian countries but given it's size and population it's punching above it's weight.
It was safe to get on the tube 😊
They didnt have stupid bike lanes then
Paris is terrible. It takes hours and hours to get nearly nowhere most days in a car.
That what car centric policies generate.. traffic!
The decline is palpable
@ 12:30. Well we can definitively say that part isn’t 1981. Lord Mountbatten is on that balcony with the Queen. He was killed in 1979 (August) so it’s before then.
It was the Silver Jubilee in 1977.
我仍然很難相信伊麗莎白﹝伊莉莎白﹞二世女王陛下已經不在了--她好像每個人最好的朋友。
@@02june80 you seem like a chump then. Your profile picture is a classic example too.
Well spotted!
The film itself never claims to be of London in 1981. It was released in 1981 and contains footage of previous years up until that time.
All this is lost forever
Do one
@@driskoolio one what?
@@driskoolio Would you like to elaborate on that?
Not with that attitude. We have to fight to the very end. Vote Reform.
It's hardly changed, with the exception of Wembley being re-built.
The best bits of this film are the street views, they show real London as it was. The pomp and ceremony stuff is just that, pomp and ceremony and frankly, rather ridiculous. What you see in the street views is how clean and uncluttered the streets were. HARDLY ANY INTRUSIVE SIGNS, hardly any road markings. I miss the old London, it was a great place to live and work in those days. Completely ruined in the past 40 years, but especially in the past 25., and beyond recognition in the past 10. It's a hell hole these days, alas, with bossy notices everywhere by the Mayor, who is the most awful creature, determined to ruin London beyond any possible repair.
look what they took from us...
Look what you all watched them take.
Don’t just let them take it from you then. Take it back. Spread the word.
Fuck reform
Who took what?
@@jenny2tone242 none are so blind as those that will not look..
I was 21. I came to London with my German girlfriend. We stayed in our family home in Chiswick. What a great time, what a great city. I had caught the end of the "black bags piled high", punk battles on the King's Road five years earlier.
Ah the good old days,look at all those english people. Knife crime didnt exist then,..i wonder why ?
The Racial Group that introduced Knives to our schools also brought with them new terms like "Muggings" and "Babyfatherism"...
😂😂😂😂 You invented knife crime when your fellow Englishmen stabbed and slashed there way to power and murdered and plundered nearly the whole world. !!!! Get a bloody grip!!!!
It bloody did.
@@Isleofskye hey mate, isn't it funny how people's memories get so distorted?
@@Norfolkbiker50 That is why I, now keep a short diary for every day, mainly, listing where I go and who with, what I eat and how much I spend, etc.
An example of what you said was "Chelsea v Norwich City" in 1968 in the 3rd Round of The F A Cup in front of 58,000. I went and got the round and month and tear and crowd correctly because I was in a sea of 10,000 Norwich fans, as a neutral(my schoolmate was Chelsea) however I thought Chelsea won 4/1 and it was 1/0.. LOL
It's not just London,all our major cities have gone to the dogs..
London is probably the best off
It"s earlier than 1981. When the RF appear on the balcony, Mountbatten is also there. He died in 1979!
I would have tended to agree with you. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh look too young and all the cars appear to be 1970s models. However, at 23:30 "No Sex Please, We're British" 😂 is showing at the Strand theatre and the banner clearly says "10th hysterical year". Since it premiered in 1971, that makes the year 1980. I think it might just be that this film is using a lot of old stock footage?
@@jimsimpson1006 I reckon you're right. Cobbled together.
@@jimsimpson1006 Football is from 1979
26:32 MCMLXXXI - that’s 1981
Or more accurately, “was murdered” in 1979 mate ☹️
Back when London was British
Shouldn't have had the British Empire then should we.
@@leod-sigefast do you by any chance mean that we shouldn’t have ever dissolved the British empire. If so I agree wholeheartedly lol
@Maverick1. You had no choice son. And what goes around come around. 😉
@@Maverick1. The empire has to be dissolved because of astronomical burden on expenses in overseas expansive.All except Hong Kong and with the annual revenue from the Hong Kong jockey club alone enough to feed the British people on council welfare !
@@leod-sigefast”we” didn’t. The elites did. And more often than not in collusion with the disgruntled elites of those same colonised countries
A time when it was relatively safe to walk around London, when the sky line behind St Paul’s didn’t look like Manhattan and when department stores on Oxford Street such as Debenhams an C&A were still household names. Technology has moved on from only 40 years ago but is it for the better 🤷♂️☹️
if only i could warn them but they wouldn’t listen.
Didn't take long for the Racists to come out of the woodwork
This was London. State of it now...
How nice was our capital when it was just us!!!!
This is why we were great
Fabulous
And how quickly London fell, thanks to the decisions of just a few.
Started by Tony Blair and Labour, worsened by tories.
@@VOTE_REFORM_UKvote reform 🇬🇧
@@VOTE_REFORM_UK it started a lot further back than that.
I feel sick seeing that compared to now
Someone should make a video that shows side by side comparison of London in 1981 vs London in 2024.
They have. Also Tehran, Kabul and many other cities, pre extremism.
It's very enriching, go search.
So basically this video vs a literal landfill.
Would that be in colour, or black and white. Oh wait...
As Uncle Albert said on Only Fools, “ look what they done at it now”
I would go back to 1981 tomorrow!
What went wrong?
Answers on a postcard please.
Well the world population was nearly half back then, so now overcrowded putting too much strain on infrastructure and Earth's resources. Just like a twig it's going to snap very soon.
ews
That WAS London.
Now look at the state of it.
Londonstan.
It was a lot quieter back then too. My city 🥹
I left London 9 years ago. I moved out to England.
Buildings were caked in so much grime back then, they look a lot better today!
the camera does most of that work, even brand new buildings looks scruffy
There was too much soot
This is London - 1981 | The Archivist Presents | #445 2338pm 11.6.24 sadly some unfortunate school child who was overheard to say, whilst sat in the tower's grounds: i'd like to stay here............................................................................ was taken literally. 40 odd years later...... erm go figure, eh?
Covered in Pigeon poo as well..
@@wattyler2994 Comments on ‘This is London - 1981 | The Archivist Presents | #445’ 12.6.24 2201pm there's two wood pigeons who sit atop a street light on new line, britannia.... and crap on unsuspecting passers-by. nearly!!, was the cry..... can relate to being nigh-on shat on by local bigwig birdlife or having a ghost manifest before you... two chances, i suppose...
' The big smoke ' with independent shops to visit & fun to have , not forgetting ' lucky Heather sir ' & street artists instead the homeless
When I visited in the early 1970’s there were still some traditional buskers in the theatre district reminiscent of the 1940’s. What a super time !
I do not recognise this place. It's all over. All that's left is chaos rising out of the ashes and the resentful many who are rubbing their hands with glee at the sight of it all.
I believe, although I am not entirely certain, that this film was made to mark the final closure of British movietone Cinema news service in 1979.
I was 17 wow it was so different. If only it could return to how it used to be. No internet and just one phone at home. We were definitely happier then, there were all kinds of dramas but not like today.
I was 16 in 1981 , I cannot believe we threw away this for what this country has become , thousands of years of shared community gone in 40 years and replaced and teaching our children that it never existed and we have always been in this terrible state
It’s a tragedy of epic proportions!
What shared community has gone? If there's anything to blame, it's capitalism that enables the rich to buy up all the housing.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx the shared community of the English race , the essence of what made this island race the greatest people this world has ever seen , London is not a English place anymore , more than 50% of the population are not English , when this film was made 40 years ago 95%of London was English
@@DanDan-lr7og Shared community? When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, disabled people were routinely mocked, single mothers were stigmatised and it was common for gay men to be assaulted, even murdered, and little or nothing was done. As for 'race', that's not a real thing at all, it's merely a social construct. The UK is a far friendlier place than it was then. If you can't remove your rose-tinted glasses, that's _your_ problem.
What what what
It wasn't until I was around 16 that I knew anyone in my Working Class Area (97% Social Housing in our Borough), that did not have 2 parents.. They changed the social housing priorities from "Sons and Daughters" to "Homeless" first and so most immigrants from The Caribbean, stated they had nowhere to stay and went to the top of the Housing List(at 42% that Racial Group still have the highest proportion with Whites next @ 21%) and The Second priority was being pregnant which opened up the floodgates. A single parent would get Accommodation, Benefit money and their rent 90% paid along with subsidies off domestic bills and a career as a Homemaker.
Back in 81 people thought London was a shadow of it’s past and in decline. We had no idea how much worse it was going to get and what awaited us. The once great city is unrecognisable now and squalid.
Would love to visit THIS London. The London of today is a very different place, sadly.
If the Ravens leave, London will fall, 🤔 they must have left a long time ago
It may well be 1981 but the film style and music is very old fashioned for then.
Is that John Craven?
It makes it feel like the 60’s! It’s not my recollection of the 80s.
No, it’s not.
It’s well before 1981 in some parts. Lord Mountbatten is on that balcony with the Queen. He was killed in August 1979 so can’t have been there in 1981.
It sounds like Bob Danvers Walker the voice of Pathe news
It could well have been made in connection with the wedding of Charles and Diana in the summer of 1981, while reusing some older footage (edit: I see someone suggested the Silver Jubilee of 1977)
I was 16 in 1981, lived just outside London in Kent and went there almost every weekend. I've lived continuously in London since 1997 and still do, so I know a bit about the place.
It has changed so much. It is way, way cleaner and so much better in almost every aspect than it was in 1981.
Obviously this will depress Farage-lovers, closet racists and Daily Mail and Express readers who know nothing of London except that they'd never dream of visiting it.
But it happens to be the truth. And that's why I'm still here.
I tend to agree with you. Except for the cheap lazy shots at Farage and concerns about immigration. It is absolutely undeniable that the population (whatever that means as nobody measures it anymore) is way bigger than it was in 1981 and that most of the people, or their parents, you encounter in London as a whole are likely to have arrived here since 1981. This HAS changed London enormously and there is very little of it firmly rooted in Great Britain let alone London itself. We kid ourselves we love the buzzing culture, but when you stop and analyse it, all we have is a lot more restaurants, bars and coffee shops that could be anywhere else in the world. There is so little that has spring up in London since 1981 that is actually rooted or unique to London. Even the buildings that have gone up are boringly similar to those in the US, Singapore, Frankfurt or even China. London, and it’s woefully inadequate and inarticulate leaders have completely missed the opportunities we all had to keep and develop London as a Great British City.
We are being replaced. When it's considered impossible to be racist to white people, what do you think the agenda is?
Its in plain sight and everyone is too scared to say what they see.
Roy Walker, Legend.
Love the Neon Lights and Flourescent Streetlights,
London was great and still is
It's a dump a doss hole
wow, english people
Until Tony Blair taken over 10 Downing Street….😮
And lots of us!
Wow. Russian troll.
Are non whites that were born here not English or British.
@@lardy70s
Merely being born in a country does not mean you inherit thousands of years of that countries culture and history.
I981 I bought a brand new Honda CB900F2 and rode around those streets for my work in the big Central London stores, Casinos, Night clubs, Theatres etc. I know you can't turn back time but I still feel I was so lucky to be there. Shame it's gone.
Those days when I didn’t feel I was a foreigner in my own country’s capital city.
1981 was a riotous time.
Were you there? I was and I can only remember a few union nobs kicking off and thats it
I take it you weren't there
@@wodens-hitman1552 moss side, I remember seeing the black Mariahs, about 25 of them
@@wodens-hitman1552 Err..Ithink you have fotgotten the Brixton riots
@@Baldieman1 Brixton riots in London, Toxteth riots in Liverpool, Handsworth riots in Birmingham,Chapeltown riots in Leeds, and Moss Side riots in Manchester and others. 1981 was a massive eye opener.
😂Narrator at 18:50 says you can find mountain's of merchandise available as the camera has a "35mm Pornography Shop" in the centre of the shot. No way was that a mistake, cheeky humour by the editing team I'd wager.
Back in the days whena capital city actually had a majoirty of indigenous inhabitants. I mean - look at all the capitals of the world now - how many now have a minority indigenous population? I guess at least.................1
Why is this presentation so old fashioned? This really was not that long ago, and I remember 1981 vividly.
It’s British Movietone and it is the best part of 45 years ago
If you look you will see this was filmed in 77, 47 years ago. To put that into perspective this footage was just 32 years after the end of WW2, we're just getting old mate!
@@Norfolkbiker50 😅 you're right and it shows you how quickly time goes. I remember 1977 vividly too.
@@bm6563 doesn't it just👍
Sounds like an old tourist film. I think it used some clips from older film.
It was so much better then
When people like you could mock the disabled and others would think you were funny?
Wonderful memories 🇬🇧
The very stones of these great buildings weep at what London has become.
Was nice before mass diversity and cultural "enrichment".
Yep, started in 1948.
Which made the UK a nicer place for a wider range of people. Not sure why that annoys you.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx but at the expense of the British people who have to pay for it, in more ways than one.
@@Norfolkbiker50 The British people are everyone living here, many kinds of people. We all pay tax, even if it's just VAT.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx except the recent arrivals who contribute nothing and are given more than most ordinary working people.
This looks great! I sure hope Tony Blair doesn’t get up to any mischief that leads to London’s steep downfall all within 25 years
The balcony appearance is from the silver jubilee in 77. Great film
what a soundtrack!
The ravens have now left the tower.
This is false 😅
@@Pablo260492 He is metaphorically speaking (look it up in the dictionary Pablo).
But they have been replaced by Kentucky Fried Chicken....
@@wattyler2994 You Wat 😀
@@wattyler2994 Excellent comment😀😄
We used to pass the joyless suburban landscape of southeast London with its identical long avenues in 1981 on the way to Blackwall or Dartford tunnels. The Deptford turnoff doesn't seem to have changed much just looking more dismal and neglected.
I suspect this film was a response to the image of London ablaze in 1981: Riots, terrorism, strikes, record unemployment, sharp recession, crumbling high rise estates, increasing poverty. The city was becoming a "Ghost Town", in the words of the Specials who were number one in the charts that year. It was a grim time for many people.
Lot of changes since then. Odd place out was Windsor In Berkshire. Most of this was with rose-tinted glasses, not for me when I arrived to live in Kensington in 1983, as times were tough, maybe there should be a film for 2024 to highlight the many changes.
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life". Very wise words.
Not anymore
Lots of Far Right supporters on here ready to disagree with you there.
@@benhartley2486yeah you have to be furthest to the right to not support the importing of so many people from low quality countries
@@Paul-zu2hf They're here because we need nurses, care workers and other low skilled and semi-skilled workers. We're not prepared to do that work in sufficient numbers so we have to recruit elsewhere.
@@benhartley2486 utter rubbish. If none of them came the market and the country would adapt. It's not that you can only get immigrants to do those jobs, it's that you can only get immigrants to do it for those wages and working conditions. So it's a race to the bottom. The rich love immigration because it doesn't affect them and they get all the benefits. So sod the poor of the country, they can just deal with being displaced.
That WAS London.
People may lament the way things are today, but back in 1981, plans for the 2020s and beyond, were already decades old.
Think in lifetimes.
A time when common sense was used, unlike today.
Troll
@@th8257him or you?
I’m surprised the ravens haven’t left as britains finished already