Have to second that! The voiceover and off the cuff comments - mixing - sound quality and editing are superlative. And a great tribute to our favourite show.
Fabulous. Used to get a running commentary on locations from my late father as he worked as a telephone engineer in the area. In one episode his van appears he was asked not to move it for continuity. A Bedford HA telecom van.
Great stuff! Leaves a melancholic feeling to think of all these intervening years and how things have changed and who we’ve lost… for all the problems that were, I think I’d rather be back then, than here now.
I was a kid in the '70s and really enjoy watching stuff like The Sweeny for nostalgia - but no way would I want to be back then! Now the '90s I could be persuaded on...
This is brilliant. I was too young for The Sweeney but, I have watched the repeats on ITV4. I remember watching Minder which was shown where I lived on Thursdays after Top Of The Pops. My parents used to go to their association meetings on Thursday evenings so, I had the living room to myself ! Great memories 😄
This is great stuff. London had so many fine filming locations back in the 70s. It's all way too refined nowadays. I went to a gig at the 606 Club on Lots Road a while back never realising that I was just a few yards from where Carter had been sprinting down Uverdale Road years earlier. Your efforts are much appreciated 😎😎
When it was first aired, The Sweeney was the only programme we would go home early to watch, and I've been loving it ever since. These comparisons are brilliant, and you deserve a lot of credit for all your obvious hard work. A huge task I know, but could I suggest doing one for every episode, they're so enjoyable 😀
Absolutely brilliant; I’m a huge Sweeney fan; so nice to see this series of then and now. It would be good to see some locations outside of London featured. The episode Golden Boy was filmed on the south side at Heathrow airport at the No.2 maintenance area; next to terminal 4; but of course long before T4 was built. At the time the hangar was occupied by Pan Am; the hangar is now gone but the southern perimeter road is still there along with the A30 where Jack’s car gets a puncture. It would be nice to see this featured. Another episode Stoppo Driver was filmed on the north side at Heathrow at what was once called the Penta Hotel. This hotel was also in the film Sweeney 2 when George has to help defuse a bomb. I work at Fairoaks airport near Ottershaw in Surrey; two episodes of the Sweeney were filmed here; Poppy and Visiting Fireman. Little has changed at Fairoaks. The garage where Jack pulls into and discovers a bomb under the bonnet is located on the A320 near the Ottershaw roundabout. It’s opposite another garage called Trident. The garage has been rebuilt many times over the years but the layout is more or less the same. Once again a great channel; keep them coming!
Thanks for the comments, and the great 'out of town' knowledge! I do have those locations on my 'to-do' list, as it were, and am definitely intending some trips outside of London when I can get around to it.
Well researched, filmed and edited. Nice graphics and good commentary. A very accomplished and professional video. Made with love and a pleasure to watch.
Thanks for this brilliantly done. The Sweeny was without doubt the best television EVER, ANYWHERE. I lived in the area as a kid so enjoyed it all the more.
I live in Fulham and this is great! We have so many classic filming locations around here like Jenny Agutters flat in American Werewolf in London which is on Coleherne Road and at Wandsworth roundabout underpass the filming location for the beating up of the tramp at the start of A Clockwork Orange, and at Putney bridge the scene in The Omen were the priest gets speared in the church.
I really enjoyed wandering round the area, and as you say there are so many iconic locations! (I didn't know about Agutter's flat being there.) The Sweeney will keep me plenty busy, but I do love seeing movie shot locations as well.
@Sweenealogy Are you planning on making a video of locations from the 2 Sweeney movies? I know that the scene where the robbers of the bank in Sweeney 2 met their demise in the car crash was close to the Oratory School Seagrave Road SW6. A friend of mine attended the school, and the kids heard the explosion when Ken Hutchinson shot the petrol tank in the getaway car with the shotgun.
@@digeme69For sure, I hope to get to the movies and the pilot episode (Regan) some time. I know that's going to mean going back and re-filming some locations which were used in both those and the series, but that's OK - it keeps me off the streets, as they say. (In fact it does the exact opposite, it keeps me *on* them!) I've got plenty of work to do covering the main series for now.
I left South West London many moons ago for Australia but loved the Sweeney and many of the locations around Fulham and down towards Wandsworth and I must say it was a delight to see the enthusiasm put into this showing of old and new. Really enjoyable, many thanks.
These are very well put together. Regarding the moored boats i in Chelsea Jacqueline Pearce who was Serverlan on Blakes 7 used to live on one of these boats
Great to see the old locations and how they’ve changed . My Grandad used to work at the Fulham Gasworks and lived just off Parsons Green . Reminds me of going up there as a kid ! Good memories. Thanks for reminding me !
Sad to read on the blog that you are having some issues with some parts of your videos getting blocked by You Tube. Hopefully the 5th floor boys (You Tube) will leave you alone and they get back to their normal job or counting the paper clips and being nice to the rubber plant. Anyways, this was absolutely brilliant and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Amazing work getting the then and now locations and the angles as well and the narration was really enjoyable and interesting as well. I look forward to your next video.
Top notch. Best cop show ever produced. Love these 'then and now' shots. Wish I had a few quid invested in some of the derelict land back in the 70s. I'd be minted now 💰💰💰
Feels so weird when you refer to " George and Jack." The senior office gets the mention first, Sunny Jim (and the front seat). Anymore of this and we'll have you back at Elstree directing traffic and wearing a tall hat !
Haha! You're absolutely right, of course. Consider myself on reprimand :) (To be honest, I've always found that "Regan and Carter" rolls off the tongue best, but "Jack and George" sounds a bit clumsy compared to "George and Jack". Not sure why, but I'll be sure to pay due deference to the DI from now on!)
The Sweeney was shown in Canada when I was a kid. I couldn't understand the dialogue at all but it was great stuff, and so different than American cop shows. I love London and this is a real treat! Keep them coming!
I saw them filming the sweeney in 1974 filming in Putney , must have been the first series ,I recognised Dennis waterman but didn’t know who John thaw was ,
John Thaw was in early episodes of Z Cars, ironically written by the brother of the man who wrote the episodes of The Sweeney - both Ian & Troy Kennedy Martin 👍🏻
Loving these. When I was very young, my folks had a pub in Chelsea and the episode "Golden Boy" was filmed in there. Proper exciting stuff for me, I think I was probably only 4 or maybe just scraping 5 at the time. The pub was The Australian in Milner Street SW3 (number 29). Now no longer a pub, I think it stopped being a pub in the late 80s but if you go in to Google and look at what was at one time called "Helen Green Design" but now appears to be called "Allect International Design Group", that was it.
Ah yes, the Australian - it's on my 'locations list' & I remember looking at it on Google Street View! Sad that like so many others, it's no longer a pub - but that's an amazing memory, thanks for sharing :)
Enjoying this, though I have yet to watch The Sweeney. There's another series you might want to cover, called Sabre of London, available on various YT channels. Loads of exterior shots of London in the 50s, I've looked at a couple of the easily identifiable places as they are today with Google Street View.
Great stuff. There were some cracking shows around this time. And with only 3 TV channels for entertainment, it was easier not to miss this sort of formative entertainment. Loved minder too. The professionals etc. One of my dads mate always reminded me of jack reagan. Same look and demeanour. My dad and his mates were south London geezers. All from Fulham. Oddly I sat on a Fulham carnival float with Sheila Hancock. The carnival lined up on imperial road. Nice to see Fulham as it was. Too cluttered now; too many people. We lived on Elbe street. You could stand outside the houses and kick a ball across the street against the wall of Chelsea art college without hitting any cars. Now you probably couldn’t swing your leg without hitting your foot on something. Another if my dads friends owned a scrap yard up near lots road, and imperial studios (previously several coach companies) where I watched many a music video be filmed. My fav was numans, cars. Sad my dad passed away a few years ago, he would’ve binge watched your channel. Now I’m gonna have to do it for him. Cheers
Thanks. It's definitely harder to pinpoint locations in areas where there has been wholesale demolition and rebuilding, but there are usually at least one or two clues knocking around to assist. Sometimes you can get an exact like-for-like, others it's more "this is the general area".
There has been some controversey on the boats rents and moorings costs, but a few court cases have brought them back to modest levels for artists and writers as it really was back in the 1970s.
Very well done. I loved watching this and will watch everything you do. There is no end of TV shows filmed in London. I much prefer old, decayed London to today.
Hammersmith is "Sweeney central" - there's days worth of filming locations there! I'll have to break that area down into many different videos I suspect, but I plan to cover every location I can eventually - as long as I don't run out of time or enough marbles rolling around upstairs to do it!
Great work, very professionally put together. I can appreciate how much effort has gone into these. Often wonder if people ever know their house was briefly used in a film or TV series.
Thanks! Very occasionally whilst I've been out on location visits I've got talking to people and shown them photos from the episodes; most I suspect are unaware though. (I'm often surprised that more people don't ask me what I'm up to when filming by their houses etc. - but most of the time nobody bats an eyelid, so I guess they're all used to the modern world of everything and everyone being on RUclips and TikTok and whatnot!)
Been really enjoying these, many thanks. Takes me back to my early teens when dad and I would sit down and watch the Sweeney - about the only thing we did together. Years later I moved to London from Australia and stayed for 20 odd years. I really enjoyed my time, and London I found fascinating, often thinking about the Sweeney and the streets of London I moved in. It helps if your into classic cars as well and the Sweeney is full of the damn things looking back from today. I owned a few which would have been familiar sites on 70s London streets. In fact at :46 in the film is an MGB GT V8 in Damask Red, quite a rare car even back then. Lastly I had a mate whose dad was a retired MET Cop, it was fascinating to hears his stories - he started in the very late 1950s. Great stuff.
Yeah, tonnes of locations round there! I covered some back when I started off just blogging with still then/now images; hopefully will get back there with the video camera sometime :)
I moved from London to the Wirral (not far from Liverpool) some of the locations in Liverpool remind me of the old the Old London I knew and grew up in.@@Sweenealogy
Cheers, didn't know that one. I thought George was ambushed by Albie in an abandoned warehouse - makes sense it would be around Lots Road, is that the one? (Don't remember him and Albie in an adventure playground, but will have to have another look through.) Thanks for the info!
Another great instalment thanks for sharing this! It's a shame that some of the gasometers frames weren't listed and kept in place like the one off Kennington Lane (Seen when at the Oval)
Thank you :) And yes I agree - they are / were such iconic pieces of architecture and engineering, and it always feels a shame when one of them disappears. I used to work right near The Oval & could see the ones there from my office building; also used to run along the canal past the gasometers at Kings Cross and the other way out past the ones at Kensal Green, back when I lived in London. Some of the ones at Kings Cross now have fancy flats built inside the framework.
Fantastic seeing how it's changed any chance you could cover Steptoe & Son next I know they lived in oil Drum lane and not far from wormwood scrubs and they used a dog track !!
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Brilliant work best detective show ever made magnificent it was still watch it 😊
superb, i've watched all of them thus far and they are brilliant, very well narrated and filmed, thanks so much
Thanks, glad you enjoy the vids!
Absolutely fantastic. So well scripted and professionally filmed. One of the best channels on RUclips today. Brilliant.
Thank you!
Awesome concept. Never thought I’d be interested in old Sweeney locations, yet here I am. Great work.
Cheers mate :)
I've been waiting for part 2 and I wasn't disappointed. The quality of presentation and content is absolutely first class. I am a big fan.
Thanks so much - it’s really nice to hear that people enjoy these & definitely keeps up my enthusiasm for making more of them
Have to second that! The voiceover and off the cuff comments - mixing - sound quality and editing are superlative. And a great tribute to our favourite show.
Ooooh, I bet you're popular in the summer. Desktop or floor standing?
Brilliant ! Many thanks 👍
Loving these videos. Love the old London of my youth that was grimey and dirty. Looking forward to Ep3
Thank you - glad you enjoyed them :) Hopefully more coming soon. (And yes, I love the old grimy London too.)
Old enough to remember 70's London and The Sweeney. What a great series of videos, can compare with the repeats on ITV 4
Fabulous. Used to get a running commentary on locations from my late father as he worked as a telephone engineer in the area. In one episode his van appears he was asked not to move it for continuity. A Bedford HA telecom van.
Thank you for these insights into The Sweeney. They are what dreams are made of. 👍
Nice one guv.
Great stuff! Leaves a melancholic feeling to think of all these intervening years and how things have changed and who we’ve lost… for all the problems that were, I think I’d rather be back then, than here now.
I was a kid in the '70s and really enjoy watching stuff like The Sweeny for nostalgia - but no way would I want to be back then! Now the '90s I could be persuaded on...
Brilliantly put together and narrated, very impressive with lots of historical background research. Well done.
Love it. Nice to see the old London before gentrification.
Absolutely brilliant! Great research! I really hope there's more to come.This is truly addictive. ❤👍
Thank you! More is in the pipeline, stay tuned :)
Still love watching the sweeney today interesting locations, thanks for uploading
Another brilliantly researched, filmed and edited film. Thank you so much 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is brilliant. I was too young for The Sweeney but, I have watched the repeats on ITV4. I remember watching Minder which was shown where I lived on Thursdays after Top Of The Pops. My parents used to go to their association meetings on Thursday evenings so, I had the living room to myself ! Great memories 😄
The problem with the ITV4 versions is they are edited a lot for language and sometimes violence. Far better if you can, to watch them on dvd
Fascinating films. Really enjoyable. More please.
This is great stuff. London had so many fine filming locations back in the 70s. It's all way too refined nowadays. I went to a gig at the 606 Club on Lots Road a while back never realising that I was just a few yards from where Carter had been sprinting down Uverdale Road years earlier. Your efforts are much appreciated 😎😎
I’m born in 1970
West London
So your videos are first class
loved the humour in The Sweeney
When it was first aired, The Sweeney was the only programme we would go home early to watch, and I've been loving it ever since. These comparisons are brilliant, and you deserve a lot of credit for all your obvious hard work. A huge task I know, but could I suggest doing one for every episode, they're so enjoyable 😀
I do have a future idea in mind to put together “episode” videos once I have enough material; got tonnes of locations to get to first though!
Absolutely brilliant; I’m a huge Sweeney fan; so nice to see this series of then and now. It would be good to see some locations outside of London featured. The episode Golden Boy was filmed on the south side at Heathrow airport at the No.2 maintenance area; next to terminal 4; but of course long before T4 was built. At the time the hangar was occupied by Pan Am; the hangar is now gone but the southern perimeter road is still there along with the A30 where Jack’s car gets a puncture. It would be nice to see this featured. Another episode Stoppo Driver was filmed on the north side at Heathrow at what was once called the Penta Hotel. This hotel was also in the film Sweeney 2 when George has to help defuse a bomb. I work at Fairoaks airport near Ottershaw in Surrey; two episodes of the Sweeney were filmed here; Poppy and Visiting Fireman. Little has changed at Fairoaks. The garage where Jack pulls into and discovers a bomb under the bonnet is located on the A320 near the Ottershaw roundabout. It’s opposite another garage called Trident. The garage has been rebuilt many times over the years but the layout is more or less the same. Once again a great channel; keep them coming!
Thanks for the comments, and the great 'out of town' knowledge! I do have those locations on my 'to-do' list, as it were, and am definitely intending some trips outside of London when I can get around to it.
Top job, really enjoyed yet again... keep em coming :)
Thanks very informative and interesting I used to love watching it for the old cars as well
Love this! Remember the areas and the programme. One of the best cop dramas ever made!
Well researched, filmed and edited. Nice graphics and good commentary. A very accomplished and professional video. Made with love and a pleasure to watch.
Much appreciated!
Just watched part 1 and now I’m here , love it 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for this brilliantly done. The Sweeny was without doubt the best television EVER, ANYWHERE. I lived in the area as a kid so enjoyed it all the more.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I live in Fulham and this is great! We have so many classic filming locations around here like Jenny Agutters flat in American Werewolf in London which is on Coleherne Road and at Wandsworth roundabout underpass the filming location for the beating up of the tramp at the start of A Clockwork Orange, and at Putney bridge the scene in The Omen were the priest gets speared in the church.
I really enjoyed wandering round the area, and as you say there are so many iconic locations! (I didn't know about Agutter's flat being there.) The Sweeney will keep me plenty busy, but I do love seeing movie shot locations as well.
I was going to add 'The Football Factory' but then realised it's not a classic 🤣
@Sweenealogy Are you planning on making a video of locations from the 2 Sweeney movies? I know that the scene where the robbers of the bank in Sweeney 2 met their demise in the car crash was close to the Oratory School Seagrave Road SW6. A friend of mine attended the school, and the kids heard the explosion when Ken Hutchinson shot the petrol tank in the getaway car with the shotgun.
@@digeme69For sure, I hope to get to the movies and the pilot episode (Regan) some time. I know that's going to mean going back and re-filming some locations which were used in both those and the series, but that's OK - it keeps me off the streets, as they say. (In fact it does the exact opposite, it keeps me *on* them!) I've got plenty of work to do covering the main series for now.
@@Sweenealogy I look forward to seeing them and future episodes. All the best
I left South West London many moons ago for Australia but loved the Sweeney and many of the locations around Fulham and down towards Wandsworth and I must say it was a delight to see the enthusiasm put into this showing of old and new. Really enjoyable, many thanks.
Thank you - really glad you liked it :)
These are very well put together. Regarding the moored boats i in Chelsea Jacqueline Pearce who was Serverlan on Blakes 7 used to live on one of these boats
Great to see the old locations and how they’ve changed . My Grandad used to work at the Fulham Gasworks and lived just off Parsons Green . Reminds me of going up there as a kid ! Good memories. Thanks for reminding me !
I want to thank for this to see London as it was when I was a boy and how it is now is truly illuminating , I grew up in West London
Lot of effort gone into making that, nice work squire 👌
Yes very enjoyable yet again.Hopefully more episodes to follow.Great stuff🇬🇧👍🫶
It's heartening and nice to see more trees than there were before in quite few of the updated views.
Sad to read on the blog that you are having some issues with some parts of your videos getting blocked by You Tube. Hopefully the 5th floor boys (You Tube) will leave you alone and they get back to their normal job or counting the paper clips and being nice to the rubber plant. Anyways, this was absolutely brilliant and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Amazing work getting the then and now locations and the angles as well and the narration was really enjoyable and interesting as well. I look forward to your next video.
Thank so much - glad you enjoyed it :)
Excellent series, looking fwd to part 4, thanks
Great content, you know Minder is next for you right 😂. Brilliant work well done
Top notch. Best cop show ever produced. Love these 'then and now' shots. Wish I had a few quid invested in some of the derelict land back in the 70s. I'd be minted now 💰💰💰
Don't we all - who'd ever have thought you'd have to pay a million quid for a place in a bombed out gas works...
Brilliant! I am now inspired to dust off the old Sweeney box set and start binge watching 😁.
Thank you so much was waiting as well and not disappointed.so happy
Brilliant! Thanks for making these.
Just found this channel, absolutely fantastic. Hope you make some more. Cheers Russ
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the videos so far :) More to come - hopefully soon, if I manage to make the time.
yeah just discovered it myself, brilliantly done, looking forward to seeing more
Feels so weird when you refer to " George and Jack." The senior office gets the mention first, Sunny Jim (and the front seat). Anymore of this and we'll have you back at Elstree directing traffic and wearing a tall hat !
Haha! You're absolutely right, of course. Consider myself on reprimand :) (To be honest, I've always found that "Regan and Carter" rolls off the tongue best, but "Jack and George" sounds a bit clumsy compared to "George and Jack". Not sure why, but I'll be sure to pay due deference to the DI from now on!)
These vids are great and clearly took a lot of work : the commentary is top notch, too.
The Sweeney was shown in Canada when I was a kid. I couldn't understand the dialogue at all but it was great stuff, and so different than American cop shows. I love London and this is a real treat! Keep them coming!
Thanks so much for the comment. I often wondered how well The Sweeney 'translated' for a different audience!
I do like the way you film and explain things in your videos
Thank you :)
Loved both Cinema Movies as well , especially Sweeney 2 , pure heavy duty .
Good job man , lot of work gone into these. Just my cup of Tea. Ive found a few on my own from season one.
Nice one!
Top quality this😊
Thank you 🙌
Amazing work mate. Keep it up!
Thanks, I certainly plan to!
great videos , thanks , especially the then and now comparisons .
Well put together and a good commentary . Hope there's a part 3 coming soon !
I love the goal markings painted on the wall and through the window at 7:59
Excellent …thanks
Makes me laugh even the brand new cars in the 70s looked old and worn out ! 😄
I saw them filming the sweeney in 1974 filming in Putney , must have been the first series ,I recognised Dennis waterman but didn’t know who John thaw was ,
John Thaw was in early episodes of Z Cars, ironically written by the brother of the man who wrote the episodes of The Sweeney - both Ian & Troy Kennedy Martin 👍🏻
Loving these.
When I was very young, my folks had a pub in Chelsea and the episode "Golden Boy" was filmed in there. Proper exciting stuff for me, I think I was probably only 4 or maybe just scraping 5 at the time.
The pub was The Australian in Milner Street SW3 (number 29).
Now no longer a pub, I think it stopped being a pub in the late 80s but if you go in to Google and look at what was at one time called "Helen Green Design" but now appears to be called "Allect International Design Group", that was it.
Ah yes, the Australian - it's on my 'locations list' & I remember looking at it on Google Street View! Sad that like so many others, it's no longer a pub - but that's an amazing memory, thanks for sharing :)
I noticed a couple of minder locations,which is my idea of the best series ever.
Enjoying this, though I have yet to watch The Sweeney. There's another series you might want to cover, called Sabre of London, available on various YT channels. Loads of exterior shots of London in the 50s, I've looked at a couple of the easily identifiable places as they are today with Google Street View.
Great stuff.
There were some cracking shows around this time. And with only 3 TV channels for entertainment, it was easier not to miss this sort of formative entertainment. Loved minder too. The professionals etc.
One of my dads mate always reminded me of jack reagan. Same look and demeanour.
My dad and his mates were south London geezers. All from Fulham.
Oddly I sat on a Fulham carnival float with Sheila Hancock.
The carnival lined up on imperial road.
Nice to see Fulham as it was. Too cluttered now; too many people.
We lived on Elbe street. You could stand outside the houses and kick a ball across the street against the wall of Chelsea art college without hitting any cars. Now you probably couldn’t swing your leg without hitting your foot on something.
Another if my dads friends owned a scrap yard up near lots road, and imperial studios (previously several coach companies) where I watched many a music video be filmed. My fav was numans, cars.
Sad my dad passed away a few years ago, he would’ve binge watched your channel.
Now I’m gonna have to do it for him.
Cheers
Great memories. I'll raise a glass to your Dad, glad you're enjoying these looks back to days gone by as he would have.
Great stuff, love it ❤
Brilliant, please carry on.
The driver in white van in front of the grey money truck is one of my customers 😀 He told me he was in the Sweeney & Dr Who, I nearly fell over ! 🤣
Fantastic work on these videos.
Excellent videos.
Glad you like them!
Fantastic.
Thanks!
Very well made and interesting video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great work ! Loved it
Thanks a lot!
Good work making this video , it must be difficult getting the locations as so much has changed.
Thanks. It's definitely harder to pinpoint locations in areas where there has been wholesale demolition and rebuilding, but there are usually at least one or two clues knocking around to assist. Sometimes you can get an exact like-for-like, others it's more "this is the general area".
Brilliant work 👏
Much appreciated!
fantastic video. thank you
Glad you liked it!
There has been some controversey on the boats rents and moorings costs, but a few court cases have brought them back to modest levels for artists and writers as it really was back in the 1970s.
Excellent
Very well done. I loved watching this and will watch everything you do. There is no end of TV shows filmed in London. I much prefer old, decayed London to today.
Brilliant..worked in the scrap yard in lots rd..where George gets into the white car..
Brilliant thanks!
Brilliant, I'd love to see one for Minder.
Brilliant stuff! Can't wait til you do my manor, there must be bundles in Hammersmith.
Hammersmith is "Sweeney central" - there's days worth of filming locations there! I'll have to break that area down into many different videos I suspect, but I plan to cover every location I can eventually - as long as I don't run out of time or enough marbles rolling around upstairs to do it!
excellent !! appreciate the time it must have taken to get the correct now and then shots..
Thanks!
Great work, very professionally put together. I can appreciate how much effort has gone into these.
Often wonder if people ever know their house was briefly used in a film or TV series.
Thanks! Very occasionally whilst I've been out on location visits I've got talking to people and shown them photos from the episodes; most I suspect are unaware though. (I'm often surprised that more people don't ask me what I'm up to when filming by their houses etc. - but most of the time nobody bats an eyelid, so I guess they're all used to the modern world of everything and everyone being on RUclips and TikTok and whatnot!)
@@Sweenealogy and the first rule of living in London; never speak to anyone… 😉
Love your stuff seeing how it's all changed. I'd love to see you do the same for Minder
Really great viewing.
Been really enjoying these, many thanks. Takes me back to my early teens when dad and I would sit down and watch the Sweeney - about the only thing we did together.
Years later I moved to London from Australia and stayed for 20 odd years. I really enjoyed my time, and London I found fascinating, often thinking about the Sweeney and the streets of London I moved in. It helps if your into classic cars as well and the Sweeney is full of the damn things looking back from today. I owned a few which would have been familiar sites on 70s London streets. In fact at :46 in the film is an MGB GT V8 in Damask Red, quite a rare car even back then. Lastly I had a mate whose dad was a retired MET Cop, it was fascinating to hears his stories - he started in the very late 1950s. Great stuff.
Brilliant !
Awesome, my hood in the 80's...just before the great revamp.
Excellent, can't wait for my old manor around W12/W4
Yeah, tonnes of locations round there! I covered some back when I started off just blogging with still then/now images; hopefully will get back there with the video camera sometime :)
I saw the making of " The Sweeny " film back in the 70's at Alembic House on the Albert Embankment SE1.
My new favourite RUclips channel
Do you know, you are onto something here, I have wondered about the locations and said previously how good you are but I mean it, this is great.
Thank you :)
Hope you laid off the gaspers, unlike George & Jack! 😋👍
Can't believe how much London has changed.
It really has. I think that's why it feels almost like a thrill when I come across something that still looks the same.
I moved from London to the Wirral (not far from Liverpool) some of the locations in Liverpool remind me of the old the Old London I knew and grew up in.@@Sweenealogy
One you didn’t cover is the old adventure playground where George was ambushed by Albie. That site now houses Chelsea Academy School.
Cheers, didn't know that one. I thought George was ambushed by Albie in an abandoned warehouse - makes sense it would be around Lots Road, is that the one? (Don't remember him and Albie in an adventure playground, but will have to have another look through.) Thanks for the info!
Another great instalment thanks for sharing this!
It's a shame that some of the gasometers frames weren't listed and kept in place like the one off Kennington Lane (Seen when at the Oval)
Thank you :) And yes I agree - they are / were such iconic pieces of architecture and engineering, and it always feels a shame when one of them disappears. I used to work right near The Oval & could see the ones there from my office building; also used to run along the canal past the gasometers at Kings Cross and the other way out past the ones at Kensal Green, back when I lived in London. Some of the ones at Kings Cross now have fancy flats built inside the framework.
Loved this programme better than the tripe they put on now ❤❤anne Darlington
I agree!
First class !
This is great work, more please ...are you planning any professionals locations ?
Thanks! I think The Sweeney will keep me busy for a good while, but who knows what else may be down the line.
Fantastic seeing how it's changed any chance you could cover Steptoe & Son next I know they lived in oil Drum lane and not far from wormwood scrubs and they used a dog track !!