THE SWEENEY Filming Locations - Primrose Hill, Kings Cross, Hatton Garden and Clerkenwell
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Continuing the trip that left off near Edgware, we uncover more of 'Sweeney London' from Primrose Hill, down through Kings Cross and Hatton Garden, then ending up at Farringdon and Clerkenwell.
There's a lot to pack into this video so it's quite fast-paced; feel free to hit the old pause button from time to time if you want a breather! Hope you enjoy it.
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As I've said before, a gem of a RUclips channel..
Thank you kindly :)
No probs. Also, love the commentary. @@Sweenealogy
Agree mate I 2nd that
Totally right @simonkeyse8185
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.
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.
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...
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 RUclips.
Thanks, that's really great to hear :)
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.
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.
Every now and again YT presents you with a corker of a channel.Thank you Sweeneolgy.Now if we could only go back to the 70s.
For all its faults, I'd go back there in a heartbeat!
@@Sweenealogy Thank you for the legwork you put into your videos.Any plans on a series on "The Professionals".
Oh for a 70's time-machine: the smell of chip-fat, diesel smoke and stale beer - and when villains were villains!
@@tonyshaw317I'm hoping for this too😂 I suggested this in the comments on his previous video. He is doing a sterling job!
@@tonyshaw317 good call. Minder would also be nice, particularly since it used some of the same locations as the Sweeney
What a brilliant channel, If only we could go back to living in the 70s.
So glad you've put out another one if these, keep 'em coming! 😊
12:16 that 1967 corvette is a thing of beauty.
Pretty sure it’s a 1961 😉
Love this channel - when London was London. Say no more!
I grew up around Clerkenwell / Kings cross . Live seeing the old buildings on all your episodes . Ome of the best RUclips channels easily . Thank you
I love these so much. Takes me back to a simpler time. Cheers.
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
Fantastic narration as I've said before.
Thank you :)
Fantastic. London is so atmospheric. Then and now.
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!
NO GIMMIGRANTS BEAUTIFUL 👌👌
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.
Goodsway was realigned where it meets the railway bridges when the development for Eurostar started in the early 2000s.
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.
Great Stuff ! I see you took notice of my suggestion of filming Now and Then in the Reel ! Keep up the Good Work !
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
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 😂
Brilliant work ! For anyone with memories of an iconic TV series and when London was English your channel is absolute nectar.
Brilliantly put together video about my favourite tv show ever. Smashing.
Very entertaining and looks like a lot of grafting went into this video 👍🏻
“Get your trousers on sunshine you’re nicked” Excellent show
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.
I love these old London locations, here and in The Professionals. Thanks for doing this.
Glad you like them!
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
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!
superb work, thanks so much for filming the locations.
Please keep these going, absolutely superb research and entertaining videos, love it
Thanks! Certainly intend to keep going with this.
Absolutely superb! Great format, great commentary. How you find all these locations makes my mind boggle! Please,please keep 'em coming!❤👍
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 :)
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. 😂
Great stuff! Really enjoying the episodes 💪
Superb stuff this! A lot of work has clearly gone into it too.
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
Brilliant! well done! i look forward to the next one!
Thanks!
Great stuff...Great memories!
I wouldn't be filming for long outside the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit , you might make the inhabitants nervous . 😁Thanks for putting this up , and for your research , very interesting comparing the locations . The Sweeney was one of the very best series ever made , i just wish they had made more . Even now when i watch repeats , i still get a buzz , it's still brilliant .
Yeah, I didn't hang about too long :D
Definitely a gem indeed
Hope there are lots more to come
That's the plan!
Love the work you are doing! I'm enjoying every second of the results of your efforts. 😊 Thank you! Congrats from Sydney
love the sweeney takes me back to the good times
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!
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!
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.
Nostalgia is the most beautiful form of pain.
Superb video. Great commentary. Nostalgia hit from a bygone era....a Better Britain in my opinion.
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
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.
Thank you again for your hard detective work finding these locations, pity about Euston, but there is always another day.
Fascinating to see how much or little London has changed in five decades.
As you probably know the Sweeney crew sometimes included a van with a fake phone box on the back which could be dropped into position if a genuine phone box couldn’t be found in the correct position. Would be fascinating to speak to a location manager and find out what fee, if any, was paid to home and building owners.
That's an amazing bit of background - I hadn't actually heard that before! Cheers :)
Even then try acting out your lines in a real phone box paddling in smelly week old piss! Or worse....😂
@Sweenealogy yes finding that out explained a lot... you'll also see the same background cars used to guarantee parking spaces for the Consul to park in. A Peugeot 405 estate turned up in several episodes, they'd park across two spaces so the film car could stop where they wanted it...
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.
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❤
Great item on my favourite show 😊
Mine too! Glad you liked it.
Thanks for doing this. Love The Sweeney.
Fabulous entertainment for people of a certain age! Thanks for all the effort you have clearly made to produce this cracking video...
Thanks for the memories and locations once again
Omg nearly 50 years ago
Another stellar cast - James Booth
❤️❤️👍 👍 🏴🏴
Loving these episodes. I was born the year the final series was transmitted. Caught a couple of repeats in the '80's and was overjoyed when the box set came out much later. Since then I've bought all the re-releases I could lay my hands on, including the Australian individual sets, the UK and US Blu-rays and the most recent box set that was released in 2022 (in Australia again, with exclusive new commentaries on some episodes so worth shelling out for.)
The best TV series ever made and I often say to people if there were more coppers like Regan and Carter around now, we'd all be better off. It's such a shame that Network cancelled the planned Blu-ray sets of Series 2-4 and it looks unlikely we'll get them anytime soon, especially as Network have now sadly gone to the wall.
Great stuff, thanks for doing this.
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...
Absolutely brilliant. Has always I thoroughly enjoyed it, amazing work. I look forward to your next video.
Superb as always, great narration. Brilliantly researched and match-up footage of yesterday's London with today's. Top marks.
Many thanks!
The effort that goes into these videos should be applauded. Brilliant channel. One of my faves on the whole of RUclips
Brilliant work
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…😂
Love these videos, Well done 😎
Thanks!
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!
Always well researched, well narrated and above all great fun. Well done and thanks
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! :)
"Poppy" - one of my fave two episodes. The best, IMHO, is "In from the Cold".
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!❤❤😊
This is a brilliant premise for a channel. Thank you
Loving these vlogs keep them coming 👍
Thank you. Planning my next filming trip very soon.
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.
Really enjoyed this, very well researched, keep them coming
Glad you enjoyed it! Time for another filming trip soon...
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 dunked a biscuit every time you said "Landun," now I need to go to the ####### lolly don't I! 😉
Great upload mate. Respect 🇬🇧
Sweenealogy Bingo! Take a slurp of your pint every time I say "Landun", "Seven'ies" or "Gorblimeytrousers" and see if you can walk by the end of the episode :)
(Actually, I've never used that last one yet - I'll have to work it in somehow...)
Brilliant - highly informative and entertaining. A wonderful addendum to many great London centric channels on YT.. Lovely stuff
Many thanks!
Excellent work 👏
Brilliant. Great days. 😊
Now this is what YT was made for
So well put together and top notch entertainment. Many thanks and look forward to many more.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Great video 😉👍🏴
Top channel the 1970s London that I grew up in.
Really enjoyed that, thanks 👍
Excellent. Thanks for the time and effort you put in. 👍🏻
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!
Beautifully researched.
Nice one, my son!
Many thanks!
Loved this series. Perhaps do some research on the Professionals next!
I can’t stop watching your channel. 👍🏻
Really good. Thanks 👍
Another Brilliant Episode, made even better by the hilarious dialogue. 😂
You had to know the cockney lingo in those days. Sadly it's dying out in favour of a black gangsta rap patois innit like?