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Poor old Croydon. Lived in the borough most of my life. The decline is terrible. When I first moved down to England, Croydon was (To my eyes.) so prosperous. We drive over to Guilford now for shopping trips. Nothing left in the town.

@local59_Studios

Жыл бұрын

Woah lol same here the rapid decline was miserable to watch and my family moved to Guildford as there was nothing left

70s for me all day long .

@sylwiaratajczyk8534

2 жыл бұрын

You’d be surprised

@nickhickson8738

11 ай бұрын

And not so many obese women around then. Pretty dresses and skirts not the dreadful skin tight leggings worn today revealing all the fatty arses.

I was born in 1997 so I have no idea what Croydon was like in the 70s but I can remember what it was like as a boy in the early 2000s and early 2010s back when Alders were (just about) in business and the whitgift centre had a few decent shops there was also a massive HMV on whitgift high street. All gone now Croydon has lost its heart and soul which saddens me as I'm Croydon born and bred.

Such a shame all the old houses were pulled down to put characterless office blocks in. Even the train Station looks like an unfinished mechano set. :(

Croydon, my Croydon. Going to school by bus on my own aged 7. 1960's Christmas at Grants, Kennard's and Alder's. ..snow on the ground. How desperately, desperately sad...😪

Croydon today always reminds me of 'Back To The Future 2'. When Marty returns , the whole area has gone to shit. Successive councils have destroyed a great town. Pedestrianisation, Tram link, allowing far too many fast food outlets, knocking down iconic buildings like East Croydon station, allowing planning for the current crop of sky scrapers, etc etc etc. Only trouble is, we can't go back in time to fix it!

@tomcullen3295

Жыл бұрын

💯

@paulbroderick8438

Жыл бұрын

Same thing happened with Coventry. It used to be a history book medieval city now it is just a conglomeration of shoe box monstrosities. Greetings from a brit residing in the USA.

@johnmannion471

Жыл бұрын

A tram link is regressive how?

@JohnDoe-xv4rp

Жыл бұрын

Why are you pretending that the trams, the buildings, the pedestrianisation are actually problems?? Every single person in Croydon knows it's the people that are the problem! The multiculturalism and ethnic diversity has turned every town in London into a shithole! Someone please tell me I'm wrong! 🤔 Oh yeah and not to mention all the steroid induced chicken shops that they've brought with them.

@harpersneil

Жыл бұрын

Nothing to do with the boatloads of human filth that were imported then?

Croydon had that 70’s regeneration 👍🏻 it looked clean , new and cool back then . That round building is fab , if that were flats I’d like to live in there .

As a 10 year old going to school in Croydon, I saw the Nestle tower being built in 1964. I lived in the South Norwood/Croydon area, travelling daily to London from East Croydon station until I was 21 and recognise everything in the video. Thanks for the memory!

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

An Aunt and Uncle of mine, Don and Doreen Watson, used to live in Whitehorse Lane in South Norwood, with their daughters Jean and Ann at one time. Sadly Don and Doreen have since died, whilst Jean lives in Caterham and Ann near Bedford now with their families too.

@russefrance4869

Жыл бұрын

@@brucedanton3669 From school in Croydon, I used to get off the No 68 bus at Whitehorse Lane/South Norwood Hill to walk down Woodvale Avenue and home. The bus stop is still in exactly the same place. 🙂

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

@@russefrance4869 Thank you there for that interesting reply of course so then too.

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

@@russefrance4869 My Aunt and Uncle lived at 264 Whitehorse Lane then too from what I remember of old too.

@sarahwagland1559

9 ай бұрын

​@@russefrance4869I used to catch the 68 route master bus outside South Croydon bus station.

I worked in W H Smiths in Croydon in about 1970 as a trainee manager (shelf stacker). I remember great nights out and no danger of being abused or assaulted. Oh how things have changed for the worse since then.

@arman2774

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think much has changed other than the pavements being dirtier 😅

@LovzaNo

Жыл бұрын

What do you expect when you have a drastic population change? 3rd world people bring 3rd world behaviors.

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

I know when we used to go to Croydon we would go to WH Smiths in the Whitgift Centre, mainly looking at the books and maps at the time-very nice it was too! I have not been there now for a long time though then.

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

I am sure you are so right there then too-alas of course.

@JohnDoe-xv4rp

Жыл бұрын

That'll be the multiculturalism.

When London was a nice city too live in.. look at it now makes me sad.

@explorewithgeoff

11 ай бұрын

It wasn't part of London, it was Surrey. They changed it for some reason. Nobody living there back then (including me) thought of it as London even though it came under the Great London Council for some of that time.

@nickhickson8738

11 ай бұрын

@@explorewithgeoff Same as my once lovely town of Bromley - going rapidly the same way as Croydon. Who'd want to live forever?

Great to look back at the Croydon I remember - thank you

I visited Croydon between 1990s to currently how its changed. High Street was awesome and great shops

Those were the good old days . That was my lovely London 😃

@explorewithgeoff

11 ай бұрын

It was in Surrey back then, but yea, definitely the good old days.

@nickhickson8738

11 ай бұрын

@@explorewithgeoff I went to the new then Croydon Technical College to study for my BSc. Lovely days only the noise of the pile driving for the underpass was living hell.

@explorewithgeoff

11 ай бұрын

@@nickhickson8738 I also went to the college one day a week, day release from an apprenticeship. Honestly when I went, it was quite rough (the students) and you could see the way Croydon was going.

I can remember all this

Yesterme, yesteryou, yesterday. It's a shame things have to change and not always for the better.

At 2:45 - a packet of Blue Silk Cut cigarettes advertised at 34p!

I remember all of this then and now. But fortunately got out and now live on the other side of the world with beautiful sunny white Sand beaches just 5 minutes walk from by front door.

@LondonPower

11 ай бұрын

Nice one I am very happy for you!

@user-vy4hh4ot2h

3 ай бұрын

No one likes a boaster😊

Greatly remember the old East Croydon train station

the BT building at 0:39 was Gotham Hospital in the Batman movie in 2007

The way they destroyed the old station.

@explorewithgeoff

11 ай бұрын

I remember them doing that. I never understood why it was taking so long to finish it......but hen it clicked, it WAS finished! What a state.

Thank you.

@LondonPower

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

My sadly alas now late parents both came from Croydon. They later moved to near Dartford which is where I live; but I do remember we often used to drive there at times to see other family members though. An Aunt still lives in Norbury though. I do remember some of these views though of old; a shame that some have changed though of course. Thank you anyway.

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

The Aunt of mine, Yvonne Goodwin, lives in Norbury as I say. She used to live their with her husband Mike, who sadly died in 1986 I think with a heart attack. They had two sons, Edward and Marcus. Both are married with families now. Edward lives in New Cross-also of course in south London; whilst Marcus lives in Oxfordshire so then too.

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

Yes my late parents, Audrey and Jack came from there to where I live now. Audrey was a Watson until she married my Dad. She lived in Lansdowne Road in Croydon at Albert Mansions. She lived their with her Dad Thomas who died before I was born; also her stepmum Dorothy whom we all called Grandma Watson. Donald was her brother. She also had a sister called Maysie who married Ted Walmsley and then they moved to East Grinstead with their sons Michael and Christopher. Maysie and Ted have sadly since both died too; but Chris and Michael still live where they do now then.

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

They also had another brother Peter. He was married to Susan and then Jane and Sheila later on. They moved to Sanderstead near Selsdon; then to Dormansland/Dormans Park; and then to the Meads area of Eastbourne. He sadly too died a few years ago; Sheila now lives there and has a daughter Karina as well too.

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

My Dad Jack lived in Violet Lane, on the council estate that was there near the old Croydon Airport site and Purley Way. He lived there with his Mum and Dad Dora and Percy, who of course are not around now. As well as him, they had his brother Brian, who married Fleur Campion, they moved to Newport in Shropshire where he was in the RAF at the time too. They had their children Julie and Simon there. Julie married Matt Bacon and is now a vicar in Yorkshire. They have a family there too. Simon was married to Maddy, but alas she died a few years ago; although at least they had their son Sam and they live near Northampton now then too.

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

Then they had Yvonne and then Michael who was known as Mickey as far as I know then too; although he sadly died some years ago then too. Brian also died a few years ago; but Fleur at least now lives with the family in Yorkshire as far as I know then too.

What happened to Surrey Street Market? When did it close and why?

Places start out sparsely populated and unpopular. They grow in population and become desirable. Then they eventually become overpopulated and undesirable. The Heyday of any place is the era when it has become popular, but isn't overpopulated.

Green line 725, Heathrow to Dartford a coach compered to today's X26,Moved away 18 years Ago still go through it once or twice a year, wouldn't what to live there now just tower blocks of flats!

@LondonPower

11 ай бұрын

22 miles distance that is 35 kilometres

this shows that technology has expanded during the years

I've wondered what Croydon was like in the 1970s. Back then I was an American kid who loved watching Doctor Who. In Sarah Jane Smith's final episode, the Doctor drops her off in a quiet neighborhood. She looks around and says, "This isn't Croydon". (The joke: his sense of direction was terrible.) Thanks for the video!

Blame the lack of regulation on companies being able to screw the British people over when it comes to housing and employment and rich developers for why Croydon is the way it is now.

Peaceful

@masterknife8423

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think London's ever been peaceful

@LovzaNo

Жыл бұрын

Yes, your monkee ass is the problem. Go back to mudhut country.

@littleflor2975

Жыл бұрын

Greater London was way more peaceful back in the day than it is now.

This video might've been called "How To Destroy A Town". 1970s nice, nowadays awful - like most towns and cities in this country.😟

@brucedanton3669

Жыл бұрын

You are sadly so right there then too-I feel the same way as you do of course. Thank you though!

It’s a metropolis now

Croydon - where the very worst of the countries architects and town planners meet in a harmony to create one truelly abhorrent place. 👎🏻

I worked at Loony house for a while in the early 1970s.....oh! Croydon! The Whitgift centre! the high street 🙂 the Greyhound music pub 🙂

@luanloud9454

2 ай бұрын

Fun fact: i smell hippie spirit in here

Who remembers the Focus 1,2,3 cinema on Crown Hill and the ABC broad Green

@luanloud9454

2 ай бұрын

I smell in this video hippie spirit

The song made the video.

Can someone please tell me which number bus passes infront of south norwood primary school croydon?

@LondonPower

10 ай бұрын

There are many primary schools in South Norwood

@thomasjunior7143

10 ай бұрын

@@LondonPower but did you read what I asked? Is only 1 primary school in south norwood by the name of "SOUTH NORWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL".the question is /was , what bus/buses pass out there by that particular school?

@LondonPower

10 ай бұрын

@@thomasjunior7143 197 312 or with train is next to Norwood Junction Station

Born in Croydon in the mid sixties, as children we would ride our bikes on our street play on the street and know everyone who lived on the road, it was a great community then, now it doesn't feel safe, the whitgift centre has been destroyed by Westfield, who promised to build a new complex but have just let it rot away, and with all the tower blocks it looks more like an American city, shame on the council's who have let Croydon become such an uninviting place, now I have moved to Reigate,

An interesting video, it brings back memories. Shame about the backing music, which was as painful as a chinese water drip

@luanloud9454

2 ай бұрын

In this video I smell hippie spirit

Funky Croydon! Yay!

If you go down Laud street, it looks the same dreary way, it did in 1900

Looks different ...

Depressing. 200 years of my family history in Croydon wasted away

WAIT ADDISCOMBE HAD A TRAIN STATION!?!

@LondonPower

7 ай бұрын

It had 2 stations, one where the tram stop addiscombe is today and the other where the video shows

So, some improvements then 😊

Thank you - the trams have been a good idea 👍

@LondonPower

Жыл бұрын

They are!

Home

Vastly superior as usual. No amount of left wing PC spin doctoring will ever change that objective fact.

@mildlydispleased3221

Жыл бұрын

Cars are the problem.

@JohnDoe-xv4rp

Жыл бұрын

@Mildly Displeased , yes I agree it's the cars. It's cars that stab and shoot people, it's cars that go round in gangs screaming and hollering at eachother, it's cars that have no respect, it's cars that graffiti everywhere, it's cars that spit on the pavement and litter the streets. When are they going to do away with cars?

@michellea9857

Жыл бұрын

It's all over the West, we abort over 200k kids a year, and have contracepted ourselves out of existence, do the maths. Immigrants stimulate the economy, whilst this does cause problems, it's our own fault. Leftist politicians would be unable to bring in such large amounts if there was no vacuum to fill. As a right winger I wish it wasn't this way but it is.

34p for 20 Silk Cut.Those were the days! Mind you, real men wouldn't be seen dead smoking them. Now, your high tar unfiltered Woodbines that was a proper ciggie. I'm joking of course!

we all know what happened - the real problem is that you can do nothing about it

Out with any character and in with the sterile, generic use of cheap materials, plastic signage, bland architecture, thoughtless planning, chain shops and everyone dressed as overweight athletic hopefuls or car-thieves. :0/

Looked pretty crap then and not much better now.

Looks much better now !

the nationalist bookshop run by the nf was a great place, wonder why it isnt there today?