I was born in Streatham in ‘59 and this is the London I remember from childhood. Most of the people in our street knew each other and would stop for a chat. The rag-and-bone man would come down the street and let us pat his horse and give it treats. We could play by ourselves on the local common which was clean and tidy and the only danger for us was crossing the road to get there. I went back there a few years ago… and wish I hadn’t.

@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069

18 күн бұрын

Yes mate absolute shithole

@astroboirap

16 күн бұрын

now you have black people

@user-hl7nt1og7k

5 күн бұрын

Lots of ethnics

1:11 Arthur Daley! 😂

@steven-vn9ui

24 күн бұрын

100 percent! haha, brilliant

@drick2480

23 күн бұрын

Who is he?

@gmann6269

23 күн бұрын

There's even a Jag in the background!

@steven-vn9ui

23 күн бұрын

@@drick2480 he was a character in a TV series called "Minder". A real classic series

@drick2480

23 күн бұрын

@@steven-vn9ui Oh nice like old school Eastenders? When did it stop airing?

Proper London. A time gone by sadly. Brick buildings and Londoners!

@SubtraxionStudio

21 күн бұрын

Lmfao most the nurses and hospital staff were black .

Now there is no crime in London and everyone lives together in harmony.

@vinny3266

23 күн бұрын

And every finks a paaand a paaand 👌😉

@manofweed1

19 күн бұрын

That’s what Khant says ?!

become a politician, immune crookery.

This is the london on which the brilliant tv series the sweeney was based. It would be people like the ones shown here who'd carry out the 'blags' on banks etc which the show was based around. And it was this that gave the sweeney its authenticity and gritty realism (you could almost expect to see regan and carter in this bar somewhere talking to their 'snouts')

@bucko321

24 күн бұрын

Believe or not Ian Kennedy Martin got his inspiration for the Sweeney from USA series The Streets of San Francisco and talking to real life Sweeney policeman.The characters in this film would not look out of place in any episode.

@mickeydodds1

24 күн бұрын

That second hand car lot at the end reminded me of Arthur Daley.

@LeighRichards27

23 күн бұрын

Wow didnt know that 👍​@@bucko321

@QuoPaperPlane

23 күн бұрын

'We're the Sweeney son and we haven't had our dinner yet'!

@matthewcummings9024

22 күн бұрын

Sweeney Todd - Flying Squad!

Lived in SE London all my life, just up the road from Lewisham and there definitely seemed to be more community feeling around in the 70’s and 80’s.

My Auntie passed away in her nineties in Lewisham Hospital in 2014, lived through the Blitz ! Was an Air Raid Warden in Blackheath. She was treated abysmally by the nursing staff while priority was given to people of ethnic origin, she was bathed and showered by her daughter otherwise it would not be done by the staff. This is the UK today and unfortunately it will get worse

@danielfreeley5217

23 күн бұрын

what a strange comment to make.

@QuoPaperPlane

23 күн бұрын

​@@danielfreeley5217Pretty appropriate when comments are made about the demographic change of London in general. Some facts are pretty hard to swallow and the usual suspects just deny the obvious.

@rdgrdg1632

23 күн бұрын

​@@danielfreeley5217why

@roveruff3360

23 күн бұрын

What has that got to do with 1970s Lewisham? Furthermore no ethnic minority culture really wants anyone but their own family to look after their elderly,that's in their culture. So stop lying ,your aunt was let down by her daughter and you. So what if her daughter had to bathe her,you also could've helped along with the rest of the family, or was it too much of a strain you. Unfortunately that will go on whenever ,you are right. Maybe if you or your Aunts daughter had visited enough that would never happen. I take it you mean your cousin, when you say your Aunts daughter. You sound like a really close family.

@roveruff3360

23 күн бұрын

​@@danielfreeley5217actually, an expected comment. Didn't you see all those ethnics saying they're forced to go on the thieve. Oh by the way that had a lot to do with the Aunt being mistreated in hospital because the ethnics were looked after first. wow. Not strange, expected. That person is having a wonderful life. Blames the ethnics when it rains 😅

What’s Elvis doing standing in the background of a London boozer?

@deadman568

24 күн бұрын

I thought it was Roy Orbisson!!

@annakelman6627

22 күн бұрын

Hehe. 😂😅

@laurencetitusoates6328

22 күн бұрын

Having a drink.....

Pity they didn’t know just how privileged they were 🙄😂😂😂

@user-pe2pt2bs7x

24 күн бұрын

Absolutely 👍 and I grew up with these people

@wutang6020

24 күн бұрын

@@user-pe2pt2bs7x me too I'm from the old Est End

I spent my holidays in middle 60s early 70s in my uncle’s down eastend commercial rd of Mile End rd London . Happy memories

Lewisham is very different now not many white English men live there now

@drick2480

23 күн бұрын

Yeah not many white english in London period.

@QuoPaperPlane

23 күн бұрын

The way it's panning out and with the same old political mainstream parties in power, the whole of the UK will be resembling that third world cesspit in the not too distant future.

@shermanwooman8608

23 күн бұрын

Many moved to Kent but there’s still lots of white families in the flats. Particularly Bellingham. Peter Pan Park, bits of Deptford too.

@annakelman6627

22 күн бұрын

Peter Pan Park. Haha. These estates and blocks have brilliant names like Nelson Mandela Court. In Salford there's a rough estate called Mocha estate.😅😂 ​@@shermanwooman8608

@annakelman6627

22 күн бұрын

Actually it's Mocha Parade. ☕☕

They thought it was bad back then, little did they know how bad things would actually become.

@th8257

24 күн бұрын

Eh? It was 20 times worse back then. London was a sleazy hell hole in the 70s. As of 2023, crime is at its lowest ever levels.

@_Meng_Lan

24 күн бұрын

Mushroom you must be very young..

@_Meng_Lan

24 күн бұрын

Whistling to national front boys are you mushroom? No its just the same with thugs like them around the national front

@paalosordoni7932

24 күн бұрын

@@th8257 In 1977, there were 135 murders involving a sharp instrument including knives and broken bottles. This accounted for 33% of all murders. In 2021/22, there were 282 recorded murders using a sharp instrument - the highest number of murders using a sharp instrument recorded between 1977 and 2022.

@yellow1one

24 күн бұрын

​@@th8257 Mushroomhead's comments are part of a trend of quasi racist comments you tend to find on any archive video footage of life in London from 2010s backwards and well into last century that show London as much less diverse place. They try to imply that before Johnny foreign moved in and much of the white working class moved out London was a low crime peaceful clean safe city. Of course those of us who have lived in London for a few decades (as I have since the mid 70s) and with a half decent memory know this not to be the case. Although there was plenty to reminisce about 70s, 80s, 90s and perhaps early 2000s London there have been many improvements since.

Look at men back then .. proper MEN not the posers men have become today

@SubtraxionStudio

21 күн бұрын

They are called lads today not men 😂

I grew up in Lewisham, in 1970 I was 14. My mum took us to church EVERY Sunday, all eight of us. The church was packed out every Sunday. Lewisham market supplied all our veg, couldn’t afford any fruit. Five of my six sisters went on to university, I joined the Royal Navy, my brother owns and runs his own business. Losers always make excuses….my dad rode a bicycle to work winter and summer, he was typical of the average worker in Lewisham, not these lame brains.

Their future is like something from a dystopian movie we’re crime is everywhere and the court system stops really bothering doing anything thing about it😂

The car salesman's got a couple of "Bank Job" Jags there 😀🚗🐆

@howardlake6178

20 күн бұрын

My Dad told me a story of 2 brothers with a Jaaaaag. On pay day they’d drive up to the bank, and when one came back out, they’d wheelspin off up the road 😂

I love these crafty cockneys. They're my heroes. Love folk who can 🦆 duck and dive well.

@SubtraxionStudio

21 күн бұрын

Until they duck and dive in your house 😂

@annakelman6627

21 күн бұрын

Haha. I've plenty of ducks ducking and diving, as I live right by a wildfowl sanctuary. 🦆😗

@JMBluecoat8289

21 күн бұрын

Cockneys? It was filmed in Lewisham!

This is from a documentary about Harry Hayward, whose gang famously had a shootout with the Richardson gang in Mr Smiths club.

@phil4893

18 күн бұрын

That was a strong firm. His brother Billy Hayward had a fair few proper men around him. Bill Gardner was one. Dangerous people.

@1960gal

18 күн бұрын

Went go school with his nieces

Much tougher people back in the day - community was brilliant - now they are all sneaking around - no characters left just zombies. We had a lot of fun

Those were the good old days in Lewisham. Only one or two murders per decade. TODAY ? a scary place.

@danielfreeley5217

23 күн бұрын

liar

@Marvin-dg8vj

23 күн бұрын

Worse for murders , wounding, robbery and guns in the 90s and 80s than today .

@jamiewilliams685

23 күн бұрын

​@@Marvin-dg8vjIncorrect, by a large margin.

@Marvin-dg8vj

23 күн бұрын

@@jamiewilliams685 use the govts own figures on homicides per 100,000 . London is mostly sociology graduates and techies

@Edgisco

21 күн бұрын

​@@Marvin-dg8vjin lewisham?? Are you mad 😂 go take a visit and see all the techies 😂😂

I was born in Lewisham in 1957 I remember these blokes I grew up with these people had nothing but loads of it! Happy memories

@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069

18 күн бұрын

😂👍🍻

You sooner have them days back

Is this who Del Boy got all his hooky gear from?

@LacitsyM

24 күн бұрын

Dirty Barry haha 😉

@Olivia-vn1tf

24 күн бұрын

@@LacitsyM Monkey Harris

@Olivia-vn1tf

24 күн бұрын

M0nkey Harris

If you like the above I cannot recommend highly enough you buy 'The Sweeney' DVD box set. Though I am biased, it has to be one of the very best cop series, ever. You will be treated to a London of a different era... Unmissable car chases... cons with character, and the legend that is 'Jack Regan'!

@howardlake6178

20 күн бұрын

You’re nicked! 😂

@mackenzie77777

15 күн бұрын

Wasn`t John Thaw only in his early thirties in this? Looked so much older, like early fifties. Great program though as me and my friends in primary school in the 70`s used to head inside when the Sweeney started!

@finnglynn9344

12 күн бұрын

love the footage of the older chaps in the pub reminds me of my dad and his pals back in lambeth tough people but good people unfortunately them days have gone .

The Central Cafe reminded me of Sal Boca and Angie's place in The French Connection.

Opinions haven't really changed over the years, and I doubt will do so in years to come. Mainly a them and us way of thinking. Those with money or highly educated get let off,whilst others get hung drawn and quartered for much less.

Oldskool distinguished gentlemen..great hearing the old Cockney accent..its a thing of beauty and is also nearly extinct thanks to the Resettlement programme they did to the natives of London.

All foreign thieves nowadays

@SubtraxionStudio

21 күн бұрын

😂 lmfao no different to the "English" thef a thef is a thef regardless grow up.

When London had social cohesion, before most of the cockneys were replaced

London was a very dark, sleazy place back then. Places like Piccadilly, and the various train stations, were notorious. Police corruption was also absolutely endemic.

@BrianMurfitt

24 күн бұрын

Ah, 'a dark, sleazy place back then', compared to nowadays it was relatively innocent! There's always been a few shady characters and shady deals if you didn't bother them, they didn't bother you. Now with the drug dealing on council estates it creates a lot of antisocial behaviour and hinders the lives of honest, hardworking people and the police turn a blind eye to it. The good ol' 70s they were lovely, safe times. 😢😮

@westham118

24 күн бұрын

Now its a shithole

@asa1973100

24 күн бұрын

You must be kidding 66 to 81 we lived in Picadilly above a shop and it was NOTHING like it is today!!

@BrianMurfitt

24 күн бұрын

@@asa1973100 'In Piccadilly above a shop'! I didn't know there was any residential places in Piccadilly/Piccadilly Circus, except for hotels and posh apartments near Green Park? Anyway, you're right Piccadilly Circus/Station was rough those days. There was a Disney/cartoon cinema I got my mum to take me there in 1975, the films were alright, but the cinema was a complete 💩hole! Also I can remember some of the shady characters around there, especially the rent boys under the arches at the end of Regent Street/Piccadilly Circus, they were v.undesirable and threatening. So yeah around Piccadilly Circus it was dire, but the rest of London was fairly quiet and safe, you rarely had muggins/stabbings then. 🙄😒

@user-pe2pt2bs7x

24 күн бұрын

@@BrianMurfitt correct 👍 people are seriously delusional if they think it wasn’t any different back then ! I grew up in south London in the 70s on a council estate , salt of the earth earth people

I was born in a house in Lewisham (Courthill Road) but never asked my parents why I wasn’t born in the hospital like my brothers were. Now I live about as far away from Lewisham as is possible so I’m amazed how this video found its way to me.

@garydavid1788

21 күн бұрын

Google is watching and listening!

@macca9770

19 күн бұрын

Same here. Grew up in New X Gate, went to school in Crofton Park. Got taken shopping to Lewisham every week - remember the spinning characters in the shopping centre? BHS restaurant? Cheesemans? Lewisham now is an absolute shite hole. Fortunately, I now live 120 miles away from the place 😂

@chewskewsme

17 күн бұрын

@@macca9770 12,000 miles….I do remember Chessman’s very vaguely but I think it was shut down, in the 70’s? I definitely remember the market, Beatties (?) the model shop - dreamland for me as a young boy. I never go near Lewisham or Catford, where I lived for most of my childhood - who would travel all the way from NZ to be depressed by what they are now? Better to just keep the good memories.

@macca9770

17 күн бұрын

@@chewskewsme nice. I went to Perth Oz whilst in the navy and met someone who was from Deptford!! Yes, I remember Beatties - a lad I went to school with got done for breaking into the place. Remember the Wimpy on the high street? Waiter in there could carry 25 plates on each arm 😂😂

Videos of old London always get a load of nostalgic bollocks. But it really does take the biscuit to see that on a video about actual thieves talking about thieving. Great clip though.

Loved working in Lewisham. My old man had a carpet shop in Mercia Grove in the early 80s.

A time when people were "honest" about there "dishonesty"......as Michael Caine once said " he is honest as the day is long,, just done a stretch in Parkhurst"

I grew up in Lewisham 60s/70s/80s and my mother still lives there. I grew up knowing most of the people in this video most of them are all gone now. Nice to see Billy Haywood here. Lewisham is now not the Lewisham I knew sad to see that all gone now. God bless to all the people that knew the old Lewisham

50 yrs later "the toffs get away with it" sound familiar.

The proper old school London… before they all arrived

@Hayesaxib

22 күн бұрын

If a newly arrived immigrant can take your job, you’re probably useless to begin with. Stop moaning online, it’s pathetic.

@patmann9363

22 күн бұрын

I was born in 67 so I make you wrong me old sea side donkey👍🏾

@jaxcoss5790

21 күн бұрын

Who are 'they'?

@jeztickles4361

21 күн бұрын

@@jaxcoss5790 the ones that aren’t native to London

@alanpage3973

21 күн бұрын

​@@jeztickles4361so you don't like people from Newcastle Manchester Birmingham because they are not native to London either strange way of thinking

Sounds like my old man talking, tear to my eye

Lovely bloke, loves his mum. But he nailed your mums head to a coffee table. Yes he did that, but she broke the unwritten law. And what was that law. I dont know, but if its good enough for Harry then its good enough for me. Good Old Monty Python

And there is no crimes in London it's a beautiful peaceful safe city

Proper London telly

When The Krays were around, you could leave your back door open

Dinsdale! He was fair, cruel…but fair.

Yeh you could leave your front door unlocked in them days cause you had nothing worth nicking, the grass is always greener and the dog shit always warmer in times gone by. I grew up with chancers like these in the late 60's early 70's always in the boozer when it was open and the look on the 'disabled' geezer mush @0:35 when his mates were taking the piss says it all.

Who was Harry?

Tax is biggest theft 😂

Indigenous British people. Proper Londoners. Unlike now

That's where I live .Lewisham.

No much changed then

Fremantle ,Australia? I cant understand the accents.

@user-pe2pt2bs7x

24 күн бұрын

South London

@steven-vn9ui

24 күн бұрын

@@user-pe2pt2bs7x which in turn is pronounced "saarff landon" :)

@Murf-cz1iv

23 күн бұрын

@@steven-vn9uinot no more

@steven-vn9ui

23 күн бұрын

@@Murf-cz1iv shame how things have changed eh.

@Murf-cz1iv

23 күн бұрын

@@steven-vn9ui sure is pal

Who's Harry?

@annahoney1187

23 күн бұрын

Harry's Out (1971) - a documentary film about the late, remarkable Harry Haward following his release from Pentonville Prison when he decided to go straight. Harry Haward: bank robber, boxer, nightclub & pub owner (Cheeks Nightclub, Harp of Erin pub…), political activist, seniors' rights campaigner, chairman of Deptford Action Group for the Elderly (after having rescued Dage from closure - he’d been organising pensioners' parties for over 20 years), community radio broadcaster on Resonance FM…

@macca9770

19 күн бұрын

Not me as not old enough however, my older family members know of Harry as they lived in Deptford from 50’s - 90’s. Harp of Erin, The Osborne, Brown Bear, Mechanics….etc

God I love my manor 😁❤🇬🇧

Nothing has changed

That's some scar matey boy's got under his chin. Who's Harry anyway ?

@jasonantigua6825

24 күн бұрын

Harry Gibson

@patrickwalsh6873

24 күн бұрын

@@jasonantigua6825 Cheers

@jasonantigua6825

23 күн бұрын

@@patrickwalsh6873 👍

@ponyboycurtis3795

21 күн бұрын

​@@jasonantigua6825no its Harry Hayward...this clip is from the documentary Where's Harry and shows him getting out of Pentonville prison after him and his firm had a notorious shootout with the Richardson firm.

@ponyboycurtis3795

21 күн бұрын

​​@@patrickwalsh6873 Harry Hayward mate..old villain..this is from the documentary Harry's Out when he got released from Pentonville prison after having a shootout with the Richardson firm.

Gotta go on the pavement fella London boys are still about They don’t SHOW OUT 😊

@user-rq8si4eu1s

21 күн бұрын

Well where are they then? 😂

Who knows the car dealers name ?

@anthonyturner3238

13 күн бұрын

Billy Hughes is the car dealers name . He was my uncle . What a character

@antoniadavis3701

13 күн бұрын

@@anthonyturner3238 thank you I was born in Lewisham in 1967. My family where friends with various car dealers from area

@anthonyturner3238

13 күн бұрын

Unfortunately if your parents purchased a car from him , i cannot be held responsible 😂

@letsdiscussitoversometea8479

8 күн бұрын

@@anthonyturner3238 presumably he was your _mother's_ brother??

Their saying the same thing today ,only difference is they blame their predicament on migration / race . When the truth is laziness and the expectation of entitlement..

Mitcham gd old days

Arfur Daley 😛

Fukode now, didnt take long, imagine in another 40 yr,.. jesus christ, doesn't bare thinking about

They were honest criminals 😂😂

Harry hayward

Was Harry, Harry Roberts?

@paulkillick527

21 күн бұрын

Harry heywood

Vilinly area

Usual suspects

Nothing changed. Rich still shafting the working class

@gmann6269

23 күн бұрын

They're talking shit and making excuses for themsevles. They're scumbags.

@jamiewilliams685

23 күн бұрын

Through mass population replacement of the indigenous

@therefreshed5887

23 күн бұрын

@@jamiewilliams685 you donut

@johnbeaven8951

23 күн бұрын

And the working class still getting mugged off by the likes of Rees Mogg and Farage.

Thick as a brick

ahh yes, the bad ol' days.

Vote reform 💪💪🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✝️🇬🇧🇬🇧

As long as we ave money for the pub 🥴

Vote Reform.

They have enough money for drinking and smoking 😊

All highly educated gentlemen 🙄👍

@stuwitten391

24 күн бұрын

& “highly educated gentlemen” pass a different turd!? Duke of Westminster going with a brass, Politicians upto all sorts. All the top brass are at it as well mate!

@EnglishCad

23 күн бұрын

@@stuwitten391 no they can string sentences together. There is nothing glamorous or heroic in stealing. They had money to be down the pub. Bunch of two bob wasters.

@edwardmorris1501

23 күн бұрын

@@EnglishCad If you’d had spent a night in The Madhouse and started taking the piss you’d have Damn Good Thrashing Old Boy

@kenneth2656

23 күн бұрын

You wouldn't last five minutes in their company, they might not have had much of an education but could live off their wits and were street wise, with a wicked sense of humour, and when they did work which many of them did they did hard manual labour like demolition or working in the docks.

@stuwitten391

23 күн бұрын

@@EnglishCad what you see is what you get mate. Not the “ highly educated” trying to have you believe that they wouldn’t turn down the chance of a bit of skullduggery given the chance.

Before the infestation