Wonderful video! The old London we'll sadly never see again

A blacksmith with a mobile forge he pulls behind a Triumph Spitfire, now I've seen everything.

@JohnDoe-tx8lq

2 жыл бұрын

He got it real cheap, cash in hand from Derek Trotter. 😁

@douglasharre7156

2 жыл бұрын

I think that's a Triumph GT6, not a Spitfire..:-)

@charbander

2 жыл бұрын

@@douglasharre7156 its a convertible spitfire with one of the naff hardtop conversions to make it resemble the GT6

@suffolkngood

2 жыл бұрын

@@charbander Hardly 'naff' !! It's an Ashley hardtop. I sold one a few months ago, in poor condition, for £1200 !

@charbander

2 жыл бұрын

@@suffolkngood all after market stuff including Ashley was regarded as naff in the day..ruins the aesthetics of the original design..

sadly this london no longer exists, great ole lads guv!

@someduckwithanultimax6549

2 жыл бұрын

The Mews is still there, though - virtually unchanged.

Monty was brave standing at the back of that Horse

I'd completely forgotten about Monty Modlyn until seeing this. He was on TV and radio a lot during my youth. Just getting old ...

@heiltd1286

2 жыл бұрын

If he were still alive, he'd be a 100 now.

Amazing men proper grafters a great insight into a long gone world

Brilliant! Really enjoyed the reporter, I remember blokes like him from when I was a boy, just his mannerisms and the way he spoke, really great clip, thanks!

Great piece of nostalgia 🙂

Another wonderful window on the past, but if I could disagree with one thing, it's that the Rag n Bone man is far from being in a "dying" trade. He's just changed his mode of transport.

@silversurfermusicco5263

2 жыл бұрын

True now its a white van😄

@ultrademigod

2 жыл бұрын

Now it's eBay.

@anngulliver5964

2 жыл бұрын

He's a musician

That was good, thanks!

Thames tv takes me back with that starting tune and london skyline part then 6pm on a friday changed to LWT. Binge watching them now.

Fantastic footage🙏

Ross Nye Stables, at 8 Bathurst Mews. Still in business although I don't know if they do the farrier work on site. Not seen any horse drawn totters around recently.

@Tefisheep

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to say that's Mr Nye's in Bathurst mews. The girls holding the horse were two years above me at school. He was alright Mr Nye, if you mucked out and polished tack all day he'd give you a free hour's ride at the end of the day or if someone cancelled. Good to know they still operate from the same, barely changed news. I dread to think how much a ride in Hyde Park is now, it was a tenner an hour in about '81/'82, hence the mucking out, tack polishing and grooming horses all day. Very nostalgic. I used to love our old rag and bone man, had a voice like a fog horn RAGBONE! you could hear him before the horse's hooves. He took my mums old cooker away, I must have been really little, I remember crying in case it was too heavy for the lovely horse. Somewhere there was a picture of me as a toddler sat on his back while he chomped away from his nose bag. He'd stopped coming round a few years before this though.

@Mercmad

Жыл бұрын

Ross Nye was a fellow Queenslander who moved to London in 1965,where he bought a small riding school and for the next 50 years encouraged Horse riding as means to gain better health and and outlook on life. He passed in 2020 Aged 93.

Had horses 1989 til 2011, a set of shoes in the north was about £35 & increased to over 50. I bet it's nr 100 for a set these days, every 8-10 week too

I absolutely love nostalgic videos like this,especially from my childhood,the late 70s and even more so the 80s.

That old TV Thames intro brought so much back. Im old...Just subscribed and this Christmas Im gonna hit the nostalgia and go through some of these dusty jewels! Cheers!

Wonderful stuff.

Oh to have bought one of those houses in the background... imagine its value today Great to see old London

The London of my youth Sadly missed

Great to see that!

Great to watch but sad to know how London was to turn out

@Mercmad

Жыл бұрын

Powell warned the World,and he was right.

Top tier

Brilliant! Lovely historic footage 👏🏼

Those were the good old days!

Love this. That monty he was alright. Class act

Gawd...Hardway Jones! (Triumph Spitfire towing a moblie forge...to manufacture parts on the roadside for the aforementioned Triumph.) 😊 A lovely time capsule.

My dad was a blacksmith good to see this

Fascinating!

Love these old clips, thanks for posting them 👍

Those building would be worth millions these days

@1975ukandbored

2 жыл бұрын

Yea but how much those days?

@miamitten1123

2 жыл бұрын

@@1975ukandbored £100,000 or so

@Mercmad

Жыл бұрын

8 Bathurst Mews, London is a leasehold terraced house - it is ranked as the 26th most expensive property in W2 2SB, with a valuation of £1,667,000. Since it last sold in January 1997 for £300,000, its value has increased by £1,367,000. You can refine the property valuation to take account of any home improvements by clicking here. Sale history 8 Bathurst Mews, London is valued at £1,667,000 in today's market. The current owner bought the property in January 1997 for £300,000 and has lived here for 25 years. Date Price Change Today's value* £1,667,000 455.7% 31 Jan 1997 £300,000 - Since the current owner purchased the property, its value has increased by £1,367,000 (455.7%). Sold prices are provided by HM Land Registry and are updated each month. * This valuation doesn't take account of any home improvements

a mews house near hyde park is affordable only to hedge fund managers now so i doubt a rag -n-bone man could afford it

Proper geezers

I wonder how much his workshop is worth now? He'd never believe it!

@user-kq5qp6dh8l

Жыл бұрын

Average price 2021 for Bathhurst Mews sold property’s is 1.650,000

Brilliant. I came from a family of West London Totters. Pearlies all.

I remember rag n bone hollering in the street as a kid, though not horse and cart, a trailer on a bike I think.

@Withnail1969

2 жыл бұрын

I do too, they had horses and carts where I lived. I think they used to do knife sharpening as well.

Unreal. Amazing. I loved this ❤️

2.54 Albert is a ringer for Max Wall.

Junction mews. I worked in the mews too. Wally was a great character and his doberman called Sally. They were great days.

Great clip👍👍👍

Watching this in 2021.

Great video

I love that small got brought up in a rubbish yard with me grandad and family. And aways wanted to be a farrier. They started with 1 horse and cart and ended up with the biggest recycling yard in Europe at one point. But opersit yard was horse yard and when I smelt that use to run over to watch.

Great video and a blast from the past. Bet there not stables anymore.

Proper people. 👍👍👍

That stable in that Mews is probably a £5million pound house now.

Beautiful to watch. New Subbie...

♥️♥️♥️

Albert looks like Max Wall

@kevinbaird7277

9 ай бұрын

I thought exact same thing.

Standing behind that horse! 🥴

Albert is clearly Keith Floyd after a particularly gruesome drinking session.

@JohnDoe-tx8lq

2 жыл бұрын

that's so hilarious!! 😆 Totting down the high street at 5am, straight from an after-hours pub session to the market for his hand-picked fruit & veg. 😁

@TheSusieTom

2 жыл бұрын

That made me laugh when I saw him..haaa

@missmuffet3874

2 жыл бұрын

A lovely, interesting clip.

@AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

The stables are still there in Paddington…

Them mews property worth millions now

I LOVE YOU....

Those mew houses would sell for over £2 million min.

Well, he’s only human after all

That mews house is worth 10 million pounds now

London is lost now its a place unknown to most English.

@simonlambert6891

2 жыл бұрын

Apart from the millions of English that live there

@magnah5581

2 жыл бұрын

@@simonlambert6891 The English are now a minority group in London what insanity is that. Do you go to Tokyo and expect the Japanese to be a minority I can assure they are not.

@simonlambert6891

2 жыл бұрын

@@magnah5581 why don't you say what you really mean? .'white people are the minority'...nice bit of casual racism

@magnah5581

2 жыл бұрын

@@simonlambert6891 Doe's the truth offend you. I am sure if I had said another race you would not have made such a stupid statement.

@uktravel8341

2 жыл бұрын

@Mag nah The English are whoever live and reside in England.

Wonder what those Mews houses are worth today?

@AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp

2 жыл бұрын

No change out of £3m

Red hot forge being pulled by a Spitfire along the road. Elf n Safety wouldn't have that now.

Farriers are not what they used to be any more ,there not even blacksmith s ,tho my horses are barefoot the few Farriers up here in Northumberland couldn't be bothered to come and trim my rescue cobs so I learnt myself now I trim them all and the price they now charge is shocking ,the old days are long gone .

I was so waiting for that horse to kick him when he was hanging on it’s arse

@TheSusieTom

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah...how did that horse resist the urge

Have two pretty girls to keep the irritable horses 🐎 at bay 😂

the old mews streets now gentrified for millions, that guy must of breathed in burnt horse feet for donkeys years. Was that donkey jacket guy Steptoe!

These trades will be back as will the horses when we run out of affordable fossil fuels.

@uktravel8341

2 жыл бұрын

Have you heard of wind power, solar, hydroelectricity etc?

@Mercmad

Жыл бұрын

@@uktravel8341 good luck riding a windmill or a solar panel . The greens predict that electric cars will compulsory by 2030 . The kids in Africa are digging as fast as they can to extract the cobalt etc for those fancy batteries.

Looks like Harold steptoe

@vipeton.8927

2 жыл бұрын

I was looking for comments like this :) was watching this TV series few days ago.

Bloody horses probably wearing turbans now etc.

@vipeton.8927

2 жыл бұрын

Price for colonisation.

@SpotlessLeopard

2 жыл бұрын

@@vipeton.8927 I was joking. But if a horse did wear a turban, why would that be a price for colonisation?

@vipeton.8927

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpotlessLeopard this would be cultural appropriation ;)

@SpotlessLeopard

2 жыл бұрын

@@vipeton.8927 That'll be the case when horses wear trainers. 😃

@vipeton.8927

2 жыл бұрын

Haha 😄

another rare thing in london now is a white english londoner

It saddens me to know that these old Londoners have been replaced by third world detritus, even the accent has gone

@heiltd1286

2 жыл бұрын

I know. These fellas talk in a proper London accent, not the Jafaican accent you hear today.