My home town

Use to drive bus no 25 down there 😂

Quite dull place I would say.

Used to ride my bike down Mansfield hill when a teenager back in the 80s. No helmet and overtaking buses. Don’t know how I survived.

Thank you for driving me home. You have covered my whole life here. I am born and bred North Finchley, you drove past the road I grew up on, where I went to school, my local shops and post office.... who are you?

I'm surprised how familiar it looks and I lived in Strone Road until 1973. The Army and Navy where I bought my first sheepskin coat is still there! Thanks for the video. I remembered doing track biking in Little Ilford Park.

Born there in 1955 and raised there until 1972. The infrastructure hasn't changed a bit. I think I could still find my way round with my eyes shut🙂 I live far from there now so many thanks for the memories.

Thanks for posting this video. My grandmother lived here for years and my dad and I would visit her back in the '70s getting the bus to W Norwood bus station from East Croydon. Later in the 80s I would get the train and walk up to her flat in Thurlby Road, its so hilly and quite a walk! I did remember the station, church and cemetery. Where the Co-Op is now I think used to be MacFisheries.

Thanks for taking me back to Restons Crecent where I was born in Jan 1940 (house now dismantled). I can remember seeing a combine harvester taking in the crop in the field behind where the shopping parade now is (9 mins in). The LCC bought the area from Crown Estates c.1950 to build the estate. Before that, bluebell woods.

What the fuck have thay done to bow flats every we're ain't been there for about 12years or more

That was a lovely trip down memory lane. Any chance you'd take a drive up Mapesbury Road NW6.?

Cool

I lived down Capel Road Is the pub still there (Golden Flees)

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It was an exciting watch thank you

I lived down Church Road and my wife lived down Third Avenue. I was at Little Ilford School the first year it opened . I’m 68 years old now and it was a life time ago

Driving a bit fast for a built up area 😮

Thanks for the upload reminded me of 2001 to 2011, ahh no Bradenham house anymore

Were I was born in and grew up in the 1950s. I works at the garage they pass at 3:39 when it was Morgan & King Motor Works.

Lives in Plumstead for a number of years and used to go to the princess of wales pub on the common with my mates in the eighties , don’t k ow where they are now lost contact

I lived in Abbey wood, and my secondary school was in Charlton lower road. So i remember most of this. Especially going up Herbert road and into Eglington hill. I worked at a Butchers in Herbert road, Nan lived in Nithdale road. Sister worked at Bakers in Lakedale road. Born in 1953, i left the area around 1974 and moved to Essex. It was great to see the old stomping ground, thankyou so much.

Why not have a bicycle and totally ignore any traffic signs that you have!?

Did all the old flats get regeneration?

Red telephone box? Get in!!! This was my old stomping ground in the 50's 60's Lived in Abbey Wood but used to come here to travel on the Ferry which in those days had a lovely glass partition with wood frame like a window that you could look through and see the massive brass oiled crank shaft moving up and down...glorious as a kid, we'd go backwards and forwards totally free, oh dear they really were the days, used to come here also for the Woolwich baths which were the best around and were always hot with hot showers too, and come out with me mates, eyes streaming from the chlorine ha ha. Always get such a good feeling watching these and it puts me back in touch with my roots which ultimately involved the beautiful Thames. Love it mate, thanks so much for this.

I remember travelling to work by tram to work in Woolwich in the mid 1940's and what a place Woolwich was in those! We used to work a five and half day week and Powis Street on Saturdays used to be full of people overflowing into the road with Beresford Square a live and busy activity with its market stalls. I recall the butchers stall on the corner which had auctions of meat on Saturday evenings and the crowds were dense! Woolwich during this time due to it's productivity in the Royal Arsenal must have been one of the wealthiest Boroughs in London. But when Woolwich Borough Council was dissolved into Greenwich Borough Council, Woolwich lost out for sure. It was Greenwich that was trumpeted not Woolwich!

7 minutes in and not really looking like Thamesmead at all. 😉

I live in London

All the places I used to walk my dog and go running even at night in the 80s wouldn’t now days such a shame was so good growing up great people 😢

Thanks for this……glad l don’t live in the area anymore!

Portuguese & angolan ppl mostly live around here

What's it all about? Driving too fast to read any street names, it was only the final seconds that I knew where I was. And I used to live there!

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Thank you very much for this video. For 4 years North Finchley was nothing less, but my home while working in London. Almost 8 years passed by since I've left, and plenty of good memories came back while watching. Much appreciated.

I used to live in Manor Park (on the Romford Road a long time ago). Didn’t recognise any of the video.

My Grandparents, the Pesters, lived at 28 Stansted road, Forest Hill. SE 23 How i remember this address is a miracle as last time i visited was in February 1956, i was 9, and i came to Africa with my parents. Like it was yesterday, they had a grocers not far from their house. My great delight was to spend time with them, they had a television, an electric blanket. Oh sweet memories. Thanks for the chance to share.

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You drove past my school (Oxford Gardens Primary), passed by the hospice where my Dad died (Princess Louise), crossed over the street where my Mum lived (St Quintin Avenue), crossed the road where I was brought up (St Marks Road), past the flats where we moved to just after was born (Ruth House) , crossed the road where I was repeatedly patched up in hospital as a kid (St Charles Square), past the school my Mum went to (Barlby Road), skirted past the East side of the cemetery both my parents were cremated (Kensal Green) and all that before you crossed over the Harrow Road! When people say "where are you from" this is where.

Loved it I grew up on the Sydenham hill estate in the seventies now live in lancaster but I never unfortunately recognised anywhere 😢

Nice video but you should have gone to the top of George Lane past the George, the cinema and Waitrose. It would be nice to see a video of Buckhurst Hill/ Epping, Loughton also could you do a drive in Enfield, Enfield Lock area please?

A totally different Bromley that I went to in the 80s, I am biased I think I prefer the old Bromley

That's not Abbey Wood SE2 it's Thamesmead! I should know. I lived in New Road 30 odd years ago opposite the Woodland on the hill. Grew up with fond memories of Abbey Wood. Now live abroad. Thanks for the tour...

Nice miss the grave digger job I had on Lewisham ❤

Romania, despite the poverty and neglect, their buses still run.

Love it. I was born in forest gate.👍

I live in Thamesmead (crossway)...and I've just realised, after watching this, just how much of a visual difference it makes when the street-trees have foliage... without it the 'MEAD can look even more 'dank+depressive'! (like in winter), ain't complaining! there's worse places to live (up North mostly),good upload👍

Nice drive round areas familiar to me, although technically alot of the roads are actually Stamford Hill N16 and Clapton Common E5 😊

Didn’t go anywhere near Kilburn, very odd, just West Hampstead and Brondesbury, perhaps they got lost.

Sumner estate no longer exists. Swathe’s of the North Peckham@Pentridge and Cronin street still do. Gloucester Grove still exists@Chandler Way and St George’s Way respectively