1970s Harlow | What do the locals think of Harlow | Harlow | Essex | A town called...| 1975

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

You can tell it's quite a long time ago when the first thing they show after his intro is roads and traffic... a modern town with everything you could need. Though I admit I do like seeing 70's cars. 😁👍

[@garymitchell8394]

Noel Edmonds at 2.02...he hasn't changed a bit! 😆

[@JC_303]

Dads Wood is the name of the block of flats built in the early 2000s in the town centre, did not know its historical connection!

[@DTFilmProductions]

same I thought that

[@rightgirlwrongplanet]

Harlow has changed demographic significantly since this was made. Few Londoners and many eastern Europeans. It is so diverse now. Probably beyond the imagination of the participants of this video back then.

[@knoxyish]

you mean ruined ?

[@rightgirlwrongplanet]

@@knoxyish No, I did not mean that.

[@LamneYokaMou]

Unfortunately Harlow is now run down and has a lot of poverty and unemployment. It was lovely to see it in better times.

[@Brewster-Productions]

I was there that day and met Monty. He signed an autograph for me. That was at the water gardens in the High (Town Centre) near the old Town Hall.

[@PatJenningsGloves]

If i remember rightly Monty was a presenter on Today with Llew Gardner,Allan Hargreaves etc.

[@squirrelarch]

Well remembered. Sounds right to me. Monty Modlyn was on LBC radio for a while too.

[@throwhammer]

Born and grew up in Harlow… it’s now shit hole…

[@dominewimbury2039]

Blimey. This is great

[@PlanetImo]

Aw. Nice. That was my birth year!

[@pit_stop77]

Was that noel Edmonds at 2.10 putting on a fake accent? 😂😂😂

[@TheStevenWhiting]

No its not him.

[@EgoShredder]

@@TheStevenWhiting Come on, play along with the joke!

[@TheStevenWhiting]

@@EgoShredder Saw it fly over my head

[@HelenTudor-Douglas]

The guy at 2:02 looks like my old boyfriend Roy. Roy was from Harlow & looked about the same age as this guy in 1975. There's a Lovely park/lake in Harlow. Anyone out there know who that guy is?

[@dylaninpieces2]

Michelle Lyons (the woman behind Funny Horsie and other avant-garde content) brought me here.

[@freedomforpeopletruelies6]

Polite nice people . Unlike today's so called lot

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

What a nice, polite thing to say. Lovely.

[@David-uf8ex]

@@JohnDoe-tx8lq spot on though

[@strawberrymilkplayzroblox753]

Nah harlow is a dump now alit of racist white people now

[@JaniceCole1950]

People were a lot different back then

[@raijinenel3116]

MEGA

[@starsailor49]

I moved to Harlow in 1962. It was a good place before the second generation turned it into an utter dump.

[@ajs41]

Was that the children of the first generation, or new people moving in? Incidentally my mum worked in the hospital for 6 months in about 1975, although we're from Staffordshire.

[@jasonayres]

Francis Drake, eh? (0:30) Goodness me, how he has aged well. Considering he was the first man to circumnavigate the globe in the mid 1500's, I think he looks quite chipper.

[@automotivel3501]

And now considered a racist, who had dealings with slavery, according to the Royal Greenwich Maritime Museum. the tossers.

[@michaelforde4373]

Noel Edmunds finks things set down too early at night

[@mindblast3901]

2.40 The major fawlty towers

[@JaniceCole1950]

Harlow was a nice town, but now no

[@LabRat6619]

More kitchen knives are sold in Harlow than the rest of Essex.

[@silversurfermusicco5263]

Harlow nice chips n pizza now innit geez

[@hazelwray4184]

First aired, 1975? This is not the portrayal of gloom and doom the decade is generally portrayed as; not the milieu that spawned Anarchy in the UK Nov 1976.

[@martin.baldock9719]

Most people moving to Harlow would have been glad to, most were not from the area and had better housing and facilities. The interesting thing from the younger adults was the lack of nightlife which is in line with what happened just before the punk explosion, groups struggled to get paying gigs. The other thing of note is that there are a few socio-political documentaries kicking around with interviews at the time and it was striking how little has changed for those on the lower rungs of the social hierarchy. People in Harlow would have been quite fortunate

[@lottytaylor572]

& look what an armpit harlow is now

[@felicitytoad]

😊😊😊🙂🙃🙂😉😇😁

[@PhilUKNet]

Essex has some beautiful areas, but Harlow and Basildon are just carbuncles on the landscape.

[@brainsmith3931]

Harlow these days is full of Londoners escaping London diversity which is a problem to them.

[@peterallam6494]

Monty could've got same reaction in other New Towns that came about around the sametime too. Harlow was set out with the M11 planned to be west of the town which is why it's such a shlep reaching & leaving it from/to that direction. New Local Authority housing is off the Agendas of successive governments that have both been in office long enough to resurrect it as policy.

[@jonh2469]

It’s crack central now

[@martin.baldock9719]

Depends where you are in Harlow, still a lovely place to live.

[@jonh2469]

@@martin.baldock9719 old Harlow 2 crack dens on my road alone

[@BodybuildingSteve]

@@jonh2469 old harlow is ment to be the decent bit lmao I live in bishops stortford now but thats going the same way as harlow :( have to keep moving further and further out

[@jonh2469]

@@BodybuildingSteve yea I started in Tottenham

[@Rebelconformist82]

You should come to Brighton

[@chihaoshen888]

Australians and British sounded the same back in the 1970s, now the Aussies talk more bogan and British started to all sound like londoners😂

[@meestermeesterhastings.3159]

Total Dump...