London in 1973

[@dave1556]

50 years later, a completely different country.

[@coloneljackmustard]

A shithole 50 years later because of diversity. Let's state the whole truth candidly.

[@cafsixtieslover]

I worked on one of those tall buildings in London Wall in 1973, Royex House. I worked in London from 1972 to 2008. I now work from home and haven't been to London for years. Great memories. Love Valerie's outfit I used to wear outfits like that.

[@izzy9441]

That’s so cool! I wish I was alive in the 70s, you must’ve been so cool wearing those kinds of outfits ❤

[@spleeeen4it]

The presenter is truly lovely , and the whole film was fascinating. Thanks.

[@wordup1944]

I was born in camberwell in 1972. Was nice back then. Truth is , the outsiders have ruined it.

[@cherylharewood2549]

@wordup 1944 you are talking about outsiders, your beloved Great Britain, went all over the world, and colonized people's country. Then the outsiders came to the Motherland. For example, the West Indians.

[@Jahno71]

What goes around comes around.

[@Bassyswing1]

​@cherylharewood2549 The Brits in India, Kenya, Hong Kong, Caribbean etc didn't actually stay after those countries got their independence though.

[@stephenhardy312]

I was a fan of Blue Peter back in the day. These Special Assignments were very informative.

[@nicholasgargano7396]

B.D before diversity

[@minixtvbox]

True, 13 Tory years= Afrikaans London. 1 million diverse visas every Tory years

[@martincardoso2494]

The Caribbean and Asian Community from Uganda were already contributing significantly in UK already. Don’t be a bigot

[@markchandler5860]

Contributing what?

[@darkspy666]

@@martincardoso2494Great, so you’ll be happy to take in a few Somalian or Albanian male ‘refugees’ then?

[@Mohamed-oz9op]

​@@darkspy666 Somali not Somalian

[@aldomir]

It's 1973. Nearly dinner time. I'm 'avin' hoops.

[@michaelcarlos8686]

Hang on! This is kids tv in the 70s? Imagine getting a 10 year old to sit down and watch this now.

[@darrenhawksley4459]

FYI. The ravenmaster was Jack Wilmington not John. Sadly passed away in 2020 at the age of 91. What a legend. 🙏🙏✨✨

[@rh8338]

25:51 "Flee from the wrath to come" Looking at London in 2023, he wasn't wrong

[@Aitch_154]

Weird watching your home town in the year you came to be!

[@brittlecharm]

Between the sad conditions and the slow replay of music, the part about the zoo was the most disturbing.

[@cooper7031]

I love London!

[@Jabberstax]

Back when London was still an English city.

[@bellabyers2929]

It’s still an English city

[@tonykemp3432]

@@bellabyers2929 no it ain't..

[@esuavage]

Why don't you say what you really want to say, eh?

[@tonykemp3432]

@@esuavage dear father Christmas,I want less immigration, and I also want less Muslims, and I want less rubbish form Albania and I want the crap coming over the channel deported from one of the 4 safe countries they passed through...... that ok with you??

[@tonykemp3432]

@@esuavage oh and any foreigners who criticise this country deported and their families..

[@highpath4776]

Valerie ending up walking down London Wall. I dont think those office blocks were ever fully occupied. now demolished and rebuilt in new materials with the odd overseas bank and traders in them, the split and move to Canary Wharf removed a lot of processing and supervision work out east giving more space in the city , likewise the press moved out from Fleet Street and the whole city is much quieter now, but a little more busy on a saturday. The Barbican Centre though brought more arts , culture and exhibition space to the city and I found Farringdon busy when changing trains one evening this month at ground level around the bars and similar.

[@Support.Ukraine.Glory.Ukraine]

I like to see how things change over time

[@highpath4776]

When Billingsgate located out to "docklands" it really took the east enders out of London ( though a few their would have lived in say golden lane a mile walk away. In turn those workers moved further out to the new flats in Bow and the like. the commerce of london changed ( spitalfields chased away by the corporation of london and even Leadenhall Market is a pastiche of the daily trade it used to have.

[@sovereignjoe5730]

Gosh, you can really hear the sound distortions, when the music comes on.

[@trudilm3864]

copyright.

[@johnsilverton639]

I wqas surprised to see Arthur Scargill at the Lord Mayors side when he got out of his coach.

[@trudilm3864]

Never imagine people like Arthur are lone actors. If they were outside 'the system' they would be stubbed out long before the public get to hear of them.

[@pierrewilliams1533]

@@trudilm3864 For Heaven's sake, it's not Scargill - just someone who looks very slightly similar!

[@highpath4776]

Always thought Valerie Singleton knew everthing, then she appear on Richard Osmand's House of Games and was somewhat at sea.

[@shadeauto3373]

super glad we saved the great Tartarian structures 100 %built before 1666,,,,,they were claimed

[@stefanhatcher6486]

When London had British people living there

[@highpath4776]

Visit says City Of London, but strictly the Tower is not in the City

[@anthonykoller4459]

Wow so many White Faces, now it’s impossible to find one today in London 😮

[@ebismusic8813]

So what?

[@chubbygallasso]

The police have no difficulty in finding them!

[@Mohamed-oz9op]

They migrated to every corner on earth for a better life and sunny weather.

[@anthonykoller4459]

@@Mohamed-oz9op unfortunately most of them are criminals and escaping the Law and this is what is happening in London right now

[@highpath4776]

Tower Bridge needs a clean but pity when the steam engines were removed from it

[@robtyman4281]

....it was cleaned.... years ago! .....back in the 1990's. It may have been cleaned again since then (?). Buts it was definitely cleaned in the 90's (between 95 and 98) - when they cleaned several other famous landmarks including Westminster Abbey, Tower of London, St. Paul's, and Big Ben + the Houses of Parliament. All was done in throughout the 90's.

[@highpath4776]

@@robtyman4281 yeah, I was involved with the refurb in the 90s ( dealing with the scaffolding bill at city of london corp !), but the london pollution since has affected it now on film, I suppose I should try and pop up to see it again - I normally go to the west end just before christmas so might do my little south bank trip first over to St Pauls and take a bus to Tottenham Court Road avoiding the jams in the strand

How many Caribbeans were living in Brixton in the seventies?

[@bbgunn917]

Lots but they were cool. They were in Notting Hill too

[@bingbong7316]

Val was a bit of a looker, really.

[@baggy79]

I bet John Noakes give her one

[@analogueman123456787]

I wouldn't go that far, but if you know her history, she was 'a bit of a girl' in her day. Certainly not the straight-laced and starchy front she put on in front of the cameras. Personally I think she was great! I was born in 1967, and she was one of those presenters I kind of grew up with.

[@MsArrowroot]

@@baggy79 No, that was Peter Purves. According to Singleton, they had a fling.

[@hiramdominicus7413]

I was at that moment in the making… about to pop out into the world….. 😂😂😂😂 👶🏼🍼

[@johnobrien8398]

No two tier policing and diversity and multiculturalism was not even a word

[@MrJumbojames]

It was Londillium when I was young!

[@ROCKYFISTSCATS]

Winchester was the capital when i was younger.

[@minixtvbox]

Londistan now.little afrika

[@steadyeddie639]

Spot the "diversity"

[@josephyearwood1179]

Stamford Hill is as white (and nativeless) as ever.

[@Jabberstax]

Looks like heaven compared to nowadays

[@minixtvbox]

13 Tory years=Afrikaans

[@steadyeddie639]

@@minixtvbox After Blair opened the door

[@Brakdayton]

@@steadyeddie639how old are you? 21? 22??

[@clivechadburn6342]

The uk before the polish & the kurdish hand car wash invasion !!!!

[@nisha7572]

Love these old London videos. Hate the comments generally saying things like "back when London was English/back when things were better/back when London was white" and other racist comments. Maybe educate yourselves on why London became more diverse in the first place and stop being so bloody close minded.

[@tonykemp3432]

London is a shit hole now, because of mass immigration..

[@Brakdayton]

I remember, back in the late 70s travelling on the number 15 bus as it went through the Isle of Dogs, and a couple of middle aged women were complaining/reminiscing of how it’s not like it used to be. I heard the same thing from a similarly aged pair in the mid-90s on the East London line.

[@tonykemp3432]

@@Brakdayton god knows what they would say now!!!

[@tonykemp3432]

We have always had immigration, but not on this scale...... from 1970-79 on average 75 thousand a year arrived....... nowadays we are having 745.000 thousand a year....... absolutely shocking

[@markchandler5860]

Always diverse but not on this scale, social engineering by the back door

[@tropicalpalmtree]

Looks like a different world back then, for better or worse.

[@tropicalpalmtree]

12:55 looks like boycie in the tan coat