Camden Market | 1980s London | Camden Lock | Camden High Street | TN-SL-122-007

CAMDEN LOCK MARKET. 10.5.87.
G/V'S. CAMDEN LOCK MARKET & SHOPPERS/CAMDEN HIGH STREET /CANAL
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[@maddang1797]

Camden and the market was a bohemian, multicultural space with an eclectic array of stalls selling artisan and second hand treasures. I lived in Kings Cross and loved to walk down the canal to the lock at the weekend.

[@francofan100]

The fashions remind me of ‘Rita Sue and Bob Too’.

[@gabriellaj.o.6180]

The old days now the golden days.

[@mikebarton]

Time flies. Funny seeing my old flat... Nostalgia.

[@MichaelWilliams-et9zt]

Great piece of film. Still more or less as I remember it from the late 70s.

[@js2749]

I remenber this 'version' of Camden Town so well. Was so much part of my life. Loved it

[@millerstetson4330]

pro tip: you can watch movies at Flixzone. Been using it for watching all kinds of movies lately.

[@sethboden6657]

@Miller Stetson yea, I have been using flixzone} for months myself :)

[@thaddeusemory7482]

@Miller Stetson yup, I have been watching on flixzone} for since december myself :D

[@robtyman4281]

Wow, it's already changed hugely since then (35 years ago). There's some monster 'mullets' in this film footage! lol Gotta love the 80's!

[@DIRT_NASTY]

I've never seen camden town look so clean! Great video!

[@jblack5323]

Notice how people seem relaxed and fairly quiet, and a bit weary of the camera. Everyone seems to make alot more noise now specially when a camera is put in front of them.

[@sheila6186]

4:58: Bless that lovely, little boy running along in front of his father. He looks full of joy, scrambling freely up the street. :)

[@FitzElda]

He would be about 40 now in 2024

[@FitzElda]

I spent most Saturdays down here in 86/87.

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

Who remembers 'Compendium'? That was a gas! Wow - Camden way back when!

[@scottg44]

Wow I actually worked on that flower stall around that time (1987), the guy that I worked for is in the video unfortunately I’m not in it but what a great video!! Thanks man!!

[@frostxlegendzx5798]

Was there a lot of goths and punks in the night ? Or they were everywhere ??

[@pauldashwood2897]

I was here in the 80s most weekends …great place to come .

[@ZeldaFitz]

I was going to guess 1986 and then saw the date was 1987. I was there most weekend around 86/87.

[@skaboosh]

when some upstart decided to change it, it lost its soul to a great degree

[@jaywalkercrew4446]

Yes 🙌

[@BingoBet-It-AllBeaver]

Camden died in the early 90s, it was ruined by the grunge hippies, and it never recovered.

[@theresapierce3934]

It won't be long before it vanishes completely, Brixton, Northcote, Tooting to name a few. Councils, corporations and developers are all pushing traders and residents out.

[@keithbrandon8540]

Best yime there in early early 70's. Roundhouse, Chalkfarm, just up the rd and huge squatting scene and alternatives doung music, arts, helping obtain housing working with the council, first health shop and cafe ran by a guy called Catweazle who cycled around India in the 60's. 6 pm news did a feature on the police brutality which the local alternatives filmed. Had an old war siren set up in what was Prince of Wales Crescent that was turned on when the 'meat wagons' (police vans) turned up and everyone piled into the street to stop them doing their dirty work and filmed them. Was truly great. Left us alone but eventually houses knocked down by the new corporates, everything commercialised and ruined. 80's lost it 90' tried reviving but for many it just became another mass produced same old same old. Shame.

[@andrewcheatle4691]

1980's squatting scene around Malden Rd / Chalk farm was pretty good too. Been there done that😁

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

Compendium Books, Dingwalls. It was ab fab in the early 70s. Today, it’s a trash heap.

[@parkst.frankfranklin3986]

I thought that I might be there. Nice to see this video.

[@coaldust01]

That's you on the right at 0:31

[@pauljohnson1384]

I must have been selling on the stables market that weekend

[@clarissamcpigeon7857]

Back when London was safe and actually somewhat affordable to live in. In fact that was broadly true up to 2008 or so. Oh well.

[@person.X.]

It wasn't any safer then than it is now. In fact worse. The crime rate back then was dire. I speak from personal experience from living in London in this era.

[@JohnnyFriendly]

@@person.X. Agreed. What is it with all this fake nostalgia these days? I hung out in Camden a lot during the '80s and it was rough; night time in London was definitely NOT safe at all during the '80s, far safer now. Nor was it really affordable, not sure where that myth came from. I lived in a crummy bedsit back then since that's all any of us could afford. Property prices were already rocketing up from around '85 or so

[@person.X.]

@@JohnnyFriendly Y the 70s and 80s were appalling for crime in London. It started to improve in the second half of the 90s and is now better than ever for most people. In those earlier times burglary, car theft and muggings were much more common. These days the crime is more concentrated. In the area I grew up in things seem pretty tough for black boys with gang culture, stabbings etc. But generally things are much less edgy. And to my eyes at least race relations seem to be vastly improved despite all the media hype from right and left.

[@AmuJaneTV]

​@@person.X.loooool I heard crazy things from one of my older siblings who grew up in the 80s some crazy stories

[@andrewcheatle4691]

​@@JohnnyFriendlyIt was a bit more affordable, London rental costs as a proportion of income have increased massively - but it was never 'cheap'. And yea it was rough. I got hit with a bottle on Camden High St and still have the scars to prove it! Lots of rose tinted spectacle disorder going on here!

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Blimey, 80s fashion looks pretty drab in this clip. But great footage of Camden market. So nostalgic! Used to love going there every week! And Dingwalls!! Loved going to gigs there.

[@ruru_bckwrds8737]

Wow, it look messier than now.

[@pepaportilloesteban6084]

Genial.

[@uktravel8341]

People's dress sense has definitely improved since then.

[@fdama]

Look at how slim they were. No Frappuccinos back then.

[@user-kq5qp6dh8l]

Used to be there everyweek end

[@wedocam]

No stupid smart phones, no fat people

[@markdarby9015]

It doesn't have half the character it has now.... But how much cleaner was the lock then

[@JPatelLive]

DINGWALLS!!!

[@hungbearlover]

How did they manage to make it look so lame? Where are all the characters. I don’t remember it so denim and t shirts in 1987

[@TazW73]

This is footage of the high street .. and bit of the lock .. shame there isn’t actual footage walking around the markets especially from a Saturday or Sunday .. missed opportunity

[@maddang1797]

Here's a brilliant video of a day in the life of Camden Market and lock in 1995. It really captures the vibe back then, including interviewing some stall holderskzbin.info/www/bejne/qKGsZnighr17itk

[@cosmic687]

mullets

[@admiralackbar9307]

No fat people, everyone looks happy and healthy, people actually dressed well, no flares, Camden use to be a wonderful place before the miserable drug taking grunge hippies infested and ruined the place in the 1990s thank god there gone now,

[@sheila6186]

@@admiralackbar9307 I was going to say the same thing -- not a single fat person to be seen. People definitely looked fitter, healthier, more stylish, happier and more engaged with their surroundings. I noticed that the men looked more masculine and normal too. It's probably because they were more physically active then. Gosh, this video shows how much society has declined since that time. People's heads are buried in their iPhones now.

[@cosmic687]

@@admiralackbar9307 flares are ok. I wear them, more bootcut though.

[@stuartgray7490]

You don't see fruit and veg being sold in the markets now days just over priced burgers

[@jaywalkercrew4446]

Gentrification happened

[@avelinosilvadias]

Where's zombie punk?he wasn't even born yet lol

[@user-kl4bh4lq6r]

Thank F❤❤K

[@FSCforal]

I literally can't see any Muslims their

[@jejepalmer]

what’s your point? and yes there are multiple in this video. you probably are just expecting them to look a certain way so you missed most of them.

[@_B.M_]

So what? Is that what you base your life on you sad person

[@samuelxd7954]

What he's saying that it's amazing that muslims arn't so common. And you know what... London was better this way. England's cities should be english, it's a utter shame what London has become.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

​@@samuelxd7954 English cities are english. And racists moaned about people who didn't look exactly like them in those days as well. It's what they do. Boring bastards.

[@keifer7813]

​@@samuelxd7954 Nobody forced the English to leave 😉

[@peakysteve6045]

No punks rockabillys just boring disco types must be early 90s

[@andrewcheatle4691]

It's clearly late 80's m8

[@user-whu]

Camden is an over priced toilet, sadly the rest of London has followed .

[@tonykemp3432]

Camden lock is a shit hole now,, plastic Chinese junk everywhere......80s and 90s it was ok..... don't bother going now

[@user-kl4bh4lq6r]

Looks like EastEnders, The Bill, Meet's Surgical Spirit, Meet's Only Fools And Horses Triggers Street Sweeping Round🏒🚭🚷