Clean up London | 1970s London | 1970s Street Market | Spitalfields Market | Today | 1977

Silver Jubilee year and Monty Modlyn is on the case to clean up London - in this report he confronts Stall holder and customers at Spitalfields Market in the East of London.
First shown: 21 1977
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Quote: Today & Thames at Six clean up London week 21 1977 VT348797

[@matthewbrooker]

Notable for hardly any plastic wrapping.

[@andrewrobinson8305]

That's about the only good thing you can say. None of this enormous mess got recycled, you can be sure of that. What a dump London was back then. Still, it was "the-good-old-days", eh?!!

[@jamesp-zo4ns]

Love the old Londoners 💪🏽

[@gavinstapleton7294]

Brilliant many thanks

[@AGAZAH]

At least there is no plastic to be found like today.

[@writeract2]

Lady at 3:50 is priceless.

[@MrDanielfff777]

Was here the other week

[@stevehotspur]

Monty Modlyn

[@andydixon2980]

What characters and sense of community. I love em!

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

"Isn't it your fault for creating the rubbish?" 🤔 "No Sir, a certain amount is created by us, such as with leaves..." 01:40 👍😎 Nothing to do with us, mate! That older lady blaming the young girls for dropping bandana skins made me laugh! Piles and piles of crates and boxes, but those young, fashionable women are to blame! 😁

[@MajorKlanga]

She revealed too much by saying "instead of dropping it in the gutter" as though dropping rubbish in the gutter is fine.

[@EgoShredder]

@@MajorKlanga I doubt if any of them know what to do with a bar of soap, let alone anything else.

[@Pretermit_Sound]

Watching this in 2020, from America, it’s nice to see people who can argue in a civil manner. You would never see this today. What have we lost?

[@buddha1736]

I bet any money that council grabs the tax money though lol. 😂

[@joehnichol]

its amaing how this is all gone now just full of students and suits. so sad

[@charlieminaj2]

That pesky paper all over the place caused the great fire of London🤣🤣😐🤣🤣

[@janeporter818]

Omg look at all that trash. Disgusting

[@simonsmall6446]

true londeners and the rubbish was all paper and cardboard no plastic

[@andrewrobinson8305]

Oh, well that's alright then! And I'm sure they very carefully recycled all that paper & cardboard.........

[@charlieminaj2]

This is what caused the great fire of London that pesky paper🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@slaff632]

Before Thatcher's era👈

[@Nickpaintbrush]

Wait...no snowflakes claiming theyre being dicriminated against!

[@th8257]

But lots of grumpy old determined to moan about any tenuous thing they can find. Your youth is gone. It's never coming back. Get over it.

[@southlondon86]

If only we could go back to those good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley. What has happened to this perfect country!? 😢😢

[@Nickpaintbrush]

@but ton Theres probably more awareness of these people now, which catches them more quickly hopefully

[@felix2672]

Wait...lots of old people-moaning...nothing changes

[@southlondon86]

@@felix2672 How are old you sir?

[@hellskitchenkritterandfrie3372]

DISgusstun!

[@stephenferguson]

Rubbish