Covent Garden July 1996

Westend of London . Sunny Day 1996 #london #1996 #coventgarden #westend

[@mitzy123]

Its scary how fast life flashes by. 96 seems like yesterday

[@cassisbrook]

In a nicely strange way, July '96 doesn't seem that long ago. Crazy to think that it was 26 years ago!! Glad that Covent Garden hasn't changed that much. Good video!

[@robertwilson3866]

It's amazing to think that people existed in color back then. I've seen videos further back in the past. Some as early as 500 BC and color hasn't been invented yet.

[@djpeekay25]

great summer! The country was buzzing from Euro 96. It was the summer before I went to uni.

[@David-h4z2s]

I went for a poo❤

[@23Daves]

This takes me back - Covent Garden hasn't really changed that much since 1996, quite honestly, but I think my attitude towards it has. Back when I was at university in Portsmouth I had friends on the south coast but during term breaks would be at my parents house in Essex. For whatever reason, it felt like the perfect central spot to catch up with someone in an afternoon over the summer break - we could grab a pizza, drink in one of the nearby pubs (The Essex Serpent was always my fave in those days) and enjoy ourselves before going our separate ways again. The older I got, the less I used it for socialising partly (I think) because it increasingly became a bit of a tourist trap and therefore more expensive. Most of my good memories stem from this period.

[@tyronerodgers]

Straight in at the start. An Oasis style chequed shirt.... Everyone was wearing those

[@oliverpearson1577]

So how come he's the only person in the entire video wearing one?

[@paulkenneally789]

At a time you could drive a car into central London and pay at a meter.

[@robertwilson3866]

This was the time when no one had cameras and when no one was filming anything. Blissful times!

[@MrTim207]

Apart from the guy with the camera filming this 😉

[@robertwilson3866]

@@MrTim207 I think it is probably a memory capture

[@shaunhutchings]

Well apart from me

[@felisdom2739]

It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming, football's coming home...

[@robtyman4281]

26 years later...... Women: oh, FFS I'll get it myself! .....🤔🤨 No, the guys still haven't won anything......and yes the temperature really did hit 40c a few weeks back (July 2022)🌡️☀️🔥🔥🔥

[@decimustv4257]

Football is never coming home. ENGLAND SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bluelotus9654]

Shirts and ties

[@Jim17735]

Thankfully unlike Soho, Charring X Road etc it hasn't changed that much and still has its character mostly intact

[@cassisbrook]

Charing Cross road, the Chinatown side, going up to the Palace Theatre has changed, but like you wrote, it mostly hasn't changed. Tottenham Court Road has a facelift though.

[@richardsingh5827]

Good times

[@tylersweet5994]

In the days before the New York Candy Company money launders arrived and British people weren't saying "Guys, I'll take some like Candy for like Halloween...' etc

[@officialsimonharris]

Hi8 or Video 8 format? or S-VHS?

[@londonphotographer]

Look reader! No phones. People present. Wow. Different times!

[@matthewdoyle3877]

Really lol

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

A nice place then.

[@oliverpearson1577]

London was still just about an English city then. Then that nice Mr Blair came in and declared war on the indigenous population.

[@spleeeen4it]

I notice men's builds in those days were mainly slim, these days literally every guy is a mini arnie schwarzenegger, or seems to be n my area. Must be evolution , can't all be gym related.

[@brianswathey]

Evolution happens over millions of years. Can’t change anything in 26 years

[@Spendarellaa]

Wow not everyone is obese!

[@mas3974]

Now the kids all speak like they're black.

[@shanedavies16]

That’s because most of them are blackies

[@awentimes]

Now all the kids are black.

[@Morning404]

What a stupid comment. What is 'speaking black'? Imagine thinking all black people speak the same.

[@GaryGeezer-l2s]

That's a good thing. It means that we have diverse community which means that sesh is propa authentic isn't it yeah?

[@FFS704]

Just before forced cultural enrichment took full hold

[@pipotherium]

Not so different from now :)

[@SandraDeefan]

Eh?? I think not.