Edmonton (London, England) 1970s

[@RickInDorset]

Fascinating, but sad, as it shows the start of the end of The Green. What a fabulous place it was before the planners decided to 'improve' it. Such is the manner of so-called progress. As a North London lad, my memories of it are from the '50s and '60s and I last drove through the area in 1971 before moving away. Fortunately I have never visited what it now is. Thanks for sharing your Uncle Mike's video with us, Laurence. 👍

[@craigav68]

I only lived in Edmonton for a year or so in 1976...this takes me back.i was only eight. We lived on church st, 217 i think. Near the the Cambridge Rd..I spent lots of that summer playing in Victory Park and the Brook. My sister Sharon and i went to Croyland school..thanks for putting this up..x

[@andrewwelsh2744]

Happy days playing in V park and the brook also went croyland school Happy days!!!

[@squeakysoliloquy83]

Very nostalgic thanks for sharing mate 🥂

[@michaelkenny8540]

The shop prices at 1:52 are in 'old money' so that bit is before January 1971. At 2:23 film poster for 'Lawrence Of Arabia' at The Dominion and it ran Sept 10-Nov 29 1970.

[@melindavassili8929]

I was born in Edmonton lived on Church St so not far from where this video was filmed and I still remember most of those shops and places like it was yesterday, spent most my time there at the shopping green Thank you for sharing,

[@archiebunter6122]

Thank your lucky stars you got out of shank town

[@jasonfernee6395]

My family roots are here in Lower Edmonton, remember walking 'up the green' from my Nan's house on Chiswick Road in the 70s. Totally changed now, and dare I say not for the better. The tower block at the very beginning is still there, and the view from the camera view is very much the same today, the car is crossing the border from Tottenham into Upper Edmonton.

[@archiebunter6122]

It's disgusting knife crime rife

[@Jk-ns8mx]

Grew up in N17 in 1970s /80s - use to go to Edmonton market every Saturday - always freezin cold in there from what I remember!!!

[@tolgawalsh7774]

It still is haha been inuse to live there and though id pop by and blimey its still has its iconic sceneries

[@algorithm6291]

Fantastic. Like the fact he captured those Green Shield Stamps and I saw a couple of mini skirts so that pins it to early 70s like you said. I was 13/14.

[@sometimesdimneverthin]

I can just about remember what it looked like before the shopping centre was built. A street market and covered mall opposite Dale's. Cinema around the back somewhere roughly where the market moved to. Woolworths on the left towards Bounces. Dad parked behind Dale"s. We lived a few miles to the north but went there a lot. I had swimming lessons after school in the Victorian pool behind the town hall in 1968.

[@hughesvideo]

It said 1972 on the (VHS) tape my Uncle left with me, but that may have been when he actually compiled the footage. I'm not sure that any of it is from AFTER 1972. My guess is that it is pieced together from a period between 1970 (which I'm sure was when the existing tower blocks on the green were built) and 1972.

[@kenthornton5435]

+hughesvideo Yes, I'm there with wife and baby. From his age the parade sequence looks to be mid 1970. All that and Hollywood turned me down.

[@a.m.armstrong8354]

When they built the green,North and South Malls were covered but the market wasn't.

[@apc4y]

I remember those times. Was 11 at the time of the film. So, so different now. Ethnically, culturally, spiritually, 'aspirationally'. Edmonton has become a dumping ground with no respect for former times.

[@1daxwood]

Leave if u don't like it

[@apc4y]

ecriptus wood Why should I? Why don’t they stop using it as a dumping ground. Was a great place during my childhood with all races co-mingling

[@1daxwood]

@@apc4y well rather than moan about it anonymously ask your self "what can I do to change it or better it". If not be quiet

[@riderzinc]

It's a Nasty place to live now, Even the people that live there know that

[@apc4y]

@@1daxwood what do you know what I’ve done about it. Anonymous is you with your fake name.

[@lushlover2023]

My home town! The chippy near the old bus station was amazing.....

[@dingb473]

Perfect place

[@BOZ_11]

@@dingb473 Perfect Plaice (word play)

[@dbouquet]

It was!

[@jaxnorthmusic7863]

My hometown ❤️

[@keithedmundson2318]

You always love your hometown Me, I'm from Sunderland and it was a hub of industry, but now a sad shell of its former glory, at least our football team are beginning to show signs of a revival. FTM😂

[@archiebunter6122]

I can't love my home Borough of edmonton, it's dreadful. NEver will go there knife murders etc, named shank town. How proud these morons must be

[@mhz.k]

as someone whose been born in edmonton (middlesex hospital) this amazes me how diff it looked as a 13 year old lol i was just curious what it looked like then

[@madcommodore]

Great stuff, thank you. 0:04 already recognise that as The Jolly Farmer pub.

[@dog-e-tainment1082]

I work in the new Edmonton green, I remember the original layout as a kid! Good old vid of Edmonton.

[@freddieladduk6386]

My dad worked in the green aswell as a kid

[@edwindavis1818]

@@freddieladduk6386 And the Granada cinema too...

[@tio9896]

Used to go to edmonton green as a young kid a lot in the early noughties for the library, shopping tescos woolworths etc It was always a little tired looking. Got quite bad around 10 years ago but it seems alright nowadays. Just like many other small malls I think it was a victim of changing consumer habits with people doing all of their non grocery shopping in westfields or brent cross.

[@TheUnknown313]

I'm only 24 and I remember the old layout of Edmonton Green. Including the road bridge (Forgot the name of the road) over the very front entrance of the Green, where the old Bus Station used to be. Buses terminating there would use the road.

[@TheUnknown313]

@@tio9896 Same here. The library, Tesco's, Woolworths (which I loved), the mini store outside Tesco's (right in the middle) and you could get your snacks and Ice polls, etc.

[@AB-kx4nc]

Proper place back then, sad to watch

[@cherylharewood2549]

My uncle Sydney, migrated from Barbados, in 1950's. He lived in Edmonton from the 1950's until he died in 1990.

[@gail2500]

My dad was born in Edmonton in 1920 and migrated to Australia when he was 6.

[@archiebunter6122]

.ucky man

[@archiebunter6122]

He was lucky

[@dog-e-tainment1082]

Brings back some good old memories!

[@archiebunter6122]

Not now

[@robhingston]

Thank you so much

[@cassidypresley3271]

My home town too......💘 😻 💜 💛 💚 it!! Had some good memories here.

[@kevinbrown6280]

N9 N18 for life❤️❤️❤️

[@a.m.armstrong8354]

This was early 70's before they covered the market.Winds used to blow off the tarpaulins.

[@keithedmundson2318]

Used to be so normal before it became Shank town

[@archiebunter6122]

Yup, still shank town

[@hardyboy1959]

I grew up in Edmonton in the 70s... but not this one! No wonder nothing looked familiar!

[@samuraijack1920]

There’s two Edmonton’s, The one in North London and the one in Canada

[@gregcpu]

Not early 1970's for all of it. Parts of it are after 1977. There's a couple Mk4 Ford Cortina's in the film

[@ivanrainbird2416]

much nicer then i use to travel through to go to ponders end

[@tonyhigginson8534]

what a hell hole it is now.

[@edwindavis1818]

What happened to Montagu road high school? I went there. It is now a housing estate. Can anyone help?

[@meld5597]

Wow I use to live on that rd never knew there was a high school there!!

[@archiebunter6122]

Ha ha

[@davidbanner9001]

It was never perfect. But I remember those days. Ask yourself, what changed?

[@jamesupton4996]

It looks better now with all the new development.

[@dingb473]

Who remembers the joke shop this n that

[@BOZ_11]

the game arcade machines. spent ages there playing all the locals on street fighter and SNK stuff.

[@dingb473]

​@@BOZ_11play world

[@alunjones4427]

I remember this area before they wrecked it first time around in mid 60s and build that monstrosity of a market hall and horrible flats. With original market on the old disused lower Edmonton station where market entrance is in these photos. Empire at bottom of hill and the rail crossing still next to the cross keys & all the stalls lining the high road outside caters sainsburys etc & all the other shops that ran along the high road. Sad what developers call improvements.

[@georgegoodyear9631]

Thanks for the memories of the earlier years of my life. I’ve been away from Edmonton for more than forty years; is there still a carnival in the summer?

[@hughesvideo]

No more 'Carnivals' as such. Enfield Council call them 'Street Festivals' now and they have several a year in different parts of the Borough, including Edmonton Green.

[@michaelwilliams2337]

Not forgetting Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do Have Em. The footage goes from an imagined Roller Skating hall to geniune the top of the Edmonton Multi Storey Car Park to the point where he holds on to a bus. The film cuts then and shows him still holding onto a bus but that footage is South London...kzbin.info/www/bejne/onevoaqIgrhjZsk

[@andrewwelsh2744]

Roller skating at Pickets Lock then down the bridge which is no longer there, happy times..

[@archiebunter6122]

Understandable

[@naomanwaheed4120]

I grew up in Edmonton, brings back memories

[@Dan_druft]

Before all the bloody foreigners moved in

[@1daxwood]

6 years ago u posted this comment. Are u still alive?

[@Dan_druft]

@@1daxwood Yes just flown in from France and now I have to Isolate for 2 bloody weeks ?

[@1daxwood]

@@Dan_druft so u were a foreigner in France

[@akarex2k9]

@@Dan_druft make sense when your talking or dont talk at all

[@akarex2k9]

@@1daxwood sounds very stupid doesn't he?

[@tourdefacre9687]

Lived here most of my life - Maynards sweets on the front , Dancy Records was the best . Total dump now.

[@johndeacetis4707]

it may have been post 1975,,,, this not 1972.... unless there is more than one filme edited together here

[@a.m.armstrong8354]

No,it's from just after they built the green,because the market got covered while I was at primary school.

[@tonykemp3432]

Where are all the black, Somalians and the eastern Europeans?? Can't see them anywhere 🤔🤔🤔

[@murdock2012]

They're in somalia...

[@shukrimohamed1999]

As a Gen Z kid, looking at this video really makes me think of what the old times were like 🤔

[@kamaljhamat6620]

Woww just amazing, love to see old Edmonton i really love this city ❤❤❤

[@samuraijack1920]

It’s a town in London

[@archiebunter6122]

It's a Borough. Shank Town is its other name

[@darkarts59]

Wow, actual English people lived there then!!

[@archiebunter6122]

Agree

[@archiebunter6122]

Not for long

[@melodykennett2676]

Hi there, great footage, do you own the copyright?

[@hughesvideo]

My family do, yes.

[@youniform4687]

No immigrants or gypsys in sight wow

[@rockstarjoe5725]

uk didnt open their borders for asylum seekers yet mate

[@BOZ_11]

still the same dogshit brutalist architecture though. the green looked like shit on opening day and didnt get any better. the bus stops are an improvement though

[@globalgossiptv410]

My home 😍

[@archiebunter6122]

God help you

[@johnmensah2370]

That I live

[@tyronematthews2282]

My old endz

[@ismailkaragandere6298]

Bende oralarda yaşadım güzel hatalarım var 75 80 yıllar türküm

[@archiebunter6122]

Just move away

[@acecotto2805]

Wow

[@cassidypresley3271]

This isn't Edomonton Alberta......but Edmonton in Europe England. Should have said Edmonton in Europe (England) not Edmonton ab. CANADA 🇨🇦

[@hughesvideo]

Point taken. Title now updated.

[@tourdefacre9687]

Why? Canada dont OWN the name - if that is the case major states in the USA owe the UK a lot (New York , New Hampshire , New England etc).

[@christopherj8089]

@@tourdefacre9687 you don't own the US

[@theunicornbookings3791]

@@christopherj8089 The US actually dont own much at all apart from lunacy. They stole everything

[@christopherj8089]

@@theunicornbookings3791 cool

[@tolgawalsh7774]

Was a decent place with such family hertiage until immagrants inherited the area.