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Filmed in 1982. Thames Television was given unique access to one of the worlds most famous department stores - Harrods.
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@dirtydave2691
@dirtydave2691 5 жыл бұрын
The elevator gent was priceless. What a gem these men were.
@SarahJones-wy5us
@SarahJones-wy5us 5 жыл бұрын
angry ranger, I was a student in Knightsbridge in the 70s and my main thrill was to get a "modest" lunch at the food hall and was given a huge green Harrods bag to carry it in! and I will always remember the lift man he was totally charming and made my day!
@jennytaylor3324
@jennytaylor3324 5 жыл бұрын
@@SarahJones-wy5us What a great vignette. Please share more of your old London memories!
@elit3physique
@elit3physique 3 жыл бұрын
Kind of reminds of Fallout video game lol He is so static and looks aimlessly whilst speaking lol
@DaisyChain62
@DaisyChain62 5 жыл бұрын
I worked at Harrods during this period and remember Joe, the lift operator. He was a real character, a lovely gentleman with a great sense of humour. I spent 5 wonderful years there, but I left Harrods once Al-Fayed took over. Under Al-Fayed's management, the staff were spied upon with hidden cameras and sound recording devices, I hated the whole atmosphere under this new management.
@johnsmith-wx5fb
@johnsmith-wx5fb 5 жыл бұрын
I remember you . i was al fayeds right hand man.
@jennytaylor3324
@jennytaylor3324 5 жыл бұрын
Interesting insight.
@valvlog4665
@valvlog4665 5 жыл бұрын
Do they still do the fish art anymore? On a recent trip I couldn't find it. I think the fish hall is now called the dining hall, with 1/2 dozen different counter and table restaurants.
@staffie1uk
@staffie1uk 5 жыл бұрын
He sounds like a right twat.
@meyergaelle8108
@meyergaelle8108 5 жыл бұрын
Like old times Russia
@jcc-ve8mo
@jcc-ve8mo 4 жыл бұрын
Now that's a Harrods I'd visit. Not the dreadful vulgar brash money obsessed tacky supermarket it is now.
@paullewis2413
@paullewis2413 4 жыл бұрын
Sad but true. Full of badly dressed tourists gawking at everything they probably can`t afford to buy. Tacky is about the best description of this once great Department Store. Both F. & M. and Selfridges are far better now.
@hisdivinegraceimperialmaje4178
@hisdivinegraceimperialmaje4178 3 жыл бұрын
having worked there i agree lol
@marvinm.messier1120
@marvinm.messier1120 2 жыл бұрын
not surprised - Modern Life is Rubbish
@proudindiancitizen2494
@proudindiancitizen2494 5 ай бұрын
​@@paullewis2413 I think when the country runs mostly on tourism, be glad for whatever, however and from wherever they come.
@mypointofview1111
@mypointofview1111 4 ай бұрын
I liked Harrods back in the 1980s as I used to visit after work from time to time. I very rarely get nostalgic but Harrods was nicer back then than it it is now. Its just a gaudy tourist trap. Whenever a tourist asks about Harrods I tell them real Londoners go to Self ridges, much nicer and better quality
@ScottPothan
@ScottPothan 4 жыл бұрын
I worked as a traineee buyer at Harrods in the 1970’s when it was House of Fraser owned and still truly British. I worked there the day we were bombed by the IRA. Never to be forgotten. Also those hideous months of power rationing when we worked alternate days with portable gas lamps on the counters. But people still shopped !
@runtsworth
@runtsworth 3 жыл бұрын
I was at Harrods for two years during that period too....on the management training course. I remember the bomb in the luggage department, the staff canteen and all the other things in this video.
@Spookieham
@Spookieham 4 жыл бұрын
Jean Michel Jarre "Equinox" as the backing music - nice.
@adamdoezema1318
@adamdoezema1318 4 жыл бұрын
gives the whole thing a zombie movie kind of feel
@rupertknight7763
@rupertknight7763 4 жыл бұрын
Equinoxe pt7, I think this version is from the 1981 China Concerts live album..
@dogbreath8396
@dogbreath8396 6 ай бұрын
👍🏻
@LogicPak
@LogicPak 5 жыл бұрын
They should make a Harrods museum of all the old stuff and machinery .
@alisonlee3314
@alisonlee3314 7 жыл бұрын
It's nothing like that now....:(
@marysmyth8288
@marysmyth8288 4 жыл бұрын
Arriving in London from Francis by euro train 🚞 on holiday, the first request to my accompanying daughter Was *please let’s go to Harrods , my first ever visit there , we bought nice roll sandwiches an desert An the headed to Hyde Park for our picnic , we had purchased bus 🚌 tickets to see the city of London Only to fine the traffic jams especially by Piccadilly caused us to forgo our seats to asking the Conductor to let us off , he explained back in the day the horse an cart went at 6miles an hr , an Now *2004 , the bus was slower than the horse an cart. We alighted the platform an took the tube I really enjoyed this vlog on Harrods of the original days ..fascinating thank you for this . Mary Canada 🇨🇦
@byhislove
@byhislove 5 жыл бұрын
I actually miss those days, where people spoke to each other, you had to go places to get things done, and more people had jobs because the computers and reductions, economic inequality took over....corporations. sadly are gone
@jennytaylor3324
@jennytaylor3324 5 жыл бұрын
Well said.
@SleepscapeSerenity
@SleepscapeSerenity 4 жыл бұрын
16:59 he says different, people dont say pleaese or thank you and are very rude... its always better "Back in the day" no matter what year you are in...
@janetjones4310
@janetjones4310 4 жыл бұрын
and don't forget "work ethics" People took pride in their work and it showed!
@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736
@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736 2 жыл бұрын
People only speak to strangers now if they are all drunk
@ben2e0omr
@ben2e0omr 3 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful insight into how things were done and I wish , still were.
@resnonverba137
@resnonverba137 5 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Thanks for upload.
@whatamalike
@whatamalike 6 жыл бұрын
I loved this! A topic I would have NEVER seeked out off my own back but my god they knew how to make seemingly the most mundane subjects back them become interesting. And for some reason I LOVE the slightly melancholic music at the end!
@baronmeduse
@baronmeduse 3 жыл бұрын
sought
@ELPaso1990TX
@ELPaso1990TX 10 жыл бұрын
Very interesting!
@malthus101
@malthus101 6 ай бұрын
Harrods library - now that is interesting.
@johnk1639
@johnk1639 4 жыл бұрын
A symbol of the way England used to be. England used to have a clear identity. But like Harrods they sold out, and now all that’s left is a cheap knock off version that caters to foreign customers.
@kaizuko991
@kaizuko991 3 жыл бұрын
Cry more whitey
@ms.d9533
@ms.d9533 4 ай бұрын
'Foreigners' feel the same way about you when you are in their country LOL
@dan11438
@dan11438 3 жыл бұрын
Back when London was an English city, not the cesspit of the world it is now
@johnclark7065
@johnclark7065 3 жыл бұрын
London is a English city just it attracts tourism and foreign nationals as it has loads of opportunities
@Geldachron
@Geldachron 8 жыл бұрын
Better times. Before the greed for Chinese money ruined the place.
@NinaOPerez
@NinaOPerez 5 жыл бұрын
Ironically, the song playing at around 17 minutes in is Souvenir de Chine by Jean Michel Jarre!
@trabali5168
@trabali5168 5 жыл бұрын
and arab, and russian, and now indian too
@Nine-Signs
@Nine-Signs 5 жыл бұрын
You mean capitalism. The nation where the money came from is less important than what incentivised the money to behave as it did and what allowed that money to come in the first place and that would be the economic system we live under, and any person who voted for Tories post 1950 voted for the screwed up world we currently live in as they voted for capitalism without restraint. Welcome to the UK 2019. If things get worse, these will be not just the last years for what remains of high street shopping, but the last years of the UK Union itself.
@j0499
@j0499 5 жыл бұрын
Harrods wouldn't be in business if they solely relied on English people.
@Nine-Signs
@Nine-Signs 5 жыл бұрын
@@j0499 Not entirely accurate overall in context of history but certainly accurate and correct today. Prior to 1980 people had far more disposable income and the rich were a primarily nationally based lot so harrods did survive primarily from the middle classes and the elites of the UK, with a handful of international customers and a handful of the working classes for a birthday or Christmas treat. Today in terms of disposable income the middle are near as poor as the working classes were, the working classes are near destitution and the elites have more money than god could count but are now transnational and do not give a flying f*** about the nation they were born in that gave them their massive amounts of unearned income and general riches, so harrods has to entice the elites of all nations passing through the capital for survival.
@sonaterese799
@sonaterese799 2 жыл бұрын
Love that this is a vintage clip
@ryanp5052
@ryanp5052 3 жыл бұрын
Harrods is nothing like this now this is really luxury, would have loved to see all this stuff but now it’s JUST a retail shop making profits. Still a nice place but look at this video and go now no comparison
@jonsmum5552
@jonsmum5552 5 жыл бұрын
When people could have a banter, without someone being offended!
@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736
@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736 4 жыл бұрын
zivkovicable I’m OFFENDED that you referred to him as “RETARDED” T R I G G E R ED
@Isleofskye
@Isleofskye 4 жыл бұрын
Idiot. Most people shared the same culture and were sufficiently mentally strong to give and take jokes then..
@jonsmum5552
@jonsmum5552 4 жыл бұрын
Isleofskye Just leave the snowflake be, probably one of those that are offended by everything and everyone. They wouldn’t know what banter was if it hit them in the face. Too busy being offended! 🤣🤣
@kaizuko991
@kaizuko991 3 жыл бұрын
The only person offended and upset is you weirdo
@jonsmum5552
@jonsmum5552 3 жыл бұрын
@@kaizuko991 Shut it!
@momof2momof2
@momof2momof2 4 жыл бұрын
Visited there last April. Impressive food court. I also love Fortnum and Mason
@janedoe805
@janedoe805 5 жыл бұрын
Very appropriate for the Hat Show, music from “My Fair Lady”. 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@jonl8509
@jonl8509 4 жыл бұрын
Go to Harrods today and the food halls are still impressive, but nothing like as spectacular as they once were. A lot of the original food hall area has been lost to jewellery sales and dining space. I suppose they are trying to wring as much money out of every square foot as they can. Pity.
@Lorisa25
@Lorisa25 9 жыл бұрын
"Last year at the royal wedding" AWW! I was at her son's wedding in 2011 a few years ago.
@ivanahavitoff7308
@ivanahavitoff7308 7 жыл бұрын
Of course you were dear.
@Lorisa25
@Lorisa25 7 жыл бұрын
Jelly? I was literally 1 of a million who saw it IRL
@ivanahavitoff7308
@ivanahavitoff7308 7 жыл бұрын
Who the cunty mentioned jelly?
@AriannaAyers
@AriannaAyers 2 ай бұрын
Instead of criticize how everything has gone downhill now, let’s brainstorm to see how to make things better - in store shopping has to be more experiential, keep the food stuffs, they generate so much profit, branch out into other sectors, like insurance and housing, like other stores have, create brands that translate across different lifestyles, let the Ritz Carlton, yacht, or Restoration Hardware hotels, create events.
@AH-cp6ud
@AH-cp6ud 4 жыл бұрын
Wow!!!!!!!! What a great video 👏👏👏
@stevenmorley1639
@stevenmorley1639 3 жыл бұрын
I reckon the reporter definitely claimed for his haircut on expensives.
@Ducks-are-cool1
@Ducks-are-cool1 5 жыл бұрын
It will be cool to see what’s it’s like today I really want to know if they got the power station still?
@Fsrjtyttzma
@Fsrjtyttzma 3 жыл бұрын
They don’t do 24hr deliveries anymore after a lady phoned in and fell asleep taking up the entire reel? OMG!
@chloexianah3070
@chloexianah3070 3 жыл бұрын
We miss you England
@mwhittaker9159
@mwhittaker9159 4 жыл бұрын
love the guy on the escalator at 18:05 mins
@elrjames7799
@elrjames7799 3 жыл бұрын
"The past is another country, they do things differently there."
@willcullinane2963
@willcullinane2963 2 ай бұрын
/Anyone know the song playing over the last few mins?
@GM-xo7yy
@GM-xo7yy 4 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@pauldurkee4764
@pauldurkee4764 2 жыл бұрын
How the other half lived, £47 for a beauty treatment, It was very classy though, or as they used to say, reassuringly expensive.
@andrewphillips4508
@andrewphillips4508 5 күн бұрын
Caviar is lead shot 😅
@buster7804
@buster7804 7 ай бұрын
rubbing his hand on the guys coat at the start...Thats a knock out for me.
@marsupiotupak
@marsupiotupak 4 жыл бұрын
JMJ :) Nice video!
@Joelthegeza9555
@Joelthegeza9555 8 ай бұрын
That would cost about 900 grand -a million in E17 how times have changed
@Jarrodthebusker
@Jarrodthebusker 4 ай бұрын
Grace brother's on steroids
@tedoneilclark4710
@tedoneilclark4710 2 ай бұрын
And a partridge in a pear tree 😂
@andynixon2820
@andynixon2820 5 жыл бұрын
Wow , there are some really angry people in this comments section .
@josef596
@josef596 5 жыл бұрын
Have you been to London lately?
@agfagaevart
@agfagaevart 5 жыл бұрын
They're angry and VERY NASTY!!
@djyems1021
@djyems1021 5 жыл бұрын
@@josef596 what's wrong with London? Lemme guess: UhHhH 'tOo MaNy MuSLiMs'
@moominmay
@moominmay 5 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Adeyemo lol anytime I challenge low key racist comments in these types of videos I get the same reply ‘Have you been to London LaTelY?’
@djyems1021
@djyems1021 5 жыл бұрын
@@moominmay Honestly!!!!!!
@patricka.crawley6572
@patricka.crawley6572 5 жыл бұрын
Ahh...when London was British.
@SarahJones-wy5us
@SarahJones-wy5us 5 жыл бұрын
Patrick A. Crawley How sad it is.
@juliamartins7478
@juliamartins7478 4 жыл бұрын
@Houston's mccaine how gross you are full of hate
@malthus101
@malthus101 6 ай бұрын
Harrods "pumped its own water".. wtf??
@thetajorpingtonlimited6817
@thetajorpingtonlimited6817 6 ай бұрын
The Taj indian Restaurant 10 Carlton Parade Orpington BR6 0JB
@lylahale5284
@lylahale5284 Жыл бұрын
relevant to today or in the past, all very well having an opulent food hall, but i wonder how much waste there is at the end of a week ?
@adamwort7160
@adamwort7160 4 жыл бұрын
How do you spell arrods, capital A
4 жыл бұрын
Those vans must’ve been robbed plenty!
@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts 3 ай бұрын
This was 1982!
@jessiejames7492
@jessiejames7492 4 жыл бұрын
i wonder how much of those fresh sea food is wasted not sold off. we take so much and dont give back
@FabFunty
@FabFunty 4 жыл бұрын
How do you you "give back" something to the dead fish ? 🤣
@msbo5171
@msbo5171 Жыл бұрын
ar...47.50 :)
@leefran71
@leefran71 6 ай бұрын
12.25 Greta Scacchi
@partsgeriausias
@partsgeriausias Ай бұрын
When Harrods was still English, before all the rich arabs took over it…
@rahuldahoob
@rahuldahoob 7 күн бұрын
Oooooooooo racist
@luisvega666
@luisvega666 3 жыл бұрын
12:27
@ranat5526
@ranat5526 3 жыл бұрын
Lidl has better products!
@LordDavid04
@LordDavid04 4 жыл бұрын
Give me Berlin's Kaufhaus des Westerns any day than today's Harrods. It has the world's largest food hall.
@leonard2005ify
@leonard2005ify 2 жыл бұрын
The way the camera were showing us of Pigs, chicken, ducks and more , it’s like Hieror movie Texas Chain saw, lol 😂😈, I like those stores Harrolds and Selfridges
@manofweed1
@manofweed1 3 жыл бұрын
We buy all our fruit and vegetables from Harrods.
@Jadeygirllisa1985
@Jadeygirllisa1985 5 жыл бұрын
Wow 😁 I love this
@Jamestele1
@Jamestele1 2 жыл бұрын
Watching how much goes into Harrods 40 years ago is an amazing snap shot of British culture - pre internet. All the workers were so earnest - they really worked to make it live up to its name
@TheByard
@TheByard 5 жыл бұрын
My wife worked for Fortnum & Mason, they and Harrods staff would play practical jokes on one another. One that F&M played was to call Harrods Food Hall saying they were the Natural History Museum and that a dinosaurs bone had been broken. They explained the bone was very near the same shape as a ham bone, the cold meats sales person said they did not have a carved bone ready but would slice one and send it round. A bone duly arrived at the museum by cab. F&M called back to say Gotcha.
@justaman5418
@justaman5418 4 жыл бұрын
and to this day the ham bone is still being showed
@jennytaylor3324
@jennytaylor3324 4 жыл бұрын
I love this!
@joserafaelzepeda-garza9971
@joserafaelzepeda-garza9971 4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@mattgrant9479
@mattgrant9479 6 ай бұрын
​@@justaman5418i guess it was a joint effort
@bid84
@bid84 5 ай бұрын
@@mattgrant9479very humerus
@borderlord
@borderlord 5 жыл бұрын
And the Harrods country club for staff in Barnes and the furniture depository is now luxury housing.....Al Fayed even stopped the free tea in the canteen after I left in 91 !! You're much better off as staff working for John Lewis..way better off!!
@jennytaylor3324
@jennytaylor3324 4 жыл бұрын
Another interesting contribution. Thanks.
@kaashee
@kaashee 4 жыл бұрын
borderlord fuck the pharaoh fayed
@Patrick3183
@Patrick3183 2 ай бұрын
Should never have allowed a foreigner to buy it
@fluffyfour
@fluffyfour 4 жыл бұрын
I worked in Harrods in 77/78, straight out of school. I remember using the tube system to transfer payments made in foreign currency to finance. Change would come back in the foreign currency concerned. Amazing service.
@kristofkozari9040
@kristofkozari9040 4 жыл бұрын
I love that tube system. We still have this in Hungary at the Library of the Parliament. If you need a book, which is in the storage, you have to fill a form and send it up to the store-man.
@ianburton6071
@ianburton6071 5 жыл бұрын
It's very striking how the store has gone downhill in the years since this was filmed, offering only a fraction of the merchandise and services that it used to provide. Most of its floorspace is now given over to big brand concessions renting space from the store, not very different to a Westfield mall.
@markpunt9638
@markpunt9638 2 жыл бұрын
Only way for (Retail) to survive, sadly.
@carolwilkins2265
@carolwilkins2265 4 жыл бұрын
I bought some coleslaw in Harrods once, it's ingrained in my memory for how delicious it was
@ivanahavitoff7308
@ivanahavitoff7308 7 жыл бұрын
ah, the 'arrods of the 70s and 80s, the upper circle restaurant, the Olympic way, the supermarket in the basement, way in, being slapped on the backside by a cheerful doorman....happy days
@petersmith6458
@petersmith6458 4 жыл бұрын
Before it transformed into dubai airport
@baronmeduse
@baronmeduse 3 жыл бұрын
I can't recall any planes landing there.
@andrewjeffrey9
@andrewjeffrey9 5 жыл бұрын
Standards have gone down. The folk working for Harrods here looked immaculate like finely tuned solders and take pride in their work. I love the narrator accent just like my teachers back then.
@um9272
@um9272 5 жыл бұрын
I‘m German and from 79-80 i lived in London The good old England ! I loved it soooo much !
@borderlord
@borderlord 5 жыл бұрын
It was a gentler time..I worked in the Trevor Square warehouse for Harrods one Christmas when I was still at school....that warehouse is now luxury flats!
@douglashagedorn7717
@douglashagedorn7717 5 жыл бұрын
I live in the states but have been shopping in Harrods several times, and make a point too visit every time that I’m in London, It’s one of the most interesting and wonderful places that I’ve ever visited, the people that work for Harrods are always very courteous and knowledgeable, I enjoyed chatting with them as much as I’ve enjoyed shopping there. And Harrods is even more amazing during the holidays.
@dorianphilotheates3769
@dorianphilotheates3769 4 жыл бұрын
U M - You arrived forty-odd years late, but better late than never...
@douglashagedorn7717
@douglashagedorn7717 4 жыл бұрын
Seymour Butts. That’s pretty damn funny. These people that supposedly hate me so much have invited me into their homes for holiday celebrations. and continue to do so today by phone of by mail, and I have even been invited to their children’s graduations. So it would seem that you not only have a talent for misjudging people, but you also seem to have distinct talent, for making a complete a$$ out of yourself by assuming something that you personally no nothing about. Hoping that you have a wonderful week.
@lynnecromack4933
@lynnecromack4933 4 ай бұрын
@@borderlord I remember the dark underground passage to Trevor Square. It was like something out of Dickens !!
@gabriellaj.o.6180
@gabriellaj.o.6180 5 ай бұрын
Harrods and Selfridges were always for the rich but we used to like visiting and you could always find something niche and the service was second to none. These days I would not visit. It's for the rich and designer led and they've lost their way. The West End is no longer the shopping mecca it once was with covid, crime and London's violent reputation and online killing a number of department stores including Fenwicks in New Bond Street, Debenhams (nationally) of Oxford Street and House of Fraser formerly DH Evans in Oxford Street and probably nationwide the way it's going. It is sad to see Central London the way it is. Selfridges needs Marks and Spencer Marble Arch so hope M and S do redevelop as without it Selfridges have a bleak future as does Harrods. Bit by bit the UK's traditional history is dying.
@ritaroad
@ritaroad 5 ай бұрын
I know what you mean. I used to love going to Marshall Field’s on State Street Chicago, 1975. It was awesome even though I couldn’t afford anything. After I perused everything on the upper levels I’d go to the lower level. There I’d buy Revlon and there was a huge fabric and notions store. I’d buy beautiful fabrics and make my clothes using Vogue patterns.
@jamesdelatour2266
@jamesdelatour2266 4 ай бұрын
I lived on the Brompton road for a year or so, avoided harrods like the plague. Arabs & tourists just drowned the place you could barely browse without getting bumped around by the crowds.
@lowesonia8551
@lowesonia8551 7 жыл бұрын
That was when it still belonged to the Scottish Owners. I was a regular shopper in the 50's absolutely loved it .My England . Sadly disappeared.
@Nine-Signs
@Nine-Signs 5 жыл бұрын
For any who voted Tory or Lib dem post 1950 they voted for capitalism without restraint, today is the inevitable result of what they voted for.
@mattbeardsworth3201
@mattbeardsworth3201 5 жыл бұрын
Do you know who owned it in 1982?
@resnonverba137
@resnonverba137 5 жыл бұрын
@@mattbeardsworth3201 House of Fraser.
@Manofmanyfaces12
@Manofmanyfaces12 5 жыл бұрын
Doesn't that make you over 100 ?
@Manofmanyfaces12
@Manofmanyfaces12 5 жыл бұрын
@@Nine-Signs 😀ok I'll settle for atleast 80/90 . Not many ppl that old KZbin
@mustaphabenyelles1410
@mustaphabenyelles1410 4 жыл бұрын
Late seventies lived and worked in Stanmore Middx : While shopping in central London , my first stop after 10.30 AM at Harrods fish hall for freshly opened oysters and a glass of dry white wine while standing up next to the spectacular daily fresh fish display it was a unic work of art. then some time later salt beef sandwich with rye bread , sweet pickles ,good old english mustard and a beer at the Brass Rail Selfridges. those were the days. love from Algeria
@dj-vg4uu
@dj-vg4uu 5 жыл бұрын
Now the store is 90% rented space for name brands
@kaashee
@kaashee 4 жыл бұрын
That’s the way they stay afloat I guess
@watchviewer
@watchviewer 3 жыл бұрын
Quite sad in a way
@nikitaamerie
@nikitaamerie 3 жыл бұрын
This is true the magically experience has left
@malthus101
@malthus101 6 ай бұрын
everyone had purpose back then - people were real, life was real. now it's all... well, shit frankly.
@terawattyear
@terawattyear 5 жыл бұрын
Analog version of what Amazon is trying to become today. Early 1980s. 4 Green Men down from 10. Things were already unraveling. It’s a shame.
@baylorsailor
@baylorsailor 5 ай бұрын
It's crazy how much computers and the internet has dumbed down society. It's sad. People barely know how to socialize anymore 😔
@elenavassilieva9406
@elenavassilieva9406 3 жыл бұрын
But any one noticed quality of documentaries make in Britain then? If you compare quality of these documentaries with what todays BBC produce... Britis journalism was at highest level in the world
@ah7910
@ah7910 5 ай бұрын
I’m 41 years old, 1982 born. I remember in my teens, late teens, around the late 90s and certainly early 00s, documentaries I would enjoy on the BBC or Channel 4, started to creep in small amounts of dramatic music underscoring the narration or the people being interviewed. My ears were sensitive to it, as that wasn’t what we were used to - and I remember, even at that tender age thinking “this sounds like something you’d expect from an American show’. So there was a slow ‘Americanisation’ of our more measured, thoughtful and stoic British productions… by the 2010s/20s this intellectual approach to documentary making and news reporting is lost. We have dumbed down as a society - now a celebration of urban culture and speaking badly. A real shame.
@Kameleonic
@Kameleonic 4 жыл бұрын
And now it's a foreign store for foreign money;) In the end money wins, wherever it comes from.
@aculligan56234
@aculligan56234 2 жыл бұрын
Ál Fayhed is a good man. Yes he is no longer the owner but its wrong to label a store because its foreign owned. What's the problem. Qatar purchased it so yes there are changes so bbe it.
@tedoneilclark4710
@tedoneilclark4710 2 ай бұрын
Quality is everywhere now, especially the high street.
@gary1961
@gary1961 4 жыл бұрын
A 3-course lunch for £8.50 in Harrods. My kids spend more than that in McDonald's on shite.
@imnotavingthat6813
@imnotavingthat6813 2 жыл бұрын
Great snap shot of when times were better. Who would have though 50yrs down the line, we are all worse off and cant afford to eat,
@ivanahavitoff7308
@ivanahavitoff7308 5 жыл бұрын
the woman smoking at 12.25 screwing up her face is my auntie! a right old sloane in her day. still is.
@resnonverba137
@resnonverba137 5 жыл бұрын
Rubbish.
@johnsmith-wx5fb
@johnsmith-wx5fb 5 жыл бұрын
Bulcock's
@jennytaylor3324
@jennytaylor3324 5 жыл бұрын
Ace. I am fascinated by old 'Sloanes'! Was it a regular haunt of hers?
@johnsmith-wx5fb
@johnsmith-wx5fb 5 жыл бұрын
@@ivanahavitoff7308 i wrote bulcocks as a reference to one of the peoples surnames featured in the documentary. Do keep up.
@ivanahavitoff7308
@ivanahavitoff7308 5 жыл бұрын
@@jennytaylor3324 Yes. Harrods and Peter Jones in the 80s. Harvey Nicks was downmarket then before the 90s changed that and Harrods became less of a local store.
@figure-of-speech
@figure-of-speech 3 жыл бұрын
Before : nice , clean fresh now : smelly dirty ... and !
@Nine-Signs
@Nine-Signs 5 жыл бұрын
£3.40 in todays money for an egg. Absurdly expensive.
@sonaterese799
@sonaterese799 2 жыл бұрын
Of course its expensive its Harrod's
@Nine-Signs
@Nine-Signs 2 жыл бұрын
@@sonaterese799 😂 Oh I know friend, I was just having a laugh.
@sonaterese799
@sonaterese799 2 жыл бұрын
@@Nine-Signs Good for you!
@medmankatowice
@medmankatowice 4 жыл бұрын
Battery powered truck. Used heat from electric generators to make hot water. How eco friendly they were.
@jonsmum5552
@jonsmum5552 5 жыл бұрын
I bet those folk loved their jobs too, not like nowadays, all you hear is folk moaning about being short staffed, over-worked, under-paid, treated like crap!
@marymary5494
@marymary5494 3 жыл бұрын
Less expectations back then.
@GypsyHunter232UK
@GypsyHunter232UK 3 жыл бұрын
I was in Arrods the last week. Total shite
@GaryHynes-im5di
@GaryHynes-im5di 5 ай бұрын
I remember Harrods back in 77 I was no higher than a traffic cone...it was posh as anything..cor blimey even the doors in and out were like something out of a king's palace.... and as for the goods inside. It was like nothing us West end peasants had ever seen before
@DCI-Frank-Burnside
@DCI-Frank-Burnside 5 жыл бұрын
'addock. Lovely. Cheers Tel, see ya in the mornin'
@GypsyHunter232UK
@GypsyHunter232UK 3 жыл бұрын
Those wer the gays wen in the UK u could put a 1st class stamp on a letter post to in the morning and it would be delivered any wer in the uk later that same gay. Postage stamp 10 pence .uk
@ThePlatypusReturns
@ThePlatypusReturns 3 жыл бұрын
makes me want to watch "Are You Being Served" : )
@jerryjones9799
@jerryjones9799 4 жыл бұрын
The past was better than now and the future looks grim.
@zivkovicable
@zivkovicable 4 жыл бұрын
......said every old person in history. Obviously the further away from the grave we are, the better.
@budte
@budte 4 жыл бұрын
@@zivkovicable You speak a lot and add little value.
@johncrilly3126
@johncrilly3126 3 жыл бұрын
complaining about peoples manners in 1982...god knows what hed think today lol
@kaashee
@kaashee 3 жыл бұрын
I have watched this video at least six times now. I love how it was made
@Jacam781
@Jacam781 Жыл бұрын
Great production values considering it was 1982 - obviously a great deal of effort was put into making this.
@mfitzy100
@mfitzy100 3 жыл бұрын
That really is england of a different era!
@AbstractMan23
@AbstractMan23 5 жыл бұрын
15:48 "or door 3 dogs and royalty"
@fayecox9401
@fayecox9401 3 жыл бұрын
I like harrods but would rather have the old harrods any day
@JesusChristMySaviour-go2qb
@JesusChristMySaviour-go2qb 4 ай бұрын
My dad worked in export bereau in the late 1970’s and my mum worked in switchboard in 1981 at harrods. They have very fond memories their and remember Joe how funny he was!
@AniMerci
@AniMerci 5 жыл бұрын
Thankfully, Harrods pet department closed.
@MostlyLoveOfMusic
@MostlyLoveOfMusic 5 жыл бұрын
Do they still have animal corpses hanging up like a grotesque butcher's slaughterhouse?
@MostlyLoveOfMusic
@MostlyLoveOfMusic 5 жыл бұрын
Do they still have animal corpses hanging up like a grotesque butcher's slaughterhouse?
@hisdivinegraceimperialmaje4178
@hisdivinegraceimperialmaje4178 3 жыл бұрын
its a shame
@suitsushi
@suitsushi 23 күн бұрын
Worked in Haberdashery during the summer sales as a teenager in '78. An unforgettable experience. My mother accompanied me to the personnel office on the top floor for the interview and I was first asked to work in Hoisery, and then the head of personnel decided I was better suited to Haberdashery with all the sewing items etc. So glad she did. Helping to sell tights and stockings behind a counter looked restrictive. No uniform for me, just a name badge to make me stand out from the customers. I forgot to remove it whilst eating a gorgeous apricot pastry in the stairwell and got reprimanded by a manager. Bringing back expensive chocolates for my siblings and parents bought with my hard earned money was the icing on the cake. The staff canteen was incredibly exciting for those days. A separate counter for each food type(!).The most exciting part of working in Harrods was just immersing myself in that magical world. Thanks for the memories. 🎉
@ikkelimburg3552
@ikkelimburg3552 5 ай бұрын
I went to London with my nan in 1985 to visit her sister for the first time since WW2 (her sister being married to a RAF pilot). She couldn’t speak a word English and I was five at the time. Her sister translated everything for her but she wanted to visit Harrods with me on her own. I can remember some shopworkers trying to speak German because next to French and her native Dutch it was the only foreign language she could speak. How offended she was when people mistook us for Germans 😂. Harrods was overwhelming to me, as if they sold everything you could want. My nan held on to her plastic shoppingbag from Harrods till the day she passed in 2004. We all brought back Harrods bags for our nan when we grandchildren started to travel to London on our own (or on a school excursion).
@janemasini356
@janemasini356 5 ай бұрын
I worked in harrods in the beauty department late 80,s 90,,s i ❤ it there❤
@lynnecromack4933
@lynnecromack4933 4 ай бұрын
I used to walk though perfumery every day to get to the Food Hall.
@tedoneilclark4710
@tedoneilclark4710 2 ай бұрын
The modern day ones are not the same. Souless with no character.
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