London 1987

[@rrdam72]

This is good to watch!! I went here in 1987 as a 14 year old on a 5-day schooltrip. 60 Schoolkids from a small village in Holland had the time of their lives. Up till this day every time I meet someone from school, they always start with: remember when we went to London?

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

I wish London could be like this again.

[@avalondreaming1433]

This was the year I went to London as a young backpacker. Loved those days.

[@davidherd6027]

First year I visited as well

[@Laceyktm]

Remember that... When you could just park your car, get out and look at things? When you could just smile at someone without consequence? When you could walk down a street without being crushed? When you could get close to places without armed police and barriers? When people looked up and forward? When you could hear english being spoken?

[@harleyhartley3168]

weirdo

[@joshuagreenslade3445]

Yep) Good old days even tho I was born 1988

[@LeopoldScotch-s9c]

When English was only spoken? You invaded everyone else's land and you complain about them being in your land! We are taking back what belongs to us

[@tnetroP]

I started work in 1987 at the age of 17. This was my London and it continued to be for many decades. Today it is not my London and I no longer want to go there.

[@jacksugden8190]

I remember those punk rockers with those strange fins on their heads when I first came to London in 1983, would be on a Routemaster in the Kings Road, I was a security guard for six months of 87, pleased it’s now all behind me in those uncertain times.

[@tnetroP]

I started work in 1987 at the age of 17. This was my London and it continued to be for many decades. Today it is not my London and I no longer want to go there.

[@contrapposto8389]

Great choice of music!

[@forza223bowe5]

When London looked like London

[@rick182z]

before immigrants

[@rickrennyoneill]

rick182 before too many you mean

[@andrewgonzalo2608]

Now london sucks

[@da90sReAlvloc]

​@@rick182z except it was built by Romans funny how racists always forget about that isn't it

[@beerdragon4583]

@@da90sReAlvlocohhh here we go again. Das racist! Y’know what? I don’t care anymore. Come up with a better insult. That word has lost all meaning.

[@stypa1717]

That real London is gone now. Feel very nostalgic as I lived there for many years

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

London officially shat the bed circa 2009 when BoJo became Mayor. At that point it became overcrowded, overpriced and really very unsafe. I'm 35 and can remember a time when my peers of similar age moved to London for the first time and things were much better - affordable rent in good areas, life was easier, less crime. Average monthly rents in London didn't hit £1000pcm until Easter 2010 and since then it's just been a relentless upwards march.

[@kerimbozkurt3301]

What a gem , thanks for sharing 😊

[@mrheem]

best summer ever

[@marklockwood8386]

I was there in 87 stood talking to a copper at end of downing Street I was just 16 God the cars look old

[@jean2740]

Was that London NO WAY !!! WOW

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Downing Street without the more serious modern gates. Those were in place by 1989 (I got up close to them in 1997 on my first trip to London) and there is archive footage of PMQs with Maggie being teased about it. Number 10 probably also had the original wooden door at that time, which is now in storage and a modern blastproof metal door in its place. My mum remembers the 1960s and being able to just walk straight up to the door of Number 10. The only visible security was an unarmed bobby on the doorstep.

[@wonderglory]

German-Vietnamese artistic gymnast Marcel Nguyen was born the year this video was made.

[@graffiti9145]

I was watching videos of London from 1967 and was curious to know what it looked like 20 years later. It looks a bit less colorful.

[@kirstyburden9262]

I enjoyed your video.

[@1800astra]

Still plenty of scaffolding, but no anti-terror bollards around Parliament Square yet. Trader Vic’s was a renowned exotic bar in the Park Lane Hilton, far too expensive to visit, but Warren Zevon made it sound as cool as Lee Ho Fook’s, which was affordable Thanks for posting (2019)

[@Springamatul]

This was before a lot of high structures were built eg Canary Wharf. Now we have the Shard the tallest building and plenty of other newer buildings. You notice the calmness back then.

[@colheg3113]

I was there that year but not in the video !!!

[@hayleystratus7713]

The year I was born

[@jean2740]

I once went to London for a few days it's not looking the same today looks like a different country now doesn't look like london

[@jean2740]

Doesn't look anything at all like that today ,no way .

[@GodSaidGiveEmDrumMachinesMovie]

great video! we'd love to use some of it. can you direct us towards who to contact for permission to use? thanks :)

[@4RobinsonJ]

Just pull up on the side of the road, no bother.

[@coolstuff2004ad]

Since when was London in Newcastle????????????????????

[@krishnan-resurrection714]

..Its almost as if Britain was actually in Europe .. . .-not africa . . .Wow !

[@miguelferreira-x4w]

Notice two girls using a smart mobile phone between minute 3:04 to minute 3:10, they are time travellers?

[@robsoncampbell2944]

True England (London) in 1987 - so all :-) Communist Poland (Warsaw) in 1987 not all :-( Sad bat true...

[@gicky-gackers]

what?

[@jeshkam]

??

[@simeonselmon8318]

This is before hamas arrived

[@paulwiley8902]

Now London has gone to sh*t..

[@jamndunk]

I came out as Lesbian in 1987, you'd never know from this boring account of Central London what year it could possibly be..more 1982 in my estimation...& BORING!

[@andrewgonzalo2608]

"K"

[@contrapposto8389]

Cool story, bro

[@davidherd6027]

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[@jack7431]

What’s you coming out as a lesbian got to do with this video? Besides that fact that you came out in 1987?

[@rrdam72]

And the lesbian part is important for the dat of this film how......?