London Blacksmith | Rag N Bone man | Dying trades | Monty's London | 1979

[@janetoconnor9365]

Wonderful video! The old London we'll sadly never see again

[@PhilUKNet]

I'd completely forgotten about Monty Modlyn until seeing this. He was on TV and radio a lot during my youth. Just getting old ...

[@heiltd1286]

If he were still alive, he'd be a 100 now.

[@warmstrong5612]

A blacksmith with a mobile forge he pulls behind a Triumph Spitfire, now I've seen everything.

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

He got it real cheap, cash in hand from Derek Trotter. 😁

[@douglasharre7156]

I think that's a Triumph GT6, not a Spitfire..:-)

[@charbander]

@@douglasharre7156 its a convertible spitfire with one of the naff hardtop conversions to make it resemble the GT6

[@suffolkngood]

@@charbander Hardly 'naff' !! It's an Ashley hardtop. I sold one a few months ago, in poor condition, for £1200 !

[@charbander]

@@suffolkngood all after market stuff including Ashley was regarded as naff in the day..ruins the aesthetics of the original design..

[@ravenhill_of_midsummer_1968]

sadly this london no longer exists, great ole lads guv!

[@someduckwithanultimax6549]

The Mews is still there, though - virtually unchanged.

[@rickcuster8661]

Brilliant! Really enjoyed the reporter, I remember blokes like him from when I was a boy, just his mannerisms and the way he spoke, really great clip, thanks!

[@danieljones3955]

Amazing men proper grafters a great insight into a long gone world

[@Michael-dz9vk]

enjoyed watching monty ,its been mamy years since ive seen him on tv ,great presenter a real londoner ,miss those days ,the interviewies were very good to watch explaining their trade 😊

[@frankiehoskyn3948]

Great piece of nostalgia 🙂

[@trevorrandom]

Monty was brave standing at the back of that Horse

[@ullscarf]

Bloody hell: I can hardly watch.

[@Jackdog011]

Thames tv takes me back with that starting tune and london skyline part then 6pm on a friday changed to LWT. Binge watching them now.

[@jackdeedman5344]

That old TV Thames intro brought so much back. Im old...Just subscribed and this Christmas Im gonna hit the nostalgia and go through some of these dusty jewels! Cheers!

[@DBIVUK]

Ross Nye Stables, at 8 Bathurst Mews. Still in business although I don't know if they do the farrier work on site. Not seen any horse drawn totters around recently.

[@TefiTheWaterGipsy]

I was about to say that's Mr Nye's in Bathurst mews. The girls holding the horse were two years above me at school. He was alright Mr Nye, if you mucked out and polished tack all day he'd give you a free hour's ride at the end of the day or if someone cancelled. Good to know they still operate from the same, barely changed news. I dread to think how much a ride in Hyde Park is now, it was a tenner an hour in about '81/'82, hence the mucking out, tack polishing and grooming horses all day. Very nostalgic. I used to love our old rag and bone man, had a voice like a fog horn RAGBONE! you could hear him before the horse's hooves. He took my mums old cooker away, I must have been really little, I remember crying in case it was too heavy for the lovely horse. Somewhere there was a picture of me as a toddler sat on his back while he chomped away from his nose bag. He'd stopped coming round a few years before this though.

[@Mercmad]

Ross Nye was a fellow Queenslander who moved to London in 1965,where he bought a small riding school and for the next 50 years encouraged Horse riding as means to gain better health and and outlook on life. He passed in 2020 Aged 93.

[@jasonayres]

Another wonderful window on the past, but if I could disagree with one thing, it's that the Rag n Bone man is far from being in a "dying" trade. He's just changed his mode of transport.

[@silversurfermusicco5263]

True now its a white van😄

[@ultrademigod]

Now it's eBay.

[@anngulliver5964]

He's a musician

[@amieetruthwins8731]

Fantastic footage🙏

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

That was good, thanks!

[@richhaytonNZ]

Brilliant! Lovely historic footage 👏🏼

[@jenshaga4256]

Wonderful stuff.

[@pmacc3557]

Oh to have bought one of those houses in the background... imagine its value today Great to see old London

[@nikkijackson2981]

Had horses 1989 til 2011, a set of shoes in the north was about £35 & increased to over 50. I bet it's nr 100 for a set these days, every 8-10 week too

[@seanmoran6510]

The London of my youth Sadly missed

[@kojack1129]

Love this. That monty he was alright. Class act

[@rickydub6950]

Love these old clips, thanks for posting them 👍

[@SKSK-rz7br]

Great to watch but sad to know how London was to turn out

[@Mercmad]

Powell warned the World,and he was right.

[@londongirl1733]

It’s become a cesspool 😢

[@josephturner4047]

Brilliant. I came from a family of West London Totters. Pearlies all.

[@hairyjohn5825]

Those were the good old days!

[@martinrooney3670]

My dad was a blacksmith good to see this

[@nothanks8738]

Top tier

[@MetroTitanD78]

Those building would be worth millions these days

[@1975ukandbored]

Yea but how much those days?

[@miamitten1123]

@@1975ukandbored £100,000 or so

[@Mercmad]

8 Bathurst Mews, London is a leasehold terraced house - it is ranked as the 26th most expensive property in W2 2SB, with a valuation of £1,667,000. Since it last sold in January 1997 for £300,000, its value has increased by £1,367,000. You can refine the property valuation to take account of any home improvements by clicking here. Sale history 8 Bathurst Mews, London is valued at £1,667,000 in today's market. The current owner bought the property in January 1997 for £300,000 and has lived here for 25 years. Date Price Change Today's value* £1,667,000 455.7% 31 Jan 1997 £300,000 - Since the current owner purchased the property, its value has increased by £1,367,000 (455.7%). Sold prices are provided by HM Land Registry and are updated each month. * This valuation doesn't take account of any home improvements

[@lodersracing]

Fascinating!

[@beaudidlyno1]

I wonder how much his workshop is worth now? He'd never believe it!

[@user-kq5qp6dh8l]

Average price 2021 for Bathhurst Mews sold property’s is 1.650,000

[@nikkijackson2981]

I remember rag n bone hollering in the street as a kid, though not horse and cart, a trailer on a bike I think.

[@Withnail1969]

I do too, they had horses and carts where I lived. I think they used to do knife sharpening as well.

[@Mypitbull82]

Great video

[@regplasma7906]

2.54 Albert is a ringer for Max Wall.

[@tonyclifton265]

a mews house near hyde park is affordable only to hedge fund managers now so i doubt a rag -n-bone man could afford it

[@dystar112]

Unreal. Amazing. I loved this ❤️

[@michaelforde4373]

Proper geezers

[@jamesgallagher1992]

Great clip👍👍👍

[@dudleyjacomb3716]

Junction mews. I worked in the mews too. Wally was a great character and his doberman called Sally. They were great days.

[@imnotavingthat6813]

Great video and a blast from the past. Bet there not stables anymore.

[@hmq9052]

Albert is clearly Keith Floyd after a particularly gruesome drinking session.

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

that's so hilarious!! 😆 Totting down the high street at 5am, straight from an after-hours pub session to the market for his hand-picked fruit & veg. 😁

[@TheSusieTom]

That made me laugh when I saw him..haaa

[@missmuffet3874]

A lovely, interesting clip.

[@AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp]

Lol

[@watchfan6180]

Watching this in 2021.

[@tilerman]

That stable in that Mews is probably a £5million pound house now.

[@magnah5581]

London is lost now its a place unknown to most English.

[@simonlambert6891]

Apart from the millions of English that live there

[@magnah5581]

@@simonlambert6891 The English are now a minority group in London what insanity is that. Do you go to Tokyo and expect the Japanese to be a minority I can assure they are not.

[@simonlambert6891]

@@magnah5581 why don't you say what you really mean? .'white people are the minority'...nice bit of casual racism

[@magnah5581]

@@simonlambert6891 Doe's the truth offend you. I am sure if I had said another race you would not have made such a stupid statement.

[@uktravel8341]

@Mag nah The English are whoever live and reside in England.

[@tommyh320]

I love that small got brought up in a rubbish yard with me grandad and family. And aways wanted to be a farrier. They started with 1 horse and cart and ended up with the biggest recycling yard in Europe at one point. But opersit yard was horse yard and when I smelt that use to run over to watch.

[@marclaw4511]

Albert looks like Max Wall

[@kevinbaird7277]

I thought exact same thing.

[@tcampbell1106]

Beautiful to watch. New Subbie...

[@London1064]

Proper people. 👍👍👍

[@Cal900]

Standing behind that horse! 🥴

[@Arfabiscuit]

That mews house is worth 10 million pounds now

[@johnbuoy1401]

Well, he’s only human after all

[@wakeupandlivelife5513]

Them mews property worth millions now

[@hellie_el]

♥️♥️♥️

[@fasthracing]

Wonder what those Mews houses are worth today?

[@AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp]

No change out of £3m

[@philipharris7845]

The stables are still there in Paddington…

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

KZbin time machine.

[@craigywaigy4703]

And the "'Hackney' spiv" in the Mac "interviews" the (simple)Totter........ Who's the "simpleton"!?! See you next Tuesday Spiv! 👍

[@adrianfundescu5407]

I LOVE YOU....

[@jodean2823]

I was so waiting for that horse to kick him when he was hanging on it’s arse

[@TheSusieTom]

Oh yeah...how did that horse resist the urge

[@blackporscheroadster6415]

Red hot forge being pulled by a Spitfire along the road. Elf n Safety wouldn't have that now.

[@Withnail1969]

These trades will be back as will the horses when we run out of affordable fossil fuels.

[@uktravel8341]

Have you heard of wind power, solar, hydroelectricity etc?

[@Mercmad]

@@uktravel8341 good luck riding a windmill or a solar panel . The greens predict that electric cars will compulsory by 2030 . The kids in Africa are digging as fast as they can to extract the cobalt etc for those fancy batteries.

[@MuhammadAli-hr1bj]

Those mew houses would sell for over £2 million min.

[@matnaylor8939]

Farriers are not what they used to be any more ,there not even blacksmith s ,tho my horses are barefoot the few Farriers up here in Northumberland couldn't be bothered to come and trim my rescue cobs so I learnt myself now I trim them all and the price they now charge is shocking ,the old days are long gone .

[@Davidnumber23]

the old mews streets now gentrified for millions, that guy must of breathed in burnt horse feet for donkeys years. Was that donkey jacket guy Steptoe!

[@ramsey633]

another rare thing in london now is a white english londoner

[@miamitten1123]

Have two pretty girls to keep the irritable horses 🐎 at bay 😂

[@BillSikes.]

It saddens me to know that these old Londoners have been replaced by third world detritus, even the accent has gone

[@heiltd1286]

I know. These fellas talk in a proper London accent, not the Jafaican accent you hear today.

[@eddiejones.redvees]

Looks like Harold steptoe

[@vipeton.8927]

I was looking for comments like this :) was watching this TV series few days ago.

[@SpotlessLeopard]

Bloody horses probably wearing turbans now etc.

[@vipeton.8927]

Price for colonisation.

[@SpotlessLeopard]

@@vipeton.8927 I was joking. But if a horse did wear a turban, why would that be a price for colonisation?

[@vipeton.8927]

@@SpotlessLeopard this would be cultural appropriation ;)

[@SpotlessLeopard]

@@vipeton.8927 That'll be the case when horses wear trainers. 😃

[@vipeton.8927]

Haha 😄

[@organicpaul]

Great to see that!