Posted by nostalgoteket.se A visit to Smithfield Market, Covent Garden and Billingsgate, at their busiest time, the early morning.
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@stevetaylor13123 жыл бұрын
I worked for a quality greengrocers as a young lad back in the late 60's, and loved it; this film takes me back to those days. sigh.
@mrrolandlawrence3 жыл бұрын
wow all that packaging and not a plastic bag in sight...
@videocurios10 жыл бұрын
I Love these films I grew up in Kings Cross in the sixties me and my brothers would walk to Old Covent Garden and lug a big bag of potatoes back to Kings Cross
@surreyscouse28734 жыл бұрын
Not a piece of plastic, a moped hoodie,drug dealer or a mosque in sight. Loved the look of the steaks straight off the open grill too.
@MegaMsc1234 жыл бұрын
Get lost boomer. We need more Mosques in London and its happening!
@TriangleAnimation4 жыл бұрын
Back when the media was even more corrupt and ideological than it is now. It's hilarious hearing you silly old men pander at the old western propaganda. The machine was running even harder and faster then.
@maximedwards34564 жыл бұрын
Very sad, but true.
@reinerraymondo15864 жыл бұрын
Oldster having a whine...
@johnseabrook17034 жыл бұрын
MegaMsc123 I hope you are joking
@atlantic195210 жыл бұрын
Brilliant film! Brings back the good old days so well. Thanks so much for uploading!
@garulusglandarius61263 жыл бұрын
I’d go back and live in the 60s- 80s in a heartbeat, better times and better people. Those steaks at the end look amazing .👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
@beefy09785 жыл бұрын
Wooden crates and sack cloth. No plastic in sight!
@sidewindersid41805 жыл бұрын
Very true.
@handsoffmycactus29584 жыл бұрын
beefy0978 2:37 plastic around the carrot sacks. Morons like you will see what they want to see
@pauloliver68134 жыл бұрын
@@handsoffmycactus2958 Morons like you can be very pedantic. Of course there is some plastic. But far less than today. Literally everything from a film from 60 years ago from the culture you grew up in will be familiar, but different. "The past is a foreign Country, they do things differently there" L.P Hartley. The Go Between.
@coolhand19664 жыл бұрын
@@handsoffmycactus2958 loves to take it up the Gary Glitter
@handsoffmycactus29584 жыл бұрын
Paul Oliver you can’t un-invent the invented. What about all the lorries, cars, leaded fuel used, pollution was rife and everywhere. But no, you just plod in agreeing with yourself cos you’re so blindsided with the falsehood of your own ego and bullshit
@dannork12409 жыл бұрын
Everyone looks so thin! And formally dressed, too... and they all have a cigarette going!We're so fat, lazy and slobby nowdays... These films are great, I'm so glad they got put up here!
@pigknickers29756 жыл бұрын
Slobby and badly dressed, I bloody hate it.
@wharris3025 жыл бұрын
We aren't lazy, we just have easier ways of doing stuff now.
@Noi5ee5 жыл бұрын
Wait, is not smoking a bad thing ?
@lunarbeetlejuice97685 жыл бұрын
funnily enough it was probably the cigarettes keeping them thin. Nicotine is an appetite reducer.
@mikerochburns41045 жыл бұрын
Eating shit food is what making people fat.
@geoffdundee4 жыл бұрын
see how fit and healthy the workers all looked and see all the british made trucks and lorries
@RyanJohnson-ox3py4 жыл бұрын
I love watching these old films to see what life was like before I was born
@bluetoad20014 жыл бұрын
love the narration and soundtrack
@Weeflowerofscotland4 жыл бұрын
No plastic bags ❤️
@jacksugden81904 жыл бұрын
I remember the old Covent Garden Market in full swing, it shut in 1979 and went to Nine Elms.
@gcfcos7 жыл бұрын
Proper grafters.
@gallimead9 жыл бұрын
health and safety would close that down in seconds now!!
@pieman30074 жыл бұрын
Food hygiene regs too! Amazing film, especially when you look at what all 3 markets are now.
@garyhooper27283 жыл бұрын
My grandfather had a stall in billingsgate i went there many times in the 60’s great film many memories a different world then
@witchslaugh12 жыл бұрын
Amazing to see it all like that. Thanks for posting.
@deeppurple8833 жыл бұрын
I worked the equivalent in Dublin and I love it. Anything got to do with that kind of work made me happy, but few and far between. Now everything is done in warehousing indoors. Bring back the bad old day's. ☘️
@deanooo25316 жыл бұрын
Vegans would love it here...😅😅😅😅
@patriciabracken75465 жыл бұрын
Lovely to see London back then.
@mack_titan7 жыл бұрын
I'm here to look at trucks!
@martinwebb55884 жыл бұрын
Lorries if you please ... we aren't bloody Americans.
@richardhorner91854 жыл бұрын
Not a fridge wagon in sight
@martinwebb55884 жыл бұрын
@Ken Roberts… It's called the ENGLISH language for a reason, because we invented it, so shit head you are using our language, see if you understand this … FUCK OFF.
@robertreape3 жыл бұрын
Much simpler times and think where we are nowadays
@mrr28804 жыл бұрын
Used to go to a cafe in Smithfields market early mornings when I worked nights in a City bank.. took my posh boss in there one morning, look on his face when the porters started their banter with each other.. so funny, he'd never heard language like it before .. they all looked so pale though, like they'd never seen sunlight.. great times.. guess it's all shutdown now?
@michaelwest43254 жыл бұрын
My wife enjoyed the central markets in Barcelona so much that while in London this year she booked a tour of the meat market shown here, she did not know it was a wholesale market, it was freezing cold that early, even colder inside, I found it quite interesting, sadly it will be gone soon, another piece of history lost, but in many ways it was not unlike how you see it here.
@rickhctep150310 жыл бұрын
Look at the fat on them steaks he was cooking at the end, real meat not this crap we are eating today. Brilliants films, thanks please keep it up.
@mescko6 жыл бұрын
The only steaks that go on my grill look like them!
@farmcentralohio4 жыл бұрын
Go somewhere besides walmart and you won't have that problem lol. Meat is the same as it's always been genius.
@reinerraymondo15864 жыл бұрын
@@farmcentralohio no its not genius.... Quite often its been stored 2 years plus before it lands on your plate..... and all the fat will have been cut off by the butcher .... Tasteless,, dry piece of meat.
@kevrockism4 жыл бұрын
Working in the food industry all my life, that kinda meat still exists, unfortunately it doesn't make it to the shop shelves, it goes to all the restaurants instead. The stuff in the shops in packaging is pure shit believe me. One thing I say though, Lidl red meat is decent, it's as good as what you would get in most butcher shops in my opinion
@bull7164 жыл бұрын
Old school work never killed anyone bring it back 💪💪💪💪💪
@RollaArtis9 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately the Coal Exchange was demolished shortly after.
@raylawes89384 жыл бұрын
They found a Roman bath house underneath, isn't that right?
@renhoek38514 жыл бұрын
Those steaks at the end!
@johnwiddowson56955 жыл бұрын
I used to do this in the 70s from Spitalgate Market. Everything from cabbages, tomatoes, apples to potatoes. All had to be sheeted then up the A1 to my bosses greengrocers shop in Retford.
@Isleofskye4 жыл бұрын
Good Old Spitalgate. I used to go to Billingsfield myself...
@flipper23923 жыл бұрын
@@Isleofskye Get yer fish and veg togeva
@Isleofskye3 жыл бұрын
Zeen, Mi Bredda. Yu mek wurlappa sense Bredrin :)
@jennytalia2265 жыл бұрын
Remember when oranges were wrapped in tissue paper with a colourful advert on from the different growers ? What on earth went wrong with the world ?
@needleontherecord4 жыл бұрын
Enoch Powell’s paradise.
@michaelwilson64836 жыл бұрын
I bght some potatoes from the market a few weeks ago, from Leeds market , they were quite nice, i had them boiled with butter, mind you potatoes aren't half as good these days, not like when my grandad was a lad
@borderlord4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant..I love the Look at Life series ..real history...just see how the London markets have changed..I think even Smithfield is now moving soon...and the skyline around Tower bridge the transformation..alot of it not good!
@mikekavanagh89527 жыл бұрын
Excellent.
@Fifury1614 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing Health & Safety have seen an end to those leather hats...?
@illuminatedgalaxies7777.4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic nostalgic filming love it(◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
@christopherhulse83854 жыл бұрын
It's great to see this in colour, as most footage of the time is black and white.
@spencerwilton58314 жыл бұрын
What a shame Covent Garden is now filled with hoards of tourists (never understood the attraction myself) and human statues.
@jonwu62738 жыл бұрын
good old days
@neonskyline14 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, it was fabulous down a mine
@oddities-whatnot7 жыл бұрын
I couldnt cope with all that. Far too crowded. I want my own bay these days!
@MarhHughes5 жыл бұрын
K
@CARLIN47374 жыл бұрын
Brilliant.Absolutely magical
@housedadtrains4 жыл бұрын
i remember loading and unloading here no forklifts then and still bear the scars from the ferrile cats.
@cricketbat094 жыл бұрын
One forklift driver could do the work of 50 of those lorry loading labourers.
@neonskyline14 жыл бұрын
it was like that in Poland, only it was called communism
@deeppurple8833 жыл бұрын
It wasn't the good old days but they were much better day's. I would swap all these day's for one of those day's. Blissful ignorence. ✊ ☘️
@iansutton31764 жыл бұрын
Them were the days!
@pauloliver68134 жыл бұрын
Isn't it wonderful that perhaps we are the first intelligent creatures in the Universe who can see and hear what was happening in the past as though we were there...
@canman50604 жыл бұрын
Moment after the food rationing and people stomachs are grouching !
@ed97094 жыл бұрын
I have been to covent garden market in the sixties.
@Jakeboii22212 жыл бұрын
1:45 Docter Who :D
@oldskertonion4 жыл бұрын
Excellent thank you
@isaacstone78993 жыл бұрын
Today many people don’t like to touch fish. My roommate’s kids complain when I buy fish for dinner. They also complain about meat, but they eat burgers with bacon and fish chips.
@joemengler16664 жыл бұрын
Kids were listening and thought I was watching Tom & Gerry 😂
@MegaMsc1234 жыл бұрын
Its jerry you boomer
@jasperedwards816 жыл бұрын
Another gem. This whole Look at Life is a fabulous series. Where in the world did you find it?
@chrismaynard60165 жыл бұрын
Hello John. All these are available on the Look at Life DVD's and can be bought on Amazon, Ebay, Simply Entertainment. All brilliant and takes me back to when I was a kid. Hard to believe how the UK has changed since then. Let's just say I would go back in my Tardis ?
@captainchaos26715 жыл бұрын
@@chrismaynard6016 i weren't born until 78, the 80s, and 90s were good for me, and even a few years into the naughties weren't bad, but i love watching these movies and in a strange way i wish i was born 20 years earlier
@ant79364 жыл бұрын
These were shown at the cinema, with TWO films, trailers, ads and cartoons. Four hours entertainment!
@robsiddall97314 жыл бұрын
It's funny , 10 seconds in I was thinking wow stuff must of actually fallen off the back of lorries
@markd87994 жыл бұрын
My car was 7 years old back then.
@Cody-zd2ye3 жыл бұрын
My old man yused to drive those old three wheels scammel scarabs for British rail who went on to be called national carriers I'm sure they had an electric version in yellow
@Del-yv1qy4 жыл бұрын
Better days for sure.
@Pianoguy325 жыл бұрын
Rip coal exchange, demolished 2 years later.
@vtecpreludevtec8 жыл бұрын
2016,Native white British drop under50% in London,,who permitted such madness?
@martinwebb55887 жыл бұрын
+ Mike Berg Londoners that's who, all those white Londoners who moved out to Essex, Kent and Hertfordshire leaving London to the none white population ... white Londoners deserted London over many years moving out to the shire counties ... that was only ever going to lead to one outcome London was going to be mainly none white ... Londoners only have themselves to blame, they deserted the capital for better pastures and the result was whites drop to under 50% in London, that's what happens when British whites leave in large numbers, no good complaining about something Londoners bought on themselves.
@tdonovan47356 жыл бұрын
Do you ever ask yourself how much of the white people in that film were native White? Are you unaware that England had an influx of Irish, polish, Hungarian, Czech, Jews etc throughout the 20th century? You assume that they are all native English - shows your total ignorance
@foleyoni5 жыл бұрын
The karma of Empire
@wacka25 жыл бұрын
the Labour Party
@Isleofskye5 жыл бұрын
You are right but the truth is that I was born near Brixton and Peckham in 1954 and never heard a foreign language spoken on our streets until circa 1971...so they could not have been that prevalent ( does not include the excellent 200,000 Jewish populace ) @ @@tdonovan4735
@simonipswich11 жыл бұрын
LOL! Yeah it's Matt Smith!
@lukespammitchell955311 жыл бұрын
Doctor Who you're meant to be saving the world not buying strawberries!!! 1:45
@dylan36573 жыл бұрын
it's the image of him
@Springamatul9 жыл бұрын
I went past Billingsgate on docklands today I think Billingsgate was elsewhere then I wonder whre is Smithfield market
@vincentdeguard47269 жыл бұрын
Spring Amatul Smithfield is more central next to the City/"Square Mile"...close to Holborn area of central London. Plans are to have it relocated to somewhere on edge of London (logistics of having it so central playing a part on the consideration) and the building being developed into a "new" Museum of London" which is looking at having a new purpose-built home with more space.
@justinhaynes28194 жыл бұрын
Farringdon.
@sanjeevpereira67654 жыл бұрын
Great vedio
@robertparkes49829 жыл бұрын
What the fuck happened to our Country ?
@vtecpreludevtec8 жыл бұрын
Immigration
@rattmann368638 жыл бұрын
+Robert Parkes Muslims?
@sixfootbear8 жыл бұрын
+Robert Parkes Do you want to work like this?
@Vakito2278 жыл бұрын
Thatcher Merkel Trade Unions Cheap Imports Political Correctness Excessive Health and safety The internet making people dumber Chavs Nanny state Immigrants Housing Collapse American influences such as black Friday Loss of industry Overpopulation People becoming fat and lazy Loss of regional identity Everything is owned by a foreign firm these days
@Crouchenders7 жыл бұрын
Smithfield market is EXACTLY the same these days.
@Jaringan211 жыл бұрын
Good.....work for meal on the table and eat for work energy ...and round and round and round...life cycle....... that is life......as long we keep enjoy our life and accept that as a part of our life Process .... to become something that we never know what would it be....Ce sera sera
@tkx865 жыл бұрын
Needs more mosques..../sarcasm.
@sidewindersid41805 жыл бұрын
Lol😂😂😂
@neiluk784 жыл бұрын
@TheRenaissanceman65 Another twerp/Guardian reader/Marxist who loves to hand over the Country to invaders. Traitors like you will not be around in a hundred years when the indigenous Britons are a minority in their own lands.
@neiluk784 жыл бұрын
@TheRenaissanceman65 Lmfao, how do you define harassment cupcake? Freedom of speech is not harassment. Jog on you super clown bot/troll.
@martinhowe36794 жыл бұрын
@TheRenaissanceman65 wheres the harassment tosser????
@martinhowe36794 жыл бұрын
@TheRenaissanceman65 only to pratts like you i am with neilboxer oo
@jamesoates13344 жыл бұрын
Food from all over the world, and not a poxy EU mark in sight
@marclaw45114 жыл бұрын
People had to eat and this gave it to them.
@michaelwilson64836 жыл бұрын
check out the guy with the fish at 4:31
@UberSynth4 жыл бұрын
Surely its shopping by the tonne? Get ya rapples an pearz now Two and thrupence, two shillings, half a bob
@snowflakemelter11724 жыл бұрын
Nope " tonne" is a metric tonne," ton "is an imperial ton. The film is 10 years before Britain went metric.
@ivornappinion94064 жыл бұрын
@@snowflakemelter1172 Never knew that
@farooqishaq69748 жыл бұрын
good old days when the British worked like the Bangalis..!
@curiousorange77235 жыл бұрын
So true...we had 12 to a room back then too
@xenu-dark-tony5 жыл бұрын
Yep, very true, AND our bathroom habits were somewhat questionable too. Not an overweight person in sight though, and look how quiet London was then! Nowadays though it's the British slaving away to pay for the colossal amount of 'unemployed' and non English-speaking third-worlders who've arrived with their sectarian, religious and cultural absurdities, including moving to somebody else's country and expecting them to adapt, not vice-versa. It's hard to see how Britain will ever recover from what Bliar did inviting in millions of people who had no idea how life was going to change, the poor things.
@hideouslyugly4 жыл бұрын
@@xenu-dark-tony Well said. We aren't racist, other countries love their culture, we lose ours, and have to bow to everyone else.
@Elconbrioso5 жыл бұрын
Halcyon days. This film produced in the days when people spoke proper . 2018 AD , Smithfields is the last man standing !
@joanne263 жыл бұрын
I have not seen any plastic pallet shrink wrap and no plastic containers. In todays globalized world cucumbers in the supermarkets are wrapped in PLASTIC!! WHY??? My late mother used to shop every day and she would walk there ( could not drive till 1974 so no car) pulling her trolley. It would take about 15 minutes there and she would buy all her meat, fruit and veg loose. There were brown paper bags but she would just get the produce weighed and it would all be put in her trolley. Even the meat would be wrapped in paper and then in a brown paper bag. Was climate change mentioned then? I dont think so!!
@villaparis27 жыл бұрын
Poor Craps and Lobsters
@differentname80517 жыл бұрын
villaparis2 I've never known anyone that feels sympathy for crap.
@villaparis27 жыл бұрын
I EAT THEM
@differentname80517 жыл бұрын
Eh? You mean you eat crap? Well each to their own. Yuk
@villaparis27 жыл бұрын
Sushi isn't crap
@albatelf5 жыл бұрын
matt smiths the doctor at 1:47
@consul195711 жыл бұрын
What is 1305? Don't know what you're saying!
@leebritnell24055 жыл бұрын
Sick of the whining racist comments to these films.
@curiousorange77235 жыл бұрын
Look up the word racist...and communist,comrade Britnell.
@sidewindersid41805 жыл бұрын
I dont care what you think.
@Isleofskye5 жыл бұрын
You HAVE to be Under 30 and not EXPERIENCED the change Lee . Are you and do you, actually, live in Multi-Cultural London....?
@farooqishaq69748 жыл бұрын
serious fire risk and who gives a shit
@gromit33154 жыл бұрын
And not a Muslim in sight. Yet.
@MegaMsc1234 жыл бұрын
Shutup. Muslims taking over!
@denysmith94693 жыл бұрын
Most of these people would have been in the war...you can see it in some of there eyes but there still working...no ptsd claims here just work hard and try to forget
@nousername1234513 жыл бұрын
Yeh good on them, ignore their trauma and go home and batter their families or drown in the bottle.
@solangemarques66404 жыл бұрын
✌✌✌✌
@TheFlyingScotzman9 жыл бұрын
the collapse of Christianity and the vacuum filled by humanism is what happened.
@rockolutheran6 жыл бұрын
hahahaa
@g30ffs794 жыл бұрын
Ah yes Christianity: homophobia, subjugation of woman, and child genital mutilation.
@andrewoliver89304 жыл бұрын
Christianity. Such a wonderful way of turning your brain off.
@BillDFC11 жыл бұрын
August 23rd. 1305. Never forget.
@billyboyjones57465 жыл бұрын
Wallace was captured by Scots and handed over to the English.
@diggerpete93344 жыл бұрын
Not a single jihadist or muslim wearable tent in sight.
@spencerwilton58314 жыл бұрын
Peter Peter I thought I saw one, but watching again I realised it was a pillar box.
@zeus-mt7wx4 жыл бұрын
Cn you believe no refrigeration
@francky49906 жыл бұрын
1´58´´ john steed 😜
@delboyoelmundo47183 жыл бұрын
Wonder what the meat porters would hv made of Veganism
@eurouc4 жыл бұрын
Well, that was depressing. Tossing around the carcasses of sentient beings. Imagine if those were human corpses hanging in rows and you get the idea 😒
@snowflakemelter11724 жыл бұрын
They're not human corpses so your argument is a fallacy.
@neonskyline14 жыл бұрын
And yes, there were other people than British whites
@hannahtaylor38416 жыл бұрын
Every one of these 60's videos has some racist remarks in the comments. Disgraceful...
@davemdevon.54236 жыл бұрын
Hannah Taylor , maybe but, look at the facts Britain has changed out all recognition over a very short period of time and the population has never been asked if that's okay . When and who will decide when it's enough ? Personally I think it should be a multi racial society ( as race is only looks ) and not multi cultural as cultures clash and one culture thinks they are superior to another like the ........... Muslims
@dulls84756 жыл бұрын
I agree it is not the colour of your skin it is the values and culture you bring that matter. I would have every culture in this land except one. Look at the state of the middle east to know why.
@Noi5ee5 жыл бұрын
All the racist comments add to the immersion :P
@curiousorange77235 жыл бұрын
You are fake news.
@markd87994 жыл бұрын
During the war...
@davidhumby5 жыл бұрын
life before the sodding EU
@TheFreshSpam4 жыл бұрын
Your angry at globalism not the EU. spastic
@davidhumby4 жыл бұрын
@@TheFreshSpam i can see by your remark you have no respect for anything. why call me a spastic? thankfully iam not disabled but you assume iam because i said somthing you did not like. clearly you are a very entitled would be free loader who thinks everyone knows nothing only you. i maybe be wrong but i bet you are about fourteen years old and sucks up to mummy and gets what ever you want. well my little snowflake do your home work and when you have the brain of an adult come back and i will try to educate you about life. and by the way my spelling and grammer is crap i dont need you to tell me.
@TheFreshSpam4 жыл бұрын
@@davidhumby Ahahah, classic over thinking and enduglence in your own home cooked arguement. The fact you take the word spastic so heavily and rely so much on its meaning really goes to show me your level of brain power here. I don't expect you to think much further than googling the meaning. Without really looking into the context here. My point still stands, and it's stands proven. In both sense of the terms ( Globalism and your spasticated head if you've forgotten ) You haven't got a point to say and only scrape at the bottom of the barrel analysing a simple word, you are literally a spastic, the word you contest If I had no self respect for anything I'd walk away from this hilarious exchange. Why help a poor head like yours understand why it's angry? Ignorance is bliss right? 😅 Icing on the cake is the fact you also cuss me too. Who's the worse one here? ( Before you answer, have a think first ) Oh and you like your own comments, whos the real loser
@davidhumby4 жыл бұрын
@@TheFreshSpam you are a very sad person the type i have over the years met and discarded with the contemp you deserve
@TheFreshSpam4 жыл бұрын
@@davidhumby Ahahah and how's that? You cant tell crap from your own ass yet alone the differences of what Globalism and the EU is. Rock on baby brain, im sure it's gotten you real far in life 😂 I mean you must be struggling if you hate the EU. ' Those darn elites ruining my useless depressing life' Oh and you still like your own comments. Ahahaha , discarded with contempt? More like desperately looking for validation
@Solkar4204 жыл бұрын
Then you invited the musilums in end world .
@4376ED Жыл бұрын
It just looks like a third world country . My god how out of date it was. Just like Victorian times.
@mauronavarenho60907 жыл бұрын
sem higiene nenhuma
@tudy4x45 жыл бұрын
Bio.
@mauronavarenho60907 жыл бұрын
lack of hygiene
@kirstm.22156 жыл бұрын
mauro navarenho it used to be called building an immune system. Not wrapped in cotton wool like todays kids