Romford Traffic Problems 1962 - With Audio

[@silenthunteruk]

You've got to admit, that is one magnificent moustache. Interesting look at my local area in the past.

[@garybranch807]

Amazing seeing the uniform fleet of RT family buses working LT red, green and Green Line buses. It all looked so ordered. People moving quickly and lightly around a very busy town centre. Whether you think it was worse or better than today, it was certainly poles apart from modern Romford. Such changes over such a short period of time. I doubt many generations of people have seen such vast changes in a lifetime.

[@toyotaphil54]

Fascinating piece of history! :)

[@williamcarrington61]

Remembering Pat Ridley and The Golden Lion , happy days.

[@derekgooding9379]

My Dad used to have a shop in Romford at this time, and used to say that the business rates per foot of frontage were higher than those in Oxford Street London, possibly due to the number of bus stops. The advent of out of town shopping centres (Lakeside ?) and online shopping were the stuff of dreams back in those days. Romford would probably manage without a ring road nowadays !

[@aperson2330]

Believe it or not folks but in 1962 Romford was in Essex!

[@sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585]

I found an old map from the early 20th century somewhere online not so long ago, and it shows that to get from central London to Romford in Essex, you'd need to travel through several miles of countryside.

[@I974.UK.LONDON]

And believe it or not folks Romford still is in Essex

[@I974.UK.LONDON]

OR YOU COULD BE IN ROMFORD IN ESSEX AND NOT TRAVEL SEVERAL MILES BECAUSE ROMFORD IS ESSEX @Read This

[@factsnotfiction103]

@@I974.UK.LONDON Facts say otherwise.

[@jonniejam-shovel6405]

@@I974.UK.LONDON Yes, you are quite correct. Although the problem arose when Romford and Hornchurch Urban district councils merged in 1965. The private company; THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING, then became what is accepted as part of 'Greater London'. Many people honestly believe that Romford/Hornchurch are actually in London. Many think this area is East London. The media of course perpetuate, this disinformation. Havering is a London Borough. Resistance is futile. Kind regards.👍

[@williamcarrington3474]

Me and Pat often enjoyed a pint in the Golden Lion , those were the days .

[@AndrewMackenzie-z2b]

It was over 25 years later in the late 80's that Mercury Gardens was finally extended under the railway line towards the Army recruitment building. It brought an end to the Wacky racers circuit that went from Mercury Gdns then into Eastern Road , up South St. and then along Western Road to complete the circuit with pose points at the entrance to the Western Road multi storey and opposite Lambourne house. Cooking fat corner was from Ratners by the NewsHut to the junction of Chandlers Way for some extra fun and giggles.😂

[@I974.UK.LONDON]

ROMFORD IN ESSEX BACK THEN

[@js7617]

Why where is it now?

[@raymondbonington9355]

@@js76171965 became a London borough.

[@DataDon-rl1mb]

​@@js7617 East London.

[@kevinbarrance9196]

How nicely spoken.

[@williamcarrington61]

By Patrick Ridley , ex-Officer Royal Artillery and Romford Councilman . Great person to meet.

[@trevorg6655]

My family knew Pat Ridley. He used to live in a small cottage right behind St Edwards church.

[@michaeltaylor5376]

Pat Ridley, a D-Day veteran, quite a character, he had an attractive daughter also named Pat!

[@chriscole1126]

Oh how well we remember STONES with the instore delli company..Caters.This batch of scene shots gives me much nostangia of the vehicles that I can identify.

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

This was back then when Romford was in Essex before being part of Greater London, although it was attached sooner within the conurbation area with the County of London as the city's suburbs grew.

[@stephenwilliams4501]

I remember bieng taken to Woolworths for a milkshake about this time.......great.

[@wonhung]

The problems with that corner could have been sorted in double quick time by using "staggered" lights. Making Western Rd one way was a also a dreadful mistake as too was closing off North Street.

[@akanaun]

i was born in 62,oldchurch hospital,now i live in australia

[@61sven]

I was born there in 61. Hospital has gone now. At that time Romford was officially in Essex, in mid 1960s it became part of East London.

[@robmorris1365]

That will have London postcodes before long then. Nowhere is safe 😂😂😂😂

[@DataDon-rl1mb]

​@@robmorris1365 It has London postcodes now. RM is a London postcode due to it being in the London postal region.

[@jacksugden8190]

Now look at in 2018, a no go area at night due crime, day times people sleep long rough - dump of a place.

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

Eh, Romford is still better than the rest of East London nevertheless. Compare Romford to its nearby area such as Seven Kings in Ilford; Romford still looks like heaven.

[@roodersclive8654]

Hmm, not sure about 'heaven'

[@jacksugden8190]

@@Great_WesternTVFanNot sure about heaven, I remember the scene at Romford in this video in the late 1950’s onwards, until the market closed to traffic, think it’s a ghost town in the daytime, even worst at night, due to the threat of crime, Seven Kings wasn’t too bad to pass through, Ilford since the High Road closed made it harder to use buses on those ring roads, as Romford, both are now loany/sad places.

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

@jacksugden8190 I lived in Seven Kings; its dirty as hell, with alot of crime happening there too. It resembled a dirty suburb of a South Asian town. I doubt Romford is in such a state like this

[@ahuman9143]

@@jacksugden8190 Go to Romford on any day but especially weekends, and theres still a lot of life in the town centre, sure we would love a few shops we had back but its still doing well enough, compared to the absolute hell that Ilford has become.

[@tigertony2716]

'Something must be done'

[@jacksugden8190]

How could they build a ring road and try it for a month...

[@James-nv1wf]

when you say "with audio" I was under the assumption there wouldn't be VO on top of everything.

[@hebneh]

I wonder if one-way traffic helped? Two things that people should not have been doing, but were nonetheless - first, pedestrians were crossing against the light, sometimes walking between moving vehicles, and second, drivers should NOT have been entering the intersection if there wasn't a clear space for their vehicle beyond it.

[@normancameron6165]

Worst thing ever happen to Romford come a London Borough

[@I974.UK.LONDON]

ROMFORD ESSEX ,ROMFORD ESSEX, ROMFORD ESSEX

[@I974.UK.LONDON]

@Read This give me a 'E' ,give me a 'S' ,give me a 'S' ,give me a 'E' ,give me a 'X' ,what do ya get.....ESSEX!!!

[@factsnotfiction103]

Romford Essex is consigned to history. Romford London began in 1965.

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

Stfu it's Romford Greater London

[@ethanmc4213]

To think that this ring road killed business on the real high street that led to the market

[@garethridley-demonick5367]

My Grandfather.

[@diridley7110]

And my dad x

[@diridley7110]

It was quite a 'tache.

[@FunTimesTTV]

My Great Grandfather, I win.

[@fridayschild4927]

The film is interesting but the audio is just awful. Slightly out of sync suggests that the sound doesn't line up with the action or lips moving but what actually happens is that you get everything twice with a few seconds delay. Oh, and the traffic is not any better here now!

[@davemiddleditch9741]

Grew up there in the 80/90s... i think I prefer the 1960s version better. Proper tashes back then!

[@CyclingSteve]

They loosened their belt to deal with getting fat, driving just isn't scalable.

[@davidbrianhydehyde1102]

Back when romford was a lovely place, now it resembles a 3rd world country 😢😞

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

Nah, Romford still looks like the best place out of East London together, especially better than nearby neighbourhoods of Goodmayes and Seven Kings in Ilford; they resemble more like a third world country than Romford.

[@davidbrianhydehyde1102]

@@Great_WesternTVFan are you made you might as well be in Romanian or some other Eastern European hole 😳😳😳😳

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

@@davidbrianhydehyde1102 no I'm british. If you don't believe about my first reply, then have a look at Seven Kings by yourself one day or Ilford's town centre, it is a very dump area with so many extremists migrants living in these areas.

[@davidbrianhydehyde1102]

@@Great_WesternTVFan mate I lived in Hainault for 20 years Romford was our best place as kids now I would not let my grandchildren go anywhere near Romford it’s a crap hole

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

@@davidbrianhydehyde1102 Well, Hainault is an area of Ilford but I never mentioned about Hainault did I? I mentioned the town centre and Seven Kings. You need to visit these two places and compare it with Romford and you can tell which one is more of a crap hole.

[@adghtz]

Diestructed bty the words that run diagonaaly acrooss the screen!

[@CinemaShow-ok5vw]

Well they certainly stopped the traffic and all the business. Romford is dead. Looking at the Goldern Lion junction, one solution was surley to limit the sheer numbr of buses and to change the route so not turning right into South Street. The history Romford had in the market was torn apart and these people should have been prosecuted.

[@AdamHiley-k7k]

Havering should definitely leave the GLA i don't understand why it wants to be associated with crap like Newham Romford is nearer Chelmsford

[@vickyshah3787]

Romford was always a shithole and still the same in 2024

[@vickyshah3787]

dont live there,, as too many chavs@ListenUp-py1qm

[@vickyshah3787]

you leave first than so it improves