Romford Town 1981 | Thames News

[@borderlord]

"Going up North Romford ,looking for a fight" 🤣 Sounds like a lyric from The Jam 🎸

[@Sk0rpiu5]

Few years later and they had Hollywoods nightclub, which was a huge pull into Romford. In the early 90s they got approval to open all of those bars and pubs along South St and the rest is history!

[@filmsforallnations]

This has got to be a dream. Its like Doc Brown has sent me back to a time, when The Liberty Shopping Centre was outdoors!

[@TheKonga88]

Ross Hendrick Eeeer maybe that's because this was filmed in 1981 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sian2337]

We got the ice rink a couple of years later, where I spent my childhood. I went to loads of ice rinks, and romford was the best ice rink for spectators of hockey. I'm sad they knocked it down.

[@BritishBoy1971]

I went to the Lea Bridge Road ice rink a week or two after it opened, back in the early 1980s, with my mate Dave. I was 50p short, for the entry price when I got there and was wondering what to do. When I said to Dave about it, the man behind us overheard the conversation and asked how much I was short. He very kindly gave me 50p and I was over the moon, as I really thought I wasn't going to get in. It was a day to remember for me, for sure. The generous man who gave me the money made my day. There was one bad moment though, when a man broke his leg on the ice. It broke at the top of his boot and ther look on his face said it all. I really felt sorry for him.

[@boredoftherings2438]

lived here since 1978. My sister worked at the Dolphin Centre for a while. Half the things they said it was going to have never materialised, it was just a swimming pool with waves in the end. the building was sinking as soon as it was built. when it got ripped down it was one less place for kids to go.

[@MrJonno85]

0:50 Landlord is reminiscent of a Harry Enfield character!

[@BritishBoy1971]

The Council shut the swimming pool, which then stayed empty for years. Hollywoods nightclub, which was fantastic, came and went (the site is now an eyesore, a block of flats) and the whole area is now a sh*t hole. The overpaid Council leaders and politicians really know how to run down a place. They are experts at doing that!

[@davidhayes1950]

Over immigration dropping the price of labour in our country and the high population of muslims in this city have not to mention covid and the rest this is why drinking culture is becoming a thing of the past

[@josh42000]

at 0:29 , thats my dad in the back ground lmao

[@mistereuro]

no it isn't he looks too young

[@josh42000]

@@mistereuro i'm 18, he's 54 now

[@innovativeinnovation6629]

@@josh42000 I believe you.

[@1wobs]

Yep defo is Joshs dad in background ...that's Coss it's me 👍👍

[@noelmcauliffe]

@@1wobs bet it was good to see yourself after all these years mate,have you still got your hair and all your own teeth? 😂

[@FFM0594]

When this was filmed Romford was in no-mans-land.

[@meesaye1826]

Nah, it was definitely in London, as it is today.

[@wayneferrier8096]

I grew up in Romford as young kid in the 70s I would sooner have the 70s back compared to what it's like now.dont complain about the 70s people where a 1000s times better then .

[@ppppickup]

whats it like now and what happened to all those good loking dolly birds😅

[@mosheddy]

lol and then they filled romford with pubs and clubs and things much worse. now they are getting rid of all the clubs and turning them into real estate

[@speedking439]

In 1981 i was putting up/taking down the market stalls 4 nights a week. £12 a week 4-5hrs per night in all weather. you didnt get home to bed till gone midnight sometimes and then i had bloody school next day,unwashed and reaking of rotten vegetables. There was nothing to do in romford if you were young except fighting,drinking or if you had no aspirations at all....glue sniffing in the horrible subways. Romford town centre was still 10times better than growing up in Harold Hill. i got out asap. Awful place.

[@shansymancy]

Me too, only I was putting up and taking down 10 million packets of bedsheets. I also got out, I moved as far as I could to SE Asia.

[@TheKonga88]

keith m I used to masturbate in the toilets in the market and an old lady came there and beat me with her umbrella 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🌂🌂🌂🌂🌂☔☔☔

[@realfacthunt]

Spider the skinhead sniffing glue and then dying like a cunt.

[@michaelwalton9528]

and what did u grow into Keith a moaning old bastard

[@vcollins2163]

@@realfacthunt not one of them is called spider I know because I'm the one getting interviewed and I'm very much alive still, late seventies early eighties was happening with the skinhead rude boy mod scene, parties booze birds and a quite a few punch ups the best days of my life.

[@MarkWhiley]

Always the same problem. Romford goes through ebbs and flows of having nothing to offer people under... well... 40 years old and then the occasional exciting period with a couple of bars/clubs. 'Trouble' has always been a problem for city centre nightlife. Council run activities and programmes only ever really targeting seniors and families also being a story as old as time.

[@josh42000]

Haha my dads in the background

[@leonardssenkindu5802]

Josh lol

[@hunglikedonkey]

King's Head was my place of drunkeness, then Birdcage, altho hated that name

[@ajs41]

Romford has a lot more stabbings these days.

[@forbiddenrecallskillinguss4012]

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[@quaid667]

They have the knife but they can't afford the butter.

[@CrueLoaf]

Birdcage. Bitter End. Rush Green Tavern. Loads of places in the mid 80s.

[@CARLIN4737]

Hollywoods

[@darrenday9673]

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