THE SWEENEY Filming Locations - Primrose Hill, Kings Cross, Hatton Garden and Clerkenwell

Continuing the trip that left off near Edgware, we uncover more of 'Sweeney London' from Primrose Hill, down through Kings Cross and Hatton Garden, then ending up at Farringdon and Clerkenwell.
There's a lot to pack into this video so it's quite fast-paced; feel free to hit the old pause button from time to time if you want a breather! Hope you enjoy it.

[@simonkeyse8185]

As I've said before, a gem of a KZbin channel..

[@Sweenealogy]

Thank you kindly :)

[@simonkeyse8185]

No probs. Also, love the commentary. @@Sweenealogy

[@marksinthehouse1968]

Agree mate I 2nd that

[@IlfordRetro]

Totally right @simonkeyse8185

[@markkram76]

I grew up around Clerkenwell / Kings cross . Live seeing the old buildings on all your episodes . Ome of the best KZbin channels easily . Thank you

[@Steve-gc5nt]

Even the milkmen were hard in the 70s 😂😂

[@TCCTTWH]

😂

[@timeandnourishment1961]

Lotta bottle!

[@digeme69]

Although you can clearly see he hits the guy in the stomach with an open palm and not a clenched fist.😂

[@therespectedlex9794]

Very have a go hero.

[@averyBigdislikeofnigelDi-en3re]

Brilliant ,The Sweeney was probably the best UK cop show ever 👍

[@markcf83]

No probably about it.

[@josephclare4885]

Without a doubt

[@Ivan-tf9bo]

Definitely

[@Bulletguy07]

For my late Mum it was Morse. I gave it a go but just couldn't get into it after being a committed Sweeney fan! John Thaw was a huge success with the Sweeney but Morse developed a cult like following.

[@stephenwhite5057]

Thoroughly enjoying your episodes, so nostalgic. Thankyou for posting excellent entertainment.

[@honestopinion253]

love the sweeney takes me back to the good times

[@tommorrissey]

Fast becoming my fav on KZbin.

[@Sweenealogy]

Thanks, that's really great to hear :)

[@kanjoracer4914]

What a brilliant channel, If only we could go back to living in the 70s.

[@212MPH]

Another fantastic video. Fleet House was an old GPO/BT building as many were back in the 70s and 80s when i worked for BT. its the London i spent my working life in.

[@centaurus5676]

As an owner of 4 Stags, i can tell you that RVC 425H has been at a few car shows and was later painted white. Great channel.

[@michaelrobson3460]

Love a stag

[@Sweenealogy]

Proper motor :) Interesting that it was painted white later!

[@ricardowebbs5207]

Early car too.

[@centaurus5676]

Also used in the Film Straw Dog's.@@ricardowebbs5207

[@markgatland977]

So glad you've put out another one if these, keep 'em coming! 😊

[@geoffclarke3796]

Thanks for posting. Can remember watching the last series as a kid in 1978 and have since watched all the earlier episodes. Love the Sweeney.

[@gerjoando1895]

This is really great and thoroughly informative and enjoyable. It is very well researched and both funny and interesting. It is excellent quality production and is definitely of mainstream television broadcast standard. Well done Sir.

[@tonyshaw317]

Every now and again YT presents you with a corker of a channel.Thank you Sweeneolgy.Now if we could only go back to the 70s.

[@Sweenealogy]

For all its faults, I'd go back there in a heartbeat!

[@tonyshaw317]

@@Sweenealogy Thank you for the legwork you put into your videos.Any plans on a series on "The Professionals".

[@modelcitizen2028]

Oh for a 70's time-machine: the smell of chip-fat, diesel smoke and stale beer - and when villains were villains!

[@gdvdigital6534]

​@@tonyshaw317I'm hoping for this too😂 I suggested this in the comments on his previous video. He is doing a sterling job!

[@CarlDraper]

@@tonyshaw317 good call. Minder would also be nice, particularly since it used some of the same locations as the Sweeney

[@nickfantini6489]

Fantastic narration as I've said before.

[@Sweenealogy]

Thank you :)

[@RS-xo7rd]

I love these old London locations, here and in The Professionals. Thanks for doing this.

[@Sweenealogy]

Glad you like them!

[@aalexjohna]

Nostalgia is the most beautiful form of pain.

[@michael5089]

I've been recommending this channel a lot. It's absolutely brilliant and so well produced and put together. A real labour of love. I used to think years ago it was only me that loved location information on bygone classic TV. Thanks again!❤❤😊

[@Xbow61]

I love these so much. Takes me back to a simpler time. Cheers.

[@yensabi]

Fantastic , wish I was back in the 70s a great era..... 👍

[@paulfish5074]

Superb video. Great commentary. Nostalgia hit from a bygone era....a Better Britain in my opinion.

[@genki2genki]

If only every chanel was this interesting!

[@moose6509]

Brilliant work ! For anyone with memories of an iconic TV series and when London was English your channel is absolute nectar.

[@SwainyAtRetroAsylum]

Top stuff yet again👍

[@MartyMcFlyer]

The effort that goes into these videos should be applauded. Brilliant channel. One of my faves on the whole of KZbin

[@fromthemakersof5529]

Brilliantly put together video about my favourite tv show ever. Smashing.

[@gavinbroad1743]

Another peach - keep them coming please!

[@JimboJangle]

I am such a misery arse these days with the way the country is and the way London is going. That watching these brilliant episodes of Sweenealogy me happy.Happy Days.Loving it🇬🇧🫶

[@mickydroyboy1542]

It’s not just you 😂

[@Joolzguides]

Superb stuff this! A lot of work has clearly gone into it too.

[@nigelcarren]

I dunked a biscuit every time you said "Landun," now I need to go to the ####### lolly don't I! 😉 Great upload mate. Respect 🇬🇧

[@Sweenealogy]

Sweenealogy Bingo! Take a slurp of your pint every time I say "Landun", "Seven'ies" or "Gorblimeytrousers" and see if you can walk by the end of the episode :) (Actually, I've never used that last one yet - I'll have to work it in somehow...)

[@namesake-mx9nl]

I wouldn't be filming for long outside the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit , you might make the inhabitants nervous . 😁Thanks for putting this up , and for your research , very interesting comparing the locations . The Sweeney was one of the very best series ever made , i just wish they had made more . Even now when i watch repeats , i still get a buzz , it's still brilliant .

[@Sweenealogy]

Yeah, I didn't hang about too long :D

[@West.Ham1964]

12:16 that 1967 corvette is a thing of beauty.

[@CycolacFan]

Pretty sure it’s a 1961 😉

[@starwood213]

Fantastic. London is so atmospheric. Then and now.

[@user-dr7by9dx8l]

Love this channel. Thank you.❤

[@markcf83]

Yet more excellent detective work Chief.

[@Sweenealogy]

Thank you kindly!

[@misfit2022]

“Get your trousers on sunshine you’re nicked” Excellent show

[@GariSullivan]

This channel is just going to grow and grow.

[@garymitchell8394]

Great stuff...Great memories!

[@StuartFraser-me8bq]

Thanks for doing this. Love The Sweeney.

[@richardgray45]

Once again a really great piece of work. Impressive use of GPS to get the accuracy of the modern day shots. Looking forward to seeing the squad’s next streets they once screeched the “Granny” round.

[@FlashPan73]

I've been living in London over 20yrs, enjoy trying to spot places from the likes of the Sweeney and Minder etc. Even old WW2 footage can still show buildings in place.....love it

[@alunsworth6792]

Great stuff! Really enjoying the episodes 💪

[@whizzalloverthecity]

Loving this channel. They used to film an episode of The Sweeney in 10 days, so the locations had to all be fairly close together. They also used to drive about with a prop telephone box on the back of a truck.

[@Sweenealogy]

Yes, someone else mentioned the prop telephone box - great bit of insight!

[@ZeldaFitz]

Goodsway was realigned where it meets the railway bridges when the development for Eurostar started in the early 2000s.

[@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne]

Fabulous entertainment for people of a certain age! Thanks for all the effort you have clearly made to produce this cracking video...

[@davidcoleman6032]

Absolutely superb! Great format, great commentary. How you find all these locations makes my mind boggle! Please,please keep 'em coming!❤👍

[@thurstonhowell3569]

This is brilliant. Well done my friend!

[@Sweenealogy]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Mike20216]

Another Brilliant Episode, made even better by the hilarious dialogue. 😂

[@fus149hammer5]

You had to know the cockney lingo in those days. Sadly it's dying out in favour of a black gangsta rap patois innit like?

[@phil7301]

Great video 😉👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@PeteCswampy]

superb work, thanks so much for filming the locations.

[@AlanTaylormusic]

Ever Ready battery signs, Gasometers, Triumph Stags dodgy drum breaks and old bill sirens that went Ner Ner Ner Ner. This episode has it all. Best one yet my old China, just keep em coming or else I'll have ta nick ya you slag! Yep the Spurs are effing shit!

[@Sweenealogy]

Cheers! (And yeah, not the best of days for Ange's boys. As bad last night as they were great at Vila. The wild rollercoaster continues...)

[@johnfisher7143]

Brakes

[@mootpointjones8488]

Excellent work 👏

[@MarbleyeRecords]

Brilliant work

[@muzzy1978]

Loving these episodes. I was born the year the final series was transmitted. Caught a couple of repeats in the '80's and was overjoyed when the box set came out much later. Since then I've bought all the re-releases I could lay my hands on, including the Australian individual sets, the UK and US Blu-rays and the most recent box set that was released in 2022 (in Australia again, with exclusive new commentaries on some episodes so worth shelling out for.) The best TV series ever made and I often say to people if there were more coppers like Regan and Carter around now, we'd all be better off. It's such a shame that Network cancelled the planned Blu-ray sets of Series 2-4 and it looks unlikely we'll get them anytime soon, especially as Network have now sadly gone to the wall.

[@keithwesley2471]

Love the Camley Street views! Brings back memories.

[@PrezziePrez0]

This is a brilliant premise for a channel. Thank you

[@robertlloyd7493]

Great item on my favourite show 😊

[@Sweenealogy]

Mine too! Glad you liked it.

[@marciabaldwin2506]

The sweeney was such a great programme when growing up I still Wath the reruns on TV such a shame John and Dennis are no longer with us so cool to see Michael Elphick in other programs I remember him in Boon too great actor❤

[@Stephen.C.]

Love these videos, Well done 😎

[@Sweenealogy]

Thanks!

[@nickhaag7803]

Great stuff, thanks for doing this.

[@tonyb2600]

Very entertaining and looks like a lot of grafting went into this video 👍🏻

[@TCCTTWH]

Brilliant work.Details and effort are amazing.

[@Sweenealogy]

Thanks!

[@maxflight777]

I can’t stop watching your channel. 👍🏻

[@markdunstan8277]

Definitely a gem indeed Hope there are lots more to come

[@Sweenealogy]

That's the plan!

[@arrangrant4614]

Top channel the 1970s London that I grew up in.

[@nicnak4475]

Really enjoyed that, thanks 👍

[@andrewyork5620]

Another great location video for The Sweeney. Looking forward to more locations being covered for episodes like Stoppo Driver.Golden Fleece, Trojan Bus etc.......I could go on forever!

[@Francis292]

Really good. Thanks 👍

[@archstanton3763]

An absolutely cracking video, really enjoyed it. Nice touch filming from inside the phone box. You’ve gone above and beyond for us fans, thank you !

[@Sweenealogy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@archstanton3763]

@@Sweenealogy Sure did, very much looking forward to the next one !

[@fulhambob]

Another ace episode. Keep it up!

[@tomstovell7425]

Brilliant! I’ll be checking out the other vids on your channel. I’ve liked the sweeney for years and have been watching a few episodes over the past few days so the Russians are clearly listening and got your vid onto my feed!

[@richardbelton919]

I absolutely love these films! I watch The Sweeney on DVD regularly, and these just add even more interest to its brilliance. Thank you for making them, as they clearly must take a lot of effort.

[@1973ts]

Another gem! Clerkenwell is quite unchanged in many ways. The low level, distance shots of Farringdon were taken from a small NCP car park, which went in the 80s, on the land that was once Farringdon goods sidings. In the 90s, the area north of Goods Way was still the same as in 1975. Dodgy area after dark back then. Thank you for another great video, and your time and effort to produce it.

[@EdVanMeyer]

Great video. The BWM at 1:02 has WLT prefix plate, London Transport used these on early Routemaster Buses i.e. WLT686, the phonebox at 13:28 is a film prop, note the wooden framing on the windows! Another great video.

[@Sweenealogy]

Thanks! Yes looking closer, you can clearly see that phone box is wooden. Now that I know this, I've spotted the 'prop box' in other episodes too.

[@jamessawyer479]

Brilliant! So much work has obviously gone into making these absolute gems. I can't thank you enough. It'd be great if you could track down the cricket pavilion where Tim Cook hides in 'On the Run'. I once looked for it in Virginia Water where the pub scenes were filmed, but to no avail. Be great if you could find it. Many thanks!

[@VDevo-ed8nk]

Apparently Stoke Green Cricket Club near Slough?

[@Sweenealogy]

I'm definitely planning at some point to do 'out of town' locations too

[@jeniferallan6693]

Brilliant. Great days. 😊

[@johntimberlake2958]

You are a scholar, sir. This is a fascinating series which also speaks volumes about the changes in the London skyline in the decades since. As you point out, it's working class homes that have been demolished, whereas the affluent areas have been conserved. The gentry don't gentrify their own, only other peoples' gaffs...

[@littlepaf1]

These are brilliant, well done!.

[@MrModelworx]

Please keep these going, absolutely superb research and entertaining videos, love it

[@Sweenealogy]

Thanks! Certainly intend to keep going with this.

[@TallysVids]

Absolutely brilliant. Has always I thoroughly enjoyed it, amazing work. I look forward to your next video.

[@girafficparkgaming]

I love a cockney diamond geezer accent. Your research is brilliant. Grew up in 70s watching the Sweeney. Its so good its repeated on itv 4 along with minder and the professionals

[@KJM.72]

Loving these vlogs keep them coming 👍

[@Sweenealogy]

Thank you. Planning my next filming trip very soon.

[@Younrx]

Absolutely brilliantly done, extremely well put together and interesting. Fantastically narrated and great to see a lot is still the same. Looking forward to next instalment.

[@Sweenealogy]

Thank you :) Glad you enjoyed it

[@deaniweenie]

Excellent work!

[@theroomofrock6456]

Really enjoyed this, very well researched, keep them coming

[@Sweenealogy]

Glad you enjoyed it! Time for another filming trip soon...

[@CarlDraper]

Brilliant! well done! i look forward to the next one!

[@Sweenealogy]

Thanks!

[@flippop101]

Quality KZbin, brilliant!

[@nicklewis2734]

Wow your channel is so attention to detail.. Keep up the wonderful work you do to make this come alive.

[@Sweenealogy]

Thanks!

[@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882]

Brilliant commentary… outstanding authenticity…subscribed! 👍🏼

[@Sweenealogy]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882]

@@Sweenealogy loved the Sweeney since ‘Armchair Theatre’ … Reagan… watched ‘em so many times I could act them…😂

[@joanne26]

Thanks for the memories and locations once again Omg nearly 50 years ago Another stellar cast - James Booth ❤️❤️👍 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@jubbaronny]

Excellent work again 👍🏻

[@Sweenealogy]

Thank you!

[@michaelrobson3460]

Proper job.Well done, geeza.

[@markc3874]

These videos are excellent.

[@Sweenealogy]

Thank you :)

[@stevendrake3981]

Brilliant - highly informative and entertaining. A wonderful addendum to many great London centric channels on YT.. Lovely stuff

[@Sweenealogy]

Many thanks!

[@stevedunningduckinggiraffe6296]

Your location clips shows how far we've come since those dark days. What with strikes, inflation, the 3 day week, only 3 channels and the Austin Allegro, the Sweeney was the only thing that kept me going!

[@fus149hammer5]

Watch the exterior shots of Steptoe And Son filmed around Notting Hill. The rubbish in the streets, bins overflowing, dirty rundown dilapidated slum buildings, that area really was a s**those in those days now? Those buildings are still there but you now need half a million just to buy a one bedroom flat in one of them. Mind you, to many people it's still a s**those!😂

[@LANCSKID]

@@fus149hammer5I blame Hugh Grant.

[@veloman59]

Brilliant series. Thanks for sharing 😁At 7:54 in this video there is a young chap walking along who is wearing a pair of denim bell bottom jeans and what looks like a white penny collar shirt! I can confirm this was very de rigueur of the time - being of the same generation. 😂

[@CovRealist]

Excellent. Thanks for the time and effort you put in. 👍🏻

[@neilbertuk1]

This is fun, love this channel.

[@dr.plutonus1496]

Thanks for another episode. Brilliant stuff!

[@christyler975]

Excellent - definitely my era - subscribed