Kingston | Kingston upon Thames | A Town called...| 1976 

I lived the happiest years of my life there between 2008-2011. I hope one day I can live there too!!!

I was a student there in 1976. I remember the row of wooden shops on the main road, one one which was a coffee roaster. You could smell the roasting beans all over town. Bentalls was the posh shop, and I got my first hifi from Laskey's there! Happy days. I love the vibrancy of Kingston.

I used to love Kingston, I visited many tines as a boy in the 50s. Then I moved nearby in 1979, it wasn't so bad then, but now it's dreadful. The market is a total disaster as a market, and many of the historic shops have been defaced. Driving through at night is awful due to drunks in the middle of the road, and for me, walking in the evening is an absolute no-no. I left the area for more pleasant surroundings.

Blast from the past, this is the Kingston of my childhood. Most of the river frontage on display here either side of the bridge was demolished & replaced in the late 1980's with new retail buildings. I wonder who all these people filmed were, & what went on to happen to them over the next 40 years?

I remember Kingston well from the 1970s right up to the 1990s. It changed a lot in that time alone. I remember the Coronation baths that was probably already closed when I used to walk past it and then knocked down in the 1980s.

I have recently moved away from Kingston. I loved it when I first lived there. It has changed completely for the worse.

I live in Kingston now and would have appreciated more footage from then. The market was more of a market back then -- nowadays there's a small market along the eastern side but most has been given over to food stalls now and of course there's no traffic anymore, it's all pedestrianised. I really like seeing how people dressed in bygone times, especially women -- many more skirts and dresses than in recent times, although if this was shot in that summer then it's not really surprising.

I lived just over the bridge in Hampton Wick at the time of this film. Good memories.

Great cycle ride molesey to richmond👍🚲

It looked so quaint back then . I like it . Britains changed .

Born in castle St 1960s mum used to let me go out at age 6 sit under the heating in bentalls entrance grew up there went to all the usual pubs

Kingston is still fabulous and a lovely place to live by but good to see the "old days". You don't realise just how many improvements were made, we tend just to remember the mistakes and lament their passing!

Lived in new Malden then. Kingston was ok, back then.

All the old pubs gone now and the boat yards....All the old faces in the market dead...Sad.

Wow Jamaica looks beautiful

Old Lipstick Lilly, in the market.

Remember this Kingston well..... sadly just like Richmond as well gone forever..((((

Hey not enough time shot on the blue train at beginning of film, that looks wicked

Where's Moses

I think that the bridge was widened a few years ago!

Funny seeing it before the pedestrianisation.

I'd love to have seen that area as all over there with someone's company to chat about as going around

kingston as i remember it,i was 13 yrs old,don't really like it anymore (some parts anyway)

good to actually see english people living in england

The people in the market were paying in coins.. but because of inflation over the past 42 years today they would be paying with Notes!

Still waiting to see the benefits of cultural enrichment.... poor old England gone forever, sad we let our country become the worlds dustbin...

ran into john alderton there about then

There is no lyrics ??

That hideous John Lewis monstrosity, ruined Kingston! I remember it being built as a child, did they really have to put up something so ugly?!