London - August 1993

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In Memory of my father, John Joseph Rodgers (8th September 1943 - 26th December 2021)
• Sean's Travels : RIP J...
Due to sudden viral viewings (circa late 2023) and thoughtful comments on capturing the times… plus my "camera work" as a young teenager on this video, here is a link to a longer version featuring 16 more minutes of footage from the same day.
• London - August 1993 (...
Camcorder footage of London on a family trip with my father and brother, shot on 4th August 1993. Nothing amazing but thought (as it's mind-bogglingly almost 30 years since it was taken) something might be of interest.
I was 13 years old when I took this and the high street record store was a religious ritual. So weird to think both the flagship HMV and Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street are long gone, when here they were the biggest entertainment retail stores in the UK. Also keep your eyes / ears out for a pre-London Eye Southbank, Jurassic Park, BT Phone-boxes, a lonely looking Canary Wharf Tower (One Canada Square), The Queen Mum, Pre-Crossrail/Elizabeth Line Centre Point area, a dissing of the Tories, an anecdote from my father about the fate of the GLC's (Greater London Council) County Hall premises and some popular artists of the day. Oh and the fashion of course.
So 90s!!! Obviously.
A similar “vlog” 1990s style video by me of an 18 - 30 style holiday in Majorca, Spain - 1998 can be seen at this link here:
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@tyronerodgers 11 месяцев назад

Due to sudden viral viewings (circa late 2023) and thoughtful comments on capturing the times… plus my “camera work” as a young teenager on this video, here is a link to a longer version featuring 16 more minutes of footage from the same day. “London - August 1993”(Extended Cut) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-os4U4Ach3XU.html

@aldozilli1293 10 месяцев назад

U had a dirty mouth as a teenager 😅

@markharriers4694 2 месяца назад

Excellent video amazing seeing people with a video camera from 30 years ago!

@cglees 11 месяцев назад

I bet you had no idea when you filmed this that total strangers would be enjoying watching it 30 years later

@tyronerodgers 11 месяцев назад

Yeh. And never knew 30 years would pass just like that...

@shayfinnighan6311 11 месяцев назад

the video or the city?

@stuartpaulsmith3186 11 месяцев назад

True. 30 years has flown. I was 14 on the day you filmed that. Probably a couple of miles up the road. Seeing all the old shops was crazy

@GenjiShimada. 11 месяцев назад

@@tyronerodgers I was 2 years old now I'm 32 and halfway to pasture with bone joints cracking/clanking and creeking.

@Fvms30 11 месяцев назад

I was just a month old 😅

@rafaelmagalhaes1751 11 месяцев назад

When London was beautiful

@Daearegal 11 месяцев назад

I love your brother's facial expressions. They send me right back to the feeling of being a moody spotty teenager and being reluctantly dragged round on a day out with your family!

@CptPikeOnABike 11 месяцев назад

My folks have a vid of us walking to a restaurant, myself also grumping so much I do not order any food. Everyone else tucks in and I'm just sitting there with a face like thunder for no real reason at all 😅

@jupiterapollo4985 11 месяцев назад

@@CptPikeOnABike 😂🤣🤣

@aviewfromtheinterior 11 месяцев назад

I was gunna ask who the joker enjoying all the fun and games was.

@BenjaminNavillus 10 месяцев назад

I couldn’t see myself, but I fear that I was as monosyllabic and as scowling as your brother was in this video. I had just turned 16 at the time you shot this and also had an array of mild acne and dour expressions across my face.

@BillHrpr 11 месяцев назад

Seeing Canary Wharf only being one skyscraper really brings me back to my childhood. I used find that building fascinating 😅

@Rjgxxx 11 месяцев назад

Canary Wharf isn't in this?

@BillHrpr 11 месяцев назад

@@Rjgxxx one Canada square in Canary Wharf is right at the beginning of the video dude lol

@JayDee-rm4zz 10 месяцев назад

Same,could see the flashing light at the top from miles away!

@Zlervo 28 дней назад

I lived in Forest Gate at the time, and I could look out of my window and see Canary Wharf going up bit by bit. I remember when they completed it, they had Christmas lights that year.

@ZephyrCrypto 11 месяцев назад

I wish London was still like that!!

@evaharrison1733 11 месяцев назад

This is what history really is. People think its all about big men and big events but really its the small things like how you lived, how you experienced the everyday and what everything looked like. Fab stuff and what a nice reminder of your dad x

@policeblue999 11 месяцев назад

This is what fascinates me about our history. For example old workhouses in London. Not so much when it was built but who would have worked there 100 years ago and what their everyday life would have been like.

@wizardaka 11 месяцев назад

This is such an interesting observation.

@_Stroda 11 месяцев назад

@@wizardaka Emphasizing the 'ordinary people'; every day life, places, objects, etc. has been a major focus of much academic (and popular) history for some time now. To argue that this is the 'real' history isn't a particularly novel stance. I'd argue that whilst there's some truth to it, it's too often (like virtually all subjective matters) taken to an extreme. Dismissing the importance of individual people, events, etc. in history entirely is just as daft as ignoring ordinary people. Looking at recent British history, it seems pretty clear to me that Brexit wouldn't have happened if it weren't for Farage. But it also wouldn't have happened without the votes of ordinary people. Ordinary people with a number of common traits, some of which clearly stem from their common life experiences, e.g. low levels of education/skill, lack of employment opportunities, etc. And what can so much of this be traced back to? The choices made, quite often, by individuals or very small groups of people. I dislike the use of the word 'great', as in so many instances the impact is negative, but individuals do often play a massively outsized role in history.

@willfungusman8666 11 месяцев назад

What

@ellie-tk4jy 11 месяцев назад

Men?

@JL-jc9no 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic footage, love how this is essentially a time capsule taking us back to 93 - the fact you took time to film the individual posters on the underground, the shop fronts, records in HMV - i was 8 years old living in west london and it brought me right back

@crayzmarc 11 месяцев назад

What part? Remember Barkers? When the ground by Cromwell rd where Tesco is industrial/ wasteland?

@alfydarkdeadly 11 месяцев назад

I was 8 too then.

@matthewnewton301 11 месяцев назад

I dont even recognize London now. 😔

@peachyskies5158 6 месяцев назад

racist

@matthewnewton301 6 месяцев назад

@@peachyskies5158 🤡🤣

@millicentgranger6035 5 месяцев назад

@@matthewnewton301your the clown ...the aborigines and native Americans sends a message.....chin up

@CYCLOPS1994 4 месяца назад

@@peachyskies5158 good

@Vile_Entity_3545 2 дня назад

@@peachyskies5158That is all you lot have in your repertoire. Clown.

@spanishjohn420 Год назад

A London that we have lost and will never get back.

@ok2760 11 месяцев назад

Ah, the "good ol' days"

@jamesjameson4566 11 месяцев назад

@@ok2760what's with the smug sneering.. ""

@rahuldahoob 11 месяцев назад

Oooooo raciste

@jamesjameson4566 11 месяцев назад

@@rahuldahoob oooh another one, in someone else's country calling anybody that doesn't like it.... RAcIsT

@greggrimer354 11 месяцев назад

True of London at every period in its history

@philipbulley 11 месяцев назад

Back when Oxford Street used to be worth visiting.

@capitalb5889 11 месяцев назад

Come on, who doesn't love American Candy money laundering shops?

@contrapposto8389 3 года назад

Your dad was absolutely correct in saying that selling off the GLC building was a national disgrace.

@richardmurphy4520 Год назад

That was before the royal & zio establishment played the anti semite card on the old GLC boss Ken Livingston. Subsequently besmirching & destroying the sterling political career of one of the best politicians England and the UK ever had. They did the same" Job," on Jeremy Corbyn years later. Whose next ?.

@beatonthedonis 11 месяцев назад

The selling off of all our utilities and assets was a national disgrace - one we'll be paying for for decades.

@thomaswillans4085 11 месяцев назад

General Lectric Company

@georginathompson3788 11 месяцев назад

@@thomaswillans4085thanks for clarifying the abbreviation

@thomaswillans4085 11 месяцев назад

@@georginathompson3788 🤣

@TerryTibbsTalkToMe2024 11 месяцев назад

R.I.P London.

@yoya4766 11 месяцев назад

I lived and worked in London during the 80's-90's. The tubes weren't great but otherwise it felt more civilised and less stressful. I struggle going there now.

@EubulusKane3259 11 месяцев назад

There’s something so heartbreaking about looking at lost time

@johnnyboy-f6v 7 месяцев назад

Well said. That's EXACTLY how I feel. Nostalgia and memories are so painful at times.

@mortal557 2 года назад

Wouldn't it be nice to go back to these simpler times! I think it would.

@SkemeKOS Год назад

100%

@_Area-51 11 месяцев назад

Yeah this sucks

@Boooooooooka 11 месяцев назад

1000%

@langdale55 11 месяцев назад

Simpler times when we were all a lot wealthier, but didn’t realise it!

@Ironbuket 11 месяцев назад

People always post comments like this about the 80s and 90s, completely ignoring the quite serious negative aspects of the time. I used to go to that Virgin Megastore in the 1990s because it had a nice tabletop and computer/console gaming section upstairs. Whenever I walked down that street, I stayed really far and hurried past any litter boxes I saw, because the IRA enjoyed exploding them. In February of the same year this was filmed a bomb exploded in a litter bin outside a McDonald's restaurant in Camden Town, injuring 18 people, two seriously. Oxford Street, which is the street featured in this film was an IRA target multiple times in 1994. IRA attacks in London didn’t trail off until 1996 (3yrs after this video was filmed). For me, visiting central London in the 90s during busy shopping periods was a cross between playing the lottery and entering a war zone. At least by the time this was filmed we had got past the period where you had to consider getting nuked without warning whilst out shopping in London. You know why the music was so good in the 80s and early 90s? Because when times are sht people make good music

@gemmeliusgrammaticus2509 11 месяцев назад

The demographic shift in only 30 years is astonishing. We didn’t listen.

@bigbabatunde1218 11 месяцев назад

Governments don't listen. Abstain on mass from voting in the next general election. Spark a constitutional crisis for the political elite.

@ER-ec4uq 11 месяцев назад

White British makes up only 73% of the census as of 2021. That figure will be even lower given we've had two years of super high immigration since. By 2031 I reckon it will be into the 50s.

@bigbabatunde1218 11 месяцев назад

@@ER-ec4uq London census results put white UK bred citizens under 50% of the population. The numbers for white people were only regarded as higher because of immigration from Eastern Europe.

@S-Ltd1000 11 месяцев назад

What a difference 30 years has made.

@mattdog1982 11 месяцев назад

It wasn’t a perfect time, but it was certainly more carefree, even naive to a point. The bulls*** hadnt really kicked in at this point

@bsport131 11 месяцев назад

Pre Blair when London was still habitable just

@Dezzasheep 10 месяцев назад

Didn't get John Smith, but Tony Blair. The bloke who single handedly destroy the fabric of our country.

@mickbeeee 11 месяцев назад

What a lovely reminder our Capital once felt like home to us British - Our government have a lot to answer for - JUST LOOK AT THE PLACE NOW - i COULD CRY

@millicentgranger6035 11 месяцев назад

The English have caused a lot of tears believe me ....wait you didn't think you would have to shed Any ?? How foolish of you

@mickbeeee 11 месяцев назад

I assume you are one of those nasty people who have came to our country ? Its good you show your true colours - We can all see clearly what we need to do NOW @@millicentgranger6035

@capitalb5889 11 месяцев назад

At least your comment is more honest than most about when they look back fondly - fewer foreigners, especially brown ones.

@mickbeeee 11 месяцев назад

How can our stupid Government /Councils have allowed our Capital to become dominated by Hostile Immigrants / Like ISLAM - this is OUR Capital WE WILL TAKE IT BACK @@capitalb5889

@geoffsclassiccars 5 месяцев назад

@@millicentgranger6035no it's corrupted leaders not the English

@TropicIslandMusic 11 месяцев назад

90s Britain was a very optimistic Britain. Great footage 👍🏽

@neilwright5063 Год назад

When Oxford street was a day out.

@rahuldahoob 11 месяцев назад

😢

@AaronOwenSmith 11 месяцев назад

Mate this is an an important video, really helped me, things used to be so good, I was at that U2 concert, loved oxford street back then and HMV.. all crap now. God bless you for this..

@tyronerodgers 10 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@Chris_34 11 месяцев назад

London has changed so much in 30 years, and not for the better. So glad I got to grow up in 1980's London and not today's London.

@RosieHarp 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely

@ontheslide2339 11 месяцев назад

only 30 years ago... the change in london is incredible..

@ok2760 11 месяцев назад

The change between 1963 and 1993 was also pretty incredible let me tell you

@stephen3654 11 месяцев назад

@@ok2760you wouldn't believe how much it changed between 1933 and 1963

@MrYounis26 11 месяцев назад

@@stephen36541903 and 1933 was so different that you would believe its another city all together

@ladybird1463 11 месяцев назад

All Europe is changing because of mass immigration

@mannionh1 11 месяцев назад

Reminds me of my dad - we totally admired him and his intelligence. His ad hoc random walks around London with us as kids were the best. Great video of London. Thanks for posting!

@tyronerodgers 11 месяцев назад

Yeh. Was lucky to have experienced London at such a young age from the mid 8os as a child to the late 90s as a teenager. I lived with my Mum in the countryside about an hour away by train. London was like going to another planet...

@Joeonline26 11 месяцев назад

Try not to do any 'ad hoc random walks' around London nowadays, you're likely to get stabbed and robbed

@joshuaj1202 11 месяцев назад

@@Joeonline26 🙄

@deanodog3667 11 месяцев назад

@@Joeonline26that's bullshit!

@LouisCookHyponik 11 месяцев назад

@@Joeonline26you don’t have any idea what you’re talking about

@meditationmusicbyalexjackson 11 месяцев назад

The demographic has changed somewhat in 30 years. Also it's much more crowded now than it was then.

@PantheraTK 11 месяцев назад

No idea why English people stopped having babies

@patriciasanderson2171 11 месяцев назад

Understatement of the year.

@millicentgranger6035 5 месяцев назад

@@TheSereneWanderer87the invaders crying about being invaded ...oh how the mighty have fallen.......

@geoffsclassiccars 5 месяцев назад

@@millicentgranger6035English monarchy not the English people!

@millicentgranger6035 5 месяцев назад

@geoffsclassiccars yes the elites ran off with the money like they always do ,my point is in Canada Australia new Zealand America and everywhere else that's been settled by Europeans. There english mainly and no its not the royal family its people like you , all those places had natives and people who toiled the land and called it home . Can you explain to me why folks are crying now ?

@bushwhackeddos.2703 11 месяцев назад

Before the final betrayal really kicked in.

@wattbenj 11 месяцев назад

London was such a vibe in the 90's & 2000's.

@jimmycampbell78 11 месяцев назад

Yes. Best era to be in London, from about 1988 to 2009.

@SkippingBaboon 11 месяцев назад

No zombies glued to mobile phones. Just a guy filming with no care for “clout” or clicks. Simpler times.

@stoke101 11 месяцев назад

The demographic of the capital was certainly different. How times change, and not for the best.

@tomalebine2778 11 месяцев назад

The dad shooting with the camera vertically was very before his time

@martinbennett83 Год назад

Brilliant video, I was only 12. The McDonald's Styrofoam boxes brought me back. I loved walking around virgin megastore or HMV on a Saturday. Thanks for that.

@citizen1163 11 месяцев назад

Before UK borders opened by Blair. RIP UK!

@stephaniehayden7630 11 месяцев назад

Oxford Street is a national disgrace these days.

@jayfreedom 11 месяцев назад

Too young lads off on a trip with their Dad. Smashing!!! ❤❤❤

@LadyDiamondIsHereNow 11 месяцев назад

I remember going to that HMV, and the Virgin Megastore, at weekends. Thanks for uploading and all the great memories of that time it brings back. Also, RIP for your Dad. He comes across as a level-headed man and he was right about that building. 'Selling England by the pound'

@Curi0u50ne 8 месяцев назад

And Our Price 😅

@arcadealchemist 11 месяцев назад

crazy this was only 30 years ago but look at how much has changed,

@RosieHarp 11 месяцев назад

yes and not for the better

@millicentgranger6035 11 месяцев назад

@@RosieHarpnative Americans...aborigines...and wherever Europeans went feel the same ...karma is a beautiful bitch

@johneeeemarry34 9 месяцев назад

More honest just to say turned to absolute shit rather than ‘changed’.

@IExertio 11 месяцев назад

Back in the day before the country got invaded

@EthanolEnthusiast 11 месяцев назад

What a disgrace it is today

@Leosworld1993 Год назад

I’m watching this in August 2023! 30 years after this was filmed 😊

@spec2685 11 месяцев назад

Sorry to hear that your father passed - mine too passed that year, they were of very similar age. I hope these little treasures put a smile on your face, I wish I had captured more of them myself. Thanks for sharing!

@ChipsChallenge95 11 месяцев назад

It’s amazing how bad things are in London now compared to back then, even 20 years ago there is a stark difference.

@mikeh2006 11 месяцев назад

I went often in 2008-2010 and it was quite similar to this I feel, although a bit more full on, faster. It left an impression on me. I've been more recently and really it doesn't feel like the same place. It feels just like a built up a area. No vibe. No personality.

@lewisclark1122 11 месяцев назад

Oxford Street is definitely much worse now.

@eyesodd 11 месяцев назад

Just look at the people on the streets, it was a very different demographic back then.

@eamonduggan4217 11 месяцев назад

It's 30 years ago. 😊

@Joeonline26 11 месяцев назад

Much more likely to get stabbed and robbed walking around London now. Not sure why...

@childofnature4402 11 месяцев назад

Back before London became a complete hell hole. Sad.

@sutty85 11 месяцев назад

So London use to be English. 😮

@Anticommunism99 11 месяцев назад

Londonstan

@aislex 4 месяца назад

Left the UK in 2010, haven't set foot back and never will, it is done

@ajs41 3 года назад

That screen set-up in the shop at about 4:35 would have been a new type of technology in 1993, or maybe the end of 1992. It's too modern for before then. I like seeing how technology changes over time, and this type of video is very useful for seeing what things were like at a particular time.

@WeaselKing1000 Год назад

You can hear by their reactions to it, too. "Look at that!" "Ah no, I don't like that."

@Pulsonar 11 месяцев назад

@@WeaselKing1000In the future our descendants will be saying the same about us getting excited about 3D printing technology, and the tricks ChatGPT4 can do 😊

@anonniemouse8042 11 месяцев назад

Before Tony Blair ruined everything

@jonathandowling7311 11 месяцев назад

It's a bit hard to read but at 4:00 it looks like tickets for U2 in Wembley Stadium are only £38. Astonishing.

@michaelstyles9163 3 года назад

I miss the HMV megastore, spending a lot of time and money in there.

@RustieFawn 11 месяцев назад

It was nice walking in, getting hit with the music and seeing the new door displays.

@maccagrabme 11 месяцев назад

@@RustieFawn Its all boring clothes shops now.

@madgemuso7314 11 месяцев назад

Me too. My best friend and I would make regular pilgrimages to HMV megastore and spend hours in there. It was a day out in itself in the 80s and 90s.

@stevejones6503 11 месяцев назад

Great vid, from a time when London still felt British. I've recently lost my father. Memories like this are so precious. Thanks for sharing 👍

@frankrizzo9761 11 месяцев назад

Same.

@hawsrulebegin7768 11 месяцев назад

I lived in London in 93. It felt British then. Whites, blacks, multiculturalism, good people, bad people. It’s the same today.

@TheRealMike1976 11 месяцев назад

And yet they tell us England has always been diverse.

@simonstones1918 11 месяцев назад

@@TheRealMike1976propogander 🙄

@rehan2118 11 месяцев назад

@@TheRealMike1976 East london was full of asians even back in the 80s

@theaylesburycyclist8756 11 месяцев назад

I was 19 in 1993, and this is exactly how I remember London. Cheers for uploading this. 👍

@davekennedy6315 11 месяцев назад

same as me 1974 year of the Tiger! At around this age was the first time we got the train to Liverpool Street to explore London. I ALWAYS used to return to Northern Essex with an massive pollution related headache after visiting!

@davekennedy6315 11 месяцев назад

I can`t believe we`ll be........big gulp!.........50 next year? Where has all the time gone?

@theaylesburycyclist8756 11 месяцев назад

@davekennedy6315 I was always catching the train up from Aylesbury with my mates from the age of about 15 on Saturdays. It was dirt cheap for a return travel ticket back then, I think around a £5iver. Plus, I had an auntie who lived in Westbourne Terrace, whom I used to stay with a lot throughout the 1970s and 80s. Happy times 😊

@davekennedy6315 11 месяцев назад

@@theaylesburycyclist8756 we used to visit HMV and my mate loved Forbidden Planet (the comic book shop) and just check out the many cool shops that only London had. Yeah defo really good times and great memories mate.

@kjmcindoe6408 11 месяцев назад

Brought back a lot of memories for me too.

@kreemkrackered3755 11 месяцев назад

Before it went to the dogs…

@simonconroy7610 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for uploading this. Very nostalgic

@jktekkerz8735 11 месяцев назад

A brilliant video! Like an historical document! Who knew then that so much would change! And not always for the better! What a great tribute to your father. And full credit to you for producing such a wonderful piece of observational documentary at such a young age. You should be out filming now. Documenting the age and times that you are living through today. Momentous changes are taking place. You should place yourself in ‘key’ locations to record things as they happen. I am sure that much of your material would go ‘viral’.

@tyronerodgers 11 месяцев назад

Thank you. I’ll work on it. But here is another thing for now… Also from the 90s!!!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KxiJ_D_Fo4c.htmlsi=NEZo8Zo6TRvXyc3w

@editname2181 11 месяцев назад

London certainly doesn’t look like that anymore too many Londoners

@DarrenMac-yk2gd 11 месяцев назад

Now that’s a London I would have loved to have gone to maybe even stayed

@domzbu 11 месяцев назад

Tony Blair has a lot to answer for. This is unrecognisable

@rever7zukuk386 11 месяцев назад

I miss hmv spent many hours in my youth browsing around there. Now it a sports direct. Internet has changed the music landscape forever

@alexcampbell-black8543 11 месяцев назад

Before Blair opened the gates

@steve-marsh 11 месяцев назад

I yearn for a time without mobile phones

@tapen678s6 11 месяцев назад

England needs a new PM

@cryptonomous888 11 месяцев назад

I was 14 then, used to go trocadero in Piccadilly Circus all the time….The Good ol days.

@palacehaunter5442 Год назад

1993 London. A wonderful time

@RosieHarp 11 месяцев назад

Interesting look at our capital city 30 years ago. Happy times. So much has changed and definitely NOT for the better. What could that be?

@colliehouse3133 11 месяцев назад

Diversity is our greatest strength.

@GeorgeGwiazda 11 месяцев назад

Aye, it’s interesting to read these comments and something’s always implied, because we’re not supposed to say it out loud.

@RBASB10 11 месяцев назад

Great video. The world was far nicer then than today’s world.

@Leaburn 11 месяцев назад

Loved this. Was ten in 93 and reminds me of trips into London. So much has changed but Liverpool Street station hasn’t changed at all. Victoria pretty similar too. Centre Point still going strong too. And damn what we’d give for John Major, Ken Clarke and John Smith now. Puts the current rabble in perspective. The 90s was the start of a great 25 years or so for the city. Sadly it’s lost s bit of its vim since the lockdowns. Never quite got it’s vibrancy back.

@capitalb5889 11 месяцев назад

They've dicked around with the insides and exits of Victoria tube station and made it worse

@tyronerodgers 10 месяцев назад

The current cabinet eh? Blimey

@swiftlydoesit8480 10 месяцев назад

‘83 crew! 🙌

@cassisbrook 11 месяцев назад

Top video! 30 years ago?!?😮🤯 Seems like yesterday! I spent all most/all of my disposable income in and around Oxford Street, especially in HMV, Virgin Megastore, Tower Records, Gosh Comic book shop and Forbidden Planet. Nice memories of your Dad for you and your family.🙏🏽

@Enigmatic.. 11 месяцев назад

I'm not even going to say it because the video speaks for itself.

@millicentgranger6035 5 месяцев назад

Go link up with aborigines and native Americans and have a chat about the changes....

@CYCLOPS1994 4 месяца назад

@@millicentgranger6035 They thank God for the white man's technology

@millicentgranger6035 4 месяца назад

@CYCLOPS1994 white mans technology?? What do they do better than Chinese, Indians, Africans , what is this white man's technology you speak off ???

@dean1039 4 года назад

I was less than a year old when this footage was captured. What I notice most prominently is how no one is looking at the floor glued to a screen. I had forgotten what it was like to see hundreds of people just, walking and conversing, without technology.

@ajs41 3 года назад

That's one reason why I decided never to buy a smartphone. I'm not anti-technology: I've been using computers since the mid-1980s. But I just think it's taking things too far to spend most of your day staring at a smartphone screen. And I think I have a more interesting experience whenever I visit anywhere like London because I'm still looking at what's going on around me in real life.

@RealDixonPeter Год назад

Yeah.. Supporting the next I stand by... Crap.. 🤣

@The-Great-Brindian Год назад

@@ajs41 Oh, please, spare me the anti-technology drama! You claim not to be against it, yet you steer clear of smartphones like they're plague carriers. Let's face it, you're not anti-technology; you're just anti-useful in 2023. You're the living embodiment of yesterday's tech, just like those beloved computing relics from the '80s you can't stop gushing about. But, newsflash, your opinions on modern tech are as valuable as an 8-track player in a world of streaming services. Refusing to move with the times and adapt to change is your prerogative, of course. But avoiding smartphones is akin to me shunning cars and insisting on traveling by horse and carriage. And your aversion to mobile computing? That's like me ditching email for a good ol' fax machine. You've got to admit, you're a bit out of touch with the reality of today's world. Embrace the present, my friend, before you become a walking, talking museum exhibit!

@OlafProt Год назад

Everyone was staring at newspapers instead. The social media of its time.

@Skyrose1978 11 месяцев назад

@@OlafProt That's not even remotely comparable you read a newspaper and put it down. People are addicted to their phones 24/7 constantly staring at the screen while real life goes on around them.

@ZanderJam 11 месяцев назад

I was born the year before this was filmed - I can't help but feel nostalgic. Thankk you for sharing and respect for your father

@-trixiespumpkins3846 11 месяцев назад

Oooft summer 1993. Jurassic Park was about to be the biggest film in decades Rangers nearly made the champions league final Oasis were still playing pubs Saturday night tv was worth watching

@joevictor53 11 месяцев назад

Man I miss going into Central London and going between HMV and Virgin Megastore to find the best deals

@LukeMM95 11 месяцев назад

Wow! Amazing how bad things can get in 30 years. London still looks somewhat British.

@pipotherium 4 года назад

I guess John Smith and Kenneth Clarke didn't become PM's in the end :)

@elixorvideos 11 месяцев назад

Makes me laugh about how people call times ‘simpler times’ when what they really mean is the ignorant bliss of childhood

@stuartwray6175 11 месяцев назад

The late 1980's, early 1990's were a strange time. The country seemed culturally and politically adrift. Not that it isn't now. Lol. The deregulation of public transport: I recall bus drivers being reckless competing for passengers, and awful old buses that shouldn't have been on the road.

@BonVoyage861 11 месяцев назад

Routemasters were much more practical and had style. All of the cool people disowned London. And left lames like yourself..

@VampireHunter666 11 месяцев назад

I was 13 years old back then was probably playing video games and if i remember correct 1str or 2nd year high school lol oh wait sorry 14 years old. Good times I guess better times at home outside of school.

@MOTOKANDI 11 месяцев назад

I worked in that HMV on Oxford St in 1993, cheers for the flashback!

@liamblack2574 11 месяцев назад

I was 7…. The 90s really were better

@jimmyskyblue6057 11 месяцев назад

The 90’s was a great decade, this video took me right back. Thanks for sharing.

@mcrennagade7329 11 месяцев назад

The old polystyrene boxes from McDonald's nasty

@johnnyboy-f6v 7 месяцев назад

Probably my biggest regret in life is not having the insight to capture my family on film when they were alive.

@neilvare-dd1rs 11 месяцев назад

How different it is now what a shame

@peterf46 11 месяцев назад

Brilliant stuff! I recently converted a load of 8 mm videocassettes to DVDs through a company called digital converters. There is something really special about these kind of videos. When my ones arrived, my jaw nearly hit the ground, it was like watching time travel or something. people used to really enjoy being videoed back then, it was a novelty.

@leebarrett9581 11 месяцев назад

McDonald’s using polystyrene burger boxes!!!

@lordmackery 11 месяцев назад

Happier times

@carlgreene538 11 месяцев назад

This was before Tony Blair opened the floodgates!

@essexandy189 Год назад

You was almost right about John Smith he would off been prime minister instead off Blair had he not died talking off which i was parked outside Cromwell tower at the Barbican in my Post office van when they brought him out after he had an Heart attack i think he was dead before he got to Barts Hospital

@dazaro3 11 месяцев назад

London is broken now ,like most cities in the UK,this once great country is a total mess now

@RosieHarp 11 месяцев назад

and we know what has dragged it down to gutter level

@cjp8155 11 месяцев назад

When London was a city, not a jungle.

@florinmoldovanu 10 месяцев назад

back when cameras were not a cheap novelty and people were real. Now everyone smiles at the camera to impress and get a "positive" reaction.

@lucymaria7668 Год назад

Was such a pleasure to watch. Bless your Dad and your Brothers face 😂

@tyronerodgers Год назад

😡…. 😂

@stephen3654 11 месяцев назад

@@tyronerodgersI bet all 3 of you have the same hairstyle now no?

@tyronerodgers 11 месяцев назад

@@stephen3654 haha. Yep! 👨🏻‍🦲

@PeaceDweller 11 месяцев назад

I guarantee you that McDonalds tasted 1000x better then to how it does now

@MarriedToTheKGB 11 месяцев назад

Nice bit of footage before mobile phones, internet and refugees

@nathansvlog 11 месяцев назад

All three of those things existed in 1993😂

@italiavilla-sardinia 24 дня назад

Aug93 my first trip to London. At that time it was like traveling to another planet, or being 50 years ahead. And i was coming from Milan, not from North Korea. Remember Jurassic Park film ads on the buses - i was a kid, my English was bad, supposed it was an ad of a real park, not of a film.

@jimp1646 11 месяцев назад

Great video. Taking the tube into central London on a Saturday was something I did frequently back in the early 90's. Watching this takes me back to that time. Thanks for uploading.