Hackney.. my home!! The days when an adult bus fare cost 80p and a child 40p

Sandringham Road then leading on Amhurst Road I love them times and used to live near Hackney downs

I'm from Hackney, Clapton Park Estate to be exact. I remember when Dalston looked like this! Doesn't any more!

Lived in Hackney from 1980-88.Nothing but fond memories for this cockney red!

Memories of traveling on the 38 bus through Dalston into Central London as a teenager and young man back in the 80s - when the 38 was still based at Leyton Green. It, and the 48, used to be a lifesaver when the underground had problems and you needed to get back home from Central London. Furthermore, two of my best friends in secondary school in Highgate used to live by the 38 bus route in Islington.

Wow, it's mind blowing seeing this. I've lived in Dalston for almost 20 years. All these shops are long gone. The only one that's still there is Argos, would you believe. That mural's still there too, of course.

This is 1987.. The Peugeot 405 came out in 1987 and Four Aces closed in 1988!

Wow, I used to go Clapton Girls Secondary school and remember the Hackney shown in these footages. Chatsworth to Sandringham Rd to Hoxton and then out of Hackney. Thanks for sharing😊

Well that brought back some serious memories !!! wow.

nah but Hackney for real was rough back in the day but boy we loved it!

I was born in Hackney hospital in 1965. We lived on Neville road in Stokey, then moved to South East London. I used to take the 78 to Shoreditch, and then the 22 or 22A to come visit my Aunt.The 22 used to pass by the 4-Aces.

That mural is fantastic!!!! I see from the comments that it still exists---that is good news.

Born and raised me and my sister knew these streets like the back of our hands. MEMORIES

Wow them days where good days in dalston . This video took me back to them good old days ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Imagine Dennis brown was hanging around sandringham road studios them days rough days but good. Best reggae singer RIP.

feel like I just jumped into a time machine!

So many memories amazing upload thanks. Born and raised in hackney in the early 80's. You drove past the wallpaper/decorating shop on the corner at dalston junction. Think it was called "Fads" or something. Used to go in there with my dad as a young boy. Aswell as the argos, the post office on the high st. Were great times. Had become ruined these days by the "hipsters" they will never understand how great hackney in the 80s and 90s was.

Tearing up at the memories 😢

Isn’t it amazing how many positive memories we all have of Dalston and that general area. It just shows that there was a real community and friendliness there even though none of us were rich. To see those shops and streets after all these years was a real pleasure. I used to wait at that bus stop by the mural to catch the bus to work. I bought my son’s cot in Family Care, and shopped in Ridley Road......It was always full of hustle and bustle. What a great video.

Brilliant.. Having lived and grown up around here, feels amazing to see where all the shops used to be. Also its great to see where on dalston lane four aces once was😍 just a 95 baby whos into history.

that mural can never be removed

Great times growing up in hackney use to live of pownall Rd just behind the Broadway market played in London fields would often go and get a pound note of nan in the pub and go get pie n mash from cookes pie mash shop and would play along the canal I remember bonfire night all the kids having bonfires all over the place throughout all the flats and the police done nothing it was accepted also use to go swimming in aggy baths ...for all the non eastlonderners that would've been haggerston swimming pool which I don't think is there anymore..shame last time I was there and walked through the Broadway mkt it changed so much all soppy looking hipsters with rolled up jeans and sandles paying £20 for coffee and carrot cake ..shame its not the Hackney I remember.

I Love people making a video of old time

Wow brings me back, my nan lived in Dalston and was there every single weekend of my childhood, what amazing memories of what used to be. Going down memory lane is just so magical when you watch these videos. 🙏❤❤❤❤🙏

Look like my man Petras from Homerton House School getting on the 38 there at the beginning. A little drive through the FrontLine, Sandringham, the days people were scared to come Hackney.

Come Thru Hackney E5, E8, E9, N15,N16.....yasssssss!

Wonderful Hackney! Love it!

them 38 buses take me back lol and im 25 remember jumping off it lol also hackney did look better back then and its not even that long away

This must be around 1988, judging from the 38 being a yellow banded tourist route?

Had forgotten about the wallpaper and carpet shops in Dalston. Spent so much time up there. My mum lived just off Forest Road so I regularly jumped on the 38 back to my own place in lower Clapton (boarding just opposite the Four Aces). Love this upload. Thanks!

Nice seeing the RM Buses

How I miss hackney good old days

Aaaah yes when my dad used to drive us around in his ford Capri always wet always cold but the summers were hot. Miss those days. Changed alot but miss the old days before gentrification

Imagine growing up during this period, this is something that money couldn’t buy! What have we done to the world we live in? We say the world is a bad place, I say the world has bad people living in it, along with the good 😔

Beautiful Hackney, the real hackney!! All you newbies missed the boat, parties, real chicks and good times👍

Amazing to see the mural looking so fresh!

i went into that Burtons got a raincoat in 80

He just drove past my old house in Sandringham Road where I lived from 1982 until 1986 - not the most attractive area of London but I have nothing happy memories living there

MEMORIES - The Four Aces Club smh. I bought my kids buggies in Family Care on Kingsland High Street.

Takes me back ❤😎

What a wonderful neighborhood....

Mainly highlighting Dalston and some parts of Clapton.

thanks for uploading I think this is early 80s late 70s

I miss my Hackney

The very last scene looks like the GLC council offices opposite the Houses of Parliament/Scotland Yard etc. The bridge is probably Westminster Bridge and the London Eye would now be located nearby.

The 4 Aces! Remember it well...

Hackney, Brick Lane, Spital Fields, Dalston, Shoreditch, all looked great back in the day, nowadays looks nowhere as good as it used to be..

Where I grew up!

Looks very late 80s early 90s, golden era

He flew down Sandringham Road flew past my home 32a Sandringham Road

If this was filmed in '87, must of been sometime between August and December, cause of the E-reg Vauxhall Cavalier.

Love dem dayz the street life,clubs and fashions in Hackney and Dalston. Early ninties i worked council offices in Sandringham rd, crazy times there

Coor, Miss London

Wow! Great memories back in the days!

i wonder if the all night bagel shop is still there, oh and the four aces where young GN police officer was always made welcome....

Love it

Nostalgia

Home sweet dysfunctional sweet home. Tho I live many thousands of miles away, I still call it home. I just "live and sleep" wherever I am otherwise.

Wow that paintings been there for time

By the model of the cars this film must be over 30 yrs old.

Born and raised here.

I really wish there was a driving through Leyton video of around the same time

That is something looking back in the area that I grew up with the rest of the people. Does anyone know which year this footage was taken?

is there any information regarding the department store that was demolished to make way for the london overground?

Not from Hackney but family were I went there for college and sport when I was 16/17 and def felt the vibe and wanted to move there before the hipsters came in

This brings back memories..

I am guessing this was in the late 80s

Looks like the late 80s( assuming 1987-89). Honestly technology has developed so much since then

My old Manor Upper Clapton E5, don't miss it at all! N4 forever! Happy 1990s raver days! UK 🇬🇧

FRONTLINE FRONTLINE FRONTLINE 😍😘🙌

TAKE ME BACK!!!!!

I lived in hindle house, arcola street. Went shackerwell school

Four Aces club,listening to Coxsone sound & Sandingham Rd front line were you could get your weekly supplies.

Don't live here anymore the real ones know Stokey Hulls video store Dalston before the Nandos Sparkles restaurant,Mare street,Homerton Kingsmeade Estate Mabley,De Beauvoir Rose Lipman library, fields, Clapton Square, Nightingale Estate,Smalley, Daycocks Cycles the Rumbelows and Radio Rentals on Stokey high Road,Clissold park when the football pitch was a nasty sandy pitch but we loved it.If your day 1 Hackney you know before the gentrification and the influx of hipsters and the upper classes snapping up all the old Victorian houses.

Can anyone direct me to more archive footage of old Hackney?

No speed humps omg

Looks really shabby

Great to see north London back in the day, great memories of the place growing up....But how naive.. it was at this point the government new they fucked up, by the early 90s this area was a no go for a certain people and look at it now. 👎🏻

Nostalgia is wonderful we only remember the good times...

Wow. Totally changed.

I’m assuming this was filmed in 1988 or 1989 given the Peugeot 405 billboard (1:33) “the 405 takes your breath away”!! Sorry, I have too much time on my hands!

My home

That was Dalston at the beginning of the video not Hackney !!, lol 😂😈

Can Hackney people tell me a bit about E2 8LN part of Hackney please? I have seen a flat but not sure if it’s worth it. I heard Hackney is a rough place? Please let me know. Thank you 🙏🏼

To all our American friends, this is what translates to a high end upwardly mobile area in the UK !

Use to let the bus drive off and try run and jump on it. Good times

Bit before my time but that’s my fucking borough. I’m more a 90s baby but from what I see it didn’t change much 🤣

Sir what year specifically is this?

What year is this from?

Looks more like the early 90s to me

my mum was born in dalston 1927 dad hackney like me, about 2003 i took my mum back there worse thing i could of done man did she cry get me out of here what have they done to it they say you shouldnt go back they were right ,,,,, what a sxxt hole

I lived in Hackney Wick in the 80s and 90s. It looks gritty in this video but it was actually an OK place to live. The only downside was transport which was terrible. I was recently in Hackney and it is unrecognisable. Dalton and Hoxton are so gentrified these days.

I agree 1987 is the year

The Frontline at 2.24

It’s better now than then

When was this?

Things were good. I reckon immigration wise we had a good balance. Blacks and whites were connected and creating new amazing cultures together and curry was a national dish and Indian people were slipping into the mix almost perfectly. Then came the far left, they monumentally destroyed everything. The country's a mess now. That'll never be fixed either.

But people earned less, vasco.

4 aces/labyrinth ❤

were is woolworths, use to be were mcdonalds is now i had a job there in stockroom