Can I Locate The Street In This Harrowing 1980's Public Information Film? [GEO DETECTIVE #21]

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7 ай бұрын

Geo Detective is back again and if my patience in the last one impressed you then get ready to be even more impressed.
Still a bit traumatised from the Haiti journey, I'd hoped that a moving picture would take less time to find, especially one in Britain. I was wrong. Join me as I attempt to locate the street scene from an unnecessarily disturbing public information film about litter, battling demolished buildings and ever so confusing shopfronts. My only failure in this series was in London way back in Episode #3. Surely we couldn't have a repeat of that, could we?
This one took a great deal of time and effort to make - please drop the video a like if you enjoyed it - t really helps the channel!

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@GeoWizard 7 ай бұрын

Update: it seems that for this video they actually altered some of the lettering on the signs! The “ME” in Mecca was changed, and Denny’s was actually “Gerry’s”! which was a curtain shop on East Street. They clearly made that D into a G though to avoid accidentally advertising the shop. What bad luck!

@RenVasTerul 7 ай бұрын

Oh man, that was kinda impossible to expect. Really tricky stuff. Good luck on your persistence! :D Cheers from Poland!

@maximealbeissen127 7 ай бұрын

Ahaha, unlucky mate, but still you managed to get it, congrats champ !

@AndrewMalkin 7 ай бұрын

I also wouldn't have let the bus limit me to London, since they often use whatever vehicles they want for video production.

@gabgren1 7 ай бұрын

Also the bus might have been out there to « Londonify » the place but it does not mean it was an actual bus path. Altering the true brands identity in the 80s was common and was called making a « Greek » version. At least in the US that was the trend

@Nooticus 7 ай бұрын

OH that makes a lot of sense why it was so hard now. You are a legend for finding it

@editollie 7 ай бұрын

This is a bit off topic but thank you so much for making me aware of the British Newspaper Archive. When I was a child I was told my granddad found the missing airplane window from British Airways Flight 5390. I could have sworn my mum had a clipping with him posing with it but I could never find it. After quite some time searching online, I have now found it almost immediately with the help of the BNA! Thank you again!

@thespankmyfrank 7 ай бұрын

Thanks to this comment, I just learnt about said flight, which I'd never heard of. Interesting stuff. So thanks for mentioning it, and also incredible that your granddad found the window! :)

@GeoWizard 7 ай бұрын

What a story! Where did he find it?

@olivere5497 7 ай бұрын

I still dont believe you though! That could be anyone's aircraft window!

@leonardhpls6 7 ай бұрын

The images of the crew holding the pilots legs while he is hanging out the window are crazy

@sg-yq8pm 7 ай бұрын

@@leonardhpls6 those images are stills taken from a TV show re-creation

@deepakrajendra8019 7 ай бұрын

Geo Dectective is my favourite series. I absolutely love the story, the drama and the persistent effort in finding the location.

@agentusx5606 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely agree. Tom is such a humble and nice person too

@MelonPython 7 ай бұрын

Same here. There is nothing better than Geo Detective imo. Love those and the straight forward missions!

@Pamani_ 7 ай бұрын

In Google Earth you have to enable terrain to actually see all the 3D buildings. Without it (as was the case in the video) you only see the manually modelled ones from the early days of Google Earth.

@craigix 7 ай бұрын

I thought I was going mad how out of date his maps looked. He could also try Apple maps which has amazing 3D cities too.

@PiousMoltar 7 ай бұрын

I was wondering if I had traveled back in time.

@RufftaMan 7 ай бұрын

I believe it's also possible to make image overlays in Google Earth. At least I know it was possible once..

@Pamani_ 7 ай бұрын

@@RufftaManYes you can import raster images if they are georeferenced. I usually use QGIS when I want to overlay an old map accurately. You can find a few reference points between and it will do the proper projection.

@JakeTPE 7 ай бұрын

If only there was a public information film in the 80s about staying well clear of Norwegian peat bogs!

@Squiffilect 7 ай бұрын

lol... brilliant

@isladurrant2015 7 ай бұрын

... I've lost wellies in thick mud and thought it would've been bleeding obvious

@TheAngelsHaveThePhoneBox 6 ай бұрын

31:22 "Mecca Bookmakers take one last final 3 quid of someone in 2023... Unbelievable." Funniest moment of the video for me. 🤣

@GeoWizard 7 ай бұрын

Guys once again this one didn’t half take some effort. I really appreciate you watching it through but what would really fill me with glee is if you could hit that like button - it really helps the channel! Have a corking weekend everyone ❤

@sheppertonstudios8253 7 ай бұрын

22 mins into the video and I'm wondering if they blocked out the ME from MECCA as part of the rules on advertising.

@whitcwa 7 ай бұрын

I always click like when I remember to. I wish it was automatic for the best channels like yours. You're the best of the best!

@niek5526 7 ай бұрын

I found that mecca bookmakers store, it was in West Wickham, 92 Station Rd. The shop is called DiamantE now. That first picture you found of the buildings facade had the street name in it.

@tpp95 7 ай бұрын

If you wanna do another advert, the InjuryLawyers4U adverts always had bizarre locations and really cracked me up sometimes.

@Chris-sv8ty 7 ай бұрын

There's a post on your subreddit that shows that "Denny's" was actually "Gerry's" Curtain Shop! Which is strange because that doesn't look like a G at all.

@Sean_Haywood 7 ай бұрын

Damn it! I recognised it almost immediately having been brought up in that general area before my parents moved us out of London to Kent in 2003. I really think you should do a massive Geo-detective livestream where we can all band together to find an obscure location in real time, would be a load of fun I think

@Michael20089 6 ай бұрын

Defentily a cool idea, only issue is people can cheat with reverese image searches.

@Sean_Haywood 6 ай бұрын

@@Michael20089 Tom does exactly that in Geo Detective, in fact he did it in this very video, didn't you watch it? He reversed searched the graffiti on the wall.

@martalucas03 6 ай бұрын

@@Sean_Haywood Yeah but he never reverse searches the original image, he'd consider that cheating

@607 6 ай бұрын

No, he did not! He recreated it, then searched for his recreation.@@Sean_Haywood

@607 6 ай бұрын

Doesn't this show it wouldn't work? It's not much fun when there's someone who recognises where it's at immediately.@@jameshogarth8721

@geishasha 7 ай бұрын

Nobody tell him that he already speaks like somebody from the 70's

@olivere5497 7 ай бұрын

Its actually from 1985!

@youweechube 7 ай бұрын

The 1870s!

@Zestieee 6 ай бұрын

Non-native speaker here, what exactly do you mean by that? Did people speak noticeably differently in the 1970s? Does Tom use words that you'd consider outdated?

@youweechube 6 ай бұрын

@@Zestieee his accent is from a particular area that isn't regarded as the most affluent or "modern" as maybe someone with a more southern accent could be perceived.

@olivere5497 6 ай бұрын

@@Zestieee so, i cant go into detail but i can try, basicly so much has changed in the last 40 years, fashion, mannerisms, health. For example if you see a 1970s advert of young men in a pub, their 20 year old actors look like a 45 year old man in 2023, due to their dry skin etc. When i think of '1970s british men in a pub chatting' i think of the rock group Slade or the much shitter group The Wurzels, look at them and their sideburns and their accents.

@MahatmaAndhi 7 ай бұрын

I was screaming "IT'S A BOOKIES!" at the screen. Blanked out windows, pictures of animals, vents for the cig smoke. It had to be. Turned out not to be the clue that clinched it anyway. Great video!

@lezbriddon 7 ай бұрын

First thing the wife said, oh thats a bookies.... I corrected her and told her no its been identified as an arts place...... doh... Oddly I've never been inside one.

@michaelfarrell4824 7 ай бұрын

Same, knew instinctively it was a bookies right away

@chux4w 7 ай бұрын

Windows covered with pictures of horses! Of course it's a bookies! Rookie error, you hate to see it.

@ellekell9317 7 ай бұрын

Yes this had me in stitches. I thought surely when he realised the ‘art work’ was a horse and jockey it would twig. Spent so long standing outside the betting shop as a kid, ever hopeful a win might mean some sweets.

@LeeSmith-cf1vo 7 ай бұрын

My very first thought was "looks like a bookies". I have a vague recollection of them being green too, although I've never heard of mecca bookies. But maybe they stayed green for some years after the name change.

@MercateerGeo 7 ай бұрын

What a journey that was! I laughed out loud when you realised that the tall building far away was, in fact, a small building on the same street 😂 Also, the fact that knowing the city from the start hardly helped at all makes you appreciate just how massive London really is.

@57thorns 7 ай бұрын

On the other hand, the one opposite had a floor added to it.

@yuotueb 7 ай бұрын

The small building that's there now seems not wide enough to actually be the shape in the video, though?

@csanadhorvath 7 ай бұрын

And Tokyo is still 60% larger than London

@leonardhpls6 7 ай бұрын

@@csanadhorvath👏👏👏

@Viniter 7 ай бұрын

Be careful about deriving too much information from things like buses in videos/photos that have been staged. There's absolutely no reason there would have to be a bus route through that street, or that it even had to be in London. They would have to rent that bus for the shoot, and if they'd done that they could have rented any old bus and drive it to any old place. Best course of action would be thinking about which road would be practical for them to close down for the shoot. Streets that host markets are a prime location, because they are often closed anyway.

@leonardhpls6 7 ай бұрын

Put a video up of you finding stuff if your so clever. You won't though your just mouth kid

@GuanoLad 7 ай бұрын

I even think the Denny's was faked up just so there would be a plausible reason for a burger box thrown on the ground.

@johnclements6614 7 ай бұрын

I traveled to Brighton once on a London bus, stopped at a few places off the A23 on the way back. They ran excursions.

@zarzee8925 7 ай бұрын

The pragmatic detective!

@retrogamesrevived1189 7 ай бұрын

Clever thinking 👍

@tobysimmonds487 7 ай бұрын

"Tenner in my pocket" "Money on roundabouts" "Rough estimation Lille to Amsterdam" I love how Tom leaks potential ideas for videos in the tabs of his google earth

@Larkerz 7 ай бұрын

I looked in the comments to see if anyone else noticed this. He said in an earlier video he had a mission he was editing, that may be the Lille to Amsterdam thing. He said he would talk about it in a future video, but I dont recall hearing anything about it.

@Nooticus 7 ай бұрын

@@Larkerz im sure he will soon enough!

@vegancam 7 ай бұрын

Good ol' Beau Miles did a 'travel video' a few months back where he went fossicking collecting money lost on roundabouts. Worth a watch.

@tobysimmonds487 7 ай бұрын

@@vegancam I remember watching that video actually, love his stuff. Maybe Tom got inspiration from that video

@AllTotalWar 6 ай бұрын

These are actually videos for pateron's only, you can watch them through that and so you won't ever see it unless through pateron.

@SE7ENFX 7 ай бұрын

That was so funny emailing the art dealers about betting shop posters! 🤣

@matthewjenkins1161 2 ай бұрын

Well done, East Street market circa 1985, judging by the Mk1 Ford Orion. Often worked around the corner on Walworth Road through the 90s and in t the noughties and demographic change shown in slightly shy of 4 decades clear to see.

@markwilliams3760 7 ай бұрын

"It's a London bus. Didn't take that fully on board." Puns delivered without even realising it are the best.

@David_K_Booth 7 ай бұрын

Also, "What are the odds of that?" on finding a betting shop.

@MikeP2055 7 ай бұрын

Now we've got to get to the bottom of the "MP Sex Romp." I'd also love it if you sent the CCA an excited follow-up email, just to further baffle them. This was absolutely terrific, Tom! I absorb so much interesting information and learn heaps of little miscellaneous factoids about the history, architecture, culture, etc. of places I've never visited.

@CallieMasters5000 7 ай бұрын

A quick search of "MP Sex Romp 1987" brought up several cases.

@gmbO48 7 ай бұрын

Assuming it's real, I'd take a wild guess at Harvey Proctor. It wasn't local to the area, but it was certainly big enough to make headlines on national newspapers (and headline stands outside newsagents).

@olivere5497 7 ай бұрын

This sort of video content would be the sort of thing a lot of contempoary galleries in london would be into. They like stuff like 'pyco-geography' or however they spell it.

@Ragnar8504 2 ай бұрын

@@gmbO48The timing would be right.

@jespergran 7 ай бұрын

I think you'll be mind blown when you properly manage to turn on 3D buildings in Google Earth. You need to enable terrain I believe to actually see the buildings in 3D, without terrain you only see the custom made buildings from the early versions of google earth. You'd likely find it much quicker with the correct settings.

@bkky9 7 ай бұрын

You can also get 3D buildings in Google Maps too

@neelvaidya6354 7 ай бұрын

Can also use google maps in satellite view, much easier to search with even the littlest of buildings made 3D and cars

@cybersoul1000 7 ай бұрын

Tom if you don't know by now, you can go frame by frame through youtube videos by pressing "." or ",". that way you don't need spidey reflexes to pause it frameperfectly. Great vid!

@apoema42 7 ай бұрын

I never thought I would be emotional over a guy finding a place. But just the sheer persistence of Tom gets me.

@Spohcsom 7 ай бұрын

Sorry to burst your bubble but its all edited and fake. I'm astonished that people cannot see that these videos are scripted in advance. The whole story is being acted and narrated out afterwards to make it look organic.

@apoema42 7 ай бұрын

@@Spohcsom I feel sorry for you.

@nh_burner 7 ай бұрын

Been watching your channel for a good few days now after a recommendation from Gavin of The Slow Mo Guys, he mentions you on his podcast, F**kface. Weirdly, I realised in this video that when you finally figure out that the gallery is in fact a Mecca bookmakers, the very first one you find is in West Wickham, Beckenham, which just so happens to be the exact bookies which my late Grandad used to run, alongside his brother, my Dad and one of my uncles as various staff members. It used to be an independent bookies by the name of James Lane, before it became a Mecca, then Ladbrokes and finally William Hill, according to my Dad. A very strange but insanely cool little Easter egg for me!

@district2669 6 ай бұрын

“There was hope and anticipation every time the little guy went down!!” Geowizard 2023

@sourjellybaby4286 7 ай бұрын

You mentioned Mecca at the beginning of the search and ended up looking for CCA. I thought you may have sussed it was a bookmaker but I am older than you and remember them. Keep up the great stuff from a new subcriber

@MartyFox 7 ай бұрын

He got close when he clocked that they had a picture of a horse and jockey in the window

@ecMonify 7 ай бұрын

back in the day in sweden, there were informational videos like these about how to deal with trash at the beach or the coast. instead of littering on the beach, you were told to put your trash in a bag or box, fill it with stones, take it out in a boat and throw it into the lake or the sea! because if it's at the bottom of the lake, it's basically gone forever, right..? genius! it's literally just like sweeping the dust under the rug - out of sight, out of mind. crazy :D

@mytube001 7 ай бұрын

To be fair, most things people would throw away back then were pretty harmless. Glass bottles, cardboard, metal cans. The metal cans would rust away in a few years, the cardboard would dissolve and the glass wouldn't harm the life down there in the quantities you could expect. Trash today is mostly plastic, which is a lot more harmful. It was also quite pragmatic, as taking the trash back home already wasn't being done. Dumping it into the sea, making sure it would sink, was better than the realistic alternative - trash left on the beach or a rock.

@grisvonlada68 7 ай бұрын

@@mytube001My mum and grandma also used to stick used batteries under rocks as a way of getting rid of them, 60s early 70s

@607 6 ай бұрын

For real?

@violentbob 4 ай бұрын

what x_x

@dave9997 7 ай бұрын

11 mins in and I'm screaming, "It's a f***ing bookies not an art shop!" You've even said, "looks like it could be a jockey in that picture" 😂😂

@tubewatcher97 3 ай бұрын

same

@reddwarfer999 2 ай бұрын

I recognised immediately that was a bookies. But then I'm old enough to remember the Mecca bookmakers when they were around. To a younger person it wouldn't be so obvious.

@57thorns 7 ай бұрын

A social commentary: The well off gamble their savings on fine art at Chrisite's, while the less well off gamle at Mecca Bookmakers.

@delboy1727 3 ай бұрын

I'm only 10 minutes or so in to the video, but that CCA shop looks like a betting shop rather than an art gallery. The picture of a horse, but also the fact that the windows are all covered, which is a trait that bookies to this day all exhibit, leads me to think this.

@FountainCityVol 7 ай бұрын

GeoDetective is just the best. I know things in a small dose is more healthy, but I could watch the detective series every day. So entertaining and interesting.

@Mackerdaymia 7 ай бұрын

Amazing stuff. Congrats. Something that just occured to me that seems more obvious now... it makes sense that it's a market street because they could close it easily for filming, hire a bus for the day and get on with it without disturbing many people. EDIT: Maybe that building was painted a lighter colour that blended with the overcast sky to make it look like it was in the distance? The black paint looks modern/hipstery.

@Ragnar8504 2 ай бұрын

Yup, I think the colour changed. The fact that we're looking at the side of the house, probably meant to be a party wall originally, also explains the lack of windows on the white building in the original video.

@imarsden1972 7 ай бұрын

Tom, have a look at the Google Street View image for East Street from May 2012. On the opposite side of the road to the shop unit in the video (I think!) is a shop called Gerry's Curtains and the brush script font looks very much like your 'Denny's' to me. It's at 56 East Street.

@CallieMasters5000 7 ай бұрын

Looking at the video again, the Denny's was the last business right before the red litter bin and then the wall where the kid runs a stick along the metal and breaks the glass. In the 2012 & 2018 Google street views, this business is now the Fishmongers & Grocers with a blue awning. The Gerry's Curtains is across the street.

@jessicaroberts4752 7 ай бұрын

the Denny's is actually a clothing store called Danny's apparently! People post a lot about it on the Now and Then Walworth page since it was very popular, and there's even an image of someone holding a bag with the exact same logo on it! I posted about it on the subreddit for anyone curious :)

@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome 7 ай бұрын

I said out loud when I saw it that it looked more like Danny's@@jessicaroberts4752

@Drysart 3 ай бұрын

Hah, if you look closely at the wall in the May 2012 street view, you can even see the faded remnants of the CACA graffiti.

@BandWQuotes 7 ай бұрын

@GeoWizard great video, having lived about 1 mile away from this location for over 6 years as soon as you started playing the video I recognised the street and then found it very amusing seeing all of the troubles you had in getting there! Congrats

@holnrew 7 ай бұрын

I remember this advert from my childhood! I still think about it when I see smashed glass on ground. I remember quite a few of them, shows how effective they were.

@fleek6319 7 ай бұрын

or how traumatizing to children :DD

@chux4w 7 ай бұрын

I didn't remember it at first, but the low camera made me suddenly think "Oh, it pauses on the crisp packet!" and sure enough! Core memory unlocked.

@cdigdawg 7 ай бұрын

That Lego joke was class! Good job.

@MrToucana 7 ай бұрын

Well done ! - But I have to tell you that I recognised that 'art gallery' frontage as a Mecca bookies shop the moment it appeared in the clip. They were pretty distinctive and memorable to anyone who was around in the 70s and 80s :-)

@RocksterOO1 7 ай бұрын

I wonder how many viewers of my generation (born 1965) took one look at that Mecca bookies exterior and laughed when you thought it was an art gallery! lol On the other hand, it was kinda frustrating that it took you so long to discover your mistake and actually had me almost screaming, "It's a bookies!" 😁 Still, don't get me wrong, I'm not actually criticising... I would/could never have found it like you did. You never cease to impress me, so congrats and please keep up the good work. I look forward to these (Geo Detective) videos so much more than I can ever tell you. 👍 Talent is always impressive, whatever the skill!

@RocksterOO1 7 ай бұрын

FYI, Bookies used to completely cover their windows back then for three reasons: 1. To maintain their customers' privacy. 2. To stop children seeing the goings-on within. 3. It was the law... I think! I also think they chose that particular kind of "artwork" to advertise the kind of service they supplied. The pictures were of Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing and Football, generally! Art Gallery though!! 😂😂😂 Sorry!! lol

@theend1555 7 ай бұрын

The dedication to these is incredible. Everything you do on this channel is 100% dedication and determination.

@HarryDoddema 7 ай бұрын

I somehow absolutely love it that that street is still a run down market street, where that odd mix of Victorian and mid 20th century are still very visible.

@laurensplompen 7 ай бұрын

I knew you were tenacious but this one takes the cake. Brilliant work!

@bloodredroses88 7 ай бұрын

I'm surprised you thought it was an art gallery, my first thought was a betting shop. They all used to have pictures of horse riding in the windows. Really do love these vids!

@Showsni 7 ай бұрын

Yeah, just glancing at it I thought it was a bookies straight away.

@hoagy_ytfc 7 ай бұрын

They weren't allowed to have windows that you could see in, hence the big coloured panels with pictures of horses.

@olivere5497 7 ай бұрын

I was actually thinking it was the black horse from Lloyds Bank!

@olivere5497 7 ай бұрын

@@Showsnidifferent generstions i guess!

@sie4431 7 ай бұрын

Same, also thought they're related to Mecca bingo but of course bingo halls aren't in the same place as being shops

@BenBike 7 ай бұрын

I started watching your How Not To Travel America series and then your straight line missions. Then I thought well I'm not into geoguessr so I'll just wait for the irl videos. But then I watched one and realized just how entertaining you are! Love your sense of humor and seeing you overcome whatever it is

@nkmslr 7 ай бұрын

The perseverance in this geo detective is off the charts. Insane work and congrats on the find.

@Seapatico 7 ай бұрын

When the "Straight line across wherever" music started and I heard that voice over, I knew we were in for a long haul, lol. 19:36

@cooraa 7 ай бұрын

What a rollercoaster man! This was so fun to watch, the sheer dedication on your part is impressive. I can only imagine how proud and relieved you must've felt when you finally "stood" on that street! :)

@merlinthewizard 7 ай бұрын

It still hits me how great this idea is, and your presentation of the whole process is so much fun to watch! Thanks for another great video Tom :)

@AlBundy319 7 ай бұрын

Tip my hat for you not giving up, and finish this fantastic episode of Geo Detective! The craft and creativity of going outside the box trying to find and replicate the graffities and all was amazing! Reminds me of the outside the box ways I have to do at work. Well done!

@robbiedart7422 7 ай бұрын

I refreshed my youtube feed in my day off work desperately close to starting to do something productive... and what do I see GET IN

@nixielee 7 ай бұрын

Love how long the gallery mail was. Good to have geo detective back. Great episode.

@bestformspielt 7 ай бұрын

The man, the myth, the legend. No one else would have pulled that one off. Awesome work!

@sanden3972 7 ай бұрын

Man that Lego factory joke caught me off guard. Furthermore, prime detective work again Tom and hats off for the perseverance

@RobinHullBuilds 2 ай бұрын

I just stumbled onto your channel. Within 5 seconds of watching the PIF I knew it was East Street (East Lane Market). But, I grew up there in the 1960’s and visited it regularly in the 1970’s. Looking forward to watching more of your vids 👍

@leowatkins1518 7 ай бұрын

Appreciate just how long this took and with such great effort, but honestly Tom this content is the best. Sure we like the easier photograph geo-detectives, as i'm sure you do too! But the pay-off with something much more challenging like this is far greater. Would happily watch many more of these but appreciate the huge toll it must take on you man!

@bluegizmo1983 18 күн бұрын

Those public information films are actually hilariously comical

@sian2337 2 ай бұрын

This is so nerdy, but I love it. On a much less impressive scale, my mum and I do this whenever we see aerial shots of London (or other destinations we’ve visited), or shots of London buildings on tv. It takes us so long to watch things 😄

@tasty_fish 27 күн бұрын

Oh sorry, I could've told you it was Mecca bookmakers within about 3 minutes! It was funny when I saw you view the same images. But fair play, you took it to another (few) levels! Stunning work sir!

@claireloub 7 ай бұрын

This is just down the road from me (but I still didn't guess it!). The big square building in the background is likely the Heygate Estate, built in the 1970s and demolished from 2011, located at the top of Walworth Road at Elephant & Castle

@moshambles 7 ай бұрын

Geo Detective! The greatest. I'll never get tired of these

@cassandragough 7 ай бұрын

That is the very definition of "above and beyond"! Well done Tom. It was really exciting to watch.

@inaweoftheworld 7 ай бұрын

Just amazing. This felt like a Straight Line Mission with the narration. Excelent detective skills Tom.

@maxington26 7 ай бұрын

Thanks Tom, this is top-tier content. I remember this sodding advert, so cheers for making me feel old mate (I was 8). At this point you're in training to be a forensic detective! Loved this new idea. More please.

@kellymcleod3610 7 ай бұрын

hey tom, long time fan since early geoguessr days! a tip for google searching: if you're looking for something that shares a name with something else more common (like with denny's being a huge american chain), you can add a minus sign (-) after your search term followed by the term you want to eliminate. ex. denny's london -american. if the term you want to eliminate is more than one word, make sure you put quotations around it! ex. denny's london -"american diner" lots of appreciation for the channel, from a library technician

@Squiffilect 7 ай бұрын

My mum used to drag me round East Street on a weekly basis. Fond memories. I must admit that I didn't even recognise it due to the lack of stalls.

@CallieMasters5000 7 ай бұрын

To be fair, the title about litter killing you was the KZfaq title when it was posted, not the stated title of the original video. On the screen it just says Keep Britain Tidy, which has been the slogan for decades. Public service announcements are best when they're a bit shocking, like the US anti-drugs ads ("this is your brain on drugs'", close-up of eggs frying in a pan) in the 1980s.

@Nooticus 7 ай бұрын

Really stellar video. Definitely your hardest one ever I'd say, though it wouldn't seem that way upon first glance. Thank you for exploring London, my city, so thoroughly, it was a joy to watch!

@kviktorian4208 7 ай бұрын

Hard to not appreciate that dedication. Kudos, Tom!

@aza3262 7 ай бұрын

Was about to go to sleep but just happened to refresh YT homepage and saw Tom uploaded 30sec ago. This new ep of Geo Detective just made my night!

@Mnnvint 7 ай бұрын

Commenting before I've seen it all: If I know 70s-80s broadcasters, they wouldn't have gone far. It's probably near a BBC office or the production company responsible for these sorts of films etc. As an adult I lived for a while near Marienlyst in Oslo where the public broadcaster was for a long time, and I constantly recognized places from old TV productions from my youth!

@syphon47 7 ай бұрын

Perfect timing for my lunch break. Love your content Tom

@sourjellybaby4286 7 ай бұрын

Ha ha. Same here

@babavangaga 3 ай бұрын

I love how Aaron Amberleaf is always woefully remembered in these videos

@finlandtaipan4454 7 ай бұрын

This is my favorite series. Absolutely brilliant!

@benceacs1604 7 ай бұрын

I've tried to find Rhcp-Scar Tissue videoclip's location the same way, but couldn't locate it properly, so I'm glad you could do this one. It was a nice advanture as always. Thank you, Tom

@connormacneil6138 2 ай бұрын

Just noticed the videos your algorithm brings up on the right and love that you listen to Alvvays. Molly and Kerri are from just down the road from here (Molly being a daughter of local Celtic music family dynasty The Rankin Family) and we're all super proud of them. Their music is incredible.

@jimg492 7 ай бұрын

Once again Tom I am absolutely dumbfounded by your commitment this. Absolutely brilliant vid

@jacksontupper8139 7 ай бұрын

hands down the most impressive find you've had... incredible!

@Mumbles274 7 ай бұрын

Mecca Bookmakers...been shouting it for 12 minutes and counting!!

@pabloromo460 7 ай бұрын

Tip for next time you do one of these, you can press the coma and dot buttons on the keyboard to move frame by frame on a youtube video!

@josephmcdonald6371 7 ай бұрын

i just love watching these vids about locations. i could watch this type of format over normal goegesser any day. i love how you work things out like sherlock holmes. keep up the good work .

@stephenlehardy 2 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed finding this video. I have often done similar searches and related to your enthusiasm.

@triptechable 7 ай бұрын

That was a great video! Know east street very well! Really enjoyed this. For your next challenge - locate the substation some kid loses his football in and gets electrocuted in the 1980s public service video. I know where it is. Can you find it? 😊

@borisvandepoel2703 7 ай бұрын

19:40 WOW that music instantly engulfed me in memories of your straight line missions.

@jasont9294 4 ай бұрын

Loved this one! More of these please!

@liamallen100 7 ай бұрын

Oh my God I've been there, and I don't even live in London haha. Fair play for finding it, this looked so difficult. My instinct on seeing the video was that it was South London but I didn't recognise the street, and I would have said it was a bit further out of the city.

@Chuby123 2 ай бұрын

Please do more of these Public Information films in Geo Detective. This was fantastic

@Jadegreif 6 ай бұрын

What a journey, well done. This my favorite of your detective series.

@inwalters 7 ай бұрын

I'm old enough to remember that in the USA there used to be what were called "city directories". These were put out by a private company and had a street index and listed every business and residence by street. They also had an alphabetical index of the whole city by business or resident name . I'll bet there was something similar in the UK.

@michaelwisniewski6047 7 ай бұрын

Yes, that existed. But probably needs a trip to a library in London to find it - I doubt their digitised versions are anywhere online.

@sie4431 7 ай бұрын

Yes, we had something called the Yellow pages(great adverts) and a smaller rival called Thompson's directories. Ancestry has the residential phone books, not sure about the yellow pages

@leonardhpls6 7 ай бұрын

Old enough 😂 it's only been a few year lad

@johnclements6614 7 ай бұрын

@@michaelwisniewski6047 There are digitised versions of kelly's and some others online.

@derekmarsden8934 5 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this. Fascinating stuff. Super detective work

@Stoobers 7 ай бұрын

Outstanding find. Dayum!

@Teesbrough 7 ай бұрын

Great entertainment for me Tom as I was trying to work out how you would deduct where it was. Having lived in South London for over 35 years I had my suspicions it was East Street within 10 minutes. A quick check on Google Maps and I’d confirmed it within 20. The giveaway for me was the 1950s row of shops on the left, set back from the pavement. Some clues for you for next time: - Post-war buildings like the shops suggest rebuilding after WW2 Blitz bomb-sites; therefore Inner London; - Cream-painted gates on Right looked like re-used WW2 stretcher frames - common in South London; - not in this, but pale blue/black base street light poles = City of Westminster; - Ignore bus maps: yes it’s a London Routemaster bus but too many films have them drive down roads which are not bus routes. Finally, I’m of an age which easily recognised the Bookies, sorry! Next time try asking some older relatives or friends?

@mikeytremlett7731 7 ай бұрын

Love the videos mate 🙌🏼😬 Huge fan of the detective videos! I get really involved and feel like a investigator 😬 keep up the videos mate! 🙌🏼😬

@svengaleekie 7 ай бұрын

I wish I'd been sitting next to you, as soon as I saw that I knew it was a betting shop. I'm 67 so I've seen a few, never been in one though.

@OnThePier 7 ай бұрын

That’s persistence right there! Good job Tom!

@squeezyjohn1 7 ай бұрын

I love the way you pinpoint the date to 1987 and then spend two hours searching for buildings demolished before 1985!!!

@limbridk 7 ай бұрын

What an amazing video! I loved every second of it ☺️

@stefanschneider3681 7 ай бұрын

Whow, you definitely can't be too hard on yourself!! Great job and lot's to learn through the search. I was thinking on the way: How about finding the credits to the little film and try to get in touch with the people who produced it? Keep them coming!

@areaone3813 7 ай бұрын

The amount of resources out there for searching is endless. Great vid bud.

@alanbradbury2313 7 ай бұрын

Loved the video. Being slightly older than Tom and having managed a bookmakers in the 90's, I was reasonably certain it was a Mecca office. Not sure where I'd have gone from then though. Well done Tom, look forward to the next one.

@reddwarfer999 2 ай бұрын

I'd have gone with the line of thinking - If William Hill took over Mecca then perhaps that bookies is now a William Hill. A list of all current William Hill branches shouldn't be difficult to find. But he didn't really do that, the closest he got was a list of closed Meccas that were too close to existing William Hills. But surely there were many more that were simply converted to William Hill. OK there wasn't in the end but it would have been a good way to go.

@garthofavalon 7 ай бұрын

I love Geo detective videos and on this one please don't feel embarrassed because I live close to East Street and I do go to this market fairly often and I never recognised it from the no littering video at all. I correctly guessed it was mecca early on because I'm old enough to remember them but with your insistence upon the tall building in the distance I had at one stage believed it to be on Uxbridge road as I often pause your video ad try to find it. Anyhow, you solved it and I was flabberghasted when I realised how close it was to me! Well Done

@connortopping6943 7 ай бұрын

what an amazing episode, one of the best yet

@luffyfou4455 7 ай бұрын

Wouah ! You're the goat of determination ! Great job dude, loved it !

@CW1991 7 ай бұрын

Fantastic video really enjoyed this one 👍

@Grigpig 7 ай бұрын

I suppose that in being around 20 years older than Tom , I knew it was a bookie’s immediately.. just a vibe thing. I’m so impressed at your resilience and determination mate.. proper job!