just stumbled across this series. watching all the way from Missouri USA. Im a s. london native. all four of my grandparents grew up & lived in london and moved southward after the war. my great grandfather was a lighterman on the thames around turn of century. thank you so much for these uploads. looking forward to digging in :)

I remember when the docks were so busy! Wonderful footage. Thank you....

BRILLIANT THANKS FOR THIS!...I WORKED FOR YEAR'S ON THE MERSEY..THIS BRINGS BACK HAPPY MEMORIES

Fascinating to see the Thames and surrounds before Docklands/Canary Wharf area was built!

Excellent loved it.

GreaT ShoW LoVeS London 1991...

Thank you so much for positing this, Derek “Spearo” Ling was my grandad, I can’t tell you how much this video meant to me. It was a hidden gem, thank you so very much. Fascinating watch, and something I will show my mum and treasure it together.

The one thing these episodes are missing are the old Thames Television ident to start the show, especially as it was shown on ITV 😂

As he tells us its now a dead river unlike the good old days, then in to screen comes a massive ship

Thank you so much, this was wonderful.

Great History.

I have watched a KZfaq of Policing on the River Thames. The History.

When I was a kid we would play alday down the river it was alive and then the containers took over and killed the river very sad

Thanks for the upload here and there is an audio book by Peter Ackroyd about the River Thames and its on this platform if you move hasty. 👍🏼 📚

Thanks for posting this series. It is fascinating. I have a question about the production values. The series looks to have been shot on film. The contemporary footage is sometimes contrasty, with bright highlights and shadows on faces. Something that 2021 videographers might try to correct. And the color balance looks biased toward the reds, while deficient in other colors. Skin looks red or brown. Blue skies look faded. The vintage footage looks to have been colorized to sepia. I understand that the series is thirty years old, and there will be some deterioration, but I wonder if you saw this program when it was originally aired. If so, were my observations part of the original art direction, or the effect of time on the original film? Or are they examples of the way that video tape is compromised over the years? A response is appreciated. Thanks for the consideration.

cool

The first record of a human turd floating down the River Thames was in 11347 BC by Druid Chief Oaken Longstanks.

... in a ship in Thames, .... over the sea into Zealand, ... tarried at the Foreland, ... First she told about Englishman then she highlighted about Frenchmen language. I am out today. The billboard is changed. There is a royal mosque there. Lastime it was a Somalee old Muslim woman's face and some 'alive' female/kids local faces of my kind. I do not see well. A chinese non-Muslim face? A man with singlet showing strong muscles. Dizzy. What a world. Old book. No ISBN. Copyright, 1951, by Harold Whitehall. 1st published in 1958.

At around 9 minutes, I had to stop watching. I know that old man is speaking English, but my ears aren't understanding.