I am amazed that while watching this video recently I saw my wife coming up an escalator in the tube. she passed away 30 years ago, so it was so nice to see her even though only for a few seconds. We had been together about a year when this video was taken. Unbelievable and joyful.

A London that's now gone forever.

Everyone looked well-dressed. So good to see.

London was a great place to be in 1983.

Filled with respect for the huge effort put into keeping the city moving: the hard work. Great documentary.

The London I loved has changed so much

I remember my Dad telling me when he was in the R.A.F in 1944 he took his shoes to be repaired in a London Cobblers but forgot to go back and pick them up, last week I was in London and found the exact shop he had left them,I thought I would ( just for fun) ask if they still had Dads old shoes, man in the shop said," they'll be ready Tuesday ".

How things have changed in 30+ years. I won't say any more than that. Except that I could cry.

Back in the day when I was listening to Steve Right on RADIO 1 and dancing around to DURAN, WHAM and Jackson. Culturally the big change has been the Internet but so many other things remain the same or have hardly moved on. Community and living wise, like the rest of the Country, its a mess and slowly being destroyed. Sad. Very very sad. Thanks for posting.

Give me a time machine to go back to the late 70s / early 80s in London any day

London has changed so much. I preferred it when I grew up back in North London and went to college, then out to work in Bond St. life seemed so much better than how I found London now whenever I go back for a visit.

The good old days in London. Brings back so many good memories.

The first time I went to London was somewhere in 1993 when I was 6. I don't remember much. The second time I went there was the summer of 1995 and I remember there was a noticeable difference between then and now. I imagine everything was simpler in 1983.

Wow, actual Londoners when they still lived in London 😲 It hardly looks like the same city today.

All dead now yet still alive in endless time, endless art. Lovely film thanks.

This programme may have been made I 1983 but obviously lots of the footage is from different eras, from the 1950's onwards.

Great Video of this 80's video

For everyone querying the date, it’s 1983 that this film was made and broadcast. It says it quite clearly at 16:40 Obviously some footage was from other times, but it is a 1983 documentary.

Born in 1956 ,,, 1st job in 1973 in a central London estate agent ,,, I remember loving the summer ,, getting into work early , watching the town wake up & come alive ,, 67 years old now ,, London is now a very different place in many ways ,, sadly Londoners are now unrecognisable to how it was !!

this randomly popped up on my recommendations and god I'm glad it did! look how proud the British people once was! it's beautiful

Getting rid of the trolleybuses was one of the most misguided decisions of the immediate postwar years. The great smog of the early 50s should have been a warning of future traffic pollution. Even though much of the smog was caused by smoke from factories mixed with fog.

I was 20 years old then great times

Not one niqab!! No knife attacks. No grooming gangs.

And ladies dressed so well.

This is such a charming little film, thanks for sharing it. Wonderfully put together!

I could afford to live there back then

Thanks so much for posting this. Sure, it's easy to carp on about the good old days, but honestly, I was there in the 70s and 80s and London then really did have a character and feel to it that doesn't exist any more. But hey-ho, things change.

Bring back that type of London!!! And you see!!! We didn't have mobile phones or Internet those days Yet things did work very very well and if we enjoy what we have today its because of those years!!! I moved to London back in 1999/2000 and I can see how much this city has changed soo much in the last 20 years and not so much in a better way unfortunately.

I was born in 1983. London was a whole different place back then ❤️

Absolutely love watching old London as it was,very interesting and very well narrated.

Can you believe it’s 39 years since this was filmed

My first trip to London was the summer of 1982. I remember it well. Still alot of punk rockers still on the tube.

now it's changed to Londonistan

1981 the year I was born. It's feels like it's either 50s or the 60s while I was watching Moving London.

The year I was born. 😊 Proud to be born in such a wonderful city as London

I used to go for rides around London on the buses without telling anyone I loved to travel.

Let's all praise the beauty of diversity which has made today's London better than ever. Smarter, friendlier, better educated, more polite, and of course, safer. Said no one ever.

This is what life was like for our parents when they were our age.

I enjoyed watching this. Very interesting look back on life in Britain.

Such an informative documentary. My Father also worked on the underground as a guard on the district line, till tubes became driver only. But London now isn't the same as the London l grew up in!!. I like so many others squeezed out and forced to move away!!.....................

Much better in those day's.

I used to go to Hainault quite a bit and then get a bus to Chigwell Row , interesting to see the first train to go on the loop there. Loved the old buses and be able to jump on and off at the back , more fun 👍

1983?? Very 60s in style and presentation

Thank you for this video. Bought back memories of when I was a kid. I still remember the smell of bus smoke and hot tyres as a toddler. Every tube line train had its own unique smell. Just a few months ago there was a one day special of all the old buses running in East London, that was amazing. I wonder if they could do that with the trains.

London's population in 1983 was roughly 6 million, by 2021 it will reach close to 10 million. roughly 2 million increase alone happened between 2001-2016, That's a short space for a such a rapid increase of people in a dense area, And people wonder why buses are running late, the tube on some busy stations have to close the gates for crowd control, The system isn't designed to cope with this many people.

This video's transitions are top-notch for example at 13:20 I also liked the information of course, as well as the filming. Especially, the timing aspect of this scene at 7:52 And finally, the end credits are very well thought out 16:08 All and all very delightfully well-put-together video!

This time machine thing reminds of a story I heard about a man in B and Q .. Man : "Excuse me, do you still have any of those paints that were on special offer ?" Assistant : "I'll go and look." ( Is gone for 15 minutes ). "No, sorry, sold out. We had loads last week." Man : "Well, that's useful information, isn't it ? Do you have a time machine ?" Assistant : "I'll go and look." Man ( Lunges at him ).

still proud to be one last còckneys born in bow in 1947 used to go and get. pie and mash for my old lady on Fridays good luck from dangerous brian

As a Londoner since 1999 i have seen so much change and I still love the is city

Good old days, I wish people had the same sense of pride these days

Great video I like watching videos from the past its always nice to see how life was back then compared to what it is now

I like the simple things,like how people have newspapers under their arms and no one is looking at their phones constantly. (I know there wasn’t mobile phones then)

I have a quiet fondness for our transport system

Great piece of nostalgia, shame the city has lost its soul.

A very archaic style for 1983...the retiree narrative character probably reflects what was on the minds of the filmmakers...40 years of educational shorts behind them...big library of footage to compile from.

GOOD TIMES GONE BY.

How London has changed, and at such a pace, the indigenous Angelo Saxons are now a minority in our once great Capitol.

Massive nostalgia for me, I in the 70's rode the cushions of every in service RT and RM that LT operated including the 4 RM expresses that ran out of a unlisted garage in Penge that were hired out for other duties, also did all the Red Arrows when Merlin's and again when they were Leyland National's and then did all the LT Nationals, MCW's etc in late 70's adding their numbers to what became a telephone book of bus numbers lol Even the LC routes like the 410 I rode often and that was a hoary old ride in the old RT's going down Biggin Hill and the panicked expressions of the driver, more fun going up as driver and following traffic invented new swear words as the wheezy old things used to crawl up that incredibly steep hill hehe I do despair at the abject mess made of today's London, it used to be such a lively, friendly place but today seems to be full of people sneering at them with a penny less and fawning at those with a penny more as me nan would have said and she was a bus driver during the war, got a medal too for saving passengers when her bus got bombed.

One of the most interesting films I've ever watched! Thank you whoever put that on. I was completely lost in it , my two passions are history and old transport 🥰

Some of this film is a lot older than 1983

Wow it looked so English! How nice it was

14:01 Harrow Bus Station, looks exactly the same today from that angle!

It's a bit unsettling to see the original wooden escalators still in use in 1983. In 1987, a wooden escalator at King's Cross caught fire from a discarded cigarette, killing 31 people. As a result, London Transport began replacing all of the wooden escalators in the entire Underground.

Thank you for uploading. The video was very informative and interesting to know the history of London Transport.

I remember piccadilly line ending at Cockfosters.

brilliant video thanks for sharing

Stayed in the Mount Royal Hotel London 1983 came for a revisit golden memories 🎉🎊🙏

A fascinating watch... thanks for uploading! I do miss London Transport's glory days... as a youngster going on family holidays to Hastings we would always know we were 'in the country' when we started seeing green RT's instead of red ones from our car window... happy days indeed!

the camera quality even for 1983 seems like the film was made in 50s or early 60s only that Jubilee line poster and the dot matrix gave me an idea that this is the 80s

This would be a fantastic resource for our Year 6 classes as part of their London & Brighton geography and history topic! Following the changes to transport over the years; how the city grew; links to historical events; building their own map of the underground lines over time; researching what has changed in London transport since 1983 and comparing then to the present day. and spotting some of the famous landmarks.

It's not long ago the old London. I feel the change sped up in mid 90s onwards. As a child I just about remember the old London when visiting around 1992

Thanks for posting this it was amazing

What a nice little show. Lovely

This can't be true, the BBC keep telling us England, particular London has had a large ethnic community since Tudor times and before, the buss drivers don't look ethnic but it's only 1983 we're told they'd all been ethnic for at least 20 years by this time, how could they have built Britain for us?

In 1983 I was five years old. I remember seeing people smoking 🚬 on the trains. I remember the busy interchange at a station that looked like the central Line with my mum. A man got off and his cigarette burnt my hand. The older underground trains smelt a certain way and the seats were more comfortable. Back then we were paying cash 💰 fares

If I remember correctly, from my 'Red Rover ticket' days, those Red Arrows could really shift!

I love that the passenger(s) at 11.10 are politely standing aside to LET PEOPLE OFF THE TRAIN FIRST, as any sensible person would. Nowadays you see idiots standing in the way trying to get on first. unfortunately the intelligence of some people has regressed since the 80s rather than advanced.

Great video - thanks Joanne.

Would happily get in a time machine now and kiss modern world goodbye.

Happy days

I hope then flutist & oboe player are still getting royalties for their stellar blowing efforts on this one

The ambience of the clip feels like something from an earlier decade.

Before Blair has his way !

The background music is very 50s.

Before the explosion of processed and fast food

Lovely little film.

And now we've got the Elizabeth Line

Life is all memory

Just for the record this is a 1960s film, probably made in 1983, but all of the vehicles, fashion, street furniture, shops are 1960s

I was conceived about this time.

And they’re speaking English properly,not no stupid street talk

No phones…wonderful!

I m fascinated as bout videos like this I freaking love it

thanks very much for uploading Joanne

The fackin good ol’ days!

Wow... I was just a 5 year old then

I lived in Liverpool at this time , but I spent a couple of years in my formative years in Canning Town / Custom house.. they were brilliant times, if only I had a time machine, just to see my gorgeous girlfriend again.

Look at that, room to breathe, orderly, calm. Now it looks like an overcrowded slum....

went there in late July of that year. Great trip. lack of ice was rough.

Wow. So quiet :) even in 'rush hour'