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  • čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
  • Some behind the scenes at London Gatwick airport in the 1980's
    Filmed specially for a Thames TV special 'Airport'
    First shown: 10/11/1986
    If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail:
    archive@fremantlemedia.com
    Quote: VT33413
    Music: Sunflower - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena

Komentáře • 25

  • @deanstanley5799
    @deanstanley5799 Před 5 lety +23

    God everyone looks so chilled it's like a madhouse now !!!

  • @twinklepink31
    @twinklepink31 Před rokem +3

    It’s almost relaxing watching this……..it’s so different now, everyone rushing about and it’s much much busier

  • @andynixon2820
    @andynixon2820 Před 5 lety +6

    I can remember being in arrivals hall back in 1979 . I would of been 11 and absolutely fascinated by the man in front of me's abundant ear hair .

    • @stuartbritton7408
      @stuartbritton7408 Před 2 lety

      Shut up. It's not interesting. Ear hair? What the hell are you on about?

  • @danfonseca563
    @danfonseca563 Před 3 lety

    Thank you brings back a lot of memories

  • @kevster1007
    @kevster1007 Před 5 lety +3

    Things seem so normal back then

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles Před 6 lety +3

    The dog is saying "Check it out, bro, there's some serious shit in here !"..

    • @stuartbritton7408
      @stuartbritton7408 Před 2 lety +1

      No. Dog's don't say 'bro' or 'shit'. They are more respectable than that.

  • @maplemanz
    @maplemanz Před 2 lety

    I stopped there twice in 86 and 1987 while coming back from Minneapolis while on leave in the U.S Army stationed in west Germany.

  • @davidpar2
    @davidpar2 Před rokem

    3:28 I remember in the 80s when those crystal hedgehogs as well as other crystal prismatic figurines were in gift shops everywhere

  • @bond0666
    @bond0666 Před 4 měsíci

    Simpler times, life was much better

  • @richardwager283
    @richardwager283 Před 3 lety +2

    I remember it like that. Modern airports are like advertising hoardings...

  • @LuchaLibertaria
    @LuchaLibertaria Před 6 lety +7

    2:35 He literally gets paid for playing with a dog

  • @MissRoseLily
    @MissRoseLily Před 6 měsíci

  • @musquito333
    @musquito333 Před 5 lety +3

    No one in shorts and slippers.

  • @presidentelectzigenpuss3570

    An abundance of fur coats AND smoking indoors - times change quickly

  • @Andyb2379
    @Andyb2379 Před 3 lety +2

    Was miles better back then. Now days you’re herd through like cattle being rinsed for every penny during the process.

  • @valicourt
    @valicourt Před 5 lety +1

    Spectators? Where was that?

    • @primreamer4545
      @primreamer4545 Před 5 lety +2

      Theres been no access to the South Terminal spectators gallery for a good few years now but you used to get to it by lift from the mezzanine floor above where the passenger arrivals exit is now. The actual spectator platform, which was on the outside of the building, faced west and had good views of the runway, the old pier one, pier two and satellite, is still there but much of the outlook has been obscured by recent building work.

    • @2011arish
      @2011arish Před 4 lety +2

      No one has a mobile in their hands

    • @valicourt
      @valicourt Před 4 lety

      Lush Ferdy pressing like ( from my mobile)

    • @explorer806
      @explorer806 Před 2 lety

      @@primreamer4545 In early 80s Crawley, before there was the County Mall to hang around in, me and school friends would get the train from Three Bridges and mill about Gatwick when we were bored. That included going up to spectators. Plane spotters would be up there ticking off numbers, sometimes the odd Concorde as I recall...

    • @heatherleaver9107
      @heatherleaver9107 Před rokem

      South Terminal, I think you went to the 4 floor in the lift by the arrival area.
      Where Bloc Hotel is now, they still have access to the balcony that we could stand on looking at the airfield.
      Miss those days