Drive Through London - July 2007
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- Imagine you've just arrived in London for the first time from an airport or railway station, and you're taking a taxi ride. What would you see? You would be absorbing the sights of the buildings, people, shops, other vehicles, signs, advert hoardings, driving on the left, and more. When you see a city for the first time like this, it's an intense sensory experience which I hope I have been able to recreate in this episode.
This episode takes you through two districts close to the centre of London: Brixton and Victoria. The camera is set up on the dashboard and sees everything I see in front of me as I drive the car through the heart of these places.
Technical note:
You will notice that this episode has two black bands at the top and bottom of the picture. I positioned the video as a narrower strip than the standard widescreen format because at the bottom of the original video footage is a close-up of the windscreen wiper! Since this does not contribute to the scene it would only take up the attention of the video compressor and soften the more useful parts of the picture. Lowering the picture and taking out the windscreen wiper using black bands means that much less data is absorbed here and the moving images are sharper.
I wouldn't mind going back to 2007 just to have a shop about and also Woolworths were selling Nokia 3220 phones for 30 quid I'd buy 5 of those. Shops were better and charity shops had good stuff in back then and also markets and boot fairs were good. 2007 don't seem that long ago but so much has changed since then. We take so much for granted that we don't realize what we have until its gone. Of course things were even better way before 2007. Look at London today in 2019 it isn't even worth coming too there's nothing left.
Meh You think 2019 is bad you should look at 2023
This look fairly modern, even the cars don’t look too dated. In my area of London, 2007 still seamed like the 90s
One of my favourite years as a kid
I was in London in 2007 for learning English near Victoria and Pimlico...I searched 2007 london by chance this video....I am missing that time...
Same... this was filmed just a month before I landed in London ... spent 5 years there... was kind of missing that time.
2007 was a great year
Oh man I miss those bendy buses lol
Nostalgia 😞
Oh.. how I miss England so much, with the London streets. Dancing to Crazy Frog and eating a donut at the same time.
Nick! thank you sooooo much, we used ot live in Brixton and it was lovely to it again. I have sent this to my little cuz here in Italy as she is dying to see London! so thank you, this is a little taster of what she'll see when I take her .... thx again! great job!
14 years ago... I'm here.
I’ve been to London recently on and off and I feel so sad. It’s changed so much, run down and overpopulated with people who don’t seem to belong there.
I was 7 ! Why does this look so old aghhh !
Yeah i agree london is the best city on earth.I love london
Man, I'm from Germany and I love my country but there is only one London .. You 14 million people over there should be very glad to live in such a captivating metropole :)
Cool 😎 the buildings were still classic
driving through london requires maximum concentration as well as the traffic signal cameras there are speed cameras box junction cameras and traffic observation systems of every kind leaving you no room to make even the slightest mistake and then unless you have a good knowledge of london to an outsider the direction signs and the one way systems can be very confusing
Mad I just found a 12yr old comment
@@arya3104 14 years old now
@@xxz1434 yep
15 years now crazy but next even more 16!!
what i really liked about this video is that i never heard a car honking through the entire video, there seemed to be quiet everywhere which i really like and miss here in Egypt. here people seem to never wanna let go of the car horn which drives me nuts while driving. i also liked how pedestrians wait for the light to turn red (for the cars) before they cross the road. Here pedestrians never seem to mind the cars moving fast. traffic here is a MESS... Egypt needs stricter traffic rules and laws
I really find this weird to think that London looked like this and I was 1 and a half years old at that time and I didn’t have a developed enough brain but I really didn’t like the city it was too overwhelming and I preferred being with my Persian grandparents but I think London was better at that time than today today it literally is a breading ground for crime
Back when the streets still had a good variety of different cars (car types, makes, and models) and before manufacturers began to dish out overpriced, hideously overstyled, and overly-engineered s**tboxes.
People started buying pointless SUVs. That's why it all went wrong
I agree. Car diversity. I never thought it would vanish away the way it did in 2013 onwards. Enjoyed seeing the rarity of German cars until that year onwards.
Nice vid man!
This takes me back :)
Searched it up, exactly what im looking for
RIP
I recognise brixton town hall on the left at the beginning.
The cars are old but not vintage
Anyone know the cream coloured car at 1:00?
Looks like a Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit/Silver Spur (1980-1997/2000).
No phones in sight 👍
Just before the smartphones took over
Then boom 💥💥💥💥 📳📳📳📲📲📲📲📳📲🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳➡️⚰️💀
Phones have been around since the 90s.
Very good ! Where, in London, have to drive cyclist ?
Brixton, birthplace of one David Jones
Hi 12 years later !
at 235 i see a prezzo. are those places any good? i hope to go and visit london one day and hear all the people talking funny. but me being just a good ole boy from alabama, i guess i will be the funny talking one.
Hi 13 years later !
aka mr Bowie
Hi 10 years later !
What car was this in?
i like london but id rather take the train into it
Can you really say drive? I learnt that drive means that you are behind the steering wheel. And you wasn't behind the steering wheel. Was you?
At 3:10 what's the name of that street?
Hi 15 years later !
It's gratifying to note that college is teaching you grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation.
i live in london.....lol
Nice
Do u still live there 11 years later? Just wonderingg
@MrDjc1970 Abramovich the best immigrant
i have to poop real bad.
Well mate did you make it?
@@godfire6383 give him some time, it might have been a shy one
@@jackbauer4762 legend says he's still pooping to this day😂
Cool 😎 the buildings were still classic