1970s Harlow | What do the locals think of Harlow | Harlow | Essex | A town called...| 1975

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  • Monty Modlyn visits the town of Harlow to find out exactly what the locals think of the place they call home.
    First shown: 02/07/1975
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    Quote: VT11248

Komentáře • 59

  • @JohnDoe-tx8lq
    @JohnDoe-tx8lq Před 2 lety +17

    You can tell it's quite a long time ago when the first thing they show after his intro is roads and traffic... a modern town with everything you could need. Though I admit I do like seeing 70's cars. 😁👍

  • @garymitchell8394
    @garymitchell8394 Před 2 lety +11

    Noel Edmonds at 2.02...he hasn't changed a bit! 😆

  • @JC_303
    @JC_303 Před 2 lety +10

    Dads Wood is the name of the block of flats built in the early 2000s in the town centre, did not know its historical connection!

  • @rightgirlwrongplanet
    @rightgirlwrongplanet Před 2 lety +7

    Harlow has changed demographic significantly since this was made. Few Londoners and many eastern Europeans. It is so diverse now. Probably beyond the imagination of the participants of this video back then.

  • @MarkStevens8899
    @MarkStevens8899 Před 2 lety +7

    If i remember rightly Monty was a presenter on Today with Llew Gardner,Allan Hargreaves etc.

    • @squirrelarch
      @squirrelarch Před 2 lety +3

      Well remembered. Sounds right to me. Monty Modlyn was on LBC radio for a while too.

  • @pit_stop77
    @pit_stop77 Před 2 lety +12

    Was that noel Edmonds at 2.10 putting on a fake accent? 😂😂😂

  • @PlanetImo
    @PlanetImo Před 2 lety +2

    Aw. Nice. That was my birth year!

  • @Brewster-Productions
    @Brewster-Productions Před rokem

    I was there that day and met Monty. He signed an autograph for me. That was at the water gardens in the High (Town Centre) near the old Town Hall.

  • @LamneYokaMou
    @LamneYokaMou Před 2 měsíci +1

    Unfortunately Harlow is now run down and has a lot of poverty and unemployment. It was lovely to see it in better times.

  • @PhilUKNet
    @PhilUKNet Před 2 lety +5

    Essex has some beautiful areas, but Harlow and Basildon are just carbuncles on the landscape.

  • @dylaninpieces2
    @dylaninpieces2 Před 2 lety +2

    Michelle Lyons (the woman behind Funny Horsie and other avant-garde content) brought me here.

  • @dominewimbury2039
    @dominewimbury2039 Před 2 lety +1

    Blimey. This is great

  • @freedomforpeopletruelies6
    @freedomforpeopletruelies6 Před 2 lety +32

    Polite nice people . Unlike today's so called lot

  • @HelenTudor-Douglas
    @HelenTudor-Douglas Před 2 lety +3

    The guy at 2:02 looks like my old boyfriend Roy. Roy was from Harlow & looked about the same age as this guy in 1975. There's a Lovely park/lake in Harlow. Anyone out there know who that guy is?

  • @mindblast3901
    @mindblast3901 Před 2 lety +6

    2.40 The major fawlty towers

  • @kamolondani4757
    @kamolondani4757 Před měsícem

    Best town for living family

  • @michaelforde4373
    @michaelforde4373 Před 2 lety +4

    Noel Edmunds finks things set down too early at night

  • @raijinenel3116
    @raijinenel3116 Před 2 lety +3

    MEGA

  • @starsailor49
    @starsailor49 Před rokem +2

    I moved to Harlow in 1962. It was a good place before the second generation turned it into an utter dump.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Před 11 měsíci

      Was that the children of the first generation, or new people moving in? Incidentally my mum worked in the hospital for 6 months in about 1975, although we're from Staffordshire.

  • @LabRat6619
    @LabRat6619 Před 2 lety +1

    More kitchen knives are sold in Harlow than the rest of Essex.

  • @jasonayres
    @jasonayres Před 2 lety +7

    Francis Drake, eh? (0:30)
    Goodness me, how he has aged well.
    Considering he was the first man to circumnavigate the globe in the mid 1500's, I think he looks quite chipper.

    • @automotivel3501
      @automotivel3501 Před 2 lety

      And now considered a racist, who had dealings with slavery, according to the Royal Greenwich Maritime Museum. the tossers.

  • @hazelwray4184
    @hazelwray4184 Před 2 lety +3

    First aired, 1975? This is not the portrayal of gloom and doom the decade is generally portrayed as; not the milieu that spawned Anarchy in the UK Nov 1976.

    • @martin.baldock9719
      @martin.baldock9719 Před 2 lety +1

      Most people moving to Harlow would have been glad to, most were not from the area and had better housing and facilities. The interesting thing from the younger adults was the lack of nightlife which is in line with what happened just before the punk explosion, groups struggled to get paying gigs. The other thing of note is that there are a few socio-political documentaries kicking around with interviews at the time and it was striking how little has changed for those on the lower rungs of the social hierarchy. People in Harlow would have been quite fortunate

  • @silversurfermusicco5263
    @silversurfermusicco5263 Před 2 lety +3

    Harlow nice chips n pizza now innit geez

  • @jonh2469
    @jonh2469 Před 2 lety +7

    It’s crack central now

    • @martin.baldock9719
      @martin.baldock9719 Před 2 lety +1

      Depends where you are in Harlow, still a lovely place to live.

    • @jonh2469
      @jonh2469 Před 2 lety +1

      @@martin.baldock9719 old Harlow 2 crack dens on my road alone

    • @BodybuildingSteve
      @BodybuildingSteve Před 2 lety

      @@jonh2469 old harlow is ment to be the decent bit lmao I live in bishops stortford now but thats going the same way as harlow :( have to keep moving further and further out

    • @jonh2469
      @jonh2469 Před 2 lety +1

      @@BodybuildingSteve yea I started in Tottenham

    • @Rebelconformist82
      @Rebelconformist82 Před rokem

      You should come to Brighton

  • @JaniceCole1950
    @JaniceCole1950 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Harlow was a nice town, but now no

  • @brainsmith3931
    @brainsmith3931 Před 2 lety +7

    Harlow these days is full of Londoners escaping London diversity which is a problem to them.

  • @peterallam6494
    @peterallam6494 Před 2 lety

    Monty could've got same reaction in other New Towns that came about around the sametime too. Harlow was set out with the M11 planned to be west of the town which is why it's such a shlep reaching & leaving it from/to that direction. New Local Authority housing is off the Agendas of successive governments that have both been in office long enough to resurrect it as policy.

  • @lottytaylor572
    @lottytaylor572 Před 2 měsíci +1

    & look what an armpit harlow is now

  • @throwhammer
    @throwhammer Před 6 měsíci +3

    Born and grew up in Harlow… it’s now shit hole…

  • @felicitytoad
    @felicitytoad Před rokem

    😊😊😊🙂🙃🙂😉😇😁