Great set of photos of the 1980s London Underground when you could drink and smoke

[Minnie_the_Minx]

There was a documentary filmed around the old Angel station in 1989, I'm in it at the start - will find some footage later of a very young me emerging from the station

This one maybe?

http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_19038.html

 

[marty21]

This one maybe?

http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_19038.html

Yep, Heart of the Angel - it is on youtube - can't access youtube at work, will link later - you see me emerge from the station at the beginning, after the opening sequence in the lift- with a female mate - I am chewing a pen wearing a shirt and tie!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yep, Heart of the Angel - it is on youtube - can't access youtube at work, will link later - you see me emerge from the station at the beginning, after the scene set in the life - with a female mate - I am chewing a pen wearing a shirt and tie!

I think I've seen it before. Pretty sure you linked to it in another thread. Will go and have a look

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

01.46 minutes in

 

[marty21]

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01.46 minutes in

There's the handsome chap, newly arrived in London and about to take it by storm!

 

[Schmetterling]

Fan-bloody-tastic! What London looked like when I arrived in 1985.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

There's the handsome chap, newly arrived in London and about to take it by storm!

You were are a handsome chap indeed

 

[Pickman's model]

Love this one, anyone know which station it is?

could be the auld angel station

 

[Pickman's model]

There's the handsome chap, newly arrived in London and about to take it by storm!

sure you've not changed a bit bar becoming a published poet

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anyway, despite me saying it could be one of the Claphams, it probably is Angel. I can't see any clock on the Clapham ones (although I haven't actually looked for an old picture to see if the Clapham ones ever had a clock)

 

[marty21]

sure you've not changed a bit bar becoming a published poet

alas that didn't make me millions so I could retire to a private island

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

alas that didn't make me millions so I could retire to a private island

I looked at the pavement beneath your feet, and unfortunately you picked the concrete paved one. The gold one was around the corner. If you'd turned the other way on exiting the tube, life could have been so different for you

 

[Pickman's model]

alas that didn't make me millions so I could retire to a private island

it's always the second volume of poems which makes a mint

 

[marty21]

I looked at the pavement beneath your feet, and unfortunately you picked the concrete paved one. The gold one was around the corner. If you'd turned the other way on exiting the tube, life could have been so different for you

one day I will find that gold, one day *shakes fist*

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

one day I will find that gold, one day *shakes fist*

Not the way the country is at the moment

 

[Pickman's model]

one day I will find that gold, one day *shakes fist*

it's hidden in the auld entrance

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

it's hidden in the auld entrance

or buried under one of the new platforms at Angel

 

[marty21]

back on topic

I don't remember smoking on the tube, they must have stopped that before i came to London in 1989?

 

[Pickman's model]

back on topic

I don't remember smoking on the tube, they must have stopped that before i came to London in 1989?

they stopped it five days after the kings x fire in 1987

 

[marty21]

they stopped it after kings x in 1987

right - but you could still smoke on trains after that - I remember a smoking car on the sleeper train to Glasgow in the 90s

 

[Pickman's model]

right - but you could still smoke on trains after that - I remember a smoking car on the sleeper train to Glasgow in the 90s

typo: not 1987 but 1989, november

 

[Superdupastupor]

I could swear blind that the guy on the right is my pa! I was just flicking through the collection when I caught sight of a familiar profile- the more I look at it the more certain I am getting.

i'll need to ask him if he recognises the other people.

 

[Pickman's model]

I could swear blind that the guy on the right is my pa! I was just flicking through the collection when I caught sight of a familiar profile- the more I look at it the more certain I am getting.

i'll need to ask him if he recognises the other people.

it's unlikely: it's more than 20 years ago and it might prove difficult to recognise someone after all that time when they're holding their head in their hands.

 

[Superdupastupor]

it's unlikely: it's more than 20 years ago and it might prove difficult to recognise someone after all that time when they're holding their head in their hands.

yeh true! but the guy in blue looks like he is wearing a rugby-top : he played rugby in that period so ...... yeh circumstantial.

the thing that is making me not able to put this away is a scar in the hairline that is in the same place.

 

[Pickman's model]

yeh true! but the guy in blue looks like he is wearing a rugby-top : he played rugby in that period so ...... yeh circumstantial.

the thing that is making me not able to put this away is a scar in the hairline that is in the same place.

loads of people wore rugby tops then

 

[Schmetterling]

they stopped it five days after the kings x fire in 1987

Really? I thought there was already no smoking on the tube in 1985?

I remember my delight at discovering that one was allowed to smoke on the top deck of the bus. Of course I thought at first my friend was just being rebellious.

ETA Found this
http://www.london-today.net/web/events/february/17/00001698/0675551446.html
We are both right! Yayyyyy!

 

[Bungle73]

Why the need to drink on the Tube? It's rather vulgar tbh, some scruffy oik sitting there with a can of Fosters.

just the other day during the heatwave I saw a bunch of people with glasses of beer get on the tube at embankment - defiance of a law they probably didn't know existed

Glasses of Beer? From a pub?

Fantastic pics,can remember how wonderfully grotty LU was compared with the current sanitised era

Yes, because it's better to have a dreay dirty Tube rather than a nice clean one.

just the other day during the heatwave I saw a bunch of people with glasses of beer get on the tube at embankment - defiance of a law they probably didn't know existed

Glasses of Beer? From a pub?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

back on topic

I don't remember smoking on the tube, they must have stopped that before i came to London in 1989?

The carriages absolutely reeked, especially the ones that were fully underground

 

[Schmetterling]

Why the need to drink on the Tube? It's rather vulgar tbh, some scruffy oik sitting there with a can of Fosters.

Glasses of Beer? From a pub?


Yes, because it's better to have a dreay dirty Tube rather than a nice clean one.


Glasses of Beer? From a pub?

*blows raspberry

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

they stopped it five days after the kings x fire in 1987

Ban on smoking on buses didn't come 'til much later, and whilst looking for the date, I came across this, so confused now

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8136355.stm

I'm thinking maybe it was banned on the tube trains first, then on the platforms and every else

I definitely remember smoking on trains in 1985