Parklife video filmed 30 years ago today

[101reykjavik]

The Parklife video was filmed in Greenwich 30 years ago today, on August 8 and 9 1994.

Here's a nice little article about the Parklife video locations 30 years on.

https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2024/08/09/ ... -years-on/

Really interesting to see now and then comparisons of what remains of the area around Greenwich, which as you can imagine has changed beyond all recognition for the most part. Thankfully the row of cottages remains. Apparently, we have one person to thank for the preservation of the cottages – historian and former Greenwich councillor Mary Mills got them listed in 1998.

[ricj]

Interesting but also a little depressing. As an ex London resident of nearly 10 years (starting in 2000), it just about perfectly sums up how much of 'old' London has completely vanished without trace under a high rise sea of soulless polished glass and metal... Whenever I visit and take myself on a little tour of my past, practically everything I knew has gone forever..

[101reykjavik]

I have never lived there, so my knowledge of the city is limited but all around by Greenwich with the o2 and everything has changed so much. As you say, what was once a very much low-rise city sprouted skywards.

[101reykjavik]

I was at the Paul McCartney concert at the O2 on Thursday and my hotel was a short walk, passing by a certain short row of houses...



Having been around here many times over the years to visit the O2 but never looking out for the Parklife street it was fascinating to see it now, feeling totally surreal, in essence plonked down in the middle of a landscape of towering blocks of offices and flats in every direction. What was once a simple, wooden fence on the other side of the street is now a green manicured area. The road itself now meets an abrupt end, with the modern buildings cutting right across where the Ford Granada once was seen to drive down and halt in front of the zebra crossing. Made for a fun though poignant moment on my short walk to and from the arena.

[ma.r.ty]

I was at the Paul McCartney concert at the O2 on Thursday and my hotel was a short walk, passing by a certain short row of houses...



Having been around here many times over the years to visit the O2 but never looking out for the Parklife street it was fascinating to see it now, feeling totally surreal, in essence plonked down in the middle of a landscape of towering blocks of offices and flats in every direction. What was once a simple, wooden fence on the other side of the street is now a green manicured area. The road itself now meets an abrupt end, with the modern buildings cutting right across where the Ford Granada once was seen to drive down and halt in front of the zebra crossing. Made for a fun though poignant moment on my short walk to and from the arena.