London in 2004

by Familiar_Onion4898

40 comments

  1. LED ad boards in Piccadilly Circus have gotten a *lot* brighter in the last 20 years!

  2. Thanks for posting these. I was 18 back then and it still feels like yesterday. These photos are both cool and terrifying. I know that the early 2000s weren’t as iconic as the 90s or 80s, but these photos still manage to look pretty nostalgic!

  3. Where was the 5th pic taken from? I see Big Ben on the right so I’m guessing east of there but the perspective is throwing me

  5. That last picture of Kingston doesn’t look much different these days. It’s the rest of the town that has gone to ruin!

  6. God what a time to have been alive. Thanks for sharing these!

  7. I was 1 in 2004 but a combination of watching old doctor who’s, and films, and some glimpses of memories from 2006-08 these feel so nostalgic

  9. Personally, I think that 2004-2007 was the peak of London. Everyone wanted to move there. It had amazing nightlife. That London was honestly soo badass. Such an amazing place. It’s still amazing today but back then, it was seriously on another level

  11. There was a video I saw which compared a train drivers view of the London skyline on the same route 30 years apart, would absolutely recommend but can’t find the video

  13. anyone else remember London packed with South Africans? Made some great friends and fun times in sports bar and tiger tiger

  15. Great years. I must have been 22 or 23 back then. And I still catch the number 13 to this day. The busses were older back then, but felt infinitely cleaner and more pleasant to ride on. The city definitely felt like it was on the up back then, there was still a buzz and fun to in-person shopping. I didn’t have much back then, barely ever ate out anywhere nice.

    Behaviours have changed a lot in the city. I was stunned yesterday, it was Christmas Day, and I drove my family in to have a quiet look at the Xmas lights. It was absolutely rammed, with car traffic jams, and people left right and centre posing for selfies and Instagram pics.

    Back in 04 there was a lot of energy, but it just felt different, great great times.

  17. Damn. That 2004 shot of Piccadilly Circus looks more like 1994.

  19. Awesome photos – what sort of camera were these taken with?

  20. And now we’re heading into the 1/4 of the 21st century 😳

  21. I was just born that year, but being raised in the mid-late 2000s I still find all of these pictures nostalgic

    What I find interesting is the buses, specifically the route masters. I find it surprising that they were in normal public service for that long. I always assumed they went out of publlic service years before. Looks like they even outlasted the Leyland Olympians, Plaxton Presidents and ALX400s

    The only other route I know that ran route masters back then was the 390.

  24. That was the year I moved to the city. Can’t believe it’s been 20 years

  26. Damn I was 10 in 2004, somehow 20 years ago looks really old and nostalgic. I love the saloon Renault in the first picture

  28. For those who were there, was London unobjectionably better then versus now? Or is it more nuanced than that?

  29. That No13 bus in picture 6 is still on the road with a clean MOT

  33. The year I started uni, what a stanbby and excellent time to be young

  34. I could see that Blue building in Slide 9 from most places I visited as a kid. I used to think it was following me

  35. These pictures remind me so much of my late father. My family and I were all living together in London during this time and so many memories just flooded back. I wonder what we were doing in these very moments when the pictures were taken. Time is a strange thing. Thank you, OP.

  38. I became a teenager in 2004. Life was so simple back then.

  39. I know it’s all relative but they really were the good ol days!

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