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At the 1.38 mark, we see a silver/grey Ford escort sporting an H registration = August 1st 69 to end July 1970. In front is a G reg mini mk11.

And then they flushed it down the toilet

What a lot of racists on here. I like to think of Londoners as more open minded these days..

Has no sole now😢

I've always loved London from past to now it has character even to this day and how london people survived the blitz we don't know how lucky we are really are what we have.

the good old days, not an allah akbar in sight!

Yes. Filthy old London. I remember the enjoyment of it not being perfect. The old tube trains and the way London had a life. Not now it’s too cold and uncaring altogether. Just a place to get through asap if you have to go there at all. Anyway I can’t understand the languages

They stripped every bit of charm from London, destroyed Piccadilly, filled every high street with fast-food garbage and ruined Soho with overpriced, worthless tourist joints designed to pick their pockets. I wish you younger people could’ve seen it in the 60s and 70s. What a city it was.

A lot of "Character lost", but god, its improved since the 1960s, particularly the centre, which was still, in large part, !!a post-war, dark, dingy, run-down, polluted wreck. Just look at the differences in illumination between the then and now photographs, a fair bit of the darkness in the 1960s photographs is down to atmospheric pollution reducing available light. The Thames was an open sewer along a lots of its length, large areas were still bombed-out and although partially cleared weren't being actively developed and some were used as car parks - I visited central London multiple times in the early, mid and late1960s as a kid. The large area behind St Bartholemews hospital was still flattened and under development, Paddington, Kensington and Olympia were run down, in parts semi derelect dumps, which were a little forbidding and scarey places to a West London suburbs born and bred boy in the fresh air and light (It was in those days before the cars took over). The docks area were well run down, dirty, dingy and showing the signs of war damage (I did tours by boat and road). The East end and south-east London were just building sites. Large numbers of people still lived in pre-fabricated housing (Pre-fabs) since being bombed-out in the war. Large sections of the underground were dark, dingy and dirty and noisey,. Buses were slow and polluting. Diesel oil from bus and lorry tanks was often slopped over sections of roads, usually corners. Some streets were particularly rubbish and litter filled, with derelict cars and other discarded comsumer items. The canals were run down and largely used as local rubbish tips. The only real benefit was that activities were more affordable then they are now, and were perhaps available to a wider cross-section of the population. I'd say despite the changes in population and a slight feeling of alienation on the part of long-standing native Brits, particularly in the last 25 years, things have markedly improved.

Thankyou for sharing.

Love what's happened to London. Flood it in the bstrds

Great vid. My only complaint is I can’t read the locations. The yellow writing is too small

What on earth have they done to the poor place, it's been striped of it's character and personality.

When most houses were 30k-90k to buy. The 30k house is 900k. 90k one £2.7m. How times change! A rundown 95,000 sqft Docklands former mill even sold for £34,500 in 1969, close to sites of Canary Wharf today. Even featured in The Sweeney in 1975!

theese were the top men.

Actually London today has saved me a fortune in travel costs....Instead of travelling the world to see different cultures I can now see the whole world in London including even a few English speakers.

I'm looking at the Shell building now! You have picked a very strange colour and place to site the graphics, extremely difficult to read them.

BRITISH people and cars ....... the good old days I remember as a child.

before the un turned it into a shithole..

Real shame that these old pictures and films bring out the racists every time.

They did away with all the charm and atmosphere and made most of London into yet another mediocre outpost of the U.S.

Just needs to be accompanied by Ralph Mctell's Streets of London.

Think of a problem, and then look at what part the motorcar played in it.

Everything's prettier now, things were scruffier and bombed out

The new glass and metal building work which took place in London is the very same time communities were torn down... Most residential streets had a pub, paper shop and maybe a small cafe on them... Now we got faceless shite, and NO community.... Even up until the mid 1980s you could still see parts of old every day London...

Nothing new.about a modern.london, is alls.overs.the globals, is times.for new bldg, torn dwns.the Victorian, bldg, but.most Victorian, estates, haves. More spaces.the new moderns bldg, but most will.says sees the sames.is times.for changes.

It was exactly the same in the 1980s..

Deffo looked a lot nicer then now, shame those old street lanterns were all ripped out -

Frustratingly poor resolution. Surely the originals were better than this!

A very enjoyable watch no colours either

Hard to read street names.

Anyone seen the movie idiocracy. ? Please just watch the first five minutes it will explain what happened here.

Poor London... From a A+ beautiful, Historical, Safe City to Nowadays.. A 3rd World Slum..

Less cars back then! 2 car family are rare thing.

Its a godless generation now. Jesus Christ is LORD

It's us, that have destroyed much of London. We buy the crap that pays for the destruction. We use Amazon - we destroy high streets. We let market forces dictate what goes where. Think before you vote. Whoops - too late. Its gone! Decades of under-investment after the war, capped off with 40 years of Thatcherism. Boom! Upgrade culture -apprenticeships be damned. It was us! Form follows function. The old buildings were not seen as useful or fit for new purpose. We're lucky to have anything of old London left. It's very sad. Think of all the property developers that gave back handers to councils and government ministers. . 41 (yes 41) years of Friedmanism in the UK. Or didn't you understand what you were voting for? Oh dear, how sad, never mind!

Great old photographs, but the new comparison pictures are clearly just lifted off Google maps, so all the perspectives, angles and depth are wrong. This doesn't really work for me. As i say, i really bask in the old daylight of the elderly pictures.

I have hundreds of Victorian & Edwardian photos of London Streets. In most of them the stark difference besides the clothes is the compete lack of motor cars.

Not a Burka to be seen...

Have to wipe your feet when you leave London now.

London was a great city beautiful and white before the traitors in government turned it into a third world toilet 🚽. Shame on them and shame on us for standing it. Tell me if I am wrong

Where are all the scary looking burka wearing creatures ??

Never voting labour or a globalist party ever again

London was so cool in the 1960s still a great city to visit and love in

Hey I lived on Harley Street for three years Number 61 and I was not a “Harley street consultant....

The better videos are the ones where it states the particular locations; i cant get enough of those..... this video here along with many others are so obscure and it doesnt feel anywhere nearly as nostalgic. I want to go on google earth and see the then and nows and also to see if theyve been tragically torn down and replaced with ugly social housing

London is shit hole

I don't know why ladies then towered above the men!

London in the 60s I was a child. What amazes me is the social change which is not all good. People seem angrier today, more people seem to have a hissy fit and loose it mentally and this seems to be a world wide phenomenon. As a kid in London I could wander around London and never find trouble, unless you went looking for it. No it wasnt perfect either. Today the average person just seems more volatile and I womder why.

Some of these photos are more recent than the 60s, judging from the cars on the streets.....