London, 1951
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- A tour of London, England in the early 1950s. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
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I was 7 years old in 1951 and loved London. The wonderful sight of the ships tied up along the docks inspired me to go to sea. 7:28 "And you know these things will never die while there are Englishmen to carry on". We know differently now, don't we? We're giving it away and the adults in this clip will be crying in their graves.
That was great. I love London. Being 28 as I am, I never got to see it like this. But I wish I could have.
Its hard to believe but , somewhere, whilst this was being shot, I was a boy of ten living in Barnes S W 13, just over Hammersmith Bridge and going to school in East Sheen. Ah. Memories.Thank you for posting this and thank you to the photographer.
I too was 10 that year, but lived in the Midlands. My elder brother attended the 'Festival of Britain', that year. I'm surprised the film maker's didn't wait till it opened.
i absolutely love this. my mum would have been six then and my dad seven. i used to love them telling me stories about what it was like back then. thank you for posting :)
It’s no good lamenting over our beautiful lost London, it’s gone - they’ve torn down so many buildings with their precious history, local customs and people have been swept away....but at least we have the wonderful memories of when we were lucky enough to experience and live through those best of times, they can never take that away from us.
This was the London that I grew up in, we had no TV and we played childrens games called hopscoth in the street and gave concerts in our back garden wearing Mums clothes that drowned us plus high heels that were sizes too big, everyone would give one penny to go in then we would go to the local charity box and give in our takings, I cherish those days they were hard times but also fun times aswell
I'm only 21, but I wish I had lived in these days...I feel estranged to these modern times, no stability, economy down, no prospects for young people, back then there were real values - family, patriotism , no multicultural menace around the big cities....
Well, we've evolved, but to worse, no doubt...
I understand that people are annoyed about immigration. Some immigration can be good but where the government has made a mistake is by giving newly arriving immigrants free benefits. In my opinion you shouldn't get any benefits until you've worked at least 10 - 20 years here and contributed to the country.
I perfectly agree.Benefits should be EARN not give.Immigrants like us should work hard and appreciate the host country for giving us the opportunity to contribute to their society.
thats the london i know and love.
Oh I remember it well (I am 70). I left school in 1958. Everyone but the sick and infirm had a job, you were safe to walk anywhere, food was real food, tasted and smelled of it. No frozen shit, all meals made fresh from woe to go. None of all this cancer and God knows what back then like now. For us it was all about the music, dancing (rock n roll baby), laughing, having fun, movies, all knew everyone on your patch, did a crime you did the time! Oh Enoch you were so right.
I am an avid Agatha Christie reader. I read her books again & again. I am watching in this video the London described in Christie novels & stories. Really fascinating.
i love those times.. when london was london..india was india..multiculturism.. murder of cultures..
+Gaurav Kohli Agree. The problem with multicuturalism is to conform rather then to learn and respect.This is at least my generation of colour migrant from abroad sees it.
+Gaurav Kohli Agree. The problem with multicuturalism is to conform rather then to learn and respect.This is at least my generation of colour migrant from abroad sees it.
I never knew India had a multiculturalism problem..
Yes how dare those subjects of the Empire dare to come here and OMG live here , we invaded and colonised their countries for our own benefit, not theirs, but now for them to come here and occupy our corner shops how dare they !!!!
I like it when he said fleet street remains conservatively British.
I wonder what he would say now about London in general huh
OMG,..I use to work in those newspaper buildings during the 1980`s.
Britain is now becoming an overcrowded third world country,...betrayed by the politcal elite on so many issues.
Yes, now it's just one big filthy bio mass.
Great! we've got the 'Shard'! That's a great compensation for losing our great capitol city to third world peasants. Can you imagine the recent riots occurring before mass immigration from primitive countries?
We used to have a civilized, orderly country. Respect for each other, pride in our Nation (and we do have a great history to be proud of) a hard work ethic and disdain for accepting charity and benefits, and a richly deserved reputation for fair play. All gone. I could weep for England.
I agree and I am Scottish when England was England.
So sad to see how London has changed! All my memories....
Day's gone past never to return, That's the time I remember and cherish England for the English. Low crime, walk anywhere you wanted, no, no go areas like now. Sad but people call it progress. I call it political stupidity over the last 50 years.
Yep - Reggie and Ronnie would soon knock em into shape!
and smog. Beautiful smog.
WELL SAID! Nanny state nonsense 21st CENTURY. I grew up in the fifties and sixties London!
Ronnie n REGGIE and the Saahhff London Richardson lot soon SORT IT OUT! Didn't have mugging n shit. Ye could walk the streets.
I was 3yrs old in 1951. I look at this film and wonder where did it all go wrong.
Everyone nicely dressed, no scruffy trainers or women with their fat legs stuffed into leggings.
Clean...Orderly....Respectful....Englands` proud capital as it "Once" was.....
I love the 1950's
This film is more likely after July 1952, as there are no trams or tram track, which would have definitely existed in 1951, especially in the vicinity of Big Ben. The London trams ceased running on July 7, 1952.
I actually never knew London was the biggest city on earth in the 50's tnh
too right, I could (and do)
weep
Does England really exist anymore?
The narrator reminds me of "Bal - ham, gateway to the South" (Peter Sellers)
Will have to get a copy of this. Shame about the corny American voice-over but the images are great.
The real london
people are being stupid. you cannot conclude that london has gotten so much worse from watching this video. this film was made at a time when travelling the world wasn't really an affordable option for most people. the commentator is american so this was probably just a way of letting people 'experience' london when they otherwise would never get a chance to. this just highlights the good bits and makes london look perfect.
What about Bal-ham, Gateway to the South..?
"These things will never die as long as there are ENGLISHMEN to carry these traditions on".....problem is there are few Emglishmen left in London and there are 8 million "Londoners"...:(
SEVEN YEARS LATER and there are even less White indigenous Brits in Londonistan.
In 2016 only 1 in 10 Births were to White Brits in Inner London.
Help !
7 years on and there are, proportionately, even less now.
In 2016 only 1-in-10 Births were to "White/British" mothers...
London looked lovely back then, now its a dirty sump. Very sad
Mate this was a year before 12,000 people died from a poisonous smog.
Did no one see those ppl cut tht lady off at phone booth? How rude.
time stamp?
what if his call was 999 ?
They had underground trains pulled by steam (Metopoitan line) a good few decades before the fifties. But no cell phones though. They don`t work down there any way, even now.
They showed tower bridge not London Bridge
London was largest city on earth? Look how it is not crowded. Reminds me of aybs times.
London was a good thing , then everyone got onto it.
Big Ben is the bell not the tower
The tower was called St Stephen's Tower
It was renamed Elizabeth Tower in honour of the the Queen's Golden Jubilee
Shorley, shome mishtake, St Stephen's Tower is a separate structure at the south end of the Parlimentary block. (Big Ben's clock-tower is at the north end)
they should show this to anyone claiming Britain was always multi-culti
does this look like a nation of immigrants to you? I bet every single person on this film could trace their Brit ancestry back centuries
How dare they come here when invited to do so by the Brits -who had colonnized their countries?
grai
Nonsense.
Brookfield well argued
Martames 74
As long as you know I was commenting on the post, not your comment.
+grai For your information Britain DID take in a large number of migrants in the past particularly during the time when shortly after India became independent to the period known as decolonisation. But people learned to respect and honour in those days and nothing like it doing where people always take things for granted.
very good film, I agree with peoples comments, it was a magnificent city. I dont know about the future judging from how it is today..what a shame
The great Labour Party leader, Clement Attlee, became PM in 1945.
death nail!
Yes--he was responsible for many good things, but lost his way by 1951, when the people brought back Churchill.
and newly married couples made do with 2nd hand, none of this going into debt to keep up with the Jones, really no HP back then. Grans and mums knitted ad sewed, weekends was for baking cakes and biscuits for the week, Sunday was roast day with magnificent deserts, once a week movies with mum. No TV till I was 12 then only so many hours a day, radio was the go with serials on, Sunday Favorites, that Pickles guy going to factories to broadcast, dancing up the Lyceum up the Strand.
BORN THIS YEAR! Shame it's all going down the SHITTER IN A FUCKING SPEEDBOAT!
Thanks for sharing this most interesting film. However, I am guessing it to be dated around 1953 or slightly later.. Looking closely at this film, all the London trams have long gone and they stopped running in July 1952. Even the tram tracks have disappeared.
It says 1951 on the title...
I love the old trams.Only Hong Kong still run the traditional English Tram the way it was operated ever since 1904 and still is today after the British left.
It refers to 'His Majesty' so it must be 1951.
Great film!! :)
Anyone who says those times were not better either wasn't born then so has no idea or they were locked up a secure place! Either way they ddont have a clue. It was a far, far better place for a shedful of reasons but the first half dozen: 1. Far better education 2. Far better respect for the law and order 3. Far better family units and happier and hardly any truancy 4. Far better health for all and no real obesity 5. No foreigners to abuse the health and benefits system 6. No European Union!
Fuck, talk about things aint what they use to be
Container ships, down stream, cleaned up the river.
The lessons of 1944 were not accepted; Suez repeated the lesson: It still hasn't sunk in!
londres je t'♡♡
guinness is good for you oh i would have loved to have gone on the piss back in those days can ya imagine how cheap it was.
@magiclard Neither...That's Speakers Corner at Hyde Park. You got all types preaching something or other there, usually about religion and politics, the evils of booze whatever. Just bring along a box to stand on and you too can have a piece of the action :)
What on Earth do you mean? There was a landslide victory by the Labour party 6 years before this film was made.
We just got fed up with the bloody awful weather and moved to Florida.
@bobestes Youre worng the UK is still one of the most powerfull countrys in the world. And is infulentual all around the world.
Back when London was still a British city.
The only way to enjoy London is to play Assassin's Creed Syndicate nowadays
@TheWhitehall Clean? Clean?? When King Coal ruled? I remember different.
@OBAG09L 5 years? Three successive elections? You need to express yourself better. Which party/government are you referring to?
how true
Picadilly Circus as a counterpart of New York Times Square? You must be kidding.
Sorry to say it but you are right
@lifeworthliving2010 Actually it was 6 years into a landslide Labour government, and one that was very socialist. That's why you're enjoing the film.
London port..
This looks like in 1947
Certainly pre-1948. That was the year the Metropolitan Police adopted the white shirt and tie, rather than the "closed-neck" tunic as shown in this film.
I thought it was the smallest city in the world.
no one is really sure...
Ethnic minorities tend to vote Labour.
Mandelson's comment re. scraping around to get immigrants, was a smart move by Blair.
It was treason and he should be hung for it.
@nakedmambo I think its you that needs a course in political history. I think you'll find that it was during those 5 years of nothing that: the standard of living rose by 50% with earnings rising more than twice as fast as prices, 7000 new schools were built and numbers attending uni rose by 50% Home ownership rose by 20% also the only party/government to win 3 successive elections, that would surly suggest that they were rather popular.
yeah sure. was a house of cards then buckled under its own impossible weight!
Precisely, after a heavy pair of wars but before Wembley 1966.....
im moving to liverpool - its well better!
so this was London before socialism
This film is from the late 1940s (see my comment above about the time-marker of police uniforms). At that time we were right in the middle of one of the most successful socialist governments in recent times. The Labour Government of Clement Attlee; responsible for post-war re-construction, both from the social and infrastructure points of view. And it was this (socialist) government that gave birth to the NHS. I am a Tory by inclination but I cannot let this implied slur on socialism go unanswered.
DITTO
Except y'know, this was under Attlee, and the welfare state was being established at this time: the NHS, nationalisation, social security.. in fact one of the most socialist governments we've ever had.
@stemajad London once again is on the up actually
@grebo54 or a golden age bubble that now has taken its toll with huge debts.
Yes, and before thieving bankers. Serf.
Insert patriotism here.
@gramule Oh gosh I do so agree with you. This is a nostalgic but very idealised view of London in 1951. And the same people baying here for a return to this mythical 'golden age' are the very people with no matters or grace.
@bobestes Thats a lie. London is the financial capital of the world and is booming! London is on the up :) It now has the tallest building in Europe. The Shard..
oooooh.
yeah so many millions of comments about what London is like now and I concur and that is why I moved out to the country I a, just fed up with a shit government who just want votes and just think of themselves and that covers it please comment if u agree wiv me OK
So German then.......or Danish..maybe Roman....Norman roots....oh please not celt.
LOL !!!
@joshieboi005 ...No we are trillions in debt. An expensive wasteland to dump foreign waters on.
No!
Before 'socialism'? What are you talking about, old boy?
Immigrants are here to stay; if you can't bear it, feel free to emigrate.
Immigrants are visitors who have overstayed their time..
Chizzy Meka why so we can go modernize ur throwaway country just to have u come back? Go home.
sharon anderson - Well said, Sharon.
, . . . . . . . and take your selfish tribal filthy superstitious habits with you!
true dat, dat true, white went all over the world, booting black like you in da face and punching brown like me in da face but when brown like me want to jump the US Mexican border Trump tell me to fuck off, well i'm voting against Trump's arse in 2020, then he can fuck off......back to Europe.
Patronising YANK commentary yeeuuuchh!
prick, He did a good job, no gushing overstatements, just facts. it probably WAS made for the US market anyway. We were desperate for Dollars.
Ah... when the working classes did as they were told and left the middle classes to move about in peace and when Bankers could get on with making money. Plus ca change...
LOL WTF?!?! London was so boring they had to talk about mailboxes?!
hahahahaha.
actually, its letterboxes good sir :)
@@haroldofcardboard
Most people in Britain refer to them as “post boxes”.
Everyone in the UK has lots of opportunities to better themselves at any age. Stop complaining and do something with your lives.
Some very unpleasant comments here among the good ones. Bulldogbrawn, if you're going to invoke Britannia, at least learn to spell it!
maybe because it only shows the good side here? You think everything was all pleasant back then? you're delusional. In any country or city in this kind of videos, the only things shown are the pretty things...
I bet if the people before are to be shown with videos of today filled with beautiful things they will say the same thing "Oh how London and the UK look modern now with people talking to small rectangle machines (cellhphones) and oh! they have underground trains!" see?
London and new York have always been cosmopolitan.