I worked in London from 1965 up until 1970, it was a great place to work and visit. Loved my time there - today it has changed beyond belief and I wouldn't want to work there at all! Rest in peace Old Girl, you were once amazing! Love the music btw, it fits the film perfectly.
I spent many hours as both a child and a teenager out and about in London and this takes me right back to those times immediately, how can fifty plus years pass so quickly? Thanks for posting, a marvellous piece of film saved for posterity, well done!!
My Grandma utterly adored this city when she went to visit in 1967. She speaks fondly of what it was and says it was much cleaner and much less congested back then. She says that in recent years the people living in the city have picked up terrible habits and that they've let their city fall into ruin.
Hello, I so pleased you have enjoyed the film clip of Londondon the music is copyright whitch comes with my Avid video editing suite very expensive thank you for your comments. Kind Regards John.
Such a super film. I can't wait to show my parents who are now in their 80s, they have such fond memories of London as do I. I was born 1961 and my Dad used to drive us to Kensington to see my aunt once a month and I loved it so much. It was so exciting, such a beautiful city. Thanks for bringing back some great memories.
Brilliant. Takes me back over 50 years. I live in Australia now and have never been back - this film mirrors my memories as a kid exactly. Thanks for sharing.
lets not forget that even though our capital has been swamped and ruined that there are still huge swaithes of England that are still like this film - and we must act now to keep them that way!
@stuartthegrant Hi thank you for your comment and yes a freedom loving people I do remember those days. please enjoy the rest of my channel have a nice Christmas. Regards John.
I was born in London in 61..I remember days out like this in these places..such a beautiful city then..now it is a disgrace...If you were to bring someone from then to now they would cry at what has been done. This is when England belonged to Englishmen and women...it is shameful that the idiots in charge have let it become what it is today.
Beautiful. I don't want to just say what has London become, but also what have our country and people become? We are too greedy now and lack respect as everything is spoon-fed to us. :( This really made my day TOPCAMERAMAN, I am utmost grateful.
Well one has to work all the hours that God sends to pay the taxes and pay for immigration and if you are lucky you may have some cash left over to buy a small treat.
@kingbleah That may be true, but speaking as someone who has lived in multiple different countries, the kindness and politeness that I experience in the UK still astonishes me. We have our problems, but they can be dealt with. In comparison to many different places, the UK has it good, and that should really be appreciated.
Thanks very much for uploading this. The film showing at the London Pavilion cinema at about 11:50 is Topkapi, starring Peter Ustinov. That suggests this sequence was shot in 1964.
Fascinating! I'm reeling from watching this footage. It is a historical document. It probably should be in the National Gallery. We spent Christmas week in London 2018 and walked the same path the cameraman did. Yes, it's changed but then again not so much. I can't thank you enough for uploading this wonderful film.
Just as i remembered it in the 60s. It cost me just ten bob there and back from Northampton, had to go to earls court quite a bit to set things out, so had time to look around LONDON, THANKS JOHN
Thank you for your comment and yes 16mm film does have a beautiful texture I do have a lot more 16mm film on my channel it's World war 2 archive that a friend of mine took during thw war years sadley past on now please look under 92nd bomb group or The Doc Furniss War i am sure that you will enjoy. Kind Regards T.C. John.
I was born in Inner South London in 1954 and moved to the Outer London Suburbs in 1983 ( still just 13 miles from Trafalgar Square ).... From 99.9% White British back then to 60% of 2011 London births born to Women who were born outside the UK !...then add on all the births to 2/3/4th Generation immigrant families !...only 21% of Inner London kids are White now and that is decreasing every year. London IS still brilliant though,varied,stimulating and vibrant and has kept me "young" at 57.)
True..London is ALWAYS changing... and I agree to some extent it is also changing for the better, or trying to!... but so many good things have gone missing through this hyper-fixation of always wanting to change everything... so much character and "London charm" has also been lost for ever, along with lots of lovely old places (many "watering holes" you might have liked, as now most belong to sad global chains..).. I hope you've had the chance to see the London I am referring to....
Innocence, days before the internet, before cctv, when skies were cobalt blue and the clouds always snow white, when I was little, when my father was still a young man, when there seemed to be space everywhere to run and play, when British music was the best in the world. It makes me happy and sad at the same time to watch this, those days that were and never will be again.
ur city never changed. this was taken on a beautiful day when every 1 just enjoyed the beautiful weather and relaxed. have u ever noticed if its slight mist, frost or pissing down rain, people just want to get from A to B as quick as they can! UR CITY HAS NOT CHANGED and dont belive 4 one minuite that the black or muslim emegrants have taken over! u have a beautiful city with memories and keep it that way!
I can't believe this comments section is just laden with casual racism. It is just some old footage of the city, feel nostalgic sure but chill the $£*+$@ out!
paulmrussell12 It's the same with every "[Insert Big City Here] In The [Insert Decade Here]" video on RUclips. "Dis woz b4 all da blacks came and ruined it!!!11" Like, how do you ruin a city simply by living there?
Justt over 25 years ago a guy said to me ( Referring to Jamaica )..."How can one Island produce so many lazy, violent, stupid individuals ) ? .I've seen my old School which had 350 + years of academic excellence when 99.9% White be converted into a Government "Sink" School within 15 years when it became 85% Black. I GUARANTEE you that ANY area that becomes 10/15% "Black" WILL become 90% Black over 40 years as their fertility rates are off the scale. You WILL discover this, I PROMISE YOU...
If I ever want to meet some racists I'll be sure to post some archive footage. Pretty much every archive film seems to be littered with comments from these great people.
So great to see this video. It's been a long time since I was in London. What is the music being played during this video? Really enjoyed watching this!
Nice - loved the accompanying music. Funny to seeing the entrance to Parliament. Remember going on a school trip to the gallery at the Commons. Anyone could walk off the street and see democracy at work. Not anymore
at about the time that band is seen out in the traffic near the end of the video great shot of a skinhead in a sheepskin coat and sta prest at the bus stop.classic!!!!!
I am from Russia.In Russia, demolished the old Moscow!Demolition of old neighborhoods in St. Petersburg!In construction work, migrants from Central Asia.
Even as a non-Anglo Saxon person (white), you have to see it and call it for what it is and what happened. Places like London and Paris were destroyed and invaded, after the 60s. This is real London, its society, people, culture - English/UK. As someone from another city with too much third-world mass immigration that happened in the past 25-30 years, it's sad to know I will not be visiting London, ever, because it's not the London that the world thinks or thought of or imagines, or the one I grew up with learning about. I already see the multiculturalism/cesspool everyday so why would I want to see more of it elsewhere? So sad.
Many beautiful and 'homogeneous' cities (Across south Asian, Western/central/north Africa and the middle east) were also colonised and 'ruined', looted from and subjugated by both the British (English) and the French in their colonial escapades. But I guess that doesnt matter eh......Multiculturalism is the europeans chickens coming home to roost old chap
***** Indeed you are correct and I understand your argument, but there is a little thing called cause and effect. The 'working class' people of nations like Britain and France of course has no control or say in general to do with the orchestration of colonialism (but you can argue the same thing about war - the working class masses generally are not the instigators or initiators of global conflict yet it is they who bear the brunt of its terrible consequences not the leaders/generals who safety direct affairs from an ivory tower.) and yes I understand the argument that western nations brought medicines, infrastructure, Christianity, technology and 'law and order' to many of these places they colonised, but does that justify their force able 'invasion'? It's like arguing that the contemporary continuous stream of non European immigration particularly into north western Europe is justified, sustainable and wholly positive as it brings culture and tolerance to the region. It's clear that colonisation was not enacted for altruistic purposes or the 'greater good' but for national gain and profit, which makes sense and is a historical fact. But ask yourself why nations in eastern and central Europe do not suffer with the immigration issues that plague western Europe. Maybe because historic exploits did not lead them to swarm in foreign nations, assume control for decades even centuries then leave and create a dependency on the generations of people in those former commonwealth nations.
All the places in this video are the same as they are now. All those stone buildings and monuments are there still; they're cleaner. . I didn't see one place in the video where there is now a Starbucks. You maybe are reading too much into the video; other than the people and what they're dressed in, nothing is different in this video. o0o
Exactly. By the 1960s London had already been ruined............by the car. If you want REAL nostalgia and a 'bygone era' then go back to the London of the 1930's.......or better still London pre WW1 - in the Edwardian era. Then you'll really notice how different things were. Virtually no cars on the streets, children playing football in the streets, horse drawn carts, spotless pavements with no litter (even in the 60's the pavements had litter on them), and real civic pride - nothing was out of place. I'd given anything to go back and visit Edwardian London.
Who seriously thinks London hasn't changed??!!! OMG, how I wish it hadn't... even up to the whole 70s and early 80s it was altogther another place.. it was so much more...err..the real thing.. It's tacky and "americanised" now (no offence meant, please). Still lovely, but not quite the thing it was...I miss old London, and long to go back, but when I go back it's like going back to another country... sad...
Nice film spoilt by lousy music soundtrack and the realisation that good old London Town will never be the same again thanks to our wonderful politicians.
@september7891 I suppose the most fascinating thing about this little exchange is that the EDL have always claimed *not* to be a rascist movement. So, it's good that their supporters have proved that they in fact, are.
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I worked in London from 1965 up until 1970, it was a great place to work and visit. Loved my time there - today it has changed beyond belief and I wouldn't want to work there at all! Rest in peace Old Girl, you were once amazing! Love the music btw, it fits the film perfectly.
Please god take me back to this time... look at London then and compare it to now.. Its like a different world.. Great footage TOPCAMERMAN..
I spent many hours as both a child and a teenager out and about in London and this takes me right back to those times immediately, how can fifty plus years pass so quickly? Thanks for posting, a marvellous piece of film saved for posterity, well done!!
My Grandma utterly adored this city when she went to visit in 1967. She speaks fondly of what it was and says it was much cleaner and much less congested back then. She says that in recent years the people living in the city have picked up terrible habits and that they've let their city fall into ruin.
Hello, I so pleased you have enjoyed the film clip of Londondon the music is copyright whitch comes with my Avid video editing suite very expensive thank you for your comments.
Kind Regards John.
Such a super film. I can't wait to show my parents who are now in their 80s, they have such fond memories of London as do I. I was born 1961 and my Dad used to drive us to Kensington to see my aunt once a month and I loved it so much. It was so exciting, such a beautiful city. Thanks for bringing back some great memories.
Brilliant. Takes me back over 50 years. I live in Australia now and have never been back - this film mirrors my memories as a kid exactly. Thanks for sharing.
This is 1964, one of the movies advertised in Piccadilly came out that year. I cannot get over how well everyone is dressed.
lets not forget that even though our capital has been swamped and ruined that there are still huge swaithes of England that are still like this film - and we must act now to keep them that way!
@stuartthegrant Hi thank you for your comment and yes a freedom loving people I do remember those days.
please enjoy the rest of my channel have a nice Christmas.
Regards John.
I was born in London in 61..I remember days out like this in these places..such a beautiful city then..now it is a disgrace...If you were to bring someone from then to now they would cry at what has been done. This is when England belonged to Englishmen and women...it is shameful that the idiots in charge have let it become what it is today.
Watching this produced marvelous childhood memories of the London I grew up in - thank you for sharing this with us all!
Beautiful. I don't want to just say what has London become, but also what have our country and people become? We are too greedy now and lack respect as everything is spoon-fed to us. :( This really made my day TOPCAMERAMAN, I am utmost grateful.
Well one has to work all the hours that God sends to pay the taxes and pay for immigration and if you are lucky you may have some cash left over to buy a small treat.
50 years have passed. So much has changed, Some for good most for bad.
wow london was so beautiful.
@kingbleah That may be true, but speaking as someone who has lived in multiple different countries, the kindness and politeness that I experience in the UK still astonishes me. We have our problems, but they can be dealt with. In comparison to many different places, the UK has it good, and that should really be appreciated.
Thanks very much for uploading this.
The film showing at the London Pavilion cinema at about 11:50 is Topkapi, starring Peter Ustinov. That suggests this sequence was shot in 1964.
If only "We" could go back to this time and start again.
Hello, I am pleased you are enjoying my channel and thank you very much for being a subscriber.
Kind Regards John.
Fascinating! I'm reeling from watching this footage. It is a historical document. It probably should be in the National Gallery. We spent Christmas week in London 2018 and walked the same path the cameraman did. Yes, it's changed but then again not so much. I can't thank you enough for uploading this wonderful film.
Just as i remembered it in the 60s. It cost me just ten bob there and back from Northampton,
had to go to earls court quite a bit to set things out, so had time to look around LONDON,
THANKS JOHN
The end shots in Picadilly circus shows an advert for the film Topkapi. That dates it to 1964.
Thanks for that .
Regards John
Hello, And thank you for your kind words I hope you do enjoy the rest of my channel.
Kindest Regards John.
Beautiful music for a great and beautiful city .The city of my birth in 1952 .
You should see the looks I get when I wear a suit and hat. It is amazing.
I wish I grew up in London during the 60's.
I wish I could go back to being a teen in London during the 60s and early 70s.
Hi what a nice comment and yes the words are all so very true you are so kind thank you.
Kind Regards John.
wonderful ..so good to see..thanks for posting these.
Beautiful camerawork TopCameraman - you get colours and a texture with 16 mm that you just can't replicate digitally.
Thank you for your comment and yes 16mm film does have a beautiful texture I do have a lot more 16mm film on my channel it's World war 2 archive that a friend of mine took during thw war years sadley past on now please look under 92nd bomb group or The Doc Furniss War i am sure that you will enjoy.
Kind Regards T.C. John.
Thank you for your these great footages! And for this I am your proud subscriber!
I was born in Inner South London in 1954 and moved to the Outer London Suburbs in 1983 ( still just 13 miles from Trafalgar Square )....
From 99.9% White British back then to 60% of 2011 London births born to Women who were born outside the UK !...then add on all the births to 2/3/4th Generation immigrant families !...only 21% of Inner London kids are White now and that is decreasing every year.
London IS still brilliant though,varied,stimulating and vibrant and has kept me "young" at 57.)
when this was a country to be proud of.
what have we become?
True..London is ALWAYS changing... and I agree to some extent it is also changing for the better, or trying to!... but so many good things have gone missing through this hyper-fixation of always wanting to change everything... so much character and "London charm" has also been lost for ever, along with lots of lovely old places (many "watering holes" you might have liked, as now most belong to sad global chains..).. I hope you've had the chance to see the London I am referring to....
All the people dressed smartly, not the way they slob around these days!
Agreed
Love to have a copy of this dvd please for my dad for Christmas,i do not mind paying,superb footage
SO PLEASED YOU HAVE POSTED THIS, IT IS DELIGHTFUL, CONTENT EXCELLENT
Hello Ian thank you for your kind words I hope you enjoy the rest of my channel.Best Regards John.
TOPCAMERAMAN Thanks for reply and yes im sure i will/ Regards ian
Banning pigeons from Trafalgar Sq is one of the (very) few improvements since then.
Innocence, days before the internet, before cctv, when skies were cobalt blue and the clouds always snow white, when I was little, when my father was still a young man, when there seemed to be space everywhere to run and play, when British music was the best in the world. It makes me happy and sad at the same time to watch this, those days that were and never will be again.
Adam Kincaid Sweet sadness is it not?
Going up west with your mam for the day, meeting dad after work. Eating in a Lyons Corner House and home from Victoria after.
this is beautiful and still is....
So sad when i see this!! So sad......😔😔
Very enjoyable film. I for one miss Speakers corner we used to be a freedom loving people.
Nice movie..
At 1:25 , Mr Bean walks out of the crowd and stands in front of the fountain. That guy never gets old!
ur city never changed. this was taken on a beautiful day when every 1 just enjoyed the beautiful weather and relaxed. have u ever noticed if its slight mist, frost or pissing down rain, people just want to get from A to B as quick as they can! UR CITY HAS NOT CHANGED and dont belive 4 one minuite that the black or muslim emegrants have taken over! u have a beautiful city with memories and keep it that way!
Mate i am a son of immigrant parents from Spain/Mauritius and i fully agree with what you are saying. Bring back England and the English..
I can't believe this comments section is just laden with casual racism. It is just some old footage of the city, feel nostalgic sure but chill the $£*+$@ out!
I agree. The racist and irredeemably thick seem to be drawn to commenting here.
paulmrussell12 It's the same with every "[Insert Big City Here] In The [Insert Decade Here]" video on RUclips. "Dis woz b4 all da blacks came and ruined it!!!11"
Like, how do you ruin a city simply by living there?
Beautiful. Can you tell me who's music that is?
Justt over 25 years ago a guy said to me ( Referring to Jamaica )..."How can one Island produce so many lazy, violent, stupid individuals ) ?
.I've seen my old School which had 350 + years of academic excellence when 99.9% White be converted into a Government "Sink" School within 15 years when it became 85% Black.
I GUARANTEE you that ANY area that becomes 10/15% "Black" WILL become 90% Black over 40 years as their fertility rates are off the scale.
You WILL discover this, I PROMISE YOU...
If I ever want to meet some racists I'll be sure to post some archive footage. Pretty much every archive film seems to be littered with comments from these great people.
Shit-Oh-Dear! I was there.
If I didn't feel old before, I sure do now. :/
Bern Dell I guess anyone around in the sixties is bound to. (But how did half a century pass in a week?)
Ah, yes: Sartorial elegance. Beautiful, isn't it. :)
So great to see this video. It's been a long time since I was in London.
What is the music being played during this video? Really enjoyed watching this!
If you lived in London in the 50s & 60s you wouldn't have to ask this question.
Love to have a copy of this on dvd please,will pay you
Swinging London!
hi i would really like to use this video for my art project! would you mind if i use it? not for commercial use.
Wonderful - Thanks for posting... This Actually IS Time Travel!
Nice - loved the accompanying music. Funny to seeing the entrance to Parliament. Remember going on a school trip to the gallery at the Commons. Anyone could walk off the street and see democracy at work. Not anymore
GREAT video.
Who is the guy with skintight red trousers I wonder @3:55?
A girl with short hair?
oh the 60s :)
ah, the good old days. clean streets, no football hooligans, and wherever you went you could hear richard clayderman plonking away....
beautiful
great film,did you see kray-twins'next .
Great times and no beggars like today!
Besides the fact that people are dressed differently, I don't see that big of a difference from today.
Looks to me more like it was filmed in 8.00 mm with a cheap camera!
The London of dreams
In English that would be "what are they doing?" "what have they done?" or "what did they do?".Ah yes and "beautiful".
Did most of the 16 old Brits have cars in the 1960's and 1970's?Was it a rite of passage to have a license?
Only a few do.
Bring back from where?
THIS IS WHEN LONDON BELONG TO THE ENGLISH,
Was that before, or after, the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans? 🤔
No riots,no yobs,.clean, tidy and orderly. If, ONLY........!
And this is the trouble of destruction, do not just London! But Moscow!
i rem these times thankyou for this i was only a nipper but good times
Sir, What is wrong done to London?
great videos what would be intresting if you went back to the same places today and compare, just a thought great city though
at about the time that band is seen out in the traffic near the end of the video great shot of a skinhead in a sheepskin coat and sta prest at the bus stop.classic!!!!!
How exactly has it become a disgrace?
I remember it well, it was so much nicer then. Cheers.
I am from Russia.In Russia, demolished the old Moscow!Demolition of old neighborhoods in St. Petersburg!In construction work, migrants from Central Asia.
The chap at 11.10 looks very much like Stanley Green later to become the "Protein Man of Oxford Street" (look him up on Wikipedia).
Even as a non-Anglo Saxon person (white), you have to see it and call it for what it is and what happened. Places like London and Paris were destroyed and invaded, after the 60s. This is real London, its society, people, culture - English/UK. As someone from another city with too much third-world mass immigration that happened in the past 25-30 years, it's sad to know I will not be visiting London, ever, because it's not the London that the world thinks or thought of or imagines, or the one I grew up with learning about. I already see the multiculturalism/cesspool everyday so why would I want to see more of it elsewhere? So sad.
Many beautiful and 'homogeneous' cities (Across south Asian, Western/central/north Africa and the middle east) were also colonised and 'ruined', looted from and subjugated by both the British (English) and the French in their colonial escapades. But I guess that doesnt matter eh......Multiculturalism is the europeans chickens coming home to roost old chap
***** Indeed you are correct and I understand your argument, but there is a little thing called cause and effect. The 'working class' people of nations like Britain and France of course has no control or say in general to do with the orchestration of colonialism (but you can argue the same thing about war - the working class masses generally are not the instigators or initiators of global conflict yet it is they who bear the brunt of its terrible consequences not the leaders/generals who safety direct affairs from an ivory tower.) and yes I understand the argument that western nations brought medicines, infrastructure, Christianity, technology and 'law and order' to many of these places they colonised, but does that justify their force able 'invasion'? It's like arguing that the contemporary continuous stream of non European immigration particularly into north western Europe is justified, sustainable and wholly positive as it brings culture and tolerance to the region. It's clear that colonisation was not enacted for altruistic purposes or the 'greater good' but for national gain and profit, which makes sense and is a historical fact. But ask yourself why nations in eastern and central Europe do not suffer with the immigration issues that plague western Europe. Maybe because historic exploits did not lead them to swarm in foreign nations, assume control for decades even centuries then leave and create a dependency on the generations of people in those former commonwealth nations.
0:57
The Tate Modern Art Gallery is ... on fire !
1:10 The Milbank Tower is Built.
so true. That's the only thing they can see
It's not funny to us ex Londoners. Speakers corner was where it was all said.
Now there is nowhere to "get it of your chest mate"
All the places in this video are the same as they are now.
All those stone buildings and monuments are there still; they're cleaner.
.
I didn't see one place in the video where there is now a Starbucks.
You maybe are reading too much into the video; other than the people and what they're dressed in, nothing is different in this video.
o0o
Exactly. By the 1960s London had already been ruined............by the car. If you want REAL nostalgia and a 'bygone era' then go back to the London of the 1930's.......or better still London pre WW1 - in the Edwardian era. Then you'll really notice how different things were. Virtually no cars on the streets, children playing football in the streets, horse drawn carts, spotless pavements with no litter (even in the 60's the pavements had litter on them), and real civic pride - nothing was out of place. I'd given anything to go back and visit Edwardian London.
Topkapi (11:50) ran at The Pavilion Nov 12 1964 -Feb 14 1965
Who seriously thinks London hasn't changed??!!! OMG, how I wish it hadn't... even up to the whole 70s and early 80s it was altogther another place.. it was so much more...err..the real thing.. It's tacky and "americanised" now (no offence meant, please). Still lovely, but not quite the thing it was...I miss old London, and long to go back, but when I go back it's like going back to another country... sad...
I was there 1963-4
What's the music please?
The music comes with final cut editing.
Ah ok, thanks.
Nice film spoilt by lousy music soundtrack and the realisation that good old London Town will never be the same again thanks to our wonderful politicians.
sorry at 3:47
No offence, me ol china.
Am I the only one who can see the irony of your statement ?
nice
@september7891 I suppose the most fascinating thing about this little exchange is that the EDL have always claimed *not* to be a rascist movement. So, it's good that their supporters have proved that they in fact, are.
It's all 'change' these days. Rarely for the better though.
Whose idea was it to systematically remove every shred of charm from the place?
Just look at all of the Roman architecture.The British were colonised also and rather brutally, don't forget that.