I was working in St.pauls in 68, loved it. Used to go to the west end on payday to buy an outfit for the weekend. It was so safe in those days and everyone was friendlier.
Wow! I moved to London in April '68. Worked at Bourne & Hollingsworth; lived at their Warwickshire House. Amazing times, wonderful city. This is the London of my youth :) Thank you for posting!
Sent to London to finish my apprenticeship that year in the Rubens Hotel. Could walk in all districts, from Lambeth, Brixton, Putney, and everywhere else, with no fear of being stabbed or mugged. Sadly, changed days. Thanks for posting.
@@cody4916 : 'Why...'?, I'm unable to enlighten you. Ask people who have lived in most of working class London for decades, and you'll get the answer. Off the top of my head, I'd say totally lenient fines and sentences for many street crimes plus massive immigration and them having a different outlook re' work than the immigrants in the 60's. the UK has IMO become a Nanny state. Which in itself, causes many problems.
pretty sure there were people back then who were inconsiderate and lazy just like there is now.... its got nothing to do with what we'retaught. assholes will be assholes.
I wonder if politicians of all parties have any regrets after watching a clip like this that showed what our great city used to be like? Sadly now, ruined forever.
Well is the issue with immigrants as a whole or just the ones in the last 15 years? As I know the ones who came from the 50s to the 70s have contributed greatly. My parents being one of them.
@MrAeronuk1 England would never have survived without immigration to rebuild the infrastructure. Well you must agree then there should never have been an empire? Anyway the majority of Europe fought against this nation which was allied by the non-European nations so I don't understand how you can be patriotic by wanting to fratanise with your historic enemies. I may not be white but I am as patriotic if not more than some English people in this country.
Me too! I miss London in the 1990s when I was growing up, let alone how it would have been in the 1960s. Would be so fun to travel back in time to that era
I was eighteen and everywhere was clean and safe; wonderful times. We had a brilliant time. I’m so grateful I was part of this time. I’m sad now to see how the London I knew and was born in has gone forever. Khan, Bliar and Labour have a lot to answer for.
One name springs to mind and after his speech he ended up in the Ulster unionists ...my view is what I see in nature ..birds of a feather flock together but the seeds were sown in the times of the empire where we went to other countries so a kind of karma at play ..but the people I see who miss old England most would be people from other cultures ie the lady from Peru ..I too miss the old country but alas it's long gone now Brexit was the last hurrah
Most of the indigenous people I meet in the Park on a daily basis while Dog Walking really miss Old England and London and its shared Cultural Community Stephen,I can assure you. To be fair most of the people of all Races who move to The London Suburbs where I have lived for the last 37 years since " emigrating" from S E London in 1983, after 29 wonderful years there, are aspirational and decent people like my Nepalese neighbours and my former Lithuanian neighbours...
rorz999 Let's start with the architecture. Back in the 1960s there was a boom in boring, box-like office blocks. Now these eyesores are being pulled down and replaced with far more interesting buildings. So London is now a far more stimulating and exciting city architecturally. Secondly, the capital is now much more culturally diverse - just like that other great city, New York. Which means, for example, no matter what sort of food or type of restaurant you want, you can find it in London. Just think - back then you would have been hard-pressed to even find an Indian restaurant Yes, I LIKE the fact that people from so many nations live in London. Of course, racists hate this. But as long as people are law-abiding and decent, I don't care where they come from or what their skin colour is. Sure we have a problem with loony Islamists. But let's not forget that 99.9% of Muslims are decent. Just as 99.9% of Irish people living in London at the time of 'The Troubles' were also law-abiding and not terrorists. Why do people complain about the growth of multi-culturalism in London? I believe the vast majority of them are ignorant, uneducated and losers. So they blame immigrants for their own failures in life. Take a look at typical English Defence League members. Not exactly the sharpest tools in the box, are they? There is nothing new in this. People have been making foreigners scapegoats for their own inadequacies for centuries. That answer your question?
I like the orderly white bus queue where people waited for their turn. In those days you had to pay cash for each journey you made and paid a conductor. So some things are better now, but overall 1960s white London was great. A very nice 3 bedroom house in a safe area in London was about £4,500. Add two noughts to that today and it still wouldn’t be enough.
I lived in a house in Barking which was a quiet, smart area of Essex on the border of London. It took half an hour by tube or less by overrail to get to ‘The City’ or West End. It was clean, people were smart and it was safe! It is so sad for Londoners now to see their City destroyed by a steady invasion.
This was beautiful, everything and everyone looked so clean and respectable. I also thought why does everyone look so tall ? Then I realised “ no mobiles “ with heads down and hunching down.
God if you are listening please take me back To those perfect days of white & hardly any blacks From New Cross Gate and Peckham to East Finchley Those good old days of Jimmy Savile & Myra Hindley.
In the middle of the Vietnam War. Two notorious assassinations in the usa. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslavakia. Riots in France leading to DeGaulle's resignation. Race riiots galore in the usa. Drugs and crime in Swinging London. You really wouldnt want to go back to 1968.
As I am sure you know he means the White British people of my London youth who were 98% of the London population outside the excellent and highly successful 200,000+ Jewish East End populace :)
@@southlondon86 There has always been evil people in the world. It’s the ordinary every day people in general that you tell a society by. You sound like, relatively speaking, you were born yesterday.
Watching this in the week it was announced that over 50% of children are born to foreign mothers in nearly every major city in England. Unfortunately the beautiful London in these images is lost forever.
That's "foreign-born" Mothers, Dean. Now add all the children born to non-indigenous people from the 2nd and 3rd generations where their mothers were born here so the proportion of indigenous people is much less. THen add Mixed Raced children with (mostly ) a White Mother and bear in mind that outside the "celebrity" circuit over 80% of Mixed Raced Women have children with Nonindigenous Fathers so the "White" aspects disappear from their families. 2 White Parents with say a White Daughter who has a child with, say, a Black Guy and the Mixed Raced progeny mostly has future children with Non-White indigenous Guys.
The Kray twins, Rackman, The Suez Canal. Profumo and loads more! In fact it was so much easier to get away with murder then! You wouldn't want to go back, well maybe just for a brief holiday
The year I was born. Well dressed and dignified people, a lack of obesity and loutish anti-social behaviour too ... and oh yes, The Jensen Interceptor definitely puts the cherry on the cake!! 👍
Yes we enjoyed London then. Little did we know it would be overcrowded and ruined. They should have capped immigration to manageable numbers. Maybe then it might have still looked like this. A crying shame.
@@jasonjanes8424 if they enjoyed it, then it must have been better because the person refers to it as iconic. now kindly go off to your next abomination of a retort and haunt someone else!
@@insertnamehere5146 You make of your life what you will - my glass is half full. Yes, we all have 'horrible' times, but not all of your life is that way. I said iconic because that is what the 60's were - sheesh, sometimes I do wonder...
This delightful little film, reveals London in the late 1960s, to be a more streamlined, more orderly, less cluttered city. Nowadays, it has become maddeningly difficult to travel anyway in central London without encountering what appears interminable road and building works, to say nothing of those appalling skips piled to the heavens with rubble and old furniture. The seemingly endless, annoying traffic diversions only add to the chaos. Goodness, when will it all end!!!
I was 8 years old. I would have been wearing a short trouser suit at this age going into town on a Saturday with my parents. It was a smart, respectful and adult world for most. It started to become socially degenerate in the early 1990s. And now it's a sick game show.
Well, that brought a tear to the eye. I was 25 in 1968, we belonged to London, London belonged to us. I was reluctant to move away with a job and regretted it for a few years, even explored the possibility of moving back. Now I'm so glad I didn't for to watch first hand her being given away and eaten up would have been even more of a heart break.
Captally What on Earth are you talking about. I went to London last week, love it, amazing place. Went to Kensington park for a lovely stroll, lots of happy polite people and excited tourists, beautiful autumn day. I found a Turkish coffee shop and had a Arabic coffee and got chatting to the owner, he opened the place in the early 70’s, he had pictures of Chelsea FC triumphs over the last 20 years and fans visiting his cafe during the Olympics hanging on the walls. Fantastic city. London has been a multicultural city since its earliest days as a Roman city.
Now, now Seb! I AGREE, as a 66-year-old Londoner that London is still a fantastically lively, vibrant and stimulating place but the TRUTH is that I NEVER heard a foreign language spoken in my INNER London streets until I was 17years old, which was also around the first time I heard of any of my fellow working-class families NOT having two parents at home. I was not aware at all of one-parent families. It's very disingenuous saying London has always been a multicultural city but living just 3 miles from Brixton and Peckham that is not true. We are talking about White Britons all from Roman/Huguenots/Normans/Vikings etc not Asiatic and Muslim and Jamaican and West African people all with a different culture that has completely wiped out the previous indigenous Culture in vast parts of Inner and Outer London on all 4 points of the compass-North/South/East and West. The White/British were 98% of Londoners outside the excellent 2000,000+ Jewish population and now only one birth in ten in INNER London is to that same Group. From "98%" to "10% Births" in 55 years so it's obvious that will accelerate and continue as a relatively small % of Black, Asian and Muslim people have produced a situation aided by mass immigration where they have the majority of new births then imagine how many of the current 90% Non-White/British children will have. The average White, Jewish, and Chinese families have 2 kids per family which is around 130 offspring in 7 generations while the average Black, Asian and Muslim families average 4 children giving over SIXTEEN THOUSAND progeny in those 7 generations. Then add on the fact that 80% of Mixed Raced children have future Black partners and the mass of Black British of Jamaican antecedency who have half-siblings and the fact that most of the departees each year from THe UK are White Professional/Tradespeople as that is the only way to get into the 4 most popular destinations which are Oz/NZ/USA and Canada while most immigrants are NON-White as you must know...
See how London was in 1973. I'm brazilian. London should be very different nowadays. I was in London in 1973 and filmed with Super 8 (8 mm). London 1973 ruclips.net/video/sxlPTT4ESG4/видео.html
So glad they didn't demolish St. Pancras; it looks great now and is the more striking when you disembark at Gare du Nord in France, which looked awful last time I was there. Hopefully, it's been improved since then. Sadly, they had a penchant for knocking down anything and everything old in the 60s. We needed to get rid of slum dwellings of course but we lost some good buildings along the way which could have been refurbished and were a lot less cheap and ugly than the buildings which replaced them and which had to be demolished themselves just a few decades later. Bit of a digression but I couldn't help thinking of Hyacinth Bucket at 3.22. 😊
@Rebel Historian Fair point, and what you are referring to was caused by vehicle emissions, I meant the general state, with no rubbish or graffiti everywhere as we have now.
This footage was taken 20 years after the 1948 Summer Olympics, 60 years after the 1908 Summer Olympics and 44 years before the 2012 Summer Olympics. All three of those Games happened in London.
I was demobbed from The Royal Artillery in Woolwich on 4th December 1968. I lived in London for the next 3 years at Dulwich, Streatham and Hammersmith. I had many a happy light and bitter in The Tulse Hill Tavern, The Brockwell Tavern and The Birds Nest in Kings Rd, Chelsea. I loved the London of that period - and the people. I went back home to Glasgow! I visited with my family my old haunts of yesteryear. What a mistake. I couldn't believe the change, but I suppose it was my fault for expecting things to remain the same. Nor did I recognise the people !! but I know it's not advisable to make further comment. The 'londoner' of then is undoubtedly now a rare species.
Garbage! There were migrants from all over the World in London in 1968, as there had been for well over a decade. The Notting Hill Carnival started in 1966.
People as kids were taught by their parents to be respectful especially of policemen to be clean to be thoughtful of others to not litter because THIS WAS YOUR CITY YOUR COUNTRY TO BE PROUD OF!
Well Al...That got kinda abandoned in the 70s when it was exposed how coppers used to beat innocent people up and frame them for crimes they were innocent of. The police were taking back handers from gangsters and pornograhers back in dem good ole days you fondly remember. I assume you were not around when Met police commisioner sir robert mark had to bring police officers in from other constabularys to do internal investigations because so many met officers were corrupt or on the take? Rose tinted glasses dear!
I am proud of what my England used to be! Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley! What a beautiful perfect island it used to be. Now look at it!
that's a lie. people were not taught be respectful of police. but police back then had the status of lollypop ladies. the governments back then were staunchly antileft. the living standards were pooper overall but the police had the powers of a lollypop lady. more poverty, no hand outs from the government, and a pure hatred of police and police states. that was capitalism. the police had no powers. back then they behaved more like lollypop ladies. it wasn't that great but it did have some benefits... police having no powers and it looking very british.
I was there! Working near Piccadilly Circus, commuting to Essex every day. Such an exciting time, new fashions, food, etc. Very aware we were in 'swinging London '.
Parliament without barriers in front of it, before politicians decided they would behave like sordid thieves thinking ordinary people are a threat to them.
The year of Keep Britain Tidy (among other things), the buildings needed clean after the clean air acts implemented, which they got. What is the sign on the bedford scaffold truck saying ?
Spotted one Merc all the others were BRITISH cars. The police looked so much smarter and cleaner especially without their stained, lumpy dayglow vests or jackets. Those were the days - pre common market. Whatever happened to the UK? Let's hope we can get it back, we must try and try hard.
God if you are listening please take me back To those perfect days of white & hardly any blacks From New Cross Gate and Peckham to East Finchley Those good old days of Jimmy Savile & Myra Hindley.
@@_B.M_ I don't support what we did in the name of the British Empire, but can you name a place where the British didn't leave it better than it was before they arrived? I'll wait.
@@carolinel6236 Go on, name a place that the British didn't leave 'better' than it was before. It's been a month and no people like you have offered any suggestions. I'll accept 'better' or 'worse' by your definition, rather than the dictionary's. I'll wait, Caroline.
Things were much better then. It was safer, cleaner; we had respect for others. I really hate what slobs people have become. I actually hate this day & age…we didn’t realise it, but we were living in a golden time which is gone forever.
It's still the capital city of England (read a map and check the internet if you need to be sure). UK is a collection of countries so there isn't a capital city of the UK.
London as it was back then I was 5 and it was a lovely place to live. Decent dignified people going about their daily lives being pleasant to one another. These days it’s more like Londonstan, loads of fucking dirty bastards on the streets anybody would think your in Baghdad.
Last time we went up the smoke we went past some policemen outside the American Embassy. My missus asked why they were carrying sealant guns. I had to tell her what they really were! (H&K)
Duff Baker the US are not evil, more like a young child playing with a loaded gun! Not the cleverest of nations especially when their only 2 presidential candidates are both brainless sexual predators and they conceived the disruptive BLM!
Hello, I love this footage. Is there anyway I could get a higher resolution of this footage to add to my documentary? I would like to use 2-3 secs and will give credit. Cheers!
With these sorts of old videos u always get the London was better then and has been ruined by foreigners etc comments and then u get u racist bollox etx responses. Well I personally think after growing up in London in the 60s and 70s that London is worse than it used to be in that it is more violent and expensive although very rich and I think the influx of all the overseas people has definetly been a bad thing .Imho
Wow Bedford and Commer vans! and the buildings are still smoke coloured very grubby House of Commons,even Buck House is grimy! Great nostalgia, I was living in Blackheath in those days now a multi millionaire gaff area.
Oh my god coppers on their feet walking the streets,nice clean streets,no fast food and healthier looking slim people,british cars,and more importantly no Muslims.
@@jorgepilote1607 England ruled over other countries for centuries where they weren't f'in wanted killing millions, just a 100yrs ago acting like they owned the world so stfu! Tough shit now the tables have turned & i'm so glad too. I hope they get even more flooded by foreigners!
Coppers still walk the streets. It is unlikely all the streets were clean (and the buildings were filthy with soot). The first Wimpy bar opened in 1954. I'll grant you that people were slimmer and there were significantly more British cars on the road. But there were more than a quarter of a million Muslims in Britain in 1971, so you're wrong on that one too.
After reading the comments it's comes to mind how true the saying is that we easily forget. Love London but it wasn't particularly clean, or safer than in is today
London is nothing like this now. All these areas depicted in this film are now bilgihted by anti terror attack barriers ... that's what it's come to - thanks to a religion of peace ...
You must be referring to Christianity I suppose? Although they didn't bother with anti terror barriers in those days, the catholic IRA just set off bombs wherever they wanted.
Richard Booth yep exactly but we're not allowed to say that now !!! Cos things are so much better now !!!! Stabbings & shootings daily gutted it's not my country any more !!!
They do it now to create chaos with their road humps every hundred yards, and cycle lanes; and to make motoring more dangerous, because we, the plebs, deserve it.
You Could Go to St James's Park today and the flower beds look much the same !. Interesing XA Class bus on the 76 to Waterloo, London Transport did not wholly want front entrance rear engine double deckers but trialled 50 Leylands and 11 Damilers. They finally ordered what would be over 2000 Damilers for delivery from 1970 and sold the Leylands to Hong Kong. Despite living in the south west london suburbs I didnt go up to Central London Much, maybe the first time might have been on a school trip (on a Coach, but I cannot recall if we toured or went to a destination ! ) or It could have been when I went to the Park Lane Hilton to Hear Jim Lovell from the Apollo Mission speak at a breakfast. We used to Drive every christmas to Clapton where my aunty lived going via London Bridge,
Check out the Tyrant King series, on RUclips from 1968. Loads of atmospheric shots of London from those times, an enchanting story and great soundtrack from Pink Floyd, Cream, The Nice, Rolling Stones, Moody Blues etc.
Yes, Trevor. I am your age and we can USE London but we don't have the hassle, insecurity, traffic and pollution of living there. I am right on the periphery and 37 years since I moved on 9th May 1983 I STILL miss it dearly but even my council block that was free and easy looks like a High-Security war-zone now... Are you far from London? THe Suburbs I would guess? :)
@@trevordance5181 67 and now retired , I spent 27 years at Brentwood until 1983, two years dotting around London, then 35 years at Highbury, now in another part of London, I did intend to return back to Brentwood, always said that would never live in London, interesting how things had panned out in this difficult journey.
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I was working in St.pauls in 68, loved it. Used to go to the west end on payday to buy an outfit for the weekend. It was so safe in those days and everyone was friendlier.
The London I remember from my childhood and teenage years. Clean, safe and beautiful.
Wish I had a time machine back to those wonderful days....
Safe? Sure if you were white
Not so many litter bugs!!
Now it is a dirty & ugly city.
A veritable paradise. I adored the London of The Sixties. Oh, for the past!
Wow! I moved to London in April '68. Worked at Bourne & Hollingsworth; lived at their Warwickshire House. Amazing times, wonderful city. This is the London of my youth :) Thank you for posting!
Sent to London to finish my apprenticeship that year in the Rubens Hotel. Could walk in all districts, from Lambeth, Brixton, Putney, and everywhere else, with no fear of being stabbed or mugged.
Sadly, changed days. Thanks for posting.
Why did it change? Care to enlighten me?
@@cody4916 : 'Why...'?, I'm unable to enlighten you. Ask people who have lived in most of working class London for decades, and you'll get the answer. Off the top of my head, I'd say totally lenient fines and sentences for many street crimes plus massive immigration and them having a different outlook re' work than the immigrants in the 60's. the UK has IMO become a Nanny state. Which in itself, causes many problems.
beautiful London in 1968 with old model cars , buses & beautiful buildings & roads # i Love London ❤❤
A clean dignified London.
Notice the lack of litter ? We were taught in bin it or take it home . Oh and gobbing on the street was practically unheard of !
Keith Rose the opposite is true. There was a litter problem so the Government introduced “Keep Britain Tidy” campaign.
@@user-ky6vw5up9m Ian Keith Rose is living up to his surname with those Rose tinted spectacles superglued to his head
No, litter was a problem back then too
pretty sure there were people back then who were inconsiderate and lazy just like there is now.... its got nothing to do with what we'retaught. assholes will be assholes.
@@user-ky6vw5up9m All depends on what they classed as a litter problem. Today its litter and recycling.
I wonder if politicians of all parties have any regrets after watching a clip like this that showed what our great city used to be like?
Sadly now, ruined forever.
London;s buildings are generally cleaner - most of the coal dust has been expensively washed off.
@MrAeronuk1 well if it wasn't for the British empire then there wouldn't have been any mass migration. So whose fault is that?
@MrAeronuk1 would you say there is a difference between the immigrants from the 50s to the 70s to the immigrants of now?
Well is the issue with immigrants as a whole or just the ones in the last 15 years? As I know the ones who came from the 50s to the 70s have contributed greatly. My parents being one of them.
@MrAeronuk1 England would never have survived without immigration to rebuild the infrastructure. Well you must agree then there should never have been an empire? Anyway the majority of Europe fought against this nation which was allied by the non-European nations so I don't understand how you can be patriotic by wanting to fratanise with your historic enemies. I may not be white but I am as patriotic if not more than some English people in this country.
Great to have a picture of daily life as shown here in the swinging London of the sixties! Enjoyed looking at it here in the USA.
I'd love to travel back in time to visit London like this
Me too! I miss London in the 1990s when I was growing up, let alone how it would have been in the 1960s. Would be so fun to travel back in time to that era
I was eighteen and everywhere was clean and safe; wonderful times. We had a brilliant time. I’m so grateful I was part of this time.
I’m sad now to see how the London I knew and was born in has gone forever. Khan, Bliar and Labour have a lot to answer for.
So has Thatcher.
The London that I miss.
A wonderful record of a golden time, thanks for posting.
Simply a glorious year in London.
As a Peruvian Woman from Fulham said to me on a Thames Boat Trip last year talking about 1969 "when England was England "...
Profound woman
Yes and she said it wistfully Stephen..
One name springs to mind and after his speech he ended up in the Ulster unionists ...my view is what I see in nature ..birds of a feather flock together but the seeds were sown in the times of the empire where we went to other countries so a kind of karma at play ..but the people I see who miss old England most would be people from other cultures ie the lady from Peru ..I too miss the old country but alas it's long gone now Brexit was the last hurrah
Most of the indigenous people I meet in the Park on a daily basis while Dog Walking really miss Old England and London and its shared Cultural Community Stephen,I can assure you.
To be fair most of the people of all Races who move to The London Suburbs where I have lived for the last 37 years since " emigrating" from S E London in 1983, after 29 wonderful years there, are aspirational and decent people like my Nepalese neighbours and my former Lithuanian neighbours...
London born 68 Welsh accent nawr te
Very cool! Thank you - love seeing London as it was back then.
Is it just me or did everything seem much cleaner and people much smarter-looking back then? Wow!
crapple009 you are definitely right
No, it's not you!
crapple009 It's just you. London is now a fantastic city and all the better for being so culturally diverse. Far, far better than 50 years ago.
rorz999 Let's start with the architecture. Back in the 1960s there was a boom in boring, box-like office blocks. Now these eyesores are being pulled down and replaced with far more interesting buildings. So London is now a far more stimulating and exciting city architecturally.
Secondly, the capital is now much more culturally diverse - just like that other great city, New York. Which means, for example, no matter what sort of food or type of restaurant you want, you can find it in London. Just think - back then you would have been hard-pressed to even find an Indian restaurant
Yes, I LIKE the fact that people from so many nations live in London. Of course, racists hate this. But as long as people are law-abiding and decent, I don't care where they come from or what their skin colour is.
Sure we have a problem with loony Islamists. But let's not forget that 99.9% of Muslims are decent. Just as 99.9% of Irish people living in London at the time of 'The Troubles' were also law-abiding and not terrorists.
Why do people complain about the growth of multi-culturalism in London? I believe the vast majority of them are ignorant, uneducated and losers. So they blame immigrants for their own failures in life. Take a look at typical English Defence League members. Not exactly the sharpest tools in the box, are they?
There is nothing new in this. People have been making foreigners scapegoats for their own inadequacies for centuries.
That answer your question?
@@johncraske rubbish its a rich violent shitole
I like the orderly white bus queue where people waited for their turn.
In those days you had to pay cash for each journey you made and paid a conductor. So some things are better now, but overall 1960s white London was great.
A very nice 3 bedroom house in a safe area in London was about £4,500. Add two noughts to that today and it still wouldn’t be enough.
I bought a terraced 2 bed in Hammersmith for £7,500.
Even in the 1980s it was still slow and people respected each other and qued at bus stop and give way to pregnant and elderly people not anymore .
I lived in a house in Barking which was a quiet, smart area of Essex on the border of London. It took half an hour by tube or less by overrail to get to ‘The City’ or West End. It was clean, people were smart and it was safe! It is so sad for Londoners now to see their City destroyed by a steady invasion.
Those good old days of Jimmy Savile and Gary Glitter were just fabulous. Gone but never forgotten 🥹
This was beautiful, everything and everyone looked so clean and respectable. I also thought why does everyone look so tall ? Then I realised “ no mobiles “ with heads down and hunching down.
This is the year I was born. This world is unrecognizable. Wow.
A look back to a world sadly lost forever.
God if you are listening please take me back
To those perfect days of white & hardly any blacks
From New Cross Gate and Peckham to East Finchley
Those good old days of Jimmy Savile & Myra Hindley.
In the middle of the Vietnam War. Two notorious assassinations in the usa. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslavakia. Riots in France leading to DeGaulle's resignation. Race riiots galore in the usa. Drugs and crime in Swinging London. You really wouldnt want to go back to 1968.
@@southlondon86 - How clever???
2 despicable individuals ...... as opposed to millions of blacks, I know which I'd rather live amongst.
@@southlondon86Yeah cos everyone was walking about like Saville and Hindley NOT
You donut
My era, my London that I remember! Bet I wouldn't recognise it now - so sad.
molossergirl2 You wouldn’t recognise Big Ben or Tower Bridge?!? It ain’t changed lol
@@megadave1197 They've been polished up, she wouldn't recognise them without the patina of soot
As I am sure you know he means the White British people of my London youth who were 98% of the London population outside the excellent and highly successful 200,000+ Jewish East End populace :)
I know right! Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley! 😢😢😢 I miss the old wonderful England.
@@southlondon86 There has always been evil people in the world. It’s the ordinary every day people in general that you tell a society by. You sound like, relatively speaking, you were born yesterday.
Most of the cars were British, motorbikes too. A time when you was proud to be British.
Watching this in the week it was announced that over 50% of children are born to foreign mothers in nearly every major city in England.
Unfortunately the beautiful London in these images is lost forever.
That's "foreign-born" Mothers, Dean. Now add all the children born to non-indigenous people from the 2nd and 3rd generations where their mothers were born here so the proportion of indigenous people is much less. THen add Mixed Raced children with (mostly ) a White Mother and bear in mind that outside the "celebrity" circuit over 80% of Mixed Raced Women have children with Nonindigenous Fathers so the "White" aspects disappear from their families. 2 White Parents with say a White Daughter who has a child with, say, a Black Guy and the Mixed Raced progeny mostly has future children with Non-White indigenous Guys.
Whites don't have many kids but these days whites can push out mix race kids though.
I Love the Old London 😍
..good old 60's...when London was London..!
What is your definition of "multicultural"
Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley! 😢
@@southlondon86 not exactly 'Cockneee Sparrahhs guv' are they though?
@@melbeeswax6087 Ya know what I meeeen geeeezah
The Kray twins, Rackman, The Suez Canal. Profumo and loads more! In fact it was so much easier to get away with murder then! You wouldn't want to go back, well maybe just for a brief holiday
The year I was born. Well dressed and dignified people, a lack of obesity and loutish anti-social behaviour too ... and oh yes, The Jensen Interceptor definitely puts the cherry on the cake!! 👍
And frogeye!
and lots of racism, homophobia and misogyny based domestic violence... twas lovely
@@thehoneyeffect 🥱
@@thehoneyeffect were you around then? I remember it as being quite pleasant but I was a young child in the care of my decent family.
The Jensen Interceptor in that shot was owned by Lord Carrington
Best years growing up there 1968 to 1971 sad how the old swinging London faded so fast 🧓😇🙏💖🎉
Yes we enjoyed London then. Little did we know it would be overcrowded and ruined. They should have capped immigration to manageable numbers. Maybe then it might have still looked like this. A crying shame.
That was before all this wonderful beneficial cultural enrichment!
Lol. Subsequent governments screwed you, but sure, blame the immigrants. 😂
@@echomike5097 DOES THIS INCLUDED YOUR PARTY=== LABOUR?
Mr Slim Guy 65 try again mate. I vote Green. 😂
I know right! Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley! 😢😢
I was at college in London at this time. Did you notice the peoples faces? There is a lack of certain ethnic groups apparent.
I was 18 years of age and working in Cannon Street, loved my teenage era - it was iconic!
rose tinted glasses dear. it was horrible. The only reason you think it was better was because you were a teenager/early 20 something
@@insertnamehere5146 Did this person say it was "better ?" All they said was that they enjoyed being a teenager.
@@jasonjanes8424 if they enjoyed it, then it must have been better because the person refers to it as iconic. now kindly go off to your next abomination of a retort and haunt someone else!
@@insertnamehere5146 You make of your life what you will - my glass is half full. Yes, we all have 'horrible' times, but not all of your life is that way. I said iconic because that is what the 60's were - sheesh, sometimes I do wonder...
This delightful little film, reveals London in the late 1960s, to be a more streamlined, more orderly, less cluttered city. Nowadays, it has become maddeningly difficult to travel anyway in central London without encountering what appears interminable road and building works, to say nothing of those appalling skips piled to the heavens with rubble and old furniture. The seemingly endless, annoying traffic diversions only add to the chaos. Goodness, when will it all end!!!
Mark Cusack Glad to see that you are a cheerful sort of person who enjoys life.
I was 8 years old. I would have been wearing a short trouser suit at this age going into town on a Saturday with my parents. It was a smart, respectful and adult world for most. It started to become socially degenerate in the early 1990s. And now it's a sick game show.
When London was full of londoners
A simpler peaceful less complicated time......👍
Well, that brought a tear to the eye. I was 25 in 1968, we belonged to London, London belonged to us. I was reluctant to move away with a job and regretted it for a few years, even explored the possibility of moving back. Now I'm so glad I didn't for to watch first hand her being given away and eaten up would have been even more of a heart break.
Captally What on Earth are you talking about. I went to London last week, love it, amazing place. Went to Kensington park for a lovely stroll, lots of happy polite people and excited tourists, beautiful autumn day. I found a Turkish coffee shop and had a Arabic coffee and got chatting to the owner, he opened the place in the early 70’s, he had pictures of Chelsea FC triumphs over the last 20 years and fans visiting his cafe during the Olympics hanging on the walls. Fantastic city. London has been a multicultural city since its earliest days as a Roman city.
ur old as hell my dad was 2 and ur telling me u were 25 omg
Now, now Seb! I AGREE, as a 66-year-old Londoner that London is still a fantastically lively, vibrant and stimulating place but the TRUTH is that I NEVER heard a foreign language spoken in my INNER London streets until I was 17years old, which was also around the first time I heard of any of my fellow working-class families NOT having two parents at home. I was not aware at all of one-parent families. It's very disingenuous saying London has always been a multicultural city but living just 3 miles from Brixton and Peckham that is not true. We are talking about White Britons all from Roman/Huguenots/Normans/Vikings etc not Asiatic and Muslim and Jamaican and West African people all with a different culture that has completely wiped out the previous indigenous Culture in vast parts of Inner and Outer London on all 4 points of the compass-North/South/East and West.
The White/British were 98% of Londoners outside the excellent 2000,000+ Jewish population and now only one birth in ten in INNER London is to that same Group.
From "98%" to "10% Births" in 55 years so it's obvious that will accelerate and continue as a relatively small % of Black, Asian and Muslim people have produced a situation aided by mass immigration where they have the majority of new births then imagine how many of the current 90% Non-White/British children will have.
The average White, Jewish, and Chinese families have 2 kids per family which is around 130 offspring in 7 generations while the average Black, Asian and Muslim families average 4 children giving over SIXTEEN THOUSAND progeny in those 7 generations.
Then add on the fact that 80% of Mixed Raced children have future Black partners and the mass of Black British of Jamaican antecedency who have half-siblings and the fact that most of the departees each year from THe UK are White Professional/Tradespeople as that is the only way to get into the 4 most popular destinations which are Oz/NZ/USA and Canada while most immigrants are NON-White as you must know...
It brings a tear to my eye too!😢 Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley!
@@southlondon86 you're repeating yourself quite a bit, Amnesia?
I was at a party at the LSE in 1968 and I've just got my senses back. What the hell has happened to London?
Did you take LSD at the LSE by the way? Would explain your senses coming back after 50+ years.
I love old clips like this. Film stock being so obviously damaged & off-colour somehow adds to the charm (for me at least) :-)
See how London was in 1973. I'm brazilian.
London should be very different nowadays. I was in London in 1973 and filmed with Super 8 (8 mm).
London 1973
ruclips.net/video/sxlPTT4ESG4/видео.html
From that, to what we have now in less than one generation.
My God imagine another fifty years, I weep for my grandchildren.
So glad they didn't demolish St. Pancras; it looks great now and is the more striking when you disembark at Gare du Nord in France, which looked awful last time I was there. Hopefully, it's been improved since then. Sadly, they had a penchant for knocking down anything and everything old in the 60s. We needed to get rid of slum dwellings of course but we lost some good buildings along the way which could have been refurbished and were a lot less cheap and ugly than the buildings which replaced them and which had to be demolished themselves just a few decades later. Bit of a digression but I couldn't help thinking of Hyacinth Bucket at 3.22. 😊
Is English still spoken in london today?
Yes. I speak it every day. Any other pointless questions??
@@_B.M_ Not pointless at all in that midden.
Exactly what I find myself asking! What has become of this country!? Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley! 😢
More flowers was a reflection of more love amongst people back then.
Wow! looks so clean everywhere, and no defaced statues, no stabbings, what went wrong!
@Rebel Historian Fair point, and what you are referring to was caused by vehicle emissions, I meant the general state, with no rubbish or graffiti everywhere as we have now.
Racist and hostile those days in London and the whole of the UK .
We let the third world shit in ,that’s what happened.
I was 2 years old when this was taken if only we could go back in time the world is awful now
This footage was taken 20 years after the 1948 Summer Olympics, 60 years after the 1908 Summer Olympics and 44 years before the 2012 Summer Olympics. All three of those Games happened in London.
When London was London..so sad to see it gone downhill 😢
For everyone who doesn't know This is the country that used to be called England
Still was when I last checked. Check Google Maps. Its your friend!
What’s it called now. I only slept for a few hours? What have I missed?
U alright? Pretty Shure it's still called England
@@lolll3360 no its Pakistan now
@@frankman2134 Think you better go back to school and learn to read a map!
Look at all the black cabs with their lights off the golden age of being a cabbie how times have changed
I was demobbed from The Royal Artillery in Woolwich on 4th December 1968. I lived in London for the next 3 years at Dulwich, Streatham and Hammersmith. I had many a happy light and bitter in The Tulse Hill Tavern, The Brockwell Tavern and The Birds Nest in Kings Rd, Chelsea.
I loved the London of that period - and the people.
I went back home to Glasgow!
I visited with my family my old haunts of yesteryear.
What a mistake. I couldn't believe the change, but I suppose it was my fault for expecting things to remain the same. Nor did I recognise the people !! but I know it's not advisable to make further comment. The 'londoner' of then is undoubtedly now a rare species.
proper london clean well dressed people respect for each other .
before mass immigration.
Garbage! There were migrants from all over the World in London in 1968, as there had been for well over a decade. The Notting Hill Carnival started in 1966.
@@JimTLonW6 Well said.
"MASS" Immigration was the phrase used
People as kids were taught by their parents to be respectful especially of policemen to be clean to be thoughtful of others to not litter because THIS WAS YOUR CITY YOUR COUNTRY TO BE PROUD OF!
Well Al...That got kinda abandoned in the 70s when it was exposed how coppers used to beat innocent people up and frame them for crimes they were innocent of. The police were taking back handers from gangsters and pornograhers back in dem good ole days you fondly remember. I assume you were not around when Met police commisioner sir robert mark had to bring police officers in from other constabularys to do internal investigations because so many met officers were corrupt or on the take? Rose tinted glasses dear!
I am proud of what my England used to be! Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley! What a beautiful perfect island it used to be. Now look at it!
that's a lie. people were not taught be respectful of police. but police back then had the status of lollypop ladies. the governments back then were staunchly antileft. the living standards were pooper overall but the police had the powers of a lollypop lady.
more poverty, no hand outs from the government, and a pure hatred of police and police states. that was capitalism. the police had no powers. back then they behaved more like lollypop ladies.
it wasn't that great but it did have some benefits... police having no powers and it looking very british.
@@southlondon86 why don't you wise up? Same post everywhere. Boring and not very accurate. You have point but only a very, very minor one.
@@constancemeijer7 Does it get to you, dear Constance?
I was there! Working near Piccadilly Circus, commuting to Essex every day. Such an exciting time, new fashions, food, etc. Very aware we were in 'swinging London '.
A year after I left London still visit when I can changed a lot it has
Lovely - looks very new - Jensen Interceptor at 1:43
Well spotted.
Parliament without barriers in front of it, before politicians decided they would behave like sordid thieves thinking ordinary people are a threat to them.
Hmm, Airey Neave in the 1970s , and previously dodgy Profumo etc. Some things dont change.
@@highpath4776 What goes "clunk, click, bang!"
The year of Keep Britain Tidy (among other things), the buildings needed clean after the clean air acts implemented, which they got. What is the sign on the bedford scaffold truck saying ?
...don't know why, it makes me cry. part of it is the fact both my parents were alive then...just starting out a life in London.
Spotted one Merc all the others were BRITISH cars. The police looked so much smarter and cleaner especially without their stained, lumpy dayglow vests or jackets. Those were the days - pre common market. Whatever happened to the UK? Let's hope we can get it back, we must try and try hard.
Police with baseball caps don't look like Police to me.
London was a wonderful city before the invasion.
So were other places before the British invaded. What goes around, comes round. The difference is that nobody invaded here ... they were invited.
God if you are listening please take me back
To those perfect days of white & hardly any blacks
From New Cross Gate and Peckham to East Finchley
Those good old days of Jimmy Savile & Myra Hindley.
@@_B.M_
I don't support what we did in the name of the British Empire, but can you name a place where the British didn't leave it better than it was before they arrived?
I'll wait.
@@barryfoster453 Better? in whose eyes? The British of course
@@carolinel6236
Go on, name a place that the British didn't leave 'better' than it was before. It's been a month and no people like you have offered any suggestions. I'll accept 'better' or 'worse' by your definition, rather than the dictionary's. I'll wait, Caroline.
Things were much better then. It was safer, cleaner; we had respect for others. I really hate what slobs people have become. I actually hate this day & age…we didn’t realise it, but we were living in a golden time which is gone forever.
At that time, London was still the beautiful Capital City of England & the UK! Sadly, not anymore...
Why? Has it been moved somewhere?
Nihilistcentral UK He’s just an idiot from some small town. He’s probably been to London once in his life.
It's still the capital city of England (read a map and check the internet if you need to be sure). UK is a collection of countries so there isn't a capital city of the UK.
Eenheid is Krag is it not now? What have I missed?
Great to see the Jensen Interceptor!!!
A better place back then for sure!.
London as it was back then I was 5 and it was a lovely place to live. Decent dignified people going about their daily lives being pleasant to one another. These days it’s more like Londonstan, loads of fucking dirty bastards on the streets anybody would think your in Baghdad.
Last time we went up the smoke we went past some policemen outside the American Embassy. My missus asked why they were carrying sealant guns. I had to tell her what they really were! (H&K)
Can anyone tell me what/where the building is at 3:40? Does it still exist? thank you!
You mean Buckingham Palace? Think it's still there!
Was that the Queen popping off down the shops at 3:00 ?
We've only got ourselves to blame. Too much American and foreign influence.
My Gran used to the say to me "America will be the curse of this world!"
@Dj Peekay and Molly Cutpurse Hopefully Islam and/or China will protect us all from evil Uncle Sam, eh?
Ah yes...blame other nations while GB was still trying to hold onto colonies far and wide. This literally is all a result of successive UK blunders.
Duff Baker the US are not evil, more like a young child playing with a loaded gun! Not the cleverest of nations especially when their only 2 presidential candidates are both brainless sexual predators and they conceived the disruptive BLM!
Precisely! How I wish we could go back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley. 😢 True Britain.
Hello, I love this footage. Is there anyway I could get a higher resolution of this footage to add to my documentary? I would like to use 2-3 secs and will give credit. Cheers!
look at the bus stop then look now in 2015
Exactly what I looked at, 1 to 99 then, now 99 to 1 unfortunately!
Look now in 2020 !
Better days than now, that's for sure. Wish I could turn back the clock!!
Nice to see that Holborn is as crowded as ever !!
There's Minis everywhere!
London a truly British city in the 60s
Such a beautiful place, a city to be proud of, before diversity turned it into a festering cesspit.
England, my England.
Exactly! Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley! 😢
@@southlondon86 Exceptions to the rule.
@@1990-t1j Gary Glitter was a true Briton though.
@@southlondon86 Would you like to name every sexual offender in history? What's your point?
@@1990-t1j Not at all. Just saying England was perfect before foreign filth invaded. WE WERE NEVER ASKED 😢
They probably thought the traffic was horrific but it's nothing like as dire as today.
Still quite bad though
We did!
I was 16 , just left school , how long ago it seems now .
I remember. Long ago and far away.
With these sorts of old videos u always get the London was better then and has been ruined by foreigners etc comments and then u get u racist bollox etx responses. Well I personally think after growing up in London in the 60s and 70s that London is worse than it used to be in that it is more violent and expensive although very rich and I think the influx of all the overseas people has definetly been a bad thing .Imho
Wow Bedford and Commer vans! and the buildings are still smoke coloured very grubby House of Commons,even Buck House is grimy! Great nostalgia, I was living in Blackheath in those days now a multi millionaire gaff area.
Oh my god coppers on their feet walking the streets,nice clean streets,no fast food and healthier looking slim people,british cars,and more importantly no Muslims.
macca Ah, a racist dickhead. No video of London would be complete without one. Congratulations!
What a racist piece of shit you are macca
Spot on bro!
@@jorgepilote1607 England ruled over other countries for centuries where they weren't f'in wanted killing millions, just a 100yrs ago acting like they owned the world so stfu! Tough shit now the tables have turned & i'm so glad too. I hope they get even more flooded by foreigners!
Coppers still walk the streets. It is unlikely all the streets were clean (and the buildings were filthy with soot). The first Wimpy bar opened in 1954. I'll grant you that people were slimmer and there were significantly more British cars on the road. But there were more than a quarter of a million Muslims in Britain in 1971, so you're wrong on that one too.
0:51 where is that please?
Travelling north over Waterloo Bridge, Aldwich straight ahead, the underpass is just starting on the right.
One frame but what is the station at 3.39 ?
Randomly, managed to freeze it on that frame ... but its too blurred to read it!! However, gonna hazard a guess at it being Leicester Sq.
After reading the comments it's comes to mind how true the saying is that we easily forget. Love London but it wasn't particularly clean, or safer than in is today
Standard 8mm footage ??
3:23 Who are you?
London is nothing like this now. All these areas depicted in this film are now bilgihted by anti terror attack barriers ... that's what it's come to - thanks to a religion of peace ...
ZOG
You must be referring to Christianity I suppose? Although they didn't bother with anti terror barriers in those days, the catholic IRA just set off bombs wherever they wanted.
Richard Booth yep exactly but we're not allowed to say that now !!! Cos things are so much better now !!!! Stabbings & shootings daily gutted it's not my country any more !!!
I don't think you can really blame the Roman Catholic Church for the carnage wreaked in London by the IRA.
It won't be that long before 'London' becomes a separate city-state - then the name will be changed anyway to something more befitting the 3rd world.
I don't see any painted white lines to indicate traffic lanes. Were they added to British streets later on?
They do it now to create chaos with their road humps every hundred yards, and cycle lanes; and to make motoring more dangerous, because we, the plebs, deserve it.
Brian Masters UK roads are safer now than ever
No because painting white lines is simply racist.
London the year I was born !!!
Same here - good old days!
me too.
London's a shitole now,I don't regard it as part of England anymore,pricks lik Boris and Khan as mayor's ffs
Me too! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
You Could Go to St James's Park today and the flower beds look much the same !. Interesing XA Class bus on the 76 to Waterloo, London Transport did not wholly want front entrance rear engine double deckers but trialled 50 Leylands and 11 Damilers. They finally ordered what would be over 2000 Damilers for delivery from 1970 and sold the Leylands to Hong Kong. Despite living in the south west london suburbs I didnt go up to Central London Much, maybe the first time might have been on a school trip (on a Coach, but I cannot recall if we toured or went to a destination ! ) or It could have been when I went to the Park Lane Hilton to Hear Jim Lovell from the Apollo Mission speak at a breakfast. We used to Drive every christmas to Clapton where my aunty lived going via London Bridge,
Very interesting.
Where are you now, my friend?
@@Isleofskye Ive lived and worked all over GB but currently locked down on the sofa in internetland
Makes my 29 years in Inner London and 37 more years, latterly , in Outer London seem quite dull :)
Check out the Tyrant King series, on RUclips from 1968. Loads of atmospheric shots of London from those times, an enchanting story and great soundtrack from Pink Floyd, Cream, The Nice, Rolling Stones, Moody Blues etc.
I've got that on dvd 🙂
Too blurry (I've seen some really good quality footage of London from this time here on RUclips).
that Jensen! prob hugely expensive to drive...383ci at that point.
1968 i was living in Fulham and went to school just off the Kings Road…👍
No yellow parking lines, no baseball caps.!!!
The difference between then and now is surveillance. This is a police state.
People walked slowly back then.
I was 13 then, wondering who were all those people, and where did they all go...?.
I too was 13 in 1968. Still regularly go up to to London now, it's changed of course as has the rest of the world. Still love it just the same though!
Well I was 20 then working in Dean St now exiled Londoner living in West Sussex couldn't afford to live there anymore.
Yes, Trevor. I am your age and we can USE London but we don't have the hassle, insecurity, traffic and pollution of living there.
I am right on the periphery and 37 years since I moved on 9th May 1983 I STILL miss it dearly but even my council block that was free and easy looks like a High-Security war-zone now...
Are you far from London? THe Suburbs I would guess? :)
@@trevordance5181 67 and now retired , I spent 27 years at Brentwood until 1983, two years dotting around London, then 35 years at Highbury, now in another part of London, I did intend to return back to Brentwood, always said that would never live in London, interesting how things had panned out in this difficult journey.
is this copywrited? is it freely useable?
Great upload thanks
When london was still British
With True British icons like Jimmy Saville, Gary Glitter & Myra Hindley. 😢 What great days.
And the person who killed Lee Rigby and grooming gangs not to mention all the stabbings
Still is dopey. If you live here with a British passport, then you're British
... London then ❤... London now 💩 ... my London... RIP 💔