Wonderful find! Back when old people could sit outside or go for a walk without fear. Although using a zebra crossing could be hazardous - you could be waiting a long time before a driver actually stopped!
Great film, so many memories. Lessiters the home-made chocolate shop at the beginning, and I think it's my mum sitting on the bench at 00:38! Very surprised that the bus doesn't stop for the pedestrians at the crossing. And I could have been one of those kids at the end!
Nice to see views of the closed Muswell Hill station..... just think, if London Transport had opened the already electrified line from Finsbury Park & Highgate through to here after the war how much better the road traffic would be now. Instead they claimed Green Belt legislation stopped the Northern Line extensions (true for north of Edgware but not here!) and removed the electrification equipment in the late 1950s to electrify........ the Epping to Ongar branch of the Central Line! deep in the Essex countryside......
Muswell Hill hasn't changed much in 60 years - unlike many parts of London, architecturally and in terms of ethnic makeup it is much the same as it was in 1960 and probably didn't look vastly different even in 1920.
@@wodenravensHello . no i lived in Dukes Avenue 16, a bit under a church, i worked part time at the KFC without permission since switzerland is not in the UE.
Wish he'd shown St James Parade down to the John Baird Pub. My Dad owned Bond's Tobacconist & Confectioners opposite the Odeon. Also there were two other similar shops - Henry's and another. Would love to have seen a picture of them.
I remember the benches by the old station / primary school from the 80s. There were two old sisters (or a mum and daughter?) that sat there all day. Mrs Jones? Not sure if they were homeless, but it seemed like they were always there
Much more exhaust Fumes and smog instead back then. The only reason there was less litter was there wasn’t dozens of take aways, and governments/councils still saw street cleaning as essential.
Wow, at the time that the Davies brothers were still living there! I lived there for 18 years but I just cannot recognise the place where the kids are playing, especially that underpass. Where is it?
It's at the top of the hill, Muswell hill.. Where the junior school was built.. It's all heavily grown with trees now. It's the start/end of the Parkland walk
Men in Jacket and Trouser’s as Normal every day. women in hats Cars back then were not fussed about stopping for people crossing on Zebra crossing,it must be 50 years since i was there And honestly i cannot relate to much🤔
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Wonderful find! Back when old people could sit outside or go for a walk without fear. Although using a zebra crossing could be hazardous - you could be waiting a long time before a driver actually stopped!
They can still do that in Muswell Hill 🙄
@@fredmila Exactly. It's hardly Tottenham and Wood Green lol which is where I'm from. Then again we all fall under Haringey much to N10's desire
Incredible how similar it looks today!
The neighbourhood that gave us Fairport Convention, The Kinks and i will include Rod Stewart
The old Alexandra Palace railway route is still a leisure walking route with great views of London skyline
Great film, so many memories. Lessiters the home-made chocolate shop at the beginning, and I think it's my mum sitting on the bench at 00:38! Very surprised that the bus doesn't stop for the pedestrians at the crossing. And I could have been one of those kids at the end!
Nice to see views of the closed Muswell Hill station..... just think, if London Transport had opened the already electrified line from Finsbury Park & Highgate through to here after the war how much better the road traffic would be now. Instead they claimed Green Belt legislation stopped the Northern Line extensions (true for north of Edgware but not here!) and removed the electrification equipment in the late 1950s to electrify........ the Epping to Ongar branch of the Central Line! deep in the Essex countryside......
They definitely backed the wrong horse
Muswell Hill hasn't changed much in 60 years - unlike many parts of London, architecturally and in terms of ethnic makeup it is much the same as it was in 1960 and probably didn't look vastly different even in 1920.
It looks the same now.
Except cars WOULD now stop for you to cross the road.
Lol yeah why didnt the car n bis stop for them tgey didnt rven seem.to mind 🤣
lived there in the seventies as a student. nice memory. from Switzerland🇨🇭
Can't remember the building name now, but did you live in the student accommodation next to the church on Pages Lane?
@@wodenravensHello . no i lived in Dukes Avenue 16, a bit under a church, i worked part time at the KFC without permission since switzerland is not in the UE.
Lovely happy times, I was eight. ❤
Breathtaking
So nice and so clean, wonder what happened
Wonderful...
Population is everything
Home of Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks. Birthplace of "You Really Got Me"
I8 lived there for a while in the seventies . Groovy area... Kinks TOWN!
Wish he'd shown St James Parade down to the John Baird Pub. My Dad owned Bond's Tobacconist & Confectioners opposite the Odeon. Also there were two other similar shops - Henry's and another. Would love to have seen a picture of them.
I remember the benches by the old station / primary school from the 80s. There were two old sisters (or a mum and daughter?) that sat there all day. Mrs Jones? Not sure if they were homeless, but it seemed like they were always there
Marvellous stuff 👍. Thanks for posting this.
Hasn't changed a day!
Never changed
i walked those streets
A nice film, looks lovely. John Letchley a relation came from there.😊
That crossing at the beginning is still busy today
Nice and clean London
Clean are u kidding
Much more exhaust Fumes and smog instead back then. The only reason there was less litter was there wasn’t dozens of take aways, and governments/councils still saw street cleaning as essential.
Wow, at the time that the Davies brothers were still living there! I lived there for 18 years but I just cannot recognise the place where the kids are playing, especially that underpass. Where is it?
It's at the top of the hill, Muswell hill.. Where the junior school was built.. It's all heavily grown with trees now.
It's the start/end of the Parkland walk
Men in Jacket and Trouser’s as Normal every day. women in hats Cars back then were not fussed about stopping for people crossing on Zebra crossing,it must be 50 years since i was there And honestly i cannot relate to much🤔
Driver's road manners were bad even then. Cars and even a bus failing to give way to pedestrians waiting at a zebra crossing.
0:36 - 0:40 no se, pero me diero un poco de miedo :S
London has lost so much charm
not bad except the Ritz has gone! Shameful!
I lived in Muswell Hill for 11 years and had no idea there used to be a cinema at the top of the road there!
@@Londonfogey I remember it as the ABC
I watched my first movie there, The Jungle Book, was then converted to a large restaurant bar with a train carriage.
@@toquirimam2379 lol jungle book
@@toquirimam2379 Don't think so, wasn't that the Express Dairy?
Still looks the same. Considering all Muswell Hillians still try to live in the 70's and wanna be hipsters
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