14 years old at the time. Remember getting a Red Rover bus ticket and travelling all over London on the Routemaster buses all day for a few pence. Nice memories
Azalea 1975 because in the last 30 years we have destabilised whole parts of the world we have in turn had to allow mass immigration to help those affected and this has resulted in people of all cultures and beliefs being mixed in a country they don't call their own. What we have now is the result and it's not good
@@simonnelson7770 Much of that was against the will of the people. I don't know anybody who wanted the war in Iraq. Blair was never tried for what he did and later was even made middle eastern 'Peace envoy' You really couldn't make this shit up!
Definitely relaxed...thatcher bought in striving putting elderly in care homes greed....designer clothing...otherwise we lived our lives @ traditional nationally united as people.
I was 11 in 1975, and I remember the summer was beautiful (but nowhere near as hot as the following year). I played football with my friends for hours without a referee, so there was some creative interpretation of the rules but we enjoyed ourselves. The big hit singles of that year were Rod Stewart's Sailing, and 10cc's I'm Not In Love. The big TV shows were The Sweeney and Bouquet Of Barbed Wire. RIP John Thaw and Frank Finlay.
when I think of one record that sums up 1975 as I remember it, it's I'm Not In Love. I was three years old and I can honestly say I get tiny snapshots of that year when I hear that intro. My Dad played the record to death, he loved it, between that, my own memory and cine camera home movies I can just feel 1975 when I hear that song.
Just looking at the roadsides the bridges didn’t need obstacles to stop cars mounting the kerb people were left alone by the government to live without some moosh in a high vis telling us we can’t do this that or the other. What has become of this country the country i love
I was only 4 years old. I remember very will that my mum and my dad brought me around piccadilly circus and around the west end of London. By god it bring back so many memories. How i mess the 70s so much.
I totally agree with you. Its lost its soul, it's Cockneyness, Now its basically. a *very large international Airport Lounge* The *Cold Cold Cold Packed Faced Left* have ruined a once great great city.
Stationed at RAF South Ruislip then RAF Upper Heyford, London will forever be the greatest city in the World to me. A Yank in Britain from 1972 until 1976. The smell of the Tube stations is like heroin to me haha! The fabulous West End, The Beatles/Abbey Road, It simply doesn’t get any better!
A personal comment: In my view, this was the last year of the post-war period, I was 17. The tentative - but insistent and unstoppable arrival of punk-rock and all things 'alternative' in mid '76, was the start of the era we're still in now IMO. There were probably many positive features of this change, but crucially, they didn't suit me and I suspect, many more like me. I certainly didn't enjoy all of the years up to '76, but felt I understood the culture. I can see this very clearly when I watch old TV and films from the '50's, '60's and early '70's. I 'get' the plots, the acting, the styles, the accents, the dress-codes and lots more. It's sad but true, that I've felt somewhat adrift for the last 45 years.
Interesting perspective. Somehow 76 was a watershed year. After that you could somehow never reach back to an earlier time. It was nothing to do with the overhyped summer of 76 at all just the passage of time.
I totally agree with you other than to say I'd class 1979 as the watershed year because that's when Thatcher came in and changed so much of community life. People seemed to become more insular.
Those buildings at 6:21 were a fine piece of architecture but were sadly torn down in the 1990s and were replaced by Portcullis House a dreadful design, modern architects are hopeless.
Thanks for the video, Mackenzie. I first visited London in 1973. I had friends who lived at Hampton Court Palace. I was so awe struck my first time in London, much different from American cities. I will always cherish the great memories and first impressions.
I'd just left the Royal Navy, moved to London and got a job as a bus conductor at Streatham garage. Wonderful times and a great place to live. It's a violent pigsty now. All the Londoners I knew then, and who I'm in touch with still have moved away. Including me. To escape the hell hole it has become
lucky you got out of london mate it has a way of clawing you back i should know tried a few times to get away but family issues ment ive had to stay but i will one day get out i just got to///
If only we could go back in time, we would not be silenced and things would now be different. It's not too late though, we still have time to make our country great again.
Yes but the government won't let us. Every time a great leader that can make England great again comes into being. He is ends up getting arrested etc. First thing we need to do is stop political correctness. Start making programs like they used to be when we could say what we wanted. Remember if we don't act now England will eat itself.
Hahahahahahahahaha - Make [insert country name] great again - the battle cry of the indoctrinated simpleton. The emotive pleas really take a toll on the lower intellectual echelons, don't they.
London used to be a very clean and civilized place back then compared to the dump it's now been turned into, it's a shame we let it be ruined the way it as been, and it's just getting worse. We need to have a new Capital and not make the same mistakes again.
QPR top of the league and should have won it, Concorde, hottest summer on record - better times - better ways - better football - wish they were still here
Great footage Mackenzie! ... alaways nice to see old footage of London whether it's the 1970's or the 1930's - just love it. Why does everything look better 'then'! Some things have gone - like the railway bridge over the road, with St Paul's Cathedral behind it (at 1:22). This carried trains into the long gone Holborn Viaduct station (a city of London rail terminus). It was replaced with the 'through' Thameslink (under the streets) in the City back in the late 80's. Lovely to see St Paul's majestically dominating the skyline of the City of London, before it was hemmed in and dwarfed by tall skyscrapers. Also Battersea Power Station was still working and generating power at this time! (it closed in 1983). Is that woman (7:53) a 'time traveller'?!! ...I just noticed as the guards are marching past, the camera zooms into show this lady on the right hand side (long cream coat) 'appearing' to look down at something in her hand (it really does look like a mobile!). Not sure what it could be? a pamphlet maybe? or a small guide book? Thanks for allowing us to chill out and spend eight and half minutes soaking in the spirit and vibes of 1975 London. I was around then - but very small!
How laid back does life look then, I was 15, every thing has changed, shame! Went back down couple of mths ago just a building site for " luxury apartments", I live in rural east Scotland (16yrs)
I was born around the time this video was made, in June 75. This looks like it was filmed around June-ish. England has changed alot in my lifetime, not for the better though. :-(
It snowed in London in June in 1975, for the first time in nearly a century. July 1975, was nothing out of the ordinary. It was the summer of 1976, that saw the legendary heat wave, water rationing and standpipes.
Police traffic wardens did issue tickets, but they were fairer than today's councils enforcement You had to go to magistrates court to challenge a parking ticket With councils, its a bureaucratic appeals system filling out a form where you have to fill in the colour of your underwear on the day the ticket was issued
For as long as we've lived, it's been Communist. Communists invented all of the words that the gullible or amenable use to label as grubby any and all godly behaviours, actions or conditions that are inconveniently independent of, and antithetical to, the Prog goal of universal enslavement and panoptic micromanagement of mankind. If we fell for it, we learned to hate our Father, our father, our family, and our freedom. In other news, Prime Monster Dracula calls garlic sellers, "Smelly and unsociable," and promises to act on our demands to achieve, through greater democracy, the fresh air that we deserve on our midnight walks.
Flares and platform shoes! The girls at school who liked to dress like the Bay City Rollers; tartan certainly came back into fashion for a while. I had the odd pair of flared trousers (including a purple pair!) in the 70s and a pair of chunky shoes the over-the-top decoration of which I could only describe as Rococo.
I was born in 1972 and first experience of London was '76 (we had family over there). Most of the summers from '76 to '87 we made a trip there. So I have a 70s London and an 80s London deep in my memory and to me they've always been distinctly different. And now I discover 1975 looks way more like the 60s than I ever imagined. Goes to show you decades are more fluid than the way we wrap them up in tidy bundles, people, culture, fashion, buildings move at difference paces. Thanks for uploading.
Living in Dunstable London was only 35 minutes away, so some good memories there, but what of now in 2022 , I am so sorry to say i will never set foot in London again, it just doesnt feel safe anymore, and why is that we have to ask, I went to college there in 67 and do miss those times , but deaths by stabbings in 2021 were 30, it just isnt safe. It is a totally different city
I swear at 6:08 coming into view is me in my MK1 Ford Escort reg TPC375F the person walking back to the car and getting in was a NZ guy Peter Crowhurst. We stopped on Westminster Bridge to ask directions to Palace St, which wasn't too far away. Where a friend had moved into a flat. I was 18 at the time and later that week I discovered the London A to Z Road map book. It was an adventure to say the least, being a long way from my home town Farnham Surrey. No sat navs then, few motorways as well lol 😂
@@mackenzierough Hi, I discovered this quite a while back, but just had to make a comment to get it off my chest lol 😂 that is my car for sure all those moons ago. Can't drive there now unless one pays pays pays , congestion / ULEZ charges. How times have changed and in many cases not for the best sadly. Thank you for the acknowledgement .
I started giving up on MAINSTREAM media in 2016 and at the top of the list is the BBC, then ITV, then C4, then C5 and now SKY NEW UK. There is nothing on that interests me now. All full of reality shows, game shows, quiz shows and cooking shows. What a load of rubbish. At least we have RUclips and lots of videos posted about how England was back in the day. I was 10 and my wonderful late parents would take me to London for the weekend on the train and we would go everywhere. I know that there are always horrible things going on in the world but as a young person it never affected you and things were simpler back then. I like looking at these sorts of videos to see what was 'THE HIGH STREET' full of shops like Freeman Hardy Willis, Dolcis, Woolworths and the like. In just a generation its all gone and we have AMAZON now
When the rules of broadcasting standards were discarded by Mrs Thatcher, many critics said it would lead to a "dumbing down" of TV programmes. If anything, they underestimated the damage it would do.
@@carlgrove8793 Millions of us will never ever return to mainstream media or paying for a tv license, cant wait for the BBC to collapse. I gave up on it all nearly 20 yrs ago.
@@maccagrabme The license is an issue with the BBC, but on the whole they cover the major stories reasonably well. I also like Sky News, but for genuine international coverage, Al Jazeera is best.
I suggest you actually look at TV schedules for the era before waxing all nostalgic about how much better it was. Are you sure Celebrity Squares and Sale of the Century were so good ? Or Crossroads ?
You used to be able to chase after them and jump on the back where the conductor would be waiting with his ticket machine. Health and safety would have a cardiac today! Less of a suing culture and nanny state back then.
People go on about immigration and there is over population. But a change not mentioned is the state of the roads. Back then it was just a road, yellow lines and a free flowing combination of cars/buses. Now there are enormous trucks, all sizes of vans and taxis' too. However, the roads are narrower, there is so much signage its confusing along with crossings and lights that deliberately cause bottle necks of traffic. These things are down to the rotten, corrupt councils. The roads haven't been improved they've been made worse. Also the random buildings and ugly glass/steel construction used. It's a soulless hell hole with no aesthetic charm.
Don't blame the immigrants, blame the lying the politicians.. who're White English. The truth that a lot these areas have become shit holes due to immigration is the politicians fault.
I was 17 and learning to get into places I didn’t belong ,discovering myself through my home town with the aid of a bike a tube card or jumping routemasters. Miss it all, some parts of town I knew well are almost unrecognisable to me now. Too many I knew and loved are no longer with us. London has always been changing and we are witnessing one of those seismic events but nostalgia always kicks in hard! Great music btw, what is it?
Yes i remember The London that was. I was hoping to see myself walking around 😒 , I was 18 1/2 at that time , great time, lot of girls from all over europe, I used to go dancing at la Pubelle and Le Kilt in Soho and sometime at the St. Moritz club in Wardour Street. Good memories. Wish i could go back in a time machine. Isabelle from Oslo if you see this get in touch. 😂😂
There is a French (Paris) Bus on one of the shots of going over Westminster Bridge by the Houses of Parliament. I think this is one that was owned by Robert Jowett and he used to run it around at weekends for a few HCVC members and other friends.
I was born in 1953 and spent the 1970s almost entirely in London. It was then (and before then too) a cold heartless city and I was miserable. London, above all other British cities values a man or a boy almost entirely in terms of pounds sterling and earning capacity to make more of it. It is like that in 2024 still. I am going to the UK in October and almost immediately going north to Lerwick. It's good to be considered as a person with unique thoughts and emotions and not just a code. :)
I visited London with a friend (from Germany) in June 1975. We visited these places and I have been looking if we were somewhere in the back ground. Lol.
I was 10 and living in Brixton . Still miss those days so badly. My mum worked in the Reliance Arcade in Brixton that year and Id spend the school holidays with her at work. Dad drove a double decker out of Brixton Garage. Memories i have of that year and being scared going on the tube after the Moorgate tube crash. Songs i remember are Im not In Love and Typically Tropical which i used to hear a lot being played in the arcade, think the cafe had a radio. Used to watch Top Of The Pops every week , Mud had brought out Oh Boy, Bay City Rollers and then Queen with Bohemian Rhapsody. What a time to be a kid.
I was 17 and went with my friend from high school for the month of July, fabulous experience, Ive always wanted to return, maybe on the 50th anniversary I will go back with my husband. I remember the songs on the radio were Saturday Night by Bay City Rollers and Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy
@@rainkatt I hadn't been there for 6 years and just returned from there couldn't believe all traffic jams and pot holes in the roads and the rip off prices.
As always in videos of this era, it amazes me that there were no lane markings on the roads, even just to separate the two opposite traffic directions! Only the bridges appear to have any. How people drove around Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square without any markings I'll never know.
Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II had already been on the throne for 23 years by this point and was yet to have her Silver Jubilee. Puts it into perspective just how long ago these events were and how much has changed. Her Christmas speech in 1975 was the first to be filmed outdoors at the bottom of the Buckingham Palace garden. You can even hear the loud 1970s engines and traffic rumble in the background.
I was 19 in that year, times were bit rough for me in the 70’s living at Brentwood and Southend in Essex at the time, so couldn’t relate to these pictures.
Wow! Where's the diversity? It all seems so calm and tranquil. It must have been due to a lack of cultural enrichment. Plus, knowing you're not going to be stabbed or mugged, must have been so boring.
Are you conveniently forgetting that murders still happened ? This was when the Yorkshire Ripper was getting into his stride, and you can't blame any non straight white people for his actions.
My second year driving a London taxi. An absolute joy it was. No mayor at all and London worked. Have a Mayor now London doesn't work. Then there was a case for abortion.
The rail line had left Blackfriars (to the right out of the picture) and headed across the bridge at Ludgate Circus towards Holborn Viaduct. It was part of the BR Southern Region (South Suburban electric network). Next to the bridge out of view, on the right, was a NCP car park on what was, I believe, the last remaining bomb site in London. Hope this helps!
Amazing coverage although they did miss out on the pet shop on the south bank that sold foxes on a lead plus your usual monkey etc :-) I miss the seventies!
Ah, happy days. I'd just moved away from London in 1975. It was still British then, wasn't it? Oops, sorry, just popped back to opologise if you had to take refuge in your safe space.
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I was 11 in 1975, brings back some memories. Makes me miss my mum, dad and my nan...just thinking they were all still alive back then.
I know , better times then too keep strong all the best
Something is missing in the film???you all know.
@@bertiewooster3326 The Alfie Moons?
I was -10 in 1975.
@@The_Greedy_Orphan me too
14 years old at the time. Remember getting a Red Rover bus ticket and travelling all over London on the Routemaster buses all day for a few pence. Nice memories
Yes the red rover tickets were fantastic :)
Hlo bro
It just feels like a million years ago. A stark contrast compared to today... Wish it could have stayed this way.
I think many of us wish it was those times again in the 1960s and 1970s or even earlier.
Nothing ever stays the same. Change is the only constant.
@Azalea 1975. You and me both.
Azalea 1975 because in the last 30 years we have destabilised whole parts of the world we have in turn had to allow mass immigration to help those affected and this has resulted in people of all cultures and beliefs being mixed in a country they don't call their own. What we have now is the result and it's not good
@@simonnelson7770 Much of that was against the will of the people. I don't know anybody who wanted the war in Iraq. Blair was never tried for what he did and later was even made middle eastern 'Peace envoy' You really couldn't make this shit up!
Best of times, 15 years old, long hot summer of 76' around the corner and Bohemian Rhapsody to come in December, just brilliant !
I was 20 then, remember the hot summer, trying to cool off in serpentine lake or whatever it was in Hyde Park. Great time.
YOU SAID IT ALL. I WAS 12 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME. HAPPY HAPPY DAYS FOR ME TOO.
@@Photini156 without being pedantic and just for the record, serpentine lido
We may never had much luxuries but somehow the quality of life was very much better than it is now
Definitely relaxed...thatcher bought in striving putting elderly in care homes greed....designer clothing...otherwise we lived our lives @ traditional nationally united as people.
Also people were closer to God at that time........that's why we were happier
You can sense the more laid back atmosphere … this was the best of times .
I was 11 in 1975, and I remember the summer was beautiful (but nowhere near as hot as the following year).
I played football with my friends for hours without a referee, so there was some creative interpretation of the rules but we enjoyed ourselves.
The big hit singles of that year were Rod Stewart's Sailing, and 10cc's I'm Not In Love.
The big TV shows were The Sweeney and Bouquet Of Barbed Wire.
RIP John Thaw and Frank Finlay.
Very interesting, thank you.
when I think of one record that sums up 1975 as I remember it, it's I'm Not In Love. I was three years old and I can honestly say I get tiny snapshots of that year when I hear that intro. My Dad played the record to death, he loved it, between that, my own memory and cine camera home movies I can just feel 1975 when I hear that song.
Football matches could end up 20 a side lol
Just looking at the roadsides the bridges didn’t need obstacles to stop cars mounting the kerb people were left alone by the government to live without some moosh in a high vis telling us we can’t do this that or the other.
What has become of this country the country i love
I was only 4 years old. I remember very will that my mum and my dad brought me around piccadilly circus and around the west end of London. By god it bring back so many memories. How i mess the 70s so much.
I have to agree with some of the other comments here, that I mourn London when I see footage such as this.
You mean you mourn your youth
@@ok2760 No, I mean I mourn a London which does not exist anymore. I am 35 years old by the way.
I totally agree with you. Its lost its soul, it's Cockneyness, Now its basically. a *very large international Airport Lounge* The *Cold Cold Cold Packed Faced Left* have ruined a once great great city.
@@studas2011London still exists!
Stationed at RAF South Ruislip then RAF Upper Heyford, London will forever be the greatest city in the World to me. A Yank in Britain from 1972 until 1976. The smell of the Tube stations is like heroin to me haha! The fabulous West End, The Beatles/Abbey Road, It simply doesn’t get any better!
A personal comment:
In my view, this was the last year of the post-war period, I was 17.
The tentative - but insistent and unstoppable arrival of punk-rock and all things 'alternative' in mid '76, was the start of the era we're still in now IMO. There were probably many positive features of this change, but crucially, they didn't suit me and I suspect, many more like me.
I certainly didn't enjoy all of the years up to '76, but felt I understood the culture. I can see this very clearly when I watch old TV and films from the '50's, '60's and early '70's. I 'get' the plots, the acting, the styles, the accents, the dress-codes and lots more.
It's sad but true, that I've felt somewhat adrift for the last 45 years.
Interesting perspective. Somehow 76 was a watershed year. After that you could somehow never reach back to an earlier time. It was nothing to do with the overhyped summer of 76 at all just the passage of time.
@aslc2547 I think with punk it's true it changed atmosphere culture...that may have passed ...but thatcher.....
I totally agree with you other than to say I'd class 1979 as the watershed year because that's when Thatcher came in and changed so much of community life. People seemed to become more insular.
Britain in the 1970s had such a distinctive outlook!! There's no way this could have been a different country.
Never ceases to amaze me how little traffic there was. Even in a big city such as London.
Going on the changing of the guard it is 10am sunday, so no shops open , folk would be in church - or bed.
The London skyline I remember having left after 12 years in 1977... now that was way better then...
Whatever way u look at it London was and is a fascinating city
Fantastic video just lovely
Beautiful London 👍 good old days 🙏🙏👍 compare to nowadays 🥺
I'm glad that you enjoyed my movie.
4 years old I was and I'd go back to those days in a flash if I could.
I was born in 1975 I love watching oldie things from my year of birth fascinating how things have changed
It all looked so peaceful
Yes a bit different than today.
Yes, they didn't record any road noise...
@@geruto17760 Or much crime either.
We had the threat of IRA bombs.
There was no migrants from Muslim 3rd world countries
Those buildings at 6:21 were a fine piece of architecture but were sadly torn down in the 1990s and were replaced by Portcullis House a dreadful design, modern architects are hopeless.
They're absolute vandals
No ULEZ/LEZ
No congestion charges
No anpr’s
No speed cameras
No red routes
No parking cameras
No junction box cameras
Just vibes
Young lad 0f 22 working in Curzon Street Mayfair. A great time to be young.
Thanks for the video, Mackenzie. I first visited London in 1973. I had friends who lived at Hampton Court Palace. I was so awe struck my first time in London, much different from American cities. I will always cherish the great memories and first impressions.
I'm glad that you enjoyed my movie.
I was 16 at the rime. Born and brought up in London. Thanks for the memories.
I was there at the time. But as they say the real fascination of London was in the "swinging years" the mid to late 60s.
Quite right here I am with my mates in 1968 in the West End:- ruclips.net/video/4jYbn0oQyr4/видео.html
I'd just left the Royal Navy, moved to London and got a job as a bus conductor at Streatham garage. Wonderful times and a great place to live. It's a violent pigsty now. All the Londoners I knew then, and who I'm in touch with still have moved away. Including me. To escape the hell hole it has become
lucky you got out of london mate it has a way of clawing you back i should know tried a few times to get away but family issues ment ive had to stay but i will one day get out i just got to///
@@racheldoesacrylic4089 Funnily enough people say the same thing about Blackpool. You never really leave
Shut up
@@quanbrooklynkid7776 Who?
paul brown what route did you do?
If only we could go back in time, we would not be silenced and things would now be different. It's not too late though, we still have time to make our country great again.
Yes but the government won't let us. Every time a great leader that can make England great again comes into being. He is ends up getting arrested etc.
First thing we need to do is stop political correctness. Start making programs like they used to be when we could say what we wanted.
Remember if we don't act now England will eat itself.
what planet are you on mate have you heard of the NWO ????
It’s too late matey....
Ironically, the country was at it's best after ww2 in a labour government...
Hahahahahahahahaha - Make [insert country name] great again - the battle cry of the indoctrinated simpleton. The emotive pleas really take a toll on the lower intellectual echelons, don't they.
London used to be a very clean and civilized place back then compared to the dump it's now been turned into, it's a shame we let it be ruined the way it as been, and it's just getting worse. We need to have a new Capital and not make the same mistakes again.
My first visit to London in 1975 at the age of 8. Thats exactly how I remember it. I moved to London 25 years later and I'm still here.
Great video with very cool music track! Loved London back then not so much now. Shame the way things turned out.
I'm glad that you enjoyed my move and yes times are hard these days.
QPR top of the league and should have won it, Concorde, hottest summer on record - better times - better ways - better football - wish they were still here
Great footage Mackenzie! ... alaways nice to see old footage of London whether it's the 1970's or the 1930's - just love it. Why does everything look better 'then'!
Some things have gone - like the railway bridge over the road, with St Paul's Cathedral behind it (at 1:22). This carried trains into the long gone Holborn Viaduct station (a city of London rail terminus). It was replaced with the 'through' Thameslink (under the streets) in the City back in the late 80's.
Lovely to see St Paul's majestically dominating the skyline of the City of London, before it was hemmed in and dwarfed by tall skyscrapers. Also Battersea Power Station was still working and generating power at this time! (it closed in 1983).
Is that woman (7:53) a 'time traveller'?!! ...I just noticed as the guards are marching past, the camera zooms into show this lady on the right hand side (long cream coat) 'appearing' to look down at something in her hand (it really does look like a mobile!). Not sure what it could be? a pamphlet maybe? or a small guide book?
Thanks for allowing us to chill out and spend eight and half minutes soaking in the spirit and vibes of 1975 London. I was around then - but very small!
Everything was better then, and not all corporate like it is now.
How laid back does life look then, I was 15, every thing has changed, shame! Went back down couple of mths ago just a building site for " luxury apartments", I live in rural east Scotland (16yrs)
A beautiful time, SO much better than now
People were happy
I was born around the time this video was made, in June 75. This looks like it was filmed around June-ish. England has changed alot in my lifetime, not for the better though. :-(
My last full year there before emigrating. Remember the London of that year very well. Thanks for the nostalgic return.
Hi, I'm glad that you enjoyed my movie.
The first series of Survivors in April, incredibly hot weather in July, Bohemian Rhapsody in November....What was there not to love about 1975?😁
It snowed in London in June in 1975, for the first time in nearly a century. July 1975, was nothing out of the ordinary. It was the summer of 1976, that saw the legendary heat wave, water rationing and standpipes.
Nice to see a proper view of Battersea Power Station.
How time flies! I had my 16th birthday that May, and I also remember the summer being long and hot.
I was 17 in the same year how life has changed
So true, life has changed a lot.
@@H4CK61
75 was a long hot one as well.
@@marmite400 1975 had a late summer, and snow was filmed falling in June.
@@Jeffybonbon I am 17 now
Wow, the traffic was so light you could casually park up on Westminister Bridge!
What a great video and how nice it looked then to what it looks like now
Hi, I'm glad that you enjoyed my video.
@@mackenzierough Great music..what is it?
@@gregsmith1070 Hi, Greg, thanks, I think that it was a download from the RUclips music library, the tracks are free to RUclips Creators.
Look how quaint it was. Especially on Tower Bridge.
The good old days when you could park your car in central London and not get it towed away by some capitalist roug company.
Police traffic wardens did issue tickets, but they were fairer than today's councils enforcement
You had to go to magistrates court to challenge a parking ticket
With councils, its a bureaucratic appeals system filling out a form where you have to fill in the colour of your underwear on the day the ticket was issued
@@Keithbarber lol.
What about DNA sample
@@shadyninja1 add that in the "other information" box
they are working for that left wing loon mayor
For as long as we've lived, it's been Communist. Communists invented all of the words that the gullible or amenable use to label as grubby any and all godly behaviours, actions or conditions that are inconveniently independent of, and antithetical to, the Prog goal of universal enslavement and panoptic micromanagement of mankind.
If we fell for it, we learned to hate our Father, our father, our family, and our freedom.
In other news, Prime Monster Dracula calls garlic sellers, "Smelly and unsociable," and promises to act on our demands to achieve, through greater democracy, the fresh air that we deserve on our midnight walks.
Cars were so cool back then, I was 9 in 1975, hated the fashion though....
I was seven then and I just didn't really notice the fashion just what I liked to wear.only now can I really notice the fashion of that time
mel grant I had a pair of dark blue cord flared trousers I had to wear for school 🙄😳😬
@@steve20664 Flares were enormous back then, dangerous on windy days.
Flares and platform shoes! The girls at school who liked to dress like the Bay City Rollers; tartan certainly came back into fashion for a while. I had the odd pair of flared trousers (including a purple pair!) in the 70s and a pair of chunky shoes the over-the-top decoration of which I could only describe as Rococo.
beautiful London in 1975 # ❤ i have seen London in videos in late 80s when i was kid # i LOVE London ❤ & i love UK #
I was born in 1972 and first experience of London was '76 (we had family over there). Most of the summers from '76 to '87 we made a trip there. So I have a 70s London and an 80s London deep in my memory and to me they've always been distinctly different. And now I discover 1975 looks way more like the 60s than I ever imagined. Goes to show you decades are more fluid than the way we wrap them up in tidy bundles, people, culture, fashion, buildings move at difference paces. Thanks for uploading.
I'm glad that you enjoyed my movie.
are you american, i was born in 1971.The 70s were my favourite decade.
Living in Dunstable London was only 35 minutes away, so some good memories there, but what of now in 2022 , I am so sorry to say i will never set foot in London again, it just doesnt feel safe anymore, and why is that we have to ask, I went to college there in 67 and do miss those times , but deaths by stabbings in 2021 were 30, it just isnt safe. It is a totally different city
I was 14 . Red bus rover tickets great fun best time growing up in the 70s
I swear at 6:08 coming into view is me in my MK1 Ford Escort reg TPC375F the person walking back to the car and getting in was a NZ guy Peter Crowhurst.
We stopped on Westminster Bridge to ask directions to Palace St, which wasn't too far away. Where a friend had moved into a flat. I was 18 at the time and later that week I discovered the London A to Z Road map book.
It was an adventure to say the least, being a long way from my home town Farnham Surrey.
No sat navs then, few motorways as well lol 😂
How interesting, I glad that you found this.
@@mackenzierough Hi, I discovered this quite a while back, but just had to make a comment to get it off my chest lol 😂 that is my car for sure all those moons ago.
Can't drive there now unless one pays pays pays , congestion / ULEZ charges. How times have changed and in many cases not for the best sadly. Thank you for the acknowledgement .
Great scenes, great music.
I started giving up on MAINSTREAM media in 2016 and at the top of the list is the BBC, then ITV, then C4, then C5 and now SKY NEW UK. There is nothing on that interests me now. All full of reality shows, game shows, quiz shows and cooking shows. What a load of rubbish. At least we have RUclips and lots of videos posted about how England was back in the day.
I was 10 and my wonderful late parents would take me to London for the weekend on the train and we would go everywhere. I know that there are always horrible things going on in the world but as a young person it never affected you and things were simpler back then. I like looking at these sorts of videos to see what was 'THE HIGH STREET' full of shops like Freeman Hardy Willis, Dolcis, Woolworths and the like.
In just a generation its all gone and we have AMAZON now
When the rules of broadcasting standards were discarded by Mrs Thatcher, many critics said it would lead to a "dumbing down" of TV programmes. If anything, they underestimated the damage it would do.
@@carlgrove8793 Millions of us will never ever return to mainstream media or paying for a tv license, cant wait for the BBC to collapse. I gave up on it all nearly 20 yrs ago.
@@maccagrabme The license is an issue with the BBC, but on the whole they cover the major stories reasonably well. I also like Sky News, but for genuine international coverage, Al Jazeera is best.
I suggest you actually look at TV schedules for the era before waxing all nostalgic about how much better it was. Are you sure Celebrity Squares and Sale of the Century were so good ? Or Crossroads ?
When Routemasters ruled London’s streets.
Sadly, the routemaster couldn't last forever
You used to be able to chase after them and jump on the back where the conductor would be waiting with his ticket machine. Health and safety would have a cardiac today! Less of a suing culture and nanny state back then.
@@danw1374 Even @ 67 years old I would love their "hop on and off" return...
@@Keithbarberit had a good try though, one of the longest periods in bus history.
,@@paulnolan1352 they had a very good long run, that can't be denied but they had to come off the road eventually
People go on about immigration and there is over population. But a change not mentioned is the state of the roads. Back then it was just a road, yellow lines and a free flowing combination of cars/buses. Now there are enormous trucks, all sizes of vans and taxis' too. However, the roads are narrower, there is so much signage its confusing along with crossings and lights that deliberately cause bottle necks of traffic. These things are down to the rotten, corrupt councils. The roads haven't been improved they've been made worse. Also the random buildings and ugly glass/steel construction used. It's a soulless hell hole with no aesthetic charm.
How true, and the pollution causing cycle lanes were several decades away.
Don't blame the immigrants, blame the lying the politicians.. who're White English. The truth that a lot these areas have become shit holes due to immigration is the politicians fault.
I was 17 and learning to get into places I didn’t belong ,discovering myself through my home town with the aid of a bike a tube card or jumping routemasters. Miss it all, some parts of town I knew well are almost unrecognisable to me now. Too many I knew and loved are no longer with us. London has always been changing and we are witnessing one of those seismic events but nostalgia always kicks in hard! Great music btw, what is it?
Glad you enjoyed my home movie, the music is just a Royalty free track from my editing software.
What's the soundtrack music? That bluesy jazz is so cool.
It's a 'Royalty free' track, that is included with my Pinnacle 22 editing software.
It's the changing of the guard at Horse Guard's, between the Blues and Royals and the Life Guards regiments.
I was in the Life Guards then… strange to think that I might have been on that Guard change. Happy days.
I lived in Kensington park gardens, Notting hill gate station from Oct 1972 to Aug.1980. Demographics were different then .
And back then those areas were dives and very cheap to live in. "Gentrification", eh.
in what way??
Yes i remember The London that was. I was hoping to see myself walking around 😒 , I was 18 1/2 at that time , great time, lot of girls from all over europe, I used to go dancing at la Pubelle and Le Kilt in Soho and sometime at the St. Moritz club in Wardour Street. Good memories. Wish i could go back in a time machine. Isabelle from Oslo if you see this get in touch. 😂😂
hi,its me isabelle.....remember the incident behind the bike sheds.....no....i don't either...😊😊...i am not isabelle, at least not during the day.
02:20 Captains Scott Antarctic ship Discovery still in its original mooring on the embankment before being moved to Dundee.
Certainly better buses than now!
Brilliant Thanks Have aSafe 2022 What was The Sound Track to this .
Thanks and to you, the music is a Royalty free track included with my Pinnacle editing software!
Tower Bridge before it was cleaned and repainted for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977.
There is a French (Paris) Bus on one of the shots of going over Westminster Bridge by the Houses of Parliament. I think this is one that was owned by Robert Jowett and he used to run it around at weekends for a few HCVC members and other friends.
I was born in 1953 and spent the 1970s almost entirely in London. It was then (and before then too) a cold heartless city and I was miserable. London, above all other British cities values a man or a boy almost entirely in terms of pounds sterling and earning capacity to make more of it. It is like that in 2024 still. I am going to the UK in October and almost immediately going north to Lerwick. It's good to be considered as a person with unique thoughts and emotions and not just a code. :)
I visited London with a friend (from Germany) in June 1975. We visited these places and I have been looking if we were somewhere in the back ground. Lol.
Not very stabby!
The London of my early childhood. Thank goodness my parents got us out when they did.
Great, but when I stream it to my telly the neighbours think I'm watching vintage porn.
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Traffic chaos on the bridge, must have been so stressful in those days. Thank god John Major was on hand to fix it in 1992.
The year 2000 sounded like science fiction then
2000 seemed so far away back then, and here we are already 21 years past it.
ha ha ha...science fact now.
Got the silky music in time with the guards' steps 8:02
I was 10 and living in Brixton . Still miss those days so badly. My mum worked in the Reliance Arcade in Brixton that year and Id spend the school holidays with her at work. Dad drove a double decker out of Brixton Garage.
Memories i have of that year and being scared going on the tube after the Moorgate tube crash.
Songs i remember are Im not In Love and Typically Tropical which i used to hear a lot being played in the arcade, think the cafe had a radio. Used to watch Top Of The Pops every week , Mud had brought out Oh Boy, Bay City Rollers and then Queen with Bohemian Rhapsody. What a time to be a kid.
I'm glad that this home movie brought back good memories of better times!
I was living in London in 1975, not far from Oxford Circus.. I could be in this film somewhere.. it looks so dated now.
Me too, I lived at the top end of Great Titchfield Street.
it was 20 over tower bridge in '75? didn't know that
Where is The Sweeney’s bronze Ford ?
Or the Z Cars....forgotten the model.
It parked up in arthar dailys yard me oll china
Love the music!
I was 17 and went with my friend from high school for the month of July, fabulous experience, Ive always wanted to return, maybe on the 50th anniversary I will go back with my husband.
I remember the songs on the radio were Saturday Night by Bay City Rollers and Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy
I think that you may be shocked by London today and the traffic!
@@mackenzierough yes, I would be hesitant to visit London today, I think we would visit northern Scotland instead
@@rainkatt I hadn't been there for 6 years and just returned from there couldn't believe all traffic jams and pot holes in the roads and the rip off prices.
I'm being born out there somewhere - makes me more sad than happy though. Strange
As always in videos of this era, it amazes me that there were no lane markings on the roads, even just to separate the two opposite traffic directions! Only the bridges appear to have any. How people drove around Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square without any markings I'll never know.
Quickly, didn't have a chance to look down at the road!
Now look at the state of London
Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II had already been on the throne for 23 years by this point and was yet to have her Silver Jubilee. Puts it into perspective just how long ago these events were and how much has changed.
Her Christmas speech in 1975 was the first to be filmed outdoors at the bottom of the Buckingham Palace garden. You can even hear the loud 1970s engines and traffic rumble in the background.
it really does.
2:22 RRS Discovery now residing beside the V&A Dundee.
Amazing video. Beautiful London
Thanks for visiting.
I was 19 in that year, times were bit rough for me in the 70’s living at Brentwood and Southend in Essex at the time, so couldn’t relate to these pictures.
Sadly, London lost its character a very long time ago....
@martha sheilds bit harsh.
Great to see.
Wow! Where's the diversity? It all seems so calm and tranquil. It must have been due to a lack of cultural enrichment. Plus, knowing you're not going to be stabbed or mugged, must have been so boring.
Are you conveniently forgetting that murders still happened ? This was when the Yorkshire Ripper was getting into his stride, and you can't blame any non straight white people for his actions.
great music
Wish I had lived back then and died just in time for the 21st century.
Ya you missed out on 3 day weeks, armed robberies on a weekly basis, football hooliganism every weekend, high unemployment, etc. Good times!
@@djpeekay25 You forgot to mention IRA bombings.... silly you.
No internet. One - three channels to choose from on your black and white, eighteen stone television.
Fuck that. I wish I'd been born in 2100.
We had a colour television already by 1970-71 and we weren't toffs.
@@djpeekay25 the 1970s did have its plus points, and paved the way for the better lifestyle we have today
My second year driving a London taxi. An absolute joy it was. No mayor at all and London worked. Have a Mayor now London doesn't work. Then there was a case for abortion.
The good old days.
What’s the railway bridge in front of St Paul’s Cathedral?
The rail line had left Blackfriars (to the right out of the picture) and headed across the bridge at Ludgate Circus towards Holborn Viaduct. It was part of the BR Southern Region (South Suburban electric network). Next to the bridge out of view, on the right, was a NCP car park on what was, I believe, the last remaining bomb site in London. Hope this helps!
Does anyone happen to know the number of Islamic mosques that actually existed within the Greater London area during the mid-1970s?
You doing a school project or something? Doh!
Wow .....other times....
The Golden Age !!👑✨️✨️
Back in 75, a mate of mine told me in our school yard that Elvis was very ill and in hospital. I didn't believe him.
I bet he told you he's still *alive* too hah? Mind you it was 1975 so he *was!*
@@sanchoodell6789 😊😊
The skyline was so different
who`s music is this, great sound, could be from film. would by it if i could source it!
It is not commercially available it is from the Scorefitter library that is included with my Pinnacle studio editing software.
Ah the AEC Swift and Daimler Fleetline buses. As A child I thought they looked so sophisticated and modern, despite being very unreliable!
Amazing coverage although they did miss out on the pet shop on the south bank that sold foxes on a lead plus your usual monkey etc :-) I miss the seventies!
hphoto omg really
Pet shops also sold lion cubs
Ah, happy days. I'd just moved away from London in 1975. It was still British then, wasn't it? Oops, sorry, just popped back to opologise if you had to take refuge in your safe space.
Wgere did you move to, my friend?
Rascist AND wannabe patronising. You're the one who's hiding in their safe space, away from all the nasty 'foreigners'.
This is going back to a time when Croydon and Ealing were considered posh.
Croydon never was!