I went to London for the first time in the summer of 1974. I stayed for two months going to a language school. I was 13 at the time. How time flies and the world changes!
No Glen. Everything _seems_ nice in this film, but I remember the 3 day week, the miners strike, the power cuts, the rubbish towering high in the street. Women got paid less then their male counterparts for doing the exact same jobs. Marital rape was not considered a crime. Maybe people were optimistic but life wasn’t necessarily better.
@@JulieWallis1963 marital rape was considered a crime, the 3 day week was a temporary measure as a response to mass labor strikes during the growing pains of a young energy industry, and there's little to no rubbish in the street. Women got paid less than their male counterparts is a myth that is pervasive back then as it is now especially when during this time wherein the act to equalize pay was instituted.
Great to see this footage from nearly 50 years ago. How England has changed though? Now, I love my country and I've served my country (as have generations of my family and loved ones), so I feel particularly stronger on this than most on here I'm sure. I have and remain proud to be ENGLISH (it seems ANYONE can get a passport these days - and do - and then call themselves British, so I prefer not to use that word). And now I'm just sad and angry that my country is being sold down the river by gutless officials who have and consistently continued to fail the English people and this country. If I was young enough today I would leave these shores never to return, so that I don't witness further this great island, with its wealth of heritage, it's contribution throughout history to human civilisation and the indomitable strength of its people, beaten and broken anymore than they already are. It's nothing like the country I was born and raised into, the country my ancestors fought and died for, and its future is looking bleaker year by year 🇬🇧 Can/will anyone be able to avoid the tsunami of cultural annihilation taking place. I'd say not. Wouldn't you?
Sad isn’t it. I guess an entire country built on stealing other peoples countries and annihilating their culture, masterminding the slave trade, is gonna get some that visited back on it eventually, huh? And it was sold down the river by thatcher 40 years ago when she sold off and/or destroyed all our national assets.
"If you are not absolutely certain do not call anyone an Englishman, they may be from Scotland or Wales"; I see 50% of the population is excluded from that statement.
“Four thousand miles of coastline which have kept it conquered for the last thousand years” Funny, that didn’t seem to stop Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Cuba, Jamaica, the Philippines, Cyprus, Sri Lanka and all the other island nations in the world from being conquered.
It’s easy to get out the rose coloured spectacles, but let’s not forget we had a major oil crisis, Middle East wars, Vietnam, unacceptable levels of pollution, buildings were all covered in soot from 100 years of burning coal…. Power cuts, bins over flowing……. nothing changes 😮
Wealth isn't everything. I'd rather live in a high-trust, homogenous nation - you can't put a price on that. Also unlike today Britain wasn't borrowing £100bn per year to keep the lights on in the 1970s, if they had children of the 2000s would have grown up in a quite literally bankrupt nation - which is what future generations have to look forward to here
If you went back in time to 1997 and told people the current state is how our country would turn out after 27 years of Blairism they would call you a far right conspiracy theorist
@@DavidFennessy-yj7dupay a visit to Bradford, Leicester, Blackburn, Oldham, Boston, London and many more towns and cities, before you claim everything is normal.😮
It’s understandable for British people to not like entire towns overrun by a large ethnic groups, it’s their home country. But at the same time one city doesn’t represent the whole of England, the country isn’t overrun by immigrants. Some towns and city’s have more immigrants than English it’s true, London is known for being very multi cultural too. Bear in mind England invaded many countries as we know it’s even in this video in case you missed it. So we can’t complain about the reverse effect really can we? Plus we forced invasions, in contrast to us inviting foreign people to come here. Not including illegals of course. The government allowed the country to go in this direction, the British government.
Hey you ignorant fool. Migration is what made England great, but you are too stupid to realise that. And as for free speech aren’t you allowed to express you moronic views. Sounds a lot like free speech to me. You should educate yourself instead of parroting racist idiocy.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has a seat on the UN, sovereignty with defined birders, a central bank with its own currency, embassies in foreign countries. Definitely a county
London is in fact the Capital of England and England does not include Scotland Wales or Northern Ireland. Great Britain includes England, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Please correct your errors. 😬
I went to London for the first time in the summer of 1974. I stayed for two months going to a language school. I was 13 at the time. How time flies and the world changes!
I lived in London from 1964 til 1971...good times.
What a lovely place London was back then
It was very very very dirty and polluted
It's so sad when narrator says it been conquered for over a thousand years, how wrong he is today😢
Sorry I meant not conquered!!
It is even more lovely today! For starters, you can now see the natural colour of the stone used for buildings.
@@LordTrossachs if you can see the buildings through the piles of trash
Everything seamed much more optimistic in those days
they did ok until 2003, and then you think - was that the EU effect ?
No Glen. Everything _seems_ nice in this film, but I remember the 3 day week, the miners strike, the power cuts, the rubbish towering high in the street.
Women got paid less then their male counterparts for doing the exact same jobs. Marital rape was not considered a crime.
Maybe people were optimistic but life wasn’t necessarily better.
@@JulieWallis1963 ok karen.
@@JulieWallis1963 hi ya I agree but life seamed simpler in those days
@@JulieWallis1963 marital rape was considered a crime, the 3 day week was a temporary measure as a response to mass labor strikes during the growing pains of a young energy industry, and there's little to no rubbish in the street.
Women got paid less than their male counterparts is a myth that is pervasive back then as it is now especially when during this time wherein the act to equalize pay was instituted.
Great to see this footage from nearly 50 years ago.
How England has changed though?
Now, I love my country and I've served my country (as have generations of my family and loved ones), so I feel particularly stronger on this than most on here I'm sure.
I have and remain proud to be ENGLISH (it seems ANYONE can get a passport these days - and do - and then call themselves British, so I prefer not to use that word).
And now I'm just sad and angry that my country is being sold down the river by gutless officials who have and consistently continued to fail the English people and this country.
If I was young enough today I would leave these shores never to return, so that I don't witness further this great island, with its wealth of heritage, it's contribution throughout history to human civilisation and the indomitable strength of its people, beaten and broken anymore than they already are.
It's nothing like the country I was born and raised into, the country my ancestors fought and died for, and its future is looking bleaker year by year 🇬🇧
Can/will anyone be able to avoid the tsunami of cultural annihilation taking place.
I'd say not. Wouldn't you?
Sad isn’t it. I guess an entire country built on stealing other peoples countries and annihilating their culture, masterminding the slave trade, is gonna get some that visited back on it eventually, huh? And it was sold down the river by thatcher 40 years ago when she sold off and/or destroyed all our national assets.
Very well said.
It's definitely changed, but NOT for the better.
The cost of joining the EEC on a lie by Edward Heath :(
Already did. I moved to Japan. Of all the places with traditional conservative values, it feels like home. Best move I ever made
Love to Britain from India ❤️
for exploiting you ?
@@sesrek Are you out of your mind? Take your crap out of my comment, you fool.
Sir please redeem
@@voronazavrok Saar
@@arbjful you bloody
I believe the narrator is Robert McKenzie, a Canadian best known for his swingometer on the BBC election coverage from 1955 to 1979
Sounds Canadian.
That Horse Guard is a handsome dude.
Oh wait - it's me.
Wow.. what a different London is now 😳😳😳
That calendar is from 1971 most likely since I was born September 12 on a Sunday and here that day falls on a Sunday as well.
You walked out of a job and into another the same day
Interesting comment about '4 Thousand miles of unconquered coastlines', if only they could see what lay ahead.
God bless Blighty! 🇬🇧
Where did we go wrong
Ho never mind best not to ask
We joined the EEC on a lie by Edward Heath and gave up our sovereignty.
Much has changed since 1974.
I was expecting that guy to put on a Hawaiin shirt when he took of his Bowler hat.
And there was hardly any sky scrapers back then,
Is my XJE ready for delivery yet?! ;)
Communist wants your car in the name of nation
Now that's Wyoming for you
Since when was The Isle of Mann in England or the UK
My goodness! British people in their Capital City. How wonderful!
Who decided to destroy this?
Who voted for the demise?
Know The British Reel 1 (1978)
How the mighty have fallen.
"If you are not absolutely certain do not call anyone an Englishman, they may be from Scotland or Wales"; I see 50% of the population is excluded from that statement.
Watching this in 2024,how it has changed for the worse.
“Four thousand miles of coastline which have kept it conquered for the last thousand years”
Funny, that didn’t seem to stop Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Cuba, Jamaica, the Philippines, Cyprus, Sri Lanka and all the other island nations in the world from being conquered.
WHEN GREAT BRITAIN WAS ACTUALLY GREAT.
It’s easy to get out the rose coloured spectacles, but let’s not forget we had a major oil crisis, Middle East wars, Vietnam, unacceptable levels of pollution, buildings were all covered in soot from 100 years of burning coal…. Power cuts, bins over flowing……. nothing changes 😮
Wealth isn't everything. I'd rather live in a high-trust, homogenous nation - you can't put a price on that. Also unlike today Britain wasn't borrowing £100bn per year to keep the lights on in the 1970s, if they had children of the 2000s would have grown up in a quite literally bankrupt nation - which is what future generations have to look forward to here
i did not know that being on time would be a rare thing ?
This human family no longer exists. 😢
Calendar for 1973
This was Britain ? Never again
If you went back in time to 1997 and told people the current state is how our country would turn out after 27 years of Blairism they would call you a far right conspiracy theorist
Electricity discovered by Italians
Unfortunately the U.K. is now finished
I was born there so sad
Finished? No. Undergoing change in common with every other country, yes. Nothing stays the same.
@@Ralphs-House utter nonsense
@@shabbos-goy9407all cities are changing constantly…if you don’t like it here then you can go to the moon…
London is a lot darker looking place now.
Because of all the shade from the skyscrapers, right?
I was 18 in this yeat
You only want to be called British, if you're not English ha.
now its Britistan 2024
Yes, a whole 3% of the population is Muslim now.
The first Empire where the sun never set was not the British, it was the Spanish one under Philip Ii. Sorry!
Yeah because Spain had colonies in the all the 4 corners of the earth didn’t it? Oh yeah that’s right it didn’t so the point he was making stands.
This is back when Britain was actually British, and wasn't overrun by millions of third-world migrants, and British people actually had free speech.
Britain’s always had immigration, it’s a legacy of having an Empire, also that’s a very emotive term…‘overrun’….
@@DavidFennessy-yj7dupay a visit to Bradford, Leicester, Blackburn, Oldham, Boston, London and many more towns and cities, before you claim everything is normal.😮
It’s understandable for British people to not like entire towns overrun by a large ethnic groups, it’s their home country. But at the same time one city doesn’t represent the whole of England, the country isn’t overrun by immigrants. Some towns and city’s have more immigrants than English it’s true, London is known for being very multi cultural too.
Bear in mind England invaded many countries as we know it’s even in this video in case you missed it. So we can’t complain about the reverse effect really can we? Plus we forced invasions, in contrast to us inviting foreign people to come here. Not including illegals of course. The government allowed the country to go in this direction, the British government.
Hey you ignorant fool. Migration is what made England great, but you are too stupid to realise that. And as for free speech aren’t you allowed to express you moronic views. Sounds a lot like free speech to me. You should educate yourself instead of parroting racist idiocy.
Very true the original
Britain isn't a country. It's three countries: England, Scotland, and Wales.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has a seat on the UN, sovereignty with defined birders, a central bank with its own currency, embassies in foreign countries. Definitely a county
London is in fact the Capital of England and England does not include Scotland Wales or Northern Ireland.
Great Britain includes England, Scotland and Wales.
The United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Please correct your errors. 😬
Mf how are you going to correct someone from OFFICIAL NEWS IN NINETEEN SEVENTY FOUR
@@davestrider4973
My favourite pastime is to correct errors.
now brits r ruled by india and goods of china😂zzzz
tolls of history
British is now an insult to some...... me..? I'm Welsh lol