Tour of London Traffic: Double-Decker Buses & Black Cabs (1970) | British Pathé
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- Tour the streets of a 1970 London. See the double-decker buses and the black cabs that lined the streets featuring timeless landmarks like Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and Trafalgar Square.
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London. A sightseeing tour by car - travelling shots of London streets. Various scenes showing London taxis (black cabs) and double decker buses weaving their way through ordinary traffic on the streets of London. Filmed from the front of a moving vehicle we see Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park Corner, Kensington (?), Albert Memorial, Kensington High Street, Regent's Park (?), Park Lane (?), C/Us of back of a number 16 bus headed for Neasden, advert on back for "The Tyrant King," Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus, Eros, Shaftesbury Avenue (?), Leicester Square, Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square, the Strand, Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, the cenotaph, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Westminster Bridge, River Thames, various inner city streets. People wave at the cameraman so may well have been shot by cameraman on top of a van. Policeman is seen briefly, directing traffic. Bus has an advert on the side: "Rove Around with Rovers," - advertising a type of travel ticket. Very high angle shot of Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament (from tall building?). Camera follows bus along Embankment - advert on the side is for Ty-Phoo Tea. Another bus has an advertisement for Queen Anne Scotch Whisky. The front of a Shepherd's Bush bus is filmed from a vehicle in front. A Dulwich bound bus is filmed from a vehicle in front. C/U of radiator grill of bus. Has a London Transport plaque on the front of the bus, camera zooms in on the logo. Bank of England. St Paul's Cathedral. Law courts. If you recognise any landmarks or streets not mentioned above, please let Pathe know.
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Very rare glimpse of an NCB milk float at 5.40 ish on Oxford St delivering for the old London Co-op with either me or my workmate Georgie Turner at the wheel as we were the only two lucky ones to have the only two on the road at that time, happy days.
Michael Hawkins well spotted..I was a milkman in Chiswick for almost teenty years.
18:45 Did anyone notice that Aston Martin DB5 too?
Oliver Leonce I think it's a DB6 (By the headlamp covers).
Oh lol my bad
Oli S I did not see Mr Goldfinger !
Oli S What a beauty. Best looking Aston Martin ever.
@@DeltaSniperZRR No, but I noticed the coal lorry at the beginning. Much more interesting.
THAT was the "Real" London where drivers were so courteous that there were few traffic lights and few Yellow Lines, Double Yellow Lines, Parking Meters, Bus Lanes, Congestion Charges, Severe speed restrictions etc.
Iconic Double Decker "Routemaster" Buses where you could hop on and off in heavy traffic. Black simple Cabs. Clean streets and I could go on and on as I am a 68-year-old Londoner.Good Luck.
So courteous in fact that nobody stopped to let the pedestrians onto the zebra crossing in the opening few seconds! 🤣
@@Blade1310 You are, obviously, Under 30 years ago, not lived in London, and don't drive. Possinly all 3. lol
The approach to that Pedestrian Crossing (I took driving lessons around Trafalgar Square and Devils (Hyde Park) Corner) is at a point at a very busy where cars are accelerating so common road sense must prevail. If you suddenly stop,in the full knowledge there are cars immediately behind you, who would not expect you to do that, then you will, likely, cause a major problem
As we Londoners used to say "Use your noddle m8" 😀
@@Isleofskye You make 3 assumptions about me and 2 of them are wrong. Your defence of the vehicles not stopping is not worthy of consideration and is typical mindset of a lot of motorists today - a perfect example of why the Highway Code has had to be amended to show you now MUST stop when people are waiting to cross. Pity it took over 50 years for it to happen though!
The worst thing is that ignorant driving habits are commonplace everywhere - not just major cities - with selfish drivers having no regard to anything other than the end of their bonnet. 😒
What do you mean the "Real" London? Has London become an imaginary city now or something??
@@flaxhorizon The "real" London was one where a Newspaper vendor left his moneybag and papers overnight for people to buy The London Evening News and he would collect the money from the pavement in the morning.
The Reall London was where I broke down 3 times and got complete strangers to change my flat tyre (Lewisham, Croydon and Blackheath) and there was a real Community but now that Community feel only exists in small pockets.
A Real London where you would talk to strangers on a Bus and they would not be isolated in their own World on their mobile and where people in the park etc acknowledged each other instead of being immersed on their mobile .
A London where my friend's Dad would pull up at Bus Stops and take 2 or 3 strangers in,if they were going his way and drop them off
That kind of thing...
7:24 Amusing to see the sale at Lillywhites on Piccadilly Circus has been going strong since at least 1970
A very different London than it is today…. How lovely to see this and how sad to see how London is now…..
The whole world is different now... I'd like to be back in the 1970s.
It was a time when live music was amazing. Happy memories of the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm.
A big thanks to the poster of this video. I was smiling right through it. One of the lucky ones who travelled all over Europe in those days with the family. I close my eyes and try and remember it all. Don't remember much of 68, only remember the parks and the river trips. No one in their right mind would cycle in that city - no highway code was ever obeyed. People pulling out at random. The East End was a bit run down and dockland was still that - although dying. Love to see Paris in the same style.
Wish I had a time machine, I know exactly where I'd be going.
The Odeon, Leicester Square was showing Dr Zhivago (released 1965) so some parts of the film possibly even earlier than 1968?
I think it had a long run, noticed the reg plates on the cars were F reg - est Jan 1968...
What great filming, no litter in sight, lovely colours.. I wasn't made till a little later but like now I have a fondness for London even tho I'm not a native ... Great place 👌 👍
Wow 😮 amazing
sound would be good. But excellent film quality. How different some things are. but many familiar locations
I'd like to see some footage of Australia, before it was invaded by the Brits, haha!
London Dreams ♥️
Did anyone notice a heart in the film slide at the 4:11 mark? its not scratched out i think its smudging :)
This film needs some sound track to make it less boring
The Benny Hill theme , perhaps?
Loved every second of this, so nostalgic, I was 18 back in '70 and knew my way all over London as a driver, thanks guys❤
The past is a foreign country ;they do things differently there.
Opening lines of LP Hartleys book, The go between.
Yes this is the my London of 1970s...and when I visit it now I think I'm in a foreign country... Not Britain.
Sheer nostalgia bringing me back to summer jobs in London in the late sixties. Notice are the cars are virtually 100% British. Within the decade that would change. Streets looked so much neater then as did the well turned out red buses.
Great stuff. Thank you for a drive down memory street - rather than lane!
I love the old Routemaster buses but the buses today are far neater and cleaner, with no disgusting cigarette smoke.
Things weren't all better back then.
A lot of Anglias, Cortinas, Zephyrs and Escorts, Thames and Transit vans (Ford, American), Singers, Hillmans and Sunbeams (Chrysler Routes, American) VW Beetles and BMW 2002s (German), Alfas and Fiats (Italian) Citroens, Peugeots, Simcas, Renault 4s (French) and rose tinted filters (you).
I think it shows how we've become bombarded by advertising and warning signs, in my eyes this is where the neater look is.
The streets were so much emptier than now as well.
Yes no casually discarded fast food trash all over the place like now. Also very few street signs parking signs and all the other similar junk plastered all over the roads these days.
Not a Stabbing or Drug gangs in sight my once Great Britain I weep for it now
It was so much better then. I remember the whole country was so much better. Great to see this film.
When greedy cnuts sold off are nationalised industry to peasants who bought shares
@@uksilverstacker413 They only have the nhs left to sell - which is well under way..
London Back in the 1970s as per the video shown was clean. I was a toddler but I remember how clean the streets were. No Rubbish on the floor. Then the 80s came and people started to through rubbish on the floor, then the 90s came and London changed for ever. I miss the 70s/80s of the old London.
It's mainly because street cleaning was privatised, with the competitive tenders going to the cheapest (usually foreign-owned) cowboy outfits.
VK If Arabs are 3rd world, then why are they so rich and their countries are much developed than ours? Why do so many people go there for holidays?
Well... parts of London may have been clean, but certainly not Putney or Battersea, where I lived at the time.
@@TheEpicAB rich is not similar with education and quality .Arabs get rich biscose of petroleum but education and civilization =0
Same with Indians ,no matter how much money they'll have dirtiness never disappear
As a kid you ran the risk of a smack if you dropped litter .
I was born in the seventies... I'd love to go back to those days.
London is an absolute cess pool in comparison.
I wish you could go back as well
@@waynereid9471 D@mn right. I haven't lived in London for a long time because it changed so much, but if you live there and enjoy it then good for you.
Wow.... There are English people there, just before the invasion and present day occupiers!
I liked 1970. People were more relaxed.. Plenty of jobs and good music.
Far fewer people - must've been more bearable 🌳
It would have been a golden age for music that's for sure.
Looking at the films and media from that era. It often looks like a different country to me. I'm not saying it was all roses, but many things seem to have changed so much, and not always for the better..
cosmosspring I was! It was a great era! Great music, people with manners, no mobile phones, great clubs, people were far more chilled, plenty jobs, I would go back in a heartbeat!
@cosmosspring clown
So much nicer.
Nowadays the streets are full of gangs, rubbish & taliban..
All over the UK these days.
The whole of the UK is the same.
@@jamalstaines2818 I wouldn't say that. Yes it's bad in some big cities but rural areas are generally okay. London though, a totally different ball game..
Not a sign of graffiti or tags anywhere.
There still isn't.
If you can spot any graffiti on any off these central London routes now, i'd be surprised. In fact they've cleaned up the buildings now. in this film many are covered in grime & soot.
@@zivkovicable people nowadays put graffiti on their own body. And they are proud of it thinking that they are the only one with a "tattoo".
@@freebidou so there were no knifings or gangs before the people you despise entered you Garden of Eden country......ever heard of Jack The Ripper who slit women open from their throats to their stomachs not before removing their organs ....or the Krays who gouged out someone eye with a fireplace poker.....or frankie frazer and the richardsons who relished torture with electricity....what about the East End of London that became a "no go" area long before the first black person set foot anywhere near there....I could go on but I'm obviously dealing with someone of low intelligence especially from someone who can't even spell the word "cultural" correctly.
@@columbmurray no 1 jack the ripper killed defenseless women in the east end in 1888. No 2 the east end people hated each other with a passion, the "punch ups" they had with each other were the norm. No.3 the east end was riven with racism....because the docks were near -by, and people from all over the world settled there....but the local east enders would give them a hell of a time, making the immigrant lives very uncomfortable indeed.... when the council estates were built in Hertfordshire and the east ender were moved out of the slums, their intrenched bigotry came out with them to infect the innocent people of Hertfordshire .
I´d almost forgotten how the London of my childhood was coated in soot!
I remember thinking St Pancras was just pure black --- I had no idea it was stone under there.
@@pigknickers2975 Also Big Ben, I thought that was their natural colours until they cleaned them up some years back lol..
Now,most of the inhabitants look like they’re coated in soot.
Sandblasting made all the difference!
Birmingham was the same
Back in the days of how England used to be, without the savages.
No lane markings, but everyone got on together with a mixture of common sense and courtesy. How times have changed!
Indeed. Even in the 1980s it was still civilised. It's all gone downhill this century.
I love seeing London in 1950’s and 1960’s Programes like The Saint and Gideon’s Way and Edgar Wallace I like the old buildings.
Yes remarkable levels of road courtesy. I think modern lane markings do create confusion and hence aggression.
@@ds1868 All changed from 2000 a different world 🌎
@@catherinehamer5653 You drive how you are as a person . Uncivilised behaviour by some but still most people are Cultured its just we have to put up with Idiots . How our standards have dropped to accommodate, just mix with my kind of nice people who love life & respect others 👏
As a Londoner born and bred I absolutely love this stuff.
Me too.
CrimeJail This footage shows very clearly that EU immigration has been genuinely extreme. I think that a fair comment you know.
chat wow The amount is wrong, very wrong. you don’t have to be native to see it
What about now? Are you a muslim yet?
@@pepepinochetshelicoptertou2696, you are crazy, as the years move on, population increases along side, stop blaming EU for this, every country's population on this planet has increased by population size as at now compared to the 1970's
There's something magical about buses, especially red buses, especially double decker buses, especially the old RT types.
I agree
At least buses today don't have chewing gum all over them and the rancid stink of cigarette smoke.
It was disgraceful getting rid of all the old Routemaster Buses.They were a genius design and much faster than the driver/conductor operation of today.
@@johndean4765 And incredibly dirty...Nearly all TFL busses are now zero emission. It's now possible for an asthmatic to walk down Oxford without suffocating. Also they were no good if you were a wheelchair user, or a parent with a baby buggy. Busses are much faster today with separated bus lanes and tap in payment.
No Starbucks or McDonald's no phone zombies or grown-up s on scooters riding on the pavement..
This is amazing, incredible footage from a time past. Born in Waterloo in 1965 then i grew up in Brixton. Dad drove the old buses out of Brixton Garage when i was a kid. It actually hurts me to see the London i grew up in, all gone now. I miss it all even the grime. There was still lots of the old London there - the streets were so much better, everything was.
Im still stuck there to the annoyance of my best mate who is always telling me to move on. How can i when what replaced it doesnt compare ?
My sons are in their 20s ( my ex wife passed away) and if i could i go back in time with them so they could experience the childhood i had it would be fantastic
London looked less cluttered with street signage and there seemed to be alot less litter about,yeah all the great buildings had layers of soot on them must be from nearby battersea power station,they scrubbed up well and look great today,what?, no cyclists or rickshaw drivers?,just as well,they wouldn't last long in that smog,great clip,loved it,thanks for uploading.
1970 when London was a better place than it is now.....progress !
I grew up in London and cycled everywhere as a kid. If I could turn the clock back I'd be back there in a flash.
Same here. I grew up in a Northern Industrial town and loved the freedom to go where I wanted on foot or bike. I couldn’t say the same for my grandkids now🙄
@@Sonnymonster Good old Sadiq Kahn introduced a couple of LTN/s to my area, and now the local school has reinstalled the bike sheds it tore down in the 80's. Also it's now possible to cycle all the way from my home to the centre of the city on a protected bike lane.
Lovely to find this old video. I drove buses on most of them routes from September 1967. Route 9 and 11 were the main ones, Liverpool St to Shepherds Bush (11) and Liverpool St to Mortlake Garage (9) Retired now and live in Kent. Happy days long gone now
It's very sad
I hope you had better lane discipline than these plonks
2 of my regular routes at that time. Moved out of London in 1975!
Living in OZ now......my routes were 14. 11. 22 and 31. Good times.....
teledine. Sorry, can’t help you with that one.....
Interesting to see 90% of the cars were British made. How things have changed!
I was there in 1973 loved it -
👏👏👏 que what a beauty city!!!!! '70.... 💜🇬🇧!!!
Mr Celebrity Yes, I went to school in England during the 70s and were in London with my parents in December 1986. In 2012 I went to London and was shocked over that brittish cars were gone.
Not just the cars, the people too.
Imagine London used to be a city with English cars and a majority English population..
Such a shame what happened to it.
Yep. English people got very greedy.
@@norwegianzound Nope immigrants got needy.
@@johnsinclair8903 I blame the beaker folk who came from pre historic Iberia. What's wrong with just cupping your hands? Bloody disgrace coming over here, this is OUR land. See I didn't even mention the Saxons, what a bunch of pricks they were.
Blair opened the gates to all and sundry
Well, globalisation was always intended to destroy anything WyTte and European. Particularly cHriStian.
Hmm, not one comment about mass immigration. I see censorship is good and well.
This is pure gold. It takes me back to when I lived in London back in the 1970s, a fantastic time for me, when the city had a very strong identity and you felt you were part of something really special.
It was true for me too ... I found my lifetime love there in 1966 ... wonderful times and so relaxed, interesting ...
But that would make you over 55 years old! That can’t be right!
@@dommidavros2211 yeah he's probably really old now.
Not anymore it’s virtually a 3rd world dump
Giles Scanlon Watch your tongue you’re talking to somebody that can remember what the belt felt like.
The man is practically a war hero.
The film showing at The London Pavilion (7:16) is The Beatles in 'Yellow Submarine July 17th to Aug 6th 1968
Well spotted MK. So this London film is July / August 1968, not 1970. Thought it looked a bit older than 1970.
What a pity, it has no sound .. but great footage!
It was better in the 70s Its just over populated now Glad i saw it at its best
Britain sold itself out. Great video, made me emotional.
Fabulous film full of classic cars, buses, and taxis, even still some 3-door Beardmore cabs. RT buses still running, but mostly Routemasters on the central London routes. The West End hasn't changed much in 45 years, unlike the City, and this is well worth watching right through. Thanks again to whoever put this up. Great !
Extremely high quality footage for its age. Pity about it being silent though, but considering the tech being used we're lucky that the picture is so sharp.
This is the London I can remember !
I saw one of the buses heading to my home town where I was born , for a moment i wished it could have stopped outside my house so i could see my Beloved Dad again he collapsed and died before my very eyes aged 43 ,,i was just 6. In 1973 im chocked up 😭💔
Bit before my time, but it certainly looks much nicer and quite peaceful
When London was still British and English.
Now when i visit London, i feel like visiting a random city in Pakistan or Middle East with some nice European buildings
Where there was high inflation, low wages and a stagnant economy…… where I’m sure your parents more complained about ‘Britain going to the dogs’…….ahh yes the good old days 🤣🤣
I was drawn to this as a result of having been born in 1970. However, much as I hate to be pedantic I'm adamant that the footage was actually shot in the summer of 1968. Ads for the Julie Andrews film 'Star' & the TV series 'the Tyrant King' certainly point to this as does the sight of 'Sweet Charity' being performed at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Apparently that run starring one Gretchen Wyler ceased in November of '68. Nonetheless this is terrific footage. I shall be looking up more of them.
It was so much better in those days. Not perfect, but life was conducted within accepted parameters of acceptable behaviour. Defined by the English people, not the Third World.
yes, 3 minute warning, bad teeth, crap food, numerous wars going on, awful third rate porn, armed robberies, hooliganism,, loads of drugs, and lost the world cup, dodgy fashion, scandals, awful politicians, hmm, yes, was a lot better then
Although there is something to be said as to how we made things, except for BL,
Try telling that to the zombie PC brigade (who now infest all the mainstream political parties).
You're not wrong, Ruddagah!
If you can remember the racial riots in Wathamstow and Brixton in those days of the 1960s and 1970s into the early 1980's we are not quite free from the third world back then.
The London I used to live in has changed beyond all recognition and not for the better. Wild horses couldn't drag me back now.
Great video or should i say 35mm footage ... WOW all those British made cars just shows how we have slipped away over the years ... I started work in Central London in 1974 as a repair engineer and drove around most of these places and I did that job for 25 years.
The driving was still sharp and you had to have your wits about you ... never saw many bumps or scrapes during my years there.
Nice to see the DER tv rental van and Moss Bros ... thanks for uploading this film ... great stuff.
Please hurry up and invent time travel.
Oh it was great, the days when the British government, was, comparatively speaking, on the side of the British people & tried to make decent deals for us.
When did it all go wrong, loved these days.
It started to go to pot around 79 when thatcher the snatcher became pm.
We’ve got organisations like the WEF running the show, United Nations, Trilateral Commission etc.
Sleep walking into a technocratic dictatorship based on the Chinese social credit system…
@@peterstudley1804no. It went wrong when Blair opened the gates to all and sundry
@@davidbillyard6629spot on.
London seemed a lot nicer back then . I don't think i spotted a single police car.
...wow a whole half-century ago ...this was the London my parents were familiar with ...RIP Ma & Pa
Would you want them to see modern London?
@@karlosthejackel69 no. be a big disappointment for sure
When London was a pleasure to visit..
Now it's a foreign country !....
I'm not sure you'd be a positive contributor if you did visit...So best for everyone if you stay in you village.
All British and European cities would’ve been awesome in the back then. They’re fucked now.
So sad to see the state of London now compared to this, used to be quite charming. Place has lost its identity
You could say the same for most cities in the UK nowadays.
fyi, London was extremely polluted during those years and not as green as it is today. You will hate it.
It’s evolving, you have to move with the times otherwise you get left behind
@@DJ_Dopamine Things are much worse in France now, due to massive and out of control immigration, as you have seen during the violent events at the Stade de France, near Paris, aggravated by the lies of Darmanin, the pathetic french Home Minister..
Well it is less British now that is all I’m going to say.
London's lifeblood, RT's and RM's. Beautiful.
I lived in London as a teenager 1971. Had a bookshop job Charing Cross Road. Shared a West Hampstead tiny bedsit with my 17 yr old girlfriend who worked on Regent Street. Loved the parks on the weekends. Ah, to be young again!!
Sir how old were you in 1971?
@@southlondon86 19 yrs old.
@@fortybelow1973 Did you Marry your 17 year old girlfriend ? Where do you live now?
@@lornaneillcowper6496 No, I married an island girl from Guam 1979. We met while she was a passenger in a car that gave me a ride and a place to stay. We fell in love working together in 'Cactus Pete's Casino' in Jackpot Nevada. Lived in Canada but moved to Guam 1986. Cancer took her 2009. I'm still on Guam but plan to move to the Philippines, as an unattached man. Lots of other stuff happened but I don't want to get boring.
Where were all the various emergency vehicles with their bright flashing lights and noisy high pitched sirens, that you both constantly see, and hear, tearing about the incredibly busy, and terribly congested, London streets nowadays?
Far less cunts about my friend.
Our Metropolitan Police, for all their faults even then, weren't slavishly imitating the Americans in those days.
Modern drama ! 😉
Charles Wilson
They’re running (down) the country.
@@swaneknoctic9555 I was thinking exactly the same thing 😅😅
In the first 30 seconds, a Mustang and a 1964 Ford Country Sedan.
I was 11 then.
This brought back so many lovely memories for me.
Thankyou...
My late father was a black cab driver, makes me feel very nostalgic watching this, thanks for posting!
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@@Automedon2 That was called "The Knowledge" and it must have been quite a test to remember all that they had to learn!
My mums dad was a cabbie , I still have three of his Austin spanner’s in my toolbox. When we used to drive up to Camden from lewisham to visit him and Hetty, he always used to ask which route did you come, did you come down Marchmont St?
london looking like london. long gone now unfortunately
Fantastic round about that time I used to with a group of friends buy a "Red Rover" and stay out all day. Most of the sites are familiar to me. Great cars ( no German or Japanese ones ) the odd Yank motor a few French and Italian. Life was great then.
As a kid i used to excited to go to london for a trip. Now? I dont want to go near that place
Hit the nail on the head there.
Some fantastic cars on the streets of London. Lovely to see
This footage might be a year or so before 1970.
There is an ad on the back at the bus at 5:51 for 'The Tyrant King' which came out in 1968.
There are several Mk 2 Cortinas, and Viva HBs but only one Escort Mk1s among the cars. I think Mk1 Escorts would have been numerous in London by 1970 since they had been out since January 1968 and were a very popular model.
You know a lot more about cars than me but I was thinking the same. Doesn't quite feel like 1970 to me, slightly earlier. Just looks like the sixties to me.
I spotted at least one car with an "F" registration, so the film was definitely shot sometime after August 1968. The other clue is that the new style black on yellow rear number plates started to appear slowly from 1968 onwards (they didn't become compulsory until a few years later though), but I can't see any in this clip, which means that it was not filmed much later than 1968 either. If you put these facts together, then a reasonable guess might be that it was shot in late 1968 or early 1969.
pigknickers while we are at it... where are all the foreign cars and trucks?? I worked in London then and it was a magic time. It makes no difference what part of the country we live in now... what we had then has gone and I miss it very much.
Silver Line 69 Yes I know. The loss of this old world is a definite sadness in my life. I moved out from London 20 years ago but when I go back I'm always struck by the same feelings - how much has been lost and how much better things were then.
Silver Line 69 Yes, it is amazing to see that more than 90% of the vehicles were British made. What is more, I expect that most other manufactured items were still made over here.
It really is heart wrenching to think of all the wealth and employment prospects that the people of our country have lost due to the myth of free trade being a good thing for everyone. In reality, the only people who benefit from free trade are the top 5%.
Some great shots of the old RT & RM buses... they had so much character compared to the current TFL fleet.
Yes. I agree. I watch these videos for the buses! There are two clips of roof-box RT's which would have had only a few months of life left in 1970.
No modern bus has any character what so ever
And the pollution was lovely too. Ya knew what ya was breathing 'n all.
I agree with these comments. It was in about 1970 my love affair with London seriously took off, but I always remember my mum saying at the time "London isn't like it used to be" so I guess every generation of Londoners looks at London and mourns the passing of how it was when they were young.
But unfortunately it is getting worse make no mistake
@@stevedickson5853 but diversity is our strength? Multi cultural societies are better aren’t they?
@@JosephStealin It's worse because it's almost impossible to buy anywhere and rents are ridiculous. All the diversity that made it great is being forced to the margins and it's becoming a monoculture of the boring rich.
@@leehazlewoodism the diversity has destroyed London. The London of the 1940s 50s and even the 60s was ethnically homogeneous and relative to today a safe place to live. London today is horrendous and it isn’t the indigenous people that commit the vast majority of the crimes.
@@JosephStealin You understand that correlation does not imply causation, right? In the 40s, 50s and 60s far more people smoked and ate chips made with animal fat than nowadays, maybe that's the reason why you perceived London was a safer place to live.
Or perhaps it's just blatant racism. Hard to know.
I was born in 1988. This video was made before I even exist in this world 18 years later. Can’t believe the world has begun like this already like as if it’s already 2020. I really thanked my parents for having them met each other and have me born on this earth and see the beautiful world created by god. Do you guys feels the same way.?. I love this kind of video. If only I can travel in the past and be here.. it would be amazing
That is so lovely, God bless you
@ PinoyT. The UK is unfortunately a different place now to the one shown in the video ☹️ As so is the USA ☹️
A time when London streets was dominated by RT's and RM's and over 85% of bus routes had conductors.
And sticky seats, chewing gum everywhere and the rancid stink of cigarette smoke.
Ah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
No it aint. Its all in the past.
And I really miss hopping on and off the old Routemasters. An absolute blessing when they got stuck in traffic in Trafalgar Square and you needed to get to Charing Cross station in a hurry!
100% right Joanne.:)
I lived less than 2 miles from all The South London Bridges and we had 17 Bus Routes in our High Street and I lived over a market so I could, virtually, guarantee hopping on a bus at the traffic lights , serving the market, in The Main Road and completely 1/2 my journey or the whole route depending which Bus I jumped on. lol
14:43 D.E.R domestic electrical rental. Tv . The red anglia van
What a fantastic video and very good quality for something done in 1970.
Shot on film, which always makes things look better!
Yes. And we even had jet airplanes and computers back then! 😳 LOL
Notice how well people are dressed!
Hardly any foreign cars, fast forward 51 years later hardly any British cars on the road now 😱😱
My parents lived in Apsley House at this time working for the Duke of Wellington - the huge brown house with the columns on the corner of Hyde Park which you can see at 4:13 and 4:57. I lived there until '75 and have dim memories of those times. This was a personal trip back in time for me, my parents would likely have been in the house when this was being filmed.
Apsley House. A very Beautiful Building. Majestic . Supreme. A Postman told me a very very long time ago, The Address ..... No. 1 , London.
Was the brown colour its natural (stone?) facing or did it just need a good powerwash lol
My Auntie worked in boots Piccadilly Circus, don't think she would like London now is she was alive ☹️
So sorry to hear of your loss! And so young! Your poor aunt spending what little life she had working in Boots!
Dommi Davros no she was a prostitute around Piccadilly well known for never taking off her boots
I don't think she would like your grammar.
actually this was filmed in late 1968 hohoh
staypress I agree as something is advertised as 5/-
BACK THEN Were loads of council flats.... don't seem to be there these days. What with the NEW YORK style tower blocks being erected they've demolished former council estates and most Londoners moved on further out. SAD, SAD, SAD.
You can blame Thatcher for selling off huge tranches of the council housing stock; you can blame Labour for filling what remained with their "ethnic minority" client base.
Because they do not want new migrants to live in council houses.You have to really work and do well in London to stay.
"New migrants" depress the wages of the indigenous working class. That is why the globalists like to import them in quantity.
Councils didn't have the money to modernize those homes. They needed double glazing, exterior cladding, wall insulation, roof insulation, new electric sockets, central heating, all to fix mold, damp and condensation problems. That would have taken decades. Cheaper to give each tenant a financial reward for taking care of the home. What was £80K becomes £250K
Trevor Munday
It’s because of people like the FAT ARSE HOLE BORIS JOHNSON whose NOT PATRIOTIC 😡 I’m a British born Asian in my mid - age now. I’m proud of being British and there’s no need to be inspired by anything American! Apart from 1 or 2 thugs maybe.
Is this London?..sad to see it today, the politicians have made a real mess of this beautiful city /😪
I never heard a foreign language on my London 1960's streets until I was about 17 and I was less than 3 miles from these scenes and yet now,out of 8 million Londoners,only 1 in 4 or 27% have English as their first language
When leftists say " London has always been multicultural " show them this . The 1971 census showed that 86% of Londoners identified as white British ( not including Irish) who were a large presence then . London had large permanent white working class communities that had lived in areas for generations, they have been displaced and replaced by social engineering, if it could happen here it could happen anywhere.
@sam mark but he is right. One thing people forget is that the 1970s had the highest amount of armed robberies, more than any other decade.
@Stouffer But I bet that wouldn't have been the case if this was recorded in Brixton instead of Westminster
Great video yet why do people watch these videos and their first reaction is to bang on about skin colour. The world has changed/constantly changes. You cant live in the past, grow up.
The place is a toilet . When I went to New York city I was bracing myself for all the ethnic , but it wasn't too bad. Quite a lot of whites , people were friendly and would help with directions. Then I went to London, it was a toilet. Had trouble finding where I was staying. Asked directions at a cafe, couldn't bloody speak English. Young French, finally got a black cab. He was a Cockney , I thought this is London. You wouldn't know it was London, if it wasn't for the beautiful historic buildings. Some of the people and that bloody mayor can piss off. All they do is look down on the rest of England.
@sarah jones utter rubbish !
Notice NO TRAFFIC LIGHTS around Hyde Park Corner !
EXACTLY as I remember it on my driving LESSONS there ! lol
Once you can handle that London 'free-for-all" and " every Man for himself" you can handle any UK driving conditions.
Tough on lessons though as we also did the old Trafalgar Square , where, again, no traffic control.
Pollution (look at the colour of public buildings), lower life expectancy, higher road deaths, less disposable income, limited affordability to international travel, the list goes on...I was there. Happy Days.
NO Bloody Cyclists! (well one) !! Those were the days...
Mick Ronson Actually many more people cycled back then, as fewer people owed vehicles. It is just that people did not cycle in central London as it was considered dangerous.
Get on your bike Mick. We've had enough of your fumes mate ;)
As much as I hate cyclists and I cycle myself. Much feel safer cycling on pavements even if I had 1 today
I used to cycle down just about every street in this film, at that time. I would come home from work at the GLC to my home in Kennington, get on my racing bike, and zip around all the West End including Hyde Park Corner and Park Lane and so forth, usually going somewhat faster than the cars. Never got knocked off once.
When London was full of actual Londoners and not just a 3rd world transit camp.
As we see so much of the RT bus, reg. NLE 829 towards the end, I looked this up (all right, sad, but that's me!!). It is RT 3722 which spent most of its life until 1965 as a green, Country Area bus before being repainted red for the Central Area It was scrapped at Wombwell South Yorkshire in 1973.
Don't be shy! Nothing wrong with taking an interest - and you saved me the trouble of looking it up!
You can never even see the pavement in big cities now, because every square inch of road surface, during all daylight hours for 7 days per week, is as packed with vehicles as it could possibly be, like some kind of multi-colored plastic puzzle. Now all cities look the same at street level: Gaudy, frantically cluttered, full of people who look either predatory, hunted, or otherwise profoundly ill at ease with the unremitting dangerousness of their surroundings.
a wonderful description
The good old days long gone now
Very much long gone.
Not being racist, but.
@@The86rick speak for yourself son.
we can bring them back, just a matter of remembering who we are and having pride and discipline. Its possible
Not from our memories though!!!👌
@@The86rick is this younger generation lying again? all of those are 100% worse nowadays.
the police didn't harass people. the acted like public servants. society back then wasn't atheist so equality of access to healthcare, etc, was far better.
I first visited London as an 11 yr old in the hot summer of 1976. I seem to recall it still had this busy but unspoilt aspect
When London was London...
Back in 1970, London was inhabited by humans. Not animals.
True it’s FCUKED destroyed by the third world invaders. And traitors in our governments
Great video, I started driving a Black Cab in London in 1975. It brings back memories of better times.
Im a cabbie now, have been for thirteen years , it must of been amazing in those days, this brought a tear to my eye, London is ruined now.
Be lucky!!!
@@simonhadenough2267 I bet mate , just said this and was called a racist 😂
Nearly half a century ago.