This Is London Reel 1 (1950)
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2014
- British Travel Association travelogue. Commentary by Rex Harrison.
River Thames - Tower Bridge. Various boats travel up the river. Tower of London - L/S and shot inside the gates. Various shots of London landmarks showing different types of architecture. High angle L/S of a procession of judges. Bank of England - L/S. "At the heart of commerce." Various shots of signs hanging at the sides of buildings - include Yorkshire Insurance and "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese." pub. Fleet Street. High angle of steps of St Paul's covered with people having their lunch. C/U of "typists" having their lunch break. Various shots of the dome of St Paul's from various spots in the city. Amen Court, Paternoster Row, Ave Maria Lane, Hanging Sword Alley, Bleeding Heart Yard are all mentioned as quiet places where the lawyers "think". Barristers walk through quiet gardens and courtyard. Fleet Street - traffic moves through. Low angle of the mythical Griffin guarding Temple Bar. Various high shots of Piccadilly Circus. Underground station sign. Pall Mall. West End. Shopping arcades. Bond Street - shoppers walk along, moving camera shots. Elegant woman buys a cabbage (?) from Shepherd Market. Various shots of the market.
Women sit at a table having a meal outside a cafe - they drink wine. People eat their sandwiches in the "Palace Garden". Dorchester Hotel - various shots. Hyde (?) Park. Low angle shot of statue of Peter Pan. Another shot of children gathered around the statue. Serpentine. Woman and her child walk along with dogs on a lead. Lido, children and adults swim and lounge on the shore. Outdoor cafe. Women in swimsuits sit at a table together. Horse riding through the park. Open air theatre - various shots of people arriving and of spectators sitting and watching "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace - Her Majesty's Horse Guards.
See Reel 2.
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So sad 😭 breaks my heart I’m 90 years old and remember london vividly like it was yesterday not like what it is today
wow, you were the same age when this video was filmed as i am now
74 years ago i remember all these landmarks absolutely destroyed this country
it was the urban planners, made a mockery of our nation's cities because of their obsession with brutalism, "new towns" and big decrepit tower blocks@@ABB-bw6tc
@@ABB-bw6tcIndeed England changed too much. The English society is dying unfortunately. I was born in the wrong era.
Yes back then it was a foggy bombed out dump. Now it's a modern vibrant city.
Not a Takeaway or Machete in sight…
Pure bliss.
No dropping of T"s
Yes. You could just eat your boiled potato and gammon in pure bliss.
A small price to pay@@marklangley7135
@@marklangley7135 And walk clean safe streets, bonus 👍
😂😂😂😂😂
Utterly heart breaking to see how an entire city has been destroyed within the space of a single lifetime. All that community, all that culture, all that civility - gone forever. For anyone with any knowledge of how London, (and other parts of the UK), used to be, it is absolutely tragic witnessing the London of today. It feels like a piece of your heart has been trampled on by fools.
🎯 yes yet hardly anyone cares!! My heart literally aches at the loss! All by design 😢
Enoch Powel was right.
A beautiful city, SOLD from under US 🆘😢🇺🇸🇮🇱😵🧐🤥⚖️🗣️📢🤫
🙏💯 GOD help US 🇬🇧🤑🙈
Brought a tear to my eye.
I totally agree with you
When London was beautiful. Before it became the worlds dumping ground.
France is worst..
Rubbish, They are only showing the best bits, there were still a lot of bombed out areas and run down areas. A new film could still easily show London in very good light if the locations were picked well!
^ Cute fallacy. The reality is that the main parts of London were safer & cleaner in 1950, before the mass influxs of the unwanted began.
This is an empirically demonstrable fact.
@@mrbigarms There isn't any 'best bits' now.
@@jimtaylor294 Agreed.
The "new" London is nothing more than a hell hole, thanks to diversity...
This is Britain! Old fashioned and clean, well mannered, cultured and independent.
...and rose-tinted 🕶
@@GroundhogRoy Impossible not to be, there were so many more roses back then.
@@bryanlawsmith I disagree and the stats and facts agree with me.
Peoples smelt back then though. It's only over the past 15 -20 years people started bathing/showering everyday!
@@rosahacketts1668 Er... nope. Try 45-50 years. What planet are you on if you think people weren't showering every day in 2007, lol?
I'm glad my grandpa didn't live to see England fall to the hordes. This was the England he loved. Thanks for uploading.
Where did the British people go no one genocided them. Where did they go.
@@Roy1-ub9ij The British moved to other continents and genocided the locals.
@@Roy1-ub9ij they didn't go anyway they just stayed and made the best of a bad situation
@@Roy1-ub9ijAll Europeans are being genocided, it's still ongoing. The scourge of anti- nataliat agendas and flooding our lands with hordes of hostile foreigners means that we may be completely extinct within a century
@@ijg4427 they left the city, mainly to Essex but also since 1980 the native population has had 0 growth
So emotional watching that. Everything was so clean, smartly dressed, people took a pride in themselves and their country.
I've just said very similar x and so civilised
People are awfully dressed these days..... I simply do not understand at all ( thought about it yesterday again as I was doing some shopping), I was simply appalled I take pride being always perfectly clean with smart and suitable clothes. It is so agreeable to be respectful of oneself and others. A Tracksuit bottom, dirty, out shape t-shirts for men, women in leggings, hair not even combed etc. etc. What is wrong with all these people? No dignity at all......
Yeah the rich people, not everyone.
This shows only the elite part of society the 10%
No takeaways and not an overweight person in site.
The days of the empire, when the British still enslaved 75% of the planet.
100 times better than it is now.
No your wrong ..at least 10,000 times better.
@@spinynorman8217yep
So true
The atmosphere was much better, life was not so serious but straight forward, hardly ever any chewing gum or cigarette found on the floor, and people could concentrate easily on their lives, although I must admit, the quality of life was not very good. No online shopping, no Internet, no mobile phones and hardly any CCTV cameras in the world. I'm aware of all that despite being born in the late 80s.
They are only showing the best bits, there were still a lot of bombed out areas and run down areas. A new film could still easily show London in very good light if the locations were picked well!
Enoch Powell said it all I was teaching there in 1956 had a scooter parked on the street overnight never touched
Fantastic.
I take it you weren't teaching English.
@@zivkovicable I do not see the point that you're trying to make in the remark perhaps you would put another to reply
@@ijg4427 His or her point is that you have terrible written English
It was much safer then than now before immigrants arrved .Also theft was rare
Many years later I went to one of the schools where I used to teach and I told the caretaker where I used to leave my scooter.He said you couldn't do that now then kids would wreck it
My dad is a Londoner. I am too. I took him for a hospital appointment today. The nurse asked him where he was from as she mentioned she was from wales…my dad replied ‘I’m a Londoner’ She was so surprised ‘oh’ she said ‘we don’t get many Londoners here’ 😳
Wow, that’s sad!
and the London Welsh are no longer the dominant ethnic minority we were in my youth. A thousand Welsh voices in the Albert Hall no more....
@@iantobanter9546 interesting, i grew up in wales and they all seemed so parochial. Cant imagine so many being in london. Most of my welsh friends, im english, were desperate to stay. Even going to uni and just staying in wales. Odd.
Shocking! Must be heartbreaking for your Dad seeing how we have been taken overX
@@meisterlymanu5214As a young boy my best friend was of Welsh stock. They used to go and watch the London Welsh rugby club at Old Deer Park, Richmond. That was nearly fifty years ago.
Lewisham has a Welsh chapel. Eglwys presbytyraidd cymraeg. It is a nursery now.
So much freedom then, none of the restriction we have today...such a shame how London and Britain as a whole had degrnerated! It was beautiful then.
It was decimalisation what caused the decline.
@@TP-om8ofand education
Are you delusional? Freedom? For who? For the colonizers?
You people have zero knowledge of anything really, and yet you are nostalgic towards an illusion
Freedom to oppress everyone else if you’re a white British male or what?
This was the London my parents knew, before i was born. It's hard to believe how much things have changed in a few generations. Almost unrecognisable.
And yet we're gaslit into believing it's not the fault of multiculturalism
One generation, it's taken one generation to destroy it. Largely it's happened in the last 30 years.
The best part was how nobody brushed their teeth
Yes much better now.
@@matt2522 🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely broke my heart to watch this, and see how lovely it was back then to now. So called progress of the 21sr century has ruined everything
Agreed.
Drama much
100% right.
I too could weep at what we've become...God bless
I agree,
Bring back 20th century my favourite 50s,80,90,
I wish London was like this now. Heaven.
Even better join a religious group stuck before 1900 :)
Life expetancy in teh Uk 1950 was maybe 65 years? Sure I whould liek to have a longer life, all the new tech and soem old things but we can always CHOOSE to use some old stuff and styles. They copuld nevre have ours.
Me too
They are only showing the best bits, there were still a lot of bombed out areas and run down areas. A new film could still easily show London in very good light if the locations were picked well!
@@mrbigarms delusion!
Far more delusion viewing this film and thinking all of London was like this, do some research and educate yourself! @@danielclemence3689
Breaks my heart to watch this ! What have we done to this once fabulous country ! 😢
SarahWilliams we never voted for this destruction we were never asked how different it is now
Not racist enough sadley take me back to then i would rather live in that period than now
No us ..the traitors in Parliament ..we wasn't asked ..
They are only showing the best bits, there were still a lot of bombed out areas and run down areas. A new film could still easily show London in very good light if the locations were picked well!
Well done for completing missing the point!
I love seeing old film of London when it was full of good British people that love our country and it's history, unlike what's there now.
Hear Hear x
Its (without an apostrophe)
I was born in London, I grew up in the 50`s and 60`s. What wonderful memories I have of those days. Sadly it is no longer the same place, I am happy to live my senior years in a country village.
I lived in London for 2 years , that was 20 years ago . I loved Covent garden and the art gallery’s but the Londoner’s weren’t very friendly unfortunately. They are nice enough though . I wish I was there in the 60s
If only we had a Time Machine . Sadly this beautiful London is lost for ever . Enjoy the village life .
yep, good old immigration destroys something beautiful, thank you lefties
May I ask which village or which general area - I ahve wanted to live in England and an English country village my entire life.
I was born in ‘53 and did my schooling there. I walked a mile to school and back every day in Stepney on my own up until going to Grammar at age 11. No parental worries and no issues then. We moved to the outskirts in the 60’s and then I went back to work in London, just off fleet street and the Temple. Travelled all over London for work. Went back to visit a few years ago and everything I knew has gone. We had the best of it.
Those were wonderful times! I wish I could go back in time!
Me Too.
When this was filmed London was still reeling from the Blitz with bomb sites everywhere and rationing was still in effect. What it shows is a city on its way back to normality and prosperity, a city bustling and active. A far cry from the place modern historians would have you believe it was. We were not on our knees and were not begging our colonies for help to re-build.
of course they are rewriting history, doesn't look very ''diverse'' to me, it's a crime what they are doing, not only are they wiping Britons off the map they can't even let them have their own history they have to destroy that as well, I'm surprised they haven't banned this footage as ''hate'' or white supremacy
Rationing finished in 1953 ,along with national service, this film was shot summer 1955.
@@peterstudley1804 I'd based it on the film saying This Is London Reel 1 (1950), not This Is London Reel 1 (1955, two years after rationing stopped).
@@peterstudley1804check your date regarding National Service
We didn’t need help from colonies. If 1920s Germany could go from bankruptcy to European domination in a decade or two, it shows that you don’t need to import assistance.
When our capital city was truly OURS.
WHEN ?
Yes its OURS the saxons ,viking ,normans before englishmen
@@WisdomToAll You do know the Anglo-Saxons are the English, there was not such thing as an England before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons you sub 80 iq weapon
A sheer lack of diversity in this film, thank god for HR offices pushing DE&I and AD agencies casting black people in all the roles. This film clearly demonstrates how terrible it is when white English culture is allowed to flourish. Now we have the joys of ULEZ - Ultra Low English Zone. 😂😂😂
On a similar note, this came up as a recommendation which is perfect for black history month, make what you like of that!
It actually hurts my heart to see how London was then - peaceful and united and to know what has happened to it now.
There is no place like Egypt the mother of the world❤️❤️
@@mohamedbelal8989 up yours too!
London today is better
@@olivermccall9770 london now lose the historical impression about it as alot of skyscrapers filled the city and make the city lose its old sprit
@@mohamedbelal8989 yes... the skyscrapers
This was the London everyone dreamed of visiting. Thank God they documented it.
Also the London of smogs and joblessness. The cars you see and fancy in this video are actually not very energy efficient and emitted a lot of pollutants in the air. Thank God most cars in London today are hybrids.
Shailesh M and now you do it all on your own India not really moved up much, has it.
@@remarkableshailesh nope, india ki poverty k liye india ke log khud responsible, bcz of overpopulation, castesim, dirty plitics, narrow minded, aj hamara india aisa ho gya,,,over -population is the root cause of every problems in india
@@Napoleon4778 You know I've never understood people who never look at the benefits and great things which the British Empire has brought to the world. Instead they only focus on the negative aspects. I mean, how fast do you think things can improve? You mention cars. In a mere one hundred years, which is a drop in the bucket in terms of history, cars were invented, produced and used. It became evident that they polluted. So the people and inventers set about rectifying that. Britain produced The Magna Carta. They were the FIRST country in the world to abolish slavery, stating that every human being has a precious soul and is made in the image of God and the slavery was therefore evil. I take pride in the fact that my ancestors came from Britain.
@@Coupal1 It's progressives and left leaning political minds being unable to accept that conquest built society. To them all conquest is evil and needs to be atoned for on a constant basis regardless of if it supplied the world with a better standard of living.
The London that my mother used to talk about...I could sit down and cry seeing the London today 😢
Please do!! Many of my ancestors and old countrymen and women have cried under the rule of the fancy and supposedly mighty UK!
Karma has come a calling... with a dose of your own medicine!
thanks for admitting that multiculturalism and mass migration is actually about revenge and a bad thing.@@proudindiancitizen2494
So you admit that "Divershitty" isn't a strength and it's being used to destroy Britain? Thanks for confirming what I and many other Millions of British people already knew!
What's up with you, sill a wonderful place, loads to see and do, more so than in the 1950's.
It makes you weep doesn't it.
Sure does
Certainly can
Really does.
no
It does. ( I am not English)
Thank you for showing. This is what London should be like - full of native people.
100% EXACTLY So!!!!!!!!
Bullseye 🎯
Why are there always idiots in the comments of these fascinating videos souring the tone? The first native people of our country we can recognise as a culture were the Celtic Brits(about 500bc). The people in this video are certainly not Britons and hence not natives. They will nearly all be from some kind of immigrant background, only that they're all white
You will never get this London Back!...Things will get worse!
There's no reason why a place ought to be occupied only by people who have lived there for millenia, unless of course you're terrified of going outside. London could work out just fine with diversity if only the government weren't stuffing more immigrants than they can possibly fit, and they actually did something about crime and poverty.
Back when people were neatly dressed, polite, orderly, disciplined, elegant, no vandalism. Everyone looks happy and no one is playing social media.
And white
@@jh-mt6yw are you white??
@@naufala93 no
@@jh-mt6yw are you asian? or african? btw I'm asian living in one of Asian countries
@@naufala93 im black and in uk
Fantastic, I was born in 51 , I easily remember how Fantastic it was
Wow, amazing and shocking to see how beautiful London once looked, so sad to see the dump it's become.
Its not a dump!! Things change so do people that contribute to a city’s problems. You obviously hve never lived or visited London. 47❤️% is green. Worlds first urban forest, the history, culture, diversity, vibrancy, opportinities etc etc. I dont know where you live.
London is a dump now
@@philliplloyd6977 You are correct, London is NOT a dump....it's a fcuking sihthole.
Yep it's a dump. Sadly the rest of the uk is quickly following suit
@@philliplloyd6977Diversity you can stick it.
Our once great great London , the envy of the world , now look what they've done to it .
Great to see how it was
Yeah I'm not a fan of all those soulless skyscrapers either
They are only showing the best bits, there were still a lot of bombed out areas and run down areas. A new film could still easily show London in very good light if the locations were picked well!
It was never like that. Most of London was either destroyed in the war, under maintained or derelict, foggy, damp with extreme poverty in many parts of the city exacerbated by the loss of empire and industry.
Sill a wonderful place, loads to see and do, more so than in the 1950's.
I worked in Oxford Street in 1960 .
Its nice to remember how it was.
I live in London - it's a crying shame what happened to her!
Decimalisation was the cause.
who is her?
Amazing to think that this version of London was a problem that needed solving with "diversity", according to some of our politicians.
Dianne Abbott made a career from trying to get more people like her into London.
Most people think it was Labour that brought mass immigration into the country, but it was the Conservatives who started it.
This is where we are at with this joke called democracy. A choice of two traitor parties.
RUclips deleting my replies as usual.
If it isn't broke don't fix it
@@SamuelBlack84 In 1950 the UK was broke. Most Londoners lived in slums with no bathroom or inside toilet. Britain was desperate for workers it payed people to come over from the Commonwealth to build the country back up again.
This was my London growing up and I miss it. Wonderful.
It was your generation who gave it away.
@AndrewGill-co2mr nah it's the younger generation
@@nickohira1397 Andrew Gil is right 👍 the world citizens been piling in for several decades , the old times dodnt know how good they had it
London used to be such a lovely city.
I can't think of many locations in that film that aren't much the same now as they were when it was made. The biggest difference is that the buildings look cleaner as we no longer burn coal. Funnily enough, the director seems to have avoided the bombsites that pock-marked the city at the time.
It still is - just different.
@@dweir2584 no it isn't nice!!!! It's full of Immigrants who have run the place down.
@@Katie-rx8ql I would be interested in defining what you mean exactly by immigrants?London, like the UK in general, has had quite a few of them alright. In The Romans, Vikings, Anglos Saxons, Normans and not forgetting the Flemings and French Huguenots. I admit the Vikings and their raids did "run the place down" a bit.
@@dweir2584 I replied but it's disappeared so I will reply again. 3rd world immigration of today has ruined most of England. It is predicted that white English will be in the minority in 2066. Some cities are already in the minority like London. Ppl need to wake up.
Our civilization and identity is dying, due to our pathological altruism. Heart-breaking to watch these videos. All good has to come to an end.
Mate at the time of this filming we still had an empire that covered the globe where we still stole resources from the people that lived there.
We should be thankful that we conducted the largest smash and grab in history since Gehngis Kahn and got away with it.
We the people don't suffer from pathological altruism, those who givern is do and the rest of the new elites.
@@selbalamirwe didn't steal we use trade, it benefited us and them. When this was filmed the British empire was getting read to deconstruct itself and it did.
We didn't import mass immigration to India, a well established country and take over, we sent some Brits, we used trade, that benefited both parties, and we have them the infrastructure and governance tools they're using today to make India a better place for it's people, who are now by and large free and enjoy democratic rights. Singapore is another example of success.
You can say yeah but look at America, the difference is the Americas by and large were not as built up and populated as the like sod India, so when people arrived, initially simply going out to find answers; was there anything further west? They found land that had, given the size of the land, a small population, a land that was largely uninhabited, unlike the old world of Europe, the middle east, the far East and norhtern Africa.
It's the same story with Australia and New Zealand, when Europeans arrived to these lands they seemed uninhabited until they came accord people. By which point the old world diseases these peoples had never come into contact with, died in large numbers. More died from old world diseases Europeans didn't know they were carrying, than died from wars with the Europeans.
So no mass immigration to the UK and Europe is not the same thing. Above all else those coming here are not adding anything of great significance to our societies, they're not giving us modern medicine, the industrial revolution, or modern democracy, as we have to the world.
@@libertasdemocratiam887 Regretfully, you are delusional.
@@libertasdemocratiam887you just wrote a bunch of nothing Lad
Coming from the North of England, this is how I still imagine London in my mind.
I travel to London about once a year for work and am always very, very, very disappointed.
Fortunately we still have these videos.
I felt the same when I visited Bradford!
I was born in 1958 when my home town London was still a beautiful place to be.
*city
Where do you live now.
Sad that those days are gone forever.
Cmon guys I am from Sydney and London isn’t that bad . I visited 6 years ago
Look at the state of London now END OF. breaks my heart in 2022😠😩
Where are these type of British's now. 😢😭 Lovely ,& full Dressing , looking Beautiful. 🤠
It was all destroyed.
I was born in1948 and my father, as thousands of other ex-servicemen, was happy to be alive. They got on with life as those depicted in this clip were doing. I must have been six years old when mother and I accompanied him on a business trip to London from Bolton.
Coming from the grimy, smoke ridden North (cotton and heavy engineering hadn't been allowed to decline by third-rate politicians then), I have childhood memories of an amazingly (relatively) clean metropolis. While father carried out his business, mother and I wandered around the parks, toy shops and ended up having afternoon tea at Lyons Corner House. I went more recently to visit several museums and, I am sad to say, felt a cloud of depression engulfing me. A much grubbier, unfriendly, yob ridden place it had become. How sad.
I grew up in London in the late 50s and 60s, it breaks my heart to see what has happened to the city I love, the city shown in this newsreel.
@@daviddavidk2352 It's very, very sad.
How right you are. So sad. London was the most wonderful place to live. No longer
@@ursulaschneider5166 Very sad.
Lyon’s Corner House! I remember it well. Born in 1950 and loved a trip on the Underground to Marble Arch. Happy days…
So stylish and elegant. A forgotten world swiftly moving from memory to history.
I wonder what they’d think if we could take a video of todays London back in time to show them.
They would be horrified...
@@bobobo4527 they'd consider comiting genocides. lol
They'd have sided with Hitler.
Depressing what they have done to my home country :(
Unless we stand up our civilization will only exist in the history books.
Until there burnt by the invaders that is.
Too late!
Liberalism...Everything they touch turns to Sh++t.
Bring back £-s-d. That’ll fix it.
Everyone looks so nice and pleasant and this was what I remembered of my grandparents and the calm, clean polite London.
Thank you for sharing our traditional London , which we have lost !
Yes I’ve observed this too. The people are well dressed and well focused. Not like today distracted by mobile phones, the streets filled with heavy traffic and all the nonsense we see today
I say old chap would you have the time 1.32 old boy thank you kindly.
THESE DAYS
EXCUSE ME WOULD YOU HAVE THE TIME.
LOOK ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE MORON.
THANK YOU KINDLY AND GOOD DAY TO YOU 2 SIR FINGERS AGGRESSION STABBINGS 2DA LOO
Toddle lou arce hole today's manorisms F U & F U 2.
LOVE YOU REPLY THEN OHH DARLING
TODAY
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Looks can be deceptive what do you not see that you see today greed and I want it now.wtight now look we've caused tail backs yes I can drive to get it now
Thats when '''real''' English people lived in London. Now it is a rat hole.
Hard to believe London looked like this, my grandparents era. Who are still alive today. 🙂
"diversity is our greatest strength" they said...
stench not strength.. you misheard
Should have thought before looting other countries. Britain deserves more immigrants.
Thankful that British Pathe decided to put these videos up for all of us to view. What a great historical resource.
Lindo parabens..queria que brasil fosse a metade..
All built on imperialism ,genocide , colonisation and exploitation of the world.
Reconquista: Hinduism pack it in
Is this meant to reflect London or a very small part of it, the 'flashy' one of the 'middle' and upper class of the time? Aren't Brixton, north London, East London, etc. part of London? What if this was 10 minutes longer?
I remember watching these films when I was 10yrs old at Junior school, to be watching them at almost 60 yrs old I really appreciate the excellent presentation and information from these films.
Even after 50 years I havnt forgotten the back ground music.
Ironically I went on to live and work in the city for 20 years.
Thank for showing these films.
By the way I'm a black women, not that it makes any difference.
Prior to the hideous architecture and 21st century decline. What a breath of fresh air.
BINGO!
Wow. I have a longing and nostalgia for something I never knew, because it was stolen from me. If this was not on video, people would deny it had ever existed.
My old mum or dad could be in there somewhere, came from a big London family, they've all gone now, along with London.
The vivid portrayal captures the essence of London's vibrant tapestry of history, commerce, and culture. Kudos to the author for painting such a rich and dynamic picture of the city!
It’s certainly a stark reminder of what’s been lost.
Splendid video 🏴🇬🇧It’s such a shame that London isn’t like this anymore😢
Wow, look how beautiful it was pre invasion.
Say that to the people of Iraq 🇮🇶. Lol
@@asadzeethree2726Fair point.
Both fall at the feet of Government, not it’s people.
@@DiscoDrew . Hope you okay and doing well, friend! 👍💯🌟
@@asadzeethree2726 Tony Blair does not represent the British people…
@@asadzeethree2726Baghdad still has Iraqis...
God bring this Britain back. 🇬🇧
Fabulous video, look how clean it is, look how civilsed and smartly dressed everyone is, just as many remember. Change is only good if it's an improvement, what has been done to our Country is the complete opposite of improvement
Look how clean, orderly and elegant the city once was! O: There's no comparison to what the city looks like today. The background buildings are same as today, but everything else is like from another world and dimension.
London had a certain charm about it back then. I was born in the early 50s.....and l can remember being taken on trips to London in the early to mid 60s: it was a magical place back then, men with bowler hats and breifcases....there was a hint of class about the place. Contrast that with how it is today....sadly a bit of a mess, with crime seemingly out of control, and that magical feel about the city gone forever. Time and tradition always moves on over the decades......and sadly: not always for the better.
Remembering it as a kid it would seem nice, but the film is only showing the best bits, there were still a lot of bombed out areas and run down areas. A new film could still easily show London in very good light if the locations were picked well!
I love the soft, muted colour these old Pathe films have.
A sort of delicate 'pastel': you can see the same kind of colour-palette in some British pictures of the '40s and late '30s (e.g. "Blithe Spirit", "The Divorce Of Lady X")
And the lovely speaking voice of Rex Harrison or anyone else who narrated them.
It will be the film stock used and the age before digitized. Something about film always feels more real to me for some reason.
white is the best colour in this video :) demographics of a sean connery james bond film, lovely.
I thought maybe the film had faded.
“London is a city of change”. It sure has changed - more than Rex Harrison could have imagined.
Imagine what would those people do if they knew what London looks like today
How London has devolved!!! Thanks Sadiq!!!!! 😢
Sadiq Kahn is another dumb idiot like Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
and thanks Blair
@@philipfreyaborn8288 And all who followed him and the Queen who went along with it etc etc etc
Not just Sadiq the bloody awful Tory government
Don’t forget Tony Blair.
Lovely calm feeling and people had self respect they always went out looking tidy and smart
Women were elegantly and modestly dressed. Good old days!
They’re still modestly dressed; just in burkhas.
prefer a view of camel toe
When casual wear was a shirt and tie 😂
1940s fashion was amazing
My grandad always wore a shirt and tie when digging the garden.
When we had standards - not like now 😢
I even see photos of my Great Grandfather sitting by the beach - in suit, tie, starched collar and with a homburg hat and walking cane. Times have changed
array s - Think you’ve been watching Greta too much 🙈
Imagine a city, a capital city like this one.. fabulous
It is only now that I am of a certain age that I appreciate why my grandparents and parents reminisced so vividly of their past. I appreciate that all was not perfect but as opposed to now I wish I could go back to my childhood days. Now we are overcrowded and a high percentage of people have no respect for their city. It was extremely rare to see people walking about drinking alcohol and causing mayhem. I expect the next generation might even say the same. Alas, not all things have changed for the better. Thanks to British Pathe for uploading this delightful video.
London looked nice back then.
I haven't got the hang of these new fangled telephones yet, we've got one in the hall and every so often it makes a strange noise.
@Bradius Maximus He's only joking.
This was London for the tourist: for the people who had to live and work there, it wouldn't have been so colourful or magical, just somewhere to be endured.
London does look lovely in this film. However, this was only 5 years after the war ended - you wouldn't have had to travel far to find bomb sites and slums.
@@None-zc5vg Not at all. We had a strong Community..
People: I want to go to the future!!!
Me: I want this.
Yeah I prefer the past
Same here.
Loved Rex Harrison's voice
Oh where has our lovely London gone ….and our country for that matter 😢
“London is a city of change and contrast” they quote at the beginning- sadly 70 years later and not for the better.
London is a hell hole today. So sad.
I think you need to remove those rose-coloured spectacles Wey Man.
They are only showing the best bits, there were still a lot of bombed out areas and run down areas. A new film could still easily show London in very good light if the locations were picked well!
This makes you realise our country as it once was is lost, never to return.
The video, the accompanying music and eloquent commentary are a poignant reminder of times gone by. This was a time, when London was one of the greatest cities in the world. Just look at it today.
People were happier because they didn't expect much back then and they didn't have social media to compare their lives.. they just lived life.
Said while posting on social media. The irony
@@simonyeo3246 Still doesn't make what she said any less true.
A very profound statement
Not happy for all. Gay men were still imprisoned for falling in love. Their lives were blighted by the stupid rules of those days.
@@simonyeo3246 did he had to send fax to let us know instead of RUclips
When London was a Safe Place and a beautiful place to live
but now they say : diversity is a strength
@@bootchop88 I think it was but not now, it's not immigration that's the problem it's mass immigration, the infrastructure isn't big enough for all the people to have Jobs and everything
What a beautiful place London used to be, look at it now, so so sad.
London was a dream city back then.
The narrators voice makes this video even better, ah the good old days
Film actor Rex Harrison, one of the biggest stars of the day.
Me met my grand mother before she married
the faboulous voice of Rex Harrison. England Personified.
A fine actor with a lovely voice, but apparently a bit of a "ladies' man". Married six times. This film is wonderful, and his narration is spot on.
Its dr Doolittle actor rex Harrison. Did u no he could really talk to the animals.aka brats
Elegant, heartfelt, kind and desirable times! From Siberia with love! Born in 1971.
What part of Siberia if you don't mind me asking ?
@@Creighton-Jones Sir, I'd love to answer your unexpected question! Eastern Siberia, Irkutsk Region, the city of Bratsk (7 747.4 km from London).
@@user-su8rw8sm5f Спасибо ! I have been fascinated by Siberia region and the Russian Far East for a very long time. I had not heard of the city of Bratsk and will enjoy reading and learning more about it. Thank you for answering my question - much appreciated. Всего наилучшего. Arthur
I also remember London in the 60s and 70s. Some of it was lovely, but I also remember the grimy bombed out neighbourhoods in the East End, which were around right up until the 90s. North London was my home, and yes i have great memories 😍 Finsbury Park, Holloway and Hornsey before the Sobell Centre was built 🤩
I remember the Sobell centre!
These films need preserving and protecting at all costs .
Nearly 70 years ago ...how its changed my God
No one drinking in the street , no one spitting , no one letting their dog foul the street , and let’s not forget no one getting stabbed on an industrial level . No Mayor of London either , there wasn’t any need back then .
no burkas or thobes
@@mcclay9483 jee' London reality resembled London back in the 50s!
@@mcclay9483 Oh shut up! When we bully your religion then it's a big thing. so shut up.
@@mcclay9483 yeah but there are still racist bigots like you . Drongo
Say you’re a racist baby size 🍆 without saying you’re a racist baby size 🍆 😅😅😅
This was London. Now beyond all recognition
Wow how much we have lost, women in beautiful summer dresses, guys in smart suits, no american size people, no scruffs with tats & piecing's. Clean streets, all looking heathy & getting on with life amazing considering only four years after WW2.
Today's people would have tattoos everywhere.....v classy🤔
Lol. You might as well say British sized people. People in the UK are now enormous as well.
@@Annie-fz2gvFat because of America
@@RS__7 Fat from junk food and lack of exercise.
@@Annie-fz2gv America made junk food ...their culture has caused a lot of poor health
They look so well dressed, and sound well spoken.
brazil biba and slim
Yes probably because they were more disciplined back then, had three meals a day and not many snacks and fast food. Win win
The speaker is a posh actor.
The problem is if you behave like this today, people consider you as an arrogant snob. Most people don't know how to behave properly and think you're old-fashioned.
How slim and healthy they all look ,!
My happiest years were when I was growing up in London.
As an overseas doctor who has served in the NHS for 38 years, I can testify to this decline first hand. We heard so much about London in our childhood and this city lived up to its reputation. It breaks my heart to see the fabric of society, communities torn apart and 'The British Culture ' for which I earned to see and be part of is being trampled by immigrants right left and centre. In my opinion only highly educated people should have been allowed in limited numbers who have cultural affinity and a compulsory assimilation commitment. If I were in a British establishment I would make an interview process a must at the beginning and after 5 years to see if the person is fit to be a citizen. While I was so fascinated with British history culture traditions and language and would visit museums, historical sights, stately homes cathedrals, universities, churchyards and countryside I could see most immigrants creating a bubble or coccon of their own culture which they carried on their shoulders and tried to graft it in this soil, with no interest in their chosen country. whenever I challenged them only antagonism hatred and resistance I encountered. It is being in love with a place and then purposefully destroying it that's what people from my own and other countries are doing. I didn't come to the UK to eat the same 32 tastes of foods available in our inner cities offered in Britain, it's not why I was here and I could feel the pain and helplessness of indigenous British people. I have brought up my children to be intelligent, confident, highly educated and take every opportunity offered to them and not hide in a cultural coccon of their own, that's fair to them and that's fair to our adopted country. At present I am as far away from London as I possibly can in Scotland. My advice to European countries, do not allow Immigration for cheap labour as this is not going to be a cheap bargain in the long term.
Beautifully put. I stay out of the cities and large towns now as I find them unrecognisable and demoralising. But, living in a small town and only visiting the places that you mention (plus gardens, arboretums and village social activities) I can still retain a feeling of belonging with my place of birth and ancestry. I wish you and your family all the best - we are lucky to have you here. God bless.
Not all immigrants are bad. My Indian, Chinese and African friends are very well assimilated, hard-working and generally good people. The religion of peace on the other hand...
Born in 1959, have travelled into London countless times, it just get better, never seen or had a bad experience, great city!
So scenic and traditional looking. Like an old Disney Film. Not the ghetto London is now. Went with friends recently, never again.
You can't escape. London is coming for wherever you are. Won't be long now.
It's more like some middle Eastern Gotham city now 😂
@@AI-Maginations What a ridiculous comment.
@@gordonbennett5638 A factual comment
London has changed and all this has gone. Hope it will return and flourish again!
Ah, how we all miss those days before the change
Among us
@@gwynieboy7488 what that has to do with this film
@@jimmym1453 comparision to what we had to what we are told is better nowadays
How lovely it was. Loved the commentary and background music too. Thanks for this 👍
Safe, quiet, and sane! Lots of high culture, respect, elegance, curiosity toward the world, strong human connection, and positivity. All gone, but hopefully will be brought back.
It breaks my heart to see what we have lost, and how the lives of young people today have been blighted by reprehensible, self serving politicians who lie, bully and instil fear on the people.
You're being very vague here bruh
Yes, it's painful to watch, the country i was born into only a few months later, bright clean orderly crime free, seven decades later it's a cesspit where violent crime is openly committed on the streets while the complacent mayor brushes it off as all part of life in the big city, I'm privileged to have seen it during the good times of my youth, these films and my memories are all that remains of London and England as a whole, may god rest its beautiful soul, amen.
This is the London I want to live in..
You cant blame it all on politician's John. Many people's standards of behaviour have dropped as well.
@@monteceitomoocher if you voted for the conmen all the way through like a gullible sheep then you have responsibility for it too. My generation will never know the Britain you did. You threw it all away for money, or got too comfortable and let it be stolen. Feels like we were born without a chance. How could you let this happen? What were you all thinking?
Beautiful era, i wish to come back and live a period between 1950 and 1985, who has a time machine?
Dr. Emmett Brown.
Yes, I agree.
After 1985 England went down hill , with mass immigration , and our values were chipped away at , if you are white English you are polarised in your own country , our rotten government is to blame ,
@@blumoon7274 We are happy with ur govt😎😎
@@blumoon7274 It went down hill when the Tories pitted everyone against each other in the scramble to the bottom of de-regulation and smashing and grabbing industries for the private sector. It's not because a few hard working brown and black people turned up here to work hard. England is still predominantly white you old fool.
The only thing sinking England is xenophobia and pathetic whining for a time ruled by colonialism when the English were despised for their torture and barbarity.
You're a sham and a joke.
How elegant we all were. How could it all go so wrong? 😢
Our monetary system, " todays money" and we accept this unsustainable system.
london these days looks like bangladesh
Wonderful to see; London in 1955 ... instantly recognisable, yet very different.
A Different world.
ladies fashions blossomed in the early 50s after the austerity of the war period, I remember the elegance & wonderful fabrics & designs. Even the clouds were fluffier & prettier.
nowadays some ladies fashions are gross, nose ring ,tattoes and pumped rubber lips all topped off by leopard print hooker skirts and green hair, YUCKY
yuri Lemming I love all handbags in this video, they were not crossbody or tote but really elegant, not too small but enough for all a lady need, really what it was called “handbag”.
andy pandy You can change your clothes but you cant come back from bad tattoos & hideous body piercings
Ladies fashion was no more blossom in the 50s than any other decade
kipper You didn't look at women then?
My father remembers this , he was. 9 years old at the time , He said immigration wrecked this country and also joining the EEC in 1973 , now look at our once nice country dumping ground !
What a great reminder of what we once had as a society ... just look at what we now have ... say's it all doesn't it ... this is when Great Britain was great ... before it became the worlds dumping ground ... when Great Britain manufactured goods sold all over the world ...
The people who lived in this time were so lucky must have been really something ... now almost gone ... if only that magical clock worked we could turn back time.
Beautiful cinematography. Rex Harrison has such a soothing voice. To think this was only 70 years ago. I love seeing London then and even now. I miss my hometown. ❤️
Bring back Rex Harrison we are sick of Allison Hammond
Always puzzled by Harrison's success. Awful plummy voice, not good looking, limited actor.