In 1966 my parents took us to London for a 2 week holiday. We had the best time there, and although I was only 10, I still have clear memories of our holiday. I still remember watching the England football team practising in Hyde Park just a few days before the World Cup Final. We left on the morning of the Final and drove to Stafford to visit our relatives, arriving just in time to watch the game. What a day that was as we all celebrated England winning the World Cup.
I WAS IN SWINGING LONDON IN 1966 I LIVED IN ISLINGTON NORTH LONDON THE MUSIC AND NIGHT LIFE WAS FANTASTIC THE CLOTHES WERE FAB AS WELL WONDERFUL SPECIAL HAPPY GOLDEN MEMORIES ❤
ken tang I was so lucky to work in Singapore for 4 years late 1970's and early 80's.. That was a time when Singapore was 'nostalgic' with godowns and even kampongs. It dramatically changed in just a few years. I will never forget The Mitre Hotel in Killiney Road. Happy days.
so what? The policies of your governments and the colonization of other countries have ruined and taken the lives of the people so that you racist creatures can have a better life and they are forced to leave their country and emigrate and live next to racists like you. Do you have a complaint? Tell your governments to stop colonizing other countries
The Narrators always spoke with a distinctive style in these Pathé reels. Beautiful British accents you don't hear anymore. Today narration lacks this unique style of speech delivery, because narration nowadays is way too casual and americanised for my liking.God Save the Queen and all that is Great about Britain.
They had a project going back a long time to track British accents. One is analysis of the Queen's address. But there was also film and audio collected by region and social class. With a bit of Google magic you can find them.
Padraig O’Shea ~ Yeah, it’s so very sad to see what they have done to our once Beautiful capital city. i think that it’s very important that the public gets both sides of the debate and the other side of the propaganda. Please check out the amazing documentary series called = “EUROPA THE LAST BATTLE” All Ten episodes are well worth watching Removed and Banned in many places, However You Can Still Find it iF You Look hard enough (it’s also available on DVD) it’s one of the most important & fascinating documentary series to come out this decade and should be shown in our schools and colleges worldwide. if it was shown on the mainstream media then we would win our fight for freedom over night. We all must do our best to spread the truth and wake our people up from a very deep sleep. Please share it with as many people as you can before it gets Removed & Lost forever. The Censorship Continues but OUR WEAPON IS TRUTH! God Bless (Bitchute)
This is the London I remember as a child. After Blair got it in 1997 he started the rot that has culminated in London now being more or less Londonistan and ruled by the Grand Caliph Sadiq Khan.
Politicians like Blair did not help matters admittedly, however the demise of our parents and grandparents generations have also a lot to do with it I believe. There was no one shooting at me when I was in my teens nor was there bombs falling on my head. I could also call on a friend without being told he/she had been killed since I last saw them. Nothing much bothered those generations,,they were accustomed to lifes uncertainties.I well remember the late Enoch Powell in a TV interview on the Falkland War. The interviewer was trying to point out the possible catastrophies thar could befall such an adventure. Three times he pointed this out and three times he got the same answer,' You have to win' who could continue to argue in the face of such military experience and quiet confidence born of intellect ?
How times have changed. I remember being told by our school teacher back in 1967 that life won't be as promised come the millennium with a fabulous future we were all led to believe. How right he was.
@hawwndawg he was probably watching a program at the time called towards the year 2000 when we were led to believe that everything would be far better come the 21 century when we would expect to see monnerrail transport systems everywhere etc but he told us to take it with a pinch of salt as things will probably be a lot different.
My friends and I used to buy a ticket called a Twin Rover for about 10/6d and we could use the underground and buses all day. London was great in those days; grubby and busy and warm and friendly. Gone forever!
Most of the hard working people in this film are now turning in their graves at what has become of the capital they helped to build. A national disgrace.
They didn't build it, they survived in it and as better opportunities came along they moved with them. They wanted modern cars, cental heating and double glazing, times move on, same as people
@@adrinathegreat3095 Their ancestors built it for them, and their children. You're right though, they chose takeaway curries over future prosperity. They'll forever be remembered as spineless traitors.
I was 18 years old in 1966. When I arrived in London for studying, I remained in Notting Hill Gate for fourteen years (I got married in London, and my kids were born there) . As a new comer in 1966 I immediately fell in love with that beautiful, joyful, dynamic town. (We called it « swinging London ».To my opinion it was the very best place on Earth. And England was my love. Today, I don’t like it any more. London has lost its beautiful soul. That makes me sad. London is no longer London. I keep on going back there because part of my family still lives there but I wouldn’t like staying in London a very long time. The population is completely changed, and this is not for the best, on the contrary it is for the worst.
I know exactly what you mean. I was born and raised in London when it really was London. Crime was extremely low and the city was safe. The population back then was different and one could walk around without fear of being attacked both physically and verbally. The only foreigners were those from the ex-colonies (British Commonwealth) who tended to assimilate. Almost every person I come across in London today speaks with a foreign accent. I can't believe what's happened to this once great and vibrant city.
@@jacobrivers5728 crazy how that happened..same thing here in many places if not all places in the U.S. the Seattle-Tacoma area used to be one of the safest areas to raise a family now both cities are ranked among the most dangerous..it only took 10 years to completely flip
@@BFaluup This madness will only end when right thinking people stand up and say it ends and that can only be done by stopping self-serving, liberal woke politicians from inflicting more damage on society. I'm so angry and frustrated at seeing my beloved city overrun with worthless freeloading foreigners who live on welfare, walk around with an air-of-entitlement and have no respect for law and order or the British way of life. Whenever there's a crime reported in the media, the culprit always has an African, Muslim or Eastern European name. I've reached a point where I no longer care if people label me a racist as I know I'm not. I can only assume that Seattle is suffering the consequences of policies inflicted by the money hungry Clintons', Biden, and Pelosi & Co who are no better than Boris Johnson and his cronies.
I love that four engines airplane with one deck landing .Undescribable elegant, nostalgical,heart touching, scenarioes of old London leads me back to that wonder land.
we have no Religion Islam we have had no i havE no Thing againsT Muslim Rel Islam only i will never change my Religion even if am no very religious woman i need no Terror we Ladys in WEST EU live as we like
The guy showing the unbreakable plates, the couple on a scooter in the Thames, the horses, the streets, and the swingy music are so British my eyes are weeping tea... Edit: also the unbreakable plates guy's accent
Germany, French, Denmark, Sweden there are so many videos online. m-i-gra-tio*n has ruined all of them, even my comment will deleted even speaking about it bad,... :)
The policies of your governments and the colonization of other countries have ruined and taken the lives of the people so that you racist creatures can have a better life and they are forced to leave their country and emigrate and live next to racists like you. Do you have a complaint? Tell your governments to stop colonizing other countries
Those 60's and 70's and 80's days will never come back. Good bye to the western world of the past, hello to ...? a shyteshow of horrors where everyone hates each other and their are no 'norms'.
Lets hope history really does repeats its self as today's society could learn a lot from 1966 ... not everything was perfect of course not but compared to what we have now its pure gold only wish that famous time machine was here.
I watch these videos from everywhere and I have to commend the construction workers of that time and prior(1940's and above).. getting paid pennies and doing such a dangerous job!
Some interesting things. No seat belts, no fall arresting equipment for masonry workers but, and this is a biggie, there are stonemasons using masks and water spray to stop dust. We have just recently found a significant increase in stone masons dying from lung disease because of not wearing masks when fitting and cutting stone bench tops.
The genuine ordered ancient established British traditions that we grew up with in the 1960s - not the confected, inflated, political correctness that 70 years of unregulated multiculturalism has foisted upon us. I liked the predominant monoculture that was the lived experience of the majority of the population in 1960s Britain. I don't feel any need to apologize for the Britain I was born into and loved.
@@saintkittsdefenderofchrist782 says the same people who keep victimising themselves active as if they're not the ones behind the mess in the very same region immigrants come from
The policies of your governments and the colonization of other countries have ruined and taken the lives of the people so that you racist creatures can have a better life and they are forced to leave their country and emigrate and live next to racists like you. Do you have a complaint? Tell your governments to stop colonizing other countries
Sleeping at Oxford street outside ,Eros cinema Picadilly Circus or Circle line🔄with TIMES paper ---ears--- inside after hitchhiking there from Germany ! A wonderful souvenir at returning home !
At 6.50 the narrator talks of tourists striking up conversations in pubs with strangers. Unfortunately these days they’d be likely to be stabbed if they tried that sort of thing.
@2:50 It’s interesting to see what kind of food was being served in these restaurants - jellied eels, chopped herring, tripe and mash, boiled beef?! No doubt a lot has been lost of old London, but at least the food has come a long way :D There’s another British Pathe video about Covent Garden in the 50s, and you can see people ordering what looked like horrible little sausage sandwiches. The sausages were kept in some kind of brine. They were sliced in half and held together by two tiny little pieces of white bread. The sausages were also covered in lots of vinegar and mustard! Made me gag a little.
When I moved from London to North Essex in 1979 everyone there was from London, they all gave the same answer as to why they'd left. It took less than 20 years for us to lose that city.
The scary thing is the sixties wasn't that long ago and seeing it from then to now what's it going to be like in another fifty years well I won't be about to see it unfortunately our grandkids will
I remember how black the buildings were before the great clean up in the 80 s and 90 s. The work of stone masons and cleaners has changed the look of London from a black sooty old city which for me is nostalgic to a modern but old jewel i will always love.
@@kangaroo4847 It is incredibly disheartening that now it is the common conception that living a big city means accepting being mugged or seeing constant scenes of detritus and crime when this wasn't the case 30 years ago.
it was more of a violent place then than it is now especially the east end. apparently things and people were really tough. But this video shows why nature and important history needs to be preserved.
it's only in recent years that money has been decimalised (units divisible by 10) before that we used pounds shillings and pence. 2/6 is 2 shillings 6 pence. 12p is 1 shilling, 20 shillings are a pound
Much the same as the mystery with the commas and dots used in European countries prices. It was a common representation of prices, dates and bookies odds. 20/4/69 was a date 10/3 was ten shillings and threepence or thrupence depending on who said it. 6/- was six shillings exactly, but there still was a bit of pricing in guineas which was 21 shillings and a reluctance to use £ signs when 20/- meant the same. I remember the agony of going shopping with people that could not understand decimalisation and converted every price back to "proper" money. They still couldn't get their heads around kilometres and weights. So basically have a cobbled together mish mash of decimalisation. Our country went the other way and banned the sale of non metric items like rulers and scales. Quite frustrating if trying to convert back from inches to mms when your ruler only has mms.
For more than a thousand years, from the year 775 AD until 14-February 1971, England used the Carolingian monetary system. During those years, a Pound was worth 240 pence. This currency system continued until the formation of Great Britain (1700s) and United Kingdom (1800s). 1 Pound = 20 shillings 1 Shilling = 12 pence A penny is further divided into half penny and one-fourth penny called farthing. If the price of an item cost less than a shilling (pence only), it is written as 11d, 10d, 9d, 5¼d, etc. The letter "d" means "denarius". It is the Latin word for the standard silver coin introduced by the Romans. If the price has both shillings and pence, it is written with slash (/) as separator. Example: 15 shillings and 6 pence is written as 15/6. If the price is exactly 15 shillings without pence, it is written as 15/- If the price has pounds, shillings and pence, the separator can either be slash (/) or dash (-). Example: 2 pounds, 15 shillings and 6 pence is written as £2/15/6 or £2-15-6. When adding prices, you should have memorised the 12 Times Table to be able to add prices. For example, you bought 5 items in a supermarket: Item#1 is 15/7 Item#2 is 16/8 Item#3 is 17/9 Item#4 is 18/10 Item#5 is 19/11 Total in shillings and pence: 88/9 Total in £sd: £4/8/9 By adding all the shillings and all the pence, you will get a total of 85 shillings and 45 pence. To get the exact amount in shillings and pence, you need to think how many shillings are there in 45 pence. The answer is 3 shillings with a remainder of 9 pence. Add 3 shillings to 85 shillings; you'll get a total of 88 shillings. Therefore, the total amount you bought in the supermarket was 88 shillings and 9 pence (88/9) or 4 Pounds 8 shillings 9 pence (£4/8/9). This is the reason why back in the days, British children were taught to memorise the 12 Times Table. To make it simple, the old money of Britain was similar to the height of a person expressed in feet and inches. Examples: 5'7, 5'9, 5'11, 6'2. The amount in shillings is similar to the number of feet while the amount in pence is similar to the number of inches. A lot of people born after 1971 (or not yet an adult in 1971) thought that the Pounds, Shillings and Pence was a very difficult system when it was still in use in Britain. Videos in youtube always give the impression that it was a very complicated system. Someone even made a comment that it would be very difficult to give change if you are selling an item worth £1/5/9 (1 Pound 5 shillings and 9 pence) and the customer gave you a £5 note. hahahahaha... His comment shows that he did not live during the pre-decimal era. In schools, children were taught the arithmetic of the Pounds, Shillings and Pence system but in reality people in Britain don't count money in Pounds in their everyday lives; they only count in shillings and pence. It should be noted that after World War-2, there were only 3 banknotes in Britain: 10-shilling note, £1 note (20 shillings) and £5 note (100 shillings). The £10 note (200 shillings) was only re-introduced in 1964 while the £20 note (400 shillings) was re-introduced in 1970. During the pre-decimal era, prices in street markets, stores, supermarkets, department stores and even petrol stations were expressed in shillings and pence only. At Harrods or Marks & Spencer, you would see the prices of items were 67/8, 45/6, 54/10, 49/11, etc. The "Pounds, Shillings and Pence" will only show on the cash register during check out. In street markets, there were no cash registers, sellers just count and compute for change in their heads or using a pen and paper. During that time, shilling was the de facto main unit of currency while the Pound was the de facto superunit. The Pound as the de jure main unit of currency was only expressed in prices of expensive products such as TVs, refrigerators, cars, etc., in real estate properties and in big business transactions especially in international trade and commerce. If an item only costs 1 Pound 5 shillings and 9 pence, it would be written as 25/9 instead of £1/5/9. If the customer gave a £5 note which is equivalent to 100 shillings, the customer's change is obviously 74/3. The seller would then give the customer three £1 notes (60 shillings), one 10-shilling note, two florin coins (4 shillings) and a 3-pence coin. For the sake of that guy's curiosity on how to compute for the change if the price of an item is expressed in Pounds Shillings and Pence, here's how it works: When it comes to giving or receiving a change, you only need to remember 20 and 12. There are 20 shillings in a Pound and there are 12 pence in a shilling. If the price of an item costs 1 Pound and 5 shillings (£1/5/-) and the money given by the customer was £5, round-up £1 (1 becomes 2) and then subtract it from £5 (5-2=3). Subtract 5/- from 20/- (20-5=15). Therefore, the customer's change is 3 Pounds and 15 shillings (£3/15/-) If the price of an item costs 1 Pound 5 shillings and 9 pence (£1/5/9) and the money given by the customer was £5, round-up both £1 (1 becomes 2) and 5/- (5 becomes 6). Subtract £2 from £5 (5-2=3) and subtract 6/- from 20/- (20-6=14). Subtract 9 pence from 12 pence (12-9=3). Therefore, the customer's change is 3 Pounds 14 shillings and 3 pence (£3/14/3) From a currency similar to feet and inches (like a person's height) to a currency based on 10s and 100s. This is the reason why a lot of people in Britain find it hard to adjust when decimalisation was implemented in 1971 plus the fact that the decimalisation format used by the British government was flawed. From a very flexible denomination of 240 pence to a Pound, the British government chose a cramped 100 "new pence" to a Pound. On 15-February 1971, the shilling was devalued to 5 "new pence" (no longer 12) so that one Pound would be equivalent to 100 "new pence". Among former British colonies that transitioned to decimal currency, Ghana is the best. Ghana's decimal currency called Cedi (₵) is equivalent to 8 shillings and 4 pence (8/4) or 100 pence. Therefore, all the old pence are equally convertible to the new decimal currency. No need to worry about adjustment of prices; only the name of the currency and its denomination will change. 8/4 is ₵1.00 which means one Ghanaian Pound is equal to two Cedis and 40 pesewa (£1=₵2.40). In 1970, Bermuda Islands followed Ghana's decimalisation format. One Bermudian Pound is equal to two Bermudian Dollars and 40 cents (£1=$2.40). When South Africa decimalised the South African Pound, it converted 10 shillings (120 pence) to the new currency called Rand. 120 pence were converted to 100 cents. A little adjustment needs to be made when it comes to pricing and balancing bank accounts because 1.20 pence shall be equivalent to 1 cent. One South African Pound is equal to two South African Rands (£1=R2.00). South Africa's format of decimalisation from Pounds to the new decimalised currency was followed by Australia, New Zealand and Nigeria. Britain did the worst decimalisation format. Britain converted 20 shillings (240 pence) to 100 pence. Inflation was the result. The government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson was too afraid to lose the Pound as Britain's currency that's why he followed the advice of the Bank of England to retain the Pound. BOE and Harold Wilson did not follow the format of Ghana's new decimalised currency based on 8/4 (100 pence) nor South Africa's version of decimalised currency based on 10/- (120 pence converted to 100 cents). Instead, Britain decimalised the Pound by shrinking its value from 240 pence to 100 pence only. Some people in Britain even thought that the value of their money/income has diminished because in every shilling they spend (5 new pence) they were ripped off by the government for 7 pence. Devaluing the shilling from 12 pence to 5 pence was not a joke especially during the time when prices were still cheap. The ill-conceived decimalisation of the Pound in 1971 was one of the "ingredients" of the economic disaster of Britain during the turbulent decade of the 1970s. It may not be the main reason but it contributed to the economic crisis during that time. Maybe it's true that 10 is simpler than 12 or the decimal currency system is simpler than imperial currency system but the transition of Britain to decimal currency system in 1971 was NOT simple.
In 1966 my parents took us to London for a 2 week holiday. We had the best time there, and although I was only 10, I still have clear memories of our holiday. I still remember watching the England football team practising in Hyde Park just a few days before the World Cup Final. We left on the morning of the Final and drove to Stafford to visit our relatives, arriving just in time to watch the game. What a day that was as we all celebrated England winning the World Cup.
Well said....well said!
I WAS IN SWINGING LONDON IN 1966 I LIVED IN ISLINGTON NORTH LONDON THE MUSIC AND NIGHT LIFE WAS FANTASTIC THE CLOTHES WERE FAB AS WELL WONDERFUL SPECIAL HAPPY GOLDEN MEMORIES ❤
The music in London around this time is unparalleled! The Beatles, The Stones, Cream, Hendrix, The Who etc etc.
Carry me back to old 1966 Anytime please.
Now you can listen to half an hours prayer
Small Faces, Kinks , Pretty Things Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band ,Yardbirds and Pink Floyd ✌️🇬🇧🎸
@@growlerthe2nd712 bang on brother
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From back in the day when London was still beautiful.
It nothing like it noe
Terrific micro documentary of beautiful and dignified London. Great images of the '60s and excellent video quality too. Many thanks BP!
Querencias7 why did they make this.
@@Rainbow-mo1ib Tourism film. London was definitely a much cleaner and more dignified place back then, even though the average lot was far less.
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It is great. We could return London to being British too, if Brexit is finally done and immigration is halted.
@@cryingfreeman2703 you're a cretin.
Miss this London…tragic loss
People were slim, clean and tidy and so were tube stations and trains....
Work at that time had a large physical component to it. Now we are chained to our desks and computers
1966....the year England won the World Cup. London was so nostalgic back then...Singaporean here..
Now you are getting it. Stay away then
ken tang I was so lucky to work in Singapore for 4 years late 1970's and early 80's.. That was a time when Singapore was 'nostalgic' with godowns and even kampongs. It dramatically changed in just a few years. I will never forget The Mitre Hotel in Killiney Road. Happy days.
@@MrAzboGaming Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley! 😢
@@southlondon86 Its SO much better now we have all the answers,- junior.
I love those cockney market traders. They were right characters.
Thank goodness for these old films. No reason to visit today London isn't English anymore.
so what? The policies of your governments and the colonization of other countries have ruined and taken the lives of the people so that you racist creatures can have a better life and they are forced to leave their country and emigrate and live next to racists like you. Do you have a complaint? Tell your governments to stop colonizing other countries
Grow up you pillock
The London I remember too. I was 4 years old this year. 🙂
Every time I watch one of these documentaries, I am reminded of how Great Britain was in the 60s. (Less so today, in some aspects...)
The Narrators always spoke with a distinctive style in these Pathé reels. Beautiful British accents you don't hear anymore. Today narration lacks this unique style of speech delivery, because narration nowadays is way too casual and americanised for my liking.God Save the Queen and all that is Great about Britain.
They had a project going back a long time to track British accents.
One is analysis of the Queen's address.
But there was also film and audio collected by region and social class.
With a bit of Google magic you can find them.
Yep, back then the English accent was a work of art, not like today innit.
@@electriclightlynnetrex6346 cushty mushty, banging man , yeah yeah ... .
(i know exactly what you mean mate lol)
Padraig O’Shea ~ Yeah,
it’s so very sad to see what they have done to our once Beautiful capital city.
i think that it’s very important that the public gets both sides of the debate and the other side of the propaganda.
Please check out the amazing documentary series called =
“EUROPA THE LAST BATTLE”
All Ten episodes are well worth watching
Removed and Banned in many places, However You Can Still Find it iF You Look hard enough
(it’s also available on DVD)
it’s one of the most important & fascinating documentary series to come out this decade and should be shown in our schools and colleges worldwide.
if it was shown on the mainstream media then we would win our fight for freedom over night.
We all must do our best to spread the truth and wake our people up from a very deep sleep.
Please share it with as many people as you can before it gets Removed & Lost forever.
The Censorship Continues but
OUR WEAPON IS TRUTH!
God Bless (Bitchute)
Nothing great about Britain.
The only london I want to visit
Adore this kind of archival footage. London is very cool
Take back our city
This is the London I remember as a child. After Blair got it in 1997 he started the rot that has culminated in London now being more or less Londonistan and ruled by the Grand Caliph Sadiq Khan.
Tony Blair was a git
Politicians like Blair did not help matters admittedly, however the demise of our parents and grandparents generations have also a lot to do with it I believe. There was no one shooting at me when I was in my teens nor was there bombs falling on my head. I could also call on a friend without being told he/she had been killed since I last saw them. Nothing much bothered those generations,,they were accustomed to lifes uncertainties.I well remember the late Enoch Powell in a TV interview on the Falkland War. The interviewer was trying to point out the possible catastrophies thar could befall such an adventure. Three times he pointed this out and three times he got the same answer,' You have to win' who could continue to argue in the face of such military experience and quiet confidence born of intellect ?
@@philiprufus4427 You make some very cogent points. Wish more people were like you.
How times have changed. I remember being told by our school teacher back in 1967 that life won't be as promised come the millennium with a fabulous future we were all led to believe. How right he was.
@hawwndawg he was probably watching a program at the time called towards the year 2000 when we were led to believe that everything would be far better come the 21 century when we would expect to see monnerrail transport systems everywhere etc but he told us to take it with a pinch of salt as things will probably be a lot different.
I wish london still had aspects of this video
Yep, “diversity is our strength” is the biggest load of bullshit. :)
My friends and I used to buy a ticket called a Twin Rover for about 10/6d and we could use the underground and buses all day. London was great in those days; grubby and busy and warm and friendly. Gone forever!
as remembered thanks for sharing !
Most of the hard working people in this film are now turning in their graves at what has become of the capital they helped to build. A national disgrace.
They didn't build it, they survived in it and as better opportunities came along they moved with them.
They wanted modern cars, cental heating and double glazing, times move on, same as people
@@adrinathegreat3095exactly
@@adrinathegreat3095 Their ancestors built it for them, and their children. You're right though, they chose takeaway curries over future prosperity.
They'll forever be remembered as spineless traitors.
I was 18 years old in 1966. When I arrived in London for studying, I remained in Notting Hill Gate for fourteen years (I got married in London, and my kids were born there) .
As a new comer in 1966 I immediately fell in love with that beautiful, joyful, dynamic town. (We called it « swinging London ».To my opinion it was the very best place on Earth. And England was my love.
Today, I don’t like it any more. London has lost its beautiful soul. That makes me sad. London is no longer London. I keep on going back there because part of my family still lives there but I wouldn’t like staying in London a very long time. The population is completely changed, and this is not for the best, on the contrary it is for the worst.
I know exactly what you mean. I was born and raised in London when it really was London. Crime was extremely low and the city was safe. The population back then was different and one could walk around without fear of being attacked both physically and verbally. The only foreigners were those from the ex-colonies (British Commonwealth) who tended to assimilate. Almost every person I come across in London today speaks with a foreign accent. I can't believe what's happened to this once great and vibrant city.
@@jacobrivers5728 crazy how that happened..same thing here in many places if not all places in the U.S. the Seattle-Tacoma area used to be one of the safest areas to raise a family now both cities are ranked among the most dangerous..it only took 10 years to completely flip
@@BFaluup This madness will only end when right thinking people stand up and say it ends and that can only be done by stopping self-serving, liberal woke politicians from inflicting more damage on society. I'm so angry and frustrated at seeing my beloved city overrun with worthless freeloading foreigners who live on welfare, walk around with an air-of-entitlement and have no respect for law and order or the British way of life. Whenever there's a crime reported in the media, the culprit always has an African, Muslim or Eastern European name. I've reached a point where I no longer care if people label me a racist as I know I'm not. I can only assume that Seattle is suffering the consequences of policies inflicted by the money hungry Clintons', Biden, and Pelosi & Co who are no better than Boris Johnson and his cronies.
I love that four engines airplane with one deck landing .Undescribable elegant, nostalgical,heart touching, scenarioes of old London leads me back to that wonder land.
I miss the monocultural days
Boeing 707? 3:22
1966: “Their home town is a Mecca for tourists”. 2021: “Their home town is Mecca”
Lol..your commentxD
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The only Mecca I knew in 1966 was the old girls Bingo Hall.
The guy showing the unbreakable plates, the couple on a scooter in the Thames, the horses, the streets, and the swingy music are so British my eyes are weeping tea...
Edit: also the unbreakable plates guy's accent
Its before we became a province of nigeria
Me also sir
How happy we were in these
Long gone days
Back in the days when London was a safe place to live….how sad to see the difference now….it has been ruined 😥
True. Its is so dirty looking in places now. Dark depressing unsafe. It so sad to see.
Never forget what they’ve taken from you.
So sad what has happened to my capital city. I am only 25 and even in my life span I can see how London has got worse.
Germany, French, Denmark, Sweden there are so many videos online.
m-i-gra-tio*n has ruined all of them, even my comment will deleted even speaking about it bad,... :)
The policies of your governments and the colonization of other countries have ruined and taken the lives of the people so that you racist creatures can have a better life and they are forced to leave their country and emigrate and live next to racists like you. Do you have a complaint? Tell your governments to stop colonizing other countries
@@zibi8536 Are you triggered zi bi
I can’t understand what you are getting at.
@@zibi8536 Our governments are not colonising any countries other than their own. Shut up pajeet.
A lost city. Lost in time. Gone. 😢
Those 60's and 70's and 80's days will never come back. Good bye to the western world of the past, hello to ...? a shyteshow of horrors where everyone hates each other and their are no 'norms'.
Lets hope history really does repeats its self as today's society could learn a lot from 1966 ... not everything was perfect of course not but compared to what we have now its pure gold only wish that famous time machine was here.
But I thought the Delorean was made in the UK?
How fast things change, and most of the change is not for the better
I watch these videos from everywhere and I have to commend the construction workers of that time and prior(1940's and above).. getting paid pennies and doing such a dangerous job!
And doing an immaculate finish
thanks to commies threat and socialists who fought for workers rights.
@@aldos2795 When they weren't fighting workers.
Some interesting things. No seat belts, no fall arresting equipment for masonry workers but, and this is a biggie, there are stonemasons using masks and water spray to stop dust. We have just recently found a significant increase in stone masons dying from lung disease because of not wearing masks when fitting and cutting stone bench tops.
The genuine ordered ancient established British traditions that we grew up with in the 1960s - not the confected, inflated, political correctness that 70 years of unregulated multiculturalism has foisted upon us.
I liked the predominant monoculture that was the lived experience of the majority of the population in 1960s Britain.
I don't feel any need to apologize for the Britain I was born into and loved.
1:23 "A Mecca for tourists." Now it's just Mecca.
Ask the History why this happened
@@abiyafellak1019 here we go with the victim card
@chandan sinha no reason to argue with a mindset like that honestly. I just pray that you people may find love and compassion to your neighbors
@chandan sinha and always think of a better future for mankind
@@saintkittsdefenderofchrist782 says the same people who keep victimising themselves active as if they're not the ones behind the mess in the very same region immigrants come from
Wonderful
When London was an English city.
Multiculturalism have destroyed London, if not the rest.
@@siedlikomulticulturalism doesn't work in the UK you will other UK cities and towns are riddled with racism and segregation.
The policies of your governments and the colonization of other countries have ruined and taken the lives of the people so that you racist creatures can have a better life and they are forced to leave their country and emigrate and live next to racists like you. Do you have a complaint? Tell your governments to stop colonizing other countries
@@zibi8536 Are you triggered again zi bi
Enjoy it now
I'd watch that guy with the dishes all day long.
When London was London, full of character. Now its just an immigrant ghetto with glass towers and Westminster.
Fantastic footage. What a time.
0:14 Del boy and Rodney in action :D
5:05 Peter Sellers bursting out of a cake driving a mini. I wasn't expecting that!
2 thumbs wildly up.
I wanted to know what London looked like in the year I was born in the city I was born in.
Sleeping at Oxford street outside ,Eros cinema Picadilly Circus or Circle line🔄with TIMES paper ---ears--- inside after hitchhiking there from Germany ! A wonderful souvenir at returning home !
At 6.50 the narrator talks of tourists striking up conversations in pubs with strangers. Unfortunately these days they’d be likely to be stabbed if they tried that sort of thing.
Will always stay an awesome city!
@2:50 It’s interesting to see what kind of food was being served in these restaurants - jellied eels, chopped herring, tripe and mash, boiled beef?! No doubt a lot has been lost of old London, but at least the food has come a long way :D There’s another British Pathe video about Covent Garden in the 50s, and you can see people ordering what looked like horrible little sausage sandwiches. The sausages were kept in some kind of brine. They were sliced in half and held together by two tiny little pieces of white bread. The sausages were also covered in lots of vinegar and mustard! Made me gag a little.
1960s: Come to London!
2020s: Please stop coming to London
A great year for England ⚽️
I think 2022 will be another great year for England....
3:09 Del Boy and Rodney...
1:01 London has got two dear now .
When I moved from London to North Essex in 1979 everyone there was from London, they all gave the same answer as to why they'd left. It took less than 20 years for us to lose that city.
Glorious!
I was born on Lakenheath AFB in 1966 to an American Father and British Mother. I want to go to back England some day….
The London The Beatles got to know.
and where the Sex Pistols were born. 10 years old in 1966.
The Beatles are from Liverpool.Sorry.
@prxncessF xo who evolved and got what accent genuine question just wasn't sure who you meant
000 Neuro no he is not wrong
@@000neuro4 yes, but they recorded in Abbey Road, in London
PARADISE !!!!
Today Trafalgar Square looks like a town square in Punjab.
London before diversity and mad mayor......
The year I was born, it changed a lot since then, absolutely tragic. 58 years later . . . . Look at the mayor, that says it all.
The scary thing is the sixties wasn't that long ago and seeing it from then to now what's it going to be like in another fifty years well I won't be about to see it unfortunately our grandkids will
I was born in 1966 what a amazing year it was
During this era, it was still optional for car manufacturers to attach side mirrors on their cars.
Come to London?
I would have done.
Then, not now.
I remember how black the buildings were before the great clean up in the 80 s and 90 s.
The work of stone masons and cleaners has changed the look of London from
a black sooty old city which for me is nostalgic to a modern but old jewel
i will always love.
Back when the buildings were black and the people were white!
I was there then...I prefer now
Island of sunshine.
I want to weep when I see this wonderful of film of how London used to be. We have lost our identity through lack of thought.
Lack of standards in every conceivable way.
What's this English city called London? Never seen it before other than in old books and films.
what have we done 🥺❤️
When London was a safer, saner city. Sadly missed.
Go to London! I guarantee you'll either be mugged or not appreciated.
Sure man, you’ve clearly never been to any big city in your lifetime but you can keep believing whatever you want to believe
That's all over the UK all towns and cities in the UK are riddled with crime.
Ah-Haaaa
@@kangaroo4847 It is incredibly disheartening that now it is the common conception that living a big city means accepting being mugged or seeing constant scenes of detritus and crime when this wasn't the case 30 years ago.
london before it became islamabad . a proud city gone forever destroyed by multi culturism .
How has it become Islamabad?
@@ahmadibrahim6736 I think they had Mile end, Tower hamlets and other areas in mind.
@@ahmadibrahim6736 Ahmad, you wouldn't know; you're unaware of the water in which you swim.
Khan needs to be shown this
Can anyone tell what has changed in present day london
2019 was lucky for me that visited London
This is clearly before the health and safety at work act lmao
Yea that worker on the skyscraper freaked me out. I'm an architect student but I've always been afraid of heights, wish me luck.
03:30 Leonardo dicaprio 😊😊😊
Lol :)
Catch me if you can.
0:14 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ))
con man of the century :)
London in 2023 ? Nowhere near where it used to be. Very sad 😭😭😭
LOL man what used to be and what no longer is...
I was minding my own business until i was told about the 'common wealth'. Now i'm here to take a part of the share
Well the wealth certainly isn't common among the average person, only the top 1%. You're welcome to take from them
*rip london*
Interesting comments!
There is nothing English about LONDON today sadly.
Good evening here denmark yes it is very sad the good times is over the same here in denmark.
Hamburg here. Same.
@@henrikchristensen7844
it was more of a violent place then than it is now especially the east end. apparently things and people were really tough. But this video shows why nature and important history needs to be preserved.
Before all the benefits of diversity.
I wish i was born in this country 😢
why do people look so slim happy healthy vibrant and white?
If London was like that now id be visiting all the time , Bus and Tube Rides around exploring going to Markets all around , now people get attacked
2:50 could someone please explain the menu prices? why use a / ?
Ryan reaves
probably old denominations because british currency wasn't decimalized until 1971
it's only in recent years that money has been decimalised (units divisible by 10) before that we used pounds shillings and pence. 2/6 is 2 shillings 6 pence. 12p is 1 shilling, 20 shillings are a pound
Much the same as the mystery with the commas and dots used in European countries prices. It was a common representation of prices, dates and bookies odds. 20/4/69 was a date 10/3 was ten shillings and threepence or thrupence depending on who said it. 6/- was six shillings exactly, but there still was a bit of pricing in guineas which was 21 shillings and a reluctance to use £ signs when 20/- meant the same. I remember the agony of going shopping with people that could not understand decimalisation and converted every price back to "proper" money. They still couldn't get their heads around kilometres and weights. So basically have a cobbled together mish mash of decimalisation. Our country went the other way and banned the sale of non metric items like rulers and scales. Quite frustrating if trying to convert back from inches to mms when your ruler only has mms.
For more than a thousand years, from the year 775 AD until 14-February 1971, England used the Carolingian monetary system. During those years, a Pound was worth 240 pence. This currency system continued until the formation of Great Britain (1700s) and United Kingdom (1800s).
1 Pound = 20 shillings
1 Shilling = 12 pence
A penny is further divided into half penny and one-fourth penny called farthing.
If the price of an item cost less than a shilling (pence only), it is written as 11d, 10d, 9d, 5¼d, etc. The letter "d" means "denarius". It is the Latin word for the standard silver coin introduced by the Romans.
If the price has both shillings and pence, it is written with slash (/) as separator. Example: 15 shillings and 6 pence is written as 15/6. If the price is exactly 15 shillings without pence, it is written as 15/-
If the price has pounds, shillings and pence, the separator can either be slash (/) or dash (-). Example: 2 pounds, 15 shillings and 6 pence is written as £2/15/6 or £2-15-6.
When adding prices, you should have memorised the 12 Times Table to be able to add prices.
For example, you bought 5 items in a supermarket:
Item#1 is 15/7
Item#2 is 16/8
Item#3 is 17/9
Item#4 is 18/10
Item#5 is 19/11
Total in shillings and pence: 88/9
Total in £sd: £4/8/9
By adding all the shillings and all the pence, you will get a total of 85 shillings and 45 pence.
To get the exact amount in shillings and pence, you need to think how many shillings are there in 45 pence. The answer is 3 shillings with a remainder of 9 pence.
Add 3 shillings to 85 shillings; you'll get a total of 88 shillings.
Therefore, the total amount you bought in the supermarket was 88 shillings and 9 pence (88/9) or 4 Pounds 8 shillings 9 pence (£4/8/9).
This is the reason why back in the days, British children were taught to memorise the 12 Times Table.
To make it simple, the old money of Britain was similar to the height of a person expressed in feet and inches. Examples: 5'7, 5'9, 5'11, 6'2. The amount in shillings is similar to the number of feet while the amount in pence is similar to the number of inches.
A lot of people born after 1971 (or not yet an adult in 1971) thought that the Pounds, Shillings and Pence was a very difficult system when it was still in use in Britain. Videos in youtube always give the impression that it was a very complicated system. Someone even made a comment that it would be very difficult to give change if you are selling an item worth £1/5/9 (1 Pound 5 shillings and 9 pence) and the customer gave you a £5 note. hahahahaha... His comment shows that he did not live during the pre-decimal era. In schools, children were taught the arithmetic of the Pounds, Shillings and Pence system but in reality people in Britain don't count money in Pounds in their everyday lives; they only count in shillings and pence. It should be noted that after World War-2, there were only 3 banknotes in Britain: 10-shilling note, £1 note (20 shillings) and £5 note (100 shillings). The £10 note (200 shillings) was only re-introduced in 1964 while the £20 note (400 shillings) was re-introduced in 1970. During the pre-decimal era, prices in street markets, stores, supermarkets, department stores and even petrol stations were expressed in shillings and pence only. At Harrods or Marks & Spencer, you would see the prices of items were 67/8, 45/6, 54/10, 49/11, etc. The "Pounds, Shillings and Pence" will only show on the cash register during check out. In street markets, there were no cash registers, sellers just count and compute for change in their heads or using a pen and paper. During that time, shilling was the de facto main unit of currency while the Pound was the de facto superunit. The Pound as the de jure main unit of currency was only expressed in prices of expensive products such as TVs, refrigerators, cars, etc., in real estate properties and in big business transactions especially in international trade and commerce. If an item only costs 1 Pound 5 shillings and 9 pence, it would be written as 25/9 instead of £1/5/9. If the customer gave a £5 note which is equivalent to 100 shillings, the customer's change is obviously 74/3. The seller would then give the customer three £1 notes (60 shillings), one 10-shilling note, two florin coins (4 shillings) and a 3-pence coin. For the sake of that guy's curiosity on how to compute for the change if the price of an item is expressed in Pounds Shillings and Pence, here's how it works:
When it comes to giving or receiving a change, you only need to remember 20 and 12. There are 20 shillings in a Pound and there are 12 pence in a shilling.
If the price of an item costs 1 Pound and 5 shillings (£1/5/-) and the money given by the customer was £5, round-up £1 (1 becomes 2) and then subtract it from £5 (5-2=3). Subtract 5/- from 20/- (20-5=15). Therefore, the customer's change is 3 Pounds and 15 shillings (£3/15/-)
If the price of an item costs 1 Pound 5 shillings and 9 pence (£1/5/9) and the money given by the customer was £5, round-up both £1 (1 becomes 2) and 5/- (5 becomes 6). Subtract £2 from £5 (5-2=3) and subtract 6/- from 20/- (20-6=14). Subtract 9 pence from 12 pence (12-9=3). Therefore, the customer's change is 3 Pounds 14 shillings and 3 pence (£3/14/3)
From a currency similar to feet and inches (like a person's height) to a currency based on 10s and 100s. This is the reason why a lot of people in Britain find it hard to adjust when decimalisation was implemented in 1971 plus the fact that the decimalisation format used by the British government was flawed. From a very flexible denomination of 240 pence to a Pound, the British government chose a cramped 100 "new pence" to a Pound. On 15-February 1971, the shilling was devalued to 5 "new pence" (no longer 12) so that one Pound would be equivalent to 100 "new pence". Among former British colonies that transitioned to decimal currency, Ghana is the best. Ghana's decimal currency called Cedi (₵) is equivalent to 8 shillings and 4 pence (8/4) or 100 pence. Therefore, all the old pence are equally convertible to the new decimal currency. No need to worry about adjustment of prices; only the name of the currency and its denomination will change. 8/4 is ₵1.00 which means one Ghanaian Pound is equal to two Cedis and 40 pesewa (£1=₵2.40). In 1970, Bermuda Islands followed Ghana's decimalisation format. One Bermudian Pound is equal to two Bermudian Dollars and 40 cents (£1=$2.40). When South Africa decimalised the South African Pound, it converted 10 shillings (120 pence) to the new currency called Rand. 120 pence were converted to 100 cents. A little adjustment needs to be made when it comes to pricing and balancing bank accounts because 1.20 pence shall be equivalent to 1 cent. One South African Pound is equal to two South African Rands (£1=R2.00). South Africa's format of decimalisation from Pounds to the new decimalised currency was followed by Australia, New Zealand and Nigeria. Britain did the worst decimalisation format. Britain converted 20 shillings (240 pence) to 100 pence. Inflation was the result. The government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson was too afraid to lose the Pound as Britain's currency that's why he followed the advice of the Bank of England to retain the Pound. BOE and Harold Wilson did not follow the format of Ghana's new decimalised currency based on 8/4 (100 pence) nor South Africa's version of decimalised currency based on 10/- (120 pence converted to 100 cents). Instead, Britain decimalised the Pound by shrinking its value from 240 pence to 100 pence only. Some people in Britain even thought that the value of their money/income has diminished because in every shilling they spend (5 new pence) they were ripped off by the government for 7 pence. Devaluing the shilling from 12 pence to 5 pence was not a joke especially during the time when prices were still cheap. The ill-conceived decimalisation of the Pound in 1971 was one of the "ingredients" of the economic disaster of Britain during the turbulent decade of the 1970s. It may not be the main reason but it contributed to the economic crisis during that time. Maybe it's true that 10 is simpler than 12 or the decimal currency system is simpler than imperial currency system but the transition of Britain to decimal currency system in 1971 was NOT simple.
1:25 "Their home town is a Mecca for tourists (1966)"..."Their home town IS Mecca" (2023)
What is music theme at first minute?
Oh my goodness
wait!!! London used to be English?
Such diversity we see
Those were the days when the sun was still shining in London ..... nowadays, it's just rain, rain and grey skies.
As a Londoner, I've never been to Big Ben or Tower Bridge 😂
More than 430,000 views and only 95 comments 😂
yes MSN again !
People aren't much of talkers today
Nouveau : Ebook audiovisuel Mots rares de Georges Brassens (Amazon)
Et aussi, Boby Lapointe, Anne Vanderlove, Aristide Bruant……
Tony Blair is to blame. London England today is a complete shambles.