Wasn't it wonderful. What a sad sad mess we've got ourselves into now. I can't believe that's the same London. :-(
@christophermaley6822
2 жыл бұрын
BRITISH people and cars ....... the good old days I remember as a child.
@glamorgan5888
11 жыл бұрын
people find it even difficult to get on well togheter when they are from the same neck of the woods,they share the same religion and creed. Mixing people with different background,religion and creed makes it all the more difficult
@peterpedant
3 жыл бұрын
impossible even.
@retronostalgic
15 жыл бұрын
This is London the way it should be...
@retronostalgic
15 жыл бұрын
London was beautiful in the 60's - there's way too much uncontrolled immigration nowadays. Labour out!
@jameshetherington4639
11 жыл бұрын
English people in London - almost a rarity nowadays...
@madeinbanat3534
3 жыл бұрын
They sold up and moved to Essex to a better life as you very well know. No one forced the locals out.. and someone had to fill in the void im afraid. And if you colonize half the world for 300 years and milk it dry you've to expect a bit of 'blowback' at some point. .. small price to pay for colonising and invading half the planet. On the whole England 's done pretty well off it considering
@winstonsmith4156
3 жыл бұрын
@@madeinbanat3534 how did we milk it dry exactly?
@Lamvesp
12 жыл бұрын
It's nice to see London as it was before the enrichment program had taken hold.
@archangelgabriel27
11 жыл бұрын
Each time I visit England I really feel at home, matter where I visit. At the end of each visit, I feel something positive as it seems to spirit of the locality wants me to be stay their. Maybe this happens because in my earlier years, I used to live with my parents along with my only sibling sister who was born at East Dulwich. I ove England and its people and no less the green land full of parksand many water ways, such as rivers and lakes to mention a few.
@shrivel1
11 жыл бұрын
I love the sound effects accompanying the photos.
@Isleofskye
15 жыл бұрын
"Immigrants have always been here!2 for example. Yes! a few in the Ports of Bristol/Liverpool and The South Shields riots of 1919 and Tiger Bay in Cardiff, Wales. I CAN ASSURE YOU that in the heart of Inner London in the 1960's you went ONE WEEK to another without seeing any Black or Asian faces! "Our" Culture has been dilted and we have been swamped to such an extent that Whites are ALREADY the minority in London Schools!" In many, many parts of London, Whites are ALREADY the minority!
@Isleofskye
3 жыл бұрын
@Mark Sam Very True and sadly, many of the departees to The Suburbs have now taken a further step nearer the Countryside or The Coast. Twice recently I visited West Sussex and spoke to the locals. Out of 25, I spoke to while walking my dogs 20 of them or their parents had moved from Inner London over the last 30 years or so. Same in all parts of Outer London now. East London-Ilford-Norfolk is a classic 2 stage move...
@Isleofskye
3 жыл бұрын
12 years later and that process has accelerated to the point where many Inner London schools have less than 5% White British...
@lalakers1984
11 жыл бұрын
I think all the British folk should vote UKIP. I know I am voting for them at the next election and I hear they are gaining popularity. Their policy is to leave the EU and close the border for 5 years.
@ZiggyGreenthumb
11 жыл бұрын
Totally agree with you on the 'modern architecture' comment. I live in a town that saw vast expansion from 1947 untill now, and the god awefull buildings deemed as 'art' are all now listed buildings. In particular, the local swimming baths, which are shut for repair more than it is open. An accident waiting to happen. Thankfully, most of the town centre got ripped down before anything could be listed. Man those horrible building's are/were depressing to look at
@gazsmash
17 жыл бұрын
aaahhhhhh.... London before all this multicultural bollocks!
@Isleofskye
3 жыл бұрын
13 years later ......
@polskich
16 жыл бұрын
i agree i can remember those days, london is no longer a british city, its seems odd to be a stranger in your own land
@robbiemify
5 жыл бұрын
Oooo, glory days, no yellow lines, no meters, no wardens, traffic flowing :) :) :)
@bigboxbobby2
14 жыл бұрын
Its almost unrecognisable from the London of today.
@gilesl
5 жыл бұрын
I know all those streets pretty well, it's mostly stayed the same with the exception of the middlesex hospital that's now gone, nice that there's no yellow lines! and far fewer cars!
@telemachus53
2 жыл бұрын
Where in the vid did you see the Middlesex? My mum used to take me there regularly.
@gilesl
2 жыл бұрын
@@telemachus53 you can see the nurses accommodation is a couple of shots and I think that's it at the end of the street in 2'04 ish. There's no direct footage of it but these are all the surrounding streets
@moxicle
14 жыл бұрын
Happy memories, thanks. John
@Chichesterguy
3 жыл бұрын
Deffo looked a lot nicer then now, shame those old street lanterns were all ripped out -
@joebyrneguitar
11 жыл бұрын
i don't have the source on me, but it was stated in a bbc documentary about enoch powell. But i'd say you have a point, the only point i was trying to put across is how rapid the change has been post 1948, especially since new labour came to power in 97' - whereabouts in the UK do you live because some places have never changed however places like barking and dagenham and large parts of Manchester, leicester, Birmingham, Yorkshire and the east end have changed beyond recognition
@retronostalgic
16 жыл бұрын
A lot less traffic on the roads by the looks of it. Great time, unlike today...
@Hydeparkmayfair
10 жыл бұрын
The West End, when every day it would show off, nowadays, resembles something akin to a toilet.
@bombsiteweed1
6 жыл бұрын
Don't talk bollocks, have you even been to the West End recently? I live there now its not bad at all.
@lilyrobinson8695
6 жыл бұрын
bombsiteweed1 your head is up your arse
@peterpedant
3 жыл бұрын
@@bombsiteweed1 you are in denial mate.
@bombsiteweed1
3 жыл бұрын
@@peterpedant You're a "know nothing" with your eyes shut.
@bombsiteweed1
3 жыл бұрын
@@lilyrobinson8695 You smell
@Isleofskye
14 жыл бұрын
Its one thing accepting people from all over the World to allow them to live in a civilsed, polite and tolerant Society.....its quite another thing to be sooo entirely swamped that our own British Culture has virtually disappearred in many parts of London in our lifetimes,
@CaptBubble
13 жыл бұрын
I would love to see that low number of cars on London's streets again. Dwindling oil supplies and recession have done almost nothing to reduce congestion, and as this gets worse the cars have got bigger and bigger.
@grahamkeithtodd
16 жыл бұрын
damm this brings back quite a few memorys for me! i used to live in Hanson Street (1957-1969)just round the cornor from the old clinic shown in Foely Street! thank you for posting this one!
@Liam2621
11 жыл бұрын
Wow it almost looks english, nowadays its like being in africa or asia.
@retronostalgic
16 жыл бұрын
Well put. I'd rather live back then than now to be honest.
@kein1275
16 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, Percy and Michael. I recognised the RIBA offices, Royal Institute of British Architects (at 02:16). Plenty of Minis and Morris in the streets. And why there is a lorry engine sounds all the time?
@eturfrey
14 жыл бұрын
Now changed beyond all recognition, not the place i grew up in.
@Isleofskye
3 жыл бұрын
11 yars later and the chanfe has REALLY gone ballistic!
@Oakleaf700
11 жыл бұрын
Bombs did a load of damage. Like Bristol, before the war it was full of lovely ancient Georgian and earlier buildings. Bombers did the damage, but brutalist ''modern'' architecture was the nail in the coffin. I loathe faceless modern architecture.
@comateensnyc
15 жыл бұрын
This is completely wonderful. Thanks so much.
@spitharoo
12 жыл бұрын
The days when you didn't feel like a foreigner in your own country.
@retronostalgic
11 жыл бұрын
But its not just London - the same thing is happening in towns and cities throughout the midlands as well - the amount of foreign languages i hear when im walking down the street is unbelievable. Blame Labour....
@oldproji
11 жыл бұрын
And we thought London was busy then. Now you can't move and it's rare to spot a Londoner.
@Isleofskye
15 жыл бұрын
Mon Ami, its one thing accepting people from all over the World to allow them to live in a civilsed, polite and tolerant Society.....its quite another thing to be sooo entirely swamped that our own British Culture has virtually disappearred in many parts of London in our lifetimes,
@jonstevens2899
4 жыл бұрын
The better videos are the ones where it states the particular locations; i cant get enough of those..... this video here along with many others are so obscure and it doesnt feel anywhere nearly as nostalgic. I want to go on google earth and see the then and nows and also to see if theyve been tragically torn down and replaced with ugly social housing
@robertsullivan7680
4 жыл бұрын
Hey I lived on Harley Street for three years Number 61 and I was not a “Harley street consultant....
@nnited
11 жыл бұрын
you need a passport to go to London these days
@Liam2621
11 жыл бұрын
That's true, I live up north and it' s getting that way here, especially in the big cities.
@wiggywoo1965
11 жыл бұрын
oh the good old days a???
@staypress
11 жыл бұрын
well the problem is that the UKIP have no policies except the immigration thing so what do we do
@Northernspotter101
12 жыл бұрын
Excellent great nostalgia !
@paulph12002
13 жыл бұрын
@YesIamEccentric The architecture has changed too. Sure, many historic buildings still stand, but lots of old buildings have been torn down and replaced by huge blocks of offices and overpriced apartments for city types. Whole areas like Docklands have been cleared and redeveloped in this way.
@retronostalgic
15 жыл бұрын
You're so right. That's why there's so much crime there nowadays...
@bigboxbobby2
14 жыл бұрын
This is a really interesting group of photos - thanks a lot.
@csno1
15 жыл бұрын
Precisely, the real British better start waking the hell up!
@matteocos4963
4 жыл бұрын
Bellissimi ricordi
@Isleofskye
3 жыл бұрын
12 years later and the bird has flown James..
@retronostalgic
12 жыл бұрын
@noonsight2010 - Being concerned about too much immigration is not being racist my friend - It's about what's best for the country as a whole. We have limited space and resources here. There are plenty of people here with ethnic backgrounds who want immigration properly controlled as they're affected too.
@Bevoin1970
15 жыл бұрын
Wow..!! Look how quiet and free from congestion it all looked. Not a hard hat or Hi viz jacket to be seen anywhere, and also none of those cloned retail parks that we see everywhere these days. Where did it all go wrong and why?
@fordeboi
13 жыл бұрын
Jesus I know most of these streets as I live around there, and went to school in Holborn and live in the TCR area, some of them buildings were still standing up until a few years ago especially the one were you turn of the theobalds road and head down to the Holborn viaduct. Fucking hell that place has changed about twent times in 4 years the road layout seems to change every bastard week. Nice to see all the family run places and the diversity of shops now all you get is a fucking starbucks.
@redcardinalist
11 жыл бұрын
Sorry, there's a further question I wanted to raise :-) >>and if you look at the composition of where brits of moving out it's largely because they don't like what is happening. Do you know that for a fact or is it really only your opnion? Presumably you have some evidence that that is the reason why most of the people are moving out?
@dandastardlyful
11 жыл бұрын
I bet your last visit to your local TESCO was the best night out you've had in ages.
@Isleofskye
15 жыл бұрын
Being born in England does NOT make you "English". If I was a Cat and I was born in a Horses Stable, I would STILL be a Cat!
@chestfield
16 жыл бұрын
The intro says "west of Tottenham Court Road", but isn't #2, (at 19 seconds) Proctor Street, Holborn?
@redcardinalist
11 жыл бұрын
I can't find an online source for the 1948 figure you quote. Do you have a source? I'd query what the definition of "white British" used was. For instance, would someone who came from Germany 20 years earlier be considered? What about someone whose grandfather was a Latvian Jew? My point about immigration is that many people who now would consider themselves as British have parents or grandparents who came from abroad. I've lived for 40+ years in the UK and it doesnt feel any less British now.
@joebyrneguitar
11 жыл бұрын
in 1948 national statistics reported london to be 98% white british so all this rubbish about immigration building london or always being a part of it is rubbish as it is a recent thing. Obviously many people who come contribute whatever their colour and judging someone on appearance is very shallow in my view however i've always felt it is unfair having mass migration and if you look at the composition of where brits of moving out it's largely because they don't like what is happening
@CrankCase08
12 жыл бұрын
This was before London became colonised by the Third World.
@sudgur990
4 жыл бұрын
Let's do a swap ,you can take back White Americans, Australians Canadians etc..
@kingtoot3726
12 жыл бұрын
yes you are right hope one day we will see nice looking clean london again .
@hawkmoon03111951
13 жыл бұрын
People managing to cross the roads, not something done so easily today. In those days, aged around 11, I used to ride my bicycle around Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner. Wouldn't catch me doing it now.
@Isleofskye
14 жыл бұрын
Continued: Then in the early 1970's we started to hear of street robberies and nearly ALWAYS it was a Black Guy. Time after Time . The Whites had seen enough... Result? Lived in the Kent Suburbs for 30 years and heard of 2 robberies in all that time and I had one nutter chase me, in THIRTY years !!. My old High Street has had 9 murders in the last 2 years alone. WE KNEW ! Londoners then moved to The Suburbs and beyond or emigrated altogethetrn their millions and "White Flight" took place.
@TheUnrealabc
12 жыл бұрын
I want to go to this time right now......
@lalakers1984
11 жыл бұрын
Yeah that is true. My grandad traced my family back hundreds of years and they were all British so that's good for me. :) Not sure where they came from before that though.
@butiamthedoctor
15 жыл бұрын
Those were some good shots of Fitzrovia (the area to the West of TCR), an area of London I know quite well.
@thatchersbastardchildmrsco5227
11 жыл бұрын
Nice pictures sounds .... Mainly round the top end wc2 w 1ithink?!
@lalakers1984
11 жыл бұрын
Why is it racist to want to live among native British people? It's not racist at all. I mean I'm not against immigration, I'm against the people trying to destroy our culture. when people come to our country and don't respect our culture or speak our language then that's taking the piss. It seems these days that you get called a racist just for loving your country. Yes on coming to our country but no to not being able to speak English or refusing completely to adapt to our way of life.
@kein1275
15 жыл бұрын
2:11 is the RIBA building, Portland Place, near Regents Park.
@frankieflash
15 жыл бұрын
Look how clean the streets were back then!
@replicantplanet
12 жыл бұрын
@wank0r Totally agree mate.
@Khayyam-vg9fw
12 жыл бұрын
@gabbygetsme As a Londoner (born in 1959) I can confirm that there were small enclaves and ghettos of non-English (West Indians in Notting Hill and Brixton, Asians in Southall, Jews in the East End), but, on the whole, London was recognisably (if decreasingly, to the observant) an English city until the 1980s. I noticed a steep increase of "asylum seekers" in the early 1990s, even in relatively "unaffected" South-West London, but the real deluge occurred after the Blair Putsch of 1997.
@ElQuba
12 жыл бұрын
0:53 there is still no wheelchair ramp at that rear lane location; Eagle Street.
@shrivel1
15 жыл бұрын
I like the sound effects...
@noonsight2010
13 жыл бұрын
@inkey2 Incomprehensible!
@Khayyam-vg9fw
12 жыл бұрын
@noonsight2010 Is that a literal or metaphorical "wibble"?
@fishybishbash
12 жыл бұрын
Hardly any cars, no yellow lines - amazing
@rubberbird123
11 жыл бұрын
Come to Australia, we have lots of room.
@ambertjeblue
12 жыл бұрын
I remember this well.
@Oakleaf700
11 жыл бұрын
I so agree-as does my son [who works as a Timber Framer] they build lovely traditional 'new'' buildings out of sympathetic oak beams that blend with the landscape. I don't know what ''drug'' the mid 20th cent architects were on-but you can bet they chose to live in something attractive-like a georgian house or tudor farmhouse- but they built ugliness. Why?? was it cheap? it has so little merit.
@salieri7005
12 жыл бұрын
@theCZsoldier YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT !
@BROADTRAIN1979
13 жыл бұрын
put it this way life was slow and no fear of walking the streets ,unlike to day you only have to look at someone next thing you know theres a knife in your heart!
@retronostalgic
14 жыл бұрын
@ModGirl1967 - Me too! Back to 1967!
@AFaceintheCrowd01
3 жыл бұрын
They did away with all the charm and atmosphere and made most of London into yet another mediocre outpost of the U.S.
@Khayyam-vg9fw
12 жыл бұрын
@Leby980 I think you should have gone to SpecSavers.
@hawkmoon03111951
15 жыл бұрын
You may be right, it was certainly better then and it has passed now.
@elainebmack
13 жыл бұрын
@mrchrisw8 It's the same in the States about kids being glued to computer games etc, not just in London.
@inkey2
13 жыл бұрын
@UKGezr stay here in the USA......we are glad to have you.
@Khayyam-vg9fw
12 жыл бұрын
@noonsight2010 No, I didn't change the spelling, Noonie. My monicker has been "Khayyam1048" since I signed up to KZitem. I'll be pleased if you can point out where I said I had "a monopoly on reading". Also, if you already understood the reference to Omar Khayyam why did you think that "Khayyam" might be my real surname? Wasn't the "1048" bit a little bit of a giveaway? Still, quite a neat little summary of some of the good bits of the "Rubaiyat" on your part! I can't help liking you!
@Archiewhynot
15 жыл бұрын
Cheers fella, I am amused that this other guy calls me a 'taffy' while claiming to be non discriminatory. I've been reading some of your comments and I think you're bang on the money. People see what they want to see sadly, you can't talk sense to these people.
@MoilAndToil
14 жыл бұрын
2:14 Where is that building? Is it where the 88 bus turns East and South? Cheers. from, del-boy
@adamkincaid1234
15 жыл бұрын
So few cars about! Unbelievable. Literally half the amount of people on the planet that there are now.
@noonsight2010
12 жыл бұрын
@Khayam 1048 Even added an "I", I should say!
@macca8562
5 жыл бұрын
What was those white things walking about the streets ?
@annalafayette838
5 жыл бұрын
ghosts
@bf2404
4 жыл бұрын
It was Jimmy Saville and Gary Glitter.
@Isleofskye
12 жыл бұрын
@Khayyam1048 Sorry Old Chap ! ::.. Your synopsis is 100% correct about the way London changed though I had enough of Inner London by 1983 when I "emigrated" to Outer London and its been brilliant over the last 29 years!
@Khayyam-vg9fw
12 жыл бұрын
@noonsight2010 It's refreshing to see someone who argues so persuasively and rationally for their beliefs, rather than merely descending to childish, hysterical name-calling.
@JimTLonW6
11 жыл бұрын
I'm an English person in London and what you say is ROT
@frankieflash
15 жыл бұрын
They say racism works both ways, your a great example of that.
@Khayyam-vg9fw
12 жыл бұрын
@noonsight2010 It isn't my real name, and I'm also Anglo-Saxon. Have you never heard of (let alone read) "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"? This is a collection of verses by the eponymous poet, most famously translated (very freely) into English from the original Persian by Edward Fitzgerald (the original edition from 1859 is the one to get - you can download it free on the Internet). FitzGerald has been criticised, although I think his version is a classic. (Richard Le Gallienne also had a crack.)
@davesmith5403
11 жыл бұрын
Wow so many white people!! so many British.. looks really nice
@sudgur990
4 жыл бұрын
Let's do a swap ,you can take back White Americans, Australians Canadians etc..
@sam-di4oz
4 жыл бұрын
gur exactly
@Folk_var
2 жыл бұрын
@@sudgur990 I'd happily agree to that.
@JohnCashin
12 жыл бұрын
Putting the obvious traffic congestion on the roads to one side for a moment, am I the only one that feels there is less space to even walk around the streets of London nowadays??, sometimes I can barely move an inch without bumping into someone, got to look out left right centre and everywhere, some individuals who are a bit unstable anyway will even want to start a fight just for "getting in their way", it's just ridiculous, we need more space or less people, this can't go on surely??.
@noonsight2010
12 жыл бұрын
@Leby980 isn't! Punctuation!
@staypress
11 жыл бұрын
more than 5% for sure more like 25%
@Khayyam-vg9fw
12 жыл бұрын
@noonsight2010 What a brilliant reply! What impeccable logic! What compelling evidence! What rapier-like wit! A lesser adversary would fall back upon mere name-calling.
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