Thanks British Pathe... some amazing footage here and so much to take in. It really is a window into the past: the people, the clothes, the cars, the buildings and shop signs and so on. Wonderful!
@ricdavid7476
4 жыл бұрын
my dad had just come back from 3 years on the burma siam railway courtesy of the japanese and was living in London he was ill for the rest of his relatively short life.
@hilaryrubinstein9022
7 ай бұрын
It is truly amazing that there were not dozens of dead bodies of those trying to cross the road. It was famously said that "London motorists divide pedestrians between the quick and the dead."
@charleshussey118
2 жыл бұрын
Surprisingly little bomb damage - I wonder whether the filmmakers deliberately avoided showing this?
@deshood3406
4 жыл бұрын
Cant believe how clean it looks.
@dugebuwembo
2 жыл бұрын
London wasn't clean back then, the coal factories created a lot of smog that would build up on clothes.
@callumhardy5098
2 жыл бұрын
@@dugebuwembo There may have been a little coal smoke but just look, everyone is dressed in a suit and tie, there are no potholes in the roads, every pavement is not spattered with chewing gum.
@dugebuwembo
2 жыл бұрын
@@callumhardy5098 hmmmm 🤔
@callumhardy5098
2 жыл бұрын
@@dugebuwembo is that a hmmmmm?, ‘your talking bull’ or hmmmmmm? ‘You may have a point?
@dugebuwembo
2 жыл бұрын
@@callumhardy5098 I live in London I don't see pot holes in the roads...
@ncs8730
2 жыл бұрын
1930s or 1940s? Traffic was no less heavy than today; and people yet crossed the streets where they liked - and there were no problems!
@sandmanjono1239
5 жыл бұрын
Addictive & fascinating filming 👌🏻
@williamrubinstein3442
2 жыл бұрын
Someone said in the 1920s that "London motorists divide pedestrians between the quick and the dead"
@santitofelipe6283
5 жыл бұрын
Just Amazing!
@Pluggit1953
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if that was the US Army Air Force Band performing one of their lunchtime radio broadcasts. My late father told me about them.
@jamilaparvez8301
6 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@mitchellgiffard1978
4 жыл бұрын
Very Interesting love seeing historic London dating back from then.
@michaelkenny8540
2 жыл бұрын
2 adverts for the film 'Dragonwyck' on busses at 3:19 & 5:54. It ran at The Odeon Leicester Square May 18th to June 6th 1946.
@MichaelGunner123
4 жыл бұрын
Great footage. Just wish volume was included.
@doreenfawcett9717
5 жыл бұрын
Wow amazing film
@andymccallum8761
5 жыл бұрын
Mesmerising. 👍
@bilaltugrulugurlu8577
6 жыл бұрын
I love London a magnificent city 💖😍
@julianaylor4351
2 жыл бұрын
The houses in my road in London were built in the twenties, so the garages are meant for cars from that era and are too small for modern cars, but were still usable until the late seventies, when cars got bigger.
@trueman5483
4 жыл бұрын
Very nice early footage of London
@gerardburton1081
2 жыл бұрын
1.10 looks like bags of coal. There was still a lot of horses and carts in 1946 that surprised me.
@deano3580
2 жыл бұрын
There is a sports car with a GB sticker on it at 3:25. Must have been very rare for cars to go overseas in 1946. Also hardly any paint markings on the roads back then.
@succulent951
2 жыл бұрын
Relatively no markings and multiple lanes of traffic 😯
@peterrivet648
2 жыл бұрын
The opening scene shows Tower Bridge when it was still lit by gas. I can remember seeing this as a small child and wondering how the gas pipework for the street lighting was arranged so that it could cope with the central spans being opened.
@Jeffybonbon
Жыл бұрын
we are all just passing through
@michaelkenny8540
2 жыл бұрын
Something is dropped in the road at 5:32 (fell from the bus turning?) and a boy runs over to pick it up (behind the motor cycle at 5:38) and then chases after the bus(?)
@missasinenomine
Жыл бұрын
Not him again! Why do all Pathe videos have to end with Mick Jagger?!!!!
@robnewman6101
Жыл бұрын
Keep Calm and Carry on.
@Mr.1.i
6 ай бұрын
Do you reckon anyone got charged with driving without due care and attention.or cycling mikey vetting everyone about mobile phones
@p123-i9s
9 ай бұрын
Just after WW2 ended, if the date is correct; my parents' young lives.
@andrewbutterson8367
Жыл бұрын
Busy London streets love those old AEC stl buses and taxis
@robnewman6101
Жыл бұрын
20th Century Law Enforcement Police Officers.
@wondermum9770
Жыл бұрын
People dressed so smartly then,very lovely to see ❤
@Christina-ge3xr
3 ай бұрын
Not much difference than now 😊
@malcolmlewis6014
Жыл бұрын
It looks more like before the war to me.
@simonworman7898
Жыл бұрын
That maybe because all the cars maybe of prewar design
@simonworman7898
Жыл бұрын
Plenty of Policemen
@johnadams3730
Жыл бұрын
England.
@bernadettekelly8165
10 ай бұрын
Shame cars were ever invented ! Horse and trap much better ....
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