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
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
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.
"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!
@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...
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.
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
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 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
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
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,
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.
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....
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.
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,
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!
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.
@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.
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
@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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
@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.
@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!
@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.
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!
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.
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.
@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.
@noonsight2010 No, I didn't change the spelling, Noonie. My monicker has been "Khayyam1048" since I signed up to TH-cam. 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!
@grai - I don't think its a total loss yet - we just need to shut up shop now and be a lot more stricter about immigration like Australia. And this applies to Eastern Europeans as well who are coming over and nicking all the jobs....
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.
@paulph12002 Mmm... true... but it says around Tottenham Court Road so around there hasn't changed that much... anyway I quite like the docklands... I love how everything is so reflective....
@k80nya I'm agreeing with you 100% M8. At bus stops they would push to the front. In Schools they were unruly and disrupted life for anyone wishing to study. In phone boxes they would take up residence where we would be conscious of someone waiting. They were responsible for the majority of street crime etc etc
@Isleofskye Er, I think I'm on YOUR side. My earlier comment was, as I hoped would be obvious, intended ironically. That aside, you're absolutely right! (The London I was born into in 1959, although it had its small pockets of non-indigenes (being, in those days, an international port, rather than the world headquarters of global financial fraud) was still a recognisably ENGLISH city.)
@IsraeliAncientSounds Britain could not have survived WW2 without the tremendous support and efforts of commonwealth and Empire peoples. We were lucky to get such support given some of the atrocities of British colonialism. Many immigrant workers were brought into Britain post-war to address the shortage of labour and to help re-build the nation. Many were treated with contempt rather than the gratitude they deserved for their sacrifices in leaving home and family.
@noonsight2010 You're very good at dishing out gratuitous insults, noonsight2010; let me gently remind, however, you that they don't add up to a reasoned argument, and actually tell far more about the person using them than they do about the person to whom they are being applied. If you set out to make yourself look bad tempered and unreasonable you're doing a brilliant job. If you don't want to persuade anyone who doesn't already agree with you, keep up the good work!
ukip is probably the best hope! I am just not convinced they are enough, i'm not racist and know many asians etc... however I am scared about the future their fatality rate is 6 times higher than ours so even if we stop migration they will still out grow us as our birthrate shrinks. UKIP would let this happen and allow 50,000 migrants a year in (there is talk that their migration policy will be softened beyond this also) i am a big fan of Nigel Farage and hope he can push his migration policy
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??.
![London 1945 in color, Post World War II [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added](/img/n.gif)
Wasn't it wonderful. What a sad sad mess we've got ourselves into now. I can't believe that's the same London. :-(
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
impossible even.
This is London the way it should be...
English people in London - almost a rarity nowadays...
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
@@madeinbanat3534 how did we milk it dry exactly?
London was beautiful in the 60's - there's way too much uncontrolled immigration nowadays. Labour out!
BRITISH people and cars ....... the good old days I remember as a child.
It's nice to see London as it was before the enrichment program had taken hold.
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.
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
Deffo looked a lot nicer then now, shame those old street lanterns were all ripped out -
"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!
@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...
12 years later and that process has accelerated to the point where many Inner London schools have less than 5% White British...
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.
Its almost unrecognisable from the London of today.
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
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!
Where in the vid did you see the Middlesex? My mum used to take me there regularly.
@@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
I love the sound effects accompanying the photos.
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
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,
Oooo, glory days, no yellow lines, no meters, no wardens, traffic flowing :) :) :)
The West End, when every day it would show off, nowadays, resembles something akin to a toilet.
Don't talk bollocks, have you even been to the West End recently? I live there now its not bad at all.
bombsiteweed1 your head is up your arse
@@bombsiteweed1 you are in denial mate.
@@peterpedant You're a "know nothing" with your eyes shut.
@@lilyrobinson8695 You smell
A lot less traffic on the roads by the looks of it. Great time, unlike today...
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.
Wow it almost looks english, nowadays its like being in africa or asia.
The days when you didn't feel like a foreigner in your own country.
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....
And we thought London was busy then. Now you can't move and it's rare to spot a Londoner.
Now changed beyond all recognition, not the place i grew up in.
11 yars later and the chanfe has REALLY gone ballistic!
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.
Well put. I'd rather live back then than now to be honest.
Happy memories, thanks.
John
you need a passport to go to London these days
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,
well the problem is that the UKIP have no policies except the immigration thing so what do we do
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!
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.
oh the good old days a???
aaahhhhhh.... London before all this multicultural bollocks!
13 years later ......
I bet your last visit to your local TESCO was the best night out you've had in ages.
Hey I lived on Harley Street for three years
Number 61 and I was not a “Harley street consultant....
Precisely, the real British better start waking the hell up!
Bellissimi ricordi
12 years later and the bird has flown James..
@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.
That's true, I live up north and it' s getting that way here, especially in the big cities.
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
You're so right. That's why there's so much crime there nowadays...
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!
@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.
This is completely wonderful. Thanks so much.
This is a really interesting group of photos - thanks a lot.
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?
This was before London became colonised by the Third World.
Let's do a swap ,you can take back White Americans, Australians Canadians etc..
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?
Excellent great nostalgia !
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.
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.
yes you are right hope one day we will see nice looking clean london again .
Those were some good shots of Fitzrovia (the area to the West of TCR), an area of London I know quite well.
Come to Australia, we have lots of room.
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
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.
@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.
@Leby980 isn't! Punctuation!
Nice pictures sounds .... Mainly round the top end wc2 w 1ithink?!
@Khayyam1048 typo!
@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!
@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.
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!
@Leby980 I think you should have gone to SpecSavers.
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.
@mrchrisw8 It's the same in the States about kids being glued to computer games etc, not just in London.
@noonsight2010 Yes - I spotted the typo - "totalitarianism" even!
I like the sound effects...
I want to go to this time right now......
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.
2:11 is the RIBA building, Portland Place, near Regents Park.
@Khayam 1048 Even added an "I", I should say!
@wank0r Totally agree mate.
Hardly any cars, no yellow lines - amazing
Wow so many white people!! so many British.. looks really nice
Let's do a swap ,you can take back White Americans, Australians Canadians etc..
gur exactly
@@sudgur990 I'd happily agree to that.
@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.
@noonsight2010 No, I didn't change the spelling, Noonie. My monicker has been "Khayyam1048" since I signed up to TH-cam. 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!
Perth Australia is more English than England. Clearly, all the English are moving to Australia and Perth in particular.
@grai - I don't think its a total loss yet - we just need to shut up shop now and be a lot more stricter about immigration like Australia. And this applies to Eastern Europeans as well who are coming over and nicking all the jobs....
0:53 there is still no wheelchair ramp at that rear lane location; Eagle Street.
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.
The intro says "west of Tottenham Court Road", but isn't #2, (at 19 seconds) Proctor Street, Holborn?
@UKGezr stay here in the USA......we are glad to have you.
@paulph12002 Mmm... true... but it says around Tottenham Court Road so around there hasn't changed that much... anyway I quite like the docklands... I love how everything is so reflective....
@k80nya
I'm agreeing with you 100% M8.
At bus stops they would push to the front.
In Schools they were unruly and disrupted life for anyone wishing to study.
In phone boxes they would take up residence where we would be conscious of someone waiting.
They were responsible for the majority of street crime etc etc
So few cars about! Unbelievable. Literally half the amount of people on the planet that there are now.
@Isleofskye Er, I think I'm on YOUR side. My earlier comment was, as I hoped would be obvious, intended ironically. That aside, you're absolutely right! (The London I was born into in 1959, although it had its small pockets of non-indigenes (being, in those days, an international port, rather than the world headquarters of global financial fraud) was still a recognisably ENGLISH city.)
@IsraeliAncientSounds Britain could not have survived WW2 without the tremendous support and efforts of commonwealth and Empire peoples. We were lucky to get such support given some of the atrocities of British colonialism. Many immigrant workers were brought into Britain post-war to address the shortage of labour and to help re-build the nation. Many were treated with contempt rather than the gratitude they deserved for their sacrifices in leaving home and family.
@inkey2 Incomprehensible!
@noonsight2010 You're very good at dishing out gratuitous insults, noonsight2010; let me gently remind, however, you that they don't add up to a reasoned argument, and actually tell far more about the person using them than they do about the person to whom they are being applied. If you set out to make yourself look bad tempered and unreasonable you're doing a brilliant job. If you don't want to persuade anyone who doesn't already agree with you, keep up the good work!
@noonsight2010 Is that a literal or metaphorical "wibble"?
I remember this well.
I'm an English person in London and what you say is ROT
You may be right, it was certainly better then and it has passed now.
ukip is probably the best hope! I am just not convinced they are enough, i'm not racist and know many asians etc... however I am scared about the future their fatality rate is 6 times higher than ours so even if we stop migration they will still out grow us as our birthrate shrinks. UKIP would let this happen and allow 50,000 migrants a year in (there is talk that their migration policy will be softened beyond this also) i am a big fan of Nigel Farage and hope he can push his migration policy
Look how clean the streets were back then!
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??.