*I have many more nice, A.I. enhanced films about London during and before World War-II (and even from the 1900s) in colour* : th-cam.com/play/PLP_6hUsQRi8sOgzj80XqJ5nUUTxL_KDWb.html
Though a lovely video it is not 1950s, it is the 1960s. In the film there are two Austin LD vans with the new front (mk2) one parked at the roadside in the day shot and another in the night shot. These vehicles were not available before April 1960, so this video is from sometime after that date.
Maybe I’m being stupid, but I just can’t imagine people really walked around with anything to litter. They didn’t snack etc like we do now lol. Probably mostly cigarettes
Look how clean everything was then! This harks back to a time that is within living memory for many Londoners, how sad it must be to look back at scenes like this then have to walk these same streets now and see the filth and decay of what used to be the greatest city in the world. The politicians simply don't understand how far our society and culture has gone down the toilet in such a short time and they have the gall to call it progress and diversity.
I just feel lucky that I lived in those times with true Londoners . I watch this film many times and go straight back there. Oh my heart , my London. ❤️
As a child born 1950,I can remember the 50s growing up,wasn’t we children of the 50s so lucky to have lived in this era,brilliant video and thanks for posting them.
Agreed---things were getting better, rationing over, shops had more things to buy, and us kids had the freedom to roam, without too much anxiety for their parents..
Why? Women did not have equal employment rights, homosexuality was illegal, a University education was out of reach of many, building standards meant that many were living in poor quality homes. I don’t think that the 1950s were as good as all that …
A Morris van at 1.18. My dad’s first motor KTJ599. I remember my mum begging dad to slow down as the speedo hit 57mph. It lacked all comforts and I sat on a tool box in the back.
I used to live just of Kensington High Street in the 1950s and I remember all those Shops. Also I remember the New Police station being Built in the 1950s. It was a Lovely place to live. I used to go up to Kensington Gardens to Sail my Sailing yatch .good old days !!
One thing I always notice in videos from this period is the lack of street furniture - the absence of excessive signage/bollards really opens the street, making everything look much cleaner and navigable, from a pedestrian point of view. Perhaps once we finally ditch cars we'll see a return to this sort of low-key urban design.
Cars are ife. I love driving. Cars zipping around the city make the city hum. In San Francisco the city has been destroyed by bike lanes and special lanes and cones and streets bing blocked off to through traffic. Pedestrianizing streets like Carnaby Street have destroyed the spirit and freedom of the city and turned them into non-urban tourist traps.
@@paulstevens6043 yeah, keep feeding your car dependency addiction, surely the government loves it too. Cars are only used and should be used for long distance travel and should not be prioritized! Cars are the one who destroys the cities, taking away the freedom to walk, get around the city as efficient and healthy as possible.
@@tristan_840 You can walk on the sidewalk Tristan. Taken away your freedom to walk? The cities are overrun with bike lanes and citibikes and scooters and pedestrianized strips. Whole swathes of downtown cities have been turned into family friendly places theme park attractions. Barely feel like cities. The bike lanes and cones signs and rules make the cities feel smaller literally and also in spirit.
How nicely everyone is dressed - hats, suits, dresses... So many go out today in clothes that 50s people probably wouldn't even wear at home. They'd be appalled at the sloppy way we dress today.
Up to a few years ago everyone was being coerced and monopolised to wear jeans at every casual occasion and if you didn't, you'd get questioned. More variation in the 1950s I would say.
This very good enhancement gives a distinct Edward Hopper hue. Notice the almost total lack of road markings, giving a spacious look to the scenes; people obviously used their common sense then....and...the cars!, the cars!..the variety in the designs!
It's amazing how subtly the world changes. 4:57, my father had Morris Traveler. Even in the 60's it was an "old" car. As time goes by the feel of the world changes, you start to think you don't belong here anymore.
Like shops signs. I noticed when young how cheaper plastics started to appear as shop signs, yet just look above the signs and you see the original turn of the century frontage.
This is just a snapshot of what once we had, But its what Europe once had too, We have been sold down the river by our pathetic politicians. and I fear for our very survival.Our unique British way of life has been slowly eroding for decades, Life is never perfect, but back then , it was the nearest thing to it.
My ! what a wonderful city ! I am proud to have been born in this great city of the world, when London really did have the sway of world power ! We have been badly let down by consecutive powers over the decades, which has culminated in a far inferior world power, and this really is unforgivable. This 50's shot is from my early life, and it is without doubt my most heartfelt . euphoric, and nostalgic piece of London I will ever witness,
Unfortunately your absolutely right,@stevebull4578. But our government would paint you a totally different story. that all is fine and dandy, But people of a certain age know better.
Look how clean the streets appear and uncluttered with road markings, lines bollards etc...Amazing, so lovely to look at..I prefer your cleaned up version but both are OK. Love the colours.
Thanks for keeping up and posting these clips. All contributions to seeing, understanding and appreciating our cultural heritage are important in this anti-history period. Beyond my capabilities but it would be wonderful to know the routes the film crews took for some of the footage you have posted. Thanks again
My father lived in the area in the early 1950s as a young man, so would remember those scenes well. He's pretty much blind now so sadly he won't be able to enjoy this.
@@DrBoobY2K London's crime rate is 9% higher than the national average and in some districts , such as Haringay, violence and sexual crime account for around a third of these offences. ( I provided links for this info, but they have disappeared.) I'm not implying, incidentally, that London is uniquely afflicted in this regard. I'm unfortunate enough to live near Bradford, which has a similarly unenviable reputation, with areas you wouldn't particularly wish to frequent, by car or otherwise.
@@DrBoobY2K 9% is substantive, and, as I explained in an post, I wasn't contending that London is uniquely afflicted in this regard. As for that 'question that never got answered', that was because it never got asked.
Everything looks so clean and well maintained. If only our overpaid local authority managers had the same pride in the environment they are paid to manage. My father in law was responsible for the department that managed the town hall clock, parks and gardens and street lighting and also cleaning the streets, drains and gutters. Taking a pride and responsibility for your environment was how people lived. Shame on you if you dropped litter, times have changed do you think. 😢
There were regular pea soupers then. The Great Smog killed up to 12,000 (yes, TWELVE THOUSAND) people. The air quality today is better than it was during the Elizabethan era.
No. Like other cities in the U.K the white Portland stone buildings common in London and buildings in general were filthy and covered in black soot. Most have been cleaned up and are now better maintained.
The opening clip is driving away from Hammersmith along Hammersmith Road in the direction of Kensington. Considering the sequence, they all look like parts of one continuous journey.
... this motion-stabilized version is far superior than the 'original' version ... thanks for processing/sharing. NB... this was a time when I was proud to be called a 'Londoner'
@MrHanzzieJust stay out and bugger off. Its richer and bigger and full of more things than it's ever been in history. It's people like you that hold society and progress back, I'm glad you are dropping like flies
Just as you left, your brain got all mushy as you got older and more spiteful towards any new way of life as you realise you are becoming old and behind and cant understand new concepts and you increasing have rose tinted views of your past as you forget the woes that were apon yourself at that time. I dont blame ignorance for making you this way
Proper cars, proper buses, unrestricted parking. This is how London was meant to be! Is it an illusion or do the roads and pavements look excessively clean? And de-cluttered. There's just so much crap everywhere now.
Hey Paul, Thanks but the whole route was already included long time ago in the full description including the time stamps. Just press the 'SHOW MORE' button.
It wasnt. It has been 2nd ate since the war We just cannot admit the squandering of our Marshall Aid and the under-investment in everything from transport to housing. Rose tinted childhood memories don't match what adults had to go through, and the shit they put up with. Time to grow up
@@theonlyantony what? My dad could get a job in one day, quit that same job, get another job and make enough to feed his family in one day. Oh yeah my dad was a kid through the most part (born 1946), not til the 60s and 70s he had a family but still, kids could get jobs and make money. Country went to shit when Thatcher got in power and stopped all that. You don't know what you are talking about
😂yup. The slums. The smog. The non existent rights for anyone but working white men. 1 television channel, 1 telephone line for for 6 houses, outdoor toilets. Backstreet abortion was commonplace, infant mortality too. Yes the streets were cleaner (because there were no fast food chains, and government still thought street sweeping was important). But enough of this guff that the “the old days” were better. They were different.
It is easy to look back on this through rose coloured glasses but, believe me, there were some serious problems. However, compared with now it was a much better place to live and work in my opinion.
Nowadays these streets are packed to the brim with concrete traffic islands, bollards, railings along all the roads, road markings, speed cameras, unnecessary sets of traffic lights etc. Totally transformed, and all for the worse.
@@capitalb5889 A rare example, unfortunately. Most councils are ploughing ahead with installing yet more ugliness despite the Streetscape Guidance from 2010.
The first thing I always notice is how clear the environment is whereas now it is massively overpopulated and unfortunately less appealing. I'm not sure whether its the A.I your using but the streets look clean and habitable compared to today!
This is obviously an upmarket area of middle and upper class folk. There were plenty of very dirty slums in the country during this period that were in process still of being got rid. Plus this super bright picture kind of blurs things put a bit anyway so it's not entirely easy to see exactly what things look like up close. The streets are going to look more empty because vehicle traffic was still very far away from the levels we see today in 21st century.
@@matthewburns7989 I'm fully aware that its an affluent area as I only live ten minutes away. Not to mention have spent over forty years in the capital. Nonetheless my point still stands irrespective of area in London its harshly overpopulated and run down.
I agree. The music is so moving. On my laptop I open TH-cam twice, start both films at the same time and then switch to full screen on the newer version.
This makes me feel so nostalgic and want to know more about the people pictured. The lady in the black hat and coat looked particularly well dressed, but was she in mourning? The dog being walked. What was his name? I hope he had a long life. We'll never know the answers of course, but thanks so much for vastly improving the footage.
Never know? The lady in black was not in mourning, she was going to her office secretarial job in the M&S back office. The dog was called Soloman and lived until 14.
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Before the American cultural colonisation of this country and the fast-food invasion - not a single piece of litter on the streets - no McDonalds cartons, coke cans, plastic bottles etc. Everywhere so clean. Beautiful, classy shop fronts too.
Andy, how did you feel about the Americans dying in WWII to save England (in particular) and Europe at large? Were they colonizing you back then? I was born in Eastern Europe so I know first hand how “bad” the Americans were! And, of course, the Russians were “perfect”. You are a mutton!
This video is not from the 1950s. It is from the early 1960s, The Austin LD van seen parked at the roadside has the new front (mk2) version as does the other LD van (royal mail) seen in the night shot. This vehicle was not available until April 1960, so this video is later than that date.
This film is not 1950s, it's early 1960s. Two Austin LD (mk2) vans can be seen in the film, these were not available until after April 1960. So this film is sometime after that date.
Those were happy days indeed, the days of my courting and marriage, to look around my country town now it’s so changed and the population includes many foreigners, the peacefulness has completely disappeared and I feel I’m among strangers now in my advancing years , if you weren’t there in those days you won’t appreciate what’s been lost , and lost forever…..I was born in 1937 .
Wonderful, people looked smart and respectable - civilised you might say. Buildings and shops looked businesslike. Oh what happened to our society. Nowadays every High street is full of Kabab and Pizza shops. Turkish Barbers, and Charity shops, not forgetting those dreadful Booze and Bettings shops.
Thank you for another very interesting video. I seem to be the only one, but I think that the motion stabilization is more important than the better colors. I have never been sea-sick in my life, not even in the middle of the North Sea with force 10 on the Beaufort scale, after several sausages, plenty of chips and a potato salad with plenty of mayonnaise on top, but the new version at least gives me a notion of how it can happen. Comparing the two versions also gives me a new insight into what AI colorization ultimately amounts to, one that you and many others may have known from the start: It means using automated intuition to produce a new computer-animated color video based on a black-and-white live-action video. The result usually looks like live-action. Presumably because of the lack of motion-stabilization, many early scenes in the newer video are conspicuously animated rather than live-action. Yes, they have more vivid colors, which is good, but many shapes look more abstract and they look more like they have been filled in with one uniform color than colorized on the basis of actual luminosity. Thus, some walls look like they have been built out of Lego. The two new parts are interesting additions, but in the part with all the 'neon' tubes the AI just couldn't cope with the darker areas. Driving along The Strand towards Charing Cross was easily the best part, showing that when there isn't too much light in some areas the AI can even cope with night scenes. It also benefits from steadier camera work, occasioned by the stop-and-go traffic that shows how amazingly crowded London was even in those bygone days. Unfortunately, there are already comments again, delighting in supposed former lack of diversity. So I would like to make the following observation, just once, for the sake of historical accuracy: It was an age, when discrimination was legal and bigots easily found the diversity that supposedly wasn't there. There were plenty of signs "No Irish allowed"! While some English people obsessed about the Irish, the English in turn were hated by plenty of Scots (and still are), and if Scots didn't find anybody elsewhere to hate them, many decided they had to do it to each other, with permanent resentment between Highlanders and Lowlanders, Presbyterians and Catholics, people from Glasgow and people from Edinburgh, Campbells and McDonalds …
There is a timeline in the description. If you hover with your mouse over de control bar underneath the video you can read all the locations while the film plays (on a Windows PC).
@@sharonjojoyeah so evil that sexual abuse towards children is now more known and stopped, and that cures for illnesses have been more developed, just to name a couple
I felt freer in the 1950's than today. Plus I could by a train ticket to anywhere in the country and use what trains I liked. I could even buy a timetable and rely on it. All the utilities were run for the people first..Railways, GPO, Water boards, Councils etc. You could even trust Banks.
No, London was a great place to be in the 60s and 70s, it really started to go down hill in the 1980s with the Thatcher government and their lethal cutbacks in services and the start of privatisation of everything. London used to be a city to be proud of, but that was before the place was left to become filthy and it became a graffiti paradise.
![Stunning and very rare footage of Scheveningen in the Roaring Twenties in color! [A.I. enhanced]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/PFyg-o3E1Ic/mqdefault.jpg)
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*I have many more nice, A.I. enhanced films about London during and before World War-II (and even from the 1900s) in colour* : th-cam.com/play/PLP_6hUsQRi8sOgzj80XqJ5nUUTxL_KDWb.html
Though a lovely video it is not 1950s, it is the 1960s. In the film there are two Austin LD vans with the new front (mk2) one parked at the roadside in the day shot and another in the night shot. These vehicles were not available before April 1960, so this video is from sometime after that date.
Makes me feel like crying.
Beautiful London before it was given away.
My father managed the grocers John Buckle (shown at 1 minute 43 seconds) in the 50's so we were very familiar with this part of London.
Wow - everything is so clean and well kept! Not a sign of litter.
Shops , gardens etc all look beautiful and well maintained.
All down to that single roadsweeper, boy he must have slept well at night
We could easily pay people who on the dole to clean up the streets and pick litter, offer them £5 an hour and i bet the streets would be spotless
Maybe I’m being stupid, but I just can’t imagine people really walked around with anything to litter. They didn’t snack etc like we do now lol. Probably mostly cigarettes
Our lovely London.....culture, low crime rate and dignity, completely changed forever!!
I can't belive how clean everything looks 🧹
Looks like the road surface is photo shopped, way too smoothe😂
@@johnblair2362 called the great reset
Look how clean everything was then! This harks back to a time that is within living memory for many Londoners, how sad it must be to look back at scenes like this then have to walk these same streets now and see the filth and decay of what used to be the greatest city in the world. The politicians simply don't understand how far our society and culture has gone down the toilet in such a short time and they have the gall to call it progress and diversity.
I just feel lucky that I lived in those times with true Londoners . I watch this film many times and go straight back there. Oh my heart , my London. ❤️
It is all as planned, the WEF have made sure that this has been implemented over the whole of Europe.
As a child born 1950,I can remember the 50s growing up,wasn’t we children of the 50s so lucky to have lived in this era,brilliant video and thanks for posting them.
Agreed---things were getting better, rationing over, shops had more things to buy, and us kids had the freedom to roam, without too much anxiety for their parents..
No one of sound mind can possibly deny these scenes depict a far better way of life and common decency than we have today.
Right on!
For sure !
I can
My mind is still sound and I don't look back with rose tinted spectacles to this time.
Why? Women did not have equal employment rights, homosexuality was illegal, a University education was out of reach of many, building standards meant that many were living in poor quality homes. I don’t think that the 1950s were as good as all that …
Wow
The days when London was beautiful, not like London of today.
London had a lot of slums back then. Try watching 'wild west 10' as in North Kensington w10
If only I could go back😢
Me also people had charm
and maners then not like today where most people
are rude and don't take pride in their appearance very sad
Wonderful! Oh my heart my London, my time .❤️
Everything looks so clean London just after the war looks amazing would Love to visit the 50s
A Morris van at 1.18. My dad’s first motor KTJ599. I remember my mum begging dad to slow down as the speedo hit 57mph. It lacked all comforts and I sat on a tool box in the back.
I used to live just of Kensington High Street in the 1950s and I remember all those Shops. Also I remember the New Police station being Built in the 1950s. It was a Lovely place to live. I used to go up to Kensington Gardens to Sail my Sailing yatch .good old days !!
Y como era Londres?.. me refiero a las personas(?)
Remember them days seeing the boats and remember catching sticklebacks at the round pond.
Looks like Baghdad today
you been
Those really were better days. I have lived them
And not one machete in sight.
Look how clean everything looked.
but (of course) wasn't...
No discarded fast food wrappers that litter our streets now. People took pride in where they lived.
One thing I always notice in videos from this period is the lack of street furniture - the absence of excessive signage/bollards really opens the street, making everything look much cleaner and navigable, from a pedestrian point of view. Perhaps once we finally ditch cars we'll see a return to this sort of low-key urban design.
Cars are ife. I love driving. Cars zipping around the city make the city hum. In San Francisco the city has been destroyed by bike lanes and special lanes and cones and streets bing blocked off to through traffic. Pedestrianizing streets like Carnaby Street have destroyed the spirit and freedom of the city and turned them into non-urban tourist traps.
@@paulstevens6043 yeah, keep feeding your car dependency addiction, surely the government loves it too. Cars are only used and should be used for long distance travel and should not be prioritized! Cars are the one who destroys the cities, taking away the freedom to walk, get around the city as efficient and healthy as possible.
@@tristan_840 You can walk on the sidewalk Tristan. Taken away your freedom to walk? The cities are overrun with bike lanes and citibikes and scooters and pedestrianized strips. Whole swathes of downtown cities have been turned into family friendly places theme park attractions. Barely feel like cities. The bike lanes and cones signs and rules make the cities feel smaller literally and also in spirit.
How nicely everyone is dressed - hats, suits, dresses... So many go out today in clothes that 50s people probably wouldn't even wear at home. They'd be appalled at the sloppy way we dress today.
Up to a few years ago everyone was being coerced and monopolised to wear jeans at every casual occasion and if you didn't, you'd get questioned. More variation in the 1950s I would say.
I dont think they had jeans or casual wear available in those days...
'Here Here Old Bean.. Here here!
Just look at that beautiful architecture and nose clean streets
Another amazing footage. This was the year I was born, so thank you Rick for bringing back these wonderfully clear, sharp memories
This very good enhancement gives a distinct Edward Hopper hue. Notice the almost total lack of road markings, giving a spacious look to the scenes; people obviously used their common sense then....and...the cars!, the cars!..the variety in the designs!
It's amazing how subtly the world changes. 4:57, my father had Morris Traveler. Even in the 60's it was an "old" car. As time goes by the feel of the world changes, you start to think you don't belong here anymore.
Like shops signs. I noticed when young how cheaper plastics started to appear as shop signs, yet just look above the signs and you see the original turn of the century frontage.
Especially when literally everyone around you is foreign.
This is just a snapshot of what once we had, But its what Europe once had too, We have been sold down the river by our pathetic politicians. and I fear for our very survival.Our unique British way of life has been slowly eroding for decades, Life is never perfect, but back then , it was the nearest thing to it.
My ! what a wonderful city ! I am proud to have been born in this great city of the world, when London really did have the sway of world power ! We have been badly let down by consecutive powers over the decades, which has culminated in a far inferior world power, and this really is unforgivable. This 50's shot is from my early life, and it is without doubt my most heartfelt . euphoric, and nostalgic piece of London I will ever witness,
Unfortunately your absolutely right,@stevebull4578. But our government would paint you a totally different story. that all is fine and dandy, But people of a certain age know better.
A different world to what as become now. So sad.
Ah! London when it was still a part of Great Britain.
Look how clean the streets appear and uncluttered with road markings, lines bollards etc...Amazing, so lovely to look at..I prefer your cleaned up version but both are OK. Love the colours.
so clean. lovely shops with window displays.
no chicken , burger, kebab shops. no fruit an veg in plastic bowls
John Pearson ............when you import the 3rd world you become the 3rd world.....die-versity is stealth replacement
Amazing improvement. I'm looking forward to this one with the music. Good job. Congratulations.
Thanks for keeping up and posting these clips. All contributions to seeing, understanding and appreciating our cultural heritage are important in this anti-history period. Beyond my capabilities but it would be wonderful to know the routes the film crews took for some of the footage you have posted. Thanks again
The Route is described in my original, non-enhanced version: th-cam.com/video/GHhuBZEZESU/w-d-xo.html
Can't believe how clean the streets are
Look immaculate don’t it
It was "before".
Yeah that was my first thought lol looks so nice...
Nice film. Thanks for showing us.
Beautiful shop fronts at the start of the video.Very Art Deco.
Notice how clean the streets are!
My father lived in the area in the early 1950s as a young man, so would remember those scenes well. He's pretty much blind now so sadly he won't be able to enjoy this.
Wonderful. Let's give it all away to the dregs of the world.
If you drive through London these days, be darn careful which areas you drive into.
@@DrBoobY2K Darn right I don't. I can't afford £500,000 for a flat the size of a cupboard.
@@DrBoobY2K London's crime rate is 9% higher than the national average and in some districts , such as Haringay, violence and sexual crime account for around a third of these offences. ( I provided links for this info, but they have disappeared.) I'm not implying, incidentally, that London is uniquely afflicted in this regard. I'm unfortunate enough to live near Bradford, which has a similarly unenviable reputation, with areas you wouldn't particularly wish to frequent, by car or otherwise.
@@maxb9315 well done Max. That shut Tom up nicely.
@@DrBoobY2K i do, and he is 100% right. you're just privileged
@@DrBoobY2K 9% is substantive, and, as I explained in an post, I wasn't contending that London is uniquely afflicted in this regard. As for that 'question that never got answered', that was because it never got asked.
Looked free from meddling hands,
No yellow lines on the road
Clean streets
Calm and relaxing
Decent RT buses
No pollution
No mayor
No TfL
Everything looks so clean and well maintained. If only our overpaid local authority managers had the same pride in the environment they are paid to manage.
My father in law was responsible for the department that managed the town hall clock, parks and gardens and street lighting and also cleaning the streets, drains and gutters. Taking a pride and responsibility for your environment was how people lived. Shame on you if you dropped litter, times have changed do you think. 😢
@@DrBoobY2K yeah ! But did it take away all the dirty bloody foreigner's
Thanks from humanity for your work Rick...........
My pleasure
This is wonderful, fantastic job!
London looks so clean
There were regular pea soupers then. The Great Smog killed up to 12,000 (yes, TWELVE THOUSAND) people.
The air quality today is better than it was during the Elizabethan era.
@@WedgePee this is literally 1952
No. Like other cities in the U.K the white Portland stone buildings common in London and buildings in general were filthy and covered in black
soot. Most have been cleaned up and are now better maintained.
No fast food litter, unlike today where rubbish is discarded everywhere on transport and streets.
Really enjoyable as usual - freezing any frame in the first half reminds me of an Edward Hopper painting.
Before millions of mobile black letter boxes!!!
Roads look so much nicer when not covered in lines and paint
No litter, no beggars, no graffiti and all within just a few years of the war that bankrupted us. Whatever happened to us!
I can remember so clearly playing in the streets.
Our school holidays were full of adventures without fear...
I'm glad I won't see the end......
Its been enhanced to the point where it looks like an animation
The opening clip is driving away from Hammersmith along Hammersmith Road in the direction of Kensington. Considering the sequence, they all look like parts of one continuous journey.
Thank you, but the whole route is already described in detail in the full description and in the CC captions.
Tottenham court road?
OK, I now see what you mean. Sorry and thanks! I have changed it.
I'm amazed at how clean the streets are! People actually took pride in where they lived.
Takeaways changed that.
... this motion-stabilized version is far superior than the 'original' version ... thanks for processing/sharing. NB... this was a time when I was proud to be called a 'Londoner'
@MrHanzzieJust stay out and bugger off. Its richer and bigger and full of more things than it's ever been in history. It's people like you that hold society and progress back, I'm glad you are dropping like flies
Just as you left, your brain got all mushy as you got older and more spiteful towards any new way of life as you realise you are becoming old and behind and cant understand new concepts and you increasing have rose tinted views of your past as you forget the woes that were apon yourself at that time.
I dont blame ignorance for making you this way
Proper cars, proper buses, unrestricted parking. This is how London was meant to be! Is it an illusion or do the roads and pavements look excessively clean? And de-cluttered. There's just so much crap everywhere now.
Pam fry clean streets, well dressed people.
The journey started off at the start of Hammersmith Rd and travelled on past the old West London hospital and on to Kensington High st.
Hey Paul, Thanks but the whole route was already included long time ago in the full description including the time stamps. Just press the 'SHOW MORE' button.
Nice to see clean street's.
Look, our country as it was, clean, neat, tidy, orderly.
Ours, as it was.
Before.
It wasnt. It has been 2nd ate since the war We just cannot admit the squandering of our Marshall Aid and the under-investment in everything from transport to housing. Rose tinted childhood memories don't match what adults had to go through, and the shit they put up with. Time to grow up
@@theonlyantony what? My dad could get a job in one day, quit that same job, get another job and make enough to feed his family in one day. Oh yeah my dad was a kid through the most part (born 1946), not til the 60s and 70s he had a family but still, kids could get jobs and make money. Country went to shit when Thatcher got in power and stopped all that. You don't know what you are talking about
A better society
😂yup. The slums. The smog. The non existent rights for anyone but working white men. 1 television channel, 1 telephone line for for 6 houses, outdoor toilets. Backstreet abortion was commonplace, infant mortality too.
Yes the streets were cleaner (because there were no fast food chains, and government still thought street sweeping was important). But enough of this guff that the “the old days” were better. They were different.
There’s a snooker table down the road from
Me that was placed there in the 1930’s. Probably sat there the day this was recorded. How cool is that.
It is easy to look back on this through rose coloured glasses but, believe me, there were some serious problems. However, compared with now it was a much better place to live and work in my opinion.
Nowadays these streets are packed to the brim with concrete traffic islands, bollards, railings along all the roads, road markings, speed cameras, unnecessary sets of traffic lights etc. Totally transformed, and all for the worse.
I think Kensington high Street had all its rails stripped out about 15 years ago to make it less clustered.
@@capitalb5889 A rare example, unfortunately. Most councils are ploughing ahead with installing yet more ugliness despite the Streetscape Guidance from 2010.
@@uktravel8341 sadly true
Lovely to see so many trees and hedges
Looks so lovely and picturesque. Like scenery from a Walt Disney film. So unlike the gang-ridden, over populated mad house it is now.
I don't think you'd see many gangs on Kensington high Street today
Most people I know have moved out
You could eat you food off that pavement practically spotless
The first thing I always notice is how clear the environment is whereas now it is massively overpopulated and unfortunately less appealing. I'm not sure whether its the A.I your using but the streets look clean and habitable compared to today!
This is obviously an upmarket area of middle and upper class folk.
There were plenty of very dirty slums in the country during this period that were in process still of being got rid. Plus this super bright picture kind of blurs things put a bit anyway so it's not entirely easy to see exactly what things look like up close. The streets are going to look more empty because vehicle traffic was still very far away from the levels we see today in 21st century.
@@matthewburns7989 I'm fully aware that its an affluent area as I only live ten minutes away. Not to mention have spent over forty years in the capital.
Nonetheless my point still stands irrespective of area in London its harshly overpopulated and run down.
A wonderful piece of film I've been admiring for years. But where is the music that always accompanied it? It is much missed.
I agree. The music is so moving. On my laptop I open TH-cam twice, start both films at the same time and then switch to full screen on the newer version.
Looks great, so much better than today. But I noticed nobody gave way to the lady waiting at the zebra crossing at 1.36.
Looks like Beirut now
First section is from Hammersmith Broadway (Butterwick) towards Olympia/Ken High ST.
Back in the days where your parents and grandparents could buy their own house.
This makes me feel so nostalgic and want to know more about the people pictured. The lady in the black hat and coat looked particularly well dressed, but was she in mourning? The dog being walked. What was his name? I hope he had a long life. We'll never know the answers of course, but thanks so much for vastly improving the footage.
Never know? The lady in black was not in mourning, she was going to her office secretarial job in the M&S back office. The dog was called Soloman and lived until 14.
So so nostalgic, amazing!!
Another great restoration Rick, although I reduced the speed to enjoy and ID the Cars better. Not one yellow Line, so parking unlimited
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how clean were the streets!
Pre-plastic wrappers, bags, bottles and containers so less to litter the streets with.
In these days people dint eat and drink in the street as they were walking. Society ham morals ethics values principles and respect.
Before the American cultural colonisation of this country and the fast-food invasion - not a single piece of litter on the streets - no McDonalds cartons, coke cans, plastic bottles etc. Everywhere so clean. Beautiful, classy shop fronts too.
It was lovely to see so many independent shops, Classy ones too, as you said.
And no “People of Colour” but as we are told by the BBC they have always been here- oh well probably still in bed if this was shot before 11AM.
Andy, how did you feel about the Americans dying in WWII to save England (in particular) and Europe at large? Were they colonizing you back then?
I was born in Eastern Europe so I know first hand how “bad” the Americans were! And, of course, the Russians were “perfect”.
You are a mutton!
Great video, the Jaguar looks like a MKII which launched in 1959 so would be later than 1952
This video is not from the 1950s. It is from the early 1960s, The Austin LD van seen parked at the roadside has the new front (mk2) version as does the other LD van (royal mail) seen in the night shot. This vehicle was not available until April 1960, so this video is later than that date.
Deteriorated since the 1970's I'm told.
Yes, the 1980s was the decade where everything changed for the worse.
Few people had cars in the 1950s, most of us travelled by bus or cycled.
This film is not 1950s, it's early 1960s. Two Austin LD (mk2) vans can be seen in the film, these were not available until after April 1960. So this film is sometime after that date.
Those were happy days indeed, the days of my courting and marriage, to look around my country town now it’s so changed and the population includes many foreigners, the peacefulness has completely disappeared and I feel I’m among strangers now in my advancing years , if you weren’t there in those days you won’t appreciate what’s been lost , and lost forever…..I was born in 1937 .
Wonderful, people looked smart and respectable - civilised you might say. Buildings and shops looked businesslike. Oh what happened to our society. Nowadays every High street is full of Kabab and Pizza shops. Turkish Barbers, and Charity shops, not forgetting those dreadful Booze and Bettings shops.
Look how clean the streets are. You can see for yourself how well our government is doing nowadays….
Thank you for another very interesting video.
I seem to be the only one, but I think that the motion stabilization is more important than the better colors. I have never been sea-sick in my life, not even in the middle of the North Sea with force 10 on the Beaufort scale, after several sausages, plenty of chips and a potato salad with plenty of mayonnaise on top, but the new version at least gives me a notion of how it can happen.
Comparing the two versions also gives me a new insight into what AI colorization ultimately amounts to, one that you and many others may have known from the start: It means using automated intuition to produce a new computer-animated color video based on a black-and-white live-action video. The result usually looks like live-action. Presumably because of the lack of motion-stabilization, many early scenes in the newer video are conspicuously animated rather than live-action. Yes, they have more vivid colors, which is good, but many shapes look more abstract and they look more like they have been filled in with one uniform color than colorized on the basis of actual luminosity. Thus, some walls look like they have been built out of Lego.
The two new parts are interesting additions, but in the part with all the 'neon' tubes the AI just couldn't cope with the darker areas. Driving along The Strand towards Charing Cross was easily the best part, showing that when there isn't too much light in some areas the AI can even cope with night scenes. It also benefits from steadier camera work, occasioned by the stop-and-go traffic that shows how amazingly crowded London was even in those bygone days.
Unfortunately, there are already comments again, delighting in supposed former lack of diversity. So I would like to make the following observation, just once, for the sake of historical accuracy: It was an age, when discrimination was legal and bigots easily found the diversity that supposedly wasn't there. There were plenty of signs "No Irish allowed"! While some English people obsessed about the Irish, the English in turn were hated by plenty of Scots (and still are), and if Scots didn't find anybody elsewhere to hate them, many decided they had to do it to each other, with permanent resentment between Highlanders and Lowlanders, Presbyterians and Catholics, people from Glasgow and people from Edinburgh, Campbells and McDonalds …
I love this stunning video. The only way it could be improved is with subtitles to mark where we are at any given point.
There is a timeline in the description. If you hover with your mouse over de control bar underneath the video you can read all the locations while the film plays (on a Windows PC).
@@Rick88888888 Thanks so much for that and for the film as well. Well done!
I think you will find the journey starts near Hammersmith Broadway. I recognise Latymer Court flats and St Pauls grammar school
Thanks. Please note that the full route is already in the full description and the CC captions.
Where did it all go wrong!
Every time we let the Tories in.
Every time we let Labour in.
Labour and Tories are two cheeks of the same imperialist backside.
We were never asked...
Our country as it was, clean, neat, tidy, orderly.
Ours, as it was.
Before.
I'm surprised you were even allowed to watch it.
@@puunersjabski6487Why wouldn’t they be allowed to watch? The ones orchestrating this want to twist the blade in the wound
Absolute heaven take me back
I wonder what that world would have thought of this world? 🤔
I don't think they would be very impressed by our modern world.
They would of thought why didn't you listen to Enoch Powell.
They would have called it progress.
@@countfosco8535 Evil progress.
@@sharonjojoyeah so evil that sexual abuse towards children is now more known and stopped, and that cures for illnesses have been more developed, just to name a couple
Note the then commonplace street cleaners keeping the place spick and span !
Keep Britain Tidy....We used to then, my dad would clump me if I even dropped a sweet wrapper.. "Put it in the bin".
😮... Parental violence. ..... 😂
I felt freer in the 1950's than today. Plus I could by a train ticket to anywhere in the country and use what trains I liked. I could even buy a timetable and rely on it. All the utilities were run for the people first..Railways, GPO, Water boards, Councils etc. You could even trust Banks.
How clean are the streets. Looks how life should be
it looks spotless, no litter, no grafitti, no druggies and immigrants all over the place
No polish or Ukrainians
Irony is - if it keeps going like it is, youll want to move to another country
@@Mydadsshed as it happens I’m very fond of Russia
@@MarriedToTheKGBthey immigrants tho
how pleasant and clean, no aggro, safe and proper high street shops. what a mess britain is today.......
Im sure the Krays an other gangsters were roaming the streets back then!
Old people today who lived in these times created the London we live in toay!! Selfish greedy counts.
Britain is FINISHED!
Clean streets & everyone is dressed nice.
That was before we imported the third world. Glad I was lucky enough to have grown up in that era.
The swinging 60's and early 70's marked the beginning of London's demise .
No, London was a great place to be in the 60s and 70s, it really started to go down hill in the 1980s with the Thatcher government and their lethal cutbacks in services and the start of privatisation of everything. London used to be a city to be proud of, but that was before the place was left to become filthy and it became a graffiti paradise.