On seeing the grimy 70s after the earlier decades, i am given a new visceral sense of why the elderly of my childhood years were so disapproving. So must feel the bird that laboured through harsh winter to nest and feed the chicks, and yet with springtime perceives the cuckoo's loathsome smirk about their demanding beaks.
Any 'Division' of the self is only ever a 'strength' for one's enemies. Divisiveness, diversion and division only fractures 'the people' into ever-smaller, ever more easily manipulated groups. 'Diversity' is merely an intentionally deceptive modern remarketing of the age-old concept 'Divide and conquer' to a bovine people made complacent by comfort. *_'UNITY' is strength."_*
Interestingly enough, recently I have seen similar reactionary video on decline of architecture in Czech lands. Dan Vavra, the designer of Kingdom Come started comparing first republic (era between WW1 and WW2) and Habsburg era architecture versus the later abominations of socialism and how even 30 years after communism it shows the tradition was just brutally severed. While he also points to a few tasteful reconstructions, the heart sinks when seeing how many beautiful old buildings were ran down and cheaply re-done to absolute abominations.
This will make me weep. First time I visited London, was a ‘last year of primary school’ trip in 1981. It was amazing, everything us kids from North Belfast imagined it would be. I took my children to visit London last year (they’d never been). Didn’t know the place, I could have cried. The only indigenous English we encountered were the black cab drivers, and they all lived in Essex; they told us they moved out there as part of the ‘white flight’ in the 90’s.
I think these will be banned from TH-cam in a while. Not because of skin colour, but the people look happy and content. I think that is part of the reason why people idealise the Sixties. Everyone seems more enthusiastic and upbeat on TV. Now people are just stressed and jaded. Also London looks eminently liveable here. I lived there 14 years ago. Couldn't live there now.
The film of working people and women with shawls was filmed in Northern England. The black guy worked for the film team, his job being to organise the crowd for the camera. I think he hailed from the US. The clip was part of a series which Dan Cruikshank did a documentary on some years ago. I've forgotten the name of the people who made the series, but it was looking at the lives of ordinary people of all classes across the country.
What I like about the 1900's footage is how many people stand perfectly still as if they were having a photo taken. It makes sense when you think most have probably never seen a video camera before. They were probably used to being told to stand still for the camera.
The Crimea War memorial 1:45:06 is still there, standing at the junction of Waterloo Place and Pall Mall. It now has two smaller plinths a few meters in front of it, one with a Florence Nightingale statue and the other with a Sydney Herbert statue. The building that looks like the side of some fairytale castle at 1:45:19 are The Royal Courts of Justice facing onto The Strand which opened in 1882. The building at 1:45:36 is Charing Cross Station with the Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross visible in the forecourt.This was a memorial to Eleanor of Castile who was the wife of Edward I, designed by Edward Middleton Barry as part of his wider design of the station and dating to 1865.
Everybody pre-camera and video saturation lived in a different mindset. They were not 'soul-stolen' by the cameras as we are. They do not even consider how they look when someone of high respect isn't gazing upon them. So they are truly natural in their running through the streets unconcerned with things like 'if they run like steven seagal' . Our Tao is completely erased, comparatively. I mean our ability to simply 'follow our feet' without considering how we look or act is completely lost at the earliest of ages now.
So many of the old brand adverts on those buses are now owned by giant multinationals. Dewars Scotch now owned by Bacardi Wrights Coal Tar Soap - Unilever and now made in Turkey Pears Soap - Unilever and now manufactured in India and Saudi Veno's Cough Mixture - Beechams
@8:13 I've seen this footage before and I always think of what looks like a lady at the Cenotaph taking her child, presumably to remember a family member or perhaps her husband?
When I venture into the here be dragons land of SE London, I often wonder what a time traveler from the London of the 50s would make of it? I'd imagine they'd think some kind of invasion had taken place,and they wouldn't be wrong.
is it just me or did people in the 1930s footage have less hight differences? this realy fits to duttons idea of increased mutational load and people becaming less related towards each other etc as the underclass tops dieing off each generation, etc, also could be taht london has more people from a larger area living there less londoners
Interestingly brands were essentially created by the Co-Op, which itself couldn't exist properly until the Joint Stock Companies Act 1856 created the modern incarnation of the Public Limited Companies
wow! really interesting, I saw the London my grandad grew up in in the 1920s, and the London my dad moved into in the 70s, I moved to London 2 years ago (have left since) and comparing it to the footage it's a different world, I can't limit the comparison to words because in every aspect it is different and in the majority of those aspects for worse, I wish my grandad was still alive so I could ask him more
The story goes that the American Tycoon who purchased London Bridge, done so mistakenly thinking it was Tower Bridge Its written off as a bit of a myth now - but I always liked the story - and the idea that someone would purchase, dismantle and transport such a *basic* looking bridge, brick by brick, to be exactly reassembled on the other side of the world is a little bizarre
@1:57:21 Here we see the traditional British 'V'' sign in it's natural habitat (i.e. _on the end of an British person's arm._ ) Which, if rendered in the common contemporary vernacular, means *_"Piss orf!"_*_ or _*_"Git 'aht of it!"_*
1:45:05 - That's the Crimean War Memorial cast from cannons melted down that had been captured at the siege of Sevastopol on Waterloo Place, at the junction of Regent Street and Pall Mall. It got moved slightly for the addition of Florence Nightingale and Sidney Herbert the Secretary for War at the time in 1914. Sill there.
@@caleb-- Absolutely. Didn't we only finish paying the US for Lend Lease as late as 2006? We were in dire straits after WW1 anyway, as well. I once read that the pension pot (for OAP's) was empty by 1960. Ever since it's been run on debt. People live longer, virtually all women eventually qualified, less and less %age of people are in the working population, massively greater numbers work for the state in some capacity or another - ie, they do not produce wealth. And etc, etc.
That's because Yorkshire is still in the 3rd world, lol. Sorry, only joking. I couldn't resist, being a Lancastrian. But honestly, I've not seen one here since what...? The late 70's. They were supplanted by scrap-metal pickers with motorised transport. Even they have gone now.
The shops are boarded up in the very early 80s because the basic tax rate was, until very recently, 34% rising to 83%. The average salary was around £4500, while the average London house cost £18,000. Unemployment benefit was around £750 per year. Challenging conditions for the high street!
Except around the East End docks you'd be right. The population would be very small though and I'm sure outside of the London, Liverpool and perhaps Edinburgh dock areas you could live your entire life without encountering a single person of colour.
@@studleymanhorse3042 Aaaah the rable rousing shout of racist. Do not have intelligent discourses rather, just like Monty Python, " a none believer! PERSECUTE HIM "! Yes, I am an Englisman. Does that make me racist? Or am I acknowledging what genetics and birth made me.
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 even in the 1970s there was only one black family where I grew up Rest in Peace Stan Downs. A nicer a guy you could never wish to meet
That grime you see in old footage of towns was cleaned up in the 1980's in Stockholm at least. I remember seeing that as a kid and it really made old buildings pop out a lot more as they weren't dirty any longer.
Perhaps, if we want to uphold London of the 1930s or New York of the 1920s as the ideal, then we should be thinking about ways we can bring that world back. Maybe it means that, as a man, I should be wearing a suit and hat to work. Maybe it means that my children should be going out to the park to play. Honestly, this world exists because each of us consents to it.
Just noticed that this is for two days away, and am wondering if there is a time limit for these premieres. As a reticent video maker, I am going to schedule a livestream or video for Dec 24 2024, I may have developed some ideas and style by then..
The first clip was actually shot in colour using an experimental process invented by a Claude Friese-Greene. The BFI have done a pretty good job of both stabilizing for modern tastes what was originally a very flickery image when projected (alternate frames used red and blue-green dyes only) and balancing the colour balance giving a good approximation of how 1920's audiences would have seen these. The process frame rate was 24 per second so no frames had to be added or subtracted using AI to make it play smoothly on modern screens.
Two pertinent points about the "black fella with his white mates" in the last video 1) he wasn't a black fella - he was a white fella with soot on his face 2) were he a black fella, he _would_ have been "chumming around" with his white mates as Britain never had racial segregation - if he was black and working class - he was *just* working class, as far as society at large was concerned Segregation was based on class, not race, in Britain When the Americans came over in WW2, their Top Brass requested that Pubs and restaurants near their Billets would be segregated - the British refused, to the point that British Soldiers would join fights *on the side* of the black patrons *against the yanks* when racism reared its head
@@AcademicAgent understood! And in no way meant as a criticism :) Only recently found your channel and its a treasure trove - many thanks! Warmest regards and happy new year x
@The505Guys Really? I mean we had many people serving around the world in the Empire and London was filled with people there from all the corners of Empire. I think it could be because the English care more about fairness than justice, they fought for the black soldiers and not the twatty, pompous bosses.
Man, uns geht's auch nicht besser was? Gott hat auch uns zu genüge gestraft! :D Aber immerhin ist das heutige Berlin nicht viel schlimmer als das Berlin der 20er, haha kein guter Trost...
Come on chaps- do cheer up, Christmas is nearly here. Make the most of it because scientific advisers have informed us of a new stronger strain of old covy is on the way. So drink,be merry,and prepare for more government mandated 'holidays'
You say about us being far dead, but I fear a time, perhaps 30 or so years in the future when people look back to 2020 and think we had it great! Partly because now we still have people alive who lived through those eras looked at in these films, but I dread what it will be like in the future if we do nothing.
I can imagine people in 2050 will look back at London in the 2020s with nostalgia lol. Maybe not specifically the lockdown years, but the rest of the decade, why not? Because the trajectory is that things will get worse, more of the things that still make it worthwhile will be cancelled, fewer real people will live there. I would have loved it if this stream had bridged the gap by looking at footage from the 90s and 2000s, and maybe early 2010s. Just to see the life that younger generations today would still be able to remember from their own childhoods. People very much like us today, just without smartphones, social media and constant outrage and doom scrolling in their pockets. There's still more normal petrol cars with less round edges, old school Routemaster buses in the 90s (and bendy ones in the 2000s). There's still more people going somewhere, people working real jobs in the city. Cockney dialects probably could still be heard. Very much an international modern city, but one with a population that was still majority White British (the tipping point where this stopped being the case was somewhere between 2001 and 2011, according to census data). Such cities were always run by the 'Loony Left' as it was called back in the day, but they had the good sense not to touch national symbols, because they still needed to keep the normal people you see in these videos on board, working and paying taxes. You can even go on Google Maps and see London in 2008, where it's very recognisable, except they've only just begun filling sections of the Thames with glass apartments, investment silos etc. There are still more clear views of the river. You can track the transition of a city in this way, only it was turbocharged by some developments like smartphones, social media, ethnic incitement and lockdowns.
49:00 All design seems to have been terrible in the 70s, but the British automotive industry was probably the worst sinner of all. The cars are absolutely ghastly.
I tried but it makes you look like a hipster because, even if you yourself are earnest, everybody else projects their own sense of irony onto you. It's why it's hard to bring anything back.
@@wilius1428 I try having serious conversations about God and people just laugh thinking that I must be taking the piss (I'm a New Zealander and belief is very uncommon). No one can even believe that anyone else has belief, so they can't take it seriously. Either I'm joking or am a weirdo. Such a cursed time. But bless you wherever you are.
@@rupdesnoop I am gonna look into something more formal for everyday wear to combat casualization in some small way. Eitherway, bless you too, happy Chirstmass and a happy new year.
Just earlier today I've been taking photos of scenic drawings of European (mainly German for personal reasons) cities from the 19th century. If anyone's interested, I've uploaded them to my imgur account. Salzburg : imgur.com/a/5MmvfNn Paris : imgur.com/a/GvtOUlZ Neuss : imgur.com/a/9Dw6tPt Munich : imgur.com/a/TCJOgbO Cologne : imgur.com/a/rOIs0zO Hamburg : imgur.com/a/TR5mCVI Frankfurt : imgur.com/a/ptvpvOX Düsseldorf: imgur.com/a/RdeRLD8 Avignon : imgur.com/a/WSZtSS5 Aachen : imgur.com/a/LJFrKbn
Ah yes, London before the Motorways, overcrowding, road congestion and road safety law standards were institutionalized and line markings were present.
On seeing the grimy 70s after the earlier decades, i am given a new visceral sense of why the elderly of my childhood years were so disapproving. So must feel the bird that laboured through harsh winter to nest and feed the chicks, and yet with springtime perceives the cuckoo's loathsome smirk about their demanding beaks.
Your succinct words have burrowed into my brain to haunt. And harrow. And haunt.
Look The whole "back in my day" which is often belittled as rose tinted glasses is clearly not rose tinted, things were just blatantly better.
Old London looks like a fantasy, absolutely stunning. Very little of it is left, rather disheartening.
Anger is more useful than dispair.
Diversity is our strength..... What a sick joke.
The Dalai Lama and John Cleese are correct
Diversity is their strength, indeed.
For the small hats, LOL
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
Any 'Division' of the self is only ever a 'strength' for one's enemies.
Divisiveness, diversion and division only fractures 'the people' into ever-smaller, ever more easily manipulated groups.
'Diversity' is merely an intentionally deceptive modern remarketing of the age-old concept 'Divide and conquer' to a bovine people made complacent by comfort.
*_'UNITY' is strength."_*
In a similar vein, I looked at some Pictures of EAST London in South Africa from the 60s compaed to today. Shocking degradation.
I'll start weeping preemptively.
No weeping, only anger.
@@danibsen7912 ‘Anger is an energy’ as one former Londoner, John Lydon, once said....
Interestingly enough, recently I have seen similar reactionary video on decline of architecture in Czech lands. Dan Vavra, the designer of Kingdom Come started comparing first republic (era between WW1 and WW2) and Habsburg era architecture versus the later abominations of socialism and how even 30 years after communism it shows the tradition was just brutally severed.
While he also points to a few tasteful reconstructions, the heart sinks when seeing how many beautiful old buildings were ran down and cheaply re-done to absolute abominations.
This is going to be tragic.
This will make me weep. First time I visited London, was a ‘last year of primary school’ trip in 1981. It was amazing, everything us kids from North Belfast imagined it would be. I took my children to visit London last year (they’d never been). Didn’t know the place, I could have cried. The only indigenous English we encountered were the black cab drivers, and they all lived in Essex; they told us they moved out there as part of the ‘white flight’ in the 90’s.
London is no longer an English City, it's terrible
@@McFlyYouSlacker Londonistan.
I think these will be banned from TH-cam in a while. Not because of skin colour, but the people look happy and content. I think that is part of the reason why people idealise the Sixties. Everyone seems more enthusiastic and upbeat on TV. Now people are just stressed and jaded. Also London looks eminently liveable here. I lived there 14 years ago. Couldn't live there now.
The official narrative says that it was all a myth, and we've never has it any better than today
Not one bridge had a diversity barrier.
The film of working people and women with shawls was filmed in Northern England. The black guy worked for the film team, his job being to organise the crowd for the camera. I think he hailed from the US.
The clip was part of a series which Dan Cruikshank did a documentary on some years ago. I've forgotten the name of the people who made the series, but it was looking at the lives of ordinary people of all classes across the country.
What I like about the 1900's footage is how many people stand perfectly still as if they were having a photo taken. It makes sense when you think most have probably never seen a video camera before. They were probably used to being told to stand still for the camera.
The Crimea War memorial 1:45:06 is still there, standing at the junction of Waterloo Place and Pall Mall. It now has two smaller plinths a few meters in front of it, one with a Florence Nightingale statue and the other with a Sydney Herbert statue.
The building that looks like the side of some fairytale castle at 1:45:19 are The Royal Courts of Justice facing onto The Strand which opened in 1882.
The building at 1:45:36 is Charing Cross Station with the Queen Eleanor Memorial Cross visible in the forecourt.This was a memorial to Eleanor of Castile who was the wife of Edward I, designed by Edward Middleton Barry as part of his wider design of the station and dating to 1865.
Everybody pre-camera and video saturation lived in a different mindset. They were not 'soul-stolen' by the cameras as we are. They do not even consider how they look when someone of high respect isn't gazing upon them. So they are truly natural in their running through the streets unconcerned with things like 'if they run like steven seagal' . Our Tao is completely erased, comparatively. I mean our ability to simply 'follow our feet' without considering how we look or act is completely lost at the earliest of ages now.
I do enjoy watching old footage just to remind myself how far we have fallen.
So many of the old brand adverts on those buses are now owned by giant multinationals.
Dewars Scotch now owned by Bacardi
Wrights Coal Tar Soap - Unilever and now made in Turkey
Pears Soap - Unilever and now manufactured in India and Saudi
Veno's Cough Mixture - Beechams
I was not prepared to how tragic this was.
this is ganna be depressing af
@8:13 I've seen this footage before and I always think of what looks like a lady at the Cenotaph taking her child, presumably to remember a family member or perhaps her husband?
Love this one - I keep coming back to it every so often for some reason, funny, sad and cozy all at the same time.
That last clip was used in a module I studied at university about the people of Britain. No prizes for guessing why they chose that particular clip.
Amazing AA, this is fantastic. This should be done for other nations if possible. Thanks for the hard work. You make things bearable.
In the 70s and 80s football crowds would taunt Tottenham fans with "Come and get your peanuts" in a mock cockney accent
"There's no future in England's dreaming.."
What a band........
21:13 Prof. Edward Dutton spotted in the background.
LOL
The "dirt street" at the end, Mr Dee, of the first movie, is a sand horse track around Hyde Park, it is still there....
Wonderful. Thank you chaps.
When I venture into the here be dragons land of SE London, I often wonder what a time traveler from the London of the 50s would make of it? I'd imagine they'd think some kind of invasion had taken place,and they wouldn't be wrong.
I love how AA just completely ignores Panama and constantly defers to Dee.
It looks great back then, all it seems to be lacking is diversity to give it strength and a healthy dose of multi culture, sorted.
The people look healthy and trim, despite no nhs!
@Balvaig lol good point
I had lunch at WongKey, ChinaTown around 1988 - the worst service in the history of humanity. 1:02:05
Best stream you’ve ever done. Nowhere to hide from the truth of it all.
So many things that Britain stole: buildings, boats, trains and tranquillity. Thank goodness we're giving them back.
33:52 Right first time - Kensington High St, not Oxford St.
My god can you imagine somebody from the 20's looking up and seeing a neon sign saying "THE BITCH". He'd say "we've gone backwards".
It breaks your heart.
is it just me or did people in the 1930s footage have less hight differences?
this realy fits to duttons idea of increased mutational load and people becaming less related towards each other etc as the underclass tops dieing off each generation, etc, also could be taht london has more people from a larger area living there less londoners
Would love another of these streams
Interestingly brands were essentially created by the Co-Op, which itself couldn't exist properly until the Joint Stock Companies Act 1856 created the modern incarnation of the Public Limited Companies
This is a terribly bitter blackpill.
The London from the first video is a paradise compared to the mess that it is now.
This is probably my fav deepest lore
wow! really interesting, I saw the London my grandad grew up in in the 1920s, and the London my dad moved into in the 70s, I moved to London 2 years ago (have left since) and comparing it to the footage it's a different world, I can't limit the comparison to words because in every aspect it is different and in the majority of those aspects for worse, I wish my grandad was still alive so I could ask him more
That London bridge at 7:11, I think it somehow ended up in Havasu Arizona. (It is a spring break destination for university students.)
The story goes that the American Tycoon who purchased London Bridge, done so mistakenly thinking it was Tower Bridge
Its written off as a bit of a myth now - but I always liked the story - and the idea that someone would purchase, dismantle and transport such a *basic* looking bridge, brick by brick, to be exactly reassembled on the other side of the world is a little bizarre
How fantastic do the Household Guard look with the rucksacks on, they should bring them back!
Many thanks for this, AA. Magnificent!
1:45:40 is Charing Cross station
Whoever was selling plyboard in the 80s must have made a fortunate with 60% of all windows being boarded up.
@1:57:21
Here we see the traditional British 'V'' sign in it's natural habitat (i.e. _on the end of an British person's arm._ )
Which, if rendered in the common contemporary vernacular, means *_"Piss orf!"_*_ or _*_"Git 'aht of it!"_*
"Fook 'ead!"
What's this, the ghost of Christmas Past?
AA would never make it as a drummer in a band. Jeez, those count-ins equally dreadful while different each time!
AA you could get daughter of Albion on for this Stream.
Absolutely fantastic idea! Sarah and AA is a brilliant combination.
Ye get her on AA this is a Sarah stream
Why get a nationalist bint on?
i want to see sarah with charlemagne and aa
@@horacethemoocow2320 What is a bint?
1:45:05 - That's the Crimean War Memorial cast from cannons melted down that had been captured at the siege of Sevastopol on Waterloo Place, at the junction of Regent Street and Pall Mall.
It got moved slightly for the addition of Florence Nightingale and Sidney Herbert the Secretary for War at the time in 1914.
Sill there.
Well I say, demolish the glass steel abominations and bring back the old building style.
Post War Britain is dreary af. Jeez.
It was still grim in many areas of the NW even unto the end of the 70's, even into the 80's. Skint we were, as the fellas say.
In many ways we never recovered from the second world war. Just finished the stream and I'm about to cry
@@caleb-- Absolutely. Didn't we only finish paying the US for Lend Lease as late as 2006? We were in dire straits after WW1 anyway, as well.
I once read that the pension pot (for OAP's) was empty by 1960. Ever since it's been run on debt. People live longer, virtually all women eventually qualified, less and less %age of people are in the working population, massively greater numbers work for the state in some capacity or another - ie, they do not produce wealth. And etc, etc.
What an entertaining and interesting stream. Thanks guys. 🙏🥂😀
That Nescafe Golden is still brewing probably...
In Yorkshire (and I assume elsewhere) many of the rag and bone men still have horses..
That's because Yorkshire is still in the 3rd world, lol.
Sorry, only joking. I couldn't resist, being a Lancastrian. But honestly, I've not seen one here since what...? The late 70's. They were supplanted by scrap-metal pickers with motorised transport. Even they have gone now.
The shops are boarded up in the very early 80s because the basic tax rate was, until very recently, 34% rising to 83%. The average salary was around £4500, while the average London house cost £18,000. Unemployment benefit was around £750 per year. Challenging conditions for the high street!
Rewatching this excellent stream one year it now seems littered with TH-cam adds for me.
In the days when the only black face you where lokely to see was the coal man.
where as now even that is rayshiss
Except around the East End docks you'd be right. The population would be very small though and I'm sure outside of the London, Liverpool and perhaps Edinburgh dock areas you could live your entire life without encountering a single person of colour.
@@studleymanhorse3042 Aaaah the rable rousing shout of racist. Do not have intelligent discourses rather, just like Monty Python, " a none believer! PERSECUTE HIM "!
Yes, I am an Englisman. Does that make me racist? Or am I acknowledging what genetics and birth made me.
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 even in the 1970s there was only one black family where I grew up
Rest in Peace Stan Downs. A nicer a guy you could never wish to meet
That grime you see in old footage of towns was cleaned up in the 1980's in Stockholm at least.
I remember seeing that as a kid and it really made old buildings pop out a lot more as they weren't dirty any longer.
You can tell there's rot in the eighties video, specifically at 1:08:58
Check out that abhorrent graffiti.
AA defeats the purpose of a count-in by leaving a longer gap before "Go" smh.
delay
80s Brixton looks a lot like areas of modern day north east England
Perhaps, if we want to uphold London of the 1930s or New York of the 1920s as the ideal, then we should be thinking about ways we can bring that world back. Maybe it means that, as a man, I should be wearing a suit and hat to work. Maybe it means that my children should be going out to the park to play. Honestly, this world exists because each of us consents to it.
it's a gone time really it can't be returned to at all
@@ambivalentonion2620 We cannot return to it, but we can build something new, something good and wholesome
Do a follow up video like this one on Chicago. I’m sure that would give you a fright.
I recommend also checking out American cities such as New York and San Francisco. The difference is stark
Just noticed that this is for two days away, and am wondering if there is a time limit for these premieres.
As a reticent video maker, I am going to schedule a livestream or video for Dec 24 2024, I may have developed some ideas and style by then..
No, can set it for any time I believe.
That is actually busier than London today, at this point in time.....on the streets.....
1:53:00 he wasn't a black man. He had white arms. He was covered in dust and muck.
no he was clearly black, you can tell by more than just skin colour
The first clip was actually shot in colour using an experimental process invented by a Claude Friese-Greene. The BFI have done a pretty good job of both stabilizing for modern tastes what was originally a very flickery image when projected (alternate frames used red and blue-green dyes only) and balancing the colour balance giving a good approximation of how 1920's audiences would have seen these. The process frame rate was 24 per second so no frames had to be added or subtracted using AI to make it play smoothly on modern screens.
You can see the replacement going on
The fuckin kids have suits. Think about that shit.
Two pertinent points about the "black fella with his white mates" in the last video
1) he wasn't a black fella - he was a white fella with soot on his face
2) were he a black fella, he _would_ have been "chumming around" with his white mates as Britain never had racial segregation - if he was black and working class - he was *just* working class, as far as society at large was concerned
Segregation was based on class, not race, in Britain
When the Americans came over in WW2, their Top Brass requested that Pubs and restaurants near their Billets would be segregated - the British refused, to the point that British Soldiers would join fights *on the side* of the black patrons *against the yanks* when racism reared its head
I maintained 1) btw
@@AcademicAgent understood! And in no way meant as a criticism :)
Only recently found your channel and its a treasure trove - many thanks!
Warmest regards and happy new year x
@The505Guys Really? I mean we had many people serving around the world in the Empire and London was filled with people there from all the corners of Empire. I think it could be because the English care more about fairness than justice, they fought for the black soldiers and not the twatty, pompous bosses.
3 bedroomed terraced houses on Railton Road in Brixton were going for about £800k in 2019. You can get a flat for half a mil.
when we germans said, "gott strafe england" we did mean it yes, but we didn't mean it this bad
Man, uns geht's auch nicht besser was? Gott hat auch uns zu genüge gestraft! :D Aber immerhin ist das heutige Berlin nicht viel schlimmer als das Berlin der 20er, haha kein guter Trost...
The Bentley Blower and Brough Superior were way ahead of their time.
The UK was truly awesome back then.👍
I dread to think what sights a walk around London in 2120 would supply, if you're allowed to walk freely outside that is!
1933 - it wasn't called La Belle Epoch for nothing
Come on chaps- do cheer up, Christmas is nearly here. Make the most of it because scientific advisers have informed us of a new stronger strain of old covy is on the way. So drink,be merry,and prepare for more government mandated 'holidays'
@@benisrood Not as long as we have YT. Though that could change. Didn't it shut down for a while last week? Maybe a test?
You say about us being far dead, but I fear a time, perhaps 30 or so years in the future when people look back to 2020 and think we had it great! Partly because now we still have people alive who lived through those eras looked at in these films, but I dread what it will be like in the future if we do nothing.
@Rachel Wood yes. At least having the past as the past, we can try and incorporate the best bits of both the past and the present into the future.
Generations of us now have not witnessed anything close to the civilisation on display in some of these older clips in person
Rotten row still looks like that... it’s not dirt or dirty it’s a riding track
I can imagine people in 2050 will look back at London in the 2020s with nostalgia lol. Maybe not specifically the lockdown years, but the rest of the decade, why not? Because the trajectory is that things will get worse, more of the things that still make it worthwhile will be cancelled, fewer real people will live there.
I would have loved it if this stream had bridged the gap by looking at footage from the 90s and 2000s, and maybe early 2010s. Just to see the life that younger generations today would still be able to remember from their own childhoods. People very much like us today, just without smartphones, social media and constant outrage and doom scrolling in their pockets. There's still more normal petrol cars with less round edges, old school Routemaster buses in the 90s (and bendy ones in the 2000s). There's still more people going somewhere, people working real jobs in the city. Cockney dialects probably could still be heard. Very much an international modern city, but one with a population that was still majority White British (the tipping point where this stopped being the case was somewhere between 2001 and 2011, according to census data). Such cities were always run by the 'Loony Left' as it was called back in the day, but they had the good sense not to touch national symbols, because they still needed to keep the normal people you see in these videos on board, working and paying taxes.
You can even go on Google Maps and see London in 2008, where it's very recognisable, except they've only just begun filling sections of the Thames with glass apartments, investment silos etc. There are still more clear views of the river. You can track the transition of a city in this way, only it was turbocharged by some developments like smartphones, social media, ethnic incitement and lockdowns.
80's Brixton looks exactly like 80's Detroit.
The seventies were grim! Teens to young adulthood, corduroy, browns, moribund....
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
Could anyone tell me who the suave looking gent with the cigarette holder in AA videos is. Cheers
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sanders
The lack of obesity is intriguing... From what the left says you'd think everyone have always been fat.
49:00 All design seems to have been terrible in the 70s, but the British automotive industry was probably the worst sinner of all. The cars are absolutely ghastly.
bring back the waste coat
I tried but it makes you look like a hipster because, even if you yourself are earnest, everybody else projects their own sense of irony onto you. It's why it's hard to bring anything back.
@@rupdesnoop truly dreadful
@@wilius1428 I try having serious conversations about God and people just laugh thinking that I must be taking the piss (I'm a New Zealander and belief is very uncommon). No one can even believe that anyone else has belief, so they can't take it seriously. Either I'm joking or am a weirdo. Such a cursed time. But bless you wherever you are.
@@rupdesnoop I am gonna look into something more formal for everyday wear to combat casualization in some small way. Eitherway, bless you too, happy Chirstmass and a happy new year.
Some drivers were driving without their lights on at night.
1980s Brixton looks like Middlesbrough now
London was still the world's largest city well into the late 1940's.
Just earlier today I've been taking photos of scenic drawings of European (mainly German for personal reasons) cities from the 19th century.
If anyone's interested, I've uploaded them to my imgur account.
Salzburg : imgur.com/a/5MmvfNn
Paris : imgur.com/a/GvtOUlZ
Neuss : imgur.com/a/9Dw6tPt
Munich : imgur.com/a/TCJOgbO
Cologne : imgur.com/a/rOIs0zO
Hamburg : imgur.com/a/TR5mCVI
Frankfurt : imgur.com/a/ptvpvOX
Düsseldorf: imgur.com/a/RdeRLD8
Avignon : imgur.com/a/WSZtSS5
Aachen : imgur.com/a/LJFrKbn
Ah yes, London before the Motorways, overcrowding, road congestion and road safety law standards were institutionalized and line markings were present.
As someone who grew up around horses.
You have no idea how bad that would smell.
You get used to it though, when it’s at the right distance the smell is somewhat pleasant.