London Girls (1954)
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- London Girls.
Tracking shots of Pictorial reporter John Parsons with cameraman walking down Oxford Street. He walks up to woman Miss Sheila Catt. Several shots of Parsons talking to Sheila and taking notes. Parsons approaches another woman in street but she walks away. Several more shots of Parsons talking to young women in the street. He walks through door into office and talks to secretary Pat Fowler who sits at a desk. He then talks to Pat Fenn who is working at a telephone switchboard. Several good shots of West End street scenes. Parsons knocks on shop window. C/U of sales assistant Sheila Berners. He talks to her in shop. Various more shots of Parsons interviewing young women including model Janet Bates. Shots of Parsons buying underground ticket and boarding train. Parsons talking to woman on train.
FILM ID:1603.29
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It’s sad what London has become it would break their hearts if they could see it now.
If people in the 1920's had seen what London had become in 1954 they would be horrified...That's how nostalgia works. It's an illusion.
@@zivkovicable not true, people in the 1920s would’ve been very happy about the 1950s - more economic prosperity, Social Security and much better living conditions. Plus their own culture.
Totally different reality now.
Yeah, full of racist pricks who've forgotten what we fought a war against
Classy London back in much better days.
Oh really? The West End was full of sex workers openly plying their trade. ...You wont see that now.
No tattoos, no foul speech people smiling, it's far beautiful back then.
More importantly no black people. We pay politicians to protect and preserve our way of life not destroy it
And a lot more ignorant.
And No Comment
@@Neil-Aspinall and people aren’t now? what a joke
Each one of them has a lovely smile.
where do you find such beautiful girls today?
When England was England such joy.
Everyone dressed so nicely...
All smartly dressed,not plastered in make up,neat tidy ladies with nice smiles with good manners. Did you notice they all had good teeth and this was before people spent a fortune on dental work. They wont have had loads of sugar as children. ( rationing ) My mother wouldn't have gone outside the house without being well dressed and her hair combed into a nice style. I was 10 years old in 1954
Don't you wish that science had invented the time machine by now.
And if it had , would we all go forward or back in time ?
The way you talk , I think I know the answer to that question .
Have a good day ? , in the here and now , if you can .
I think that's why lots of people immerse themselves in the nostalgia from days gone by .
Since the here and now hold's very little for them unfortunately .
Aren’t we told there has always been a very “diverse” population in London?
They all look so relaxed and charming dont they?
Thats what winning the war was about.
@For Truth thats how you fight and win wars (and trade negotiations) sorry
For Truth , And that’s how wars are fought you lunatic through attrition. The Brits stood alone whilst Europe surrendered, next stupid answer?!
Don’t factor in the Brits & Americans supplied the USSR with war materials throughout 1941. when USSR entered the war after German invasion!
@@Thorny5718 '' thorny boy'' lol
For Truth ....and your point simpleton?
London Girls (2023) - women dressed in burkas and nothing showing but their eyes
I believe I was born in the wrong times.
I wonder who won Miss Charm 1954. They were all lovely girls. If only we could return to those wonderful days.
Watching this, it really hits home that England's gone
Must show my mum and dad. They were 23 and 24 respectively when this was filmed.
Lots and lots of natural beauty.
Its been downhill all the way since those days. London is not part of England any more....
The only time you saw machete wielding savages in those days was when you watched Pathe news or in picture books now you can see them everywhere in London. We are so lucky nowadays.
True london most people were lovely ❤🇬🇧🏴
Beautiful and natural ladies from the past. Love to see this movie.
notice
looks the all ladies dress 👗 very good 👍
know just only formality.
A lost world.
I notice four things. The smog. The politeness of people. The slightly patronising approach of the interviewer. And a total absence of BAME people, which is surprising because the BBC features them in every historical drama set in the UK.
Tony Green I’ve noticed the same thing, but it’s not just the BBC. It seems like the mainstream media in the West is determined to rewrite history. I watched ‘1917’ earlier this year and I was surprised to see racially mixed units in the British Army. It’s totally ahistorical and rather annoying.
I always blame the BAME
The charming nature of people was so noticeable.
Sharp contrast to today’s LGBT / Blue haired banshees walking the streets of our capitol who just want to be outraged by anything and everything.
Paul Evans That is very true. I wonder if we’ll ever be able to return to a state of sanity?
Mal Preece Sadly Mal, that’s less than likely in this lifetime.
For a brief moment the pandemic brought people together with a real sense of camaraderie, however the lefties in the MSM wouldn’t let that get in the way of their biased and destructive agenda.
Shame. It’s a missed opportunity.
Better days! The women were mostly slim and smartly dressed.
You do know these videos were made to show the best of Bristish don't you? In these days women, blacks and gays were oppressed, London was covered in smog....and the poor areas were very poor!
Better days? Are you serious? Women had to rely on a man to survive, it must've been terrible if your husband was abusive. As the person above pointed out racism, homophobia etc was also a big thing.
@@RnRnRbetter for the majority of people.
@@mrp9023woke
I was born in 1954 in east London; my mother was 23 and good-looking, but isn't with us any more.
My Parents died 25 and 50 years respectively this year Jonathan.
I was born on the 18th May,1954 :)
@@Isleofskye I'm sorry for your losses. My parents died 8 and 43 years ago this year. I was born on the 27th of March: a little older than you, but not yet decrepit.
Thanks, My Friend.
Take Care M8....
Aww. Such a different time. Seems as though parents of that time instilled good values.
@@Isleofskye and l was born in 14th may 2004, a 21st century genaration
All I want for Christmas is a time machine with no forward button.
Andy Burton it’s called a golden age fallacy
MrACP1911
Very true
I was born in 1951 so I'm nearly 70yo and not only were those days oppressive and totally crap but the modern day and young people are great
Andy Burton
Don't talk stupid
Why would antibody want to live in the past.
The past is a great place to visit but you definitely wouldn't want to live there that's for sure
Andy Burton Building one give you a call when it’s finished, if only.
Andy Burton in places like India, China they still have their culture and ppl 100% it’s only the west that is destroying itself with mass migration
Thank you. My mum would have been 24, my father 34.
Girls women were more beautiful then, natural foods,simple life ... Adds the elegance which in 2020 is all artificial even smiles..
Now all we see is jeans people then knew how to dress just imagine what people will think when they look back on this generation they will think we had no style let's ban jeans😁
All racist chavs now these days all over the UK wearing ripped jeans think they are hard .
Yes totally agree. Don’t get me wrong, women are absolutely beautiful and mental at the same time but the women in the older days were more like women. Maybe it’s just me as I like a girly woman. I guess I’m old fashion.
Yes, they were, in many different respects too. Not the attention seeking, self centered money mad, foul mouthed immoral slobs you often see these days!
Imagine a guy from the 1950s time travelling to 2021, he would be horrified to learn of the absolute state of the modern women.
He"d be stabbed or robbed in khans london now
I was born 53.
It was an age of a lot more manners and courtesy.
Women dressed like women and men like men.
To swear in front of a woman or to hear a woman swear was socially unacceptable.
I was taught to stand for women on a bus, open doors etc.
By age 8 I could go into London on the tube, it was safe, no problems, you didn't find trouble unless you looked for it.
Were they perfect days no they weren't but one thing is discipline was tougher then and in many ways that was a good thing.
I'm an Indian ,I've born 2000 .I really curious about on that times culture in Uk and U.S.A .Their cultures ,dress fashions were really amazing and modern as compare with modern days .I hope that this type of disciplined manners should come back again in upcoming days .What was your experiences .Please tell me sir .
@ece both
Nice girls didn't swear
Thank God in Arab countries we still have these manners and modesty 🤗❤️... You are welcome sir any time...
@@winniedixie6489 I gave never been to an Arab country, the western media paints a bad picture.
I don't trust the media
I have prayed in a mosque a few time at Jumah, and it was beautiful, but again the media tells us what to think.
Lovely beautiful people and women.
These girls would be about mum age now (90)
Now that's what you call wrapping them in cotton wool :)
They look more beautiful than what is out there now....
DEFINITELY! MUCH More cute feminine
No foul mouth spit n saw dust with tattoos
I know it's lovely and really interesting to look back, and may be great from your perspective, but just put yourself in their shoes for a few seconds. You're a full complicated human being with a lot to contribute to the world & people around you, but the world can (according to this video) only see you as something nice to look at. Would have been suffocating.
You should get out more!
@@OnTheLooseGoose As opposed as to how women liked to be portrayed on rap and grime pop video's, half naked and gyrating their bottoms around. Yes great progression. 👍
@@OnTheLooseGoose So very very true.
What happened to my country?
B.A.G. happened
Secularism globalism diversity is out strength
Joining the EU
Destruction of the nuclear family 1990s
Feminist movement 1970s
3d wave feminism 90s
This the outcome of a failed society
@@user-xi2dp3fi8k hey, the UK🇬🇧 is out of the EU🇪🇺 and immigration is still going up 📈 and it's your own fault (if you're British💂) cuz you're not breeding👶 at replacement levels.
Such an elegant time wasn't it? I was 4 years old. 🤩
How old are you
If you haven’t died of old age
@@user-ig6wn3oj4g are you mad someone 4 in 1954 is only 72 or 73 now. You are very rude.
You
@@janetlevy1098 i mean its not necessarily ancient in this day and age but yeh thats old tho innit
How horrible The world has become since those days
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. VERY NIE IINDEED :)
1954 - Elizabeth II
2021 - Elizabeth II
2022 - Charles III
2023: 🇬🇧
People looked happy then 😂
@@mrbluesky4838 So, given that there hasn’t been a world war for over 70 years and the current generations have little or no direct experience of such hardship, why then do people look less happy today? Interesting. 🤷🏻♂️
No ones happy no matter where they live in England.
Everyone still looks happy even now, they’re not going to let what’s going on in the world everyday stop people from living a good life and enjoying each day. Anyone smiles if they’re being on camera or interviewed. It’s sad that some people think no one smiles or laughs in the present time but they do and it’s all around.
@@brainsmith3931 I live in england and im happy, just because you arent doesnt mean everyone is
@@brainsmith3931I'm very happy.
It's very sensible and decent compared to now.
People looked much smarter and more graceful !
Absolutely nobody can't compare this type of woman ,man hairstyle and fashion .They really look absolute and perfect .I've born in 2000 but this footage teach me a lot and I realize a lot of thing about these .
My Mum was 20 in 1954. She worked in the City. Shorthand typist,
I wish I'd have been a young man back then with all those lovely well dressed girls everywhere!
Then you would have been drafted and you know what came next
@@jonathanclarke281 This is 1954.
For Truth
But worth waiting on, so much more than nowadays.
And so polite to.
@@user-sw2lv3zp6o there's still cold war
people had much clearer skin back then
True! However, all the wealth in London & the UK as a whole was stolen from Africa & India... I'm glad London now looks exactly how it should be: Black, Brown, & white... In the order of importance & relevance.
Yea. True. Despite the smog. Not a word about climate change. No tanned fellows jumping off dinghies.
Unfortunately I was born 15 years after this
I was 1 year old in 1954 and seven when I migrated to the UK in 1960. How different everything seems then. Better? :)
Nostalgia of the fifties l like better than now of course!!
We are now in 2022 which is 68 yrs later than when this footage was taken. All those girls who still survive will now be in their late 80's. As for myself I was born in 1946 and now 76 yrs old. How tempus fugit
1:02 What a novel chat-up line! 🤪
Middle aged man writing young women's names in his notebook - very creepy.
"Who'd burn her at the stake?" omg
London sure as hell don't look like that anymore oh the joys of diversity
All the wealth in London & the UK as a whole was stolen from Africa & India... I'm glad London now looks exactly how it should Black, Brown, & white... In the order of importance & relevance.
@@axamia What wealth exactly ? What was the wealth
@@magnah5581 259 trillion pounds, unpaid, involuntary labour provided by 20 million enslaved Africans, trillions of pounds worth of gold, diamond, silver, iron, & artifacts... All stolen with 400years..
@@axamia send me link to this history please the 400 years is very interesting I was always led to believe the slave trade was from 1640 to 1807 when the British stopped it, May be you included the Islamic slave trade where the White Irish where taken by force to work in the middle east that would include it.
@@axamia you need white people, white people don't need black or brown 😒
The days when people had a backbone and weren't the weak and pathetic species that we are today.
One of those girls looked like my mum, I was born in 1953,
Still trying to deal with unhealthy Air sixty years later.
Yes it looked bloody awful.........but the dreamers on YT think the 50s and 60s were Eden
@@insertnamehere5146 They WERE eden......my parents said the 1960's in London were ''magical and optimistic''......property was cheap...a house in Richmond was just £6k {add millions to that now}
Might have been for your mother and father if they were well heeled enough to live in Richmond which has always been a place for the wealthy. Other parts of London were total shitholes with slum landlords and factory work started for working class kids from aged 14. The class structure was well in place at that time London only "swung" in the 60s if you held lots of currency. The property bubble we are currently seeing is due for a serious correction (thank god) shortly.
@@insertnamehere5146 Dad came from a really working class family in Mortlake, but made his £ in the 1960's arts scene when the working classes could really move on up and out of poverty.{photographers, musicians &c...It was a time that many could 'escape' poverty.
Property in Richmond was too expensive for me to live there by the time I was old enough to buy a house....I lived in various other parts of London, Swaton Road, Bow Lansdowne Drive, but those places made me feel heavy hearted...so closed in and no green spaces to speak of.
Notting Hill was really run down, but felt more like 'home'..
Now, of course, it is changed beyond all recognition.. Notting Hill Housing Trust has done wonders, and slum landlords {now ''buy to let'' are a plague but in a different way....buying up houses that first time buyers ought to have a chance at.
@@insertnamehere5146 Agree that the housing situation in London is obscene now. Almost impossible for the average single person to buy a house {or should that be studio flat} ..The generation born in the 1930's /40's had the best of it house price wise..free education, good health care, cheap houses {in comparison to earnings}. It should be every persons right to own their own home, and not to rent...renting is just 'dead money'....in the 70's there were squats about that one could live in {many in those big old Richmond and Notting Hill houses} but a change in the law stopped that, too.
0:42 If a man came up to me on the street, tried to stop me by putting his hand on my shoulder, and then pointed right in my face, I wouldn't be smiling.....
Could that be because you're a precious madam ?
These days if you compliment a woman on how nice she looks it is often considered
to be seual harassment. How times have changed for the worse.
In about 1966 I remember wolf whistling a girl while my open car was stopped at a crossing while she was on it. I was rewarded with a truly wonderful smile!
Today, he'd be done for harassment. The girls clearly didn't want to talk
Voice over from Irish This Is Your Life presenter Eamonn Andrews I think.
Sounds like Eamonn Andrews is that right...
Yes, for sure.
Yes thats right, Alan.it is...
@@MrRRHHMM I think its Bob Danvers Walker.
@@mikeyh1111
I think oiot's Eamon Andrews too.
Bob Danvers Walker used to, if my memory is correct, read out the footy results but good shout though
@@ItsNotRealLife No Peter , the football results were read by Len Martin ( on Grandstand ).Bob Danvers Walker was the ' voice 'of Pathe News , from the 30s to the 60s, along with Leslie Mitchell.
We used to have such a safe and well country back then.They've turned our nation into a third world pit.
Good old golden age fallacy there. 50s Britain where women, gays and blacks were oppressed, London was full of smog and kids slept 3/4 to a bed in poor areas. Oh and if you were poor make sure you stayed away from where the rich folk loved because you weren't welcome.
@@mrp9023 And where is the problem? Sounds good to me
@@Edvard.Munchkin You can always recreate some of these circumstances yourself if it will make you feel better. Find some people living in cramped squalid conditions and join them and refuse all modern medical care...that'd be a good start 👍
@@mrp9023 I am not sure where you get your views from but I was born in 1951 and women were not oppressed, many worked in offices and factories and you must remember we were still recovering from WW2. Gay men kept their privacy and socialised in clubs etc. where other gay men frequented. Also I was born in London and I never saw a black person until about 1959 I remember him well he was asked me for directions to a teaching hospital nearby , needless to say us kids were gobsmacked we had never seen black person before.
@@garypautard1069 reading your posy im not sure which part of what I've said you disagree with?? My views come from my family which has its roots in the East End of London (Silvertown). My parents both grew up on the docks and were born on about 1944. My dad had 8 brothers and his mum was one of 13,, whereas my mum was an only child.
That smog looked horrendous.
Mr Chumley Warner returns
Hardly.
he works for BBC comedy
1:39 😍❤ What a beautiful smile ❤😍
The year of my birth. I'm sure it was better back then .memories eh?
Oh much better. A paradise. It brings a tear to my eye that we cannot go back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley. 😢
@@southlondon86 a little harsh I think . I hope you had tounge in cheek. I think there's more dodgy people around these days I used to play out for hours without a care in the world. People like hindley and Brady were a rarity back then
@@clivebennett7985 Except they weren't. If anything they had more power and authority and were hidden better. The child abuse taking place and the lack of protection for the vulnerable is still only coming to light now. You're just hearing more about these horror stories these days because people have a lot more information available to them now.
@@clivebennett7985 It does seem to me that it was better back than. Certainly the young ladies interviewed were all pretty and elegant. Seems like more innocent times to me when people were less cynical and had more time for each other.
Oh England look at you now.
Just wondering: why was it captured? 1950s country PR or something?
Eamon Andrews doing the commentary.
Sam Spade not Emon Andrews!
no way totally different voice ,irish
ok I just asked that didn't see this comment.
Not Eamon Andrews.
I agree--I'm pretty sure it is Mr. Andrews.
Not like the chavs of today
Before mass imigration
After mass colonisation...want to hear more?
@@thetrollslayer3716 what's mass immigration got to do with colonisation?
@garygroombridge8248 colonisers invade other countries and start living their and make the natives of that land slaves, immigrants are similar except the don't invade land or slave people
Lovely films is that the voice of Terry Wagon
In general , No overweight people.
i Love❤ LONDON🇬🇧🇬🇧
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The original TILF Hunter 😎👌
They were better days than these, and that's a fact.
Eamon Andrews certainly had a good scriptwriter for this.
Absolutely Fairy Tale
Decent clean living people back then, much brighter days.
Try doing that in London today. They'd bash the men with their handbags!🤣
Women today are more like MEN....
1:38 wowwwwe just wowww
Each one of them looks classy, stylish, and pretty. Not a filled lip or fake breast in sight.
Jolies femmes mais le monsieur est si paternaliste et les attrape par le bras comme si elles lui appartenaient, ça me déplait beaucoup.
Even then the cameramen were pervy ...
He nowadays would go to prison for harassment.
Last one’s the winner 👌🏻
Check the waist of the girl on the left at 2:00, the one fitting the bobble hat.
Eamonn Andrew is the narrator
No it's not Eamonn Andrews
@@jackkeating6263 Bob Danvers Walker.
Note the way he pronounced 'off' as 'orf'. He didn't do that later.
edgware9. Commonly known as Seamus Android.....
Jack Keating It is !!
Viva la juventud divino tesoro
Many old buildings has gone 😢😢😢 even ww2,finish
Hat's were no longer as prominent on heads as they were 15 to 20 years earlier.
A bit weird. Bit touchy . Even as a bloke it's a bit demeaning to the girls.
IF YOU KNOW ANY OF THESE LADIES, OR IF YOU ARE ONE, PLEASE LET US KNOW HOW THEY/YOU ARE. IT'D BE JUST FANTASTIC TO HAVE AN UPDATE ON YOU AND YOUR LIFE. x
Dude is some kind of creepy stalker😬
0:11 drew barrymore? Dang!! Time travel??
Admittedly a bit creepy with the overly aggressive reporter and his tacky comments, but Pat Fowler at 1:14. Wow! Nice smile indeed. She's just girl-next-door type naturally pretty. Not a big fan of 1950's women's fashions (hemlines were too long), but I do like its shorter hairstyles.
I identified her as a man...not my fault
People had much more class then, than the rabble these days
Now girls are not that nice and sweet 😭
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00:50
Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven Character in Stranger Things)
Who recognises Eamon Andrews commentary.
Goodness how creepy this guy is stopping and touching these young London women?
When clothes were comfortable and stylish.