The people who say yes to that comment will be the most ignorant. No equal pay act (women were thus second class) No health and safety act. Smog, outside toilets, life expectancy considerably lower than now...The lists goes on.....i imagine a lot of people prefer the 40's simply because everyone was white. Simple racism is why so many say they prefer it
Those of us who were born shortly after the 2nd world war have had the best years. Yes it was tough at first but we had so much more freedom and people spoke to each other without all this modern technology. We made our own toys and spent much time outdoors climbing trees and enjoying ourselves in the natural countryside. As a child life was priceless.
Well summed up, lifestyles were better back then despite having next to nothing but we had more friendship, people helped each other more and. Modern lifestyles are the cause for all the obesity and diabetes problems we see today. Wish I could go back in time.
@@sidneydawe9937 My childhood was the late seventies to mid to late eighties and I personally think it was the last generation before video games took a hold on the youngsters.
This is cinematic gold! The colour enhancement and sound quality added gives the viewer a ‘sense-surround’ feeling. I waited until for complete silence to play the film and actually felt I was present in the scenes and among the film’s subjects. Thanks to the makers of this masterpiece, it was like being transported back 80 years!
My dad was a ten year old in 1945 sadly he passed away last month at age 89 what massive changes he saw in his lifetime and experienced how somethings never change, be kind to each other 🙏
Sorry for your loss,recently lost my dear mum and dad is 90 in 3 weeks,the stories he tells me are priceless.He can’t believe some of the things going on in this day and age.
Yes, I know how hard it is to lose loving parents. My parents, R.I.P., were young adults during WWII. I am sorry for your loss. They were different times back 80 plus years ago.
The London of my grandad and grandma born Poplar 1910 and 1912 respectively . My 87 year old dad remembers how fantastic London was even as a very small boy . In their wildest nightmare they couldn’t imagine what our politicians would have done to the city ,let alone the country.
My London I grew up in before it all changed so much. It's great to see some of the places I played as a kid are still there today. It was a beautiful city, I've so many great memories. Many of the houses you saw from the train are still there today and now fetch a fortune. And the main thing, St Paul's dominated the skyline, not like today. It felt so weird seeing it in colour and at a proper speed. What a fantastic job you did on the restoration. Thank you.
@@Londonechoes Yes it is. One of the only things we don't see these days are the 'parkies' as we used to call them. The parks were always kept so beautiful.
@@TheLondonForever00 Yh, they definitely aren't around as much as they used to be. They're still pretty common in London's Royal Parks though, I'm guessing due to funding
@@Londonechoes Pretty much, the ones in central London were allocated the funds, this was due to it being the nearest to monetary interests, like musuems, art galleries and theatres. Sadly, those London boroughs that weren't classed as high value earners, and didn't make the grade, weren't eligible, faded away as the public footfall declined.. It really became apparent in tbe 90's. If you weren't near a fancied location, you weren't going to get funding. We lost many of our most loved places.
I was born in London in 1952. When London was the capital of a proud country. If anybody out there has a time machine, or access to one, please take me back.
My mom was already shipped off to Canada, pregnant with my brother who died last month, her second child. Our dad was in a hospital, wounded just after D-Day, waiting to be shipped home. Both made the crossing on The Queen Mary: my mom on the deck with 5,000 pregnant war brides wrapped in blankets and my dad, below decks with 5,000 war wounded. I think the first footage is during the war. Everyone is still in uniform. Probably after the end of the European war. Pacific raged on for months afterward.
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This is a masterpieces of restoration. I think your color balance is better than any i have seen. I was born in 1941 and lived in a quiet place in Britain practically untouched by the war. I didn't see London until 1948, and only as a visitor. The smell of the vehicle exhausts was overpowering. I remember shopkeepers cutting coupons out of ration books. Not many people were overweight.
Love this video. Shows London as it was. The grand buildings, the bombed out buildings and rubble, the cleared up rubble, the crumbling working class neighbourhoods, the poor with babies playing in the dirty streets, the middle class in nice schools, families enjoying a day in the park, the nightlife, all covered in a thick layer of coal-fired smog and soot. But the people look like they want to get on with life after a terrifying war. They seem tired, but there is hope.
How much better the London skyline was before it was filled ugly steel and glass monstrosities that make it look like any other city in the world today.
King Charles agrees. He once commented on the new ultra-modern Liverpool public library that "It looked more like a place for incinerating books than reading them."
As myself, you are a people person. You just can't help wondering how they all were. How they got though the tragic horrors of the previous years, who they lost and who they regained and the relief when they came home. A lot of scars there though, not just in buildings - they can be replaced - but in lives.
Lovely to see. I arrived in London in 1980, when it was still mostly a low-rise city. But some of this footage is older than 1945. There are sections from ‘Housing Problems’ by Arthur Elton and Edgar Anstey, filmed in Stepney in 1935, plus bits from ‘London Can Take It’, by Humphrey Jennings, from 1940.
Even crawling out of the rubble...it was a beautiful city. It still is. My favorite place on the planet and I hope I can get back there someday. Great restoration, as always.
What a wonderful video? Dad wouldn’t have been back from evacuation yet. He was whisked off to Cornwall. He was 6 when this was all filmed. Amazing. Thank you for uploading 🙏🏻
The thing I love about this is it looks like it has been filmed on a modern video camera and not just film. It makes you feel like a time traveller and really really puts you there. I MUST subscribe now 😊
Yes I was thinking that. The restoration is so superiour the best I have ever seen. The sound track is wonderful too, brings this whole film to life. I love it.
Attention aux phrases toutes faites, c'était mieux avant ! Ce qui est dur aujourd'hui et qui nous fait souffrir, c'est l’individualisme d’une société occidentale essentiellement communautaire. Magnifique vidéo de Londres de la fin de la guerre ou les anglais sont restés dignes et dans une résistance exemplaire pendant toute la guerre.
Merci. J'ai passé 30 ans en France et mon ancienne belle-mère a vu le bombardement des lignes du chemin de fer à Orsay. Un de ses frères est parti rejoindre la résistance. Je l'ai rencontré : un fromager à Berck 😅
My mother always said how grim, grey and depressed things were after WW2 growing up as a young girl in Birmingham. The government also kept rationing up for quite a long time after too. I bet you however, people were more happier then than some people are today.
Buckingham Palace solid and breathing dynasties since then. Big traditional old buildings. How many still exists.! Excellent footages of working people,few more sofisticases than others. Families reunited at the table..sorry,did I say at the table ! Is important to keep the optimism ,but the present reality holding us back. Thanks for the fantastic video👏👏👏💐💐💐
As I get older I find it more disturbing to see how quickly the world changes through these videos. You realize that we are still really in the early stages of modern western civilization. I think these restorations are just incredible and I can't imagine in another 30 years what society will look like, or how footage like this will be re-engineered again to let us experience the past.
Its also worth pondering on the incredible changes the people in the video had seen in their own lifetimes. Aeroplanes and cars has only been around for 40 years or so. Massive developments in the economy had taken place not to mention two huge wars the likes of which had never been known before. If you get old enough to experience these changes then that is a gift in itself.
I think we’ve lived through the peak and are seeing the decline. Britain is no longer British - to the detriment of the whole world. I long for a return to the world I grew up in before consumerism, globalisation, liberalism and mass immigration destroyed it. The Britishness of this film makes me ache with sadness for what has been lost
Great footage. So much has changed, but a lot stays the same. The Victorian terraced housing shown at 4:50 still dominates in UK towns and cities - along with the 1940s semi-detached houses shown at 6:44.
Absolutely I live in a semi detached council home built after WW1. And you can see the tiny add ones which became the bathroom upstairs and kitchen below it. Before that it was pot over the fireplace and an outside toilet. That's how the majority of British lived 💯
So much reminds me of being a child, particularly playing in your school uniform and shorts. Often with loose tie and aertex or grey thick cotton shirt. Never understood how the girls kept their ankle socks white most of the time. Do not go to London now as friends there have warned me away. Too sad. Excellent production thanks so much.
fascinating! the smoke and the back to back slums though. very little footage of the bomb damage.. Actually my mother is now 92 and this is al within her living memory.
A Wonderful steam engine, plus no litter on the street and St Paul'Cathedral standing, as it still does today as a sentinel of mighty God over London. Thankyou for colouring and posting this great film.
Unrecognisable? So why do I recognise nearly every sheet? It's really very recognisable. Except for that kitchen without running water, nope, I don't recognise that.
And here we are today, Britain hasn't seen a war in over 70 years and everyone is walking around in ripped, faded jeans etc with their hair sticking out in all directions, like they just survived the blitz. Oh, the irony.
Fascinating film to watch, so evocative! Interesting to see the temporary wartime Thames bridge close to Westminster Bridge, I’ve not seen film of that before.
@@vincekerrigan8300@8:38 there’s a shot of the temporary wartime bridge that was erected a little way North of Westminster Bridge. The route of the temporary bridge was from the north bank to the south, to land adjacent to the County Hall in case Westminster Bridge was destroyed by bombing. Waterloo Bridge is clearly visible beyond that, being faced in white Portland stone.
The year of my birth, but watched with a certain amount of sadness at what London has now become since that year. Can't say anymore can I ? Great piece of restoration.
@1GlowingJarcurrency debasement allows for social programs which allows for the wrong kind of people to come and further allows for their non integration.....if you were dependent on a job to provide for your family you'd soon integrate
Strange how it simultaneously seems so familiar and yet so long ago. Some beautiful footage, wonderful camerawork. Love the sequence starting at 5.48. Poor old County Hall, it survived the Luftwaffe but then had Ken Livingstone to look forward to (JOKE!).
Would have been interesting to see it back then. Even when I went in the late 80s just out of college it was turning into an international city from immigration.
You obviously do not live in London. What is remarkable from this video is that you recognise almost everything, its astonishing how little its changed. The biggest change is all the mass poverty and squalor have disappeared.
Well of course it is! This was 1945 now its 2024. And its changed for the better. A mix of old and new but still as it was then multi-cultural. Fantastic.
Is time linear? If you take a train from Paris to London, Paris still exists even though you physically arrive in London. Here we have photographic evidence of the past. Do these people and places still exist in the past? NASS, I cannot express my gratitude for you bring these films to life! I would give anything to talk to my Grandfather about his experience in WW2. Sadly, he isn't with us anymore. This helps me to understand a bit of what he might have experienced as he was sent to England in May of '44 with his unit aboard the Queen Mary, and later France and Germany!❤
Beautiful city, right after WW2, great ppl and looks clean and peaceful in the parks❤. I was born there😊. Thanks for producing and sharing this amazing video, it's a real treat👍
Hardly surprising, after the terrible exigencies of the War, and the continued rationing afterwards. (I remember as a little kid how any rare Mars Bar was always sliced up like a ginger cake or a loaf, and one thin slice was your lot!)
Used to visit with mum and dad in the 60's by train every year 2-3 times up from Portsmouth......We had bombsites everywhere too....the appearance didn't change much from the 40's to 60's it seems.....
One thing i enjoy in London is looking out of a train window at the cityscape, and i really enjoyed from 4:40 as I realised i've never seen really old footage of London from a train journey. I'm not sure exactly where the journey is taking place, but the views seem strangely familiar, but slightly off, with the usual modern day sights - tower blocks, dual carriageways, etc- all missing
You just can't help wondering how they all were. How they got though the tragic horrors of the previous years, who they lost and who they regained and the relief when they came home. A lot of scars there though, not just in buildings - they can be replaced - but in lives.
Fantastic footage of Englands capital city the atmosphere looks great, i know it was just after the war but it still looks and seems to feel so much better than it does today.
hmmm...are you sure you wen't actually on other side during the War? Nevermind. I'm sure the foreign riff raff who fought alongside your boys to defeat the Nazis still love you.
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Would You Like to Live in the 1940s???
Absolutely
Yep
I was born in 1949.😂😊
The people who say yes to that comment will be the most ignorant. No equal pay act (women were thus second class) No health and safety act. Smog, outside toilets, life expectancy considerably lower than now...The lists goes on.....i imagine a lot of people prefer the 40's simply because everyone was white. Simple racism is why so many say they prefer it
Can only remember back to early fifties , food rationing ,no car ,no telly but they were much better times .
Those of us who were born shortly after the 2nd world war have had the best years. Yes it was tough at first but we had so much more freedom and people spoke to each other without all this modern technology. We made our own toys and spent much time outdoors climbing trees and enjoying ourselves in the natural countryside. As a child life was priceless.
Well summed up, lifestyles were better back then despite having next to nothing but we had more friendship, people helped each other more and. Modern lifestyles are the cause for all the obesity and diabetes problems we see today. Wish I could go back in time.
@@sidneydawe9937 My childhood was the late seventies to mid to late eighties and I personally think it was the last generation before video games took a hold on the youngsters.
@MaximusPennyweather Yes you’re quite right. Not just video games.
I was born in 1952 and I agree.
each age has its advantages but this one is quite strange and even some young people say so.
This is cinematic gold! The colour enhancement and sound quality added gives the viewer a ‘sense-surround’ feeling. I waited until for complete silence to play the film and actually felt I was present in the scenes and among the film’s subjects. Thanks to the makers of this masterpiece, it was like being transported back 80 years!
thank you so much
My dad was a ten year old in 1945 sadly he passed away last month at age 89 what massive changes he saw in his lifetime and experienced how somethings never change, be kind to each other 🙏
@@michelles2299 Confucius said: “Be kind but don’t expect gratitude.”
My dad was an indentured slave working in the sugar estates for the great lords .......😂
Sorry for your loss,recently lost my dear mum and dad is 90 in 3 weeks,the stories he tells me are priceless.He can’t believe some of the things going on in this day and age.
@@michelles2299 I'm so sorry you've lost your Dad, it's terribly painful, I know what it's like, in the end you live with the pain.
Yes, I know how hard it is to lose loving parents. My parents, R.I.P., were young adults during WWII. I am sorry for your loss. They were different times back 80 plus years ago.
The London of my grandad and grandma born Poplar 1910 and 1912 respectively . My 87 year old dad remembers how fantastic London was even as a very small boy . In their wildest nightmare they couldn’t imagine what our politicians would have done to the city ,let alone the country.
agenda 2030
Something wrong? I don’t see people of color? I thought the BBC said it was a country of mixed race?
Beautiful, scenes from so many different quarters!
I was a kid in 50s, seeing I've sampled then and now, i just wish i was back there
Me too . I hate the way things are now . The best times are gone for ever .
My London I grew up in before it all changed so much. It's great to see some of the places I played as a kid are still there today. It was a beautiful city, I've so many great memories. Many of the houses you saw from the train are still there today and now fetch a fortune. And the main thing, St Paul's dominated the skyline, not like today. It felt so weird seeing it in colour and at a proper speed. What a fantastic job you did on the restoration. Thank you.
It is amazing! Much of it is still the same, especially in a lot of the Parks and Canals
@@Londonechoes Yes it is. One of the only things we don't see these days are the 'parkies' as we used to call them. The parks were always kept so beautiful.
@@TheLondonForever00 Yh, they definitely aren't around as much as they used to be. They're still pretty common in London's Royal Parks though, I'm guessing due to funding
@@Londonechoes Pretty much, the ones in central London were allocated the funds, this was due to it being the nearest to monetary interests, like musuems, art galleries and theatres. Sadly, those London boroughs that weren't classed as high value earners, and didn't make the grade, weren't eligible, faded away as the public footfall declined.. It really became apparent in tbe 90's. If you weren't near a fancied location, you weren't going to get funding. We lost many of our most loved places.
@@TheLondonForever00 Yhh, it’s really sad what’s happened over the years
Children and the younger generation need to see these videos and be educated.
@@David-uf8exblacks live in your mind, rent free lol
My Grandfathers days
He died in 2000
And politicians.
I was born in London in 1952. When London was the capital of a proud country. If anybody out there has a time machine, or access to one, please take me back.
If anyone built a time machine the '50s and '60s would be way overcrowded. I'd stay in the 2020s, all by myself.
@@stevelee4952 Is there room on the time machine for one more?
@@tri5ia when I get the time machine come along me old mate
@@stevelee4952 👍
In your opinion did we need the windrush and mass immigration? Or was it a myth that there was labour shortages?
Wonderfully restored footage.
Thx!!!
Loondoon still boring
I agree.
Agreed! Its fantastic
My mom was already shipped off to Canada, pregnant with my brother who died last month, her second child. Our dad was in a hospital, wounded just after D-Day, waiting to be shipped home. Both made the crossing on The Queen Mary: my mom on the deck with 5,000 pregnant war brides wrapped in blankets and my dad, below decks with 5,000 war wounded. I think the first footage is during the war. Everyone is still in uniform. Probably after the end of the European war. Pacific raged on for months afterward.
Enjoyed that thank you, London is my home, nice to see it without all the high rise buildings 👍🏻
The highrises should be taken down and replaced with the pre-war architectural exteriors
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This is a masterpieces of restoration. I think your color balance is better than any i have seen.
I was born in 1941 and lived in a quiet place in Britain practically untouched by the war. I didn't see London until 1948, and only as a visitor. The smell of the vehicle exhausts was overpowering. I remember shopkeepers cutting coupons out of ration books. Not many people were overweight.
Amazing! Feels like you’re actually there!
This is GOLD.
Great job. I read a lot of novels and B&W films from this era, your film puts it marvellously into perspective. Thank you.
Love this video. Shows London as it was. The grand buildings, the bombed out buildings and rubble, the cleared up rubble, the crumbling working class neighbourhoods, the poor with babies playing in the dirty streets, the middle class in nice schools, families enjoying a day in the park, the nightlife, all covered in a thick layer of coal-fired smog and soot. But the people look like they want to get on with life after a terrifying war. They seem tired, but there is hope.
“Good ol’ days”……or maybe not?
NASS! Great work! Thanks for posting this video
thank you very much bro
How much better the London skyline was before it was filled ugly steel and glass monstrosities that make it look like any other city in the world today.
London was a filthy dump. It was still a dump when I got there in `79.
Yes, it did occur to me that the skyline is now overpowering the amazing original buildings that are centuries old.
Exactly
King Charles agrees. He once commented on the new ultra-modern Liverpool public library that "It looked more like a place for incinerating books than reading them."
Yeah. Those factory smokestacks spewing toxic smoke are grand.
I absolutely love watching your videos - its like using a time machine to go into the past that was somewhat forgotten!
Thank you for making these video's
Thx!
Makes you wonder how the lives of the people in film played out.
As myself, you are a people person. You just can't help wondering how they all were. How they got though the tragic horrors of the previous years, who they lost and who they regained and the relief when they came home. A lot of scars there though, not just in buildings - they can be replaced - but in lives.
That was amazing thank you Nass. It captures London emerging from the war beautifuly.
thank you very much
Lovely to see. I arrived in London in 1980, when it was still mostly a low-rise city. But some of this footage is older than 1945. There are sections from ‘Housing Problems’ by Arthur Elton and Edgar Anstey, filmed in Stepney in 1935, plus bits from ‘London Can Take It’, by Humphrey Jennings, from 1940.
No obesity! Didn't see a single dat person.
@@benson9343 I didn't see any fat people either 😅
Even crawling out of the rubble...it was a beautiful city. It still is. My favorite place on the planet and I hope I can get back there someday. Great restoration, as always.
Thx!!
You wouldn’t recognise it now I’m afraid
Fortunately there's barely any rubble visible in this video.
What a wonderful video? Dad wouldn’t have been back from evacuation yet. He was whisked off to Cornwall. He was 6 when this was all filmed. Amazing. Thank you for uploading 🙏🏻
The thing I love about this is it looks like it has been filmed on a modern video camera and not just film. It makes you feel like a time traveller and really really puts you there. I MUST subscribe now 😊
Great video nass, amazing footage of the old London, beautiful city 👍👌😀
thank you very much!
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Там по-ходу пластиковые окна уже стоят...
Great restoration. Video has depth, looks almost 3d.
Thx
Yes I was thinking that. The restoration is so superiour the best I have ever seen. The sound track is wonderful too, brings this whole film to life. I love it.
London, I miss you 💔
There were problems but they were OUR problems
Well said.
Attention aux phrases toutes faites, c'était mieux avant ! Ce qui est dur aujourd'hui et qui nous fait souffrir, c'est l’individualisme d’une société occidentale essentiellement communautaire.
Magnifique vidéo de Londres de la fin de la guerre ou les anglais sont restés dignes et dans une résistance exemplaire pendant toute la guerre.
Merci. J'ai passé 30 ans en France et mon ancienne belle-mère a vu le bombardement des lignes du chemin de fer à Orsay. Un de ses frères est parti rejoindre la résistance. Je l'ai rencontré : un fromager à Berck 😅
My mother always said how grim, grey and depressed things were after WW2 growing up as a young girl in Birmingham. The government also kept rationing up for quite a long time after too. I bet you however, people were more happier then than some people are today.
i WAS AGED 4 THAT YEAR, AND CAN VIVIDLY REMEMBER V.E DAY. AND THE LATER V.J. DAY. WE LIVED IN KINGSTANDING.
Buckingham Palace solid and breathing dynasties since then. Big traditional old buildings. How many still exists.! Excellent footages of working people,few more sofisticases than others. Families reunited at the table..sorry,did I say at the table ! Is important to keep the optimism ,but the present reality holding us back. Thanks for the fantastic video👏👏👏💐💐💐
thank you very much
As I get older I find it more disturbing to see how quickly the world changes through these videos. You realize that we are still really in the early stages of modern western civilization. I think these restorations are just incredible and I can't imagine in another 30 years what society will look like, or how footage like this will be re-engineered again to let us experience the past.
*late stages
Its also worth pondering on the incredible changes the people in the video had seen in their own lifetimes. Aeroplanes and cars has only been around for 40 years or so. Massive developments in the economy had taken place not to mention two huge wars the likes of which had never been known before. If you get old enough to experience these changes then that is a gift in itself.
I think we’ve lived through the peak and are seeing the decline. Britain is no longer British - to the detriment of the whole world. I long for a return to the world I grew up in before consumerism, globalisation, liberalism and mass immigration destroyed it. The Britishness of this film makes me ache with sadness for what has been lost
Great footage. So much has changed, but a lot stays the same. The Victorian terraced housing shown at 4:50 still dominates in UK towns and cities - along with the 1940s semi-detached houses shown at 6:44.
Absolutely I live in a semi detached council home built after WW1. And you can see the tiny add ones which became the bathroom upstairs and kitchen below it. Before that it was pot over the fireplace and an outside toilet. That's how the majority of British lived 💯
Wonderful Time Traveling.. Thank You. We need to be reminded about getting back to this as much as possible. 🇬🇧
Thanks for this piece of gold.
The terraced houses with smoking chimneys and narrow alleys hit me the most.
Another great restoration - thanks, NASS.
thank you very much
Fantastic work!
thank you very much
The people look a bit different now.
So much reminds me of being a child, particularly playing in your school uniform and shorts. Often with loose tie and aertex or grey thick cotton shirt. Never understood how the girls kept their ankle socks white most of the time. Do not go to London now as friends there have warned me away. Too sad. Excellent production thanks so much.
Nicely presented. Great job to whoever put it together.
Wow, my parents could have been in there somewhere as teenagers. Some great views and very clear as well.
Wow… what a find… great job NASS!!
fascinating! the smoke and the back to back slums though. very little footage of the bomb damage.. Actually my mother is now 92 and this is al within her living memory.
It looks very similar still.. I was looking for the London Eye 😂 Recognised so many places. Great job on the restoration
thank you very much
An excellent job of restoration/remastering. Well done you, congratulations on a job well done and for the happy memories your short film revived.
Thx!! ;)
A Wonderful steam engine, plus no litter on the street and St Paul'Cathedral standing, as it still does today as a sentinel of mighty God over London. Thankyou for colouring and posting this great film.
Very good colorization results! Which colorizer is this? It's not DeOldify
Yes, it was a bit beaten-up and a bit rough in places, but it was my capital city, a proper capital city. Now look at it - completely unrecognisable!
True London, and God bless those who got to experience it!
You mean Londonistan? :D
Salute from Milanistan :)
Unrecognisable? So why do I recognise nearly every sheet? It's really very recognisable. Except for that kitchen without running water, nope, I don't recognise that.
@@Azrubcan this be that we live in Eurostan?
Fantastic video post Worl War!! best regards from Chile!! Thanks very much!!
Thanks
Thank you. Excellent clip - I recognise lots of the south London footage. I was born in 1954.
@ 05:40 What is that tall structure to the left of the Tower Of London as we see it?
Six years of war and everyone is still making an effort to dress well and elegantly.
And here we are today, Britain hasn't seen a war in over 70 years and everyone is walking around in ripped, faded jeans etc with their hair sticking out in all directions, like they just survived the blitz. Oh, the irony.
Amazing to have been able to capture all of this in real time & a wonder to see it like this now. 🎥 ❤
Those slum houses are worth £2 million each now. Happy days!
It’s absolutely insane what London was like then to how it is now.
Always beautiful
Fascinating film to watch, so evocative! Interesting to see the temporary wartime Thames bridge close to Westminster Bridge, I’ve not seen film of that before.
That's Waterloo Bridge - it was finished in 1945.
@@vincekerrigan8300@8:38 there’s a shot of the temporary wartime bridge that was erected a little way North of Westminster Bridge. The route of the temporary bridge was from the north bank to the south, to land adjacent to the County Hall in case Westminster Bridge was destroyed by bombing. Waterloo Bridge is clearly visible beyond that, being faced in white Portland stone.
almost looks as if they already had a gimbal for filming back then, so smooth
Sound effects are top-notch, chap.
Great work. Although I live a world away I have walked past many of those places quite often. Fascinating to see how much society has changed.
Thx!
Makes me sad because it’s certainly not changed for the better
Outstanding clip! One of your recent best.
Thx!!
Fabulous, that's how London used to look
Absolutely brilliant, amazing restoration and thanks so much for sharing it.
Thanks for this - lots of great views. Really interesting at 8:22 to see very little built up at the south end of Waterloo Bridge.
This is as close as you can get to a time machine. Very good film and excellent processing.
Clean, tidy, orderly, well mannered, a beauty and a jewel to behold. A shining beacon and exemplar of civilization.
The year of my birth, but watched with a certain amount of sadness at what London has now become since that year. Can't say anymore can I ? Great piece of restoration.
Wow amazing
And look at the state of society now. Really makes you think.
@1GlowingJarcurrency debasement allows for social programs which allows for the wrong kind of people to come and further allows for their non integration.....if you were dependent on a job to provide for your family you'd soon integrate
@1GlowingJarthe evil globalists
This is the best London old wartime video I’ve seen. It’s a Time Machine.
Strange how it simultaneously seems so familiar and yet so long ago. Some beautiful footage, wonderful camerawork. Love the sequence starting at 5.48.
Poor old County Hall, it survived the Luftwaffe but then had Ken Livingstone to look forward to (JOKE!).
Would have been interesting to see it back then. Even when I went in the late 80s just out of college it was turning into an international city from immigration.
Has this film been colourised or is this early colour film?
The colours in this Look Just incredible! Almost prettier in some ways
London today is simply unrecognisable from what it was back then
You obviously do not live in London. What is remarkable from this video is that you recognise almost everything, its astonishing how little its changed. The biggest change is all the mass poverty and squalor have disappeared.
Well of course it is! This was 1945 now its 2024. And its changed for the better. A mix of old and new but still as it was then multi-cultural. Fantastic.
Love my city. Lived here 37 years. Work hard, be nice to people and this city rewards you endlessly ❤
@@davidr7819Tell that to the machete gangs and jihadists
@@mogznwaz 37 years in London and ain’t never met either. Think you’ve overdosed on Reform propaganda
very well done. an amazing doco, cheers for showing us.
Is time linear? If you take a train from Paris to London, Paris still exists even though you physically arrive in London. Here we have photographic evidence of the past. Do these people and places still exist in the past? NASS, I cannot express my gratitude for you bring these films to life! I would give anything to talk to my Grandfather about his experience in WW2. Sadly, he isn't with us anymore. This helps me to understand a bit of what he might have experienced as he was sent to England in May of '44 with his unit aboard the Queen Mary, and later France and Germany!❤
brilliant ......just love this stuff
Thank you ....
Beautiful city, right after WW2, great ppl and looks clean and peaceful in the parks❤. I was born there😊. Thanks for producing and sharing this amazing video, it's a real treat👍
Beautiful work as always NASH....so interesting to see the changes around Buckingham Palace.
Till next time...take care!🙏
Hi!!! Thx!!
How I miss my country 😢
Mesmerising! Words fail me!
Thank for sharing this, it is very well restored 😃
Thx!!!
Oh, by the way, keep up the great work!
Thx!!
The real London. London is no longer London.
Shouldn't have helped the bad guys. None of us should have.
Sad but true
The buildings still look the same! Whats the problem?
Then you've never ever known what London is.
@@ericoverton5039 Contents therein, you mong.
I saw no obesity. 😮
There was rationing then
There was a really fat baby at 4:02 my god he was enormous. What was in that breast milk?
Hardly surprising, after the terrible exigencies of the War, and the continued rationing afterwards. (I remember as a little kid how any rare Mars Bar was always sliced up like a ginger cake or a loaf, and one thin slice was your lot!)
@@jarednewman484that was cloth nappies! No such thing as disposables in those days - just bulky towelling nappies!
Back when kids showed respect for their parents
👍💯💯
They played out from dawn to dusk, so they didn't really have to see their parents
It’s the parents fault they now don’t
Great, thanks for this. Some of the residential flats look very 50’s design and part of the post war building boom so not sure if it’s all ‘45.
What a different world 😮
They weren't rushing in boats to get here then ooh look no diversity
@@geraldcollins8273 And their countries weren’t being bombed and destroyed. Arms financed by politicians over here
Everything was so orderly back then, running like clockwork.
How do you know?where you there?
@@torcik That depends, were you?
Life's not that neat, it never has been.
@@Madonnalitta1 I’m judging strictly by what’s seen on the video, and city life in London looked far more orderly back in the day than it does now.
Used to visit with mum and dad in the 60's by train every year 2-3 times up from Portsmouth......We had bombsites everywhere too....the appearance didn't change much from the 40's to 60's it seems.....
Wonderful. Many thanks.
One thing i enjoy in London is looking out of a train window at the cityscape, and i really enjoyed from 4:40 as I realised i've never seen really old footage of London from a train journey. I'm not sure exactly where the journey is taking place, but the views seem strangely familiar, but slightly off, with the usual modern day sights - tower blocks, dual carriageways, etc- all missing
thank you for this visual wonder - our beloved London - oh, that we might regain our proud, ancient city
You just can't help wondering how they all were. How they got though the tragic horrors of the previous years, who they lost and who they regained and the relief when they came home. A lot of scars there though, not just in buildings - they can be replaced - but in lives.
Fantastic footage of Englands capital city the atmosphere looks great, i know it was just after the war but it still looks and seems to feel so much better than it does today.
Well-dressed people, fewer cars, a slower pace of life and immigrants from ALL OVER the world NOWHERE IN SIGHT!
hmmm...are you sure you wen't actually on other side during the War? Nevermind. I'm sure the foreign riff raff who fought alongside your boys to defeat the Nazis still love you.
@@nowhereman5119 Exactly!
Your sigh is very bad, chinese werein London since the victorian age and even before, and so italians