Loved the old Routmaster buses , when you could jump on as they pulled away and jump off as the they slowed down , and every one took notice of the conductor , happy days long gone now . London is a shit hole
@@nasskhan4543 you would have no idea what a great place London was. People with similar names like yours, have ruined it. You don't like my comments? Tough.
OH to be in ENGLAND IN THOSE DAYS ....BEST TIME EVER.❤PERFECT MUSIC ...LOVE IS IN THE AIR.❤ IT WAS IN THOSE DAYS HOW I LOVE YOU ENGLAND . TEARS TO MY EYES...HOW I REMEMBER THOSE GLORIOUS DAYS .😪😪😪
THIS IS WHAT LONDON WAS LIKE BEFORE POLITICIANS KILLED THE BEAUTIFUL CITY!!! I LIVED THERE FOR MANY YEARS AND LEFT WHEN IT STARTED TO GO TO THE DOGS!!!
@@tomthomassony8607 Boris is a snake, can not and should not be trusted. London always had foreigners but wasn't majority non English in the 1970s, was it?
London was multicultural in those days just the camera person focuses on the white population London for decades has always attracted foreigners to its city it's other UK cities and towns that are racist and segregated even today .
12 years old in 1972, great times. a group of us would catch a bus from Pollards Hill Mitcham on the 118 to London, travel all day around London on a Red Bus Rover day ticket, not a care in the world, Policemen on the beat would ask if we was all okay, where we was from and going, then advised us the best bus to catch, fantastic childhood,
As an Australian on a working holiday i lived in London ( South Kensington & Streatham Hill) through 1972 & 1973. Worked at Abbey Life Assurance in the City, near St Pauls and Segas in Streatham Hill. They were great times which on reflection could have been even better, knowing then what i know now.
Aaaa, I remember it well… we all lived simply but what a time… not all change is for the better.. and the changes in London have turned it into a unliveable place full of drug dealers, gang violence, car haters and people who cannot speak English… sad really..😕 that is why we should resist change…
Same in Birmingham, Manchester Liverpool full of drugs and chavs and crime racism and segregated areas too ,but these bigots always look at London as the problem.
@@johnclark7065 London is far more multi-cultural now and is not integrated. That's why there are ghettos of areas of different types of people. Governments and libertarians want all types to mix in a utopia - but humans naturally only want to be with their own kind. Actually the most 'racist' are immigrants, who stay and congregate to their own kind the most.
What a change in my lifetime, When London was English and everyone spoke English. Anyone could go and stand outside No10; No barriers just a normal street.
Y'know, ... I was born and raised in Brixton London U.K... a son of JAMAICAN immigrants..we OWNED several businesses in Brixton MARKET.. my parents and I felt EXACTLY THE SAME WAY YOU DO ! MY MUM LEFT IN 1972 , I LEFT IN 1980 JUST BEFORE THE RIOTS , WE KNEW SOMETHING VERY BAD WAS COMING...OH I HAVE LIVED IN AMERICA FOR OVER 40YEARS..EVERY TIME ( I ) WATCH THESE VIDEOS AS A ( BLACK MAN) I FEEL EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOU.. go figure , ....? But I always have a very sentimental place in my heart.. For ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.. many of us truly love white people very much.. regardless of your feelings....
@@kyrokyro2343 don’t judge us all by the few the bulk of people over here ain’t bigots the colour of someone’s skin or there culture matters not ur ever good people or bad people and that’s not defined by skin colour or culture stay lucky
Remember going to London in 1972 (we lived in Manchester). I was 5 years old. Also remember asking what a striptease was due to seeing several signs and mum and dad speeding up in the pace in those areas!😂
This brings back memories of when I began my police service at Vine Street, between Piccadilly and Regent Street in 1972. I lived in a police section house nearby. It was an eye opener for a 19 year old country boy who had never lived in London before. At that time I could walk along Downing Street as well.
Every year, school holidays in London: listening booths at HMV's, Alastair MacLean and Ian Fleming novels at Foyle's, Harrod's before it became cluttered, upmarket hippie goods at Biba's, high-heeled shoes for boys in Carnaby Street, watching Edward Heath from the public gallery in the House of Commons, influx of Indians/Pakistanis from Uganda, musicals at the West End, late meals at the Café Royal, Tube tickets sold by human beings, etc.
If only we could trade todays London what was back then ... yes there have been lots of advances in many aspects ... BUT ... one aspect that has lost its way and gone backwards is todays society.
I never knew Tussauds ever did a waxwork of Alfred Hitchcock. Spot the classics, Bentley's etc all full of charm, style and character, and that orange Bond Bug must've been a very unusual sight, which would've been brand new. Look at the modern crap motors we have now, all ugly, soulless and oversized square boxes, probably because everyone is getting taller and fatter lol, and worse with all this push for electric motors. Everything's becoming robotic and autonomous, won't be long until they will be driverless and will be restricted to where you can go.
Songs like Down in the Tubestation at Midnight and Inner London Violence describe a different side of London. Vice around Piccadilly and Soho was also rife.
Wonderful, I so Rembrandt that time, London was dirty but people were neatly dressed, now London is way cleaner and but people are dressed like slobs. ThatS progression you. Carry On…
You could only ever dream of London and this country to be as good when Blair was running the place. Just take a long look at what 14 years form the Tories running this country into the ground, only worse in the great plague and the blitz.
Born in November 72.. I .didnt really start spending time here till 79/80... Back when we had Police Stations and Bobbies on the Beat patrolling in full tunic uniform! Oh the changes!
Born and bred Londoner, this brought a tear to my eye as I miss it so. 70s and 80s was a great time in London. Yes, even through the strikes. Museums were free, theatre, parks, pubs, wine bars, real shops, trains with wood and upholstery, no Yank chains, no surveillance, no public announcements - don't do this dont do that. And no one holding up a stupid screen.
I lived through this period in London and we had many problems then. The issues today are just different and not caused by people of different skin tones. I still like London. By the way I retired two years ago and am still alive mentally and physically.
Beautiful time to be alive and in London. I was only 15 then and I visited it on and off from my home in the north back in those days although I was to live and work there for 9 years in the 2010's but that's another story. The Krays and their henchmen had been taken off the streets, the WWll bomb damage had all but been taken care of and London had really started to love itself again by this time. Lovely film indeed. Oh by the way, ignore the negative comments concerning the soundtrack. It's obviously the music to Ralph McTell's 'Streets of London' and I think it fits the ambience so very well. Thank you.
in the 70ies till 76 i worked with my dad and brother scaffolding and cradle erectors , i all ways look out for our transit truck the streets oflondon were our work place buck pal , most gov buildings london air port bunny club lol great days miss you dad so much
@@phifalter The ‘punks’ were from 1976-1979 - Groups such as Jonny Rotten and the Sex Pistols, and the Damned? The punks meeting place and to get their ripped clothes with safety pins was The Kings Road, Chelsea.
Imlived in London in 1972. Went to the German school there. Every company stormed onto the Isle since UK had joined the European Union back then. So many happy childhood memories are connected with these pictures. Thank you. Today everything is reversed. Brexit happened, UK having problems with supplies. Sometimes it seems that the world has gone crazy.
Please don't imagine your happy memories of London in 1972 were anything to do with investment from Europe ! The UK didn't even join the Common Market until 1973, I remember it well, and then for its entire membership remained a net budget contributor, a reflection that its economy performs better than most other member states. Back in the 70s, the Common Market was largely just a free trade body then known as the EEC, which it made perfect sense for the UK to join. This, however, was before it was turned into today's political block, with its own flag, president, foreign policy, masses of unwanted laws and directives, and dreams of "ever closer union" and now even of joint military power. So yes, you're right, sometimes it does seem like the world has gone crazy, and yes, 1972 does evoke a happier time :)
Thank god not everyone speaks English. What a dull and boring place it would be. I am proud of England and ashamed of England. It all depends on what we did. Absolute nationalism is ignorant and dangerous
what a load of cobblers you write , as a english man i hate multi culturism , not the ones who intrgrate but those who want there culture forced on us english
Still looked English in the 70s
I love those times it was so different happy times it really was.
When London was London
The 21st century suck s I want too return to those simple and happy times. Has anyone got a time machine I can borrow,?
Loved the old Routmaster buses , when you could jump on as they pulled away and jump off as the they slowed down , and every one took notice of the conductor , happy days long gone now . London is a shit hole
Ah yes - those Barbadian conductors! Good times.
The London I remember as a child.... Best times
Proper London, now sadly ruined
Was way better then
Not really mate , I can remember the 70s times were pretty crap .
Yeah IRA planting bombs every other week , power cuts , strikes , expect yr bum patted by the boss. Great days 🤣
@@nasskhan4543 you would have no idea what a great place London was. People with similar names like yours, have ruined it.
You don't like my comments? Tough.
OH to be in ENGLAND
IN THOSE DAYS ....BEST TIME EVER.❤PERFECT MUSIC ...LOVE IS IN THE AIR.❤ IT WAS IN THOSE DAYS
HOW I LOVE YOU ENGLAND .
TEARS TO MY EYES...HOW I REMEMBER
THOSE GLORIOUS DAYS .😪😪😪
THIS IS WHAT LONDON WAS LIKE BEFORE POLITICIANS KILLED THE BEAUTIFUL CITY!!! I LIVED THERE FOR MANY YEARS AND LEFT WHEN IT STARTED TO GO TO THE DOGS!!!
You're not on your own mate , the only thing I would go back now for is pie and mash
Which year did you leave?
I don't know what you mean. It is clean and beautiful now. It is an amazing place.
London then or now!!!! 🤔 what a hard choice....
Before we we're invaded great safe days
When London was British... and not like now... a foreign mish mash.
Like Paris !
London has always had foreigners! Even our great Prime Minister is descended from Hungarian immigrants. And good old Boris isn’t so bad is he?
@@tomthomassony8607 FAR more mixed now.
@@tomthomassony8607 Boris is a snake, can not and should not be trusted. London always had foreigners but wasn't majority non English in the 1970s, was it?
London was multicultural in those days just the camera person focuses on the white population London for decades has always attracted foreigners to its city it's other UK cities and towns that are racist and segregated even today .
How good was London. Civilised compared to the hell hole it's become.
12 years old in 1972, great times. a group of us would catch a bus from Pollards Hill Mitcham on the 118 to London, travel all day around London on a Red Bus Rover day ticket, not a care in the world, Policemen on the beat would ask if we was all okay, where we was from and going, then advised us the best bus to catch, fantastic childhood,
I love that! Me and my friends used to the same - all age 11/12/13. It was great fun!❤
Beautiful footage of a hopeful time gone by.😀❤😀
sadly never to be repeated, time machine please
I lived there '74/5 and again early '79 to end of '90. How it has changed...
As an Australian on a working holiday i lived in London ( South Kensington & Streatham Hill) through 1972 & 1973.
Worked at Abbey Life Assurance in the City, near St Pauls and Segas in Streatham Hill.
They were great times which on reflection could have been even better, knowing then what i know now.
Nobody had even heard of Sadiq "Diversity Is Our Strength" Khan, and knife crime was a rare occurence on the high streets.
Thank you for making this. I was a young teenager at the time and so grateful I got to see it all.
👍🏼
Aaaa, I remember it well… we all lived simply but what a time… not all change is for the better.. and the changes in London have turned it into a unliveable place full of drug dealers, gang violence, car haters and people who cannot speak English… sad really..😕 that is why we should resist change…
Same in Birmingham, Manchester Liverpool full of drugs and chavs and crime racism and segregated areas too ,but these bigots always look at London as the problem.
Love is in the air I think the music was, ahhh the days when London was London 👍
Streets of London
Streets of London followed by Love is in the air. No vocals👌🤘❤️❤️
There is no turning back. We have all been led into a false sense of security!
We are not safe any more.!
The good old days when England was English
The scenes in the video look exactly the same today. 10 Downing St, Traf Sq. etc...
I was 19 years old in 1972 and it was my first visit to London. It made a big impression on me.
No it wasn't not much different than it is now. I think Rose coloured glasses for nostalgia
England London was very multicultural and integrated those days it's the rest of the UK which is racist and segregated and divided.
@@johnclark7065 London is far more multi-cultural now and is not integrated. That's why there are ghettos of areas of different types of people. Governments and libertarians want all types to mix in a utopia - but humans naturally only want to be with their own kind. Actually the most 'racist' are immigrants, who stay and congregate to their own kind the most.
What a change in my lifetime, When London was English and everyone spoke English. Anyone could go and stand outside No10; No barriers just a normal street.
Oh for those days to come again. 😪😪😪
They dare not risk hand grenades these days.
Because the way OUR country is going, there would be a few!!
Y'know, ... I was born and raised in Brixton London U.K... a son of JAMAICAN immigrants..we OWNED several businesses in Brixton MARKET.. my parents and I felt EXACTLY THE SAME WAY YOU DO ! MY MUM LEFT IN 1972 , I LEFT IN 1980 JUST BEFORE THE RIOTS , WE KNEW SOMETHING VERY BAD WAS COMING...OH I HAVE LIVED IN AMERICA FOR OVER 40YEARS..EVERY TIME ( I ) WATCH THESE VIDEOS AS A ( BLACK MAN)
I FEEL EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOU..
go figure , ....? But I always have a very sentimental place in my heart..
For ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.. many of us truly love white people very much.. regardless of your feelings....
1978 and not one punk rocker that ain’t right they were everywhere back then
@@kyrokyro2343 don’t judge us all by the few the bulk of people over here ain’t bigots the colour of someone’s skin or there culture matters not ur ever good people or bad people and that’s not defined by skin colour or culture stay lucky
Remember going to London in 1972 (we lived in Manchester). I was 5 years old. Also remember asking what a striptease was due to seeing several signs and mum and dad speeding up in the pace in those areas!😂
😂
Before diversity was forced upon us.
😂😂😂😂😂
Nobodies forcing anything on me
Before the woke lost the ability to distinguish Diversity from Deviancy.
feel like starting to sing.............let me take you through the streets of london
I lived in a Notting Hill bedsitter in 1972 and worked at the Coliseum Theatre (Sadlers Wells Opera). Now retired in New Zealand.
This brings back memories of when I began my police service at Vine Street, between Piccadilly and Regent Street in 1972. I lived in a police section house nearby. It was an eye opener for a 19 year old country boy who had never lived in London before. At that time I could walk along Downing Street as well.
72, What a great year.
Worked there in 1975-76 in Pall Mall at the Reform Club good memories also was back for a visit in 2006 found it not the same dirty and expensive.
Before Blair let all comers in. Carry on sergeant major, carry on.......
And Pritti Patel is still letting the migrants in on there dinghies. Disgusting!
@@tomthomassony8607 their
I dispise Blair and the Labour Party anti working class parasites.
Every year, school holidays in London: listening booths at HMV's, Alastair MacLean and Ian Fleming novels at Foyle's, Harrod's before it became cluttered, upmarket hippie goods at Biba's, high-heeled shoes for boys in Carnaby Street, watching Edward Heath from the public gallery in the House of Commons, influx of Indians/Pakistanis from Uganda, musicals at the West End, late meals at the Café Royal, Tube tickets sold by human beings, etc.
Nice old clip and lovely music
Worked London 78 to 2007 and drove all these streets every day as I was in fish trade
the music is like someone removed a few notes from 'streets of london' and 'love is in the air' and called them original.
All they've done is omit the vocals.
I "borrowed" the music from another TH-cam video, titled Karaoke Version.
Europe change countries
If only we could trade todays London what was back then ... yes there have been lots of advances in many aspects ... BUT ... one aspect that has lost its way and gone backwards is todays society.
And we all know why.
I never knew Tussauds ever did a waxwork of Alfred Hitchcock. Spot the classics, Bentley's etc all full of charm, style and character, and that orange Bond Bug must've been a very unusual sight, which would've been brand new. Look at the modern crap motors we have now, all ugly, soulless and oversized square boxes, probably because everyone is getting taller and fatter lol, and worse with all this push for electric motors. Everything's becoming robotic and autonomous, won't be long until they will be driverless and will be restricted to where you can go.
Just proper British
Not a Palestine flag in sight
Lovely memories. My London. It isn't anymore.
It never was your London. Like the rest of us, you were borrowing it to hand on to the next generations. Get over it.
@@zeddeka
Sod off!
As a Londoner working at that time, wage 6 pounds a week move up to 15 pounds a week heaven.
World annex
My daughter was born in 1972. Was a good year for Londoners to
to?
At some point, some people must have looked at London and thought. This must change.
Songs like Down in the Tubestation at Midnight and Inner London Violence describe a different side of London. Vice around Piccadilly and Soho was also rife.
@@gmc9451..any different now?
As time goes by. "Love is in the air " !!!!!
The 60s Carnaby and Chelsea fashions had faded.
Wonderful, I so Rembrandt that time, London was dirty but people were neatly dressed, now London is way cleaner and but people are dressed like slobs. ThatS progression you. Carry On…
Yes and probably every item of clothing would be UK made, along with most of the cars!
[4:59] The little blue van is a "Daf", made in my country, The Netherlands.
Society is gone into decline in the UK .
The whole of the UK those days was dirty not just London.
Very true.
Londoners (and other areas) have lost all Pride !!!
The women dress better than the men too!
Before Blair, and everything turned to shite.
Grumpy old man alert
@marthasheilds2446Bad Manners had a song called Inner London Violence back in the 80s.
You could only ever dream of London and this country to be as good when Blair was running the place.
Just take a long look at what 14 years form the Tories running this country into the ground, only worse in the great plague and the blitz.
oi linda família
Ahh, a carefully edited tourist version then - ?
Born in November 72..
I .didnt really start spending time here till 79/80...
Back when we had Police Stations and Bobbies on the Beat patrolling in full tunic uniform!
Oh the changes!
Now it's Rishi Sunak's Era 2⃣0⃣2⃣3⃣🔥🐍💲👌🙏🇮🇳💐🔱🎎🎍💎🎆❇🔆🏐
Sadly true ... will we ever recover ... I doubt it.
Too many RT type buses for 1978. The 39 was converted to one-man operation mid-1972 no shot of it with a two man bus could be from 1978.
You’re right! Only a few fragments are from 1978. That is stated there. I changed the title. Thanks for your comment!
London was on the turn way back then.
Can't get directions from those foreigners today.
Born and bred Londoner, this brought a tear to my eye as I miss it so. 70s and 80s was a great time in London. Yes, even through the strikes. Museums were free, theatre, parks, pubs, wine bars, real shops, trains with wood and upholstery, no Yank chains, no surveillance, no public announcements - don't do this dont do that. And no one holding up a stupid screen.
Those stripers are all Oap's now or brown 🍞bread! 2.03
I don't think so. Many of them are still alive and working today.. amazing!
@@sanchoodell6789 I would call them OAS’s, okay?
I lived through this period in London and we had many problems then. The issues today are just different and not caused by people of different skin tones. I still like London. By the way I retired two years ago and am still alive mentally and physically.
Shut your mouth.
I am still here!
The beginning of the film is not very clear.
Hope it's not to late to get.... London Back.
Sadly I think it is to late as successive governments over many decades have allowed it to become a melting pot full of undesirables.
All those classic cars 😊
Great footage. Awful music choice. Traffic tracks would be better
PROUD TO BE A LONDONER 👍🙌🫡🫡
Beautiful time to be alive and in London. I was only 15 then and I visited it on and off from my home in the north back in those days although I was to live and work there for 9 years in the 2010's but that's another story.
The Krays and their henchmen had been taken off the streets, the WWll bomb damage had all but been taken care of and London had really started to love itself again by this time. Lovely film indeed.
Oh by the way, ignore the negative comments concerning the soundtrack. It's obviously the music to Ralph McTell's 'Streets of London' and I think it fits the ambience so very well. Thank you.
Wow Clarke Kent at 4.35, ha…
Yeah he did look like Clarke Kent (or more Christopher Reeve rather)
in the 70ies till 76 i worked with my dad and brother scaffolding and cradle erectors , i all ways look out for our transit truck the streets oflondon were our work place
buck pal , most gov buildings london air port bunny club lol great days miss you dad so much
Why is the backing music so loud
Your volume is too high.
Trumpton...esc
No kings road punks?
I’m from The Netherlands, don’t know what you mean… sorry 😞
@@phifalter The ‘punks’ were from 1976-1979 - Groups such as Jonny Rotten and the Sex Pistols, and the Damned? The punks meeting place and to get their ripped clothes with safety pins was The Kings Road, Chelsea.
Okay, thanks for your information. Can’t remember if I visited King’s Road.
@@tomthomassony8607 Kings Road punks were great.
Imlived in London in 1972. Went to the German school there. Every company stormed onto the Isle since UK had joined the European Union back then. So many happy childhood memories are connected with these pictures. Thank you. Today everything is reversed. Brexit happened, UK having problems with supplies. Sometimes it seems that the world has gone crazy.
Please don't imagine your happy memories of London in 1972 were anything to do with investment from Europe ! The UK didn't even join the Common Market until 1973, I remember it well, and then for its entire membership remained a net budget contributor, a reflection that its economy performs better than most other member states. Back in the 70s, the Common Market was largely just a free trade body then known as the EEC, which it made perfect sense for the UK to join. This, however, was before it was turned into today's political block, with its own flag, president, foreign policy, masses of unwanted laws and directives, and dreams of "ever closer union" and now even of joint military power. So yes, you're right, sometimes it does seem like the world has gone crazy, and yes, 1972 does evoke a happier time :)
Thank god not everyone speaks English. What a dull and boring place it would be. I am proud of England and ashamed of England. It all depends on what we did. Absolute nationalism is ignorant and dangerous
what a load of cobblers you write , as a english man i hate multi culturism , not the ones who intrgrate but those who want there culture forced on us english
how as as you say an englishman your ashamed of england no way am i
Only one good modern thing. The Internet. All the rest total crap.
That's 100% correct plus some medical advances