Love this film, my mum is the clippie getting her brown box containing the Gibson ticket machine taking the second bus out on route number 2 from stockwell bus garage ,you can hear her say 2 on the 2s please , she also appears in the canteen asking for 2 teas please one without sugar , I took her to the stockwell bus garage open day in 2016 as a surprise & she was thrilled to bits , sadly mum passed away aged 97 in 2019 so having this film to watch brings back Happy memories for me ,Thankyou 😊
@Transportriangle Depends. Many people still worked 5 1/2 days back then. Working conditions often more dangerous. One the plus side - less tech and less energy usage (the internet has cancelled out any gains in efficiency). More jobs for the unskilled. More powerful unions back then - good for Britain (note that it's only the well-off claiming otherwise).
What a great film, I was a mere youth back then and it brought back a lot of memories. So much has changed in the last 50 years or so in London and maybe not for the better...........
I'm so glad these films are around for common access, I was born in Hornchurch in the early 60's and have always been fascinated by the mechanisms and culture of public mobility, particularly the 60's era. It brings it all back
Thank goodness many of us viewing this can remember ‘the good old days’ As an ex Londoner the pieces of shite that now reside in the UK’s capital certainly won’t be interested where a lot of us viewing this have come from! London like the UK is finished I’m afraid and if anybody thinks it’s going to get better dream on!!!! Go look at the statistics for yourself because whatever country we grew up in certainly isn’t the one of today. It’s sad, disgusting and makes me angry all at the same time, but there you go!
the London I loved and remember as a kid- everything. The smell of the Routemasters, the whine of the fluid flywheel when idling at the lights...those District line trains.. the look and style of the shops etc..The bbc light programme, then radio2 on 1500m long wave.... It's changed out of all recognition now.
I feel the same with other places. But some decades from now on people will remember the present present as the good old times and complain about theier presence... ^_^
The radio programme starting at around 9.55 is a Housewives’ Choice broadcast. The guest presenter was the well known actor John Slater. John presented the show for 2 weeks starting on Monday 22nd June 1964. The radio station was the BBC Light Programme. The music introduction will be instantly recognised by baby boomers! That Was The Week That Was, TW3, the music right at the end was the intro and outro to a hugely influential tv satirical programme that ran from 1962 to 1963 hosted by David Frost. Millicent Martin the singer. Smashing video that definitely brings back great memories. Thankyou.
There was also an American version of TWTWTW, that ran around the same time...every now and then on the American version, David Frost would appear. BTW, the idea of a satirical look at the week's events was done at an off-Broadway theater ca. 1939, as well as New York City...a number of people, including Betty Comden, Adoplh Green, and Judy Holliday, became know from those ventures.
At 5.20 is the most revealing picture which dates this at between January 31st 1961 and the end of April. That is the only clip with trolleybus wire overhead in the whole film and is taken at two-way trafficked Camden Town station and it tells a story. If you look at the wiring above the RTW on the 24 you will see four clips in the trolleybus overhead which curve off to the right heading up to Holloway. What are those clips for? They are actually where a crossover junction used to be for the trolleybus routes that used to branch off towards Hampstead Heath. These routes were replaced by Routemasters on January 31st 1961 and as was their practice, even though the remaining routes were scheduled to change to motor buses only three months later, the redundant wires and junctions were removed. Indeed, it is certain that the Routemaster is on a route which replaced the trolleybuses there. All rather sad. It is also a great opportunity to compare the difference in width of the two buses, the RTW and the RT and other detail, differences.
That was the week that was, being played at the end of the video would date this all as being filmed in 1962. But there's every chance that this film production was started in 1961 and not completed until 1962....Andy Beckman.
Fascinating info - thanks! .....I wasn't born until the 70's, so seeing footage of 60's London is very interesting. London looked very clean back then - no litter, graffiti, or broken glass on the pavements. Plus it wasn't 'wasteful' with electricity like it is now. Street lights went off soon after midnight.....they didn't stay on all night.......except on the very major roads. I always look at footage of London in the 70's and 80's and find myself thinking 'wow, things have really changed!'' Getting rid of the trolleybuses was a terrible mistake....they'd be very valuable today in terms of their environmental credentials. Those Routemasters looked so new and shiny back then!
@ Rob Tyman. It was a different time back then Rob with a different society of people and words that seem to have disappeared today. Respect, politeness, trust, courteousness and a few more on top of that! Most of us old London farts that are now dead or dying lived in an era that’s now history. It was hard times mate make no mistake of that and I’m talking about the 50’s, 60’s and into the early 70{s with no hot water, no central heating, lots of peeps with outside loos and a po under the bed to pee in, 2 friggin television channels that shut down at midnight, only decent music was via the pirate radio stations that had a shit signal, no variety or choice of food as we have today, shops shut at 5.00pm n closed Sundays so if u run outta stuff tough shit, no KFC, Mc D’s or fast food. I think l had my first KFC in Fullham Palace road in 1970 😆 In fact we had sod all but they really were better times coz we could play out allllllll friggin day without a peedie getting us n if there was one knocking about they would be dealt with as l saw in 1965 very, very nastily so as they wouldn’t b doing that to kids again!!! Whereas today my dad n neighbours would of been imprisoned by the lefty snowflake society we have today! So times were safer n if u did fight it was with a metal dustbin lid and a half brick from alllllll the bomb sites where there used to b houses before nazi bombs dropped on them n killed the poor fuckers inside! And we can’t even call them nazis anymore for fear of upsetting someone, so they’re now called The Axis Power. So bollocks like that has crept into our society which to us old farts is a total disrespect to all our mates dads and grandads who died fighting for this country n current society who really don’t give a fuck ! The education system was a joke mate and us state educated kids were separated at 11 yrs old with the ‘11 plus exam’ which took the brainy ones who passed the exam to go on to grammar school and then onto uni. The rest of us were to become the poorly paid labour force who rebuilt the county. So in a nutshell mate u didn’t miss much 😎
I recognised the car park on the way to Loughton Station. In the 80s, it was still very similar. The buses load on the left of the picture nowadays instead
Lovely. Back when you could tell one vehicle from another at a distance, and London Transport's trains were made bespoke, and in England, by the likes of Metro-Cammell, unlike today's plasticy things. Love the old R stock, and the other old surface stock, and those old red Tube Stock sets, along with the 59's and 62's. Not forgetting the old buses of course! Where did all the time go. A much nicer city.
Hmmm. S stock. Made for TfL sub surface lines in Derby. 1972 Mk2 Stock Made for LT based on the '67 stock. Made in Washwood Heath 1973 Stock Made for the Piccadilly line. Made in Washwood Heath 1992 Stock. Made for the Central Line and W&C Line. Made in Derby. 1995 and 1996 stocks. Assembled in Washwood Heath for Northern and Jubilee lines. 2009 Stock. Made in Derby for the Victoria Line... Not much has changed really.
@Marl Miwrdz. It's worse than that. "Into my heart an air that kills, from far off country blows. What are those blue remembered hills, what spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy pathways wither I went and cannot come again." A.E. Housman.
An interesting film I can see why nostalgia would play a large part for those that lived through that period or have been reflecting and making comparisons between now and today. Good and bad points in every decade.
jesoby hello and greetings to you, only a fool would think it was all rosy and apple blossom. However, it was a world far preferable to the one we've allowed our leaders to lead and drag us into now - don't you think?
@@TheMusicalElitist hello and greetings to you fellow grave traveller. Unfortunately or fortunately whichever what way it is there's not a "not really" about it, I vouched an opinion and you vouched an opinion.The way the comments section and much else in life goes. Anyway go steady and have a great life and if you win the lottery jackpot in all the clamour, fuss and spending don't forget me your cyber friend.😁
“” When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life “” .....as a young girl living in Upper Clapton E5 , I had a wall poster of London in all her glory. I forget the man whose quote was printed on it , but I never ever forgot it. I miss London and the good times. Most wonderful times of my life I owe to her. City of my birth and of my family going back to the 18th Century. #londonmylondon
Those really were 'the good old days'👏👏 Just returned from Prague yesterday, 24 Sep 2023. Travelled from the airport to the city centre for £1.50! Where did we go wrong?
Can you imagine having a programme like "Housewive's Choice" nowadays? I used to listen to it whenever I was ill at home. And then : "Music While You Work". Mum used to do the ironing with the beat of that wonderful opening tune by Eric Coates.
I remember when London was not a 24 hour city as you see in this film it could be really magical at some times of the day. All the pre digital old-tech too. It may look old-fashioned to us but it worked and was a great deal more reliable than today’s public transport The streets and public transports were much safer then too, no no-go areas then, interesting that there was cctv even then. I love London, my home city and this film always gives me warm feelings of nostalgia. The real sadness is that by the date of this film we had foolishly destroyed our electric tram and trolleybus systems and replaced them with diesel buses. With hindsight how foolish we were, as if they had survived they could now be powered by renewably generated electricity
Bad Planning from the governments back then. And to add insult to injury, Maggie Thatcher came in with her bright ideas (Not) and gave the country Thatcherism that pretty much destroyed the factories and docks/shipping we had. And now in the 21 century we had BoJo who brought in Brexit which is just for immigration purposes and thus, America doesn't want to know or do business with us. Yeah, Brexit was a success (Not). Look how clean the streets were.
I needed to know why they don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on that Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. Why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more and more Easily? Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build a brand-new underground train station so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 37 Octagon and Every 17 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 142MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 142MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 17 Tonnes for all of those 142MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!!!!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!! And please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.
You're simply naming things you don't like - that doesn't mean our civilisation has fallen. Imagine things always stayed the same! Would you like to still see top hats and crinolines in the streets?
Lower living standards and life expectancy, rampant unreported domestic violence, being gay would get you locked up in prison, mobsters such as the Krays rule across london and these are just a few examples. Far better place? Deluded.
Sort of agree. It's a mixed bag. I'm sure attitudes have changed for the better, people more accepting of the disabled, homosexuality and ethnic minorities. But what was definitely better then was the sense of community and the common good, exemplified by this film that is showing a well-resourced public service. People paid their tax then knowing it was for the common good and everyone benefitted, whereas now everyone wants to hold on to what little they have and public services are just a shell of what they were.
Simply Beautiful in every way, I was born within the sound of the bow bells,back in 57, That makes me a true cockney, and that makes me proud ! I love those bells !
It does make you wonder why and when the powers that be decided that the type of society depicted here was so despicable that it needed re-engineering into the mess it is today...
@@shorey66 Not a bad thing as we need to move on but, the quality of British life is now history and I for one am not 100% British blood and we should all put in to make this World in a better place when we leave and not just take. Strikes in the UK for more money. Will they give the money back when inflation falls or just more greed. As a child I had a good quality of of life in the 50s and 60s and wanted for nothing, cheap fuel,plenty of food, buses and trains that went everywhere. Now we need a car to get about as the transport is rubbish, my own bus service stops at 19.30 and only travels a distance of 10 miles, a doctor that only does video link, a train service that only goes to London. no more long distance buses . food that travels hundreds or thousands of miles before it gets to me.chocolate thats made in a different country not Bristol or Bournville, buses made in China, This is not progress. And now we're in the do do up to our necks ! but thanks for being optomistic.
As someone who actually lives in Britain, I can tell you that you're dead wrong lol I'm watching this and am struck by how much things have stayed the same despite all the changes that time brings. People are still people at the end of the day.
Not really. Shouldn't really matter if British or not, yes it would be delighting if British again but the main thing is that everything needs to be fare and square.
I grew up in the 80s still remember these bus still back useful but very uncomfortable today we have better buses far better comfortable less noise of the running motor cracracracra 🤣🤣
@Andrew Phipps Phillips Aw, c'mon! Not just misery and doom. There's bigotry, too. Good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon bigotry. That's always good for a laugh!
At 18.40 they are going into the Isola Bella restaurant which was on Frith Street in SoHo. 20.03 is interesting as the theatre is playing Michael MacLiammoir’s one man show “Importance of Being Oscar” - it looks like it might be the Aldwych theatre ( with the Waldorf in the background), although it seems that production at the Aldwych was 1963, whereas the same actor did perform the show at the Apollo on Shaftesbury Avenue in 1960 ( which fits with the dates of the movies showing in Leicester Square..)
Fantastic film. Thanks for sharing. I suspect actors were planted in this footage, and oh what fun could be had with being at the controls of an early CCTV and a PA microphone. I would guess this is around 1965-ish. I remember London circa 1969-72 so this brings back memories. People seemed to have more decorum back then.
Well, they did came out of WW2 so most of these people were regimented and disciplinarian and they made London great. Until Maggie came and destroyed it.
@@spidyman8853I think that has been done by Sadiq Khan, the rot setting in when Blair and his cronies got in. And I deeply regret voting for him at the time.
Another wonderfully classic BTF film. So many memories stirred by seeing the old R Stock and 1938 tube stock and the RTs and Route master buses. London Transport was so much better than the joke TFL.
TfL runs more frequent services on a bigger network than ever before. The number of people they carry these days is mind-boggling. What's a joke about it?
That clip at 5:19 at Camden Town dates the footage as between 31st Jan and 25th April 1961, the dates between the 639 trolleybuses finishing and the end of those trolleys on routes 627 and 629. You can actually see that the running wires for the 639 have already been taken down, and the wires for the 627/629 up Camden Rd have been spliced where there was previously a crossover with the 639 wiring. Just a bit of anorak observation...
Our own politicians and they're English too. We were never asked but had the disaster that is Britain today enforced upon us because we don't like to make a fuss.
0:00 If that really is St Paul's, and not some special effect (I take it it's in east London), I'd love to know where you can see St Paul's like that today.
@@leeosborne3793 Well, now anyone can identify as anything they like, but you're far more likely to get mugged or stabbed especially in certain areas, so is that really progress...?
@@soundseeker63 Violent crime hasn't actually increased. Anti social behaviour and petty crime was far more of a problem when I was a kid in the seventies.
@@leeosborne3793 bigotry and prejudice? Sounds much more like something from victorian/edwardian times. Also where do you get the idea that violent crime has seemingly decreased? Just look at the present state of the police force it all suggests otherwise...
@twoslices The theme music is called "Calling All Workers", and it was written by Nottingham native Eric Coates. Brisk, radio-friendly tunes such as this one and "The Redifusion March" were Coates' stock-in-trade, but he also wrote "The Dambusters March" and "By The Sleepy Lagoon" (the theme music to Desert Island Discs). In this link to the 'Music While You Work' theme, the familiar melody (used by the BBC) begins around 34 seconds: th-cam.com/video/RMEpjDFHN50/w-d-xo.html
It was the land of milk and honey you left school at 15 and worked a fourty hour week every thing had a place and everything was in its place children were seen but not heard not incharge like they are today total respect was order of the day We were incharge of our own country not the European debarcle God such happy memories
tommey tucker - I can't tell - are you being ironic? I have loved this film ever since I first saw it many decades ago. I sometimes wish the world could be as perfect as the one portrayed in this film; but I know it cannot be, because it never was. You realize that films such as this one (in fact, all BTF films) are pure propaganda, right? They were government-funded films intended to paint a rosy picture of British working life. They certainly were seen as such by working class audiences at the time, but from our temporally-distant viewpoint we no longer have the reality of 1960s life to which we can compare them, and so they become fetishized objects of our nostalgia. This is not a true portrayal of life in the 1960s, and the 'land of milk and honey' of which you speak always was an illusion (unless you're referring to the 1970s Sugar Puffs TV ad - that was totally real!). I'm afraid it's a common trope of British nostalgia: we like to think everyone pulled together during the blitz, stayed cheerful listening to Vera Lynn and Tommy Trinder on the wireless, solved problems with a cuppa and spoke with a lovely BBC accent, when in reality murders were still committed, women were still beaten by their husbands, accountants still embezzled funds from charities. Society cannot have been so different then from the way it is now, because it was made up of the same types of people with the same types of hopes and fears. What differs is the 'documentary' portrayal of that society, and sadly a lot of that material is of the same type as this film. Luckily, some more realistic material still exists, and I would suggest you juxtapose this film with ones such as the St. Anne's Report from 1969 (th-cam.com/video/FK-cSNAas2k/w-d-xo.html). Obviously, both extremes of representation are weighed down with their own agendas, and neither represents a true 'reality' of the period, but I think it's important to keep some perspective.
@@ClarkKant1 thank you, I get so tired of the comments under old videos of London. Of course, I realise most of it is (barely) misdirected racism, but there is this persistent belief that everyday life was, in some nebulous sense, 'better'.Life is immeasurably better now in myriad ways.Its also worse in just as many.
It just occurred to me that the radio excerpts of Jack de Manio and John Slater were not live records. They were scripted for them and the they 'read' them. I've actually DeManio broadcast and he was much mores spontaneous. With these British Transport films they were very much made from the ground up.
05:39, again at 18:00, is that Dame Judy Dench announcing the time (08:15) on Morning First Edition Programme? If not, it could be a voice double. Not only that, i could have sworn i saw Mrs. Slocombe and on her way to Grace Brothers store.
Love this film, my mum is the clippie getting her brown box containing the Gibson ticket machine taking the second bus out on route number 2 from stockwell bus garage ,you can hear her say 2 on the 2s please , she also appears in the canteen asking for 2 teas please one without sugar , I took her to the stockwell bus garage open day in 2016 as a surprise & she was thrilled to bits , sadly mum passed away aged 97 in 2019 so having this film to watch brings back Happy memories for me ,Thankyou 😊
No way! What a beautiful story.
That’s lovely 😊
An extraordinary glimpse at life in a bygone age. I do so miss the Routemasters!
What a wonderful time! As the transport still serve the people and not only on profit!
Interesting how the London Underground was already more modern than the New York City Subway at the time.
And it still is, NYC subway system will never be better, why would you think it would be ???
Beautiful film. A lost world. London is not as it was.
No. I daresay none of the world's metropoles is the same as it was sixty years ago. That's only natural. What's your point?
@@TheMikadoOfLondon metropoles 👍
Probably for the best
@Uzbek Traveller You would prefer for cities to stay the way they are?
@Transportriangle Depends. Many people still worked 5 1/2 days back then. Working conditions often more dangerous. One the plus side - less tech and less energy usage (the internet has cancelled out any gains in efficiency). More jobs for the unskilled. More powerful unions back then - good for Britain (note that it's only the well-off claiming otherwise).
What a great film, I was a mere youth back then and it brought back a lot of memories. So much has changed in the last 50 years or so in London and maybe not for the better...........
It's a lot worse today, in so many ways. Very sad.
Oh be quiet.
@themusicalelitist9792 why do you want him to be quiet?
Getting worse by the day.
@@TheMusicalElitistGo back to reading your Guardian paper.
I'm so glad these films are around for common access, I was born in Hornchurch in the early 60's and have always been fascinated by the mechanisms and culture of public mobility, particularly the 60's era. It brings it all back
Thank goodness many of us viewing this can remember ‘the good old days’
As an ex Londoner the pieces of shite that now reside in the UK’s capital certainly won’t be interested where a lot of us viewing this have come from! London like the UK is finished I’m afraid and if anybody thinks it’s going to get better dream on!!!! Go look at the statistics for yourself because whatever country we grew up in certainly isn’t the one of today. It’s sad, disgusting and makes me angry all at the same time, but there you go!
the London I loved and remember as a kid- everything. The smell of the Routemasters, the whine of the fluid flywheel when idling at the lights...those District line trains.. the look and style of the shops etc..The bbc light programme, then radio2 on 1500m long wave....
It's changed out of all recognition now.
Ian Johnson Flattely: good morning governor
I feel the same with other places. But some decades from now on people will remember the present present as the good old times and complain about theier presence... ^_^
The population is totally different, but we mustn’t say that.
Yeah absolutely
Yeah almost like time has moved on. Funny that...
I saw what liked like Country Area green RT buses in the back of Stockwell Garage.
The radio programme starting at around 9.55 is a Housewives’ Choice broadcast. The guest presenter was the well known actor John Slater. John presented the show for 2 weeks starting on Monday 22nd June 1964. The radio station was the BBC Light Programme. The music introduction will be instantly recognised by baby boomers! That Was The Week That Was, TW3, the music right at the end was the intro and outro to a hugely influential tv satirical programme that ran from 1962 to 1963 hosted by David Frost. Millicent Martin the singer. Smashing video that definitely brings back great memories. Thankyou.
There was also an American version of TWTWTW, that ran around the same time...every now and then on the American version, David Frost would appear. BTW, the idea of a satirical look at the week's events was done at an off-Broadway theater ca. 1939, as well as New York City...a number of people, including Betty Comden, Adoplh Green, and Judy Holliday, became know from those ventures.
I still miss the old open platform RT & RM type buses you could hop on & off... and open the windows in summer!
Tattyshoes Shigure schoolboys have lost the art of jumping on/off moving buses
...indeed, they have a whole new skill-set now
Sadly we can't have them anymore due to acessability reasons, if this weren't the case newer engines could be fitted and they would carry on running
@@reecewharf
Also the H&S executive would have a fit if they see these in the roads today.
Wonderful nostalgia from when I was about 5 or 6.
At 5.20 is the most revealing picture which dates this at between January 31st 1961 and the end of April. That is the only clip with trolleybus wire overhead in the whole film and is taken at two-way trafficked Camden Town station and it tells a story.
If you look at the wiring above the RTW on the 24 you will see four clips in the trolleybus overhead which curve off to the right heading up to Holloway. What are those clips for?
They are actually where a crossover junction used to be for the trolleybus routes that used to branch off towards Hampstead Heath. These routes were replaced by Routemasters on January 31st 1961 and as was their practice, even though the remaining routes were scheduled to change to motor buses only three months later, the redundant wires and junctions were removed. Indeed, it is certain that the Routemaster is on a route which replaced the trolleybuses there. All rather sad.
It is also a great opportunity to compare the difference in width of the two buses, the RTW and the RT and other detail, differences.
That was the week that was, being played at the end of the video would date this all as being filmed in 1962. But there's every chance that this film production was started in 1961 and not completed until 1962....Andy Beckman.
Thanks for that info Andy 👍
Fascinating info - thanks! .....I wasn't born until the 70's, so seeing footage of 60's London is very interesting. London looked very clean back then - no litter, graffiti, or broken glass on the pavements. Plus it wasn't 'wasteful' with electricity like it is now. Street lights went off soon after midnight.....they didn't stay on all night.......except on the very major roads.
I always look at footage of London in the 70's and 80's and find myself thinking 'wow, things have really changed!''
Getting rid of the trolleybuses was a terrible mistake....they'd be very valuable today in terms of their environmental credentials. Those Routemasters looked so new and shiny back then!
@ Rob Tyman. It was a different time back then Rob with a different society of people and words that seem to have disappeared today. Respect, politeness, trust, courteousness and a few more on top of that! Most of us old London farts
that are now dead or dying lived in an era that’s now history.
It was hard times mate make no mistake of that and I’m talking about the 50’s, 60’s and into the early 70{s with no hot water, no central heating, lots of peeps with outside loos and a po under the bed to pee in, 2 friggin television channels that shut down at midnight, only decent music was via the pirate radio stations that had a shit signal, no variety or choice of food as we have today, shops shut at 5.00pm n closed Sundays so if u run outta stuff tough shit, no KFC, Mc D’s or fast food. I think l had my first KFC in Fullham Palace road in 1970 😆
In fact we had sod all but they really were better times coz we could play out allllllll friggin day without a peedie getting us n if there was one knocking about they would be dealt with as l saw in 1965 very, very nastily so as they wouldn’t b doing that to kids again!!! Whereas today my dad n neighbours would of been imprisoned by the lefty snowflake society we have today! So times were safer n if u did fight it was with a metal dustbin lid and a half brick from alllllll the bomb sites where there used to b houses before nazi bombs dropped on them n killed the poor fuckers inside! And we can’t even call them nazis anymore for fear of upsetting someone, so they’re now called The Axis Power. So bollocks like that has crept into our society which to us old farts is a total disrespect to all our mates dads and grandads who died fighting for this country n current society who really don’t give a fuck !
The education system was a joke mate and us state educated kids were separated at 11 yrs old with the ‘11 plus exam’ which took the brainy ones who passed the exam to go on to grammar school and then onto uni. The rest of us were to become the poorly paid labour force who rebuilt the county.
So in a nutshell mate u didn’t miss much 😎
@@Theoobovril I don't think they had cctv as early as 1961
This is soo interesting. I was born in the 70s and it’s wierd to think these was only a few years before I was born 😅
Great video! So nostalgic...
I recognised the car park on the way to Loughton Station. In the 80s, it was still very similar. The buses load on the left of the picture nowadays instead
14:13 “Hello, Mrs. Mason... " And that is actually actress Hilary Mason, later famous as the mystic blind woman in Don't Look Now (1973).
Lovely. Back when you could tell one vehicle from another at a distance, and London Transport's trains were made bespoke, and in England, by the likes of Metro-Cammell, unlike today's plasticy things. Love the old R stock, and the other old surface stock, and those old red Tube Stock sets, along with the 59's and 62's. Not forgetting the old buses of course! Where did all the time go. A much nicer city.
I think so too!
in a few years you will be able to go on a standard stock and a 38 stock
Hmmm. S stock. Made for TfL sub surface lines in Derby.
1972 Mk2 Stock Made for LT based on the '67 stock. Made in Washwood Heath
1973 Stock Made for the Piccadilly line. Made in Washwood Heath
1992 Stock. Made for the Central Line and W&C Line. Made in Derby.
1995 and 1996 stocks. Assembled in Washwood Heath for Northern and Jubilee lines.
2009 Stock. Made in Derby for the Victoria Line...
Not much has changed really.
@@cjmillsnun Yup. The 2024 Stock is being made in Yorkshire too.
…...That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, those happy highways where I went and cannot come again.....
Mark Miwurdz One of my favourite poems... captures feelings looking back so well... and mine of London in the mid 60s too.
@Marl Miwrdz. It's worse than that. "Into my heart an air that kills, from far off country blows. What are those blue remembered hills, what spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy pathways wither I went and cannot come again." A.E. Housman.
What blue hills are those?
@@znentitan4032 Those described by AE Housman. You need to read his literary work.
@@elrjames7799 Sorry, it was a rhetorical question. I didn't see your posting. "A Shropshire Lad"
An interesting film I can see why nostalgia would play a large part for those that lived through that period or have been reflecting and making comparisons between now and today. Good and bad points in every decade.
Great film. Look how clean London was. You could also sit on the top deck of the bus without being harassed. Thanks for sharing.
Yes indeed, it was clean. Look at the street cleaners who came out with pride to do their country a service.
no smoking on buses and trains? I remember being filthy getting home after being on the tube.
Lovely to look back, sadly though it only reminds one how low this country has sunk in recent years. Such a terrible waste, very sad.
@Dan Amaritei Edwards correct I'm afraid
we have only ourselves to blame ...we wanted a piece of the global-pie ...but ended-up with the crumbs and a pouring of sour cream on top
@Dan Amaritei Edward is completely correct and you are wrong.
@@ds1868 did you see the Smiley? It was said with irony
Housewives were extremely careful regarding musical choices on the radio since their address was given out on air...
...the London my parents knew ...now i understand, though it too late.
Stevenage New Town, home of Lewis Hamilton !!
It’s a dump these days compared to then
@@highpath4776 What's your point?
@@UKTransportVideos82 Yeah, only cos you're there.
Impressive how they had a CCTV system in the early 60s
Before it became commonplace on all TfL stations and properties…
Very different times,compared to today !!
this was the london we knew not like today
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (poster on rear of bus at 17:01) ran at The Carlton July 20 to Aug 16 1961.
It wasn't all roses, there were the smogs up to the mid '60s and still a lot of slum dwellings.
jesoby hello and greetings to you, only a fool would think it was all rosy and apple blossom. However, it was a world far preferable to the one we've allowed our leaders to lead and drag us into now - don't you think?
@@allanlindsay8369 Not really.
@@TheMusicalElitist hello and greetings to you fellow grave traveller. Unfortunately or fortunately whichever what way it is there's not a "not really" about it, I vouched an opinion and you vouched an opinion.The way the comments section and much else in life goes. Anyway go steady and have a great life and if you win the lottery jackpot in all the clamour, fuss and spending don't forget me your cyber friend.😁
A real gem. With a few exceptions, it seems every LT employee was a man in his late 50s...!
“” When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life “” .....as a young girl living in Upper Clapton E5 , I had a wall poster of London in all her glory. I forget the man whose quote was printed on it , but I never ever forgot it. I miss London and the good times. Most wonderful times of my life I owe to her. City of my birth and of my family going back to the 18th Century. #londonmylondon
It was dear old Dr. Johnson of Dictionary fame.
@@vintagebrew1057 The Great Dr Johnson, not forgetting his 2nd book Dictionary 2, the return of the killer Dictionary!
The London Pavilion film 'Two Faces Of Dr Jekyl '(18:03) ran Oct 7-27th 1960. Beat Girl (19:16) ran at the same cinema from Oct 28-Nov 17 1960
Those really were 'the good old days'👏👏
Just returned from Prague yesterday, 24 Sep 2023. Travelled from the airport to the city centre for £1.50!
Where did we go wrong?
You don't earn Prague wages.
Heart Warming Film Lovely to watch ! b4 our shores were invaded !
I feel so lucky to remember what life was like back in these days wonderful memories of growing up,
You mean those days not these days
Can you imagine having a programme like "Housewive's Choice" nowadays? I used to listen to it whenever I was ill at home. And then : "Music While You Work". Mum used to do the ironing with the beat of that wonderful opening tune by Eric Coates.
I remember when London was not a 24 hour city as you see in this film it could be really magical at some times of the day. All the pre digital old-tech too. It may look old-fashioned to us but it worked and was a great deal more reliable than today’s public transport The streets and public transports were much safer then too, no no-go areas then, interesting that there was cctv even then. I love London, my home city and this film always gives me warm feelings of nostalgia. The real sadness is that by the date of this film we had foolishly destroyed our electric tram and trolleybus systems and replaced them with diesel buses. With hindsight how foolish we were, as if they had survived they could now be powered by renewably generated electricity
Bad Planning from the governments back then. And to add insult to injury, Maggie Thatcher came in with her bright ideas (Not) and gave the country Thatcherism that pretty much destroyed the factories and docks/shipping we had. And now in the 21 century we had BoJo who brought in Brexit which is just for immigration purposes and thus, America doesn't want to know or do business with us. Yeah, Brexit was a success (Not). Look how clean the streets were.
And, every one can afford to go out. It was a generous country. Not any more. Now the accountants rule the way LOL.
Catch 89 or 192 from the top of Shooters Hill to Victoria Station then Thames valley bus home to Reading after staying with my cousins for the weekend
I needed to know why they don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations.
Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on that Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers.
A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. Why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines?
The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden.
oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more and more Easily?
Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build a brand-new underground train station so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford?
All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains.
Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 37 Octagon and Every 17 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 142MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 142MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 17 Tonnes for all of those 142MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!!!!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!! And please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.
My London, city of my birth
Oh look, a functioning society.
Who all thought, " Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen...We dare not go a huntin' for fear of little men"...at 3:29?
Not a sneaker, ripped jeans, or designer label in sight. How far we have fallen.
You're simply naming things you don't like - that doesn't mean our civilisation has fallen. Imagine things always stayed the same! Would you like to still see top hats and crinolines in the streets?
@@TheMikadoOfLondonLondon is a hellhole now. It's filthy, dangerous, and indigenous people are a minority in most boroughs.
The world was a better place then now look at it.
**Coming from someone who's using modern technology**
There's no way out of it...
Lower living standards and life expectancy, rampant unreported domestic violence, being gay would get you locked up in prison, mobsters such as the Krays rule across london and these are just a few examples. Far better place? Deluded.
exactly! anyone that says "oh it was a better place then" and was time machined back then would soon be moaning
Sort of agree. It's a mixed bag. I'm sure attitudes have changed for the better, people more accepting of the disabled, homosexuality and ethnic minorities. But what was definitely better then was the sense of community and the common good, exemplified by this film that is showing a well-resourced public service. People paid their tax then knowing it was for the common good and everyone benefitted, whereas now everyone wants to hold on to what little they have and public services are just a shell of what they were.
Great Upload, thanks. I would have been around 5 or 6 then. Everyone dressed proper then
Some view of Loughton for the Central Line, cannot quite place the district other than Upminster, some Arnos Grove ? for Picc stations.
"It's our anniversary and Jack's taking me to a show on Saturday night".
Back then, he could actually afford to do so.
oh don't know ...nowadays he'd be driving a BMW and she a Merc
Nice to see Camden town
The Hippodrome is now a casino, and you cannot get a 716 coach to chertsey in the evening now
Simply Beautiful in every way, I was born within the sound of the bow bells,back in 57, That makes me a true cockney, and that makes me proud ! I love those bells !
Note all the crowd scenes, lovely old London gone but not forgotten
Wonderful film! Very enjoyable. 😁
On behalf of today. I am sorry for ruining a good thing. We are too many and we know so little.
Good old days before the digital age.
@Rob Farrell ...he wrote, sitting at his digital computer
Calm down, boomer.
Wake up to a Capstan Full Strength and a cough!
Blimey, that was an eye-opener. Thanks.
Wow, some good footage of a class Underground system at work.
We should have been more vigilant and looked after all this. It's disgraceful how our society has been ravaged and torn apart. In respect of what..??
It does make you wonder why and when the powers that be decided that the type of society depicted here was so despicable that it needed re-engineering into the mess it is today...
Every thing that is British that has now been lost
That's not necessarily a bad thing.
@@shorey66 Not a bad thing as we need to move on but, the quality of British life is now history and I for one am not 100% British blood and we should all put in to make this World in a better place when we leave and not just take. Strikes in the UK for more money. Will they give the money back when inflation falls or just more greed.
As a child I had a good quality of of life in the 50s and 60s and wanted for nothing, cheap fuel,plenty of food, buses and trains that went everywhere. Now we need a car to get about as the transport is rubbish, my own bus service stops at 19.30 and only travels a distance of 10 miles, a doctor that only does video link, a train service that only goes to London. no more long distance buses . food that travels hundreds or thousands of miles before it gets to me.chocolate thats made in a different country not Bristol or Bournville, buses made in China, This is not progress. And now we're in the do do up to our necks ! but thanks for being optomistic.
As someone who actually lives in Britain, I can tell you that you're dead wrong lol
I'm watching this and am struck by how much things have stayed the same despite all the changes that time brings. People are still people at the end of the day.
Not really. Shouldn't really matter if British or not, yes it would be delighting if British again but the main thing is that everything needs to be fare and square.
@@shorey66oh yeah it is... take Britain out of the world and it's far worse... I'm not even British
I grew up in the 80s still remember these bus still back useful but very uncomfortable today we have better buses far better comfortable less noise of the running motor cracracracra 🤣🤣
But the management are crap now
@@windbag45 I'm seeing the conductor taking cash for fares...holy moly. I think they'd get robbed every journey today.
@@valvlog4665 hahahahaha! It wasnt that bad.
@@windbag45 It would be today.
I'd love to see the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority make a movie like this--18 hours in a great city's transit system.
wake up, sit up and have a senior service
Excellent advice - especially from someone with a 'Carry On' name!
wtf is this comments section.
Just enjoy it for the snapshot of London it is, seems like many of them are actors anyway!
Wonderful film, just a shame the comments section is riddled with misery and doom......
@Andrew Phipps Phillips Aw, c'mon! Not just misery and doom. There's bigotry, too. Good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon bigotry. That's always good for a laugh!
At 18.40 they are going into the Isola Bella restaurant which was on Frith Street in SoHo. 20.03 is interesting as the theatre is playing Michael MacLiammoir’s one man show “Importance of Being Oscar” - it looks like it might be the Aldwych theatre ( with the Waldorf in the background), although it seems that production at the Aldwych was 1963, whereas the same actor did perform the show at the Apollo on Shaftesbury Avenue in 1960 ( which fits with the dates of the movies showing in Leicester Square..)
Fantastic film. Thanks for sharing. I suspect actors were planted in this footage, and oh what fun could be had with being at the controls of an early CCTV and a PA microphone. I would guess this is around 1965-ish. I remember London circa 1969-72 so this brings back memories. People seemed to have more decorum back then.
Well, they did came out of WW2 so most of these people were regimented and disciplinarian and they made London great. Until Maggie came and destroyed it.
@@spidyman8853I think that has been done by Sadiq Khan, the rot setting in when Blair and his cronies got in. And I deeply regret voting for him at the time.
@@Ian-gw2vx He dismantled our laws, heritage and culture. For what reason I know not.
Another wonderfully classic BTF film. So many memories stirred by seeing the old R Stock and 1938 tube stock and the RTs and Route master buses. London Transport was so much better than the joke TFL.
TfL runs more frequent services on a bigger network than ever before. The number of people they carry these days is mind-boggling. What's a joke about it?
4:10 “Hurry up, me husband Bill will be home soon and he’ll be in a mood cos T34 was cancelled on account of there being no guard...”
This is 1962-1963.
The pre-Oyster era…
Very nostalgic
I agree!
That clip at 5:19 at Camden Town dates the footage as between 31st Jan and 25th April 1961, the dates between the 639 trolleybuses finishing and the end of those trolleys on routes 627 and 629. You can actually see that the running wires for the 639 have already been taken down, and the wires for the 627/629 up Camden Rd have been spliced where there was previously a crossover with the 639 wiring. Just a bit of anorak observation...
Anyone notice anything different from today?
Actress Hilary Mason (Blind psychic in the movie 'Don't Look Now') is the lady who is met in the supermarket 14,15.
thought she looked familiar!
they were better days
I see white people.
Imdb has this film released in 1962. A lovely by-gone era.
London far far better then get me a time machine now it’s just a rancid dump compared to this even the zoo was better then
Brilliant video
'used to be very civilised. I wonder what/who changed it ?
migrants
Our own politicians and they're English too. We were never asked but had the disaster that is Britain today enforced upon us because we don't like to make a fuss.
@sarah jones right. Coz Harold Wilson did us so much good. Socialism... the politics of envy
Better not say the thought police might contact you.
@@captainboing Same old Moseyite rubbish as was being spouted in the 60's and the 30's
0:00 If that really is St Paul's, and not some special effect (I take it it's in east London), I'd love to know where you can see St Paul's like that today.
fascinating.
Obviously, i wasn't born but I am pretty sure that was when most British people were mainly happy, healthy and some even wealthy.
The days when you could enjoy a cigarette and not be looked upon as being from another planet
Vic Denton I laughed...
Yes, before the Kings Cross fire.
You smell
To hell with cigarettes!!!
Sometimes i love the algorithms. A time of low tech, incandescent lights and identifiable vehicles.
Amazing. London looked like a friendly place back then. Was it?
No, it was actually full of bigotry and prejudice. I'd far rather live now than then.
@@leeosborne3793 Well, now anyone can identify as anything they like, but you're far more likely to get mugged or stabbed especially in certain areas, so is that really progress...?
@@soundseeker63 Violent crime hasn't actually increased. Anti social behaviour and petty crime was far more of a problem when I was a kid in the seventies.
@@leeosborne3793 Can you link/reference your sources please? Would love to read.
@@leeosborne3793 bigotry and prejudice? Sounds much more like something from victorian/edwardian times. Also where do you get the idea that violent crime has seemingly decreased? Just look at the present state of the police force it all suggests otherwise...
I remember lunchtime radio 'Music While You Work'
I wish I was born back then instead of today's world
@twoslices The theme music is called "Calling All Workers", and it was written by Nottingham native Eric Coates. Brisk, radio-friendly tunes such as this one and "The Redifusion March" were Coates' stock-in-trade, but he also wrote "The Dambusters March" and "By The Sleepy Lagoon" (the theme music to Desert Island Discs). In this link to the 'Music While You Work' theme, the familiar melody (used by the BBC) begins around 34 seconds: th-cam.com/video/RMEpjDFHN50/w-d-xo.html
a time when we was free from the eu ... great film ....
we soon be "free" again
I doubt if London will ever be that quiet again (except for Covid)
In 1964(10:30), the Trish Trash polka was the "gay" tune. In 2023, it might be "Y'all Ready Fo' This?" Things have changed since 1964.
Those were the times ... like this fine, British spoken English
What does the guy say into the microphone at the depot that ends "53 road thank you" ?
1:31
"Morning Don!"
"Morning chum!"
Old school TfL…
It was the land of milk and honey you left school at 15 and worked a fourty hour week every thing had a place and everything was in its place children were seen but not heard not incharge like they are today total respect was order of the day We were incharge of our own country not the European debarcle God such happy memories
+tommey tucker
"It was the land of milk and honey you left school at 15 and worked a fourty hour week "
Too much of that sort of milk and honey...
tommey tucker - I can't tell - are you being ironic? I have loved this film ever since I first saw it many decades ago. I sometimes wish the world could be as perfect as the one portrayed in this film; but I know it cannot be, because it never was. You realize that films such as this one (in fact, all BTF films) are pure propaganda, right? They were government-funded films intended to paint a rosy picture of British working life. They certainly were seen as such by working class audiences at the time, but from our temporally-distant viewpoint we no longer have the reality of 1960s life to which we can compare them, and so they become fetishized objects of our nostalgia. This is not a true portrayal of life in the 1960s, and the 'land of milk and honey' of which you speak always was an illusion (unless you're referring to the 1970s Sugar Puffs TV ad - that was totally real!).
I'm afraid it's a common trope of British nostalgia: we like to think everyone pulled together during the blitz, stayed cheerful listening to Vera Lynn and Tommy Trinder on the wireless, solved problems with a cuppa and spoke with a lovely BBC accent, when in reality murders were still committed, women were still beaten by their husbands, accountants still embezzled funds from charities. Society cannot have been so different then from the way it is now, because it was made up of the same types of people with the same types of hopes and fears. What differs is the 'documentary' portrayal of that society, and sadly a lot of that material is of the same type as this film. Luckily, some more realistic material still exists, and I would suggest you juxtapose this film with ones such as the St. Anne's Report from 1969 (th-cam.com/video/FK-cSNAas2k/w-d-xo.html). Obviously, both extremes of representation are weighed down with their own agendas, and neither represents a true 'reality' of the period, but I think it's important to keep some perspective.
@@ClarkKant1 thank you, I get so tired of the comments under old videos of London. Of course, I realise most of it is (barely) misdirected racism, but there is this persistent belief that everyday life was, in some nebulous sense, 'better'.Life is immeasurably better now in myriad ways.Its also worse in just as many.
There's a ginger right under the sign at 7:46 that's just standing there and blends into the crowd as if he just got off the subway, lol. Bad acting.
So we’ve improved everything?
Where the last 5 minutes of this?
It just occurred to me that the radio excerpts of Jack de Manio and John Slater were not live records. They were scripted for them and the they 'read' them. I've actually DeManio broadcast and he was much mores spontaneous. With these British Transport films they were very much made from the ground up.
05:39, again at 18:00, is that Dame Judy Dench announcing the time (08:15) on Morning First Edition Programme? If not, it could be a voice double. Not only that, i could have sworn i saw Mrs. Slocombe and on her way to Grace Brothers store.