Riding the London Underground Tube in the late 1960s

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  • @finnmanproductions9240
    @finnmanproductions9240 4 роки тому +13

    I love these videos showing everyday life, especially in such high quality colour.

  • @Raygwyn
    @Raygwyn 9 років тому +93

    i want 1960s london, stockholm, paris etc back

    • @yeahnoway111
      @yeahnoway111 6 років тому

      @Blade what the actual fuck are you talking about LMAO

    • @yeahnoway111
      @yeahnoway111 6 років тому +2

      @Castlegrad nice fantasy for you racist ass nazi

    • @christina7215
      @christina7215 4 роки тому +5

      Trust me... most of us wish the Germans won. I'm from England. And wish they won 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

    • @andynixon2820
      @andynixon2820 4 роки тому +7

      @@christina7215 well , not really. Most of us are glad we beat the nazis so your assumption is nonsense.

    • @ClubTechNoir
      @ClubTechNoir 3 роки тому

      @@christina7215 agreed.. we fought the wrong side, just see what general Patton exposed then they killed him.

  • @robtyman4281
    @robtyman4281 3 роки тому +11

    Love it! ... super sized newspapers, no one wearing earphones, and not a mobile in sight. Mind you it was still more or less like this in the late 90's.

  • @jonathan461965
    @jonathan461965 6 років тому +17

    Can't believe how clean it was then!

    • @davidkennard7476
      @davidkennard7476 3 роки тому +4

      Actually, things were rather dirty in general... cigarette ends everywhere - every carriage floor, every platform, etc. - and the smells don't come across in a video!

  • @version736ha2
    @version736ha2 5 років тому +29

    Everyone behaving with decorum, no twat slurping on food. Was amazing

    • @Zandra747
      @Zandra747 9 місяців тому +1

      @version736ha2 Yes! and no one noticed the other most important part of this video....

    • @version736ha2
      @version736ha2 9 місяців тому +1

      @@Zandra747 lols. I know

  • @themassofmen
    @themassofmen 10 років тому +107

    This film speaks for itself. In 50 years London has changed beyond all recognition. It is no wonder that we who grew up in the time of this film now feel a sense of loss that our culture has disappeared. What exactly did we fight two world wars for?

    • @Libertines505
      @Libertines505 10 років тому +26

      I completely agree, everyone has become too individualist, selfish, and rude

    • @Aarontlondon
      @Aarontlondon 10 років тому +28

      A sense of loss related to what exactly? And which 'lost' culture are you referring to? Apart from the fact that commuters don't smoke on tubes anymore (which is abhorrent) and there is a more varied type of people riding the tubes today, it all looks pretty much the same to me. Even down to the Victoria line trains in this film that are still in use today. I cannot see what sort of British culture has been lost... at all!

    • @staypress8611
      @staypress8611 9 років тому +19

      barkingbasher ye true on the central line in the east of town especially the hainault branch I am usually in the minority white bracket . I feel slightly intimidated I must admit

    • @themassofmen
      @themassofmen 9 років тому +17

      True, but remember, change is certain, progress is not. The change you see here is unnaturally quick and shocking in it's destruction.

    • @themassofmen
      @themassofmen 9 років тому +7

      Indeed, "all genuine knowledge originates through direct experience". The pace at which the rainforest is being cut down, the ice caps, melting, the ozone layer depleting, the extinction of species etc have all happened within my lifetime at exponentially faster speeds than at any other time in the planet's history. Likewise, our social and political systems are changing, largely due to technological and medical advances at a pace that we cannot keep up with. The video, quite frankly, is a microcosm of cancerous change upon a society due to unlimited immigration, which, in turn, replaces one society with another.

  • @staypress
    @staypress 5 років тому +12

    What a gr8 time to live .The fashions music and look at those commuters .Thats how I remember it .Try the central line now as it has changed somewhat nuff said

    • @MusicalArmageddon
      @MusicalArmageddon 3 роки тому +2

      bit more diverse now innit nuff said

    • @TheMercury-13
      @TheMercury-13 9 місяців тому

      Great once reliable contraception came in (& not for 'Free Love' con that some felt accompanied it)- before, it was generally grim for women! Society seemed to peak for quality of life '50s/60s? (judging it from outside; I grew up '80s) A levelling up all round, but seems to have fallen since, a mentality of being more self-absorbed, entitled, inconsiderate /unaware of others, lacking dignity in clothing & eating. UK's over-crowded; too many tank-size cars, too few manners

  • @jacksugden8190
    @jacksugden8190 6 років тому +6

    I had a very quiet life at Brentwood in Essex in England in the 1960’s, no tubes, how nice it was as compared to London in December 2018, looked at this at rush hour- just as hectic.

  • @TC-mf1cq
    @TC-mf1cq 4 роки тому +15

    They all look slim, healthy and well-dressed. Lots of shiny hair.

    • @christina7215
      @christina7215 4 роки тому +3

      Before the vaccines and mass ugly invasions from 3 rd world

    • @ed9763
      @ed9763 4 роки тому +1

      Yes sir you had to look smart if you wanted to catch the attention of the girls or the boys not like today you hide behind a keyboard and chat up girls or boys all over the world even if you looked like a sh**.

    • @TC-mf1cq
      @TC-mf1cq 4 роки тому +2

      @@ed9763 Western authorities told us to reject eugenics as a pseudoscience, and while we were sleeping, a certain group implemented a dysgenics programme that's destroyed the West.

    • @TheMercury-13
      @TheMercury-13 9 місяців тому +1

      @pimpstar15 Wasn't about 'jobs you didn't want to do' it was about wanting a cheaper work-force they could exploit & short-change far more than the native one; 2-faced Govts want immigration as a source of cheap labour. When those workers eventually get 'awkward' demanding rights & pay-rises, theres plenty more to replace them.

    • @matthewwarner692
      @matthewwarner692 2 місяці тому +1

      @@TC-mf1cq well exactly but why is it that they just have no idea what makes a society great or on purpose and if so why on purpose. There has een a scheme since the 1970s to destroy western society. Control our language our diet, our behaviour and ultimately our thoughts so we are just puppets on a string.

  • @morg9267
    @morg9267 9 років тому +13

    Incredibly HD for a 1960s video!

    • @BBC.Radio1
      @BBC.Radio1 9 років тому +6

      +morg Well, film didn't have any pixels, so it's a lot more higher quality than the digital equivalent of the same resolution.

  • @jackr1779
    @jackr1779 6 років тому +23

    No fat people!

  • @tootstanner
    @tootstanner 6 років тому +8

    Lovely to see

  • @JanetJames-dw6xo
    @JanetJames-dw6xo Рік тому

    I remember those seats, hated sitting on the end. Rush hour was still very crowded in the 60s. I used to work in Chancery Lane so by the time I got on it was packed. Usually got a seat at mile end or Stratford .

  • @williammann4485
    @williammann4485 4 роки тому +25

    This is what a civilised society looks like

    • @johnholmes2745
      @johnholmes2745 3 роки тому +7

      Major white supremacy dog whistle

    • @williammann4485
      @williammann4485 3 роки тому +1

      @@johnholmes2745 Yes.

    • @MazHem
      @MazHem 3 роки тому +1

      @@williammann4485 You support white supremacy?

    • @kevindare3113
      @kevindare3113 3 роки тому +1

      You took the words right out of my mouth

    • @bendingspring
      @bendingspring 3 роки тому +1

      @@johnholmes2745
      Trendy comment.
      Who mentioned anything about race apart from you??

  • @ed9763
    @ed9763 4 роки тому +4

    Everybody reading either a newspaper or a book long b4 the smart phones came.😀

    • @batman51
      @batman51 3 роки тому +1

      Or someone else's newspaper!

  • @sarahstrong7174
    @sarahstrong7174 2 роки тому +1

    Thankyou for sharing.

  • @skadiwarrior2053
    @skadiwarrior2053 4 роки тому +5

    There were seats available!

  • @MrJumbojames
    @MrJumbojames 4 роки тому +3

    Why do not the people sitting down keep still?

  • @Merseysiderful
    @Merseysiderful 7 років тому +6

    Looking at the hairstyles and clothes I think this is 1970. 2:07 Great to see the woman going down the escalator looking at the camera with a lovely smile.

    • @D-777i
      @D-777i 5 років тому +1

      Yes, could be, certainly around 69 - 70

  • @FHIPrincePeter
    @FHIPrincePeter 4 роки тому +6

    As a Black Man I remember travelling on the Tube back in those day's.

    • @Grrrrrrr123
      @Grrrrrrr123 4 роки тому +1

      Didn’t see any blacks

    • @FHIPrincePeter
      @FHIPrincePeter 4 роки тому +5

      @@Grrrrrrr123 2:13 Black woman on the left hand side going down the escalator. Plus an Asian man earlier on in the Video.

    • @FHIPrincePeter
      @FHIPrincePeter 4 роки тому +7

      @@christina7215 What a hateful and nonsense thing to write.

    • @_B.M_
      @_B.M_ 4 роки тому +8

      @@christina7215 get over it. He's allowed to be here. If you don't like that, you go elsewhere!

    • @_B.M_
      @_B.M_ 4 роки тому +8

      @@FHIPrincePeter Don't waste your time mate. These people are colour blind. They only see white! Pretty sad really.

  • @kevindare3113
    @kevindare3113 2 роки тому +1

    How many still alive

  • @emmajones7742
    @emmajones7742 Рік тому

    The tube was very busy then and they used to light up their cigarette right next to you. But there was a guard operating the doors for safety of passengers etc.

  • @Jeffybonbon
    @Jeffybonbon 2 роки тому +1

    What I notice is every one is smart turned out well and its clean The UK has changed and not for the better in lots of ways

  • @teviottilehurst
    @teviottilehurst 8 років тому +16

    the English reserve in all its glory

  • @johnwalsh7806
    @johnwalsh7806 4 роки тому +4

    All reading newspapers now it's phones.

  • @valvlog4665
    @valvlog4665 7 років тому +20

    1:28 Lots of mini-skirts on escalators.

  • @edmaybe3914
    @edmaybe3914 9 років тому +5

    1:07 RHS under the "K" She's a dedicated follower of fashion! That hat!

    • @Mattteus
      @Mattteus 9 років тому

      +Ed Maybe I'm going to have that song stuck in my head now!

  • @boyztkba25
    @boyztkba25 7 років тому +6

    Did anyone see they're are wearing sunglasses at the escalator on the left?

  • @kevindare3113
    @kevindare3113 2 роки тому +2

    Never heard of the word obesity in those days, imported from the states, with fast foods

  • @krainey
    @krainey 2 роки тому +1

    Only the skirt lengths have changed ;(

  • @dzulkafleysamad4980
    @dzulkafleysamad4980 5 років тому +1

    Wonder if they are still using the
    wooden thread escalators nowadays.

    • @FHIPrincePeter
      @FHIPrincePeter 4 роки тому +4

      No due to the Kings X fire in the late 1980's.

  • @buffrogers6650
    @buffrogers6650 2 роки тому +2

    00:30 - now theres a sight you dont see any more. Today everyone would be looking at their smart phones and iPads.

  • @TheMkomorowski
    @TheMkomorowski 9 років тому +14

    0:47 - Man on the left smoking on the tube...

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 6 років тому +3

      You could until the kings cross fire in the 90s!

    • @davidkennard7476
      @davidkennard7476 3 роки тому +1

      Yes, and there were cigarette ends everywhere - every carriage floor, every platform, etc. - and the smell to go with it!

    • @paulspeight8398
      @paulspeight8398 Рік тому

      @@davidkennard7476 🤔I Still have most of my gifts from collecting the discarded coupons😏

    • @TheMercury-13
      @TheMercury-13 9 місяців тому

      @@annother3350 Kings Cross fire was Nov 1987. Smoking was banned in underground stations after 1984 Oxford Circus [non-fatal] fire but unfortunately not totally respected /enforced. Smokers who managed to not smoke on trains / platforms would often light a cigg on the way out up the escalators, discarding their matches..

  • @杉浦麗
    @杉浦麗 7 років тому +8

    Still look the same :) cool.

  • @queensoftheocean
    @queensoftheocean 9 років тому +5

    Was the 60s better than the 70s ..generally speaking?

    • @oldproji
      @oldproji 9 років тому +8

      +Amir Haddad Yes,yes, yes.
      ! The 1960s London was superior in many ways to the place it is today.

    • @mikewa2
      @mikewa2 6 років тому +2

      No! The 60's was a time of great change for UK. Early 60's most people were poor, by late 60's the economy had improved and the 70's was a much better time for most of UK. Cheaper transport, better food from supermarkets and more things to do. Most people didn't have a holiday out of UK until 70's. Most people hadn't tried any food other than Chinese until 70's. It was still not as great as so many people keep saying, and if you could travel back you wouldn't want to stay.

    • @christina7215
      @christina7215 4 роки тому

      mike wa people were poor because of the War that was forced on English to kill our German brothers. Fuck off

    • @Honkawsuzyamal
      @Honkawsuzyamal 4 роки тому

      DEFINITELY -The 70's became the era of bad taste when everything fell apart and England has gone downhill ever since

  • @CARLIN4737
    @CARLIN4737 5 років тому +2

    Pipe 1.32

  • @selkentonroblox7106
    @selkentonroblox7106 7 років тому +4

    It was all about newspapers back then

    • @nowhereman5119
      @nowhereman5119 3 роки тому

      Newspapers were the smartphones of the time.

  • @Harvester236
    @Harvester236 10 років тому +14

    It's weird to think all these people are now geriatrics or deceased.

    • @Harvester236
      @Harvester236 10 років тому +1

      ***** I do, but not in the London region. Still takes 90 minutes and kills me.

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 6 років тому +2

      That baby is probably only middle aged

    • @carlgrove8793
      @carlgrove8793 3 роки тому

      I might have been one of those, on my way to college -- now 72 but still reasonably fit. Where else could you sit, or more often stand, so near to one of those stunning young ladies? I still miss the Tube!

  • @AFaceintheCrowd01
    @AFaceintheCrowd01 8 років тому +3

    i wonder why they shot this film

    • @staypress
      @staypress 5 років тому +4

      so that in the future we could see how nice and milky it was

  • @jamiew6438
    @jamiew6438 11 років тому +47

    They are all white skinned!

    • @staypress8611
      @staypress8611 9 років тому +9

      Jamies Torch yes that was London in the 1960's dooh

    • @gazriley624
      @gazriley624 6 років тому +8

      Good!

    • @D-777i
      @D-777i 6 років тому +2

      Yawn....

    • @wildearth3992
      @wildearth3992 6 років тому

      Nuclear Redfield no now it’s a multicultural country.

    • @lisabetbraun2488
      @lisabetbraun2488 6 років тому +2

      So what ? More anti white bull or you just making a remark ? Its hard to tell these days

  • @spudspuddy
    @spudspuddy Рік тому

    everything clean and smart and white, how it was and should be

  • @andymurday4538
    @andymurday4538 8 років тому +1

    Is this stock footage used in movies?

  • @dantaylor7344
    @dantaylor7344 5 років тому +4

    Exactly the same as today but with different clothes.

  • @menacinghat
    @menacinghat 7 років тому +2

    everyone older than 12 is in their 60s now

  • @katharis90
    @katharis90 9 років тому +10

    All those newspapers ruined public transport! People would rather read their papers instead of talking or interacting with each other!

    • @d947
      @d947 6 років тому +2

      katharis90 cry

  • @rogerkearns8094
    @rogerkearns8094 Рік тому

    Miniskirt alert. ;)

  • @rabadooda
    @rabadooda 5 місяців тому

    1:24 Adolf Hitler on the right without his moustache. He must have survived the war and moved to London.

  • @rikantony6571
    @rikantony6571 6 років тому +4

    mind the gap

  • @martinvlk4861
    @martinvlk4861 8 років тому +3

    No women in pants?

  • @WinChun78
    @WinChun78 Рік тому

    Just about every bloke wearing a suit. Where were all the hippies that were about at that time?

  • @hmartinspliff
    @hmartinspliff 7 років тому +5

    Bare white ppl and ting in this video, innit blud? Where da bredders at, fam?

    • @nobby3265
      @nobby3265 6 років тому +2

      RAAASSSCLLLAAAT!!!

  • @whalewatchersa
    @whalewatchersa 6 років тому +2

    Looks like North Korea, with fewer people smiling. As someone who was there at the time, the film doesn't put across the pervasive stench of cigarettes and the overall grimy filthiness of the tube in those days.

    • @rabadooda
      @rabadooda 5 місяців тому

      You're probably one of the socialist hippies who railed for change that ruined this once great country.

  • @Isleofskye
    @Isleofskye 6 років тому +8

    Remember the Mantra " immigration has always been here !"........
    European immigration has but not Non-European unless we include the 0.000001 % who have been here since the year dot. This comment does not include the family-orientated and wonderfully successful Jewish Community who were 200,000 strong in London at one point in the last century until they moved onwards and upwards :)

    • @christina7215
      @christina7215 4 роки тому +2

      Isleofskye Jews invented the multiculturalism bs.... Jews are not White either.

    • @everythingerina9379
      @everythingerina9379 3 роки тому

      @@christina7215 white is a skin colour being a jew is being a follower of a religion two different things

  • @TomLawsonANIMATIONS
    @TomLawsonANIMATIONS 11 років тому +2

    Haha still as crowded as ever

  • @gazriley624
    @gazriley624 8 років тому +3

    lovely footage i always think of London as being Dark and seedy full of Murderers and Gangsters

    • @christina7215
      @christina7215 4 роки тому +1

      gaz riley that's gonna be happening soon when English purge our lands once for all.

    • @gazriley624
      @gazriley624 4 роки тому

      @@christina7215 not sure what you mean?

  • @williamvillagomez69
    @williamvillagomez69 5 місяців тому

    It’s almost so orthomorphic.

  • @philipmaguire9209
    @philipmaguire9209 2 роки тому +1

    No tracksuits lol no baseball caps 😂 yep civilised society manners ... .

  • @elotroladodelarealidadjr8470
    @elotroladodelarealidadjr8470 3 роки тому +3

    Ladies were classy ... nowadays I see many with fake lips which looks ridiculous and guys dressed up like chiwawa gangsters.

  • @steviewonder2049
    @steviewonder2049 10 років тому +17

    hideously white and clean and nice.YUK!

  • @alexleroy5093
    @alexleroy5093 7 років тому +23

    Great times to be white...

  • @fdama
    @fdama 7 років тому +23

    Blame empire. If you hadn't conquered half the worlds population, taught us your culture, language, etc.. there wouldn't have been much of a reason to follow you back home.

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 6 років тому +8

      No, this is planned. The same reason Merkel let in a million 'refugees' the other year. Anyway, It's not the empire, It's the elite

    • @johnriley2975
      @johnriley2975 6 років тому +8

      The Romans ruled half the world but nobody’s holding them to ransom for their past.

    • @everythingerina9379
      @everythingerina9379 3 роки тому

      @@johnriley2975 That was 2000 years ago the British empire isn't that old.

    • @radimpavlicek2580
      @radimpavlicek2580 3 роки тому +2

      Empire? Well then tell me what Sweden occupied because it's Africa dumping ground nowdays.

    • @fdama
      @fdama 3 роки тому +1

      @@radimpavlicek2580 Blame your stupid government that you probably voted for, for the mass immigration from Africa and for giving away citizenship like candy.

  • @iijj2506
    @iijj2506 2 роки тому +1

    Where are all the ethnic minorities? 😭😭

  • @sarahstrong7174
    @sarahstrong7174 2 роки тому

    Spot the men in black.

  • @anthonyclode7599
    @anthonyclode7599 10 років тому +2

    people reading the paper on the escalators now the I phone

  • @peatier7626
    @peatier7626 2 роки тому +1

    there all dead now

  • @bradbb8013
    @bradbb8013 4 роки тому +4

    Demographics is destiny. We were never asked.

    • @nowhereman5119
      @nowhereman5119 3 роки тому +2

      Fair enough. Then perhaps you should have voted for parties that definitely favoured your preferred demographic! To atone for that mistake, you now voted Brexit (to keep other white people - your own cousins - out. And to yourselves out of amazing places like Italy and Algarve where you could have retired/purchased homes in). With Brexit, you preferred to go back to the Victorian age to embrace the Commonwealth & the British Empire. So guess what will happen now? Yep - you will get another influx of the very people you didn't want to see in the first place - from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. Well done. Keep trusting Boris & Rees-Mogg, and Hague, and Duncan-Smith - your false prophets. How else do you explain Sunak, Priti and Sajid?

    • @bradbb8013
      @bradbb8013 2 роки тому

      @@nowhereman5119 just seen your reply now, was notified of the next reply. YT at it again ?
      Brexit was a referendum not a vote for a political party. I have always voted for a candidate/party representing my demographic. Never the lib, lab, con BS. We knew all the main parties would fight and water down Brexit as much as poss. I voted to leave the EU, as any nationalist should. Oh, and I have as much contempt for the traitorous tories as I have for Labour.

    • @rabadooda
      @rabadooda 5 місяців тому

      @@nowhereman5119 Brexit was a conspiracy to section off the 'sick man of europe' from the rest of Europe, all under the nationalist guise of "saving Britain". The traitorous politicians who answer to their globalist overlords wanted to destroy Britain and turn it into an immigrant cess pool so they could loot the coffers and move to their seafront properties abroad. My advice would be to move to Ireland for five years and get your EU passport before it's too late. Then you could move somewhere that's actually nice, like Switzerland or Denmark, and not have to worry about becoming a third class citizen in your own country

    • @matthewwarner692
      @matthewwarner692 2 місяці тому

      @@bradbb8013 well youre an idiot voting to leave has ruined our country.

  • @michaelmale138
    @michaelmale138 4 роки тому +5

    Why does every video like this have to be filled with comments from white supremacists? I just like old trains lol

  • @0000Kickass00000
    @0000Kickass00000 8 років тому +2

    There all probably dead now

    • @donatasdlugoborskis655
      @donatasdlugoborskis655 8 років тому +4

      Not really, if you were 20 in 1968, you are nearly a 70yo now

    • @Tallinn8786
      @Tallinn8786 7 років тому +2

      They're probably all the boring old fuckers commenting here about how it was 'better back then'.