Blow me down…I used this trolley bus route in 1957 aged 18. From Golders Green to Willesden Green. Then tube to Wembley Park. Worked at Semtex Ltd in Empire way. Really appreciate this filming and am amazed at the pristine views of the streets and the folk. Great memories! Alec Antrobus
I used to go through Cricklewood to my Grans and would have done this in 1957. I remember catching the bus at the first bus stop shown on the right. We did not catch the trolley bus though as that went up towards Child's Hill. Happy memories. PS I had relatives who worked at Handley Page
Completely magical and hypnotic. Everyone in their Sunday best. Winifred Atwell on the bill. Such a modest and unassuning part of London. That is what makes it so special. Mostly still standing, but has seen better days. This is like time travel.
My Dad is a Tipperary man. Worked in Cricklewood in the 50s 60s. Must showed this video to dad. He has a set of cups and saucers at home he won at a fair in 1956 in Piccadilly. He was 15 when he first worked in London. Returned home and joined Irish army, gave 6 months in the Congo as a UN peacekeeper, done his time and back to London again. He had tailored made suits done for him at burtons corner
The trolley travelling up cricklewood lane, from traffic lights, pearks opposite, burtons on the corner, queens cinema, saw norman wisdom film there, behind the hoarding on the right were lots of stored steam locos waiting to be scrapped, cricklewood station on the corner of Claremont road, where the express dairy was, on up to the lights at hendon way, marvellous bit of memory lane film
Past Cricklewood broadway station I went to Hampstead high school back in early 90’s what a lovely place back then left the area 25 years ago lovely Irish community everyone would say good morning etc remember 7/11 off license kay or key camping shop on the corner. Kwik save then further up food giant opened. Also just before the bridge electronics shop. Great memories. Thank you for sharing.
What a lovely trolley-bus trip down Memory (Cricklewood) Lane! I know it well, but only in recent years. What was Peark's, that you mention? What happened to St Agnes Church? Do you know what the factory looking building was, where the Co- op is now? Someone told me they made aircraft parts, but I don't know. There was the Handley Page aircraft factory/airfield (?) off Claremont Road, that now goes towards Brent Cross. The row of houses towards the top of the video were built in the 1880's, and the ones opposite, in the 30's. There was a farm where the Hocrofts roads now are, hence Farm Avenue, but that would have been much earlier than this video. Anyone with memories of this area, please write your comments, I'd love to know more. Thankyou.
Cricklewood looks nothing like this anymore. Such a shame, it looked like a pretty little area, now it’s become run down with a lot of daylight dealing nearby the B&Q. Some terrible urban planning decisions have been made evidently.
Fantastic piece of film and music to match the mood. If only we could step through the screen to a better time and I could take 65 years off me. How the powers that be have spoilt the country.
I’m amazed! Been living in cricklewood since 2009 it’s changed allot since then my oh my this is splendid. The tall white building at 0:14 on the left we used to climb, it gave amazing views as one of the tallest buildings around, it got knocked down in 2020 however to expand the road below into two lanes at the junction. I’m so shocked that there are no cars! A far cry from now with cricklewood having the A5 run right through connecting central London with the M1 and the North.
I grew up here Look at how beautiful it used to be I lived there from 1961 till 1969 I remember almost every day at 41 Midland Terrace with my sisters I’m 64 now & I still don’t feel at home in the North of England Cricklewood will always be in my heart I remember the Smiths Clock factory Anyone got pictures of it as I can’t find anything of the building from the outside My dad used to take me & my sisters on the Railway Turntable as he was a steam locomotive driver Health & safety didn’t exist & get in the way back then Beautiful beautiful video footage
I lived at Elm grove, 1963 to 1984, I remember the days sweet shop and Mr and mrs harris sweets shop , me and my brothers used to alway stop there on our way to Childs hill school, looking at the houses the row of houses look beautiful, on cricklwood lane near the school, it is all flats and shops now. also the station and expess dairy at claremont road.The roads are so empty, miss those days!
@@g-b194 Hi Gerald I was at Moria Rd primary school I used to sit on the steps and count the cars at the end of Midland Tr My mum works at Smiths Clocks & dad was on the Railway
@@eddionrodanronnie From Cricklewood Broadway, the road on the left, 13 Elm grove is where my family used to live. in 1963, it snowed that year, the snow was so high it covered the cars completely.
This was a Sunday. Loads of people exiting St. Agnes’ Church. I guess this was Route 660 trolleybus en route to North Finchley. Hendon Way is still a single carriageway.
Ian McGreevy I went to St Agnes’s School in the 1960’s and although this clip is from just before I was born it is how I remember Cricklewood Lane from that time. It looks better then than it does now!
@@peterphosphate5436 I’ve just finished primary and I also went to St Agnes’ School!! It’s very different as to how it looked like in the 1950s though.
@@kimmendoza7890 I was thinking that you may have went to St Agnes School because it was within your catchment area. I left St Agnes in the summer of 1969 for secondary school so I think I spent a total of seven years there. The headmaster in my time was a Mr Metcalfe whom if I remember correctly was portly in stature. So I followed in your footsteps!
Further proof that the best shots of daily life is not what's in front of you but from behind.. people are not conscious of being filmed and are more natural. Great shots up Cricklewood Lane from the Broadway and most of the buildings still exist and functional (although the building on the right at the junction with the Broadway is due for demolition to align Cricklewood Lane with Chicele Road on the other side) and Hendon Way has just TWO lanes??
Well we moved on progress, it was progress wasn't it? Well I was a mere 4 then but remember the trolleybuses in Tottenhamtill 1961. Surely 1957 wasnt perfect, but now you can't walk around streets any more, the swinging 60s sex drugs and rock and roll saw to that. Now we have police who go out with body armour on.
Wonderful footage of a bygone era. People look so well dressed, there’s no litter blowing about & the place actually looks very civilised. What happened?
Compare and contrast with modern day. No litter, people taking pride in their clothes and surroundings . Do you also think it’s changed just a little since then.. and for better??! Honestly??
Blow me down…I used this trolley bus route in 1957 aged 18. From Golders Green to Willesden Green.
Then tube to Wembley Park. Worked at Semtex Ltd in Empire way. Really appreciate this filming and am
amazed at the pristine views of the streets and the folk. Great memories! Alec Antrobus
I used to go through Cricklewood to my Grans and would have done this in 1957. I remember catching the bus at the first bus stop shown on the right. We did not catch the trolley bus though as that went up towards Child's Hill. Happy memories.
PS I had relatives who worked at Handley Page
Completely magical and hypnotic. Everyone in their Sunday best. Winifred Atwell on the bill. Such a modest and unassuning part of London. That is what makes it so special. Mostly still standing, but has seen better days. This is like time travel.
It was most probably filmed on a Sunday
You almost feel you are there! Incredible good quality footage
My Dad is a Tipperary man. Worked in Cricklewood in the 50s 60s. Must showed this video to dad. He has a set of cups and saucers at home he won at a fair in 1956 in Piccadilly. He was 15 when he first worked in London. Returned home and joined Irish army, gave 6 months in the Congo as a UN peacekeeper, done his time and back to London again. He had tailored made suits done for him at burtons corner
Incredible footage and love the chill out music.
The trolley travelling up cricklewood lane, from traffic lights, pearks opposite, burtons on the corner, queens cinema, saw norman wisdom film there, behind the hoarding on the right were lots of stored steam locos waiting to be scrapped, cricklewood station on the corner of Claremont road, where the express dairy was, on up to the lights at hendon way, marvellous bit of memory lane film
I was born and raised on Oak Grove just before the bridge in this film!
Past Cricklewood broadway station I went to Hampstead high school back in early 90’s what a lovely place back then left the area 25 years ago lovely Irish community everyone would say good morning etc remember 7/11 off license kay or key camping shop on the corner. Kwik save then further up food giant opened. Also just before the bridge electronics shop. Great memories. Thank you for sharing.
Its not just the Trolleybus, the whole way of life as it was then.
Amazing how many people walked then !
What a lovely trolley-bus trip down Memory (Cricklewood) Lane! I know it well, but only in recent years. What was Peark's, that you mention? What happened to St Agnes Church? Do you know what the factory looking building was, where the Co- op is now? Someone told me they made aircraft parts, but I don't know. There was the Handley Page aircraft factory/airfield (?) off Claremont Road, that now goes towards Brent Cross. The row of houses towards the top of the video were built in the 1880's, and the ones opposite, in the 30's. There was a farm where the Hocrofts roads now are, hence Farm Avenue, but that would have been much earlier than this video. Anyone with memories of this area, please write your comments, I'd love to know more. Thankyou.
Halcyon days, recall every bit of that journey.
Cricklewood looks nothing like this anymore. Such a shame, it looked like a pretty little area, now it’s become run down with a lot of daylight dealing nearby the B&Q. Some terrible urban planning decisions have been made evidently.
Fantastic piece of film and music to match the mood. If only we could step through the screen to a better time and I could take 65 years off me. How the powers that be have spoilt the country.
I’m amazed! Been living in cricklewood since 2009 it’s changed allot since then my oh my this is splendid.
The tall white building at 0:14 on the left we used to climb, it gave amazing views as one of the tallest buildings around, it got knocked down in 2020 however to expand the road below into two lanes at the junction.
I’m so shocked that there are no cars! A far cry from now with cricklewood having the A5 run right through connecting central London with the M1 and the North.
I grew up here
Look at how beautiful it used to be
I lived there from 1961 till 1969
I remember almost every day at 41 Midland Terrace with my sisters
I’m 64 now & I still don’t feel at home in the North of England
Cricklewood will always be in my heart
I remember the Smiths Clock factory
Anyone got pictures of it as I can’t find anything of the building from the outside
My dad used to take me & my sisters on the Railway Turntable as he was a steam locomotive driver
Health & safety didn’t exist & get in the way back then
Beautiful beautiful video footage
I lived at Elm grove, 1963 to 1984, I remember the days sweet shop and Mr and mrs harris sweets shop , me and my brothers used to alway stop there on our way to Childs hill school, looking at the houses the row of houses look beautiful, on cricklwood lane near the school, it is all flats and shops now. also the station and expess dairy at claremont road.The roads are so empty, miss those days!
@@g-b194
Hi Gerald
I was at Moria Rd primary school
I used to sit on the steps and count the cars at the end of Midland Tr
My mum works at Smiths Clocks & dad was on the Railway
@@eddionrodanronnie was your home above days sweet shop.?
@@g-b194
No I was at 41 Midland Terrace
Not far from the bridge with the Smiths sign that’s in the video
At the rear was the Railway Sidings
@@eddionrodanronnie From Cricklewood Broadway, the road on the left, 13 Elm grove is where my family used to live. in 1963, it snowed that year, the snow was so high it covered the cars completely.
This was a Sunday. Loads of people exiting St. Agnes’ Church.
I guess this was Route 660 trolleybus en route to North Finchley.
Hendon Way is still a single carriageway.
Ian McGreevy I went to St Agnes’s School in the 1960’s and although this clip is from just before I was born it is how I remember Cricklewood Lane from that time. It looks better then than it does now!
Is that st. Gabriel’s church??
@@peterphosphate5436 I’ve just finished primary and I also went to St Agnes’ School!! It’s very different as to how it looked like in the 1950s though.
@@kimmendoza7890 I was thinking that you may have went to St Agnes School because it was within your catchment area. I left St Agnes in the summer of 1969 for secondary school so I think I spent a total of seven years there. The headmaster in my time was a Mr Metcalfe whom if I remember correctly was portly in stature. So I followed in your footsteps!
Further proof that the best shots of daily life is not what's in front of you but from behind.. people are not conscious of being filmed and are more natural.
Great shots up Cricklewood Lane from the Broadway and most of the buildings still exist and functional (although the building on the right at the junction with the Broadway is due for demolition to align Cricklewood Lane with Chicele Road on the other side) and Hendon Way has just TWO lanes??
the church is further up the road than i thought
Cleaner buses than today?
Well we moved on progress, it was progress wasn't it?
Well I was a mere 4 then but remember the trolleybuses in Tottenhamtill 1961.
Surely 1957 wasnt perfect, but now you can't walk around streets any more, the swinging 60s sex drugs and rock and roll saw to that.
Now we have police who go out with body armour on.
Superb! Thank you. Now, confess, it will do your soul some good --- you went back in time and filmed all this with a drone. Ah HA! We found you out.
Omg look how clean it is . What a crime ridden dump now . Mr powel you was 100% right .
that is a racist comment.
@@tuberjr absolutely
Wonderful footage of a bygone era. People look so well dressed, there’s no litter blowing about & the place actually looks very civilised. What happened?
Compare and contrast with modern day. No litter, people taking pride in their clothes and surroundings . Do you also think it’s changed just a little since then.. and for better??! Honestly??