Great footage to watch, I loved Piccadilly Circus as it was back then, covered in neon signs… they had far more warmth & character than the current giant LED screen.
Although I wasn't born until '61, I do actually remember going around the many attractions in '66 with my family so it would of been practically unchanged just three years later than this. Imagine a time bubble where one day, man will be able visit, like a fly on a wall peering in unable to change the course of history.
Yes, that was great footage of London. I was transferred from Australia to our office in the City in 1965. It changed my life, and I moved to a European country in 1970 - have been there ever since. Have been to London and the home countries on work and holidays 45-50 times since then. Now have a granddaughter living in West London - histort repeats itself!
Remember the Routemaster, RT buses. The LT symbol was everywhere too. Everything was British, cars, buses, lorries, shops and dare I say it, people. My nan was french though and loved Britain and embraced it. She lived at Mead Row SE1. It was a nice time.
@user-sg9kb5cc2y have you forgotten about all the slums that existed in London in those days. You can be nostalgic for for routemaster buses etc but for many people London in those days was shit.
That looked like the Royal Standard on the front of Churchill’s Pullman. If so, I wonder why, or was he hitching a ride with one of them? Also, there seemed to be a plethora of black cars back then, and I don’t just mean official cars or taxis. The scene through Piccadilly seemed to be teeming with black cars of all sorts, shapes and models. Must have been cheaper to paint them all black. 🤔🤷🏻♂️
Yes very few tourists before jet engined planes. Rich Americans came by Boeing 707 or by passenger liners, took 4 days each way! surprisingly only 1000 707’s were built in 33 years of production. Flying was still seen as a risky way to travel until 1970’s. London was really dirty from hundreds of years of using coal to heat their homes. You can see the black engrained walls of the House of Commons. London buses and taxis were all diesel and very high polluting black exhaust fumes. At least you could get around and parking was free and plentiful.
@@Gerard_2024 According to Shazam this track is The Jazz Messenger by Vendla. I believe it’s royalty free music for this type of video & I think it fits it well.
Love these old films but no so much some of the comments section You know the 'this is a local shop for local people, there's nothing for you here.' kind. I like nostalgia but much prefer the modern world and not fazed by seeing people here who might not have lived all their lives in this country.
They used to tell us back then that a big 'freeze' was coming - didn't happen. Then it changed to 'global warming' - didn't happen. They now call it 'climate change' to cover all eventualities. Lying sods.
@williem1710 just because you watch such a video doesn't mean you are living in the past. Some of the comments indicate that people are living in the past.
Please please tell me why oh why are you tell, sorry selling us your secrets and spending your valuable time this way when you’ve found the holy grail? Answer because you’re fakes?
![Extremely rare, spectacular film about London during WW-II in color [A.I. enhanced & colorized]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QLbPYQcUcgM/mqdefault.jpg)
Lovely and clean no vermin to be seen
Great footage to watch, I loved Piccadilly Circus as it was back then, covered in neon signs… they had far more warmth & character than the current giant LED screen.
So true - hard to believe the powers that be couldn't realise that!
yeah! shame now its full of pickpockets and tourist traps and closures.
The woman at 60 seconds, looks French. The Abbey is absolutely filthy with soot. A wonderful record, and in colour!
Great shots. If only we could go back to how it was.
Oh to be a time traveler and to be in London in 1963
Almost every day, on our way to school, we would see Lady Churchill, lately widowed, out for her constitutional in Richmond Park.
She burned the painting!
@@tooleyheadbang4239 She did. I'm not keen on Graham Sutherland's tapestry in Coventry Cathedral either, but I would have given the painting away.
Did she sell up in Rutland Gate near Hyde Park and move out to Richmond?
@@borderlord I don't know. According to Wikipedia, she died at 7 Princes Gate SW7.
@@nicks40 I think that was her daughter's flat.
Lovely Humber Pullmans. This maybe the actual one that is perfectly preserved in a museum in the Netherlands.
Although I wasn't born until '61, I do actually remember going around the many attractions in '66 with my family so it would of been practically unchanged just three years later than this. Imagine a time bubble where one day, man will be able visit, like a fly on a wall peering in unable to change the course of history.
Yes, that was great footage of London. I was transferred from Australia to our office in the City in 1965. It changed my life, and I moved to a European country in 1970 - have been there ever since. Have been to London and the home countries on work and holidays 45-50 times since then. Now have a granddaughter living in West London - histort repeats itself!
London now is nothing like it was then. Such a shame.
Remember the Routemaster, RT buses. The LT symbol was everywhere too. Everything was British, cars, buses, lorries, shops and dare I say it, people. My nan was french though and loved Britain and embraced it. She lived at Mead Row SE1. It was a nice time.
A different time and place, sadly long gone and much lamented.
Makes me sad seeing how great our capital city was compared to the cesspit it is now
Sad 💔🇬🇧
Sees Winston Churchill in an official limousine. Focuses immediately on a marble slab full of kippers.
Lobsters surely 🤔
From one of world's great cities to a cesspit in 50 years we'll done to the politicians who enabled this.
Idiot comment. Living in the past.
60
You cannot be great forever and ever ...
@user-sg9kb5cc2y have you forgotten about all the slums that existed in London in those days. You can be nostalgic for for routemaster buses etc but for many people London in those days was shit.
Most Great Cities have been lost now!!!
Where??
The wonderful London I knew
It's nothing like that now. Sadly.
I can imagine Winston’s response if he was to see London today. Shock horror disgust . Who allowed such a thing !
To racists 👇. ,
@colinmelling6369
Tony Bliar, Sadiq Khanage, kalergi plan . . .
All the buildings back then were filthy from the chimney soot. I know I’m clutching at straws but that is one small upside.
No obese people
Good vid
The music: it's called 'The Jazz Messenger' by Vendla
This is our Gouverment now
Also the elegance of british cars of the 60s is incredible, the contrast with today's german hooligans executive cars is hard
That looked like the Royal Standard on the front of Churchill’s Pullman. If so, I wonder why, or was he hitching a ride with one of them?
Also, there seemed to be a plethora of black cars back then, and I don’t just mean official cars or taxis. The scene through Piccadilly seemed to be teeming with black cars of all sorts, shapes and models. Must have been cheaper to paint them all black. 🤔🤷🏻♂️
As Henry Ford said, 'you can have any color you like so long as it's black'.
Winston Churchill died in January 1965 just over a year when this was filmed in 1963.
I remember watching it at my grandparents' house when it was announced on the news.
The good old days.
What happened to our great city?
Sadiq Khan 😞
The Windrush
Cultural enrichment.
It’s still going strong
@@Pinerocks its still going, but hardly strong.
No tourists! Bliss!
Yes very few tourists before jet engined planes. Rich Americans came by Boeing 707 or by passenger liners, took 4 days each way! surprisingly only 1000 707’s were built in 33 years of production. Flying was still seen as a risky way to travel until 1970’s. London was really dirty from hundreds of years of using coal to heat their homes. You can see the black engrained walls of the House of Commons. London buses and taxis were all diesel and very high polluting black exhaust fumes. At least you could get around and parking was free and plentiful.
WestMinster Abbey black as soot...because of the soot!
Alot cleaner these days.
But other things are not so good!
I'd rather have our capital as it was then, even with the soot. At least it was civilised and safe and mostly homogenous.
Used to be proud that i was born in London. Now i don't even consider it English
Now compare and contrast that with 2024. The once great city has been lost.
Idiotic comment. You are just living in the past. 😂😊
Er ...white and black !
You think you have problems! Look at Dublin. Swallowed totally by the WEFers
Where did it go?
Big big to be lost lol.
You make it what you want it to be in 2024 or just give up
Clean, safe and not diverse. Funny that!!!!
Heartbreaking that it's gone from that to a 3rd World hellhole without us EVER being asked.
Great footage. Love the music ! Can anyone identify who it is ?
Miles Davis.
I was born into this society just three years later. I am still living in London, although there have been very many changes.
@@robertjarman4261 Thanks. By any chance do you know the name of the tune or on which recording I could find it ?
How smartly everyone dressed . Take me back!
@@Gerard_2024 According to Shazam this track is The Jazz Messenger by Vendla. I believe it’s royalty free music for this type of video & I think it fits it well.
Any geeks know what car Winston was in please?
2:07 Winchester taxi.
Love these old films but no so much some of the comments section You know the 'this is a local shop for local people, there's nothing for you here.' kind. I like nostalgia but much prefer the modern world and not fazed by seeing people here who might not have lived all their lives in this country.
I can’t watch any more, not diverse enough for me 😂
I’ll say one thing, the food is a hundred times better now, you can get decent coffee and there’s less smog!! 🤣
A sunny day ... climate change in 63
They used to tell us back then that a big 'freeze' was coming - didn't happen. Then it changed to 'global warming' - didn't happen. They now call it 'climate change' to cover all eventualities. Lying sods.
Don’t show this to a guardian reader
Some real backwards comments here. Must be awful living in the past.
@williem1710 just because you watch such a video doesn't mean you are living in the past. Some of the comments indicate that people are living in the past.
They are simply observations. People notice things.
@araptorofnote5938 they notice that they would rather live 60 years ago for a start 🤣
@williem1710 great if that's what you want to do. Enjoy.
You always get a few nutters on these videos
Please please tell me why oh why are you tell, sorry selling us your secrets and spending your valuable time this way when you’ve found the holy grail? Answer because you’re fakes?
What's the weather like on your planet today? Remember kids, don't do drugs.