Was a Bus conductor on a Routemaster at the age of 19 doing 37,73,and the 14. The thing this footage really evokes is our young women in the 60's were stunning! So much more beautiful than today!
"If you remember the 1960s, you weren't there". Pardon? I can assure I was there. I feel sorry for youngsters today. The 60s was a magical time to be alive.
Sadly, I was born a little too late to remember much of the 60s (was born Aug 1961). The 70s is the decade I grew up in, and it is that decade all my childhood and youth memories are tied up in.
Born 1960, i can remember the 60's from 65. The 60's fashion we see here more of a London thing and seen occasional outside. I can remember seeing some flower power in local park, but only once. I saw a few teen girls in mini skirts. I remember grand mother types wearing those what i call "pineapple" hats.
What strikes me about this footage is that everyone was slim. Go down the streets of London (or any other major city of the world) today and nearly half the people are overweight. I remember my own childhood in the 1970's and there was only one "fat" kid at my school. Looking at the photos now I realise that she was only a little bit chubby. Our diets are a complete mess.
It was all about style, males and females alike when we took pride in our appearance. Now we have T shirt’s that hang, shorts like sails on a schooner below the knee and trainers with socks……lovely!! Obesity was optional in those days, right now it appears to be a fashion statement.
was a child in the mid 60s. heard nothing but complaints from the then older generation about short skirts,long scruffy hair, girls showing their bottoms, lads looking like girls and so on. If you want smart,look at images or old film from the mid 1930s.
@@jamesfirth2392 ….There is a distinct difference between the 30’s and 60’s. In the 30’s, you had two sets of clothes, Sunday best and work. When you went out you had a choice of one and you had to make the best of what you had, frequently it was from older siblings, you looked after and cared for those clothes, thank goodness for Cherry Blossom too. In the 60’s there was choice and a £ in your pocket, although the old tradition of looking good still influenced. Your comment was about being smart, mine was style which was all a part of the throw away society. In 2022, generally, smart or style has gone with the dynasaur into history for the majority. You only have to look at the police officers, they have a completely different job than in the 60’s or the 30’s but there is no pride displayed…..life has changed, standards have shifted, according to demand. I was fortunate as a teenager had a good job, designed my clothes and had them made, scooter, motor cycle, car and a great social life and on reflection, we also had conversations, would you believe it……face to face.
Born in 1956, and remember the 60s with fond affection, war over, as was rationing and a society that in general terms was at peace with itself. So much was changing and new ideas were being accepted like "you never had it so good," was being believed by the public for the first time. There was a new found freedom and belief that things would improve, and for ten years they did. There was a "Zeitgeist" that only comes around when the time is right. Sadly I don't think I will ever see it again.
@@patrick-bu3eq Two world wars and a world cup, that sums up the UK since 1945, and yes the UK lives in the past, one small correction I never saw the second world war, but the impact was palpable even in 56 when I was born and well into the sixties. Perhaps it was different for me as I had a English Father/German Mother. cheers.
Dad worked in Victoria opposite Victoria palace… very old shops and a old pub sadly all gone except the palace I believe.. great times for me the sixties.
Most of those images were from mid to late 60's at best and 1960's were ten years long and not just west-end ,of the town. There were still bomb sites and cold dreary streets full of coal smoke/smog. The first 3 years were very much an American culture onset. The car industry was both king and villain. Retail despite the barrow boy approach languished. The first supermarkets came in about 1961 with greenshield stamps, prior we all lined up to be served. Picadilly circus and Oxford street were aberrations, not normal scenes. There were many parts of London more industrial, than this presentation shows. Swinging London? Snow job... Always nice to get a bit of nostalgia....
Thanks for the comment. My bubble is burst! What I find interesting is the total change in the look between the 1950s and 1960s. This is what I was trying to pick up. And I wasn’t “there” in either decade!
I can usually tell the year of old photos from what the girls wear. The pics with the super short minis are around 1963 to 67. There doesn't seem to be any pics of around 1967 - 1970 though when black, ankle long skirts were fashionable (Bonny and Clyde film). And the end of the 1960s beginning of the 1970s was marked with hot pants. London at that time was a marvellous place to be, there was a lot going on, living was affordable on a small income and people seemed to be carefree. And then the 70s came and everything changed.
If only we could go back in time and warn them what was going to happen to there country. It’s now official the English are now a minority in London. 😢
I was born in 1951 and I thought about your comment. England was on top then ,exporting abroad , music and fashion were admired by the world. The 70s were a good era, but as we got into the 80s everything changed. Many companies went bankrupt and people were scared of losing a job - things were not fun anymore. There is a theory that the drop-out hippy culture halted progress in our country and America. I suspect we are still feeling the cultural ripple today.
@@garypautard1069 Cannot be worse than the Tory culture of today, they have cancelled happiness, dignity, pride, prosperity, peace. This country is their toilet.
NICE ONE! A happy go lucky free thinking mentality interrupted by the fact we had to all grow up meanwhile the world was changing for the worse. Good memories all the same in this nostalgic video. NICE ONE!
I think you were dreaming of a different London! The east end at least was multi cultural way back before then! But hey there will always be bigots no Matter what era you live in.
I used to visit Edmonton north london as a child from 71 to 76 from ireland ,,,it was great then ,,,,,,it had a great market and facilities we didnt have in ireland and the spurs football stadium ,,,the tube then was exciting for an irish kid and i mastered it which stood to me as an adult when i went back many times,,,,,its more dangerous now and very expensive
Beautiful young women, slim bodies, mini skirts, no plastic surgery. The permissive society, casual sex, sex before marriage, condoms, contraceptive pill, recreations drugs, LSD, cannabis. It is still possible to be happy ... although large cities I find very off putting nowadays.
Loved my growing up days. ...I was 10 years old end of 1970.. . Fantastic times........gone so fast ...it's tru what they say .. ..so make the most and enjoy it ..even if it's not the 60)70s any more ....
Thought it was going to say at the end, If you remember the sixties.... You were lucky very lucky, My nana is 82 now and always moans that shes old and i tell her shes lucky, id love to be 82 now, to have been in your 20s in the 60s must have been amazing
Photo at 0:55 has a Guinness poster in background celebrating the Queens 25th anniversary in 1977. The white roundel on side of the bus means it is 1970+.
Before the great replacement , so sad to see our capitol as it once was. I went to college in London for 9 months in 68/69 .I have no intention of returning as i feel its far too dangerous.
@@voiskumbeaver3285 I was born there soppy bollocks as were my parents & there parents,what you have a couple of beers last night obviously ain't got a girlfriend so thought you'd be a key board warrior tough monkey🤣
An era when you could actually afford to take the train ( and music festivals cost £1 , but the toilets were the farmer's bushes / woods ! ) ................... DAVE™ .....................
Image at 0:59 reminds me of a mate of mine worked in a photographers just off Oxford Street near what was then Tiles, "the underground city for the new generation". At the weekend he would be the only one working, so he would grab a Hasselblad and pose outside, grabbing some naive wide-eyed Dolly Bird probably new to the city. He would exclaim that "you could be the face of 1967!" Entice her to the studio and have his wicked way with her perhaps. We thought he was 'a bit of a lad' at the time. He would be arrested and prosecuted for that today.
My dad went to London in about 1949 for a job interview. Afterwards he was standing on a platform at Clapham Junction waiting for a connecting train home. A train steamed into the platform opposite and amongst the passengers who disembarked were about twenty or so West Indians, wearing shabby raincoats and carrying battered luggage. They’d probably just arrived in England via the Port of London. Dad said that he had no way of knowing that that trickle of immigrants would lead to a flood who would eventually drown us.
@@Gunnar_Gunnarson Oh yes, that explains why the BBC uses some really awful music to introduce reruns of the fantastic Look at Life series which was shown in cinemas during the 1960s.
Anyone wondering how Brexit happened need only read the comments section of any of Icelandic travellers posts. 🤣. Sad really. Just accept that things change, yes it’s not always for the better. Politicians were generally more honest and trustworthy in the 60’s but that’s also changed.
Most of the women's fashion has come back into vogue. Long straight hair, heavy make up etc. In fact some of the women in these pics could be from 2022
@@blackporscheroadster6415 Terrible decade. The breakdown in nuclear family. Sexual permissivness, drugs taking & it's promotion in music, which as decimated today's socities. Started with this decade.
If I had a time machine I would go back to those days.
Me too.
You will never ever see the likes of those days again, England was once a beautiful place now it's ruined.
The Sixties was a Great Eara, brings back a lot of good memories.
I was born in 1962 unfortunately i dont remembering much those year,s cose i from the 70's.But i thing were a good times more than now
Yes born in 1949 so I grew up in the 60s. The sheer variety of music was just amazing. And there was optimism then. Look where are now.
Was a Bus conductor on a Routemaster at the age of 19 doing 37,73,and the 14. The thing this footage really evokes is our young women in the 60's were stunning! So much more beautiful than today!
The English girls now seem fat porkers compared to when I was young.
That's because we didn't have so many fat people then.
Yes, all tats!
Guessing because they’re purebred.
Not as many lard arses back then
Fantastic era. 60s and 70s. Hardish times. But everyone helped each other. Having no money was common, but we scraped by. We had each other.
So it seems to come back--at least the having no money part.
And all the wonderful English bands and great music just around the corner.
Makes me so homesick for the sixties…I am 77 years old now..but it seems like yesterday to me..what a decade it was !!
Yes, a great decade it was.
Every one looked happy , safe, relaxed, carefree those days are sadly gone
What is it about these videos that they generate these astonishingly naive, ignorant and stupid comments from people ?
The Windsor & Zio mafias ferocious greed for their own continually increasing financial aggrandisement & globalism put paid to those days. ( period)
They werent filled with demons and watching evil on the TEL-LIE-VISION!
I used to work in Carnaby Street, Saturday girl. London was lovely in those days. I used to go to Tiffany's too.
"If you remember the 1960s, you weren't there". Pardon? I can assure I was there. I feel sorry for youngsters today. The 60s was a magical time to be alive.
Ha ha. Just making a reference to people like me who somehow think they know the decade but were not there
Oh my gosh... What I will do for come back in these times... 💖
Awwww
somewhere in that city, there and then, I am 4 years, my mum and dad late twenties, I am crazy about red double deckers and life is sweet. ❤
Sadly, I was born a little too late to remember much of the 60s (was born Aug 1961). The 70s is the decade I grew up in, and it is that decade all my childhood and youth memories are tied up in.
I wasn’t around in the sixties. I was born in the late 1970s 😢 so my childhood was most of the eighties
@@lmusima3275 I can just about remember 1969. 1968, forget it. I have fleeting memories prior to 1969 of course, but that's about it.
Born 1960, i can remember the 60's from 65. The 60's fashion we see here more of a London thing and seen occasional outside. I can remember seeing some flower power in local park, but only once. I saw a few teen girls in mini skirts. I remember grand mother types wearing those what i call "pineapple" hats.
When i was bit older, say 10 yrs old, i thought people will look back thinking it was all mini skirts and such, but was really more boring.
Wonderful to see the cars of that era in the relatively quiet streets!
Fantastic montage, thank you.
AMAZING...no-one looking at their phones...!
Ha ha - WHAT phones? If they were invented then, they'd be the size of half a house brick!
In those days the idea of having a phone you could carry around in your pocket was still science fiction 😊
What strikes me about this footage is that everyone was slim. Go down the streets of London (or any other major city of the world) today and nearly half the people are overweight. I remember my own childhood in the 1970's and there was only one "fat" kid at my school. Looking at the photos now I realise that she was only a little bit chubby. Our diets are a complete mess.
having lived the 60s todays generation will never no how great it was compared to today they was the best years 👍👍
Couldn't agree more
It was all about style, males and females alike when we took pride in our appearance. Now we have T shirt’s that hang, shorts like sails on a schooner below the knee and trainers with socks……lovely!! Obesity was optional in those days, right now it appears to be a fashion statement.
was a child in the mid 60s. heard nothing but complaints from the then older generation about short skirts,long scruffy hair, girls showing their bottoms, lads looking like girls and so on. If you want smart,look at images or old film from the mid 1930s.
@@jamesfirth2392 ….There is a distinct difference between the 30’s and 60’s. In the 30’s, you had two sets of clothes, Sunday best and work. When you went out you had a choice of one and you had to make the best of what you had, frequently it was from older siblings, you looked after and cared for those clothes, thank goodness for Cherry Blossom too. In the 60’s there was choice and a £ in your pocket, although the old tradition of looking good still influenced. Your comment was about being smart, mine was style which was all a part of the throw away society.
In 2022, generally, smart or style has gone with the dynasaur into history for the majority. You only have to look at the police officers, they have a completely different job than in the 60’s or the 30’s but there is no pride displayed…..life has changed, standards have shifted, according to demand. I was fortunate as a teenager had a good job, designed my clothes and had them made, scooter, motor cycle, car and a great social life and on reflection, we also had conversations, would you believe it……face to face.
@@andycapp8843 agreed, apart from one thing, Kiwi way better than Cherry Blossom
@@andycapp8843 Andy Capp, any relation to Reg Smythe?
Born in 1956, and remember the 60s with fond affection, war over, as was rationing and a society that in general terms was at peace with itself.
So much was changing and new ideas were being accepted like "you never had it so good," was being believed by the public for the first time.
There was a new found freedom and belief that things would improve, and for ten years they did.
There was a "Zeitgeist" that only comes around when the time is right.
Sadly I don't think I will ever see it again.
@@patrick-bu3eq Two world wars and a world cup, that sums up the UK since 1945, and yes the UK lives in the past, one small correction I never saw the second world war, but the impact was palpable even in 56 when I was born and well into the sixties.
Perhaps it was different for me as I had a English Father/German Mother. cheers.
Dad worked in Victoria opposite Victoria palace… very old shops and a old pub sadly all gone except the palace I believe.. great times for me the sixties.
And not an overweight woman in sight, this is when girls knew how to look after themselves
It was their 40 a day habit that kept them off the McDonalds.
Most of those images were from mid to late 60's at best and 1960's were ten years long and not just west-end ,of the town. There were still bomb sites and cold dreary streets full of coal smoke/smog. The first 3 years were very much an American culture onset. The car industry was both king and villain. Retail despite the barrow boy approach languished. The first supermarkets came in about 1961 with greenshield stamps, prior we all lined up to be served. Picadilly circus and Oxford street were aberrations, not normal scenes. There were many parts of London more industrial, than this presentation shows. Swinging London? Snow job...
Always nice to get a bit of nostalgia....
I remember the 60’s.There was Love,
Drugs,Sex,Freedom,Music and Utopia.❤️🙏🌹👏🌷.
1967, single women over 16 were allowed to go on the Pill, marvelous.
I hate to burst your bubble, but I was there in the 1960's and I DO remember it, the girls and those mini skirts! WOW!! Oh I DO remember it well.
Thanks for the comment. My bubble is burst! What I find interesting is the total change in the look between the 1950s and 1960s. This is what I was trying to pick up. And I wasn’t “there” in either decade!
Some of the previous decades drabness still lingers making the flash of the sixties more vivid.
I very much agree with you. It is almost as if the 1960s discovered color
Some 70s content but excellent none the less.
The best decade in the best place
That's for sure.
I can usually tell the year of old photos from what the girls wear. The pics with the super short minis are around 1963 to 67. There doesn't seem to be any pics of around 1967 - 1970 though when black, ankle long skirts were fashionable (Bonny and Clyde film). And the end of the 1960s beginning of the 1970s was marked with hot pants.
London at that time was a marvellous place to be, there was a lot going on, living was affordable on a small income and people seemed to be carefree. And then the 70s came and everything changed.
If only we could go back in time and warn them what was going to happen to there country. It’s now official the English are now a minority in London. 😢
I remember those days. It was clean then too
Where did that world go?
I was born in 1951 and I thought about your comment. England was on top then ,exporting abroad , music and fashion were admired by the world. The 70s were a good era, but as we got into the 80s everything changed. Many companies went bankrupt and people were scared of losing a job - things were not fun anymore. There is a theory that the drop-out hippy culture halted progress in our country and America. I suspect we are still feeling the cultural ripple today.
Like the Upton Park area. You could twin that with Bangladesh!
@@garypautard1069 Cannot be worse than the Tory culture of today, they have cancelled happiness, dignity, pride, prosperity, peace. This country is their toilet.
Died.....
Hey kids, did you ever think your grandmothers could look this good?
I were born in North London in 1960 and I remember the 60s.
NICE ONE! A happy go lucky free thinking mentality interrupted by the fact we had to all grow up meanwhile the world was changing for the worse.
Good memories all the same in this nostalgic video.
NICE ONE!
In those days they didn't put corn syrup into everything so there were not the same obesity levels as there are now.
When London was English.
sadly no more
Your not English.
There were black people then too. Get over it, Enoch.
I think you were dreaming of a different London!
The east end at least was multi cultural way back before then!
But hey there will always be bigots no
Matter what era you live in.
@@voiskumbeaver3285 enoch forever
The photo at 1:40 shows a "K" reg black cab in front of Woolworths. Clearly 1971 or later. ;)
Good spot - I thought it was late 1960s
Remember the Chelse drugstore down Kings rd-beautiful people beautiful area SO Cool then with IN CROWD..
I used to visit Edmonton north london as a child from 71 to 76 from ireland ,,,it was great then ,,,,,,it had a great market and facilities we didnt have in ireland and the spurs football stadium ,,,the tube then was exciting for an irish kid and i mastered it which stood to me as an adult when i went back many times,,,,,its more dangerous now and very expensive
Beautiful young women, slim bodies, mini skirts, no plastic surgery.
The permissive society, casual sex, sex before marriage, condoms, contraceptive pill, recreations drugs, LSD, cannabis.
It is still possible to be happy ... although large cities I find very off putting nowadays.
Beautiful.
Loved my growing up days. ...I was 10 years old end of 1970.. . Fantastic times........gone so fast ...it's tru what they say .. ..so make the most and enjoy it ..even if it's not the 60)70s any more ....
Glad you enjoyed it
I was 20 in ‘67. Would have given anything to visit London then.
Far out era
Beautiful time
Such encouragement from friendly people
hi there, remember all this, and the dolls were very pretty then in mini skirts and boots,its not the same now, glad i am 70.
Thought it was going to say at the end, If you remember the sixties.... You were lucky very lucky, My nana is 82 now and always moans that shes old and i tell her shes lucky, id love to be 82 now, to have been in your 20s in the 60s must have been amazing
Photo at 0:55 has a Guinness poster in background celebrating the Queens 25th anniversary in 1977. The white roundel on side of the bus means it is 1970+.
Ha ha it serves me right. I should’ve checked
Not a pair of leggings in sight😆😆
Before the great replacement , so sad to see our capitol as it once was. I went to college in London for 9 months in 68/69 .I have no intention of returning as i feel its far too dangerous.
No leggings 😅 but also everyone was slim
And lots of bright coloured clothes.
Before we filled it with the world's S#@T!
when you moved there you mean?
@@voiskumbeaver3285 I was born there soppy bollocks as were my parents & there parents,what you have a couple of beers last night obviously ain't got a girlfriend so thought you'd be a key board warrior tough monkey🤣
@Mick Havermans Shame you didn't learn the language while you were there.
@@voiskumbeaver3285 prat !
@Keith Rose Hope you didn't rupture your brain typing those four letters.
An era when you could actually afford to take the train ( and music festivals cost £1 , but the toilets were the farmer's bushes / woods ! ) ................... DAVE™ .....................
This was long before the tide came in!
The fashion was amazing a real youth culture not like today where most youngsters dress same as their parents
I started work in Mayfair Christmas 1958. People looked smart and
At 1.40 we see a K reg taxi. This would have been 1972 NOT 1960's.
Image at 0:59 reminds me of a mate of mine worked in a photographers just off Oxford Street near what was then Tiles, "the underground city for the new generation". At the weekend he would be the only one working, so he would grab a Hasselblad and pose outside, grabbing some naive wide-eyed Dolly Bird probably new to the city. He would exclaim that "you could be the face of 1967!" Entice her to the studio and have his wicked way with her perhaps. We thought he was 'a bit of a lad' at the time. He would be arrested and prosecuted for that today.
The lucky bugger!!
Oh, a regular little David Bailey then?
yep I remember! I slept in shop door ways by night and lived on picadily circus by day, it was hell ..
Anyone got Today shots of the same locations (some not possible - I think Liverpool street platforms obscured by the mezzanine shopping units
A time when England was English, alas no more.
Alas, you're right!!
Alas, you are right!
We all had free speech with no one being offended then
This is not all 60's, it's mid 70's too.
London was actually White????
My dad went to London in about 1949 for a job interview. Afterwards he was standing on a platform at Clapham Junction waiting for a connecting train home. A train steamed into the platform opposite and amongst the passengers who disembarked were about twenty or so West Indians, wearing shabby raincoats and carrying battered luggage. They’d probably just arrived in England via the Port of London. Dad said that he had no way of knowing that that trickle of immigrants would lead to a flood who would eventually drown us.
@@patrick-bu3eq Yeah, I know. I've been gaslit by these maggots my whole life!
@@davids1516 They stood up to it. Our leaders work hard to facilitate it.
Not exactly an inspiring group of photos but glad you uploaded them.
What a demure and grey comment
@@gilldanier4129 Ditto
I was never born in the 1960s I was born in 2010 I never seen the world what it looked like in the 1960s
Shame about the background 'music' Certainly not a sound I recall from the 1960s.
It is a fair point. The problem is that copyright free music is a bit limited.
@@Gunnar_Gunnarson Oh yes, that explains why the BBC uses some really awful music to introduce reruns of the fantastic Look at Life series which was shown in cinemas during the 1960s.
Proud of yourself Tony? Totally rubbed our noses in it did you not?
I remember beatlemania
Good old days when we mostly had men and women, and the white man wasn’t being persecuted as being a racist.
Anyone wondering how Brexit happened need only read the comments section of any of Icelandic travellers posts. 🤣. Sad really. Just accept that things change, yes it’s not always for the better. Politicians were generally more honest and trustworthy in the 60’s but that’s also changed.
They wont celebrate todays London in years to come.....
Most of the women's fashion has come back into vogue. Long straight hair, heavy make up etc. In fact some of the women in these pics could be from 2022
So the world was in colour back then
there all white
They're.
If only it was like that today.
Times when people were not proud of obesity
When the brits drove british cars, that was not so long ago. Desindustrialisation is not fun after all
There were times when girls had great legs, what happened?
Leggings....yoga pants....tattoos...
It was mono cultural then ! Enoch Powell warned the UK of it being otherwise and everyone laughed ! Well it’s now been overrun and it’s stuffed
Looks very dated
Idiotic comment. It is dated as it's from 50-60 years ago.
@@blackporscheroadster6415 Terrible decade.
The breakdown in nuclear family.
Sexual permissivness, drugs taking & it's promotion in music, which as decimated today's socities.
Started with this decade.
Not the same without immigrants, beggars, litter, what have we done?
Bad choice of music for this....
No black.Very good,
And you're not there. Even better.
@@voiskumbeaver3285 black monkey 😄😄😄
The call image isnt of the 1960's
Ah. Hot women that were white and slim. In London. Who’d have thought.