1968 London in 60FPS / A Bus Ride | Britain in the late 1960s - British Pathé
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Upscaled 60fps footage of London circa 1968 (please watch in 720p60), featuring landmarks like Big Ben & Trafalgar Square . This video is monetized by British Pathé (Content ID claim)
Original film by British Pathe - • Tour of London Traffic...
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The film showing at The London Pavilion is The Beatles in 'Yellow Submarine. It is July 1968
I think you are right. Video title corrected. Thanks!
I remember going to see it there.
today jungle all came from africa
Are you Michael kenny from Peabody buildings
@@tonyrobinson5597 No. Michael Kenny from N E England!
It’s a shame it’s not like that now
I was 20 then and that’s how I remember my London I’m now a 74 year old cockney and I live in Essex I feel sad to what people have done to it
@martha sheilds Or Takiyya SadKhant's agenda ... Stay free or die ... perhaps?
Destroyed
I was born 1968 SW15 and yes they've destroyed it!
@marthasheilds2446 Progression How much Change before we see it .
@marthasheilds2446 But, we *can slow or stop progress sometimes - areas & places can be legally 'listed' and protected. Certainly not much of London, of course, but a few areas & bldgs *have already been saved from 'progress'. Wouldn't it be a shame if the Tower, Buckingham Pal., Trafalgar Sq., St. Martin-In-The-Fields, etc. had been 'modernized'?
Nobody back then, could have imagined the shithole London would become by 2022.
What on earth, happened?
Sadiq khan happened
@@staypress True, but what's happened to London hasn't just happened under Khan's watch alone. No, what we have today is as a result of 40 years of unbroken managed decline.
People complain but they vote for the same party that made it happen 🤷
It got Kenned, Blaired, Borissed and Khan’d!
Globalists “enriched” you
I moved there in Jan 68. It was lovely back then.
My dad was london born and bred he left london in 1962 to live in the north east he always says the london he remembers isent london today.
The film being shown at the Empire cinema in Leicester Square is Dr. Zhivago - which was released in 1965....
A massive hit, it might have had a general release again?
Beautifully musical transmission of a London Transport RT - even riding on a bus was more relaxing!
I am fortunate to remember London like this back ibn the day. Interesting it was shot on videotape and not film. You can tell by the slightly blurred aesthetics of the film.
Ah, 1968. What a prosperous time, before the doom and gloom of the 1970s...
London born and bred - you used to be able to stand on the bus platform, hang on to the pole and ride the wind through the city. It breaks my heart how destroyed it is now.
Although this was before my time, I want this London back!!
Must be tough on the St Petersburg troll farm if you want this "back"
60s was your best era this country.
For what? Economic collapse?
@@zeddekaNo...you’re thinking about the present.
I went to Central London yesterday actually. During the day.It was this quiet.
Wonderful to see, used to take the 53 bus from Old Kent rd to Piccadilly circus to get to work or go out nightclubbing at the Hippodrome, Mud club or Heaven in the 80's
Me too !!
Where are you now, Alycia I lived 2 miles away in S E London and moved just 11 miles to this same house on the very edge of S E London and Kent in 1983.
@@samantharendalldillon8612 Where are you now, Samantha I lived 2 miles away in S E London and moved just 11 miles to this same house on the very edge of S E London and Kent in 1983
The footage was shot from the top of a Van. Full 360. All stock shots are filmed in this way. No need for the internal Routemaster FX. Just street atmosphere would have been better.
This film is a prime example of Real London with its strong English identity before it was destroyed by government policies.
What a pleasure it was to drive a car there at the time
A great place and time to live. People had time for each other and respect for each other. We had a NHS service then and you could get a doctors appointment believe it or not.
I'm 69 and lived 2miles from there and moved 40 years ago to the very edge of S E London and Kent and haven't been back since....well, yesterday,in fact. I would not want to live in the heart of it but it is still a wonderfully stimulating place to visit.
Doctor's Appointment? I know.I rang up at 8am last Friday for my annual flu jab and they could not see me until 10.30am !
Around 6 months ago, for a Vlood and Diabetes check,I had to wait until the next morning :( What's happened? :)
Labour government.
Great...I really enjoyed this video...!
wow British people in London
English people in what once was England.
There are millions of British Londoners today so I don't know what you're blabbing about.
@@jeff4362 it’s because they have never lived in LONDON. If they had, they would realise the London has always been a migrant city.
@@djpeekay25 stop drinking the Jewish kool-aid, homeboy.
@@jeff4362Yes, But they’ve moved out of London...
Used to be a pleasure, but no longer. Bus driver got lost with us on it, and couldnt find the way to go !
No hope's!!
So much for time tables. That one was late!
Was it blicky driver? Asking for myself ...
Glorious days ! MY GOD WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO LONDON TODAY 😡 ORRIBLE DUMP !
Great video for this old video
l use to work in London’s West End and what a wonderful time seeing few holiday people compared to today and ladies in mini skirts! In my lunch hour l could hire a ‘wooden boat’ on the Serpentine and it appeared l was the only one there! On the down side - many smoked and always on the trains and in one’s face.
You could afford to buy a house on modest salary.
It’s funny how similar everything is until you get over Waterloo Bridge and it’s huh? Where’s the IMAX ??
Back when I could afford to live there
Yep all you younger people look this is what it was like....great
hold your collar til you spot one
You know
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Buses have to be disabled friendly, and environmentally friendly 😉
2:04 Bovril. Haha. The war was won on Bovril old boy! 2:30. The Queen is in residence?
A time when we were proud to be British with not the EU in sight.
Enoch Powell was right!
👑❤🇬🇧🚌🚐
Not a khan in sight.
Sorry boss but I was born in 1967 😂😂😂
Notice the near complete absence of road markings & signs. No clutter of lane markings or bus/cycle lanes but everything works efficiently. Society has been dumbed down & were worse off for it.
This footage highlights just how overcrowded London has become.
Looks to me like this was probably filmed early morning when it's not so busy. I know London got busy on afternoons most days
@@_B.M_ No ,3 million plus more people now, so it's overcrowded, not opinion but fact.
London is the major city in the UK and attracts people from all over the world.
Unfortunately.
It isn't just limited to London. See footage of any major city in the world, it was much quietier back in the 60s. More people lived out in the country back then and there were fewer cars.
Spot what’s missing - the road surfaces are almost pristine, there are no scars left by the ‘Utilities’ or other works and virtually no sign of rubbish or other detritus !!
London is now full of detritus, hardly any English or real Brits.
Well that'd be Westminster Council's fault!
The scars left by utilities trenches is real and has happened for a reason. Prior to the 1980s the right to dig up the road resided with 4 service boards (gas, water, elec and gpo) under PUSWA 1950. The highway authority and the boards worked quite closely together and would plan work under the restrictions in the act. Come privatization PUSWA gave way to NRSWA91 which now gives private companies the same access right into the carriageway, except some of the restrictions were removed. Not too bad at first as there were only 4 private companies. Now there are over 200 in the UK, all with the right to dig up the road. Coordination with the highway authority went out of the window. It's now a free for all. And roads budgets are down. And 30% of that spending is directors and managers salaries and bonuses. More is spent on highway PR and EDI budgets now than surfacing, gully emptying and grass cutting for instance. Totally fucked up.
Now there is much more human 'detritus' on show. Much, much more. It is so violently obvious.
The road surfaces were Ashphalt in those days !
The fact that you can drive past Buckingham Palace in the middle of the day and the traffic is still light .
What makes you think it's the middle of the day? It's clearly early morning
1968. I was driving route 9 and 11 buses at that time in central London. I also didnt stop at many of the bus stops either 😂😂😂
Were you ever working out of Putney garage? My late father worked as a conductor on routes 14 and 22 from early 60s to late 70s, wonder if you ever got to know any of the staff from Putney garage? I would love to contact you to know more about your experiences of bus driving in the 60s and 70s, as I am writing a book and would love to arrange a phone interview.
The London without congestion!
Congestion already happened at the turn of the 20th century. Have a chance to look at some of the early photos !
And without taqiyya SadKant.
Without Congestion charge.
London without all that useless writing on the roads and signs pointing everywhere… beautiful London without the visual pollution… we need to boot out any mayor that encourages ‘20 mph’ to be written on the roads… 🤬🤬
And without major graffiti ....
Rid London of Takiyya Sad Khant et al.
Just think - The Beatles were still together on the day this was filmed.
So was cream. So was the Hendrix Experiance. So was the who an kinks.
This film begins literally across the road from where they was recording the white album at savile row
@@edwardburnsen-hicks2721 david gilmour had just got in the band ( PINK FLOYD ) & the rest is history !
So was Dave Dee Dozy Mick and Titch.
I'm always amazed by the lack of traffic on the roads. But a car was a luxury then.
Yes,I was thinking ,how very few cars!
apparently, east to west London was easy in those days.. or vice versa... and few parking worries.
So glad I saw those days life much simpler and safer. I yearn for the return of my country.
Unfortunately it has become a nasty dangerous place. I've not got long left and you know I don't care.
We have lost our once safe friendly country
This was shot a few weeks before I was born. England has gone to the dogs now and it will never get back to what it once was.
Agree Jeff , so sad those days have gone forever
I was born in 65, so can't remember it exactly like that, but do remember it was still pretty much the same in the 70s, and probably into the early 80s. The biggest change came after 97... And it's worse year on year since then.
London was spotlessly clean back then, I remember my mother also telling me.😍
Erm, not entirely sure about this...
Less fast food back in those days 😉
In July 1968, The Beatles were working on "The White Album"; the Rollings Stones were completing "Beggars Banquet"; and the Kinks were developing "Village Green PS"... all within a few miles of this footage. Creative London at its best.
The Stones are still touring and drawing huge crowds…..best group EVER.
Great footage. What a wonderful place London was in those days...so laid back too.
you could buy a property for around 100,000 grand and sell it today 2024 for 2millilon haha "loads a money"
this London is the one i want back
So why are you living in st Petersburg ?
@@zeddeka , I'm not.
Can you though
sad how london has turned into a cesspit. thank goodness people took these films so we can remember when it was a city to be proud of
You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it. Only took 53 years to turn it into a toilet and all that’s in it...tragic
Clean and tidy, and it all looks a lot more civilised than todays jungle. It makes me sad to see the mess it's been turned into.
Some of the back alleys in those days are quiet problematic.Drunkards and drug addicts.Live through those days.
Glory hole would be more appropriate.
Cashiers in shops are rude, pushing you away as they give you change.
Taxi drivers not too bad - if you can find one that speaks English properly.
It makes me sad to see the mess that Britain made in so many countries by going and invading them. around 90% of all countries have been invaded by them facts.
That's funny because I only noticed how dirty everything looks, smog everywhere you look. Check out the houses of parliament, they're practically black!
@@joysynmonds9082 ahh u mean ubers .Ye they r not taxis by the way . The black vehicles r taxis
I'd like to live there ! So much nicer than the cesspit we find today.
Grossly over-populated, and all the detroitus that brings.
London is still great. Why else do millions of tourists still go there and keep coming back.
Its no cesspit for goodness sake.
@@lyndoncmp5751 I've been there for the first time back in september. I enjoyed it, but it really is overcrowded and I'd rather never go anywhere near the east end again. Still, wouldn't mind visiting again some day, especially the area around the west end.
@@MrDaiseymay 2023 Sadly so is the country .P.C rules prevent saying more
@@MrDaiseymay so is the country as a whole. .. p.c. rules prevent me saying more.
It looks ideal. A proper grand city but no mess or visual chaos.
Great comment!
@@robertp.wainman4094 Thanks. I would have been 5 years old then. I can just about remember.
What a great service Pathe did us, by recording 'our' lives and memories, for posterity. I often imagine, with these old documentary's, what I was doing that very day. Then imagine hopping on the right transport and travelling home, to find out. I'd need to be invisable of course, as one of us, I might die of shock.
London used to be so civilised
@@Northstander You want to know in what way, have you got a spare couple of days?.
@@Northstander Do you want him to note mass immigration so you can berate him for being a nazi?
e.g. "show us yer tits darling" being shouted from every building with scaffolding round it...
@@RayZappa Hardly comparable to beheadings in the street and gangs of roving 3rd worlders.
@@studas2011 Are beheadings a part of day to day life where you live? I suppose the Krays were a nice gang on account of being white..
Looks lovely. I wouldn’t go there now though.
Demographics.
How i yearn for those wonderful times. Innocence of youth maybe
It just amazes me how clean and white London looks compared to the state of it now.
There used to be a pride in keeping the country nice, now it is just a dumping ground.
You can say that again .Nice play on words and very correct.
They still have pride once every year 😉
My son was born in Dulwich Hospital in June 1968. London was beautiful, now it’s a shithole with hardly any real Brits or English.😢
This was done by design not by accident well planned years in advance, and people sat - back and allowed it to happen.. !
@@BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp I am so angry with the Governments for allowing our country to be trashed, this started with Blair and continued with all politicians since and they are still destroying OUR homeland.
@@dorothysurry1368 💓
Before the madness of today. Well ordered not perfect but stable.
When i see the people crossing the roads etc i always wonder where they were going?how their lives went and are they still alive?
Wonderful upload.❤
Same
At around 45 seconds you can glimpse an advert for Watneys Red Barrel... Truely awlful beer.
yeah, and mysteriously popular
@@MrDaiseymay Just like some of the bland stuff that is popular today like Green King IPA, Fosters, and Carslsberg!
''Why is Watneys Red Barrel like making love on the beach? Because it's fu**ing near water.'' - Contemporary joke.
ROLL. OUT THE. BARREL. PISS WATER
@@jimmymorgan3324 We used to say, "You can taste the slops in Ben Trueman"...
More accurate than the original slogan, 'You can taste the hops in Ben Truman', Another bland gassy keg beer of the time.
I am impressed. Oh my beautiful capital city what have they done to you.
It looks so clean...
London without people cycling on the pavement or grown up s on scooter s ..
From "sleepy London town" to toilet in the space of 50 years.
india did it in twelve months
All very familiar , as kids we used to get a Red Rover ticket, jump the 23 to Aldgate and from there decide where to go next often running down the rosd to jump on the next bus on the move . Visited museums , exhibitions, free gigs ,cathedrals all day long and home by 11:00 pm. Smashing .
Before the advent of takeaway food -- now al you ever see is litter....
What wonderful shots of a bygone London !
Yes its tragic what has happened to it since then
@@howard1bealemassive unchecked immigration and treachery
I love these videos of England the way it used to be but it does feel like being punched in the face by history each time I view one.
Someone looked at that landscape and said "What this needs is more diversity"
Or - "let's mush it up, because only money matters now".
The country was a pleasure to live in not perfect but well mannered and managed well.
Gaggles of Albanians in dirty track suits would enhance this film
Exactly. What is so good about diversity, people you can barely communicate with, with histories so unlike your own, no shared past, little integration, with religions alien to our own.
@@chrisfox2890 It's horrible. The whole reason I moved out. And I'm a born and bred working class Londoner
MEMORIES OF ---- LONDON 1960'S ----- I WAS THEN IN 1968 19YRS. THANKS ! GREAT VIDEO ! FROM U.K. (2022).
Central London hasn't changed that much. I was little in '68 and we lived at Kentish Town. Mum and dad always took me on the train to Brighton and Epping Forest on Green Line RMC buses. My nan at lived Mead Row, Lambeth North 5 mins walk from the church seen at 3:55 and we could take the 3 or 53 bus from Camden Town. It was such a wonderful time, RT's and Routemasters were everywhere, almost all cars, lorries and motorcycles were british. It was such a wonderful time. What bus route was this? Bus routes never passed Buckingham Palace. Lovely bit of film.
There was an occasion in the 1950s when local roadworks caused buses to pass the front of Buckingham Palace and up Constitution Hill. I recall seeing a photo in a bus book showing a RTW on its way past the palace.
@@uk-martin4905 Yes, I've seen photos too of this.
Thank you for this of course. I was born in 1968 so of course was not there then! But I do remember going there later on and the old road lights there were there then; I think they were replaced in the 1980s or so then too. Well done!
Great video. There is a very similar video to this somewhere on UA-cam accompanying a song by the British pop band Love Affair, Bringing On Back the Good Times, a hit in 1969.
Freddie Mercury is working at Heathrow Airport in London then.
The footage only shows parts of Central London during that period there was deteriorating areas especially in East London. Depopulation was happening quite rapidly.
Yes, there was - but even they miss the way things were.
When England was England...
Oh, shut up. The world moves on and evolves. Do the same.
@@Mussi93 FU! The world not moves on. Just is destroyed.
@@Asterix419 I am grateful to live in this era and in fact I am happy
@@Jake.03-g3k Wish I would have seen it with my own eyes Jake. My uncle always tells me that the 70's were the golden years.
@@Mussi93 How did we ever survive without Diversity?
We actually seemed to be managing quite well :)
2:03 Bovril! :D
Cleaner , safer ,fresher and whiter.
Sounds like a tagine for toothpaste
that just looks absolutely incredible!a city which stretches back centuries,maybe even back to the romans!all those millions of people who have ever passed through or been there!
It is strange to say but I've noticed that a lot of footage of late 60s films look modern and not totally out of place for today.
Whereas any footage of the 70s, 80s & 90s looks considerably dated.
Almost if the late 60s was timeless.
I don't just mean the quality of the actual film it was filmed on/with.
I agree totally, love everything late 60s....
@@dream-67Give me a time machine and set the controls for 1967❤
Blame it on video tape!
What a City! In the sixties it was a magic where.
Please don't watch this if you're woke. It'll be too upsetting. There was a cinema (or a dance-hall, l'm not sure which) called the Empire
WELL--if we ignore, entirely. The EMPIRE will STRIKE BACK.
They will just have to deal with it.
I hate the term "woke". It has come into common parlance and is used quite incorrectly. I prefer the term "enlightened".
@@Juliukas101 l commend you guys: you are such canny wordsmiths
@@peterstaples1 Some enlightened home-grown call then *Total Wankers* ... Stay free (from the filth). 🎯
Something missing from this film. I can't quite put my finger on it.🤔
This was filmed just before mass immigration to Britain began to make itself felt in a big way. This policy, supported by academia, the Tory and Labour Parties, and the media, has transformed London from what it once was. Some believe that the changes to London since then have been marvelous. Others are not so convinced. With by far the largest source of mass immigration to Britain and London coming from the Islamic world, the long term cultural consequences of this policy may prove terminal for what had been known as British culture and character for centuries.
You could say this about most west european countries these days.
The government gave British passports away like confetti
Απίστευτα χαλαρωτικό... σκηνικό από παιδικό επιτραπέζιο παιχνίδι!
Before the horde came and turned it into Londonistan
Clean streets
Must have been a ride on a privately hired double decker...as bus services have never been routed through The Mall/Green Park/drive by Buckingham Palace, I think one had to get some kind of permission from the local authority to go through there in a PSV vehicle?
Can’t believe how so little traffic there was ude love the roads to b that quiet nowadays
It used to be called the smoke what would you call it today , clue still begins with s
😆😅😂🤣👍
That must have been a tourist bus running through Leicester Square,for I don't remember any service buses going through there.
We can thank the United Nations , WEF and Tony Blair for the change in demographics to the present day.
I wish I had a time machine.
The traffic in my village is busier and yes frequent road rage, fisticuffs and general rudeness. Sounds familiar?? And they call it progress. It's a village connected only to other villages, so I guess locals, ponder that!
I remember the West End like that. I should stop watching things like this because it just makes me feel sad when I see how things are today compared to back then
Some *real* Londerers blame 'Takiyya SadKhant's' agenda ... Stay free or die, perhaps?