This is just marvellous... How clean it all is. FXV2, Is still on the road... I suspect it may be part of the royal fleet! Thanks for posting this. All of our yesterday's.... Never to return 😔
This was filmed on the last day of 1964, a few weeks before Sir Winston Churchill died. A crisp winter's day in Park Lane and Knightsbridge, with far fewer vehicles and included a milk float outside a big hotel, that would never happen today.
Looks like very mild weather, judging by the lack of thick coats people are wearing. And they say warmer winters are something that's only occurred over the last 25 years. Well that blows that myth away! Streets look really clean, and clutter free. And it's amazingly easy and quick to do the 'loop' so to speak. Try doing the loop now, and it would take three times as long!
Good stuff here! The best part is where the great London Transport buses of yesteryear seen along Park Lane in central London. The fantastic Routemaster bus on the 36 + the equally fantastic buses of the RT family. The Leyland RTW on the 74, a roofbox RT with the AEC engine, and a Leyland RTL on route 2.
+Christopher Dalton - hi Christopher, thanks for all that extra information. Glad you enjoyed the clip! Feel free to share the link - best wishes - Jenny @ Movietone
Ok traffic was a lot lighter back then of course but very few traffic lights. Now you can hardly travel 50 yards before getting to a red light, which stays red for an eternity it seems.
Austin Healey Frogeye, VW Beetle and MGA all within feet of each other, just regular runabouts and sportscars back then and now they are cherished classics today that probably rarely get to see the outside of their owners garage apart from the occasional car show or meet.
Notice how the streets seem to be cleaner, uncluttered with street furniture,signs,poles and posts; white and yellow lines noticeably absent; fewer people; fewer vehicles. Life WAS easier back then, that great God Avarice wasn't so blatant, there was no political correctness, and Common Sense played a much bigger role in life. Didn't it? Well didn't it?
True - but only a few years earlier there would have been trolley bus wires visible everywhere. Trolley buses disappeared from London in about 1960?? ... replaced by the Routmasters' seen here. Other towns and cities held on to trolley buses for longer but here in London they obviously decided that they preferred noisy, diesel buses over clean and silent trolleys. That's progress for you!
Noone ever mentions the absence of CCTV cameras which are everywhere now. They would've never gotten away with them back then because there was no excuse for them, ie "to stop terrorism" and the other excuses, there's never any public debate if people want them or not, they just get installed mostly unnoticed because if they did there would be some that would object to them and they don't want that because the aim is to have them everywhere where people have no privacy at all.
When I was kid I used to go with my Dad delivering ice cream and frozen food to shops and factories in exactly the same Lyon’s Maid Thames Trader lorry in this video ,brought back great memories,Thanks for posting .
We get a brief glimpse of The Odeon cinema at far right from 1:29 to 1:35. The poster on display has a section with a black background with yellow letters. The design (a Hippo with its mouth wide open and the film title showing) matches the posters for the Bob Hope film 'Call Me Bwana' which ran there April 4 -May 1st 1963.
I agree. And No CCTV cameras on every pole and side of every building and inside every shop big or small (where do they get the money from for all those cameras?), even in some public toilets they have cameras inside, and people don't seem to bat an eye to them for some reason as if they think it's normal and acceptable to be monitored everywhere you go, sorry but it's not normal, but people keep falling for the excuses "it's to stop crime and terrorism" lol.
I don't suppose you have any footage from 1960s Stoke Newington high street N16. My father used to have a fruit shop there from 1960 - 1963.Just wondering. Thanks.
No litter, No Graffiti, No Ear Plugs, No Mobile Phones, No Dogs Shit Everywhere , No Abandoned Shopping Trolleys, No Homeless, No Junkies in Doorways, No Smashed Shop Windows, No Unwanted Mattresses on the Pathways, No leggings, No Ugg Boots. This must have been sheer bliss living then. A time when people we not on mute, when politeness was standard procedure. Sadly today we have lost the art of conversation too.
The car industry got decimated through numerous factors. Without me ranting, there are numerous YT videos explaining matters in depth suffice to state that what happened at Longbridge and British Leyland's takeover, interference if you like, of BMC goes a long way in explaining matters. Serve my engineering apprenticeship in Coventry when it was a major hub in car manufacturing. Greetings from the USA.
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Wow,,no traffic .no yellow lines park anywhere .not many people around ..love all the old cars ..so good to see
Proud to say I was born in this great city, back in August 57, But the place ain't what it used to be !
The plane tree outside the Dorchester is now one of the best known and mush loved trees in London.
To see how small that tree is outside the Dorchester hotel back then to a great big massif tree now days
Amazing to see the traffic flowing so freely... particularly along Park Lane!
This is just marvellous... How clean it all is. FXV2, Is still on the road... I suspect it may be part of the royal fleet! Thanks for posting this. All of our yesterday's.... Never to return 😔
It's the London I miss, unlike today's overcrowded theme park. Still, it's worth a visit once a year for the street photography I suppose.
Thanks Movietone I'm glad they used film stock instead of videotape which would probably have been lost , it was a fine time to be alive .
Glpi lpi there were no mobile videotape cameras then.
This was filmed on the last day of 1964, a few weeks before Sir Winston Churchill died. A crisp winter's day in Park Lane and Knightsbridge, with far fewer vehicles and included a milk float outside a big hotel, that would never happen today.
Looks like very mild weather, judging by the lack of thick coats people are wearing. And they say warmer winters are something that's only occurred over the last 25 years. Well that blows that myth away!
Streets look really clean, and clutter free. And it's amazingly easy and quick to do the 'loop' so to speak. Try doing the loop now, and it would take three times as long!
Enjoyed watching this Great Video. Best decade ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!☺
Good stuff here! The best part is where the great London Transport buses of yesteryear seen along Park Lane in central London. The fantastic Routemaster bus on the 36 + the equally fantastic buses of the RT family. The Leyland RTW on the 74, a roofbox RT with the AEC engine, and a Leyland RTL on route 2.
+Christopher Dalton - hi Christopher, thanks for all that extra information. Glad you enjoyed the clip! Feel free to share the link - best wishes - Jenny @ Movietone
Wow!
At around 1'28 a double decker Greenline coach can also be seen.
The times when bus routes used to take you from one side of London to the other! Now most routes will get you only about 3 miles down the road!
Ok traffic was a lot lighter back then of course but very few traffic lights. Now you can hardly travel 50 yards before getting to a red light, which stays red for an eternity it seems.
Austin Healey Frogeye, VW Beetle and MGA all within feet of each other, just regular runabouts and sportscars back then and now they are cherished classics today that probably rarely get to see the outside of their owners garage apart from the occasional car show or meet.
Notice how the streets seem to be cleaner, uncluttered with street furniture,signs,poles and posts; white and yellow lines noticeably absent; fewer people; fewer vehicles.
Life WAS easier back then, that great God Avarice wasn't so blatant, there was no political correctness, and Common Sense played a much bigger role in life.
Didn't it? Well didn't it?
It certainly did Chris!
Yes, a wonderful time. Our more recent so-called leaders have a lot to answer for.
True - but only a few years earlier there would have been trolley bus wires visible everywhere. Trolley buses disappeared from London in about 1960?? ... replaced by the Routmasters' seen here. Other towns and cities held on to trolley buses for longer but here in London they obviously decided that they preferred noisy, diesel buses over clean and silent trolleys. That's progress for you!
Absolutely Chris.
Noone ever mentions the absence of CCTV cameras which are everywhere now. They would've never gotten away with them back then because there was no excuse for them, ie "to stop terrorism" and the other excuses, there's never any public debate if people want them or not, they just get installed mostly unnoticed because if they did there would be some that would object to them and they don't want that because the aim is to have them everywhere where people have no privacy at all.
When I was kid I used to go with my Dad delivering ice cream and frozen food to shops and factories in exactly the same Lyon’s Maid Thames Trader lorry in this video ,brought back great memories,Thanks for posting .
Hardly a foreign-made car to be seen, apart from a Renault 750 and a Beetle. I reckon around 1963. I recognise every road.
I came on here to write exactly the same - 1963!
Not a single 'A' plate anywhere and the construction of the BEA Terminal at 4:11 dates in to 1962-63 as it opened on Nov 6 1963.
Great contribution! Maybe at that time there were not yet shields recommending 'hold your lane'?
What a beautiful time to have lived in London. I live in rural Wales now but yesterday took a trip to Wembley high road. Oh my god.
We get a brief glimpse of The Odeon cinema at far right from 1:29 to 1:35. The poster on display has a section with a black background with yellow letters. The design (a Hippo with its mouth wide open and the film title showing) matches the posters for the Bob Hope film 'Call Me Bwana' which ran there April 4 -May 1st 1963.
Mk2 Consul Convertible... how cool is that
No chemtrails in the sky and no speed cameras - bliss.
I agree. And No CCTV cameras on every pole and side of every building and inside every shop big or small (where do they get the money from for all those cameras?), even in some public toilets they have cameras inside, and people don't seem to bat an eye to them for some reason as if they think it's normal and acceptable to be monitored everywhere you go, sorry but it's not normal, but people keep falling for the excuses "it's to stop crime and terrorism" lol.
According to The DVLA the Rolls Royce. At 3.19 is still on the road and green in colour. Must be from The Royal Household.
More likely belonged to an embassy or High Commission. Most Rolls Royces of that vintage are still running.
I don't suppose you have any footage from 1960s Stoke Newington high street N16. My father used to have a fruit shop there from 1960 - 1963.Just wondering. Thanks.
Baden Powel House and the Victoria & Albert Museum on the last shot there
No litter, No Graffiti, No Ear Plugs, No Mobile Phones, No Dogs Shit Everywhere , No Abandoned Shopping Trolleys, No Homeless, No Junkies in Doorways, No Smashed Shop Windows, No Unwanted Mattresses on the Pathways, No leggings, No Ugg Boots. This must have been sheer bliss living then. A time when people we not on mute, when politeness was standard procedure. Sadly today we have lost the art of conversation too.
Thanks for sharing,this is back projection footage for the Movies,is it not?
needs teaming up with some music
It doesn't even look like London, because there is far less traffic and more space on the road it looks more like America.
Wheres all the protesters ??
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Why couldn't some music be added to enhance what is a nice trip down memory lane? By the way, whatever happened to our car and motor bike industries?
Tarquin45 Ruined by complacent management and idle workers who went on strike every week over nothing.
The car industry got decimated through numerous factors. Without me ranting, there are numerous YT videos explaining matters in depth
suffice to state that what happened at Longbridge and British Leyland's takeover, interference if you like, of BMC goes a long way in explaining matters. Serve my engineering apprenticeship in Coventry when it was a major hub in car manufacturing. Greetings from the USA.