The film showing at The London Pavilion is The Beatles in 'Yellow Submarine. It is July 1968

@ch.6098

3 жыл бұрын

I think you are right. Video title corrected. Thanks!

@cafsixtieslover

3 жыл бұрын

I remember going to see it there.

@MrLekung

2 жыл бұрын

today jungle all came from africa

@tonyrobinson5597

2 жыл бұрын

Are you Michael kenny from Peabody buildings

@michaelkenny8540

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyrobinson5597 No. Michael Kenny from N E England!

Nobody back then, could have imagined the shithole London would become by 2022. What on earth, happened?

@staypress

2 жыл бұрын

Sadiq khan happened

@cephas3534

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@deanosaur808

6 ай бұрын

People complain but they vote for the same party that made it happen 🤷

@phildavies6020

2 ай бұрын

It got Kenned, Blaired, Borissed and Khan’d!

It’s a shame it’s not like that now

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 !!

@dorothysurry1368

2 жыл бұрын

London is now full of detritus, hardly any English or real Brits.

@jeff4362

2 жыл бұрын

Well that'd be Westminster Council's fault!

@roadgent7921

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@RHR-221b

Жыл бұрын

Now there is much more human 'detritus' on show. Much, much more. It is so violently obvious.

@alanmarr3323

2 ай бұрын

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 .

@th8257

6 ай бұрын

What makes you think it's the middle of the day? It's clearly early morning

This footage highlights just how overcrowded London has become.

@_B.M_

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Terencetembre1001.

3 жыл бұрын

@@_B.M_ No ,3 million plus more people now, so it's overcrowded, not opinion but fact.

@brainsmith3931

2 жыл бұрын

London is the major city in the UK and attracts people from all over the world.

@conradmason87

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately.

@jeff4362

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

@marthasheilds2446

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately cannot stop progression and change .

@RHR-221b

Жыл бұрын

@@marthasheilds2446 Or Takiyya SadKhant's agenda ... Stay free or die ... perhaps?

@Burbery777

Жыл бұрын

Destroyed

@bernicecollins9641

6 ай бұрын

I was born 1968 SW15 and yes they've destroyed it!

@njoyingtube1

2 ай бұрын

@@marthasheilds2446 Progression How much Change before we see it .

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

I moved there in Jan 68. It was lovely back then.

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.

@trevorsmith7753

8 ай бұрын

Lennon divorcing Cynthia. McCartney caught by Jane Asher in her bed with Francie Schwartz; also the year he met Linda. Beatles putting their winter-spring Rishikesh compositions into the White Album.

@neilurquhart8622

14 күн бұрын

The Stones are still touring and drawing huge crowds…..best group EVER.

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.

I'm always amazed by the lack of traffic on the roads. But a car was a luxury then.

@roydavidlivermore4664

3 ай бұрын

Yes,I was thinking ,how very few cars!

@ianharwell7500

11 күн бұрын

apparently, east to west London was easy in those days.. or vice versa... and few parking worries.

The London without congestion!

@canman5060

2 жыл бұрын

Congestion already happened at the turn of the 20th century. Have a chance to look at some of the early photos !

@RHR-221b

Жыл бұрын

And without taqiyya SadKant.

@ianburnett7333

10 ай бұрын

Without Congestion charge.

Great footage. What a wonderful place London was in those days...so laid back too.

@edwinthompson6510

18 күн бұрын

you could buy a property for around 100,000 grand and sell it today 2024 for 2millilon haha "loads a money"

London was spotlessly clean back then, I remember my mother also telling me.😍

@tonelemoan

2 жыл бұрын

Erm, not entirely sure about this...

@deanosaur808

6 ай бұрын

Less fast food back in those days 😉

Just think - The Beatles were still together on the day this was filmed.

@edwardburnsen-hicks2721

3 жыл бұрын

So was cream. So was the Hendrix Experiance. So was the who an kinks.

@simonpenum

2 жыл бұрын

This film begins literally across the road from where they was recording the white album at savile row

@waynetarry9043

3 ай бұрын

@@edwardburnsen-hicks2721 david gilmour had just got in the band ( PINK FLOYD ) & the rest is history !

@DasTubemeister

3 ай бұрын

So was Dave Dee Dozy Mick and Titch.

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.

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.

this London is the one i want back

@th8257

6 ай бұрын

So why are you living in st Petersburg ?

@spleeeen4it

6 ай бұрын

@@th8257 , I'm not.

@llwyde1104

4 ай бұрын

Can you though

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 😂😂😂

@jamesprivet

4 ай бұрын

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.

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… 🤬🤬

@joysynmonds9082

2 жыл бұрын

And without major graffiti ....

@RHR-221b

Жыл бұрын

Rid London of Takiyya Sad Khant et al.

Beautifully musical transmission of a London Transport RT - even riding on a bus was more relaxing!

The film being shown at the Empire cinema in Leicester Square is Dr. Zhivago - which was released in 1965....

@MrDaiseymay

3 жыл бұрын

A massive hit, it might have had a general release again?

It looks ideal. A proper grand city but no mess or visual chaos.

@robertp.wainman4094

7 ай бұрын

Great comment!

@adude9882

7 ай бұрын

@@robertp.wainman4094 Thanks. I would have been 5 years old then. I can just about remember.

MEMORIES OF ---- LONDON 1960'S ----- I WAS THEN IN 1968 19YRS. THANKS ! GREAT VIDEO ! FROM U.K. (2022).

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 .

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

@chrisfox2890

Жыл бұрын

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.

@katebemb8900

9 ай бұрын

Agree Jeff , so sad those days have gone forever

@user-dq5fs8fm5v

Ай бұрын

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.

It looks so clean...

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.

@canman5060

2 жыл бұрын

Some of the back alleys in those days are quiet problematic.Drunkards and drug addicts.Live through those days.

@joysynmonds9082

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Silkroads733

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Munkenba

2 жыл бұрын

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!

@staypress

2 жыл бұрын

@@joysynmonds9082 ahh u mean ubers .Ye they r not taxis by the way . The black vehicles r taxis

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.

I'd like to live there ! So much nicer than the cesspit we find today.

@MrDaiseymay

3 жыл бұрын

Grossly over-populated, and all the detroitus that brings.

@lyndoncmp5751

Жыл бұрын

London is still great. Why else do millions of tourists still go there and keep coming back. Its no cesspit for goodness sake.

@burgertim7878

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@barrywilliams8324

Жыл бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay 2023 Sadly so is the country .P.C rules prevent saying more

@barrywilliams8324

Жыл бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay so is the country as a whole. .. p.c. rules prevent me saying more.

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.

@uk-martin4905

8 ай бұрын

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.

@ROCKINGMAN

7 ай бұрын

@@uk-martin4905 Yes, I've seen photos too of this.

How i yearn for those wonderful times. Innocence of youth maybe

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!

Ah, 1968. What a prosperous time, before the doom and gloom of the 1970s...

Looks lovely. I wouldn’t go there now though.

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!

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.❤

@John-lp5xh

4 ай бұрын

Same

Great video. There is a very similar video to this somewhere on KZread accompanying a song by the British pop band Love Affair, Bringing On Back the Good Times, a hit in 1969.

London used to be so civilised

@Terencetembre1001.

3 жыл бұрын

@@Northstander You want to know in what way, have you got a spare couple of days?.

@studas2011

3 жыл бұрын

@@Northstander Do you want him to note mass immigration so you can berate him for being a nazi?

@RayZappa

3 жыл бұрын

e.g. "show us yer tits darling" being shouted from every building with scaffolding round it...

@studas2011

3 жыл бұрын

@@RayZappa Hardly comparable to beheadings in the street and gangs of roving 3rd worlders.

@RayZappa

3 жыл бұрын

@@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..

What wonderful shots of a bygone London !

@howard1beale

3 жыл бұрын

Yes its tragic what has happened to it since then

@MrDaiseymay

3 жыл бұрын

@@howard1bealemassive unchecked immigration and treachery

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.

At around 45 seconds you can glimpse an advert for Watneys Red Barrel... Truely awlful beer.

@MrDaiseymay

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, and mysteriously popular

@trevordance5181

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay Just like some of the bland stuff that is popular today like Green King IPA, Fosters, and Carslsberg!

@wayinfront1

3 жыл бұрын

''Why is Watneys Red Barrel like making love on the beach? Because it's fu**ing near water.'' - Contemporary joke.

@jimmymorgan3324

3 жыл бұрын

ROLL. OUT THE. BARREL. PISS WATER

@trevordance5181

3 жыл бұрын

@@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 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

@samantharendalldillon8612

2 жыл бұрын

Me too !!

@Isleofskye

8 ай бұрын

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.

@Isleofskye

8 ай бұрын

@@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

What a pleasure it was to drive a car there at the time

Although this was before my time, I want this London back!!

@th8257

6 ай бұрын

Must be tough on the St Petersburg troll farm if you want this "back"

60s was your best era this country.

@th8257

6 ай бұрын

For what? Economic collapse?

@phildavies6020

2 ай бұрын

@@th8257No...you’re thinking about the present.

What a City! In the sixties it was a magic where.

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.😢

@BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp

2 жыл бұрын

This was done by design not by accident well planned years in advance, and people sat - back and allowed it to happen.. !

@dorothysurry1368

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@RHR-221b

Жыл бұрын

​@@dorothysurry1368 💓

2:03 Bovril! :D

Before the advent of takeaway food -- now al you ever see is litter....

Freddie Mercury is working at Heathrow Airport in London then.

Oh it’s heartbreaking to see what’s happened to London now! 😢

That must have been a tourist bus running through Leicester Square,for I don't remember any service buses going through there.

Can’t believe how so little traffic there was ude love the roads to b that quiet nowadays

1968 was the first time I visited London, I spent the weekend there. Was a very unfriendly place compared to my home in West Dorset where people speak to each other. I've never been back and from what I've seen on here probably best I don't.

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.

@Sidneyyoungblood75

2 жыл бұрын

I don't just mean the quality of the actual film it was filmed on/with.

@dream-67

2 жыл бұрын

I agree totally, love everything late 60s....

@Ridersonthestorm8899

8 ай бұрын

​@@dream-67Give me a time machine and set the controls for 1967❤

@deanosaur808

6 ай бұрын

Blame it on video tape!

london a beautiful city i miss it cant wait to see it again

Someone looked at that landscape and said "What this needs is more diversity"

@joysynmonds9082

2 жыл бұрын

Or - "let's mush it up, because only money matters now".

@conradmason87

2 жыл бұрын

The country was a pleasure to live in not perfect but well mannered and managed well.

@MrAlwaysBlue

Жыл бұрын

Gaggles of Albanians in dirty track suits would enhance this film

@chrisfox2890

Жыл бұрын

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.

@simonpenum

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisfox2890 It's horrible. The whole reason I moved out. And I'm a born and bred working class Londoner

Amazing how they found so many period vehicles for the filming

Nearly all of the buildings are still there.

I am impressed. Oh my beautiful capital city what have they done to you.

lanes were probably not common at the time

Great...I really enjoyed this video...!

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.

@staypress

2 жыл бұрын

You can say that again .Nice play on words and very correct.

@deanosaur808

6 ай бұрын

They still have pride once every year 😉

Before the madness of today. Well ordered not perfect but stable.

The footage only shows parts of Central London during that period there was deteriorating areas especially in East London. Depopulation was happening quite rapidly.

@AFaceintheCrowd01

Жыл бұрын

Yes, there was - but even they miss the way things were.

From "sleepy London town" to toilet in the space of 50 years.

@edwinthompson6510

18 күн бұрын

india did it in twelve months

I didn't realise you could drive through Leicester Square.

So clean and beautiful

The film journey stops South of Waterloo Railway Station on Westminster Bridge Road junction with Kennington Park Road by Lambeth North underground station on the left across the traffic lights .It’s only a very small fragment of central London we see pity it didn’t carry on for full journey South East London .

@Isleofskye

8 ай бұрын

Exactly. I know those routes very well,having been at The Elephant in 1954 and my Grammar School was next to Kennington Park and I lived my first 29 years in Walworth until I moved to this house,40 years ago,just 11 miles awqay in 1983.

Great video for this old video

This film is a prime example of Real London with its strong English identity before it was destroyed by government policies.

Take me back to the 60’s 🙏🏼

Απίστευτα χαλαρωτικό... σκηνικό από παιδικό επιτραπέζιο παιχνίδι!

They were the best busses I grew up with them in the 50-60s basic but good

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?

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!

What is worse: To lose your father because he believed he fought monsters, or to lose your children because they believe monsters? All that we have lost is because we didn't love them.

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.

hardly any traffic must have been Sunday

The traffic! The traffic is...moving!

So clean and not many around

When England was England...

@Mussi93

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, shut up. The world moves on and evolves. Do the same.

@Asterix419

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mussi93 FU! The world not moves on. Just is destroyed.

@Jake.03-g3k

3 жыл бұрын

@@Asterix419 I am grateful to live in this era and in fact I am happy

@Oliver-tm7jm

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Isleofskye

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mussi93 How did we ever survive without Diversity? We actually seemed to be managing quite well :)

London without people cycling on the pavement or grown up s on scooter s ..

Nice to here the Routemaster tones again.

Better days.

London has changed but every thing does. ❤

I'm 2 young 2 remember the rts but the rms and rmls are the buses i grew up with lovely buses.

I was born only a few miles from the city , my Dad worked in Victoria at this time, I used to stand in the shop window pretending to be a manikin, fond memories, sad the way this country has fallen.

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.

@burgertim7878

Жыл бұрын

You could say this about most west european countries these days.

@edwinthompson6510

18 күн бұрын

The government gave British passports away like confetti

“No” cars …”no” people..,amazing! I was 9..I remember 1968 being a happy time with my mum…God rest her soul

See how empty the streets are compared to today

Clean streets

WOOOOOOOOOOW 🎈🤗🧸 LOOKS AMAZING 🤩

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!

@RHR-221b

Жыл бұрын

Was it blicky driver? Asking for myself ...

It sure had its problems back then, but none like we have today.