Felipe, you're looking through rose coloured glasses. I was born just after the war, and ration books were used for many years. People were poor, children would wear " hand me down clothing " also one peramulater for all ones family offspring. I used to hear my grandparents talking about living on bread and dripping and adding salt to taste. On the good side people were friendly, we would go into other houses and huddle around an open fire whilst singing and listening to the radio. Oh, many hours spent around a table playing board games and putting together puzzles. ❤
I love you man! You have a good heart and an appreciation of all the old school things in life! I also like to cherish those things even though I am too young to of known them. Great video. God bless ya!!
It's pretty shocking how different it is. Then again, I live between Camberwell and Peckham, with today's Rye Lane hugely different from even the recent past of the 'Only Fools and Horses' era (80s/90s). Today, it looks much more like a high street in Lagos. I've got absolutely no problem with Nigerian high streets but I can't help thinking that they're probably better located in Nigeria itself.
The Borough was known as "Little Lagos" 25 years ago whereas when I lived one mile from Camberwell from 1954 onwards it was 98%+ White/British even though it was near Peckham and Brixton. I played Primary School football for my Walworth school and never saw anyone of colour in any team or spectating at any match and our Primary School was all-white British in every year while I was there from 1959-65.
There is also wonderful footage available on CZcams of some of our northern towns circa 1901/02. Places such as Manchester, Sheffield and Bradford are featured. I highly recommend these videos to people who are interested in film of our forebears going back some 120 years now. They are highly evocative.
Why? We're an historic yet modern, egalitarian, multi-cultural society which is full of innovation. If that's your attitude I feel sorry for what you've become.
The British character is still alive and well. It is being sorely tried, but we are still the people, in the main, we always were. Sadly, it takes war or a huge emergency to release that.
I would think the singer is Al Bowlly and they are barrage balloons in the air but thanks for bringing a tear to this old gits eyes. Dear old London when it still belonged to us, docklands beside a still working river where I grew up surrounded by two generations of genuine heroes. P.S. The balloons were to deter low flying bombers and/or dive bombers.
Im having difficulty hearing the words, but it sounds a bit like something Lew Stone might do, as for the singer...i think it could be Al Bowlly, but maybe not. Sam Browne maybe?
I remember those times .Could almost be another world with no drugs to speak of ,no knife murders, and much more respect in general which to someone who actually lived through those times is so obvious a fact that there can be no logical argument against those times being more civilized . The inference there is of course that we do not necessarily become more civilized as time passes.
I remember years ago an old guy telling me he was a soldier in the desert section of the army and whichever country they were in they were all getting high on the local hashish!!
I noticed American and Australian soldiers so people would have just experienced WW2. Much of the clothing would have been of basic materials because rationing was still in force but as you say no slobs in sight .
There’s a video from somewhere in England from 1902 I believe they added colour to, they are all mesmerised by the camera. Everyone is wearing a flat cap lol
I grew up in the 1950's. Everybody was well dressed. Casual dress got more and more common from the 1990's onwards. The streets were free of litter. NOBODY threw litter in the street. People were much more disciplined and polite. I did not live in London but visited quite a few times and remember seeing lots of bombed out buildings. I expect you know that the underground is the oldest in the world. People were not obese because food was rationed and fast food was not available, except for fish and chips which kept people going through the war. I look back and think how lovely things were but I suppose that is the same everywhere.
Valerie Davidson - come on! Casual dress became common twenty years before the 1990’s (post the hippy revolution) and I remember litter being a problem all of my life AND I was born in the mid-sixties. The Roman poet Horace wrote (circa 20 BC) “Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt” -throughout human history people have looked back at some mythical golden-age while decrying the morals and attitudes of the younger generation!
@@thelwulfeoforlic6482 I would still say in the 80's people still dressed up to go out and I was living not far from London then. They certainly don't now. I still say that from around 1990 onwards things got more and more casual. All the shops that sold evening dress have disappeared - and that was from around 1990. In the ¹980's I remember wearing long dresses which are very rare now. Ofcourse you have had people dressing casually for many years but dressing smarter was definitely more common in the 80's.
@@thelwulfeoforlic6482 Regarding litter. I repeat that nobody littered in the 1950's. I think the 1960's was when everything started to change. I was born in 1938 and I can assure you that all my childhood I never saw litter, ever. Even in the 1960's you did not see the streets like you do now. I do remember.
@@valeriedavidson2785 We used to use the packets that your purchases came in, again and again, we just took them when we went to the shops. We used to have shopping baskets and bags, purchases just went into them, with no packaging unless needed.
that is because those were trams, they were a popular mode of Public transport at the time and those would be the London docks mostly used for freight and those would be barrage balloons.. fun fact the British Army used a barrage balloon to train the Parachute Regiment at parachute jumping i used to watch it from where i used to live upstairs window. Looked like the old USAAF uniform in one those clips
You would love the pre-decimal currency I was used to in the 1960s to 1971. A pound was 20 shillings. There were 12 pennies to a pound. You had six-penny pieces, thruppeny bits, pennies, ha'pennies, and farthings - before my time. Splitting a pound was simple as you had ten shilling notes (50p). A Crown was 5 shillings, also known as a dollar (which was roughly the exchange rate then). A half-crown was 2/6 (12.5p). You had two bob bits, and a pound and a shilling was a Guinea. Nothing confused there
In answer to your question. We can't 😢. We have to accept the world is constantly changing. Sometimes for the better but, in my humble opinion, for the most part, for the worse. Those older people who were lucky enough to live in a world that is depicted in those old films are privileged and lucky. Young people are so ignorant these days that most are not even aware that a world like that once existed. Sad.
The double-deckers were trams, and didn't necessarily drive on the left. Come on Philippe, you love us despite any problems you may see these days. Many Brits feel like you too, and yearn for the simpler days. Days made simpler by kind human beings, and that was 98% the norm then. I hope those days will come back.
There are newspapers reports in The Times in the 1950s where The lords are in a tizzy over the rise in juvenile crime and they comment how much better it was in their 'good old days'. In 50 years time the youth of today will be looking back to how much better it was in the 2020s.
It's depressing af and also enraging. Enraging once you find out who is behind the multi-culti globalist 'no borders' agenda. I can't say anymore, or YT will ban this video.
The UK is a fantastic country to live in. I suspect something has gone wrong with your life, for which I extend my sympathies, but don't blame it on this great place.
Please we have to know WHO has destroyed us and who is going to destroy us even further. Its the tribe. They are engineering the destruction of Edom and the genocide of Amalek. This is the truth. We must fight their psychopathy.
Great reaction Felipe to a video that hit me between the eyes and your observations were spot on and will have struck a big chord with many viewers here and what we are seeing today. Another comment here suggests watching Nicholas Lyndhurst (Rodney in Fools and Horses) going back through a time tunnel to the 1940's - yes its well worth a look.
Something I always notice in older footage is the waistlines, even from the 80’s, people were so much slimmer. Everything just looks more civil, a respect for other people and their surroundings. Nobody gives a monkeys anymore, there’s no shame, and we’re all the worse for it.
@@girlsdrinkfeck This is during the war and food was heavily rationed, it was impossible to get fat sticking to rationing, the rationing finally ended completely in 1954, it continued so long after the war because of US policies towards Britain.
I lived in this part of London in the 1950s and the bombsites were our playground. the buses going over waterloo bridge were called trolly buses, the different one that went over the bridge on the leaft side was a Diesel engined bus. that was a double decker.
I was brought up in London, and even visiting now, I am impressed how clean and unlittered the streets are ! Considering that there are literally millions of overseas visitors walking around !
The first thing that struck me is how smooth the footage is I recon it has been digitised and my be colour added to it a, the cars you mentioned on the right of the picture are electric tram cars with over head electric cable.
@5.5 it appears to be across the river with the Monument on the left and the building with the lion statue I think is monument to themerchant the merchant navy. Waterloo Stan is much cleaner and brighter now as are all the main stations. In the 50s I remember going through the area near St Paul's and there were no building just short walls. Buckingham palace in the film has the temporary railings, the originals were taken away for the war effort and replace some years later. Houses all over the country had railings taken away to make munitions etc.
@@girlsdrinkfeck If you had a garden and time to spare.?Most married women worked, as well as running a home and bringing up children. No paid child care then. We relied on the older generation to help out. See what I mean, We helped each other.
My first observation is how less hectic it is. Less traffic, less people. Of course better dressed, not rushing. To be honest, even in the 1970’s when I was a kid, the fashions had declined .. I think the 1960’s changed everything.
The 90s sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, makes an interesting contrast between modern times and the 1940s. Its about a man, increasingly put in the shade by his career-orientated wife, discovering a time-tunnel into wartime London. Well worth a look!
I was born in early 50's and grew up around the Waterloo station area. Our playground's were the bomb sites where many a play fight took place. It was clearly a war time film and Eros was boarded up in Piccadilly Circus. Trams and trolley bus ran along with normal buses, even in the war London had an effective transport system. Trams last run in 1951 and trolley buses afew years later. As a kid mum would give you a clip round the ear if dropped litter on purpose. How times have changed if you had to live on the wartime diet nobody would put on unwanted weight.
1:47 I think this is near the spot where the crane jibs were lowered on the south bank as Churchill's body was carried on the Thames in 1965. A docker subsequently revealed that the crane operators were paid to do so (the funeral was on a Saturday)... but not many other dockers, if indeed any, flocked to share that docker's limelight in that revelation. Anyhow, the jib lowering became an iconic part of the funeral.
The 3 lane traffic system you saw at the beginning was road vehicles as per normal to the left and center, and trams on the right (not double-decker busses).
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 Hence why it's on the left... but Felipe says "Look at the double decker" long before it enters the frame, mistaking trams for double deckers. As you say, they look quite different.
Nobody was fat because we had rationing. A typical ration for one adult per week was: one fresh egg; 50g (2oz) butter; 100g (4oz)margarine; 50g (2oz) tea; 25g (1 oz) cheese; 225g (8oz) sugar; 100g (4oz or 4 rashers) bacon; 3 pints (1800ml) milk, occasionally dropping to 2 pints (1200ml). Meat to the value of 1s 2d (around 6p today) was also included.
To give you some perspective on the property situation Felipe, my parents bought our house just south of tower bridge for £55,000 back in 1983. It was recently valued at 2.3 million.
Whereas I bought a House in THe Suburbs away from Tower Bridge also in 1983 for £27,400 i.e Half your Parents price but it is only worth £340,000 now whereas your Parents house has risen over 40 Fold...
@@Isleofskye No-one could have predicted the huge inflation in value that property was going to have in London. My parents are the first to admit how fortunate they are to be sitting on so much money.
The infant mortality rate in 1944 was 47 per 1,000 compared to the current 4 per 1,000. How many of your children are you prepared to 'give up' in order to get back to the good old days? As the film was shot in 1944 I find it incredible anyone can think it was better then in the middle of a world-wide war where c 50 million people were killed and Europe laid waste.
Loved this. I'm not from that era,but yes property prices were lot lower back then(and accesible). London has changed a lot since the 90's let alone since back then
Very interesting and enjoyed your commentary. They were trams crossing the bridge on the right and those were barrage balloons to try and deter bombers.
Beautiful video - there are lots of such fascinating colour videos from the early 20th C. There wasn't obesity at the end of the war because everyone was having to live on rations. That rationing didn't end until the mid fifties. Definitely agree with the smart dressing wear a flat cap in winter and then also have summer hat for the occasional hot weather.
I wonder if the decrease in smoking has increased male baldness or does it just seem like there are more bald men these days. I turned 46 today and still have a full head of hair and show only slight signs of going grey unlike all my friends. Think I’ll stick to my occasional cigars and clay pipe when the mood takes me.
We became too Americanised after the war. Too obsessed with individualism. Standards fell away. But you can fight back. I refuse to wear jeans and tee-shirts now. I`ve added tailored jackets and a Panama hat. And I use the values of my parents as a benchmark and not some Hollywood celebrity. Join a litter pick group or start one with your church. Take pride in your neighbourhood etc.
So you are saying you are individualistic? Collectivism is what has brought us to our knees, exceptign every anti-scientific diktat from the criminal cabal people laughably call government. Collectivism is the anti culture "multiculturism". Collectivism is the anti individualism of identity politics. Society can be cohesive and civilised without being a collective, Indeed I would say a collective society will be an oppressed society. The common bonds are shared by our cultural roots, our shared heritage and common language and history under a national identity but within that we can all be individuals. This is why mass immigration and open borders are the first order of attack upon a homogenous sovereign nation you wish to destroy. As Peter Sutherland, the Goldman Sachs banker who created EU open borders and then became UN Special Migration Envoy put it, "More must be done to undermine the homogeneity of the EU nations state" via mass immigration. That is why we are told that destroying our culture and history is our strength "Diversity is our strength" and that to want to preserve our truly diverse national identities and cultures across Europe we must embrace the anti cultural collective "multiculturism" Hope that makes sense of our modern Britain.
@@Muckylittleme I remember when the idea of drawing attention to oneself was seen as vulgar. Every doorstep would be scrubbed in the morning. Shoes polished before setting off for school. Standards were higher. They were collectively high. That is no longer the case.
@@terencestrugnell4928 Oh I agree, standards were higher all around but that does not require collectivism, just self respect and pride in your community. I guess you are talking more about natural cultural cohesion which has been engineered out of our society but collective to me means a forced homogeneity that straight-jackets individualism and not a natural one which embraces it. I feel civilisation hit its peak a few decades ago and has been deliberately undermined ever since, especially our Christian heritage and moral standing.
@@Muckylittleme By a certain group of people who push no-borders globalism for the world, with the notable exception of their own country which is by definition an ethno-state and has borders that are zealously guarded. Funny that...
There is some footage of London in the Blitz showing training of air raid and ambulance staff it was taken Mayor of Westminster I believe it was left in a drawer for 70 years and has just been found..
Hi Colin. What he meant was, that there was a line of traffic going in the opposite direction surrounded on either side by 2 lines, including THe Tram Line, going the other way where the natural logistics would be all lanes together going in the same direction as opposed to Lanes 1 (Teams) and Lane 3 (cars) going one way while in the middle Lane 2 is going the other way :)
The only singer I can think of from that time frame is Al Bowlee ,{ the spelling is not correct} he was killed in air raid here in the UK. There is footage I think on You Tube of him.
5:55 is perhaps the hardest to place... The chimney-like structure was an old shot tower. This is looking south, standing at about Cleopatra's Needle and facing where the Royal Festival Hall is now.
@@iriscollins7583 I heard that during the war, in East london at least, people would dress as Air Wardens, tell people there was an air raid and then burgle the houses of the evacuatees...
The first double-decker Omnibus was manufactured in 1847 in the U.K. It was horse drawn (typically by three horses) with an open upper deck that did not have a roof.
@@Isleofskye there was no obesity before it either fatty liver diabetes and insulin resistance are very new issues of poor quality modern foods that lead to this.
No obesity probably because of rationing of food which lasted to the 1950's and every one had to take care of clothes. The double decker s looked a lot like trams on set routes (rails).
No obesity, try putting weight on with rationing. Per WEEK, adult allowances, 2 ounces of butter, 2 ounces of cheese, ONE egg, 4oz lard, 3 pints of milk, 4 oz of margarine, 4 oz bacon and ham, 2oz loose tea, 8 oz fruit preserve per month, 8 oz sweets per month, one pack of egg powder per month, one Shilling (5p) worth of meat per week, Fruit and vegetables were not actually rationed, but were sometimes in very short supply and difficult to find. Rationing finished in 1954 officially when ham and cheese were taken off rationing. Clothing was also rationed. There were times after the war when rationing was actually worse than it was during the war, for reasons I won't go into here.
The double deckers seemingly on the wrong side were trams on a tramway. London is unregnisable now compared to even 50 years ago. The small terraced house were occupied by workers, and now they are the homes of rich people, with large cellars dug out beneath them, loft extensions, and large kitchen extensions into what used to be their back gardens.
The singer sounds like Al Bowlly a British vocalist and jazz guitarist, who was popular during the 1930s in Britain and sang for many bands of the time
@MS says, You can hear it without commentary if you get it direct from CZcams. Rare film about London WW 2. I don't recognise the singer but it's not Bowlly or Sam Browne. The orchestra could be Roy Fox or Jack Hylton but there were so many back then.
i think prorerty was really very affordable in 1943/44 most londeners with kids moved if you bought something and it did not get bomed bij ze geermaans then ching ching
I'd bet you could buy a knightsbridge home for 1 thousand pounds back then. However, the repeated comment about no obesity doesn't take into account there was food rashering back then. Whoops
I understand yearning for the past, but every single generation has made catastrophic mistakes because they never listen to their elders. The arrogance of youth.
I dont mean to be rude, but if you look around the streets now, you will not see many obese in the UK, some maybe, but it is your country that takes the prize sadly !
The double decker was a tram which are forced to run on fixed tracks of course so had a special lane of its own. You can see a bus double decker at 9.23.
Of course one of the reasons everyone was thin was because this footage looked like it was from WW2 and everyone would have been having to live off pretty meager rations.
Felipe, you're looking through rose coloured glasses. I was born just after the war, and ration books were used for many years. People were poor, children would wear " hand me down clothing " also one peramulater for all ones family offspring. I used to hear my grandparents talking about living on bread and dripping and adding salt to taste. On the good side people were friendly, we would go into other houses and huddle around an open fire whilst singing and listening to the radio. Oh, many hours spent around a table playing board games and putting together puzzles. ❤
Sorry but it was still a lot better than it is today
We British were on short rations, very short rations throughout the war and until the mid 1950s!
I love you man! You have a good heart and an appreciation of all the old school things in life! I also like to cherish those things even though I am too young to of known them. Great video. God bless ya!!
It's pretty shocking how different it is. Then again, I live between Camberwell and Peckham, with today's Rye Lane hugely different from even the recent past of the 'Only Fools and Horses' era (80s/90s). Today, it looks much more like a high street in Lagos. I've got absolutely no problem with Nigerian high streets but I can't help thinking that they're probably better located in Nigeria itself.
The Borough was known as "Little Lagos" 25 years ago whereas when I lived one mile from Camberwell from 1954 onwards it was 98%+ White/British even though it was near Peckham and Brixton.
I played Primary School football for my Walworth school and never saw anyone of colour in any team or spectating at any match and our Primary School was all-white British in every year while I was there from 1959-65.
Looks like a mix of Islamabad and Nigeria/the Bronx these days.
@@Isleofskye I went Walworth 1972-77. The whole area is now a shithole and we all know why?
@@H4CK61 Last time I went there, the Police were going down The Walworth Road getting abused by a large gathering of 15/16 year olds :(
Stop voting for the same traitors that have done this. Never forgive, never forget.
There is also wonderful footage available on CZcams of some of our northern towns circa 1901/02. Places such as Manchester, Sheffield and Bradford are featured.
I highly recommend these videos to people who are interested in film of our forebears going back some 120 years now. They are highly evocative.
It breaks my heart to see what my beloved England has become
Why? We're an historic yet modern, egalitarian, multi-cultural society which is full of innovation. If that's your attitude I feel sorry for what you've become.
The British character is still alive and well. It is being sorely tried, but we are still the people, in the
main, we always were. Sadly, it takes war or a huge emergency to release that.
The barrage balloons were tethered by steel cables to create a hostile place in which to fly aircraft.
I would think the singer is Al Bowlly and they are barrage balloons in the air but thanks for bringing a tear to this old gits eyes. Dear old London when it still belonged to us, docklands beside a still working river where I grew up surrounded by two generations of genuine heroes. P.S. The balloons were to deter low flying bombers and/or dive bombers.
Captally, definitely not Al Bowlly.
I also thought of Al Bowlly, who I believe was killed by a parachute mine during an air raid.
Im having difficulty hearing the words, but it sounds a bit like something Lew Stone might do, as for the singer...i think it could be Al Bowlly, but maybe not. Sam Browne maybe?
We used to have a barrage balloon over our house. I used to call it an elephant. There were ack ack guns nearby in a small park.
I remember those times .Could almost be another world with no drugs to speak of ,no knife murders, and much more respect in general which to someone who actually lived through those times is so obvious a fact that there can be no logical argument against those times being more civilized . The inference there is of course that we do not necessarily become more civilized as time passes.
but but multi culturism and diversity makes us better ? :*
I remember years ago an old guy telling me he was a soldier in the desert section of the army and whichever country they were in they were all getting high on the local hashish!!
I noticed American and Australian soldiers so people would have just experienced WW2. Much of the clothing would have been of basic materials because rationing was still in force but as you say no slobs in sight .
The war was still going on, the Barrage balloons are a big clue
I love this! 😍And the music. Thanks for sharing Felipe.🤗
There’s a video from somewhere in England from 1902 I believe they added colour to, they are all mesmerised by the camera. Everyone is wearing a flat cap lol
I grew up in the 1950's. Everybody was well dressed. Casual dress got more and more common from the 1990's onwards. The streets were free of litter. NOBODY threw litter in the street. People were much more disciplined and polite. I did not live in London but visited quite a few times and remember seeing lots of bombed out buildings. I expect you know that the underground is the oldest in the world. People were not obese because food was rationed and fast food was not available, except for fish and chips which kept people going through the war. I look back and think how lovely things were but I suppose that is the same everywhere.
Valerie Davidson - come on! Casual dress became common twenty years before the 1990’s (post the hippy revolution) and I remember litter being a problem all of my life AND I was born in the mid-sixties. The Roman poet Horace wrote (circa 20 BC) “Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt” -throughout human history people have looked back at some mythical golden-age while decrying the morals and attitudes of the younger generation!
@@thelwulfeoforlic6482 I would still say in the 80's people still dressed up to go out and I was living not far from London then. They certainly don't now. I still say that from around 1990 onwards things got more and more casual. All the shops that sold evening dress have disappeared - and that was from around 1990. In the ¹980's I remember wearing long dresses which are very rare now. Ofcourse you have had people dressing casually for many years but dressing smarter was definitely more common in the 80's.
@@thelwulfeoforlic6482 Regarding litter. I repeat that nobody littered in the 1950's. I think the 1960's was when everything started to change. I was born in 1938 and I can assure you that all my childhood I never saw litter, ever. Even in the 1960's you did not see the streets like you do now. I do remember.
@@valeriedavidson2785 We used to use the packets that your purchases came in, again and again, we just took them when we went to the shops. We used to have shopping baskets and bags, purchases just went into them, with no packaging unless needed.
that is because those were trams, they were a popular mode of Public transport at the time and those would be the London docks mostly used for freight and those would be barrage balloons.. fun fact the British Army used a barrage balloon to train the Parachute Regiment at parachute jumping i used to watch it from where i used to live upstairs window. Looked like the old USAAF uniform in one those clips
Society did a 360 with trams. We got rid of them, and now are getting them back.
@@Bowdon yeah it was trams and double-deckers in all cities in UK
You would love the pre-decimal currency I was used to in the 1960s to 1971. A pound was 20 shillings. There were 12 pennies to a pound. You had six-penny pieces, thruppeny bits, pennies, ha'pennies, and farthings - before my time. Splitting a pound was simple as you had ten shilling notes (50p). A Crown was 5 shillings, also known as a dollar (which was roughly the exchange rate then). A half-crown was 2/6 (12.5p). You had two bob bits, and a pound and a shilling was a Guinea. Nothing confused there
I think you'll find there were 12 pennies to the shilling, not the pound. 😂
British public transport, especially the rail network, was far more extensive then.
And then they deconstructed a good portion to make way for car drivers. A real shame. I would love to see trams restored in towns.
Got Beeching to thank for that.
@@blutey looking after his friends.😵
In answer to your question. We can't 😢. We have to accept the world is constantly changing. Sometimes for the better but, in my humble opinion, for the most part, for the worse. Those older people who were lucky enough to live in a world that is depicted in those old films are privileged and lucky. Young people are so ignorant these days that most are not even aware that a world like that once existed. Sad.
I totally agree, bring back that type of living. Best wishes from Northern Ireland.
What's happened to Lillian?
I grew up amid all the bomb ruins by the river near Tower bridge and kind of miss the way England used to be, it was so different then.
The double-deckers were trams, and didn't necessarily drive on the left. Come on Philippe, you love us despite any problems you may see these days. Many Brits feel like you too, and yearn for the simpler days. Days made simpler by kind human beings, and that was 98% the norm then. I hope those days will come back.
Never heard of a double decker tram?
There are newspapers reports in The Times in the 1950s where The lords are in a tizzy over the rise in juvenile crime and they comment how much better it was in their 'good old days'. In 50 years time the youth of today will be looking back to how much better it was in the 2020s.
@@arfajob3312 they still have the last remaining double decker trams in Blackpool
@@arfajob3312 You've now Seen one or two on film.
@@iriscollins7583Sorry Iris, it was a question rather than a statement. Seen plenty in Blackpool.
I can't watch these videos. It deeply disturbs me. What we have lost, a true golden age. We now live in the ruins of this civilization
Aye makes me sad too for what was .
It's depressing af and also enraging. Enraging once you find out who is behind the multi-culti globalist 'no borders' agenda. I can't say anymore, or YT will ban this video.
The UK is a fantastic country to live in. I suspect something has gone wrong with your life, for which I extend my sympathies, but don't blame it on this great place.
@@staticcentrehalf7166 keep telling yourself that
Please we have to know WHO has destroyed us and who is going to destroy us even further. Its the tribe. They are engineering the destruction of Edom and the genocide of Amalek. This is the truth. We must fight their psychopathy.
I think you really enjoyed that I did nice one Phil 🇬🇧👍
The "blimps" were barrage balloons. Their purpose were to stop enemy aircraft from flying in too low. How effective they were, I have no idea.
That's before the world want WOKE
Great reaction Felipe to a video that hit me between the eyes and your observations were spot on and will have struck a big chord with many viewers here and what we are seeing today. Another comment here suggests watching Nicholas Lyndhurst (Rodney in Fools and Horses) going back through a time tunnel to the 1940's - yes its well worth a look.
Something I always notice in older footage is the waistlines, even from the 80’s, people were so much slimmer.
Everything just looks more civil, a respect for other people and their surroundings.
Nobody gives a monkeys anymore, there’s no shame, and we’re all the worse for it.
due to medical chief idiots being paid to say to the media " oh its a mental disorder " so people get away with any sort of lack of discipline
@@girlsdrinkfeck This is during the war and food was heavily rationed, it was impossible to get fat sticking to rationing, the rationing finally ended completely in 1954, it continued so long after the war because of US policies towards Britain.
thanks for another great video Felipe.
I lived in this part of London in the 1950s and the bombsites were our playground. the buses going over waterloo bridge were called trolly buses, the different one that went over the bridge on the leaft side was a Diesel engined bus. that was a double decker.
I was brought up in London, and even visiting now, I am impressed how clean and unlittered the streets are !
Considering that there are literally millions of overseas visitors walking around !
The first thing that struck me is how smooth the footage is I recon it has been digitised and my be colour added to it a, the cars you mentioned on the right of the picture are electric tram cars with over head electric cable.
When London was still English.
And still proper cockneys😊
@5.5 it appears to be across the river with the Monument on the left and the building with the lion statue I think is monument to themerchant the merchant navy. Waterloo Stan is much cleaner and brighter now as are all the main stations. In the 50s I remember going through the area near St Paul's and there were no building just short walls. Buckingham palace in the film has the temporary railings, the originals were taken away for the war effort and replace some years later. Houses all over the country had railings taken away to make munitions etc.
Maybe the lack of obesity was down to food rationing during and after the war. I believe rationing went on till the mid 50’s.
and the fact most people ate home grown foods no chemical fatty foods
@@girlsdrinkfeck If you had a garden and time to spare.?Most married women worked, as well as running a home and bringing up children. No paid child care then. We relied on the older generation to help out. See what I mean, We helped each other.
My first observation is how less hectic it is. Less traffic, less people. Of course better dressed, not rushing. To be honest, even in the 1970’s when I was a kid, the fashions had declined .. I think the 1960’s changed everything.
That was the London in which I had my childhood and early adolescence.
The 90s sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, makes an interesting contrast between modern times and the 1940s.
Its about a man, increasingly put in the shade by his career-orientated wife, discovering a time-tunnel into wartime London. Well worth a look!
Aka rodders
Elegy for our culture
Destruction of Edom and cultural genocide of Amalek.
I was born in early 50's and grew up around the Waterloo station area. Our playground's were the bomb sites where many a play fight took place. It was clearly a war time film and Eros was boarded up in Piccadilly Circus. Trams and trolley bus ran along with normal buses, even in the war London had an effective transport system. Trams last run in 1951 and trolley buses afew years later. As a kid mum would give you a clip round the ear if dropped litter on purpose. How times have changed if you had to live on the wartime diet nobody would put on unwanted weight.
You can't see Big Ben, it's a bell.
I wish it was like that now
1:47 I think this is near the spot where the crane jibs were lowered on the south bank as Churchill's body was carried on the Thames in 1965. A docker subsequently revealed that the crane operators were paid to do so (the funeral was on a Saturday)... but not many other dockers, if indeed any, flocked to share that docker's limelight in that revelation. Anyhow, the jib lowering became an iconic part of the funeral.
The 3 lane traffic system you saw at the beginning was road vehicles as per normal to the left and center, and trams on the right (not double-decker busses).
one double decker bus can be seen on the left in the footage - it looks quite different to the trams.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 Hence why it's on the left... but Felipe says "Look at the double decker" long before it enters the frame, mistaking trams for double deckers. As you say, they look quite different.
Not shown, but there were also Trolleybuses. Instead of running on rails,they ran on a overhead electric cable.
Nobody was fat because we had rationing. A typical ration for one adult per week was: one fresh egg; 50g (2oz) butter; 100g (4oz)margarine; 50g (2oz) tea; 25g (1 oz) cheese; 225g (8oz) sugar; 100g (4oz or 4 rashers) bacon; 3 pints (1800ml) milk, occasionally dropping to 2 pints (1200ml). Meat to the value of 1s 2d (around 6p today) was also included.
The way people dressed was impeccable.
To give you some perspective on the property situation Felipe, my parents bought our house just south of tower bridge for £55,000 back in 1983. It was recently valued at 2.3 million.
That was an excellent time to buy a house, especially in London, where million-pound houses are now commonplace.
Whereas I bought a House in THe Suburbs away from Tower Bridge also in 1983 for £27,400 i.e Half your Parents price but it is only worth £340,000 now whereas your Parents house has risen over 40 Fold...
@@Isleofskye No-one could have predicted the huge inflation in value that property was going to have in London. My parents are the first to admit how fortunate they are to be sitting on so much money.
The infant mortality rate in 1944 was 47 per 1,000 compared to the current 4 per 1,000. How many of your children are you prepared to 'give up' in order to get back to the good old days? As the film was shot in 1944 I find it incredible anyone can think it was better then in the middle of a world-wide war where c 50 million people were killed and Europe laid waste.
Do you think people miss the war and the disease - or is it instead the culture they're focused on?
Ok you did it Felipe- we're ALL crying now..!!
Please come back, us Brits love you.
Loved this.
I'm not from that era,but yes property prices were lot lower back then(and accesible).
London has changed a lot since the 90's let alone since back then
Very interesting and enjoyed your commentary. They were trams crossing the bridge on the right and those were barrage balloons to try and deter bombers.
5:20 onwards, those are American GIs by the traffic light on the left.
The bomb damage around 4:30 looks to be St Andrews Church at the western end of Holborn Viaduct and Holborn Circus. The church has been restored.
Beautiful video - there are lots of such fascinating colour videos from the early 20th C. There wasn't obesity at the end of the war because everyone was having to live on rations. That rationing didn't end until the mid fifties.
Definitely agree with the smart dressing wear a flat cap in winter and then also have summer hat for the occasional hot weather.
I wonder if the decrease in smoking has increased male baldness or does it just seem like there are more bald men these days.
I turned 46 today and still have a full head of hair and show only slight signs of going grey unlike all my friends.
Think I’ll stick to my occasional cigars and clay pipe when the mood takes me.
No.🌝 It's all in the genes.
We became too Americanised after the war. Too obsessed with individualism. Standards fell away. But you can fight back. I refuse to wear jeans and tee-shirts now. I`ve added tailored jackets and a Panama hat. And I use the values of my parents as a benchmark and not some Hollywood celebrity. Join a litter pick group or start one with your church. Take pride in your neighbourhood etc.
So you are saying you are individualistic?
Collectivism is what has brought us to our knees, exceptign every anti-scientific diktat from the criminal cabal people laughably call government.
Collectivism is the anti culture "multiculturism". Collectivism is the anti individualism of identity politics.
Society can be cohesive and civilised without being a collective, Indeed I would say a collective society will be an oppressed society.
The common bonds are shared by our cultural roots, our shared heritage and common language and history under a national identity but within that we can all be individuals.
This is why mass immigration and open borders are the first order of attack upon a homogenous sovereign nation you wish to destroy.
As Peter Sutherland, the Goldman Sachs banker who created EU open borders and then became UN Special Migration Envoy put it, "More must be done to undermine the homogeneity of the EU nations state" via mass immigration.
That is why we are told that destroying our culture and history is our strength "Diversity is our strength" and that to want to preserve our truly diverse national identities and cultures across Europe we must embrace the anti cultural collective "multiculturism"
Hope that makes sense of our modern Britain.
@@Muckylittleme I remember when the idea of drawing attention to oneself was seen as vulgar. Every doorstep would be scrubbed in the morning. Shoes polished before setting off for school. Standards were higher. They were collectively high. That is no longer the case.
@@terencestrugnell4928 Oh I agree, standards were higher all around but that does not require collectivism, just self respect and pride in your community.
I guess you are talking more about natural cultural cohesion which has been engineered out of our society but collective to me means a forced homogeneity that straight-jackets individualism and not a natural one which embraces it.
I feel civilisation hit its peak a few decades ago and has been deliberately undermined ever since, especially our Christian heritage and moral standing.
@@Muckylittleme By a certain group of people who push no-borders globalism for the world, with the notable exception of their own country which is by definition an ethno-state and has borders that are zealously guarded. Funny that...
There is some footage of London in the Blitz showing training of air raid and ambulance staff it was taken Mayor of Westminster I believe it was left in a drawer for 70 years and has just been found..
Blimps are barrage balloons
Those were trams in the first shot! Hence the ''strange traffic pattern''.
Hi Colin.
What he meant was, that there was a line of traffic going in the opposite direction surrounded on either side by 2 lines, including THe Tram Line, going the other way where the natural logistics would be all lanes together going in the same direction as opposed to Lanes 1 (Teams) and Lane 3 (cars) going one way while in the middle Lane 2 is going the other way :)
Lan1 TRAMS...haha
The only singer I can think of from that time frame is Al Bowlee ,{ the spelling is not correct} he was killed in air raid here in the UK. There is footage I think on You Tube of him.
What's a sidewalk?
You can take the man out of Biddleyboing.....
A pavement.😄
5:55 is perhaps the hardest to place... The chimney-like structure was an old shot tower. This is looking south, standing at about Cleopatra's Needle and facing where the Royal Festival Hall is now.
People were much slimmer too.Rationing was at its height and positively no junk food!
Such a contrast with today’s slovenly dress codes - even in wartime .
Puritan
@@annother3350 - am sadly old fashioned,Ann 🤣
@@patrickcooper7869 It was over 70 years ago, what do you expect?
@@annother3350 I can assure you, we weren't puritan. We were united in helping each other, and doing the right things.
@@iriscollins7583 I heard that during the war, in East london at least, people would dress as Air Wardens, tell people there was an air raid and then burgle the houses of the evacuatees...
The first double-decker Omnibus was manufactured in 1847 in the U.K. It was horse drawn (typically by three horses) with an open upper deck that did not have a roof.
Fascinating
The singer sounds a bit like Al Bowley(?), a Canadian crooner who was sadly killed during the Blitz.
Felipe, you could try looking at films made by Rick88888888 , especially the one showing Oxfordshire and Stratford dated about 1910 I think .
The face screen may have been a compression bandage. The man may have suffered severe burns, probably war related.
You didn't comment on the American soldiers evident so this is prior to D Day nobody is overweight because everything is rationed....
And 100% natural food unlike today.
Almost no-one is overweight in any Mid 1960;s London video when rationing has long gone a decade earlier in the Mid-Late 1950's
@@Isleofskye there was no obesity before it either fatty liver diabetes and insulin resistance are very new issues of poor quality modern foods that lead to this.
The bombed out area you were asking about was around Holborn Circus, looking south west. The cigar shop was at Picadilly Circus (London Pavilion)
No obesity probably because of rationing of food which lasted to the 1950's and every one had to take care of clothes. The double decker s looked a lot like trams on set routes (rails).
No obesity, try putting weight on with rationing. Per WEEK, adult allowances, 2 ounces of butter, 2 ounces of cheese, ONE egg, 4oz lard, 3 pints of milk, 4 oz of margarine, 4 oz bacon and ham, 2oz loose tea, 8 oz fruit preserve per month, 8 oz sweets per month, one pack of egg powder per month, one Shilling (5p) worth of meat per week, Fruit and vegetables were not actually rationed, but were sometimes in very short supply and difficult to find. Rationing finished in 1954 officially when ham and cheese were taken off rationing. Clothing was also rationed. There were times after the war when rationing was actually worse than it was during the war, for reasons I won't go into here.
No obesity because food was scarce during WW2. That's why everyone grew vegetables in their gardens.
Where's Lillian?
Cranes are the Pool of London.
See how dirty the buildings ad Nelsons column are. from all the pollution coal fires. etc. see the American soldier walking outside Hills 5.40
The double deckers seemingly on the wrong side were trams on a tramway. London is unregnisable now compared to even 50 years ago. The small terraced house were occupied by workers, and now they are the homes of rich people, with large cellars dug out beneath them, loft extensions, and large kitchen extensions into what used to be their back gardens.
This is this channel's tenth consecutive serious video. Each has under 4k views.
Its nice to mix it up.
@@jainee4507 Ten serious videos in a row isn't mixing it up much.
Sorry if I missed it, but do we know what year this is from?
I just watched you on Stacey Dooley.
4:20 Pretty sure that’s Southwark cathedral, looking towards London Bridge from Borough. Could be wrong though
Short clip of 60s London
stop putting to much sugar in foods ,and bring more tailors to the shops .and get a good education
The double decker Trams are on tracks.
The singer sounds like Al Bowlly a British vocalist and jazz guitarist, who was popular during the 1930s in Britain and sang for many bands of the time
I have many Al Bowlly cd's, the singer is not Al.
@@johnegerszeghy9818 Hi John, I have too, many Al Bowlly songs , including 78's. Was hard to hear. I just made a suggestion. Thank you for responding
@MS says, You can hear it without commentary if you get it direct from CZcams. Rare film about London WW 2. I don't recognise the singer but it's not Bowlly or Sam Browne. The orchestra could be Roy Fox or Jack Hylton but there were so many back then.
2:29 are you sure it's not in correlation to plastic use?
Basically most people were slimmer, better dressed, better behaved. What has happened to us?
Amazing
There's no chance of it coming back.
I imagine the air pollution would have been nasty.
i think prorerty was really very affordable in 1943/44 most londeners with kids moved if you bought something and it did not get bomed bij ze geermaans then ching ching
5.23 what is that object/building on the left in what looks like in the middle of a roundabout
You came here 70 years too late Felipe!
Nooooo!
Try checking out the WW2 food ration book. Then judge.
I'd bet you could buy a knightsbridge home for 1 thousand pounds back then.
However, the repeated comment about no obesity doesn't take into account there was food rashering back then. Whoops
I understand yearning for the past, but every single generation has made catastrophic mistakes because they never listen to their elders. The arrogance of youth.
You're wrong. This is all planned and engineered by one set of people known as the tribe or Little hats.
I dont mean to be rude, but if you look around the streets now, you will not see many obese in the UK, some maybe,
but it is your country that takes the prize sadly !
The double decker was a tram which are forced to run on fixed tracks of course so had a special lane of its own. You can see a bus double decker at 9.23.
Noone's Obese 6:58 like yo whats up
Fast food arrived in 1977 🍔🍟
Felipe, have you seen the footage of London from 1926 at the height of the Empire? You'd like that.
Of course one of the reasons everyone was thin was because this footage looked like it was from WW2 and everyone would have been having to live off pretty meager rations.