1968 London in 60FPS / A Bus Ride | Britain in the late 1960s - British Pathé
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- 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... - Auta a dopravní prostředky
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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!
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
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.
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.
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 !
I moved there in Jan 68. It was lovely back then.
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 .
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!
Great footage. What a wonderful place London was in those days...so laid back too.
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
Unfortunately cannot stop progression and change .
@@marthasheilds2446 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 .
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.
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.
Beautifully musical transmission of a London Transport RT - even riding on a bus was more relaxing!
It’s a shame it’s not like that now
MEMORIES OF ---- LONDON 1960'S ----- I WAS THEN IN 1968 19YRS. THANKS ! GREAT VIDEO ! FROM U.K. (2022).
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.
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.
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?
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 😉
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 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.
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.
this London is the one i want back
So why are you living in st Petersburg ?
@@th8257 , I'm not.
Can you though
How i yearn for those wonderful times. Innocence of youth maybe
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.
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
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.
Looks lovely. I wouldn’t go there now though.
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
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 CZcams accompanying a song by the British pop band Love Affair, Bringing On Back the Good Times, a hit in 1969.
I went to Central London yesterday actually. During the day.It was this quiet.
Ah, 1968. What a prosperous time, before the doom and gloom of the 1970s...
What wonderful shots of a bygone London !
Yes its tragic what has happened to it since then
@@howard1bealemassive unchecked immigration and treachery
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!
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.
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"
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.
What a City! In the sixties it was a magic where.
London was fabulous then. Now it’s an utter mess. Well done politicians.
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..
60s was your best era this country.
For what? Economic collapse?
@@th8257No...you’re thinking about the present.
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.
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
Can’t believe how so little traffic there was ude love the roads to b that quiet nowadays
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
What a pleasure it was to drive a car there at the time
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.
2:03 Bovril! :D
london a beautiful city i miss it cant wait to see it
again
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
Freddie Mercury is working at Heathrow Airport in London then.
That must have been a tourist bus running through Leicester Square,for I don't remember any service buses going through there.
I am impressed. Oh my beautiful capital city what have they done to you.
Before the madness of today. Well ordered not perfect but stable.
Amazing how they found so many period vehicles for the filming
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!
So clean and beautiful
Great...I really enjoyed this video...!
Before the advent of takeaway food -- now al you ever see is litter....
Oh it’s heartbreaking to see what’s happened to London now! 😢
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!
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
Nice to here the Routemaster tones again.
The traffic! The traffic is...moving!
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.
lanes were probably not common at the time
So clean and not many around
Great video for this old video
Nearly all of the buildings are still there.
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.
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 .
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.
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 didn't realise you could drive through Leicester Square.
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.
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 💓
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
Better days.
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?
London without people cycling on the pavement or grown up s on scooter s ..
WOW WOW WOW
IT IS NOW 2022
Back when you could drive up from Piccadilly Circus through Leicester square to Charing Cross road. Ahh the good ol’ days
Less cars on the road
“No” cars …”no” people..,amazing!
I was 9..I remember 1968 being a happy time with my mum…God rest her soul
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 ...
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.
Clean streets
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.
This footage was taken 20 years after the 1948 Summer Olympics, 60 years after the 1908 Summer Olympics and 44 years before the 2012 Summer Olympics. All three of those Games happened in London.
hardly any traffic must have been Sunday
Notice how everything moves smoothly not like today with 10000 extra traffic lights lines everywhere camera's everywhere depression everywhere.
From "sleepy London town" to toilet in the space of 50 years.
This film is a prime example of Real London with its strong English identity before it was destroyed by government policies.
London was busier than this during lockdown