1960s, 1970s Shoppers on King's Road, Chelsea, 35mm

1960s, 1970s Shoppers on King's Road, Chelsea, 35mm from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. To order the clip clean and high res for your commercial project or to find out more visit www.kinolibrary.com. Available in 4K. Clip ref CHX1789.
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Various takes, pedestrians and shoppers walk past camera on pavement. Flared trousers and colourful prints. Various takes, Kings Road, Chelsea. Crowds of pedestrians. Woman in nurse's hat winds up an organ/piano. Red buses. Crowds on Kings Road Chelsea. Various takes. Crowds at intersection on Kings Road Chelsea.
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[@mikeyh1111]

Notice how nobody is overweight

[@user-eq8bw7eh4b]

ENGLISH DESTROYED A SMALL ISLAND IN 60 YEARS

[@ravenhill_firelord_1968]

my oh my how it's all changed, it destroys me to look back and see how good it was.

[@jharris947]

So many comments I could make but the one thing that really stood out for me was how slim people were. The 60s/70s were the best years of my life. Really enjoyed the clip.😎

[@TA-ii5se]

Of course they were slim. The stinking filth food from the yanks hadn’t arrived yet.

[@jumbomills1272]

Different world back then. Not all good. But more optimism for the future and opportunities. When working harder paid off.

[@christophercurtis2893]

They all look so healthy.

[@toots54663]

Walked down there then and still walk there today. Gone are the independent clothes shops. Plenty of people still doing the same thing, walking, talking, sitting inside and outside bars and restaurants. The unbeatable Kings Road, Chelsea.

[@faridjan8469]

Man I bet you seen quite a lot on kings roads and prob got some crazy stories

[@billiee835]

We use to live at 503 kings road back in the 70s , and I went to park walk school

[@macca1146]

A copper actually walking down the street at 1.23, now there is something you don't see today.

[@brownrabbit61]

Kings Road used to be the best!

[@AnnaJuist]

I miss that time of our lives. Kind of wish you had the sound though. Thank you for loading these glimpses of the greatest decades to have lived through.💗 The youth of today have no idea and never will.

[@johnnyb8825]

It would take another Baby Boom _and_ a long-term economic boom to bring something like that about again.

[@Muswell]

@@johnnyb8825 But nothing would be new. Every week in the 60s, there was something new -- a new fashion idea, a new Tamla Motown record, a new Habitat item, a new recommendation from Cathy McGowan etc.

[@johnnyb8825]

@@Muswell I'm not sure why you think nothing would be new. What's to stop people coming up with new ideas?

[@Muswell]

@@johnnyb8825 Example - Any new skirt length, heel height, trouser bottom, waist height has been done before. In the 60s, SO many things were new. And that's just fashion. Not much has changed fashionwise for the past 20 years.

[@davidr6991]

Love the Marcos 1800 GT turning left at the beginning of the clip. The Kings Road Car. I remember great cheap food at the Chelsea kitchen

[@russefrance4869]

Very nice, thank you very much. The large building at the left back of most clips is Peter Jones department store. I started working there as a 17 year old from 1972 to 1977 - so during the time this film was shot. The Kings Road was my playground🙂 What a fantastic time to be there.

[@deathsquadron3311]

Nothing has change same people but different clothes,technology,time but the same people from the same family are still there....just went there today (offcourse their are a few because of covid)

[@ArmTubeYou]

July 1969

[@morganfisherart]

Interesting - how do you know the date so precisely? Anyway, thekinolibrary certainly ought to be less vague in their title, especially as they are trying to flog this stuff!

[@ArmTubeYou]

@@morganfisherart 'Best House in London' released July 1969 (see advert on bus) - July ( poster for the charity event on the street organ)

[@ivanrainbird2416]

thank you for uploading it's great that someone has this old footage of king road at it's best

[@stevelindsey4824]

Used to work in Safeway kings road when this was taken drank in the drug store then at the worlds end often seen in Gandalf’s garden where worlds end estate is now

[@Muswell]

This is 1969. They'll all be in their 70s now. I wonder if any of them know that they have been captured forever on film - a part of social history.

[@leftieloosers]

Far out man.

[@DarcyDigs]

Gorgeous footage. Why do you think people were slimmer back then? Was it really as simple as less junk food more exercise? Surely that can't be it? Maybe it is.

[@richardwareing8298]

I think a lot of meat we eat is pumped with fattening hormones.

[@reyluna9332]

Too bad there's no audio for this. The only people who will truly know what it was like are the people that were there.

[@Silverdale15]

No sound

[@davecollins9128]

What is the woman with the cart selling? Nuts / drinks..

[@SeenThisDoneThat]

It's a barrel organ and she's busking for contributions to the fete that's being advertised on the poster. I wish this film had sound, I'd love to hear it clanking away! :D

[@richardwareing8298]

99% of vehicles British made