1960s Kings Road London, Swinging 60s Fashion, Rushes

From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref. AB233.
1966 London. Kings Road Chelsea. Tilt up to shop sign - The Carrot on Wheels. Women looking in shop windows. Three young women in white convertible. 1940s Rolls Royce parked, vintage car, classic car.
EXT Granny Takes a Trip, pan down to old women, grannies sitting on bench, OAPs. Young woman waits to cross road, walks past run down, derelict house. Busy street scenes. Woman wearing silver mini skirt suit, futuristic space age fashion, white go-go boots, great. People sitting on bench, sunny day. Posters on wall. Sign - Guys 'n' Dolls. Cars past. Young woman gets into convertible car driven by man, date, young couple. Old man steps over broken light to cross zebra crossing. Woman walking afghan hound. Flower stall. Woman wearing tartan pedal pushers and head scarf, posh. Young couple walk past, man with arm round woman, in 20s.

[@Lyno1979]

It’s so weird how in their time the looked at the 20s and 30s like it’s our 80s and 90s. Scary to think we’ll be a past someday as well.

[@johnnyb8825]

I think in many ways the 1960s was more similar to now than to the 1920s and 1930s though. The 1960s was the birth of the modern world.

[@ZnenTitan]

Strange and haunting. How real can things be when they simply vanish into time, as if no more than a dream?

[@gilessteve]

Oh for a 'Pause' button. (Is 'Rewind' asking too much?)

[@ElearningDigest]

Which is worse? To never know of the past, or to know of it only from its echoes?

[@coreycox2345]

There is a beauty to it Znen Titan. We know little about our own families past only three generation ago. Three generations from now, who will know us? Yet generations of people go about their daily lives looking pretty much the same.

[@ZnenTitan]

Oh well, continuity, whether we wish it or not. People talk so much about their "freedom" But I'm sorry to say I find it laughable. You did not pick who you are, how long you will live, the country, society and time period you were born into. What sex or race you are,.The list goes on and on. How "free" can you ever be?

[@DoctorBrodski]

@@ElearningDigest It's probably worse to know of it only from its echoes. You can be haunted by that while it's easier to ignore that which you don't know about.

[@andreat.2809]

No smartphone, no person intimidated to be filmed, smiles, calm, effervescent fashion. Wonderful.

[@Embracing01]

I agree, you're right about being intimidated now, people don't seem to like it. and try it filming in some places today without some jumped little Hitler in a viz jacket asking why you are filming in a public place and then ordering you to stop filming. No designer clothing labels to be seen, no stupid ripped jeans, no blokes or women with tattoos, no men wearing those silly half length shorts that seem to be popular now, no young women with their hair dyed in pink or blue, women mostly wearing shirts unlike today where it's all trousers.

[@buffrogers6650]

@@Embracing01 Man, when I was in my 20's, three quarter length shorts were in fasion and they were just so cool. That was back in the 90's. The 1990's, not the 1890's. Ha!! :D

[@steffanhoffmann]

Thing is...young people don't look up anymore. Mesmerised by Smartphone. A nihilistic generation. Don't easily communicate personally anymore.

[@shorelineboy]

What wonderful day we had 😎

[@peterbullock2660]

When England was truly great. Great music, great shops, summer of love, I could go on. Look at England today by comparison, I rest my case.

[@cooper7031]

U are correct!

[@InternalMind]

Agreed

[@triple-aries]

I went to England a month ago for the first time. Even though it isn’t the 1960s, it seems like it’s better there than here in America

[@janetlane4555]

I'm just sitting here feeling nostalgic for those times! ...I wish we could freeze time ...yes look at England 🇬🇧 now....I feel sad for young people as they don't realise how bad it's got...we have comparison 😢

[@johnnyb8825]

The post-WW2 economic boom was at its peak in the 1960s. The people born during and soon after WW2 reached their teenage years and young adulthood in that decade. They were also a very large generation numerically (hence the term Baby Boomers). So there was a lot of youthful energy, affluence and optimism at that time.

[@cafsixtieslover]

Kings Road used to have such a lot of lovely individual boutiques back then - now it is the same as every other shopping street.

[@insertnamehere5146]

they sold expensive tat. you're just looking back through rose tinted glasses

[@eddieds312]

Exactly my good man the grass is always greener where the cows piss

[@NickRowsell]

Priceless !! Grannies sitting down awaiting their trip ...

[@rick_terscale1111]

Grannies dropping acid. Ha!

[@Embracing01]

How many are watching these London 60s street scenes purely to spot all the now classic cars?. So many different models seen in this one piece of footage in one area, from the mundane Ford Anglia, Mini Cooper/van, to an MGA, Triumph, to an E-Type Jag roadster and Rolls Royce. Everyone of those cars, even something that was just a regular run about back then like a Morris Minor are now cherished classics and turn heads whenever they're seen on the roads. Every one of them had their charm and character, modern cars are soulless.

[@AndrewBuckleBookReviews]

the cars are something special. !!

[@MaseraSteve]

Yep, you are right! my future "dream car" definitely a replica of one from those era. I know one of local workshop in my country that really good at recreating "Hot-Rod" from Scratch uniquely as requested by it's customer

[@eddieoconnor7501]

I walked past granny takes a trip everyday going to school it had the front of a Volkswagen sticking out the window happy days

[@eddieoconnor7501]

@kyfaydfsoab Hortencia road and park walk school 😁

[@paperchain1239]

I feel I am peering into another world of different proportions on an alternative universe. Shame I was not young enough to remember these golden times

[@paulfisher8753]

Lived in the Kings Road 66-68 above the off licence across from the Fire Station, was young but remember going down the Kings road in the back of a Mini Moke and mum bringing back the shopping from Safeway in the carrier bags with string handles...loads of people in the shop and a funny sweet smell in the air??

[@rickysorhaindo1359]

This was still quite working class aera, especially the Kings Road going into Fulham Road.

[@keithfrancis9293]

Triumph Herald convertible. Wonderful

[@gregfowler957]

I would of been a mod if I was a teenager back then love the scooters and clothes

[@albertodillon]

Nostalgia of the sixties l like most than now!!

[@denisescutt1865]

They were slimmer and the ladies held themselves elegantly when walking

[@MartinVanDerSande]

That's right everyone. Have fun or it's gonna pass you by...

[@pokie6087]

How strange it seems seeing young people with their heads up aware of their surroundings not buried in their i phones.

[@westerlywinds5684]

At 3:03 they seem to be on their phones.

[@pokie6087]

@@westerlywinds5684 In the 60s there were no mobile phones 😂😂😂

[@westerlywinds5684]

@@pokie6087 You tell me. I was born in 1963. I’ve seen the world change more than my grandfather could ever imagine. I said: it looks like it. 😏

[@pokie6087]

@@westerlywinds5684 Ahhh 1963. A very good year to be born. That was my year of birth as well 👍Happy 60th birthday ☹️

[@westerlywinds5684]

@@pokie6087 Thanks! Not yet, but in August. It doesn’t feel all that long ago I danced on “Franky goes to Hollywood” and “One night in Bangkok” songs. 🤣

[@l76rd97]

It’s weird to think a lot of folk in this video are dead and that they could have children. I also wonder if someone has watched a video of a family member and not realised

[@maria-melek]

Ikr

[@bingola45]

It's not remotely weird for people to be dead, or to have had children. It's how life goes on. Please try to visit reality more often.

[@AndrewBuckleBookReviews]

I assume many of them are still alive though clearly people in their 60s and 70s in the clips are no longer with us. The world ever moves on. I am certain people filming people today will be saying much the same in 50 years time as well on KZbin 2070 (or Holotube or whatever it will be called then)

[@williamr3840]

Obsessed with The Carrot on Wheels!

[@buffrogers6650]

2:27 - ROFLMAO .... well done to the filmographer!! That moment was handed to him on a silver platter.

[@jivinman]

British cars everywhere!

[@bingola45]

I like to watch old TV series like The Barron, and Man in a Suitcase. You can play 'spot the foreign car'!

[@_B.M_]

@@bingola45 Today in the streets, you can play Spot the British car.

[@zzzwy777]

classic cuts , plain , with random splashes of colours , my favourite , timeless , also some way out clothing as well , really cool .

[@gwenniegrant5287]

Wonderful footage! So interesting to watch.

[@lfewell2161]

All the young girls are now as old as the grannies sitting on the bench. Emphasises how short life really is.

[@truongthuylan1990]

Moron

[@Wayner71]

It sure does. Time accelerates as we get older. It makes one wonder what the purpose is.

[@westerlywinds5684]

@@Wayner71 To get right with God. That is the true purpose. After that, it's eternity.

[@harrodsfan]

Well said.

[@PAULLONDEN]

Interesting ....but was it so difficult to put a good 60's pop track behind this ????

[@yulitaloran4800]

wow their style of dress at that time was really good, not too trendy and looks very harmonious... But I think the fashion style now is a flashback from the past

[@angelomelville9084]

Man, that Rolls really kicks some rears here!

[@piggypiggypig1746]

I did a quick search. A Rolls Royce 20. First registered back in 1928 and still around today with just 59,283 miles on the clock, although it failed its MOT in 2006.

[@see4miles67]

See poster for The Who at Tiles Club 29/4/1966

[@peterpedant]

London; before peak diverse vibrancy enrichment.

[@shanehughes3511]

@sanjay j modern London is far better. Sorry but it is.

[@KA-xx9en]

@sanjay j . Sorry but it isn't. How can you possibly say that with all the violence and gangs and knife crime.....unbelievable.

[@peterpedant]

@@shanehughes3511 In what way is it better for native white English people?

[@johnclark7065]

London was diverse those days it's just the camera man only focus on the white folk loads of blacks in London those days just the rest of the UK was very racist and segregated in other UK cities like Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool.

[@johndean4765]

Peter and of course the BBC and main media say mass immigration or their word for it (diversity)enriches our country. Whereas everyone else sees all the disadvantages it brings to our once great country.

[@sak6159]

Used to love going there in the late 80s, early 90s. Not the same now but still nice to to go there experience some nostalgia

[@dewolff6937]

We could have kept this

[@_B.M_]

No you couldn't. Nothing stays the same.

[@johndean4765]

Yes we could have kept that .But politicians set out to destroy our English way of life especially from the early 1990s and we can all see the result.

[@cooper7031]

London always has had better fashion than NYC!

[@keithnaylor1981]

Love the girl in green right near the end - obviously copying the Twiggy look!

[@marycull3607]

@Keith Naylor. The blond girl sitting on the seat between the two men looks ver like Patti Boyd then wife of George Harrison of the Beatles.

[@andynixon2820]

Granny takes a trip - with real grannies .,

[@growlerthe2nd712]

I think this was summer 66 probably just before the World Cup ⚽️🇬🇧

[@cathrinthomas8212]

Just beautiful

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

When you hardly had to worry about driving

[@Harriet-Jesamine]

A Style & Pop & Cultural Zenith for our Beloved United Queendom. Shame it was so short lived. We were top of the World for a few years back then😢

[@anoshya]

The area has not seen dramatic building changes as it’s always been a conservation area…

[@acceptableandbornind80s32]

Pre Covid days just wonderful and you could feel safe and sound sadly 55- 60 years later people didn’t know what was going to hit the world. It was hit with Covid which has Changed the world For years to come

[@francis994]

Crazy to see 1930s cars on the streets being mere “cheap used cars from 30 years ago” the same way we are seeing 80s and 90s cars today.

[@veevintage2619]

Looks much Like London today, except folks are actually fashion conscious. I love those styles.

[@jazzman1626]

I think women were very stylish in the 60s. I’d love to see the styles making a comeback.

[@pagethreemodel]

@@jazzman1626 very stylish.

[@johndean4765]

It's nothing like London today apart from a few or the beautiful buildings are still around.

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

The footage of Granny’s and grannies, Sloan Square, the old high street shops, Carrot on Wheels - there was nothing like the King’s Road on a sunny day.

[@christopherjohnpain4015]

The first 1:28 are on the Fulham Road.The rest is the King's Road

[@vjab1108]

No Bus Lanes No Cycle Lanes Traffic moving fine.

[@williamrubinstein3442]

The houses need paint jobs. Today they would be worth millions.

[@britusman]

Even our old council houses are in the 400,000. Where do poor people go and live now. I got lucky and have a super life but I came from the estates. I am in the USA and think back to that time period.

[@johnstag1391]

3:36: How sweet of him to have ducked!

[@janeless5083]

Wired to think the queen reigned here aswell

[@stuartwray6175]

The Queen reigned "Totally Wired" on the King's Road.

[@RoddyLovely]

All women wear a dress or skirt, no woman wearing trousers.

[@Embracing01]

I noticed that. I would've thought this was a younger generation thing, but even women in their 80s and 90s are wearing trousers now; towards the late 90s my mum who was in her late 50s/early 60s at the time started wearing pants all of a sudden, and I can't remember a time when she wore a skirt after that moment, with the exception of a family event like a wedding etc. What has caused this I don't know. We live in a copy cat society where as soon as one person does something other people do the same. TV shows and modern fashion may also play a part in this, or maybe it's down to laziness lol.

[@gigijbijbj]

wow

[@escoville1]

My local street in the 60s. But I'm not there...

[@clipstone]

1966.

[@johndean4765]

The film probably made in 1966 or 1967 was a time when Britain was truly great ,and there was so much OPTIMISIM the ordinary worker could even have the ability to get a mortgage in many cases. Totally different now where there's no chance to ever own your own home.This is the deliberate policy in the last 30years to ensure house prices and rents for any accommodation is only affordable to the very few.Usual methods make the poor poorer so that the rich get even richer. Why have the traitors decided to destroy our country, nowadays there's a justified possibility that things will get a lot worse.

[@smitajky]

We have been told that people are getting worse but there at 1:47 we have a girl waiting to cross the road at a pedestrian crossing and people are not stopping. Again at 4:42 so then at 4:57 we have pedestrians that attempt to cross the road within sight of the crossing. Inconsiderate people are not a modern invention.

[@Mike-jv9cl]

Spot on. People focus on the people of today being bad because it’s easy to “miss the past”. 1966 was certainly a good year to live in, but yeah, goes to show there were a lot of pricks back then as well.

[@zzzwy777]

indeed , you get good , neutral and ugly everywhere ae.

[@twister80]

Every generation always tries to make previous ones look the worst.. I think it's just elucubrations emanating from acute nostalgia

[@stephenborsbey4350]

1966 or 1967

[@lauraclark1520]

Practically everyone had a sports car on this road 😂 must have been a lot money flying about around that area

[@montgomeryrichard]

No idea how to use camera,all over the place cost a fourtune in film processing. D reg cars so not earler than 1966.

[@alisonbongo3287]

All those derelict buildings worth millions now

[@gullwingstorm857]

Maybe some music in the background?

[@gilessteve]

DIY solution: Open a second tab and choose your own :-)

[@maria-melek]

@@gilessteve yeah for a laptop I always did that. But you can't do that with a phone

[@gullwingstorm857]

@ While I agree London has now been turned into a heap of fertiliser, as far as the music suggestion goes, I didn't mean a 'jingle'.

[@rahulrathod-vx6yv]

Watch

[@jaysonlowery3749]

Elites

[@SammyxSweetheart.02]

2:50

[@harrodsfan]

Why no sound ????

[@DominicClark-cy8mq]

Not a mobile in sight

[@nicolar6461]

Worst cameraman in history

[@p.istaker8862]

Now overpopulated.

[@bobthompson4918]

Worst piece of filming I've seen in a while 🙄 Should have skipped the last beer maybe ? 😉

[@kaylynspencer9297]

Brian 8chison it’s in the 60s you fucking idiot he’s not exactly got a smart phone !!! You are thick as shit

[@DoctorBrodski]

@@kaylynspencer9297 Yes, it's the sixties alright. But converting an old film clip into a movie file and uploading it to the internet all took recent technology. Somewhere in that process it would have been piss-easy to edit out a fair bit for people with short attention spans.

[@crapple009]

A 6 minute 23 second clip is a long span?

[@bugpal]

@@crapple009lol kids these days can't sit still for SIX MINUTES. This is an AWESOME time capsule!

[@firgasz2920]

london needs more diversity. to many white people there.

[@paulwilliams9278]

Firgasz r u messing it's spot the whites you melt

[@Mr.Robinson.TV.]

Clearly London never needed diversity in its 1000 year history, now look at it today.....

[@bm-mx5tk]

But if they were all brown or black people you would be fine? Whats wrong with a lot of whote people living there. You sound racist.