Around City Of London In Colour AKA London Scenes (1961)

Location: London, England / Great Britain
Story about London places and people.
MS People walking along street in city, mostly dressed in suits. CU clapper board.
VS Builders and bricklayers at work on the Barbican scheme, including a crane lifting bricks. MS Street sign 'London Wall'. MS City policeman on point duty with bomb damaged buildings in background. MS of a section of the London wall, with flats in the background. GV Block of flats, part of the Barbican scheme, two women walk past.
Various good shots of bridges across the Thames, Blackfriars Bridge, Tower Bridge, London Bridge and Southwark Bridge. Barges and boats are seen travelling along the Thames.
GV Two elevated shots of London (west end). GV of Bank and the Old Bailey.
MS People walking across London Bridge towards camera and past. MS People coming out of Bank underground station. GV Busy traffic scene at Bank. GV Stretch of the River Thames from top of Tower Bridge, with tug boat pulling cargo. Elevated view of London, including the Tower of London VS Pleasant country scenes at Epping Forest, including people fishing. MS and CU City policeman giving directions to a young boy. MS of policeman standing outside a police station. His colleague comes pout and they walk past the camera.
(Eastman Neg.)
FILM ID:3151.1
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[@ceased2care]

How well presented and civilised we once were

[@bdadolph]

I am a North American but used to work for an a English based firm. When I went pure joy was just walking tubing or taking a bus from anywhere. A fascinating glorious historical and civilized place

[@roconnor01]

Dear old London....sigh!

[@nimblehorse]

thanks Jews !

[@southlondon86]

I know right! Take us back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley. 😢 What has this foreign filth done to our perfect island!? 😡

[@Keithbarber]

@@southlondon86 this so called "foreign filth" has done far more good than harm to this country, and made it a better place in the process, and nothing is going to convince me otherwise

[@southlondon86]

@@Keithbarber Sir I am sorry that my obviously sarcastic comment went over your head...

[@Keithbarber]

@@southlondon86 it sounded racist to me which is why I challenged it

[@lefuedebout]

Isn't it marvellous and reassuring to see how well we managed before we got enriched and diversity became our strength?

[@robharding4028]

Wonderful film of London in 61. I was born in UCH , and I miss this old place as it used to be, But what's new ?, everyone of my age misses the old days.

[@simonyip5978]

UCH = University College Hospital?

[@birdsaloud7590]

People walked upright then. With a sense of purpose.

[@Vikingseer]

Depressing to see the seismic decline in London in the last 60 years.

[@tonyclifton265]

how nice it was before "enrichment"

[@susansinclair4914]

Back when women dressed to look feminine and boy, did they! So many beautiful dresses in this clip.

[@Jake.03-g3k]

Every one can wear what ever they want is not you who deicide no one is stopping you to wear the clothes that they wore back then

[@Paxneicj484]

@@Jake.03-g3k Snowflake

[@finnmanproductions9240]

Today women choose between black leggings or black leggings 😂

[@Zlervo]

They are really feminine and good looking.

[@kenh3344]

From a man. I agree with you comment.

[@AndrewBuckleBookReviews]

Fascinating view of London at the time it was just on the cusp of huge changes. Amazing seeing all the bomb sites or war damage still there as people walk around as well as all the fashions. Now, it looks so different though you can still recognise some of a lot of it from the film

[@simonhaste2864]

Laying bricks in a collar and tie!

[@trevordance5181]

A collar and tie, a cap and a ciggie.

[@jameshorgan5905]

When I started my apprenticeship bricklaying in 1976. There were also old timers with bib n brace & always a cig . They would ask me to roll there cigs . Good honest people . Great days

[@ftorres93]

How they survived without the Hi-Viz brigade I never know.

[@brucefleming208]

That's the new Brewers' Hall. They were doing a grand job.

[@billbolland909]

@@ftorres93 Kill me if you can

[@recram16]

London may as well be a country within a country now

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Aldgate and Whitechapel look and feel like Pakistan. What struck me was the number of _white_ locals with local accents who were dressed in Islamic attire - i.e. converts.

[@LookatmeimSandraDee]

Even if you dont actually want to​@yannick9473

[@Zlervo]

The women look beautiful 😍

[@Captally]

I was on my first ship out in the West Indies 1961 and it's good to see people managed to struggle on without me!

[@birdsaloud7590]

Didn’t our policemen look smart? What happened?

[@JSUKyrks69]

When London was London.

[@tangerinedream7211]

Early sixties, London on the cusp, no profumo scandle yet, no Beeching cuts, no beetle mania, but the M1, the mini were around.

[@robertp.wainman4094]

Everyone walking across the bridge is slim!

[@JohnWilson-mp7xh]

I was in London on holiday with my parents in 1961, and it was full of.... Londoners... Last time, and probably the very last time, I was there over twenty years ago, it was like a meeting of the United Nations with no No British representatives being present

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Even Monty Python made jokes about London being overrun with foreigners and that was 50 whole years ago. It's hardly new.

[@buddhastaxi666]

It was the centre of a global empire hence so many nationalities.

[@briannewman6306]

Thank you sir. As a Londoner your comment was highly appreciated.

[@heathstjohn6775]

Governments' national policies resulting in the city, nation, West, we have today, have been fully supported by the majority, including the complainers. It remains true, and another opportunity arrives in about 18 months, that people have the chance to begin voting for parties other than one of the State's three brand names for the same product: CON/Lab/Lib; but with increasingly less to preserve, each time. We'll see if the nation wants to find another future then.

[@freebornjohn6876]

@@heathstjohn6775 The neo fascist Refom Party will pobably get some votes. People never learn.

[@buddhastaxi666]

my mum was from Stoke Newington. We used to go there a lot from Wales in the 1950s and 1960s. The best was when the M1 was first opened and we had a Jag car and no speed limit. London in 1961 was l9ts of new flats, old bomb damage. The 50s was when they started to clean the place up. Prefered Powys with its oak woods and hills.

[@stephenlever419]

Wish I had a “Time Machine “ ❤❤❤

[@johnpage4581]

Went back to Nth London a few weeks ago thought I would visit my old library,silly me it was a mosque.

[@josefschiltz2192]

Is that the Old Harlington Library? The only items of worship in an old library should be books! As far as I'm concerned, the loss of a library is counter to civilization.

[@johnpage4581]

No this is in fore street Edmonton. N 9.

[@josefschiltz2192]

@@johnpage4581 That's a damn shame. I hate it when libraries are lost. For me, putting a religious establishment in place of a library is desecration.

[@peterh1353]

London before it was sandblasted. Used to go in the parks in the 60's and you could look in four directions and see nobody.

[@davidockley2987]

Don't forget that whilst this pleasant scenario was taking place, the Kray twins were somewhere in the background.

[@vindicator2011]

...true, London got different gangster types now

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

And the late Elizabeth II was already nine years into her reign. Prince Andrew was a baby and Prince Edward not yet born.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

@@vindicator2011 Yep in those days it was all local 'villains' and stereotypical Frankie Fraser types. Family firms etc. Nowadays that's basically all gone. These days it's all roadmen and foreign drug slingers.

[@Laura55sere]

They didn’t bother me!

[@barbarawalsh9135]

Craftsmen all gone 😳

[@cdgh99]

Handsome policeman at 7:38

[@Ross.Cavendish]

I like his massive helmet.

[@None-zc5vg]

A City of London policeman, instead of a Metropolitan Police one, to judge from the helmet. The police looked human, approachable and even helpful back then: now, you keep your distance from them (that's if you ever see them, on foot or otherwise) if you've any sense.

[@jazzman1626]

@@None-zc5vg There will be 20,000 more police shortly to cope with the massive unrest caused by the deception and deliberate destruction of the economy this past year. Why, after the reduction in police numbers in the last 3 decades, have they decided to suddenly recruit 20,000 more from the youngest they can get?

[@simonnelson7770]

Anon Anon they have a completely different job now compared to then. They are constantly abused and run ragged so no surprise you don't find them approachable

[@johnmurphy7316]

@@simonnelson7770 I'd rather deal with the gestapo than your beloved British police

[@christinemelville3756]

Good grief…we all looked like robots…..I was there at the time 😂😱

[@john07973]

In 2024 it's a cesspit

[@532bluepeter1]

Notice how little colour there is in this colour footage. How grey London was.

[@davesmith4199]

Always building works going on in London!

[@f.dmcintyre4666]

I wonder where the Policeman is now? If alive he would be in his 80's...……..

[@marktwain380]

Yep, like my folks

[@khiggins8733]

City of London Policeman .

[@moonstar21868]

He died of covid

[@johneccar4926]

Sad shallow humour

[@christinastephanou5971]

@@moonstar21868 how do you know are you aware of him?

[@henrysimpson6964]

No hard hats!

[@Keithbarber]

There was no concern for safety then - today it's a good thing except when people go stupid with it Paranoid about "no win no fee"

[@grahamt19781]

No safety gear on building sites lol crazy

[@oasis4life014]

Shirt and tie to lay bricks

[@watfordgap6737]

A man who wears a tie when doing work like that is a man who knows his place in the world and respects himself

[@elliottg.1954]

Sixty years earlier in London, Lenin was provided with an office and printing facilities by a friendly left-wing publishing company. Stalin attended the Fifth RSDLP Congress, held in London during May-June 1907. The roots of where we are today.

[@freebornjohn6876]

You seem to have ignored the presence of the Blackshirts, National Front and BNP in London's recent history. But more importantly: the roots of where we are now in terms of terminal decline, began with the policies of Mrs Thatcher.

[@gerrynewton55020]

Paradise lost!

[@karpizan]

This must have had a commentary. What happened to it?

[@rogercresswell1720]

No hard hats on building sites in those days.

[@eddkennedy6458]

when men were men,

[@drzagorschi1509]

Was great time before than today the elegance and culture of people was at high level at that period respect and the City was clean not like today only Asian people on the street doing rubbish everywhere dirty it feels more we are in Pakistani not in Great London …😢 very sad for what is today

[@tarikwildman]

Judging by the cars I would put a year or two earlier. (no Minis, introduced 1959, no Austin A 40´s either. 1958-1959 would be my guess

[@skulptor]

Given away by Blair et al

[@johndean4765]

Skulptor Blair decided to destroy our English way of life and let unlimited no of immigrants flood in now its still going on these usually have no job to come to it's a crazy policy and they still keep encouraging them to flood in.

[@seansmith445]

@@johndean4765 It really started in 1948 with the British Nationality act but Blair took it to another level and the "conservatives" to another level still.

[@jaminova_1969]

God save the Queen!

[@sandradee131]

when london was a real London .

[@davidockley2987]

The obligatory "Andy Capp" cigarette hanging from the corner of the mouth. Wrong nostalgia, I know.

[@simonyip5978]

3:36 the four ships, with light grey hulls, white superstructure and yellow masts/cranes look like they were owned by the same shipping company.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

I think it's fair to say London is _very_ different now. Whether it's better overall, worse overall, or better in some ways and worse in others, I'll leave up to you.

[@OlafProt]

2:55 is that Paternoster Square?

[@ErmWhatTheSigma12790]

Did anyone else search up a playthrough of GTA London 1961 and this appeared?

[@birdsaloud7590]

Hardly any road markings, and hardly any accidents probably. All down to common sense.

[@simonmaclennan677]

Far more injuries and deaths in those days, for far less traffic.

[@watfordgap6737]

It was bad for road accidents and deaths

[@AnimaChristisalvame]

The entire English population has been replaced. 😢

[@heathstjohn6775]

Which park was this, please ?

[@peterh1353]

Guess. Richmond Park.

[@heathstjohn6775]

@@peterh1353 Thanks very much.

[@tonyclifton265]

police didnt even need to wear stab-proof vests

[@terryhorne2582]

Not 1 immigrant in sight. Happy days eh ?.

[@peterh1353]

Most of the tube was immigrant labour.

[@davemassive8147]

Everyone in London THEN was an ''immigrant''. That's how this country developed. Learn some history

[@seansmith445]

@@davemassive8147 Oh shut up. What nonsense.

[@davemassive8147]

@@seansmith445 The usual pig ignorant response from someone with no idea of this country's history

[@davemassive8147]

@@martinranalli8572 You mean anyone who's ''English'' in your book was born before 1066? There is no such thing as an 'ethnic English' person these days. Learn some history

[@codex3048]

Before colonisation.

[@SuperZedd]

Not a hard hat in sight on the construction site 😂

[@isshyboy]

Not a hard hat in sight

[@eddkennedy6458]

or HSE knobheads.

[@grahamblack1961]

Cor blimey gov’ner, would you Adam an’ Eve it. Not ‘alf and no error.

[@anoshya]

Little obesity then

[@TheEtruscanhorse]

Queen Victoria died in 1959, so the 'sixties' were delayed until late 1963. It was a short but eventful decade ending officially around 1969. The Beatles are still at number one in 1963 and millions of people still live there.

[@Elle_Gowing]

Queen Victoria died in 1901.

[@TheEtruscanhorse]

@@Elle_Gowing 😉