This Is London Part 2 (1950-1959)

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A mounted policeman in Sloane Square. Panning along shops in Chelsea, antiques in the windows. A car pulls up outside of Harrods. Three Indian women walk up to the window. A well dressed woman leaves a Mews house she passes a Rolls and gets into a sports car. Large flats and small homes in Chelsea, a quiet street of terraced houses. Children walk together down Cheyne Row, there are no cars. Chelsea pensioners at the Royal Military Hospital, a parade is going on. CU's of pensioners with their medals, they march off the parade ground.
A woman paints a picture by the Thames at Chelsea Reach, down river the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. Queen Elizabeth in Royal coach enters gates of Buckingham Palace to the roar of the crowd. LS Buckingham Palace, St. James's Palace, Horse Guards at Whitehall changing the guards as tourists look on. WS Trafalgar Square with Nelsons Column, the National Gallery and St Martins in the Field.
Statue of Boadicea pan to Thames and the Festival Hall. Views of river and St Paul's, vg top shot looking towards Tower Bridge.
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@johngovus2734 2 жыл бұрын

The lovely London I loved and remembered. R.I.P

@johnobrien8398 Жыл бұрын

Be nice to live in a London like this one

@Glen-ft8ch 11 ай бұрын

I was there with my parents in April 1989. Even then London was nice.

@andrewtongue7084 9 ай бұрын

It's nice to hear an earlier narrator refer to the Queen of the Iceni as "Boadicea" rather than the latterday, 'Boudica' nomenclature. Wonderfully evocative !

@buckholdboy967 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this wonderful film,London looks great ,I wish I could be transported back to compare it with the present day

@johncostello1896 4 ай бұрын

no comparison

@MF-ho3jr Жыл бұрын

London as was, lost forever thanks to the politicians

@davisben39 Жыл бұрын

They really have destroyed their own country

@tracyjohnson4486 Жыл бұрын

Same here in America.😢

@jourwalis-8875 4 жыл бұрын

It´s amazing to see how well London had been restored and re-built only five years after the wars end!

@frankrowland 2 жыл бұрын

Believe me,there were still loads of bomb sites all over London,just not shown here.

@vinodkumarn6357 2 жыл бұрын

Everything was looted from other countries and they built there palaces,bunglows,roadsetc

@thunderbird1921 2 жыл бұрын

Actually they technically were rebuilding London while at war, since Britain was involved in both the Malaya Emergency AND the Korean War in the early 1950s (partially why the government kept rationing so long). It honestly makes the achievement even more impressive.

@golden.lights.twinkle2329 Жыл бұрын

Well they didn't show the bombed out areas - and there were still many in the 1950s and even 1960s.

@thereunionparty Жыл бұрын

Those modest little houses between Cheyne Row and Glebe Place (where the three children emerge from) still exist, according to Google Maps. The modern day purchase price is probably astronomical, I should think.

@PeterPhosphate Жыл бұрын

Now a very expensive and exclusive neighbourhood.

@mickgee1661 Жыл бұрын

The Chelsea I remember having lived there from 1944 to 1968.

@JaxSwim1 Жыл бұрын

When mums could afford to stay home and look after the children, stress free living….

@songsmith31a 2 жыл бұрын

The commentary evokes a very different time - when speaking properly in a way that could be (and was intended to be) understood by all - even visiting foreigners - was expected from those in public life.

@marklammas2465 Жыл бұрын

I don't support loranorder. Or lorandorder. It's a spoken tragedy.

@songsmith31a Жыл бұрын

@@marklammas2465 Neatly put. It is a sad reality that we seem to have become victims of a dreadful revisionist view of what we have done and achieved that has seen an over- reaction that has gained little and lost much. But I for one remain glad that I knew a better time when pride and sheer common sense were far more prevalent than they are today. In the meantime, I am confident that the wheel will turn and we will see better days ahead. Hope is always the great panacea!

@marklammas2465 Жыл бұрын

@@songsmith31a One wonders if anyone will know the meaning and usage of such words as "panacea" by the time that period arrives.

@martinabsolom2231 Жыл бұрын

Actually, as a Londoner born in the 50s, I can say with some authority that London was dirty, smoke choked and bomb sites were my playground. Rose tinted glasses can be a dangerous thing.

@Ireallymissmymind Жыл бұрын

With you 100%. We moved from London to Liverpool in the 50's when I was 6 years old. I remember asking my Dad why the fog in Liverpool wasn't green or brown. Coincidentally, I never got bronchitis again.

@ShanghaiRooster 5 ай бұрын

@@Jdicjei93jbr Americanisation, first and foremost.

@PERCYxyz 5 ай бұрын

I don't think it is rose tinted spectacles so much, more like using nostalgia as a vehicle for vile racism.

@ShanghaiRooster 5 ай бұрын

@@PERCYxyz In the context of the OP's comment, it's definitely the spectacles. The racists will point to the lack of any non-white faces (except briefly near the start of this second part), but what is also obvious is the lack of any working class faces except as 'serving' the requirements of the well-to-do Londoners shown in the film. A lot of these films were made as much to be shown abroad as incentives for visitors to come to Britain as they were for local viewing, so the focus being on the higher society attractions shouldn't be a surprise.

@pmajudge 2 жыл бұрын

WOW! LOVED PART -I 1 AND NOW PART -2 THANK YOU! ENJOYED BRITISH PATHE NEWS ! MEMEORIES OF IT !! AT THE CINEMA !! FROM U.K. (2022)

@clarehennessey3653 7 ай бұрын

My heart aches.

@angelaegan7511 Жыл бұрын

How did it all go so wrong??😢

@TheFatNumpty 5 ай бұрын

The notorious 'race to the bottom' mainly.

@mh53j 4 ай бұрын

Diversity

@christinetennick1174 7 ай бұрын

The London I remember well, Holidays in the 50s at nans house in Bermondsey, Far different now.

@peterchaloner2877 2 жыл бұрын

When things were, as one would wish them to be-- and not everyone dressed like a child about to go camping.

@davidparris7167 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, elegance in appearance for both sexes is now, sadly a lost art.

@theofarmmanager267 Жыл бұрын

I don’t disagree about the dress standard that were required. Perhaps little elegance for us because of the cost of clothes - but there was little else in the 50’s that I wish was still the norm. Meat was a real luxury. Once a week? Hard to convince my grandchildren just how special chicken was - a real Christmas treat - rather like Ye Olde Smoked Ham Cars were way out of our reach. It was buses and lots of walking. Carrying shopping home was not like putting bags onto a boot We had no refrigerator - that meant shopping little and every day - increasing the time required for shopping and the costs No central heating. Coal fire downstairs and paraffin heater on the landing upstairs. Frost on both sides of the window in winter Everyone smoked; trains ran by churning out plumes of smoke; fires were ordinary coal - all smell and smoke Health service was rudimentary compared to today. My mother would not have died when she did if she had been alive 15,20 years later Just too naive to suggest how great everything was in the 50’s

@davidparris7167 Жыл бұрын

@@theofarmmanager267 Your most candid and honest reflections on Britain in the 1950's reminded me of a quote: ''Hard times make for strong men, Strong men make for good times, Good times make for weak men, Weak men make for hard times.'' I think we are once again in hard times because of the disintegration of the moral, political, economic and social fibre of the nation. The 1950's may have lacked the wellbeing that a robust economy can bring but there was this strong social fibre as a bi product of the war that held everyone together and the belief that good times would once again be here. Your mother's untimely death also reminded me of a medical emergency of a burst appendix that happened to me in 1998. I was most lucky that this did not happen if I had been around in 1938 as the availability of antibiotics saved me. Hoping that once again strong men and women can turn this all around. Cheers.

@theofarmmanager267 Жыл бұрын

@@davidparris7167 thank you for the reply. It seems simplistic to say that each generation has it easier and better than the previous one but there are few areas of material substance (I don’t count dress code as being of material substance) that seem to have been better for the previous generation. However, I think it is true and am thankful for that - unless anyone would wish their children a harder life? I’ve got teenage grandchildren and am grateful that their lives may well continue to be consistently easier. I have little doubt that WW2 was extremely formative for my parents; my father joined the Royal Marines when he was 18 and his first action was DDay on Gold beach - baptism of fire. I think that the deprivations suffered by all (okay, except for criminals and the elite) did forge characters which would not have been there if there had been only peacetime.

@mh53j 4 ай бұрын

@@theofarmmanager267so things are better today? Still can't afford meat, including chicken; cars are ridiculously expensive; you can die waiting for your "free" medical treatment; the police will kick in your door for "mean" tweets; heating costs are still ridiculous; grooming gangs and illegal thugs entering the country like rats to a garbage dump. Yeah, so much better today, isn't it? 50 years from now will people be longing to return to this dumpster fire?

@golden.lights.twinkle2329 Жыл бұрын

London as it used to be. An English city. Unfortunately, no more.

@Steveholmes1972 Ай бұрын

@heathstjohn6775 Жыл бұрын

For whatever a city or a man wishes, when brought to fulfillment, shows how worthy, or base, were the desires.

@terrytk9398 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful print - probably from original 35mm negative. Somehow parts of the newsreel looks a little later than the 50’s? The music is reminiscent of a 70’s Carry On film!😀

@marklammas2465 Жыл бұрын

Computer upscaled graphic definition and frame rate. Does wonders.

@terrytk9398 Жыл бұрын

@@marklammas2465 ah! Cheers.

@daveweiss5647 5 ай бұрын

If you could go back and talk to all the veterans and show them what would end upnhappening to their country not a single one would have fought in the war.

@alanmusicman3385 Жыл бұрын

An idyll of London - sequences of highly selective chocolate box shots of the City and the west end. It's lovely and shows a lot of what was good about Britain and London in those days - but ....... Barely a trace of any rain, shows none of the extensive bomb damage and empty lot "bomb sites" which were still - in 1950 - everywhere to be seen and there were still vacant lot "bomb sites" in the Capital until at least the mid 1960s - I know because I grew up in London in the 1950s Take a look at the exterior scenes in the 1954 movie "The Lavender Hill Mob" where, in location shots made not far from the Tower of London, you can see whole blocks which were still rubble. Or location shots in 1949 movie "Passport to Pimlico" which again shows how much devastation there was. What we are shown here gives no clue to the extent of the damage done during WW2. This film never goes east of the Tower of London - or south of the Thames - missing out at least half of London. Almost all of South London is more or less discounted by saying that the underground tube trains can get you "anywhere that matters for a few pennies" - due to geology there is only one underground tube line south of the river Thames! All those models posing amongst the crowds - watch carefully and in a couple of places you can see members of the public in the background reacting to someone telling them not to look at the camera. It's a film made to promote tourism. Rex Harrison's American pronounciations of a couple of words (I doubt that anyone in 1950s Britain said "Ren-a-sonce" - until the 1980s we always pronounced the "ai") are evidence it was not made primarily for domestic consumption.

@robharding5345 3 ай бұрын

The long lost London, which many born and bred locals do not recognise anymore. Such a crying shame.

@joshlevy3480 Жыл бұрын

Then Safe, clean and actually English!!! Now unsafe, dirty and NOT English!!!

@mwd331 Жыл бұрын

Do you live in London?

@ShanghaiRooster 5 ай бұрын

You're getting a very rose-tinted view of London in this film, which was likely intended to be screened abroad in order to attract visitors. Lots of comments on the Reel 1 video especially talking with approval about the lack of non-white faces herein (did those people suffer a fit of apoplexy in the first minute of this second reel?), but very little comment about the almost just as lacking sight of working class areas, and the damage - both physical and to community cohesion - wrought firstly by the Luftwaffe and subsequently by town planners.

@mh53j 4 ай бұрын

@@ShanghaiRoosterhow horrible, not enough blacks or "foreigners"; guess you're happy with the human flotsam there today

@Steveholmes1972 Ай бұрын

London is in UK

@guldenaydin9918 Жыл бұрын

💎

@mansurtourguide 5 ай бұрын

With luv from INDIA ❤

@leehumphries7696 6 ай бұрын

That lovely skyline by the Thames before the ugliness of the City of London took over and ruined not only London but the country with its greed.

@peterbaylis2808 2 ай бұрын

Ño mobile phones no online so all shops open no shifty trainers woman dress beutifull oh high heels

@rodgreen6021 Жыл бұрын

Did they show the East End??

@PeterPhosphate Жыл бұрын

Doubt it - Probably not posh enough. 😊

@briangregg1104 Жыл бұрын

Sure this is London everyone looks English.

@johnathandaviddunster38 Жыл бұрын

Pity the ignorance of RACISM...

@gch8810 Жыл бұрын

@@johnathandaviddunster38 Who cares about "muh racism?" There are differences between the races. London is English and cannot be home to any other group. Cope harder.

@johnathandaviddunster38 Жыл бұрын

@@gch8810 yes there are differences between some members of the white race ... physically inferior , which leads to racist rants ...I'll leave the last insult to you....

@christopherroberts2500 Жыл бұрын

@@johnathandaviddunster38 You're a fool.

@katehigen7018 Жыл бұрын

@@gch8810 It's not exclusively " English" any longer though lol and the multi culturalism is only going to grow more and more so it's you that actually needs to learn to cope harder : )

@Glen-ft8ch 11 ай бұрын

Enoch Powell was right.

@ShanghaiRooster 5 ай бұрын

Tell me, how many working class faces did you see in the film, other than as bit part players in the lives of the better off, that section of society being the true focus in a film probably shown abroad to attract visitors.