London Traffic Jams (1946)

[@marinedrive5484]

Thanks British Pathe... some amazing footage here and so much to take in. It really is a window into the past: the people, the clothes, the cars, the buildings and shop signs and so on. Wonderful!

[@ricdavid7476]

my dad had just come back from 3 years on the burma siam railway courtesy of the japanese and was living in London he was ill for the rest of his relatively short life.

[@hilaryrubinstein9022]

It is truly amazing that there were not dozens of dead bodies of those trying to cross the road. It was famously said that "London motorists divide pedestrians between the quick and the dead."

[@sandmanjono1239]

Addictive & fascinating filming 👌🏻

[@deshood3406]

Cant believe how clean it looks.

[@Jay-Kay-Buwembo]

London wasn't clean back then, the coal factories created a lot of smog that would build up on clothes.

[@callumhardy5098]

@@Jay-Kay-Buwembo There may have been a little coal smoke but just look, everyone is dressed in a suit and tie, there are no potholes in the roads, every pavement is not spattered with chewing gum.

[@Jay-Kay-Buwembo]

@@callumhardy5098 hmmmm 🤔

[@callumhardy5098]

@@Jay-Kay-Buwembo is that a hmmmmm?, ‘your talking bull’ or hmmmmmm? ‘You may have a point?

[@Jay-Kay-Buwembo]

@@callumhardy5098 I live in London I don't see pot holes in the roads...

[@michaelkenny8540]

2 adverts for the film 'Dragonwyck' on busses at 3:19 & 5:54. It ran at The Odeon Leicester Square May 18th to June 6th 1946.

[@charleshussey118]

Surprisingly little bomb damage - I wonder whether the filmmakers deliberately avoided showing this?

[@williamrubinstein3442]

Someone said in the 1920s that "London motorists divide pedestrians between the quick and the dead"

[@trueman5483]

Very nice early footage of London

[@Pluggit1953]

I wonder if that was the US Army Air Force Band performing one of their lunchtime radio broadcasts. My late father told me about them.

[@ncs8730]

1930s or 1940s? Traffic was no less heavy than today; and people yet crossed the streets where they liked - and there were no problems!

[@jamilaparvez8301]

Beautiful

[@mitchellgiffard1978]

Very Interesting love seeing historic London dating back from then.

[@doreenfawcett9717]

Wow amazing film

[@MichaelGunner123]

Great footage. Just wish volume was included.

[@julianaylor4351]

The houses in my road in London were built in the twenties, so the garages are meant for cars from that era and are too small for modern cars, but were still usable until the late seventies, when cars got bigger.

[@bilaltugrulugurlu8577]

I love London a magnificent city 💖😍

[@andymccallum8761]

Mesmerising. 👍

[@michaelkenny8540]

Something is dropped in the road at 5:32 (fell from the bus turning?) and a boy runs over to pick it up (behind the motor cycle at 5:38) and then chases after the bus(?)

[@robnewman6101]

Keep Calm and Carry on.

[@Jeffybonbon]

we are all just passing through

[@peterrivet648]

The opening scene shows Tower Bridge when it was still lit by gas. I can remember seeing this as a small child and wondering how the gas pipework for the street lighting was arranged so that it could cope with the central spans being opened.

[@deano3580]

There is a sports car with a GB sticker on it at 3:25. Must have been very rare for cars to go overseas in 1946. Also hardly any paint markings on the roads back then.

[@succulent951]

Relatively no markings and multiple lanes of traffic 😯

[@gerardburton1081]

1.10 looks like bags of coal. There was still a lot of horses and carts in 1946 that surprised me.

[@missasinenomine]

Not him again! Why do all Pathe videos have to end with Mick Jagger?!!!!

[@Mr.1.i]

Do you reckon anyone got charged with driving without due care and attention.or cycling mikey vetting everyone about mobile phones

[@andrewbutterson8367]

Busy London streets love those old AEC stl buses and taxis

[@p123-i9s]

Just after WW2 ended, if the date is correct; my parents' young lives.

[@robnewman6101]

20th Century Law Enforcement Police Officers.

[@malcolmlewis6014]

It looks more like before the war to me.

[@simonworman7898]

That maybe because all the cars maybe of prewar design

[@Christina-ge3xr]

Not much difference than now 😊

[@wondermum9770]

People dressed so smartly then,very lovely to see ❤

[@johnadams3730]

England.

[@simonworman7898]

Plenty of Policemen

[@bernadettekelly8165]

Shame cars were ever invented ! Horse and trap much better ....

[@robnewman6101]

Constabulary. Police.

[@santitofelipe6283]

Just Amazing!