Look at Life - Down London River, 1959

Posted by nostalgoteket.se U.K. Newsreel. Take a history tour on the River Thames. Lots of famous footage: Parliament, Big Ben, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, Port of London, Cleopatra's Needle and much more!

[@chanctonbury63]

They used to show these sorts of things as a warm up before the movie at the cinema. They used to bore the crap out of me. Now I cant get enough. Im hooked on them!

[@bwghall1]

whats the music called.

[@pmacc3557]

i can imagine

[@robharding5345]

I can't help myself revisiting this wonderful piece of filming , My parents left this great City back in 59,We came to Lancashire, the work was much more plentiful, with the cotton mills still employing thousands , and the terraced houses were plentiful too, cheap rent, tight communities, When I look at the current state of our old communities, both in the south and down here in Lancashire , There is little of it left. Now you can make your own mind up as to why that is so, But whatever the reasons may be. I would jump right back to the old period, Because that is how life should be. people had time for one another, Whole communities looked out for each other,People may have been poorer financially, and their housing may have been poor, But People were much happier because they mixed together like all good communities do, Fractured communities breed crime and miss trust.

[@Isleofskye]

Great Comment Rob...

[@Coolestmovies]

True enough, but when your country has a long, complicated and often unpleasant history of colonization, you couldn’t have been surprised when masses from those colonies and their neighbouring countries wanted their piece of what the British basically taught them to aspire to, regardless of whether they adapted to it successfully or brought the worst of their cultures along with them.

[@craigjackson2428]

Thanks for the upload. Nice archive video. I miss the London, England I came to fondly love in 80s early 90s.

[@SleepscapeSerenity]

riots and poverty?

[@Captally]

The dear old 'Smoke' the year I went into the Royal Navy. A working river in a city we belonged to and she belonged to us, before she was given away under our very noses.

[@Isleofskye]

Another 60 years later and The Queen is STILL going strong..Extraordinary..

[@gerardfinnigan1539]

still scrounging off the state

[@fredm5245]

I sailed on the Darro shown here to South America. Great memories as I was born and grew up next to the Thames at Erith.

[@dbrn780]

I've been living in London for nearly 7 years. It is fascinating to see all those places and how they changed since then. Who could have thought that a power station will become one of the most popular museums in the world or that docks will turn into a very expensive place to live.

[@mozdickson]

Was up and down it recently - looks much nicer now, trees, less slum tenanments, better access to the waterside. And I guarantee that the water quality is thousand percent better.

[@civlyzed]

I really want to visit that Pub someday!

[@winnietheshrew2957]

I wonder how it escaped the wrecking ball.

[@paullewis2413]

Listen everyone, nostalgia is a great think because we generally overlook the bad in favour of the good. Of course there were some things about London that were better back then, the shipping on the Thames made the river a much more interesting place and the modernists had yet to start destroying so much of the unique heritage, particularly in “The City” where quality was sacrificed for cheap ugly trash. Overall London is more vibrant and cleaner now and with higher living standards in spite of the “sink estates” which are gradually being demolished or vastly improved. I miss much about old London but I consider being lucky living in what is still the greatest city on earth.

[@grahamhawthorn7177]

I was born in 1959. Great to see what was going on then.

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Graham Hawthorn snap

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Many British people don’t realise that London was Britain’s greatest manufacturing city at one time.

[@dickplum2034]

Ian London is now a Time Bomb ticking away waiting to go off from so called multiculturalism

[@andrewoliver8930]

That's why Birmingham hasn't got a palace but London has lots. It's a shame Burmingham and the North did very little during that era. Good old London.

[@HattieMcDanielonaMoon]

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[@UberSynth]

Gosh, I remember these days like it was yesterday. I was 52 and I used to look off the bridge and see all the rubbish floating in that brown water. Everything is cleaner now, except the water is still brown

[@chunkybuster7203]

I remember going with my lovely dad down to Erith in the fifties to see the ships pass. There was a display in the gardens of the ships funnel markings . Notice no towers or crap 'modern' buildings,what a dump it has become?

[@fredm5245]

Chunky Buster I remember the flag display very well as that was my playground

[@1990pommie]

lol. openng scene was where i used to go swmming in the 40s wth my older brother. there were steps i could use to get into the thames, spent many hours on the barges playing. used to see if there was anythng worth pinching lived next to the docks bombed out twice accordng to mum. council housing

[@jonl8509]

Fascinating. The Prospect of Whitby pub is almost unrecognizable. It is still there, but surrounded by apartments now. Of course, everything is a lot cleaner now - the buildings, the river and the air.

[@bilbobigbollix7318]

Used to live in Garnet Street just by the Prospect. It was full of City types even then and we didn't drink there. Got my first 180 at darts in the Town of Ramsgate. In fact just looked on Google Street view and seen my old flat. It's part of a 'gated community' now. Wonder if the current residents of my gaff know that the worlds longest running sausage casserole was once brewed in their kitchen. We would just add bits to it when the level got below half way. It was still on the go when I left!

[@PhD63]

I’m from south London and used to drink in the Prospect with my mates in the early 70’s.

[@chanctonbury63]

What is it about being on the water that makes people wave? Why dont people wave from buses? And other questions vital to our understanding of the cosmos.

[@bernard6413]

I loved the old England,but it is no more!

[@simonyeo3246]

I miss it too. Post war gloom, open racism, bad food, the class system. Great memories...

[@dickplum2034]

Same as Bernard same as.

[@jimgleeson98]

I agree with you. Gone since the early eighties in my opinion! THATCHER! "LET IT BURN! I grew up in the 1950s and early Sixties. "FINGS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE!"

[@aib0160]

Yes its changed a not for the better in many respects.

[@bernard6413]

@@aib0160 and iam a Dane! But it was Montgomery who liberated us,could have been Patton,but it was you Brittish Tommies who came to our rescue.ty.

[@robharding5345]

Its really quite simple, if you ask me which was the happier city, Was it then , back in 59, or is it the 2019 multicultural society, I would always say 1959, Not because I'm racist, But because I recognise and can relate to the older scene Whereas now, many people are ignorant, they do not mix like we did back then, Communities no longer have that tight cohesion and happiness.

[@goldanboy43]

Nothing to do with race. I live in a mostly white community and nobody mixes here. Many people are just socially awkward.

[@robharding5345]

@MusicalElitist1 I happen to be 23 yrs of age, My alter ego maybe 62, you pompous twit, now who is stupid ?.

[@robharding5345]

@@goldanboy43 Fair point !

[@robharding5345]

@MusicalElitist1 How would you know Grammar school boy ?.Don't believe all you read, and all you think you are , because it will amount to zero, which is exactly what you are ,Tit.

[@civlyzed]

@@robharding5345 You two girls settle down, there's no reason to fight over this lovely old video! Cheers!

[@Lytton333]

And now the river is devoid of any but the most minimal traffic, whilst the roads of the centre are stuffed full of polluting cars waiting endlessly at lights to make their deliveries or move people from east to west (or vice-versa) on endless bendy-buses. Mad!

[@miked1869]

Gerard burton exactly. You only have to look at how black the buildings were to get a sense of how bad the air must have been. Of course I don't know when those buildings would last have been cleaned, but even so...

[@annother3350]

there are great commuter boats now. best way to get to work. No cramped, crowded tubes with armpits in your face

[@andrewoliver8930]

It was heavily polluted and so was the air. Good old days.

[@canman5060]

My Chinese family arrived in the 1920's at the river and started today's Chinatown.We knew what the 1940 London blitz felt like !

[@yurilemming4130]

Everything was so much fresher & more exciting than today.

[@houktanhdanhi2352]

a ship/boat spotters paradise

[@eyesofisabelofficial]

Warship seen at 5.49 is USS Camp (DE 251)

[@pmacc3557]

has Blair ever been through traitors gate?

[@bigal3617]

a few times

[@zincpatriot7227]

Something I pray for everyday

[@michaelscales5996]

Not sure but if you Google Ten ways to blackmail Tony Blair you'll discover certain places he used to frequent and got arrested for.

[@davidwylie2469]

If I had owt t do with it the bastard wouldn't be coming out again!

[@jamesbaker3365]

I hope so !

[@richardl772]

We came over from Australia on the Oronsay in 1948.....interesting to see what it looked like; the rest of it looked pretty familiar cos by then I was 12.....

[@turquoisecat761]

When this was made, the most common names were probably Albert, Jack, Mary, etc. Now it's most probably Mohammed, Tomascz, Piotr and Irena.

[@Muswell]

And before Albert, Jack & Mary, the names were probably Roman or German or Nordic. Grow up.

[@robertoc2485]

Very well said

[@caroljones4511]

What is your problem? go and get a life. London is a World City, not just for Racist pigs like you.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

@@caroljones4511 And are the cities the immigrants come from "world" cities, too, or is it only white, Western Europeans who have to cede their nations to foreigners?

[@marklloyd3536]

Northern Owl what an unpleasant little nothing you are

[@land7776]

wow, there was a lot more indigenous Britons back then!

[@2Truth2you]

The Kalergi Plan was already in motion.

[@lbukem4259]

Fucking hell, you racist pricks pop up on all these videos, dont you?

[@TVsez]

Lazy English doesn't have clue, we came in the 60s, opened businesses, bought properties, created jobs, bought nice cars. This country is amazing, you can achieve anything with hard work and a few brain cells. You guys still can't grasp that

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

@@scottmitchell8273 "Not racist" followed by "you black cunts". Comedy gold, albeit unintentional.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

@Brett Mitchell Speaking of invented words, "ingroup preference" is as good a euphemism for inbreeding as I've ever heard.

[@stace3037]

8:37 SS Oronsay departs for Australia. The following year on the same trip it will carry 2-year old future Australian PM Tony Abbott

[@jesterschameleon1862]

You mean we had all that trade going through london, ....without the help of a 'European Union'? ...wow!

We had the Commonwealth then which we don't have any longer.

[@marklloyd3536]

The European Union had only existed for a couple of years but soon got into its stride with antwerp and Rotterdam taking a lot of the trade younsee in the film, and of course we were so poor at making a profit out of all of this trade there was not the money to invest in deep water berths and containerisation until far too late unlike Eurosport Rotterdam etc.

[@marklloyd3536]

The European Union had only existed for a couple of years but soon got into its stride with antwerp and Rotterdam taking a lot of the trade younsee in the film, and of course we were so poor at making a profit out of all of this trade there was not the money to invest in deep water berths and containerisation until far too late unlike Eurosport Rotterdam etc.

[@marklloyd3536]

The European Union had only existed for a couple of years but soon got into its stride with Antwerp and Rotterdam taking a lot of the trade you see in the film, and of course we were so poor at making a profit out of all of this trade there was not the money to invest in deep water berths and containerisation until far too late unlike Europort Rotterdam etc.

[@brian.7966]

yes son I know it is a shock too you but it did happen, I would not blame you if you went for a laydown.

[@rdouthwaite]

Ah, the world before the advent of the standardised shipping container...

[@nihilistcentraluk442]

Which has made everybody's life much easier and cheaper.

[@javiergilvidal1558]

@@nihilistcentraluk442 But not happier!

[@nihilistcentraluk442]

@@javiergilvidal1558 true.All societies decline in the end.

[@fandangofandango2022]

Hey Great Doco.

[@jimgleeson98]

DAMN! I miss old school London! I grew up in the 505 next to The Thames! Left in 1979. I wouldn't give you 2p. For London now.

[@robertcook2572]

'Without its two thousand acres of docks, London would be nothing.' Shows how much he knew, doesn't it?

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

He knew a good deal more than you do.

[@stanimic]

Something is definitely missing throughout this wonderful look at England as it was ... can anyone enlighten me here please ?

[@BrassLock]

+mike stanley : The world famous Morris Mini was't widely available at the time this was filmed 😃

[@robertoc2485]

Er... Our commonwealth cousins my good man

[@land7776]

muds?

[@andrewoliver8930]

An honest assessment of the way of life?

[@HattieMcDanielonaMoon]

@@land7776 Is there a lot of mud in London

[@peterdixon7705]

London I grew up in ,the river I crossed at Woolwich weekly to see family on the other side.,the river I crossed daily to go to and from work.,the river I drove under at Blackwall and Rotherhide tunnels.this was a wonderful robust city . Now it saddens me to see what it has become . Far to many things gone wrong to mention . From Sydney 👍👍❤❤🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@wolf20iw]

wonderful! Thanks again

[@duplicitouskendoll9402]

Everyone looks like they're very happy.

[@miked1869]

Most people do when you point a camera at them. :)

[@Muswell]

I remember those days.... remember the Houses of Parliament & Tower Bridge being that filthy dirty. They are gorgeous buildings now that they are clean.... And the views of the docks & wharfs & old buildings that are now multi-million pound apartments. Wow ....... really amazed by some of the comments on here. I'm 62 now & I think London is fantastic..... "A 3rd world crime ridden hellhole" ... erm... I don't think so. It's a wonderful city & I wouldn't live anywhere else.

[@johnpriestley4545]

lipsy bb

[@johnpriestley4545]

bootsamou twitter.com/LoveIsland/status/882476031906652160

[@Muswell]

No lipsy! The terror attacks could happen in any city. We had the IRA bombing places a few decades ago - it doesn't affect what Londoners think of living here, or put us off. And, oh my God, NO - I do not want to see more whites here! I don't think I've ever heard such a ridiculous question. London is fantastic exactly BECAUSE it is so multi-racial, so diverse, so many facets. I love London BECAUSE of that !! Why do you have a problem with different coloured skin?? We're all Londoners & British & .... PEOPLE ! Gosh - where on Earth are you living?

[@Muswell]

John - why did you send me a clip of Love Island????

[@Muswell]

Oh lipsy, you are completely delusional. No, I don't live in Cornwall. I was born in London & have lived in London for 64 years. My comment about not wanting to "see more whites" did not mean that I don't want folk to be born. It was a reaction against what you were clearly saying about the population balance between dark-skinned & white people. You didn't even mention Eastern Europeans, Irish or Cypriots etc. - you went straight to the "white skin" issue. And, yes, I would hate to live in an all-white area - it would probably contain a lot of people like you. I'm done.

[@willb3698]

Houses Of Parliament - filthy. LCC Building - Filthy. River- Filthy and you can see the smog in the air. Looks so much better now. I remember when they clean the Houses of P. I never knew it was supposed to look like that! London is WAY cleaner now - and better for it. "The Prospect of Whitby" - mentioned by Charles Dickens and over Half a millennia old. Amazing! Amazing. Imagine how it was then.! I Do wish we still had real river usage though - even more river taxis. I lived in Brisbane for a while - getting the River Cat's was great.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

It was a working city in those days, and not a place for international foreign criminals to launder money and a large contingent of the Third World to be warehoused.

[@rogerking7258]

I remember when they cleaned St Pauls and turned it white. I thought they'd done something wrong and ruined it.

[@pamelamckenzie2685]

People was workers and worked hard.

[@bilbobigbollix7318]

The dockers used to work hard pinching anything that wasn't nailed down. I used to work with some ex-dockers. Half that meat you see being unloaded would be knocked out at East Street market and the like. Loveable rogues, but tea leaves all the same.

[@civlyzed]

@@bilbobigbollix7318 I wondered about how much of that stuff ended up "falling off the back of a truck" so to speak 😊

[@bilbobigbollix7318]

@@civlyzed - Mate, a lot of it fell off the back of a hearse! My ex-docker mates used one to transport stuff around theEast End! Ironically I think they are all dead now, real characters!

[@WheelieMacBin]

London, when it was recognisable to an Englishman.

[@gearshaw2058]

61 thumbs up 3 negative responses should tell you something.

[@gazbert88]

@William Gruff ohhhhhh fuckin la de dahhhhh "Cretin" aren't we fancy? Whatever happened to good old fashioned "cunt" or "dickhead"?

[@sidewindersid4180]

@Gorgon Don or stab the shit out of each other, oh wait am I thinking out loud again???

[@markhepworth4804]

Brett Mitchell👈 Desperate attempt to sound clever while taking bollocks...clownish lack of success at the former,far more success found with the latter.

[@gazbert88]

@geoffrey collins yaaaaaaawwwwwnnnnnn 😴😴😴

[@geoffjones6869]

Before the EU.

[@R_Jackson]

3:30 that perfect Ruskin quote! 💯

[@fieldsofgreen8857]

The water looks so clear and blue, not like today.

[@anemoia2661]

"Without its 2000 acres of docks, London would be nothing" And surprise surprise, London has lost its docks to the rich and wealthy, and guess what... London is slowly but surely becoming just that, nothing. Just another generic city, another ultra-modern metropolis made up of ugly and bland glass faced towers, a city that has lost its native people, its cultures, its traditions, its identity, its uniqueness, its beautiful Victorian and Georgian architecture, its heritage... the day that the docks, pubs, markets and all things that were unique to old London died, was the day that London as a whole died also... god I absolutely despise of modern day London, and that's coming from a 20 year old...

[@ashyclaret]

Yep, it's a modern day shithole now.

[@thomaslarkin9791]

reece callow this is coming from a 48/9 year old Londoner who lived in Bermondsey and your bang right it's gone to the dogs and all that made London what it was and is today has been knifed in the back ....wrong just wrong ....your comment was solid and true ...

[@kreznreich]

@@woden20 not to forget the unique culture and gentleness of the russian superwealthy...

[@javiergilvidal1558]

There´s still hope as long as young men like you exist. NEVER GIVE UP!

[@javiergilvidal1558]

@filger67- Rock Can you provide any evidence to back what you say, sir? All I see is a dying city in a dying country, amidst a racial and religious catastrophe!

[@andrewoliver8930]

Ooh London. Obsessed with it then, and the southerners are still obsessed with it now. The rest of the country exists.

[@kubrickinho]

Thanks, man!

[@chanctonbury63]

8.48......Commentary...Imagine Tilbury docks being your last vision of Britain. No wonder they didnt come back.

[@BrassLock]

+chanctonbury63 : It was my last view as a 7 year old in 1952 as we migrated to Australia via the Mediterranean & Suez Canal, etc. Wonderful voyage to the New World.

[@TheGimpy117]

5:49 that's the USS Camp (DE-251)

[@MJ-rz3ny]

Lot's of non E.U trade back then very good. We should trade more with the Commonwealth.

[@superstarshaker7402]

Durian Durian ... not just the racist loons who hate the EU, the majority of the normal British public too.

[@andrewoliver8930]

New Zealand could export even more lamb to us at a cheaper price. Those farmers in the UK can do something else for a living.

[@pmacc3557]

this is around the time "it" started i suppose?

[@pmacc3557]

@MrAeronuk1 yea thats what i mean....but a more horrific version.

[@stace3037]

6:42 I never knew vacuum used to be pronounced vac-you-um

[@davidsirett5560]

loving the lack of litter

[@peterdeane7880]

David Sirett e

[@tomsmith9208]

Does anyone know if we still use the river for trade at all ? Or is it totally redundant to road transport, looking at films like this it just looks like it makes perfect sense and all seemed to work so well, narater even says millions have been invested in it, then a few years later... it’s dead !! After hundreds and hundreds of years, how it used to be done (pre container) employed thousands of people too, so what killed it, what was the main reason(s) ? Anyone ?

[@Derek_S]

Tom. You already answered the question yourself............ containerisation killed the docks. London was mostly replaced by Felixstowe but more recently London Gateway, a huge new container port at Thurrock on the the Thames opened. The amount of goods passing through the container ports dwarfs what used to pass through the old traditional London docks.

[@ajs41]

I saw a couple of boats with goods on travelling along the Thames a few days ago. But very few overall.

[@harbourdogNL]

Brilliant. That boat called 'Roding' at 3:52: stunning!! Can anyone tell me anything about it?

[@TS50ER]

Totally agree. What a beautiful craft.

[@stevewhite5374]

Fantastic... thanks....

[@chanctonbury63]

Thats what people said in the 50s when they talked about the 20s...

[@bazbee]

I think 9 million was a ballpark figure based on the peak of 1939 (8.7 M). 1959 = c. 8 M. It dipped after the docks trading port closed only to rise again today 8.3 M (2013).

[@fandangofandango2022]

Those were the Days Hey.

[@Hussnain17]

I was on London Bridge in 2015, miss you London. See you soon.

[@TOMYTOKYO]

Splendid.

[@danielf1313]

Good old London before her skyline was ruined with all sorts of self-serving architectural abominations.

[@ant7936]

Beautiful ships, unlike today's floating hulks.

[@sikorsikor7098]

Nice to see strong, hard working, homogeneous nation. That world is lost forever...

[@jeremytravis360]

London wouldn't be anything without it's 2000 acres of Docks. That was a statement and a half.

[@philwoodford]

The floating church is bizarre.

[@bobburro3642]

+Phil Woodford... but good

[@PillSharks]

It all started in the Bristol Channel, the reverend John Ashley had a pilot cutter converted or made with a chapel below after his son asked how the sailors go to church when their at anchor...my great great grandfather was the captain, his name was George Thomas.. the cutter was called the Eirene and once it was sold he used the money to build a row of Terraced house in the village I’m from, their called the Eirene Terrace!

[@kevdarke]

Look how black from smoke the older buildings are.

[@alanbarden9778]

0:45 Uhmm there's no lifejackets in sight for the two hundred passengers. WHS would have a fit nowadays.

[@Pianoguy32]

amusing to see the stonework looking so dirty

[@ajs41]

Only 14 years after the war.

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

Not "amusing"; just indicative of the fact that London was a working city in those days, with a real economy and a real population.

[@annother3350]

It did up until the late 80s! Nearly all buildings were black

[@PhD63]

I was born and grew up in London during the 1950’s and everything was black, I particularly remember Nelson’s Column, Tower Bridge, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Tower, all black as the ace of spades. I thought it was normal until they started cleaning everything up in the 70’s and 80’s.

[@fasthracing]

Where did all those white people come from?

[@24934637]

Council building governing over 9 million Londoners?? In 2018 the population of Greater London was only 8.908 million!

[@neilturner6865]

The European Union and greedy dockers ruined our Shipping and the London Docks. Some say container ships were also to blame so sad

[@marklloyd3536]

How exactly did the eu ruin our docks? Whilst ours festered in outdated practices they invested in theirs at Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg etc. The E U couldn’t and wouldn’t have stopped investment in our docks it just never happened until too late.

[@tomsmith9208]

Why is it that we stoped using the river how we used too ? It’s the reason London exists where it does and it seems such a waste not to bring in the city’s supplies, it’s like a big wide highway that’s lying unused all the while the M2 and M20 and old Kent road are chac’a block with lorries, I’m guessing one reason is dock areas were worth more as luxury flats than any other use at all, surely if we had kept using the river for trade it would have been wiser ??

[@ajs41]

I just visited London and I spent a lot of time on the TFL boats. You can travel from Woolwich to Westminster, and from Westminster to Putney on another boat. Pity you can't do the whole journey in one go.

[@naughtydorf18]

Yuppies

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

It is used for materials transportation on the huge construction jobs.

[@bilbobigbollix7318]

Containerisation.

[@utrapzab]

it looks like it was cared for, london isnt cared for now, it is inhabited by people who dont care, real shame

[@Rog5446]

How can that be Cleopatra's Needle, if it was made 3,500 years ago? (she died in 30BC)

[@spencerwilton5831]

Rog5446 it's just the popular name for it. People didn't have much comprehension of ancient Egyptian history back in Victorian times when it was gifted to London, but everyone had heard of her, so the name just stuck.

[@chanctonbury63]

5.52. So what is London now then??

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

It since doubled in area by absorbing the County of Middlesex

London was the greatest city in the world.. such a shame it's been decimated by the third world invasion.. fully supported by the vermin Labour Party & sick in the head leftists.. .. with their only intent .. to destroy Great Britain. ... it's heritage.. traditions.. & it's people.. R.I.P. UK.

[@73reider]

I am from Dublin and any trip to London is a shock to me given the amount of Afro-Caribbean, Indians, Pakistanis etc. There. I believe Ireland to be the last bastion in Europe for Celtic, Anglo-Saxon Whites, But give it time.

[@toppertruthio]

london has never been a city.Its a buisness

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

Any bit of film over ten years old and you can always guarantee the same boring BNP cunts barking the same tired comments.

[@SI-cd7xs]

@@voiskumbeaver3285 and theres aIways sum vermin trait0r trying 2 p0Iice ppIs th0ughts

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

@@SI-cd7xs You can't police what ain't there.

[@darioburatovich2240]

How did the ancient Egyptians build that monument in London more than three thousand years ago?....are the British in fact Egyptians ?.... As Pauline Hanson would say: " Please, explain ", seriously.

[@coloneljackmustard]

Its nice to see some footage of well dressed white people in London. What happened???????

[@lilgodzillr]

Blacks and Muslims.

[@annother3350]

Flooded with racists again. It's not like the old days when comments were more innocent

[@tomwilson8607]

knob heads like you appeared,,

[@ashyclaret]

It's every western country it's happening and Jews are the 5th column.

[@chivasteele]

The EU has been bought off by the Arabs. That's why our so called leaders are trying to Islamise Europe.

[@beowulf3075]

Shame that it is not possible to have some nostalgia without the continual whining from the miserable sods.

[@johnlewis9158]

i second that. It is not possible to go on a site with anything to do with old London or anywhere in England for that matter without someone moaning. It is usually immigrants.

[@andynixon2820]

Yep , I love these old films but some love to moan about how crap things are now and how wonderful they used to be - it's usually a swipe at immigrants . Truth is people were poor , lots of outside toilets and pollution . Today londons thriving and for the most part everyone gets on surprisingly well .

[@marklloyd3536]

Andy Nixon I used to ask such whiners what do they miss most, the rickets , the shared outside toilets or the TB and I speak as someone who was a stevedore many years ago on a timber wharf in Rotherite Street. There has been huge change but we should be looking forward not backwards, much as I love these old films.

[@hypercomms2001]

How inefficient...20 years later, all this would no more, because of far more efficient containerisation...

[@rmg5111]

20th century before 2001 started

[@timpriddy349]

John Wayne launching a capri.........

[@Clemmy54]

When England was still English...and not ashamed of it!

[@sajikochi3242]

no mobiles, laptops, iphone nothing,

[@mikes8917]

London is now full of foreigners. How I wish for the return of the 60s.

[@888ssss]

glory days when money was backed by silver.

[@bobnice3044]

crime rate practically nil.

[@willb3698]

crime rate practically nil. Only in the nice parts of town mate.

[@rdouthwaite]

Like bollocks it was. Tell that to Jack "the hat" Mcvitie ya bellend.

[@ianmedium]

Absolutely rubbish, in fact the crime rate was higher back then when you take in to account adjustments for increase of population. I used to be a special constable and one of the things we were taught was that modern Britain is a far safer place than in was in Victorian times.

[@javiergilvidal1558]

@@ianmedium That´s what you were "taught" .... by whom? the minions of a m -u -z -z -i -e mayor? Quite apart from what you were "taught", what do you SEE?, sir?

[@gavinhudson5251]

After Brexit, it looks as though Australia is back in business.Yaay!

[@haroldofcardboard]

berolf toodilum nekko vont trilloban :)

[@robharding5345]

The capital of England ! Now that's how I like to remember my home town, I'm not overly impressed with the way consecutive governments have allowed us to be overrun by immigrants , if that's racist, I couldn't care less .

[@DdotRay86]

Not just racist but ironic too. Perhaps if your equally racist ancestors hadn't taken it upon themselves to rape as much of the world as they could, you wouldn't have to put up with so many of us funny looking foreigners.

[@SI-cd7xs]

@@DdotRay86 nonsense, ireIand never invaded anyone and they're subjected to the same forced immigration that no one ever consented to, same for sweden, norway etc any1 that pretends immigration in britain is a by product of empire is fooIed

[@sidewindersid4180]

@@DdotRay86 well explain whats happening in Ireland then.

[@DdotRay86]

@@sidewindersid4180 ireland needs doctors too 😂

[@DdotRay86]

@@SI-cd7xs i disagree, but i cant imagine you'll ever see the ignorance in what you're saying there. Just believe me when I say this - people arent leaving places like the Caribbean and South East Asia for Europe because the weather is nicer. Mali was once the richest nation in the world by such a great distance they used to distribute free gold amongst neighbouring countries just for goodwill. India and Persia created the basis for what you now know as maths and physics. What do you think suddenly caused these people to stop their development and move to Romford? Get an education mate.

[@tecnaman9097]

Looks like the old colonies will again be supplying the mother country with goods post Brexit. Aus and NZ happy to trade again. Just like old times.

[@TylerDurden-ij1np]

Too bad London went Londonstan.

[@CARLIN4737]

No EU NO foreigners

[@annother3350]

There were plenty of foreigners in london -- who do you think is arriving on those cruise ships?!? just because they didnt have brown skin...

[@andrewoliver8930]

Empty the palaces

[@andrewoliver8930]

I've come here for the comments about white faces, and the EU ruining it all.

[@TheDccottrell]

London looks like a filthy dump there. I love how all these films always bring all the racists out. Of course if they had been alive and commenting then they would still be just as bitter and twisted, they'd have found something else to 'hate on' that type of people always do and are always a burden on all societies :(

[@chrisgriffiths2533]

"The Most Historic River in the World". Those British, what about the Nile!. Oil Burning Power Stations, not much has changed. Maybe Tower Bridge should go Now, replace it with Tunnels under so the River can be enjoyed more. Surely those that Built Tower Bridge did not Build it to Prevent Progress, to Prevent Better Methods in the Future. Further, A Real Shame that Britian Gave Up on Sailing Boats, Ships.

[@andrewoliver8930]

The Nile was only the foundation of a massive civilisation a few thousand years ago. That's hardly historic...

[@chrisgriffiths2533]

@@andrewoliver8930 And then there is the Length of the Nile. That Nile, What a Mighty River!.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

Do us a favour and block the racists. Reading the comments is like wading through vomit.

[@SI-cd7xs]

ur racists against ur 0wn

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

@@SI-cd7xs in English please

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

@Brett Mitchell was that your signature at the end?

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

@Brett Mitchell The one who's doing the crying is the inbred who's following me all over this thread like a lost puppy. Do I have to throw a stick for you to get rid of you?

[@Muswell]

Racists on here, please take note of the opening paragraph that says that London was created by Romans, Saxons (Germans), Danes & Normans (French). . London is great exactly because of the diversity & multi-culture. That's exactly why we love living here.

[@LuchaLibertaria]

Romans-Saxons-Danes and Normans are all white and come from similar cultural backgrounds. ''Diversity'' and Multi-Culturalism are buzzwords of post-modernist school of thought.

[@ashyclaret]

What a load of bollocks!

[@robertoc2485]

Yes ok if you say so teech.

[@caroljones4511]

Exactly

[@Khayyam-vg9fw]

They appeared one after another, not all at the same time. The Anglo-Saxons arrived in England precisely because the Romans left (leaving virtually no genetic traces), and they are still the dominant element within the overall culture and society (which is why we are communicating in English rather than Welsh). The Vikings were ethnically, culturally and linguistically very similar to the Anglo-Saxons. The Normans (part Frankish, part Viking) were also closely related to the English ethnically, even though they spoke Norman French; they were, however, only a small ruling elite within England. So, not remotely "multicultural" in the modern sense. If you really want to understand English history and ethnography you should read Eva M. Hubback's "The Population of Britain" and Rebecca Fraser's "A People's History of Britain".