STREETS - 1950's - COLOUR - NO SOUND

[@coreyzeymore138]

imagine being a person in this video, they had no idea that they were being filmed, let alone that they'd be viewed by a much younger generation on their computers and phones. miraculous historians we all instinctively are due to the beautiful information age.

[@alanseward4979]

Take me back to these simpler times please!

[@leedsman54]

I know those days had many downsides but didn't it look peaceful without all the cars. No idiots walking along with phones in their hands obsessed with Facebook. Most vehicles British and every bit of clothing made here,not some third world hole.

[@simonmoore2380]

leedsman54 no idiots glued to You Tube either eh?

[@MrDaiseymay]

@johnny rotten A GOOD RIPOSTE SIR !

[@vdusee138]

leedsman54 im so confused if you hate technology so much what did you use to type that idiotic statement?

[@peligraso]

You’re full of hatred

[@heathstjohn6775]

True; these are matters not of opinion , because they are recorded here , before us. However , imports have kept some prices down , but have also created manufacturing unemployment. Calmly reviewing past ages' merits and mistakes is quite a luxury , unavailable to those whose duty it is to decide any matter. I suppose , excepting many of the bodges the mainstream media loves to report , the far greater variety of medication, if wisely-used , and increased medical knowledge, if rightly-applied , should be the greatest continuing advantage. I agree with what you say , mostly , and should add the absence of scruff-bags , and nearly-naked people , with body-pictures for skin coverings , rather than clothes , not walking along eating out of nose-bag mangers , as though they were pulling a cart.

[@chrispain178]

The first scene was shot outside the old police station on the King's Road, Chelsea, on the corner of Milman's Street. It features in a few movies, such as Victim (1961) and Sapphire (1959). It was pulled down in the 1980s.

[@richdeering9580]

You’d get your collar felt if you tried filming outside a police station these days.

[@johnmoore9862]

@@richdeering9580. 😂😂😂👍.

[@colinluckens9591]

Wow...that's amazing picture quality for 1959!! Just like being there!!😲😃😃

[@barrieholditch3800]

I was playing with my school friends at that time, and the cars I remember well ! How time moves so fast.

[@znentitan4032]

So very fast. It's like a roller coaster, getting up that fist hump seems to take forever, and then it all goes by in a blur.

[@carlgrove8793]

Nice bit of nostalgia. I was born in Harrow, and would have been about 10 then. This road hasn't changed too much but everywhere else there are immense high rise buildings, mostly not very attractive, and about 20 times more traffic.

[@johngovus6580]

I lived in Balham in the 50s what a great place it was the people were kind not greedy and selfish as they are now. I always felt safe I consider myself fortunate to have lived in this time. What I wouldn’t give to go back to this time.

[@frankwhelan1715]

Like a time machine.

[@andybeckman8606]

ANOTHER GREAT COUP is this video revealing the curiosity of the trolleybuses terminating well short of Oxford Street with a rather odd "either way round the block" terminal arrangement. Of course it was two way and you see the Euston Road as a plain underpass free crossroads.

[@TheImatube]

Looked like lovely times, wish I'd experienced it then. Noticed there was no kids or teens in sight but just adults. What would they of been doing during that time? Maybe at school?

[@idkwat2put255]

Cassy Wilkinson no kids whee born in 1959.

[@xtrofilm]

Ha Ha yeah and i bet that women did`nt clean up after her two dogs, no need for dog leads either, very nostalgic all the same.

[@davidbarlow350]

@sickpuppy4711 That's the spirit.look on the bright side!

[@davidbarlow350]

@sickpuppy4711 Was just about to have my tea!

[@davidbarlow350]

@sickpuppy4711 Times are hard!

[@charleeboytruth8195]

Whatever it's faults at the time London looked calm and sedate then compared to now. In fact it looked more chaotic in late Victorian and Edwardian old photos and films.

[@christopherdalton9591]

Yet another nice clip of the Capital and it has to be the late fifties or no later than 1961 as Trolleybuses shown approaching heavy traffic would have been removed by the new diesel buses-and nice scenes of classic cars and vans, though underpowered (by today's standards) had some pleasing looking shapes about them and above all, lovely to see this clip shot in colour giving a flavour of the transportation scenes of those days!

[@BritishMovietone]

+Christopher Dalton - hi Christopher, the date in the Movietone records is 1959. I'll add that to the title field. Best wishes - Jenny @ Movietone

[@casinoroyle5254]

Reminds me of a wonderful TV program, I used to watch, with my Mam. " A Time To Remember " Beautiful memories

[@conallmiller1407]

Year I was born, good to see

[@ianstrange5674]

Marvellous!😀

[@normanscenic]

Hardly any traffic ...how strange !..contrast back then and the place now... wow

[@EdinburghGuy]

Only about 6 million cars in the UK back then. Now, it is over 40 million.

[@hemmay]

No yellow lines, no cameras, just park where you like and no 'big brother' watching you. I remember there were only a handful of cars in my road back in the fifties. Now it's impossible to park there and you have to pay for a resident's parking permit and vouchers for visitors with cars.

[@hemmay]

Messenger Charles Progress = money in the council coffers.

[@hemmay]

Messenger Charles So, so true, unfortunately.

[@madcarew5168]

Lookin for Jack Warner.."Evenin' All" !

[@andybeckman8606]

CONGRATULATIONS! At 3.30 you have actuaally managed to catch a clip of a trolleybus sparking.

[@trevordance5181]

I was born in 1955. I can just about remember travelling on trolley buses in London.

[@ketoking9435]

The English side of my family lived in Shoreditch and go back to the 1700s that we researched,,I luv the history and culture, architecture and still go in old English cars as old as the 50s,,,,great film,,,

[@johncraske]

What a curious film. Colour film was very expensive in those days, yet the person with the camera saw fit to give us nearly one-and-a-half minutes of people sporadically walking past a police station and another length shot of a few shops. Very strange.

[@highpath4776]

I presume it was the tail end of a reel and needed using up before going to be developed. A few frames could be chopped up and sold onto anyone as background infill for a news story or plotline filler in a movie

[@yoya4766]

The colonnade's on the right at 3.23 are where Heals etc. are now on TCR. Whilst the bus on the left is where Goodge St. Station is.

[@clipstone]

1:43 Golder's Green High Street, NW11

[@porkscratchings5428]

Spot on I was just about to say! I remember the Reynolds shop there!

[@stephenlever6464]

This is Golders Green high street ,, for sure

[@f.dmcintyre4666]

Thanks, I thought it was Vivian Ave, Hendon which has a similar section, yes Golders for sure....

[@andybeckman8606]

With the added interest of the shopfitter at work in Reynoolds.

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

I was thinking Golders Green too !

[@jopink7674]

Nice little lambretta just parked on the corner...great times.

[@znentitan4032]

Check out "Rick Rebuilds Two" for an affable bloke what loves his Lambretta.

[@pts13miffy16]

Them dogs at 1:09 made me so happy

[@Bloxdio_God]

Tottenham Court Road turning into maple street and then passing the site of what became the post office tower.

[@brickfirst2604]

John Doyle Ah, of course - it threw me at first as TCR is one way now. I should have spotted the Mortimer Arms.

[@jacksugden8190]

That’s how I remember it, trolleybuses and all in the 1950’s, much nicer, a sight for saw eyes in 2022.

[@canturgan]

The first part looked like the old Chelsea Police Station at the World's End on the corner of Milman St , long gone now.

[@robharding4028]

There is something very appealing to me in this short film, I was Born here two years earlier in 57, I can't help but feel proud of my roots, But today, there is not that tranquil setting like the the film of 59 portrays, Its just not the same old London,It may be far more modern, But is it as good ?.

[@rickysorhaindo1359]

Yeah man, it's got vibes, your just getting, sounds like pipe and slippers for you mate😁😁😁😁👍👍

[@rickysorhaindo1359]

Meant say old😁😁😁☝☝

[@robharding4028]

@@rickysorhaindo1359 I'm not old, 63 is just over middle age ! Mind you, the pipe & slippers sound good !!

[@rickysorhaindo1359]

@@robharding4028 only joking mate, your right it is good to watch the footage of London past, but like everything in life progression is the word, you got your memories, they can't take them. Good luck for the future😁👍👍👍

[@robharding4028]

@@rickysorhaindo1359 I know ! and of course you are right, you can't stop progress ! and all the best for you too !!

[@mcc9887]

Mmmm why was he filming the cop shop for so long..look at those nurses at 3:27 not the fat nurse you see now on strike for more pay when the Polish operative does all the work and they sit in a gaggle drinking coffee

[@teddy5069]

You forgot the degree in not caring required now and computer says answers to patients requests.

[@KatePerry-y5s]

We had an England, back then! 😢

[@kurtsmith2547]

What happened to that Clare de lune soundtrack, it was perfect

[@geoffjoffy]

All the women wearing dresses or skirts - with one exception: the young woman dressing the shop window.

[@geoffjoffy]

@Iain Botham Correct

[@rickysorhaindo1359]

Always get a dirty old man🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@LordTantrums007]

The c1950s was the decade London was trashed with the Tories mass immigration and with that was the loss of civilisation in the Capital!

[@teddy5069]

Yes and they told us that within a generation immigrants would become Christian and dress like us.

[@alexandertebbiche2292]

This video could be better if there were more streets in England shown

[@MarkHebblewhite]

If you look at this section in Tottenham Court Road (one of the busiest streets in central London) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pH6xc4WBmpmsepI and then compare street-view of today www.instantstreetview.com/@51.524671,-0.137909,343.91h,-0.5p,1z and go backward's, you can then see the massive change in the buildings. It's fascinating to follow. What really confused me was the Euston Road/Tottenham Court Road junction.

[@LadyGds]

I can't help but to think that after 60 years, the people who you are seeing in this video are mostly dead. 🙈

[@LadyGds]

@Lee Vancleaf lol

[@rickysorhaindo1359]

Bet you would to have a look at their skeletons.....😁😁😁😁

[@fraser_mr2009]

Most of them are dead. People that were in their early 30s they are in their 90s now.

[@paulhayward4383]

Wots this watching people walk past....

[@patricaoreilly2143]

paul hayward lol that's what I thought nearly switched off

[@MrDaiseymay]

AHHH---1959, I REMEMBER IT WELL; A LONG HOT SUMMER, THAT LASTED INTO OCTOBER, DURING THE GENERAL ELECTION, WHEN OLD WALRUS FACE, MACMILLAN, GOT INTO POWER. I WAS 18, SO MOST THINGS LOOKED GOOD FOR THE FUTURE----THE OPTIMISM OF THE YOUNG.

[@tapen678s6]

It's way worse now..

[@suds5866]

Everyone complaining about all these “immigrants” but where i live in the uk it looks the bloody same.

[@trollop1752]

Where's that, Suds?

[@rickysorhaindo1359]

I will have to try for a council house, for me and the wife and our four lovely kids, and claim every benefit i can😁😁😁😁😁.

[@djx64]

@@rickysorhaindo1359 There's a shock. lol