walking down Carnaby Street 1968

A look at the swinging sixties.

[@madisonrhuebaker]

The couple at the end.... adorable!

[@PhilShary]

The sixties were the coolest decade of the previous century, there's no doubt about it.

[@AndrewWilliams-zc1hf]

Yes & full of creativeness.

[@sexobscura]

says the *BabyBoom controlled media*

[@chunkygroove9038]

I agree. Creativity & an open mind, combined with a youthful population = magic!

[@adolflenin4973]

@@sexobscura and gen z obsessed with baby boomerz

[@Art-is-craft]

Any era before mid 2000s was more creative.

[@ed9763]

The good old days😍

[@Khultan]

I keep loving the 60s era more and more and more and more....

[@ZnenTitan]

I just love the couple at the end. They seem funny and happy and really enjoying life.

[@annaxxx]

Wonder if they are a couple still?😍

[@sanctus_fin]

I'm so hooked with these late 60's videos. There's just something about that timeperiod which is fascinating. Also it reminds me how fast time goes by...

[@alvin10388]

Without cell phones people are really enjoying the things around.

[@gan9e]

You couldn't of wished for a better moment as a film maker than those two lovers at the end with the lamppost... a serendipitous moment of beautiful time captured forever... utterly lovely, haunting and mesmerising at the same time...

[@euanelliott3613]

The couple raising their clasped hands over the post were charming. Two people very happy in love together. Hope they're still together.

[@jeffwood6482]

I used to work for Mates. In Carnaby St, did all the window displays 68/69 happy days!

[@enthalpiaentropia7804]

The young couple at the end is adorable....!

[@occamsrayzor]

It's so nice to find one of these videos with music appropriate to the era! 10/10

[@mrhook2859]

So much superior class of people back then.

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Mr Hook no

[@traceylatifi9304]

Have you see the WOKE brigade with their odd, stupid, makeup and a mish, mash, of clothes, talking about the hundred genders, flat earth and being offended, all the time!!!!

[@roderickfiske4769]

1968 I was a sales person in Kleptomania. Groovy times😊

[@Isleofskye]

Loved that carefree couple right at the end but sad they will be around 70 NOW !!!!!!

[@Claptonite555]

I want a Hippy bell. I was given a big one and a small one by a group of Hippies in Hyde Park when I was a little girl in the 1960s. I have since lost them both but the memory of that experience is with me forever... I'll never forget it, it was glorious!!!!! ✌️🌺💐🧡❤️💚💛💙💜

[@staypress]

Man this just sums it up. I was 4/5 when this was shot and started on red bus rovers in about 71/72 and I wish I could go back to that time.I know people say it is better now cos it was hard then etc but to me NO WAY MAN London is as stated literally a bag of shit thrown in from everywhere. All London has is its history and all those people in this clip are dead or have moved out of London like me I am sad to say. Thanks for this clip

[@MOLYN867]

Can’t believe that I was there in this year. How time flies.

[@john111257]

walking down the street by the electric banana aka pretty things

[@shawfield]

Haha, I used to get my London-based cousins Lord John cast offs :-) High waisted, large flared trousers, claret coloured velvet jacket, & flowery pink shirts didn't go down too well in rural Northamptonshire in 1967 I can tell you. But my Mum thought they were cool so what could I do ?

[@davediller]

A couple of spots of film the mod is wearing a "Nehru Jacket." Hip to the max. Had one myself. Swingin'

[@juliablackmore6952]

Went to Carnaby Street back in the early 60's and 70's with my Mum, Dad, Brother and my brother's wife Jean, good atmosphere with good fashion and of course the music of the times. I went on to play organ in local Devon group, my brother Keith Jones played drums with some named groups which included live and studio work over many many years and being a Christian he worked with a lot of Christian groups as well, but has now retired to Cornwall. Love and Peace, God Bless. Psalm 23. Google You Tube Jules & Keith uploads to hear some of the music sessions.

[@NIGELNOTRENDS]

That was rad, you can actually see how they're giving sly glances to see who's looking at them in their utterly modern clothes. You can also tell there are 'normal' older folk simply passing through to have a gawk. What an incredible period in time, it must've felt so radical. Can anybody comment and tell me what it was like?

[@garypautard1069]

Yes Nigel I was 17 at that time . We did not realise we were in the middle of a special time. British industry was booming especially in the construction industry ,and the government aided apprenticeships. Lot's of jobs. There was an explosion of art not just music but art in many forms ( mostly modern) and fashion designs and an interest in Indian culture , like sitar playing and meditation. There was a feeling of euphoria not just the UK but globally also . Being British was considered really cool and if you look at the faces in the video you can see there was an expectancy that there was belief that it was always going to be the same. Sadly the days of summer vanished by the late 70s and by 1980 gloom set in.

[@wonderglory]

This footage was taken 20 years after the 1948 Summer Olympics, 60 years after the 1908 Summer Olympics and 44 years before the 2012 Summer Olympics. All three of those Games happened in London.

[@greatsongsuemorrris791]

it was they were great times in the 60s and they could all actualy sing in the 60s sandy shaw dusty springfield cilla petula clark lulu ect

[@luciendavidlangman7928]

MINISKIRT A little history The miniskirt was created by Lucien David LANGMAN, Master Tailor of the Jean Raymond house in 1959. Mary QUANT, the British woman, bought 2 miniskirts cut by Lucien David Langman at the Boutique des Arts in Saint Tropez and paraded them on a young model of 16 years TWIGGY in New York in 1966. The Miniskirt creations of Lucien David Langman and the aspiring model were a success in NEW YORK and launched Mary Quant to the forefront #LucienLangman #jeanraymond

[@wilburbonzo]

I was there in 1968, we stayed at the Regent Palce, London was our last stop on a seven week tour of europe that included Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Croatia and Spain plus two day trips to Italy and Albania

[@adolflenin4973]

1966 the best year of that decade

[@AnneTerry-jb7mp]

Great memories, carnaby street,oxford st , then on to Hyde Park with our transistor radio,everything groovy for a teenage girl 😊

[@hawkmoon03111951]

No it's awful now. Has been for nearly 40 years. It is pedestrianised, soley for tourists, has crap clothes and doesn't have any say in the fashion world anymore.

[@sexobscura]

*WOW* It's *just like* if somebody walked down a main city street *now* catching the day's happenings

[@Telecolor-in3cl]

What a life!

[@pamelamckenzie2685]

I love it people seen happy and slower clothes were better and better-made fabric today is crap clothes are too bring those times back you dont see nice dresses or coats love the video

[@Art-is-craft]

You can still buy good clothes but you need to do your research.

[@annsmyth3840]

loved that street ;)

[@andyelliott8027]

The Pretty Things - Walking Down The Street.

[@stephenstrange529]

andy elliott Yes, but under their alias The Electric Banana.

[@AntonellaFrancesca]

Wow, it was more crowded than Fifth Avenue on Christmas Eve!!!

[@toupretno1]

Carnaby st ate its self after 69 The Kings Rd Chelsea was the place to be after that .That scene lasted untill around 78 then that imploded regards jimmy

[@peterjonesproductions8598]

Hi Brian,do you have the full film? would love to see it...Ty!

[@rosedarylify]

The London of the past looks more futuristic 😂

[@BreezesofConey]

wish i had a pound for every pound i spent at lord john back then

[@Jackie-ji2sj]

WOW, LONDON WAS SO GREAT WHEN IT WAS JUST BRITISH ❤

[@stephenhowell5611]

It was never just british, difference now is skin colour.

[@1968davidcassin]

the year i was born

[@davesmith2282]

Depends what kind of Mods -hipster types yes but the average working class mod never grew their hair and was already a "hard mod" by 1966 and by the start of the 1968/69 football season (so summer 1968 like this clip) West Ham United and a few other London teams had their first numbers of skinheads.

[@wovokanarchy]

Sounds like The Jam's Carnaby Street... or at least the chorus.

[@staypress]

thankyou so much I should have known really but saying that this is a real departure from their usual style dont you think except maybe the stuff from that norman wisdom film etc

[@keithnaylor1981]

When COLOUR was beautiful, when girls wore beautiful DRESSES, when tattoos were something SAILORS had, when inserting bits of SCRAP METAL into noses, lips, and tongues was rightly unheard of.

[@fghfhfhdfhfg]

Nino Bravo "Voy buscando"

[@MichaelLantz]

I was listening to a Carnaby Street Documentary and a young girl was saying that The Carnaby Street Generation was out to change the world back in the 1960's.She said "That her generation overturned the Conservative Establishment in Britain back in the 1960's"

[@derekwilkinson688]

Are you sure this is Londonistan? I didn't see any woman in a veil Maybe the film was shot at the time of Friday prayers ??

[@ludd7929]

The 60s look as revolutionary as the 20s ... inspiration?

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

How on Earth did our British women go from being amongst the world's prettiest to one of the worlds ugliest in just 50 years??!

[@pagethreemodel]

They were never the prettiest though. I bet 60s era footage of continental European women proves that.

[@anythingbootneck]

Spot on, I can’t disagree with that!👍🏻

[@garypautard1069]

Aint that the truth. I am old enough to remember the 60s and how pretty and fresh faced girls were back then, and now all I see are obese , tattooed blue hairs with metal pins sticking out of their face who look like an actor from a horror film.

[@loredanaf1]

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

[@katewild2194]

We went shopping down Carnaby Street 67/68 purchased a top for my girlfriend and I got a scarf few other things that I can't remember Had my red mini which I got at Ally Park Car auctions paid £140 smashed it up in Hammersmith.

[@staypress]

well thanks for youre advice about gripping I will try my hardest for you. Relating to the bands I think u r wrong but if u would like to tell me who is cool then go ahead. I am just someone who was born 20 years to late and that sums it up really.

[@clipstone]

1967

[@paulyakaitis3352]

Petula Clark!

[@theartfuldodger935]

You can't buy cool.

[@wovokanarchy]

@rlittler81 The Jam

[@niacampbell5221]

Hi brian, I am loving your footage of Carnaby Street, where did you get it from? I am on the hunt for some 60s footage for BBC Heir Hunters. Thanks Nia (Archive Researcher)

[@terryvision42]

It's from a film called A little of what you fancy here's a link for more information on imdb.imdb.to/2cz8Jqq

[@niacampbell5221]

Lovely thanks Brian!

[@rlittler81]

@wovokanarchy who's it by though?

[@staypress]

what is this tune please

[@kymoeser]

Does anyone know where this actual footage came from and who owns the rights?

[@porridgeeveryday]

a fuddy-duddy lady looking askance at someone because he dared to wear a floral shirt.

[@smokinggunsaloon208]

What on earth were those bells on a string being touted for? 🤷‍♀️

[@Art-is-craft]

Maybe fashion or an item for the house.

[@tonykemp2389]

Whats the song being used?

[@johnnyb8825]

1:21 A cross between a skinhead and a hippie?!

[@staypress]

Ok carnaby was the place to be then but now like all of London it has become an expensive dirty mecca for tourists and wotnot and everyone is scared of getting blown up and most real Londoners have pissed of to far and wideand last but not least fashion is dead and the music well what can I say been dead since the early 80's with the exception of maybe Oasis supergrass and the Kaiser chiefs u will never get that swinging bassy organ guitar twang music ever again with mini skirts and groovy dance

[@ZnenTitan]

staypress Nothing but soulless crap and sixties "remakes"

[@jonesroberts3640]

Majority of Londoners are in Eseex.

[@yurilemming4130]

Skirts were getting shorter, no one had a credit card, money was tight so rather than buy cars people spent on clothing, records & drink.

[@Art-is-craft]

People had more disposal income in that era and also were more frugal and would only buy when they had money.

[@francescobonfiglio9142]

When London was an european and white city...

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

racist douchebag detected

[@andynixon2820]

@sarah jones twat .

[@brainsmith3931]

Still whites in London many are moving back to London as of the job opportunities and its a great city although majority of whites live in Essex.

[@traceylatifi9304]

@@EclecticoIconoclasta No it's the truth.

[@dominicgilmartin5943]

It's only ethnocide nothing to worry about.

[@NiCoLoCor]

@magicmoonbeam2 what??

[@ladybird1463]

When London was an english city

[@gazriley624]

Looks like 1966 not 68

[@popwilo]

the "pretty things": walking down the street....

[@ZnenTitan]

popwilo In more ways than one.

[@thierrydevant7690]

Unrecognisable

[@FordTransitvan]

So lovely before open borders

[@RayhanAhmed-qr3vz]

These people look weirdo’s

[@traceylatifi9304]

They are even more wierd now!

[@Jackie-ji2sj]

Weirdo people came with immigrants