Winston Churchill and Piccadilly Circus. London in 1963.
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@DaBriars2 ай бұрын
Lovely and clean no vermin to be seen
@kevinsenior81552 ай бұрын
Great shots. If only we could go back to how it was.
@UKDark_Mark2 ай бұрын
A different time and place, sadly long gone and much lamented.
@tattyshoesshigure57313 ай бұрын
Great footage to watch, I loved Piccadilly Circus as it was back then, covered in neon signs… they had far more warmth & character than the current giant LED screen.
@robertp.wainman40943 ай бұрын
So true - hard to believe the powers that be couldn't realise that!
@jungleboy12 ай бұрын
yeah! shame now its full of pickpockets and tourist traps and closures.
@RobertMiller-ye9hm19 күн бұрын
U got a new sub , great films , I still have all my dads from the 60s ..
@oneblueorange2 ай бұрын
Oh to be a time traveler and to be in London in 1963
@freddiefox.2 ай бұрын
The woman at 60 seconds, looks French. The Abbey is absolutely filthy with soot. A wonderful record, and in colour!
@johnfh2 ай бұрын
Yes, that was great footage of London. I was transferred from Australia to our office in the City in 1965. It changed my life, and I moved to a European country in 1970 - have been there ever since. Have been to London and the home countries on work and holidays 45-50 times since then. Now have a granddaughter living in West London - histort repeats itself!
@Design_no2 ай бұрын
London now is nothing like it was then. Such a shame.
@adriansmith65303 ай бұрын
Lovely Humber Pullmans. This maybe the actual one that is perfectly preserved in a museum in the Netherlands.
@QuoPaperPlane2 ай бұрын
Although I wasn't born until '61, I do actually remember going around the many attractions in '66 with my family so it would of been practically unchanged just three years later than this. Imagine a time bubble where one day, man will be able visit, like a fly on a wall peering in unable to change the course of history.
@conrad4752 ай бұрын
Makes me sad seeing how great our capital city was compared to the cesspit it is now
@ROCKINGMAN2 ай бұрын
Remember the Routemaster, RT buses. The LT symbol was everywhere too. Everything was British, cars, buses, lorries, shops and dare I say it, people. My nan was french though and loved Britain and embraced it. She lived at Mead Row SE1. It was a nice time.
@homestead442 ай бұрын
Sad 💔🇬🇧
@nicks402 ай бұрын
Almost every day, on our way to school, we would see Lady Churchill, lately widowed, out for her constitutional in Richmond Park.
@tooleyheadbang42392 ай бұрын
She burned the painting!
@nicks402 ай бұрын
@@tooleyheadbang4239 She did. I'm not keen on Graham Sutherland's tapestry in Coventry Cathedral either, but I would have given the painting away.
@borderlord2 ай бұрын
Did she sell up in Rutland Gate near Hyde Park and move out to Richmond?
@nicks402 ай бұрын
@@borderlord I don't know. According to Wikipedia, she died at 7 Princes Gate SW7.
@borderlord2 ай бұрын
@@nicks40 I think that was her daughter's flat.
@1258-Eckhart2 ай бұрын
Sees Winston Churchill in an official limousine. Focuses immediately on a marble slab full of kippers.
@robertkerry55312 ай бұрын
Lobsters surely 🤔
@davidharvey40592 ай бұрын
The wonderful London I knew It's nothing like that now. Sadly.
@norbertdomke89072 ай бұрын
This is our Gouverment now
@Peter-g6g1t2 ай бұрын
From one of world's great cities to a cesspit in 50 years we'll done to the politicians who enabled this.
@maxwelleddison67172 ай бұрын
Idiot comment. Living in the past.
@mikewest15422 ай бұрын
60
@rodgerhargoon34022 ай бұрын
You cannot be great forever and ever ...
@maxwelleddison67172 ай бұрын
@user-sg9kb5cc2y have you forgotten about all the slums that existed in London in those days. You can be nostalgic for for routemaster buses etc but for many people London in those days was shit.
@michelles22992 ай бұрын
No obese people
@johnmortley1532 ай бұрын
Most Great Cities have been lost now!!!
@Pinerocks2 ай бұрын
Where??
@colinmelling63692 ай бұрын
I can imagine Winston’s response if he was to see London today. Shock horror disgust . Who allowed such a thing !
@danny500k82 ай бұрын
To racists 👇. ,
@organeyes76112 ай бұрын
@colinmelling6369 Tony Bliar, Sadiq Khanage, kalergi plan . . .
@mikemulrooney48242 ай бұрын
Good vid
@Petersworld772 ай бұрын
All the buildings back then were filthy from the chimney soot. I know I’m clutching at straws but that is one small upside.
@garryhayes9492 ай бұрын
That looked like the Royal Standard on the front of Churchill’s Pullman. If so, I wonder why, or was he hitching a ride with one of them? Also, there seemed to be a plethora of black cars back then, and I don’t just mean official cars or taxis. The scene through Piccadilly seemed to be teeming with black cars of all sorts, shapes and models. Must have been cheaper to paint them all black. 🤔🤷🏻♂️
@nicks402 ай бұрын
As Henry Ford said, 'you can have any color you like so long as it's black'.
@margin6062 ай бұрын
The music: it's called 'The Jazz Messenger' by Vendla
@mikedennington88562 ай бұрын
The good old days.
@borderlord2 ай бұрын
WestMinster Abbey black as soot...because of the soot! Alot cleaner these days. But other things are not so good!
@UKParadiseLost2 ай бұрын
I'd rather have our capital as it was then, even with the soot. At least it was civilised and safe and mostly homogenous.
@giuliopedrali47942 ай бұрын
Also the elegance of british cars of the 60s is incredible, the contrast with today's german hooligans executive cars is hard
@martinjohnfarr2 күн бұрын
May 1963.
@notfooled.2 ай бұрын
Used to be proud that i was born in London. Now i don't even consider it English
@minimaxi8022 ай бұрын
Winston Churchill died in January 1965 just over a year when this was filmed in 1963.
@UKParadiseLost2 ай бұрын
I remember watching it at my grandparents' house when it was announced on the news.
@paul_k_73513 ай бұрын
No tourists! Bliss!
@mikewa22 ай бұрын
Yes very few tourists before jet engined planes. Rich Americans came by Boeing 707 or by passenger liners, took 4 days each way! surprisingly only 1000 707’s were built in 33 years of production. Flying was still seen as a risky way to travel until 1970’s. London was really dirty from hundreds of years of using coal to heat their homes. You can see the black engrained walls of the House of Commons. London buses and taxis were all diesel and very high polluting black exhaust fumes. At least you could get around and parking was free and plentiful.
@JH-ck1nr2 ай бұрын
Clean, safe and not diverse. Funny that!!!!
@SimDeck2 ай бұрын
What happened to our great city?
@jonathanmarshall28022 ай бұрын
Sadiq Khan 😞
@bobjames66222 ай бұрын
The Windrush
@organeyes76112 ай бұрын
Cultural enrichment.
@Pinerocks2 ай бұрын
It’s still going strong
@Design_no2 ай бұрын
@@Pinerocks its still going, but hardly strong.
@terrydonegan16222 ай бұрын
Any geeks know what car Winston was in please?
@Gerard_20243 ай бұрын
Great footage. Love the music ! Can anyone identify who it is ?
@robertjarman42613 ай бұрын
Miles Davis.
@AdrianLee-i7g3 ай бұрын
I was born into this society just three years later. I am still living in London, although there have been very many changes.
@Gerard_20242 ай бұрын
@@robertjarman4261 Thanks. By any chance do you know the name of the tune or on which recording I could find it ?
@paulblatch012 ай бұрын
How smartly everyone dressed . Take me back!
@daehrm2 ай бұрын
@@Gerard_2024 According to Shazam this track is The Jazz Messenger by Vendla. I believe it’s royalty free music for this type of video & I think it fits it well.
@philsimpson35562 ай бұрын
You make it what you want it to be in 2024 or just give up
@UKParadiseLost2 ай бұрын
Heartbreaking that it's gone from that to a 3rd World hellhole without us EVER being asked.
@coloneljackmustard2 ай бұрын
Now compare and contrast that with 2024. The once great city has been lost.
@maxwelleddison67172 ай бұрын
Idiotic comment. You are just living in the past. 😂😊
@bertiewooster33262 ай бұрын
Er ...white and black !
@DuderinoDeux2 ай бұрын
You think you have problems! Look at Dublin. Swallowed totally by the WEFers
@Pinerocks2 ай бұрын
Where did it go?
@londonroulette2 ай бұрын
Big big to be lost lol.
@tooleyheadbang42392 ай бұрын
2:07 Winchester taxi.
@issigonis9752 ай бұрын
Love these old films but no so much some of the comments section You know the 'this is a local shop for local people, there's nothing for you here.' kind. I like nostalgia but much prefer the modern world and not fazed by seeing people here who might not have lived all their lives in this country.
@Pinerocks2 ай бұрын
I’ll say one thing, the food is a hundred times better now, you can get decent coffee and there’s less smog!! 🤣
@MrJinx612 ай бұрын
I can’t watch any more, not diverse enough for me 😂
@youubik2 ай бұрын
A sunny day ... climate change in 63
@UKParadiseLost2 ай бұрын
They used to tell us back then that a big 'freeze' was coming - didn't happen. Then it changed to 'global warming' - didn't happen. They now call it 'climate change' to cover all eventualities. Lying sods.
@adam_p992 ай бұрын
Don’t show this to a guardian reader
@maxwelleddison67172 ай бұрын
Some real backwards comments here. Must be awful living in the past.
@maxwelleddison67172 ай бұрын
@williem1710 just because you watch such a video doesn't mean you are living in the past. Some of the comments indicate that people are living in the past.
@araptorofnote59382 ай бұрын
They are simply observations. People notice things.
@maxwelleddison67172 ай бұрын
@araptorofnote5938 they notice that they would rather live 60 years ago for a start 🤣
@maxwelleddison67172 ай бұрын
@williem1710 great if that's what you want to do. Enjoy.
@Pinerocks2 ай бұрын
You always get a few nutters on these videos
@cheetham19822 ай бұрын
Please please tell me why oh why are you tell, sorry selling us your secrets and spending your valuable time this way when you’ve found the holy grail? Answer because you’re fakes?
@Grenadier962 ай бұрын
What's the weather like on your planet today? Remember kids, don't do drugs.