A Car Journey from South London through Kent in 1964 

Everything seemed to have an elegance about it, the cars, buses, lamp standards, even the road signs.

Love watching these old films…. Just ordinary people going about their lives…. Someday it,l be us all and future generations looking back 👍

Beautiful England!!! This footage really captured the true Spirit of the 'Good Old Days'...

This is one reason why I love watching old classics like the original Randall & Hopkirk- - - all the 60's cars I grew up with!

I was 21 in 1964 but out in the Far East when this was made. For the previous two years on a ship being converted in Chatham. Good memories of before we gave it all away.

And practically every vehicle was UK made !

Quite amazing - actually saw my Dad’s shop and we lived above it. Incredible footage - thanks whoever posted it - it’s brought back memories

absolute heaven, who would have thought traffic could be so interesting, I was actually alive when this was filmed...seems like another planet, time someone invented a time machine '64 will be fine by me !

Before my time but somehow feels like a breath of fresh air. Imagine a world with no internet, no mobile phones, no social media and no constant talk of brexit....

I was born in this year....love watching all the old film footage from this era though, as I always think to myself that my nan, mum and dad were alive. Wish sometimes I could go back to when I was little and maybe do some things differently.

It's what I didn't see that pleased me the most.

And no M25!! Lovely era, my era when England was England and things were less complicated.

Wish the traffic was still like that.

Its nice to see the British weather hasn't changed very much lol.

An era when even the trees looked cool.

Beautiful , the good old days ,,, and not a pothole in sight

Opening shots: services on the new M2. As kids, what a thrill to use the covered way over the motorway. If I remember correctly there were tables there too.

That brought back memories. My parents drove a Morris Oxford in those days. Nice to see that some things haven't changed - pedestrians wandering obliviously across the road, just yards from a clearly-marked zebra crossing.

Lovely film. Loved seeing many places that looked like the Kent I knew a few years later. Love the cars, busses, shops & street signs.

As a kid the family used to drive to Cornwall in the late 60's Great holidays on the beaches near Lands End. It was a 12 to 14 hour drive. Difficult to image now, no motorways and just a few duel carriageways. Going through towns, traffic lights, round abouts etc. There was always a massive traffic jam near Liskard. So regular that stalls used to sent up selling food and drinks during the peak summer season. Funny thing is is that once you get through Penzance today the areas barely changed at all.

This is great! @ 3:51 we are about to go on to the South Circular Road A205, (Top of Lordship Lane) it, then jumps to Forest Hill, London Road, past Devonshire Road @ 4:20 where Queens Builders use to be before you go under the train bridge with Saint Johns Church (Church of Scotland) in the background sadly pulled down in the early 80's. Would love to have seen the old beautiful Forest Hill Station before they leveled that as well. It then Jumps to Crystal Palace (Upper Sydenham) A 212 were the big TV Arial and park is opposite the Shell garage. Continues to drive down to Lower Sydenham, past Jews Walk where the mini is trying to pull out you can see St. Bartholomew's Church on the left and Cobbs Corner and the Greyhound pub would be at the end of the road. It then Jumps to the back roads of Sydenham I think, then suddenly we are in Elham and Lee A20/ A210. The music sounds like it could come from "The Long Good Friday" or a similar gritty British film, really lovely to see this film thanks for posting.

A really Great Video. Love watching anything about the 60s. The best decade ever!!!!!!!!!!!☺

Thank god i was born in 1942. Ive definitely seen the best of Britain. Bought a brand new British made Morris 1100. 692 quid on the road.

Someone should recreate this journey, would be cool to see the difference

Hey look , I can see things that were once made and owned in England .

The good old days. When we still had room to breathe. People drove sensibly. No need for speed cameras.

A brilliant clip for Morris Minor spotters.

great footage. the year before I was born, I remember a lot of those cars being around as a kid.

Happier times.

Nice bit of Elgar would have suited rather than this dystopian electro music!

I recognised many of the areas, especially the second half. The Well Hall roundabout, the old Rochester Way, Bexleyheath Broadway and the finish in Crayford next to the Timpson’s Coach Depot. 👍

Oh, I wish I could be transported back in time. Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end....

Wonder why so many of us keep viewing the old cine films, of a time we look back on with so much fondness, and often wish we could have stayed there ! Yet if we had been asked at the time, do you like everything as it is, or do you want to grow up in the future, I'm sure we would have said the latter !! We can't win can we.

Streets are spotless impressive

How could something so cool change so quickly to what nightmare we have today it's like a different Planet

Blimey this is life in South London.. not Blade Runner.

Back in the good old days when smoking was good for you and no-one needed seatbelts.

Look how clean and smooth the roads are!!!

I wasn't even born at this time, I'm London born and raised and I want this London back!

I remember when you could park a car, and drive through London, and even finding a parking space in a motorway stop. (And when there were no McFats or BurgerFats.

Gosh, from the year before I was born. Farthing Corner (now Medway Services) on the M2 has such an empty car park and the architecture looks so fresh (looks jaded now...).

WOW! All the old cars, the Routemaster busses and how quiet the roads were!

Thank you for this of course. My sadly now late parents came from Croydon, so would have seen some of this I am sure too. They moved to Dartford in 1965 when they were married so too. I was born in 1968 and live there now then today as well. Well done too!

11 years old and traveled most of that route many times with my Dad👏👏👏

i counted at least 13 morris minors. love those KEEP LEFT signs

Before the politicians ruined everything.

lots of familiar places, having grown up in Purley and been to school in coulsdon - there is the top end of Purley way with what became the IKEA chimneys on the left at 3:00 - great to think that someone was filming the everyday journeys in a time when it was more complicated to do so....agree the music is off kilter but I can live with that....interesting to actually recognise how much has stayed the same in terms of buildings and roads, the density of occupation/traffic being the most notable change.

I was born in 1964 but at one year old would not remember what the world was like back then. Amazing to see.

No BMWs or AUDIs pushing in cutting you up, ignoring road signs & markings, overtaking on the inside, racing through red lights, refusing to give way & parking anywhere they want without consideration for anyone else. Driving must have been less stressful & more enjoyable then.

I had to turn the music off, but otherwise great!

I was 13 then wish I called time travel and tell them about all this bollocks now

Recognise Purley way & the Chimneys at Valley Park (Ikea), London Road A205 just after Hornimans Museum,. Video has been chopped a bit as after the A205 shoot is Crystal Palace Parade A212, Westwood Hill,. After that a little bit disorientated but appears to be a small shot of backstreet Sydenham then the A205 Westhorne avenue, Rochester Way, Welling Way, & onwards to Crayford Station.

nice shot of lordship lane where i lived, going past the old grove tavern opposite cox's walk! brought back memories!

I was born in 1961, I remember cars like that. 95% were British made, you might have had the odd vw beetle or Mercedes, that's it. Apart from that, it's by in large recognisable today. Just a few more modern buildings thrown up since.

I liked the music! And the video, all places from my youth. Fascinating.

Just about the most inappropriate music that could have been chosen.

25 million fewer people really sums it all up lovely compared to today except for the medical advances it was undoubtedly better for those of us that lived through it.

4.47 when the bus pulled straight out nothing's changed there. Thats when England was English....

Lovely video. Know the stretch at 2:40 like the back of my hand. Grew up here.and can recognise my house and road.

12 years old at the time, remember it well, dismal in winter, hot in summer. Super 8 cine film without sound, not a GoPro or Charity shop in sight ! Magic ( or was it ? )

2:45 , boom boom boom boom Esso blue. filling up with paraffin for the heaters !

I remember the last 7 miles of The M2 being built to Dartford in THe 1960's and now live by The A2 on the edge of South London/North Kent.

Well done, Sir. I'm from OOOP NORTH, but any footage like this from the old days is pure Gold.

Wow I was born in that year. Amazing video. Thanks 👍

Gosh this takes me back, did I recognised the Purley Way and the South Circular Road around Catford? The other noticeable thing was the number of BMC cars on the road, plus I'd forgotten how light the traffic was back in the '60's. I used to live in Streatham in the 60's I dread to think what that looks like now, no doubt completely ruined from the nice suburb it used to be.

I was 2 years old then.The cars were much more interesting then.

I owned one of those 1963 Jaguar Mark (MK) II 3.8 liters that we passed in the film. No airbags or shoulder belt, but it had awesome fog lamps and was it fast.

Wonderful in every way. Thanks for posting.

I recognised Thornton Heath and Crystal Palace out of that lot. Growing up as a Millwall fan in Palace supporting area was a good laugh back in those days.

Buildings then looked so much better with the original windows they were built with rather than the modern cheap plastic ones.

Thanks for sharing this, great to see how things were back in the day. Hope to see more similar footage on your channel soon. Subbed!

Although an East Londoner, I recognised the M2, Purley Way, Rochester way, Crystal Palace, Forest Hill, possibly Lorship Lane & Eltham?

Those were the days !!

Wonderful to see empty roads and all the British cars with individual styling and character. One thing though, the opening shot seemed to be the M2 with an exit to the A249. I don't think the M2 opened until the early 70s

No yellow lines on high street no pot holes

Nice watched till the end.

A time when driving was a pleasure with no congested roads to contend with, my how times have changed.

The days of dial-up telephones and only 3 channels on a black and white TV set that you had to bang on the top to get a better picture!

The year I was born. Loved this.

Prime vintage banger material in that clip!

Great to see all the british cars, even if they were unreliable. They were still ours. What Thatcher and Blair have done to us is unforgiveable.

Social History - wonderful. Brings back memories. Early 1960s - upside, roads relatively free of traffic (Only 5 million cars in UK then ) and pot holes and the scarring caused by the installation of North Sea Gas pipes. Downside - Still quite a bit of air pollution by the look of it, despite the 1956 Clean Air Act - I remember car journies in London in the winter fogs of '63, you could only move foward if the passenger side door was propped open to view the curb ! As was posted earlier, someone needs to do a then and now. Good project for a proper TV unit -usually the best you get on this front is the London to Brighton on a Southern Region electric train.

It's interesting to see just how modern it looked back in 1964. Not really all that different to nowadays, just less traffic.

This was great to watch and not a yellow line in sight how wonderful.🤣😂👍

I recognised Forest Hill and Crystal Palace. I think I also saw Eltham and Croydon (Purely Way)

if there was so little traffic now i would learn to drive but the amount now 2019 no way its mental / i live in south london see alot of the landscape is still there sad to look back for a lot of reasons thanks for the film////

The Morris Minor driver parked in two spaces @ 0.06 is a future Mercedes Benz owner

I can remember when the roads were that quite, - crayford stadium is only 1.5 mile from were i grew up..

For the nostalgics here... those British made cars kept breaking down all the time. My family's first two cars were Morris Minors.

I lived in Eltham in 64, some bits of the movie look familiar, but I would love to know what is where. Incredible that someone took the trouble to record this, and pay to have the Super 8 developed.

Very nostalgic seeing the old vehicles and buses.

3:04 Those smokestacks in Croydon, Purley Way are still standing today. Now the Ikea carpark.

The music sounds like some police manhunt show

5:52 - Eltham Well Hall roundabout

What a great decade to of lived in I was 4 years old way back then so missed or can’t remember much about what was going on just wished I was a bit older missed out on all the cool stuff .

It's amazing to see those days.

It is weird to think that London at the time of Jack The Ripper was safer than the London of today ! I wonder why that is ?

crap music totally mismatched to the subject

Oh" to be seven again ! great 60's film. my favourite car back then was the E type Jag, and the mk 2.Still saving up for one,🥰

The music made me feel great anticipation wondering if the driver was going to end the day safe and sound. Much like any time spent in London today, actually.