London 1927 - London 2010 

Even that is dated 2010 nearly a decade ago so much changed in a short period

Old is gold

Wow, that sounds like a lot of effort and a true labour of love. I think it paid off, it was a great clip. Good job.

A journey to past London from 2020' s Kolkata.

Beautiful

this video makes me homesick :’(

I feel so sad .

One century ago , London was still so quietly lovely ....

Really enjoyed your film. Superb editing.

The Old London is my favorite City 👍❤️

That is how England used to be. Amazing! Thank you.

What an amazing video, thanks a lot for sharing, dear England was/is SO beautiful!

Powerful stuff through provoking.the ghosts of years a go ,the music matches the images perfectly .great London from a English man.

I want to go to the old London :(

Superb music and great images

London has changed so dramatically

My dad was born in 1927 in london, we have been watching these clips. I thought the "now shots could have matched the originals to the exact standing position just a little closer. Very fascinating to watch just the same!

Hard to believe that old colour footage is now 95 years old. How the buildings, were a lot more grimier & dirtier back then, too. As compared to today.

London was a great city.

Always nice to see that that noxious combination of the Luftwaffe, town planners and the school of Corbusier have not managed to destroy everything over the last 85 years.

Old London very full of character, modern London same as anywhere in the developed world; computer generated Legoland.

Thank you for creating this wonderful timeline comparison.

Great post, love the way it used to be...

Prefer the warmth and character of the older footage

Time is entropy..brings all things to the knees

Amazing to go back in time .Thanks for sharing.

Amazing 1927! My Grand parents were teenagers when this was filmed mind blowing 😎

Double-decker bus on those thin tyres is gangster.

Thank you for this trip through my home city in the past :)

Very nice and clean back then but sadly gone for ever

Beautiful. I just subscribed for your channel.

A tasteful and subtle contrast between now and then,also normally I hate background music but I found this fine as it was in keeping with what was being shown. Excellent.

A great project Pat, very imaginative. On some of the scenes I wonder where you standing. Thanks

The year my Father was born 1927. A time traveler .

Great enjoyed going back in time. Thank You

Great and thoughtful video! Love the attempt at colourisation as it really brings it to life.

Wonderful Work!!

I really enjoyed the archive footage. It had a lovely mellow tone to it as if every day was sunny. In contrast, the modern stuff was stark, cold, and naked. It was as if the camera had also captured a more human scale world, the buildings were too. Whereas, the modern stuff is overpowering and impersonal. It's facinating to see virtually EVERYONE wearing hats--rich or poor. and have made an effort to dress properly, unlike us scruffy denim clad gits. Great music too.

Awesome! Things were so much quieter and laid back then. Great film! :)

Fabulous film making. Keep up the great work.

Nice! 👍

What is this music so beautiful

I love watching these old films but here I find myself looking back not at 1927 but to 2010. There seems to be more of a contrast between London in 2020 and 2010. London under this dystopian regime is now lifeless and forlorn and It upsets me remembering how wonderful and free our lives were up until 6 months ago. We need to stop this nonsense before we go back not to 1927 but to 1984.

Really excellent... fascinating to compare the scenes then and now... great choice of music... London has changed in many ways but so much has stayed the same.

Who added this music? It's making me cry while seeing how much London has changed...

How absorbing and informative. We make hires gopro walks of contemporary London on youtube (no ads just to share) so it's great for us to see the comparison. London is still pretty spectacular. Thank you for adding it, we've subscribed.

Beau travail d’histoire. Très agréable à regarder pour les nostalgiques des temps passés.

Who's watching this in 2019?

Conspicuous by their absence back then.

London, and indeed England. used to be beautiful place.

Wow amazing work ! Love it ❤️

Wow thats pure England. Wonderful 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Times were always going to change heading into the 21st Century & 3rd Millennium ever since 2001

very nice video

Yes, I'm with you there Thanks for your comment.

Thank you I am a London lover this is the thing i wanted to see an will always hop u wil upload more

No sparrows flying about nowadays but back then there was thousands of them sparrows

Great film! (Before the invasion/takeover)

@MeaghanEdwards During filming I was always listening in my earphones to the music which now accompanies the video. As I stood in (almost) the exact same spots that the 1927 film was shot from it evoked extraordinary nostalgia - and I'm not even a Londoner :)

Some change is notable

The music is available on CD but it might be possible to download these three individual tracks from ITunes or similar. The names of the two tracks from the Morricone soundtrack CD to Risoluzione819 are "Clara" and "Nei Sogni". The Franck Pourcel is "Adagio".

Thanks for your comment. I agree, but I still think that there was a silent movie comedy element, which made the quick walking fashionably funny for a while, so that people sort of expected it. I would much rather watch something at about the correct speed(including variations) than speeded up to hide the individual frames.

@navsports That was my original intention but, in practice, proved impossible. For example, have you tried standing in the middle of the road opposite the Houses of Parliament? :) Another big problem was the trees which were not there in 1927 and prevented me from getting exact views from the exact standing positions. I do not live in the UK so it required several trips to find the locations and I was working from memory while filming. It was a labour of love. Glad you liked it.

Thanks for the hard work putting this together. It was really interesting. What happened to Rotten Row that the trees and grass are all replaced by a big patch of dirt now?

Good Stuff. Brings back happy Memories except for WW11

1927 for the win.

Even the 2010 footage at this point is historical because the world has changed so much since 2010...

the old version has been coloured in by hand!

If you feel sorry for people then children or people then kindly old people, the best you can do if you're neither of those now is to support those who are now.

It is so sad that people shown in this flim are all dead.

Our former offices were on the left of The Tower of London, rebuilt in the early 2000s (the former that is) I think the site was owned by Tate & Lyle. Cleaning the latter gives the impression the building appear considerably less old - Victorian almost

Its because the frame rate was too slow. But i agree they should always slow it down to a realistic pace even if the movement doesnt look great.

You are technically correct but it is adjacent to and in the general area of Kensington Gardens a "big" name that many tourists would be familiar with or have on their maps and, indeed, have to walk through to get there like I did. Right beside it is one of the main entrances to and exits from Kensington Gardens.

That is Kensington Gardens.

@Slikhedgehog There was no music in the original version. If you want to check it out the link is in the description shown below my video. Click on "Show More". The music credits for my video are shown at the very end.

In 1927 London was the center of the big British Empire. Great Britian ruled 25 % of the planet, today........ almost nothing. But I think some countries like Australia, Canada and New Zealand still love Great Britain.

Still no flying cars in 2010, how pathetic! No surprises there coming from a race who thinks that facebook must be the coolest thing that happened to humanity!

Amazing , we walk with ghosts of the past .

Less traffic and fewer people in 2010 the exact opposite of 1927

so the soldier was having a sneaky cigarette held behind his back when the yeoman warder came on patrol or a weird glitch on the film?

Marcello Alessandro, concert en Ré minor pour l'hautbois et les cordes.

Greenwich is hardly recognisable now. London seems full of scruffy people today. But buildings are much cleaner. Life was slower then. The Docks and their jobs have gone. People “wandered” across London Bridge. Vehicles and their fumes didn’t infest every square centimetre of breathing space. As men passed the Cenotaph, they doffed their hats. Trafalgar Square was dirty but not over busy. Green Park entrance busy with traffic, now busy with traffic bollards. People just sitting on benches. Marble Arch gates removed. Peter Pan and his boating lake cleaned. Soho quiet by day!! Rotten Row had horsemen and horses. But the Strand looks unchanged - except for London Eye of course!

Great no yobs!!!!

When London was full of Londoners.

6:06, where is that ?

Could do without the jarring music (I know I can mute it before you suggest that). Great films.

Try a high Bridge.

Good afternoon! I'm very curious to know two things : What kind of camera was this movie filmed? and , It was coloured with the process of color images, Technicolor ???

It would be scary if the ghost of the beefeater appeared at 1.42....anyone else find it creepy seeing someone in that place in 1926 and then seeing it empty in 2010 knowing that once that soldier and beefeater were there? Can't really explain it...

What is the arch at 4:45 please?

People who complain about london traffic today, 100 years ago you'd have moaned about the streets being gridlocked with horses and carts, with loads of horseshit to stuff up your nostrils

Haven't been to Hyde Park for must be 5 years now.used to go alot when we used to live nearer to central London. The Terrorist attacks put us off to be honest.Shame!

Ok I'll be straight with you all, 1927 looks like a work of art and kind of looks beautiful. 2010 on the other hand just looks like a piece of shit! It looks like someone came along and said "How can we make this place as ugly as possible?!" It annoys the Hell out of me because I can't get my head round the idea of changing something for the worse and I see this in SO many places!! Ffs if you're thinking of changing something and then you realise your idea is worse than what you already have, just leave it ffs! What the Hell's wrong with you people?!!!!

And the music is?

It would have been impressive if a genuine attempt was made to shoot the same area from the same viewing angle. Disappointed.

I really like the way the speed of the film in 1927 has been made normal...not speeded up like Keystone Cops. It gives a whole different reality to the film. All old footage too often has this silly look....people walking stupidly fast...why did they do that? Was it for comedy films in the first place?

From thoroughfares for people living and working in London, to taxpayer subsidised routes for theme park tours and endless noisily parasitic roadworks at our expense.

Shooting from the same location would have been better where possible. Perhaps the corrections could be done by 2027.

What a great film, whilst the past looks romantic and today looks shiny and cold, i think that is purely the type and quality of the film. Note the comment about hats and the apparent absence of women, whilst i am sorry for those who had to take the top deck of the bus in the rain ! Whilst many of the lovely old buildings have been lost (the blitz, 1960's planners), many were grubby and poorly maintained. Also note the traffic then was clearly a law unto itself and a danger to everyone !

Fast forward 500000000 years , earth burnt to a crisp in a supernova , it wasnt meant to last forever !!