14 years old at the time. Remember getting a Red Rover bus ticket and travelling all over London on the Routemaster buses all day for a few pence. Nice memories
Azalea 1975 because in the last 30 years we have destabilised whole parts of the world we have in turn had to allow mass immigration to help those affected and this has resulted in people of all cultures and beliefs being mixed in a country they don't call their own. What we have now is the result and it's not good
@@simonnelson7770 Much of that was against the will of the people. I don't know anybody who wanted the war in Iraq. Blair was never tried for what he did and later was even made middle eastern 'Peace envoy' You really couldn't make this shit up!
I was 11 in 1975, and I remember the summer was beautiful (but nowhere near as hot as the following year). I played football with my friends for hours without a referee, so there was some creative interpretation of the rules but we enjoyed ourselves. The big hit singles of that year were Rod Stewart's Sailing, and 10cc's I'm Not In Love. The big TV shows were The Sweeney and Bouquet Of Barbed Wire. RIP John Thaw and Frank Finlay.
when I think of one record that sums up 1975 as I remember it, it's I'm Not In Love. I was three years old and I can honestly say I get tiny snapshots of that year when I hear that intro. My Dad played the record to death, he loved it, between that, my own memory and cine camera home movies I can just feel 1975 when I hear that song.
Just looking at the roadsides the bridges didn’t need obstacles to stop cars mounting the kerb people were left alone by the government to live without some moosh in a high vis telling us we can’t do this that or the other. What has become of this country the country i love
A personal comment: In my view, this was the last year of the post-war period, I was 17. The tentative - but insistent and unstoppable arrival of punk-rock and all things 'alternative' in mid '76, was the start of the era we're still in now IMO. There were probably many positive features of this change, but crucially, they didn't suit me and I suspect, many more like me. I certainly didn't enjoy all of the years up to '76, but felt I understood the culture. I can see this very clearly when I watch old TV and films from the '50's, '60's and early '70's. I 'get' the plots, the acting, the styles, the accents, the dress-codes and lots more. It's sad but true, that I've felt somewhat adrift for the last 45 years.
I was only 4 years old. I remember very will that my mum and my dad brought me around piccadilly circus and around the west end of London. By god it bring back so many memories. How i mess the 70s so much.
Stationed at RAF South Ruislip then RAF Upper Heyford, London will forever be the greatest city in the World to me. A Yank in Britain from 1972 until 1976. The smell of the Tube stations is like heroin to me haha! The fabulous West End, The Beatles/Abbey Road, It simply doesn’t get any better!
I totally agree with you. Its lost its soul, it's Cockneyness, Now its basically. a *very large international Airport Lounge* The *Cold Cold Cold Packed Faced Left* have ruined a once great great city.
Thanks for the video, Mackenzie. I first visited London in 1973. I had friends who lived at Hampton Court Palace. I was so awe struck my first time in London, much different from American cities. I will always cherish the great memories and first impressions.
It snowed in London in June in 1975, for the first time in nearly a century. July 1975, was nothing out of the ordinary. It was the summer of 1976, that saw the legendary heat wave, water rationing and standpipes.
I'd just left the Royal Navy, moved to London and got a job as a bus conductor at Streatham garage. Wonderful times and a great place to live. It's a violent pigsty now. All the Londoners I knew then, and who I'm in touch with still have moved away. Including me. To escape the hell hole it has become
lucky you got out of london mate it has a way of clawing you back i should know tried a few times to get away but family issues ment ive had to stay but i will one day get out i just got to///
I was born around the time this video was made, in June 75. This looks like it was filmed around June-ish. England has changed alot in my lifetime, not for the better though. :-(
Those buildings at 6:21 were a fine piece of architecture but were sadly torn down in the 1990s and were replaced by Portcullis House a dreadful design, modern architects are hopeless.
Flares and platform shoes! The girls at school who liked to dress like the Bay City Rollers; tartan certainly came back into fashion for a while. I had the odd pair of flared trousers (including a purple pair!) in the 70s and a pair of chunky shoes the over-the-top decoration of which I could only describe as Rococo.
If only we could go back in time, we would not be silenced and things would now be different. It's not too late though, we still have time to make our country great again.
Yes but the government won't let us. Every time a great leader that can make England great again comes into being. He is ends up getting arrested etc. First thing we need to do is stop political correctness. Start making programs like they used to be when we could say what we wanted. Remember if we don't act now England will eat itself.
Hahahahahahahahaha - Make [insert country name] great again - the battle cry of the indoctrinated simpleton. The emotive pleas really take a toll on the lower intellectual echelons, don't they.
How laid back does life look then, I was 15, every thing has changed, shame! Went back down couple of mths ago just a building site for " luxury apartments", I live in rural east Scotland (16yrs)
London used to be a very clean and civilized place back then compared to the dump it's now been turned into, it's a shame we let it be ruined the way it as been, and it's just getting worse. We need to have a new Capital and not make the same mistakes again.
QPR top of the league and should have won it, Concorde, hottest summer on record - better times - better ways - better football - wish they were still here
Great footage Mackenzie! ... alaways nice to see old footage of London whether it's the 1970's or the 1930's - just love it. Why does everything look better 'then'! Some things have gone - like the railway bridge over the road, with St Paul's Cathedral behind it (at 1:22). This carried trains into the long gone Holborn Viaduct station (a city of London rail terminus). It was replaced with the 'through' Thameslink (under the streets) in the City back in the late 80's. Lovely to see St Paul's majestically dominating the skyline of the City of London, before it was hemmed in and dwarfed by tall skyscrapers. Also Battersea Power Station was still working and generating power at this time! (it closed in 1983). Is that woman (7:53) a 'time traveller'?!! ...I just noticed as the guards are marching past, the camera zooms into show this lady on the right hand side (long cream coat) 'appearing' to look down at something in her hand (it really does look like a mobile!). Not sure what it could be? a pamphlet maybe? or a small guide book? Thanks for allowing us to chill out and spend eight and half minutes soaking in the spirit and vibes of 1975 London. I was around then - but very small!
I was born in 1972 and first experience of London was '76 (we had family over there). Most of the summers from '76 to '87 we made a trip there. So I have a 70s London and an 80s London deep in my memory and to me they've always been distinctly different. And now I discover 1975 looks way more like the 60s than I ever imagined. Goes to show you decades are more fluid than the way we wrap them up in tidy bundles, people, culture, fashion, buildings move at difference paces. Thanks for uploading.
Yes i remember The London that was. I was hoping to see myself walking around 😒 , I was 18 1/2 at that time , great time, lot of girls from all over europe, I used to go dancing at la Pubelle and Le Kilt in Soho and sometime at the St. Moritz club in Wardour Street. Good memories. Wish i could go back in a time machine. Isabelle from Oslo if you see this get in touch. 😂😂
I started giving up on MAINSTREAM media in 2016 and at the top of the list is the BBC, then ITV, then C4, then C5 and now SKY NEW UK. There is nothing on that interests me now. All full of reality shows, game shows, quiz shows and cooking shows. What a load of rubbish. At least we have RU-vid and lots of videos posted about how England was back in the day. I was 10 and my wonderful late parents would take me to London for the weekend on the train and we would go everywhere. I know that there are always horrible things going on in the world but as a young person it never affected you and things were simpler back then. I like looking at these sorts of videos to see what was 'THE HIGH STREET' full of shops like Freeman Hardy Willis, Dolcis, Woolworths and the like. In just a generation its all gone and we have AMAZON now
When the rules of broadcasting standards were discarded by Mrs Thatcher, many critics said it would lead to a "dumbing down" of TV programmes. If anything, they underestimated the damage it would do.
@@carlgrove8793 Millions of us will never ever return to mainstream media or paying for a tv license, cant wait for the BBC to collapse. I gave up on it all nearly 20 yrs ago.
@@maccagrabme The license is an issue with the BBC, but on the whole they cover the major stories reasonably well. I also like Sky News, but for genuine international coverage, Al Jazeera is best.
I suggest you actually look at TV schedules for the era before waxing all nostalgic about how much better it was. Are you sure Celebrity Squares and Sale of the Century were so good ? Or Crossroads ?
Police traffic wardens did issue tickets, but they were fairer than today's councils enforcement You had to go to magistrates court to challenge a parking ticket With councils, its a bureaucratic appeals system filling out a form where you have to fill in the colour of your underwear on the day the ticket was issued
For as long as we've lived, it's been Communist. Communists invented all of the words that the gullible or amenable use to label as grubby any and all godly behaviours, actions or conditions that are inconveniently independent of, and antithetical to, the Prog goal of universal enslavement and panoptic micromanagement of mankind. If we fell for it, we learned to hate our Father, our father, our family, and our freedom. In other news, Prime Monster Dracula calls garlic sellers, "Smelly and unsociable," and promises to act on our demands to achieve, through greater democracy, the fresh air that we deserve on our midnight walks.
You used to be able to chase after them and jump on the back where the conductor would be waiting with his ticket machine. Health and safety would have a cardiac today! Less of a suing culture and nanny state back then.
Living in Dunstable London was only 35 minutes away, so some good memories there, but what of now in 2022 , I am so sorry to say i will never set foot in London again, it just doesnt feel safe anymore, and why is that we have to ask, I went to college there in 67 and do miss those times , but deaths by stabbings in 2021 were 30, it just isnt safe. It is a totally different city
I was 10 and living in Brixton . Still miss those days so badly. My mum worked in the Reliance Arcade in Brixton that year and Id spend the school holidays with her at work. Dad drove a double decker out of Brixton Garage. Memories i have of that year and being scared going on the tube after the Moorgate tube crash. Songs i remember are Im not In Love and Typically Tropical which i used to hear a lot being played in the arcade, think the cafe had a radio. Used to watch Top Of The Pops every week , Mud had brought out Oh Boy, Bay City Rollers and then Queen with Bohemian Rhapsody. What a time to be a kid.
I was 17 and learning to get into places I didn’t belong ,discovering myself through my home town with the aid of a bike a tube card or jumping routemasters. Miss it all, some parts of town I knew well are almost unrecognisable to me now. Too many I knew and loved are no longer with us. London has always been changing and we are witnessing one of those seismic events but nostalgia always kicks in hard! Great music btw, what is it?
I swear at 6:08 coming into view is me in my MK1 Ford Escort reg TPC375F the person walking back to the car and getting in was a NZ guy Peter Crowhurst. We stopped on Westminster Bridge to ask directions to Palace St, which wasn't too far away. Where a friend had moved into a flat. I was 18 at the time and later that week I discovered the London A to Z Road map book. It was an adventure to say the least, being a long way from my home town Farnham Surrey. No sat navs then, few motorways as well lol 😂
@@mackenzierough Hi, I discovered this quite a while back, but just had to make a comment to get it off my chest lol 😂 that is my car for sure all those moons ago. Can't drive there now unless one pays pays pays , congestion / ULEZ charges. How times have changed and in many cases not for the best sadly. Thank you for the acknowledgement .
I visited London with a friend (from Germany) in June 1975. We visited these places and I have been looking if we were somewhere in the back ground. Lol.
There is a French (Paris) Bus on one of the shots of going over Westminster Bridge by the Houses of Parliament. I think this is one that was owned by Robert Jowett and he used to run it around at weekends for a few HCVC members and other friends.
I was 17 and went with my friend from high school for the month of July, fabulous experience, Ive always wanted to return, maybe on the 50th anniversary I will go back with my husband. I remember the songs on the radio were Saturday Night by Bay City Rollers and Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy
@@rainkatt I hadn't been there for 6 years and just returned from there couldn't believe all traffic jams and pot holes in the roads and the rip off prices.
I was 19 in that year, times were bit rough for me in the 70’s living at Brentwood and Southend in Essex at the time, so couldn’t relate to these pictures.
People go on about immigration and there is over population. But a change not mentioned is the state of the roads. Back then it was just a road, yellow lines and a free flowing combination of cars/buses. Now there are enormous trucks, all sizes of vans and taxis' too. However, the roads are narrower, there is so much signage its confusing along with crossings and lights that deliberately cause bottle necks of traffic. These things are down to the rotten, corrupt councils. The roads haven't been improved they've been made worse. Also the random buildings and ugly glass/steel construction used. It's a soulless hell hole with no aesthetic charm.
Don't blame the immigrants, blame the lying the politicians.. who're White English. The truth that a lot these areas have become shit holes due to immigration is the politicians fault.
As always in videos of this era, it amazes me that there were no lane markings on the roads, even just to separate the two opposite traffic directions! Only the bridges appear to have any. How people drove around Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square without any markings I'll never know.
Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II had already been on the throne for 23 years by this point and was yet to have her Silver Jubilee. Puts it into perspective just how long ago these events were and how much has changed. Her Christmas speech in 1975 was the first to be filmed outdoors at the bottom of the Buckingham Palace garden. You can even hear the loud 1970s engines and traffic rumble in the background.
Amazing coverage although they did miss out on the pet shop on the south bank that sold foxes on a lead plus your usual monkey etc :-) I miss the seventies!
My second year driving a London taxi. An absolute joy it was. No mayor at all and London worked. Have a Mayor now London doesn't work. Then there was a case for abortion.
