Posted by nostalgoteket.se U.K. Newsreel. Take a history tour on the River Thames. Lots of famous footage: Parliament, Big Ben, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, Port of London, Cleopatra's Needle and much more!
They used to show these sorts of things as a warm up before the movie at the cinema. They used to bore the crap out of me. Now I cant get enough. Im hooked on them!
I can't help myself revisiting this wonderful piece of filming , My parents left this great City back in 59,We came to Lancashire, the work was much more plentiful, with the cotton mills still employing thousands , and the terraced houses were plentiful too, cheap rent, tight communities, When I look at the current state of our old communities, both in the south and down here in Lancashire , There is little of it left. Now you can make your own mind up as to why that is so, But whatever the reasons may be. I would jump right back to the old period, Because that is how life should be. people had time for one another, Whole communities looked out for each other,People may have been poorer financially, and their housing may have been poor, But People were much happier because they mixed together like all good communities do, Fractured communities breed crime and miss trust.
True enough, but when your country has a long, complicated and often unpleasant history of colonization, you couldn’t have been surprised when masses from those colonies and their neighbouring countries wanted their piece of what the British basically taught them to aspire to, regardless of whether they adapted to it successfully or brought the worst of their cultures along with them.
The dear old 'Smoke' the year I went into the Royal Navy. A working river in a city we belonged to and she belonged to us, before she was given away under our very noses.
Was up and down it recently - looks much nicer now, trees, less slum tenanments, better access to the waterside. And I guarantee that the water quality is thousand percent better.
lol. openng scene was where i used to go swmming in the 40s wth my older brother. there were steps i could use to get into the thames, spent many hours on the barges playing. used to see if there was anythng worth pinching lived next to the docks bombed out twice accordng to mum. council housing
I've been living in London for nearly 7 years. It is fascinating to see all those places and how they changed since then. Who could have thought that a power station will become one of the most popular museums in the world or that docks will turn into a very expensive place to live.
Gosh, I remember these days like it was yesterday. I was 52 and I used to look off the bridge and see all the rubbish floating in that brown water. Everything is cleaner now, except the water is still brown
Listen everyone, nostalgia is a great think because we generally overlook the bad in favour of the good. Of course there were some things about London that were better back then, the shipping on the Thames made the river a much more interesting place and the modernists had yet to start destroying so much of the unique heritage, particularly in “The City” where quality was sacrificed for cheap ugly trash. Overall London is more vibrant and cleaner now and with higher living standards in spite of the “sink estates” which are gradually being demolished or vastly improved. I miss much about old London but I consider being lucky living in what is still the greatest city on earth.
I remember going with my lovely dad down to Erith in the fifties to see the ships pass. There was a display in the gardens of the ships funnel markings . Notice no towers or crap 'modern' buildings,what a dump it has become?
Fascinating. The Prospect of Whitby pub is almost unrecognizable. It is still there, but surrounded by apartments now. Of course, everything is a lot cleaner now - the buildings, the river and the air.
Used to live in Garnet Street just by the Prospect. It was full of City types even then and we didn't drink there. Got my first 180 at darts in the Town of Ramsgate. In fact just looked on Google Street view and seen my old flat. It's part of a 'gated community' now. Wonder if the current residents of my gaff know that the worlds longest running sausage casserole was once brewed in their kitchen. We would just add bits to it when the level got below half way. It was still on the go when I left!
We came over from Australia on the Oronsay in 1948.....interesting to see what it looked like; the rest of it looked pretty familiar cos by then I was 12.....
I agree with you. Gone since the early eighties in my opinion! THATCHER! "LET IT BURN! I grew up in the 1950s and early Sixties. "FINGS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE!"
What is it about being on the water that makes people wave? Why dont people wave from buses? And other questions vital to our understanding of the cosmos.
And now the river is devoid of any but the most minimal traffic, whilst the roads of the centre are stuffed full of polluting cars waiting endlessly at lights to make their deliveries or move people from east to west (or vice-versa) on endless bendy-buses. Mad!
Gerard burton exactly. You only have to look at how black the buildings were to get a sense of how bad the air must have been. Of course I don't know when those buildings would last have been cleaned, but even so...
Houses Of Parliament - filthy. LCC Building - Filthy. River- Filthy and you can see the smog in the air. Looks so much better now. I remember when they clean the Houses of P. I never knew it was supposed to look like that! London is WAY cleaner now - and better for it. "The Prospect of Whitby" - mentioned by Charles Dickens and over Half a millennia old. Amazing! Amazing. Imagine how it was then.! I Do wish we still had real river usage though - even more river taxis. I lived in Brisbane for a while - getting the River Cat's was great.
It was a working city in those days, and not a place for international foreign criminals to launder money and a large contingent of the Third World to be warehoused.
Its really quite simple, if you ask me which was the happier city, Was it then , back in 59, or is it the 2019 multicultural society, I would always say 1959, Not because I'm racist, But because I recognise and can relate to the older scene Whereas now, many people are ignorant, they do not mix like we did back then, Communities no longer have that tight cohesion and happiness.
@MusicalElitist1 How would you know Grammar school boy ?.Don't believe all you read, and all you think you are , because it will amount to zero, which is exactly what you are ,Tit.
I think 9 million was a ballpark figure based on the peak of 1939 (8.7 M). 1959 = c. 8 M. It dipped after the docks trading port closed only to rise again today 8.3 M (2013).
London I grew up in ,the river I crossed at Woolwich weekly to see family on the other side.,the river I crossed daily to go to and from work.,the river I drove under at Blackwall and Rotherhide tunnels.this was a wonderful robust city . Now it saddens me to see what it has become . Far to many things gone wrong to mention . From Sydney 👍👍❤❤🇦🇺🇦🇺
+chanctonbury63 : It was my last view as a 7 year old in 1952 as we migrated to Australia via the Mediterranean & Suez Canal, etc. Wonderful voyage to the New World.
The dockers used to work hard pinching anything that wasn't nailed down. I used to work with some ex-dockers. Half that meat you see being unloaded would be knocked out at East Street market and the like. Loveable rogues, but tea leaves all the same.
@@civlyzed - Mate, a lot of it fell off the back of a hearse! My ex-docker mates used one to transport stuff around theEast End! Ironically I think they are all dead now, real characters!
Does anyone know if we still use the river for trade at all ? Or is it totally redundant to road transport, looking at films like this it just looks like it makes perfect sense and all seemed to work so well, narater even says millions have been invested in it, then a few years later... it’s dead !! After hundreds and hundreds of years, how it used to be done (pre container) employed thousands of people too, so what killed it, what was the main reason(s) ? Anyone ?
Tom. You already answered the question yourself............ containerisation killed the docks. London was mostly replaced by Felixstowe but more recently London Gateway, a huge new container port at Thurrock on the the Thames opened. The amount of goods passing through the container ports dwarfs what used to pass through the old traditional London docks.
The European Union had only existed for a couple of years but soon got into its stride with antwerp and Rotterdam taking a lot of the trade younsee in the film, and of course we were so poor at making a profit out of all of this trade there was not the money to invest in deep water berths and containerisation until far too late unlike Eurosport Rotterdam etc.
The European Union had only existed for a couple of years but soon got into its stride with antwerp and Rotterdam taking a lot of the trade younsee in the film, and of course we were so poor at making a profit out of all of this trade there was not the money to invest in deep water berths and containerisation until far too late unlike Eurosport Rotterdam etc.
The European Union had only existed for a couple of years but soon got into its stride with Antwerp and Rotterdam taking a lot of the trade you see in the film, and of course we were so poor at making a profit out of all of this trade there was not the money to invest in deep water berths and containerisation until far too late unlike Europort Rotterdam etc.
@@caroljones4511 And are the cities the immigrants come from "world" cities, too, or is it only white, Western Europeans who have to cede their nations to foreigners?
It all started in the Bristol Channel, the reverend John Ashley had a pilot cutter converted or made with a chapel below after his son asked how the sailors go to church when their at anchor...my great great grandfather was the captain, his name was George Thomas.. the cutter was called the Eirene and once it was sold he used the money to build a row of Terraced house in the village I’m from, their called the Eirene Terrace!
Lazy English doesn't have clue, we came in the 60s, opened businesses, bought properties, created jobs, bought nice cars. This country is amazing, you can achieve anything with hard work and a few brain cells. You guys still can't grasp that
I was born and grew up in London during the 1950’s and everything was black, I particularly remember Nelson’s Column, Tower Bridge, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Tower, all black as the ace of spades. I thought it was normal until they started cleaning everything up in the 70’s and 80’s.
I remember those days.... remember the Houses of Parliament & Tower Bridge being that filthy dirty. They are gorgeous buildings now that they are clean.... And the views of the docks & wharfs & old buildings that are now multi-million pound apartments. Wow ....... really amazed by some of the comments on here. I'm 62 now & I think London is fantastic..... "A 3rd world crime ridden hellhole" ... erm... I don't think so. It's a wonderful city & I wouldn't live anywhere else.
No lipsy! The terror attacks could happen in any city. We had the IRA bombing places a few decades ago - it doesn't affect what Londoners think of living here, or put us off. And, oh my God, NO - I do not want to see more whites here! I don't think I've ever heard such a ridiculous question. London is fantastic exactly BECAUSE it is so multi-racial, so diverse, so many facets. I love London BECAUSE of that !! Why do you have a problem with different coloured skin?? We're all Londoners & British & .... PEOPLE ! Gosh - where on Earth are you living?
Oh lipsy, you are completely delusional. No, I don't live in Cornwall. I was born in London & have lived in London for 64 years. My comment about not wanting to "see more whites" did not mean that I don't want folk to be born. It was a reaction against what you were clearly saying about the population balance between dark-skinned & white people. You didn't even mention Eastern Europeans, Irish or Cypriots etc. - you went straight to the "white skin" issue. And, yes, I would hate to live in an all-white area - it would probably contain a lot of people like you. I'm done.
Why is it that we stoped using the river how we used too ? It’s the reason London exists where it does and it seems such a waste not to bring in the city’s supplies, it’s like a big wide highway that’s lying unused all the while the M2 and M20 and old Kent road are chac’a block with lorries, I’m guessing one reason is dock areas were worth more as luxury flats than any other use at all, surely if we had kept using the river for trade it would have been wiser ??
I just visited London and I spent a lot of time on the TFL boats. You can travel from Woolwich to Westminster, and from Westminster to Putney on another boat. Pity you can't do the whole journey in one go.
Brett Mitchell👈 Desperate attempt to sound clever while taking bollocks...clownish lack of success at the former,far more success found with the latter.
Rog5446 it's just the popular name for it. People didn't have much comprehension of ancient Egyptian history back in Victorian times when it was gifted to London, but everyone had heard of her, so the name just stuck.
How exactly did the eu ruin our docks? Whilst ours festered in outdated practices they invested in theirs at Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg etc. The E U couldn’t and wouldn’t have stopped investment in our docks it just never happened until too late.
"Without its 2000 acres of docks, London would be nothing" And surprise surprise, London has lost its docks to the rich and wealthy, and guess what... London is slowly but surely becoming just that, nothing. Just another generic city, another ultra-modern metropolis made up of ugly and bland glass faced towers, a city that has lost its native people, its cultures, its traditions, its identity, its uniqueness, its beautiful Victorian and Georgian architecture, its heritage... the day that the docks, pubs, markets and all things that were unique to old London died, was the day that London as a whole died also... god I absolutely despise of modern day London, and that's coming from a 20 year old...
reece callow this is coming from a 48/9 year old Londoner who lived in Bermondsey and your bang right it's gone to the dogs and all that made London what it was and is today has been knifed in the back ....wrong just wrong ....your comment was solid and true ...
@filger67- Rock Can you provide any evidence to back what you say, sir? All I see is a dying city in a dying country, amidst a racial and religious catastrophe!
How did the ancient Egyptians build that monument in London more than three thousand years ago?....are the British in fact Egyptians ?.... As Pauline Hanson would say: " Please, explain ", seriously.
@Adam Balding nonsense, ireIand never invaded anyone and they're subjected to the same forced immigration that no one ever consented to, same for sweden, norway etc any1 that pretends immigration in britain is a by product of empire is fooIed
i second that. It is not possible to go on a site with anything to do with old London or anywhere in England for that matter without someone moaning. It is usually immigrants.
Yep , I love these old films but some love to moan about how crap things are now and how wonderful they used to be - it's usually a swipe at immigrants . Truth is people were poor , lots of outside toilets and pollution . Today londons thriving and for the most part everyone gets on surprisingly well .
Andy Nixon I used to ask such whiners what do they miss most, the rickets , the shared outside toilets or the TB and I speak as someone who was a stevedore many years ago on a timber wharf in Rotherite Street. There has been huge change but we should be looking forward not backwards, much as I love these old films.
Absolutely rubbish, in fact the crime rate was higher back then when you take in to account adjustments for increase of population. I used to be a special constable and one of the things we were taught was that modern Britain is a far safer place than in was in Victorian times.
@@ianmedium That´s what you were "taught" .... by whom? the minions of a m -u -z -z -i -e mayor? Quite apart from what you were "taught", what do you SEE?, sir?
The capital of England ! Now that's how I like to remember my home town, I'm not overly impressed with the way consecutive governments have allowed us to be overrun by immigrants , if that's racist, I couldn't care less .
Not just racist but ironic too. Perhaps if your equally racist ancestors hadn't taken it upon themselves to rape as much of the world as they could, you wouldn't have to put up with so many of us funny looking foreigners.
@@DdotRay86 nonsense, ireIand never invaded anyone and they're subjected to the same forced immigration that no one ever consented to, same for sweden, norway etc any1 that pretends immigration in britain is a by product of empire is fooIed
@@SI-cd7xs i disagree, but i cant imagine you'll ever see the ignorance in what you're saying there. Just believe me when I say this - people arent leaving places like the Caribbean and South East Asia for Europe because the weather is nicer. Mali was once the richest nation in the world by such a great distance they used to distribute free gold amongst neighbouring countries just for goodwill. India and Persia created the basis for what you now know as maths and physics. What do you think suddenly caused these people to stop their development and move to Romford? Get an education mate.
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London was the greatest city in the world.. such a shame it's been decimated by the third world invasion.. fully supported by the vermin Labour Party & sick in the head leftists.. .. with their only intent .. to destroy Great Britain. ... it's heritage.. traditions.. & it's people.. R.I.P. UK.
I am from Dublin and any trip to London is a shock to me given the amount of Afro-Caribbean, Indians, Pakistanis etc. There. I believe Ireland to be the last bastion in Europe for Celtic, Anglo-Saxon Whites, But give it time.
"The Most Historic River in the World". Those British, what about the Nile!. Oil Burning Power Stations, not much has changed. Maybe Tower Bridge should go Now, replace it with Tunnels under so the River can be enjoyed more. Surely those that Built Tower Bridge did not Build it to Prevent Progress, to Prevent Better Methods in the Future. Further, A Real Shame that Britian Gave Up on Sailing Boats, Ships.
London looks like a filthy dump there. I love how all these films always bring all the racists out. Of course if they had been alive and commenting then they would still be just as bitter and twisted, they'd have found something else to 'hate on' that type of people always do and are always a burden on all societies :(
@Brett Mitchell The one who's doing the crying is the inbred who's following me all over this thread like a lost puppy. Do I have to throw a stick for you to get rid of you?
