Muswell Hill Broadway 1959-60 

Incredible how similar it looks today!

Wonderful find! Back when old people could sit outside or go for a walk without fear. Although using a zebra crossing could be hazardous - you could be waiting a long time before a driver actually stopped!

Great film, so many memories. Lessiters the home-made chocolate shop at the beginning, and I think it's my mum sitting on the bench at 00:38! Very surprised that the bus doesn't stop for the pedestrians at the crossing. And I could have been one of those kids at the end!

Nice to see views of the closed Muswell Hill station..... just think, if London Transport had opened the already electrified line from Finsbury Park & Highgate through to here after the war how much better the road traffic would be now. Instead they claimed Green Belt legislation stopped the Northern Line extensions (true for north of Edgware but not here!) and removed the electrification equipment in the late 1950s to electrify........ the Epping to Ongar branch of the Central Line! deep in the Essex countryside......

Muswell Hill hasn't changed much in 60 years - unlike many parts of London, architecturally and in terms of ethnic makeup it is much the same as it was in 1960 and probably didn't look vastly different even in 1920.

It looks the same now. Except cars WOULD now stop for you to cross the road.

lived there in the seventies as a student. nice memory. from Switzerland🇨🇭

Breathtaking

Marvellous stuff 👍. Thanks for posting this.

Wish he'd shown St James Parade down to the John Baird Pub. My Dad owned Bond's Tobacconist & Confectioners opposite the Odeon. Also there were two other similar shops - Henry's and another. Would love to have seen a picture of them.

I8 lived there for a while in the seventies . Groovy area... Kinks TOWN!

A nice film, looks lovely. John Letchley a relation came from there.😊

Hasn't changed a day!

Wonderful... Population is everything

Never changed

That crossing at the beginning is still busy today

Nice and clean London

Wow, at the time that the Davies brothers were still living there! I lived there for 18 years but I just cannot recognise the place where the kids are playing, especially that underpass. Where is it?

Men in Jacket and Trouser’s as Normal every day. women in hats Cars back then were not fussed about stopping for people crossing on Zebra crossing,it must be 50 years since i was there And honestly i cannot relate to much🤔

Driver's road manners were bad even then. Cars and even a bus failing to give way to pedestrians waiting at a zebra crossing.

0:36 - 0:40 no se, pero me diero un poco de miedo :S

णतबग

London has lost so much charm

not bad except the Ritz has gone! Shameful!

Still looks the same. Considering all Muswell Hillians still try to live in the 70's and wanna be hipsters

Home of Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks. Birthplace of "You Really Got Me"