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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 !

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.

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 !

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.

Wish the traffic was still like that.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

An era when even the trees looked cool.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 👍

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.

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

Happier times.

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

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.

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!

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

crap music totally mismatched to the subject

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...).

Streets are spotless impressive

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

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

I'm shocked by all the racism that I see in these comments. How low have we fallen. I lived in this area (Bromley) at this time. England was in the 60's a great time but we paid for it with a serious depression afterwards. Great to see those cars again.

This is what civilized society looked like back when England was England. ❤️🇬🇧

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

A brilliant clip for Morris Minor spotters.

Before the politicians ruined everything.

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 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.

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.

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

Look how clean and smooth the roads are!!!

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.

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

Britain has changed beyond recognition.

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

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

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

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

No internet,mobile phones,mass immigration, no traffic jams beam me up scottie I want to go back

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 ? )

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!

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.

Prime vintage banger material in that clip!

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

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

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

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

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

I was born in 64 in Leeds. This could have been anywhere in the uk. No diversity and safe streets, we will never get this back. ☹️

The music sounds like some police manhunt show

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Still proud to be British life was better then no one telling us how to live our lives. Got to get it back.

It looks very tidy and orderly. i do find British towns that haven’t been destroyed by modern architecture so evocative. Love it. Bloody cold looking tho. And all the cars are British! Five years later the UK would be changing rapidly and industry would be facing death.

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

No yellow lines on high street no pot holes

I was 7 in 1964, at the time living at Brentwood, going to school at Upminster in Essex

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,🥰

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

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

Year I joined the Guards at Pirbright, second barracks was Caterham, the former Guards Depot. Someone please turn the clocks back!

Modern version...many more road makings...data gathering cameras....ULEZ, maybe congestion charge, speed cameras....Ave speed cameras 📷...bus lane 📷 💤 oh this is well before I was born!

I despise the racist remarks. Thank goodness these days are over.

Well... Look at England (London) today - almost no English people left... Sad and disturbing...

I grew up in the 80s in south London (mainly Croydon but my grandparents lived between Dulwich and Peckham) and I remember the old-style road signs from that period - in this video the only new-style ones are on the M2. I think the last few old signs must have been cleared out in the last 20yrs. On the A217 near where my aunt lives, there's a cross roads sign which is old-style with capital letters but the new Transport font that they put up when the old one wore out or maybe got knocked down - it looks funny.

A2 Sittingbourne turn off in Kent, Purley Way, Forest Hill, Yorkshire Grey roundabout,Wellhall roundabout onto Rochester way all in South East London.

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 ?

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.

My mum dad and self went from Nottingham down A1 through central London and down through Kent in 1949 and 1950, looked a bit different then. Still the old trams in London I recall and bomb sites!

Pukka bit of film, just as it was when I was a kid ... I was from the East End of London but was often south of the river as we had relatives living in Kent, Eltham, Croydon and South Godstone ... regular trips under the Blackwall and Rotherhithe tunnels and across tower bridge, pure magic, especially when tower bridge would open to let the ships through ... pure joy for any kid. As for the vehicles and empty-ish roads just brilliant ... a time we will never see again.