Love this film, my mum is the clippie getting her brown box containing the Gibson ticket machine taking the second bus out on route number 2 from stockwell bus garage ,you can hear her say 2 on the 2s please , she also appears in the canteen asking for 2 teas please one without sugar , I took her to the stockwell bus garage open day in 2016 as a surprise & she was thrilled to bits , sadly mum passed away aged 97 in 2019 so having this film to watch brings back Happy memories for me ,Thankyou 😊

the London I loved and remember as a kid- everything. The smell of the Routemasters, the whine of the fluid flywheel when idling at the lights...those District line trains.. the look and style of the shops etc..The bbc light programme, then radio2 on 1500m long wave.... It's changed out of all recognition now.

Beautiful film. A lost world. London is not as it was.

What a great film, I was a mere youth back then and it brought back a lot of memories. So much has changed in the last 50 years or so in London and maybe not for the better...........

An extraordinary glimpse at life in a bygone age. I do so miss the Routemasters!

Simply Beautiful in every way, I was born within the sound of the bow bells,back in 57, That makes me a true cockney, and that makes me proud ! I love those bells !

I still miss the old open platform RT & RM type buses you could hop on & off... and open the windows in summer!

Not a sneaker, ripped jeans, or designer label in sight. How far we have fallen.

What a wonderful time! As the transport still serve the people and not only on profit!

14:13 “Hello, Mrs. Mason... " And that is actually actress Hilary Mason, later famous as the mystic blind woman in Don't Look Now (1973).

The radio programme starting at around 9.55 is a Housewives’ Choice broadcast. The guest presenter was the well known actor John Slater. John presented the show for 2 weeks starting on Monday 22nd June 1964. The radio station was the BBC Light Programme. The music introduction will be instantly recognised by baby boomers! That Was The Week That Was, TW3, the music right at the end was the intro and outro to a hugely influential tv satirical programme that ran from 1962 to 1963 hosted by David Frost. Millicent Martin the singer. Smashing video that definitely brings back great memories. Thankyou.

Interesting how the London Underground was already more modern than the New York City Subway at the time.

“” When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life “” .....as a young girl living in Upper Clapton E5 , I had a wall poster of London in all her glory. I forget the man whose quote was printed on it , but I never ever forgot it. I miss London and the good times. Most wonderful times of my life I owe to her. City of my birth and of my family going back to the 18th Century. #londonmylondon

I feel so lucky to remember what life was like back in these days wonderful memories of growing up,

this was the london we knew not like today

Great film. Look how clean London was. You could also sit on the top deck of the bus without being harassed. Thanks for sharing.

Wow, some good footage of a class Underground system at work.

Heart Warming Film Lovely to watch ! b4 our shores were invaded !

…...That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, those happy highways where I went and cannot come again.....

Lovely. Back when you could tell one vehicle from another at a distance, and London Transport's trains were made bespoke, and in England, by the likes of Metro-Cammell, unlike today's plasticy things. Love the old R stock, and the other old surface stock, and those old red Tube Stock sets, along with the 59's and 62's. Not forgetting the old buses of course! Where did all the time go. A much nicer city.

I'm so glad these films are around for common access, I was born in Hornchurch in the early 60's and have always been fascinated by the mechanisms and culture of public mobility, particularly the 60's era. It brings it all back

...the London my parents knew ...now i understand, though it too late.

I saw what liked like Country Area green RT buses in the back of Stockwell Garage.

Blimey, that was an eye-opener. Thanks.

Can you imagine having a programme like "Housewive's Choice" nowadays? I used to listen to it whenever I was ill at home. And then : "Music While You Work". Mum used to do the ironing with the beat of that wonderful opening tune by Eric Coates.

Wonderful nostalgia from when I was about 5 or 6.

Impressive how they had a CCTV system in the early 60s

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (poster on rear of bus at 17:01) ran at The Carlton July 20 to Aug 16 1961.

Another wonderfully classic BTF film. So many memories stirred by seeing the old R Stock and 1938 tube stock and the RTs and Route master buses. London Transport was so much better than the joke TFL.

I remember when London was not a 24 hour city as you see in this film it could be really magical at some times of the day. All the pre digital old-tech too. It may look old-fashioned to us but it worked and was a great deal more reliable than today’s public transport The streets and public transports were much safer then too, no no-go areas then, interesting that there was cctv even then. I love London, my home city and this film always gives me warm feelings of nostalgia. The real sadness is that by the date of this film we had foolishly destroyed our electric tram and trolleybus systems and replaced them with diesel buses. With hindsight how foolish we were, as if they had survived they could now be powered by renewably generated electricity

I recognised the car park on the way to Loughton Station. In the 80s, it was still very similar. The buses load on the left of the picture nowadays instead

Those really were 'the good old days'👏👏 Just returned from Prague yesterday, 24 Sep 2023. Travelled from the airport to the city centre for £1.50! Where did we go wrong?

Note all the crowd scenes, lovely old London gone but not forgotten

The London Pavilion film 'Two Faces Of Dr Jekyl '(18:03) ran Oct 7-27th 1960. Beat Girl (19:16) ran at the same cinema from Oct 28-Nov 17 1960

At 5.20 is the most revealing picture which dates this at between January 31st 1961 and the end of April. That is the only clip with trolleybus wire overhead in the whole film and is taken at two-way trafficked Camden Town station and it tells a story. If you look at the wiring above the RTW on the 24 you will see four clips in the trolleybus overhead which curve off to the right heading up to Holloway. What are those clips for? They are actually where a crossover junction used to be for the trolleybus routes that used to branch off towards Hampstead Heath. These routes were replaced by Routemasters on January 31st 1961 and as was their practice, even though the remaining routes were scheduled to change to motor buses only three months later, the redundant wires and junctions were removed. Indeed, it is certain that the Routemaster is on a route which replaced the trolleybuses there. All rather sad. It is also a great opportunity to compare the difference in width of the two buses, the RTW and the RT and other detail, differences.

Lovely to look back, sadly though it only reminds one how low this country has sunk in recent years. Such a terrible waste, very sad.

Wonderful film! Very enjoyable. 😁

Catch 89 or 192 from the top of Shooters Hill to Victoria Station then Thames valley bus home to Reading after staying with my cousins for the weekend

Great video! So nostalgic...

An interesting film I can see why nostalgia would play a large part for those that lived through that period or have been reflecting and making comparisons between now and today. Good and bad points in every decade.

Very nostalgic

Imdb has this film released in 1962. A lovely by-gone era.

A real gem. With a few exceptions, it seems every LT employee was a man in his late 50s...!

Housewives were extremely careful regarding musical choices on the radio since their address was given out on air...

I'd love to see the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority make a movie like this--18 hours in a great city's transit system.

Fantastic film. Thanks for sharing. I suspect actors were planted in this footage, and oh what fun could be had with being at the controls of an early CCTV and a PA microphone. I would guess this is around 1965-ish. I remember London circa 1969-72 so this brings back memories. People seemed to have more decorum back then.

Thank goodness many of us viewing this can remember ‘the good old days’ As an ex Londoner the pieces of shite that now reside in the UK’s capital certainly won’t be interested where a lot of us viewing this have come from! London like the UK is finished I’m afraid and if anybody thinks it’s going to get better dream on!!!! Go look at the statistics for yourself because whatever country we grew up in certainly isn’t the one of today. It’s sad, disgusting and makes me angry all at the same time, but there you go!

I remember lunchtime radio 'Music While You Work'

Brilliant video

Every thing that is British that has now been lost

1:31 "Morning Don!" "Morning chum!"

The world was a better place then now look at it.

At 18.40 they are going into the Isola Bella restaurant which was on Frith Street in SoHo. 20.03 is interesting as the theatre is playing Michael MacLiammoir’s one man show “Importance of Being Oscar” - it looks like it might be the Aldwych theatre ( with the Waldorf in the background), although it seems that production at the Aldwych was 1963, whereas the same actor did perform the show at the Apollo on Shaftesbury Avenue in 1960 ( which fits with the dates of the movies showing in Leicester Square..)

fascinating.

My London, city of my birth

Great film!

It wasn't all roses, there were the smogs up to the mid '60s and still a lot of slum dwellings.

The Hippodrome is now a casino, and you cannot get a 716 coach to chertsey in the evening now

I remember the RMs and RFs as a kid and the places we went to

Good old days before the digital age.

That clip at 5:19 at Camden Town dates the footage as between 31st Jan and 25th April 1961, the dates between the 639 trolleybuses finishing and the end of those trolleys on routes 627 and 629. You can actually see that the running wires for the 639 have already been taken down, and the wires for the 627/629 up Camden Rd have been spliced where there was previously a crossover with the 639 wiring. Just a bit of anorak observation...

Very different times,compared to today !!

Some view of Loughton for the Central Line, cannot quite place the district other than Upminster, some Arnos Grove ? for Picc stations.

Who all thought, " Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen...We dare not go a huntin' for fear of little men"...at 3:29?

Share, remind people what we're losing

Actress Hilary Mason (Blind psychic in the movie 'Don't Look Now') is the lady who is met in the supermarket 14,15.

Great Upload, thanks. I would have been around 5 or 6 then. Everyone dressed proper then

"It's our anniversary and Jack's taking me to a show on Saturday night". Back then, he could actually afford to do so.

Those were the times ... like this fine, British spoken English

Nice to see Camden town

I needed to know why they don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on that Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. Why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more and more Easily? Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build a brand-new underground train station so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 37 Octagon and Every 17 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 142MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 142MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 17 Tonnes for all of those 142MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!!!!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!! And please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

Wake up to a Capstan Full Strength and a cough!

Andy, CCTV was in use, in America as, early as 1949 so would have been in use here by the mid 1950's at the latest.

Oh look, a functioning society.

On behalf of today. I am sorry for ruining a good thing. We are too many and we know so little.

What does the guy say into the microphone at the depot that ends "53 road thank you" ?

05:39, again at 18:00, is that Dame Judy Dench announcing the time (08:15) on Morning First Edition Programme? If not, it could be a voice double. Not only that, i could have sworn i saw Mrs. Slocombe and on her way to Grace Brothers store.

I grew up in the 80s still remember these bus still back useful but very uncomfortable today we have better buses far better comfortable less noise of the running motor cracracracra 🤣🤣

It just occurred to me that the radio excerpts of Jack de Manio and John Slater were not live records. They were scripted for them and the they 'read' them. I've actually DeManio broadcast and he was much mores spontaneous. With these British Transport films they were very much made from the ground up.

they were better days

wake up, sit up and have a senior service

Wonderful film, just a shame the comments section is riddled with misery and doom......

Obviously, i wasn't born but I am pretty sure that was when most British people were mainly happy, healthy and some even wealthy.

0:00 If that really is St Paul's, and not some special effect (I take it it's in east London), I'd love to know where you can see St Paul's like that today.

4:10 “Hurry up, me husband Bill will be home soon and he’ll be in a mood cos T34 was cancelled on account of there being no guard...”

The days when you could enjoy a cigarette and not be looked upon as being from another planet

Anyone notice anything different from today?

The land of might have been. Ivor Novello.

In 1964(10:30), the Trish Trash polka was the "gay" tune. In 2023, it might be "Y'all Ready Fo' This?" Things have changed since 1964.

This is 1962-1963.

It was the land of milk and honey you left school at 15 and worked a fourty hour week every thing had a place and everything was in its place children were seen but not heard not incharge like they are today total respect was order of the day We were incharge of our own country not the European debarcle God such happy memories

So we’ve improved everything?

Old school TfL…

wtf is this comments section. Just enjoy it for the snapshot of London it is, seems like many of them are actors anyway!

Amazing. London looked like a friendly place back then. Was it?

It looks exactly like that now.

London 1960

What is our country become? I’m an Englishman, a part of the great British Isles, the British way of life sense of humour culture has died. I am now a stranger in the town I was born. This is not of made up story. This is the truth I’m a realist and I speak how I see things and it’s true I grew up in no longer exists. I miss the England. The Great Britain I grew up in both my grandfathers fought for our country in both the first and second world wars. They did not fight for the country that we are now living in. It’s a shame I have my memories, fond memories of the price I was born the people who were around me that made where I grew up. I had to close a fun place, which now no longer exists. Im a foreigner in the place I was born in fact, true.

The guy smoking a Senior Service getting up. A good cough to clear your chest first thing.

'used to be very civilised. I wonder what/who changed it ?