And yet people keep voting for treacherous tories.

They aren't traitors, they are serving their masters well.

@@folksurvival yeah, WEF PuPpeTs.🤮

@Angela Don't forget to credit the voters of the '' safe seats '' with the destruction too. After all they did keep the traitors in power year after year.

Your so right

Since covid its changed.And I dont like what I see....

How well you have summed it up to perfection. Reading your comment as sad as it was has eased my pain that there is someone out there that has the same vision of truth that I have. Thank you.

Victoria, You nailed it. Britain is unrecognizable. Kids are continually being indoctrinated into a mindset: "Diversity is good" when it is the opposite:it has taken away out lives.

@@briannewman6306 There are many of us who think this way. Chin up Brian :0)

@ChorltonM21 Thank you sir for your support. It is much appreciated.

Me too, still write with a fountain pen, respect everyone, and do my very best at all times, 50s style.

I say the same thing now

It’s very important for me that you are watching it happen. Thank you!

​@@totoroiddo one you little prick

yup, and not even a nice foreign country but a third world shithole with high crime

I never saw our country so filthy dirty ,as if it's a third world country. They !!!the invaders brought there ways to our land ???

My weakness was Crunchies at 3d 🙃

Before they completely stuffed it up. Look at the shit it is now.

So am I as I was Born on Saturday December 22nd 1956 and I well Remember the 1960's and how times were tough and as a child I could play in the Street where I live and no one would touch us and we were far happier in those days

Duffle coats, Penny Arrow Bars , Old Trafford , Denis Law, Ford Anglias , Airfix Kits , Bus Conductors and of course the big decision .. Bus fare spent on a Mars Bar or walk home after school ! 😆

@@vstafford4761 sounds an easy choice although these days I might take the bus🙃

The picture early on of people in a club has to be early 70s. There's an older man with long hair and mutton chops. Very '71-'74 I reckon.

If you remember the time, think of the Frannie Lee the footballer

Agreed a number of these photo's are significantly later than the '50s. Also agree Britain was a much better and happier place than it is today. People knew what hardship was and got on with life. They worked hard to make things better instead of protesting and wanting everything for nothing in return.

@@tomblack6965 Now that's a blast from the past. Frannie Lee lived about 4 miles from me and was the nicest bloke you could ever meet. Occasionally used to see him in my local where he was just a great bloke you could have a laugh with.

@@philyew3617 what a great era of football too. I still have the theme from "The Big Match "with Brian Moore playing in my head. Cheers.

Skipping rope right across the street. Hopscotch numbers on the pavement 😊

Catch the girl kiss the girl, u always went for the looker 😂😅

kids now would rather smash your windows and blame the drugs they took as a game.

Yes made yer own fun, 😊

​@magirusdeutzjupiter223well said but true .

@Wallace Carney the UK government wanted them and still do, they can't or won't close the doors.

There were plenty of jobs before Thatcher ruined it all, all the factories mines and everything the working classes did went in the blink of an eye @@ncooper8438

I always say that left school at 15 start a job straight out of school ,pack it in walk straight into another job😊

Well said

@@MiPointIs CSA are strident in pursuit of spouses paying their share as they are about benefit scroungers they add up what they are owed and at whatever point they work it will be collected ,give the CSA as much information as possible,i assume he has no access to his kids

@@rgsnr8702 Access is not a matter for working out the amount of Child Support payable. Shared custody is the only time the amount will be amended. Also the person receiving the Support (usually the Mum) has no legal requirement to account for how any of the money is spent. Things change over time, as needs become more complex but the basic tenet remains firm: BOTH parents are required to contribute to their children's care and support whatever their circumstances.

I agree.

Me too.....👍

No. I

I'd rather have the better medicines we have now. The right to control my own money, to work after marriage, decent birth control, central heating, legal equality for women, homosexuals and non whites.

Count me in...if you find a way to get back there.

Yeah but Tory donors made a LOT of money from the giveaway and apparently that is all that matters.

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 And Labour sold our gold reserves on the cheap.

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 Globalism was the worst problem, and Labour was even more positive to that change than Tories. Now they are just as bad as each others.

Your Michelle Mone benefited from the giveaway.

​@TheSeafordian A mere drop in the ocean compared to the £40-60 BILLION MAD Lizzies budget cost the Economy! AT least the VAST majority of MPs back THEN were competent!!!!!

@Stanly Stud Blairgowrie

@Stanly Stud where, near Stirling?

I was born in Glasgow. By the way, it’s in Scotland!

@@george11419 No kiddin. Glasgow's in Scotland. Yer gonay tell me Glesgies on the Clyde. 😆

1954, Glasgow born. Played outside all the time. Glad to know I won’t have to live much longer. It’s all utter madness now.

I was born 1941. I agree. My memories are cleaner and more spacious.

no

Car spotting? I have heard of train spotting!

@@Gunnar_Gunnarson We would be taken out at school to take car numbers and when we got back to school we looked up the registration to see where the car came from

I can remember Sambo on the Snoopy cartoons and thought he was odd, now theres millions of them in the UK 😁

Well said

Er, people on benefits are getting 90 grand A YEAR?????????? Not the ones I know, they're not!!!!!!!!!!!

Apart from the fact most of what you said is total bollocks, why should people in this day and age have to suffer, we live in the world's 8th richest country! Could be anything to do with idiots voting tories into power could it? I'd say definitely.

You forgot to mention living in a cardboard box int middle of road, 😂

@@wivaquif luxury!

I can remember my mum saying the very same thing times where hard kids of today don’t know half of it . Hard times but good times to 😀

In r house someone broke in and decorated the front room.

@@jimmydempsey6857 Lol brilliant

@@kerryquinn6218 👍

​@@jimmydempsey6857 hello, you think you had it hard ? Even the mice in our house went out begging. We once had a kipper for christmas dinner, we all had a lick of it then my dad resoled his work boots with it.🤣🤣

My family and myself all grew up in the South end of Liverpool Terry, just off the Dock Road. My Mum witnessed the Bombing raids on the Docks. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, times were hard but what Lovely people we had around us. My Auntie is 95 next year, she is as sharp as a Razor and I love listening to her tales of growing up with My Mum and her other sisters. I think you would have savoured the little things in life, like a hot Dinner when you came home off The Docks or a Pint at the end of the day as you say mate 🙏

@@stephensmith4480 "Thank you" Stephen for your comment of actually "being there" & having first-hand experience of what it was really like !!! Now I don't have to "imagine" what it was like.

"Thank You" Terry for your RICH comment & your experience of actually having "lived there !!!"

@@doloressimpson7456 You`re Welcome Dolores 😊

@@stephensmith4480 WASN'T THE DINGLE WAS IS STEPHEN ?

Did them bluedy Geermans bomb your chip shops too?

Unless you were one of the millions that emigrated to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia or Canada!

Not only that, it was getting better, people had optimism. Now it's getting worse, and we have seen nothing yet as it will get MUCH worse. Mostly because the "green" maniacs are ruining the ability to produce affordable energy. Also a lot of red tape killing creativity and freedom.

@@truxton1000 Quote - Also a lot of red tape killing creativity and freedom. Red tape creates jobs for thousands of people. You've only got to look at the England football team to know there's no creativity and freedom!!

@@PeterPete Well, the England team did well in the World cup, played better than France but lost, that's football. So I guess red tape would be your plan to create more jobs, you must be very intelligent...!

@@truxton1000 England never played better than France. France scored two goals from open play, England never scored from open play. The captain missed a penalty. Need I say more? Red tape creates jobs, I guess you'd have lots of people out of work just to lessen red tape. BTW, it's good Charles decided not to frack in the UK. Oh aren't they mining coal in Cumbria? Guess that shoots your green agenda ideas off goal.

@@PeterPete Looking at the stats of the match England had 56% possession, France 44%. England had 7 attempts on goal, France had 5. England played better and it of course showed in the statistics, of course it did not produce enough goals, as I said that’s football.

Exactly in every respect john

Almost my Generation

You are spot on with your comments, the whinging brigade, wouldn't last 2 minutes, no central heating, double glazing, ect, I was born in 53, and things didn't seem to improve till the mid 60s, although both my parents worked full time, food in particular wasn't as cheep as it is now, by comparison to wages.

No crime? Ffs

Dixon of Dock Green would be furious at these comments about crime. 🤣🤣😂🙃🤣 You should have had a better history teacher. I'm from this era ..you guys wouldn't survive one jot in the area I came from. These people who rebuilt the ruins after the war many came from overseas and Ireland..from countries some would argue we shouldn't of been there in the first place. So these wonderful pictures are a blessing and a curse that helps formulate unbalanced comments. I love the old movie pictures people send in of old London and the 'Oh look how clean it looks and people look so proud of their appearance' ....Brigade. comments that continue to make me smile and cringe at the same time.

Well, I was born & brought up in Werneth and there was plenty of child abuse going on except it was behind closed doors and not talked about plus there's the more obvious case of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Moors Murderers in Saddleworth.

@@andrewkitchenuk I think the fact we still recall the Moors murders is because it was so rare - compared to nowadays when each year we have reasons for yet more "safeguarding" training & specialist police initiatives.....

Before the Asian sub continent became established in that part of Lancashire.

​@@philipshakles760 curry's good tho. Murghi Masala anyone?

Unless they lived in the North West and came across Myra and Ian!

And it WAS OUR !!!!°COUNTRY

In some respects he was lucky. Many of the great escapers did not return.

@@Gunnar_Gunnarson 50 of the 73 that were recaptured were shot on hitlers orders (according to wiki) but it goes beyond that because as the germans retreated the prisoners were forced to "the long march" and if you didnt keep up for whatever reason you were executed an the spot. The experience gave him a "lust for life," make the most of the time left cos you never know when you will be pushing up daisies.

I WAS BORN IN 1941 REMEMBER THINGS FROM 1945 THAT WHEN MY LIFE TOOK OFF

I left school in 53 and was 16. 2 years later I went to France Germany holland and Luxembourg in my Morris minor convertible.

Is that Oakhill Road, London SE20? KCS in Melbourne

That's because people keep voting tory!

@@chrisgray4651 woke lib dems and liebour

@@juliawigger9796 I think you will find that the tories have been in power more than the others, therefore it's the tories that made this country the mess it is now!

@@chrisgray4651 hmm its been going on alot longer than that. The globalists were rubbing their hands in glee when Blair got in for 2 terms. He signed so many treaties behind our backs, changed our laws, allowed sex education for primary school children, the Syrian debacle opened up the flood gates , the globalists got a firmer grip on the UK , even selling private contracts for hospitals...................

@@juliawigger9796 the war had been over more than 50 yrs before Tony Blair was elected with a 160 seat majority you silly woman! Globalist? Do you mean people that aren't little englanders?

Poor poor things only two holidays abroad dear me.

@@donaldellis3609 Sadly I have an ex relative who hasn't worked for 30 years and has 4 a year, true.

The 2 Bed house should have been designed with the chimney up the middle (some were) with back bolier in the coal fire for hot water. Efficient for distribution of heat from the coal burning. I think it would be the single glazing and being only one brick thick (some were cavity), that lost the heat quickly, your valve TV would keep a corner warmish though. With Terraced houses even if no chinmeny up middle if the living room ones were back on the heat should still rise through the chimney to the bedroom. This will work with gas fires as well as other solid fuel ones, far less so with electric

😊

Poor darlings. We lived in a cardboard box at the side of the road.

I agree. I was born in SE London 20 years later than you. I remember the blackout shutters still on the windows, and the gasmasks still on the cupboard. But everyone was happy that the bad times were over. It was a time of hope and joy.

One of the pictures in the video was of a boy in a pedal car. I had one just like it. My dad salvaged it from somewhere. He fixed it up and painted it. He even gave it personalised number-plates ("SG1" white on black). One of the best Christmas presents I ever got. Being poor doesn't mean being unhappy.

Gill, Thank you for this comment. I have to confess that I cannot relate to those ideas of blackouts and rationing. It seems such a strange world. Where did it go? Your comment certainly made me think.

@@Gunnar_Gunnarson I was just 20 months old when the War started so for me as a young child there was nothing else .When the end came in 1945 it was like a different world but that came only gradually. I do remember visiting relatives who lived just outside London( as it then was) and being terrified when civilian planes came over. I suppose I was about 8 then .And sweets( candy) ! In the War years our pocket money went on fizzy lemonade and crisps, neither of these two were rationed ,I suppose the sweet coupons were used by my mother on something else .

I remember a massive firework display at Croydon Airport, but I think this was after VJ Day as my father was there, and he didn’t come back from India till after VE Day. I remember meeting him off a returning troopship in Guernsey where families had gone to meet them as they got back. He was dreadfully thin and haggard

also knocked down homes (instead of renovating them) split up families in different areas, lots and lots of different factors that split the working classes of this country up.

We used to play in the old prefabs in the 60s , always come out dead itchy 🤣😄

William sky. Surely there is need to borrow sugar or anything as we are all better off.

we was younga

I grew up not too far from you off Westway, in the shadow of White City stadium ( where we had our annual school sports!). Mum and dad were both born in Paddington & North Kensington, so our grandparents and most of our aunts, uncles and cousins lived around Portobello Road, Golborne Road, Ladbroke Grove. Of course, as kids in the 1950s, we didn't realise we were poor. In 1960, under a government policy of slum clearance, we were offered a new house and guaranteed jobs for mum & dad, in Swindon, Wiltshire ... 70 miles from home ... the same happened to our cousins and aunts, but they went to 'new towns' in different directions, so the extended family broke up forever. I now live in Australia and carry an Australian passport. I've been back to the UK many times over the years but find no pleasure in it any more ... I'm better off where I am, but like you I still recognise my London from these photos, with fondness.

@@branscombeR we may have passed each other in the street 😀 I went back a few years ago with my brother and sister, I couldn’t believe how the house we lived in, shared with 3 other families had been done up. We took a walk down Portobello Market, but it just wasn’t the same. Hope you have a good life in Australia, you really wouldn’t like what Britain, and most of our major cities have now become. I got out of London 15yrs ago, best move I ever made

Yep Jeff my fav comic was the Valiant 👍

@@jimmydempsey6857 boys world ,beano and my sisters!Bunty!

@@jeffreyhodge5564 👍👍

Think it was 59 Mike

yep me, hope it's a big one.

All the cars I saw was 50's cars, one photo of a 1960's motorbike.

This country WAS NOT DIVERSE EVER

Because of Brexit.

Sorry I clicked before I’d completed my post. Unemployment was very low, the NHS and state pensions had pulled millions out of a miserable olde age; the only drugs were tobacco and alcohol; police were respected and respectful in return; the nation in general was much fitter than today; we were smarter; children got outside and played; and society in general had far more cohesion.

Not G.B any more, more like Pakistan or Africa😄

It wasn't thatcher, it was globalism.

Yea, colour photography was widely available in the ‘50s.

@@george11419 Not so much in the UK. But I was making more of a metaphysical point than a factual one. I remember the early 60s as feeling black & white; then flower power seemed to bring in a lot of colour. The glam rock of the early 70s added a lot of glitter. Then punk came along and we were back to black again, except for the odd bit of red plaid and snot green. The Eighties were dreadful pastels and the Nineties were utilitarian blacks, greys and khakis. The 2000s were kind of like that early cheap 'colour' they did in 1940s movies and with the 2010s we went back to the black and white of austerity with the occasional techie blue. That's just the way I perceived it.

How ! Mass immigration

Repeatedly voting Tory. That's how...

It's called democracy. It's meant to be the best solution for electing leaders.

How did we get here? We got here because Tories gave us Brexit and Tories strangled the NHS to death.

@@countfosco8535 Brainwashed fool.

He was the guy who set the trend for the 1960s. Actually, I think the movie was made in 1959, but released in 1960. But I accept your points.

The people from the 50s are an amazing generation and have FULL respect not like the dozy, thick, and horrible lot we have today.

@magirusdeutzjupiter2234 yes agree 👍

I was born in 1954 and despite sometimes wishing we could turn back time, we really are so much better off today

@@timsharp Is the crime rate lower or higher? Is our standard of living increasing or decreasing? Crime is massive rising and living standards are getting lower each year. Mass immigration has ruined Britain all due to ever increasing government and EU corruption. So, no, things are not better today than even when I was born in 1970.

@@pduffy421Living standards have not got lower, our expectations have got higher - who in the 1950's would think for example that a mobile phone contract would be seen as essential? I was going to say something about Brexit, but thought it best not to get into an argument!

This is why I refuse to accept the nonsense about child poverty in this Country, all the time people have a mobile phone and Sky tv, you cannot say your living in poverty!

Derek you obviously did not live in those times if not aware of the grimness.

Glad you like them!

A couple from 60's, but could not see any from the 70's.

@@truxton1000 I think the one at 0:24 could be 70s. Could be late 60s, but looks to me more like early 70s.

The golden age never was the present.

@@stevenashford8029That is very profound and memorable. I shall remember that.

I know. I found out too late. One or two images are a bit out of period.

Just being cheeky. Not much difference between 1959 and 1961. Your photos are good moody shots. Would look at more.