Lovely story

I have worked a lot in Teddington over the years, it's still a nice place

Are you still alive?

@Ian McNally I'm afraid it is way too late. The damage is so bad it is totally irreversible now. The blame lies with Blair.

rbsv85650 - 😊 lovely!

Ok

ambertjeblue Would love to listen to your memories of soho

I envy you, I only arrived in London in 1984.

@@claudiojunior9618 Welcome! I moved from the heart of "my" London on the 9th May 1983 to the very edge just 10 miles away and I miss her EVERY day, 39 years later, my friend though I am very near and yet so far :)

Stock pot finally went

and without looking to or fiddling with their mobiles

RichJW ha, was it you? I’d always thought it might have been Mary Miller, who died recently.

me too

Angela Reading Tell us more. Love old Compton st

Lovely! 🙂

Sounds like you had a really good time, old lady.

No , not that Wendy Richard. Wendy Richard who used to go to Wykeham Primary School @ Neasden and lived in Ashcombe Park,Neasden near The Tescos...

I am not that old but miss the days when there was no rubbish on the street, my neighbours neatly disposed of it.

Including Iron Foot Jack, whose trousers are quite filthy down the front

@TheBrabon1 That is not the issue.

Good points and I have seen your comments elsewhere but did ANYONE ,seriously, think we would not all choose to live and socialise, preferably, among the people that share the same look,culture and in some cases,Religion, as us. At School,College or Work you have no alternative but it's blatantly obvious that when walking down any High Street in London that Asians will be with Asians,Black people with other Black people,Jewish people with other Jews and Chinese with their own...

Need to bring in a LOT more Africans, that will help things. Diversity is your strength. Didn't you get the memo?

That could be him. There's a great clip somewhere on YT of him playing with Gene Vincent in Italy 1960, nailing Cliff Gallup's original solos.

The biggest critics of the 1950s and 60s are the people WHO DID NOT LIVE AT THE TIME. For most of the rest of us, we remember the time fondly

l love being born in 2004 and a 21st century citezen

Yes, back then it was all black and white.

Big deal.

@@stephanblack4558 That's what all benefit scroungers say.

Lyons was first business to use a computer in the 1950s.

Tea? Did you say tea? ;-)

nowhere somewhere really

William Taylor lol, why not make today and tomorrow and the day after that, good times? ~ you don’t have to live in the past or rely on certain conditions to enjoy life/have good times, in fact, you don’t need much at all really, it’s all in the mind ☺️

@@autumn5852 No, it is getting downhill.

Sally Angelworks I know what you mean Sally, things have changed and I definitely miss the way things were and I have had to have a word with myself a couple of times, because it’s ok to miss the good things from our past now and again but living in the past, in the present, doesn’t bring anybody any joy. I’m autistic so change is a huge huge deal to me, but I know that things do change and if I don’t accept that, I’ll never be happy and that’s an even bigger shame than any change that could take place 😢 none of us should be unhappy long term and nothing outside of us can make us happy, so yeah, things outside of us, that we have little control over, do change but we control the inside and if we were happy ‘back then’ we can be just as happy now and we can create new good old days for tomorrow, to look back on 😆 that’s a lot of today’s, tomorrow’s and yesterday’s but I’m sure you get what I’m saying ☺️ wishing you a lovey evening wherever you are 💕

Neikka That’s a great attitude to have.

Mark Phillips thanks Mark, I certainly have to work on it at times ~ sometimes I can just give myself a little shake, so to speak, and at other times I have to really work on it but I’ve got some really great tried and tested tools that I use, to keep me on the straight and narrow, so to speak, and I’m learning to be kinder to myself and accept that we all fall off the wagon now and again (😄 I’m doing great with the sayings today 😆) and this way I’m learning to be kinder and less fearful of others and the world ☺️. Have a great day 💕

Gone..to the dogs

The British gave their country away a long time ago.

@@daveholt2962 Yeah, yeah, should we start with the countries you took away ?? You only see one way!

@Cockney Nutjob Where native Australians, Americans, New Zelanders asked??? At least you have white Prime Ministers and white people on top of every institution, not the case of the aboriginals you almost exterminated and stole. You such as fake.

Andrea Gould That,s another reason for liking this Country all those years ago." For one " there was at least much more respect and discipline as well as consideration for your fellow human being. Much of modern life is built on selfishness and obsessions with bloody smart phones.

robert harding Technology is fine with me, but when you cannot walk anywhere with out people talking on their smart phones asking their friends what they are having for their tea some even riding their bikes (some on the pavement) while texting ! that,s when technology is being overused and the human race have lost the plot completely.Can we not have normal life back ? even if its pre -mobile bloody phone days.

+robert harding i agree

+Andrea Gould I know ! they arrived in the 60's, lol.

Probably waiting for the sixties baby boom!

You should’ve gone to the Pub for a stiff drink instead,

Maybe thats why they only had a skeleton staff!

Amoriah that's what people said in the 50s too. The world is constantly changing, and never standing still. And that's an exciting thing!

me too, left 19 years ago for malta

@@Fitzroyfallz Depends whether or not the changes are engineered or organic. And more importantly, whether or not they are improvements for the existing local inhabitants.

These powerful money monopolies want customers to make even more profits and are not bothered where they get them from and how it affects Joe public and their quality of life

@ , you're too right!

What did you type this on

In what sense is that 'literally' true?

Nick Gilbert We have been lied to by the Politicians.WE were conned when we changes over to decimal currency from pounds shillings and pence-we have been systematically fleeced over the decades by both Labour and Tory led governments. Our industries have been decimated - especially our fishing industry which was completely sold down the river by the agricultural and fisheries policies . We have been led into war on a blatant lie by corrupt leaders, l could go on but that should suffice.would you not say that was true ?

Literally.I think you need a dictionary

robert harding No.You don't know the meaning of literally

Martames 74 Well to be quite honest ! l need a few things, and an Oxford dictionary would come in handy.

Spotted the racist...

Couldn’t agree more Snowy, but I see the usual stale and ignorant expected comments coming out of the woodwork.

Alice Rabbit I’m anti no-one, which is kinda the point

@@dozz87 If you call a person "racist" for simply wanting England to be full of English people then you are anti-white. You wouldn't call me racist for wanting Nigera to be full of Nigerians or China to be overwhelmingly ethnically Chinese. So why do you attack white people for wanting to remain a majority in their own homelands? Because.. you are anti-white.

​@@mythinktube dozz87 is obviously not anti-white. How did you get your head so twisted up that you thought that? Dear me. Life is not that long - don't waste it being hateful.

Mellow Birds?

You can still get frothy coffee. Try ordering a cappuccino! :-)

@@xelakram A cappuccino is frothy but different.

@@jamara3330 What kind of frothy coffee are you talking about, then? Nescafé made with frothy hot milk? 😉 If so, I can assure you that a cappuccino is far better. 😉

no, the vast majority, the working class, were the same fucking pigs they are today.

70 years ago

Matty Jones what so the native population are not allowed to live by themselves?

sanjay j ahh no

People* were* civilised 50 years* ago....

They ate a lot less, were more active and much more happy.

They ate real food 🍱

It reminds me of the Lygon Street, Acland Street and Brunswick Street cafe scene in the 80s

wonder if the number of fatty's is proportional to the number of cars on the road, takeaways in the area or parents , car running their kids to school?

Coffee and jiving

@Compliment Thief fatties didn't really start appearing literally everywhere until the 90s, when the fast food explosion really happened

@Compliment Thief why you such a prick towards people?

@@version736ha2 can confirm, I was one of 3 'big' kids in the entire school, in the mid 80s ... picked on to no end for being different ... I visit a school today , and my god, the vast majority have similar or more mass as my old self.

crapple009 haha I noticed that too ~ that was back in the day when you could enjoy your smoke with a coffee instead of being outed to stand outside, although in many countries you can still enjoy your coffee with a smoke 💨 I always feels it’s such a shame I gave up smoking when I go to those places 😂

@@autumn5852 Smoking bans ruined it.

Sally Angelworks tell me about it 😫 to be fair though, I do feel better for not smoking though, I just need to find another nifty weight loss technique ~ smoking was great for that 😆

Yes please That'll be a tuppance hapenny

Thats what I thought. High on caffeine and nicotine.

Idiot! Smoke has NEVER been healthy! My grandfather died a long and slow painful death due to lung cancer! Does THAT sound "Healthy" ??? Smoking Ban = Common Sense!

@@marcse7en Chill out, girl! He´s just joking.

Ph MWU haha like you’re doing now 😂😂😂 I know I’m doing it, tapping away at a screen but I also go out and be well mannered and interact with people when I go to coffee shops, which I do most days - ain’t nobody sitting around looking at screens when I’m around, unless I’m not in a chatty mood of course ☺️

@@autumn5852 A senior checking the internet twice a week in the Library, I never owned a smart phone and am far from today's youth with smart phones using more electricity per year than a large fridge !!!

Ph MWU you’ve got the right idea ~ I think I might follow your example ~ I’ve been glued to my phone for a while now and I don’t like it. I don’t use it when I’m out but it’s getting too much when I’m at home. It’s been helpful while I’ve been unwell, but now I’m getting back on my feet I think it might have to go ~ it’s too easy to pick it up and check KZfaq etc. I very much like the idea of having to go to the library to access the internet. This could be a plan and I love libraries, it’s one of my favourite places to go to anyway and before I got the internet back on at home, I was going there to use their computers/access the internet, maybe I’ll go back to doing that when my internet contract comes to an end 👍🏽👌🏽✌🏼it sounds much more peaceful and I would very much like not having to pay so many bills! 🌟

StealthyMonk a cigarette with your coffee was definitely enjoyable mind but I’m also glad they don’t allow it now either ~ now that I’ve finally stopped 😆

They lend...You borrow.

Mr Meathead They have all been replaced by Muslim halal fried chicken shops, betting shops and charity shops.

Heli-Crew HGS As an ardent admirer of Pie and Mash living in South London, I have to agree. I don’t have anything against the chicken shops being halal, but not only are they incredibly unhealthy, virtually all of them are just so incredibly generic/characterless. The handful Pie and Mash shops that survive (most over a century old), on the other hand, Cooke’s, Arment’s, Manze’s...Each of them tastes distinctive-and unlike fried chicken, they are proper meals. Losing any of them, then, is losing an intricate part of London’s existence as a whole. We’ve lost so many such places along the way, and that’s part of the reason why a lot of people don’t feel they belong to this town anymore, I guess.

Never mind pies. Fish and chips are difficult to get and I do not even have a Chinese takeaway anywhere near me.

To the wall i suspect.

manzes tower bridge

What happened, sweetie?

@@SKY-jv9ue Forced mass immigration happened. London is no longer British.

Ikr..:(

I think it’s a tragedy what’s happened to London, I watch with mixed emotions at these films. I’m from Glasgow and we are going the exact same way.

@@SKY-jv9ue You must be a real thick leftie to ask such a stupid question.

£6 wasn't a bad wage in the late fifties or early sixties. My first week's pay in September 1969 was £5. The boss paid me from the petty-cash box!

Still amazes me that people don't understand inflation

@@Idontcommentonvideos that still sounds ludicrously low, the minimum wage in the us was somewhere between .75 in 1950 and 1.25 in 1963.

Yes, £6 a week was alright, wworking in a shop. I did the sales at Austin Reeds in Regent Street and took home £10 a week - though if you were living in Kensington or Knightsbridge your rent for a crummy basement room would take half that. There were very few 'incidental' expenses like parking meters and buses were very cheap.

@@MrJstorm4 That was the hourly wage yes? So £10 a 5 day week = 5 shillings an hour..... I don't know what the exchange rate was then (1958

Waterloo - now thats a movie ! I bet it was awesome on the big screen.

chanctonbury63 I agree, this is a great film for a bit of nostalgia, but there are many things about our modern day lives that we do not take unto account. Unless they inherited wealth most of the younger people in these films would be going home to live with their parents, especially the girls. Others will be living in bedsits with shared bathrooms and sometimes the toilets were outside and even the most luxurious would probably not meet standards viewed as acceptable today. Most of the food was very bland and whilst the quality of tea being served was excellent, most of us had yet to taste a decent cup of coffee.

@@alphonsozorro7952 That's how North America became white.

Jesus, you must be 110.

@@claudiojunior9618 I was in my 30s in the 90s, and who is Jesus? I don't know anyone with that name

We could crowdfund it.

We have local coffee houses not Starbucks and they are full of middle class toffs... Boring! Unfortunately this is the past never to be seen again

That is why we visit the restaurants in a couple of local garden centres. Also Manchester, Bolton, Altrincham and Warrington have many independent cafes. We patronize the Morrisons' eatery nearby sometimes too. My Mum reminisces fondly about milk bars. I don't know quite what teenagers would make of them - might be a positive reaction if there was the internet and music. There are few places young people can congregate now.

It's not hard to open a cafe, there just needs to be a point of difference, it's a huge market

@@helcat316 "Middle class toffs". Toffs have obviously gone down in the world, I thought toffs were upper class.

bbcisrubbish I

Did they also serve food there as I'm Hank Marvin right now...

Too many people living in the past, wearing rose tinted shades.

Eastern Europe will remain white.

Alphonso Zorro Londoners would of thought that 50 years ago, even 30, theres already migration in eastern europe

Why are you bothered about our English city, with your obvious foreign name?

@pierre pouget I can see. I actually was referring to the original commenter, who's name is very Italian. He's got a cheek to comment on being English.

@Alice Rabbit and how are you going to do that exactly? Don't tell me, with hate and violence. What a lovely person you must be. This earth that we inhabit...does not belong to any of us. We're all people. Have some love in your heart. Try it, you may surprise yourself. Balance is key. I find extremists on tge right and the left very worrying.

@Alice Rabbit Oh dear. So you're gonna ask anyone who's not English to politely leave? Lol All the Brits living abroad with homes they've paid for etc, if they were asked to politely leave...you think they should too? They're using that countries facilities, hospitals, jobs. Most are not liked by Europeans as they're always getting drunk and smashing up peoples bars too. You would be ok with Spanish people or Greek people, French...saying...can you leave please?

@Alice Rabbit Just because I like everyone to be treated equal and have rights, does not make me anti white. I am white ffs. Let's just all get along.