Before Starbucks and Caffe Nero and all that cafeterias looking all the same, young Londoners of late 50's and early 60's met in places like these. Not swingin yet.
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@rbsv8565010 жыл бұрын
I was in the USAF and stationed at Bushy Park RAF Station in Teddington Middlesex from 1955 to 1960. We would go to the West End several times a week. Some of our favorites were Sabrina Bar, Heaven & Hell ‘The Macabre’ and a few others I can’t remember. I married my English Bride in 1959 and we are still hanging in there. Great time and great memories.
@jasonantigua68255 жыл бұрын
Lovely story
@version736ha24 жыл бұрын
I have worked a lot in Teddington over the years, it's still a nice place
@michaelairley20154 жыл бұрын
Are you still alive?
@johnalex70784 жыл бұрын
@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.
@CBJAMPA4 жыл бұрын
rbsv85650 - 😊 lovely!
@peterrichardson81154 жыл бұрын
I was born and bred in London lived there until 60s, now live out in the country, and if I never saw London again it would be too soon hate the place or rather hate what it has become.
@unknownfrvr67674 жыл бұрын
Ok
@Koganman12316 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. We have lost something somewhere. Thank heavens for films like this being posted on U tube. My father owned a transport cafe in the 1960s, not quite the same thing - but similar. The thing thats not obvious is just how few places there were to eat out back then
@ambertjeblue12 жыл бұрын
No it's definitely real. I was there, 1961 til 1970. Recognise so mush that is now gone. Lovely to see, even if only a few fleeting images. Of what I saw, La Roca was on the West side of Soho square. The white haired man doing star charts was Ernest, and he always sat in the As you like it. Coffeebar in later years of the 60's. I lived above the 2 II's for a while. Aaah memories.
@dinocarlucci21056 жыл бұрын
ambertjeblue Would love to listen to your memories of soho
@claudiojunior96183 жыл бұрын
I envy you, I only arrived in London in 1984.
@Isleofskye3 жыл бұрын
@@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 :)
@ifn_media3 жыл бұрын
Stock pot finally went
@davidsmith66613 жыл бұрын
This shows that people were able in those days to have a good time, enjoy themselves with friends without the need to get drunk and collapse in an intoxicated stupor in the gutter, rolling around in a puddle of vomit. How times have changed.
@zen12813 ай бұрын
and without looking to or fiddling with their mobiles
@Dustydreams93013 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful little film. I love the dark haired actress earning £6 a week to keep "the wolf from my door." Bless her. I hope she got her break and had a very happy life.
@Dustydreams9304 жыл бұрын
RichJW ha, was it you? I’d always thought it might have been Mary Miller, who died recently.
@angelareading266910 жыл бұрын
Great nostalgia here for me, a crowd of us girls used to go to 'The Macabre' and my friend Wendy Richard RIP always played 'Only the Lonely' on the juke box. Those were the days. I had a dance or two at 'The Two Eyes' as well.
@lini20010 жыл бұрын
me too
@dinocarlucci21056 жыл бұрын
Angela Reading Tell us more. Love old Compton st
@martm2165 жыл бұрын
Lovely! 🙂
@vikramadoddamani4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you had a really good time, old lady.
@Isleofskye4 жыл бұрын
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...
@alisonlee33145 жыл бұрын
I'm 53.... Just missed all this. What has London become 😢
@lilac2haze6 жыл бұрын
I came to London 1960 and loved every minute of that time , I was working in the theatre and I am very grateful that my youth was spent in that era .Now it is not a nice place ,filthy streets and even filthier people .
@jamara33305 жыл бұрын
I am not that old but miss the days when there was no rubbish on the street, my neighbours neatly disposed of it.
@misst.e.a.1875 жыл бұрын
Including Iron Foot Jack, whose trousers are quite filthy down the front
@jamara33304 жыл бұрын
@TheBrabon1 That is not the issue.
@Isleofskye4 жыл бұрын
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...
@sonnydelight57374 жыл бұрын
Need to bring in a LOT more Africans, that will help things. Diversity is your strength. Didn't you get the memo?
@djangorheinhardt5 жыл бұрын
The guy on guitar at about 3.18,is Joe Moretti(I think).He was a session guitarist in England during the 60,s and a bit later.He played the searing lead guitar on "Shakin all over" by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates.He later emigrated to South Africa,became a leading session player there and died in 2003.You can tell by the little clip of his playing he had great "chops" and graced many records with his stunning playing.
@voiskumbeaver32855 жыл бұрын
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.
@Marzyart4 жыл бұрын
Everyone is dressed very nicely
@CarolCreates4 жыл бұрын
Love the accents. Don’t hear them anymore.
@PindarMOD3 жыл бұрын
I was born in the wrong time. The 50s & 60s look far more interesting than now.
@EricLehner Жыл бұрын
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
@thekurdishgirl6538 Жыл бұрын
l love being born in 2004 and a 21st century citezen
@farouqomaro5985 жыл бұрын
I remember my wife and I having a full English breakfast in London back in 2000. That was unforgetful. Really good breakfast.
@chrishulse53056 жыл бұрын
It's great to see this period of time in colour.
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, back then it was all black and white.
@brummytoo9 жыл бұрын
I used to work in Lyons Teashop in London
@stephanblack45584 жыл бұрын
Big deal.
@daveholt29624 жыл бұрын
@@stephanblack4558 That's what all benefit scroungers say.
@user-ky6vw5up9m4 жыл бұрын
Lyons was first business to use a computer in the 1950s.
@debbiegainesart4 жыл бұрын
Tea? Did you say tea? ;-)
@MohammedAli-zh8kf4 жыл бұрын
nowhere somewhere really
@williamtaylor8745 жыл бұрын
i wish we could turn the clock back to the good times !
@autumn58524 жыл бұрын
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 ☺️
@sallyangelworks90474 жыл бұрын
@@autumn5852 No, it is getting downhill.
@autumn58524 жыл бұрын
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 💕
@agadoin4 жыл бұрын
Neikka That’s a great attitude to have.
@autumn58524 жыл бұрын
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 💕
@pmacc35574 жыл бұрын
Oh London where art thou...
@MariaLopez-hc2nm4 жыл бұрын
Gone..to the dogs
@daveholt29624 жыл бұрын
The British gave their country away a long time ago.
@isaackatz-bronstein87453 жыл бұрын
@@daveholt2962 Yeah, yeah, should we start with the countries you took away ?? You only see one way!
@isaackatz-bronstein87453 жыл бұрын
@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.
@andigold99779 жыл бұрын
No screaming toddlers running around in 1950s cafes!
@robharding19579 жыл бұрын
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.
@robharding19579 жыл бұрын
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.
@ursulasmith64028 жыл бұрын
+robert harding i agree
@robharding19578 жыл бұрын
+Andrea Gould I know ! they arrived in the 60's, lol.
@marklittler7848 жыл бұрын
Probably waiting for the sixties baby boom!
@user-ky6vw5up9m4 жыл бұрын
The London that my parents knew in their twenties.
@staypress16 жыл бұрын
such wonderful innocent times that my parents lived through great music hair and fashion wow now look what I have to live with scummy shit people crap music boom boom etc and absolutely not worth it Please give me a time machine Thanks for posting you made my day
@localdriver13 жыл бұрын
I went to the 'Macabre' coffee bar (the one with the skeletons, and with coffins for tables) one lunch time in 1961 and the place was completely dead. (haha). Nice film.
@securityrobot3 жыл бұрын
You should’ve gone to the Pub for a stiff drink instead,
@cooldaddy2877 Жыл бұрын
Maybe thats why they only had a skeleton staff!
@mrcockney-nutjob38324 жыл бұрын
My mum used to work at the Lyons Corner House in the 50's as a "Nippy". Coventry Street, Marble Arch and the Strand. The Strand Corner House had a late night brasserie and bands would play there. One day my mum was carrying trays of soup and she dropped the lot right in front of The Ivy Benson Trio, but like pro's they carried on playing Ivy just winked at my mum.
@FaerieCrone11 жыл бұрын
You're right. People can hate me all they want to for saying it but it is the sole reason why I left the UK and won't go back. I don't recognise it anymore.
@Fitzroyfallz6 жыл бұрын
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!
@kennyluciano49136 жыл бұрын
me too, left 19 years ago for malta
@VooDooMaGicMan814 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@MARKETMAN67894 жыл бұрын
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
@lettyguerra3714 жыл бұрын
@ , you're too right!
@peterturley13314 жыл бұрын
The World that I loved and cherished. How I hate this World of today.
@jasonburns40718 жыл бұрын
Love the 'shades.' What a wonderful time to be alive!
@Wordman6714 жыл бұрын
I can't believe the look of this newsreel--that fantastic color! This is a beautiful print, the color seems as vibrant as it must have been when this was first shown.
@kenowens90214 жыл бұрын
Wow, no cell phones, no computers, no iPads, just people looking and talking to........each other.
@kaizuko9913 жыл бұрын
What did you type this on
@luckystar92053 жыл бұрын
It’s really interesting people r quite well mannered and well dressed.
@robharding195710 жыл бұрын
when you look at the uk 50 years ago and now you realise we have been sold down the river,,literally.
@planetgilbo9 жыл бұрын
In what sense is that 'literally' true?
@robharding19579 жыл бұрын
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 ?
@ralphaaa809 жыл бұрын
Literally.I think you need a dictionary
@markjames55379 жыл бұрын
robert harding No.You don't know the meaning of literally
@robharding19579 жыл бұрын
Martames 74 Well to be quite honest ! l need a few things, and an Oxford dictionary would come in handy.
@squonkharold92514 жыл бұрын
Still run an old style Coffee Shop (Earls Covent Garden) son of Italians we are hanging in there against the corporate bastards .
@laurallama736 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! That old jukebox is so cool! ❤️😎
@snowyowel79615 жыл бұрын
Wow England full of English people ♥ 😁
@dozz874 жыл бұрын
Spotted the racist...
@Bob-Horse4 жыл бұрын
Couldn’t agree more Snowy, but I see the usual stale and ignorant expected comments coming out of the woodwork.
@dozz874 жыл бұрын
Alice Rabbit I’m anti no-one, which is kinda the point
@mythinktube4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@frithst4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@claudiojunior96183 жыл бұрын
I am welling up tears of joy and nostalgia. I'd give everything I own to go back to those days.
@clemrumley96915 жыл бұрын
OH how i remember the stockpot.. a great little restaurant for a cheap meal
@paulgrinsill77855 жыл бұрын
Its not just London, you can say the same about most towns and cities in the whole country
@misterkefir4 жыл бұрын
THIS. WAS. AWESOME! More, please.
@jamara33305 жыл бұрын
I miss the only type of coffee we used to get served in England, the frothy stuff.
@sunkat764 жыл бұрын
Mellow Birds?
@xelakram4 жыл бұрын
You can still get frothy coffee. Try ordering a cappuccino! :-)
@jamara33303 жыл бұрын
@@xelakram A cappuccino is frothy but different.
@xelakram3 жыл бұрын
@@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. 😉
@nostromoau8 жыл бұрын
Two films….and an episode of 'look at life' with the ads in between…great value for a night out.
@vertxxgg6 жыл бұрын
peopl was civilised 50 yars ago..
@XXXEspio5 жыл бұрын
no, the vast majority, the working class, were the same fucking pigs they are today.
@autosusadoshn65095 жыл бұрын
70 years ago
@historygeek77795 жыл бұрын
Matty Jones what so the native population are not allowed to live by themselves?
@historygeek77794 жыл бұрын
sanjay j ahh no
@handsoffmycactus29584 жыл бұрын
People* were* civilised 50 years* ago....
@user-mv5bu2kk8b4 жыл бұрын
Ah. I so miss the Stockpot!
@radrej4 жыл бұрын
wow no multiculti ....it was a good time for London
@petersmith64585 жыл бұрын
You could drive into soho and park outside the shop. And so many 'familiar' faces.
@martm2165 жыл бұрын
I love these old films.
@johnniescarlett15 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful! More please. The opening music and credits bring back great childhood memories of going to the pictures in the UK - trying to see the screen through a fug of cigarette smoke!! Soho looks great, full of real characters and lovely old classic cars. Isn't the first waitress the actress Rosemary Leach? She later went on to be Ronnie Corbett's Wife in the sitcom "No, That's Me Over Here" in the late sixties.
@zakamoriarty3 жыл бұрын
That's Stephen Fry enjoying a cup at 7.19 there!!
@danielfatticci33784 жыл бұрын
Once upon a time, the Civilization...
@daniellos3334 жыл бұрын
Everyone looks so damn healthy.
@bighands694 жыл бұрын
They ate a lot less, were more active and much more happy.
@vickramgoswami2297 Жыл бұрын
They ate real food 🍱
@AGMundy3 жыл бұрын
Interesting look back at those times. One laughs of course at some of the silly pretensions, such as those wearing sunglasses indoors, no doubt losing their cool when stumbling over the furniture as they get up and leave. The skull ashtray was delightfully ironic.
@annab59614 жыл бұрын
I’m an Aussie.. our coffee is pretty good here .. especially in Melbourne.
@maddyg32083 жыл бұрын
It reminds me of the Lygon Street, Acland Street and Brunswick Street cafe scene in the 80s
@sto598 жыл бұрын
At 5:51 Ernest Britten Page (1913-1966) was a well known character in Soho Cafés of the 50s and 60s.
@knitware8 жыл бұрын
Not a single fatty anywhere!
@marklittler7848 жыл бұрын
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?
@version736ha24 жыл бұрын
Coffee and jiving
@version736ha24 жыл бұрын
@Compliment Thief fatties didn't really start appearing literally everywhere until the 90s, when the fast food explosion really happened
@mclovin87394 жыл бұрын
@Compliment Thief why you such a prick towards people?
@tomservo50074 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@lini20013 жыл бұрын
I LOVED THE CAFES OFF OXFORD STREET AND MET MY FIRST LOVE THERE WHO SANG A SPANISH SONG CABARETERA. WE DANCED AND LOVED EACH OTHER. A WONDERFUL MEMORY WHERE HAS IT GONE.....
@walbrzych99754 жыл бұрын
Oh I do like to keep the wolf from my door
@crapple0095 жыл бұрын
"Would you like some coffee with your cigarettes?"
@autumn58524 жыл бұрын
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 😂
@sallyangelworks90474 жыл бұрын
@@autumn5852 Smoking bans ruined it.
@autumn58524 жыл бұрын
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 😆
@zaydleicester77314 жыл бұрын
Yes please That'll be a tuppance hapenny
@mukhumor4 жыл бұрын
Thats what I thought. High on caffeine and nicotine.
@changoloboperro8 жыл бұрын
when smoke was healty
@marcse7en4 жыл бұрын
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!
@samsontowwers3774 жыл бұрын
@@marcse7en Chill out, girl! He´s just joking.
@patriciamaar98594 жыл бұрын
Those were the days!
@gavinreid53873 жыл бұрын
I think Starbucks should do Rock n Roll dance events.
@Mr.A_LDN4 жыл бұрын
People were more stylish back then
@spiritwalker19888 жыл бұрын
Great London sixties !! I like this vídeo !
@phmwu73684 жыл бұрын
Beautiful well-mannered people with tattoos and actually interacting & talking to each other instead of looking at little disruptive technology screens, Only thing that was worse... smoking !
@autumn58524 жыл бұрын
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 ☺️
@phmwu73684 жыл бұрын
@@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 !!!
@autumn58524 жыл бұрын
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! 🌟
@autumn58524 жыл бұрын
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 😆
@LeaveMyGun12 жыл бұрын
does anyone have a time machine they can borrow?
@jharris9474 жыл бұрын
They lend...You borrow.
@mrmeathead21079 жыл бұрын
Where have all the Pie @ Mash shops gone.
@heli-crewhgs52856 жыл бұрын
Mr Meathead They have all been replaced by Muslim halal fried chicken shops, betting shops and charity shops.
@wasaent5 жыл бұрын
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.
@jamara33305 жыл бұрын
Never mind pies. Fish and chips are difficult to get and I do not even have a Chinese takeaway anywhere near me.
@Funeeman4 жыл бұрын
To the wall i suspect.
@lonsdalebelt96454 жыл бұрын
manzes tower bridge
@janknuckey14 жыл бұрын
Ah yes...happy days! Before this country completely went to shit ...
@SKY-jv9ue4 жыл бұрын
What happened, sweetie?
@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath4 жыл бұрын
@@SKY-jv9ue Forced mass immigration happened. London is no longer British.
@clockworkdave98504 жыл бұрын
Ikr..:(
@WeeShooey4 жыл бұрын
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.
@johnalex70784 жыл бұрын
@@SKY-jv9ue You must be a real thick leftie to ask such a stupid question.
@timcolledge37324 жыл бұрын
Brilliant film!! Love the commentary, background music. Great that so many of these films have survived.
@michaelmcdonnell80177 жыл бұрын
Waitress on £6 a week! You would be lucky to get a cup of coffee for that today!!
@martm2165 жыл бұрын
£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!
@Idontcommentonvideos4 жыл бұрын
Still amazes me that people don't understand inflation
@MrJstorm44 жыл бұрын
@@Idontcommentonvideos that still sounds ludicrously low, the minimum wage in the us was somewhere between .75 in 1950 and 1.25 in 1963.
@timmotion64943 жыл бұрын
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.
@timmotion64943 жыл бұрын
@@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
@chanctonbury6310 жыл бұрын
G`hod I used to hate these things...You go off to the cinema to see Waterloo or Jungle Book or whatever never quite sure whether the start time was for the main event or the preamble, and youd have to sit through 2 or 3 of these telling you about all the bloody obvious things you saw everyday! Its only now that they really come into their own. Now they are a fabulous social history record. Thank God they bothered to make them!
@bumgardenerkreme10447 жыл бұрын
Waterloo - now thats a movie ! I bet it was awesome on the big screen.
@thebennt61306 жыл бұрын
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.
@worldartsuk14 жыл бұрын
what a fantastic look back in time, and we thought the coffee revolution started with Starbucks....
@jeremyhoke81862 ай бұрын
I traveled through Europe two summers in a row with a rail pass. So glad I got to see so many great cities before the world went crazy.
@dromeintersps33594 жыл бұрын
4:33 Rizzo ???of film Grease 1976
@ricadus13 жыл бұрын
Great to see the views of London streets without roadmarkings.
@Cabronosidad5 жыл бұрын
"A square in the wrong hole is just not dug..."
@theprophet2011 жыл бұрын
Most footage from that era is in black and white but the high definition and colour of this make it almost feel like one is actually there!
@MsPeperonata5 жыл бұрын
"They reckoned a cup of coffee costing tuppence to tuppence ha'penny to make could be sold from ninepence to one-and-six." A similar ratio of cost to sale price could probably apply today in the likes of Caffe Nero, if I could be bothered to work it out!
@ljduk75954 жыл бұрын
I love watching these old time vids, reminds me of how wonderful our country was. Well spoken, friendly, free.. And not an Muslim in sight, bring back those sweet days, when England was England,
@bingola454 жыл бұрын
@@alphonsozorro7952 That's how North America became white.
@djangorheinhardt5 жыл бұрын
Further to my post below 're,Joe Moretti,he is playing his Grimshawe guitar which are collectors items today.Joe Brown had one for a while.
@vsatrader5 жыл бұрын
I really regret that the iconic Troubadour coffee house in Earls court was not in this video. Started in the early 50s and still there, I spent the 90s there every day.
@claudiojunior96183 жыл бұрын
Jesus, you must be 110.
@vsatrader3 жыл бұрын
@@claudiojunior9618 I was in my 30s in the 90s, and who is Jesus? I don't know anyone with that name
@flamencoprof3 жыл бұрын
If I recall that theme music at the end correctly, this was one of the "Look At Life" series, which were shown in picture theatres before the main feature, here in NZ when I was a lad in the late 50's/early 60's. Even then at a young age, I could detect and was repelled a bit by the patronising tone. Young people like me reacted against that crap by dropping out and becoming Hippies. So they say.
@user-kg6rw2ty9v4 жыл бұрын
Why not BRING BACK Coffee ☕️ and Tea ☕️ houses. Get rid of the stinking American Starbucks!!! If one person opens it in an area where sadly the good old shops have been shut down ( BHS, by the Greedy Phillip Green).. then others will follow. Don’t forget to include the good old English scones and clotted cream. It’ll be a nice place for the social gathering.. Hopefully they’ll respect each other as well. Good luck in advance for starting it. My prayers are with you 🙏🏼
@adespade1194 жыл бұрын
We could crowdfund it.
@helcat3164 жыл бұрын
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
@dianelunn-parsons73404 жыл бұрын
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.
@maddyg32083 жыл бұрын
It's not hard to open a cafe, there just needs to be a point of difference, it's a huge market
@maddyg32083 жыл бұрын
@@helcat316 "Middle class toffs". Toffs have obviously gone down in the world, I thought toffs were upper class.
@adscri5 жыл бұрын
Had forgotten the ‘Look at Life’ shorts when you went to see a film.
@nickdryad4 жыл бұрын
The Casbah was the coffee bar that got the Beatles started. Yay Coffee! Bach even wrote a coffee cantata and remember the Coffee house in Black Adder Ink and Incapability.
@jonathanj.73444 жыл бұрын
This is the world I was born into and just about remember.
@Isleofskye15 жыл бұрын
Yes but Henry observe the difference in manners and politeness! Thats why the only crime back then was confined to a few gangs ( Krays etc). I guarantee you that your Mum or Granma would not be mugged in the street. People had standards back then!
@ladyfoxwf10756 жыл бұрын
Ugh can we go back and change the transition from then to now. If the present and past worked together; imagine what kind of future we could produce!
@bloomoggi4 жыл бұрын
HOw many of these places still exist in London?
@geoffjoffy4 жыл бұрын
Great days
@dhdavidholloway5 жыл бұрын
No parking meters even in the centre of London. Park wherever you like
@bbcisrubbish11 жыл бұрын
How innocent everybody looks. They were better days then, certainly much safer, the Krays and Jack Spot etc. left the general public alone.
@peterclark84087 жыл бұрын
bbcisrubbish I
@krisb34294 жыл бұрын
Spaghetti bolognese was exotic in the 50s
@robertbrice21084 жыл бұрын
Good to see the 2'I's coffee bar, where The Shadows got their start.
@Isleofskye3 жыл бұрын
Did they also serve food there as I'm Hank Marvin right now...
@bigboxbobby24 жыл бұрын
These lovely films were always ruined to my mind by the stupid commentaries but great to see this footage though. Thanks for posting.
@Artyom12473 жыл бұрын
Too many people living in the past, wearing rose tinted shades.
@historygeek77795 жыл бұрын
So sad seeing what’s happened to london and Europe, the native population gets smaller and smaller, soon europe will be a colder version of Africa
@alphonsozorro79524 жыл бұрын
Eastern Europe will remain white.
@historygeek77794 жыл бұрын
Alphonso Zorro Londoners would of thought that 50 years ago, even 30, theres already migration in eastern europe
@claudiojunior96183 жыл бұрын
I wish I had been around in the 50's. Cafes are pretty boring today with so many space cadets using mobile technology to communicate with the other side. Makes me yawn.
@Gideon014 жыл бұрын
Frith Street, renamed Froth Street.
@CarlOss-vj6cu11 жыл бұрын
Great footage, and super droll. Thanks for the post.
@Rock7411 жыл бұрын
Wow, you are right. This sadly happens to often on KZfaq. Videos seem to get hijacked by people intent on arguments that not only become offensive but also stray far away from their topic.
@JevaisaNY3 жыл бұрын
I wish I could step into this film.
@EdVanMeyer8 жыл бұрын
Coffee in fart arsy cups, magic! Great colour film...
@mrmattcohn12 жыл бұрын
"I was a teenage Dracula...from OUTER SPACE."
@francescobonfiglio91426 жыл бұрын
When London was an english city...RIP
@katg79654 жыл бұрын
Why are you bothered about our English city, with your obvious foreign name?
@katg79654 жыл бұрын
@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.
@katg79654 жыл бұрын
@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.
@katg79654 жыл бұрын
@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?
@katg79654 жыл бұрын
@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.