London 1967

It's a micro society within London from the 60s  ..probably well to do ,day off money to spend ,some hired for the cameras  .
 

'normal' people from that era are generally as miserable as you'll get ,even more so than now in fact  ..they just needed to take the cameras  a mile down the road .

Here is another from the 60s this time its a group of people that had a bad rep often seen as hooligans, have look at the young girl then compare her to a 15 year old of today.

https://youtu.be/iw2xKhH53aM

there is a full length  video of this clip  by the way and also  a very similar one from 1976 .a fun  watch 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP6hCx5_pYs

Thinking back to the 70s people were a lot more self assured than the 80s after the guts had been riped out of the country.
In the last 40 to 50 years Britain has been brutalized on all fronts. Loss of industry loss of national pride loss of our own self worth huge changes in the demographic of the country.

people are used to the era they live in ,a 15 year old today wouldn't know any different

True coach, I remember my parents telling me how good it was in the 50s,70s for me the world has changed

Very true but for someone who would have been seen as trouble by today's standards she comes across very well.

'76 My favourite year as a teenager

bit hot

global warming gang do their fruit

77.. THE SUMMER OF PUNK

lots of showers

Here is the Bull Ring Birmingham from the late 80s

https://youtu.be/ziIUHvfI-9U

Another one from Coventry and Brum from 73 I came across this while reserching BSA

https://youtu.be/AzZmba-DQy8

If I only knew then what I know now

I ll never forget going to London in the 60s with the apprentices from work to see hair at the shaftsbury theatre .I remember the colour of all the people's clothing more than anything else .there was colour and amazing looking people everywhere

Still is Do wah, although not quite as you remember it

Just had another look at that riveting film of London in the Summer of 1967.

Wonderful to see so many beautiful young women walking through London’s streets so confidently, in skirts ending several inches above the knee. All at perfect ease with themselves. Never for a moment would they have to endure hostile scrutiny from the squalid Sharia Patrols that their grand-daughters would routinely face less than 50 years later.

Stylishly dressed young men and women that actually looked like young men and young women. Never for a moment being put under pressure to be anything other than young men and young women. Never entertaining for one moment the ludicrous notion that there might be more than two genders.

Aspiration and healthy complexions appear to be everywhere, and mercifully the traffic appears to be elsewhere.

At 2:41 we see the Lord John Boutique, and the psychedelic mural above it. For those of you who may not know, that mural was a great (ahem) ‘influence’ on the design of the mural that eventually graced the catastrophic Beatles ‘Apple’ Boutique which opened later in 1967.  Did any Chit Chatter ever visit that fabled Beatles endeavour, or even ‘Bibi’ ? Sadly I missed them both by a few years.

At around 6:00 we see some street traders making plentiful use of the Union Jack on their stall. Later self-imagined ‘progressive’ generations would view this as dangerously anachronistic, pretending it was both offensive and of course 'WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYCIST".

Swinging London at its very apex?  Certainly the influence of The Beatles and ‘Sgt Pepper’ can be witnessed regularly throughout this little gem of a film.

pp alun

I'm fairly sure if they had HD cameras at the time there would be a bit of visible acne.

Nice copy and paste Kenny !

It even includes my original typo, as the shop was of course called 'Bibi'

Did any of you lot ever visit the Beatles 'Apple Boutique' or 'Biba' ?

Yeah, was full of multicultural sh!t and pipe smokers.

Not quite sure who posted the post above Kenny man or Alun but it's a great post

kenny mann • June 20, 2019 6:53 PM BST
Just had another look at that riveting film of London in the Summer of 1967.

Wonderful to see so many beautiful young women walking through London’s streets so confidently, in skirts ending several inches above the knee. All at perfect ease with themselves. Never for a moment would they have to endure hostile scrutiny from the squalid Sharia Patrols that their grand-daughters would routinely face less than 50 years later.

Stylishly dressed young men and women that actually looked like young men and young women. Never for a moment being put under pressure to be anything other than young men and young women. Never entertaining for one moment the ludicrous notion that there might be more than two genders.

Aspiration and healthy complexions appear to be everywhere, and mercifully the traffic appears to be elsewhere.

At 2:41 we see the Lord John Boutique, and the psychedelic mural above it. For those of you who may not know, that mural was a great (ahem) ‘influence’ on the design of the mural that eventually graced the catastrophic Beatles ‘Apple’ Boutique which opened later in 1967.  Did any Chit Chatter ever visit that fabled Beatles endeavour, or even ‘Bibi’ ? Sadly I missed them both by a few years.

At around 6:00 we see some street traders making plentiful use of the Union Jack on their stall. Later self-imagined ‘progressive’ generations would view this as dangerously anachronistic, pretending it was both offensive and of course 'WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYCIST".

Swinging London at its very apex?  Certainly the influence of The Beatles and ‘Sgt Pepper’ can be witnessed regularly throughout this little gem of a film.

ign him up, spot on.

It is alun's post on an identical thread I started over a year ago, that's why I put pp alun. I can't write like that, wish I could.

Does he do poetry?

I believe he's had a few books published.

Links?

I did have some somewhere but it's years ago. No idea where to look.

alun

best poster on her by proverbial Country Mile

some might be taxis, although i agree :-)

TGM to clarify

Glimmer n out

am I too late ?

yes yes yes, there' about 22 lol

i've only had 4.

Yes it was a much happier time then.

Nowadays everything has to be competitive. We suffer from this

I'm fairly sure if they had HD cameras at the time there would be a bit of visible acne. mouse

yes I had it, but I got rid of it after two years. I scrubbed it to death.

We have better gadgets than we had then and the internet now....but it was a wonderful time, I remember it

Backing losers was not any easier then than now...betting offices had been legalised.


We were allowed to be men, women were women, we threw it away.

seed girl did u canny

lol, stupid tart is bringing all the old threads back. 

People do look relaxed in that vid.
Like night and day when comparing with 2019.

were you 18 back then aka?

Yes. Fantastic time to have been a teenager.
I think our generation was lucky and got the best ever deal in that respect.

… and we confined diversity to Afghan coats and Cuban heels.

Made me laugh the bloke near the end of the video with the "Bunk up badge" on his neck. Every teenager used to be getting them in the sixties and very early seventies.

Why we let girls such on our necks is beyond me but we all did and did the same to them.

I liked it when girls wore skirts and pritty dresses instead of trousers
They looked like girls

This is why children today don't know what they are with men marrying men .women marrying women but dressed like men .

I'm not bothered what they say .lots of girls can't get a man and don't want to be on their own so they say their lesbians .then there's those men and women who do it because they want to rebel and lots like the sex better

Let them do what they want .BUT IT SHOULD NOT BE PROMOTED AS THE NORM AND SHOVED IN THE CHILDRENS FACES

THEIR WAS A MINUTE NUMBER IN MY DAY .AND DONT SAY THEY WERE ALL TOO SCARED. TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET .ITS THOSE IN POWER WHO WANTED IT TO BE THE NORM SO THEY COULD CARRY OUT THEIR PERVERTED SEX

A MALES SPERM GOES LOOKING FOR THE FEMALE SPERM WHEN RELEASED AND IT GOES INTO A FEMALE TO PRODUCE CHILDREN

IT WONT FIND WHAT IT LOOKING FOR IN A MALES BOTTOM

LIFE IS ABOUT REPRODUCTION NOT PERVERTED SEX

I liked it when girls wore skirts and pritty dresses instead of trousers
They looked like girls

This is why children today don't know what they are with men marrying men .women marrying women but dressed like men .

I'm not bothered what they say .lots of girls can't get a man and don't want to be on their own so they say their lesbians .then there's those men and women who do it because they want to rebel and lots like the sex better

Let them do what they want .BUT IT SHOULD NOT BE PROMOTED AS THE NORM AND SHOVED IN THE CHILDRENS FACES

THEIR WAS A MINUTE NUMBER IN MY DAY .AND DONT SAY THEY WERE ALL TOO SCARED. TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET .ITS THOSE IN POWER WHO WANTED IT TO BE THE NORM SO THEY COULD CARRY OUT THEIR PERVERTED SEX

A MALES SPERM GOES LOOKING FOR THE FEMALE SPERM WHEN RELEASED AND IT GOES INTO A FEMALE TO PRODUCE CHILDREN

IT WONT FIND WHAT IT LOOKING FOR IN A MALES BOTTOM

LIFE IS ABOUT REPRODUCTION NOT PERVERTED SEX

There are people who are genuinely gay or lesbian and they should not be put in jail or mental homesxthey should not be persecuted .but it should not be promoted  and be seen as SO CALLED NORMAL

Go and see the gay parade in Manchester it's like something from a Roman orgy

Ps I still like the m p who used to do the train journeys on t v and many more gays .but they should not promote what they get up to

This is why I never wanted to get famous .because I would be all over the front pages of the media for telling what i really think .your not allowed to say what you really think and I liked Mary Whitehouse she was trying to secure family values

So Ho used to be a place for degenerates .i know because I've been to see what was going on .I don't know what it's like today

alun2005 20 Jun 19 21:09 Joined: 11 Jan 02 | Topic/replies: 36,137 | Blogger: alun2005's blog
Nice copy and paste Kenny !

It even includes my original typo, as the shop was of course called 'Bibi'

Did any of you lot ever visit the Beatles 'Apple Boutique' or 'Biba' ?

I spotted that alun as passed it in 69 but didn't go in.

Spin forward from London in the Summer of 1967 to the same city in 2019,  just 52 brief years later.

Watch a street scene below from today’s London. A street scene which is far more commonplace than is generally reported.  I’m fairly certain this type of affray didn’t happen when 1967 delivery drivers brought round the milk, bread and/or fruit&veg.

Yes folks, this is indeed Progressive London you are looking at, where Diversity Is Our Strength, although you might be forgiven for thinking you are watching a scene from 1970s Soweto.

A London that would be unrecognisable to the young people of 1967. 

That 1967 generation are now grandparents, and they look on helpless with frustration and dismay at a London that has been “Culturally Enriched”  despite none of that ’67 generation (or their children’s generation) requesting any of this. 

Some of the 1967 generation may be able to escape this hell, but for their safety and sanity they almost certainly have had to leave THEIR former home town to do it. No safe homeland for them.

And doubtless called “WAAAAAAAYYYYCISTS” for having done so.

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https://twitter.com/LondonStreets3/status/1140711455714680833

Post one of your poems.

Post one of your poems.

I don't normally operate in that complex oeuvre, but here goes :


I bet Sheik Mo wishes he hadn't spent 9.7 million bucks on the racehorse JALIL,
Spending that sort of dosh would surely make any man fell ill
Especially when the horse turned out to be of a dil.


THE END

I know, "Author, Author".

Short but sweet, thanks.

Meanwhile, a look at how Young Vibrant Diverse Progressive London goes shopping in 2019.

I don't imagine this is quite  how Derry and Toms customers conducted themselves in 1967.

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https://twitter.com/LondonStreets3/status/1141314522730381312

In London 1967, the 'acid' that was rarely out of the news was Lysergic (LSD).

In 2019 the acid is an entirely different kettle of fish. Here we see an acid attack and the aftermath. The attack happens in broad daylight, since the perpetrators have no fear of being brought to anything resembling justice.

Please don't have nightmares about this. You should expect it though as the Mayor of London himself loftily informed us that it is 'part and parcel' of living in a city.

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https://twitter.com/MotorcycleTheft/status/1142401934139301888

The baby boomers had the best out of this country.
They're leaving the country in a much worse state than they found it.

Which is very strange, considering that's how socialism works as well.

Jun 21, 2019 -- 12:56PM, alun2005 wrote:

Spin forward from London in the Summer of 1967 to the same city in 2019,  just 52 brief years later. Watch a street scene below from today’s London. A street scene which is far more commonplace than is generally reported.  I’m fairly certain this type of affray didn’t happen when 1967 delivery drivers brought round the milk, bread and/or fruit&veg. Yes folks, this is indeed Progressive London you are looking at, where Diversity Is Our Strength, although you might be forgiven for thinking you are watching a scene from 1970s Soweto. A London that would be unrecognisable to the young people of 1967.  That 1967 generation are now grandparents, and they look on helpless with frustration and dismay at a London that has been “Culturally Enriched”  despite none of that ’67 generation (or their children’s generation) requesting any of this.  Some of the 1967 generation may be able to escape this hell, but for their safety and sanity they almost certainly have had to leave THEIR former home town to do it. No safe homeland for them. And doubtless called “WAAAAAAAYYYYCISTS” for having done so. .https://twitter.com/LondonStreets3/status/1140711455714680833

so  lets compare a very wealthy part of London with wealthy shoppers ,or sons and daughters of wealthy shoppers in a promo video  having  a sunny saturday  walking around the west end in 67 .

...then go to 2019  ,one of the poorest areas of London and watch some trouble or voilence erupt  ...    what about if they went to the east end in 1967 and found a load of gangster types ,  then compared the west end with   2019 watching a few billionaires sip on their  latte's  or women with their designer bags  staring/tapping  into their i phones  ?   

I think the different worlds you people speak of isn't 52 years apart ,it's like 5 miles apart   ...

The other film I posted was the better film back then bikers were seen as public enemy no1