This early footage of London is fascinating

Cheers d2

I enjoyed that, driver2, thanks.

Someone took an awful lot of trouble putting that together.

Good stuff. Makes you proud to be British seeing all those old buildings and statues.

Yes, London's a great City.

was

Platini= CORRECT

Ch 81 freebies, talking pictures, shows a lot of short British public information films in between films. One was really unusual. Covent garden market? In the early fifties. It covered the cafes. The faces were  old craggy characters. Working class people buying flowers to ship across the country. Trucks dangerously overloaded. Safety concerns were nonexistent . Brilliant short film . I have a feeling the director became famous. The cafe scenes were good. Sausages and people showing up with their own cups.

By far the greatest city in the world.

Gets my vote also.
1.London
2.Munich
3.Hamburg
3.Prague

I love Paris, particularly Montmartre by night, Chicago for the food and San Francisco for the little cable car that goes halfway to the stars!

sadly much of the City was destroyed during the Blitz but a lot of it would probably have been demolished anyway for development - it would have been wonderful to see it pre-1940

Some good stuff on YouTube there piture montages of various years brilliant

Some fantastic footage yesterday of Mass asttacks and slashers

Anniversary yesterday of the first doodlebug... Landed in Grove road east London.. smashed my nans windows.

1944.. was a good shot, landed on railway bridge..

The guy that worked on the  pulse jet engine Walter Kaaden refused to join Von Brown at NASA instead opting to stay in the impoverished East Germany he developed the 2 stroke expansion chamber thats based on pulse jet technology

The pulse jet is what powered the doodlebug

I dnot believe it. It's on now,vtalking pictures. Everyday except Christmas, 1957, Covent gArden.

I remember some old footage from a uk train station shown on talking pictures. A fine old lady working the kiosk made an announcement over the public address system, then got back to some real work, her knitting, just superb that.

some good pics from the 70s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLGDF8_p7Uw