1957: London W10

[boffinme80]

The 50s,were the first golden time for Britain. I wasn't alive then but my parents were. They would really want to experience the 50s again.

[LokiV]

If you didnt have a bike you made 1..you saw policemen on the beat and wtf they knew you lol..need money?.paper round :P...saturday matinee...whole street got involved with bonfire night great times :)

[boffinme80]

@LokiV You are a retard

[iloveamylotslol]

@1:50 everybody hates Chris :D

[divvy1400yam600]

Though never perfect the UK has been fucked by progressive PC liberalism.

What a disaster.

Once the upper middle classes start to feel threatened something might be done.

Far far far far too late.

The demographics will ensure power is transferred to the current minorities.

Funnily enough I bet at least in his public persona Humph was as Liberal as you come.

[FILMMAKERCHAP]

brilliant video. nice one!

[magiclard]

Ave a faag, play in some cholera infested burst water pipe, diphtheria smog and ricketts!! Them was the days.

[Poopingbotham]

Even in them days, London was full of filthy immigrants, if this clip is anything to go by

[chanctonbury63]

@Poopingbotham Yes it was. Thing is London has always been a city of immigrants. Nothings changed for hundreds of years.

[terryirv]

fartingvicar. No this, no that! I am prompted to say in view of your numerous grammatical errors, that you should have also added "No education".

They must have been happy days, after all they say that "Ignorance is bliss".

Northern snob.

[Rosiejoeangela]

Ooooh Athur, Where's me washboard!

[sammipink1]

these were really happy times so sad they have now vanished

[cheechwizzard101]

slums of notting hill, but there was commuinty and happiness :)

[fartingvicar]

Thank you

Kind regards

[Number1London]

Arthur Sheather,Royal Engineer...Born Ledbury Rd 1920.

Still going strong....Portabella!!.....2 bob a powned misses.

[Teddyb1939]

@Number1London Saturday going down the lane [Portobello Rd] . Totters all the way down,selling the rag bone & lumber.You must remember 1d [penny a lump salt]

4d [fourpence a pint vineegar] with the emphasis on a long e in the middle. ledbury Rd is now really a very upmarket area.

[Teddyb1939]

In the book [the st photographs of Roger Mayne] page 36Manny facing the camera,the lad in front is the kennedy I am thinking of.There is another book,Roger Mayne photographs.The photo`s in the item show,1st Raymond Oliver & Arthur Grinter,the 2nd picture includes Eddie Obrien David Harkins 'Freddie & Frankie Noble& tango Sargeant.My family name is Burton.I will look through my supplements,to see if I have another copy of the photo in question.

[jasonpfinch]

What's the music? Bugger off racists.

[Teddyb1939]

Thanks for the info,yes I know the name pretty well, There is a picture if Johnny Kennedy in the RogerMayne photo`sthat your dad would know of.He is walking through Southam St alongside Manny.There was another Kennedy family in Southam St. No12.Mcdonalds Fox Johnsons Turners & the Thomas`s were other local families.

[bosh1977]

@Teddyb1939

Any chance you could point me in the right direction of this photo?

If you don't mind me asking what is your family name?

[Teddyb1939]

tell me the family name,I may know them, I went to Brunel school in middle row.& lived in southam st

[bosh1977]

@Teddyb1939

Kennedy is my family name. Loads of us from the area. Still a few staying there

[bosh1977]

I recently showed this to my Dad who grew up round the corner from Southam street in Southern Row in the 50's and 60's and he loved it.

I just wish his mother had been alive to show her. It would have brough back some great memories for her and no doubt resulted in her telling some great stories

[rubysson57]

Like some of those old Ealing Films. Breaks your heart.

Cheers.

I really feel for the kids today.

[bosh1977]

@grahampl

My family are from North Ken and none of them would consider themselfs Cockney's

[stevegrips]

all my family lived in southam street and edenham street they were good days then.the bbc done a timewatch film about southam street in 1989 has anybody got a copy of this iv tried for years to find a copy but never did.we lived at 65.

[steve4656]

nice montage, good work!

[Teddyb1939]

I grew up in Southam St, W10,A great place, I can name most of the fellows in the film.Clubs Pubs & the west end & the Yanks on our doorstep.the park at the start in east row is still there as are some of the pubs,although with poncier names,sorry about the language but most suitable.I lived at No 19.

[mr62val]

lotta things change in 54yrs, don't think it's all been pos. things have got confusing,i live in OZ now, life can be as simple as you want it to be,

[TheWhitehall]

Bomb sites..kids playing traditional games.....and hardly any jigger boos! Lets turn back the clock.

[MrCFCarePOO]

@TheWhitehall  racist twat

[TheWhitehall]

@MrCFCarePOO What, in my observations of the film and comment is open to question?

[aeronuk1]

@grahampl I thought cockneys were only from the east end of London?

[Teddyb1939]

@aeronuk1 You are correct in your assumption.Anyone born within the sound of Bow bells [so the story goes] is considered a cockney. Southam St was in the area called Kensal Town.W 10.

[Teddyb1939]

@grahampl Sorry mate they were not cockneys.This was west London,cockneys are from east London.

[Teddyb1939]

@grahampl I will say again,no they didn`t.

[speakorsqueak]

love the film clips - i remember growing up playing on the bombsites. Not sure about the soundtrack - those skipping rhymes are not W10 accents!

[SpeedTriple59]

Good comments,not from area of this clip,was a seventies kid,but a football was most of entertainment,no nutters,immigrants,sex cases,ass holes on drugs,respect for the elders,if they told you to clear off you would run like hell.Sadly this country is FULL now..Long live memories..Glad i was a kid then,to much pressure now,oh and i aint got a Knife and talk broken English..!!!

[DEROUGET]

My mum was born in Ladbroke Grove in 1920. She lived in grinding poverty and went through the blitz living in Kilburn Lane. She only remembered the good times though. I was born in 57 and I well remember visiting my gran in the early 60's. when W10 was still as portrayed in this film. Thanks for posting.

[howunavailable]

I was born that year......

I remember the 60's playing out in the street in all weathers, actually KNOWING the neighbours and their families.

Notice how very few fat children there were around compared to today...activity + healthy food (albeit small amounts but at least regular meals) no snacking + activity = general good health & normal weight for height and age.

[chanctonbury63]

@howunavailable I have to call you on one thing. Food at that time in this country was dreadful, awful, but it wasnt particularly fattening, and I think we were more active as you say.

[Bevoin1970]

My childhood was in the 60's and yet I remember playing in our street with loads of other kids just like that. We may not have had Playstation's back then but we had plentiful supplies of fun and energy, I was always running, climbing, jumping, very happy times for me...

[MrBdean10]

My great grandmother lived on Southam St until they tore it down. Right at the end by the big tall corugated fence that probably was a bomb site. As a 5 year old in the 50s it terrified me to have to to the toiledt down in the cellar which still full of rubble from a bomb!! She had 2 rooms in the house with 2 or 3 other families.

[Teddyb1939]

@MrBdean10 What was the family name I may know of them,I grew up in Southam St.Do you know what No they lived at.I have many pictures & books of the area.

[fartingvicar]

Great!, no plays stattions, mobile phones, computer games etc, yet all the kids could still fill the day with doing things without getting board.

No muslim fanatics, knife crime.ayslum seekers. Happy Days

[euansb]

@fartingvicar Yes, happy days! The Kray Twins, rickets and whooping cough, teddy boys with their flick knives, Peter Rachman, Paki-bashing, Thalidomide, the birch, censorship, hand-me-down clothes, no foreign holidays, spam, hanging...

When's the next bus?

[talara18]

@euansb pakis weren't around yet, they came in the 1960s and 70s.

[johnster1964]

@euansb No foreign holidays??? That's what national service was for !

[wellersmate]

@fartingvicar HAPPY Days indeed!! Nice post!

[Bobcatonline]

Ah! I remember it well

[Teddyb1939]

@Bobcatonline Tell me how well you remember it.

[108Robcatt]

@Teddyb1939 In the late 50s I was a trainee youth leader in a Youth Centre near Redhill in Surrey. Bad Penny Blues was a favourite for the members to dance to. Imagine their joy when we got to go to one of the transmissions of the 6.5 Special TV show (no prerecording in those days!) in London (Lime Grove) where Humph played it on air. Quite an experience.

[artfulcockney]

WEST LONDON 4 EVER GO ON SON

[polskich]

these are the days when working people lived in grinding poverty, no generous benifits for them as dished out to todays scrounging bogus ayslum seekers

[ZINKY69]

Brilliant great to see how the kids in those days could play safe without having to watch out for Pedo's and other LOW LIFES.