It's nice seeing passengers help that "CRIPPLE" board the bus. Yes, not "disabled person", "handicapped person", "physically challenged individual"; no, none of that hyper-sensitive nonsense --a "cripple". (....Too bad they didn't give a demonstration of how passengers should cheerfully help the "village idiot" count his change when paying his bus fare.)
This posting is surely intended as a bit of fun, notable for the patronising plummy-voiced fatuous narration, typical of the period. Surely nobody can take it seriously or wish to return to those class-ridden times. Yet the racists come crawling out of the woodwork, pining for paradise lost.
1950's and not only were blacks free to sit wherever they wanted to on the bus, but no one seemed to look down on them. Would have been nice if it was like that throughout the U.S. at that time. The african students weren't carrying books because it said they had gone for an outing in the countryside.
@patmarie55 Totally agree. Black American GIs who came to Britain in World War 2 were suprised at the LACK of racism they encountered in Britain compared to what they had to put up with in the USA.
Students? Without books? Coming out of a field? Leaving the gate open? They look like illegal aliens who jumped from a truck near the chunnel. Who speaks? Sounds gay. Is this made for or by NPR?
"The people enter the bus in an orderly manner, no pushing or crowding out of turn"
THEN the Blacks came and pushed their way to the front, stayed forever in a phone box and one by one ruined all London's traditions, naivete, innocence and charm.
I was there and witnessed it and then committed 85% of the street crime that "miraculously" started occurring after their arrival.....who would have thought it ?
That part at 6:18 about the kids waiting to cross together is a good idea. Instead of like today when they cross the road talking "GANGSTAHHHHH!" in dribs and drabs and see how long they can hold up traffic and swarm any driver who loses patience with the little Paki/Black/Eastern European knife wielding angels. London is dead. R.I.P. Excuse my rant, slightly upest. Anyone know of anywhere nice to live????
I think there are about 6 buses in this video that the chaps travelled on, if you look at the destination blinds are different and also the shape of the bus's
BUT I REMEMBER AN EVEN MORE DISTANT TIME. DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE DAYS WHEN GIRAFFES USED TO ROAM FREELY UP AND DOWN REGENTS STREET ? (I remember coming out of the bakers on the old Goodge Street and my Aunt Betty in her broken down old jaloppy was getting towed home by one . )
1.48 - They get on the bus in an orderly manner, no crowding or pushing out off turn - my lord could you imagine that happening today. So sad that manners have gone astray :-(
You see the part from 4:10 onwards - That's the part that gets to me nowadays.
Okay, I am not being too old fashioned because I am still a teenager. I have an iPod, mobile phone, fat loads of girls, But I get REALLY pissed off when...........
Oh forget it,
**Just stand up for the elderly/pregnant and those with pushchairs**
If you are scared of implying someone is fat or older than they are, just stand up and don't say nothing.
Lovely ! and we note that our two African friends did not replace the top bar of the style - they'd get a fixed penalty ticket for that now courstey of CCTV or an asbo.
Cant help thinking how 2 blac k students are wandering around in a field in the middle of the countryside?A countryside rule,ALWAYS KEEP TO A PATH !!!
That part at 6:18 about the kids waiting to cross together is a good idea. Instead of like today when they cross in dribs and drabs and see how long they can hold up traffic and swarm any driver who loses patience with the little angels.
Or indeed anyone who crosses the road as if nothing is coming expecting drivers to stop for THEM. They're glued to their mobiles or are 'miles away' from reality. Another one is where kids just dither or p*** about as if crossing the road is a game of chicken.
Everyone is so polite. Just like today,right? What amazed me about buses in Britain is that out in the country a village of a 1000 or so might have bus service. And a bus stop might be out in the country a few miles from town.
Hah-hah. The Cholmendly-Warner narrating this has obviously never had to wait 45 mins in the balls-aching cold on the Clerkenwell Road for a 55 to show up before, but ah the luxury of being able to smoke a ciggy on the top deck.
In those days bus conductors had lots of coloured tickets like train tickets and punched a hole in the appropriate cost spot. That stopped in about 1958.
Great film, those two young actors will be nearing 80 now. I remember bus conductors I was born in Manchester in 1951, and buses really were the main means of transport for most people. the Manchester ones had a sign saying "Spitting Prohibited" and smoking was only allowed on the top deck, which was usually like an opium den, so smoky you couldn't see.
I remember paying 15p to ride from one part of east london to the other and that was on the 25bus back in the mid 80's. Can't think what the prices are now
Bitingly stupid, unfriendly, and unnecessary is more like it. Americans should stay away from London, Britain, and the UK if that's your attitude. And, BTW, I've met many English who held grossly incorrrect stereotypes about life in the U.S., so it's a two-way street.
i see what you mean about bothg countries harbouring stereotypes and it being unhealthy but i was refering to the achingly inaccurate idea of the UK which seems to be pedeled out by American TV, Hollywood etc. i should've made that clear. it just GRATES on me, how some of your fellow countrymen can't differentiate between different parts of the UK
Thanks for your point, and that's true to some degree. However, what people in the UK can forget is that the US is HUGE, and the UK is about the size of just one of the medium to larger American states. So, if other contries get short shrift in Americans' minds, it's not intentional, it's that there's a lot on their minds just deaing with their own country. Also, remember, many of your fellow contrymen don't know Idaho from Iowa from Ohio, but we don't hold that against you! :) Ta
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I arrived in the UK as a migrant in 1960 and I seem to remember the top decks of London buses were full of smoke and men using indecent language.
Sorry folks. I think this film is mostly propaganda by the authorities. There was plenty of interpersonal violence on and off the buses like a variation of today. As for women appearing to be safer then, well that was made possible by a huge vice industry with pimps profiting therefrom..
Thankyou SnowEagleEatEm. We English don't care about pathetic people like you slagging us off. Most countries hate us. However, we do appreciate people being literate. Your sentence construction leaves a lot to be desired.
Absolute magnificent. I can't recall seeing one image on that which was vulgar. Compared to today's nonsense with bendy buses and youths bloody everywhere, this is looks like a dream world.
should have left the africans behind! let them run back! i mean ! thats there game aint it? long distance running!! they prob would have beat the bus back to london anyway!
I'd like to show this to Boris Johnson, but I'm afraid he'd spout out some racist rubbish in a not unsimilar fashion to some of the wankers who have posted here already....
Shouldn't we remember the racism of all races if we are going to remember it all? I mean, picking on white people from 60 years ago is as easy as dunking puppies in petrol, but not half as fun ;)
This is just an example of a country saying how great it is. I can't say that it's racist, as they don't say that the black chaps in the video are inferior. Quite the opposite, seeing as they are portrayed as polite students.
Of course, it is a little naive in thinking that Johnny Foreigner might not have a system like ours.
Yeah! I remember that bit as well. If you're a bus driver (I'm not btw) imagine trying to stick to a 1950 timetable in 2010 - impossible! The pages wouldn't last that long and besides the gridlock on today's city streets wouldn't allow it.
Well said, PrinceBaby. Is it okay for that white chav family in the paper to claim nearly £37 000 a year in benefits because they are white and we owe them? I don't think so. Get your facts straight before you spout your vitriol on here (look it up, moron)
a london bus...without chav pop blaring out of mobile phones, some bloke with the dirtiest, smelliest kebab known to man...and no-one's being stabbed!? different age.
@jimw1234 CORRECTAMUNDO . BUT I REMEMBER AN EVEN MORE DISTANT TIME . DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE DAYS WHEN GIRAFFES ROAMED FREELY UP AND DOWN REGENTS STREET ? (I remember coming out of the bakers on the old Goodge Street and my old Aunt Betty in her broken down old jaloppy was getting towed home by one.)
no, it turned my fat white stomach, you ill-educated little fuck. your typing is appalling (like most racists on youtube you come across as a thick cunt), your spelling is pathetic, and your 'point' is not only silly, but wrong. you are a baby-man with a chip on your own shoulder. if you don't like it, why don't you go and play with the nazis and get off the fucking internet.
Yes, a nice film. But I remember buses in the 50s and 60s as being filled with cigarette smoke, cold in winter, dirty & badly maintained. Interesting how the driver uses hand signals at the crossing. I had to learn hand signals to pass my driving test (gettin' old!)
This is AMAZING FOOTAGE featuring the FIRST TWO BLACK MEN to arrive in England in April 1950. "Africans in particular Have a great love for Children" (4:27) Is that with or without egg fried rice & peas?
Oh the good old days when even public transport was good and we had good manners in England. Shame it all gone downhill in the last 50 years and everyone is out for themselves. Thanks for posting such great films.
Those were the days. Can you imagine giving up your seat to a lady today? She'd probably sue you. London is not like this anymore. There are hardly any British let alone Londoners in London. In the mid 1960's, while I was queuing in an orderly fashion at bus stops foreigners were hanging round the front of the queue waiting to push in. I had an argument every day but in the end I had to give in and push back. Completely against my principals but there ya go. Glad I don't live there anymore.....
7,000,000 passengers carried by five thousand busses.
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How many now-a-days?
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How super-convenient for cripples the bus is nowadays, in London; in fact there are many places on the mainland where cripples alight the bus in the same manner as the cripple in this vt.
these days you shove everyone out of the way and swear as you barge your way through---and I promise you get the best seat--LOL!!!--this is not experience talking--well,not on the offending end,anyway!
I'm only 126.5 years old so what do I know???!!!----LOL!!!!!!!
A great time piece! The writing is obviously more conditioning on how to behave than documentary, which is interesting, as was the choice of two exchange students as our surrogate new-comers to the bus system. I like the journey into London too.
No tinny music coming from mobiles. No chavs. No people arguing to the point of violence. Everyone paying their fares. No one spitting at the driver or the conductor. People queueing to get on. There's even a couple of black fellas in the countryside - amazing.
Fuck Me!! A bus driver that does'nt slam the brakes on to stop or try to wheelspin away from the stop - dig him up from his grave and put him back behind the wheel.
Skahoovy....West Indians along with the Irish are resposible for the tunnels which trains pass through today.....go to the library and update your knowledge. As for your comment on Arabs..thats expected from you....i'm not surprised....there is no race on earth in which all individuals behave exactly the same....English ppl love to segregate i wonder y?
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Why the censorship? So much for free speech. And why is campaigning for the BNP automatically wrong? It's people like you who are the intolerant ones - no debate, just remove and censor any views that you disagree with. If you really like the London depicted in this film, rather than current London, maybe you should think about why it has changed so much for the worse. Obviously you'll censor my comments in a typical narrow-minded way - what else can one expect.
Campaigning for the BNP isn't "automatically" wrong, it is wrong because the BNP are wrong.
Also, YouTube isn't a democracy. Free speech is fine, but go do it on an appropriate forum. Casual YouTube users may not wish to be exposed to racist or offensive comments .
And why, precisely, is the BNP "wrong"? What you mean is that you don't agree with their views - you obviously don't understand the concept of differing views competing freely and openly. And why is YouTube not an "appropriate forum" for discussion of such issues? Again, simply because you don't agree with those issues being openly debated - you just expect everybody to meekly accept the politically correct ideology that is rammed down our throats every day in the media.
The BNP is wrong because their views are racist, they have a record of violence and they love Hitler. So, correct, I don't agree with that.
You are allowed to say I'm wrong. But when you post a YouTube video, that is a little bit of internet that you own. If the Labour party or something wanted to hold a branch meeting in your front room, you would have the right not to let them.
Btw how do you know I think we should "meekly accept pc ideology" etc? You don't know anything about my views.
They need to make a similar and updated film for visiting Yanks and Canucks. We get confused the moment we step into Gatwick or Heathrow. Why weren't Terry Jones and John Cleese credited.
My oh my - everybody's so friendly and polite! American vids were similar in tone..reality TV wasn't in anyone's imagination yet! LOL Love this 50's memorabilia!
LeamingtonSteve....What kind of comment is that?....Darkies as you so put it have been in England since as far back as you wish to go.....we built most of this country and helped keep this country moving through the work industry....i know you meant it as a joke but you need to rise above that kind of thought.
Well, I'd like to go as far back as the Iron Age ;) Just messing. Of course, black people have made a great contribution, although to say that they built most of the country is taking things just a little too far - especially when you take into account the large areas of the UK without multi-ethnic populations until recently. Can't we all just get along? There is a spot beside me at my piano keyboard if anyone who wants it ;)
Comedian80....All of England had some form of ethnic mix dating way back to 12th century....if you dont believe me check the journals of that time....1950s & 60s just saw a large majority enter the country at one time.....but at least you are honest enough to believe that we have made some form of contribution....have a good day & be lucky!
This one isn't. That's the 134 which ran from Potters Bar Station to Pimlico. Much of the countryside scenes are not much changed today, apart from the M25 that crosses near Dove Lane, and one shot from inside looks like going down Stagg Hill which was off line of route - one for the camera. No Route Masters here - too early for them.
Despite comments below, every weekday over 6800 scheduled London buses carry around six million passengers on over 700 different routes...that excludes the former Green Line Country routes...even so that's still an increase of 1,800 buses at a time when passengers are a million less.
They should do an updated version- chavs causing mayhem on a graffitied bendy bus whilst endless Macdonalds, Tescos, PC Worlds and Barrett houses flit by in the background.
Beautiful,Not a burka or sari in sight.
locsman 5 days ago
Konkek
eraiore91 2 weeks ago
Now London is infested with Muslims, asains and blacks, its tragic what has happened to this country
ScottishCaledonian 4 weeks ago
It's nice seeing passengers help that "CRIPPLE" board the bus. Yes, not "disabled person", "handicapped person", "physically challenged individual"; no, none of that hyper-sensitive nonsense --a "cripple". (....Too bad they didn't give a demonstration of how passengers should cheerfully help the "village idiot" count his change when paying his bus fare.)
MrJm323 1 month ago
so lucky I bet they didn't have to pay huge bus fares
jackjustin12 1 month ago
Jowett Javelin @ 0.55 !
GarJaMi 5 months ago
Punctual and polite? Not today they aren't. They're late, rude, inconsiderate and thoughtless.
Myles0Harcourt 7 months ago
I love that plummy voice
Myles0Harcourt 7 months ago
Today London is often called Londonistan becuse of all immigrants.
Nefus1988 7 months ago 3
This posting is surely intended as a bit of fun, notable for the patronising plummy-voiced fatuous narration, typical of the period. Surely nobody can take it seriously or wish to return to those class-ridden times. Yet the racists come crawling out of the woodwork, pining for paradise lost.
jimmyhitide 8 months ago 2
"Africans in particular have a great love for them" ahahahah
jweightmanmusic 9 months ago
1950's and not only were blacks free to sit wherever they wanted to on the bus, but no one seemed to look down on them. Would have been nice if it was like that throughout the U.S. at that time. The african students weren't carrying books because it said they had gone for an outing in the countryside.
patmarie55 9 months ago
@patmarie55 Totally agree. Black American GIs who came to Britain in World War 2 were suprised at the LACK of racism they encountered in Britain compared to what they had to put up with in the USA.
mrangry1960 7 months ago
Students? Without books? Coming out of a field? Leaving the gate open? They look like illegal aliens who jumped from a truck near the chunnel. Who speaks? Sounds gay. Is this made for or by NPR?
80ist4ever 10 months ago
`A cripple`....
chanctonbury63 10 months ago
The cars... there... moving?
FaceyFaceFaceTV 11 months ago
Aw, I was hoping for Reg Varney driving the bus and the conductor sodding off to shag some tart he met along the route.
tazareal 11 months ago
HAHAH Cadburys van...:( I Wish us southerners still had this accent, i blame corrie for ruining our accent :|
HarryWessex 1 year ago
"The people enter the bus in an orderly manner, no pushing or crowding out of turn"
THEN the Blacks came and pushed their way to the front, stayed forever in a phone box and one by one ruined all London's traditions, naivete, innocence and charm.
I was there and witnessed it and then committed 85% of the street crime that "miraculously" started occurring after their arrival.....who would have thought it ?
Isleofskye 1 year ago
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That part at 6:18 about the kids waiting to cross together is a good idea. Instead of like today when they cross the road talking "GANGSTAHHHHH!" in dribs and drabs and see how long they can hold up traffic and swarm any driver who loses patience with the little Paki/Black/Eastern European knife wielding angels. London is dead. R.I.P. Excuse my rant, slightly upest. Anyone know of anywhere nice to live????
fitnessisgood4u 1 year ago
Am I right in thinking the narrator was Franklin Englemann ?
jet936 1 year ago
Just a comment.
I think there are about 6 buses in this video that the chaps travelled on, if you look at the destination blinds are different and also the shape of the bus's
rubberobert 1 year ago
@rubberobert yes, and all for fivepence!
spiccybaby 1 year ago
Move along please ding ding
historicbloke 1 year ago
You people seem to not get it. This is a PR film. Of course its not like that today, and it was not like that then.
marshhen 1 year ago
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@marshhen How would you know that?
amarone1956 1 year ago
@marshhen And how can you be sure that it wasn't like that in those days?
amarone1956 1 year ago
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Niggers studying? I'm confused. 'Claiming', 'Killing', 'Molesting', surely, but 'studying'? you have it wrong old boy.
BewareTheBeast 1 year ago
"Here in the mere countryside"
BTW, its amazing that they already showed black people back then.
In 1950 people in Belgium had never seen black people before except those who had been to the colony before.
wimpie25 1 year ago
Back when people knew what decent manners were, unlike today.
FaerieCrone 1 year ago
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CORRECTAMUNDO.
BUT I REMEMBER AN EVEN MORE DISTANT TIME. DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE DAYS WHEN GIRAFFES USED TO ROAM FREELY UP AND DOWN REGENTS STREET ? (I remember coming out of the bakers on the old Goodge Street and my Aunt Betty in her broken down old jaloppy was getting towed home by one . )
bopkick5 1 year ago
carefully run time tables lolol
nylonTS 1 year ago
Love it
sandown122 1 year ago
Wonderful movie. I remember riding the buses in the 50's as well as the last week of the London Trams.
traditionalsail 1 year ago
1.48 - They get on the bus in an orderly manner, no crowding or pushing out off turn - my lord could you imagine that happening today. So sad that manners have gone astray :-(
kinsalelou 1 year ago
You see the part from 4:10 onwards - That's the part that gets to me nowadays.
Okay, I am not being too old fashioned because I am still a teenager. I have an iPod, mobile phone, fat loads of girls, But I get REALLY pissed off when...........
Oh forget it,
**Just stand up for the elderly/pregnant and those with pushchairs**
If you are scared of implying someone is fat or older than they are, just stand up and don't say nothing.
I am 18 and teaching people manners. Rediculous.
Doomsday2060 2 years ago 5
@Doomsday2060 18 and cant spell ridiculous. now thats funny. your teaching more than you know about your generation by that post.
mysticx0 1 year ago
@mysticx0
Who the fuck cares about that? Is it a spelling test?
Take a look at yourself...
cant
thats
your
You can't even get those words right.
WAKE UP SON.
Doomsday2060 1 year ago
@Doomsday2060 lol someone needs a hug...or a real life away from second life...
mysticx0 1 year ago
@mysticx0
Where does Second Life come into it?
Are you being a BIT OF A NOSEY PARKER???
Naughty boy.
Doomsday2060 1 year ago
Can anyone confirm that the African chap sat on the left on the bus is in fact Robert Mugabe?
flaretoohigh 2 years ago
Lovely ! and we note that our two African friends did not replace the top bar of the style - they'd get a fixed penalty ticket for that now courstey of CCTV or an asbo.
blue911s 2 years ago
Cant help thinking how 2 blac k students are wandering around in a field in the middle of the countryside?A countryside rule,ALWAYS KEEP TO A PATH !!!
soundnicetome 2 years ago
They were on the side of the field!
malo66 2 years ago
That part at 6:18 about the kids waiting to cross together is a good idea. Instead of like today when they cross in dribs and drabs and see how long they can hold up traffic and swarm any driver who loses patience with the little angels.
chibago1 2 years ago 4
Or indeed anyone who crosses the road as if nothing is coming expecting drivers to stop for THEM. They're glued to their mobiles or are 'miles away' from reality. Another one is where kids just dither or p*** about as if crossing the road is a game of chicken.
Your comment is very valid chibago1.
monsieurtechnical 2 years ago 2
Everyone is so polite. Just like today,right? What amazed me about buses in Britain is that out in the country a village of a 1000 or so might have bus service. And a bus stop might be out in the country a few miles from town.
chibago1 2 years ago 2
@chibago1
That's not an unicum, the situation in Belgium is exactly the same.
wimpie25 1 year ago
nice blackies actually I wonder what their grankids are doing
staypress 2 years ago
Hah-hah. The Cholmendly-Warner narrating this has obviously never had to wait 45 mins in the balls-aching cold on the Clerkenwell Road for a 55 to show up before, but ah the luxury of being able to smoke a ciggy on the top deck.
xwsftassell 2 years ago
In those days bus conductors had lots of coloured tickets like train tickets and punched a hole in the appropriate cost spot. That stopped in about 1958.
poussecafe3 2 years ago
This is better than collecting BBC test cards or even 1960s TV themes
tommyrotter 2 years ago
LOL "Colonial Film Unit"
Beethoven80 2 years ago
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blastm4 2 years ago
Great film, those two young actors will be nearing 80 now. I remember bus conductors I was born in Manchester in 1951, and buses really were the main means of transport for most people. the Manchester ones had a sign saying "Spitting Prohibited" and smoking was only allowed on the top deck, which was usually like an opium den, so smoky you couldn't see.
thanks for the memories
clevblue 2 years ago
I remember paying 15p to ride from one part of east london to the other and that was on the 25bus back in the mid 80's. Can't think what the prices are now
stepahead2be 2 years ago
In thirty years it has gone up an amazing.... 85p!
blakey063 2 years ago
NotMarkX - love your info bit, bitingly satirical : )
kind of makes you wish some unsuspecting American comes over here with expectations based on this vid and gets bitterly disappointed.
"excuse me young man, but could i have your seat, cor blimy pip pip?"
"F*** off before i kick yer 'ead round.."
SimonB198207 2 years ago
Bitingly stupid, unfriendly, and unnecessary is more like it. Americans should stay away from London, Britain, and the UK if that's your attitude. And, BTW, I've met many English who held grossly incorrrect stereotypes about life in the U.S., so it's a two-way street.
AJM303 2 years ago
i see what you mean about bothg countries harbouring stereotypes and it being unhealthy but i was refering to the achingly inaccurate idea of the UK which seems to be pedeled out by American TV, Hollywood etc. i should've made that clear. it just GRATES on me, how some of your fellow countrymen can't differentiate between different parts of the UK
peace
SimonB198207 2 years ago
Thanks for your point, and that's true to some degree. However, what people in the UK can forget is that the US is HUGE, and the UK is about the size of just one of the medium to larger American states. So, if other contries get short shrift in Americans' minds, it's not intentional, it's that there's a lot on their minds just deaing with their own country. Also, remember, many of your fellow contrymen don't know Idaho from Iowa from Ohio, but we don't hold that against you! :) Ta
AJM303 2 years ago
What I want to know is how they ended up in the field in the first place!
dan42912 2 years ago
Almost every sentence in the commentary is staggeringly patronising! And "cripple"!
band3kafsh 2 years ago
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I arrived in the UK as a migrant in 1960 and I seem to remember the top decks of London buses were full of smoke and men using indecent language.
Sorry folks. I think this film is mostly propaganda by the authorities. There was plenty of interpersonal violence on and off the buses like a variation of today. As for women appearing to be safer then, well that was made possible by a huge vice industry with pimps profiting therefrom..
Take this film with a moderate pinch of salt.
groveavenue 2 years ago
A black arch-bishop who arrived in Britain in the early 60s said everybody was so pleasant and called him "sir"??
Georgiahulse 2 years ago
Days of innocence..."A cripple needs assistance"..you can't say that now, he is "a physically challenged person".
No pushing or shoving in the queue?...no Russians waiting for the bus obviously. Queuing is an alien concept for them.
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djrepertoire 2 years ago
Whilst i'm sure that there's a lot to miss about 'the good old days' - this friendly, imaginary Utopia was 95% propaganda 5% truth.
Still, I wish it was more like that these days!
speedmatters 2 years ago
1.45 NOT THESE DAYS ITS PUSH PUSH PUSH thats the only orderly bit
SULZERBEASTIE 2 years ago
The other day, I waited ages for a bus and then three came along at the same time.
Typical! You wait ages for a bus and then three come along at the same time.
trashcanalive 2 years ago
hi notmarkx
nice footage I love old busses and cars
5 STAR RATING FOR THIS FILM !!!
amg4472 2 years ago
Those "Africans in particular" love small children? WTF? LMAO!
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fuck london brithish people does not worth a shit every word they say does not worth a shit i swear SO FUCK ENGLAND MOTHER FUCKERS.
SnowEagleEatEm 2 years ago
where do you come from??
rabbithog 2 years ago
Thankyou SnowEagleEatEm. We English don't care about pathetic people like you slagging us off. Most countries hate us. However, we do appreciate people being literate. Your sentence construction leaves a lot to be desired.
harryj79 2 years ago
Why don't you crawl back under the rock from where you came from. The world would be a far better place without someone like you!
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StephenFiorentini 2 years ago
ecellent
see 'london is the place for me' to check out the real west london today
super8tribe 2 years ago
wow good movie!
floppydrive42 2 years ago
I wonder if the two students wanted to stay in England and be bus conductors or go back home and be president.
mauser88mm 2 years ago
Tx for leaving uploaded.
minutegongcoughs 2 years ago
Absolute magnificent. I can't recall seeing one image on that which was vulgar. Compared to today's nonsense with bendy buses and youths bloody everywhere, this is looks like a dream world.
EnglishG3nt 2 years ago 18
Hey, That's My Town Potters Bar in Hertfordshire, where it shows the High Street and School Children crossing the Road.
PIGGIE58 3 years ago
should have left the africans behind! let them run back! i mean ! thats there game aint it? long distance running!! they prob would have beat the bus back to london anyway!
plhokko 3 years ago
"Africans in particular have great love for them"
"A cripple needs much kindness.."
This is a remarkable remark on how to ride a bus, I wonder about the opinions when it was first shown.
Still, thoroughly amusing!
diddeliduddi 3 years ago
this is excellent
funkg 3 years ago
I'd like to show this to Boris Johnson, but I'm afraid he'd spout out some racist rubbish in a not unsimilar fashion to some of the wankers who have posted here already....
twatwatwat 3 years ago
Those two fellows should have gone upstairs. The view's better from the upper saloon.
StephenHP62 3 years ago
SLAG
artfulcockney 2 years ago
Lorcs.
Spiffing, what?
martinevans123 3 years ago
Particularly enjoyed the episode with the cripple. Good job he wasn't a black cripple or we'd all have been terribly upset, by Jove.
But comforting to learn that Africans like a plesant walk in the fields and are also fond of children.
"This man is thoughtless" just one of the many highlights in the gripping commentary.
martinevans123 3 years ago 5
Shouldn't we remember the racism of all races if we are going to remember it all? I mean, picking on white people from 60 years ago is as easy as dunking puppies in petrol, but not half as fun ;)
Comedian80 3 years ago
This is just an example of a country saying how great it is. I can't say that it's racist, as they don't say that the black chaps in the video are inferior. Quite the opposite, seeing as they are portrayed as polite students.
Of course, it is a little naive in thinking that Johnny Foreigner might not have a system like ours.
Comedian80 3 years ago
"They know that buses run to carefully prepared timetables and are always punctual. People never have long to wait." :-D
uPtownCH 3 years ago 13
Yeah! I remember that bit as well. If you're a bus driver (I'm not btw) imagine trying to stick to a 1950 timetable in 2010 - impossible! The pages wouldn't last that long and besides the gridlock on today's city streets wouldn't allow it.
monsieurtechnical 2 years ago
"and be sure to smile at the near by CCTV camera protecting you from terrorism"
Symphyla 3 years ago 5
Gawsh!!! What fun!!!
squanto2 3 years ago
Goes to show the quality of the Harry Enfield versions.
martinmc71 3 years ago 5
Well said, PrinceBaby. Is it okay for that white chav family in the paper to claim nearly £37 000 a year in benefits because they are white and we owe them? I don't think so. Get your facts straight before you spout your vitriol on here (look it up, moron)
flubadubb 3 years ago 2
a london bus...without chav pop blaring out of mobile phones, some bloke with the dirtiest, smelliest kebab known to man...and no-one's being stabbed!? different age.
jimw1234 3 years ago 21
@jimw1234 CORRECTAMUNDO . BUT I REMEMBER AN EVEN MORE DISTANT TIME . DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE DAYS WHEN GIRAFFES ROAMED FREELY UP AND DOWN REGENTS STREET ? (I remember coming out of the bakers on the old Goodge Street and my old Aunt Betty in her broken down old jaloppy was getting towed home by one.)
bopkick5 1 year ago
@jimw1234 A Golden Age....When England was still England and English!
TheWhitehall 1 year ago 3
@TheWhitehall damn right
kyberforce 1 year ago
@kyberforce Sadly, now consigned to memory!
TheWhitehall 1 year ago
@TheWhitehall I think you're forgetting those two pesky African students ;-)
19electric 1 year ago
@jimw1234 - the Kebab and stabbing you're pretty much right
Chavs pushing over old war heros, and it happens so ofren the war hero have become used to it
HarryWessex 1 year ago
Wow look at all the beautiful greenery!... haha
ck1film 3 years ago
The grass was always greyer on the other side, or maybe Visage (the pop group - not the hand cream) got hold of the film...
monsieurtechnical 2 years ago
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london , now is full of black africans with chips on thier shoulders, that think we owe them!
iansuncoast 3 years ago
Come on mate, if you really lived in London you'd know that's bollocks.
BooShank 3 years ago 3
To iansuncoast - sounds like you're the one with a chip on your shoulder?
magicplum 3 years ago 6
iansuncoast, you really are a rotten little twerp.
PrinceBaby 3 years ago 4
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princebaby,ooh that stirred your tiny yellow left wing heart...
iansuncoast 3 years ago
no, it turned my fat white stomach, you ill-educated little fuck. your typing is appalling (like most racists on youtube you come across as a thick cunt), your spelling is pathetic, and your 'point' is not only silly, but wrong. you are a baby-man with a chip on your own shoulder. if you don't like it, why don't you go and play with the nazis and get off the fucking internet.
PrinceBaby 3 years ago 7
Yes, a nice film. But I remember buses in the 50s and 60s as being filled with cigarette smoke, cold in winter, dirty & badly maintained. Interesting how the driver uses hand signals at the crossing. I had to learn hand signals to pass my driving test (gettin' old!)
TonyonPiano 3 years ago 2
This is AMAZING FOOTAGE featuring the FIRST TWO BLACK MEN to arrive in England in April 1950. "Africans in particular Have a great love for Children" (4:27) Is that with or without egg fried rice & peas?
CowBearUK 3 years ago
As a 60+ year old trust me, transport in London was never like that! Only in the cinema.
RTFishall 3 years ago
Oh the good old days when even public transport was good and we had good manners in England. Shame it all gone downhill in the last 50 years and everyone is out for themselves. Thanks for posting such great films.
ergos645 3 years ago 6
yes yes that's all very well.. but know your place! Don't you agree Grayson?
musicfozzel 3 years ago
haha,so many busses!
now you only see half as many when youve missed them! lmao :D
hartnell114 3 years ago
how much is a noermal house in London now? £1,000,000? £2,000,000? It's Rip Off...
tom6058 3 years ago
Great old film. Was the world ever like that??? LOL. Peace, GB.
gb42760ad1972 3 years ago
Those were the days. Can you imagine giving up your seat to a lady today? She'd probably sue you. London is not like this anymore. There are hardly any British let alone Londoners in London. In the mid 1960's, while I was queuing in an orderly fashion at bus stops foreigners were hanging round the front of the queue waiting to push in. I had an argument every day but in the end I had to give in and push back. Completely against my principals but there ya go. Glad I don't live there anymore.....
gittarr 3 years ago
The worst thing about the early fifties is that the yanks had a disgustingly high standard of living compared to us Europeans.
brwhizz 3 years ago
7,000,000 passengers carried by five thousand busses.
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How many now-a-days?
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How super-convenient for cripples the bus is nowadays, in London; in fact there are many places on the mainland where cripples alight the bus in the same manner as the cripple in this vt.
Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
BusSki 3 years ago
i'll get you butler!
jamierourketen 3 years ago 2
Planet Consideration no longer exists---
these days you shove everyone out of the way and swear as you barge your way through---and I promise you get the best seat--LOL!!!--this is not experience talking--well,not on the offending end,anyway!
I'm only 126.5 years old so what do I know???!!!----LOL!!!!!!!
kbrowneyes 3 years ago
A great time piece! The writing is obviously more conditioning on how to behave than documentary, which is interesting, as was the choice of two exchange students as our surrogate new-comers to the bus system. I like the journey into London too.
Jolar70 3 years ago
No tinny music coming from mobiles. No chavs. No people arguing to the point of violence. Everyone paying their fares. No one spitting at the driver or the conductor. People queueing to get on. There's even a couple of black fellas in the countryside - amazing.
timboslayer 3 years ago 8
Fuck Me!! A bus driver that does'nt slam the brakes on to stop or try to wheelspin away from the stop - dig him up from his grave and put him back behind the wheel.
videoit 3 years ago 4
Skahoovy....West Indians along with the Irish are resposible for the tunnels which trains pass through today.....go to the library and update your knowledge. As for your comment on Arabs..thats expected from you....i'm not surprised....there is no race on earth in which all individuals behave exactly the same....English ppl love to segregate i wonder y?
ProperStuff 3 years ago
Uploader's note: for the record, Skahoovy's comments have since been removed and his username blocked. I'm sure he'll be too busy out campaigning for the BNP to notice.
NotMarkX 3 years ago
Why the censorship? So much for free speech. And why is campaigning for the BNP automatically wrong? It's people like you who are the intolerant ones - no debate, just remove and censor any views that you disagree with. If you really like the London depicted in this film, rather than current London, maybe you should think about why it has changed so much for the worse. Obviously you'll censor my comments in a typical narrow-minded way - what else can one expect.
lausanne67 3 years ago
I totally agree with you.
twoslices 3 years ago
Campaigning for the BNP isn't "automatically" wrong, it is wrong because the BNP are wrong.
Also, YouTube isn't a democracy. Free speech is fine, but go do it on an appropriate forum. Casual YouTube users may not wish to be exposed to racist or offensive comments .
dcmtr 3 years ago
And why, precisely, is the BNP "wrong"? What you mean is that you don't agree with their views - you obviously don't understand the concept of differing views competing freely and openly. And why is YouTube not an "appropriate forum" for discussion of such issues? Again, simply because you don't agree with those issues being openly debated - you just expect everybody to meekly accept the politically correct ideology that is rammed down our throats every day in the media.
lausanne67 3 years ago
The BNP is wrong because their views are racist, they have a record of violence and they love Hitler. So, correct, I don't agree with that.
You are allowed to say I'm wrong. But when you post a YouTube video, that is a little bit of internet that you own. If the Labour party or something wanted to hold a branch meeting in your front room, you would have the right not to let them.
Btw how do you know I think we should "meekly accept pc ideology" etc? You don't know anything about my views.
dcmtr 3 years ago
the bus drivers wernt complete cunts they are today
knockna123 3 years ago 5
" fares please! ding ding! we had conductors then too...and he told the kids if they messed about like park keepers!
bigimprint 4 years ago 2
How do park keepers mess about?
geordy58 3 years ago
They need to make a similar and updated film for visiting Yanks and Canucks. We get confused the moment we step into Gatwick or Heathrow. Why weren't Terry Jones and John Cleese credited.
SidFortune 4 years ago
very, very nice video ^__^
I love bus and trolleybus.
Greetings from Modena - ITALY
(in my city there are trolleybuses..)
Alefilobus 4 years ago 3
My oh my - everybody's so friendly and polite! American vids were similar in tone..reality TV wasn't in anyone's imagination yet! LOL Love this 50's memorabilia!
raconter1 4 years ago 3
Strangely, people in London no longer seem to know how to queue for a bus.
mickswann 4 years ago 6
LeamingtonSteve....What kind of comment is that?....Darkies as you so put it have been in England since as far back as you wish to go.....we built most of this country and helped keep this country moving through the work industry....i know you meant it as a joke but you need to rise above that kind of thought.
ProperStuff 4 years ago
Well, I'd like to go as far back as the Iron Age ;) Just messing. Of course, black people have made a great contribution, although to say that they built most of the country is taking things just a little too far - especially when you take into account the large areas of the UK without multi-ethnic populations until recently. Can't we all just get along? There is a spot beside me at my piano keyboard if anyone who wants it ;)
Comedian80 3 years ago 2
Comedian80....All of England had some form of ethnic mix dating way back to 12th century....if you dont believe me check the journals of that time....1950s & 60s just saw a large majority enter the country at one time.....but at least you are honest enough to believe that we have made some form of contribution....have a good day & be lucky!
ProperStuff 3 years ago
why are all old movies in fastmotion?
meisterof92 4 years ago
This one isn't. That's the 134 which ran from Potters Bar Station to Pimlico. Much of the countryside scenes are not much changed today, apart from the M25 that crosses near Dove Lane, and one shot from inside looks like going down Stagg Hill which was off line of route - one for the camera. No Route Masters here - too early for them.
degsy2us 4 years ago 2
"Women, know your place!"
And they all run on time too? I don't recall that!!!!
hastymusic 4 years ago
yes we did live like that in my youth.
Strangely the quality of life was I think much better then no P.C. we all lived together.
Ah happy days fondly remembered by this Englishman abroad a 62 year old Bangkok resident
bangkokstuart 4 years ago
Cor blimey they even had darkies in those days lol!
PS this is a joke
LeamingtonSteve 4 years ago
Despite comments below, every weekday over 6800 scheduled London buses carry around six million passengers on over 700 different routes...that excludes the former Green Line Country routes...even so that's still an increase of 1,800 buses at a time when passengers are a million less.
cogidubnus1953 4 years ago
I miss the routemaster.
EliteXtasy 4 years ago 2
You have to compare it with this!
abelseeman 4 years ago
surely, thats Mr Chumley Warner narrating ? ..
mountfields 4 years ago 2
They should do an updated version- chavs causing mayhem on a graffitied bendy bus whilst endless Macdonalds, Tescos, PC Worlds and Barrett houses flit by in the background.
tichenor 4 years ago 8
A cripple needs much kindness...
alabandon 4 years ago 3
where's the rope?
markhynde 4 years ago
The Colonial Film Unit would be most at home in London today.
NickRatnieks 4 years ago 3
Where's reg varney?
johngill 4 years ago 2
hahah....did you see the 2 black dudes in the beginning they looked scared sh*tless... I was surprised.....Cool video.
usdevildoggmc 4 years ago
A different world and a different speech accent.Love the background music!! Ha.
twoslices 4 years ago 2
Haha omg, buses were always on time? Why cant it be like that these days =)
Lyricaldon 4 years ago
They haven't been on time since 26 October 1986 and before that time, there were plenty of buses. Good old Thatcher, eh? Mike S.
25AUG1968 4 years ago
Brilliant, a simpler and more innocent time. I wish we had the samee manners today.
Eastanglianwarrior 5 years ago 6
great video. Greetings from Trujillo Peru SouthAmerica
christoc99 5 years ago