Driving Through Old London (1950's)

DUE TO THE FACT THAT THIS VIDEO TOO OFTEN HAS PROVOKED RACIST REACTIONS, FROM NOW ON ALL REACTIONS WILL FIRST BE SCREENED BEFORE BEING PLACED. Please just enjoy these old images and refrain from talking about how London has changed in relation to the influx of other nationals.

This is the result of enhancing and stabilizing the "Driving through London (1950's)" video that can be found elsewhere on Youtube.
It demonstrates how modern videoprocessing tools (like Deshaker, Contrast and Brightness adjust and Enhancement) can really improve an old video.
Four Virtualdub filters were used to obtain this result.

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Travel & Events

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• Driving
• Through
• Old
• London
• Dick
• Hoefsloot

[liambuckleydelta]

All comments will be screened? Hmmm - perhaps stating the obvious is not also a racist act in the Nanny state - soon the thought police will be tracking us to see if we have negative commments on the society in which we live has been completely destroyed by lax immigration policies for the last 50 years. England was a beautiful homogenous society with a common sense of identity - I was born in India - that does NOT make me Indian.

[Rick88888888]

@liambuckleydelta I also appreciate freedom of speech, but please read the entire comment history of this video, then maybe you understand better why I have taken this measure.

[josseruk]

identification part 2

3.26 Kensington High St going W and looking NE. Stars just past Argyll Rd where we were at 1.14 on the other side.

4.01 turn R up Phillimore Gdns again, but now looking at the E side.

4.53 turn R into Upper Phillimore Gdns again, now looking at S side.

[Rick88888888]

@josseruk Hey, thanks for this route description! Has is changed much since?

What about the first part? I thought it might be Tottenham Court Road?

[nuitetjuors1]

Please block all these BNP herberts. I came here to see some footage of old London, not to read Mein Kampf.

[Rick88888888]

@nuitetjuors1 I totally agree with you. It is sad that the discussion around this video has taken such an unpleasant turn. I tend not to read Reactions on Youtube because the percentage of rubish-talk, intolerance, racism, selfishness and agression seems to be dramatically on the increase. This world today is a mess.

[TheWhiterose1603]

Fast forward to 2011. The streets are covered with takeaways, all the shops are either fabric shops or travel agents for the middle east. On Friday the streets are used for prayers. You have gangs from eastern europe who go around begging. Gangs from north Africa who beileve that gang rape is alright. Women walking around with their face covered. Young girls with 4 kids yet no partner. Yet every goverment says that immigration as worked. All i see is a bigger divide & soon it will just explode

[harbottle99]

How lovely it looks compared to today. People felt they belonged to a nation, with shared values and culture. The multiracial experiment that was forced on us all by politicians has ruined London and inevitably the whole country.

London is unrecognisable today. Large areas might just as well be a foreign country. I don't think it's racist to like living in the culture one has always felt comfortable in and to want to preserve your own countrys' traditions and society. A

[moth36]

I really like London in the past

[MrBridge09]

@Rick88888888 Hi Rick, Thanks for posting, this is really nice. The clip at the start is on the 202 Hammersmith Road, or it certainly looks like that. Could you confirm.

Thanks again

[tileajb1]

Please do not let these negative comments put you off of doing more of this type of video, they are the best I've seen and at one point during this particular one a couple walking along could be my parents, thanks for posting.

[ConnorG56]

@Rick88888888 Can I use the start of this for a film? Its ok if you say no.

[Rembrandtt66]

I enjoyed the video, London is such a fasinating place. ihope that does not offend anyone.

[6DeepKey9]

hehe also, he/she did try to film also late at night but technology wasn't enough to make it good hehe

[ionutzB123]

back when parking wardens didnt exist

[TheTriumphTR2]

@Rick88888888 The film opens on Hammersmith Road, heading East. The impressive brick building on the left at 0:01 is "The Swan" Pub, built in 1900. (See Google images). It was built on the site of the original "Old Swan Coaching House" which dated from the 1700's. Fortunately, this pub is still standing and remains busy & largely unchanged to this day. Sadly however, almost all of the surrounding architecture in this section of film up to 1:14 has now been lost to modern redevelopment.

[niacom8]

Beautiful. Properly dressed people. This is my England.

Recognised High St Ken, used to live just up the top end of Church St, frequented the Central Library on Hornton St, 25 to 30 years ago. It was still pretty decent even then. Not sure about now of course, dress code's gone right down the pan these days for one thing, and how a chap dresses says an awful lot about how he is on the inside. Smart, not slovenly. Wouldn't it be lovely if we could wake up one morning and find it like this again?

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@liambuckleydelta makes you a wild colonial boy there's a song about that