Trolleybuses

Trolleybus routes 657 & 667 circa 1960 which operated from Shepherds Bush to Hounslow and Hampton Court. The soundtrack is of various radio programmes at the time which those of us of a certain age will remember vividly!

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Trolleybuses
• 1960
• Shepherds
• Bush
• Hounslow
• Twickenham
• Hampton
• Court

[grahamwebb2000]

What is the music to this? It isn't "By the sleepy lagoon" as described.

[Quarkman0]

@grahamwebb2000 No, that description was put there by iTunes because "By a sleepy lagoon" is later in the clip (the theme tune to Desert Island Discs). If you're referring to the opening music, it's called "In Party Mood" and was the music to Housewives' Choice.

[webrarian]

Thank you. I grew up in Hampton Hill and remember catching the 667 to Twickenham a few times as a small child. It was the quiet of the trolleybus that impressed me. I never thought to see footage of a 667, let alone in colour.

[Quarkman0]

@webrarian My pleasure! I think there should be a YouTube for us of a certain age to invoke memories of our youth. Much of my youth I only remember in black & white - possibly due to the televisoin of the time! - this DVD, of which this clip is a snippet, is a revelation to me and brings back so many memories.

In short, I want a time machine and I want it now!!!

[Mittelbaum]

Hah! At 4.50, - Kings Street, Hammersmith, N. Berg - bought a very smart navy gabardine raincoat there - in 1961 !!!

As a boy, I used to take the trolley bus from Hammersmith to Hounslow Heath to fly my model aeroplanes.  Sundays were like a miniature air show - up to a hundred or so modellers flying.....and crashing!

Thanks for this video, Quarkman - took me back to teenage years and early married life, shopping in Hammersmith Market on Saturday morning, Poorer, but a better life.

[Quarkman0]

@Mittelbaum My pleasure Mittelbaum, that's what these videos are all about!

I am a little confused though - you bought a gabardine raincoat in 1961? You must loan me your time machine, your channel states that you're 30!! : )

[soundnicetome]

Has anybody noticed?.........no litter/rubbish anywhere in these shots....Oh dear,what has happened to our once lovely country !!!

[aufstand1848]

yes but in power stations. rathern than having thousands of diesel buses burning OIL on the streets under our noses. Even then trolleybuses were greener than diesels.

Nowadays trolleybuses would use a maximumum amount of renewable electricity.

[rocky5554]

@Quarkman0 I totally agree i wish i could go back to those times and the music fits so well as i remember all those radio shows. I grew up in Twickenham not far from the dip and i used to get the 601 everyday from Twickenham Green to Teddington for School until they sadly changed it to the Route-master Bus that was the end of an Era for the trolley bus there are some great memories here for me thank you for posting

[Preflyovers]

Went to school in 1950's on 657 trolleybus. the school was next to Isleworth Depot. Good to see  them again.

[iIamITheIMaster]

awesome music

[nalibos]

I do agree with you about Poorer, but a better life.