Mr Anon 10:53 Fri Nov 13
1959 dash cam ride through London- colourised and 60fps
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More interesting than it sounds
https://youtu.be/psBC4C0WqY8
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ray winstone
10:56 Mon Nov 16
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I reckon Far Cough was the driver.
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White Pony
10:48 Mon Nov 16
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Love stuff like this, especially any footage of London from the late 70s and 80s. Makes me all nostalgic about my childhood. London feels like a different place now.
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plankton
10:32 Mon Nov 16
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Can't believe the number of Morris Minors on the road
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Northern Sold
11:08 Sun Nov 15
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Some great NEW LD Lambrettas there... enjoyed that
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Toe Rag
1:39 Sun Nov 15
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If you like this stuff then you’ll probably be interested in A Portrait of Queenie about Queenie Watts when she ran the Iron Bridge Tavern in Poplar.
Well worth 40 minutes.
Back in the days when you wore a SUIT on a Friday and Saturday night down the pub.
Poignant footage of a post war East End just on the cusp of huge change.
https://youtu.be/IwYDgy_6f9M
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mashed in maryland
1:32 Sun Nov 15
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If you look at all that old footage, it really is like about 80% of working class men walked round with a fag permanently in their mouth, up until about 1970
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:30 Sun Nov 15
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The bloke sitting at the front of the boat wearing the white panama has the best job in the history of the world.
Basking in the sun and smoking a fag while watching the world go by.
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Dagenhammer
1:05 Sun Nov 15
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mashed in maryland 11:18 Sun Nov 15
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Agreed the Regents canal one is wonderful. It goes by where my dad was born, and being filmed the year he was born makes it even better. My uncles, his elder brothers regularly swam in the canal in the 1920's.
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mashed in maryland
1:05 Sun Nov 15
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Seeing places you know well, 100+ years ago in a photo, is one thing. But on video, colourised, with people moving around etc is something different.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:01 Sun Nov 15
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Thanks MiM, wonderful stuff.
I suspect the answer to your question is that, 'industrial history' or 'industrial archaeology' sounds as dry as pig iron. Whereas, as that video shows, it's actually fascinating stuff.
John Constable knew this very well.
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mashed in maryland
11:18 Sun Nov 15
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https://youtu.be/vUZB6OwfZ2s
Here's some footage from the canals in 1924
Including round Stepney/Mile End.
Absolutely fascinating stuff, baffles me how anyone isn't into this
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shammer
11:14 Sun Nov 15
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It is also clear that parking in the street was easy; spaces everywhere.
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Hermit Road
10:04 Sun Nov 15
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shammer 3:29 Sat Nov 14
Even the zebra crossing looked classy in that film.
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Ronald_antly
8:15 Sun Nov 15
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Why was the vehicle driven in reverse the whole way?
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Leeshere
5:48 Sat Nov 14
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YouTube colour film of London between 1895 and 1915.
https://youtu.be/NJgVZozcUKc
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ted fenton
4:32 Sat Nov 14
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God I've owned some of those cars !!!! loved my Consul 375 bought it off a Docker If it rained he would drive in one of the sheds and looked after it like a baby.
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yngwies Cat
3:33 Sat Nov 14
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Love the cars.
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shammer
3:29 Sat Nov 14
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I really like the first 5 minutes of this film. It's the Kensington High Street area in the early 50's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEjxGIka7uU
Lovely clean streets, not covered in markings, yellow lines, repaired patches, etc, and the people look so elegant. I suppose they are nearly all dead now. The cars are stunning.
Nice that the van driver who gets annoyed at being filmed has UPU on his number plate.
Somewhere there is a version of this with Debussy's Clair de Lune as the soundtrack, which fits the mood perfectly ,better than this silent version.
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LAF
2:46 Sat Nov 14
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Fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting.
Sad that some posters on here need to turn it into a racist jibe. Wonderful historical document.
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oioi
2:06 Sat Nov 14
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We were going to have our Christmas 'do' in the Dog & Duck again this year. Thursday 17th Dec. Can't see it happening. Shame.
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Sven Roeder
2:04 Sat Nov 14
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Enjoyed that, thanks
Might be colourised but looks like the main colour of 1950's London was still grey
Not a petrol head at all but loved the cars
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