Wow video of London in 1927

[procharged]

not sure if any of you have seen this but i thought it was cool !!

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/198876/ ... e-in-1927/

[Mossy68]

Fantastic find.
And oh how times have changed !

[Cannonball]

That is pure magic apart from the cars and motorbusses it could be early 1960,s the coppers look the blinkin same etc what a shame so few off them buses remain what did it say 4,000 of them ??? the little old cars still looking busy, it really is a brilliant bit off filming it all looked very clean as well,
when did they start to get london clean then ?????

i would love to go back in time and live a few days back then,

what was it like don, pete wise/ pete walton /ivor,

[Derek]

That's a great find. It's amazing how many of them building are still there and still look the same, thanks for posting Muzz.

[procharged]

someone has matched up the new with the old.... check this out !

[Guy]

What no Toyota's or Nissan's on the road.... no Aldi or Ikea sounds like a good place to be

[pete walton]

Petticoat Lane ,,,Bananarama! me i used to help put the stalls out there when i was a kid with me mate Brynn.There was a boxing club just next to were they kept the stalls Club Road ,,come out of there with a few nose bleeds ...still a good freind 47 years on...we used to get £2.75 and a box of fruit ,it was usually a bit out of date but me Mum would do something with it ,,,Jam was the usuual outcome .....My fathers family made there living from the barges on the Thames .mainly taking wood up the river Lea to the furniture makers at cooks ferry..... See the men ,not one without a suit and tie on , love it Muzz thanks

[db]

Great find!! Already nabbed it for FB ta

[Dave999]

coppers look the blinkin same etc:

apart from the sleves on his jacket are far too short

Dave

[autofetish]

Sent that to my grandad great post thanks

[TW71]

Great stuff, all racing around not a lot different than now,
Not seen as many plod as that around for years!

[Ivor]

Fantastic, takes me back to when I lived in the smoke! Great to see a lot of the buildings are still there.

I'm intrigued by the dark green saloon car driving down the side of Marble Arch, no idea what that is...

[RobTwin]

someone has matched up the new with the old.... check this out !

Petticoat Lane looks a bit more, erm... multi-cultural these days


Also noticed London Bridge is a fair bit wider now than it was back then. I thought it looked narrow in the first video

[Dave81]

Great footage........Interesting looking Tower!

[pete walton]

someone has matched up the new with the old.... check this out !

Petticoat Lane looks a bit more, erm... multi-cultural these days


Also noticed London Bridge is a fair bit wider now than it was back then. I thought it looked narrow in the first video

That is the one that was sold to the mad American ,the new one was opened in Bananarama! .... Your bang on about Petticoat lane ...I used to help a bloke called Tommy Smith,he started me of at Walthemstow market ,,,But when i got picked to play for Leyton Orient youth on Saturdays rather than jack in,, he took me to Petticoat Lane on Sunday....Worked there nearly every Sunday for 2 years ,,,He used to pick me up a 4 in the morning.....But i was earning and that allowed me to have real Ben Shermans and proper Levis.......He had a flower stool at Waterloo Station as well which his wife run ...Back then he was loaded ,but Bananarama! me did he graft.....A bloke called Tug Rixon was soft on my sister and because he got the knock back from her he made my life a living hell,He was about three years older than me....Anyways me and me mate Brynn decided to have him ,,,,,,well it did not go to well and if Pieface Collins had not stepped in i would proberly be dead .....After the stools were packed away we was marched up to the gym by the old boys there for a straightner..Now Tug was no mug in a ring...Pie put these boxing gloves on me that were about two foot round....Then he asked Tug if he was right handed ,,,yes says Tug ,,so pie gives him just the left hand glove and ties his right hand too his side .....I am thinking result i can have this clown now ......At this point lets look at the odds i am 13 ,,14 years old ish he is 17 ,,,18 ish ,,,and he has tattoos ,,,yes i know lots of muppets have tattoos but at thirteen anyone with tattoos is hard.....So i am at him like a wasp all the keep your chin covered from me old man went out the door and i am at him ,,,,,then BANG,,,,,,left hand straight jab ,,,Bananarama! me they say if you can hear Bow bells your a cockney ,,well they ringing was in my head .... Pie looks at me "You alright son??? "......"yea Pie lets have it"....At this point i started to embrace the MoQs rules cover your chin son ....then BANG ,,,that left hand again........Bananarama! nose bleed ,,,Bananarama! me new staypress ,,,me mum will kill me...at that point Pieface stopped it ,,,,,,I lost to a grown up put my pride was intact...........My grandad Denny said to me "No one has ever died of a nose bleed son""""......well many years later i found out they actually do