18-10-2022, 06:35 PM
If you want to escape the gripping political scenes of today(!) and relax in the joys of yesteryear, you could do worse than have a look on YouTube following this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-jb8ydfsqw
It is only 8 or so minutes long, but the scenes of the people and traffic in Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square, plus a few minutes at a London railway station really are most nostalgic and evocative of the time when our cars were 'current'. Men in boaters and bowlers, and ladies in their cloche hats and heels, taxis and General 'buses on all sides and noone seems to be in a hurry. Perhaps those really were the days...
)I hope the link works, I don't know how to 'cut and paste" from YT to the Forum, If it doesn't work look on YT under A Day in London 1930s, which should bring it up).
It is only 8 or so minutes long, but the scenes of the people and traffic in Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square, plus a few minutes at a London railway station really are most nostalgic and evocative of the time when our cars were 'current'. Men in boaters and bowlers, and ladies in their cloche hats and heels, taxis and General 'buses on all sides and noone seems to be in a hurry. Perhaps those really were the days...
)I hope the link works, I don't know how to 'cut and paste" from YT to the Forum, If it doesn't work look on YT under A Day in London 1930s, which should bring it up).
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