Swinging 60s London Bus Tours
The Swinging 60s London bus tours are running every Sunday to celebrate the music and culture of the 60s, one of the most defining decades of 20th century Britain. There are three different tours to choose from: the generic ‘Swinging 60s London’, ‘Rolling Stones and Beatles in West London’ and the ‘Hard Rock Museum’ tour.
For more info and tickets, visit
Swinging 60s London Sightseeing Bus Tours by Music Heritage London - Radio Caroline Ad
From the moment you board our vintage Routemaster bus, you’ll be transported back to one of the most defining decades of the 20th century via the cradle of British R&B and locations that gave birth to local music legends who went on to rock the world.
Select from one of our popular 90 minute and 3 hour tours which start from outside the Victoria & Albert Museum on the Cromwell Road, or let us create your very own customised 1960s experience, all to a backdrop of live commentary and the greatest hits of all time. (Group rates apply)
Swinging 60s London Bus Tours by Music Heritage London
The Swinging 60s London bus tours are running Sundays and Tuesdays to celebrate the music and culture of the 60s, one of the most defining decades of 20th century Britain. There are four different tours to choose from: the generic ‘Swinging 60s London’, the ‘Hendrix Experience’, ‘Rolling Stones and Beatles in West London’, and the ‘Hard Rock Museum’ tour.
For more info and tickets, visit
Swinging 60s London - bus tours and live music events.
The 50th anniversary of The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet album launch at The Gore Hotel in Kensington on 5th December 1968 gave Music Heritage London, the ideal excuse for another Swinging 60s Experience. The event included dinner, bus tour and live music ticket options.
Group Travel Organiser Magazine calls it The most immersive and compelling music experience to rock the streets of London. Great for groups... fun for one!
Swinging Britain in the 60s: A Psychedelic Dream (1967) | British Pathé
This segment of Pathé pictorial paints a psychedelic picture of the nineteen-sixties in London, England where the 'social rebels' have taken over with trendy clubs, paper dresses, and a new sense of discipline?
Music: Barney J Barnes And The Intro - It Must Be Love
For Archive Licensing Enquiries Visit:
Explore Our Online Channel For FULL Documentaries, Fascinating Interviews & Classic Movies:
#BritishPathé #History #Sixties #1960s #Britain
Subscribe to the British Pathé YT Channel:
(FILM ID:655.06)
Note: the neg. version has sections cut throughout that are spliced in at the end of the story, making the commentary out of synch with the visuals for most of the time. Neg. version is better quality for visuals, but use print version if corresponding commentary is required.
Social Rebels have taken over. Swinging London is spreading and the youth celebrates it's own kind of culture.
Quintessential swinging sixties footage.
See separate record of CP 662 - SWINGING BRITAIN (NEG) for full description (*PM0421*). This version was transferred from print and is in correct order, with corresponding commentary.
BRITISH PATHÉ'S STORY
Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. If it happened, British Pathé filmed it.
Now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance.
British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
1967 - London Street Scenes (added sound w/ color remaster)
Old film of London, England in the summer of 1967. Added in sound for ambiance and worked on color scheme. Thanks to British Pathe
Swinging London (1967)
London.
Several brief street scenes show groovy young people walking about; commentator talks of the swinging youth and the change in this city of increasing contrasts. A young woman talks to two nuns on the street; M/S of a trendy menswear shop next to a small sign for Carnaby Street; pan right to an iron monger shop. Swinging London.
There follows several shots of old buildings being demolished; commentator says Replace it with skyscraper blocks, boutiques, discotheques. A very high chimney comes crashing to the ground.
FILM ID:407.04
A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.
FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT
British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
Music Heritage London
The Swinging 60s Experience
London In The 1960s - Full HD Colour - Getty-Images - Traffic - City Gents - Landmarks
The Bowler hat brigade! All clips used are with thanks to 'Getty-Images' Every clip here can be calculated and purchased depending on license directly from Getty. See link below.
Music is a piece by 'RoyaltyFreeMusic12' This track is Free Background Music under the creative commons license.
This video is simply to allow an insight into London life in the 1960s - It is also to promote the fantastic collection that 'Getty-Images' hold.
Getty-Images :
Music :
Swinging 60s London Clubs 'The Cromwellian'
Part two of what I call my trip back in time to the swinging London clubs of the 60s find me outside 'The Cromwellian'.
It was located in the Cromwell road in south kensington.
This was another one of my Fav clubs in the 60s and most of the people in the scene at the time would have paid a vist at one time or another.
Kings Road, London (1960s)
Scene of Kings Road, London from the late 1960s.
25 AMAZING BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF LONDON IN THE SWINGING SIXTIES ERA
Photos from vintag.es Photos from vintag.es The era of the 1960s is synonymous with dramatic political and social revolution and change. This decade saw the conservatism and restrictions of the preceding post war 1950s give way to a more radical libertine generation committed to fostering utopian ideals of free love, world peace and harmony. Fashion defined the freedom of the era in the designs of Mary Quant, with the invention of the bikini, with the rise of the hemline in the miniskirt and the reign of the supermodel in Twiggy. It was the decade that saw the Beatles and the Rolling Stones invade America, the peak of the civil rights movement, the assassination of John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcom X. Widespread protests against the Vietnam War erupted while the end of the decade gave rise to hope as the world witnessed for the first time, a man walking on the moon. This fertile environment encompassed Europe in the 1960s - an era that was captured through the lens of Frank Habicht.
Born in Hamburg in 1938, Habicht began his career as a photographer in 1960 attending the Hamburg School of Photography, from which he graduated in 1962. He quickly became established as a freelance photographer and writer in Europe submitting works to be published in magazines including Camera Magazine, Spigelreflex Praxis, Twen, Jasmin, Esquire, Hoer Zu, Die Welt, Sunday Times (UK) and The Guardian. Habicht also gained employment working as a stills photographer for film directors, Bryan Forbes, Roman Polanski and Jules Dassin (1965-68), as in-house photographer for the Playboy Club in London (1970) and as a freelance photographer for Top of the Pops (1969). These encounters certainly provided Habicht direct access to international pop idols and film stars who became subjects of his most celebrated photographs and included Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, actor/director duo Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, actors Vanessa Redgrave, Marty Feldman and Christopher Lee, director Roman Polanski and photographer Lord Lichfield.
Habicht’s images capture the uninhibited spirit of the times offering a glimpse into the heady period that still manages to arrest the imagination some forty years later. His book Young London, Permissive Paradise, a social document on London's youth, was published in the late sixties. Another photographic book, In the Sixties (Tandem Press & Axis Publishing London 1997), juxtaposed those who achieved international fame with the unnamed, not recorded in history books. Frank says his main concern in photography is the process of communication to attempt to keep a situation alive by fusing observer and observed.
New video every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!
This video has been made possible by Myrtle Turner and Olga Tarczewski and her contribution in patreon!
Visit my Twitter!
Visit my Facebook!
Visit my Instagram!
Support me on patreon.
Walk Through Swinging 60s Soho, London 1966, Unseen Rushes
From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit Clip ref. AB235.
London Soho EXT street, teenage girls past. Red double decker buses. Tilt up Centre Point. Street, market stall, vegetables. POV walking along street. Vars Soho street scenes.
Swinging London 1967
Here is swinging 1967 London in all its glory complete with a Groovy soundtrack.
Around City Of London In Colour AKA London Scenes (1961)
Location: London, England / Great Britain
Story about London places and people.
MS People walking along street in city, mostly dressed in suits. CU clapper board.
VS Builders and bricklayers at work on the Barbican scheme, including a crane lifting bricks. MS Street sign 'London Wall'. MS City policeman on point duty with bomb damaged buildings in background. MS of a section of the London wall, with flats in the background. GV Block of flats, part of the Barbican scheme, two women walk past.
Various good shots of bridges across the Thames, Blackfriars Bridge, Tower Bridge, London Bridge and Southwark Bridge. Barges and boats are seen travelling along the Thames.
GV Two elevated shots of London (west end). GV of Bank and the Old Bailey.
MS People walking across London Bridge towards camera and past. MS People coming out of Bank underground station. GV Busy traffic scene at Bank. GV Stretch of the River Thames from top of Tower Bridge, with tug boat pulling cargo. Elevated view of London, including the Tower of London VS Pleasant country scenes at Epping Forest, including people fishing. MS and CU City policeman giving directions to a young boy. MS of policeman standing outside a police station. His colleague comes pout and they walk past the camera.
(Eastman Neg.)
FILM ID:3151.1
A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.
FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT
British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
A day trip to Carnaby Street London 1968
A Day trip to London with my mates then a picnic on the coast
1960s, 1970s London Underground, People On The Tube, Commuters, UK
1960s, 1970s London Underground, People On The Tube, Commuters, UK from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit Clip ref GWR116639.
Subscribe for more high quality, rare and inspiring clips from our extensive archive of footage.
1960s/1970s. View at end of tube platform looking up at crowded platform and tube train, Victoria, pulling in. Men and women passengers board train, pushing on. POV from front of train through tunnel and past passengers waiting on platform as it comes to a halt. Shot on board tube carriage, sun streams through windows as it rides through London suburbs. Men in bowler hats reading newspapers. One woman in 1960s outfit sits in FG. Commuters. Passengers bounce around as train moves. Scene gets darker as train goes through tunnel. INT dark tube carriage. Men and women sit reading, quiet. INT tube station great shot at base of escalator, people coming down. Lots of miniskirts. Late 1960s fashions. 1960s passengers out of tube and up stairs, poster just seen ‘Heals Sale Now On’. People walking up stairs. People coming down escalator.
Kinolibrary is a commercial archive film agency supplying high quality, rare and inspiring footage to media professionals. Our collections cover a wealth of eclectic and intriguing themes, locations and eras. Visit for more info.
WEBSITE:
TWITTER:
FACEBOOK:
INSTAGRAM:
Come To London! (1966)
An original 1966 British Pathe video about some of London's quirks and the reason people are attracted to the city.
An original 1966 British Pathe video about some of London's quirks and the reason people are attracted to the city. Initially called London the title has been changed to differentiate it from other clips in the archive. [Edited - 07/06/2012]
A look at various attractions in the Capital - more historical than swinging!
Panning shot down busy market in Berwick St. M/S of a salesman selling china to a crowd in Gravesend Market with cheeky cockney banter (synchronised sound).
High angled shot of Trafalgar Square. M/S of a man and woman feeding pigeons in the Square. C/U of the girl with pigeons landing on her hand. High angled shot of a barge going up a canal, pan to busy London street nearby. Panning shot of smartly dressed people riding through Hyde Park. Two deer are seen feeding from the hand of a fisherman by pond.
M/S of a calm lake, pan to a red double decker riding past. The bus is seen passing the National Gallery with St. Martin's in the Fields in the background. Low angled shot of St. Martin's spire. Various shots of Church spires and towers around London. L/S of the exterior of the Law Courts.
Low angled shot of a scaffolding covered dome of St. Paul's. Various shots of different parts of the cathedral, workmen are seen chipping and sanding off thick crusts of soot from St. Paul's. Panning shot follows a young couple in an M.G. car driving into the Barbican. Various shots of workmen on scaffolding cleaning old buildings, good views of the Capital from the scaffolding.
M/S of men in Cavalier and Roundhead costumes marching in the Lord Mayor's show. Low angled shot of children in the crowd waving Union Jacks. M/S of the famous gold carriage passing a platform of dignitaries. M/S of vintage cars passing in the procession.
M/S of the car themed, 'Two Hoots' restaurant in Bishopsgate. The couple (seen in the M.G.) are seated at a table, a waiter in driving goggles shows them the menu. Various shots of car related artefacts on the walls. Various shots of diners being served. More shots of the cockney market salesman entertaining the crowd with his banter. Various shots of a Pan American airliner landing at an airport. Passengers are seen coming down aeroplane steps, other planes are seen taking off.
M/S of the M.G. coming under Admiralty arch, point view shot from inside the car as it drives down the Mall. Various shots of Household Cavalry riding into their barracks. M/S of a horse and cart riding by the Thames. M/S of the couple looking over the Thames at the Houses of Parliament. Some shots of a water scooter on the Thames (see note in record c). The couple get back into their M.G. and drive past Parliament.
M/S of an Evening Standard van parking. M/S of press photographers. Various shots of a chef icing a giant cake. Britt Ekland is escorted into shot, she climbs a ladder and cuts into the cake. As she cuts, Peter Sellers bursts out of the cake driving a Mini (her present). More shots of the press, Brit and Peter lean on the car posing for photographs. M/S of Frank Ifield in a pub in Fleet St., he is being interviewed by Pat Doncaster. M/S of journalists around a pub table, pan to Frank's table. George Casey, sports journalist, eating a pub sandwich. C/U of the back to front sign for the 'Gentlemen's' - a printer's joke! Various shots of theatrical and historical artefacts on the pub walls.
Various shots of a Sherlock Holmes theme pub in Baker Street that looks like the detective's study, the landlord wears a deerstalker. Various shots of a pub in Covent Garden where Barrow boys from the market mix with baritones of the Opera House. Some shots of vegetable deliveries at Covent Garden.
More shots of the cheeky cockney barrow boy selling china to an eager crowd - he throws a pile of china in the air and catches them. Several 'plants' in the audience start the bidding - very 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'!
Note: this story is a bit of an odd mixture - it appears to use material from other Colour Pictorials: the water scooter is in AMPHIBIOUS WATER SCOOTER in CP 574, it also revisits places previously featured - the Sherlock Holmes pub is in SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB in CP 162. Other sequences may also have been reused or revisited.
Cuts exist - please see separate record.
FILM ID:351.03
A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.
FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT
Swinging London Late 1950's 1960's HD
More Golden Oldies for you Thumbs Up please & Subscribe thank you enjoy. Please post to your friends & Family in your social media and share in the Fun Many thanks Belfastjack
Martin - BRITAIN 1961-1970 The Swinging Sixties
BRITAIN - 1961-1970 - The Swinging Sixties
1961 - Danny Williams - Moon River
7 January – The Avengers television series first screened on ITV.
5 February – Sunday Telegraph first published.
21 March – The Beatles perform at the legendary Cavern Club in Liverpool for the first time.
July – Tania Mallet Fashion Model.
August – Jean Shrimpton Fashion Model.
9 November – 9 November – Welsh-born Rosemarie Frankland, becomes the first British winner of the Miss World beauty pageant.
This year, the Miss World beauty pageant is held at the Lyceum Theatre in London.
1962 - B. Bumble and the Stingers - Nut Rocker
2 January – BBC TV broadcasts the first episode of 'Z-Cars' noted for its realistic portrayal of the police.
2 June - Britain's first legal casino opens in Brighton, Sussex.
14 June – BBC television broadcasts the first episode of the sitcom 'Steptoe and Son' written by Galton and Simpson.
12 July – The Rolling Stones make their debut at London's Marquee Club, 165 Oxford Street, opening for Long John Baldry.
20 September – Ford launches the Cortina, a family saloon costing £573.
5 October - 'Dr No' the first James Bond film is premiered at the London Pavilion, with 32-year-old Edinburgh-born Sean Connery playing the lead, as a British Secret Service Agent, 007.
24 November – The first episode of the influential satire show 'That Was The Week That Was' (TWTWTW) is broadcast on BBC Television.
10 December - David Lean's film 'Lawrence of Arabia' released.
1963 - The Beatles - She Loves You
(This was the number-one selling song of the decade).
11 January – The film 'Summer Holiday' starring Cliff Richard premieres in London.
22 March – The Beatles release their debut album, 'Please Please Me'.
5 June – The Profumo affair: John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, admits to misleading Parliament and resigns over his affair with Christine Keeler.
July - The Beatles in Concert at The Winter Garden in Margate (My home town!)
July - The Beatles eat dinner in Margate (My home town!)
8 August – the Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire.
1964 - Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
1 January – Top of the Pops first airs on BBC TV. The first act to appear is The Rolling Stones singing 'Last Time', presented by DJ Jimmy Saville.
22 January – The film 'Zulu' is released starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine.
28 March – Pirate radio station Radio Caroline begins regular broadcasting from a ship anchored just outside UK territorial waters off Felixstowe.
June – Mary Quant introduces the miniskirt.
6 July - The Beatles' first film, 'A Hard Day's Night' is released.
4 August - The first portable televisions go on sale.
4 August - The Kinks release their first successful single, 'You Really Got Me' written by Ray Davies.
31 December – Donald Campbell sets the world speed record on water at 276.33 mph on Dumbleyung Lake in Australia.
1965 - Roger Miller - King of the Road
6 February – Sir Stanley Matthews plays his final First Division game, at the record age of 50 (fifty!) years and 5 days.
20 August – the Rolling Stones' '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' is released in the UK.
16 September – UK release of the film 'Darling' starring Julie Christie.
1966 - Chris Farlowe - Out of Time
6 April – Hoverlloyd inaugurate the first cross-channel hovercraft service, from Ramsgate harbour to Calais using passenger-carrying SR.N6 craft.
6 June – BBC1 television sitcom, 'Till Death Us Do Part' begins its first series run.
23 June – the Beatles go on top of the British singles charts for the 10th time with 'Paperback Writer'.
29 June – Barclays Bank introduces the Barclaycard, the first British credit card.
30 July – England beats West Germany 4–2 to win the 1966 World Cup at Wembley.
Geoff Hurst scores a hat-trick in a game which attracts an all-time record UK television audience of more than 32,000,000.
5 August – The Beatles release the album, 'Revolver'.
16 December – The Jimi Hendrix Experience release their first single in the UK, 'Hey Joe'.
December - Jaguar launch the E-type 2-plus-2 Coupe