South London 1963

[JOHNNYBOY]

South London 1963, what a fantastic piece of film, thought this might be of interest

 

[DulwichFox]

Thank you so much for that JOHNNYBOY..

I was 11 at the time and can remember virtually everything in those two clips.

Even St Luke's Church. I'm pretty certain that was Father Williams outside who was also

associated with St. Lukes & Camden Primary school which I attended until 1964..

DulwichFox

[JOHNNYBOY]

Glad you enjoyed it DulwichFox, I thought it was absolutely brilliant, I was also 11 at that time, it certainly brings back some memories

All the best, John

[Otta]

Someone posted these a while ago, yes they are great. Even though this was 15 years before I was born, they reminded me a lot of my childhood. Especially Peckham Parkand the Sally Army.

[Jah Lush]

Yeah, saw these a few weeks back. Great little bits of local history right there.

[bob]

I know I look young but I have to hold my hands up I remember it to.

Bob S

[Louisa]

Great footage and memories come flooding back. The post-modernism the commentator so favourably commends over the Victorian and sometimes older buildings, seems bizarre now. In less than half a century those very concepts have been all but rubbished and we see a return to the conservation and re-modelling of town planning based on the more Victorian ideals. I remember as a child whole communities being torn out of inner- London and sent off to help populate new towns, taking the very soul out of inner london with huge tower blocks most of which are now thankfully gone. You can never undo the damage of the past, but good to see they've learnt a lot in those years since.

Louisa.

[red devil]

Yep, the sooner we get back to the post WW2 bombed out cities and Victorian slums, the better...

[Louisa]

Or maybe you'd rather they reinstate the North Peckham Estate with its narrow intimidating corridors and see what the knock on effect is to house prices? ;-) lol

Louisa.

[red devil]

Or maybe you should read up on why mass density housing and new towns sprung up after WW2, nothing to do with house prices...

[Louisa]

At what point did I suggest house prices caused New Towns? What an odd statement. My initial point was that mass density housing and new towns were a consequence of poor post-war decisions made by planners and architects. They adopted post-modernism as the answer to all our inner city problems. It's since been learnt that neighbourhoods work better when communities cluster in low-density housing projects in the communities they evolved from. Forcing people out to live in new towns rather than converting and renovating the Victorian housing stock and thus seperating the community was a bad move.

Louisa.

[Bic Basher]

What a fantastic find on YouTube. My mother would have played in Ruskin Park during that era.

[Jah Lush]

I played in Ruskin Park as a child during that era. Brings back a lot of memories for me.

[mikeb]

my wife and I have just watched this in amazement - what an amazing clip. Thank you so much for sharing it.

[grace3]

So nice and well 'diferent to what newcomers think' " it always was not a miserable hole"

[Louisa]

Trouble is grace3, london neighborhoods are only "nice" once they've been gentrified and cleared of the 'riff raff'. Then they miraculously become "nice". Who are we as long standing residents to have any say on how lovely it was before gentrification? We've only lived here since day one! :)

Louisa.

[grace3]

There is "riff raff" and there is bags of ***** .South London has had it's share of both.