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yesteryear traffic footage
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:54 am
by sierra3dr
Re: yesteryear traffic footage
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 6:22 pm
by History
I like watching old brit movies. In the background one often spots old cars.
The Victim made 1961. Has a collection of old cars. Film 4 channel.
Bob.
Re: yesteryear traffic footage
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 4:01 pm
by GHT
Yesteryear! Excuse me.
That video shows Trafalgar Square in London, as it was. Today you can't circle Nelson's Column, the road in front of The British Museum has been pedestrianized. Back in those days, we had great fun driving around Trafalgar Square. If you entered it from the, St Martin's Church end, you would be going downhill. Knock your gear into neutral, switch the engine off, (no steering locks to worry about back then,) pump the gas pedal hard, twice. Switch the engine back on. The unburnt fuel that is now in your exhaust pipe ignites, creating the most enormous backfire, sending Trafalgar Square's pigeons skywards and leaving the tourists covered in feathers and poop.
Enraged tourists sometimes got the last laugh though, the backfire could, and sometimes did, rip your exhaust off.
Re: yesteryear traffic footage
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 8:17 pm
by History
I came from the smoke originally and I used to cycle up to Trafalgar Square from Greenford Middlesex. Then off to Kensington for the museums. This was in the 1960's. Now everything is changed.
The film The Blue Lamp. ( Dixon of Dock Green) was filmed around Portobello Road. My grand dad lived nearby and showed me the locations. And Ruston Mews. Which used to be Rillington Place. Christie and Timothy Evans.
Christie murdered women and hide them under the floor. Evans got hung mainly on Christie's evidence. After Evans got hung. The rest of the bodies turned up and they realised that it was Christie not Evans.
