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I a hundred yrs. when confused People are attempting to piece together History ; These TH-cam Comment Boxs' will be so contradictory to what is presented on the Monolith above , it's going to give them a migrane like i have from a similar dichotomy.
Those people staring into the camera could never have predicted that I’d be laying down here on my bed over 100 years later and staring right back at them. It’s just wild.
I agree, Adrain. Imagine if we could tell them of the technology that would exist 100 years on from their present day. They'd look at us as if were crazy. Then again, imagine what will be normal 100 years from now...
Exactly! I always say if we could tell the folks from 100 years ago, just what is normal for us now, they’d think we were all involved in serious witchcraft!
I absolutely love any street footage from the past. To me, the worst live street footage is about 1000 times more valuable than the best staged productions from that time. Seeing the kids playing in the street, the traffic, people simply going about their daily humdrum, it's fascinating to watch
@Sheila Mchgee Is that your final response to someone who might just be interested in your angle of perception. I'm genuinely and naturally inquisitive.
Not even a few decades… a mere fourteen years! I always think of that too when l see such old footage. They had no idea what was coming down the track. Still, l also think the horror of WWl did lead to emancipation of women and eventually better lives for animals.
'' We Are all ghosts...Just passing through. Only the buildings remain. And they too, along with along with all our schemes and dreams , will crumble into dust. Thus is the World in which we live in for a fleeting NOW '' !
My grandfather was born in 1900 and told me many stories when I was a child. I was too young to fully understand, but this goes some way to explaining the headlines of the time and what he may have been trying to explain to me. Thanks for posting.
This is what history should be about and not the rubbish that my children are being forced to study these days. They know nothing of the History of this country or even the rest of the world, this knowledge is being lost and it really annoys me.. This documentary and others like this should be shown in all schools. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
Karen Johansen Grandchildren are our saving grace, girl! I don't have any yet, but every mistake I made with my kids? I hope I one day get the chance for some do-overs! :-)
You are so right, something needs to be done so our Grandchildren don't suffer the same fate. Perhaps they could have a chance of a better education than our children did.
I grew up watching English movies ( I'm American) and I've always had a fascination with the Victorian period. I wouldn't have wanted to live then but the architecture of the time ...magnificent. I live in a very old house circa 1886 and it's considered Folk Victorian. Not as fancy as English Victorian homes but heavily influenced by the style.
@@tonithenightowl1836 Read your first comment and wanted to say that in the '60s and '70s much of the Victorian housing was demolished to make way for cheaply built modern tower blocks and flats. They did have inside loos and bathrooms but nobody ever seemed that happy in them. Our whole street was moved en masse from our sunny, personable street to a miserable concrete block. They became dilapidated very quickly (ref Ronan Point) and their maze-like construction developed into warrens of crime. Meanwhile, the architects who designed these human warehouses continued to reside in their nicely refurbished Victorian homes. If those demolished properties were around today they'd sell for a lot of money and be very desirable residences. The initial intentions were good but they could have maintained the old houses instead of demolishing whole neighbourhoods. The 60s had a fetish for modernism but thank goodness they didn't manage to demolish St. Pancras after a campaign to preserve it; a fantastic Victoria Gothic building!
@@musicloverlondon6070 Oh I hear what you're saying and it's a damn shame but with public housing they can pretty much do what they want. We have very little public housing here in my one horse town. When the neighborhood public schools built in the late 1800's were no longer up to code, that's what was torn down and use to build public housing in the 70's. They still stand today so the construction was good but it was heartbreaking to see those beautiful buildings torn down. Some were privately bought and turned into apt buildings but most were demolished. When I toured this house I fell in love with it despite all the work which needed to be done. We didn't restore ( too expensive) but we kept everything original which we could, remodeled and even added space where needed... like the kitchen. Nothing was done in this house for 116 yrs. until we bought it 20 yrs ago. The BONES were good so we took it on. It's not for the faint of heart, most would have torn it down and rebuilt something modern. I couldn't do that bc I watched too many damn British movies growing up. lol :o)
Tragic to think that many of those young boys cheerily running in front of the camera and having fun have no idea that they will meet a horrible end on the Western Front.
@@johnmiller6976so the overwhelming majority of them survived, right? to set another perspective on the usual "omg, all those people in these old videos are dead, it's so sad" take. also, you can't really cry about 880 000 people. because your extended family knew only few of those men. and you can't mourn your great-grandfather because you never knew him. so, overall, to think "somebody is dead", is kinda moot. yes they are, and relatively soon we'll be too. so what?
@@thepearlswirlyou can't talk to yourself like that. Stay positive. I was homeless a few years ago with no car or family but it got better. Please stay strong
A document worth seeing. Contains interesting patches of film and photos as well. The mentality of that time seems to be more positive than today though poverty was a real problem compared to current times. My father was born in 1916 and died 2017. His early life was also very different. When he was young he was not given shoes to wear from May to October. Shoes were too expensive. He had to work since age of six. And mother never asked the 11 children what they wanted to eat. You ate what was available and did not complain.
Gorgeous era and love the Edwardian fashions for both men and women. The beautiful actress Maud Adams is one of my all time favorites...thanks for sharing!
The rich did dress elegant,the poor couldn’t even afford coats so wore blankets If I would have been around then I would have been poor wearing blankets More money than sense and ignorant
My grandmother was born in 1899, and I have many vivid memories and films of her. (She didn't die until I was 24.) So if you had a grandparent who was born around that time, and many people who are in their 50's or 60's did, it brings that time a little closer to home.
My own grandmother was born in 1899 too ;-) and she died and was buried a week later on the day of my 22nd birthday - 1982 - no way would i have wanted to live back then - hard times my great grandmother born about 1860 (grandma's husband side) married 3 times and was very business minded, but her 3 husbands were useless - bad choice in men unfortunately! - and in those days, women had very little chance especially from poor backgrounds on getting anywhere without the aid of a good man's name and help - although she did buy herself a lot of beautiful items for the house and one of her sons became mayor of a nearby town ;-) - her other sons were like her husbands - unfortunately that included my grandad LOL
My grandmother died in 1982 as well ! Times were indeed tough back then. Many diseases were much more dangerous and more children would die from them. Life was harder, but it was a simpler time.
RJ Walker My grandmother was born Sept. 14, 1898, died October 22, 2001. She lived her entire life in New York/Long Island. I’ve written down many of her stories and memories of life. On 9-11, she said, “I’ve through two world wars and the start of the third and final war, but I’ll not be here to see the outcome.”
That's a generalisation. The present has been fucked up by mass migration since the 1990's. The UK could have been very different, less crime, less crowded, less terrorist threats. This reality is least appreciated by the middle and upper classes.
I preferred life 15 even 20 years ago because all these activist weirdos weren't around crying over nothing and making a fuss, none of them had a big enough mouthpiece to spout their stupid ideals into, many people including myself never knew they even existed which for me was great, ignorance is bliss as they say, take me back or do away with the lot of them
Thank you for posting this, Dr Brown. What an amazing time that must have been! So many of the things we now take for granted had not yet been thought of, and yet, this era was on the cusp of so many incredible things.
Being naive was a big part of being that optimistic. When you are basically ignorant, you are happy, carefree about the future. No fear equals happiness. This is why children are so happy....they fear nothing. As we age, we start to fear almost everything; our health, money, relationships, dying, etc. Children do not have these fears.
I think thats a really simple, but accurate way to explain it. When I was very young my family were relatively quite poor, but so were everyone we knew, therefore it was the norm. Was I happy then? You bet I was. Only when I got older did I realize that people had things that we couldn't afford....thats when the penny dropped and I noticed for the first time that we were poor. The two best bits of advice ever came from my grandfather (1898-1976) " Don't buy what you can't afford" & " If you want something, go out and work for it". The result is that I'm doing fairly o.k. and have never been in debt (except a mortgage).Simple really.
Yep - we adults have more invested in life and more to lose apart from loved ones dying or nursing sick aged parents and relatives, everyone dies but death was more common and in your face back then. No antibiotics so a splinter could lead to your death, and they were always aware of that; pneumonia was a real risk, tuberculosis was very common and mainly incurable. Pain from arthritis, and hard damaging work loads, and general cold winter conditions. Pain was a constant, and anesthetics were only becoming less dangerous and reliable. Many men died in industrial and farm accidents and women died in childbirth, no contraceptives! Many babies died. Often they re-married quickly because they both had children to care for and they supported one another and stuck together. Back in the early 1900s a lot of people became very ill with conditions that we no longer have to fear, they were not naïve, they had very hard-working lives and religious beliefs were a comfort and joy to many. That is something people of today don't quite understand. They only think of religion as some sort of fairy tales but people actually read the Bible then and it is full of examples of life and it's difficulties and they had examples of how to cope with life's sadness - life is tough without something to sustain a positive outlook. Children actually have lots of worries and fears too but very little real responsibility until they are taught about life to safeguard them. Forewarned is forearmed. I am grateful for what we have today but I don't think younger people understand what they hve compared to what used to be. I think everyone needs to learn more about their county's History, we knew a great deal about the world and geography as well, education was definitely better. That helps one have a more balanced and realistic perspective. JkK keep learning about History. Regards.
My mum also was born in England 1898 and died in America in 1972 because her doctor was out of town when I carried her to the hospital and they would not help her. So I carried her back to the car and into her little apartment. A few hours later she called me again saying that the pain was too great. So I drove over and carried her into my car and to the hospital. She died a few hours later of peritonitis which could have been prevented. St. Johns hospital, Santa Monica, hang your heads in shame.
This is great! I truly enjoy these rare peeks into our past. Styles, fashions trends, cultures, and the world around us change., but mankind remains the same.
watching all of these old films makes me think that we got T shirts and Hoodies these days and it's looks convenient but i still love ppl wearing those suits and hats back then
I’d imagine it was to keep warm since the world was colder back then. No efficient heating systems and it cost a fortune to pay for coal if you were lucky enough to have a steady job.
Alex Nick i just watched a video called “the construcion of chrysler building” and there were builders working 1000ft above the ground wearing suits and hats mad.
I really love old documentaries. It's 2018 and we get to see footage of people from the 1900]s. The footage is incredible. They did't have iPhones or hand held video equipment.back then. Well done.
The Good Old Days .... Pretty bad at times no matter where you lived.. Thanks Dr Alan Brown, I put this down as one of the essential/videos that need to be seen. A professional Historian named Page Smith, People's History of the United States [8 v.] (McGraw-Hill, 1976-1987) .He is one of the best writers I have every read... He writes about New York City in 1870 where the death rate for newborn children at some "hospitals is over 80 %...There is a direct connection. What we don't know about history is often times more than we do, for most people.... My ex brother in Laws grandmother was called Nana... She was born about 1890.or 1895...I knew her in the early 1980 she had emigrated to the US, having been born in London, and ran a small tavern/Inn in Tokeland Washington.(it's still there) It was always amazing to hear her talk of England at the turn of the 19/20 century. A frail old woman with a clipped London accent. She was a good person and I warmly remember her. ..Once again... Great video... I'm getting older now and my Dad was born in 1907....and it always amazes me the common things that we don't know. Sometimes you had to be there. I graduated the University in History and while I never taught...My passion has never ended... Thanks again, we fight for the light of education and reason in a world that sometimes seems to grow darker as the forces of, for want of better words ignorance and intolerance seem to be resurgent
Can I have that back now? It tends to be under the one on the left Chimpney. I already gave you the half crown I suppositoried so when I have it back you can tell the huxtable you're leaving for good to live with your sister in Yorkshire. We both know where you're actually going though.
Such precious footage, thank god we have the chance to see how people lived over a century ago, how different they look compared to us today, respectable, smart, hard working people, they even had spirit, even though life was so hard and cruel. All i see when i walk the streets is just miserbale people in their own world staring at their phones, it's like i'm watching another species of human beings, we really do live in a totally different world now.
You can see how the car and the road system totally changed the landscape of our towns and cities forever, so many buildings were bulldozed to make room for the road system
We still had inkwells at school in the 40/50 in London and my Father who was born in1901 said there were lots of a Kids without Shoes in Winter in the Neighborhood, this was in Marylebone Lane near Wigmore Street with Harley Street just around the corner and the Work House just around the corner as well so Poverty just didn't disappear with " The New Age " in 1960 I worked in a Butcher Shop in Thayer Street when young and we would cook up Lamb Scraps to give Tramps something hot to eat in Winter . Yes, the new age alright, for some!
Did you have to dip the pen in inkwells after every few written words? Back in the late 1990s, in Romania, when I was at school, we still had inkwells, but the pens had reservoirs.
One of my friends struggles to afford food and still lives with his dad. His dad is a veteran of the troubles and the Falklands. He needs constant care and as such my friend looks after him. My friend has no time for a job nor any transport to get to one. Their benefits don't cover enough to pay for bills, rent, and food. He goes around with holes in his shoes that he's had for the past 10 years. I used to live in social housing too. I've seen plenty of other people in similar situations. Poverty is still a big issue. It is a largely overlooked one these days even though it is starting to become a bigger issue again. I'm sure the poor back at the turn of last century would love central heating, comfy beds, tellys and such... Yet there is still the issue of people being malnourished. Drugs really hasn't helped anything either
Oh Annie, Annie, Annie. This lady is just so adorable - ah I just want to give her a squidgy cuddle. We all need an Anne Coleman in our life. Wonderful documentary - thank you so much for the upload.
Difference between people then and now is people were brave not afraid of change. There was a collective sense of progress where we must cater to everyone. I long for the time we can be happy for the new decade 2020 and be happy for change no fear of political correctness. Great video!
I don't think we have made much progress really if you think about it.... Apart from computers and certain areas in medical health... We appear to have gone backwards significantly due to a lot of 'technology' In the year 2023, imagine if the electric grid went down for a month. All computers and tech stopped working. Our so 'advanced' Society would completely break down. Simple things like taps with hand sensors wouldnt even work. Basic of basic. Everything would fail. Every factory, every farm, every hospital, every house, everything. From an engineering point of view, they were actually much better back then than now, they just didn't have the health and safety. Apart from maybe Elon Musk, all the great scientists, thinkers, engineers, inventors came from this era. The pinnacle of the evolution of the human brain. They did it all with no assistance of computers and the Internet. We can't fathom building such amazing structures that were built in the 1800 - 1900s. We could not replicate them now. The architecture is incredible. A time when things were designed and built to last forever. Machines built from this era still work perfectly in 2023. Everything now is deliberately designed to break for money reasons. Electronics have replaced everything. Electronics just always go wrong, always, always and never last. Just look at all the new factories, amazon, tesco etc. These factories are an embarrassment compared to the factories built back then. Many old factories are still in use and many of the huge ones have been turned into flats. The factories now like amazon etc, won't be here in 50yrs. Not without a complete refurb of everything. The cardboard houses we build now that are completely unsustainable and won't last 50 years are much worse. We are tearing down houses and flats that were only built 40-50yrs ago. But the grand buildings from this era still look fantastic and cost a fortune. Even victorian street houses are so much more expensive and nicer. I could go on and on to be fair. Life was grim during these times if you were poor, but the men of this period were made of something completely different to the ones now born after the Internet in the mid 90s.
Just seeing this in Sept 2022. The earliest-born relative I remember was my great-grandpa (my mother's mother's father lol). I had other relatives from 1900 and 1902. My step-grandmother was born in 1916. She was my Granddaddy's second wife and 14 years his elder. I very much wish I had been a wise child and recorded stories from them. My great grandfather (Grandpa) lived to 84 and went peacefully in his sleep while we were on vacation when I was only 10, so I didn't know any better. We, as the middle-aged generation now need to ensure our parents' and grandparents', if we are fortunate enough to still have them, stories are recorded for posterity. ESPECIALLY I'm this age of trying to rewrite and erase history. It's more important than ever that the older stories live on.
I just love history and to be able to see it happening is amazing ! Truly archive material is beyond fascinating. Thank you very much for sharing this incredible footage.
Anne Coleman, born 1890, has to be 109 in this docu, but that seems impossible. I'm wondering if her interview was filmed at her 100th birthday and then included here? If not, she's the brightest, most spry, most delightful 109 I've ever seen.
There are some great videos about that on youtube . A lady describing the food they cooked during the rationing and the depression. Google "cooking in England during the depression" or whatever. "Servants in England" - that should get something interesting. There is a good series about what it was like to have a job in the large mansions of the day - very detailed. Another one about country girls getting a job in a city home - House maids were country girls who wanted to get away from the farm labour and live in the city. Hard work.
My Grandad said that he had a boil on one bum cheek and the teacher told him to sit up straight at his desk. The teacher ended up smacking Grandad's desk with his leather at which point he sat up bolt upright and burst that boil, happy times.
Much the same and much different. At the end of the day, we appear to learn very little from our mistakes. We continue to choose the same kind of leaders and then wonder why episodes from our history keep repeating itself. Fascinating.
I was born 1980. My Great Grandmother was born 1900. I cannot help but to think of her parents welcoming her into the world with hope for New big things! And now here I am her 5th generation watching about my great-great grand parents adult life and my great Granny's childhood. Completely amazing. Also I have children and now they do as well so 7 generations later. Here we are❤❤😊
We had inkpots and those dip pens with replaceable nibs at school in England in the 1950s and 60s too. First you learnt to write with pencils, then you learnt to use dip pens, then later, I can't remember when exactly, we were allowed to use fountain pens.
oh man, listening to the accounts of the people who were children then, from their own mouths… what a gift! the lady bragging about her pinafore is so precious. I hope she had a happy life
the opening scene in Bradford..wow..look at all of those indigenous peoples...thankfully we've become more enriched and now most of yorkshire is a caliphate.
Thank you for this picture of my forefathers. A related brotherhood of many tribes who realized their sheer existence came from depending on one another and getting along. perhaps in this changed world people could come together despite their differences and find some common bonds. on that note, may God help Europe.☺
How many of those joyous kids died horribly in the trenches 16 years on? Britain was at the height of Empire prosperity. So much was lost in the war that followed... and then even more after WW2.
VERY GOOD info here ...and well worth the watch . Once again Alan.....you have shared a very lovely part of history with us all ...and let me send u a smile :))))))))))))) Dankje ...x.
I aim to give satisfaction! I will have another good 'veterans' film available after Easter (once I've processed it) so please stay tuned. Good to hear from you again. Regards - Alan
When Hunter Davies was born in 1900, could he ever have imagined being The Beatles official biographer? What the hell is a Beatle or Rock n Roll? Wow amazing
Thank you for this documentary, this is my favorite time period. I would have loved to live at that period or at least been able to visit it with a time machine or something. It was far from perfect but it's good enough for me. I've subscribed to your channel so that I can check your other documentaries. Once again, thanks.
@Jusu Jaka The majority of black Africa is worse off now than they were when they got their independence. Ghana and Gabon are probably better off. Even Nigeria with all its oil wealth is pretty much a violent basket case.Kenya was way better off under the empire.Asia and Latin America certainly have their problems but Africa never seems to progress.
+John Long Thank you, John, and I agree. They were perhaps more enthused that so many people at the dawn of the 21st. Then again, people back then in 1900 would not have been so chipper had they known what horrors the first half would bring. Thanks - regards, Alan.
At the 2011 census, London had a population of 8,173,941. Of this number 44.9% were White British. 37% of the population were born outside the UK, including 24.5% born outside of Europe.
@@Sameoldfitup The left has been dumbed down beyond the ability to debate most subjects. We need to take advantage of the fact that only we know what is actually going on.
A fabulous documentary! It movingly conveys the end of one age and the beginning of another. Priceless interviews with a couple of remarkable people who lived through the time, rare footage and intelligent narration. Wow!
Thanks, John, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I often wonder if life was simpler then, but when you see the poverty they had to endure (and the lack of medical care), maybe it wasn't!
Alan Brown No, it wasn't simpler then. Jack London's "The People of the Abyss" will give you his eyewitness account of east end London in 1902. You can read it online at project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1688
I was 8 years old at my first boarding school in 1967, I hated it, the cane was the usual punishment you got for misbehaving, not as extreme as the lady talks about with her spelling mistakes at the 6.58 point but for talking after the lights were out in the dormitories, then you would get 6 lashes on the arse. Two of the teachers had fought in the great war of 1914 to 1918 and at one school when the battery powered calculator became commercially available we still we not allowed to have them in the exams, I got myself a slide rule but had no idea how to use it. Bullying was common place and the food was aweful, lumpy porriage for breakfast, butter beans and beef/pork sausages was the worst food that we got some days and we had no vegetarians if I remember rightly, but at this school I first heard heavy metal music, it was 'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath and it was my favourite sound.
I was 8 at my boarding school in 1984...hated it, still have some emotional baggage of anxiety surrounding that period of my life. We had he cane and latterly the slipper. The emotionally sterile environment coupled with intollerance for children and no 1st names used left us all with no doubt we werent cared abt...
At the beginning she mentions inkwells and pens with nibs - I used these at school before ballpoint pens came in. They were awful - the ink got all over the hands and the cuffs and there were big splotches on the page.
And worse if you were left handed. My primary in the 70's insisted on ink cartridge pens. At least I wasn't punished for writing with my left, but cartridge ink dries too slow for lefthanders who have to move their hand over the fresh written text not preceed it like righthanders.
Sometimes it's really hard to distinguish between someone making a really clueless statement and someone having a very dry wit/being sarcastic, when you are reading it on the internet...
I have been immersed in the past watching this wonderful piece of history . People look very well and content specially the beautiful children. Too bad that not too long ahead half of those children will perish in WW1.
Desktop ink Wells a sheet of blotting paper and a fountain pen. ..i used them in school in the early 60s. .. The reference to the raise of the school age to 14 wow! ..and I left in 1970 aged 15yrs. .
The days of real poverty for children, with scruffy, dirty clothes and shoes, with not much to eat or to look forward to. Today children claim poverty because they don't have the latest iPhone, tablet, laptops, internet, Branded clothes and shoes, and stuff themselves wit burgers and pizzas......:) This is a fascinating look at the past, and how people lived, and died, especially many children through diseases, malnutrition etc. Plus Anne Coleman born 1890, is still very attractive too....:)
Yes now we are told about child poverty one day, obesity crisis the next. Poor Marcus Rashford doesn’t know whether to give free meals or take them away!
yes but what josef means by British is white, but that definition no longer applies. Does it matter? Not much if you think that there is only one race and it's called human.
Very fascinating. I would say, that it was the iPod , mobile phone, then becoming the smart phone, that was absolutely transformational, more than just the internet at the turn of the 21st century. Watching this unfold for my children, born 1995, 1997 and 2000, was, for me, witnessing history in the making, in the most profound way.
To watch this is great, because one can be glad to be born in the 20th century. My grand-mother, born in 1900 told me horrible things about how children were exploited, how poor people were and how expensive it was if someone was ill and needed a doctor. I was never nostalgic of any time, I try to be happy now :))
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I a hundred yrs. when confused People are attempting to piece together History ; These TH-cam Comment Boxs' will be so contradictory to what is presented on the Monolith above , it's going to give them a migrane like i have from a similar dichotomy.
@@davidwaynechoate8059 Lol,wut?
What does it exist? To sell things? Sorry, but true.
if only we kept our self preservation instincts archive.org/details/youtube-Wk25AeFWMNs
Those people staring into the camera could never have predicted that I’d be laying down here on my bed over 100 years later and staring right back at them. It’s just wild.
They wouldn’t believe the garbage that has been allowed to replace British culture today.
Quasimodo predicted dis.
@@johnslatin4646 spot on. Absolutely abysmal what’s been allowed to fester within this old country over 70 preceding years
@@sirrom5155 sopranos lol
they wouldn't believe that five seconds after watching you would completely forget what you just watched and move onto something else
Blows my mind that I’m watching all this in the palm of my hand.
I agree, Adrain. Imagine if we could tell them of the technology that would exist 100 years on from their present day. They'd look at us as if were crazy. Then again, imagine what will be normal 100 years from now...
They seemed to feel the same way about their technology, how it is portrayed in so many films. Especially trains, lol.
Exactly! I always say if we could tell the folks from 100 years ago, just what is normal for us now, they’d think we were all involved in serious witchcraft!
@@christineclancy5801 lol. Totally
Yep totally amazing
Absolutely loved the elderly woman that was interviewed. Youth and enthusiasm for life was evident in her eyes, just lovely !
I absolutely love any street footage from the past. To me, the worst live street footage is about 1000 times more valuable than the best staged productions from that time. Seeing the kids playing in the street, the traffic, people simply going about their daily humdrum, it's fascinating to watch
Fantastic to read your remark. No bias or elitist ideals. A pity some people appear to harbour a different narrow.
I strongly agree! I love history!
@Sheila Mchgee Not sure what to do wid dat comment.
@Sheila Mchgee Is that your final response to someone who might just be interested in your angle of perception. I'm genuinely and naturally inquisitive.
@blah Newman Exactly!
The kids running to keep ahead with the camera are adorable, it makes me sad to think the misery they would go through a few decades ahead...
I know they will have to face a blitz and two world wars.
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That is nothing compared to what we face.
@@johnslatin4646 they had to face multiple waves of influenza, world war 1, the Great Depression, and world war 2 I’d say that’s living through a lot
If any became soldiers then they helped defeat the Nazis. If it hadn't of been for some of these the Nazis may have won,
Not even a few decades… a mere fourteen years! I always think of that too when l see such old footage. They had no idea what was coming down the track. Still, l also think the horror of WWl did lead to emancipation of women and eventually better lives for animals.
'' We Are all ghosts...Just passing through. Only the buildings remain. And they too, along with along with all our schemes and dreams , will crumble into dust. Thus is the World in which we live in for a fleeting NOW '' !
Well said , greetings from Chile
My grandfather was born in 1900 and told me many stories when I was a child. I was too young to fully understand, but this goes some way to explaining the headlines of the time and what he may have been trying to explain to me. Thanks for posting.
Thanks, Paul.
What stories ?
where are all the homosexuals in the films?
emigrated to America to be with their fwends. . .
Everybody's dream. But yo can not be and have been at the same time !
This is what history should be about and not the rubbish that my children are being forced to study these days. They know nothing of the History of this country or even the rest of the world, this knowledge is being lost and it really annoys me.. This documentary and others like this should be shown in all schools. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
+Karen Johansen ..work it out with your kids' teachers; I was able to. :-)
+Terry Licia I wish I had but they are all grown up now, my youngest is just finishing his final exams now. I showed him this video and he was amazed.
Karen Johansen Grandchildren are our saving grace, girl! I don't have any yet, but every mistake I made with my kids? I hope I one day get the chance for some do-overs! :-)
You are so right, something needs to be done so our Grandchildren don't suffer the same fate. Perhaps they could have a chance of a better education than our children did.
Why dont your children go and find out for themselves!
I grew up watching English movies ( I'm American) and I've always had a fascination with the Victorian period. I wouldn't have wanted to live then but the architecture of the time ...magnificent. I live in a very old house circa 1886 and it's considered Folk Victorian. Not as fancy as English Victorian homes but heavily influenced by the style.
My mother's house was built in 1830.
@@elizabethwoolnough4358 You win. lol May I ask if it was a city dwelling, small town or countryside? I'm from Pa. We have them in all three.
@@tonithenightowl1836 Read your first comment and wanted to say that in the '60s and '70s much of the Victorian housing was demolished to make way for cheaply built modern tower blocks and flats. They did have inside loos and bathrooms but nobody ever seemed that happy in them. Our whole street was moved en masse from our sunny, personable street to a miserable concrete block.
They became dilapidated very quickly (ref Ronan Point) and their maze-like construction developed into warrens of crime. Meanwhile, the architects who designed these human warehouses continued to reside in their nicely refurbished Victorian homes. If those demolished properties were around today they'd sell for a lot of money and be very desirable residences.
The initial intentions were good but they could have maintained the old houses instead of demolishing whole neighbourhoods. The 60s had a fetish for modernism but thank goodness they didn't manage to demolish St. Pancras after a campaign to preserve it; a fantastic Victoria Gothic building!
@@musicloverlondon6070 Oh I hear what you're saying and it's a damn shame but with public housing they can pretty much do what they want. We have very little public housing here in my one horse town. When the neighborhood public schools built in the late 1800's were no longer up to code, that's what was torn down and use to build public housing in the 70's. They still stand today so the construction was good but it was heartbreaking to see those beautiful buildings torn down. Some were privately bought and turned into apt buildings but most were demolished.
When I toured this house I fell in love with it despite all the work which needed to be done. We didn't restore ( too expensive) but we kept everything original which we could, remodeled and even added space where needed... like the kitchen. Nothing was done in this house for 116 yrs. until we bought it 20 yrs ago. The BONES were good so we took it on. It's not for the faint of heart, most would have torn it down and rebuilt something modern. I couldn't do that bc I watched too many damn British movies growing up. lol :o)
Set modern medicine back In this time and I'd ha e loved it
I would love to be one day in each era, to see and experience all in person.
Truth becomes you.
You and me both luv!
Good luck arranging that.
I too
@George Orwell video games and phones are the killer there.
Tragic to think that many of those young boys cheerily running in front of the camera and having fun have no idea that they will meet a horrible end on the Western Front.
For context, 880,000 British forces died, 6% of the adult male population and 12.5% of those serving.
@@johnmiller6976so the overwhelming majority of them survived, right?
to set another perspective on the usual "omg, all those people in these old videos are dead, it's so sad" take.
also, you can't really cry about 880 000 people. because your extended family knew only few of those men. and you can't mourn your great-grandfather because you never knew him.
so, overall, to think "somebody is dead", is kinda moot.
yes they are, and relatively soon we'll be too.
so what?
@@ivok9846well that's depressing
@@becky2235 by the end maybe you'll change your mind. maybe you'll welcome it...
I am drawn to documentaries like this. I feel like I am an old soul eager to time travel. This is awesome!
Same I absolutely hate being alive in this time. I can’t wait till my life is over.
@@thepearlswirlyou can't talk to yourself like that. Stay positive.
I was homeless a few years ago with no car or family but it got better. Please stay strong
@@thepearlswirlYou are a real one Pearl. You'll get through it
A document worth seeing. Contains interesting patches of film and photos as well. The mentality of that time seems to be more positive than today though poverty was a real problem compared to current times. My father was born in 1916 and died 2017. His early life was also very different. When he was young he was not given shoes to wear from May to October. Shoes were too expensive. He had to work since age of six. And mother never asked the 11 children what they wanted to eat. You ate what was available and did not complain.
This is up there as one of the most fascinating glimpses into 1900s.
love stumbling on these rare gems!
Gorgeous era and love the Edwardian fashions for both men and women. The beautiful actress Maud Adams is one of my all time favorites...thanks for sharing!
so--you see yourself as one of the uppercrust? good choice, 'cause most of the rest lived on a pound a week--for Everything.
The rich did dress elegant,the poor couldn’t even afford coats so wore blankets
If I would have been around then I would have been poor wearing blankets
More money than sense and ignorant
My grandmother was born in 1899, and I have many vivid memories and films of her. (She didn't die until I was 24.) So if you had a grandparent who was born around that time, and many people who are in their 50's or 60's did, it brings that time a little closer to home.
My own grandmother was born in 1899 too ;-)
and she died and was buried a week later on the day of my 22nd birthday - 1982 - no way would i have wanted to live back then - hard times
my great grandmother born about 1860 (grandma's husband side) married 3 times and was very business minded, but her 3 husbands were useless - bad choice in men unfortunately! - and in those days, women had very little chance especially from poor backgrounds on getting anywhere without the aid of a good man's name and help - although she did buy herself a lot of beautiful items for the house and one of her sons became mayor of a nearby town ;-) - her other sons were like her husbands - unfortunately that included my grandad LOL
My grandmother died in 1982 as well ! Times were indeed tough back then. Many diseases were much more dangerous and more children would die from them. Life was harder, but it was a simpler time.
RJ Walker My grandmother was born Sept. 14, 1898, died October 22, 2001. She lived her entire life in New York/Long Island. I’ve written down many of her stories and memories of life. On 9-11, she said, “I’ve through two world wars and the start of the third and final war, but I’ll not be here to see the outcome.”
My grandmother was born in 1894 and lived until 1986. She never talked much about her childhood or youth.
"People who despise the past, tend also to despise the present."
DesolationAngel101 They look to a golden future that will never come.
That's a generalisation. The present has been fucked up by mass migration since the 1990's. The UK could have been very different, less crime, less crowded, less terrorist threats. This reality is least appreciated by the middle and upper classes.
And yet time stands still for no man. ..and for most of the time people waste it by despising it by design.
I preferred life 15 even 20 years ago because all these activist weirdos weren't around crying over nothing and making a fuss, none of them had a big enough mouthpiece to spout their stupid ideals into, many people including myself never knew they even existed which for me was great, ignorance is bliss as they say, take me back or do away with the lot of them
I despise a time I could not vote, being black. It’s a fun fantasy to imagine time travel if your white. I understand, it really would be cool.
Thank you for posting this, Dr Brown. What an amazing time that must have been! So many of the things we now take for granted had not yet been thought of, and yet, this era was on the cusp of so many incredible things.
Your great documentary gives me an interesting insight into how my ancestors lived and what was going on in their times.
Thanks AB for taking the time to publish these historic recordings. If we fail to learn from the past, we will repeat it again!
Very true words, Andrew. Thanks. Regards - Alan.
The old women in blue you can still see the young girl in her eyes when she recalls her childhood
YES!!! That is her secret to a long happy life!!!!
Well, that's the thing really. You never get older, you just grow more wrinkly.
James Quinn
Have you ever noticed when a girl digs you, they recall their childhood. It’s trippy
I can see that too
You mean Anne Coleman? She makes me smile seeing how happy she is as she recalls her childhood.
Being naive was a big part of being that optimistic. When you are basically ignorant, you are happy, carefree about the future. No fear equals happiness. This is why children are so happy....they fear nothing. As we age, we start to fear almost everything; our health, money, relationships, dying, etc. Children do not have these fears.
I think thats a really simple, but accurate way to explain it. When I was very young my family were relatively quite poor, but so were everyone we knew, therefore it was the norm. Was I happy then? You bet I was.
Only when I got older did I realize that people had things that we couldn't afford....thats when the penny dropped and I noticed for the first time that we were poor. The two best bits of advice ever came from my grandfather (1898-1976) " Don't buy what you can't afford" & " If you want something, go out and work for it". The result is that I'm doing fairly o.k. and have never been in debt (except a mortgage).Simple really.
Yep - we adults have more invested in life and more to lose apart from loved ones dying or nursing sick aged parents and relatives, everyone dies but death was more common and in your face back then.
No antibiotics so a splinter could lead to your death, and they were always aware of that; pneumonia was a real risk, tuberculosis was very common and mainly incurable. Pain from arthritis, and hard damaging work loads, and general cold winter conditions. Pain was a constant, and anesthetics were only becoming less dangerous and reliable.
Many men died in industrial and farm accidents and women died in childbirth, no contraceptives! Many babies died. Often they re-married quickly because they both had children to care for and they supported one another and stuck together.
Back in the early 1900s a lot of people became very ill with conditions that we no longer have to fear, they were not naïve, they had very hard-working lives and religious beliefs were a comfort and joy to many. That is something people of today don't quite understand. They only think of religion as some sort of fairy tales but people actually read the Bible then and it is full of examples of life and it's difficulties and they had examples of how to cope with life's sadness - life is tough without something to sustain a positive outlook.
Children actually have lots of worries and fears too but very little real responsibility until they are taught about life to safeguard them. Forewarned is forearmed. I am grateful for what we have today but I don't think younger people understand what they hve compared to what used to be. I think everyone needs to learn more about their county's History, we knew a great deal about the world and geography as well, education was definitely better. That helps one have a more balanced and realistic perspective. JkK keep learning about History. Regards.
My mum also was born in England 1898 and died in America in 1972 because her doctor was out of town when I carried her to the hospital and they would not help her. So I carried her back to the car and into her little apartment. A few hours later she called me again saying that the pain was too great. So I drove over and carried her into my car and to the hospital. She died a few hours later of peritonitis which could have been prevented. St. Johns hospital, Santa Monica, hang your heads in shame.
Agree.
Fair point!! I miss not fearing anything!!
This is great! I truly enjoy these rare peeks into our past. Styles, fashions trends, cultures, and the world around us change., but mankind remains the same.
I would love to go back and have a look for myself, it was the era of my Great Grandparents.
watching all of these old films makes me think that we got T shirts and Hoodies these days and it's looks convenient but i still love ppl wearing those suits and hats back then
Same.. I love past ❤️
kingofvintage 🤨
T shirts were invented in the 19th century
I’d imagine it was to keep warm since the world was colder back then. No efficient heating systems and it cost a fortune to pay for coal if you were lucky enough to have a steady job.
Alex Nick i just watched a video called “the construcion of chrysler building” and there were builders working 1000ft above the ground wearing suits and hats mad.
I really love old documentaries. It's 2018 and we get to see footage of people from the 1900]s. The footage is incredible. They did't have iPhones or hand held video equipment.back then. Well done.
The Good Old Days .... Pretty bad at times no matter where you lived.. Thanks Dr Alan Brown, I put this down as one of the essential/videos that need to be seen. A professional Historian named Page Smith, People's History of the United States [8 v.] (McGraw-Hill, 1976-1987) .He is one of the best writers I have every read... He writes about New York City in 1870 where the death rate for newborn children at some "hospitals is over 80 %...There is a direct connection. What we don't know about history is often times more than we do, for most people.... My ex brother in Laws grandmother was called Nana... She was born about 1890.or 1895...I knew her in the early 1980 she had emigrated to the US, having been born in London, and ran a small tavern/Inn in Tokeland Washington.(it's still there) It was always amazing to hear her talk of England at the turn of the 19/20 century. A frail old woman with a clipped London accent. She was a good person and I warmly remember her. ..Once again... Great video... I'm getting older now and my Dad was born in 1907....and it always amazes me the common things that we don't know. Sometimes you had to be there. I graduated the University in History and while I never taught...My passion has never ended... Thanks again, we fight for the light of education and reason in a world that sometimes seems to grow darker as the forces of, for want of better words ignorance and intolerance seem to be resurgent
I was born in the 70s and so much has changed in couldn't imagine the change these people saw must have been amazing and terrifying at the same time
Hello, how are you doing over there.
The world seems so alien now compared to in 1900. For better or for worse! Great documentary, very well made and fascinating
Can I have that back now? It tends to be under the one on the left Chimpney. I already gave you the half crown I suppositoried so when I have it back you can tell the huxtable you're leaving for good to live with your sister in Yorkshire. We both know where you're actually going though.
Such precious footage, thank god we have the chance to see how people lived over a century ago, how different they look compared to us today, respectable, smart, hard working people, they even had spirit, even though life was so hard and cruel. All i see when i walk the streets is just miserbale people in their own world staring at their phones, it's like i'm watching another species of human beings, we really do live in a totally different world now.
Hello, how are you doing over there.
Those elderly woman looked healthy. This according to imdb was from 2000 so they would have been 110 and 100!
Those days everyone new their neighbour .Lt was safer on the street and no fear of speeding vehicles
@@kateallsop6572 just the safe horse and buggies lol
@@kateallsop6572 yeah and most children died before their 5th birthday
@@kateallsop6572 Safer streets? Like where jack the ripper hunted? We've never been safe.
You can see how the car and the road system totally changed the landscape of our towns and cities forever, so many buildings were bulldozed to make room for the road system
We still had inkwells at school in the 40/50 in London and my Father who was born in1901 said there were lots of a Kids without Shoes in Winter in the Neighborhood, this was in Marylebone Lane near Wigmore Street with Harley Street just around the corner and the Work House just around the corner as well so Poverty just didn't disappear with " The New Age " in 1960 I worked in a Butcher Shop in Thayer Street when young and we would cook up Lamb Scraps to give Tramps something hot to eat in Winter . Yes, the new age alright, for some!
Did you have to dip the pen in inkwells after every few written words? Back in the late 1990s, in Romania, when I was at school, we still had inkwells, but the pens had reservoirs.
One of my friends struggles to afford food and still lives with his dad. His dad is a veteran of the troubles and the Falklands. He needs constant care and as such my friend looks after him. My friend has no time for a job nor any transport to get to one. Their benefits don't cover enough to pay for bills, rent, and food. He goes around with holes in his shoes that he's had for the past 10 years.
I used to live in social housing too. I've seen plenty of other people in similar situations. Poverty is still a big issue. It is a largely overlooked one these days even though it is starting to become a bigger issue again.
I'm sure the poor back at the turn of last century would love central heating, comfy beds, tellys and such... Yet there is still the issue of people being malnourished. Drugs really hasn't helped anything either
We still had inkwells when I was at primary school in Scotland in the 1960s.
Oh Annie, Annie, Annie. This lady is just so adorable - ah I just want to give her a squidgy cuddle. We all need an Anne Coleman in our life. Wonderful documentary - thank you so much for the upload.
And still mischievous... Loved her to bits ❤️
Love how people keep looking at the Camera wondering what the person is doing.
Difference between people then and now is people were brave not afraid of change. There was a collective sense of progress where we must cater to everyone. I long for the time we can be happy for the new decade 2020 and be happy for change no fear of political correctness. Great video!
Not entirely true. Even motorised vehicles met with a lot of resistance. Gas was thought dangerous.
Well Jay, 5 years on, I can tell you 2020 sucked in so many ways, it was incredible. And we've all fallen downhill since then.
Amazing to see the progress we have made in 121 years. The film makers were really enjoying their new technology. That was a young Andrew Marr!
I don't think we have made much progress really if you think about it.... Apart from computers and certain areas in medical health... We appear to have gone backwards significantly due to a lot of 'technology'
In the year 2023, imagine if the electric grid went down for a month. All computers and tech stopped working. Our so 'advanced' Society would completely break down.
Simple things like taps with hand sensors wouldnt even work. Basic of basic. Everything would fail. Every factory, every farm, every hospital, every house, everything.
From an engineering point of view, they were actually much better back then than now, they just didn't have the health and safety.
Apart from maybe Elon Musk, all the great scientists, thinkers, engineers, inventors came from this era. The pinnacle of the evolution of the human brain. They did it all with no assistance of computers and the Internet.
We can't fathom building such amazing structures that were built in the 1800 - 1900s. We could not replicate them now. The architecture is incredible.
A time when things were designed and built to last forever. Machines built from this era still work perfectly in 2023. Everything now is deliberately designed to break for money reasons.
Electronics have replaced everything. Electronics just always go wrong, always, always and never last.
Just look at all the new factories, amazon, tesco etc. These factories are an embarrassment compared to the factories built back then. Many old factories are still in use and many of the huge ones have been turned into flats. The factories now like amazon etc, won't be here in 50yrs. Not without a complete refurb of everything.
The cardboard houses we build now that are completely unsustainable and won't last 50 years are much worse. We are tearing down houses and flats that were only built 40-50yrs ago. But the grand buildings from this era still look fantastic and cost a fortune. Even victorian street houses are so much more expensive and nicer.
I could go on and on to be fair. Life was grim during these times if you were poor, but the men of this period were made of something completely different to the ones now born after the Internet in the mid 90s.
I am not sure regression could be classified as progress. Have you been to Bradford recently.
A fascinating documentary
This old footage is really marvelous
Just seeing this in Sept 2022. The earliest-born relative I remember was my great-grandpa (my mother's mother's father lol). I had other relatives from 1900 and 1902. My step-grandmother was born in 1916. She was my Granddaddy's second wife and 14 years his elder. I very much wish I had been a wise child and recorded stories from them. My great grandfather (Grandpa) lived to 84 and went peacefully in his sleep while we were on vacation when I was only 10, so I didn't know any better. We, as the middle-aged generation now need to ensure our parents' and grandparents', if we are fortunate enough to still have them, stories are recorded for posterity. ESPECIALLY I'm this age of trying to rewrite and erase history. It's more important than ever that the older stories live on.
The size of the stone buildings is remarkable. How did they move these giant objects that they built with. Mind boggling.
I very much appreciate such informative documentaries. I only wish one could be made for each year.
British people in 1900, looking like a harmonious society.
British people in 2020+ What does it mean to be British? And what is a woman?
A documentary on all those beautiful buildings and the stages it took to build them would be very interesting.
Thanks so much for these documentaries. Educational but clear and digestible.
+Tom Benton You're welcome, Tom!
I just love history and to be able to see it happening is amazing ! Truly archive material is beyond fascinating. Thank you very much for sharing this incredible footage.
I like how Granny's teeth fell out around 6:55 and she had to close her mouth to set them right again.
Haha. Mrs Doubtfire! x
😂😂 I never noticed 😂😂
Aww she’s like a lil child 🥰
Rude of you to point that out.
I didn’t even notice hilarious 😂
I love learning about history. Thank you for sharing!💖💖💖
This is a beautiful photo documentary. Thank you so much!
Anne Coleman, born 1890, has to be 109 in this docu, but that seems impossible. I'm wondering if her interview was filmed at her 100th birthday and then included here? If not, she's the brightest, most spry, most delightful 109 I've ever seen.
Time Travel. How fun it would be to walk into the movie and stroll around getting to know the people and exploring the nightlife of those days.
Very interesting material. It was quite different these days and it was only 6 years before me great grand father was born here in Europe.
I'd like to visit that time just to see first hand how they lived and how the world was then
There are some great videos about that on youtube . A lady describing the food they cooked during the rationing and the depression. Google "cooking in England during the depression" or whatever. "Servants in England" - that should get something interesting.
There is a good series about what it was like to have a job in the large mansions of the day - very detailed.
Another one about country girls getting a job in a city home - House maids were country girls who wanted to get away from the farm labour and live in the city. Hard work.
My Grandad said that he had a boil on one bum cheek and the teacher told him to sit up straight at his desk. The teacher ended up smacking Grandad's desk with his leather at which point he sat up bolt upright and burst that boil, happy times.
Much the same and much different. At the end of the day, we appear to learn very little from our mistakes. We continue to choose the same kind of leaders and then wonder why episodes from our history keep repeating itself. Fascinating.
Are you black.
@@joesmoe8983 Black is an adjective, not a race of people or man. Why the question?
I was born 1980. My Great Grandmother was born 1900. I cannot help but to think of her parents welcoming her into the world with hope for New big things! And now here I am her 5th generation watching about my great-great grand parents adult life and my great Granny's childhood. Completely amazing. Also I have children and now they do as well so 7 generations later. Here we are❤❤😊
Dr. Alan Brown, Thank you for the opportunity to see this historical documentary; very educational.
Thanks Jeff, glad you enjoyed it!
everytime i think of an event in the past my mind initially starts picturing everything in black and white
We had inkpots and those dip pens with replaceable nibs at school in England in the 1950s and 60s too. First you learnt to write with pencils, then you learnt to use dip pens, then later, I can't remember when exactly, we were allowed to use fountain pens.
I am just waiting for my Amazon order to arrive. Then my time machine is complete. I hope the flux capacitor arrives undamaged.
loloy baloloy take me with you!
oh man, listening to the accounts of the people who were children then, from their own mouths… what a gift! the lady bragging about her pinafore is so precious. I hope she had a happy life
If only they knew one day they will be back to the future
totally fascinating the way history should be presented. BRAVO
the opening scene in Bradford..wow..look at all of those indigenous peoples...thankfully we've become more enriched and now most of yorkshire is a caliphate.
simon lloyd Yes - England is less British every year Just a fact
Thank you for this picture of my forefathers. A related brotherhood of many tribes who realized their sheer existence came from depending on one another and getting along. perhaps in this changed world people could come together despite their differences and find some common bonds.
on that note, may God help Europe.☺
dont rely on him how many times have you seen him out helping.
How many of those joyous kids died horribly in the trenches 16 years on? Britain was at the height of Empire prosperity. So much was lost in the war that followed... and then even more after WW2.
excellent presentation of life and facts of the year 1900 in London, that was very interesting.
VERY GOOD info here ...and well worth the watch .
Once again Alan.....you have shared a very lovely part of history with us all ...and let me send u a smile :)))))))))))))
Dankje ...x.
I aim to give satisfaction! I will have another good 'veterans' film available after Easter (once I've processed it) so please stay tuned. Good to hear from you again. Regards - Alan
When Hunter Davies was born in 1900, could he ever have imagined being The Beatles official biographer? What the hell is a Beatle or Rock n Roll? Wow amazing
Thank you for this documentary, this is my favorite time period. I would have loved to live at that period or at least been able to visit it with a time machine or something. It was far from perfect but it's good enough for me. I've subscribed to your channel so that I can check your other documentaries. Once again, thanks.
+Héctor Cavalcanti Saavedra You're welcome, Hector, thank you very much. Regards - Alan.
@Jusu Jaka The majority of black Africa is worse off now than they were when they got their independence. Ghana and Gabon are probably better off. Even Nigeria with all its oil wealth is pretty much a violent basket case.Kenya was way better off under the empire.Asia and Latin America certainly have their problems but Africa never seems to progress.
Very informative Dr.Brown ,I can feel the excitement and awakening they were experiencing,the joy that was theirs at the turn of the century !
+John Long Thank you, John, and I agree. They were perhaps more enthused that so many people at the dawn of the 21st. Then again, people back then in 1900 would not have been so chipper had they known what horrors the first half would bring. Thanks - regards, Alan.
Cheap side is still there in Bradford city centre but has changed a lot in the last 123 years, my son was born there in 1981...
I thought Cheapside was n London.
You should add when this documentary was filmed as well. Seems like the 90s which is also very vastly different from today!
yes. trying to look that up. wondering if it was 2000. there was a similar doc title from 2000 ive found on IMBD.
@@haroldofcardboard Yeah looked like the pre-digital age before the widescreen TVs.
Absolutely riveting...thank you for posting.I love this era so much.
+Frank Burns Thank you, Frank.
Frank Burns till you get sick or need a tooth pulled
Even Andrew Mar looked much younger in 1900
I loe the way that grandma talks, she is so cute!
@Jusu Jaka stupid comment
Sounds like she likes shekels and subverting, hates foreskins and gas.
@@johnconner9485 East London accent.
Love
At the 2011 census, London had a population of 8,173,941. Of this number
44.9% were White British. 37% of the population were born outside the
UK, including 24.5% born outside of Europe.
It’s much worse now.
@@johnslatin4646 yes they won't put the stats out
@@Sameoldfitup
The left has been dumbed down beyond the ability to debate most subjects. We need to take advantage of the fact that only we know what is actually going on.
@@johnslatin4646 i see it when i travel to our Towns up north, makes me angry and sad.
Just found your wonderful channel ,thank you for sharing such treasures 👒
Whenever i see street footage of young kids in the early 20 century , i always wonder how many of them were killed in the first world war.
My dad was born in 1896----died 1971, I was born in 1941, we span 3 centuries.
A fabulous documentary! It movingly conveys the end of one age and the beginning of another. Priceless interviews with a couple of remarkable people who lived through the time, rare footage and intelligent narration. Wow!
Thanks, John, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I often wonder if life was simpler then, but when you see the poverty they had to endure (and the lack of medical care), maybe it wasn't!
Alan Brown No, it wasn't simpler then. Jack London's "The People of the Abyss" will give you his eyewitness account of east end London in 1902. You can read it online at project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1688
John, I've been trying to reply to your messages for over a month but you have contact lock on and it won't go through
This is a amazing. I would love to go back to the 1800s or 1300s etc, just to see what it were like back then.
A new age of absolute psychological dominance!
The old girl at the beginning needs her dentures relined - bless her!
Very interesting and edifying post. Thank you, Dr. Brown, for posting it.
The clip of the children,dancing round the maypole,really took me back.That was a great excitement,for us,at my school.
I was 8 years old at my first boarding school in 1967, I hated it, the cane was the usual punishment you got for misbehaving, not as extreme as the lady talks about with her spelling mistakes at the 6.58 point but for talking after the lights were out in the dormitories, then you would get 6 lashes on the arse. Two of the teachers had fought in the great war of 1914 to 1918 and at one school when the battery powered calculator became commercially available we still we not allowed to have them in the exams, I got myself a slide rule but had no idea how to use it.
Bullying was common place and the food was aweful, lumpy porriage for breakfast, butter beans and beef/pork sausages was the worst food that we got some days and we had no vegetarians if I remember rightly, but at this school I first heard heavy metal music, it was 'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath and it was my favourite sound.
I was 8 at my boarding school in 1984...hated it, still have some emotional baggage of anxiety surrounding that period of my life. We had he cane and latterly the slipper. The emotionally sterile environment coupled with intollerance for children and no 1st names used left us all with no doubt we werent cared abt...
These places were rife with sexual abuse. See th-cam.com/video/uhWOM3iqF7c/w-d-xo.html
these films always ignore that over 92% of Men were fighting to get the vote too, until 1918 only rich property owning Men were eligible to vote
Actually between 1885 and 1918, about 60% of men had the vote.
they did,nt know that they would be in youtube in 2017....
Anne Coleman: The woman in the blue top in the beginning of the film, was born the same year as my grandfather, 1890. Truly spectacular!
Absolutely wonderful piece of film, The old woman was a delight, Thanks for posting.
Beautiful people, they seemed so happy- think of all the inventions they experienced- amazing ! I love these films but they make me sad actually !
Happy?? The rich yes.
At the beginning she mentions inkwells and pens with nibs - I used these at school before ballpoint pens came in. They were awful - the ink got all over the hands and the cuffs and there were big splotches on the page.
Anstria Greenwood she loved them it’s kinda cute they way she talked about them
And worse if you were left handed. My primary in the 70's insisted on ink cartridge pens.
At least I wasn't punished for writing with my left, but cartridge ink dries too slow for lefthanders who have to move their hand over the fresh written text not preceed it like righthanders.
I remember those inkwell s and lovely pink blotting paper. I'm sure I still have a piece somewhere...
Due to lack of skill & care......
Fountain pens and then cartridge pens. Elementary school.
That author born in 1900 looks very well preserved my goodness
Sometimes it's really hard to distinguish between someone making a really clueless statement and someone having a very dry wit/being sarcastic, when you are reading it on the internet...
@@tominrochester sarcasm
It starts 'Cheapside, Bradford at the turn of the century'. It has changed a lot over the past 17 years.
I have been immersed in the past watching this wonderful piece of history . People look very well and content specially the beautiful children. Too bad that not too long ahead half of those children will perish in WW1.
Desktop ink Wells a sheet of blotting paper and a fountain pen. ..i used them in school in the early 60s. ..
The reference to the raise of the school age to 14 wow! ..and I left in 1970 aged 15yrs. .
In primary school in the early to mid 70s we still had desks with the ink wells on them though we used ballpoints
The days of real poverty for children, with scruffy, dirty clothes and shoes, with not much to eat or to look forward to.
Today children claim poverty because they don't have the latest iPhone, tablet, laptops, internet, Branded clothes and shoes, and stuff themselves wit burgers and pizzas......:)
This is a fascinating look at the past, and how people lived, and died, especially many children through diseases, malnutrition etc.
Plus Anne Coleman born 1890, is still very attractive too....:)
Yes now we are told about child poverty one day, obesity crisis the next. Poor Marcus Rashford doesn’t know whether to give free meals or take them away!
I would love to visit UK at that time. It looks much more British than what i see when I visit London now.
Josef Duben trur
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London has always been like it is now. It's the world's city.
yes but what josef means by British is white, but that definition no longer applies. Does it matter? Not much if you think that there is only one race and it's called human.
Ashley Caldwell , Don't talk daft, there's always been immigrants there but nothing like today!!
Very fascinating. I would say, that it was the iPod , mobile phone, then becoming the smart phone, that was absolutely transformational, more than just the internet at the turn of the 21st century. Watching this unfold for my children, born 1995, 1997 and 2000, was, for me, witnessing history in the making, in the most profound way.
Excellent, I appreciate the early "footage," and brilliant context for Charles Chaplin's early work, which I adore.Thank you
To watch this is great, because one can be glad to be born in the 20th century. My grand-mother, born in 1900 told me horrible things about how children were exploited, how poor people were and how expensive it was if someone was ill and needed a doctor. I was never nostalgic of any time, I try to be happy now :))
Yeh it's great now, same enslavement just a different way of doing it.