The Oldest Ever Photos of London / HD Colorized
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- The Oldest Known Photos of London Show What Life Was of Queen Victoria's reign. A lot of the Scenes Look Idyllic But Life is Thought to Have Been Fairly Tough at The Time.
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@@Maria-t2x7sBORING ...boring..boring you need to demand your money back from whatever university you went to !!! The industrial revolution started in the UK and much was made from that around the world as the UK dragged countries into the future , many countries are fortunate that the UK took them under their wing because the alternative could have been Belgium for example and I'm sure the people of Congo could tell you about life under them !!! You have been taught a left wing view of the world ...... I'm extremely sorry for that ...🤮🤮🤮🤮
Several errors in captions...need proof reader!😮Lovely photos
Hi, are your photos archived. I recognized a sign for the Midland Railroad. That was in Colorado too.
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Thank you for putting this video up of my London, I am a true Cockney born in the City of London, within the sound of Bow Bells. Unfortunately it is too late, London is no longer. The East End of London now has Canary Wharf and the Square Mile has lost so many of its quaint buildings and courtyards. Back in the 1970's, on a cold a rainy afternoon, one could get from the Minories to Cannon Street Station without getting wet by using the various office buildings as walkways. All gone now, I am afraid, replaced by towering blocks and locked doors with Security Guards guarding the premises.
Londonistan.
@@mjh5437 Dumb comment as opposed to the reflective comment of user-xc1fo2sh1c who is referring to the soulless blocks and the disappearance of all those alley ways which I remember well.
I too remember all those alleyways,I was a City office boy in the 50s,so sad it is all gone to be replaced by soleless tower blocks, and all the people I knew have gone.
Heartbreaking isn't it, but I guess one should never go back to a place after having left it for years. My Father died 43 years ago, but I remember him coming home one day and saying that he had seen a man standing by the railing near Gardener's Corner, Aldgate. The man had tears running down his face, so my Dad went over to him and asked if he could be of help he told my Dad that his family had emigrated when he was a boy and he had finally had the time and the money to return, but he didn't recognise anywhere@@mikerandall7571
@@Mounhas True comment more like .
They knew how to build beautiful structures in those days , lots do still stand today all over the u.k and many are hundreds of yrs older , you can go down many streets and be transported back in time . Great work loved the photos 😊
Most beautiful structures only seem beautiful to people hundreds of years later. When they first re- built St Paul’s Cathedral after the 1666 fire almost everybody thought it was the ugliest building in London.
Honestly most modern buildings in UK have already been destroying old classics building in London. Soooo I am not surprise about it 😒🙁
@@seanpetaia Not true. The only time old classic buildings in London were destroyed was during the bombing in WW2. Britain has had a programme of preserving Listed Buildings for many decades, even a relatively modern building such as Battersea Power Station was preserved.
@@gweilospur5877 yes, but when they were planning to put new houses up, they demolished perfectly good homes and buildings, so there is no excuse there.
@@Alfie-ft3bx Things can’t stay the same forever. Nobody would demolish “perfectly good” buildings for no reason, it wouldn’t make sense financially.
Really exquisite photos. Fascinating for anyone who loves history, architecture, or simply to observe society as if living during the times of our late relatives and ancestors.
I was brought up in the East End in the late 60s through to 1986 when i moved away to Kent. Our family live at London Fields back in the day. Great place to grow up back them had a great childhood. Thank you for the old pictures, they always fascinate me.
Wouldn't recognise it today (28Jan2025) especially Broadway Mkt!!!
So, so, pricey that you wonder who buys that at that price? Return back to stall later in the day and sold out. So pushing out original locals slowly but surely😢
Such skilful work colourizing those photos. A real sense of place comes over and it's a beautiful time-machine to see life so long ago. Stunning how very mobile thousands of people were in any confined area on foot or on buses taxis etc. Seeing a dozen men on top deck 9 or 10 feet up makes me shudder to think of what accidents there were when eg a wheel came off a bus and tipped them all onto hard ground - not a good thought. Photography was in its infancy then and the quality of photos is quite remarkable. Thanks for a great slide show.
I'm watching the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett and the clothes and mode of transport have me imaging Sherlock traversing those streets. Love it!
Thank you for this fascinating presentation! I was born in the East End of London in 1949 and although these photos were before my time, I feel very nostalgic for the old London I knew.
Thank you very much, I sincerely appreciate it
Whato all,
This is some of the best colourisation I have seen. Well done.
If was fun reading the Americanisms in the captions. We don't have flashlights, we have torches; pavements not side walks; central not downtown. Also the captioned photograph "Horse drawn bus" is actually a horse tram. And I believe the Coldstream Guard would have a red tunic not a blue one.
not to mention so many incorrect captions and locations.
And describing people as "poverty-stricken" when they've got freshly starched aprons on... they'll be turning in their graves!
@@drewmurray2783 well, I enjoyed it. My grandmother was born in 1874 and when I was a child she would tell me all about London during her childhood and how poor it was for so many. I remember her horror at how many children she saw without shoes. She was lucky enough to have parents who were well off and she lived to be nearly 90. I hate London now but not because of shoeless children!
Not to mention Queen Victoria dressed so colourfully! Somebody who was famously in mourning for half a century!
Thank you for sharing these fascinating, bitter sweet photos. Many generations of my family come from East End docklands. I still live in London. Peace ❤
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I am a social_behavioral scientist and VERY appreciative of your focused views of Victorian London. The obvious social stratification, horses,carriages, businesses, hustle-bustle, and the "people" closeups...etc. To me, these pictures are laden with meanings that extend deep into my professional interests.
Thanks a million...keep doing this work...❤.
Any insight on the white population replacement in London?
We have lose those simple times in our modern era 🙁
These photos are a record of wh1te suprem@cy. Not one single ethn1c m1n0r1ty in sight.
we live in a dark age now my friend@@seanpetaia
@@orlandomontfort5101 Can only be a good thing. Time for the white brits to give back what they stole.
Great presentation, thankyou for keeping the pictures on screen, long enough to appreciate them.
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Thank you for these wonderful old photos, sensitively coloured. Real life wasn’t only in shades of sepia or grey. ❤❤❤
You presented the photos as should be, not zooming in and out thank you for this.👍
Thanks for posting these wonderful photos…an ancestor of mine ran a London omnibus and these pictures certainly jettison me back to those times…
Superb! What a beautiful trip down a long memory lane 👍👏👌
A nice start to the weekend. Thank you very much.
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I loved this video. Its wonderful to see these beautiful photo's and to see how much has been added to these London streets that once were where my family lived and owned shops and now its where I call home. Thankyou so much for putting this together
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My dear grandparents whom I knew and loved were school children in the 1890s.
Ah, so your old ancestors were children some time in the past. Amazing!
pointless sarcasm:- some critters are a total waste of skin.@@gweilospur5877
If a child today is born of a 17 year old then that baby’s grandparent might only be in their early 30s, whereas you and I have long last grandparents, may they rest in peace. My Grandmother was born in 1894, Grandad a few years earlier. Although, we lost them when I was 11 then 16, It is amazing that I remember them fondly and have lots of memories of our family together and good old fashioned photo’s with which to reminisce. Having them around seems like yesterday. Lovely memories. My one regret is that I just really wish I’d asked them more about their own history. Just think, Queen Victoria ruled when our Grandparents were alive!
Great London
I visited the City in 1993
Nice and wonderful people
One day I hope to return again
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Absolutely fabulous and very interesting video presentation! The best I have ever seen recapturing the historic life and times in dear old London. Thank you Bright Style you are really cool!
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@@BrightStyle - yes, I enjoyed it so much and will view again soon. Tears of nostalgia in my eyes!
An excellent presentation. All the photographs capture the ambiance of London life as it was. long ago. The varied range of characters, some rich, others poor add to the interest. The colourisation process is beautifully restrained and well executed.
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"Ambience"
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Thank you so much for this presentation of Victorian times. We have much to learn from the Victorians. For those wishing to view or record this presentation, please note that (unfortunately) the visual "Quality" *defaults* to 320p. BUT this figure may be changed to 480p, 720p or 1080p. Just click on the "flower" shape (bottom of picture) and simply upgrade the visual quality. I recommend 720p.
what an amazing trip back in time. a fantastic job you have done to show us all this history, cheers for sharing it. best wishes from NZ
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These are amazing restorations:- the accurate and detailed colourization let's us step back into the distant past like travelling in a time machine and reconnect with our ancestors, the original black-and-white photos can be so abstract and other-worldly!
Fascinating photos of the people that helped build London. What a contrast to the London we have today. Just a point, I believe the tunic of the Coldstream Guardsman would have been red, as they use today.
Wrong. According to revisionist history. London was built by recent immigrants.
@@sandgrownun66 The Windrush mob apparently ""Re-Built Britain"" when they weren`t too busy being roadsweeps and bus conductors and dustmen lolol
@@mjh5437 The mob, who were not employable in their home islands. So happened to find some empty space on a freighter, and Britain has been saddled with them ever since.
2000 years ago? Evidence. 😂😂😂@@sandgrownun66
Interestingly, I saw this same photo of the guards standing outside looking for recruits somewhere else and the uniforms were red! Go figure. I have wondered why so much of the colorization in most all clothing is some shade of blue. Was everything blue back then?
Many thanks for those delightful photos! Obviously the colour had been added afterwards but it was done very well.
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I love the Audiography music background!! Great job on the Colorization too!!
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If only time machines were a real thing.. 😢😢😢 Beautiful and nostalgic. Thank you! ❤
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Thank you very much, these are just wonderful. My paternal Grandfather (Alfred), was born 1897 East End, Maternal (Charles) born in the 1880’s (not sure of exact date) in Chelsea. One poor, one posh😂 It was really interesting to see London in colour. Thank you very much again. Have subscribed for more of these.
Lovely photos's of the time of my grand parents and great grandparents. I am so glad I was born when I was though.
Love the photo with the harp .All so interesting .The electric motor cab is that the original forerunner to EVs I wonder.Well they have been around way before we all knew about them ! Thankyou for sharing !!!!
Those were only the good old days for rich people with good health.They were terrible days for the working class such as my family.
You need a little violin to play a sad tune to go along with your woffle
Yes, there was zero white privilege for the workers
@@clintoncyrilvoss4287 Read The People of the abyss by Jack London , this should enlighten you as to what life was like for the working class in Victorian London.
My family were working class too. They weren't miserable.
We read a lot and that's why we don't get on our high horses about the past which we cannot change. Much reading and study has made us balanced, critical thinkers. On the other hand, there are millions of people in the world today who are undergoing unimaginable suffering. What are you doing for them? And what will those in the future say about you? Will they say you lived in selfish luxury, and did nothing to help those in need, while you moaned and wind about the past injustices? Or will they look back with respect on the fact that you made a difference in those poor people's lives?
Without doubt the best such video I have seen -- everything was perfect, the selection of photos (many of them new to me), the colorising, and the musical background. Sheer excellence!
Thanks for sharing this amazing video 🎉😊❤
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Thank You for this video intersting & beautiful !
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Amazing !
So crisp, so clear, and in colour.
And almost zero foreigners.
now it's almost zero Englanders.
Wow. What a sh*tty thing to say. Racist, much?
Fabulous. Colour makes a big difference. I’ll never understand the trend for black and white photo taking nowadays, crazy. Colour gives interest and depth. Thank you.
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Very interesting photos. In 1890 the US had just overtaken the British Empire as the most productive economy. Britain today compared to 1890 - No more small shops for the middle class (now large corporations such as Amazon, eBay, Tescos, Sainsburys, Waitrose, Audi & Lidl), people don't wear hats anymore (top hats for upper class and caps for working class) and back to electric cars again.
Lovely photo's,coloured so well, very very enjoyable, keep on doing it,look forward to seeing more👍
The city of London is nothing like it used to be. Sometimes progress is not always for the better. Rest in peace my once beautiful London.
@trumble Well said!
Yeah! I say bring back the Romans.
Britain and its elites were living off the wealth of ‘ their’ empire. While the working classes of Britain lived in poverty. Rose- tinted glasses eh?😂
I much prefer the newer London to the Victorian version. That Victorian city was full of crime and social injustice. Workhouses were common. Charles Dickens was sent to one at the corner of Chandos and Bedford at the age of nine because his family could not afford to feed him. But aside from that hideous side of Victorian London, I love seeing modern as well as older buildings all mixed up. It is visually a much more interesting city than it used to be. I love everything from the Gherkin to the Art Deco Oakwood station and am so glad they are in a city that also has the Royal Exchange and the Actors Church.
@@artistjoh There is more crime in London now than in the 1800s!!!! Most of it by foreigners of many kinds.
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Great video. Lovely to see Woolwich (Beresford Street) as it was.
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Thank you for the presentation. It's so nice to see the old city. I know people always go on about how it has been ruined but I still find London to be a beautiful and exciting city.
Thank you this collection of photo's was fascinating and the quality of some of them was incredible, if I happen to have a time machine I would travel back in time, I absolutely love old things, I have a collection of almost everything I have managed to lay my hands on, thanks
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Thank you so much for being honest and upfront about the photos being colorized! You Are Good.
Thanks a lot !
Thank you. Some of the photos were like paintings.
My Great Grandfather (mother) was a surgeon at St Bartholomew’s in London, my Great Grandfather (father) was lighting the street gas lights in Finsbury (same area). Just remember we still had the poor houses then too and if a child stole a loaf of bread he could go to Borstal for 5 years. My Dad did in the 20’s and 30’s.
wow brilliant a little look back in the day amazing
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Thank you for an excellent series, demonstrating life as it was in those far off days.
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Absolutely fantastic work, we subscribed to your channel and are watching from Cradle Mountain Tasmania Australia🇦🇺 we bought a house that was built in 1903, so 121 yrs old, and restoration has begun, so these videos and photos help us a lot, we enjoyed full watch cheers KC & CC Tasmania Australia🇦🇺🇳🇿 The Real Down Under 😊
The Victorian era was over by 1903.
@mjh5437 Yes, it was, but all the houses before then are our era. Understand what you're saying. Cheers 🍻
What a great job you've done! Thank you very much from Switzerland 🎉
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Well done ! Interesting the electric cars 😃 Thanks for showing every photo long enough to see it properly.
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You can also use the pause button
I love the photo's and films, it's a complete education and love the insight and history x
I noticed that even the places identified as poverty stricken, the people were dressed nicely. At least they weren’t wearing pajamas around town like some do today.
Classic 😂😂😂😂
ah romanticizing the past is very dangerous. LOL
Beautiful, breathtaking, brilliant!😍🤩🤩❤
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The man with top hat at 1:19 has Waterloo medal...
Fantastic job. I love seeing history and in color. Being 84, I could not help thinking how glad I did not live back then. Of course, they did not know what was to come.
Because we have better medicine, medical treatments and better technology...internet, TH-cam, I am glad I live today and not back then BUT during all the progress we as a society have lost so much. For example...people today go out dressed like they just crawled out of bed, or from under a rock. Parents no longer discipline their kids and they don't want the school or police doing it either. I could go on and on but you get my meaning.
Excellent colored video Thank You... London UK in its wonderful Glory days 🤔 Au
East London and Whitechapel have significant changes even when I landed in 1969 . Terrible housing conditions, outside toilets,bedbugs, public baths , absolutely horrendous conditions yet life was beautiful and peaceful and enjoyable.
Yes, it seem to be going back towards that time again , it started to get better in the 1980s and 90s , in the last 20 yrs it’s going down again , yes you’ve got canary warf , but for how long when most people are working from home , office jobs anyway .
Thanks for the video.
We often look at the Victorian Era with a kind of romantic sense but there were many dark shadows beyond it, expecially for the women and for the working class and for the poorest.
In one of the pic is mentioned Dorset Street: this name is known very well to whom venture in the studies of the Whitechapel Murders due to the connection of the killings of Jack the Ripper, for Dorset Street was the street where stood Miller's Court, the location of the murder scene of Mary Jane Kelly.
Another one pic, titled "JEWISH EAST END OF LONDON" we can see on the right the corner of Duval Street (formerly Dorset Street); the view of the photo was taken from Crispin Street not in 1893 but in 1912.
@11:56 if one of those folks are aged 83 years old, then we are witnessing in color a person born in 1799, it's fascinating to look into the eyes of someone that's 3 centuries away.
Imagine when people can look back through their family photo album in high res pics and videos in 3 centuries time. Technology is wild. It's a great time to be alive, my friend.
Somebody noticed an old Gentleman wearing a medal from the battle of Waterloo which was fought in 1815
Amazing job ! I walked through Oxford street from the East to the West 45 years ago and it was fantastic . I wish I could see London again .
Keep your memories, you'd be very disappointed if you went back now.
The photos were extraordinary. What I am astrounded by is the vast number of adults and children in the streets. The streets were clogged with horses, carriages, omibuses, and,tons, and tons of people. My thoughts go forward to the time after World War 1. Britain lost so many men during the war. Time for contemplation.
Enjoyable and informative. Thank you.
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Thank you very much for sharing.
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This video is absolutely gorgeous! Greetings by Saverio from Cisternino, a little town in the south of Italy.
Sehr gut gemacht und zudem spannendes Thema, interessante Zeit. vielen vielen Dank
Danke schön, ich weiß es wirklich zu schätzen
Thanks for sharing this great video:old pictures tribute .
English people’s
ancestry shown right here , this country made a big mistake in changing courses for what we have today.
At that time we were occupying and exploiting countless other countries and that’s how we got rich. Accepting some immigrants today is the least we should do.
No idea what you mean, you make no sense. I think women would largely disagree. As would the poorer and more downtrodden people etc. Victorian life was not the romantic bulldust shown or strongly implied here by BS.
@@angge4261They mean the victoriana in the photos will now be a minority in the big cities
@@A2Z1Two3 ahh. I see. I think/hope I have the gist.
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And we will be muslims,
Englands most popular boys name for the last 10 years has been Muhammad
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Victorian electric car 1899. They really were great inventors.
Crude electric carriages were first invented in the late 1820s and 1830s. Practical, commercially available electric vehicles appeared during the 1890s. An electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. In the early 20th century, the high cost, low top speed, and short-range of battery electric vehicles, compared to internal combustion engine vehicles, led to a worldwide decline in their use as private motor vehicles. Electric vehicles have continued to be used for loading and freight equipment and for public transport - especially rail vehicles.
Yes, and many of those things built back then were so durable. Made to last forever. Not the crap we have nowadays.
Beautifully done, thank you!
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Fantastic photos and really well done work , only snag was the Guardsman at 17:10 should have had a Red Tunic, other than that fabulous.
Gives a sense how they were in those times. Also, I liked the background Music. Thank you!
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Great collection.
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Amazing shots! facinating to see parts of the London Bridge area quite unchanged!
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Excellent, much better in colour👌
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The photo of the real victorian couple was actually taken in 1850, the man was a british survivor of the Napoleonic war, so this phot0 was appro 35 years after the battle of waterloo, you can see the medal hes wearing, sadly although fighting for his country he looks as though he was living in poverty
Fantastic photographs of a bygone age - though the streets are mostly very recognisable. I also wonder about the people, their lives and aspirations. Thank you.
Great job, streets & buidings were clean. Bad things were child labor, no safety laws, folks didnt know that smoking & drinking every day will catch up w/them later on. Those people from 1890 never could imagine all the technology we have today, most never ventured far from home. Medicine was primitive. People still had their prejudices etc. against others, that wont ever change.
That was amazing! Really enjoyed it
Beautiful pictures of London , then you remember that this time in some parts of the same city large families lived in one room, working eating and sleeping, child labour and most children dying before their first birthday.
I really appreciate these photos of days gone by. Could you please show other places that have the same historical value? Thank you for feeding my imagination.🥰
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Excellent. A more gentle time when human endeavour was more appreciated. People had time for each other and were proud of Queen and COUNTRY.
And average life expectancy was about 40. Great times.
No more than they do today and probably less..Indifference to others was the same in a busy city .
I remember most of these places from 1947 onward after the Blitz. A lot did not get destroyed. The biggest raid in the City took out some old office buildings near Moorgate but missed St Paul's Cathedral. Few casualties as most people had gone home for the night to the suburbs. The Nazis made a lot of poor calculations about distance with those bombers and dropped large payloads and turned toward home.
Thank you for showing this
my old London.
Not so good old London today, it’s changed beyond recognition and that’s not the indigenous people that has changed it.
Exactly. @@itzjustmolly8509
@@itzjustmolly8509 - exactly so
Your video is very good ;and I like the way you talk as well as your nice voice !
I lived in London years ago about 50 or so walked all the streets. Even drank in the last pub where those of the Mayflower had there last pint and meal.
I’d love to know the name of that pub if you remember?
@@theheartoftexasit's called the Mayflower in Rotherhithe London
@@AngloSaxonVanguard Thank you!
I thought the passengers on the Mayflower were Puritans and didn't drink alcohol? I am supposedly descended from one of the Mayflower passengers. Apparently there are 4 million descendants which is amazing as only about 16 of the 32 passengers had children born.
They drank Mead which was a healthy substitute for bad water. It wasnt like a pub today.
I never get tired of looking at these time capsule photos! Also what was the name of that music you played around the 18 min. mark? Loved it.
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Great colourisation maybe a little less saturation would look more realistic
You could do better then ?🙄🤭
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London from a once Great Prosperous City to a 'Run Down Dump' crippled by Excessive Taxation and Corruption in Government.what say you?
Thank you for this impressive collection. I wish for a time machine to be there for a day. But life was not easy for the poor people and was anything but romantik.
London in 1890 - a sheet-hole.
London in 2024 - an even BIGGER sheet-hole.
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Lovely video, really enjoyed seeing everyone in colour - it makes such a difference! One quibble though: @ 06:36 the Brown Sisters you’ve dated that photo as 1899. I disagree, based on hairstyles and fashion those girls were photographed at least 50 years earlier, in the 1840’s.
And furthermore, the Princess Theatre was in Oxford Street not Regent Street and Oxford Street did not receive much bombing during WW2.