Life is so weird the way we are here one minute and gone the next with no one to remember us. Meanwhile while we are alive we worry and fret over the silliest things
When I watch these videos, I think about how the people walking by we’re going about their daily business, their own silly worries and dreams, families etc.. just amazes me looking back in time.
@@stephanieparker1250 Really makes you think doesn’t it. Like time travel to be able to see these ppl. They would have been so fascinated to watch us walking around now on a magical screen hundred years ago so we’re fortunate to be able jump back a generation and watch through a window of time where we didn’t exist. I know a lady who was very anxious a lot of her life and she was always saying she felt lonely and down and she passed away recently and it’s like well what was the purpose of that!? She may as well of been happy while she was here but she wasn’t. Easier said than done I suppose. We get so caught up in our little worlds, that’s why I like to travel gives some perspective on things that we can over analyse and obsess over when in the grand scheme of things we are like a grain of sand, and so therefore so are our problems. Kind of comforting in a way and releases some of the pressure.
As a Londoner, I can truthfully say that this video is magnificent! Brilliant job! It felt like we were there! Recognised most of the places. The skyline has changed a lot. I kind of prefer not having the high rise buildings like this lovely old footage.
My Grandfather was a London Cabby in the 1930’s. I can imagine him driving around in one of those London Taxis and the sights/sounds he would have experienced.
The old shop signs were so elegant, especially where there is a kind of gold inlay lettering against a black background. You see them still occasionally in provincial towns or villages, usually belonging to an old established family firm.
If there was footage of East End of London, you would see that clothing is integral to class. And that pair of jeans etc., would have been and are luxurious contrasted to clothing worn in East End Rookeries at same time.
You can say that again. I sometimes think that somewhere there must be a competition in which the competitors have to make themselves as unattractive as possible. I know this is not true, but when observing many people on the streets nowadays, obese, tatooed and scruffy, one could be excused for imagining such a thing.
@@joeconnors2678 those cars were running on leaded petrol & the diesels were not as clean as today. No one gave this any thought. People would go into a panic now !
@@gaz6439 England chose non-racism. We don't hate families just because of the colour of their skin. Because we're not a cruel people. Same reason we abolished slavery. You don't have English values. You don't belong in England.
Amazing. I wish I could see London then before WW2. I loved London so much as a child and in the 80s and 90s before futuristic buildings went up making London not what I always loved. I love Old London the Historic Buildings. I know the factory working class London was so nice people would say but all the housing, buildings down to the windows were Georgian and I prefer them to the modern windows and buildings. Love Georgian. Norman, Gothic, Tudor and Victorian mixes together. They flow well. Modern buildings do not flow.
Many of the public/state buildings are not Georgian, they are late Victorian/Edwardian when 'Baroque' style architecture was fashionable and it complements the 18th century church architecture.
What a lovely piece of film of old London town. People certainly looked smart in those days. Everything looks so civil and charming. Bring back the good old days I'd say.
01:39 The people at the Horse Guards are most respectful. Not like nowadays when there are lots of idiots taking selfies and trying to make fun of the guards.
Wonderful footage. Different times. Not necessarily better times in every sense, but different. I bet all these folks looked back on the 1890s as the good old days 🤣 that Marmite van at 4:02 is priceless
Great video, amazing footage, the truck at 4 minutes 32 seconds, says pickford's is a removable company based in Portsmouth uk, they are still about today, amazing 👍😀👌
Sad that all the old individualised local shops have been replaced with monstrous chain-stored and multinationals since the Second World War. Tescos, Asda, Gregg's and what have you.
Yep it's a dump now. Hard to find anyone who speaks English as a first or even 2nd language now in London. Is that a great thing to be celebrated? No it's not.
@@gaz6439 No, it's NOT a _"a dump now",_ it's a beautiful and incredibly city and it always will be. The problem isn't London. The problem is people called "gaz" that can't wait to run that incredible city down at every opportunity they can find.
Everyone looked so smart, no torn jeans and backsides hanging out like baboons and everyone was slim, no junk food then. Fantastic video ty so much. From a Londoner.😃
No ripped jeans, but horrific slums, poverty that makes out “fuel poverty” laughable, no NHS, no welfare state. Women treated like dirt still, not allowed to work mostly. The people in this film were smarter perhaps, but it doesn’t show the realities of 1930s life. I’d recommend reading Down and Out in Paris and London, or Coming Up For Air.
@@OlafProt thank you, so many deluded people in the comment section pretending this was better times? National Minimum wage wasn't even implemented until 2000. Before that you we're essentially at the mercy of your boss paying you whatever they want to pay. People have no idea how harsh it was to live in 1930s. It was all under control from companies.
I can just remember the London trams. The smell the clatter and I think a bell clanging. So disappointed to see just the brief shot of one stationary. My visit to London was around 1947. Seems like yesterday!
It's amazing that so much has changed and yet poignant landmarks such as Piccadilly Circus, Pall Mall and The Houses of Parliament retain artistic and historic traditions
Looks so civilised and strong looking Bobbies on every street corner and the military not to far away. People not dressed in rags , Scott’s of Mayfair still going strong today , and Big Ben under repair again. What a place. 👍 thanks for another great look at what are grandparents way of life was like 👍
I can remember a neighbour of mine who hadn’t seen London since the war years saying how London had changed for the worse. This was back in the 80’s. So much low quality modern trash replacing much superior buildings. The rebuilding of destroyed areas after the war was a missed opportunity. The last 20 or so years has seen even more low quality banality destroying the unique character of a great city.
Amusing how certain things haven't changed at all (and not for the better) in almost a hundred years: the Big Ben was covered with scaffoldings in 1932, it was covered in scaffolding the first time I saw it in 1983 and is covered in scaffolding now, in 2022.
I was wondering if you could specify the specific year of the footage in the description, for example if it was 1935, that is, if the specific year of the footage is known. When analysing historical information, especially from the 20th century, it's kind of useful to see the specific year of a decade as the early, mid and late parts of decades can sometimes be quite different. Just a suggestion, but I really enjoy and appreciate your work. 👍
@@octavius8562 interesting as London trams were fitted with windscreens from 1931 and the London General Omnibus company was absorbed by London Transport in 1933.
I like how your comment doesn't indicate whether you like or dislike this new multicultural London, you simply state the footage is from pre multicultural London, then someone posts an angry reply about the reasons why we got a multicultural London, implying this great new multicultural London is.... worse than old London? How could that be? Anyway a very revealing insight into the mind processes going on here.
Not really. I'm from London and have a book about the city written in 1902, which goes into great detail about the different ethnic minorities that made up the metropolis at that time. There were massive amounts of Chinese, Russian, Polish and other people from Eastern Europe. People from the Balkans, Germans and Dutch, and people from Asia (mostly what was then India, Malaya, Burma.) That was 30 years before this.
Absolutely fascinating 🏆👍 thanks a lot for all your work and sharing it with us. I would have loved to be able for a time jump in the the splendid 30s… (return ticket included…)
Of course you needed all these policemen in the road directing and stopping traffic - only just realised why!! .... because this was before traffic lights had been invented. Fascinating to see an era pre traffic lights! They didn't appear until after WW2. Either late 40's or early 50's.
@@jonldn This is the problem with all this woke goodie two shoes self righteousness. THEY bring race into EVERYTHING when no-one else does. Oh deary me. We are f**ked
@@DAVIDE-bk8by clear you haven’t read the other comments on here with the statements directly referring to race.. my conditioning as you see fit to call it would like to see all nay sayers out including those so quick to label . Now stay out on my beloved city if you want you are free to decide .
I love the way everyone looks good and smart. Now in 2022 every is twerking on everything and going out in there pyjamas or practically wearing nothing
The soldiers at 4:59: are in the Tower of London and the building above the arch is the famous 'Bloody Tower'. The tower behind them is where the British 'Crown Jewels' were on display back then.
Much better then than now, at least there was no TfL and Mayor for London interring, looked like I hadn’t missed much being born in the 1950’s, a dam sight more simpler then with less greed and stupidity for my late parents.
And English people fought hard to perfect their way of life and the homeland of their ancestors. If they could see England today no-one would have bothered . A total waste of life considering what our traitors/ politicians/ MSM have done to this country.
Absolutely fascinating. However the one thing that strikes me is how dirty the buildings were. The one compensation was that there were no ugly glass skyscrapers Dominator the London skyline. To be quite honest I think I preferred the dirt!
Why do people like you *_constantly_* say negative things about cities like London? It's almost like a generation of scruffy, unemployed critics like you who are desperate to run the beautiful city down. Stop doing it, man.
THAT'S the Britain I would want to go visit, VERY British then. Of course then it would have been more often referred to as England. Suddenly I feel I could go for a plate of bangers and mash. 🥲
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Can you do a restoration on my home city of Kingston-upon-hull if I send you some footage?
love it
thanks
Life is so weird the way we are here one minute and gone the next with no one to remember us. Meanwhile while we are alive we worry and fret over the silliest things
When I watch these videos, I think about how the people walking by we’re going about their daily business, their own silly worries and dreams, families etc.. just amazes me looking back in time.
@@stephanieparker1250 Really makes you think doesn’t it. Like time travel to be able to see these ppl. They would have been so fascinated to watch us walking around now on a magical screen hundred years ago so we’re fortunate to be able jump back a generation and watch through a window of time where we didn’t exist. I know a lady who was very anxious a lot of her life and she was always saying she felt lonely and down and she passed away recently and it’s like well what was the purpose of that!? She may as well of been happy while she was here but she wasn’t. Easier said than done I suppose. We get so caught up in our little worlds, that’s why I like to travel gives some perspective on things that we can over analyse and obsess over when in the grand scheme of things we are like a grain of sand, and so therefore so are our problems. Kind of comforting in a way and releases some of the pressure.
That's why we should really consider life after death can't be just live and die
So so true
Jesus promises eternal life to us according John 3:16
As a Londoner, I can truthfully say that this video is magnificent! Brilliant job! It felt like we were there! Recognised most of the places. The skyline has changed a lot. I kind of prefer not having the high rise buildings like this lovely old footage.
thank you so much
What's it like living in London today where the English are now a minority.
So what's the deal with the buses, we see that there's all of them green in one 1930s video then another where they're all red?
Location? 7:38
@@Toby_the_Glen Great Marlborough Street
My Grandfather was a London Cabby in the 1930’s. I can imagine him driving around in one of those London Taxis and the sights/sounds he would have experienced.
The old shop signs were so elegant, especially where there is a kind of gold inlay lettering against a black background. You see them still occasionally in provincial towns or villages, usually belonging to an old established family firm.
I like these vintage signs too...
Yep, it was known as 'glass gilding'
Men in suits and hats, women wearing dresses. No ripped jeans, trainers, football shirts or women stuffed into leggings. How scruffy we’ve become.
If there was footage of East End of London, you would see that clothing is integral to class. And that pair of jeans etc., would have been and are luxurious contrasted to clothing worn in East End Rookeries at same time.
You can say that again. I sometimes think that somewhere there must be a competition in which the competitors have to make themselves as unattractive as possible. I know this is not true, but when observing many people on the streets nowadays, obese, tatooed and scruffy, one could be excused for imagining such a thing.
Not forgetting seeing no burqas, turbans, sandals, robes and general third world raggedy attire.
The third world countries are the ones that taught you civilization @@QuoPaperPlane
Your concept of civilization is strange. What does nudity have to do with civilization?
It’s wonderful how little London has changed and yet how much at the same time. Incredible footage.
@@joeconnors2678 those cars were running on leaded petrol & the diesels were not as clean as today. No one gave this any thought. People would go into a panic now !
@@joeconnors2678 “Diverse”?
@@joeconnors2678 vibrant yes diverse it wasn't. Unlike today's diverse toilet.
@@gaz6439 England chose non-racism. We don't hate families just because of the colour of their skin. Because we're not a cruel people. Same reason we abolished slavery. You don't have English values. You don't belong in England.
Amazing. I wish I could see London then before WW2. I loved London so much as a child and in the 80s and 90s before futuristic buildings went up making London not what I always loved. I love Old London the Historic Buildings. I know the factory working class London was so nice people would say but all the housing, buildings down to the windows were Georgian and I prefer them to the modern windows and buildings. Love Georgian. Norman, Gothic, Tudor and Victorian mixes together. They flow well. Modern buildings do not flow.
This is before WW2.
I used to go to London in the 80s. Back then it was much better than the hell hole it is now
Many of the public/state buildings are not Georgian, they are late Victorian/Edwardian when 'Baroque' style architecture was fashionable and it complements the 18th century church architecture.
I love the work you do with these! It brings it to life brilliantly. Thank you.
What a lovely piece of film of old London town. People certainly looked smart in those days. Everything looks so civil and charming. Bring back the good old days I'd say.
Hey NASS....absolutely BRILLIANT! Thanks, so much! Respect from Canada
Only one word for me to describe this throwback, with colourisation, wonderful - thank you.
Your sound design is truly what makes it!!
01:39 The people at the Horse Guards are most respectful. Not like nowadays when there are lots of idiots taking selfies and trying to make fun of the guards.
Wonderful footage. Different times. Not necessarily better times in every sense, but different. I bet all these folks looked back on the 1890s as the good old days 🤣 that Marmite van at 4:02 is priceless
Somewhere we took the wrong direction
We didn't. Politicians representing all parties did.
Great video, amazing footage, the truck at 4 minutes 32 seconds, says pickford's is a removable company based in Portsmouth uk, they are still about today, amazing 👍😀👌
Most of the brands still going
oh to be able to go back and experience this london….. before it was ruined
Such a beautiful city and clean environment. nice clean roads and classical cars. I love it 💗
Even the cars look dignified
Sad that all the old individualised local shops have been replaced with monstrous chain-stored and multinationals since the Second World War. Tescos, Asda, Gregg's and what have you.
And I'm sure you've popped in one of these places mentioned in your life time??
Globalization is truly evil
A huge amount of the population might of been extremely poor then, but at least it was still an ancestral homeland worth fighting for.
Didn't take long for the Racists and Bigots to come out of woodwork, did it?
Yep it's a dump now. Hard to find anyone who speaks English as a first or even 2nd language now in London. Is that a great thing to be celebrated? No it's not.
@@gaz6439get back under under your rock racist
@@gaz6439 No, it's NOT a _"a dump now",_ it's a beautiful and incredibly city and it always will be. The problem isn't London. The problem is people called "gaz" that can't wait to run that incredible city down at every opportunity they can find.
for someone born in june 1959 it is good to see these old films of how london was before ww2
Everyone looked so smart, no torn jeans and backsides hanging out like baboons and everyone was slim, no junk food then. Fantastic video ty so much. From a Londoner.😃
No ripped jeans, but horrific slums, poverty that makes out “fuel poverty” laughable, no NHS, no welfare state. Women treated like dirt still, not allowed to work mostly.
The people in this film were smarter perhaps, but it doesn’t show the realities of 1930s life. I’d recommend reading Down and Out in Paris and London, or Coming Up For Air.
@@OlafProt thank you, so many deluded people in the comment section pretending this was better times? National Minimum wage wasn't even implemented until 2000. Before that you we're essentially at the mercy of your boss paying you whatever they want to pay. People have no idea how harsh it was to live in 1930s. It was all under control from companies.
My late father was there around same time, speaking of London with near awe. Now I know how it looked and felt to him.
I had to laugh when I saw Big Ben with scaffolding around it , what goes around comes around 😂
I can just remember the London trams. The smell the clatter and I think a bell clanging. So disappointed to see just the brief shot of one stationary. My visit to London was around 1947.
Seems like yesterday!
It's amazing that so much has changed and yet poignant landmarks such as Piccadilly Circus, Pall Mall and The Houses of Parliament retain artistic and historic traditions
Looks so civilised and strong looking Bobbies on every street corner and the military not to far away. People not dressed in rags , Scott’s of Mayfair still going strong today , and Big Ben under repair again. What a place. 👍 thanks for another great look at what are grandparents way of life was like 👍
I can remember a neighbour of mine who hadn’t seen London since the war years saying how London had changed for the worse. This was back in the 80’s. So much low quality modern trash replacing much superior buildings. The rebuilding of destroyed areas after the war was a missed opportunity. The last 20 or so years has seen even more low quality banality destroying the unique character of a great city.
I would,say a large percentage of the buildings shown in this clip are still there. I had no issue working out where each shot was…
Fantastic footage. As a Londoner I'm very impressed.
Amusing how certain things haven't changed at all (and not for the better) in almost a hundred years: the Big Ben was covered with scaffoldings in 1932, it was covered in scaffolding the first time I saw it in 1983 and is covered in scaffolding now, in 2022.
😄😄😄👍
Margaret Thatcher wanted it cleaned of soot in the 80s. I'd like to know if it was cleaning and/or repairs the other times. 👍😊
Just think! Queen Elizabeth can watch this video and say, "I remember that!"
Not any more ☠
@@PaulChapman1bz Maybe she can..... who knows???
It's 2022 and they left the scaffolding on Big Ben. It's still bloody there.
1930s calm before the storm.
Amazing. Nice to see everybody dressed all the time in their finest
Yes very nice 😊
Back when we used to actually make and produce things!!
Beautiful video. It’s like a time machine.
Amazing job again Nass, cheers!
Yea like too
Very elegant clothes
I wish we were living in those times.
Just be thankful if you weren't in London in September, 1940.
Or living in East London
So much history in this city, amazing
Shame it's occupied by people who are only interested in getting whatever they can from it in the here and now
When it was a British city
Excellent presentation that captures the spirit of typical London life so long ago.
I was wondering if you could specify the specific year of the footage in the description, for example if it was 1935, that is, if the specific year of the footage is known. When analysing historical information, especially from the 20th century, it's kind of useful to see the specific year of a decade as the early, mid and late parts of decades can sometimes be quite different. Just a suggestion, but I really enjoy and appreciate your work. 👍
@@octavius8562 interesting as London trams were fitted with windscreens from 1931 and the London General Omnibus company was absorbed by London Transport in 1933.
It's been so long I'd forgotten what a real copper looked like.
Great footage. 👍
The Marmite float is amazing!
Big ben restouration really took that long 😂
Pre multicultural London.
@@octavius8562 it's a lot more interesting as a city now IMO. But I would say that, I'm a Londoner. It was very quiet then, and very smoggy.
I like how your comment doesn't indicate whether you like or dislike this new multicultural London, you simply state the footage is from pre multicultural London, then someone posts an angry reply about the reasons why we got a multicultural London, implying this great new multicultural London is.... worse than old London? How could that be? Anyway a very revealing insight into the mind processes going on here.
@@octavius8562 *build civilization in their countries
Not really. I'm from London and have a book about the city written in 1902, which goes into great detail about the different ethnic minorities that made up the metropolis at that time. There were massive amounts of Chinese, Russian, Polish and other people from Eastern Europe. People from the Balkans, Germans and Dutch, and people from Asia (mostly what was then India, Malaya, Burma.) That was 30 years before this.
I don't think so
Cidade Incrível, Fantástica!
It really is like going back in time! It's quite eerie, because it's just a camera observing a slice of life then, not staged or anything. It's creepy
Absolutely fascinating 🏆👍 thanks a lot for all your work and sharing it with us. I would have loved to be able for a time jump in the the splendid 30s… (return ticket included…)
Of course you needed all these policemen in the road directing and stopping traffic - only just realised why!! .... because this was before traffic lights had been invented. Fascinating to see an era pre traffic lights! They didn't appear until after WW2. Either late 40's or early 50's.
1925
I used to go to London in the 80s. Back then it was much better than the hell hole it is now
Strange I’ve lived here all my life and never had issues… but then maybe I just get on with life .
@@jonldn Yes its what your used to, its called conditioning
@@DAVIDE-bk8by Frankly if the "conditioning" keeps the negative - racist - 'wasn't life good back then" people away... CONDITION ME UP!
@@jonldn This is the problem with all this woke goodie two shoes self righteousness. THEY bring race into EVERYTHING when no-one else does. Oh deary me. We are f**ked
@@DAVIDE-bk8by clear you haven’t read the other comments on here with the statements directly referring to race.. my conditioning as you see fit to call it would like to see all nay sayers out including those so quick to label . Now stay out on my beloved city if you want you are free to decide .
a bi thanks to to the camera crew who was brave enough to go back in time to film this
Long, long ago and far, far away. (sigh!)
Very impressive video! Well done. 👍
If current trends continue then the Indigenous British People will be an ethnic minority in our own country within forty years.
Didn't take long for the Racists and Bigots to come out of woodwork, did it?
I love the way everyone looks good and smart. Now in 2022 every is twerking on everything and going out in there pyjamas or practically wearing nothing
Yes and the standard of grammar has hit the floor as well.
The parade was great! NASS, amazing!
thank you so much
Those were the days
Just 720p? No 4K? I was sure they already had that from the Victorian era.. all jokes aside, awesome work!
The soldiers at 4:59: are in the Tower of London and the building above the arch is the famous 'Bloody Tower'. The tower behind them is where the British 'Crown Jewels' were on display back then.
Videos like these makes you respect the dead alot more.
Crazy to think we could be watching our late relatives!
the good ol' days
Wow! Policemen on the streets! Who'd have thought it. 😁
And they're actually doing something !
this makes me sad, here today gone tomorrow...
Já existiam filmadoras nessa época??
Incrível é como se fosse hoje, sempre tem alguém filmando..
Much better then than now, at least there was no TfL and Mayor for London interring, looked like I hadn’t missed much being born in the 1950’s, a dam sight more simpler then with less greed and stupidity for my late parents.
Wonderful videos
When London was for the British.
Simply Awesome Remastering,Thank you for this share.
How very much I wished I had known London my city well before the war 1939-1945.I was born December 1949.
Video recorder should be named time travelling machine. How easily I have gone to 1930 from 2023 in no time.
Between the stock market crash and the start of WW2. A changing world at the time.
do you have videos of brazilian videos from that time ?
Great video! Enjoyed 3:39👍
Not 1 immigrant in sight. Happy Times eh.
GREAT JOB SUPER NASS YOU ARE THE BEST
thank you so much
Nearly all the buildings in this are exactly the same today.
Hard to imagine in just a few years all the bombs that would be falling on this city WWII...
And harder to imagine that in thirty years, it would be Swinging London.
Yep ... I can always remember my Gran telling me how they came up out of their cellar one morning and the house was gone!
And English people fought hard to perfect their way of life and the homeland of their ancestors. If they could see England today no-one would have bothered . A total waste of life considering what our traitors/ politicians/ MSM have done to this country.
Liked and shared..fascinating!I am a Londoner.
thank you so much
Absolutely fascinating. However the one thing that strikes me is how dirty the buildings were. The one compensation was that there were no ugly glass skyscrapers Dominator the London skyline. To be quite honest I think I preferred the dirt!
Those days are gone forever memories now greed self and materialism have taken over..
London was proper London back then but not anymore. it is more like a 3rd world country now.
Today London is full of dirty drug addicts begging.
Good.
Why do people like you *_constantly_* say negative things about cities like London? It's almost like a generation of scruffy, unemployed critics like you who are desperate to run the beautiful city down. Stop doing it, man.
Anyone else have the sudden urge to go buy a pack of Will’s Goldflake cigarettes?
Its said on shop Sunshine cruze 22.?? Im assuming 1922.
O look, civilised well dressed people. No one shouting support for Hamas.
Not much “diversity “ back than. Yet we’re constantly told Britain was built on diversity.
@@FXSTB-i What’s that supposed to mean?
@@stormhawk3319 We may never know because TH-cam is up to its old tricks of hiding people's comments again.
It's before the dirty boat of invaders, I wish I was alive to see England in its glory days 😢
Thanks for videos this is perfect.
Fantastic Nass...
Weird to see London without all the skyscrapers
Sherlock Holmes was running around and hanging people on top of Tower Bridge just 20 years ago.
wow such an amazing place hope to go there
THAT'S the Britain I would want to go visit, VERY British then. Of course then it would have been more often referred to as England. Suddenly I feel I could go for a plate of bangers and mash. 🥲
Pie, mash and eel liquor gravy was the best. I would imagine that it's nearly impossible to get now hardly any English live in London.
What is that uniform at 2:23? Looks like some American military uniform maybe?
Another interesting video thanks 👍
Amazing to see the vehicles in all there glory