The Oldest Ever Photos of England / HD Colorized
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- Time Travel Back to Victorian England Like You've Never Seen Before. The First Ever Taken Photo of London also here. I greatly enjoy !
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14.39 is really gruesome, has he beheaded someone?
I discover your slide show now! What a great work! it gives us all these people from the past so close to us. I know what I'm talking about, for working in digital photo editing for more than twenty years, so I know how it is difficult to enhance B&W pictures with color, in convincing way. congratulation for your work. A delight!
@@bernardchaudey9684 LOL. They are uploads from other people's work. At least one of them is an AI generated photo.
Disappointing. This video is supposedly “the oldest ever photos of England”. But - with the exception of the one of London - they are mostly from the 1890’s, by which time the technology was already 50 years old. Hardly the “oldest ever” photos.
Love these old photos being brought to life with colour but I think it would have been good to see them in black and white before the colour was added. Still very good tho 👍
I am always filled with nostalgia when I see these old pictures from times gone by, it is the nearest thing that we can get to time travel. Thank You.
This. I almost cry as if I'm going through photos of my own childhood. I'm sure there was certainly much physical hardship that we are not custom to today, but I also see an abundance of what really matters to life, things that remember in my own youth.
You skipped the abusive ones or you're all fine with that. Gross.
Очень интересно!,!
I was surprised to see Sunderland on here. That city is hardly ever mentioned in any videos about anything. Much appreciated.
Coventry too, a rarity.
And nothing has changed really !!
Fantastic, thankyou for taking the time of colouring these moments in time of a now all but forgotten time. You can tell even in these staged photographs, the differences between the Social classes, the rich of London and Birmingham with the smaller towns of the poor in Whitby and Preston and Leeds. Unfortunately a difference of living standards that still exists in the 21st Century! 👍 Liked!
LOL. They are uploads from other people's work. At least one of them is an AI generated photo.
Nice to see the photos colourized. My grandmother lived in London during early 1900s. I always love to see photos of people/places and I can imagine her during these years.
Regarding the fifth photo, I know Lake Street in New Hinksey very well as I have lived in Oxford most of my life. I can confirm that, 134 years later, this street & surrounding ones still get flooded very frequently! Love your videos, thank you very much ♥️
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I think that’s known as irony.
I am Oxford born too and my first thought was that my Great Granny would have been around at that time. She lived in Binsey tho. I remember going to the outdoor pool at Hinsky
It's a grand and appropriate name for it then. High Street would not work here.
And easily found on Google Streetview.
very nice, thank you so much..
very impress me the fotos..make me feel sad, all those people are not here anymore long very long time ago..
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This was a nice way to close out the weekend. Thank you, very much.
when i now see these old photo's brilliantly recoloured i no longer see them as being back in history but coming alive and full of personality .. ....amazing
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Lovely & interesting photos. Fascinating to see and having them coloured brings them to life. I love the music too. Greetings & best wishes from Ireland. 👍🇮🇪
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I have my great grandmother’s silver belt buckle that she wore with outfits similar to those on the three young women. Amazing that I knew her too.
The ladies waist size!
@@ehilton96 Corsets! Must have been so painful.
My grandfather was born in 1893. I used to sit with him by the fire and hear stories about his schooldays and what the "scholars" got up to. Scholar was the common word for schoolboy in his time. Later as a young man he used to go visit the forge where someone would have a newspaper and they would read aloud the news of the day to the others. He lived until 1990.
What kind of stuff did he get up to - would love to hear!
He was born the same year as my grandmother. Sadly she died in 1982 just a couple of months short of her 90 th birthday. I loved her very much, she taught me lots of things that have made me who I am today. She was the eldest of eight children, six girls and two boys. Unfortunately both the boys died in WW1 the elder aged 21 the other just 19. However I was lucky enough to know all the girls, wonderful Dickensian women, feminists when it really meant something not the airy fairy sort of today’s so called feminists.
Wow,it brings them so much closer to us because of them being colourised,thanks for the upload!
Another superb offering. Many thanks. The quality is excellent and the subject matter range comprehensive.
I LOVE colourised photos, makes it easier to imagine the lives/ existence of the time
Absolutely astounding! Thanks so much for these amazing photographs of a bygone age.
Just found your channel and like to say what a great channel, being from England it was nice to see purely English photos although photos from other countries are equally interesting keep up the good work 👍👍👍
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Thank you, great job! And wonderful display of Victorian fashions! That box bed was featured in a children's Golden Book of Hansel and Gretel which I always thought looked so cozy! ♥♥
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@@BrightStyle You're welcome
Beautiful!!! ❤ thank you for sharing !🎉
A fascinating and enjoyable glimpse into our long forgotten history, many thanks. I wonder, if in 150 years time people are looking at pictures of us as we go about our daily lives with no idea of what people 150 years into our future, will make of us!
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I'm simply mesmerised by these. So enjoyable to view. Thank you!
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WOW!
Polly Swallow...
I've had this pic for decades
just loved it
Thank You for putting a name to such beauty...
The colourization is immaculate
Absolutely stunning Thankyou
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Good luck to you bruv and well done for getting out of the inner city(s) forced multicultural shit hole that Britain is these days.
Very enjoyable. Always look forward to viewing these marvelous look backs at the hearty and strong folks who came before us and led the way into their future. Thsnk you, your efforts are very appreciated.
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These are fabulous. I love history. You brought it to life for me. Such a variety of people. The music is delightful. Looking forward to seeing your other videos. Thx for such a great idea.
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Great pictures of England 🇬🇧 👌 my Grandfather was born in England in 1888 in Surrey. He had many great memories of his life.
🏴=England,the cross of St.George(23rd of April),
also 🇬🇧=the Union flag/British flag(Upon the waves it'd be the 'Union Jack').This is a combination of 🏴(England)🏴(Scotland;the cross of St.Andrew-30th November)and🇯🇪 (Northern Ireland).
The other part of us that doesn't want to be part of us is Eire/the Irish republic🇮🇪
St.Patrick(17th March)is the patron Saint of ALL of Ireland.
Lastly but not leastly; Wales🏴 and their patron Saint is David and his day is March 1st.
*God bless them all!*
I think this needed to be pointed out as there appears to have been some confusion between the English and British flags.
Ich fühle mich immer wieder inspiriert, wenn ich Ihre Photographien sehe. Ich liebe besonders die Edwardian Times... Thank you
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Stunning. A window into the past. Colorized old photographs sometimes give the feeling that the nineteenth century ended literally yesterday.
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That was truly delightful! Thank you!
Very impressive, and lovely to see something in the expressions we don't see today. My wife was not taken with the idea of having apologise at Christmas.
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@@ianmorris4922 I was trying to make a point about the faces without referring to the effects of immigration. Just as an American face is identifiably different to an English one because of their different expression when smiling, I find these older English faces from the different classes shown differ from the faces I see today from non-immigrant British, less open and outgoing perhaps.
Stunning! thank you for your amazing work.💯💯
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LOL. They are uploads from other people's work. At least one of them is an AI generated photo.
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It's like we watched an old movie.
And their music wonderful.
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I can’t say how much I thoroughly enjoyed this video, I’m fascinated with the past the anoint of work you have done on these photographs is amazing I’ve shared to 4 others 🙏
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Seeing Queen Victoria in a pretty blue dress-not just the black we always see-comports with what I have read. A minor thing I noticed-the shoes on the bread seller. These platform shoes kept the feet out of the horse manure that must have been everywhere, but didn't notice it in pictures. Thanks for this.
Hardly the "The Oldest Ever Photos of England" by a long shot but the restoration is fascinating. Thank you.
That one is at 7.01
@HROM1908 - I thought the same. The dates on many of the photos are way off.
@@cathyrussell7157 LOL. They are uploads from other people's work....probably didn't bother to check any dates or accuracy..... At least one of them is an AI generated photo.
@@warrenny I was wondering about that. One that said reading woman 1890's looked like 1920's to me.
Pier Head, Liverpool is RMS Lusitania probably 1907, not before.
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Wonderful pictures of times gone by but quite sobering when you realise that everyone in the photos that you can see has long since passed away.
Many in the first world war no doubt.
Breathtaking photos depicting much of the social stratification during the Victorian era from the late 19th and early 20th century. "The period saw the British Empire grow to become the first global industrial power, producing much of the world's coal, iron, steel and textiles. The Victorian era saw revolutionary breakthroughs in the arts and sciences, which shaped the world as we know it today."
The way you processed these photos makes them come alive. Well done!
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Thank you sir for sharing your lovely pictures.
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This is fantastic! And I absolutely love the lively music! Well done!
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We appreciate all the time and effort you took to show us what you showed us thank you
Incredible work done on the photos to give them a new lease of life.
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Great work bringing history to life. Colorized too!🎉😊
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How wonderful. Such excellent presentation and suoerb music.
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@@BrightStyle genuinely a superb collection and very enjoyable!
The colourisation brings out individualism in the photos. Fantastic job.
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Thank you, Sir. Honestly I enjoyed it.
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Bright Style, Nice channel. I love vintage scenes like this. At 2:40 I like photo of pretty girl in 1892. My Grandmother was born that year and she was still living in the early 1980's when I was a kid.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful *Peeps* into our past. They are simply wonderful ! Gerry George.
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❤ THANK YOU!!!!..amzazing work. !!!!❤🎉❤
The most interesting video I've seen in a long time, very much appreciated this. Thank you.
Phenomenal job, thank you so much 👏👏👏👏🥰 I also had to pause some of the photos just to look at their faces, wondering what kind of lives they had.
Brilliantly colourisation of these old photos. I recognised some of the photos being from the frank Meadows Sutcliffe collection. Well done.
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WOW!!
Charlotte.1892
Stunning!
I hope You lived well
Awsome ! really brings those folks back to life
Awesome work on transforming the photos!
Thank you so much!
LOL. They are uploads from other people's work. At least one of them is an AI generated photo.
Some of the best colorized photos i've seen. Great stuff.
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So fascinating especially when you read Victorian era litterature as I do, thank you so much 😍🙏
Another great set of photos.Again I have to mention a few…the young Richmond woman reading in the armchair looks like a study for a painting..and Charlotte,the young girl with her doll from Somerset 1892,could easily pass for a contemporary portrait(in vintage clothing..part of a fashion magazine layout).Colour really does make that difference.Well done.
Nice colouring work!
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LOL. They are uploads from other people's work. At least one of them is an AI generated photo.
I just live for your videos. Thank you so much.
That was awesome to see these people living in a different era. Thank you
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Since I was a young girl, I always looked at my family old photos and am fascinated by them, the eras, fashion, etc. What I noticed in these photos are the "haves" and the "have nots", the working class and the people who have money, very extreme!
Hi, now subscribed. Really enjoyed watching this! Thank you for the fabulous content. Great work 👍 😊
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Loved every picture ❤
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Looking at these images with envy, wishing i could be there, great stuff , keep it up❤
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3:08 -- My gr-grandmother was born in 1887. Although she was born in the United States she claims that her late husband (who was born in 1881 in europe) had once talked to her about a so-called 'bed box' or a 'bed enclosure'. I swear to God all of us younger (19th century family relatives) we would just all, look at her and think she was a bit strange..... not really understanding what she was talking about. We actually thought that she was just imagining things or making things up. We had no idea that what she was trying to describe to us, was actually real. It's delightful to actually see a photograph of what I now believe my gr-grandmother was talking about all those years ago. PS my gr-grandmother lived to be a 104 1/2 !!!
Absolutely captivating!
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Excellent! The 4 guys posing around a barrel at 19:12, appear to be the same 2 men. I think it's some clever Victorian superimposing.
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The portrait photos are by no means the oldest ever taken. What were called because of their dimensions, `carte de visite` studio photos first appeared as a commercial entity about 1855. The larger so called `cabinet card` portraits started 10 years later. I would guess that all or nearly all of the ones here are cabinet card pics.
We have a life size non cabinet card photo portrait of my x2GtGrandfather that was taken before 1898 that is so crystal clear it could have been taken yesterday, which goes to show how much photography had advanced by the time most of the pics shown on the video were taken.
The photo of Polly Swallow almost looks like she is a time traveler with her hairstyle not matching that timeframe, but more of a late 20th century timeframe.
Polly Swallow was a beautiful woman wasn’t she!
ya missed a letter L😉
She was awesome wasnt she?
"Polly Swallow" sounds like the street name of a "Good Time Girl".
Smashing!! Real gold!! Thankyou!
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That was amazing, fantastic work. It was great to see the portraits of the Duke Of Devonshire, as the paintings I've seen of him in Chatsworth House are the artist's representation, which, although probably accurate, don't bring him to life as much as your colourised photos do. As a keen photographer who has looked into the history of photography, I believe most pictures were posed in those days, so the people appear a bit stiff, but the colour really brings them to life!
LOL. They are uploads from other people's work. At least one of them is an AI generated photo.
With modern enhancement I think a lot of hairstyles and ladies make up look quite modern. Clothes fashions have obviously changed though. I see nowadays the traditional men's short back and sides haircut is making a comeback as well. Perhaps the clarity of these prints make us notice more detail in them. Thank you for uploading allowing us to see the World as it really was so long ago.
really nice. I especially liked the closet beds!
Most enjoyable, thank you.
I found this fascinating and really hope they are genuine and not AI. If they are real, the quality of the colourisation is outstanding! 👏🏻
Err, the fact they have been colourised means they are AI, he didn't do it by hand but with his PC and they are digitised images not the originals. He did well though.
14:09 the foto of a Port in Liverpool - fantastic ! Unbelievable for that time !
The colorization makes them look more like real people. Thanks!
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//brings back memories going to the Liverpool pier after the war and taking the ferry to New Brighton so long ago loved the old photos my family is from England
Really very interesting ! From France .
I did enjoy that! Thanks
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I really enjoyed it thank you
Great pictures and music!
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I'm just devastated I will never get to meet Polly Swallow
These are the people who built an empire, built England into a world force to be reckoned with, left us a golden legacy that we've frittered away, that sound of rolling thunder, it's them rotating in their graves, we owe them our deepest apologies.
Was mentioned as England alot at the time but was infact the 'British Empire'.
Yes,agreed,however things must get worse before they can get better.
Vote Reform and not Labour otherwise the floodgates will never close and we will never beable to begin to grow from within cus we'll constantly be in an expansion.(Government created purposely for £££ and outside agencies going👇👇👇(👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿).
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England is only one of the countries that make up Great Britain...
Aah yes the legacy of Slavery, Colonialisation, the desecration of other peoples beliefs, artifacts and mineral and agricultural wealth. take off you rose tinted specs matey they are obscuring you vision and interfering with your intellect.
Oh yes the days when we colonised half the world, grapes and pillaged, and still had shameful poverty and exploitation of our own poor and our own children back at home.
Your recolourization is amazing. I may have just made up a word....
💥I was reminded of the hours of labor in the starched white colors and cuffs of little Polly, and sausage curls on the little girl. Her room probably smelled of burned hair for hours ! 🤣
Excellent, lovely to see how our country was. Now a cesspit of ...you name it,,....
True. Eventually our Elites will sell out their country to the highest bidder. It's just human nature.
You think whitechapel or shoreditch in the 1880's was a paradise do you?
@@jackryder-sw9rk Right. Mary Kelly, Elizabeth Stride and a few others might beg to differ.
@@paulohagan3309 Indded Paul. Just read Mayhew's London Labour and London Poor.
@@jackryder-sw9rk I've seen extracts. Heart-breaking.
People see these photographs [which yes, I like to see too] and get the notion in their head that everything was Shangri-la. They forget that the photographers would pretty much only show the very best from those times. You might get photographers who would for socio-political reasons also show the grim side of England at the height of its Empire.
But most photos will be by and large, pretty flattering of the time. Yes, we all like to see the sweet side of life. However, I challenge the channel to show just a few of the grimmer photos [Whitechapel and the East End, looking at you] of the time.
And as the novel 'Ragged, Trousered Philanthropists' pointed out, the happy people in these photos might have a stroke or two of bad luck and soon their lives could take a turn for the worse. Hell, one of Queen Victoria's children I believe, died of leukemia and she wore black for the rest of her life after Albert died.
And of course, no antibiotics; if you contracted cancer God help you, it was a long agonising death, turberculosis and smallpox still pretty common as well as other horrors. If in debt, you could be sent to prison and although there is talk of how peaceful the 19th Century was, there were plenty of small-scale but very vicious conflicts throughout the world.
So enjoy the pretty pictures folks as do I. Just remember they don't show the dark side of the past.
Those people were actually living the good days, but at the time they didn't know it.
I sometimes day dream about living in the age of discovery. Yes, the danger and the hardship, but can you imagine signing up to an expedition to explore areas that no European, or person has ever seen? We haven't seen an age like that for at least 150 years. Although, these pictures represent the end of that era and more of the exploration of technology, it still thrills me to think living in that time.
Are you serious? for the working classes it was hell, for the poor and destitute Hell would have seemed like paradise. Please time travel back to Whitechapel in the 1880's spent a week or two in a workhouse or living on the street and then come back with your tales of how wonderful life was.
No, a lot of people were not living the good life, not even close. And who knows? Maybe some/many/all of the people we see here were having difficulties of some kind or another but putting on a cheerful face for the camera.
Read histories/novels of the time about the lives of ordinary people and you'll see it was no paradise. Even for the rich and famous it often wasn't; read about the sorrows of Queen Victoria no less.
Not unless you were rich, they weren't. And as for the later pictures, we know, and they didn't, what was on the horizon in 1914.
@@jackryder-sw9rk the working class these days aren't much better off, most of them will never be able to afford to own a property and will be worked until they're 65+, at least back then they weren't berated and cancelled over nonsense like not wearing a pride flag or criticising islam
I would like to see both, your finished versions of each photo, but also the original. It would give me a feeling for how much was recovered vs imagined. I appreciate the examples near the start of the video, but carrying that throughout the video would be nice, especially if you can find a way to make it feel natural (like bringing optics into focus).
Beautiful photos indeed!!! ❤
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6:34 I've seen this photo before and in that compilation the caption suggested that by the time this photo was taken the "tradition of subservience" was a bit of a joke. The relaxed and smiling faces of some of the men maybe supports that idea.
The first young lady, in the green skirt, appears to be getting into the spirit of the occasion with great enthusiasm 🌝
Good music! Great photos.
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The cost of sitting for a studio photo was more than a normal working mans weekly wage. These posed photos were a luxury for the middle and upper classes.
I loved it thank you 😊
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Thanks for this....by the way, I really like the music!
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Great collection of pictures. Seeing the young children of the late 1890's makes me wonder how many were to witness, and hopefully survive the carnage that would engulf mainland Europe some 15 years or so later.
16:38 Portrait of a lovely young lady, Preston, 1889. Her style of clothing looks like its from 1860 to 1869. Beautiful colorized photos ❤
Yes, I don't think they wore hoop skirts in the 1880s. That was the 1860s. Think Gone With The Wind!