This is the city my great grandparents knew, all eight of them! It's vastly different to the Belfast where I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s! And today's Belfast is different again.
Those street lamps were so beautiful and omg no fucking wires 👏👏 Also, i feel weird not seeing cars :/ lots of 1900's videos show cars but these don't have.
@Ajc176 I agree. A pity all of Victorian Belfast is vanishing forever..such as Gallaher's, the terraced houses,, department stores like Robb's. Sailortown is just a memory
Beautiful video! I wonder if it's black and white that makes the video interesting 100 plus years later or if it was a color video what would have been the feeling of the viewer.
@Sibelius92 So do I ;-) , i'm french ..i do love that old films , I wonder how people feel loocking at those films , it had to be very strange and so funny .. today nothing astonish us , it's so sad ...
Mario Mario. They drank whole milk + real fat, butter. Now most of you eat junk & processed food. Too much suger.... etc. Lasy ass people now. No walking . You make your own pathetic life.
Wolli foi abominável, Edison eletrecutar àquele inocente elefante. Mas, deixar um cavalo morrer na lua foi cúmulo. Se estiver errado, perdoe-me. Pobre animal! Seu dono jamais o esqueceu. Há uma odisseia que cerca tal fato. Aquele corpo marrom escuro encurvado no chão, que cena! Chorou-se por ele como se fosse um filho. Com razão foi e será sempre um nobre ser. Wolli, choramos e sentiremos a falta de nossos amigos animais enquanto vivermos.
This was.a.super video 2 see of belfast over 100 year ago belfast city centre was booming then with people and shops not like 2.days.run down city centre and derelict buildings
This was Belfast Ireland, I.e before Partition you absolute idiot! Northern Ireland hadn’t been born yet. You clearly know shit about history. Protestants are largely from Scotland, the indigenous Ulstermen are Catholic/ Irish, who come from gaelic tribes that had populated the region for millennia. Idiot.
Man, people must of been boiling or soaked back then.. No T-shirts anywhere, all grey/black suits... perfume must of been expensive, bathing wasn't as easy as now. Bet it stunk half the time. Amazing footage. Love it.
It looks like people on average were taller than people today, also I notice in these old films there are very few old people. I think a lot of things we are not being told the truth
Excuse me, but the use of that word 'Fenian' is not appropriate and one could find it offensive. This is a beautiful video showing how Belfast used to be, not a forum to discus where the responsibility lies to how it became how it is today.
Wear a suit then. Who needs that pretentious baggage? With that way of life came an enormous amount of judgementalism. If you weren't dressed just right you were looked down on and not accepted.
The world's oldest woman as of today (8/12/17), Violet Brown, had just passed her first birthday when this film was made. And I had sex with her. Not when she was one year old! You people are sick.
I think the woman doing the voiceover sounds very natural and the music is spot on.
This is the city my great grandparents knew, all eight of them! It's vastly different to the Belfast where I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s! And today's Belfast is different again.
Imagine this scene suddenly unfolding before you ! Fascinating and such good clear quality.
These films are very facinating to watch. Love it.
This is priceless history!
Wonderful and significant historic record of daily life in the city streets more than 100 years ago.
It may look quaint and all that to look at this now, but life was bloody hard back then. Most of us these days wouldn't last five minutes.
How smart and well dressed they were.
beautiful!!! i love those times!!!
Gracias por subir estas joyas ;)
Great piece of film.
That's me standing outside the cigar shop.
I was there too, which means that I have had sex with women in three different centuries.
I love all the long skirts and tiny little waists. Just so cool.
When i get a time machine i'm going to set it to 27th of may 1901 belfast
clearly you never get one or you'd be in this video.
I actually think the voiceovers give good insight personally!
I'd love to step into this video and check out the interior of "The Cecil Cigar Store."
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Ah yes, the Nokia Baguette was a popular model at the time.
1901 Oscar Wilde died the year before and James Joyce just started writing.
Those tram drivers appear to be staring straight at us
Those street lamps were so beautiful and omg no fucking wires 👏👏
Also, i feel weird not seeing cars :/ lots of 1900's videos show cars but these don't have.
very few telegraph posts (poles) around BI towns & cities even back then...must burying the wirings've discouraged sabotage, e.g?
At a time when it was a beautiful city.
Edgar Bronfman jr is looking to see if he can get a virtual version of those wheeled signs to put on youtube!!!...
Treasure absolute treasure.
@Ajc176 I agree. A pity all of Victorian Belfast is vanishing forever..such as Gallaher's, the terraced houses,, department stores like Robb's. Sailortown is just a memory
look how simple life use to be back then
Wonder what this footage would look like in colour? Thanks for the time travel.
Beautiful video! I wonder if it's black and white that makes the video interesting 100 plus years later or if it was a color video what would have been the feeling of the viewer.
I wish I had a time machine. But I suppose life back then wasn't that different from todays.
The population of Belfast was approx 350000 in 1901 ... Way higher than than it is today at a lot less than 300000....
Reallly really wonderfull..!!
from belfast there seems to be much more people on the streets back then or is it just me?
@Sibelius92 So do I ;-) , i'm french ..i do love that old films , I wonder how people feel loocking at those films , it had to be very strange and so funny .. today nothing astonish us , it's so sad ...
that was life in Belfast 119 revolutions around the sun ago.
Whoever looked after the track did a good job. I suppose Horse-drawn vehicles were not as heavy?
@Sibelius92 did you see the little dog running , at the top of the film at 2:00 ?? :-)))
jaguar5962 Yes that little 🐕dog was late for the randevu at 2:02.
How does one horse pull all of that?
Amazing
A very peaceful and safe era to live in. No mobile , no TV, no missiles , no bombers and no Islamic terrorist..
just poverty!
@@PlanetaryCitizen
Poverty existed in every city in Britain and Ireland and every other city around the globe.
Ridiculous comment.
lol...that's the first thing I thought of also.
The woman shown at 1:01-1:05 appears to be using a cell phone. Bizarre.
Jeanne Griffin. Could be a time traveller???
Almost no fat people on streets like today
Mario Mario. They drank whole milk + real fat, butter. Now most of you eat junk & processed food. Too much suger.... etc.
Lasy ass people now. No walking .
You make your own pathetic life.
@FaerieCrone Not true , I think we would last maybe 2 hours
belle vidéo
Interesting! All of those streetlamps run off of gas or kerosene? Were men charged with turning them on in the evening?
A 'Leerie', in fact.
Wolli foi abominável, Edison eletrecutar àquele inocente elefante.
Mas, deixar um cavalo morrer na lua foi cúmulo.
Se estiver errado, perdoe-me.
Pobre animal!
Seu dono jamais o esqueceu.
Há uma odisseia que cerca tal fato.
Aquele corpo marrom escuro encurvado no chão, que cena!
Chorou-se por ele como se fosse um filho.
Com razão foi e será sempre um nobre ser.
Wolli, choramos e sentiremos a falta de nossos amigos animais enquanto vivermos.
Isn't that an RIC man walking by the parked tram at the very end?
Those poor horses.
you figured that one out all by your self?
...notably smooth?
good cigarretes.
This was.a.super video 2 see of belfast over 100 year ago belfast city centre was booming then with people and shops not like 2.days.run down city centre and derelict buildings
back in the days, where you can walk in the streets at night, without getting shot, so sad what gangs have done to beautiful cities!!!
Wonderful days, before Belfast was crawling with Irish!
Stenaline have great one way ticket offers to Cairnryan. So ye can gae awae ain hame to Scotland. If they'll have you.
This was Belfast Ireland, I.e before Partition you absolute idiot! Northern Ireland hadn’t been born yet. You clearly know shit about history. Protestants are largely from Scotland, the indigenous Ulstermen are Catholic/ Irish, who come from gaelic tribes that had populated the region for millennia. Idiot.
There's always one 🙄
So many Charlie Chaplin's in one movie
Man, people must of been boiling or soaked back then.. No T-shirts anywhere, all grey/black suits... perfume must of been expensive, bathing wasn't as easy as now. Bet it stunk half the time. Amazing footage. Love it.
It looks like people on average were taller than people today, also I notice in these old films there are very few old people. I think a lot of things we are not being told the truth
Excuse me, but the use of that word 'Fenian' is not appropriate and one could find it offensive. This is a beautiful video showing how Belfast used to be, not a forum to discus where the responsibility lies to how it became how it is today.
Two blokes are fighting fist-a-cuffs in the background; why o why won't anybody stop them?
damn! everyone is dead on this film.
Hats, Hats, everywhere hats. men, women and children. Women all dressed up, men in suits and today? people can care less how they look
Wear a suit then. Who needs that pretentious baggage? With that way of life came an enormous amount of judgementalism. If you weren't dressed just right you were looked down on and not accepted.
can't care less
@Sibelius92
Careful, It'll ruin the colour in your clothes :(
The world's oldest woman as of today (8/12/17), Violet Brown, had just passed her first birthday when this film was made. And I had sex with her. Not when she was one year old! You people are sick.
@tomba1937 Dude you're right. Now this with Chaplin's Time Traveler.... They're everywhere.
ok
Dust in the wind.
Fantastic!! But look how pig sick the horses are... drudgery or what!
Sand on top of the cobbles
Everybody is wearing a hat!
@Rentaghost76 remember everyone was irish back in them days there was no such thing as 'northern ireland'
i was born in the wrong century
1:03
w o w . . .
@scollinsireland There's always one to bring that crap into it.
Just enjoy the film and leave that shit out of it!!
Awful voice over, what a poor speaker.
The usual fuclin, annoying, bland, monotonous, senseless, insipid, distracting back-ground music!