Great Britain in the 1890's - 1900's Victorian Era / 55 Extremely Rare Exciting Photos Colorized
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- Get a taste of life in Victorian Britain and Ireland ike you have never seen before with our immersive tour.
The Victorian era in Britain was one of huge industrial and technological change, shocking divisions between rich and poor, sensational crimes, spectacular entertainments for the masses, and grand attempts to combat squalor and disease. Enjoy the show !
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Women haven't had rights for most of history and still don't in some countries. I don't see how it helped anything to give us rights, we're just a bunch of Eve's.
@@liamoconnor9487there weren’t any, very very few in those days
@@susanellis8067 And yet, we can't even make a tv show about medieval Britain, these days, without including loads of black people in it.
@@liamoconnor9487 I couldn't agree more !
Not that impressed
I am a drainage engineer in london and still find the white ceramic Victorian drain still in use and in remarkable good condition. That was when things were designed and built to last. Amazing really
And there are buildings (e.g. in Rome) still standing, and being used, 2000 years later.
Agree
we should still build things to last. we must abandon the mentality of planned obsolescence at all cost. We love to criticize our ancestors for being greedy, but they weren't so greedy that they sold products designed to fail - often injuring the consumers.
we need artisans, engineers, repairmen and tradesmen like never before. and YES we CAN afford it. think how much money would be saved if we weren't constantly replacing junk with more junk. and we all know the origin of this junk..... it's a five letter word that starts with a C and ends with an A.
Absolutely superb collage of photographs from times gone by, makes me feel sad when i think that all those people of mixed ages captured in glorious colour have all passed on 😔
Nevermind, you'll soon be joining them.
@@imwelshjesus Cheerful.
There is almost nothing more exciting than these photos from the turn of the century. Greetings from Berlin-Brandenburg.
Great collection of photos - I live in Brighton, East Sussex, UK and need to point out that your photos of Brighton beach, are in fact of somewhere else. Brighton doesn't have a sandy beach. It is in fact a shingle beach (pebbles).
I lived in Brighton . Was wondering about that sandy beach.
You beat me to it, I lived in West Sussex and was going to say the pictures of Brighton beach are incorrect, it has a pebble beach.
I think they later added the pebble, a rare known fact about the Victorians is that they HATED sand between their toes. That's why we still see the pebbles to this day.
@@EdekLay I believe this is pure myth. Sorry.
@@jean6872Just been reading that Brighton beach originally consisted of mud, but the first groynes built in 1724 captured the pebbles and it's been a pebble beach since then
@6:55 the muffin man. Remember that old song, Do You Know the Muffin Man that lives on Drury Lane? It was written to warn kids and family of a murderer on Drury Lane who sold muffins to entice kids to their doom.
Now look at the state where in a 100 years on .
I bet the Victorians would be disgusted at what has been allowed to happen to the UK since 1945
Most people today are disgusted.
We looked clean , smart and organised. We also appeared proud and confident back then.
What happened?
Multiculturalism
Not everybody looked that well. Photographers didn't want to photograph the slums of Dublin just around the corner from Trinity.
Also two world wars and the American effort to break up the Empire didn't help. Thatcher made sure society and community didn't exist. Nothing lasts forever.
Not completly correct, now I think about it. There were people taking phots of slums and suchlike but they would probably have been more socially aware.
Multiculti liberalism
@@paulohagan3309Rubbish. Thatcher did nothing of the sort. Community is created by US no one else.
I wasn’t expecting Limerick or Dublin photos to be in a post about Victorian England 🤨
Britain. All Ireland was part of Britain back then.
Such beautiful photographs.. when men looked like men and women were elegant mostly
The rich/middleclass women were elegant. The poor wore rags and cast offs.
Greatly enjoyed this; thank you. You might like to know that the Married Woman's Property Act went on the statute books in 1882, significantly improving the financial lot of married women. This meant among other things that they could own and control their own property.
I was going to point this out but you’ve saved me the trouble. It’s not entirely true (as the uploader states) that Victorian women had no rights. Certainly the situation was horrible in comparison with now. In 1883, in Nottingham, my great-great grandmother had her violent brutal husband arrested. The court found in her favour! She wasn’t a wealthy woman, in fact she was very poor.
@@markshrimpton3138 Yes, however, now the system is just as oppressive toward men as it was toward women of this era, and probably more so.
@@andrewlilley3660Well now you know how it feels
@@VMM34 That seems a very childish thing to say. The point is, it is women who will suffer long-term, not men. Because men make the world work or haven't you noticed that? Men can get along fine without women, but women can't make it without men.
@@andrewlilley3660 Women can get along fine without men. We can raise a cruck A frame for a house, plough fields, plant and harvest, cook, dig wells. We don't need you.
I really felt sorry for that poor horse having to carry all those trunks along with the kids. It's so cruel.
I've seen a couple of photos from those days with horses in them. Animal welfare wasn't a priority then.
Carole the trunks were empty.
@@bertiewooster3326 I doubt that they were.
@@caroletraynor8763 Its true I was one of the lads who put them on the wagon we were paid 1 penny !
@@bertiewooster3326the kids were also empty , not like the modern lardies😂
Fascinating to step back into the past, lovely photos!
Thank you so much!
What I love about this channel is they tell you almost exactly where & when the photos were taken. Especially the London photos. I know many of the streets and find it fascinating. History is also a favourite subject of mine. This is perfect for someone like me.
There are a few doubts about dates and places. However, a famtastic collection of images. Thank you so much!
Beautiful video. Thank you for showing us the beauty of a time.
Our best wishes to you.
Thank you so much!
Found all of this really interesting. Love how the photos have been coloured! Just fascinating, especially like pics of London in olden days as someone raised in London.
Thank you so much for your comment!
"Love how the photos have been coloured"...really...??..I thought they appear "hideously" white...where are the 'Stonehenge' builders...??
Vielen Dank für die tollen Fotos. Immer wieder schön sie coloriert zu sehen. Ich freue mich immer darauf.
Loved that, times were hard but people were genuine and had standards, unlike today.
Most of them very poor and repressed.
I can’t get over how sharply defined you’ve managed to make these, 100+ years old photos. I love the colourised
photos, but can understand how some people prefer the b/w and sepia toned photos as well. At least the methods we use these days don’t result in the colour obliterating the original b/w photos for all time. I find that
some of the colouring processes aren’t nearly so well done as others, these are good. 👍
7:07 Those are great looking bikes for 1890! I'm stunned. Perfect design and crafting, and they look new, like I could buy one tomorrow. They may not have had shimano gears but the bicycle on the left has a lever on the right handlebar, could it be, could it be...? Whatever it is they are advanced pieces of kit. The foot-pedals, which look contemporary, tell you that they had an eye to efficiency, the front rake is good and the trail is long which would give stability over rough ground. Beautiful. These are truly lucky girls, Daddy!
Remember diversity is our strength
Oh how we’ve changed, not for the better I’m afraid
Depends Janice. As a woman you have considerably more rights now than you would have in those days. But yes, I admit that for me they did dress rather more elegantly in those days.
And of course, no nuclear weapons or AI hanging over their heads. But then again no antibiotics and a considerably more primitive medical system which by the way, you had to pay for like the Americans do today. Swings and roundabouts.
I agree. Was just thinking I could certainly do with dressing smarter like the men did back then.
@@paulohagan3309And an average life expectancy of 45 plus the members of the middle classes shown here might have had it good the lives of working people were a struggle against disease and poverty.
Oh absolutely. Read the novel 'Ragged, Trousered Philanthropists' to fill you in on the ghastly poverty of ordinary people in 'the greatest country in the world'.@@tatata1543
@@RyanKeane9dress smarter then? They only did it back then because they had to. You have that choice.
Absolutely glorious photos. Thank you for uploading
Thank you so much!
In the photograph “ authentic old couple,” the man wears a medal indicating he is a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. That is if my eyesight is on cue.
I thought it was for service in South Africa . It looks like Victoria on the medal. But whatever it was the old soldier was wearing it with pride. Although probably a poor chap.
It's a well-known photo, usually dated 1850, not 1870s. He's always referred to as a Waterloo veteran, though I don't know if that just gets repeated over and over till it becomes true?
I noticed the medal and was immediately drawn to it, surely such a medal would be easily recognised by an expert, instead of taking a guess, surely our hero deserves better!
@@dansmithwave yes
Great photos. Most of the products in the ads still on sale.
All of my Grand Parents were born in Victorian people. I can remember the living, breathing, lovely people.
So were mine. Dad's parents were born in the 1870s, and mom's in the 1890s. Unfortunately I only knew one of them, and she died in 1968, when I was 18 and she 92.
My maternal grandad was born September 1889,my maternal grandma November 1890.I remember them both very much.
When we was indigenous, when we had Community. When we knew who we are .
Oh yes. I thought that as well. Both my grandfathers started work at aged 12 in the 1890s and would tell me of what their life was like in Hackney and in all ways it was about family, friends and so many people they knew and came across every day, ie community.
@@wakeupuk3860 join us at Patriotic Alternative play your part, Embrace the struggle!!!
Indeed. We had British identity then. No outsiders seeking to erase British community and cultural identity.
You reap what you sow mate. 😂😂😂😂😂
@@topsyfulwellhow do you work that out??
Packed full of information and delightful to look at. So much has changed. Nice work.
Thank you so much!
Another bloomin' great video by Bright Style.....Thanks
Thank you very much !
Never knew Dublin was in England...
Nor Limerick. Though the English tried to turn Ireland into a mini-me England. Those chaps at Trinity looked like they were the very rulers and inheritors of Empire. Except of course not part of England when it came to famine relief ... Still, liked the photos anyway. 😄
Lighten up it was not intended to offend you and it made it plain it was Ireland. I for one knew it was and loved the photos. My mother was Irish there’s probably as many of Irish decent in England as Ireland. Times move on it was a silly typo error but it was made plain it was Ireland at those times.
Who said we were offended? The Irish have free speech these days and what's the harm in pointing out some geographical errors? What on Earth are they teaching in English schools?🙄🙄
Maybe an emphasis on the shingle of Brighton beach? Brightonians seem to be quite offended by that, judging by this comment thread. @@jameswarrington9402
@@paulohagan3309 People who live on spuds should expect a blight
Perhaps.But they should not have to expect our British cousins should let us starve to death. Or maybe you think we should?
Fellow Irish people, when you hear the West Britons tell you how we should go back to the UK and let the English take care of us, remember TH-cam posts like this.
Fellow EU nationals. When the Brits come back begging to be let into the EU remember TH-cam posts like this. Their contempt for you, especially the English, hasn't changed.@@SunofYork
Wonderful pictures, so much more impactful in colour, even though I love black and white! Very well done and thank you for sharing your work.
Fascinating collection of photos. One error I spotted...Brighton beach is not sandy, it’s made up of flint pebbles as is most of the south east coast.
West Wittering is a Sandy beach located near Chichester in West Sussex.
@@BrightStyle Then you should put Chichester, not Brighton. It's 40 miles away, which is a lot in the UK; it's a small country.
Beautiful photo's. The Brighton beach one brought back memories. Grew up in Brighton and spent a lot of time on the beach and the piers. Much of that time was when I should have been in school.
Thanks for this trip down Memory Lane. I was born in Whitechapel, London where Jack the Ripper roamed at night in the 1880s. I'm always interested in seeing what London looked like in the 19th century. The photo @ 2.12 is not 1900 and it's not a Victorian family; judging by the fashion, it's 1920s.
I thought that seemed wrong. As you might tell from my post above, I am something of a student of the Whitechapel murders, and have visited the various sites several times.
You are dead right there. I have just posted a comment saying the very same thing.
Thanks for sharing this amazing video 😊❤
Thank you😊
Super! Great picture definition. To think that my grandparents were born in the Victorian era!
Thank you so much!
Beautifully presented. Thank you
Thank you so much!
I really enjoy these old photos and the colorization but a few of the photos near the beginning were not dated correctly. There were noticable and obvious differences between ladies fashions of the 1860s and 1890s or 1910s.
Quite: the picture of the group at 2 mins is clearly not 1900, but around early 1920's
One picture I knew was dated early 1920s because women's clothes were different.
Yes I thought so as well.
Love the video. Saddens me to see people who obviously have passed away. But gladdens me at the same time because these are recorded memories that live on. And the new babies about to be born to live their lives and die in the same environment. Nobody knowing what their future would bring. Great video.
Interesting to see these in colour. I think some of the fashions are Edwardian and not Victorian. The photo of Queen Victoria shows what a miserable thing she was - facially she reminds me of an ex Prime Minister - Harold Wilson. Cycling for women gave them enormous freedom to get out and about. Although the cross bar was lowered to allow for the voluminous skirts and a decorous way of mounting and dis-mounting, women started to wear more suitable clothing. So much traffic in London even then. Love the young lad with the delivery goat.
Some of those photos were from 1901 the year Queen Victoria died, and her son Edward became King so the fashion fits, that would of been the fashion at the time so it transitioned into being Edwardian.
There’s one photo from the early 1920s too. Fantastic collection though ❤
@@madgemuso7314 Flipping through the video again I did notice that pic from the 20s, but yeah it was a great collection.
Victorian England? I think it would be better to change the title as quite a lot of this presentation is not England! However, all of the photographs are beautifully colorised and I enjoyed seeing them all very much.
The color humanizes them. It shows they were people just like us. ❤
The Ludgate Circus railway bridge was always a bright pale blue and the shields painted but predominantly bright red. Manchester's horse drawn trams where white and bright red.
Fajnie by było się przenieść na chwilę w tamte czasy😊
For a moment only. One needs to remember there was no toilet paper back then. 😢
@@jcc2c22Yeah but they had news paper cut into squares😂
Hello I,m working on Building a time machine, I will contact you when I have achieved it.😂
That you John Titor? Or maybe the Doctor?For God's sake man stay away from Skaro and Mondas. There are people on this thread have enough issues with multiculturalism already.@@michealhand1001
Thank you ! very intersting ☺
Thanks i appreciate it
Blackpool beach was another good outing for my ancestors in 1900 with summer in paris and Italy and Nice.
Timeless photos..... great job! 👍
Thank you so much!
2:37 How do we know this was a man in drag?
Er, its obvious!! Its a man in a dress! Either that or a really ugly woman! 🤣
Because he looks like these transformers of today
The photograph of "Oxford St" with the omnibus advertising Eno's on its side, is, in fact, of Piccadilly, with the façade of the Royal Academy on the left
I think the womens' bicycles have a "dropped cross-bar" so the rider does not have to lift her leg so high to mount it.
Thank you for your comment!
Yes! Because of the long skirts ladies wore.
so many beautiful photos that i didnt see before, but the years mentioned on most of them are completely wrong and its not the first video of yours that i see with these mistakes. Maybe this is not important for some people, but then again, why would you write the name of the period under the video? Its such a pity that there is no accuracy regarding correct times for these photos. The one that makes me laugh the most is at 2,16 min where it says victorian family when in fact, the photo must have been taken around 1918-1919 and the era was not even edwardian anymore (King Edward VI, son of queen Victoria who rained until 1910). Victorian era was famous for very tight corsets and long to the ground dresses and completely different hats shapes. It was only during the WWI and after the war that shorter dresses started to appear and corsets disappeared. Oh, and the last photo, is clearly from 1920s. Hair is short in a bob and their hats and costumes are from this era, not victorian :)).
Absolutely amazing!
Nicely done, as always.
Thanks😊
How many of the young depicted died in WW1 I wonder?
The reason womens bicycles had a dropped crossbar is, it enabled them to step through, with those long skirts. Not the beach at Brighton which actually is a pebble beach.
I think the question was rhetorical- the ladies were wearing skirts, and could not have ridden the bikes if they had crossbars.
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@@BrightStyle A Fantastic Job ! Must have taken Hours & Hours to Perfect ! Thanks Again Indeed ! From, U.K. (2023).
Very cool, I enjoyed it. Thanks.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate it
Some wild guessing at the dates and some of the subject matter. Nonetheless lovely to see London, Liverpool and Manchester when they were still British.
Since the places you mention are still all in Britain, your comment is . . . a bit odd.
@@rodneymcgovern5984 you need to get out more
@@rodneymcgovern5984 They have been invaded and occupied.
Great pictures
Interesting that Victorian "England" seemed to include Ireland and Scotland
You show some photos of Brighton Beach in Sussex. The town has a pebble beach and has never had a sandy beach.
Good photos but perhaps the town is mistaken.
Some beautiful photographs here.
Just one small quibble: you should change the title of this video to Victorian Britain. For example, you show pictures of Ireland as it was in 1900. Ireland was never England (in the same way as Scotland and Wales were never England) but it was part of Great Britain at the time. Modern day Ireland did not gain independence until 1922 and Northern Ireland, of course, is still part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The "Great" refers to the geographical spread of the United Kingdom rather than being some sort of boast.
Interesting pictures. Thanks for posting them. Just one point that I think is incorrect. The beach at Brighton is not sand, but pebbles.
Definitely not Brighton, I was there.
I don't think those from Limerick will be that happy reading the title Victorian ENGLAND
Proper civilisation.Not perfect but so much better than the rubbish now
Like a racist such as you😅
@@sadiqpatel6832how's that Indian cast system doing these days ? You know the one , the darker yr skin , the lower yr class . Does that Still exist ?
Thanks for posting.
Was a time of workhouses and absolute poverty - sadly, the English still bend their knees to the aristocracy. A curious bunch.
God save the king!
@@sveinbjrnv7291 Cheated on Diana before and after his wedding - and now he's the 'head' of the Church of England? 🤣
@@mike-myke22 she ran off with some bloke
@@sveinbjrnv7291 Who, Camilla?
@@mike-myke22 Diana did
7:53 Again... this is definitely NOT Brighton Beach, which has a very pebbley beach, and has had for millions of years! It's hard to say where this one is/was though... as it seems to be just a short 'jetty' pier. Or maybe it just wasn't finished. Or maybe it just doesn't exist any more. But one thing is for certain... it's definitely not at Brighton.
My best guess for this is Felixstowe Pier (going by the look of the pier itself), although there are serious problems with the shape of the coastline then. So, I really don't know.
You missed some of the description of the “ holiday season 1890s Liverpool” the original description was “Scousers steal horse and cart full of luggage holiday season 1890”
Great photos, though some of the ladies’ fashions appear to be Edwardian, around 1910, rather than Victorian
Brighton beach only has a pebble beach not a sandy beach so it must have been somewhere else.
"A time of great growth and prosperity" unquote! Shows how much you know! I would suggest you take your rose tinted spectacles off and look at how the average family got by and lived. My grandmother had 11 children (including two sets of twins"). Only 4 survived including my mother. Don't glamorise it as if people today are somehow less prosperous - THEY ARE NOT BY A VERY LONG WAY.
Most people back then had a hard life and died young. We are the luckiest generation ever. Things can only get worse from now on.
Would have been rubbish to be poor or a woman - and the healthcare and sanitation weren’t great. BUT the feeling of unity and purpose and pride and the air of creativity, discovery and invention must have been very energising and positive.
07:07 Why dropped crossbar on women's bikes? I hope there are a few university educated scientist types who can clear that up for us idiots.
Very good photos and enjoyable to view. I would however question some of the dating,for example 4.47 traffic Piccadilly Circus London. I doubt there we that many cars in 1911 let alone 1901 but it is a minor point and does not detract.
Brilliant. However, most of the dating is completely out.
In spite of England having its Empire in the Victorian days there was a number of people that was destituted and homeless if you look around England today there are still are a number of people destituted and homeless nothing has changed.....
You have that in every country though. It'll never stop
Do you Irish watch these videos as a form of copium?
Most people back then were destitute by our standards. Even the rich died of diseases long vanquished today.
Hi thanks for sharing this video with me just goes to show how we were in the day David ❤️🇬🇧👌👍
Why is there no africans or indians there, i am bloody well confused.
There’s an Indian soldier at 0:30 but all the rest must have been photoshopped out.
@@Canalcoholic Was he standing at a corner of a street, if he was he was marking out the new corner shop he is going to open up in the future.
Well see, it's like this. In the 1950s and 60s, there was a massive labour shortage in Britain. Not enough Brits to do the work, a bit like now. A man named Enoch Powell invited people from the Caribbean to come and work in the factories and they did in their thousands. Then quite a few Africans followed.
Now after brexit, there aren't enough EU people to come and do various jobs [and their economies are improving significantly anyway]. So Mr Sunak has gone to India for a trade deal and there's talk of lots of visas for Indian citizens to come and do jobs the Brits don't want to do. There'll be thousands coming soon. Like Thatcher said at the end of her time; funny old world isn't it? 🤣🤣
@@paulohagan3309 you talk some garbage, you made me laugh when you mentioned Enoch Powell brought the african decent people from the West Indies to my ancient British lands. It was the governments of the carribean islands that sent them over to my beautiful land.
And no enriching black letter boxes either!!! You could even walk down the street without fear of being multiculturally mugged!!! Those people in those days fortunately didn't know what they were missing!!! Cheers.
Fascinating.
Surprised there aren’t comments about lack of diversity 😳
We don’t need to comment
on it. England was 99.9% white for its whole history until the 1950s. Anyone with a modicum of common sense across this.
Not many immigrants back then. We were too busy slaughtering them in their own countries which we were invading
There wasn't much.
Great video....but I felt sorry for that poor horse having to pull that cart with all those cases and people on top.
All those people all those lives were are they now
With hates and loves and passions just like mine
They were born and they lived and then they died
Seems so unfair i want to cry
Cest la vie ❤❤❤
Thanx for posting 📫
I love looking at these old colourised photo's. I often think it would have been nice to have lived then, but quickly change my mind when I think of their lack of hygiene.
And the fact that most people didn't live to see 50. 😐
And a lot of women and children routinely died in childbirth.@@mdsfo
Though in fairness, fewer than in previous centuries as medical science was developing.
Has the author not heard of 'the Married Woman's Property Acts' 1870 & 1882, Acts to CONSOLIDATE women's right!
Due to the 'property' element a lot of men had no right to vote until 1920!
Someone has to invent a time machine; it has been long overdue.
Also, it hard to imagine that people actually wore those huge hats (men) in daily life, it looks more like they wore them just for taking photo.
Amazing clarity.
Thank you !
I love seeing these old photos as I am a History fan. However some of the titles are misleading. One of the Victorian photos is clearly from the 1920s - you can see by the women's fashions. Also there was no Greater Manchester anything back then let alone Greater Manchester Police .Manchester was a part of Lancashire until about 1974.The photo of the very elderly poor couple (6:16) features a man who as a young, fit lad had fought at the Battle of Waterloo - look carefully and you see he's showing his medal.This photo breaks my heart as that is how so many working class boys who had risked and often lost their lives "serving their nation" ended up in old age. I wondered if the Manchester Police dealing with a street brawl might have been arresting my great grandad who was around at that time- getting D&D all over the city. The joke was that Bootle St station had a cell with his name on the door!
Clearly a 1920s photo and a selection of Edwardian ones in there too. I love these glimpses into the recent past. Great photos that i have only just seen for the first time
This green and pleasant land 😢
Since when is Ireland in England?
Wierd to think the photographers were recording the most startling and modern fashions, new buildings and inventtions of the time,. Great selection.
The picture of "St Clement Danes" Church London is in fact of St Mary le Strand London. A common mistake.
great work keep it up
Thank you so much!
Just a quick one, and not pedantic..
Greater Manchester Police ( indeed Greater Manchester as a place) did not come into being until 1974, after being outlined two years earlier under the Maud proposals. The picture captioned " Greater Manchester Police" is likely that of the City of Manchester police, all towns in Lancashire then having their own forces aligned to that particular borough.
My Grandfather was born in England in 1888 and he told me many stories about growing up in the UK 🇬🇧
And I forgot my Great Grandfather was a Bobbie police officer.
I think that you[re confusing the beach at Brighton, Sussex (all pebbles) with Brighton Beach, next to Coney Island
Looking at the fashions, some of the dates are clearly wrong and not Victorian. Plus there weren't those type of cars in 1901.
God I miss those days.The clip clop of horses hooves, the smell of manure in the streets, the sound of an underage child hawking newspapers on the street corner, the sound of an occasional steam boiler explosion with people running for their lives. If only we could go back in time!
0:44. On the left is Prince Eddie, Duke of Clarence, sometime candidate for being Jack the Ripper! Complete bolleaux of course, but several books have been written espousing the theory....
1:38. The reason most Victorians do not seem to smile in photographs is because of how the cameras worked. Exposure times were often up to a minute. If you tried to smile for that long, your face would get tired and you would look like a lunatic! It was easier to just relax.