I totally agree I could of spent a long time in her company listening to her . I still remember some of the stories my nanny told me as a child not many sadly .
Wow, can you imagine if we all knew how long we had to live? It changes the game completely. If someone were to tell her has a little girl 111 years and 299 days, I wonder what she would hav e thought.
I can remember a few things from when I was 7, but only very few. Visiting my grandfather in hospital - just seeing someone going from being quite robust to lying in a bed still complaining and then suddenly, no longer around. Also remember an argument with a girl in school when the teacher got a bit involved - all this was in 1979. It's quite hazy before that - I remember only a few things before that.
Florence Pannell. Born in 1868, the same year as Tsar Nicholas II. Older than Churchill by 6 years. France still had an Emperor. 18 when the Statue of Liberty came up, 21 when the Eiffel Tower was built. 35 when the first airplane flew, 46 when WWI started, 59 when the first TV broadcast was made, 77 when WWII ended, 89 when Sputnik orbited the earth, 101 when humans landed on the Moon, 111 when the Shah of Iran was overthrown, and died in 1980, the same year as John Lennon. She was the oldest person in Europe at the time of her death. What a ride.
I know you are referred to her life and how she lived when you say"what a ride " but that phrase can also be picked up wrong depending on where you live 😂
Just remember that Florence was 48 years old when the first wold war, and 77 when the second. And she still lived 35 more years after that event. Incredible.
If Mrs. Florence was 108 in the year 1977 that means she probably was born in 1869. World War 1 started in 1914 so she would have been 45 and then World War 2 started Sept. 1939 so she would have been 70.
Her date of birth- 1868. And death is 1980. This is what the events she lived through- Ten years war (1868), Spanish American war (1898), world war 1, world war 2, even Korean and Vietnam war . Dang
I am 82 years old, and when I was young, my grandfather told stories of young men waiting at street corners waiting to see a woman’s ankle when she stepped off the curb!
Faye Ritenburg Oh how I wish they could see today ! Although, prostitutes always existed. Older eras really weren’t as naive or “prude” as we make them out to be lol
My sentiments as well!!! My daughter and I are watching in the car on her lunch break at school. What would she make of my sending this video to my 85 year old Aunt, who will watch on her iPad. I wonder what the world will be like when we are centurions (hopping that we will be so fortunate)? Here’s to Enjoying lunch in our cars with technology!:-D
@@jaffa3717 When she says that it’s obviously because she was born sometime after the First Industrial Revolution and was giving that interview at the beginning of the globalization in the middle of the Cold War… That’s a journey we would never be able to understand
My Great Grandmother was born in 1887 and died in 1991 aged 104. Her lifespan covered the Boer War ( Started 1889) right through to the First Gulf War (1991). She lost 2 brothers in the Great War, which she never talked about. I wish now that I had spent more time talking to her and asking about her past. Something I will always regret now that it's to late.
The sad part is even though people live through such large events, they'll just go 'meh' and forget until some up-and-coming reporter prods them for a historical segment far in the future :/
I can't imagine being alive in the times of Tsaikovski and Black Sabbath's Paranoid. 😂 For me (born in 1994), they seem to be worlds apart and both being ancient history to me, but they can be fit in to a life span of one woman.
@@Lea_Kaderova No worries Lea, I went to Paris for the first time recently and I saw quite a bit more than ankle on those splendid Paris streets. So whether you wanna dress light or you just wanna look at hot girls, no matter, still no such thing matters in Paris!
She mentioned "Punch". "Punch" was a British weekly magazine of humor and satire that ran from 1841 to _2002._ It played a significant role in the development of the British sense of humor and is often cited as a landmark in the history of humorous magazines. It is largely forgotten nowadays.
A bit of a bold statement to claim that one publication played a significant role in the British sense of humour. I suspect our dry wit has been this way for centuries before Punch ever published it's first edition - it's just a quirk of our culture.
“Everything has changed” Imagine being born in the age of horse and buggies, steam power, corsets, Victorian dresses, men in full suits, operas & marching bands and living to see the day of men walking on the moon, satellites sent to distant planets, miniskirts, t-shirt and jeans, the Sex Pistols and disco. I can’t imagine make sense of a technological and cultural leap that massive
Kris Ferrero Or living in a time when people still believe the Sex Pistols were real....they were an example of early CGI, created in a studio by George Lucas
I once asked my mother about that. She is only sixty, but when I think of how things were when she was a little girl, and how things are now, I see a huge difference in society, technology, international politics, etc. She told me doesn't feel the change, and only looking back and reflecting on the past she feels like things have changed, but progress is not a leap, it is more like a continuous process.
Am I the only one insanely upset with the lackluster questions? That woman was BRIMMING with energy! Should’ve gotten a history lover to interview her tbh
hugh mongus it wont be pretty when that happens, very likely the end of civilization. I say this merely in the fact that not enough people will be able to adopt a pre technology lifestyle successfully and will lead to violence paranoia ect ect
So I'm currently 16, I have this rare heart disease and doctors have recently told me I probably have 3-4 years of time. Watching these kind of beautiful and heart-touching content makes me cry a bit. I'd do literally anything to have more time on this Earth, but you can't change your fate, they say. This lady is very inspirational and I hope she enjoyed her long life. Rest in peace
I'm sorry you have to watch the time count down. I hope you will be able to lay in the house of the Lord once you're gone. That is much much much better than having to be on this earth. I'll pray for you.
@@rghaw Thank you for your kind words. I suppose, I won't suffer that much when it happens, so it makes dying a little bit easier. I've had very active and productive life, I've enjoyed it. I hope, that my soul will be finally at rest and if there is any afterlife, I'll make sure, that I throw a hell of a party when I'm there.
@@themoocher3029 Dying is something you'll never fully accept. However, I've made peace with it. I've had very active and productive life and I will continue doing it until my last breath, of which I don't have that many unfortunately. I'm smilling as much as I can, because some dying people can't enjoy their lives. I don't have that much time. My dreams are like a clouds, that I could never reach. My deepest dreams are basically destroyed. Whereas, I'll try my best not to spend my final years worrying about it so much. Life shouldn't be something taken for granted, it's not. That is fate, that is unchangable. Thank you for your kind words, stay positive, which is the key to everything.
@@lenka.luciferian You are very wise. You are completely right. No one can prevent it if it's destined to happen. Obviously, miracles can happen, but that doesn't mean that it is certain they will. You're doing a very wise thing by accepting it and being positive about it.
This woman had lived through the most breakthroughs in world history. Imagine seeing it all. She was a child before the lightbulb was ever invented and was eventually able to see men walk on the moon.
Boer War, 2 World Wars, Russian Civil War, Easter Rising, 6 British monarchs, light bulb, radio, airplane, zeppelin, moving pictures, cars, colour photograph, zipper, television, atom bomb, space rockets, Coca-Cola, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, women's votes, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Titanic, Hindenburg, San Francisco earthquake, JFK assassination.....the list goes on!
@Hernando Malinche That's cool I get what you mean, i was born in 97 so the early & mid 2000's I'm very familiar with but even with it comes to the olden days all I had to do was watch a movie from the 60's 70's, 80's, etc. And TH-cam even has videos of what life was like in early 1900's even the late 1800's. So if you really think about the future generation pretty much has the industrial world all the way up to the modern world all mapped out for them really.
@Hernando Malinche I wonder why, but every generation has movies that accurately protrays how the life and times were. You just have to find those good movies or documentaries really. Gotta expand you're horizon a bit more than vlogs young grasshopper lol.
This is amazing... 108 years old and she speaks with such clarity and confidence in her voice. I'm very proud of this lady and amazed by how much story she must have lived
YES! Such a shame! They should have hours and hours of this woman’s stories preserved for posterity! I googled to see if I could find more on her. It said; this is all that is known of her “live interview” wise...so sad. An amazing lady!
The reporter though lol...the lady was giving such informative commentary of societies of her time and the reporters just like ok yeah have you been on a plane though?
Her accent is not at all like the English accents we hear nowadays. So vintage and classy sounding, she even R-r-r-r-r-rolls her R's sometimes. An awesome piece of history.
@@misscoutts6193 A lot of old people, even way younger than her, can't speak properly anymore, they can't put together a logical speech, or can't articulate words in a clear way etc.
@Zip Zappa aww some1 gettin all sensitive n dat, spekin English on social media we need to speak in proper English before zippy zapper here will get offended.. awww don’t cry, here’s a tissue. we shall all write in full sentences for your pee brain to understand, don’t u worry.
thinking from a music perspective: she was born only 40 years after Beethoven died which means her grandparents were his contemporaries. She was 18 when Franz Liszt died. When she was born Tchaikovsky was just becoming popular, when she was 15 Dvorak made his first trip to London, Brahms was at the height of his career, she was 25 when Puccini's opera La Boheme premiered, she was already 52 in 1920 when jazz was fully on the scene.
My great aunt, who died when I was 13, was born at a time when the only technologies were steam trains and telegrams. No motor car played a role in her wedding. A few years before her death at age 90, she published an article in a journal of regional history pointing out that she had lived into the era of nuclear weapons, direct dial long distance, and astronauts orbiting the earth. She never drove, and she never mentioned seeing a movie. I have forgotten if she had a TV set. She stopped buying clothes in the 1920s. She had a secret vice: a bit of whiskey mixed into some hot milk, just before going to bed. It was for medicinal purposes, mind you...;) When she died, she left me a bit of money in her will. That bit of money enabled me to attend an Ivy League school without a scholarship. I remain deeply grateful to her.
She was: Born 3 years after slavery was abolished in the U.S. 35 when the airplane was invented 46 when WWI happened 71 when WWII started 101 when the moon landing happened And the U.S. was less than a century old when she was born
My grandmother died last year, in her nineties, and now I’m finally starting to realize, the questions I asked her about things changing over her lifetime was a terribly difficult question to answer. *Everything!* But the essence of our struggle and suffering, will last as long as we have brains. My grandmother was a geneticist and doctor, the kindest and most intelligent person I’ve ever met, and suspect will ever meet. Long life, and best of luck to everyone out there!
This lady likely knew people born in the 1700s wtffffff (edit): Since there are so many people replying with the same response, i'll explain why what I said was true. In the 1800s, the mortality rate of children was very high which significantly brought down the average life expectancy. People who made it out of their childhood typically lived a long life similar to modern day life expectancies. So if this lady remembers an elderly person from when she was around 10, which would have been in the late 1870s, there is a good chance that person was born in the late 1790s (Yes! 1799 is still the 1700s!). I have seen plenty of photos from the 1800s where there are people who look to be 70 or 80 years old.
I wish this interview were much longer. She was bright, so interesting and so charasmatic. They could've made this at least a half hour, she had so much to share with us. My great grandma was born in 1898, my grandma was born in 1929. Both lived to their mid 90s. My grandma just passed away last month at 95. Sadly she lived in a nursing home for 9 YEARS, she should've never been moved there with nearly a decade of life left, and lost both her mind and physical abilities shortly after moving there. Was essentially a living vegetable her last 5 years.
@@onlyniceviar btw On the internet you can choose between watching 5 minute crafts and reading scientific literature. It's your will that makes the difference
Are you crazy? How come that is unbelievable? Of course there were people around that age and older when the war started! It didn't affect only young people for goodness sake!
I tried to compare old and new photos of the same place, and one thing I noticed is that all the little things change. However some things don't change. I'll give you an example: compare a very old picture of a street with recent one. You will see that the sidewalk tiles are different, lamp posts have moved, the sidewalks has moved a bit, the road is different, shops are different, many buildings are gone, the way people dress is totally different, plants are gone, etc. However the same road still runs there, you can still see people crossing the road, going to work, maybe, holding hands, same shit. Some roads can be traced back to roman times!
No period in history has drastically changed us more as a species than the 20th century. I don't think the 21st century would beat the 20th century in terms of huge technological improvements. Just saying.
@@SteezyRedStars sure the 21st century can beat the 20th century in technological advancement, we just need a couple of world wars and a long cold war for that to happen. Nothing advances technology as much as global armed conflicts and arms races.
From 1868-1977. She witnessed the Victorian age, the Industrial revolution, the Titanic, invention of the Teddy Bear, the first tour de France, the first modern Olympics in Greece, invention of the Airplane, Hawaii joining America, Pluto's discovery, invention of the US national anthem, the first FIFA World Cup, WW1, WW2, MLK, Malcolm X and the Civil Rights movement, the Korean independence and the Korean war, the Vietnam War, JFKs assassination, the birth and death of Elvis Presley, the Hippie movement, Michael Jackson, Invention of the Compter.. What a life
For several decades, airplanes could not fly safely at night. Had no cabin pressurisation. Were not very fast. Had a poor safety record. Before the DC3, no airplane made a reliable profit. The first models that clearly showed that aviation was fast, comfortable and profitable were the DC6 and the Lockheed Constellation. Before 1946-50, one had a right to be a bit sceptical of civilian aviation.
She is so wonderful to listen to...we need more of these interviews. And at least one hour! MY GOD - for 108 she is extremely lucid and more like 75❤️❤️❤️
mark Findlay, any time an opportunity like that is passed up, it is a crime against not only her homeland of Britain, but future students of history around the world. Inconceivable that so much life experience, especially spanning the time from a few years after the end of the American Civil war, to the Zulu engagements, to WWI, WWII, and the space race, isn't recorded in depth. Would have loved to hear what she thought of tanks, the A bomb, space race, modern Britain's new culture, the collapse of the British empire, etc.
this lady was was 1 when charles dickens died - 12 when billy the kids iconic photo was taken - 13 for the gunfight at the ok corral - 13 when jessie james was murdered - 17 when tower bridge was built - 18 when sherlock holmes first appeared - 19 when jack the ripper sent his first letter - 43 when the titanic sunk just incredible
it is really, and i mean really amazing that we have this footage. she was literally walking history and we are lucky to be able to watch this interview even though it's kinda short
whats amazing is if she was born in 1869 her grandparents would almost certainly have been around in the 1700s, so your looking at a lady would have met at some point( as a child) with people from the 1700s
Everyone is amazed that she’s living, but what’s more shocking is that at 108 years old, her mind remains *fit as a freaking fiddle* in a world that must be unrecognizable in comparison to the one she explored in her youth. Her intelligence is seemingly above what many adults today cannot achieve. This is not an old woman, no - this is a godsend. I hope that she rests in peace.
I agree with this perspective, although I think any human can be this "quick" until the day of death. The issue of dementia, Alzheimer disease, etc, is only "normal" today, and I think these "diseases" are mainly manmade (we poison ourselves nowadays, through amalgams, vaccinations, food, water, air, you name it, and diet that we have nowadays itself - even if today's animal derived products were made in a completely healthy way, amounts matter - before we ate very little animal derived products).
Maxim C. You say we are poisoning ourselves and I’ll agree with certainty, though it seems you’re getting at the idea that we’re poisoning ourselves to such an extent that we’re - health wise - worse off than people in the Victorian Era, which is simply untrue. Modern medicine has made wondrous bounds that simply can’t be denied, and the life span of human beings has increased at an exponential rate which puts the Victorian Era to shame. And that isn’t to mention the numerous ways Victorians unintentionally killed themselves using every day products and foods laced with arsenic. While I agree that any old person *can* grow to be elderly and yet still fully functional as the woman in the video above is, the chances are low - even today, and especially in the Victorian Era.
@@frederickson7879 In many ways we are better off, in many other ways - worse off. And the extent of both possibly are dramatic (the more technologically advanced we are, the more potential damage we can inflict, to the environment, and to ourselves). Take amalgams, take vaccinations, both weren't used prior not so long ago, let alone so widely. If we messed up say these two (which it's clear to me we did), the extent of how much they affected humanity's physical and mental state cannot be overestimated. Longer life doesn't necessarily equal more quality life/more healthy years. Not to mention life expectancy is now starting to go down it seems. In any case, look at learning disabilities and difficulties, autoimmune disorders, chronic illnesses, mental illnesses, cancer, etc, etc - that have been increasing.
@@MaximC I do agree with you, but I believe a lot of things had no real diagnosis especially mental illness and learning difficulties, you was either just mad or stupid and lazy.
I like how she says she "didn't fancy" planes "when they first came out" and she truly could say such a thing! I think it's awesome that she was over 100 years old and said she was "more adventurous."
Fact: there was no moon landing. Let the Bible be the authority in all matters. God tells us through His written word that the earth is fixed and cannot move, the sun is the one rising and falling, and there is a see through firmament above us(and water behind it,WHICH IS WHY THE SKY IS BLUE). Under the firmament in our sky is where the sun, moon & stars are located. Goodness, Satan has really deceived those who don’t read their bible! Pretty easy for him to do so. Hopefully Satan didn’t turn you away from believing in Jesus as our only means to get to heaven too!
Imagine at 108 years old still having such an excitment for life as to say she would happily ride on a plane beacause "I'm more adventurous now". What an incredible woman!
Interesting note: Her husband died in 1905, when she was 36, and she had a son who was living and around 78 at the time of this interview. She ended up outliving her husband by 75 years.
She said that nothing is the same from when she was young.Everythings changed.Everything! I would love to hear hours of her.I love the way she rolls her R's with her heavy English very proper Accent.This was pure gold.Thankyou for posting,!
Helga von den Schnitzelbergen this is kinda funny because in Victorian times science and even the microscope was new so they unknowingly used poison and bad chemicals in most of their food and parts of everyday life
I wish I could plug her brain Into a computer to see EVERYTHING she’s witnessed In her life. Amazing lady. I bet all those years ago she would never believe people from the future would be watching her on their electronic devices commenting on her life. Crazy!
Remarkable woman and testimony. The stored knowledge, what her eyes have seen and the way she brings her recollections to life with such vivid expression : I could listen to her for hours! Thank you for this
She lived to watch the peak of colonization, 2 world wars, a moon landing, a cold war, countries come and go. Hell she lived during the indian wars.. Also imagine how music changed for her xD
Absolutely fascinating! Her clarity of mind and storytelling skills are truly remarkable. It's heartwarming to witness someone with such a rich history share their experiences. She lived through an era of immense change, and her perspective is a treasure. 🌟
Here's an interview from 1969 and broadcast in 1970 of a couple or Victorian Era ladies, where they speak more freely about their lives: th-cam.com/video/dYW7-guUbL4/w-d-xo.html
@@donnaharris8097 I'll tell you that planes in the Americas had a far more common place (as in The United States) they had the Boeing 737 Max at the time which had luxury meals and very loud music to take away from the loud propellor...oh my bad, Marx line mar I meant, ya, the propellers were quite the uncomfort and made up 60 percent of the sound on the plane. Really surreal feeling and provided a great and relaxing swing away from home life...although their was the chance for a hijack to occur or gundown..but not when you payed high money for a nice flight! It felt more human and natural back yesterday..now, everything is so alien and uncomfortable and distant feeling, nothing seems genuine..
@@HostileLemons I agree with you anyway, I think. It would have been great to have a film of Tesla, but as far as I know, none exist, nor are there recordings of his voice. A pity.
@@betelehemt Yeah, I know, that guy said that Italy wasn't a country yet when this woman was born in 1868, I was just telling that, by that point, Italy existed already. I know the year where my country was unified...
@@thebenis3157 infatti ho scritto solo l anno,non volevo apparire una che corregge anche se in fine...appare che l abbia fatto. Ma capisco anche perche lui abbia detto cosi. Alla fine quell unificazione è cosi recente che potresti sentirla nell aria italiana ancora, susseguitasi da conseguenza.
She also was alive when jeans, the typewriter, vacuum cleaner, sliced bread, antibiotics, radar, radio, television, the ballpoint pen, nuclear power, rockets, microwave ovens, computers, Star Wars, etc. were all discovered/invented/created.
The devolution of accents/language was exacerbated when they brought more regional accents onto TV and stopped being particularly strict at school about spelling, grammar, punctuation and pronunciation. Combined with children reading less classic literature or reading less of anything. Its a change I've seen happening over the last 30 years
Yes! I’ve noticed she rolled her “rs”, something that simply isn’t done in English anymore except in certain dialects... heck, even Louisiana French maintains the rolled “r” sound rather than the Parisian guttural pronunciation. I wonder why the rolled “r” has fallen out of favor over the last century or so. It sounds so dignified and special.
Kate Taylor except the sound did change quite a bit. Maybe not in some dialects, as someone already said, but more prominently those rs don't get rolled as much these days! I'm in no way a linguist, just an enthusiast, but they significantly have been dropped after the 50s/60s, so much so that in the southern part of England it's pretty much gone. I read somewhere that it's changing people's facial muscles, 😂 apparently not rolling your r leads to premature sagging of your neck and chin area
Wish I could talk to one. I love learning the history of my motherland. Both of my grandmothers died by the time I was 14. My mother’s dad died the week I was born and my fathers dad died in the 80s. Even alive I wouldn’t be able to communicate with them as I can’t speak my native language fluently. If you’re reading this and your grandparents are alive - please talk to them. Some people never get the chance to
At the end when she says everything has changed that brought back a memory. In Ireland in 1984 I met a 90 year old man who was near this women's age who could not express enough how every single thing around him had changed. He kept saying it was unbelievable. It must have been quite a thing to live through the C20th century.
I may be wrong but it seems to me that 20th century was a rollercoaster compared to previous times. A lot of bad things happened and at the same times a lot of positive changes happened and changed our lives, both practically and mentally. And yet this start of 21st century seems less interesting, it reaks of cultural stagnation and political back walking.
@@negy2570 I would disagree. The greatest transformational century in history is undoubtedly the C19th. That is the way we thought about life changed, (e.g. by the end of the C19th everyone arranged their day by clock time. Just this alone was a profound change from a past where a day was just one thing, not divided into hours or even for most into activities) However the C20th delivered on the C19th thinking into lots of small improvements in people's domestic lives. So it felt like new gadgets or behaviour was a consistent flow but the thinking was all from the C19th and still is.
@@flashtrash7830 I once read a biography of Sir Sanford Fleming (1827-1915), who invented time zones, and it made the same point. The Industrial Revolution was the biggest material change in human society in ten thousand years, the switch from farming to industry as the mode of production. Fleming was born as the Industrial Revolution was getting started, just before the invention of the railway and the telegraph, and died in a world with telephones, film, cars and aeroplanes. But I would say that Florence Pannell witnessed a lot more changes in society and in technology in everyday life. She was born before the torrent of inventions in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, most notably the telephone, the gramophone, the incandescent bulb, the car and film. She ended her life in a world with jet airliners, colour television, the contraceptive pill and the first personal computers. When she was young, women had far less rights than men, married women were effectively the property of their husbands and a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. The 1970s saw the permissive society, the Women's Liberation Movement and the Sex Discrimination Act. I love that this Vctorian woman who'd survived to 1977 took down the Victorian Age with humour and made it clear she was on the side of Women's Liberation.
@@nobody-qz1tg She worked in beauty. That tells me one thing of the hundreds she used on her skin over the years may have been the answer. Maybe she did actually have the answer huh. Strong lady.
"Mother, when I grow up, shall I have to be married?" To think that 130-140 years ago some little girl made that statement and never thought of it again but it survived for more than a century to be told in this video. That some little girl from the victorian era had a conversation and it still survives.
But when the internet is eventually lost even that will disappear. When the last traces of our civilization inevitably burn after some disaster or war, we all will be forgotten. Even the very species he belong to and planet we call home. So the value you find is temporary, but so is all things.
@@RisingFlag100 Or when oil runs out (coming soon) EVERY modern technology, transport and machine will no longer work. As everything relies on oil. 99.99% plus of all species that ever existed have gone extinct, and our species is also on the way out, we are currently DE-evolving as is obvious from listening to people from 100 years ago and more and more biological markers in humans are proving this true.
@@RisingFlag100 everything is temporary yes, except out spirits, the real us. When we die out body will fade away but the real us will be alive on eternity. Just wanted to tell you that Heaven and Hell are real eternal destinations for every human spirit, and that Jesus Christ said 'I AM the Way, the truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by Me'. For God so loved the world (us) that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but receive eternal life. God didn't send Jesus to condemn the world, but that through Him we might be saved.
Most major inventions happened during her time. For thousands of years things were pretty much the same. My dad who was born in1918 and my grandparents in late 1890s would say the same. My grandfather didn't learn to drive or care for cars, but my dad loved everything about them (new generation for cars). It reminds me of the kids now with all the knowledge of technology. I ask my niece about so many things. I wish we could hear more stories from this lady.
Change has always occurred, albeit more gradually. Often I research the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, and one thing that intrigued me was how the whole civilization became completely unrecognizable to how it started, from small wooden huts to giant city-states and elaborate palaces like those at Babylon and Ur.
She passed away 3 years after this was made. She was 111 years old. That's absolutely wild. It's kind of sad to think she may have outlived any potential children though
i once had a patient who turned 100 years old. i wished her a happy birthday and asked if she would celebrate. she said "with whom? theres no one left but me"
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Someone should have spent a week interviewing this woman. A couple of minutes is not enough.
Hear, hear!
Ikr!!!!
Yeah I was just thinking that. More specific questions too.
@@timefortea1931 The interviewer's questions were so moronic.
I totally agree I could of spent a long time in her company listening to her . I still remember some of the stories my nanny told me as a child not many sadly .
she was born 26 Dec 1868 and died
20 Oct 1980
111 years, 299 days
Thats almost WR by today standarts
I was a month old when she died.
That is astounding! God willing I make it that long
She would be 150 years old now
Wow, can you imagine if we all knew how long we had to live? It changes the game completely. If someone were to tell her has a little girl 111 years and 299 days, I wonder what she would hav e thought.
She's recalling a 100 year old memory from her childhood. I cant remember last week.
at 108 years old, and to be coherent? You can bet her level of wit and intelligence was unmatched when she was in her prime.
I heard as you get older you remember better of time when you were young
househansa of course not because after our childhood nothing really rememberable happens any more.. at least not every week like it used to back then
I can remember a few things from when I was 7, but only very few. Visiting my grandfather in hospital - just seeing someone going from being quite robust to lying in a bed still complaining and then suddenly, no longer around. Also remember an argument with a girl in school when the teacher got a bit involved - all this was in 1979. It's quite hazy before that - I remember only a few things before that.
i disassociate most of the time so i’m sure when i’m old i won’t remember much either lol
Florence Pannell. Born in 1868, the same year as Tsar Nicholas II. Older than Churchill by 6 years. France still had an Emperor. 18 when the Statue of Liberty came up, 21 when the Eiffel Tower was built. 35 when the first airplane flew, 46 when WWI started, 59 when the first TV broadcast was made, 77 when WWII ended, 89 when Sputnik orbited the earth, 101 when humans landed on the Moon, 111 when the Shah of Iran was overthrown, and died in 1980, the same year as John Lennon. She was the oldest person in Europe at the time of her death.
What a ride.
Top tier comment. Amazing to see that - already had lived 100 years and witnessed humans landing on the moon. Absolutely wild
Now that’s perspective
Feels like a Vsauce bit for his illusions of time. Such a fascinating timeline
Older than fucking Vladimir Lenin, Calvin Coolidge, Joseph Stalin, Douglas Macarthur, and Mao Zedong
I know you are referred to her life and how she lived when you say"what a ride " but that phrase can also be picked up wrong depending on where you live 😂
imagine asking about the 60’s and then being asked which one
And the 70s
@mr red r/Woosh
@mr red well, you must be fun at parties...
😂
mr red I guess someone pissed in your Cheerios
Imagine being able to casually say, “if I recall correctly, it was 100 years ago.”
The Night Watcher I’ll be happy if I can say 80 years ago, lol.
That would be so funny 😂
Hahahahahaha
Wade L. I’ll be happy if I can say 20 years ago
I rather die today
This lady lived through Tchaikovsky AND the Beatles
Damn
she probably didnt know anything about/ didnt care about the beatles
Wagner and Bowie even. Berlioz and post-punk at the greater extreme...
And the sex pistols.
And there to see the beginning of the Jackson five, sadly not there to see the rise of Michael Jackson (little Michael as she may of known him by)
And Black Sabbath.
Just remember that Florence was 48 years old when the first wold war, and 77 when the second. And she still lived 35 more years after that event. Incredible.
your math aint mathing huh
Ok
If Mrs. Florence was 108 in the year 1977 that means she probably was born in 1869. World War 1 started in 1914 so she would have been 45 and then World War 2 started Sept. 1939 so she would have been 70.
Her date of birth- 1868. And death is 1980. This is what the events she lived through- Ten years war (1868), Spanish American war (1898), world war 1, world war 2, even Korean and Vietnam war . Dang
@@nitrowolf17 living during the victorian era was a war itself
I am 82 years old, and when I was young, my grandfather told stories of young men waiting at street corners waiting to see a woman’s ankle when she stepped off the curb!
Oh my god!!! As a Muslim woman I find this hilarious for some reason :D
Please tell us more about your experiences and the war, before it and its aftermath.
LMAO imagine those men now , women now wear next to nothing . those men would have a field day in this era.
so no matter how conceiling the clothes, creeps will be creeps - . -'
Faye Ritenburg
Oh how I wish they could see today ! Although, prostitutes always existed. Older eras really weren’t as naive or “prude” as we make them out to be lol
she lived to be 112. imagine being 80 years old and still having another 32 years to live
😂
I am 62, that's what keeps me going, hope.
I'd rather not
Only if you have a sharp mind like her
That’s the goal!
I wonder what she'd think if she knew I was sitting in my car on my lunch break at work, watching her on a phone in my hand in 2019?
Just saying "2019" to somebody who was used to dates starting with "18" for the first 32 years of their life would probably seem really trippy!
Dont you think that moon landing was a bigger deal?
She would say that if you have it in your hand now, it is mostly because of people born in 19th century. We should all thank them.
My sentiments as well!!! My daughter and I are watching in the car on her lunch break at school. What would she make of my sending this video to my 85 year old Aunt, who will watch on her iPad. I wonder what the world will be like when we are centurions (hopping that we will be so fortunate)? Here’s to Enjoying lunch in our cars with technology!:-D
I am.doing the same lol
"Nothing is the same. Everything is changed". She is a real life time traveler. Let that sink in for a moment.
Well by that logic, we're all technically time travelers
@@jaffa3717 When she says that it’s obviously because she was born sometime after the First Industrial Revolution and was giving that interview at the beginning of the globalization in the middle of the Cold War… That’s a journey we would never be able to understand
Imagine being born three years after the Civil War in the United States ended and living to see Star Wars come out! Absolutely incredible!
Yes your right.
Same thing with us. Our technology is moving way too fast...Imagine saying in 1977 that everything is changed.
I can't imagine being present during both world wars, the invention of cars, planes, telephones and machines to mass produce products. Mind boggling.
My Great Grandmother was born in 1887 and died in 1991 aged 104. Her lifespan covered the Boer War ( Started 1889) right through to the First Gulf War (1991). She lost 2 brothers in the Great War, which she never talked about. I wish now that I had spent more time talking to her and asking about her past. Something I will always regret now that it's to late.
@@bovinestool1681 cool
The sad part is even though people live through such large events, they'll just go 'meh' and forget until some up-and-coming reporter prods them for a historical segment far in the future :/
shame she didn't see the internet
I can't imagine being alive in the times of Tsaikovski and Black Sabbath's Paranoid. 😂 For me (born in 1994), they seem to be worlds apart and both being ancient history to me, but they can be fit in to a life span of one woman.
“In Paris, nothing mattered” How grand
Sad THAT Paris is gone for good...
@@Lea_Kaderova ...no. ?
@@Lea_Kaderova wdym?
@@Lea_Kaderova No worries Lea, I went to Paris for the first time recently and I saw quite a bit more than ankle on those splendid Paris streets. So whether you wanna dress light or you just wanna look at hot girls, no matter, still no such thing matters in Paris!
@@jasmim9194 She means that it's full of non-white people now.
Interviewer: "What's the biggest change you've seen?"
108-year-old woman: "EVERYTHING!"
Quote of the century
But which century? 😅😆
Quote of the centuries 😃
Quote of the last 3 centuries
@@Dmcs1917 yesssss 😄😅😆
Quote of this last year...
She mentioned "Punch". "Punch" was a British weekly magazine of humor and satire that ran from 1841 to _2002._ It played a significant role in the development of the British sense of humor and is often cited as a landmark in the history of humorous magazines. It is largely forgotten nowadays.
A bit of a bold statement to claim that one publication played a significant role in the British sense of humour. I suspect our dry wit has been this way for centuries before Punch ever published it's first edition - it's just a quirk of our culture.
@@crowbar9566 Yeah, I think Punch reflected British humour (and adapted to it) rather than developed it.
@@crowbar9566 True. Otherwise how would a publication like Punch even come into existence it beggars belief.
I'm guessing that's where "punchline" comes from?
No, a punch line is the conclusion of a joke after being set up by misdirection.@@PanthraxIV
“Everything has changed”
Imagine being born in the age of horse and buggies, steam power, corsets, Victorian dresses, men in full suits, operas & marching bands and living to see the day of men walking on the moon, satellites sent to distant planets, miniskirts, t-shirt and jeans, the Sex Pistols and disco. I can’t imagine make sense of a technological and cultural leap that massive
Exactly! I'm sure they thought the world would soon end.
Kris Ferrero
Or living in a time when people still believe the Sex Pistols were real....they were an example of early CGI, created in a studio by George Lucas
I once asked my mother about that. She is only sixty, but when I think of how things were when she was a little girl, and how things are now, I see a huge difference in society, technology, international politics, etc. She told me doesn't feel the change, and only looking back and reflecting on the past she feels like things have changed, but progress is not a leap, it is more like a continuous process.
@Kris Ferrero that’s a discussion for another time
imagine just missing out on twerking!
Imagine listening to the actual voice of a person from 1977,who was born in 1869 and listening to it in 2021.
Exactly what I was thinking!! 🙋
150years
1868*
That's what makes this so effing cool!
Imagine reading this comment 30 years from now even cooler
3mins isn't long enough. I need to hear at least 5 Hours of everything she has to say
Not 5 hours act her whole life out to us while she telling her life story
I would listen to her for whatever time necessary. And still i would want to hear so much more.
Same!
As long as it takes!
Same I could listen to her for hours.
Am I the only one insanely upset with the lackluster questions? That woman was BRIMMING with energy! Should’ve gotten a history lover to interview her tbh
I agree 👍
Born 1868, made it to the internet
Unfortunately not, she died in 1980
@@noirblanque5324 i mean she is on the internet NOW and forever. Well, until internet is taken from us for "security reasons"
hugh mongus it wont be pretty when that happens, very likely the end of civilization. I say this merely in the fact that not enough people will be able to adopt a pre technology lifestyle successfully and will lead to violence paranoia ect ect
@@edu.33 In this way, Vladimir Lenin is on the internet too.
hugh mongus oh
Her voice is gorgeous. Something you’d hear in a old Disney film.
Agree
Reminds me of the lady from the Aristocats
Grandmother Willow..
Simp
Basics Politics oh shut the fuck up
Watching interview of lady born in 1868, broadcasted in 1977, in 2019. Wow.
And reading your comment in 2092!
@@nicklessincage Deep as fuck bro
Mind blown.............
Now she’ll be immortalised on the internet.
All I need to do is write this reply and my words are immortalised in the internet
So I'm currently 16, I have this rare heart disease and doctors have recently told me I probably have 3-4 years of time. Watching these kind of beautiful and heart-touching content makes me cry a bit. I'd do literally anything to have more time on this Earth, but you can't change your fate, they say. This lady is very inspirational and I hope she enjoyed her long life. Rest in peace
I'm sorry you have to watch the time count down. I hope you will be able to lay in the house of the Lord once you're gone. That is much much much better than having to be on this earth. I'll pray for you.
Wow so sorry god is with you spend as much happy memories here on earth as you can keep smiling 🙂
@@rghaw Thank you for your kind words. I suppose, I won't suffer that much when it happens, so it makes dying a little bit easier. I've had very active and productive life, I've enjoyed it. I hope, that my soul will be finally at rest and if there is any afterlife, I'll make sure, that I throw a hell of a party when I'm there.
@@themoocher3029 Dying is something you'll never fully accept. However, I've made peace with it. I've had very active and productive life and I will continue doing it until my last breath, of which I don't have that many unfortunately. I'm smilling as much as I can, because some dying people can't enjoy their lives. I don't have that much time. My dreams are like a clouds, that I could never reach. My deepest dreams are basically destroyed. Whereas, I'll try my best not to spend my final years worrying about it so much. Life shouldn't be something taken for granted, it's not. That is fate, that is unchangable. Thank you for your kind words, stay positive, which is the key to everything.
@@lenka.luciferian You are very wise. You are completely right. No one can prevent it if it's destined to happen. Obviously, miracles can happen, but that doesn't mean that it is certain they will. You're doing a very wise thing by accepting it and being positive about it.
This woman had lived through the most breakthroughs in world history. Imagine seeing it all. She was a child before the lightbulb was ever invented and was eventually able to see men walk on the moon.
Damn.
Boer War, 2 World Wars, Russian Civil War, Easter Rising, 6 British monarchs, light bulb, radio, airplane, zeppelin, moving pictures, cars, colour photograph, zipper, television, atom bomb, space rockets, Coca-Cola, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, women's votes, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Titanic, Hindenburg, San Francisco earthquake, JFK assassination.....the list goes on!
holy shit, i got goosebumps for real!
@@develynseether4426 nerd
@@kolo5836 guilty
I think there should be a program to interwiev the oldest members of any generation to preserve these kind of things.
That sounds great
We've done exactly that! First older person will be online very soon.
@Hernando Malinche Exactly! People of the future all they need to do is scroll through TH-cam 🤦🏽♂️
@Hernando Malinche That's cool I get what you mean, i was born in 97 so the early & mid 2000's I'm very familiar with but even with it comes to the olden days all I had to do was watch a movie from the 60's 70's, 80's, etc. And TH-cam even has videos of what life was like in early 1900's even the late 1800's. So if you really think about the future generation pretty much has the industrial world all the way up to the modern world all mapped out for them really.
@Hernando Malinche I wonder why, but every generation has movies that accurately protrays how the life and times were. You just have to find those good movies or documentaries really. Gotta expand you're horizon a bit more than vlogs young grasshopper lol.
no one's gonna talk about how shes still strong and talk clearly like shes in her 80s?
[edited] everyone thank you sm for the likes! ^^
Thank you..and how she's still attractive at 108!!?!
Her skin is phenomenal for 108!
Yes, she is extremely well preserved. Grand lady.
Michael T. Your comment is a bit creepy.
@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 There is nothing "creepy" about my comment. However, your immature interpretation of my comment is quite telling.
This is amazing... 108 years old and she speaks with such clarity and confidence in her voice. I'm very proud of this lady and amazed by how much story she must have lived
The minute she starts talking it's like the whole Victorian era is alive in her voice. Like a time machine. Fascinating!
Me to I don't know why but I feel attach to that time for some reason can't explain it
@playlists she adapted to modern languags yet retained the amazing classic victorian accent
She has an amazing accent that you would never hear in England nowadays. Utterly charming. Wish she had had the chance to talk a lot more.
Why did her accent remind of Eliza Dolittle from My Fair Lady 🤔
Ikr
Did anyone else feel really disappointed when the video ended, I could have listened for hours
YES! Such a shame! They should have hours and hours of this woman’s stories preserved for posterity! I googled to see if I could find more on her. It said; this is all that is known of her “live interview” wise...so sad. An amazing lady!
X2
The reporter though lol...the lady was giving such informative commentary of societies of her time and the reporters just like ok yeah have you been on a plane though?
I felt exactly the same
I want more.
being that aware at 108 is literally a miracle of biology.
especially being able to talk and have a sharp mind
My grandma is 106..and lives with us
And very alert with great recall. I would love to see a longer interview with her. I have so many questions.
@@renuhazari544 My great grand mother lived to 107. It's funny because she had to dye her hair grey because it was growing back black!
@@natlisan ohh wow ...my grandmas hair turned greay just few years ago and thy are really well now..like atoesst she is not bald now
Her accent is not at all like the English accents we hear nowadays. So vintage and classy sounding, she even R-r-r-r-r-rolls her R's sometimes. An awesome piece of history.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
@@edithbannerman4 good n u?
For being 108 years old she actually looked pretty good
Ikr look she’s was actively movin and everything and u can actually understand her talking
@@angelinaduot1709 is there any reason why you should not understand🤔
@@misscoutts6193 A lot of old people, even way younger than her, can't speak properly anymore, they can't put together a logical speech, or can't articulate words in a clear way etc.
@@etienneditolve1567 why!?
miss havisham The older a brain gets, the more it deteriorates.
She was 44 when the titanic sank.. crazy
You got that right for sure. Amazing
@Zip Zappa ok smart ass. Social media we can be flexible with the English language thank you.
@Zip Zappa you don't have to be so English perfect. You're acting like the pupil who said 'please miss, she never said please"
@Zip Zappa aww some1 gettin all sensitive n dat, spekin English on social media we need to speak in proper English before zippy zapper here will get offended.. awww don’t cry, here’s a tissue. we shall all write in full sentences for your pee brain to understand, don’t u worry.
@Zip Zappa I must say you’re the loser who is part of the Nazi Grammar and Spelling police
thinking from a music perspective: she was born only 40 years after Beethoven died which means her grandparents were his contemporaries. She was 18 when Franz Liszt died. When she was born Tchaikovsky was just becoming popular, when she was 15 Dvorak made his first trip to London, Brahms was at the height of his career, she was 25 when Puccini's opera La Boheme premiered, she was already 52 in 1920 when jazz was fully on the scene.
Weird to think that her grandparents could've told her personal accounts about Bethovan
Who the hell are they ?
The best comment ever.
@@FN-rr6mk Google is your friend
Should've asked her who was more impressive, Liszt or Hendrix! 🔥👏
My great Nan died around 1997. She made it to 108! Amazing!
Wow did she have any tricks for living so long?
For more weird facts, the woman giving the interview is now 76 (as of 2019)
Who was the interviewer
@@finessindanny2417 Joan Shenton
ASG66 same
@Strelok hahahaha yah i wondered either why he thought about that HAHA
@ASG66 she would let you, she's more adventurous now.
It blows my mind that someone born in the 1860s might have gotten the chance to see Star Wars.
Oh my gosh. Mind blown.
Love this hahaha
Dude, this is insane. I love it
Wow. That contextualises it
My great aunt, who died when I was 13, was born at a time when the only technologies were steam trains and telegrams. No motor car played a role in her wedding. A few years before her death at age 90, she published an article in a journal of regional history pointing out that she had lived into the era of nuclear weapons, direct dial long distance, and astronauts orbiting the earth. She never drove, and she never mentioned seeing a movie. I have forgotten if she had a TV set. She stopped buying clothes in the 1920s. She had a secret vice: a bit of whiskey mixed into some hot milk, just before going to bed. It was for medicinal purposes, mind you...;)
When she died, she left me a bit of money in her will. That bit of money enabled me to attend an Ivy League school without a scholarship. I remain deeply grateful to her.
She was:
Born 3 years after slavery was abolished in the U.S.
35 when the airplane was invented
46 when WWI happened
71 when WWII started
101 when the moon landing happened
And the U.S. was less than a century old when she was born
Brendan Berney And more than 2 centuries old when this interview was conducted
Imagine going from the invention of the airplane, to watching man step on the moon. I would've loved to ask her what she thought of it.
Pin this comment yo
Why are you comparing a great british lady like this to that ignorance filled shithole the US
I slap chickens Not everyone in the US is ignorant and uncultured, although most people outside of a fee select areas are.
My grandmother died last year, in her nineties, and now I’m finally starting to realize, the questions I asked her about things changing over her lifetime was a terribly difficult question to answer. *Everything!* But the essence of our struggle and suffering, will last as long as we have brains. My grandmother was a geneticist and doctor, the kindest and most intelligent person I’ve ever met, and suspect will ever meet.
Long life, and best of luck to everyone out there!
This lady likely knew people born in the 1700s wtffffff
(edit): Since there are so many people replying with the same response, i'll explain why what I said was true. In the 1800s, the mortality rate of children was very high which significantly brought down the average life expectancy. People who made it out of their childhood typically lived a long life similar to modern day life expectancies. So if this lady remembers an elderly person from when she was around 10, which would have been in the late 1870s, there is a good chance that person was born in the late 1790s (Yes! 1799 is still the 1700s!). I have seen plenty of photos from the 1800s where there are people who look to be 70 or 80 years old.
Really makes you think about how recent 1700s, 1600s etc really are and how quickly we've developed
Very well said,,, isint that craziness. Really makes u think x
I loved the video 💗
@iiCause Viibes plenty of people lived past 60.
Are health was dismal a few 100 years ago, think it depended where you lived. London city v rural ,, big difference on life span I'd say xx
Yeah, her parents or grandparents.
To put this in context, this is like someone who is 20 today being interviewed in the year 2109, and the video going viral in 2153. Mind-blowing.
Ooh, I'm twenty. I hope to make it to 2109.
Wow, I wanna live to see the year 2100 :’(
If I do, I will try to comment on this video, that is if it’s still up and TH-cam still exists lol
@@requiem165 Right I really would love to make it to 100 years old, which I will be in 2100
@@shanenanigans27 I know right, I might be able to pull it off what with modern medicine and that
She was 19 when the Jack the Ripper murders took place and 100 when we landed on the moon. Amazing.
Who landed on the Moon?
Swane knoctic seriously dude don't start that.
Ha ha sorry Thrillseeka New Zealand. Just looking for an argument.
Swane knoctic - arguments are next door, this is abuse in here, you spotty big-nosed twonk.
How do you know I have a big nose? Colin sir.
I wish this interview were much longer. She was bright, so interesting and so charasmatic. They could've made this at least a half hour, she had so much to share with us.
My great grandma was born in 1898, my grandma was born in 1929. Both lived to their mid 90s. My grandma just passed away last month at 95. Sadly she lived in a nursing home for 9 YEARS, she should've never been moved there with nearly a decade of life left, and lost both her mind and physical abilities shortly after moving there. Was essentially a living vegetable her last 5 years.
Imagine having 100 years of memory. No wonder old people want to tell stories.
And here I am, legit can't remember what I did last week.
Always listen to an elder's story if they want to share.
It's a privilege to listen to them.
And I'd be there to listen to her
I love conversing with the elderly community they are magical with their stories 😍
When she was born people like Charles Darwin, Vincent Van Gogh and Karl Marx were still alive.
Beerdy - Bruce Lee Central who wants to live with Karl Marx?
@@davidcross9811 bernie's voters
David Cross me
David Cross me
@@f.th.4299 alright you fucking weirdo who touched you in the special area when you were a kid?
108 years old and still her mind is sharp as a tack.
They were focus enough (with the moments infront of them) unlike us we spent too much time here on the Internt..
@@onlyniceviar Boohoo phone bad
@@onlyniceviar neoboomer
@@onlyniceviar btw
On the internet you can choose between watching 5 minute crafts and reading scientific literature. It's your will that makes the difference
@@cutebunny6690 you know they only do dumb shit without utilizing the potential of the internet. they're just projecting it onto others.
I love her precise speech, with the rolled "R"s. Very formal, enunciating every word. I wish we still cared about our speech this way.
She was 72 when WWII started. That’s unbelievable!
She lived through both World Wars, AMAZING!
Are you crazy? How come that is unbelievable? Of course there were people around that age and older when the war started! It didn't affect only young people for goodness sake!
Dream TheDream89 it’s crazy to think about. No need to get so logical.
She was 70 when World War II started and 71 when America entered the war.
@@dreamthedream8929 You completely missed the point, actually talking to someone who was that age and lived through it
"Nothing is the same. Everything has changed." She's 100% right, but it's amazing to see someone who actually got to experience all that change.
Macsen Wledig grass couldve been a different colour, maybe yellowish. how would you know? you werent around in the 1800s
@Macsen Wledig But for example fruit and vegtables were different.
Different forms and more seeds
I tried to compare old and new photos of the same place, and one thing I noticed is that all the little things change. However some things don't change. I'll give you an example: compare a very old picture of a street with recent one. You will see that the sidewalk tiles are different, lamp posts have moved, the sidewalks has moved a bit, the road is different, shops are different, many buildings are gone, the way people dress is totally different, plants are gone, etc. However the same road still runs there, you can still see people crossing the road, going to work, maybe, holding hands, same shit. Some roads can be traced back to roman times!
No period in history has drastically changed us more as a species than the 20th century. I don't think the 21st century would beat the 20th century in terms of huge technological improvements. Just saying.
@@SteezyRedStars sure the 21st century can beat the 20th century in technological advancement, we just need a couple of world wars and a long cold war for that to happen. Nothing advances technology as much as global armed conflicts and arms races.
From 1868-1977. She witnessed the Victorian age, the Industrial revolution, the Titanic, invention of the Teddy Bear, the first tour de France, the first modern Olympics in Greece, invention of the Airplane, Hawaii joining America, Pluto's discovery, invention of the US national anthem, the first FIFA World Cup, WW1, WW2, MLK, Malcolm X and the Civil Rights movement, the Korean independence and the Korean war, the Vietnam War, JFKs assassination, the birth and death of Elvis Presley, the Hippie movement, Michael Jackson, Invention of the Compter.. What a life
More than that.. She probably didn't witness American stuff so much, had more important things to witness
A lot of those things are american movements that had very little relevance in britain Who is malcom x??
uhh hawai'i did not join america. they were a sovereign nation that was overthrown. they are still, understandably, upset.
She’s British lmao. The fuck would she care about Hawaii joining America
**very eurocentric (even more american) comment**
Thinking that this lady could say "When my grandfather was in the storming of the Bastille..." is mind-blowing me
Is she refering to the french revolution?
I think so
@@laetitiacavallo4392 wow...puts that into perspective 😮
She met people who were alive during the American revolution
@@ericreingardt2504 i doubt that. The adults from that time period would have been over a hundred when she was born .
She looks INCREDIBLE for 108. She could genuinely pass for a woman in her 80s.
@Redblade what the fuck
She didnt lie when she said her makeup would keep you young. Lol
@Redblade that's a little strange....
Her mind was a steel trap, too. And very good hearing for that age.
@Redblade hahahahahahh...good shitt
Imagine being old enough to be skeptical of airplanes back when they “first came out”
She was 35 yo by their invention date.
I wouldn't blame them for being skeptical, many people died in planes in the beginning.
@@DiceDecides and people still do die
For several decades, airplanes could not fly safely at night. Had no cabin pressurisation. Were not very fast. Had a poor safety record. Before the DC3, no airplane made a reliable profit. The first models that clearly showed that aviation was fast, comfortable and profitable were the DC6 and the Lockheed Constellation. Before 1946-50, one had a right to be a bit sceptical of civilian aviation.
she was around when EVERYTHING first came out lol
Her capacity to converse and her lucidity is incredible
"In Paris .... nothing mattered." She is most delightful!!
Channelchen Till now it’s still the same in paris haha
Imagine the amazing times she had back then!
She is so wonderful to listen to...we need more of these interviews. And at least one hour! MY GOD - for 108 she is extremely lucid and more like 75❤️❤️❤️
This inspired kanye's n*ggas in paris
It's a shame she was not interviewed in more depth as she's a talking history book.
Very impressing that she are so clear in her mind, head, at a age over 100 years!!!!
mark Findlay, any time an opportunity like that is passed up, it is a crime against not only her homeland of Britain, but future students of history around the world. Inconceivable that so much life experience, especially spanning the time from a few years after the end of the American Civil war, to the Zulu engagements, to WWI, WWII, and the space race, isn't recorded in depth. Would have loved to hear what she thought of tanks, the A bomb, space race, modern Britain's new culture, the collapse of the British empire, etc.
@@obligatoryusername7239 The British empire did not collapse so much as it did gradually break apart.
She grew up around people born in the 1790s ... !!!
I once interviewed an old woman who is 108 years old. I wanted to ask more in-depth questions but she is hard of hearing. I still have the recording.
this lady was was 1 when charles dickens died
- 12 when billy the kids iconic photo was taken
- 13 for the gunfight at the ok corral
- 13 when jessie james was murdered
- 17 when tower bridge was built
- 18 when sherlock holmes first appeared
- 19 when jack the ripper sent his first letter
- 43 when the titanic sunk
just incredible
santino alfredo Wow
Lol... it's insane when you put it in perspective... Absolutely amazing
In the same year when she was interviewed, the first Star Wars was released.
@@bonkujo i wouldnt brag about knowing that
Sank
it is really, and i mean really amazing that we have this footage. she was literally walking history and we are lucky to be able to watch this interview even though it's kinda short
whats amazing is if she was born in 1869 her grandparents would almost certainly have been around in the 1700s, so your looking at a lady would have met at some point( as a child) with people from the 1700s
yeah more like 1780s onwards
Nostalgic Productions - Yes! Well observed!
That's an amazing thought!
Pretty amazing when you think she lived to be more than a tenth of a whole millennium in age!
Amazing
Everyone is amazed that she’s living, but what’s more shocking is that at 108 years old, her mind remains *fit as a freaking fiddle* in a world that must be unrecognizable in comparison to the one she explored in her youth. Her intelligence is seemingly above what many adults today cannot achieve. This is not an old woman, no - this is a godsend. I hope that she rests in peace.
I agree with this perspective, although I think any human can be this "quick" until the day of death. The issue of dementia, Alzheimer disease, etc, is only "normal" today, and I think these "diseases" are mainly manmade (we poison ourselves nowadays, through amalgams, vaccinations, food, water, air, you name it, and diet that we have nowadays itself - even if today's animal derived products were made in a completely healthy way, amounts matter - before we ate very little animal derived products).
Maxim C.
You say we are poisoning ourselves and I’ll agree with certainty, though it seems you’re getting at the idea that we’re poisoning ourselves to such an extent that we’re - health wise - worse off than people in the Victorian Era, which is simply untrue. Modern medicine has made wondrous bounds that simply can’t be denied, and the life span of human beings has increased at an exponential rate which puts the Victorian Era to shame. And that isn’t to mention the numerous ways Victorians unintentionally killed themselves using every day products and foods laced with arsenic.
While I agree that any old person *can* grow to be elderly and yet still fully functional as the woman in the video above is, the chances are low - even today, and especially in the Victorian Era.
@@frederickson7879
In many ways we are better off, in many other ways - worse off. And the extent of both possibly are dramatic (the more technologically advanced we are, the more potential damage we can inflict, to the environment, and to ourselves). Take amalgams, take vaccinations, both weren't used prior not so long ago, let alone so widely. If we messed up say these two (which it's clear to me we did), the extent of how much they affected humanity's physical and mental state cannot be overestimated.
Longer life doesn't necessarily equal more quality life/more healthy years. Not to mention life expectancy is now starting to go down it seems. In any case, look at learning disabilities and difficulties, autoimmune disorders, chronic illnesses, mental illnesses, cancer, etc, etc - that have been increasing.
I tell you Hwat, its the diet. Food was damn REAL back then
@@MaximC I do agree with you, but I believe a lot of things had no real diagnosis especially mental illness and learning difficulties, you was either just mad or stupid and lazy.
Imagine being born when everything was horse and wagon and then live to see people walk on the moon
I like how she says she "didn't fancy" planes "when they first came out" and she truly could say such a thing! I think it's awesome that she was over 100 years old and said she was "more adventurous."
Teddy Sundin my grandmother would talk about going from travel of the ox and cart, to men landing on the moon.
🌟༻🅹🅰🆈🅵🅰༺ ✓ • 5 years ago ha ha, I love it!! (But you know, it’s the only place you can get green cheese !)
(She was born in 1889.)
Fact: there was no moon landing. Let the Bible be the authority in all matters. God tells us through His written word that the earth is fixed and cannot move, the sun is the one rising and falling, and there is a see through firmament above us(and water behind it,WHICH IS WHY THE SKY IS BLUE). Under the firmament in our sky is where the sun, moon & stars are located. Goodness, Satan has really deceived those who don’t read their bible! Pretty easy for him to do so. Hopefully Satan didn’t turn you away from believing in Jesus as our only means to get to heaven too!
@@thebodyofchrist56 sorry it's no longer 12AD go away
Imagine at 108 years old still having such an excitment for life as to say she would happily ride on a plane beacause "I'm more adventurous now". What an incredible woman!
Watching a video of a lady born in 1868 that was broadcasted in 1977 in 2019. In a way we've already created time machines.
This woman is iconic, she was born 10 years before the light bulb was invented, and yet she still managed to outlive Elvis Presley
This comment has been stolen in a million different ways on this comment section alone. I feel like I'm going insane.
This is rooted in our own deepest longings.
@@pumpkin6429 I don't get comments like this. It's not like someone else could think the same thing, am I right?
And quite possibly it will still be available for viewing in 3019 ...
Interesting note: Her husband died in 1905, when she was 36, and she had a son who was living and around 78 at the time of this interview. She ended up outliving her husband by 75 years.
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That's why she lived so long (jk)
@J M he gave her a son, so probably not lol
@J M good friends during your teenage years and a love you shared a child with is a bit different, I imagine she looked back on him with fond memories
@J M I understood fine.
That old victorian accent😍😍
Yes...i like very much.
@@bekkerz7789 yes.its thrue.
sound a lot like John Hurt, the late actor
Oh yes yes
@@bekkerz7789 - & the Brits rag on the Americans now for preserving that R in many dialects...
She said that nothing is the same from when she was young.Everythings changed.Everything! I would love to hear hours of her.I love the way she rolls her R's with her heavy English very proper Accent.This was pure gold.Thankyou for posting,!
She is older than Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt and many other historical figures and survived long enough to be interviewed on color tv. wow
shes also older than Mahatma Gandhi, Philippines' 1st President Emilio Aguinaldo who were both born 1869 and she outlived them
Do you mean Stalin?
Who the fuck is Starlin 😂
@@ikejugend Poster child for the Soviet Union, haven't you read your history? A STARlin is born
1. It's Stalin
2. Yes, wow!
Sharp mind for a 108yr old, would’ve liked it if the interview was longer then 3mins, the stories she could tell.
here here
Her mind, and body at that, weren't poisoned by chemicals in food and air.
Helga von den Schnitzelbergen this is kinda funny because in Victorian times science and even the microscope was new so they unknowingly used poison and bad chemicals in most of their food and parts of everyday life
Helga von den Schnitzelbergen also this was the Industrial Age so much of the UK and parts of Europe was full of smog
@@madicaputo4109 still no GMOs, no hormone-packed meat and no artificially manufactured diseases. And no pharma.
I wish I could plug her brain Into a computer to see EVERYTHING she’s witnessed In her life. Amazing lady. I bet all those years ago she would never believe people from the future would be watching her on their electronic devices commenting on her life. Crazy!
Now , this is a Great idea ! I can't believe this is not possible yet ... fascinating .
Ms. Christina fiolle Or like when you just want to show someone the dream you had so they can fully understand it 🙈🤷🏼♂️
Wayne Lucas she is wonderful‼️❤️
Like the Animus
one of the best comments
Remarkable woman and testimony. The stored knowledge, what her eyes have seen and the way she brings her recollections to life with such vivid expression : I could listen to her for hours! Thank you for this
She is worth listening to. This lady lived on till October 1980.... 112 years old!
112??? Wow 😵
What was her secret.
She got to see Star Wars ^^
She died in the same year as John Lennon!
And she was 72 when John Lennon was born!
This is the closest we’ll ever get to someone who lived through the Victorian era. Enjoy it while u can people, this is a very special moment.
I agree!
I mean maybe if you never met your great grandparents that would be the case
stove one True True 😂
@@stover14 my great grandparents died before i was born lmaooo
Indeed!
She lived to watch the peak of colonization, 2 world wars, a moon landing, a cold war, countries come and go. Hell she lived during the indian wars..
Also imagine how music changed for her xD
Lucky for her she passed before rap.
@@soylentgreen7074 lol.
I'm 20 and can't remember when I was 10 😂
Yea from like Beethoven to Ozzy or something lol
@@VicMordeth She outlived Hitler and Stalin.
Absolutely fascinating! Her clarity of mind and storytelling skills are truly remarkable. It's heartwarming to witness someone with such a rich history share their experiences. She lived through an era of immense change, and her perspective is a treasure. 🌟
I would have watched this for 3 hours if they had the footage, 3 minutes for a 108 years is an insult. They clearly didnt have enough tape in the cam
Here's an interview from 1969 and broadcast in 1970 of a couple or Victorian Era ladies, where they speak more freely about their lives: th-cam.com/video/dYW7-guUbL4/w-d-xo.html
Yeah but, 2:45 of it would've been her taking a nap.
@@edgravely3803 😂😂😂 probably
Waxadisc Music right?
gotta save the tape for all those 10000000000000000000000000000000000000 hours of royal british family footage
She died October 20th 1980, she was 111 years and 299 days old.
Imagine the things she has seen. 🤗🤗
she died last year due to Covid but i still think she survived that and all
@@pyeltd.5457 if she died last year she would've died in her 150s lmao
she lived to see star wars :O
On her 111th birthday she disappeared and was later found at Rivendell with the elves.
@@icemanire5467 *one hundred and eleventieth ;)
“I didn’t trust the planes when they first came out”... I would have said the same 😊
I still don't trust them.😆
I have that same feeling every time a new Xbox comes out.
@@donnaharris8097 I'll tell you that planes in the Americas had a far more common place (as in The United States) they had the Boeing 737 Max at the time which had luxury meals and very loud music to take away from the loud propellor...oh my bad, Marx line mar I meant, ya, the propellers were quite the uncomfort and made up 60 percent of the sound on the plane. Really surreal feeling and provided a great and relaxing swing away from home life...although their was the chance for a hijack to occur or gundown..but not when you payed high money for a nice flight! It felt more human and natural back yesterday..now, everything is so alien and uncomfortable and distant feeling, nothing seems genuine..
@@donnaharris8097 very cool information by the way!
Yea it's like Space tourism for me, even if I had the money I'd rather wait to make sure it's extremely safe.
I cannot begin to imagine how lucky we are to be able to listen to her.
"In Paris nothing mattered!" Just lovely.
@J .S Tesla died in 1943, long before videos existed.
@@therealzilch please tell me you are joking...
@@HostileLemons Okay, I was only considering digital video cameras. My bad.
@@therealzilch no problem
@@HostileLemons I agree with you anyway, I think. It would have been great to have a film of Tesla, but as far as I know, none exist, nor are there recordings of his voice. A pity.
If this was 10 hours long it still wouldn't be long enough. Her memories are so fascinating
I 💯 agree
... and priceless
Yes I agree
I want MORE !!!!!!
This was the quickest 3 minutes ever. I wish the interview was longer.
I could listen to her all day, I wish I could listen to all of her stories.
I suspect a lot of them were from Punch...LOL
ME TOO
There is a video where they interview people over 100 and they know how to use iPads lol.
Me too lovely lady
She is a very good speaker
This is the real “Back in my days...” that really hits
Born in 1868 and her voice and image is still around in 2019! Talk about leap frogging through time.
AMAZING. Almost like time travel x2.
Very well said
I believe she died about 40 years ago, but yes she's wonderful.
Wow, she was already 100 years old when I was born. So fascinating to be able to hear from her. I hope there are more clips of this interview.
In colour and with sound too.
1860s- 1970s must have seen the biggest change in science, technology and society in human history.
We can narrow it down more then just "human" to the ones who should have most credit
Biggest and most rapid changes indeed. Tho I feel the next 100 years will easily challenge that.
and 1950's - 2050s
1900 - 2010 has more changes, I think
dirt man You believe we went to the moon 😂
She was alive when Jack the Ripper was considered the 1st serial murderer
I realized that, imagining her in Ripper times London, she was in her 20s even then, whoa
Jaymeehoffstar;) But who would suspect such a fine young lady?
@KoivuTheHab germany was formed in 1871
he’s still considered the first serial killer, but get what you mean haha
@@suckmydingledong har har 😜
Such an invaluable clip. I'm so grateful to live in an age like this. To hear stories of people I'd never have known otherwise.
She was born when Germany and Italy both were still being formed/unified. She also lived in the 60's, twice.
Italy already existed as a country in 1868. Sure, it wasn't as big as it is now, in fact it didn't even own Rome, but still
@@thebenis3157 1861...
@@betelehemt Yeah, I know, that guy said that Italy wasn't a country yet when this woman was born in 1868, I was just telling that, by that point, Italy existed already. I know the year where my country was unified...
@@thebenis3157 infatti ho scritto solo l anno,non volevo apparire una che corregge anche se in fine...appare che l abbia fatto.
Ma capisco anche perche lui abbia detto cosi. Alla fine quell unificazione è cosi recente che potresti sentirla nell aria italiana ancora, susseguitasi da conseguenza.
She also was alive when jeans, the typewriter, vacuum cleaner, sliced bread, antibiotics, radar, radio, television, the ballpoint pen, nuclear power, rockets, microwave ovens, computers, Star Wars, etc. were all discovered/invented/created.
I love the way she talked. That Victorian accent sounds so cool.
The devolution of accents/language was exacerbated when they brought more regional accents onto TV and stopped being particularly strict at school about spelling, grammar, punctuation and pronunciation. Combined with children reading less classic literature or reading less of anything.
Its a change I've seen happening over the last 30 years
Yes! I’ve noticed she rolled her “rs”, something that simply isn’t done in English anymore except in certain dialects... heck, even Louisiana French maintains the rolled “r” sound rather than the Parisian guttural pronunciation. I wonder why the rolled “r” has fallen out of favor over the last century or so. It sounds so dignified and special.
Yanks are now making sure that English be butchered unrecognizably. It is rather saddening, isn't it?
@draconian45 It's not a "Victorian accent" you fool, it's standard English - frequently found in England today
Kate Taylor except the sound did change quite a bit. Maybe not in some dialects, as someone already said, but more prominently those rs don't get rolled as much these days! I'm in no way a linguist, just an enthusiast, but they significantly have been dropped after the 50s/60s, so much so that in the southern part of England it's pretty much gone. I read somewhere that it's changing people's facial muscles, 😂 apparently not rolling your r leads to premature sagging of your neck and chin area
Having a grandma or great grandma like her would be a dream for many history nerds.
Marcello SDLT Ah yes, that would be so great. I would listen to her stories for hours and hours if I had a close family member like her.
EXACTLY,
I would looove to ask her about everything she went through, her friends, how it was back then...
I was fortunate to have a grandmother and great grandmother to pass on history. One never spoke english. Both were Native American.
Wish I could talk to one. I love learning the history of my motherland. Both of my grandmothers died by the time I was 14. My mother’s dad died the week I was born and my fathers dad died in the 80s. Even alive I wouldn’t be able to communicate with them as I can’t speak my native language fluently.
If you’re reading this and your grandparents are alive - please talk to them. Some people never get the chance to
My grandpa grew up during the Great Depression and fought in WWII.
At the end when she says everything has changed that brought back a memory. In Ireland in 1984 I met a 90 year old man who was near this women's age who could not express enough how every single thing around him had changed. He kept saying it was unbelievable. It must have been quite a thing to live through the C20th century.
I may be wrong but it seems to me that 20th century was a rollercoaster compared to previous times. A lot of bad things happened and at the same times a lot of positive changes happened and changed our lives, both practically and mentally. And yet this start of 21st century seems less interesting, it reaks of cultural stagnation and political back walking.
@@negy2570 I would disagree. The greatest transformational century in history is undoubtedly the C19th. That is the way we thought about life changed, (e.g. by the end of the C19th everyone arranged their day by clock time. Just this alone was a profound change from a past where a day was just one thing, not divided into hours or even for most into activities) However the C20th delivered on the C19th thinking into lots of small improvements in people's domestic lives. So it felt like new gadgets or behaviour was a consistent flow but the thinking was all from the C19th and still is.
imagine how surreal it would have been for them if they also got to see the present day
she lived through no cars to moon landing. checkmate@@flashtrash7830
@@flashtrash7830 I once read a biography of Sir Sanford Fleming (1827-1915), who invented time zones, and it made the same point. The Industrial Revolution was the biggest material change in human society in ten thousand years, the switch from farming to industry as the mode of production. Fleming was born as the Industrial Revolution was getting started, just before the invention of the railway and the telegraph, and died in a world with telephones, film, cars and aeroplanes. But I would say that Florence Pannell witnessed a lot more changes in society and in technology in everyday life. She was born before the torrent of inventions in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, most notably the telephone, the gramophone, the incandescent bulb, the car and film. She ended her life in a world with jet airliners, colour television, the contraceptive pill and the first personal computers. When she was young, women had far less rights than men, married women were effectively the property of their husbands and a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. The 1970s saw the permissive society, the Women's Liberation Movement and the Sex Discrimination Act. I love that this Vctorian woman who'd survived to 1977 took down the Victorian Age with humour and made it clear she was on the side of Women's Liberation.
Being 108, she looked good!! Her skin was healthy looking!! Her brain was youthful.She got to live to see a lot of change!! RIP
yea u would think she would look wayyy older , she honestly don't look 108 she looks good
@@nobody-qz1tg She worked in beauty. That tells me one thing of the hundreds she used on her skin over the years may have been the answer. Maybe she did actually have the answer huh. Strong lady.
Even her legs look like they belong to someone younger
nobody alive today born in the last 30 years will last that long now because technology it messed your brain up
Yes I noticed her legs did look like from a much younger woman
Imagine being born in the era of queen victoria and living enough to watch star wars like bruh tf
Imagen
Space Odyssey's amazing enough tho
🤯🤯🤯
That's a lovely picture. 🥰
Born before planes existed, lived long enough to see men on the moon.
"Mother, when I grow up, shall I have to be married?" To think that 130-140 years ago some little girl made that statement and never thought of it again but it survived for more than a century to be told in this video. That some little girl from the victorian era had a conversation and it still survives.
The scene she described was a cartoon in the magazine Punch. Although I’m sure many conversations like that were had!
But when the internet is eventually lost even that will disappear. When the last traces of our civilization inevitably burn after some disaster or war, we all will be forgotten. Even the very species he belong to and planet we call home. So the value you find is temporary, but so is all things.
@@RisingFlag100 Or when oil runs out (coming soon) EVERY modern technology, transport and machine will no longer work. As everything relies on oil. 99.99% plus of all species that ever existed have gone extinct, and our species is also on the way out, we are currently DE-evolving as is obvious from listening to people from 100 years ago and more and more biological markers in humans are proving this true.
@@buongiorno9714 Haha. Good stuff.
@@RisingFlag100 everything is temporary yes, except out spirits, the real us. When we die out body will fade away but the real us will be alive on eternity. Just wanted to tell you that Heaven and Hell are real eternal destinations for every human spirit, and that Jesus Christ said 'I AM the Way, the truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by Me'. For God so loved the world (us) that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but receive eternal life. God didn't send Jesus to condemn the world, but that through Him we might be saved.
Most major inventions happened during her time. For thousands of years things were pretty much the same. My dad who was born in1918 and my grandparents in late 1890s would say the same. My grandfather didn't learn to drive or care for cars, but my dad loved everything about them (new generation for cars). It reminds me of the kids now with all the knowledge of technology. I ask my niece about so many things. I wish we could hear more stories from this lady.
Change has always occurred, albeit more gradually.
Often I research the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, and one thing that intrigued me was how the whole civilization became completely unrecognizable to how it started, from small wooden huts to giant city-states and elaborate palaces like those at Babylon and Ur.
She passed away 3 years after this was made. She was 111 years old. That's absolutely wild. It's kind of sad to think she may have outlived any potential children though
That happens to a lot of elderly people. They outlive friends and family
I wonder if she ever got to fly
i once had a patient who turned 100 years old. i wished her a happy birthday and asked if she would celebrate. she said "with whom? theres no one left but me"
@@beancelineawww so sad
R.I.P. 🙏
i could sit and listen to someone like florence for hours
@@PandorasPhoneix Does she have a twitter account?
@@tedcrilly46 Is this a joke?
@@niix.2732 Most likely a joke.
Her accent is refreshing
FEMINISM Ruined Women!
Face and hands: 108 years old
Legs: BRAND NEW
Legs always covered from sunlight and the elements.
Its definitely the stockings. My grandmother died at 102 and she always wore stockings and they made her legs look perfect
She could definitely get it
Wear sunscreen people
You've taken this to worrying new places
I am watching this in 2024, 156 years after she was born and 44 years after she has passed. Crazy...
She lived through 6 monarchs
Victoria
Edward VII
George V
Edward VIII
George VI
Elizabeth II
@Redblade That makes 7 of you then
Amazing to consider. Also, Redblade is an AH.
"The crown must always win"
@Redblade piss off republican piece of shit! long live the crown!
Sucks cause most of us will probably live through only one. The queen will outlive us all.