There’s always an air of mythical-ness watching these, as if old story books came to life. I always meditate on the person behind the camera with these footage. A person who had the means to own a camera and took their weekend/leisure time to snap these for who knows what reason. So lucky to live in a timeline where we can see all this.
Cars hadn't even been around very long and already they are everywhere, companies already ruthlessly competeing. The roads here are dominated by them, anybody older than 20 years must have been amazed, also by the cameras.
A big thankyou to all involved, the filming brought back many memories. My father was Head Porter at Worcester College about 35 years after this film was originally shot. We lived in an old stone college house standing in-between Beaumont Street and Gloucester Green, just opposite the College main gate. The Ashmolean Museum was a 100 yards up the road, the Playhouse Theatre even closer. Could walk to Carfax in 10 minutes. We could see the Porter's Lodge from our garden. I was ten years old and stayed living with my parents until after my 21st birthday. I was very privileged as a young person to experience the quite different life of " Town and Gown " and to meet many people from all over the world- I could name drop but I won't! They were wonderful days and this film made me very nostalgic for those days. Many thanks ...
‘Et in Arcadia Ego’ so evocative of Brideshead Revisited I half expect to see Charles and Sebastian walking arm in arm. Magical time to be living a comfortable and privileged life in Oxford but pretty rough and precarious for most people behind the scenes. Your videos are stunning and are a pleasure to watch but it just really emphasises how very transient we all are.
0:06 St Aldates looking forward toward the High Street. 0:20 Parks Road looking toward Broad Street and the Clarendon Building in the middle ground. 0:30 Parks Road closer to the Clarendon Building. As the camera pans to the right we can see the Sheldonian Theatre with the domed top. 0:47 Broad Street looking toward Holywell Street with the Clarendon Building on the right. 0:57 Broad Street looking toward Magdalene Street. Balliol College is on the right. As the camera pans to the right we can see Trinity College. 1:15 St Aldates looking down toward Christ Church which can be seen in the background on the left. 1:27 St Aldates and a closer look at Christ Church. 1:42 St Aldates and a closer look at Christ Church. 1:52 St Giles with Martyr’s Memorial on the left. 2:01 St Giles and a closer look at the Martyr’s Memorial. On the left is Balliol College. 2:14 Cornmarket looking towards Tom Tower in the background. The large stone building jutting out on the left is St Michael at the North Gate. 2:26 St Aldates. 2:41 Unsure. It maybe St Aldates. 2:57 High Street. 3:02 High Street. 3:27 High Street. 3:38 High Street with on the right in the background, University Church of St Mary the Virgin. 4:03 Queens Lane looking from the High Street. 4:10 High Street. Standing near the twisting columns of University Church of St Mary the Virgin on the right. 4:24 High Street looking toward the Carfax Tower in the background. 4:39 Carfax Tower looking from the High Street. 4:57 High Street looking toward the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. 5:11 St Giles Church on the Banbury Road. 5:19 Banbury Road looking at Oxford War memorial. 5:31 Unknown. 5:41 Radcliffe Square with All Souls College in the background. 5:53 Tom Quad, Christ Church. 6:05 Unknown. 6:21. Looking from Oriel Street toward the entrance to University Church of St Mary the Virgin. 6:29 Oriel Square with Oriel College on the right. 6:40 Oriel College. 6:52 Oriel College. 7:00 Merton Street looking toward Merton College. 7:09 Merton Field looking toward Merton College. 7:15 Entrance to Merton College. 7:25 Bridge of Sighs (Hertford Bridge) on New College Lane. 7:34 Unknown. 7:44 Unknown. 7:53 New College cloisters. 8:12 New College. 8:24. New College cloisters. 8:38 A 420 (The Plain) looking toward Magdalen Bridge with Magdalen College in the background. The building to the right foreground is the Victorian Fountain. 8:50 Looking from Longwall Street toward Magdalen College. 9:04 Magdalen Bridge looking toward Magdalen College. 9:17 Magdalen College with Magdalen College Library in the background on the right. 9:29 Entrance to Magdalen College. 9:43 Old Quad, Magdalen College. War memorial no longer there. It is now at In the old burial ground opposite the King and Queen Public House, High Street, Wheatley, South Oxfordshire. 9:55 This maybe one of the female only colleges at the time, Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville College, St Anne’s, St Hilda’s and St Hugh’s. 10:18 Wadham College. 10:25 As above. 10:40 As above. 11:10 Entrance to Wadham College on Parks Road. 11:33 Entrance to the Bodleian Library. Opposite the Sheldonian Theatre. 11:45 As above. 11:58 As above. 12:10 Maybe the same as above. 12:33 Standing to the right of the Sheldonian Theatre. In the background Clarendon Building. 13:05 Standing next to the Sheldonian Theatre looking toward the Bodleian. 13:11 Merton Street and Merton College on the left. 13:19 All Souls College looking from the roof of Radcliffe Camera. 13:42 Probably looking from University Church of St Mary the Virgin. 14:08 As above. 14:32 Possibly shot from the top of Magdalen Tower. 14:55 Botanical Gardens with Magdalen College in the background. 15:14 Christ Church Meadow looking toward Christ Church. 15:28. As above.
Many thanks for this - very helpful. I think 6:05 is Radcliffe Square, between Radcliffe Camera and the University Church, looking towards Brasenose College. Grass then and cobbles now - very unexpected!
Nass, Another great upload. Reminds me of the 1980's TV series "Brideshead Revisited" with a young Jeremy Irons & Anthony Andrews as young rich lads in Oxford University in the 1920's. Thanks for the upload.
3:54 The view up the High from Queens Lane bus stop, where I would wait with my brother for a bus to school. Being born and raised in Oxford in the 50s-70s, I thought all cities were like that. Was most surprised to find that they were not…
It’s amazing to think that all that humanity, no longer exists. They are just shadows of our past now. Wonderful colouration of this old footage and the soundscape used, really worked. You could almost believe this footage was only taken a year or two ago. Thank you. 👍 Edit: Also loved the drone footage towards the end. 😂
I was raised in the UK and moved to the US forty years ago. Next month, my wife and I will visit Oxford for the first time. I expect most of the buildings in this film will still be there. I recognize some of the places from Morse.
It’s pretty much the same. Maybe slightly busier than some of the clips, and a more ‘diverse’ city - Looks like Canton sometimes, a trans-rally at others. I’d go during the week. Still lovely though. Enjoy your trip!
As a 1950s child born in Oxford was so lovely to watch as this would have been the time my grandparents would have been around. The clothing, transport had changed from when I was a child and brought back memories of how Oxford was. Today I’m still living in Oxford but it has changed for the worse in my opinion. It’s lost its character and charm. Amazing to watch this though, truly amazing ❤❤❤
Its character, it will never lose it, not Oxford, not for as long as it continues to be a University - maybe it's going through hard times in terms of its spirit, but there will always be something in Oxford to keep alive the vein of Truth it purports to cling on and pursue, so on that regard, it will always be relevant, so of character....
@@uneqejam The frst thing I noticed about Oxford, the very first time I came to it, was 3 muslim girls, and a little bit later, a Mosque... It destroyed my imagination I had about this place all the years before. And there is this huge military site, on old airfield.... Anyway, soon you will be foreigner in your own country and they will call you "colonists", like once in India...
@@karstent.66 I was talking about Oxford centre really, the buildings, what it conveys when you see it!! On the other hand, times have changed, so let's hope that in that change, its remedy comes also, Who will convert and in the end make "blend" the newcomers as well, and it all turns back beautiful and wonderful as it was before....Our Lady of Walsingham, have mercy on us!!! ✝️ ✝️
@@uneqejam I know what you were talking about and i expected to find an Oxford that fits to its reputation it has, even outside of the UK. Of course I understand this town is not just a middle aged museum. People need to have to work something as well.
Love it! I live in Oxford and to be honest it hasn’t changed much, apart from being allowed to drive through the city back then! Brilliant, thanks for finding, restoring and sharing!
The wide streets are outside the city walls. Within the city walls are still narrow streets. Much of medieval Oxford was destroyed by the university when individual colleges were built.
Lots of medieval cities in England have a small number of wide streets and a myriad of narrow - sometimes very narrow alleyways - running off them. In medieval times, the wide streets were where markets were held as well as certain trades and civic activities requiring space.
Me too, it’s wonderful to visit the village cemetery and see the graves of all my forebears. Ancestors that fought for the people of this country through not only world wars but other conflicts. Do people of today care or is this country changed for good?
Curious. How did you manage to track your family tree back over one thousand years? What written accounts and records did you reference? Very few such extended timelines exist outside of the Royal Family. Astonishing. Thank you.
Great to see this. I had forgotten how much soot there was on buildings in those days (and up to the 1950s). The added sound is well done, but I did wonder if it was really that noisy in those days. Judging by the number of motor vehicles shown, I doubt if there would have been that dull background roar that we get nowadays (until EVs take it away again).
Very well presented, nice to see vintage cars in their prime - many Morrises, of course, a nice Vauxhall 30/98 at 1.15, a Riley Redwing (a real undergrad sporty car) at 2.52, and a RR Silver Ghost at 9.30.
I don't recognise the building with the unusual Solomonic columns seen on the right, around the 4.33 mark. Was it demolished or was it destroyed during the war?
@@jbuk4369 It's the entrance of University Church of St Mary the Virgin, on the High Street. The columns are still there today but their actual colour blends into the rest of the building and they're easy to miss. Something about the colourisation of this video emphasises the shadows and they really stand out. Have a look on google and you'll see how the church looks today, pretty much the same.
@@anderssandberg5759 Thank you so much. I don't know how I could have missed it. I must have walked past St. Mary's at some point, or maybe it was one of the city's treasures that I somehow missed. Anyway, I went to their website and there it was; complete with squiggly columns! God bless.
That is what struck me most, soot all over the stonework. No wonder though, trains were running on coal and all the buildings had coal fires. The roads looked very hazardous ! not a single road marking to be seen. No yellow lines either so park anywhere :)
A great piece of film, looking at a past I was not a part of is a deep experience, I could watch it for countless hours. A very realistic audio addition.
Agreed. A land increasingly populated by immigrants whose values are at odds with a thousand years of history and who have no desire to fit in and knuckle under.
@@johnlynch4901 The turning point was 1948 startof the Windrush generation. 😪😪😪Not only did they want to come here they wanted to destroy our culture. I think it’s safe to say that I have succeeded.
Thank you to the original photgrapher and to you for, I think, enhancing the film by adding sounds and colour - there is a point with a man on a bike and he looks at the camera and it is as if you have caught the eye of a stranger in the City for a moment rather than glimpsing a monochrome figure in silence. The scene in front of the 1924 photographer must have sounded much the same as your recreation of it - thank you.
Fantastic film. I love that it shows the dawn of the motoring age. What were presumably cobblestone streets have received asphalt presumably not long before this was shot. However, no signage, no road markings and no traffic lights as yet.
Not the "dawn" of "The Motoring Age" - definitely into adulthood by then. The car had been around for some 30 years when this was filmed and the era of "mass production" was well under way. Eg - by 1926, 150,000 examples of the "Bullnose" Morris Oxford had been made.
I lived in Oxford for 46 years so I know all of these streets. It’s fascinating seeing the buildings of which I’m so familiar. Not much has really changed apart from the cars! I don’t ever recall seeing a horse & cart though, that was a bit before my time! Thank you for this video, I found it wonderful to watch & reminisce 👍
Ah yes... Colonialists who committed genocide in Kenya, Sudan, came up with the idea of concentrating camps in South Africa, 300,000 dead in one, still busy pillaging India.. shared values indeed.
@@denisdaly1708There's always the miserable communist isn't there, who has to point out what he thinks nobody else knows. The world isn't going to change just because you're in one h*ll of a state with yourself. Try to be happier.
@@denisdaly1708Almost entirely wrong. You're confusing the normal working classes of Britain with the elites. The British Empire never committed genocide, or invented concentration camps.
@@denisdaly1708 I wonder how grateful the descendants of those colonised are for their ascendancy from a Neolithic society? You know, the introduction of Christianity, literature, science, law, abolishing slavery, the wheel. They must be very grateful.
Look how clean those streets are. Beautiful cars, buildings and people going about their business in relative peace. Fast forward 100 years- how times change
Beautiful "Bullnose" Morris Oxford (or Cowley) featured in several scenes. My Grandfather owned one for several years during the 1920's and toured extensively on weekends with the family.
The average man in the 20s would have had 3 suits - a winter worsted, a summer worsted and his Sunday best. Imagine having that limit on your wardrobe now. No litter - mostly because there wasn't the variety of infinitely cheap random rubbish to buy and eat. And no traffic jams because to buy a car you were probably in the top 1% of the country.
It lost its' way when it got rid of Jesus Christ. Everywhere you see that the morality of the bible has not been embraced there is nakedness, immodesty and rebellion. This was a time when there was a general fear of the good Lord and adherence to His principles of life even if they were not born again believers.
@@robbie12359 I don't recall Jesus Christ ever speaking out against nakedness, or immodesty, and as for rebellion, he was quite a rebel himself! All that 'love your neighbour' and 'don't judge others' and the kingdom of heaven being within, not in superficial so-called morality, was and remains strong stuff that tends to provoke a reaction.
@@papercup2517 Then you clearly haven't read the scriptures. God is very much against immodesty and Jesus, as the Word of God, wrote all the bible. You are referring to what He spoke in His earthly ministry and not the entirety of His word.
@@papercup2517 Jesus also said in John 7:24 we ate to judge righteously and the "judge not" idea from Matthew 7 is telling you not to judge in hypocrisy if you read the context. If you want the truth it is there for you. If you just want to repeat what those that hate God say then you will not listen. In John 10 Jesus said His sheep hear His voice. You are currently listening to the voice of those who oppose Christ Jesus the Lord.
The city has hardly changed on the High st but Cornmarket and St Aldates has very much altered ( demolitions and rebuilding) in 100 years. This was the era of the start of massive growth of the car factories in Cowley and then the building of Barton and the estates of the 30s.
Clean streets and people who took pride in their appearance, no leisure wear or fast food rubbish littering up the place, just quiet pride in themselves and their surroundings, I would love to have lived then.
Thanks very much for your enjoyable video, a marvellous help to people interested in history. I wonder did the people in this video achieve what they wanted - .
@@Peteroranje That was a long course then. 42 years learning before you could graduate. Most of them didn't look that old! 😂 A quick Google check shows that women took their exams in 1879 but were not 'admitted to the University' until 1920, i.e. were not awarded their degree until that time, they were, instead, given a 'Certificate of Competence' which was generally considered to be equivalent. The 1st British University Degrees awarded to women were by the University of London in 1878.
did not take long for the racists to come out. This was a terrible time for the average person, children constantly hungry, living in squalor,, what on earth is wrong with you people
Wonderful and evocative. Surprising how much vehicular traffic - in one shot a traffic jam at Carfax - and so few horses. 'Oxford and its colleges' not 'Oxford and its Universities' in the description.
"You can see several scenes of Oxford and its Universities." Actually, you only see _one_ university. There are now several universities in Oxford but the others didn't exist then, and are anyway not in the central area of the city shown in the video. What we can see are several _colleges_ of the university, such as Balliol College, Trinity College, Christ Church, All Souls College, Oriel College, Merton College, New College, Magdalen College, Wadham College and one of Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville College, St Anne’s College, St Hilda’s College and St Hugh’s College. (Hat tip to Kit Sullivan for identifying them all in his invaluable comment.) Also several buildings and facilities belonging to the University, such as the Clarendon Building, the Sheldonian Theatre, the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, the Bodleian Library and the Botanical Garden. (Thanks, Kit!)
I feel sorry for all the baby boys in the early 1920s. They would be the first in-line for the trenches less than 20 years later! Born in the quiet calm of Oxfordshire and destined for the hell of War!
@@adamhughes4442 I see your point but trenches in WW2 were very rare following advanced mechanisation. Ergo it's not known for trench warfare. Still sad as you point out that any of them had to go to war, even if it was generally nowhere near as devastatingly bloody as the First for British lads.
Oxford and Buckinghamshire light infantry, well known for the horsa glider attack capturing pegasus bridge and liberating the first building in France (the cafe next to the bridge) on D-Day. They captured and held the bridge until relieved by paras a few hours later. They would have been children or young men at the time of this footage.
This is wonderful to watch, "that sweet city with her dreaming spires". I wish I lived back then, when Oxford was Oxford and England was England, instead of now, it's changed so for the worse! How well and modestly dressed all were in those days. I hadn't realised quite the extent of how uniformly smoke blackened all the buildings were back then. (Rather disconcerting to hear two times on the soundtrack the modern cry for "Big Issue!" 😆)
At my age,seeing how the world has changed,as well as the population is sad. Unfortunately didn’t change for good. Who can imagine that the present time could be so disturbing and sad. These footages are the proof of better time,that’s why they are historical. I hope they will serve as a lesson for peace, respect and collaboration. As always,thank you for your fantastic and educational video.👏👏👏👏.
Much better yes, the poverty, the rickets, tuberculosis, diphtheria, fatal bacterial infections, insanitary freezing slums, safety in the workplace non existent, and income inequality beyond our wildest nightmares. So yes pass the hankies around and let’s dab our eyes as we mourn the passing of MUCH better times.
It all depends on perspective I suppose -I’m think living in 1920s/30s Oxford (or England) was a lot lot worse than it is now for the vast vast majority. Also this is only 20 or so years before probably the worst time in modern history to be alive. We’ve got NHS, modern medicine, people live a lot longer, you can get anywhere in the world within 1-2 days max, you’ve got access to essentially the sum of human knowledge from a screen in your hand. But yes in other ways it seems worse. Also think probably we are all much more tolerant and humane than people were back then.
In 1920, the world was only a few years removed from a horrific global war. At the Somme in July 1916, up to 100,000 British men died in a day. Was this world also better for women and non-white minorities? Obviously we have challenges today, but we shouldn’t needlessly romanticise the past.
@@gerardmackay8909 My dad's cousin was born Nov. 1928. He was loading his small truck with branches when he was 90, I was helping. My dad was born 1924, he was pretty well at 91 till he got fluid in his lungs. As for babies now.... they are mandated to get 20+ jabbs before they are TWO. 1 in 60 is SICK with autism, allergies, ADHD, and a hell of a lot more. THEN came along the laboratory enhanced bio virus with imaginary cure, for a disease with ZERO % death rate was FORCED by NON medical busybodies in ALL schools. What a FOOLS PARADISE we are forced to endure now. CANCER is skyrocketing, FACT. 20,000 forever chemicals stuffed in our food. EVERYBODY has plastic in their blood and water. BILLIONAIRES are worse than ever, telling us what to do about imaginary GloBULL warming. LOL And that's putting it nicely .....
I was born and raised in Oxford, and it's evident that it has changed a lot. Yet each street and location is completely recognisable. I know exactly where they are in almost every shot due to such historic and recognisable buildings. The shops are different and the cars are different and some buildings have been replaced, but so much has been up-kept (no doubt by the university).
Fascinating film - thank you. The buildings still remained black in the 1950s. Subsequent decades have seen them returned to their original honey coloured appearance.
Smokey coal fires, spalling stone from centuries of soot. Super video and in the late forties and fifties it looked much the same. Cleaning up was starting then.
A skilled and experienced cameraman. Some great compositions. The pan from a building to parasols, wow. Is that Oxford Brewery belching out steam and smoke in the distance?
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Would You like to live back in the 1920s??
Only if you could guarantee my health and a reasonable income.
Colour, not color
@Roadrunner_1000 You forgot no antibiotics and primitive dentistry ....
No. We would have been called up in the army 15 years later.
Absolutely
Thank the person who took the time to capture this footage in 1920...
It was graduation day obviously.
AND THOSE WHO RESTORED AND COLOURISED IT ETC.
Must have taken ages to upload it to TH-cam back then!
There’s always an air of mythical-ness watching these, as if old story books came to life. I always meditate on the person behind the camera with these footage. A person who had the means to own a camera and took their weekend/leisure time to snap these for who knows what reason. So lucky to live in a timeline where we can see all this.
Yes. The photographer was actually standing in the centre of Carfax crossing!
Well said. The place and time we're watching is so far removed from ours it could almost be a work of fiction.
@@phillipecook3227Yes, and only 100 years ago. I wonder how it will look in 2124.
Cars hadn't even been around very long and already they are everywhere, companies already ruthlessly competeing. The roads here are dominated by them, anybody older than 20 years must have been amazed, also by the cameras.
"myth" is the word you're looking for
I was born and raised just outside of Oxford, also worked and socialised in the city centre, truly lovely to see this footage, thank you.
A big thankyou to all involved, the filming brought back many memories. My father was Head Porter at Worcester College about 35 years after this film was originally shot. We lived in an old stone college house standing in-between Beaumont Street and Gloucester Green, just opposite the College main gate. The Ashmolean Museum was a 100 yards up the road, the Playhouse Theatre even closer. Could walk to Carfax in 10 minutes. We could see the Porter's Lodge from our garden. I was ten years old and stayed living with my parents until after my 21st birthday. I was very privileged as a young person to experience the quite different life of " Town and Gown " and to meet many people from all over the world- I could name drop but I won't! They were wonderful days and this film made me very nostalgic for those days. Many thanks ...
Thank you for all the hard work you do with restoring and colorizing our past so it's not forgotten.
thank you very much ;))
colourising *
@@BodywiseMustardit’s the US english.
‘Et in Arcadia Ego’ so evocative of Brideshead Revisited I half expect to see Charles and Sebastian walking arm in arm. Magical time to be living a comfortable and privileged life in Oxford but pretty rough and precarious for most people behind the scenes. Your videos are stunning and are a pleasure to watch but it just really emphasises how very transient we all are.
THE GRASS WITHERETH.
0:06 St Aldates looking forward toward the High Street.
0:20 Parks Road looking toward Broad Street and the Clarendon Building in the middle ground.
0:30 Parks Road closer to the Clarendon Building. As the camera pans to the right we can see the Sheldonian Theatre with the domed top.
0:47 Broad Street looking toward Holywell Street with the Clarendon Building on the right.
0:57 Broad Street looking toward Magdalene Street. Balliol College is on the right. As the camera pans to the right we can see Trinity College.
1:15 St Aldates looking down toward Christ Church which can be seen in the background on the left.
1:27 St Aldates and a closer look at Christ Church.
1:42 St Aldates and a closer look at Christ Church.
1:52 St Giles with Martyr’s Memorial on the left.
2:01 St Giles and a closer look at the Martyr’s Memorial. On the left is Balliol College.
2:14 Cornmarket looking towards Tom Tower in the background. The large stone building jutting out on the left is St Michael at the North Gate.
2:26 St Aldates.
2:41 Unsure. It maybe St Aldates.
2:57 High Street.
3:02 High Street.
3:27 High Street.
3:38 High Street with on the right in the background, University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
4:03 Queens Lane looking from the High Street.
4:10 High Street. Standing near the twisting columns of University Church of St Mary the Virgin on the right.
4:24 High Street looking toward the Carfax Tower in the background.
4:39 Carfax Tower looking from the High Street.
4:57 High Street looking toward the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
5:11 St Giles Church on the Banbury Road.
5:19 Banbury Road looking at Oxford War memorial.
5:31 Unknown.
5:41 Radcliffe Square with All Souls College in the background.
5:53 Tom Quad, Christ Church.
6:05 Unknown.
6:21. Looking from Oriel Street toward the entrance to University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
6:29 Oriel Square with Oriel College on the right.
6:40 Oriel College.
6:52 Oriel College.
7:00 Merton Street looking toward Merton College.
7:09 Merton Field looking toward Merton College.
7:15 Entrance to Merton College.
7:25 Bridge of Sighs (Hertford Bridge) on New College Lane.
7:34 Unknown.
7:44 Unknown.
7:53 New College cloisters.
8:12 New College.
8:24. New College cloisters.
8:38 A 420 (The Plain) looking toward Magdalen Bridge with Magdalen College in the background. The building to the right foreground is the Victorian Fountain.
8:50 Looking from Longwall Street toward Magdalen College.
9:04 Magdalen Bridge looking toward Magdalen College.
9:17 Magdalen College with Magdalen College Library in the background on the right.
9:29 Entrance to Magdalen College.
9:43 Old Quad, Magdalen College. War memorial no longer there. It is now at In the old burial ground
opposite the King and Queen Public House, High Street, Wheatley, South Oxfordshire.
9:55 This maybe one of the female only colleges at the time, Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville College, St Anne’s, St Hilda’s and St Hugh’s.
10:18 Wadham College.
10:25 As above.
10:40 As above.
11:10 Entrance to Wadham College on Parks Road.
11:33 Entrance to the Bodleian Library. Opposite the Sheldonian Theatre.
11:45 As above.
11:58 As above.
12:10 Maybe the same as above.
12:33 Standing to the right of the Sheldonian Theatre. In the background Clarendon Building.
13:05 Standing next to the Sheldonian Theatre looking toward the Bodleian.
13:11 Merton Street and Merton College on the left.
13:19 All Souls College looking from the roof of Radcliffe Camera.
13:42 Probably looking from University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
14:08 As above.
14:32 Possibly shot from the top of Magdalen Tower.
14:55 Botanical Gardens with Magdalen College in the background.
15:14 Christ Church Meadow looking toward Christ Church.
15:28. As above.
Wow, thanks for doing this. I know a lot of the views but it is amazing that you took the time for everyone's benefit. 😁😁👏👏
i wanted to say wow myself!
but will just say
thankyou very much! 🙂 x
lived in Ox between '03 and 2017
so recognisable...
A very good and appreciated job to catalogue all the great buildings and streets. Excellent super good!!
Thank you for taking the time and trouble to do this🙏🏻👋🏻
Many thanks for this - very helpful. I think 6:05 is Radcliffe Square, between Radcliffe Camera and the University Church, looking towards Brasenose College. Grass then and cobbles now - very unexpected!
Nass, Another great upload. Reminds me of the 1980's TV series "Brideshead Revisited" with a young Jeremy Irons & Anthony Andrews as young rich lads in Oxford University in the 1920's. Thanks for the upload.
thank you very much bro!
1980s *
You may be thinking of the apostrophe in '80s
Same for 1920s*
'20s
Absolutely stunning. Excellent work!!
Thx!
Incredible to see, especially as someone born and raised there. It's so unchanged in many ways but still looks like another world. Thanks!
Always amazed and totally in love with the fact that it’s still the same today in most of these clips!
Not 1 mosque in sight.No burkas,no one in drag.
@@scratchy1704 Get a life
It does. It was barely different in the 1980s when I was there as a student. I feel it has changed a lot now though when I go back.
Yes, but the skyline in some areas has been blighted by modern development.
@@scratchy1704what are you on about? 😂😂😂😂
Extraordinary. One hundred years ago brought "back to life". Thank you so much.
3:54 The view up the High from Queens Lane bus stop, where I would wait with my brother for a bus to school. Being born and raised in Oxford in the 50s-70s, I thought all cities were like that. Was most surprised to find that they were not…
Great job, especially the natural sounds added. I'm loving these without any voiceovers.
The soundtrack isn't original
It’s amazing to think that all that humanity, no longer exists. They are just shadows of our past now. Wonderful colouration of this old footage and the soundscape used, really worked. You could almost believe this footage was only taken a year or two ago. Thank you. 👍
Edit: Also loved the drone footage towards the end. 😂
Very nice mate, thanks again for sharing!!🙃😉
thank you very much
Amazing Work NASS!
Thx!! ^^
@@NASS_0It’s an honour for you to have done my suggestion!
I was raised in the UK and moved to the US forty years ago. Next month, my wife and I will visit Oxford for the first time. I expect most of the buildings in this film will still be there. I recognize some of the places from Morse.
Enjoy your trip! Would be interested to hear what you think of Oxford, am planning to visit there myself someday.
May I extend a very warm welcome to you both...
It’s pretty much the same. Maybe slightly busier than some of the clips, and a more ‘diverse’ city - Looks like Canton sometimes, a trans-rally at others. I’d go during the week. Still lovely though. Enjoy your trip!
Expect a non white community .
I went to Oxford University and the locations in this footage are mostly recognisable. Thankfully, Oxford was largely spared from bombing during WW2.
NASS! Thanks for posting this video
Thx bro!
Thank you NASS for all your gorgeous uploads, they transport me to another world.❤
As a 1950s child born in Oxford was so lovely to watch as this would have been the time my grandparents would have been around. The clothing, transport had changed from when I was a child and brought back memories of how Oxford was. Today I’m still living in Oxford but it has changed for the worse in my opinion. It’s lost its character and charm. Amazing to watch this though, truly amazing ❤❤❤
Its character, it will never lose it, not Oxford, not for as long as it continues to be a University - maybe it's going through hard times in terms of its spirit, but there will always be something in Oxford to keep alive the vein of Truth it purports to cling on and pursue, so on that regard, it will always be relevant, so of character....
@@uneqejam The frst thing I noticed about Oxford, the very first time I came to it, was 3 muslim girls, and a little bit later, a Mosque... It destroyed my imagination I had about this place all the years before.
And there is this huge military site, on old airfield....
Anyway, soon you will be foreigner in your own country and they will call you "colonists", like once in India...
@@karstent.66 I was talking about Oxford centre really, the buildings, what it conveys when you see it!! On the other hand, times have changed, so let's hope that in that change, its remedy comes also, Who will convert and in the end make "blend" the newcomers as well, and it all turns back beautiful and wonderful as it was before....Our Lady of Walsingham, have mercy on us!!! ✝️ ✝️
@@uneqejam I know what you were talking about and i expected to find an Oxford that fits to its reputation it has, even outside of the UK.
Of course I understand this town is not just a middle aged museum. People need to have to work something as well.
Your generation voted for it lol
Love it! I live in Oxford and to be honest it hasn’t changed much, apart from being allowed to drive through the city back then! Brilliant, thanks for finding, restoring and sharing!
Wonderful impressions of a marvellous city, thank you very much for sharing
thank you, amazes how you can feel sadness and nostalgia for a place ive never visited, or yearn for a decade 50 years before my birth.
Most of the faces are too dark which is a pity, but for a video from 1924 this is still amazing. Thanks.
Wondered why they all looked black. Glad I’m not the only one who noticed!
@@kirstymackenzie2437Be careful, the Kier Stasi will have you arrested for racism.
@@kirstymackenzie2437it’s because the footage was recorded on a 1920s camera where the quality isn’t that good
@@Ohmygawdddde 👍
Oxford had remarkably wide streets for a town plotted in the Middle Ages.
The wide streets are outside the city walls. Within the city walls are still narrow streets. Much of medieval Oxford was destroyed by the university when individual colleges were built.
Those streets are no longer wide.
The streets would need to be wide to accommodate horses and carriages travelling in either direction.
Lots of medieval cities in England have a small number of wide streets and a myriad of narrow - sometimes very narrow alleyways - running off them. In medieval times, the wide streets were where markets were held as well as certain trades and civic activities requiring space.
St Giles was wide because of the livestock that was driven along it.
Born and raised here, as were my family going back 1000+ years. It's fascinating to think this was my great grandfathers era.
Me too, it’s wonderful to visit the village cemetery and see the graves of all my forebears. Ancestors that fought for the people of this country through not only world wars but other conflicts. Do people of today care or is this country changed for good?
Curious. How did you manage to track your family tree back over one thousand years? What written accounts and records did you reference? Very few such extended timelines exist outside of the Royal Family. Astonishing. Thank you.
My grandfather was 11 when this was filmed and lived 1 mile away.
Born and raised in Oxford with family history going back 3000 years, so we are natives. Where did your family emigrate from 1000 years ago?
@Klown84 Wrong, I can only make assumptions based upon the stated facts that he relates, and what he states lacks conclusive evidence. Thank you.
These are so amazing with the sound enhancement - well done!
hey NASS, great video!
😁.. just started you haven't watched any of it. How is it a great video if you haven't watched it?
Thx!!
Whoever filmed this had a really good eye for composition given that cinematography was still in it's infancy.
Great to see this. I had forgotten how much soot there was on buildings in those days (and up to the 1950s). The added sound is well done, but I did wonder if it was really that noisy in those days. Judging by the number of motor vehicles shown, I doubt if there would have been that dull background roar that we get nowadays (until EVs take it away again).
Why, when it comes to architecture, does absolutely everything look more beautiful than stuff today?
Totally agree. Oxford is now blighted by some monstrous buildings.
Yes. This has been done on purpose.
@@jasbo9734 Plus scores of non-English people.
Because today we can't afford such buildings.
@@tommiatkins3443 Nah, it’s nothing to do with money; it’s to do with much of modern architecture being sh*t in the face of this pulchritude.
These restorations and colourising of old movies are incredibly impressive. Well done !
Thx!!!!
Very well presented, nice to see vintage cars in their prime - many Morrises, of course, a nice Vauxhall 30/98 at 1.15, a Riley Redwing (a real undergrad sporty car) at 2.52, and a RR Silver Ghost at 9.30.
Lovely capture of beautiful Oxford in a bygone age. I was there in the sixties and had great fun.
It is an odd feeling to recognize the places where I go every day in this footage. Main difference seems to be far less signage in the street space.
I don't recognise the building with the unusual Solomonic columns seen on the right, around the 4.33 mark. Was it demolished or was it destroyed during the war?
@@jbuk4369 It's the entrance of University Church of St Mary the Virgin, on the High Street. The columns are still there today but their actual colour blends into the rest of the building and they're easy to miss. Something about the colourisation of this video emphasises the shadows and they really stand out. Have a look on google and you'll see how the church looks today, pretty much the same.
@@jbuk4369 That is the entrance to St. Mary's. Still around.
@@anderssandberg5759 Thank you so much. I don't know how I could have missed it. I must have walked past St. Mary's at some point, or maybe it was one of the city's treasures that I somehow missed. Anyway, I went to their website and there it was; complete with squiggly columns! God bless.
And lack of advertising.
Great work. It really brings history alive. Thank you so much.
Amazing how the brotherhood is in the process of bringing all that is good to an end.
Great Video! Wish I could go back in time. Thank you for all your work.
Thank you
@@NASS_0 Right back at you! ❤
Wow! The Articteture is breath taking and the Ladies look so pretty in their hats ❤.
Like And Share Please! Thx to ThomasTCB For his suggestion.
Just shared with a dear lady that I like very much! 😊
@@renatoamaral2029 thank you very much!!
0.30 = Broad Street. I was there yesterday and it's barely changed. Thank you, from an Oxonian.
thank you very much
The major difference is really the blackness of the buildings - now all the stonework has been cleaned back to the original honey-gold.
That is what struck me most, soot all over the stonework.
No wonder though, trains were running on coal and all the buildings had coal fires.
The roads looked very hazardous ! not a single road marking to be seen.
No yellow lines either so park anywhere :)
Too much perhaps. It has robbed Oxford of a sense of industriousness.
GREAT VIDEO SUPER NASS BIG SUPPORT FROM CROATIA
Thx bro!!
A great piece of film, looking at a past I was not a part of is a deep experience, I could watch it for countless hours. A very realistic audio addition.
Where did everything go? This green and pleasant land…..now utterly ruined by politicians.
The 'green and pleasant land' where millions lived in appalling housing conditions, TB and other deadly diseases were rife. Ah yes, the good old days!
Agreed. A land increasingly populated by immigrants whose values are at odds with a thousand years of history and who have no desire to fit in and knuckle under.
@@nevillemason6791 you really think today is better? utterly delusional
ruined by "diversity"
@@johnlynch4901
The turning point was 1948 startof the Windrush generation. 😪😪😪Not only did they want to come here they wanted to destroy our culture. I think it’s safe to say that I have succeeded.
This is superb! Thank you 😊
Somewhere in that city at that time, JRR Tolkien was thinking about writing The Hobbit. The rest is history.
Wow, you're RIGHT 😯
Where is George Orwell?
And CS Lewis?
Tell me you wouldn’t like to time travel there. I can’t imagine the thrill of being able to do such a thing….
@@GordoGamblerisn’t George Orwell from USA??? I’m American and was always under the impression he was American
Thank you to the original photgrapher and to you for, I think, enhancing the film by adding sounds and colour - there is a point with a man on a bike and he looks at the camera and it is as if you have caught the eye of a stranger in the City for a moment rather than glimpsing a monochrome figure in silence. The scene in front of the 1924 photographer must have sounded much the same as your recreation of it - thank you.
Fantastic, brilliant....seems you could walk, cycle, drive every which way! enjoyed it so much.. thank you !
thank you very much
"every which way". So American! (17th Century English)
Very high accident rates. Poor brakes. No MOT. No seat belts. No driving licences. No road signs.
My dad was born in 1921 in Holywell st. My Grandparents could well be in that film somewhere. Remarkable footage!
Fantastic film. I love that it shows the dawn of the motoring age. What were presumably cobblestone streets have received asphalt presumably not long before this was shot. However, no signage, no road markings and no traffic lights as yet.
Not the "dawn" of "The Motoring Age" - definitely into adulthood by then. The car had been around for some 30 years when this was filmed and the era of "mass production" was well under way. Eg - by 1926, 150,000 examples of the "Bullnose" Morris Oxford had been made.
That’s amazing! Well done👍
I lived in Oxford for 46 years so I know all of these streets. It’s fascinating seeing the buildings of which I’m so familiar. Not much has really changed apart from the cars! I don’t ever recall seeing a horse & cart though, that was a bit before my time! Thank you for this video, I found it wonderful to watch & reminisce 👍
Amazing amazing ,,, thank you for this ,,, what would those people make of what our country looks like now ,,, unrecognisable 😢😢😢
As always Nass, wonderful 👍
Rather good or what. What a cracking job
TH-cam has become a time machine , thanks for upload
Look at all those British people with shared history, shared values and shared aspirations. Wonderful.
Ah yes... Colonialists who committed genocide in Kenya, Sudan, came up with the idea of concentrating camps in South Africa, 300,000 dead in one, still busy pillaging India.. shared values indeed.
@@denisdaly1708There's always the miserable communist isn't there, who has to point out what he thinks nobody else knows. The world isn't going to change just because you're in one h*ll of a state with yourself. Try to be happier.
@@denisdaly1708Almost entirely wrong. You're confusing the normal working classes of Britain with the elites. The British Empire never committed genocide, or invented concentration camps.
@@denisdaly1708 I wonder how grateful the descendants of those colonised are for their ascendancy from a Neolithic society? You know, the introduction of Christianity, literature, science, law, abolishing slavery, the wheel. They must be very grateful.
@@denisdaly1708You complete anti British saddo, do you work for the BBC by any chance?
Brilliant. I loved watching this.
Look how clean those streets are. Beautiful cars, buildings and people going about their business in relative peace. Fast forward 100 years- how times change
It's Oxford. The only thing that's changed is there are fewer cars and more bikes. Despite being a car fan it's a marked improvement.
I live in Oxford and work in the centre of town. It looks exactly the same, and I go about my business in relative peace.
That’s amazing! Thank you I’m from Oxford
Beautiful "Bullnose" Morris Oxford (or Cowley) featured in several scenes. My Grandfather owned one for several years during the 1920's and toured extensively on weekends with the family.
1920s *
You may be thinking of the apostrophe in '20s
Thank you for your hard work.
thank you very much
Well dressed people. no litter. no traffic jams.
Yes no people like you also
Many less things to actually drop.
@carlpierce2486 that is true.
The average man in the 20s would have had 3 suits - a winter worsted, a summer worsted and his Sunday best. Imagine having that limit on your wardrobe now.
No litter - mostly because there wasn't the variety of infinitely cheap random rubbish to buy and eat.
And no traffic jams because to buy a car you were probably in the top 1% of the country.
@@carlpierce2486 That is such an appalling excuse, if that is what it is?
This is the England I love. Just look at the splendour. Oh England, how you have lost your way. I shed a tear to what it has become.
It lost its' way when it got rid of Jesus Christ. Everywhere you see that the morality of the bible has not been embraced there is nakedness, immodesty and rebellion. This was a time when there was a general fear of the good Lord and adherence to His principles of life even if they were not born again believers.
@@robbie12359 I don't recall Jesus Christ ever speaking out against nakedness, or immodesty, and as for rebellion, he was quite a rebel himself! All that 'love your neighbour' and 'don't judge others' and the kingdom of heaven being within, not in superficial so-called morality, was and remains strong stuff that tends to provoke a reaction.
@@papercup2517 Then you clearly haven't read the scriptures. God is very much against immodesty and Jesus, as the Word of God, wrote all the bible. You are referring to what He spoke in His earthly ministry and not the entirety of His word.
@@papercup2517 Jesus also said in John 7:24 we ate to judge righteously and the "judge not" idea from Matthew 7 is telling you not to judge in hypocrisy if you read the context. If you want the truth it is there for you. If you just want to repeat what those that hate God say then you will not listen. In John 10 Jesus said His sheep hear His voice. You are currently listening to the voice of those who oppose Christ Jesus the Lord.
@@robbie12359shut up man 😂 nobody cares about your little fairy tale.
Your doing the great work for humanity..God Bless
thank you very much!!
Absolutely wonderful ❤❤❤
Excelente...muchas gracias....muy buen trabajo.!
thank you very much
The city has hardly changed on the High st but Cornmarket and St Aldates has very much altered ( demolitions and rebuilding) in 100 years. This was the era of the start of massive growth of the car factories in Cowley and then the building of Barton and the estates of the 30s.
First class stuff NASS!
Wonderful footage, this is how marvellous England was before immigration. 🇬🇧❤🇬🇧
A lovely video,thanks.
Clean streets and people who took pride in their appearance, no leisure wear or fast food rubbish littering up the place, just quiet pride in themselves and their surroundings, I would love to have lived then.
Odd, everyone there would have loved to have lived now.
@@krashdHow do you know?
I think life back then would have been very good for those with money, right up to the point where you got toothache!
At 12.00 the chap on the left looks just like the image on the shroud of Turin.
@@stevef9530 Because they'd still be alive 😂😂
Thanks very much for your enjoyable video, a marvellous help to people interested in history.
I wonder did the people in this video achieve what they wanted - .
Wonderful to see the women in their undergraduate gowns; I didn't realize women students were admitted to the university that early.
Early? Well..
They had only just been allowed to graduate! 1920. First women's college was 1878.
@@Peteroranje That was a long course then. 42 years learning before you could graduate. Most of them didn't look that old! 😂
A quick Google check shows that women took their exams in 1879 but were not 'admitted to the University' until 1920, i.e. were not awarded their degree until that time, they were, instead, given a 'Certificate of Competence' which was generally considered to be equivalent.
The 1st British University Degrees awarded to women were by the University of London in 1878.
Remarkable. Brilliant job.
A town of great beauty and historical events in Englands long history
It's a city.
Very nice to see. May I say that you could lighten it up to be truer to what it was actually like. Thank you for your fine efforts.
Muito bonito, belo trabalho!! 👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
thank you very much
Fabulous old fashioned footage, I so much enjoyed it.
I wish England was still like that. My heart aches.
did not take long for the racists to come out. This was a terrible time for the average person, children constantly hungry, living in squalor,, what on earth is wrong with you people
@@londo776
OK Trot. Consider some Chlorpromazine.
@@Capri-x8m What do you mean by ''maintain it's traditions and nationality''.
@@Capri-x8m Not engaging with a racist, Try and do some critical thinking,
@@Capri-x8m Still haven't mentioned any traditions or what's been taken away. Just repeating tired tropes.
Wonderful and evocative. Surprising how much vehicular traffic - in one shot a traffic jam at Carfax - and so few horses. 'Oxford and its colleges' not 'Oxford and its Universities' in the description.
Yes. There was only one university back then, in Oxford.
Reminds me of "Brideshead Revisited," set in Oxford in that period.
"You can see several scenes of Oxford and its Universities."
Actually, you only see _one_ university. There are now several universities in Oxford but the others didn't exist then, and are anyway not in the central area of the city shown in the video.
What we can see are several _colleges_ of the university, such as Balliol College, Trinity College, Christ Church, All Souls College, Oriel College, Merton College, New College, Magdalen College, Wadham College and one of Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville College, St Anne’s College, St Hilda’s College and St Hugh’s College. (Hat tip to Kit Sullivan for identifying them all in his invaluable comment.)
Also several buildings and facilities belonging to the University, such as the Clarendon Building, the Sheldonian Theatre, the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, the Bodleian Library and the Botanical Garden. (Thanks, Kit!)
I feel sorry for all the baby boys in the early 1920s. They would be the first in-line for the trenches less than 20 years later! Born in the quiet calm of Oxfordshire and destined for the hell of War!
Trenches?
@@david-spliso1928 some trenches were dug during the second World, ...but that's not really my point ...as I think you know. . .!
@@adamhughes4442 I see your point but trenches in WW2 were very rare following advanced mechanisation. Ergo it's not known for trench warfare. Still sad as you point out that any of them had to go to war, even if it was generally nowhere near as devastatingly bloody as the First for British lads.
My dad was born in 1924. He landed in Normandy on D-Day 3, at the age of 19.
Oxford and Buckinghamshire light infantry, well known for the horsa glider attack capturing pegasus bridge and liberating the first building in France (the cafe next to the bridge) on D-Day. They captured and held the bridge until relieved by paras a few hours later. They would have been children or young men at the time of this footage.
Beautiful work.
This is wonderful to watch, "that sweet city with her dreaming spires". I wish I lived back then, when Oxford was Oxford and England was England, instead of now, it's changed so for the worse! How well and modestly dressed all were in those days. I hadn't realised quite the extent of how uniformly smoke blackened all the buildings were back then.
(Rather disconcerting to hear two times on the soundtrack the modern cry for "Big Issue!" 😆)
Absolutely idyllic
At my age,seeing how the world has changed,as well as the population is sad. Unfortunately didn’t change for good. Who can imagine that the present time could be so disturbing and sad. These footages are the proof of better time,that’s why they are historical. I hope they will serve as a lesson for peace, respect and collaboration. As always,thank you for your fantastic and educational video.👏👏👏👏.
thank you very much!!! ;)
Much better yes, the poverty, the rickets, tuberculosis, diphtheria, fatal bacterial infections, insanitary freezing slums, safety in the workplace non existent, and income inequality beyond our wildest nightmares. So yes pass the hankies around and let’s dab our eyes as we mourn the passing of MUCH better times.
It all depends on perspective I suppose -I’m think living in 1920s/30s Oxford (or England) was a lot lot worse than it is now for the vast vast majority. Also this is only 20 or so years before probably the worst time in modern history to be alive. We’ve got NHS, modern medicine, people live a lot longer, you can get anywhere in the world within 1-2 days max, you’ve got access to essentially the sum of human knowledge from a screen in your hand. But yes in other ways it seems worse. Also think probably we are all much more tolerant and humane than people were back then.
In 1920, the world was only a few years removed from a horrific global war. At the Somme in July 1916, up to 100,000 British men died in a day. Was this world also better for women and non-white minorities? Obviously we have challenges today, but we shouldn’t needlessly romanticise the past.
@@gerardmackay8909 My dad's cousin was born Nov. 1928. He was loading his small truck with branches when he was 90, I was helping. My dad was born 1924, he was pretty well at 91 till he got fluid in his lungs.
As for babies now.... they are mandated to get 20+ jabbs before they are TWO. 1 in 60 is SICK with autism, allergies, ADHD, and a hell of a lot more. THEN came along the laboratory enhanced bio virus with imaginary cure, for a disease with ZERO % death rate was FORCED by NON medical busybodies in ALL schools.
What a FOOLS PARADISE we are forced to endure now. CANCER is skyrocketing, FACT. 20,000 forever chemicals stuffed in our food. EVERYBODY has plastic in their blood and water.
BILLIONAIRES are worse than ever, telling us what to do about imaginary GloBULL warming. LOL
And that's putting it nicely .....
Nice Video 👍
thank you very much
I was born and raised in Oxford, and it's evident that it has changed a lot.
Yet each street and location is completely recognisable. I know exactly where they are in almost every shot due to such historic and recognisable buildings. The shops are different and the cars are different and some buildings have been replaced, but so much has been up-kept (no doubt by the university).
Who else noticed the old flag of St.George?
Fascinating film - thank you. The buildings still remained black in the 1950s. Subsequent decades have seen them returned to their original honey coloured appearance.
I was going to say this too.
Worrying that the 1950s were nearer to then than to now!
Smokey coal fires, spalling stone from centuries of soot. Super video and in the late forties and fifties it looked much the same. Cleaning up was starting then.
Everyone is dressed to the 9s...
Hi Jef!! ^^
@@NASS_0🙋🏻
Beautiful Capture ❤reminds me of the Spires of Oxford seeing this footage.. by Ninian Comper.
A lot more civilised than it is now
A skilled and experienced cameraman. Some great compositions. The pan from a building to parasols, wow. Is that Oxford Brewery belching out steam and smoke in the distance?
Agreed, some lovely and thoughtful camera work.
Great attention to detail NASS such as English voices. Though I reckon there’d be less car horns; the Brits are quite reserved in their use.