I think one of the most fascinating aspects of this footage is the advertising on the double decker trams. Bovril, Nestlé, Kodak, Pear's Soap, all brands we still use today. The video in one aspect is very antique, but at the same time, shows how strikingly modern the world already was back then. Immense amount of traffic! Only difference is that it's horse drawn. That, and people are immaculately dressed :)
No, I doubt you would've wanted to live in those times! You would have ended up in the trenches somewhere in France just eleven years later. Either that or been choked to death by one of the thick smogs that Londoners had to put up with right into the late1950s.
....well go ahead...unless you were a born Upper-Class parasite....you would be in a sweatshop 12 hrs a day....and likely live in a slum.... Go back and watch 'Mary Poppins' again..... ...The Londoners actually were relieved when German Zeppelin bombed them.. { well...maybe they didn't ...but just sayin' }
T Howard Truelly very sharp noise Later years In some countries rubberized 🐎 horse shoes we're used. They we're very quiet and anti slip qualities especially on cobble stones. I have seen them.
Rex Luminus That's exactly what I'm talking about.. other people who do that.. not me... when I was younger I used to blast my car stereo.. I'm not like that anymore.. and usually have no music no distractions when I'm driving... because regretfully too many other people on the road now a days are very distracted. But I really do think they should be allowed to ticket people who have their car stereos on really loud
gardensofthegods 👍Yes. True. While I'm driving a vehicle my radio is on a low volume or none at all. I want to be aware of my surroundings and my car's sounds. It's way safer. Thank you.
Fascinating piece of history captured in 4 minutes.All those horse drawn trams,no lines on the road and vehicles weaving all over the place. Sad to think not one person in this film will still be alive. Open top trams which in rain or winter must have been terrible. Didn't see too many women on this film as maybe they worked as maids or stayed at home. Great to watch and a unique insight into people going about their daily business over 100 years ago.
Every frame of this footage is full of life. It's like stepping into another world--a world that is strange, beautiful, and in some ways dark. I LOVE old footage.
I was born and live in London and it is so very different today in many ways, but in some ways it never changes. The hustle and bustle will always be there, as will the pull it exudes to so many people from all over the country. London is truly one of the worlds greatest cities.
Remarkable. I still can't believe the moving picture has been around like this for over 100 years. A great quality print, too, very clear. We're lucky to have institutes like BFI to bring this to us.
The streets looked so terribly congested !!!! the carriages appear to be an even amount of the horse-drawn omnibus, and the horse-drawn hansom cab. I would have loved to have ridden in either type of carriage, but not in the awfully crowded conditions as displayed in the 1903 footage of this picture. My heart and admiration, go out to all the brave and durable horses, and their drivers.
@mammal46 Actually, the word 'smog' was coined within two years of these shots being taken, with direct reference to the notorious London 'pea-soupers', a staple feature of 19th-century industrial Britain as factories belched out smoke and other pollutants without any concern for the environment. The tide only turned with the passage of the Clean Air Act in the 1950s - and while it's impossible to make a direct comparison, all evidence suggests that smog was a far greater problem a century ago.
I love those double decker carriages, never knew they had those. Seems like the ones fully loaded with people on top and bottom were a bit much for a mere two horses, though...
Omg 2:35 just spotted a Lipton Tea carriage as well!! ........ Also researched this and it says that in 1871, Thomas Lipton (founder) used his small savings to open his own shop, in Glasgow, Scotland and by the 1880s the business grew to more than 200 shops :)
Watching this, I imagine where they are all going. I really love watching these films...it is a great way to see how people lived everyday lives back then. Thanks for posting them.
Absolutely brilliant, it's like organised chaos. Those horses pulling the trams had a hell of a job pulling all that weight, notice the solitary motor car at the end. There's always one, eh?
My husband’s great grandfather was a cab driver in the Marylebone area during the 1880’s/1890’s so I imagine he drove a cab similar to those shown here.
What is amazing is how well the traffic flows and how pedestrians can walk freely. Anyone who has even been caught in a traffic jam in London would appreciate how much calmer this looks. It's interesting seeing familiar landmarks in their original setting. You can see how they were designed for a much less congested city.
Give me a week. A few changes of period clothes so Id fit in, and plenty of cash so I could eat and sleep well, and take me back so I could walk those streets till my feet ached. what an experience that would be.
What makes it incredible for me is how quick things accelerated during the last century from horse drawn carriages to cars and a modern way of living ,
@Kory gama DO YOUR RESEARCH ! ......SOURCE..FROM WIKIPEDIA."Since a typical horse pulled a streetcar for about a dozen miles (19 km) a day and worked for four or five hours, many systems needed ten or more horses in stable for each horsecar"
+Green Plasticbag That was normal back then for the mid-high class people, even on a sunday at home you wore a nice suit. I'm not sure but I think that was till late 1950s, mid 60s.
+Lt Col Speirs My Dad came home from work in the '50s & early '60s and took off his suit jacket and put on a sweater. Never took his tie off. By the late '60s that was getting a bit out of fashion for anyone under about 50 yrs old. One retired neighbour, in his mid '70s was still wearing a shirt and tie, in the mid '70s. He got dressed up to sit on the front porch with his morning coffee and paper. This was in London, Canada. Things sure were different. My Dad was born in 1920 and was raised in a strict Victorian home, fairly common for the day. He wouldn't let me wear blue jeans, not in the City! Bought my first pair when I was 20. My own money, of course :~)
This is incredible all those hats. It really takes you aback when you see the traffic congestion - no one way streets then. I did not know such wonderful footage existed. I just love how everyone dressed up!!!
Lar M Most of them would have been a variation of cart horses; which are rare nowadays. Another rare breed that was much more common then because they were used to plough fields is Shire horses. These are lovely gentle horses with ‘feathered’ hair on their calf’s and long manes. Both breeds are more heavily built than the more common riding horses you see today; so pulling a carriage would have not been; unless overloaded of course; too hard work. The number of hours worked without a break were a different matter.
wow, enjoyed watching this very much, looks very busy, and like Annalisa says, who would want to put thumbs down to something showing our history and heritage. Excellent video! Thankyou for sharing :-)
My Grandad was born in 1909 so this was close to when he was born. He had a pretty happy childhood in London they were able to play outside a lot. The suburbs of London had a more rural feel back then there were cows I think in Peckham or Brockley I guess to give people milk. Catford would have been different back then. Not sure when the trams in London came in? When he was older his bicycle would get caught in the tram lines/grooves/tracks on the road. Now there are very few trams in London just the Croydon area.
Beautiful everything about a by gone era , they got on with there lives as much as we do today & looking back makes you wonder about us living today would the future see us in the same way . Them people getting on with there lives oblivious that we are looking in to there everyday lives , wonder what they'd think though if they knew , I bet they thought then that nobody would even know they existed amazing .
London looks amazing with all those beautiful old historical buildings. This was before bomb damage in the Blitz in Second World War. Now we have some really terrible modern buildings in London like tower blocks and modern skyscrapers which don't fit in with the old buildings. London has been badly designed in recent years. The world changed so much after the Second World War. The two World Wars were so terrible. I think about all the history in London from Roman times and Medieval times.
this is such a wonderful piece of footage...cheers for the up loader!...it just reminds me of how glorious the city of London is..and always will remain..
What great footage of London at what was probably the height of its power as an empire. It's hard to imagine all of this traffic without streetlights, stop signs, lanes, or any other controls. The dust is incredible.
There is a huge increase in the transport between the times of 1903 - 1926 quite fascinating how it all changes from horses to vehicles in such a short time.
nestle, kodak!!!, lipton tea!!!!, the guy in the back of the "bus", the traffic by the left side, dust in the streets, kids selling newspaper!!!!!!! OMG, it is awesome.....it impress me the cointinuity of the world and the culture....there are no breaks...all goes smoothly, small changes, unperceptibles for contemoraneous... like for us also.....i´m quite amazed. thanks!!!
Very interesting. There was quite a bit of horse poop in some of the scenes and it got quite dusty in one scene. The overall impression was that life was more sedate and genteel then, although we did only see people who could afford a transport fare. I agree with Julie Cramer without the Internet and You Tube this video would not have been seen very many people.
It's so surreal to think that everyone going about in their everyday lives in this video have been long dead, 109 years ago this was brand new footage produced by a revolutionary machine. Time does indeed fly rather fast when you stop and think about it.
My grandma left Ireland in 1906 for America , said it was the best thing that she did in her lifetime !!! God save the Queen , and God bless America !!!
Wonderful quality. The Empire at its height, the Great War still a decade away and, if you were among the comfortably-off, I'd suggest a good quality of life. Pre-radio, so most homes would have had other people (family) for entertainment, plus newspapers, periodicals, and possibly a phonograph. Sundays might have featured some sailing, cricket, tennis or football, and perhaps the theatre. A ride out into the country in an early automobile might have been an option, too. A much more sociable society than our own. For the working classes life would have been much less rosy, with only the local pub, family life and perhaps some sport being a let-up from the daily grind.
I really wish I was born in a wealthy family in 1850,no fat people, children were aloud to be men(Cutting trees, have jobs, etc) Everyone had freedom. Of course it had problems like child labour and so many poor people but you gotta admit you would do anything just to see the 1800 in person for 10 mins
It is strange to think Oscar Wilde had died in Paris by this time. Oscar Wilde was so much part of Victorian London. So terrible what happened to him. The sad thing is antibiotics might have saved his life had they been invented. I wish he had, had a much longer life. George Bernard Shaw had a pretty long life.
Fascinating imagery - a real window on the past where, with some familiar London streets, packed not with the fossil fuel burning behemoths of our age but with traffic of the horse-drawn variety. You'd clearly need your wits about you, to cross their roads too. Evocative, to see goods vehicles, with boxes stacked high: what journeys were taking to bring those contents to the great metropolis? Some views are akin to scenes from the present day developing world. One criticism - the dodgy jazz sound track is anachronistic and entirely out of time, alongside imagery from 1903!
Thanks for this footage. The traffic, crowds, the coach advertisements and at 3:10 to 3:18 two female coach drivers in a row. It's hard to believe that some places in the world could be filmed today and be far less urbanized than this old film.
How enjoyable and informative. We make hires gopro walk through's of contemporary London on youtube and it's great for us to see the comparison. London is still pretty spectacular. Thank you for adding it, we've subscribed.
I read a lot of historical novels--I'm picturing some of the characters as they get on those omnibuses! Thanks for putting this up, and for all the work to restore it to the right speed. A lot of silent movies are played too fast and look all jerky as a result.
i feel relaxation to see this footage,how people dressed up, so many animals on the street, and couldnt see their output, perhaps, the cleaner were busey the whole day to remove the parcels,good looking double decker with ten to twelve passengers, no trouble , no fight, no hectic, , still i will not miss my internet, and all other comfortable utilities.
Samuelson Baker Sort of like that video where actor Oliver Reed is supposed to be dead and in heaven and talks about how he died at a pub drinking and yet 6 years later that is how he died for real
There's also Bovril and Izal (those old enough to remember will wince at that one!) No idea what Beckitts Blue is at 3.18 but the one that suprised me is Holsten Lager in the last frame, I assumed lager came to the UK in the fifties.
Great old footage....but one cant help but wonder how horrible all their teeth must have been. I mean with todays methods in Dentistry,genetically the Brits are noted for having the worths teeth ever(still).....imagine if this was in HD . Scary.
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Two observations. Firstly, this makes you realise just how fleeting life is. Secondly, the world owes horses a huge debt of gratitude.
I think one of the most fascinating aspects of this footage is the advertising on the double decker trams. Bovril, Nestlé, Kodak, Pear's Soap, all brands we still use today. The video in one aspect is very antique, but at the same time, shows how strikingly modern the world already was back then. Immense amount of traffic! Only difference is that it's horse drawn. That, and people are immaculately dressed :)
Kodak, really?
We still have Hovis bread today as well. Camera film like Kodak isn't so popular today sadly.
Kodak in it's licensed form is still used today - Kodak batteries for example.
I saw an advertisement for Lipton tea
Grape nuts but I bet you they weren’t as expensive back then as they are now
Simply amazing. Wish I could disappear into the film and go back there to live.
No, I doubt you would've wanted to live in those times! You would have ended up in the trenches somewhere in France just eleven years later. Either that or been choked to death by one of the thick smogs that Londoners had to put up with right into the late1950s.
....well go ahead...unless you were a born Upper-Class parasite....you would be in a sweatshop 12 hrs a day....and likely live in a slum....
Go back and watch 'Mary Poppins' again.....
...The Londoners actually were relieved when German Zeppelin bombed them..
{ well...maybe they didn't ...but just sayin' }
Mee too 😊
Not really , but nostalgic for sure 👌 !!!
Eleven years later, you would have been drafted to military for WWI.
My late grandfather who lived during this era told me that the noise from the horses hooves in the heavy London traffic was deafening.
T Howard
Not as deafening or somebody with a dope stereo system blasting with the windows down...
T Howard Truelly very sharp noise
Later years In some countries rubberized 🐎 horse shoes we're used. They we're very quiet and anti slip qualities especially on cobble stones. I have seen them.
gardensofthegods When you drive you should 👂hear your environment only. Car radios should be 🚫banned in the city driving ! *They're very disrupting!
Rex Luminus
That's exactly what I'm talking about.. other people who do that.. not me... when I was younger I used to blast my car stereo.. I'm not like that anymore.. and usually have no music no distractions when I'm driving... because regretfully too many other people on the road now a days are very distracted.
But I really do think they should be allowed to ticket people who have their car stereos on really loud
gardensofthegods 👍Yes. True. While I'm driving a vehicle my radio is on a low volume or none at all.
I want to be aware of my surroundings and my car's sounds.
It's way safer. Thank you.
Fascinating piece of history captured in 4 minutes.All those horse drawn trams,no lines on the road and vehicles weaving all over the place.
Sad to think not one person in this film will still be alive.
Open top trams which in rain or winter must have been terrible.
Didn't see too many women on this film as maybe they worked as maids or stayed at home.
Great to watch and a unique insight into people going about their daily business over 100 years ago.
Hmmm.. Interesting. I saw about ten women and wasn't specifically looking for them.
The music in the video is amazing. Mood-changer definitely
It's lovely to see what London looked like all those years ago really interesting.
Every frame of this footage is full of life. It's like stepping into another world--a world that is strange, beautiful, and in some ways dark. I LOVE old footage.
Everything about this film is wonderful, including the music. The car at the end reveals the world on the streets that lies ahead. Horseless!
I was born and live in London and it is so very different today in many ways, but in some ways it never changes. The hustle and bustle will always be there, as will the pull it exudes to so many people from all over the country. London is truly one of the worlds greatest cities.
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Remarkable. I still can't believe the moving picture has been around like this for over 100 years. A great quality print, too, very clear. We're lucky to have institutes like BFI to bring this to us.
When you see somewhere you recognise... it really hits home.
bobbydylanio Yes, it is interesting seeing how the road layout and buildings were different; as well as the fashion.
love this and the music goes exceptionally well with the film!
The streets looked so terribly congested !!!! the carriages appear to be an even amount of the horse-drawn omnibus, and the horse-drawn hansom cab. I would have loved to have ridden in either type of carriage, but not in the awfully crowded conditions as displayed in the 1903 footage of this picture. My heart and admiration, go out to all the brave and durable horses, and their drivers.
@mammal46 Actually, the word 'smog' was coined within two years of these shots being taken, with direct reference to the notorious London 'pea-soupers', a staple feature of 19th-century industrial Britain as factories belched out smoke and other pollutants without any concern for the environment. The tide only turned with the passage of the Clean Air Act in the 1950s - and while it's impossible to make a direct comparison, all evidence suggests that smog was a far greater problem a century ago.
I love those double decker carriages, never knew they had those. Seems like the ones fully loaded with people on top and bottom were a bit much for a mere two horses, though...
Omg 2:35 just spotted a Lipton Tea carriage as well!! ........ Also researched this and it says that in 1871, Thomas Lipton (founder) used his small savings to open his own shop, in Glasgow, Scotland and by the 1880s the business grew to more than 200 shops :)
Christine Merrifield Interesting bit of background knowledge; thank you.
Watching this, I imagine where they are all going. I really love watching these films...it is a great way to see how people lived everyday lives back then. Thanks for posting them.
Absolutely brilliant, it's like organised chaos. Those horses pulling the trams had a hell of a job pulling all that weight, notice the solitary motor car at the end. There's always one, eh?
+Tony Ross bet u dont remeber writng this comment
DontQuoteMe bet you don't remember writing this comment.
yeh poor horses, poor World now with cars
And unlike many of the drivers, the horses has well, plenty of horse sense.
@WE WUZ VIKANGS!!! n shiet. I bet you don't remember writing that comment.
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Love the Jazz with this video... wonderful video thank you so much for sharing
No, I hate the jazz music in this lovely video. I love jazz but it is absolutely not fitting!
My husband’s great grandfather was a cab driver in the Marylebone area during the 1880’s/1890’s so I imagine he drove a cab similar to those shown here.
History has always been my favourite subject and footage like this are just incroyable.
***** Moi also !
me too dude
What is amazing is how well the traffic flows and how pedestrians can walk freely. Anyone who has even been caught in a traffic jam in London would appreciate how much calmer this looks. It's interesting seeing familiar landmarks in their original setting. You can see how they were designed for a much less congested city.
a walking pace?
this.....is just beautiful.. bravo man, bravo
The piano music in these early 20th century films is very soothing and relaxing. As are the films themselves.
Amazing, I may actually be seeing my great grandparents here somewhere or my nanny in her pram, fortunately they were comfortably off for the era.
The score by James Pearson is so wonderful! The past is endlessly fascinating.
Give me a week. A few changes of period clothes so Id fit in, and plenty of cash so I could eat and sleep well, and take me back so I could walk those streets till my feet ached. what an experience that would be.
Fantastic. I could meet up with all eight of my great grandparents - from Seven Dials to Islington to Shoreditch, and ask them SO many questions.
@MichaelKingsfordGray Horse poo had a value!..it was collected and sold as fertiliser to market gardeners and gardeners.
You’d probably get cholera
@chanctonbury63 Mmmmmm....hadn't thought of that!
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What makes it incredible for me is how quick things accelerated during the last century from horse drawn carriages to cars and a modern way of living ,
Oh my god,,,, poor horses pulling that load of people, not one, but two stories of carriage :(
they're not carrying them...they are pulling them. Big difference.
Horses were changed every 4 hours.
@Kory gama DO YOUR RESEARCH ! ......SOURCE..FROM WIKIPEDIA."Since a typical horse pulled a streetcar for about a dozen miles (19 km) a day and worked for four or five hours, many systems needed ten or more horses in stable for each horsecar"
different times, love.
@Kory gama Get a grip love.
The hat makers did well in those days!
everyone looks well dressed.
+Green Plasticbag That was normal back then for the mid-high class people, even on a sunday at home you wore a nice suit. I'm not sure but I think that was till late 1950s, mid 60s.
+Lt Col Speirs My Dad came home from work in the '50s & early '60s and took off his suit jacket and put on a sweater. Never took his tie off. By the late '60s that was getting a bit out of fashion for anyone under about 50 yrs old. One retired neighbour, in his mid '70s was still wearing a shirt and tie, in the mid '70s. He got dressed up to sit on the front porch with his morning coffee and paper. This was in London, Canada. Things sure were different. My Dad was born in 1920 and was raised in a strict Victorian home, fairly common for the day. He wouldn't let me wear blue jeans, not in the City! Bought my first pair when I was 20. My own money, of course :~)
@@neonskyline1 Or maybe Poland is 100 years in the past...
they probably smelled like doo doo
Yea NO 330lbs stuffed into Yogi pants.
This is incredible all those hats. It really takes you aback when you see the traffic congestion - no one way streets then. I did not know such wonderful footage existed. I just love how everyone dressed up!!!
Great footage beautiful!
The horse work so hard bless them, love the video
Mighty strong horses in those days !
Lar M Most of them would have been a variation of cart horses; which are rare nowadays. Another rare breed that was much more common then because they were used to plough fields is Shire horses. These are lovely gentle horses with ‘feathered’ hair on their calf’s and long manes. Both breeds are more heavily built than the more common riding horses you see today; so pulling a carriage would have not been; unless overloaded of course; too hard work. The number of hours worked without a break were a different matter.
Absolutely priceless historical documents...and to think how comparatively recent moving pictures are...and even photography itself.
wow, enjoyed watching this very much, looks very busy, and like Annalisa says, who would want to put thumbs down to something showing our history and heritage. Excellent video! Thankyou for sharing :-)
My Grandad was born in 1909 so this was close to when he was born. He had a pretty happy childhood in London they were able to play outside a lot. The suburbs of London had a more rural feel back then there were cows I think in Peckham or Brockley I guess to give people milk. Catford would have been different back then. Not sure when the trams in London came in? When he was older his bicycle would get caught in the tram lines/grooves/tracks on the road. Now there are very few trams in London just the Croydon area.
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Great video. Looks like Bank at the end and that lamp post in the middle of the road is still there now.
Beautiful everything about a by gone era , they got on with there lives as much as we do today & looking back makes you wonder about us living today would the future see us in the same way .
Them people getting on with there lives oblivious that we are looking in to there everyday lives , wonder what they'd think though if they knew , I bet they thought then that nobody would even know they existed amazing .
In future there's no more London anyway! It will be called Londonistan!!!haha!!
I love this organised chaos. The horse-drawn carriages moving in different directions, well people are zigzagging about - all without accident.
London looks amazing with all those beautiful old historical buildings. This was before bomb damage in the Blitz in Second World War. Now we have some really terrible modern buildings in London like tower blocks and modern skyscrapers which don't fit in with the old buildings. London has been badly designed in recent years. The world changed so much after the Second World War. The two World Wars were so terrible. I think about all the history in London from Roman times and Medieval times.
this is such a wonderful piece of footage...cheers for the up loader!...it just reminds me of how glorious the city of London is..and always will remain..
I feel very sorry for the horses. They were really abused with so much weight that they had to carry.😣😢
yes..
Great clarity and camera timing for the time. Love the music.
spotted a car at 3:53 anyway I never bore of watching this its facinating.
This car would probably one of the Most expansive car today
nice catch dude, great eyes!
Wonderful to see the old city and soundtrack. For another take 'London is the Place for Me' is a great piece of London today
What great footage of London at what was probably the height of its power as an empire. It's hard to imagine all of this traffic without streetlights, stop signs, lanes, or any other controls. The dust is incredible.
Only horse poo !
There is a huge increase in the transport between the times of 1903 - 1926 quite fascinating how it all changes from horses to vehicles in such a short time.
For me, everyone actually "lived" in black and white in the 1800s
And before the mid 19th century or so, everyone lived in paint.
All these people had no idea that in the year 2020 people would be watching them. It's eerie and neat at the same time.
Rare film of London.
Oh wow, that car at 3:55 must have been one of the first.
this is amazing footage
Lipton tea and Nestle's milk .. . . kinda crazy.
Quaker oats and Kodak aswell
so relaxing to watch this blast from the past
can't find one person not wearing a hat.lol
Film is truly beyong HD. Looks awesome here! Everyone is rushing to work in the morning.
Poor, poor horses.
Oh wow I was born 89 years after that video!
Lovely footage but why the 50s jazz accompaniment?
I have the same question about the music.
Should be Land of Hope and Glory by Sir Edward Elgar.
Lar M. Pomp and Circumstance Number 4 by Elgar would work too.
Yes I agree. Priceless images but the jazz music is totally innapropriate. Not that I don't love Jazz...
nestle, kodak!!!, lipton tea!!!!, the guy in the back of the "bus", the traffic by the left side, dust in the streets, kids selling newspaper!!!!!!! OMG, it is awesome.....it impress me the cointinuity of the world and the culture....there are no breaks...all goes smoothly, small changes, unperceptibles for contemoraneous... like for us also.....i´m quite amazed. thanks!!!
Very interesting. There was quite a bit of horse poop in some of the scenes and it got quite dusty in one scene. The overall impression was that life was more sedate and genteel then, although we did only see people who could afford a transport fare. I agree with Julie Cramer without the Internet and You Tube this video would not have been seen very many people.
It's so surreal to think that everyone going about in their everyday lives in this video have been long dead, 109 years ago this was brand new footage produced by a revolutionary machine. Time does indeed fly rather fast when you stop and think about it.
Many comments on the dress sense, I agree, look at the people of London today, no comparison.
I love the hats, still wear my bowler.
My grandma left Ireland in 1906 for America , said it was the best thing that she did in her lifetime !!! God save the Queen , and God bless America !!!
Wonderful quality. The Empire at its height, the Great War still a decade away and, if you were among the comfortably-off, I'd suggest a good quality of life. Pre-radio, so most homes would have had other people (family) for entertainment, plus newspapers, periodicals, and possibly a phonograph. Sundays might have featured some sailing, cricket, tennis or football, and perhaps the theatre. A ride out into the country in an early automobile might have been an option, too. A much more sociable society than our own. For the working classes life would have been much less rosy, with only the local pub, family life and perhaps some sport being a let-up from the daily grind.
Not sure it was quite so rosy for the masses, late Victorian times meant orphans, poverty, kids with no shoes, no healthcare, workhouses etc
I love your videos! The old history and actually letting us see real footage is astonishing! 5/5 stars and a new subscriber :D
I really wish I was born in a wealthy family in 1850,no fat people, children were aloud to be men(Cutting trees, have jobs, etc) Everyone had freedom. Of course it had problems like child labour and so many poor people but you gotta admit you would do anything just to see the 1800 in person for 10 mins
What wrong with fat people
chanctonbury63 lets hope sameome dont top you over
chanctonbury63 you hard do you like to insult fat people like they not normal whan thay are
chanctonbury63 I think its insulting
You try
A remarkable piece of footage, they are not walking fast either which I have seen in previous old films of London - pleasure to watch.
3:55 - Some smart-alec driving one of those newfangled motor-cars. Those things will never take off. Get a horse!
I have seen this video several times and don't get tired, is amazing!
It is strange to think Oscar Wilde had died in Paris by this time. Oscar Wilde was so much part of Victorian London. So terrible what happened to him. The sad thing is antibiotics might have saved his life had they been invented. I wish he had, had a much longer life. George Bernard Shaw had a pretty long life.
I Love the Old London ❤️😍
Fascinating imagery - a real window on the past where, with some familiar London streets, packed not with the fossil fuel burning behemoths of our age but with traffic of the horse-drawn variety. You'd clearly need your wits about you, to cross their roads too. Evocative, to see goods vehicles, with boxes stacked high: what journeys were taking to bring those contents to the great metropolis? Some views are akin to scenes from the present day developing world.
One criticism - the dodgy jazz sound track is anachronistic and entirely out of time, alongside imagery from 1903!
Thanks for this footage. The traffic, crowds, the coach advertisements and at 3:10 to 3:18 two female coach drivers in a row. It's hard to believe that some places in the world could be filmed today and be far less urbanized than this old film.
Could've left out the 'music'. But thanks for uploading!
v.v.interesting! thank you for uploading this! ♥ to see how it was..to now..never thought these vids ever existed..thank you!
toyota horses
I'm impressed by how clear the film is.
who had the job to pick up the horse poop,,,,lol nice video
Horse poop was a commodity back then, sold and used as fertilizer
How enjoyable and informative. We make hires gopro walk through's of contemporary London on youtube and it's great for us to see the comparison. London is still pretty spectacular. Thank you for adding it, we've subscribed.
I'm wondering if at those times, they said to their friend in the street "Hey dude, look at this guy ! He has the same shirt as me !"
I read a lot of historical novels--I'm picturing some of the characters as they get on those omnibuses! Thanks for putting this up, and for all the work to restore it to the right speed. A lot of silent movies are played too fast and look all jerky as a result.
they did not give a fuck about any semblance of a traffic control system
How smart is the gentleman at 1.10? I love how he's holding his arm!
Curly Howard of the 3 Stooges was just born !
So was Bob Hope.
Can’t believe my grandad was 16 and this film was made.
Everyone was so well dressed. And they had an identity, now everyone looks like a tourist in London.
Wow.... amazing to think this is 107 years old. Very good quality considering it's age.
makes you wonder when the car came along what they done with all the horses
i feel relaxation to see this footage,how people dressed up, so many animals on the street, and couldnt see their output, perhaps, the cleaner were busey the whole day to remove the parcels,good looking double decker with ten to twelve passengers, no trouble , no fight, no hectic, , still i will not miss my internet, and all other comfortable utilities.
All dead now
David powers
No I porn in 1900
As we will be 50 years from now.....or 50 days..... I'm hoping it's 50 years though.
Jungleland33 ..... I've got 70 yrs left
Samuelson Baker
Sort of like that video where actor Oliver Reed is supposed to be dead and in heaven and talks about how he died at a pub drinking and yet 6 years later that is how he died for real
There's also Bovril and Izal (those old enough to remember will wince at that one!) No idea what Beckitts Blue is at 3.18 but the one that suprised me is Holsten Lager in the last frame, I assumed lager came to the UK in the fifties.
Great old footage....but one cant help but wonder how horrible all their teeth must have been.
I mean with todays methods in Dentistry,genetically the Brits are noted for having the worths teeth ever(still).....imagine if this was in HD .
Scary.
really bad grammar ….. never mind the -worst - teeth
People from that time would slap you around lol
What have their TEETH to do with this particular clip of old film?
Due to US complete lack of a health service, you obviously will not get any treatment for your manic obsessive behaviour regarding teeth
DopantBeats .
.. How can you know how their teeth were? Besides, the food they ate was more pure and varied. Good for teeth.
Very cool. I was surprised to see the ads on the buses, and even more surprised to see brand names I recognize. Thanks for posting.
Go to London now and it's like you're in a foreign country. I'm all for multiculturalism but I think London has went way too far.
It amazes me the way pedestrians walk in and out of the traffic without even looking.