Many of the young lads smiling laughing and joking in the film would be swallowed up in the great mincing machine called the first world war eleven years later.
I find the Edwardian era one of the saddest because of this fact.
look how transfixed they all are by being filmed...they all want to show off their wares and person to the camera. See the man who wants to get the really really tall man in shot? The seller very animated with 'something' on his head who makes the crowd laugh, I imagine he's saying like "stop looking at that camera!! look at what I'm selling...!" haha, brilliant! The very short man standing next to the lady selling the clothes. Would have been very noisy being there I should imagine.
Do you think those men peering into the camara with fascination could ever imagine that they were going to be the subject of thousands of anonymous viewers a hundred years into the future?
Petticoat Lane (now Middlesex Street) - heart of Spitalfields (Jack the Ripper territory). How many of the people seen here lived through that terror?
let alone jack the ripper those places were really crazy still are now in a way, but you would always have people being stabbed and robbed in the east end at that time.
I was child when I was taken to Petticoat Lane on Sunday mornings in the early '50s... still a lot of caps being worn, even then. There were also a lot of buildings missing from the street frontages at that time... wartime bombing.
zzz the people who looted my country for 100 years!! I thought they all were rich like that, but I guess only the rich benefits and the middle and lower class must toil for the spoiled rich...But hey great post tho^^
Great stuff.I like the mutton-chopped gent holding his hat up for the camera,hats were a rare sight in those days and 'loadsamoney' counting out his dosh at the end of the film'look at that LOADSAMONEY!!!!'.
Great, and think of all the stuff the camera couldn't get, like sound and voices, colour, smells, heat, atmosphere. A very unique view of a largely forgotten world. Truly a beautiful piece of film. Thanks for posting it, 5 stars.
A great piece of film. Some rough looking gormless faces here! For all our complaints now, back then life would have been much tougher, education levels poor - and bad luck if you got ill.
hhh like it
DARKinspirati0n 2 years ago
Many of the young lads smiling laughing and joking in the film would be swallowed up in the great mincing machine called the first world war eleven years later.
I find the Edwardian era one of the saddest because of this fact.
malvoleo47 2 years ago
look how transfixed they all are by being filmed...they all want to show off their wares and person to the camera. See the man who wants to get the really really tall man in shot? The seller very animated with 'something' on his head who makes the crowd laugh, I imagine he's saying like "stop looking at that camera!! look at what I'm selling...!" haha, brilliant! The very short man standing next to the lady selling the clothes. Would have been very noisy being there I should imagine.
smuckerlingos 2 years ago
I think I saw Luigi and Mario in there!!
louann5840 2 years ago
amazing
smuckerlingos 2 years ago
am dat u delboy?
iwasknownasthewild1 2 years ago
not many fat people is there!! lol
kingbleah 2 years ago
Do you think those men peering into the camara with fascination could ever imagine that they were going to be the subject of thousands of anonymous viewers a hundred years into the future?
MaryOMackie 2 years ago 3
does someone know if is it allow to sell own homemade stuff walking in the streets of london or if u need some kind of license?
infoRse1 2 years ago
@ 1:52 that man lifts his hat and says "good morning".
and my word, at 2:30 that old woman is still wearing 19th century clothing.
MaryOMackie 2 years ago
Great Footage.! Our planet does a good turnover: every 100 years...all new humans!
VitricArt 2 years ago
greb yer lapels lads, theres a bleedin camara goin on dont you know
. Amazing to think that even the youngest little blighters in that film are long since dead. Youtube of its day!
ineabriate 2 years ago 2
Petticoat Lane (now Middlesex Street) - heart of Spitalfields (Jack the Ripper territory). How many of the people seen here lived through that terror?
091053JG 2 years ago
let alone jack the ripper those places were really crazy still are now in a way, but you would always have people being stabbed and robbed in the east end at that time.
glaxev 2 years ago
nonsense. EVERYONE in Europe wanted to live in London; of course I exaggerate but it was a prime 'living' destination.
btw, one can still buy great clothes - Fred Perry and that, in Petticoat Lane.
caesarcerf 3 years ago 2
Is that Buffalo Bill in the background at 2;13?
twoslices 3 years ago
YES
staypress 3 years ago
the greatest city in the world?? i bet they didnt think that in the east end!
stuntladz 3 years ago
Wow, surreal. I work down that street, weird to watch, and walk down there tomorrow knowing that over 100 years ago those people were standing there.
fadersgirl 3 years ago 3
yeah now they are not standing there they are all stiffs
staypress 3 years ago
London when it was the greatest city in the world.
aeronuk1 3 years ago 2
True in one sense, that people who had the money would want to come and visit the great empire capital, but to live in it then? No way!
JohnsonofLondon 3 years ago
It still is the greatest city in the world. There's a buzz about London that you don't get anywhere else.
sugordon 3 years ago 2
I'm sure at 1.11 there is a man shaking his new Apple iPod at the camera!
CelticReject 3 years ago 2
Looked like a hot dog to me.
fluffythekillerbird 3 years ago
it was me actually I went back in time to sell some ipods but no takers Dont know why??
staypress 3 years ago
Where's Dick Van Dyke?
PBLEY 3 years ago 3
Everyone looks so bemused at the camera. Obviously a new thing.
I have seen this video before at the Jack The Ripper Museum in Docklands. Classic.
bennyman1982 3 years ago
Look at all those flat hats!!
I was child when I was taken to Petticoat Lane on Sunday mornings in the early '50s... still a lot of caps being worn, even then. There were also a lot of buildings missing from the street frontages at that time... wartime bombing.
effyleven 3 years ago 3
Yeah i was try to find someone without a cap but only at the end 2 young lads are not wear them same on them :D
LokiV 3 years ago
I like to know, how these shoppers and vendors would comment about 21st century's shopping and street marketing.
gardhiwasamdesilva 3 years ago
this is scary everyone there is ........DEAD! and we will be some day too
RedHead531 3 years ago
lol i love how everyone is looking at the camera all shocked lol
there all like "OMG WHAT IS THAT MACHINE????"
MasterJamaal 3 years ago 2
Just think... all of these people are now dead. It's kind of eerie.
ScarletKnights 3 years ago
zzz the people who looted my country for 100 years!! I thought they all were rich like that, but I guess only the rich benefits and the middle and lower class must toil for the spoiled rich...But hey great post tho^^
marshall9doom 3 years ago
what they are saying??? :O
Zveerinsh 3 years ago
Come down Middlesex Stree Today And these people from 1903 would turn in their graves !!!!
shoeman747 3 years ago
too old fashioned for me
tummybeast 3 years ago
awesome
myfavoriteperson 3 years ago
I wonder if any of my family are there, I'd love to go back for a day for the experience!
randomdudeRULES 3 years ago 4
there dosn't seem to of been many women in 1903!
gercav155 3 years ago 3
I am positive people then would have made similar remarks about the youth of then in relation to coping with the 1800's
Hexachloraphine 3 years ago 2
how times have changed,would or could the youth of today do without their mobile phones and designer clothes,i dont think so
belsize55 3 years ago
Great stuff.I like the mutton-chopped gent holding his hat up for the camera,hats were a rare sight in those days and 'loadsamoney' counting out his dosh at the end of the film'look at that LOADSAMONEY!!!!'.
impbr 3 years ago
It doesn't look as if hats were a rare sight in those days, seeing as everyone in the picture is wearing one...
wonderfulkeithfloyd 3 years ago
doh...thanks for for pointing it out. How could i have missed that.
impbr 3 years ago
Great, and think of all the stuff the camera couldn't get, like sound and voices, colour, smells, heat, atmosphere. A very unique view of a largely forgotten world. Truly a beautiful piece of film. Thanks for posting it, 5 stars.
ronnieknotts 3 years ago 2
Great stuff. Love the way they all pose for the camera. Not many ladies in the film.
daccasham84 3 years ago
A great piece of film. Some rough looking gormless faces here! For all our complaints now, back then life would have been much tougher, education levels poor - and bad luck if you got ill.
Sibelius92 3 years ago
I like the pose that some of the gents make by gripping the lapels of their coats with both hands. You don't see that nowadays.
mistygarden 3 years ago 5
What a tough-looking lot some of these men are! I bet they'd murder you for an old ten bob note!
thrippleton 3 years ago 3
Indeed. People don't need to wear hats anymore because of global warming.
bundleHastings 3 years ago
amazing to think that all these people are now brown bread!!
plhokko 3 years ago 3
i was 3 when this was filmed
staypress 3 years ago
So many hats...
Eminsmilk 3 years ago
No kidding.
sondinium 3 years ago
Fantastic! Thanks a lot.
twoslices 3 years ago 4
wonderful,I could watch these sort of films for hours. Thanks for the posting.
TOMTHEBOMBER 3 years ago 5
Fascinating, thanks for sharing.
MissLisaJane 4 years ago 4