@MrJm323 We also have a whole isle at the supermarket devoted too tea :) All those are still around. Although Kodak are in a pretty bad way money wise.
@DeepSnowBand Racism has absoluely no meaning to me, its a bullshit word used to justify the destruction of white communities. And you would probably not have it any other way because you are a typical non-white, desperate to live in white societies.
@ScottishCaledonian Actually I'm white and live near Southampton where there are many different races. They are all people. If you saw a black person injured on the floor after being attacked, would you leave them too die? If you heard a song you really liked, then discovered it was performed by black people would you like it any less? What if you fell in love with a black woman? 'Judge people by the content of their character not by the colour of their skin' Martin Luther King.
Fascinating, shows traffic jams existed prior to the car, though I did spot an early car amongst all the horse traffic. Alos noticed the advertising competition between Hudson sopa and Pears soap.
@allhailhotsnail I was thinking that myself. Only two horses to pull a bus full of perhaps fifty people, yet stagecoaches with only a few people on were drawn by six horses. The life expectancy of a horse pulling a double decker bus in those days must have been very short. Perhaps a few months before they had a date with the knacker's yard.
Amazing. This is as close to time travel as you and I will ever see. We are very lucky to be able to access this stuff at the press of a few buttons. I feel privileged. Thank you YouTube and thank you LondonScreenArchive.
If I could take modern medicine and digital media with me - I would go back from now. Planetary mobility and population density was but a fraction of now.
Life was primarily local. A peak was reached here in England. Before you criticize the times lack of human rights then, remember it was this civilized society that evolved into the one you enjoy, albeit with a helluva lot more style and rich interaction. In the age of 'no cars', how you appeared to others was huge.
The locality of life had actually been diminished by trains at least two generations before this film was shot. People could be anywhere in England within a day. As for the poor, their life was primarily local indeed but that goes with out saying; its all the same contemporaneously.
Goodbye to my England, so long my old friend Your days are numbered, being brought to an end To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that's fine But don't say you're English, that's way out of line. At Broadcasting House the word is taboo In Brussels it's scrapped, in Parliament too Even schools are affected. Staff do as they're told They must not teach children about England of old. We're the English from England, let's all be proud Stand up and be counted - Shout it out loud
beautiful, this is the london that millions gave their lives for, not the filth and garbage, the gangs, the `innit innit` ghetto people, the `lets fly the sharia flag over 10 downing street` the no go-zones of tower hamlet and southall etc, these people who fought for it would be rolling in their graves right now! fuck multiculturalism, and fuck the yob culture which plagues london
beautiful, this is the london that millions gave their lives for, not the filth and garbage, the gangs, the `innit innit` ghetto people, the `lets fly the sharia flag over 10 downing street` the no go-zones of tower hamlet and southall etc, these people who fought for it would be rolling in their graves right now! fuck multiculturalism, and fuck the yob culture which plagues london
@maxiboy666 Oh and another racist great. How many Muslim's have you seen spitting or swearing? All that I have ever met are kind considerate people. People at my school who are white spit constantly.
@DeepSnowBand I am not attracted to black women so no. And I ammore than aware blacks Muslims etc are Human what is your point ? I am not going to tolerate third world immigration and the slow destruction of this country because 'oh fuck it there human come on in'
Islam is horrendous, third world culture is horrendous, I love being white, I love my ethnic group and nation and I want to keep it white. If youlove third world people go and live in the third world.
I cant believe the racism here. What is it about skin colour that makes all these people so frightened and ugly? This is amazing footage, advertising loud and clear on the buses for Nestles, Hovis, Bovril, etc. So crowded, no wonder so many accidents. It's a pity not more of the ancestors of these racists werent run down.....
What's interesting is that lots of people will say "Oh, horses weren't meant to live in the city - today's city's are no place for a horse!" - Well... the population of Greater London today is 7.5 million... In 1903, when this film was made, the population of Greater London was 6.5 million. Horses TOTALLY built that city and made it what it is!
@TsaSzymborska1 yea! but what u say is true! its so strange when u look at all these people walking around the place and just think that its 108 years ago. yea, ur right! they are all most probably dead and burried. sad but true, its great to see this footage though and see and no exactly what was going onn in these times!
@wwefanworld You ignorant old fucktard. Are you really that thick thick shit thick? I'm smarter than you dumbo because I've read The Diary of Samuel Pepys; an English Secretary to the Admiralty circa 1660s London, and he makes reference to black people in London. Don't be a dumb fucker, get educated and read. Don't guess.
@wwefanworld Oh get over yourself. Were all people. They have just as much right too be here as you and that scares you. People like you are a minority. If you werent BNP would be in power.
HAHA Lots of racism on here...thats to be expected. But yeah these videos are awesome. People dressed really well but i certainly wouldn't want to go back to that. Little indoor plumbing taking forever to make a meal, no computer, no cars, little access to education for the poor etc. etc. We still have problems but i wouldn't give these peoples daily work life and struggle to a MONKEY ON A ROCK!
@ITHEREONETHATHASNT Racism? You dumb tool. These 3rd worlders destroyed England. Well, it was the Jews who were the ones that promoted immigration, so the blame is really on them.
@wwefanworld OK SO its the jews fault. Nice job mixing a little anti semitism into the racism. Have a nice day and quit blaming your countries problems on others.
@kevphillips02 there was nothing great about the poverty in the east end of london though? i guess it still had to be better than the hell hole britain has become today though,,,, fantastic footage!
@Julian9ehp Rephrase this: The good old days when decent people still knew that not everybody was equal. Today we are told it is "justice" to allow those who are not worthy to be anything but slum-dwellers (because they are too lazy or too ignorant to look after themselves) to share the wealth the others have created. Back then it was justice to get what you deserve. The invention of that Giant Lie "Human Rights" destroyed the wonderful world we marvel at in these old movies.
@chrisz78 When "decent people" ruined the lives and families of the poor. If you remember the Music Hall song "Dear Old Dutch" -- that was about a loving husband and wife being separated in the poorhouse. Thank God for human rights! The poor have a right to live, and a right to have a humane life.
Compare this to the street scenes in Hitchcock's "Sabotage." Each of those atoms had his or her history, and we have ours, which they could not have imagined.
@MarchToFreedom you will never know, you dont have english blood in your veins and you have never fought for your country. when you have you might get it.My grandparents gave this world the freedom it has today , that is on of the million things that made us great. If you dont like facts the tough. Just also like to point out that the majority of people i talk to share my view so if that makes us childish then so be it .
@MarchToFreedom I am not interested in anything you have to say, quite frankly i think you are insignificant and irrelevant. Please dont stalk me anymore, otherwise i will report you. You are an irritant that i have no desire to engage with .
Its strange to believe that cameras are more than a hundred years old. I know that sounds weird, but I am used to the fact that modern cameras are only a new thing, as the cameras back then were expensive, big, had no true colour and were really rubbish at taking footage.
Orlando-London? Does that steamer go to Disney World? If Prince Charles had his way this would be GB today. (This is two years before my dad was born)
makes me think.."whats life all about"? they are all gone now as we will be one day too.,there must be more to this world...I have lost my dad and mum now and my brother is looking to be ill soon,im 45 and are scrathing my head as to why im here and whats it all about?
wow a small glimpse into the past, i love it, its amazing, sad thou that 99% of these people are dead now and the horses, i wonder what happened to those wagons and those signs on them, also i wonder how many people were hit by wagons by crossing the street.
@vaibanex17 The Crimea statue is at the bottom of Regent Street where it meets Pall Mall. Not sure who is on it though. Did you spot the one car scuttling among those buses. Who'd be a horse on a hot, dusty day in London 1903?
Remarkable film. One can see simultaneously the big changes, and also how in many ways nothing has changed at all. The 'soul' of the city is still there, the rush, urgency, vibrancy and diversity is easily identifiably in abstract as well as visual ways.
Yet another amazing and wonderful film from the London Screen Archive. Notice how the pedestrians seem to weave in and out of traffic effortlessly. Also, amazing how many of the products advertised are still recognizable name: Nestles, Pear soap, Grape Nuts etc.
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No women in any of these. Looks like an iron-fisted Middle- Eastern regime. Women were then, as now, more than half the population-- but never got to central London (or San Francisco, or. .).
Not exaclly civilzed, nor was the projected pride in London by the occupied countries of the Empire.
We get nostalgic for this simpler time, but it was narrow, bigoted, with no mobility within the power structure.
You're mostly right. But I don't think our fascination with this countrys' past necessarily means we wish a return to it. There's only one way and that's forward.
London needs more horses though, genetically modified ones that excrete chocolate truffles...and have rockets.
That was recently done for the same thing in Belfast city centre,The old street scene from 1901 and then it progressed into the current day scene filmed in the same street, it was quite good!
That is outstanding. It looks so primitive, hard to believe we actually fashioned an empire out of it all, conquering new lands far away on that sort of transport and its terrible reliability.
Yeah sure. You'd be writing letters to the paper about the unfair taxes levied by Royalty while you coughed out your last years with consumption and wiped your tail with the similar editorials from the previous week.
1:44 "Nestles Milk" ..."Quaker oats" ... Hudsons soaps" ... "Kodak" .. Whats with the signs on the carriages
frfrrrfrrrrrr 5 days ago
when london ruled the world
JacksonHeaven1 1 week ago
saw one car just towards the end
redimade 1 week ago
first cctv in uk!!! big bruv
mackbright 2 weeks ago
3:53... kill that four wheel monster!
Tasarte 3 weeks ago
Nestles, Liptons Teas, Quaker Oats, Grape-Nuts (cereal), Cadbury's Cocoa, Kodak. You Brits can tall us: is Pears Soap still around? Hovis Bread?
It's amazing how many of these companies (or the brand names at least) are still around after more than a hundred years.
MrJm323 3 weeks ago
@MrJm323 We also have a whole isle at the supermarket devoted too tea :) All those are still around. Although Kodak are in a pretty bad way money wise.
DeepSnowBand 1 day ago
looks like chaos!
TrancetasticWilza 3 weeks ago
Why UK gives the nationality for anyone ! I think it's a big mistake !
handal1973 3 weeks ago
And now London is infested with blacks, Muslims and asylum seekers
ScottishCaledonian 3 weeks ago 3
@ScottishCaledonian You're an idiot.
Ladysophiefresh 1 week ago in playlist London Old Town
@ScottishCaledonian And I wouldnt have it any other way you racist bastard.
DeepSnowBand 1 day ago
@DeepSnowBand Racism has absoluely no meaning to me, its a bullshit word used to justify the destruction of white communities. And you would probably not have it any other way because you are a typical non-white, desperate to live in white societies.
ScottishCaledonian 1 day ago
@ScottishCaledonian Actually I'm white and live near Southampton where there are many different races. They are all people. If you saw a black person injured on the floor after being attacked, would you leave them too die? If you heard a song you really liked, then discovered it was performed by black people would you like it any less? What if you fell in love with a black woman? 'Judge people by the content of their character not by the colour of their skin' Martin Luther King.
DeepSnowBand 1 day ago
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ScottishCaledonian 1 day ago
i hate typing with touchvscreens.
reidrules45 4 weeks ago
really godlod quality for over 100 year olsld footage.
reidrules45 4 weeks ago
How cool is this? It's like stepping back in time. The London of old.
beckacj 1 month ago in playlist History
COMO APESTARIAN ESAS CALLES LLENAS DE CACA DE CABALLO...!!!
Titomaurtua 1 month ago
back then, there are many horses passing by...
rocksation 1 month ago
Poor horses were worked to death
spareaxe 1 month ago
A,stinking shithole then,a stinking shithole now.
safuker 1 month ago
There's an advert for Kodak on one the buses. Kodak probably provided the film stock and the camera for this film. Nestle probably paid for it.
pryletoncyo 1 month ago
Reminds me of how Labour let us down.
usernamealredytaken 1 month ago
Fascinating, shows traffic jams existed prior to the car, though I did spot an early car amongst all the horse traffic. Alos noticed the advertising competition between Hudson sopa and Pears soap.
stevo728822 1 month ago
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wow amazing,
zakirvakil 2 months ago
wow amazing,
zakirvakil 2 months ago
how can only two horses pull those buses
allhailhotsnail 2 months ago
@allhailhotsnail I was thinking that myself. Only two horses to pull a bus full of perhaps fifty people, yet stagecoaches with only a few people on were drawn by six horses. The life expectancy of a horse pulling a double decker bus in those days must have been very short. Perhaps a few months before they had a date with the knacker's yard.
darrenburnfan 2 months ago
Amazing. This is as close to time travel as you and I will ever see. We are very lucky to be able to access this stuff at the press of a few buttons. I feel privileged. Thank you YouTube and thank you LondonScreenArchive.
Steerpike07 2 months ago 8
Thumbs up if you would genocide to see London becoming English again. :)
Whiteruthenian 2 months ago
@Whiteruthenian Another racist. You should start a club... Oh yeah. You already have one. BNP or KKK. Bastard.
DeepSnowBand 1 day ago
Looks like Nestle Milk had a monopoly on advertising.
movement26 2 months ago
is there any..horse crash test before??because now..before they sell the cars...they made it first to a crash test....xD lol
johnericsantiago28 3 months ago
In a 100 years time, the year 2111:
"When the country was whatever it is now."
Followed by:
"Yes but the politics was a joke, there were illegal wars abroad, MP corruption, no cure for the common cold, cancer, aids, car accidents everyday!"
Repeat process!
superhamzah85 3 months ago
If I could take modern medicine and digital media with me - I would go back from now. Planetary mobility and population density was but a fraction of now.
Life was primarily local. A peak was reached here in England. Before you criticize the times lack of human rights then, remember it was this civilized society that evolved into the one you enjoy, albeit with a helluva lot more style and rich interaction. In the age of 'no cars', how you appeared to others was huge.
NowPleaseReadThis 3 months ago
@NowPleaseReadThis
The locality of life had actually been diminished by trains at least two generations before this film was shot. People could be anywhere in England within a day. As for the poor, their life was primarily local indeed but that goes with out saying; its all the same contemporaneously.
HyperboreanSoil 2 months ago
And all the brandnames on the carriages are still here now,Nestles,Jeyes,Kodak,
Reckitts.Fascinating.
aquabeads 3 months ago
@whatyouchating Pfff next time when you look at the mirror think that in 100 years you will be dead too.
crazy3d 3 months ago
thats totaly amazing at 2,47 look at the traffic
GAREMPOTS 4 months ago
thats totaly amazing
GAREMPOTS 4 months ago
Goodbye to my England, so long my old friend Your days are numbered, being brought to an end To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that's fine But don't say you're English, that's way out of line. At Broadcasting House the word is taboo In Brussels it's scrapped, in Parliament too Even schools are affected. Staff do as they're told They must not teach children about England of old. We're the English from England, let's all be proud Stand up and be counted - Shout it out loud
ogiaag5m 4 months ago
Goodbye to my England, so long my old friend
Your days are numbered, being brought to an end
To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that's fine
But don't say you're English, that's way out of line.
At Broadcasting House the word is taboo In Brussels it's scrapped, in Parliament too
Even schools are affected. Staff do as they're told
They must not teach children about England of old.
We're the English from England, let's all be proud Stand up and be counted - Shout it out loud
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beautiful, this is the london that millions gave their lives for, not the filth and garbage, the gangs, the `innit innit` ghetto people, the `lets fly the sharia flag over 10 downing street` the no go-zones of tower hamlet and southall etc, these people who fought for it would be rolling in their graves right now! fuck multiculturalism, and fuck the yob culture which plagues london
jewishclassics 4 months ago
beautiful, this is the london that millions gave their lives for, not the filth and garbage, the gangs, the `innit innit` ghetto people, the `lets fly the sharia flag over 10 downing street` the no go-zones of tower hamlet and southall etc, these people who fought for it would be rolling in their graves right now! fuck multiculturalism, and fuck the yob culture which plagues london
jewishclassics 4 months ago
Imagine today's London foul mouthed spitting Muslims on the streets then. They would have been shot on site.
maxiboy666 4 months ago
@maxiboy666 exactly, im so sick of people who praise multiculturalism, it hasnt worked! it will never ever ever work!
jewishclassics 4 months ago
@maxiboy666 Oh and another racist great. How many Muslim's have you seen spitting or swearing? All that I have ever met are kind considerate people. People at my school who are white spit constantly.
DeepSnowBand 1 day ago
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@DeepSnowBand I am not attracted to black women so no. And I ammore than aware blacks Muslims etc are Human what is your point ? I am not going to tolerate third world immigration and the slow destruction of this country because 'oh fuck it there human come on in'
Islam is horrendous, third world culture is horrendous, I love being white, I love my ethnic group and nation and I want to keep it white. If youlove third world people go and live in the third world.
ScottishCaledonian 1 day ago
Wheres all the burkas ???? that can't be london.
NielsShoe 4 months ago
Not a roof on any of those double deckers. It was the same weather we have now, they must have been soaked often.
NickerSkids 5 months ago
No traffic lights, and it all just keeps moving along. Wonderful. Also not a track suit or trainer in sight.
TheTangoTina 5 months ago 2
@TheTangoTina no congestion charge :)
jewishclassics 4 months ago
I think its amazing how every single person in that video is dead :(
snakeybidder 5 months ago
I cant believe the racism here. What is it about skin colour that makes all these people so frightened and ugly? This is amazing footage, advertising loud and clear on the buses for Nestles, Hovis, Bovril, etc. So crowded, no wonder so many accidents. It's a pity not more of the ancestors of these racists werent run down.....
angietihi 5 months ago
@angietihi A genetic Marxist. Hilarious.
magicmoonbeam2 5 months ago
What's interesting is that lots of people will say "Oh, horses weren't meant to live in the city - today's city's are no place for a horse!" - Well... the population of Greater London today is 7.5 million... In 1903, when this film was made, the population of Greater London was 6.5 million. Horses TOTALLY built that city and made it what it is!
thedrafthorse 5 months ago
All the people you see in this film are dead now. Isn't that weird?
TsaSzymborska1 6 months ago
@TsaSzymborska1 yea! but what u say is true! its so strange when u look at all these people walking around the place and just think that its 108 years ago. yea, ur right! they are all most probably dead and burried. sad but true, its great to see this footage though and see and no exactly what was going onn in these times!
MrMrliamo 5 months ago
enjoyed watching the film,lets bring back the old horse and carriage and do away with all the gas guzzlers.
nick140662 6 months ago
i am thrilled to found this site...thanks for posting this..i am loving it!
JoyDivisiongirl 6 months ago
lol, horse trailers with ads on them...
audveltadmuna 6 months ago
Horsedrawn double-deckers - you learn something new every day.
Agrippa521 6 months ago
Amazing
MsPrincessMAC 7 months ago
Back when the country was actually a white one. :)
wwefanworld 7 months ago 2
@wwefanworld i find what you wrote a tad racist.
JoyDivisiongirl 6 months ago
@wwefanworld You ignorant old fucktard. Are you really that thick thick shit thick? I'm smarter than you dumbo because I've read The Diary of Samuel Pepys; an English Secretary to the Admiralty circa 1660s London, and he makes reference to black people in London. Don't be a dumb fucker, get educated and read. Don't guess.
YoureGuilty 5 months ago
@YoureGuilty Oh my! I am so absolutely sorry, I cannot possibly match that true example of an internet post you have just made!
Back then, Black people were either slaves or either granted special access. Their population was well below 1,000
wwefanworld 5 months ago
@wwefanworld
Back when most of the people in this video, were not bothered too much that the majority of people couldn't vote.
Back when you had to pay before the fireman puts the fire out.
Back when the working class, were the LOWER class, upper, middle, lower is how it was.
You would be worse off then than you are now.
superhamzah85 3 months ago
Just watch it historically, everyone in it is dead, when a generation dies, there's a new country, because there's new people.
superhamzah85 3 months ago
@wwefanworld Oh get over yourself. Were all people. They have just as much right too be here as you and that scares you. People like you are a minority. If you werent BNP would be in power.
DeepSnowBand 1 day ago
Look... they already had watermarks on their videos.... cooOOOoooolll!
eduardodc3 7 months ago
HAHA Lots of racism on here...thats to be expected. But yeah these videos are awesome. People dressed really well but i certainly wouldn't want to go back to that. Little indoor plumbing taking forever to make a meal, no computer, no cars, little access to education for the poor etc. etc. We still have problems but i wouldn't give these peoples daily work life and struggle to a MONKEY ON A ROCK!
ITHEREONETHATHASNT 7 months ago
@ITHEREONETHATHASNT Racism? You dumb tool. These 3rd worlders destroyed England. Well, it was the Jews who were the ones that promoted immigration, so the blame is really on them.
wwefanworld 7 months ago
@wwefanworld OK SO its the jews fault. Nice job mixing a little anti semitism into the racism. Have a nice day and quit blaming your countries problems on others.
ITHEREONETHATHASNT 7 months ago
@ITHEREONETHATHASNT Yes it is. Look at the powerful Jewish lobbies in England. It's right there, they did it. AIPAC did it in the U.S.
wwefanworld 7 months ago
ahh back in the good old days when i wasnt even alive lol its cause of these people i have to grow up with niggers and other shitskins
88bluebirds 7 months ago 2
The days when Britain was great and then we allowed mass immigration and the rest is history.
kevphillips02 7 months ago 16
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@kevphillips02 Watch my video called those were the days and it simular to this :)
GoldBloded 3 months ago
@kevphillips02 there was nothing great about the poverty in the east end of london though? i guess it still had to be better than the hell hole britain has become today though,,,, fantastic footage!
trippy119 3 months ago
@kevphillips02 The bad old days when the poor were considered subhuman. One of the worst slums in Europe was within the sound of Bow Bells.
Now immigrants are considered inhuman. The more things change . . .
Julian9ehp 3 months ago
@Julian9ehp Rephrase this: The good old days when decent people still knew that not everybody was equal. Today we are told it is "justice" to allow those who are not worthy to be anything but slum-dwellers (because they are too lazy or too ignorant to look after themselves) to share the wealth the others have created. Back then it was justice to get what you deserve. The invention of that Giant Lie "Human Rights" destroyed the wonderful world we marvel at in these old movies.
chrisz78 1 week ago
@chrisz78 When "decent people" ruined the lives and families of the poor. If you remember the Music Hall song "Dear Old Dutch" -- that was about a loving husband and wife being separated in the poorhouse. Thank God for human rights! The poor have a right to live, and a right to have a humane life.
Julian9ehp 1 week ago
Compare this to the street scenes in Hitchcock's "Sabotage." Each of those atoms had his or her history, and we have ours, which they could not have imagined.
Julian9ehp 3 months ago
@kevphillips02 Oh for God's sake grow up...
anything else? are the Muslims responsible for you having no life too?
"Back when Britain was great "
yeah, with slums, open sewers and horses shitting all over the roads....yeah that was the good life...
MarchToFreedom 1 month ago
@MarchToFreedom you will never know, you dont have english blood in your veins and you have never fought for your country. when you have you might get it.My grandparents gave this world the freedom it has today , that is on of the million things that made us great. If you dont like facts the tough. Just also like to point out that the majority of people i talk to share my view so if that makes us childish then so be it .
kevphillips02 1 month ago
@kevphillips02 "you don't have english blood in your veins"
you ignorantly think that because I said something you don't like about this country.
Fact is I'm white British.
my family has been here for a thousand years.
Our grandparents didn't fight for world freedom, don't be so naive.
they fought because they were under immediate threat of invasion from a country that this country declared war on in the first place.
why don't you grow up mate.
MarchToFreedom 1 month ago
@MarchToFreedom I am not interested in anything you have to say, quite frankly i think you are insignificant and irrelevant. Please dont stalk me anymore, otherwise i will report you. You are an irritant that i have no desire to engage with .
kevphillips02 1 month ago
@kevphillips02 Immigration didn't destroy Britain. The toll of two world wars did.
Linkage1992 4 weeks ago
@Linkage1992 You keep your head up your asshole or thats where it sounds like you keep it
kevphillips02 4 weeks ago
@kevphillips02 You're the one who needs to get your head out of your ass.
Linkage1992 4 weeks ago
@Linkage1992 goodbye
kevphillips02 3 weeks ago
where do all the horses sleep at night time?
depressedcoon 9 months ago
@depressedcoon Most under railway arches which are now taxi garages.
jrobertsoneff 7 months ago
Its strange to believe that cameras are more than a hundred years old. I know that sounds weird, but I am used to the fact that modern cameras are only a new thing, as the cameras back then were expensive, big, had no true colour and were really rubbish at taking footage.
GreenDouche 9 months ago
Unlike today how well dressed and dignified everyone is from scene to scene. What a disgrace today’s world is on personal level of presentation.
mannerofman 9 months ago
Orlando-London? Does that steamer go to Disney World? If Prince Charles had his way this would be GB today. (This is two years before my dad was born)
80ist4ever 9 months ago
makes me think.."whats life all about"? they are all gone now as we will be one day too.,there must be more to this world...I have lost my dad and mum now and my brother is looking to be ill soon,im 45 and are scrathing my head as to why im here and whats it all about?
weldon0m 9 months ago
@weldon0m We're here to teach our children.
80ist4ever 9 months ago
@weldon0m Dont. Just live the moment.
chanctonbury63 7 months ago
wow a small glimpse into the past, i love it, its amazing, sad thou that 99% of these people are dead now and the horses, i wonder what happened to those wagons and those signs on them, also i wonder how many people were hit by wagons by crossing the street.
crazyknight2008 10 months ago
@crazyknight2008 Children getting hit by a wagon or overrun by a horse was common especially in the rain when the pace sped up on the cobblestones...
80ist4ever 9 months ago
@crazyknight2008 Change that to 100%
ClassicHorrorDB 7 months ago
POOR HORSES
ghorardim0 11 months ago
Must be nice for there not be a single car.. just loads of horse shit everywhere!
kungura 11 months ago
@kungura I know...London must have STUNK in the summer.
trinitymike 11 months ago
@trinitymike
It did in the Summer of 1903. It rained non stop for 58 hours in June that year.
19thJune2005 11 months ago
@trinitymike Areas close too the Thames especially
DeepSnowBand 1 day ago
@kungura I got a brand new load of fertiliser...
DeepSnowBand 1 day ago
Well, I see traffic hasn't improved much in 100+ years! :P
jodharry 1 year ago
@vaibanex17 The Crimea statue is at the bottom of Regent Street where it meets Pall Mall. Not sure who is on it though. Did you spot the one car scuttling among those buses. Who'd be a horse on a hot, dusty day in London 1903?
SarahMcCartneyRandel 1 year ago
fascinating! thanks for sharing
vivienleighfan 1 year ago
@ 0:56 what is that statue that says "Crimea" ????
vaibanez17 1 year ago
@vaibanez17 it's to do with the crimean war.
bunchoftits 1 year ago
I wonder what the pedestrian fatality numbers were like back in those days. Looks totally insane.
jnrdryden1 1 year ago
@jnrdryden1
There is a book that is titled "The Good Old Days" (if I remember correctly) that shows that those days were not as idylic as we might imagine today.
JohnRinNoHo 7 months ago
i see the car at the end
robhingston 1 year ago
Wonderful, thanks so much.
dayzedukez 1 year ago
Such a amazing clip, wish i'd be there, thanks for uploading the video
lukky5 1 year ago
Notice some brands that still exist today on the carriages? Nestle, Kodak, Liptons Tea, and Pears Soap.
MrJamesBond007 1 year ago
@MrJamesBond007 hehehe i also saw Hovis, god i would like to go back to those ages, if only for a day
MrGezamo 1 year ago
OMG I miss those times, but not those horses. So terrible allergic!!
MrNorwayboy20 1 year ago
Keep looking for mysterious men with portable phones.
rd7088 1 year ago
@rd7088 lol you got me doing it now!!
LokiV 1 year ago
not a nice time to of been a horse. you can see its animal slavery
1982FMJ 1 year ago
only see 1 car in vid @ 3.55 anyone no what make its is? Austin maybe
DJBA55 1 year ago
It's amazing how everything has changed in 100 years !
camlost737 1 year ago 2
@camlost737 It's also amazing how much has stayed the same in 100 years!
TsaSzymborska1 5 months ago
Blissfully unaware of what their world would be like in another hundred years.
qwerly45 1 year ago
@qwerly45 lol wonder what it would look like in 2103
calihartley2010 1 year ago
I loved your film..cinematography is awesome. nicely framed..
Sagarshah7 1 year ago
i LOVE IT!
albertohp 1 year ago
it looks so chaotic...lol
pentogram23 1 year ago
@marinello6 because they had a recall on Toyotas, thats why.....wink wink
pentogram23 1 year ago
Remarkable film. One can see simultaneously the big changes, and also how in many ways nothing has changed at all. The 'soul' of the city is still there, the rush, urgency, vibrancy and diversity is easily identifiably in abstract as well as visual ways.
superhamzah85 1 year ago 2
Hah Kodak advert........there's some kind of irony or poignancy in that, I can't seem to put my finger on it. Maybe it's not there.
superhamzah85 1 year ago
Yet another amazing and wonderful film from the London Screen Archive. Notice how the pedestrians seem to weave in and out of traffic effortlessly. Also, amazing how many of the products advertised are still recognizable name: Nestles, Pear soap, Grape Nuts etc.
thank you, London Screen Archive.
RonRicho 1 year ago
see the car at 3:57. amazing footage, thank you.
messabudda 1 year ago
@messabudda - looks like a motorcycle moving down the street from right to left at about 3:37?
schnellheinz 1 year ago
We see it in silence, but the noise must have been unbearable
MacJaxonManOfAction 1 year ago
I'd hate to have been the Royal Street Cleaner once all the horses have cleared.
LOL
Seriously, though, fantastic scenes, beautiful sights!
IJustWatchEm71 1 year ago
100% of all these people are dead!!
edup12 1 year ago
@edup12 Did you also know that 100% of people living right now will also die??? shocking isn't it :P.
HappyandCheery 1 year ago
@HappyandCheery , Yeah, If you add 100 years from now, none of us will be alive!!
edup12 1 year ago
@edup12
I'll reply to you again, in 100 years, to let you know that you're dead. If I live to be 125 that is.
superhamzah85 1 year ago
@superhamzah85
That's the cycle of life , the cycle!! sad, but true!!
edup12 1 year ago
Fantastic footage, thankyou for sharing it.
vermillion303 1 year ago 2
Those were the days, i remember them well.
indio77777 1 year ago 32
@indio77777 u remeber them well i doubt that u would be dead
stussyboys 1 year ago
@indio77777 you really lived during those days woah!! thats awesome u gotta be like at least 80 nice to see u still alive
vtecivicsib18 9 months ago
@indio77777 rememberrr??? How old are you??? 100 or 120
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wheres all the indains and blacks?? loool
falkon14 1 year ago
where is the place showed at 2:00 minute?
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No women in any of these. Looks like an iron-fisted Middle- Eastern regime. Women were then, as now, more than half the population-- but never got to central London (or San Francisco, or. .).
Not exaclly civilzed, nor was the projected pride in London by the occupied countries of the Empire.
We get nostalgic for this simpler time, but it was narrow, bigoted, with no mobility within the power structure.
penpost 1 year ago
@penpost
You're mostly right. But I don't think our fascination with this countrys' past necessarily means we wish a return to it. There's only one way and that's forward.
London needs more horses though, genetically modified ones that excrete chocolate truffles...and have rockets.
superhamzah85 1 year ago
Cool! I was looking for some Hansom Cab and omnibus pictures :) Interesting scenes, thanks for sharing!
jerrymail 1 year ago
The 2 horse power wagons were 1st class inside the bottom, with ac/heat,dvd,wifi,,the top was economy,,
if it rained you got wet ,no snacks
and lots of dust...
WEBTRAIN 2 years ago
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oceanbelow 2 years ago
The adverts which most people ignored back then stand out so much now. Just as commercials in our day will stand out so much in 2109.
WhiteCamry 2 years ago
Wow. SO many hats.
kiwanotree 2 years ago
Someone should film the same streets now, and do some kind of split screen
chisroar 2 years ago 2
That was recently done for the same thing in Belfast city centre,The old street scene from 1901 and then it progressed into the current day scene filmed in the same street, it was quite good!
eyleseo 2 years ago
@chisroar Wow. Great idea. Where was this filmed?
DeepSnowBand 1 day ago
Look at all those adverts on the coaches!
kaykagan 2 years ago 2
That is outstanding. It looks so primitive, hard to believe we actually fashioned an empire out of it all, conquering new lands far away on that sort of transport and its terrible reliability.
jamestoo 2 years ago
@jamestoo I'd have thought sails, wheels and horses was pretty damn reliable! So much less to go wrong and so much easier to fix!
LesHemmings 2 years ago
True; but the wind doesn't always blow, and horses need rest. I suppose I should have said "and its terrible efficiency" instead.
jamestoo 2 years ago
@ConstantTim Hear hear!
planetyes 2 years ago 2
Yeah sure. You'd be writing letters to the paper about the unfair taxes levied by Royalty while you coughed out your last years with consumption and wiped your tail with the similar editorials from the previous week.
petrarchian 2 years ago
I feel the same, but I do enjoy the invention of Antibiotics. LOL!
sunryse1 2 years ago
Wow everything moves like clockwork. Amazing no one gets run over or crashes. And one horseless carriage.
nocollege1 2 years ago 4
@nocollege1
The entire film has less horse power than a mercedes. Kind of remarkable.
There were some heads turning at that car. I find it intriguing that perhaps in 100 years from now, we may do the same thing again.
superhamzah85 1 year ago
amazing to see these edwardian films. can't believe how busy the streets are
latham29 2 years ago 24