Tram Ride into Halifax (1902)

[darrenburnfan]

The female narrator in these BFI uploads sounds dreadful. She is totally unsuited to narrations / voice overs and can't narrate for toffee. Her voice is bland and boring and she sounds totally disinterested as she reads from the script in front of her. Surely the BFI could have found someone better than this!

[halburd1]

you should say which halifax this is lol. many think it looks like halifax, nova scotia, not halifax in england. lol

[debzuma]

Old Lane Inn at 1:18.

[OutlawMinniePearl]

OMG, in my little frontier pea brain I always thought Nova Scotia was a time warp to Merry Old Scotland & for Ireland you go to Newfieland! OMG, IT LOOKS LIKE PITTSBURGH IN THE 50s! (1905 Pgh was worse!) What about the quaint fishing villages & high rate of red heads? Do the men wear kilts & folks speak Gaelic? I thought it was the go-to place for pure Scottish culture in the New World! But I willfully repress my knowledge that A. Carnegie was a Scot & the old country looked bad in this era too!

[retrorocker44]

wonderful old film

[Thisbloodypave]

Can't see the Shay

[PhillipCreeper]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this. 

[benytink]

@cashello ey up lad that reet i saw thee...lol.

[oisaveloy]

A gift. Thank you BFI.

[RAZZAONE1]

fuck me old lane mill 1902...its 2010 an i was on the roof the other day...

[samdub]

@RAZZAONE1

Raz you gob shite, nice to see you watching vids like this though.... Wonder what you were doing on the roof eh?

[RAZZAONE1]

@samdub i know you lol ? and yeaa gotta love this shit lol old halifax its great :)

[g1m2e3]

Nice to see old lane mill with the clock and bell tower. I was walking round the now derelict mill the other day.

[Cashello]

i filmed this video

[Michaelxxx1936]

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to show this video. Such a long time ago now and such hard times too.

[terrytalktometibbs]

fantastic video i live in the spot where this is taken and worked in the dye works shown until the day it closed in 2001.

[WhiteCamry]

In the first 45 seconds those snow-covered slopes looked like they'd been marked for house-building.

[Topdoginuk]

A brief momment captured live and in such great quality, Wow!

I'm still trying to work out Dean Clough aspects and I think it ends on North Bridge.

A fantastic piece of film and a credit to the person that put this up. Thank you.

[SteffanLlwyd]

Beautiful. I love smoking chimnies. Too few left...

[vinnyslad]

Hey I can really see my old house on this clip at the bottom of Ovenden Way leading down to the Old Lane -- what nostalgia I moved to Ovenden in 1964

eee bah gumm

[marius478]

In the era of Kings and Emperors...

[mrhudds]

Last time I was there it was closed

[ineabriate]

lol

[wrightylaaad]

thanks for uploading such an interesting old film !

[asche1987]

i was born in halifax.

beautiful nostalgia.

awesome film footage.

thankyou so much.

Ash.

[DADRENO]

How did you manage that?

[aquinn97]

A fantastic video - really evocative of the times.

[countesscristo]

Britain at peace,before the war.

[joeking55555]

NOT CHANGED MUCH HAS IT?