Alfred Butterworth and Sons, Glebe Mills, Hollinwood (1901)

[delavalmilker]

Has anyone else noticed how, in all these films, that there are no overweight or obese people? Compare that to what you would see in filming a typical scene like this today....

[1860george]

does anyone know who the boy with the cheeky grin was? does anyone know what became of him?

[petertownend]

@1860george the boy is grinning because he has just shagged your grandmother up the arse you silly cunt,he is your grandad.

[1860george]

@petertownend oh well thanks for clearing that up

[menacinghat]

@1860george

he grew up got married and died

[hominuslupus]

A great scene of pre-Islamic Britain.

[goinghomesomeday1]

My grandmother wore a shawl like these women.

[chanctonbury63]

This is the year my Grandfather aged 6 wandered down to the recruitment office in his night shirt and volunteered to go and fight in the Boer War!! He was carried home to Mum!

[mizhelenuk]

The bow legs are a result of rickets, a condition caused by poor nutrition.

[kennethj1956]

All the women have head-coverings; is this because they are Muslim or the Taliban makes them wear these head-coverings?

[HCShannon]

@kennethj1956 NO most women covered their head, back than!

[bbcisrubbish]

I am sure I observed several children and adults bow legged due to rickets.

[farmerne]

@bbcisrubbish Yes. At 0:27 on the extreme right of the frame there is a man who is very bow-legged.

[petertownend]

@farmerne yeah the bow legged man is your grandad,he is bow legged because he has that much cock up his arse

[hargohargo]

that kid had a cute smile the sad fact is that boy probarbly had absouloutly nothing yet was still happy. compare that to the children of today

[owtatowttowt]

I love this stuff. me & mi brother've just watched 'e first V sighn. it's quite good, I reccomend it. yes!!

[dynamo400]

Hard but happy times, believe it or not my Grandad didnt even have shoes as a child in Preston and that was the 1920,s, strange when you compare todays selfish society with those times, I know one things for sure people in those days were a very tight community, nowadays everybodies being brought up to be selfish and uncaring.

[kennethj1956]

They were poor but very happy! Blissful! ....It was probably because they couldn't read the London Times..... Except for the two lads fighting fist-a-cuffs in the background....Imagine, Even the children here were too old to fight in WWII.

[hargohargo]

@kennethj1956 a lot of these kids were probarbly killed or wounded in ww1

[CarlosTadeus]

Essas pessoas que aparecem nesse filme jamais iriam sonhar que seriam vistos mais de 100 anos depois e um video para eternidade .

Seria Utopia imaginar que ainda tem alguma pessoa desse video ainda vivo . viva o Youtube

[undrugged]

Should we be sad to see child workers?

All I can see is happiness. Everybody together, working as a community. Children with smiles on their faces.

This is fascinating footage.

[thechosen2010]

There's me!

[OrganistGreg]

Can't believe all those child workers working in the mills :(

[ahmed742]

"Alas! if I could visit them and could tell them that how much advancement has been made in the filed of science and technology". would be the wordings of people after 1000 years.

[crystaltipps04]

Fantastic footage ....amazingly clear!

[marvy1118]

Poor kids had to work long days in the mills.

[ant697]

Why do the women in these films have blankets wrapped around their heads? Is it somthing to do with having to have their heads covered?

[FaerieCrone]

It was cold and damp. It has nothing to do with any kind of religious law. It was just the way women dressed back then.

[georgesturdy]

no it was just the dress code in them days. if you look at photos of the american west of the 1800s it was the same men wore caps or hats women wore shawls

[SteffanLlwyd]

Of the thousands of people I have met through my work, I never met two who were the same. No matter how many walk past the camera, all would be different... and interesting, with stories to tell.

[ant697]

While watching this film its strange to think that even if the little children lived to a hundred they would still be long dead by now.

[SteffanLlwyd]

My thoughts too....

[sabbath000eddy]

It's not strange for me. Not at all

[betsy1947]

Thank you for posting. I love these historic footages!

[sewitt60]

That's brilliant. More of this please.

[robgems2]

unfortunately have to have a silly video to get ratings.this is what you tube is about .

have a 1930's record to up load,badly needs a lancashire mill footage not already on .

[treguard1982]

Fascinating watch. Thanks :)