Manchester Band of Hope Procession (1901)

[Sexoversex]

things have changed.....back 111years ago...look how things are changed by characteristics...women did have shame back then...amazing just spreads peace and wisdom that was the English tradition back then....this commercialized fucked up world know! :(

[jnmklo9]

Many of the young ones - boys - would have gone to fight in WW1 13 years later

[chadberry75]

I WONDER IF MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER COULD B IN THIS FILM..

[greenisland75]

110 years later we are still hoping ...

[reflectarts]

The starched white collars of the boys, was an indication of their future male dignity. The white collar describes a future marriage, that which could be spoken was forthwith symbolically said via the high collar.

[ginecologist]

ALL DEAD. People are looking at us beyond the grave. Father Time does not forget anyone

[stuntmanloco]

Btitch at 1.44 be fine.

[raymond52044]

What a wonderful view of the fight to be free of alcohol. I am a Dry. Consuption of alcohol has helped to cause my family generations of pain. One day we will be free of it. Right now I can live without it.

[HappyandCheery]

@raymond52044 Prohibition didn't work remember....

[knausspiano]

Wonderful movie in our great City. Smiling faces now all gone. Wonder how many of these lads perished in the Great War?

[MaryOMackie]

Procession of ghosts.

[crockyoshighty]

Notice that there are no obese people in these clips. I'm not trying to be mean to obese people by saying this, it's just an observation. I wonder about the affects on humans from all the chemicals put into animals to make them larger, for we are ingesting these chemicals as well, so dose this have the same effect on us over time?

[MaryOMackie]

Are you kidding, back then, you'd be lucky to be fat. Hunger was a fact of life, but maybe that's good for humans! Maybe humans should stay hungry. These people occupied their time with other activities. They kept diligent and busy and it kept their mind off the hunger. Laziness must have been the worst sin back then.

Only the rich could afford such a luxury as boredom, laziness and being a fat pig!

[WC3POchannel10A]

"Pledged in a Noble Cause" indeed. However, you can never stamp out alcohol. Even if you could, humans are very capable of finding other ways of destroying themselves with other chemicals.

[yogihaughton]

Wow, all those people back in the day, I wonder how it all turned out for them. I'm from Manchester, it's crazy to think that my great, great gandmother or grandad could jus' of been staring me in the face lol. Great footage.

[crockyoshighty]

How funny you should say that, I was watching a clip filmed in london in 1903 and wrote almost the exact same thing about my great great grand father.

[powerspade]

I used to go to Band of Hope when I was kid

[artistic0director]

manchester isagreat city