London Bridge, London (1926)

[betterman80]

What a great clip. Question for everyone - If you had the power to go back and spend 1 day walking london streets in any year/era, when would it be? Personally I would love to go back to the early 1600's before the great fire. All of those church spires and just the way of life would have been fascinating. Would love to hear your thoughts!!

[Slikhedgehog]

Anyone know the title of the song in the video?

[Scrabbler27]

Seeing it in colour, it makes it more real life and easy to understand. Thumbs up if you agree

[arsenaljsutliffuk]

Back when London was British.

[noonsight2010]

The view crossing the bridge has hardly changed! This clip has that tantalising "so near yet so far" feeling that history can bring. Thank you for posting it.

[andysim232]

wow what a Video!!!! Just thinking my Grandad was Still a young guy when this was taken! He died 5 years ago aged 86.

[WillShakespeare2007]

If you lived in 1926 you have a 99% chance of being dead. that is why the present is far better where you have a 99% chance of being alive.

[afertyus1000]

@WillShakespeare2007 my mumand dad are still here

[csno1]

@WillShakespeare2007 Enlighten us as to why this is the fact? I prefer to die in my homeland with my people than live an eternity in the multicult.

[WillShakespeare2007]

@csno1 - Because if you were alive in 1926 you would be born 85 years ago and therefore have a 99% chance of being dead.

Another interesting statistic is that the reason you are too stupid to work that out on your own is inextricably linked to you being a stupid racist arse. My grandfather did not die fighting the Nazis for me to put up with people like you. My homeland made it very clear that people who think like you are the ones that are not welcome in this land of freedom.

[csno1]

@WillShakespeare2007 Land of freedom? Please, leave out the unoriginal liberal platitudes. Your grandfather fought to stop his country being conquered. He did not fight to prevent the holocaust, to usher in a utopian multicultural world or to allow the third world to pour into Britain, he fought, like others, to protect his homeland from being invaded and to secure a future for his progeny, something that didn't paradoxically occur. People like me are English.

[WillShakespeare2007]

@csno1 - Well I'm English and I am not a racist cunt like you and I do not see being as racist cunt as an English value. Whether you like it or not this is a free country and racist scum like you will never have a say in how it is run. As an Englishman I have the right to my views and to choose who I marry from whatever nation I wish and for them to live here. People like you get the beating they deserve whenever they have the balls to take to the streets. You are a pathetic racist coward.

[csno1]

@WillShakespeare2007 Abstract values do not make you English. The English are an ethnic group who share a similar DNA and heritage, which automatically excludes those immigrants whom you love. What does a 'free country' mean Willy?

[superhamzah85]

@csno1

Well since we're 98% chimpanzee, how does this fit into your worldview?

Actually, how does being 30% daffodil fit into your worldview in terms of flora and fauna?

Are you against daffodils being in England?

Those are not serious questions, but don't talk about genetics when you couldn't tell a transcription error from an allele duplication if it hit you in the face.

Yours truly, child of an immigrant.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Don't talk down on the English people desire to keep England for English. Don't talk down on them for wanting to keep their culture. Don't talk down on them just because you have been conditioned to accept multiculturalism, a flawed idea only introduced for a mere few decades. If you want to talk down on them, talk down on the Japanese, Koreans, and East Europeans for still maintaining their culture. Do it. Or you can just move to Canada.

inb4 lol u racist

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Culture is for bacteria. I don't give a fuck about conforming to culture. You fail.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Even though you assimilated into western culture, and ignored my point, your actually trying to act clever. Go ahead, and hate the English people, Who cares. But, please, don't try to talk down on other peoples who want to maintain their heritage and future. Do you do the same to the Sami, and the Japanese. Do you?

Also, we are 98% related to chimpanzee, it's amazing what a mere 0.01% change in DNA, can completely change the organisms.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

It's you who cheapen humanity by using a term like "Western culture".

Or even Japanese culture....which is just nonsense. Your culture is your circle of friends and family - another circle is another culture. That's reality, deal with it.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 So you just admit that culture exists. Even when you try to pretend it doesn't matter

Too bad western culture and Japanese culture DO exist. Even many social scientist have seen the effect different cultures can have on language, world perspective. Sub-cultures are just within these larger cultures. I don't cheapen humanity, culture IS humanity. You cheapen humanity by telling others not to preserve their culture because you don't like it. Don't do that.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Do you know why there's police at football matches? Because of people who support their team, by hating supporters of the other team.

You have retardation of such high magnitude that you fail to see the difference between the above expressions of support. What exactly do I not like about English culture? If you can point out a SINGLE thing that the vast majority of the English do, that others don't do, that would be something of English culture.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Do it, provide one example of English culture, that is unique and widespread - then I will tell you if I HATE that. Google away, because you evidently know shit about the country. LOL

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Their language, their accent, their food, their mannerism, their history, their architecture, their clothing, their folk songs, their perspectives, their heritage, their haplogroups. All of this is culture. Culture isn't most important, but it's fundamental. I'm not even English, so why am I defending them from cunts like you? Because if you said the same shit about any other peoples. I would defend them out of principle because YOU DON'T HAVE A VALID ARGUMENT.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Language is English, 90% of people who speak english are not English. Fail.

Accent? Dumb shit, there is no one accent, every county has it's accent, and the lines blur at the Borders and the West Country, towards Wales. Not to mention the Cornish dialect that is now EXTINCT, and a dialect called Kentish which was once unique and now extinct.

Clothing? Jeans and suits are American and Italian origin.

Heritage? A word you use because you've run out of others.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Architecture? 90% of it is found elsewhere, but ok - let's say 10% of it is uniquely English - I HATE those buildings? LOL yeah....really get the red mist when I see an English building.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 The only respond you gave me was that you hate parts of English culture. Ok fine. Just like you hate the English people.That doesn't invalidate anything, that's still English culture. It exists, just check out wikipedia.

You said you were the child of an immigrant, yet you just shit on English culture. Why do you just throw swears like you're losing this argument. :| I'm sure you'll reply, after all you want to get the last post.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

You're below me, in knowledge and intellect. Time wasted is a regret I wish not to have.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

My own city has 3 accents. Each markedly different. The way you simplistically view this country is exactly what is expected from a fuck nut who doesn't even live here.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Second, you wanted me to provide examples of unique aspects of English culture. Those accents? Unique to England. The architecture? Prior to 1900s, all unique to England. The language, where do you think it came from? Clothing? Ever been to a folk festival? The monarchy, the heritage? Yeah, you said I ran out of words, but you NEVER responded to other unique aspects of English culture: Food, mannerism, perspective, songs. Not very logically eh? :\

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Accents HAVE to be unique you fuck nut otherwise they wouldn't be called accents. God fucking Christ you're dense.

Architecture is diverse, like it always has been.

Food? Number 1 food is Indian and Chinese.

Monarchy, brilliant - they're Germans.

Folk festival? HAHA - so...we should all dress in period clothing? You're done....you've gone loony now, and there's no hope.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Accents HAVE to be unique, developed by people in England a unique feature of English culture. God fucking christ you're dense.

So, I'm below your intellect. Above actually, I know you can't admit you are denying scientific evidence of the real impact and importance of culture, you insult me. Boy, the child of an immigrant, and he's denying science, reality, and being a self-entitled prick who swears at facts. God, I've met so many better immmigrants.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

No, you're inferior to me. Not because you're misinformed, but for example, in the same message, you acknowledge that I'm a CHILD of an immigrant, then end it by calling ME an immigrant. This is why you're inferior to me, because of faulty connections in your brain that impede short term memory as well as logic. You are fail in human form.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Actually, all the world culture's matter the most, Hey bro, I think you need to look up a dictionary, look up culture, because you clearly forgot. Oh, and give me a valid argument and why you think you can attack another person for preserving their culture.

Haha, what the fuck, I never even called you a immigrant, I just said I met better immigrants. They always seem to be better then their children. What fucking faulty connection in your brain did that

[superhamzah85]

I don't care if I was an immigrant - the history of humanity is about immigration. I'd be proud that I had the motivation to leave and aspire to something else. I however, don't wish to, unless it was something unmissable, like if I was a physicist offered a job as a at CERN, Or a Ninja apprenticeship in Japan, because that's Japanese culture right? Kimono, sushi and ninjas. That's Japanese culture.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 You bring up Japan. They deliberately have a strict immigration policy, it's very likely you wouldn't be able to apply for actual citizenship. Why do they do that? Because they want to maintain their culture and homogeneity. Kind of like the people you attacked.

Even though you deny the scientific evidence of the importance of human cultures on our lives, and threw insults. I find it agreeable, if you also agree that people have the right to preserve their culture.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

People don't have rights, individuals do. ALL have a right to vote - the result is a party without a strct immigration policy, every time - deal with it. The people have chosen. Loud mouths claim to speak for a silent majority, loud mouths always do.

[superhamzah85]

@superhamzah85

What do Japanese people wear to work? Maybe someone like you should tell them the massive conspiracy to Italianize them against their will. Maybe you should tell the Japanese that Mario and Luigi are not ancient feudal Japanese names, and that Solid Snake is based off Kurt Russell. Honestly, you'd think a country that has record breaking rock concerts, an Indian inspired religion or no religion at all would be more aware of this all, you should TELL THEM!

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Homogeneity in Japan? Yes, all Japanese people are the same. They all eat Miso soup, they all eat sushi and wash it down with sake, they all listen to Japanese folk music and they all kick ass with a freshly forged katana. Any more cartoonic depictions about an entire country? Any more profound ignorance of economics that COMPLETELY ignores the reality and instead bases it on "maintaining culture".

I am in the mood for more comedy, so go ahead...

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Uhh..you do know when I say homogeneity, I mean the ethnic makeup of Japan is homogeneous. Above 95%. After it became a successful economy, still FAR more homogeneous then related countries. Um, duh, google culture perspective on google scholar. Culture is environment. You really need a dictionary. I SAID THIS ALREADY, you ignored it.

Strange, you believe multicultural policy was voted for, you sounded libertarian but then believed in mob rule.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

You are strawman machine, I said "strict immigration policy was an option, that was not chosen" Then you say "you believe multicultural policy was voted for."

That is how simplistically you view the world, one or the other.

The fact is, most people, DON'T FUCKING CARE if brown people exist in the same city as they do.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Yes, the fact that Japanese language and script is basically impenetrable for most due to it's difficulty has NOTHING TO DO with it, and the fact the majority of a Western countrie's immigration is from a former colony. This has NOTHING to do with it.

You really are a dumb cunt...LOLLLL

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Sorry, one last thing. Japanese language DOES HAVE NOTHING TO DO with immigration policy. I'll tell you one last time: GOOGLE Japanese immigration policy. They even fingerprint and ID foreigners. Japanese is a former IMPERIAL POWER, still not many immigrants who are legal citizens.

Please, stop acting dumb.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

I have, every year, 15 thousand people in Japan, become citizens.

Please, stop acting dumb.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Please, it's the internet, all you had to do to avoid looking retarded was to google Japanese demographics, go to wiki, read this "Since the Japanese census asks about nationality rather than ethnicity, naturalized Japanese citizens and Japanese nationals with multi-ethnic backgrounds are considered simply to be Japanese in the population census of Japan"

Then avoid the raping on YouTube - unless you get turned on by pain. -_-

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Beautiful. The Japanese assimilate their 15 000, mostly people who are Asian too into their country. They adopt their language, their customs, their culture. They keep it strict so only the best can get in. Not even other Japanese people from other countries will get preferential treatment. Japanese culture is important.

Just like scotland. imagine if instead of 500000, only 15000, mostly white people came to live in UK and adoped the culture.

We see eye to eye :D

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Mostly people who are Asian?

Asians are half of mankind. Pretty crap, in Japan, Asian is meaningless. As meaningless as black in Africa. Stop projecting your own ideas on race onto other people.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Once again, preventative measures for internet rape were ignored. Google>ethnic issues in Japan>Wiki>Government Policy>First line:

"Because of the low importance placed on assimilating minorities in Japan, laws regarding ethnic matters receive low priority in the legislative process."

No wonder you're a failure, you think something of high importance merits low priority. Face it, YOU KNOW that people in Japan would be mostly expressing "wtf" at your statements.

[superhamzah85]

More: "Doudou Diène (Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights) concluded after an investigation and nine-day tour of Japan that racial discrimination and xenophobia in Japan primarily affects three groups: national minorities, descendants of former Japanese colonies and foreigners from other Asian countries.[30] In spite of the widespread belief that Japan is ethnically homogeneous, it is probably more accurate to describe it as a multiethnic society."

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

That's what you have, widespread beliefs - you know widespread beliefs are a property of culture.

Bullshit is a property of culture. And bullshit, is something you have PLENTY of.

I however, ignore bullshit, go directly to evidence, facts and reality, regardless of what everyone else thinks. The facts so far, 1 person every 30 minutes becomes Japanese, ethnic issues are with "Asians",

If you get along fine with people around you, you've adopted the culture.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

If you're a sociopath, local or foreign, you're always going to be an outsider. If you're a likeable, friendly person who speaks only half the language, dresses funny and eats weird things, then you're better off than an indigineous person who's a cunt.

That's reality, that's what i see in REAL LIFE all the time. You spew bullshit, for a bullshit world, that doesn't exist. YOU'RE the creationist.

[superhamzah85]

Your scientific sources, despite being entirely absent, will probably be summed up by "A person's surrounding environment affects the individual in certain ways."

How does this contradict what I said? I have said that very thing myself.

Now provide evidence that homogeneity is better than diversity. Last I checked, Japan was far more homogenous BEFORE it became one of the world's largest and most successful economies. Now, has Japan become MORE or LESS diverse since?

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 See, here's another problem. You think I believe homogeneity is better than diversity. Do you even know why I'm arguing, because you're some dumbass who wanted to act like a cunt because some people want to preserve their life. Then you make up bullshit definition that go against current though. You called culture a hobby for losers, what the fuck. Then you try to act superior like some self-entitled dumbass, but you NEVER gave me a strong argument.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

I was attacking csno1, I've debated with him in private - he's a National Socialist, in German, this is abbreviated to "Nazi".

He also believes in forced eugenics, so if, you fall in love with someone of the wrong race, HIS WAY would have you imprisoned or sterilized for pursuing it.

But defend him, by all means...I'm not attacking anyone for their way of life you fucking piece of shit, I'm attacking people who preserve themselves by destroying others.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 I'm done arguing. It's like arguing with creationist. I won't change your mind, you won't change my mind. You'll probably post one more comment just to act like you won. You "won" a youtube argument. I lost, because I actually tried to seriously argue in the fucking youtube comments. All I did was shit up this page, when I just wanted to view pre-1930s video of the world. I'm sad, you could have argued that culture could change, instead of making up bullshit.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

I will have the last word, to prove your ignorance one final time. In Japan, ethnicity is not categorized the same as in the West, where a black person, remains black, even if they have great grand children born there. In Japan, nationality counts, so if a Chinese, Korena, Malayan, Philipina, Mongolian, Fijian, Thai move to Japan, their children are classified as Japanese. The homogeneity is BECAUSE of the acceptance of other people, not the rejecting. Cunt.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Look up John Blanke on google. Quite an interesting dude. Ethnic minorities move to London, because....that's what's always happened, even in the time of Jesus, there were ethnic minorities in London. It always has been, seems you don't wish to preserve this CULTURAL aspect of London - why do you HATE this cultural aspect of London? lmao

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoon

FYI - the world is not becoming multicultural, have you seen the world lately? It is becoming both monocultural AND individualistic. Fly to any major city on earth, you can be pretty sure of what things to expect, right from a soft drink to a burger.

The British, and what was good about us, don't preserve cultures, we just spot wankers, we go to India, and see Hindu widows performing Sati (ritual suicide) and then we tell them to stop their culture or they'll hang.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 All those replies, but you fail to respond to what I said. Provide me a valid argument that gives you the right to tell people born into a culture to stop caring about it.

You said culture is just something between friends and family. Well, ethnic groups tend to intermarry throughout history. So culture exists, in fact google culture affects perception. You will find scholarly articles about the impact of culture on perception. Then, you call culture for losers...

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

There's actual culture, which is what I described, and then superficial culture, which is what YOU describe. Why are you struggling with that?

I'm not telling people what to care about, I'm telling THEM it's none of THEIR BUSINESS about OTHER people. If they want to live in a certain way, I don't care.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Sorry, you didn't describe actual culture. There is no such thing as superficial culture. English culture falls under actual culture. Culture between friends and family, is a subculture that forms a bigger culture. You are making up definitions that go against REAL definition. Why are you denying the scientific evidence on the impact cultures have on people language and perception. Why are you denying the works of social scientist. You don't have a valid argument

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

No, you're mixing up ENVIRONMENT and culture. If you're not surrounded by clothing in folk festivals, it is NOT your culture. Immediate local environment IS your culture. Whether you like it or not. The PAST is not your local environment, it is not your culture. And never can be, because time is linear. Now go and have a strong think about it - before embarassig yourself agai.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

You're also drawing artificial lines to support your argument. There are subcultures which are the most important to the individual, part of a larger subculture yes, you draw the line here. Why? England is a subculture of Britain, a subculture of Western Europe, a subculture of Europe, a subculture of Indo-European, a subculture of homosapien, a subculture of hominid apes, a subculture of primates, a subculture of mammals, a subculture of vertebraetes..

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

, a subculture of multicellular life, a subculture of eukaryote cellular life, a subculture of DNA, A a subculture of RNA, a subculture of organic chemistry a subculture of subatomic physics, a subculture of quantum theory a subculture of the big bang, a subculture of a multiverse...perhaps. But out of all that, England matters most. -_-

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Actually, all the world culture's matter the most, but you hate cultures. Good goy. Hey bro, I think you need to look up a dictionary, look up culture, because you clearly forgot. Oh, and give me a valid argument and why you think you have the right to attack another person for preserving their culture.

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

I have attacked no one - they can go to folk festivals, and eat whatever they want, and read about any history they want. I fully support anyone's right to eat, attend, and read whatever they wish as long as they don't stop anyone else doing the same.

Is that agreeable to you?

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Also, you inept cunt - look up, I like WillShakespeare2007, I hate csno1....both Englishmen. They are polar opposites, culture is for people who have no identity of their own. Losers, failures, shallow fuck nuts as I call them. Culture is a hobby, nothing more, treating it as the one thing that matters, is like treating anything as the only things matters - retarded. Now, kindly go fuck yourself.

[SlypherSpoons]

@superhamzah85 Culture is for losers, failures, shallow fucknuts. Culture is a hobby, even when social scientist can see the impact they have. Funny, you said everyone has a culture. I guess they are all losers. Don't project. All I want to do is say you don't have a legitimate argument against people who care about their lifestyle, their language, their perspectives. That's culture. All you do is insult people, how about you show some fucking consideration for the world?

[superhamzah85]

@SlypherSpoons

Consideration for the world? I am not interested in preserving as much as advancing.

England, comes from Angeln, Northern Germany, a name created by immigrants, forming a local Germanic dialect that's EVOLVED beyond recognition (search for old english poetry). What right do you have in how the future lives? None - that's their choice - right now is yours - people will preserve and change what they want, if the majority don't think like you - then tough shit.

[bertyUK]

Goose pimples watching this.

Why is everyone's spelling so bad in the comments?

[anitatime]

busy as ever hmmmm

[blackMark001]

it will falling down

[longlakeshore]

I used to tease my father, asking what it was like to grow up in a black and white world when he was a boy back then. He just laughed...

[akhenaten01]

Nice to see steptoe and son, doing there round.

[Cieplyhot]

beautiful probably 95% peoples is dead its very sadness im in depress and beautiful

[russfern]

no spy cameras to spy on you when you walk these streets.

[Linkage1992]

My grandma was a baby then...

And it's weird knowing that the Queen was a baby too.

[Letspreach]

Great clip.

[NintyGuy999]

wish i had a time machine, i would die to go back there and check it out

[Letspreach]

@NintyGuy999 I would, too. I'd swap it all for simplicity, space, and manners.

[Cool2BCeltic]

Amazing

[wla7777]

nothing changed

[Nigel16032009]

Is this really colour film from 1926, or has it been colourized by modern technology? I didn't think colour film was available back then.

[teebee1984]

@Nigel16032009 Colour film was available in the early 1900's, some of the Russian revolution was filmed in colour. However it was very expensive and therefore black and white was easier to produce :)

[OofusTwillip]

@Nigel16032009 - Colour film was available, but was still very much a novelty, due to the expense & complexity of the process. Experiments with colour film were being done as early as 1903.

[stoysville]

When England - was England...

[amarone1956]

It's sad to think that a few years later much of London had been destroyed by bombing.

[chanctonbury63]

@amarone1956 Then the town planners got hold of what was left......Not just London either. And we are still living with their legacy......They should have been lined up against a wall and shot.

[theHatchett1]

i'm stuying the knowledge of london to be a london taxi driver (black cabbie) and let me tell you....from south of the river to the north......it still to this day looks like that! amazing, nearly 100 years on and its the same, I love london so much! thanks for posting this

[amarone1956]

@theHatchett1 I'm from England, but live in the States, and I miss London so much. It's an amazing city.

[theHatchett1]

@amarone1956 yes mate it is, but i want to go to the states aswell, not to live but i've never been and its on my must see list, all the best

[edwards21416]

@amarone1956 was an amazing city i wouldn't go back there now

[glendonovan]

I have lived here since 1986. It's STILL amazing...

[GARRYKINGLIVE]

History makes one wonder in nostalgia and shed a tear for the things lost and those gained, but it sure does make you reminisce

[Quacky64]

this brings tears to my eyes. I walked over that very bridge for many years, seeing those very buildings every day!

[charlieiscool1000]

WRONG! Its Tower bridge even the BFI should know that 

[rlugg]

@charlieiscool1000 The camera is crossing London Bridge...

[theHatchett1]

@charlieiscool1000 sorry mate but that is london bridge.

[charlieiscool1000]

NO im talking about the bridge in the distance thats Tower bridge the camera is on london bridge

[theHatchett1]

@charlieiscool1000 ok, that's right then mate.

[LewEngBridewell]

Wow! I go across London Bridge often, and it's amazing to see what things were like all the way back then! Fantastic, and valuable footage. :)

[RUHDready]

thats tower bridge not london bridge :P

[LewEngBridewell]

@RUHDready ----- Yes, but the bridge over which the camera is travelling is London Bridge, and that is the focus of the video

[RUHDready]

@LewEngBridewell oh my mistake then

[katakisLives]

We are literally looking back at another world.

[Twinkle3067]

This is incredible. How wonderful to see how it once looked

[LeShark75]

Unreal footage, and the roads where busy then Lol.

[TannerG1989]

Old movies like these are just wonderful

[tonightwefly]

This bridge here is now in the U.S, moved stone by stone

[RUHDready]

@tonightwefly isnt it strange how things can be in two places at once? dickhead

[MagicMaximo]

Great! Thanks for sharing!

[amarsbarr]

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww­

[wilhelmschumann]

Wonderful Video!

I love it !

[TootsiePopluver12]

this quality looks amazing. wow.

[psynno1]

incredible footage

[MrSpunkbubble]

Where are the double yellow lines?

[yenavlump]

very informative i did not know london bridge was in london in londinium in the country of londonium

[dpydotsmw]

absolute disgrace

[MrSyrett]

Pointless comment, cheers

[Pateretfilius]

thetres a TROLL undeer there

[shirleyjay]

It is well-worth buying the BFI's DVD The Open Road, from which this is taken - it is superb. There was a disappointing TV programme made about it, but this is the real thing, and far more interesting and watchable. To watch it is like being in a true time machine.

[acerb45666555]

1920's was kind of like the 1960's! everyone went wacky havin fun! absinthe was a big seller!

[acerb45666555]

color film in 1926?! amazing! the Roaring 20's!!

[sallyfieldrequired]

there were experimental color footage as early as 1904 the first film footage ever was in 1886

[patlaws]

its not real colour film.alternate frames were tinted blue/green and red which when run give the illusion of natural colour.the technology was a dead end.try to see the whole film on dvd the rest is just as good!

[TheHPMan88]

@patlaws yh, u can see the red and blue outlines

[SechkiJjang]

wow i feel as if i lived there ..this footage is so awesome

[icerrk]

This is awesome !

[Unfassbarer]

It's realy from 1926 ?? It's amazing !

Greetings from Germany

[Georgiahulse]

Amazing!!! Really interesting to watch and see; I suspect the film has been slown down though to accomodate for the fast film speed?

[NightmareCwalk]

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[gibbi8]

I love looking at these old clips of London. I walk along this bridge regulary and I'm surprised that most of the buildings were around as early as 1926. London has changed a lot since since 1926 but at the same time it hasn't changed much at all.

[bethnalgreeen]

What a thriving scene the docks were in those days! In fact, right up until the 60s as I remember there was a lot of hustle and bustle on the river. Really added to the atmosphere. I find the Thames empty and lacklustre today......though I suppose the water is cleaner than it used to be.

[GARYMOORE1952no1fan]

Absoluelty brilliant video, my mum was 1 then back in 1926, sorry as i lost my mum this yr on christmas eve and ive always loved history this is great thankyou.

[afertyus1000]

@GARYMOORE1952no1fan yea my mum was 3 and my dad was 5 they are still around today though both housebound but not too bad

[RedHead531]

When Britain was leaving Indian, some Indians didn't want them to leave so they came with them. Now Britain is like the 2nd India ~!

[JohnsonofLondon]

You must also remember all the Indian sailors (Lascars) who arrived on ships and stayed in London.

[1991amerimex]

what the hell?

[RedHead531]

1991merimex[ wat im saying is that they should go back home *india) cause tehre is no room for the english in there own country now.

[soundslike2]

great shot of the beautiful newly built Adelaide House (on the right)and just before the bridge started to topple over after being widened 20 years earlier

[ukmarkh]

ProperStuff... what the hell is wrong with you, seriously why are you so angry. Just leave it for christ sake... and no we don't all have racism in us, so leave it.

[ProperStuff]

There you go again...dictating how and what people need to know.....if you cant handle the truth...then stay in the small hole you arose from..Punk!

[ProperStuff]

Anglo Saxons = Thiefs & Murderers.

[Dancing88Mike]

ProperStuff=Racist

[ProperStuff]

Mike ..you must be right....cos thats what you breed on.

[Dancing88Mike]

"cos thats what you breed on"...first off that makes absolutely no fucking sense. Secondly since your living in England you should learn to speak and write the language. For example "cos" WOW, really, learn English you dumb monkey. Also I wouldn't be talking about Caucasians that way since your living in England.

[ProperStuff]

Tut tut...it makes no sense because YOU were born without any sense....as for speaking english...its not the only language i can speak....which makes me a bit more fluent in languages than u...the word "cos" is a word i speak and about 90% of english white ppl...Monkeys are actually the same complexion as u..its the hair on its pink skin that makes you think it resembles me....i can also live in England and talk any way i wish...PUNK!

[2716219]

Racist moron, what is your problem you brain dead bigot? Get a life or p*ss off.

[ProperStuff]

we all have a tad of racism in us.......but in this page i cant see where your comment as come from....i have not said anything bad against anyone else of color. Certain ppl in ere have made comments and i have just corrected them...simple ...oh yeah by the way....i have got a life....brain dead?...that'll be ya wife.....she must be if she's with a spastic like you!

[2716219]

You really dont get it do you, you must be even more stupid than I originally feared. Dont bother me anymore and grow up sad excuse for a human being.

[ProperStuff]

Stop dictating what i should and shouldnt do....No1 I am not racist...No2 i am not brain dead No3 I know i have more a life than you.

[blacksmithdog1]

"No1 I am not racist"? You wrote anglo-saxons = thiefs & murderers. That is racist. Then you say "we all have a tad of racism in us", so you are admitting you're a racist. Then to be even more offensive you use words like "spastic"!

It's easy to be an arsehole and leave the sort of comments you've left. It takes a bit more effort to try to be a decent human being. Try it some time.

[SOUTHSIDER1985]

grow up

[Sibelius92]

The pace of life seems to have been much slower then; it's a bit busier and faster now. Shame!

[ybot1983]

ah when all the bus drivers were anglo saxons

[twoslices]

First colour wow!

[Ommodawn]

Incredibly valuable footage.

[nawffoh]

Freakin' awesome.