Thanks England for selling Canarian bananas in your market. This video demonstrates that Canaries and English commerce were together in many aspects. We worked as one force, despite of political issues. A long time before, we had British tourism here, no matter what false history says. It's a fact.
Our harbour was made both by English and Canarian workers. Even Agatha Christie knew where she was... In the best touristic place she could be. B.R. from Gran Canaria!
buckingham palace has hardly changed at all it looks the same as today the only thing that has changed about london really is the different people and cultures there now are
@charlieiscool1000 The cars, the buses, the buildings are clean, there is no coal smog, the cabbies are rude, so are the Police and glory be, God has given us the mighty Gherkin! `Part from that...same old Londinium really.
Why does someone always have to knock the British Empire? Weren't savage, unfair governments replaced with civilized law and justice 99% of the time anyway? If England is so vile, why do so many from their former colonies still clamor to move there? One more question, why is it so often Americans (like me) defending England and not the English? Buck up, Brits! Don't let the P.C. whiners get away with their whimpering about the Empire. Wonderful old film. Thanks for the post.
Point taken and understood. Having your culture & heritage changed is unnerving - something you can relate to now BUT here is the rub. Are your culture & traditions being replaced by a better set of values? As a freedom lover I would say not, so there is no moral equivalency between the Brits being robbed of their heritage today and the colonization of the empire. Don't let the leftists talk you into thinking there is, if you are a freedom lover. "Go Commie to prove shame of the Empire" NOT!
The American colonies were the first to tell them to stuff it, but we don't blame our problems on English Colonization or attempt to shame them. We kept English Common Law and most social traditions. Kind offer, but no cigar. :-)
My ancestors fought in the Revolution. My family was in America long before the Revolution. I am a patriotic American and the British have a right to be patriotic and proud of their history as well.
@stellalouise1 Kind of you to defend the British Empire. Unfortunately your analysis of the benevolence of the Empire is a little inaccurate. But I agree, it's a fascinating film.
@0LolaLola Stop stalking me on You Tube and go watch a few Abbie Hoffman clips. There are plenty of things like that out there that would be more to your taste. Maybe someone has posted a few things from the Vagina Monologues?
@stellalouise1 How completely wrong you are. The empire used the law for one thing only to protect trade, the rest of civilian law was barely touched. The disgusting racism and use of slave labour to build the empire is well documented. It took a parliamentary speech by Edmund Burke to get even a little done in colonies like India, on the whole all colonies were left broken and open for dictatorship. It's Americans like you who defend this because America is the replacement colonial empire.
@nakedmambo I think you are a bit sheltered. There is no country on the earth that does not exist as the result of a conquest - no stone throwing allowed here. Compare the British Empire to every other one in history. As little as 100 years ago, EVERYONE was "racist". What other superpower would allow an Edmund Burke to even speak, much less have a conscience about it? You are judging it on modern sensabilities which is grossly unfair. I don't mind speaking up to Uncle Joe Stalin lovers at all.
@nakedmambo .....Continued....Besides, how can you look at India and see a failure? The British did more for India than you care to look at. Without the British, widows would still be climbing on funeral pyres and millions of people would still be officially "untouchable" just to name two. India is a thriving nation, in no small thanks to the way the British left it - better off than when they found it. Note - I did NOT say that everything every British official did there was wonderful.
@stellalouise1 I think I have a far longer and better understanding of it than you ever will. Firstly I am English, secondly my grandfather was among the last of the 'employees' of the British East India Company with first-hand experience of what really went on in India and similar colonies.
Millions of people were still untouchable after 1947 and British rule encouraged the caste system as an analogue to the class system. It was abolished AFTER independence.
@nakedmambo Everyone knows that the British East India Company was unfair and even brutal to many Indians and that to live under colonial rule can be nearly insufferable. My own ancestors lived under it. If it pleases you to be a self hating English Commie, there is nothing I can do to about it. It does not make you superior to your ancestors or anyone else. Yes, India is still guilty of doing the things the English discoraged. Pointing to Germany as a conquestless nation is insane.
@stellalouise1 Everyone who disagrees with you is a 'Commie". I'll be blunt with you: fuck off you American sack of shit. There's no sense in me carrying out discussion with half-educated people.
@stellalouise1 Widows were still climbing on pyres as late as Indira Gandhi's term. As for countries only existing out of conquest, that's just nonsense. Modern Germany didn't come into existence 'because' of conquest. Many countries have changed because of conquest, but this is not the same thing as living under brutal colonial rule. You estimate more benefit than reflects reality.
Visited London in 1979. Wonderful city. Sad to think that when these pictures were taken, bombs would be falling only two years later. Wish they would have shown more people having fun, like in the pubs and dancing.
old type webbing ,and the packs on there backs is a highly folded greatcoat as worn during the winter order, today you just wouldn't get away with having the same type equipment , cost etc....
There wouldn't be any, would there? It was 1938. Probably a lot of othere things not there that there are now. There were lots of Nazi supporters and othere idiots though, I am told. And lots of poverty and injustice.
Ahh, back in the days when all Guardsmen were TALL (no less than six feet tall!) soldiers that commanded a great deal of respect.
emptyangel 3 months ago
this film was made in 1928, not 1938.
decomanify 1 year ago
Thanks England for selling Canarian bananas in your market. This video demonstrates that Canaries and English commerce were together in many aspects. We worked as one force, despite of political issues. A long time before, we had British tourism here, no matter what false history says. It's a fact.
Our harbour was made both by English and Canarian workers. Even Agatha Christie knew where she was... In the best touristic place she could be. B.R. from Gran Canaria!
gatsby31 1 year ago
buckingham palace has hardly changed at all it looks the same as today the only thing that has changed about london really is the different people and cultures there now are
charlieiscool1000 1 year ago
@charlieiscool1000 The cars, the buses, the buildings are clean, there is no coal smog, the cabbies are rude, so are the Police and glory be, God has given us the mighty Gherkin! `Part from that...same old Londinium really.
chanctonbury63 11 months ago
No audio??
MrMal888 2 years ago
Duuuuuh it's filmed in 1938.....
gottabiggin69 2 years ago
Good Old England! Lovely to see........
radioianj 2 years ago
Why does someone always have to knock the British Empire? Weren't savage, unfair governments replaced with civilized law and justice 99% of the time anyway? If England is so vile, why do so many from their former colonies still clamor to move there? One more question, why is it so often Americans (like me) defending England and not the English? Buck up, Brits! Don't let the P.C. whiners get away with their whimpering about the Empire. Wonderful old film. Thanks for the post.
stellalouise1 2 years ago 19
But, what we did to them back then is what our Marxist Government is trying to do to us now...trying to erase our culture and heritage.
So we can see it through their eyes because the same thing is happening to us now.
aeronuk1 2 years ago
Point taken and understood. Having your culture & heritage changed is unnerving - something you can relate to now BUT here is the rub. Are your culture & traditions being replaced by a better set of values? As a freedom lover I would say not, so there is no moral equivalency between the Brits being robbed of their heritage today and the colonization of the empire. Don't let the leftists talk you into thinking there is, if you are a freedom lover. "Go Commie to prove shame of the Empire" NOT!
stellalouise1 2 years ago 3
Mmmm maybe the USA would like to give up her independence to the English then?
BillDFC 2 years ago 3
The American colonies were the first to tell them to stuff it, but we don't blame our problems on English Colonization or attempt to shame them. We kept English Common Law and most social traditions. Kind offer, but no cigar. :-)
stellalouise1 2 years ago
I think you were part of the British empire at one time.( Not to confuse Britain with England).
Many of my countrymen fought for American independence.
BillDFC 2 years ago
My ancestors fought in the Revolution. My family was in America long before the Revolution. I am a patriotic American and the British have a right to be patriotic and proud of their history as well.
stellalouise1 2 years ago 9
Lovely stuff.....Soar Alba.
BillDFC 2 years ago
@stellalouise1 thank you from an englishman as well as american living in illinois
englishman2000 1 year ago 3
@stellalouise1 THEIR HISTORY IS PART OF OURS
BOSTONBUCK 9 months ago
@stellalouise1 Kind of you to defend the British Empire. Unfortunately your analysis of the benevolence of the Empire is a little inaccurate. But I agree, it's a fascinating film.
mikelheron20 1 year ago
@stellalouise1 Usually those moaning about "PC" people are emotionally stunted
0LolaLola 1 year ago
@0LolaLola Stop stalking me on You Tube and go watch a few Abbie Hoffman clips. There are plenty of things like that out there that would be more to your taste. Maybe someone has posted a few things from the Vagina Monologues?
stellalouise1 1 year ago
@stellalouise1 SO TRUE, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.
BOSTONBUCK 9 months ago
@stellalouise1 How completely wrong you are. The empire used the law for one thing only to protect trade, the rest of civilian law was barely touched. The disgusting racism and use of slave labour to build the empire is well documented. It took a parliamentary speech by Edmund Burke to get even a little done in colonies like India, on the whole all colonies were left broken and open for dictatorship. It's Americans like you who defend this because America is the replacement colonial empire.
nakedmambo 4 months ago
@nakedmambo I think you are a bit sheltered. There is no country on the earth that does not exist as the result of a conquest - no stone throwing allowed here. Compare the British Empire to every other one in history. As little as 100 years ago, EVERYONE was "racist". What other superpower would allow an Edmund Burke to even speak, much less have a conscience about it? You are judging it on modern sensabilities which is grossly unfair. I don't mind speaking up to Uncle Joe Stalin lovers at all.
stellalouise1 4 months ago
@nakedmambo .....Continued....Besides, how can you look at India and see a failure? The British did more for India than you care to look at. Without the British, widows would still be climbing on funeral pyres and millions of people would still be officially "untouchable" just to name two. India is a thriving nation, in no small thanks to the way the British left it - better off than when they found it. Note - I did NOT say that everything every British official did there was wonderful.
stellalouise1 4 months ago
@stellalouise1 I think I have a far longer and better understanding of it than you ever will. Firstly I am English, secondly my grandfather was among the last of the 'employees' of the British East India Company with first-hand experience of what really went on in India and similar colonies.
Millions of people were still untouchable after 1947 and British rule encouraged the caste system as an analogue to the class system. It was abolished AFTER independence.
nakedmambo 4 months ago
@nakedmambo Everyone knows that the British East India Company was unfair and even brutal to many Indians and that to live under colonial rule can be nearly insufferable. My own ancestors lived under it. If it pleases you to be a self hating English Commie, there is nothing I can do to about it. It does not make you superior to your ancestors or anyone else. Yes, India is still guilty of doing the things the English discoraged. Pointing to Germany as a conquestless nation is insane.
stellalouise1 4 months ago
@stellalouise1 Everyone who disagrees with you is a 'Commie". I'll be blunt with you: fuck off you American sack of shit. There's no sense in me carrying out discussion with half-educated people.
nakedmambo 4 months ago
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@nakedmambo Well, it didn't take long for your true colors to show.
stellalouise1 4 months ago
@stellalouise1 Widows were still climbing on pyres as late as Indira Gandhi's term. As for countries only existing out of conquest, that's just nonsense. Modern Germany didn't come into existence 'because' of conquest. Many countries have changed because of conquest, but this is not the same thing as living under brutal colonial rule. You estimate more benefit than reflects reality.
nakedmambo 4 months ago
Visited London in 1979. Wonderful city. Sad to think that when these pictures were taken, bombs would be falling only two years later. Wish they would have shown more people having fun, like in the pubs and dancing.
fliegeroh 2 years ago 2
AMAZING.
rhomo 2 years ago
One quick question, how come the guards back then had so much stuff to carry compared to the guards today?
emptyangel 3 years ago
old type webbing ,and the packs on there backs is a highly folded greatcoat as worn during the winter order, today you just wouldn't get away with having the same type equipment , cost etc....
woodenz 3 years ago
Holy Jesus priceless footage.
emptyangel 3 years ago 2
Post war Europe needed immigrants as a source of cheap labor. As Europe was almost bankrupt.
poodtang1 3 years ago
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Britain should have been arming itself to the hilt at this time.
Chamberlain was a jackass.
As for immigrants that's what you get for colonizing countries you shouldn't have been going into.
poodtang1 3 years ago
this was our country
foursticks4 3 years ago 4
no pakistan , indians, asian , arab full the streets of london that time
thanks for this awesome video
khelaan 3 years ago
There wouldn't be any, would there? It was 1938. Probably a lot of othere things not there that there are now. There were lots of Nazi supporters and othere idiots though, I am told. And lots of poverty and injustice.
jiver222 3 years ago
Fascinating ! In those days you could walk into Downing Street and pose for a photograph outside Number 10.
pridex8 3 years ago 3
you could do it up to the early 80s. Me and my family did it was I was a kid in 1976, we have a family movie of it.
BNCA70 3 years ago
Please put it on.
Pridex8
pridex8 3 years ago
Please put it on. I would love to see it. I went on a tour of the House of Commons by my local MP around that time.
pridex8 3 years ago
Splendid film, utterly interesting!
NODDINGCAT 3 years ago
That's not Prince Phillip placing the wreath, that's King George VI.
Not Harold Macmillan at Downing St, either: its Neville Chamberlain.
hoskingrj 3 years ago
Thanks. I have made the corrections.
travelfilmarchive 3 years ago