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!
There's clear class distinction, but what an amazing piece of footage depicting real life on the streets of Manchester in 1901.
What do we have for the same streets 110 years later? Rioting and mindless looting for a few pairs of trainers at Foot Locker. We are so much more civilised these days.
GHOSTS!!! haunting is the feeling i get when watching these clips of the past..strange to think we all be ghosts and nothing but memories in the shadows of the future generations.
que grande que contemos con documentos como este, que nos sitúan de lleno en la situación que se vivía hace relativo poco tiempo, pero en el que todo ha cambiado mucho
@Astronomy97 If the little boy in white is still with us...which I doubt very much...he'd be around 115 years old by now. I wonder who he was and what kind of a life lay in store for him. It's possible that he was one of many youngsters seen in this film who ended up being killed in the First World War, by which time he would have been around 20 years old. Also, as most people at the time couldn't afford a camera, this may be the only photographic record of those on the film as they were then.
it's strange seeing children in old fims,young chidren are the living embodyment of what it is to be young fresh,new and current. It is strange who grew up,loved his loves,did his jobs and died all before i came into this world.
looking at this picture i was just thinking all these people had no idea that in future people will be using computers, cellphones, i pods,skype television etc etc just to name a few just like that we dont know what things people will be using after 100 years....
So many of those young lads will have fought in the trenches just a few years later, now their names are on war memorials that are being forgotten. RIP brave lads, lest we forget
@TheParanormalpunk lol. It's funny actually because people in those days were only just getting used to standing still to pose for a camera. When people aimed moving picture cameras at them, they just stood still like their picture was being taken. They didn't know that they could move about. lol
JUST THINK I COULD B LOOKING AT MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER. IN THAT FILM..ONLY IF THERE WAS A TIME MACHINE...IT WOULD B INTRESTING 2 SEE HOW CRAZY YOUR FAMILY TREE..REALLY IS.
little did they know that after countless generations of hard work and countless wars to defend their homeland and nation and two world wars theyr streets are going to end up with silent invasion called multiculturalism
Michio kaku believes that by the time we reach type 1 most of the world will be multicultural. It will be standard in the west to have a mix. that's the result of technology making the world alot smaller mate. People are able to get the best they possibly can. I can imagene if trends continue china and the far east will be the leader in sciences with europe and NA trailing behind. The west will probably be a meeting place of culture with mono culturalism here and there.
yes,multiculturalism can work in some places but in most it cannot. It worked in america because of how it was basically founded. Also all the spanyards in brazil
Wow! It's like a different era! 110 yeas ago this was! To think that we would be watching people like OURSELVES from 110 years ago. Do you think they would know we would see them today?
@RoninAvenger Seeing with what we have to deal with today? Just a few years after this was made the First World War started and I'll bet you that a few of the young men/boys in this film were killed.
why in every one of these videos do english people point to multiculturalism and muslims a failure of society.
england peeps you are set to be a minority within the next 100 years. I suggest you hop over to the main land. Watered down identity and slowly declining crappy country is not worth shit anymore.
All of those people here are gone. Probably every item, every garment and object including the people have gone back into the ground as the molecules and atoms are recycled, some to eventually form other things. Life...is very very wierd. But I like it.
@pykkervots Interesting statement. I was pondering the same thing. All the garments,paper,wood,horses bones even the human beings,all gone back into the ground. Probably only a afew of the stone structures still stand. Its amazing how in 110 years a lot of us will be disintegrated also as well as our articles.
This is beautiful footage. With regard to the arguement see has grown on here, life was very different in asian, indian and in fact England. You have choice to come to this county,most of the time is because the county is under communied rule. or some other dictatorship and it is the same today. If you dont like England, you can always go back, simple really
Imagine bringing one of these people back today, and asking them: "what were you most proud about in the time when you lived?". "The Empire, being British, and being Christian" is probably what he would have said. To which we would reply "sorry dude, see--we got this thing today called Political Correctness. Which means you can't say anything that might "offend" anyone's "sensibilities". Today we teach our kids to be ashamed of those things you were proud of. BTW--have you ever heard of Shiara?"
@boy18inva Interesting that you use an americanism, in 'dude', when making your point about how politcial correctness has changed the landscape of Britian. The World got smaller, globalisation kicked in. And as a result people from all backgrounds and cultures live in Britian. Thats why Britian, and the vast majority of Western Countries, have changed drastically. Political Correctness isnt why we've change, its merely a by-product of the change.
Think for a second and you'd realize that many millions of Europeans (and Africans) crossed the oceans and settled the New World and Australasia long before the current age of "globalisation." And Japan and S. Korea perform very well in the contemporary world and remain very homogeneous. Only historically white countries are expected to enthusiastically endorse racial replacement and ethnic cleansing of their white populations.
Has anyone else noticed how, in these films, you see almost none if any obese or overweight people? Compared a typical street scene that would be filmed today?
Did they just eat less than we do today? Work harder? Was it poor health?
I was looking at some of my old family photographs from about 90 years ago--pictures of casual street scenes just like this one. No fat butts!
That i dont no why they do it... its rare but ive seen videos of today and a man dressed up as a 1901 luxury suite with that 1901 hat walking by and yes with a umbrella on his hand. Know that i dont no why but must be some sort of remembering and tradition where sometimes you might see a men dress up like that in london business districts ? Also notice the classic taxis cars.. though these do look more 1950s but alittle ugly side of cars just black. But that brings the royal luxury by all.
I allways forcus on the fashion and people walking by.. If yhou where for example see any differents between 1996 vs 2010 would you think anyone would still look the same fashion shirt.. jeans... hat.. such ? not much of a huge differents..... but i allways wander if clothing fashion would of change anytime between 10 years time.... I gues if you where to go to london walk into the city you might kinder see now and then a very UK business men wearing a complete 1901 suite with its hat.
Yes it is very interesting stuff i can not believe this is actualy 1901. I was watching a 1896 video and then a 1920 videos of this sorts of things and looks like the fashion of dressing up has not actually change one bit at all... i gues slow moving on fashion. but there was a huge differents from 1921 when ladies no longer wears these huge frock costume looks..... But how about the boys ? still wearing the same fashion since 1896 all the way to 1921 ? i wonder why that is...
I gues its like todays days.. when people would stare at the camera men whos actually filming at a busy intersection road with people passing by.. hehe. things just havnt change.
@dbacks4life Hi well they would look at the camera men but that doesnt mean evwryone would be thinking what is that grangled constrapition... its not like in 1901 everyone was thinking way different... even they had future controversy about what the future would look like..... Its pretty much like todays human... todays human people would imagine visual ideas what the future would look like... for example cars that would fly... robots in our streets.... stuff like that...
@zederish Well if it was Africa the liberal left would be calling it ethnic cleansing but here they call it 'multiculturalism', Apparently its something we all want but the same people daren't ask us. The benefits of 'multiculturalism' are in our prisons for everyone to see, per head of population Muslims make up 13% alone!
@fu4nvf shall we send all muslims to their country and bring all british people home including soldiers from all muslim countries such as emirates and malaysia and indonesia and qatar and we totally block any transport between our nation and them?
@zederish then you should be able to show us some pictures where there are more genuine Brits on their streets than them. We see more foreigners than genuine Brits here, FACT
@fu4nvf ask some one who has been there. The racism is the biggest problem of the UK which is turning this country into some miserable place which people think they still live in 1800. It is the government fault by its propaganda creating image that Britain and US are best places in the world and rest of the world is watching us and any other country is a shithole full of terrorists.
@fu4nvf they blame foreigners for every nasty thing in britain bcoz in reality is their fault for fighting with imaginary terrorists for oil companies (BP). people are loosing their lives for oil companies and they say we keep britain safe but its just increasing the hatred against British citizens. Think twice
@zederish Statistics speak louder than words and we wouldn't have race issues if the public was given a say on this, hell we wouldn't be getting ethnically cleansed now that's for sure. If these people were everything you liberal lefties thought their own countries wouldn't be the cesspit's they are!
Now perhaps you want to change the story because it seems you have zero facts to back yourself up
@zederish People like you make this country such a joke,muslims are laughing in our faces about how soft this country is and all you do is come up with this crap about britain in other countries,when british people move abroad they buy a home with there own money they pay for there own medical treatment,british put money into new countries muslims take take take,the worst towns for fraud in this country are all largely muslim thats FACT but some one like you would say its a coincidence.
@2hotgotshot When we go abroad we do NOT buy things with our real money. Britain has no productivity ( we buy every thing even our food from other countries) and also we got no oil, so where our money comes from? we wait for the US to attack some country for their oil or mines then we also go there like a buzzard and we make money from their oil. and our medical treatment has one of the worst rating in the world. This is banana republic of Britain
@zederish Do you work for the government because the crap you spout you cant be a proud english man,great britain wasnt built on being this easy soft ride for foreigners who can come here claim every penny they want including fake accidents,fake children,i know this for a fact i have spoken to many muslims who say it themselves,pakistan is the most corrupt country in the world and guess what ? these blood sucking,terrorist supporting,dont mix with english they dont like english,FACT.
@Solidrock57 You mean all the countries that were to stupid to do anything for themselves. Countries that were prosperous under British rule but now back to third world status again like Zimbabwe. Look in the mirror rather than scrounging and blaming others
I wish people of today could dress as fashionably and classy as these people did. What happened, anyway? Why did generation after generation, people in general started to dress more and more sloppy and cheap? A lot of the girls today look like hookers in their tight low cut clothes. And worse yet, they seem to be proud of this look. They look like street trash. A lot of the men just look plain sloppy too. Baseball caps. Sagging, torn jeans. What happened???
Clothing back then wasn't all perfect either. The corsets women wore mangled their bodies which caused many to die from consumption and it's hard to imagine American civil War soldiers wearing all wool uniforms in the muggy heat during the summers in the South. Though, I agree that people generally dressed more smartly back then. Your appearance was considered both a matter of honouring other people as much as much as honouring yourself. People don't think that way anymore.
Clothing back then wasn't all perfect either. The corsets women wore mangled their bodies which caused many to die from consumption and it's hard to imagine American civil War soldiers wearing all wool uniforms in the muggy heat during the summers in the South. Though, I agree that people generally dressed more smartly back then. Your appearance was considered both a matter of honouring other people as much as much as honouring yourself. People don't think that way anymore.
i would love to hear the sounds of that busy street, the horses hooves and cart wheels ,, imagine crossing that street after a few beers lol properly get knocked down or fall face down in a pile of horse shit lmao...
everyone in the old day dresses up so well. compare to now... its so messy and color ful. I love life in those days, and can you imagine all of those people walking in the streets. doing their work are now all gone? i have a weird feeling whenever i think about that, yet i love it. i love eeverything about old films, it's just so magical
what a fantastic part of history. love this video, thank you for posting it. people really did have time for each other , i think technology has played a big part in less people interacting with each other like they used to,, very sad but time has to move on i guess. we too will be history one day.
who knows that teenage boy might be your great grand uncle or some one who might have some relationship with you. it might be coincidently that you have pin pointed him....only god knows
I think this video is so beautiful just to think people are actually going about there daily lives not knowing that 100 years later people will be watching them.
Im just so grateful to see a glimpse of what life was like back in those times.
amazing too this footage its over 100 years old and those ppl had no idea how much the world would change and what lay ahead most of them prob died before the 2nd world war
Good thing most of the young people here died in the trenches of France; if not in France the Spanish flu got em. This is the way of nature making room for new generations like yourself. So give thanks to wars and epidemics or we would be over-run and infested with too many people. ...Roger, wilco , over and out!
it was better back then as you could legally whip and beat the working class hordes. they should bring hanging back for theft and return 1st and 2nd class sections on public buses. as they do on rail and air. i dont want to sit next to some cheap suited call centre worker..
@ianupton Ha Ha. Funny Guy. Very Imaginative Comment. I guess your ancestors got beaten regularly, worked down mines as children, many branches dying in large numbers before reaching their fifth birthday and you approve? Killing Joke, Man.
Must have stunk to high heaven with all the horse droppings around. Imagine after a rain on a humid summer day. About 15 or 20 pounds of puky per horse per day. What a mess.
I don't know how one can look at this and not fully appreciate a glimpse of what we never were mean't to see. I'm so greatful for Edison , I just can't express it.
@viloloco5 there were many pioneers of moving pictures. Edison was just one of them. Louis Le Prince was probably the first and he disappeared soon after meeting Edison, never to be seen again.
My Grandmother was alive then, she would have been 6 years of age as would my Grandfather. If I could travel back in time it would be to that period. I love the modesty of the clothes the women wore.
Thankyou. Somebody at least, agrees with me. I say clothes reflect the values of society and it is very obvious they has much more modesty than today. The women dressed more smartly than they do today.
@classicalgirl01 Quite true-I don't know who are worse men or women but notice there were no track suits or trainers and not a replica football shirt in sight.
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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!
darrenburnfan 4 hours ago
I think i saw baby Ryan Giggs there...
sveisleif 1 week ago
There's clear class distinction, but what an amazing piece of footage depicting real life on the streets of Manchester in 1901.
What do we have for the same streets 110 years later? Rioting and mindless looting for a few pairs of trainers at Foot Locker. We are so much more civilised these days.
NorthernGirl74 1 week ago
GHOSTS!!! haunting is the feeling i get when watching these clips of the past..strange to think we all be ghosts and nothing but memories in the shadows of the future generations.
agaichapter25 1 week ago
R.I.P Manchester
JohnGoneYokoLoco 4 weeks ago
What is this music? It's beautiful and hypnotic...
drummerman63 1 month ago
It is such an odd feeling to watch this and know every single one of them is dead. It really speaks to just how pitifully short human existence is.
MrSockoOck 1 month ago
i cant spot a person without a hat! sadly no one wears hat nowadayz
rautrohit 1 month ago
Unrecognisable now. It's all glass, steel and concrete nowadays, which is good as it's a lot cleaner and generaly a prettier city.
jake27990 2 months ago
beautiful and sad...all these people are dead :(
Pedy1968 2 months ago
nestle milk @ :28, back then these were there ads, awesome
92vtaklude 2 months ago
Why were street scenes filmed around the turn of the last century anywhere in the world so CROWDED and PACKED with people? Always!
gvt2u 2 months ago
Watching these films is like taking a trip in a time machine.
farmerne 2 months ago
you wait an hour for a tram then 3 come along at once, nothings changed in 100 years
lightowler111 3 months ago
que grande que contemos con documentos como este, que nos sitúan de lleno en la situación que se vivía hace relativo poco tiempo, pero en el que todo ha cambiado mucho
hotelesbaratoscom 3 months ago
man all those horses.... I wonder how messy the roads were
meuhey 4 months ago
Oh my God, at 1:07 he's damn dead now...
Astronomy97 4 months ago 3
@Astronomy97 If the little boy in white is still with us...which I doubt very much...he'd be around 115 years old by now. I wonder who he was and what kind of a life lay in store for him. It's possible that he was one of many youngsters seen in this film who ended up being killed in the First World War, by which time he would have been around 20 years old. Also, as most people at the time couldn't afford a camera, this may be the only photographic record of those on the film as they were then.
darrenburnfan 2 months ago
@Astronomy97
it's strange seeing children in old fims,young chidren are the living embodyment of what it is to be young fresh,new and current. It is strange who grew up,loved his loves,did his jobs and died all before i came into this world.
=(
menacinghat 1 month ago
looking at this picture i was just thinking all these people had no idea that in future people will be using computers, cellphones, i pods,skype television etc etc just to name a few just like that we dont know what things people will be using after 100 years....
1975siralex 4 months ago
all dead
Leitmotivation 5 months ago
@Leitmotivation scary though really.
RawStreams 5 months ago
@RawStreams *thought***
RawStreams 5 months ago
i love how they look at the camera. this is pretty cool stuff. i see dead people now
laura20022004 6 months ago
This is great!!
DanceDecksUk 6 months ago
Love to go back in time and have a pint or 6 in 1 of them pubs.
LokiV 6 months ago
6p for a show. =D
LynxCoding 6 months ago
So many of those young lads will have fought in the trenches just a few years later, now their names are on war memorials that are being forgotten. RIP brave lads, lest we forget
Anangasnake 6 months ago 2
Pre islamic britain? Dont get too comfortable here paki, we will ship you off.
Brazil and The americas has some of the worst gang cultures, Mexicans MS13 and what not... getting out of control in USA with Bloods.
Our kids and families need help, simple as that.
UKsCommando 7 months ago
A great scene of pre-Islamic Britain.
hominuslupus 7 months ago 2
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hominuslupus 7 months ago
So majestic, would have been fantastic to experience it, although these people wouldn't know 2 world wars are coming their way.
thevictory12345 7 months ago
there looking over here like they never seen a camera before. -.-
TheParanormalpunk 7 months ago
@TheParanormalpunk lol. It's funny actually because people in those days were only just getting used to standing still to pose for a camera. When people aimed moving picture cameras at them, they just stood still like their picture was being taken. They didn't know that they could move about. lol
FaerieCrone 7 months ago
@FaerieCrone
yeah,because taking photo could take like 5 minutes and if you moved you would look like a ghost.
menacinghat 5 months ago
roy west
2008Sameoldfitup 8 months ago
JUST THINK I COULD B LOOKING AT MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER. IN THAT FILM..ONLY IF THERE WAS A TIME MACHINE...IT WOULD B INTRESTING 2 SEE HOW CRAZY YOUR FAMILY TREE..REALLY IS.
chadberry75 8 months ago
little did they know that after countless generations of hard work and countless wars to defend their homeland and nation and two world wars theyr streets are going to end up with silent invasion called multiculturalism
beeqool 8 months ago
@beeqool
Michio kaku believes that by the time we reach type 1 most of the world will be multicultural. It will be standard in the west to have a mix. that's the result of technology making the world alot smaller mate. People are able to get the best they possibly can. I can imagene if trends continue china and the far east will be the leader in sciences with europe and NA trailing behind. The west will probably be a meeting place of culture with mono culturalism here and there.
menacinghat 7 months ago
@menacinghat u are stupid. like brazil is some happy place u idiot.
beeqool 7 months ago
@beeqool
yes,multiculturalism can work in some places but in most it cannot. It worked in america because of how it was basically founded. Also all the spanyards in brazil
menacinghat 7 months ago
@menacinghat u are stuuuuuuupid man u are stupid. bye.
beeqool 7 months ago
That was before Titanic was build
adamtheboyfromdenmar 9 months ago
The boy looks like Wayne Rooney.
80ist4ever 9 months ago
Wow! It's like a different era! 110 yeas ago this was! To think that we would be watching people like OURSELVES from 110 years ago. Do you think they would know we would see them today?
Mazza4Azza 9 months ago
The world will never be like this again. And its enough to make you cry. Seeing what we have to deal with today.
RoninAvenger 9 months ago
@RoninAvenger Seeing with what we have to deal with today? Just a few years after this was made the First World War started and I'll bet you that a few of the young men/boys in this film were killed.
judebnaylor 9 months ago
@judebnaylor Im talking about everyday life.
War never changes, and has nothing to do with my comment.
RoninAvenger 9 months ago
golden age of british
dhksrksalem 9 months ago
why in every one of these videos do english people point to multiculturalism and muslims a failure of society.
england peeps you are set to be a minority within the next 100 years. I suggest you hop over to the main land. Watered down identity and slowly declining crappy country is not worth shit anymore.
menacinghat 10 months ago
111 years
UnPeneTeChinga 10 months ago
All of those people here are gone. Probably every item, every garment and object including the people have gone back into the ground as the molecules and atoms are recycled, some to eventually form other things. Life...is very very wierd. But I like it.
pykkervots 10 months ago
@pykkervots Interesting statement. I was pondering the same thing. All the garments,paper,wood,horses bones even the human beings,all gone back into the ground. Probably only a afew of the stone structures still stand. Its amazing how in 110 years a lot of us will be disintegrated also as well as our articles.
JarheadPatriot0311 10 months ago
must have been a fair amount of horse shit knocking about
mrmagicroundcircle 10 months ago
@mrmagicroundcircle Yes this horse manure was worth picking up. Some made a living off it.
80ist4ever 9 months ago
Great footage, although I didn't see any electric trams in that clip.They were introduced in 1901, but there are none there.
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pommyauss 11 months ago
my God, these are our ancestors. this is us. this is who we became. this is beyond gold.
xyaqua 11 months ago 33
@xyaqua Yes you're right. This is us. It's only just over 100 yrs ago but it seems a world away.
TheSmithDorian 1 month ago
Did you see the two blokes going at it fist-a-cuffs style? Poor gent knocked out cold.
kennethj1956 11 months ago
i think thats the penny arcade opposite the nbs
checl1two 11 months ago
Now that's what I call congestion lol Beautiful footage though. I think it's been slowed down.
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danyellhirdlgo 1 year ago
The ammount of times ive walked up cross street / corparation street, thanks for this video...great to see how it was over a century ago :)
pumpkinzer0 1 year ago
This is beautiful footage. With regard to the arguement see has grown on here, life was very different in asian, indian and in fact England. You have choice to come to this county,most of the time is because the county is under communied rule. or some other dictatorship and it is the same today. If you dont like England, you can always go back, simple really
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Imagine bringing one of these people back today, and asking them: "what were you most proud about in the time when you lived?". "The Empire, being British, and being Christian" is probably what he would have said. To which we would reply "sorry dude, see--we got this thing today called Political Correctness. Which means you can't say anything that might "offend" anyone's "sensibilities". Today we teach our kids to be ashamed of those things you were proud of. BTW--have you ever heard of Shiara?"
boy18inva 1 year ago 5
@boy18inva Interesting that you use an americanism, in 'dude', when making your point about how politcial correctness has changed the landscape of Britian. The World got smaller, globalisation kicked in. And as a result people from all backgrounds and cultures live in Britian. Thats why Britian, and the vast majority of Western Countries, have changed drastically. Political Correctness isnt why we've change, its merely a by-product of the change.
Nadendegior 1 year ago 10
@Nadendegior
Think for a second and you'd realize that many millions of Europeans (and Africans) crossed the oceans and settled the New World and Australasia long before the current age of "globalisation." And Japan and S. Korea perform very well in the contemporary world and remain very homogeneous. Only historically white countries are expected to enthusiastically endorse racial replacement and ethnic cleansing of their white populations.
drlobomalo 8 months ago
@boy18inva not everyone is Christian in england
The "official" religion is Anglicanism (Church of England - protestant)
RawStreams 9 months ago
Has anyone else noticed how, in these films, you see almost none if any obese or overweight people? Compared a typical street scene that would be filmed today?
Did they just eat less than we do today? Work harder? Was it poor health?
I was looking at some of my old family photographs from about 90 years ago--pictures of casual street scenes just like this one. No fat butts!
farmerne 1 year ago 3
lovely film
811Jeannieful 1 year ago
Amazing how clear the photography is
MerleOberon 1 year ago
uhmmm...Fay's Coca...sounds good to me.
spareaxe 1 year ago 2
england today
invaded by immigrants
no english people
Alienmad462 1 year ago
....to think that every single person alive in this film is now gone! they are all dead. wow. a whole society gone-parished over the years.
Lemon020202 1 year ago 2
@Lemon020202 That's us in not too long.
wasp9 1 year ago
That i dont no why they do it... its rare but ive seen videos of today and a man dressed up as a 1901 luxury suite with that 1901 hat walking by and yes with a umbrella on his hand. Know that i dont no why but must be some sort of remembering and tradition where sometimes you might see a men dress up like that in london business districts ? Also notice the classic taxis cars.. though these do look more 1950s but alittle ugly side of cars just black. But that brings the royal luxury by all.
MrProvoski 1 year ago
I allways forcus on the fashion and people walking by.. If yhou where for example see any differents between 1996 vs 2010 would you think anyone would still look the same fashion shirt.. jeans... hat.. such ? not much of a huge differents..... but i allways wander if clothing fashion would of change anytime between 10 years time.... I gues if you where to go to london walk into the city you might kinder see now and then a very UK business men wearing a complete 1901 suite with its hat.
MrProvoski 1 year ago
Yes it is very interesting stuff i can not believe this is actualy 1901. I was watching a 1896 video and then a 1920 videos of this sorts of things and looks like the fashion of dressing up has not actually change one bit at all... i gues slow moving on fashion. but there was a huge differents from 1921 when ladies no longer wears these huge frock costume looks..... But how about the boys ? still wearing the same fashion since 1896 all the way to 1921 ? i wonder why that is...
MrProvoski 1 year ago
I gues its like todays days.. when people would stare at the camera men whos actually filming at a busy intersection road with people passing by.. hehe. things just havnt change.
VOXS2 1 year ago
How come everyone seems to stare at the camera ? like what wher they thinking?
VOXS2 1 year ago
@VOXS2 They were thinking "What is that fangled contraption?"
dbacks4life 1 year ago
@dbacks4life Hi well they would look at the camera men but that doesnt mean evwryone would be thinking what is that grangled constrapition... its not like in 1901 everyone was thinking way different... even they had future controversy about what the future would look like..... Its pretty much like todays human... todays human people would imagine visual ideas what the future would look like... for example cars that would fly... robots in our streets.... stuff like that...
MrProvoski 1 year ago
Great quality film footage, a joy to watch.
gotobedandtickler 1 year ago
Classic. I remember family telling me about times in "their day". It's really great to see this. So many changes in such a short period of time.
PlayIt4MeAgainSam 1 year ago
Quality.
Melshimber 1 year ago
Beautiful footage.
It's hard to believe that i walk along these very streets on a regular basis.
Scatigno9 1 year ago
When England was English
fu4nvf 1 year ago
@fu4nvf what is it now?
zederish 1 year ago
@zederish being colonised -
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fu4nvf 1 year ago
@zederish Well if it was Africa the liberal left would be calling it ethnic cleansing but here they call it 'multiculturalism', Apparently its something we all want but the same people daren't ask us. The benefits of 'multiculturalism' are in our prisons for everyone to see, per head of population Muslims make up 13% alone!
fu4nvf 1 year ago
@fu4nvf shall we send all muslims to their country and bring all british people home including soldiers from all muslim countries such as emirates and malaysia and indonesia and qatar and we totally block any transport between our nation and them?
zederish 1 year ago
@zederish Yes theirs millions of genuine Brits in those lovely Muslim countries isn't there, DUH LMAO
fu4nvf 1 year ago
@fu4nvf yes there are
zederish 1 year ago
@zederish then you should be able to show us some pictures where there are more genuine Brits on their streets than them. We see more foreigners than genuine Brits here, FACT
fu4nvf 1 year ago
@fu4nvf ask some one who has been there. The racism is the biggest problem of the UK which is turning this country into some miserable place which people think they still live in 1800. It is the government fault by its propaganda creating image that Britain and US are best places in the world and rest of the world is watching us and any other country is a shithole full of terrorists.
zederish 1 year ago
@fu4nvf they blame foreigners for every nasty thing in britain bcoz in reality is their fault for fighting with imaginary terrorists for oil companies (BP). people are loosing their lives for oil companies and they say we keep britain safe but its just increasing the hatred against British citizens. Think twice
zederish 1 year ago
@zederish Statistics speak louder than words and we wouldn't have race issues if the public was given a say on this, hell we wouldn't be getting ethnically cleansed now that's for sure. If these people were everything you liberal lefties thought their own countries wouldn't be the cesspit's they are!
Now perhaps you want to change the story because it seems you have zero facts to back yourself up
fu4nvf 1 year ago
@fu4nvf u r right and all I said is lie. keep Britain safe ;)
zederish 1 year ago
@zederish People like you make this country such a joke,muslims are laughing in our faces about how soft this country is and all you do is come up with this crap about britain in other countries,when british people move abroad they buy a home with there own money they pay for there own medical treatment,british put money into new countries muslims take take take,the worst towns for fraud in this country are all largely muslim thats FACT but some one like you would say its a coincidence.
2hotgotshot 1 year ago
@2hotgotshot When we go abroad we do NOT buy things with our real money. Britain has no productivity ( we buy every thing even our food from other countries) and also we got no oil, so where our money comes from? we wait for the US to attack some country for their oil or mines then we also go there like a buzzard and we make money from their oil. and our medical treatment has one of the worst rating in the world. This is banana republic of Britain
zederish 1 year ago
@zederish Do you work for the government because the crap you spout you cant be a proud english man,great britain wasnt built on being this easy soft ride for foreigners who can come here claim every penny they want including fake accidents,fake children,i know this for a fact i have spoken to many muslims who say it themselves,pakistan is the most corrupt country in the world and guess what ? these blood sucking,terrorist supporting,dont mix with english they dont like english,FACT.
2hotgotshot 1 year ago
@fu4nvf Before the english stole all the wealth from the "colonies" and enslaved them as cheap labor in the U.K.
Solidrock57 1 year ago
@Solidrock57 You mean all the countries that were to stupid to do anything for themselves. Countries that were prosperous under British rule but now back to third world status again like Zimbabwe. Look in the mirror rather than scrounging and blaming others
fu4nvf 1 year ago
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@fu4nvf Before the English stole all the wealth from the "colonies" and enslaved them as cheap labor in the U.K.
Solidrock57 1 year ago
@fu4nvf haha yea spot the difference from that and that same street nowadays
NewDayStudios 1 year ago
@fu4nvf Except for all the Irish immigrants, and the Romani and other Eastern Europeans, and....
BradloRaul 1 year ago
Fantastic film. I wonder what life held in store for the boy in the film. Sad to think that all these people are now dead.
notalee 1 year ago
whoever thisliked this must have something wrong with his brain...
amazing movie,i liked the explanation^^,and the quality is very good
esc4all 1 year ago
I wish people of today could dress as fashionably and classy as these people did. What happened, anyway? Why did generation after generation, people in general started to dress more and more sloppy and cheap? A lot of the girls today look like hookers in their tight low cut clothes. And worse yet, they seem to be proud of this look. They look like street trash. A lot of the men just look plain sloppy too. Baseball caps. Sagging, torn jeans. What happened???
oneblackhorse 1 year ago 2
@oneblackhorse
Clothing back then wasn't all perfect either. The corsets women wore mangled their bodies which caused many to die from consumption and it's hard to imagine American civil War soldiers wearing all wool uniforms in the muggy heat during the summers in the South. Though, I agree that people generally dressed more smartly back then. Your appearance was considered both a matter of honouring other people as much as much as honouring yourself. People don't think that way anymore.
Pino4649 1 year ago
@oneblackhorse
Clothing back then wasn't all perfect either. The corsets women wore mangled their bodies which caused many to die from consumption and it's hard to imagine American civil War soldiers wearing all wool uniforms in the muggy heat during the summers in the South. Though, I agree that people generally dressed more smartly back then. Your appearance was considered both a matter of honouring other people as much as much as honouring yourself. People don't think that way anymore.
Pino4649 1 year ago
What word does the narrator say at 0:27 ? Cowagers? Could not understand what she said.
GTVAlfaMan 1 year ago
@GTVAlfaMan
May be carriages, although I'm not sure. (Well to do people having carriages is my guess).
saletrafford 1 year ago
@GTVAlfaMan carriages
influenzaa 1 year ago
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magicmomentsvideo 1 year ago 2
I wonder if Moss and Son paid to be included.
DavidMJordan 1 year ago
@DavidMJordan Early commercial.?
catatonicable 1 year ago
i would love to hear the sounds of that busy street, the horses hooves and cart wheels ,, imagine crossing that street after a few beers lol properly get knocked down or fall face down in a pile of horse shit lmao...
19smokey19 1 year ago
everyone in the old day dresses up so well. compare to now... its so messy and color ful. I love life in those days, and can you imagine all of those people walking in the streets. doing their work are now all gone? i have a weird feeling whenever i think about that, yet i love it. i love eeverything about old films, it's just so magical
coolcoolcoolest 1 year ago
the quality of this footage is amazing for 1901 just look how clear it is
stonedinsect 1 year ago
I'd love to jump through my computer screen and go back there just for a day!
1979LITTLEMISS 1 year ago
what a fantastic part of history. love this video, thank you for posting it. people really did have time for each other , i think technology has played a big part in less people interacting with each other like they used to,, very sad but time has to move on i guess. we too will be history one day.
vodaleee1 1 year ago
not one obese person in sight
alpaleo 1 year ago
people mixed with cars and horses.... not to mention dejects. nice
yellowwitch1 1 year ago
Wow that is amazing quality. Sort of gives you an idea how people 100 years from now will see us although in color digital.
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago
manchester lalaa manchester lalalar
Makavelian5408 1 year ago
People liked wearing hats at that time.
isaac105275 1 year ago
Watch the teenage boy at 1.26 (bottom right of screen) walking aimlessly about and then at 1.34 bumping into a bloke.
greenisland75 1 year ago
@greenisland75
who knows that teenage boy might be your great grand uncle or some one who might have some relationship with you. it might be coincidently that you have pin pointed him....only god knows
ayezack 1 year ago
@greenisland75 Early cctv camera catching a pickpocket maybe.
catatonicable 1 year ago
I think this video is so beautiful just to think people are actually going about there daily lives not knowing that 100 years later people will be watching them.
Im just so grateful to see a glimpse of what life was like back in those times.
hotgyaln17 1 year ago
Wow... this gives me a feeling like nothing else. I can't explain it.
pookoos 1 year ago
Amazing that these films have survived. They were shot on the old nitrate film stock, which basically crumbles to dust after a few decades.
boy18inva 1 year ago
all those people are dead. even if they were born on that very day living into your hundreds is rare.
all dead. this will be us one day.
Alienmad462 1 year ago
amazing too this footage its over 100 years old and those ppl had no idea how much the world would change and what lay ahead most of them prob died before the 2nd world war
charlieiscool1000 1 year ago
mY DORTA YUSED 2 B A PROZI NOW SHE LIVIN WID A ALKI MY LOJJA WNT FUK ME I NEED CCOK
JaniceBattersby 1 year ago
that IRA bomb must have gone off just afew yards from there
tru3r0ll3r 1 year ago
that's scary
TheRussellicious 1 year ago
Amazing to see this period of time and the people so natural, not comprehending as we do the camera, kind of moving and eerie at the same time
wunglow 1 year ago
This is what we came from...
it just stops you in your tracks.
No cute comments, no clever prose..
These are our ancestors, so far yet so close.
xyaqua 1 year ago 2
This is so cool :o
xMissRetrox 1 year ago
This is an absolutely marvelous video and want ot go back in time to see the hats personally
six pence was quite a bit of money then
Hatrevivalist 1 year ago
They use to abuse the sh*t out of horses back then didn`t they? Hey lets have a horse pull around a freakin` bus all day.
JackHauss 1 year ago
bowler hats are sexy :D
slimjim7285 1 year ago
Good thing most of the young people here died in the trenches of France; if not in France the Spanish flu got em. This is the way of nature making room for new generations like yourself. So give thanks to wars and epidemics or we would be over-run and infested with too many people. ...Roger, wilco , over and out!
kennethj1956 1 year ago
What a mess! I didn't think the traffic was so important in the early 20th century in the big cities!
jerrymail 1 year ago
1:02 109 year old kid.
olebaj 1 year ago
Wonderful.
SteffanLlwyd 1 year ago
it was better back then as you could legally whip and beat the working class hordes. they should bring hanging back for theft and return 1st and 2nd class sections on public buses. as they do on rail and air. i dont want to sit next to some cheap suited call centre worker..
ianupton 2 years ago
@ianupton Ha Ha. Funny Guy. Very Imaginative Comment. I guess your ancestors got beaten regularly, worked down mines as children, many branches dying in large numbers before reaching their fifth birthday and you approve? Killing Joke, Man.
SteffanLlwyd 1 year ago
seems fair enough. i mean, id take a day down mill for half a tuppence and a beating form the mill owner. or winston churchill. whichever.
ianupton 1 year ago
@ianupton lmao I get your point
giles422 1 year ago
fantastic.
Telfer81 1 year ago
so busy
holly2233 2 years ago
Looks busier than today !
ALBIONTYKE 2 years ago
You know whats great I cant see any fat bloated chav girls with their guts hanging out of muffin tops.
A glimpse of stocking .......
helltopay1 2 years ago
looks busy
Scrabbler27 2 years ago
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Immigration and going soft on crime ruined Manchester since WW2. Amazing bit of footage though! Thanks
HRHPrincePhilip1 2 years ago
Cross Street and Corporation Street don't intersect. One is a continuation of the other.
Maybe it is the junction of those with Market Street?
doubledeckers 2 years ago
0:54 love the way the young lad just jumps on the passing vehicle ad hock. brilliant capture of pure history. most amazing.
ThePerfectState 2 years ago
Must have stunk to high heaven with all the horse droppings around. Imagine after a rain on a humid summer day. About 15 or 20 pounds of puky per horse per day. What a mess.
RennyGd 2 years ago
At 0:12 you can read the lips of the young lad in front. He says, "This will end up on YouTube." All kidding aside, this is priceless!
answerstolucky 2 years ago
I don't know how one can look at this and not fully appreciate a glimpse of what we never were mean't to see. I'm so greatful for Edison , I just can't express it.
viloloco5 2 years ago 8
@viloloco5 there were many pioneers of moving pictures. Edison was just one of them. Louis Le Prince was probably the first and he disappeared soon after meeting Edison, never to be seen again.
doubledeckers 2 years ago
ah yes, but i find that Edison was so much more proactive at displaying this revolutionary technology during his time.
viloloco5 2 years ago
I like looking at the older people.. they must have been born in the 1860s or 1850s..
RockyBalboa211 2 years ago 4
ahjahjahjaha people looking at the camera!!!
maybe thinking WTF!!!!
RaspatanOriginalPapa 2 years ago
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Haha them mans all dressed so dapper but the girls need to strip down and shake their ass when they walk like they do in modern days.
jscoze 2 years ago
@jscoze Idiot
rgwholt 2 years ago
My Grandmother was alive then, she would have been 6 years of age as would my Grandfather. If I could travel back in time it would be to that period. I love the modesty of the clothes the women wore.
pammyoneto 2 years ago 6
Thankyou. Somebody at least, agrees with me. I say clothes reflect the values of society and it is very obvious they has much more modesty than today. The women dressed more smartly than they do today.
classicalgirl01 2 years ago 22
@classicalgirl01 Quite true-I don't know who are worse men or women but notice there were no track suits or trainers and not a replica football shirt in sight.
widlad7 1 year ago
@classicalgirl01 Don't forget the men!
They look pretty sharp also.
It really is a "sign of the times".
PlayIt4MeAgainSam 1 year ago
How long was the total showing? To pay a shilling for 2+ minutes would seem to be high.
larrymoorephotograph 2 years ago
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