London - The Roaring 20's

1920's & 30's colour footage of the great metropolis, London, courtesy of BFI.

Music by Temperance Seven & Sting.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• London
• Pre
• War
• BFI
• Spread
• Little
• Happiness
• Charleston
• Temperance
• Seven
• Sting

[NelsonClick]

I would rather live in Old London than Old New York. It's cleaner, brighter and more civilized. Of course I'd be filthy rich for comfort and I wouldn't mix socially with any one society or even speak so as not to expose my Texas accent to the eye rolling disgust of 20's era Londoners who at this time still thought they were better than Yanks. And I wouldn't get sick or have dental problems because health care wasn't good yet. You know what? I changed my mind - I'm not going.

[GoneWithTheSinners]

I've been to many of the places seen in this video and I find it surreal, especially with the Peter Pan statue and the Greenwich Observatory, that people were standing in the same places 90 years before me.

[stevo728822]

Just watched a more enhanced version of this footage.

[escapefromryazan]

@Edgey1988

from the end of the 19th century large numbers of russians (many Jews and political refugees) fled to Britain and settled in the east end, fleeing pogroms and political repression.

for the irish and jews, 'a few' would be a massive understatement, the london docks were overwhelmingly manned by irishmen, and the east end was the centre of textile production in the city - the jewish 'sweating' shops. the east end has always been an immigrant hub dating back to the huguenots in 1600s

[Edgey1988]

@escapefromryazan 'Loads' In 1927 I don't think so. It is the east end of London so there they may be a few jews and irish even in those days, but Russians?? that's news to me.

[barrowboy1991]

One word: Fascinating.

[crazy3d]

@TheYaom pfff i'm light brown skined, are you going to discriminate me because i have some melanine on my skin? discriminate people by their behaviour, i know that big blacks in u.s look like brutes but whatever, don't judge people just by they appareance.

[crazy3d]

@GoneWithTheSinners surreal that the time passes, people die, you live on the same planet and film was invented, fucking yea, it's crazy.

[Hellishcrusade]

@umkeeper - Glad I found a comment about caps!

A public statement of 'belonging' was what you wore on your head.

The flat cap said you were working-class, the bowler hat said you were middle-class, and no hat might be saying that you were a homosexual ...so, everyone wore a hat!

[gamblemadman]

@NelsonClick Hahaha. You talked yourself out of it huh?

[escapefromryazan]

@TheYaom

yea, but loads of irish/jews/russians instead. twat.

[staypress]

@TheYaom of course cool innit