Ride on the Tramcar through Belfast (1901)
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Uploaded by BFIfilms on Jul 16, 2008
This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. For more information about the films of Mitchell and Kenyon see http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/mk/
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Careful, It'll ruin the colour in your clothes :(
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Isn't that an RIC man walking by the parked tram at the very end?
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Imagine this scene suddenly unfolding before you ! Fascinating and such good clear quality.
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@Microglia1 Your not black your an ugly white troll! fuck you white piece of shit LOL
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It may look quaint and all that to look at this now, but life was bloody hard back then. Most of us these days wouldn't last five minutes.
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The UK abolished slavery in 1830s. However,many black were still looked down upon,ironically much of east london is now black lol
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I'm black and I am really afraid of going back to more than 80 years into the past. Hell, I'm free and happy now, and zip, back to picking cottons and getting whipped :-(
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@Sibelius92 did you see the little dog running , at the top of the film at 2:00 ?? :-)))
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@Sibelius92 So do I ;-) , i'm french ..i do love that old films , I wonder how people feel loocking at those films , it had to be very strange and so funny .. today nothing astonish us , it's so sad ...
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busfare these days is like more then anyone in this vid had earned in a month, they would be the homeless if alive today
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It makes me want to climb through the screen and into the past! If only ...
Sibelius92 3 years ago 21
Its really strange seeing belfast 108 years ago
All these new hotels and high rise buildings are wrecking the place
Ajc176 2 years ago 12