Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle (1900)

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Film & Animation

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• Victorian
• Lifestyle
• workers
• Newcastle
• upon
• Tyne
• 1900s
• Factory

[SteffanLlwyd]

I paused this lots of times to study some of the faces. It is an illusion of course, but by picking a face in the crowd and studying it over a few consequtive freeze frames, it is like bringing that person back into the living world for a few moments.

[SteffanLlwyd]

Wonderful. All those faces... all those lives. Wow! Really something.

[FaerieCrone]

@TruckManMick And people in the future will say the exact same thing about us if they see a photo or watch a home movie with any of us in it.

[goinghomesomeday1]

Just imagine – It is highly likely that most of these workers became cannon fodder in the 1914 -18 war.

[realitychecker1000]

Slave labour nowadays too!

[nitramgnal]

@SteffanLlwyd They are all ghosts.

[kopynd]

slave labour those days

[billybadbrakes]

My Great Grandfather David Mason lived in Elswick at this time. He was a Tailor and I bet at least a few people on this film are wearing his suits!!

[lauretjj1]

wow, long ago

[sticklemiss]

Even more weird is that they were all wearing flat caps!

[TruckManMick]

Just think. Every single living thing in the film, is now DEAD!!! Weird!