Tram Ride into Halifax (1902)

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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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• Edwardian
• Lifestyle
• Trams
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• Industry
• Snow
• Winter
• Halifax
• Yorkshire

[vinnyslad]

Hey I can really see my old house on this clip at the bottom of Ovenden Way leading down to the Old Lane -- what nostalgia I moved to Ovenden in 1964

eee bah gumm

[RAZZAONE1]

fuck me old lane mill 1902...its 2010 an i was on the roof the other day...

[darrenburnfan]

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!

[halburd1]

you should say which halifax this is lol. many think it looks like halifax, nova scotia, not halifax in england. lol

[debzuma]

Old Lane Inn at 1:18.

[OutlawMinniePearl]

OMG, in my little frontier pea brain I always thought Nova Scotia was a time warp to Merry Old Scotland & for Ireland you go to Newfieland! OMG, IT LOOKS LIKE PITTSBURGH IN THE 50s! (1905 Pgh was worse!) What about the quaint fishing villages & high rate of red heads? Do the men wear kilts & folks speak Gaelic? I thought it was the go-to place for pure Scottish culture in the New World! But I willfully repress my knowledge that A. Carnegie was a Scot & the old country looked bad in this era too!

[retrorocker44]

wonderful old film

[RAZZAONE1]

@samdub i know you lol ? and yeaa gotta love this shit lol old halifax its great :)

[Thisbloodypave]

Can't see the Shay

[samdub]

@RAZZAONE1

Raz you gob shite, nice to see you watching vids like this though.... Wonder what you were doing on the roof eh?

[PhillipCreeper]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this.

[benytink]

@cashello ey up lad that reet i saw thee...lol.