Cunard Vessel at Liverpool (c1901)

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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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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• BFI
• Edwardian
• Victorian
• Lifestyle
• liner
• Cunard
• Ships
• Liverpool
• cats

[franl155]

thanks for this! human memory is so short, even two generations is about equal with the stone age! we're the first generation who's been able to see even a hundred years into the past, and that's time travel if ever there was such a thing

[MaryOMackie]

God Bless the souls of our ancestors!!!

[Maasdam1993]

Not a Cunard fan but fan of HAL but I love these old footage thanks fore sharing.

[happymax1]

The old timey kitty cat was the best......

[FaerieCrone]

@LMatters1 Notice how a lot of them stand still waiting for their picture to be taken? lol They didn't know that you could move about.

[Prechtl91]

there was no man without a beard

[Microglia1]

@franl155 your comment is silly. 200 years ago, someone would have said the same about the Irish. Then 200 years earlier, about the Scottish. Then 1400 years ago, about the Romans...just realize that you're not going to be walking around for too long and enjoy everything the world has to offer.

[Microglia1]

I have no idea these people speak English and I can understand them!

[JADEAV]

Wow!! look at their faces just like us today!.... But different clothes style in their very old times... They were in the miserable times,but worth it!

[19smokey19]

those women at 203 to 217 while waiting for camra to roll, they looked cold and miserable...

[lasuvidaboy]

Amazing film and the quality is incredible. The first scene shows the tender taking passengers out to the anchored Cunard liner. As for the open air bridge, that was a common design feature on ships from tha late 19th Century. That is why it is called a 'bridge'. It was an open deck supported on either side. There may have been a protected lower bridge beneath it. At the beginning of the 20th Century, most liners had enclosed or partially enclosed bridges.

[kkallebb]

Interesting that the bridge is not enclosed.