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Peter Gillatt
Приєднався 24 жов 2012
Lytham to Blackpool Trams and Views 1903 (v2)
This film is part of a series of six from the Mitchell and Kenyon collection from 1903 originally uploaded to UA-cam by Gordon Birt. The first reel of this film was taken on Lytham Green opposite the Clifton Hotel on West Beach. The remaining reels follow parts of the Tram journey as it was from Market Square in Lytham to the junction of Station Road and Lytham Road in South Shore Blackpool. The order of the reels in this film has been changed from Gordon's original compilation to reflect the actual tram route.
Please take a few moments at full screen and enjoy this fascinating set of clips from over a 115 years ago. You might consider changing the speed of the clip to 1.25 in the settings following a suggestion that this more replicates the correct running speed of the film.
The first reel begins with the camera opposite the Clifton Hotel in Lytham before sweeping across Lytham Green with views of Lytham Windmill and the former Lytham Pier. The actual Tram journey commences in Market Square with passengers alighting the tram and the camera also picks out views of the County Pub and 'Old Tom' the tree which used to sit in the middle of Hastings Place. The camera now films the route as the tram slowly begins moving off along Church Road with the camera positioned on the upper deck. Views then follow of Lowther Gardens and St Cuthberts Church before the tram proceeds down Cambridge Road. With Blackpool Road bridge in the background you can also see a steam loco passing underneath. Various parts of an unbuilt Clifton Drive and St Annes Square are captured before heading along Clifton Drive north and then turning down Squires Gate Lane. The railway can be seen as it crosses Squires Gate Bridge together with trams stored by the railways sidings. Finally travelling down Lytham Road the tram crosses Lytham Road bridge with a rare sight of the original South Shore station and platforms which can be seen underneath on the right before this journey finally comes to an end at Station Road.
Please leave your comments below as always they are very welcome and thanks for watching.
Please take a few moments at full screen and enjoy this fascinating set of clips from over a 115 years ago. You might consider changing the speed of the clip to 1.25 in the settings following a suggestion that this more replicates the correct running speed of the film.
The first reel begins with the camera opposite the Clifton Hotel in Lytham before sweeping across Lytham Green with views of Lytham Windmill and the former Lytham Pier. The actual Tram journey commences in Market Square with passengers alighting the tram and the camera also picks out views of the County Pub and 'Old Tom' the tree which used to sit in the middle of Hastings Place. The camera now films the route as the tram slowly begins moving off along Church Road with the camera positioned on the upper deck. Views then follow of Lowther Gardens and St Cuthberts Church before the tram proceeds down Cambridge Road. With Blackpool Road bridge in the background you can also see a steam loco passing underneath. Various parts of an unbuilt Clifton Drive and St Annes Square are captured before heading along Clifton Drive north and then turning down Squires Gate Lane. The railway can be seen as it crosses Squires Gate Bridge together with trams stored by the railways sidings. Finally travelling down Lytham Road the tram crosses Lytham Road bridge with a rare sight of the original South Shore station and platforms which can be seen underneath on the right before this journey finally comes to an end at Station Road.
Please leave your comments below as always they are very welcome and thanks for watching.
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What a shame they were never a preserved as the Blackpool trams later on.
@:56, which Church is that?
No fat people.
Fascinating. When did that tram route stop running?
Did anyone else notice the sign identifying where the "chemist" was located 10:01 ? I'm guessing this is how they used to refer to the neighborhood pharmacist! Is this correct?
Pre chav alright......not a tattooed blue haired monster in sight !
Goes right past where I live!
Stupid no trams. Tostannes lthyham anymore
❤ muito lindo gostei de ver 😊😊
Even though it was mostly in construction it was still much cleaner than Blackpool now Also I liked the open-ness Wide roads, people walking on the streets/road instead of tons of cars A lot of open fields Cars ruined the way we designed towns and cities especially in America
What a great time to be a cyclist. Motorists definitely stole the roads from us 😩
You can still see some mud lanes in the main road. Tarmac-ing was still being rolled out (pardon the pun) at the time.
What I find amazing about those houses being built, which are now well over a hundred years old - and probably still standing too, is not so much the quality of the red bricks used (I've heard that alot of houses and buildings built back then were made using lime mortar which is much stronger) but those huge stone gate posts that adorn the front of the gardens to those houses. How the hell did they construct and lift/move those massive stone slabs without any modern electric lifting machinery?.
amazing
superb recordings, tellingly revealing throughout their glorious silence...growing up on G.B., I'd presumed that everywhere else had developed similarly.......!
Thank you for not colorizing and adding sound!
Stable, orderly, and homogenous. Successive governments have destroyed all of this.
Was this one of the reels found in the basement of an old tailors shop, on Darwen St. Blackburn? If it was, the tailors and haberdashery shop used to belong to a relative of mine, by the name of Thomas Blackshaw.
No bdooly mobile phones no noise! Cars motorcycles vans buses trucks ! Planes peace! We may have better dental. medical care a sophisticated way of life now but we're certainly lost something!!
Love the trams. nothing beats classic double decker trams. Love how there are no stations people just congregrate right in the middle of the road and wait for it.
Awesome!
If only we could go back in time and correct our mistakes
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
That is so true, I've never thought about that before.
Nowadays people shout abuse and threats if they see you filming in public
Fascinating piece of film, pure gold👍
Have look on Google maps for the exact location. The video starts at The Clifton Arms. The building is pretty much unchanged in 122 years
I appreciate these so much. Interesting seeing the curious looks the people give to the camera as it was such a novelty at the time. I wonder if that cat crossing the street was anyone's pet. Fascinating and thanks for posting.
Yes it was
In contrast to some, I'm surprised how little has changed. Admittedly the trams have been replaced by cars, but most of the buildings shown in Lytham are still there. There are far more trees now too, particularly in Lowther Gardens and by Skew Bridge.
My Dad would have been 7 or 8 years old and living in Scotland when this was filmed. Obviously, he is now longer alive, but If he was I bet he would have really enjoy watching this. I know I did.
My grandfather’s days my dad was born 1913 he used to talk about how cars were just coming along when he Was young in the last minutes of the film you can just see Blackpool tower in the back ground.from x telephone engineers point of view all the poles have cross arms and opened wires no plastic in them days to insulate the wires ceramic pots would have been used each pair would have been 1 line +&- like a battery 50v dc
Amazing
I can't believe my eyes seeing things that were modern back then a beautiful old fashioned world thanks
Go on Google maps and search Clifton Arms Lytham Saint Anne's and that's the building where we start in this video. If you go on Google Street View, you can pan around to see each building
everybody who is close by is fascinated by the camera.
Love watching these
It's amazing to think how far we have come in a hundred years.
Hi mate, go on Google maps, - Lytham Saint Anne's, Clifton Arms. It starts where this video does. If you go to Google Street View and pan around you can simulate this old video in real time and image where they all were
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3:02 The man walking with a stick must have been aged about 75 and born around 1830. Amazing.
Looks like 'Dry Clean Only" clothing. ..before the invention of the washing machine. ?
Seems strange seeing how Lytham etc used to look. I wonder what people will think of 'today' in 100 years from now? And as for the video, how many men/boys went off to war 11 years later and didn't come back? Sad to think!
cricket still the same, lol
Amazing film. Umbrellas as sunshades in Blackpool.
What's the different between Lytham and Lytham St Annes, or St Annes-on-Sea?. Are they one town or two separate towns?. I've heard people say they are separate places. Is the current pier called Lytham or St Anne's pier? if it's Lytham pier then that's confusing as Lytham would be the pier shown in this video, which is no longer there.
Two towns originally. Lytham evolved over a longer period. St. Anne's was developed from almost nothing in the Victorian era. Over time, the space between the two was built on and there's now little to demarcate the two. Both towns had piers but Lytham's was demolished in the mid 20th century.
@@mrimmer6843 Cheers that, didn't know one was older than the other.
I've watched this clip a few times but only noticed the pier at the start. I thought there was only ever one pier, which is the one further up at St Annes, so was there originally two?. Looked up closed piers on Wikipedia and it didn't mention St Anne's having a long since closed pier.
A bit late, but.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytham_Pier
All those empty spaces. We can't have that! Quickly now, get it all DEVELOPED!!
Stunning movie,love the idea,suggesting there's nothing new here,of the near 360degree pan of your seafront..that movie makers were experimenting,albeit unwittingly perhaps with a certain technique and style...thanks for posting,Peter...
1903, the time when the elderly didn't have the bus passes, and they never whinged about it
Ghosts from our distant past!
Like yesterday
LIfe when values were different from today.....
It is all so solid and well-ordered as was to be expected- a Victorian resort looking forward to the future under the new King Edward VII at the high point of Empire before the Great War changed everything. It is interesting to see those grounded tram car bodies at about 9:00- presumably, redundant horse trams that had been cut down to make summer houses or sheds- ready to be shipped off by train. As a kid there were just those sort of old trams from the Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway in gardens north of Portsmouth- but they were old electric trams scrapped in the 1930s. I had a piece of one for a while before my dad chucked it out!
Let's go back to this, a time before all this bullshit of the welfare system, let's see all the mass illegal immigration then