1922 Christmas Shopping, Godalming mp4

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  • Опубліковано 3 лис 2016
  • An amateur film made in 1922 showing butchers, bakers and confectionery makers as they set out their festive stalls in this luminous film of Godalming's historic town centre. BFI collections ref 15320. Linked to Surrey Heritage's First World War Centenary project: Surrey in the Great War: A County Remembers - www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk.

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  • @jonfield1573
    @jonfield1573 6 років тому +70

    The Field Bros shop belonged to my Grand Father and his brothers. Awesome video, Thanks for posting.

    • @surreyhistorytrust2865
      @surreyhistorytrust2865  6 років тому +11

      Dear John,
      Thank you for letting us know about your family connection to The Field Bros shop in Godalming. We would love to hear more about your family’s wartime experience running this shop! Please email us at surreyinthegreatwar@surreycc.gov.uk - and do visit our project website to see what other Godalming (and wider Surrey stories) we have shared: www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk.
      We look forward to hearing from you.

    • @rocker-barrel4786
      @rocker-barrel4786 3 роки тому +10

      Wow i bet you are happy to see this!

    • @gladysmaroue9167
      @gladysmaroue9167 2 роки тому +5

      Wow...how cool is that ! 😁great footage ...very rare.

  •  2 роки тому +14

    I am fascinated seeing these images so old, it gives that feeling of nostalgia and the reminder of how ephemeral we are!😐
    These people could hardly have imagined that 100 years later other people around the world would be seeing them on magical and glowing gadgets on a platform called UA-cam!🙂

  • @marysmyth8288
    @marysmyth8288 2 роки тому +4

    This clip filled my heart with much joy, how I wish I could step into those days of old.
    Mary Canada 🍁

  • @independentpuppy7520
    @independentpuppy7520 2 роки тому +17

    Fascinating to watch. It's like a different world. I wonder what they would think if they could see the UK today.

    • @snowysnowyriver
      @snowysnowyriver 2 роки тому +4

      They would be horrified. Both my grandfathers and six great-uncles fought in WWI. My father and three uncles fought in WWII. I am glad none of them are alive today to see the cess pit that the UK has become.

  • @Rainbow-oh4jx
    @Rainbow-oh4jx 2 роки тому +48

    How did we slip from this charming society to today’s tripe

  • @robertp.wainman4094
    @robertp.wainman4094 2 роки тому +2

    Shops just look so much more interesting than today!

  • @marybarratt2649
    @marybarratt2649 2 роки тому +5

    This was lovely to watch. An insight into my father's early childhood days. So interesting. Hard times for the poor though. Thank you for uploading, I loved it.

  • @davesaunders3334
    @davesaunders3334 2 роки тому +6

    I was born about a mile from there.

  • @MohaMoha-dq5qj
    @MohaMoha-dq5qj 3 роки тому +11

    I lived in Guildford and studied at the university and visited Godalming in 1991 . A beautiful town.

    • @j_james_01
      @j_james_01 2 роки тому

      Lived in Godalming from age 10 to 20 now, childhood home and I can never let it go haha, very lovely area

  • @sewind6613
    @sewind6613 7 років тому +27

    Thanks for the post. Very interesting indeed.

  • @csansa7817
    @csansa7817 2 роки тому

    Thank you for this wonderful gift. EC !!!

  • @The_A_Cast
    @The_A_Cast 2 роки тому +7

    Man, I’d do anything to be a hatter back then. 🎩
    All of my future generations would be financially set for life!

  • @suzannahwade3345
    @suzannahwade3345 6 років тому +17

    What amazing film . Thank you

  • @imixmuan9081
    @imixmuan9081 2 роки тому +2

    Grandfather, Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother all walked down these streets in 1922. Grandmother was still in Ireland, starving and cold guarding the still from the Black and Tans in the war of "Independence".

  • @Jannie-
    @Jannie- 3 роки тому +13

    Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.

  • @msconnleon
    @msconnleon 2 роки тому +3

    Love these

  • @oldelephantstew
    @oldelephantstew 3 роки тому +11

    I used to drive buses through Godalming when I worked for Alder Valley based at Hindhead. I could not see the company name on the bus in the film or where it was going - only that it was a Number 22. I wondered if it might be a bus belonging to Alder Valley's predecessor; the Aldershot and District Traction Company. HO is a Hampshire registration.

  • @edwardoneil3962
    @edwardoneil3962 3 роки тому +13

    Incredible 98yrs ago lolx

  • @sichere
    @sichere 3 роки тому +2

    Fantastic posting

  • @ByronGore
    @ByronGore Рік тому

    That's amazing!

  • @Mickster71
    @Mickster71 3 роки тому +34

    When England was English. Awesome.

    • @johnporter3659
      @johnporter3659 3 роки тому +8

      Try a DNA test to see how English you really are.

    • @Mickster71
      @Mickster71 3 роки тому +5

      @@johnporter3659 homogeneous identity.

    • @johnporter3659
      @johnporter3659 3 роки тому +3

      Never existed

    • @lesliewatson3775
      @lesliewatson3775 3 роки тому +16

      Not a black face in sight wonderful

    • @johnporter3659
      @johnporter3659 3 роки тому +9

      Why wonderful? Racist obviously, but also cowardly, hiding behind an innocuous post. You are to be pitied more than anything else.

  • @philipwhatcott997
    @philipwhatcott997 2 роки тому +23

    Lucky people living in much better times.

    • @Del-yv1qy
      @Del-yv1qy 2 роки тому +1

      Talking through your ass.

    • @philipwhatcott997
      @philipwhatcott997 2 роки тому +6

      @@Del-yv1qy I would give up every luxury and bit of technology to go back to much "cleaner" times. The world today is a total shit hole of a mess. I pity future generations. Also there were no sillly bastard "Woke" people back then. As I say MUCH better times.

    • @nlawrie
      @nlawrie 2 роки тому +2

      @@philipwhatcott997 4 or so years after WW1 and 17 or so years prior to ww2. Even ignoring the impact Great Depression in the US (1929?) Might of had on the UK these times were certainly not better for the ordinary man or women (less good access to education, opportunities to start a business, NHS etc.)
      Be careful what you wish for.

  • @zzzzxxxx341
    @zzzzxxxx341 2 роки тому +2

    The sun then is the sun now with the same earth, moon, and the whole universe. The universe will remain forever, let's go!

  • @louisep5178
    @louisep5178 2 роки тому +7

    No masks in those days. Lovely vid thank you. Goldalming looks nice.

    • @Del-yv1qy
      @Del-yv1qy 2 роки тому +2

      But lots of other nasty sickness with no cures .

    • @louisep5178
      @louisep5178 2 роки тому

      @@Del-yv1qy True

    • @DirkGently1972
      @DirkGently1972 2 роки тому +2

      Only because the Spanish Flu pandemic had ended a mere 2-years earlier perhaps? If this had been shot in 1919, it may have looked very similar to today!

    • @janeyd5280
      @janeyd5280 2 роки тому +1

      @@Del-yv1qy my grandad died in 1935 aged 34 yrs from T B, and my gran was left with 6 kids to bring up alone. My mum was 5 yrs old. She was the apple of her father's eye. I have never seen a picture of him.

  • @surreygirl2075
    @surreygirl2075 2 роки тому

    My great grand father was born in Godalming lord onslow he had a Manor there

  • @Joe_Peroni
    @Joe_Peroni 3 роки тому +4

    At 2:40- no problem smoking upstairs on the bus back then, it didn't have a ROOF! (Although sitting behind a guy who was smoking a pipe could be risky, as the sparks from this could blow into your eyes!)

  • @rocker-barrel4786
    @rocker-barrel4786 3 роки тому +1

    I wonder if the pepperpot was there at this time?

    • @surreyhistorytrust2865
      @surreyhistorytrust2865  3 роки тому

      Thanks for your comment. There is a timeline on the Godalming Museum website and this states that the Pepperpot was built in 1814:
      www.godalmingmuseum.org.uk/index.php?page=the-pepperpot-timeline
      Surrey Heritage

  • @pearl1606
    @pearl1606 2 роки тому

    Aldous Huxleys town, and he was probably there in 1922!

  • @johnforde8095
    @johnforde8095 2 роки тому +2

    They all still alive today

    • @davidmathews7941
      @davidmathews7941 2 роки тому +1

      Don't be silly
      Sadly all have gone
      To a better place

  • @open3256
    @open3256 2 роки тому +1

    How the WORLD has changed

  • @geoffjoffy
    @geoffjoffy 4 роки тому +13

    Funny how the world wasn't in color back then. ;)

    • @samsum3738
      @samsum3738 3 роки тому +8

      Colour was not invented for another 30 years , when there was a mighty explosion at Arkwrights paint factory in Manchester and their black and white paints became mixed up and the rest is history as they say .

    • @geoffjoffy
      @geoffjoffy 3 роки тому +5

      @@samsum3738 Haha. Nice explanation.

    • @johnshort5003
      @johnshort5003 2 роки тому +5

      It was a monochrome world with no sex before marriage and everyone ate tripe. But there was plenty of warm beer and you could leave your door open.

  • @timothyj1966
    @timothyj1966 2 роки тому

    rather like watching a Merchant Ivory Production in B&W

  • @cricketbat09
    @cricketbat09 2 роки тому +2

    England must have been wonderful before motor cars became commonplace. All you needed was a cycle.

  • @janejames9173
    @janejames9173 2 роки тому

    🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 2 роки тому +5

    Law & Order. Police. Constabulary.

  • @marcse7en
    @marcse7en 2 роки тому +3

    Not so much a "silent film" thanks to TINNITUS! 😂

  • @cherylperry2910
    @cherylperry2910 2 роки тому +4

    Lung cancer for all these guys, and they didn’t know what all that smoking would do to them.

  • @lmc8833
    @lmc8833 2 роки тому +1

    Too many rich , braying blow in's now. Godalming locals are in the minority

  • @andymarks5274
    @andymarks5274 2 роки тому

    Died people 🥴

  • @moominmay
    @moominmay 8 місяців тому

    Comments section ruined as usual by covert racists 🥴

  • @burntpeppers7414
    @burntpeppers7414 2 роки тому +1

    A rubbish crap time. No iPhone, no tablets, no HD TV with 4K. 🤣

    • @Saqibkhanwrites
      @Saqibkhanwrites 2 роки тому +7

      There were No iphone but there were pure beauty , no tablets and games and pubg but were real men and real war.. no hd tv with 4k but were pure nature and water and pure food

    • @davids8449
      @davids8449 2 роки тому +5

      What do we have now partners, and a Horrible society with people on their mobile phones asking if they should buy half a pound of sprouts in a supermarket

    • @Del-yv1qy
      @Del-yv1qy 2 роки тому +1

      @@Saqibkhanwrites And lots of suffering and filth...........read your history and stop dreaming.

    • @Silver-rx1mh
      @Silver-rx1mh 2 роки тому

      @@Saqibkhanwrites Umm, not so much with the pure food. The industry back then was pretty unregulated and lost of dangers stuff was in what they produced sadly.