Parkgate Iron and Steel Co., Rotherham (1901)

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  • @kaancelik889
    @kaancelik889 3 роки тому +13

    ''He was a simple worker. He made a historical sign, though.''

  • @tollbar5468
    @tollbar5468 6 років тому +18

    Amazing. A boy using a handkerchief - something you wouldn't see nowadays.

  • @johnhaywood1253
    @johnhaywood1253 7 років тому +9

    Two of my grandfathers worked at Parkgate. Was mostly a derelict site as I remember it in the 1980s as the steel activity on the northeast side of Rotherham had moved to Aldwarke and Roundwood.

  • @badgerattoadhall
    @badgerattoadhall Рік тому +5

    i bet the "obscene gesture guy" was probably not fun to get drunk with.

  • @traceydw
    @traceydw 14 років тому +4

    This is fascinating. I think my 3x great-grandfather worked there between about 1837 and 1843. I'm sure it had changed quite a bit over the 60 years until this film was taken but, nonetheless, it's great to have a bit of a glimpse of the site and the people. Thanks very much!

  • @richardrevill9329
    @richardrevill9329 Рік тому +2

    A great great grandad of mine, was in charge of the blast furnaces there in the late 1800s apparently.....

  • @maddogryan5799
    @maddogryan5799 6 років тому +9

    lot of those young men never made it to old age they were killed in the great war all for nothing

  • @anth5122
    @anth5122 3 місяці тому

    We’ve never had it so good 😢

  • @owtatowttowt
    @owtatowttowt 14 років тому +3

    love this.

  • @joseaca1010
    @joseaca1010 Рік тому +4

    1:02 ive been told to f*ck off by a man 121 years ago

  • @ardennite1
    @ardennite1 8 років тому +5

    Why am I not surprised to see this surly attitude displayed in Rotherham ? From what I can tell, it isn't that different today !

  • @ATOMICFLYER1663
    @ATOMICFLYER1663 16 років тому +11

    Great film. Some of my fellow Yanks may be surprised to learn that that the young tough flashing his bow fingers is equivalent to our middle finger salute.

    • @jackc1186
      @jackc1186 2 роки тому +1

      It was the first time it was caught on film

    • @johnbirkill1276
      @johnbirkill1276 2 роки тому +4

      Not even slightly equivalent. The two are different gestures with different meanings in the UK. The middle finger gesture dates back to at least 400BC in Western culture, the two fingers are rather more recent.

  • @FaerieCrone
    @FaerieCrone 15 років тому +8

    See? Even kids had to go to work in those days!

    • @moogdome2562
      @moogdome2562 4 роки тому +6

      Long before then. children as young as four. worked down coal mines in England. They were called ''Hurriyers''.

    • @pee_0656
      @pee_0656 2 роки тому +2

      ah yes child abuse is great, totally such a shame that child labour was banned. please learn about stuff before glorifying something that needs no glorification

  • @jokerjack5
    @jokerjack5 15 років тому +3

    mi dad and mi grandad have worked there!!

  • @FranticLes
    @FranticLes 15 років тому +3

    A poignant reminder of what was once a flourishing industry in Parkgate, ....
    All but gone now!

  • @BSNFabricating
    @BSNFabricating 16 років тому +3

    Yeah, that guy just looked like he wanted a fight...it looked like he was saying something too...and I'm guessing he wasn't inviting the cameraman over for dinner...

  • @gahctep
    @gahctep 13 років тому +12

    Probably working a fourteen hour day,
    six days a week, on a couple of slices
    of bread and dripping, no wonder
    they are angry.

  • @budway1942
    @budway1942 2 роки тому +1

    I was there.

  • @highspeedgaz
    @highspeedgaz 11 років тому +8

    Its a common belief that most of the Iron& Steel Works were in Sheffield , not true ! Rotherham played a major part in the production of Iron & Steel , but never got the credit !!
    Us Dee Dar,s like to give credit where it is due !!!!

  • @jillyb710
    @jillyb710 9 років тому +2

    So the rude gesture a 1.01 is a gem!! whether it dates back to the 100 years war or not it obviously predates 1901 - even Churchill had to be told he should only do it palm front. Its a working class insult so the origin will probably never be known.

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 9 років тому

      +Jill Harrison Bow Fingers: In contrast to the Continental Unifinger Violation!

    • @Necrovamp101
      @Necrovamp101 7 років тому

      It 99% doesn't date back to the hundred years war. bshistorian.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/two-fingers-up-to-english-history/

    • @jillyb710
      @jillyb710 6 років тому +1

      Necrovamp101 - Yes i agree - but as its a working class insult and thus is less likely to be recorded.

    • @AScottishDudeWasTaken
      @AScottishDudeWasTaken 6 років тому

      "even Churchill" would have been after 1901 though

    • @zaftra
      @zaftra 3 роки тому

      @@Necrovamp101 Well, that looks legit.

  • @airesluiz8731
    @airesluiz8731 4 роки тому

    Acho uma maravilha esses filmes

  • @martinmerrywinkle
    @martinmerrywinkle 12 років тому +1

    yeah. the main theory (possibly based in myth) is that it symbolises use of a bow, and dates back to the england-france wars.

  • @carloseduardomelo500
    @carloseduardomelo500 10 років тому

    What is this song on the background? Original soundtrack? It's awesome...

  • @NOOOOtooooNWOOOO
    @NOOOOtooooNWOOOO 11 років тому +11

    Ah yes, the good old days of child labour, working 80 hours a week, dangerous unsafe conditions, all to get just about enough money to buy a loaf of bread. Fuck nostalgia.

    • @stuartwebster9325
      @stuartwebster9325 7 років тому +5

      NoNoNWO opinions are like arseholes , everybody as got one and fuck you because without nostalgia life would be pretty bleak and cold

    • @stalhandske9649
      @stalhandske9649 7 років тому +6

      At least the kids could afford better looking clothing than even people od status carry on themselves in these days...
      Jokes aside, your point is naturally correct. Child labour was prevalent and even needed in some segments of industry then, just as they are today in Asian countries where those industries have fled.
      We should, however, notice that matters weren't necessarily that bad before industrialization. Child labour existed, but at least it was mostly at home (with your actual family or with the master whose apprentice you were) and one would learn the trade wilst working, providing skills for supporting oneself in the adulthood. The work was usually considerably less back-breaking, too.
      Before judging this and exclaiming 'children's right to childhood' we should contemplate that before urban-industrial society schooling was largely unnecessary for substantial majority of population and taking the trade was the only way of survival. How much more freedom we give our children, locking them into schools for the daytime 5-6 days a week in order to pour science into their (often unready) heads?
      This is not to promote nostalhia towards industrial era (a bleak one in my mind), but it provided BOTH our material welfare of today (making this 'children's right to childhood' possible) AND need to arm our children with modern science from early age in order to make them useful citizens an market force.
      Just food for thought.

  • @owtatowttowt
    @owtatowttowt 14 років тому +1

    I just love this it is af avourite o' mine, sae t'is. especially tho'n loon what gies 'e V.(gien it '' oy! me, me!''). wow! they had such amazing lives and lived. wow!!!!!!!!

  • @grofuss88
    @grofuss88 11 років тому +1

    The fight is like the dustmans fight over the odd halfpenny

  • @sermikan13
    @sermikan13 7 років тому +1

    1901 - 2017... 116 ans 🙋

  • @schwiggys
    @schwiggys 13 років тому +4

    @Fronika
    they couldn't afford food. flat caps don't come cheap you know

  • @bbcisrubbish
    @bbcisrubbish 11 років тому +1

    With two fingers outwards and waving up and down means "Boll***s to you mate". Two fingers with palm outwards means "V" for victory as per Churchill, or "Good on you mate".

    • @zaftra
      @zaftra 3 роки тому +1

      it means fuck off.

  • @chanctonbury63
    @chanctonbury63 13 років тому

    @dchris1990 Old is a relative term. Probably for working people like these, making it to 60 might have been quite an achievement!

  • @youngsteph1
    @youngsteph1 6 років тому

    Seeing those two security police coming down the street in the beginning of the video, has me expecting a young Charlie Chaplin to come by & kick them. Might have been more likely if filmed in London.

    • @pbegley99
      @pbegley99 2 роки тому

      They’re not policemen. Possibly postmen.

  • @farmerne
    @farmerne 14 років тому +1

    Has anyone noticed in these old films how there are few if any obese or even obviously overweight people? Compared a typical scene that would be filmed today? Did they just eat less than we do, or work harder physically? Was it bad health that caused it?

    • @stuartwebster9325
      @stuartwebster9325 7 років тому +1

      farmerne it was 1901 and the shit we eat today like KFC ,MCDONALDS. didn't exist harder times yes for a mear pittance of pay but they worked unlike the benefit scrounging want all for nothing folk of 2017 .

    • @Mr.Grimsdale
      @Mr.Grimsdale 5 років тому +1

      All food was homemade using natural ingredients unlike the processed crap in shops today.

    • @badgerattoadhall
      @badgerattoadhall Рік тому

      @@Mr.Grimsdale jesus they would put chalk (like 40%) in bread because it was cheaper than flour. food was rubbish back then and not a lot of it.

    • @Mr.Grimsdale
      @Mr.Grimsdale Рік тому

      @@badgerattoadhall Do you really believe that ?

    • @badgerattoadhall
      @badgerattoadhall Рік тому

      @@Mr.Grimsdale absolutely i believe that.

  • @gzmg361
    @gzmg361 15 років тому

    @rgwholt
    The Iron and Steel works employed and paid for private police before and after the local police force was introduced. This is probably who they are. These days the works would employ security guards.

  • @JesseP.Watson
    @JesseP.Watson 13 років тому +9

    Yes... a roughness and a v sign... is it me or does this presenter come across as more than a little patronising?
    That little scuffle's a gem, looks like boxing might have been as popular in Sheffield then as it is today by the twinkle of that cap snatcher's toes. Can't help but wonder if our King's College historian here might be underestimating the lengths a couple of Northerners might go to to get their fancy footwork on film? What's a slap or two to these lads?

    • @WgCdrLuddite
      @WgCdrLuddite Рік тому +1

      Yes she does. Doesn't even explain it's meaning correctly.

    • @JesseP.Watson
      @JesseP.Watson Рік тому +2

      @@WgCdrLudditeI've been sat here for twelve long years waiting for someone to reply to this comment. Thank you, I can now get on with my life. 😏

    • @WgCdrLuddite
      @WgCdrLuddite Рік тому +2

      @@JesseP.Watson Well that's my good deed for the day then !

    • @sheerluckholmes7720
      @sheerluckholmes7720 11 місяців тому +1

      🤣@@JesseP.Watson 😂 ...legend.

    • @JesseP.Watson
      @JesseP.Watson 10 місяців тому

      You know, it's quite unnerving seeing a comment this old written yourself... a letter or something is remembered... but a comment like this is completely forgotten and undated somehow, devoid of history or meaning, despite being written by a version of myself lives away... tis a mighty strange world we live in.
      I shall return in another 12 years. Will UA-cam still exist...? I rather doubt it... hmm.
      Until then, all the best.

  • @chanctonbury63
    @chanctonbury63 13 років тому

    @mrmagicroundcircle Far as I can see the youngest on the film (0.30) are maybe 4 so they would now be 114...

  • @mrmagicroundcircle
    @mrmagicroundcircle 13 років тому +1

    fascinating footage would be interesting to find out if any of these characters are still alive and what they may of thought of the film

  • @moogdome2562
    @moogdome2562 4 роки тому +1

    the days long before Geggs and Greggs babies. you can tell. they are not fat.

    • @moogdome2562
      @moogdome2562 4 роки тому

      @alphadawn2015 lennon Me too. thanx.

  • @Davidgpartridge
    @Davidgpartridge 12 років тому +1

    @MrStig691 No, I think he says "Y'twat" first and then "Me" when he points at himself

    • @NellWatson
      @NellWatson 4 роки тому +1

      "Twit - Sod off."
      (behind camera) "Who said that?!"
      (turning)
      "Me!!"

  • @mrmagicroundcircle
    @mrmagicroundcircle 13 років тому

    @chanctonbury63 7 people in uk have reached the age 114 and one person has reached 115 so its not impossible

    • @peterpeterxxo
      @peterpeterxxo 3 роки тому

      they'd be 124yrs old now 10 years later so its impossible now lol.

  • @LostMortal
    @LostMortal 9 років тому +9

    1:01 *Thug life detected(?)*

  • @rgwholt
    @rgwholt 15 років тому

    @gzmg361 yes i reckon you are right,

  • @TelecastPropellor96
    @TelecastPropellor96 7 років тому

    Looks like Alex Turner. Acts like him too.

  • @rgwholt
    @rgwholt 15 років тому

    @kutarc .They are not policemen...the uniform is wrong and the stripes are the wrong way up for sergeants stripes and placed on the cuff which is wrong as well. They are both carrying walking sticks so i am assuming that they are watchmen of some kind employed by the firm...but like you i am intrigued.

  • @charlesdarwin5762
    @charlesdarwin5762 4 роки тому +2

    1:33 WTF

  • @chanctonbury63
    @chanctonbury63 13 років тому

    @mrmagicroundcircle Its not impossible, however I doubt they would remember very much tho`!

  • @TheYanbibiya
    @TheYanbibiya 4 роки тому +4

    UTM
    And now its turned Conservative.
    Lol

  • @spxl
    @spxl 16 років тому

    I wonder if the filmographer(s) got a black eye.

  • @relyanddefy
    @relyanddefy 15 років тому

    come and take you on, LOL bint

  • @Rentaghost76
    @Rentaghost76 15 років тому +2

    Haha, that bloke at 1:10 thinks he's well hard!
    I want to get in my time machine and go back and fight him...do you think he'd batter me?

  • @twoslices
    @twoslices 16 років тому +1

    I wonder if the young man was reprimanded for giving a V sign to the camera.

  • @bizzjoe
    @bizzjoe 11 років тому

    thats because everyone smoked

  • @chanctonbury63
    @chanctonbury63 13 років тому

    @dchris1990 Thats because they were dead.

  • @Fronika
    @Fronika 16 років тому +2

    All those people and not one of them fat.

  • @Bud1UK
    @Bud1UK 15 років тому

    I beleive they are policemen.

  • @mrmagicroundcircle
    @mrmagicroundcircle 13 років тому

    @greenisland75 snob

  • @NickAndTommyFight
    @NickAndTommyFight 11 років тому +2

    I'm American (ignorant I know) but I have no clue what this V sign is.

    • @cianobrien1991
      @cianobrien1991 7 років тому +1

      Dont find out.

    • @mkgvlc4
      @mkgvlc4 7 років тому

      Fuck off if you dont know.

    • @FriedToast
      @FriedToast 6 років тому

      Micah stated it, but you may have took it wrong if you didn't know. ;) It's the same as our middle finger.

    • @Mr.Grimsdale
      @Mr.Grimsdale 5 років тому +2

      It's another way of saying 'get lost' or 'go away' but in a more aggresive fashion.

    • @whirligigable
      @whirligigable 5 років тому +1

      The V sign originated from the English archers showing the French they still had the two fingers used to draw the string of there bow. When the archers were captured by the French they had the two fingers amputated.

  • @abyssfan83
    @abyssfan83 11 років тому +1

    These people also typically did not live much past the age of 30. Working for a factory in the early 20th century was nothing like it is today. Working conditions were deplorable at best and the food these people ate were mass produced rations that were just as bad as fast food today. Starving and working 18 hour shifts in a moldy, asbestos laden factory with no break will make anyone skinny.
    On the other hand, I sense a new diet regimen! Now if we can just get rid of those pesky labor laws.

    • @wrichard11
      @wrichard11 11 місяців тому +1

      The mortality figures are skewed by the number of people dying before the age of five. Once you were past 5 you lived as long as most people

  • @grahamwilson2290
    @grahamwilson2290 5 років тому +8

    How things have changed, supposedly for the better. We now have sexual exploitation of young girls who are being groomed by men of the Asian community. We are now divided by Culture and Religion.
    It was a hard life back then, but they were all together as one...

    • @johngreenhorn8853
      @johngreenhorn8853 4 роки тому

      Spot on mate.

    • @grahamwilson2290
      @grahamwilson2290 4 роки тому

      @@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
      Who mentioned Muslims, they were Asian men exploiting young girls ,what was even more fucked up, people new what was happening...

    • @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
      @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath 4 роки тому +3

      @@grahamwilson2290 Calling them "Asian" men makes it sound like they are Chinese or something. They are almost all Pakistani Muslims. That's my point.

    • @grahamwilson2290
      @grahamwilson2290 4 роки тому +1

      @@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
      Maybe i should have been more specific...

    • @zaftra
      @zaftra 3 роки тому

      um, they were vastly more religious back then

  • @rossmorebaz
    @rossmorebaz 3 роки тому

    one can only imagine how utterly horrible and desolate their lives must have been .. interesting there is almost no women in this video ..

  • @greenisland75
    @greenisland75 14 років тому +1

    Could have picked a nicer part of Rotherham to film. Not sure why they filmed a load of teenage boys queing up for the toilets!

  • @dchris1990
    @dchris1990 14 років тому

    everyone looks so happy!
    also...noones fat...and very few old people!