All those people dead and buried, lived in the same city we do today, went to work on the same roads we use today. Makes you wonder what life is all about. What are we doing here, what are we waiting for
My father in law was born in 1924 and he passed away last summer. Is amazing and actually quite emotional to see what the world looked like in his childhood. Thank you for this.
1:45 when the guys pass the camera and turn to look at it at the same place at the same time nearly a hundred years apart. I love that. Nice job lining up the films like that.
I'm not a British, not a Londoner but this epic footage makes me goosebumps. It's incredible that's even an old light post in the footage be standing there up to now.
@@thesteelrodent1796 Believe it or not, a lot of the germans felt guilty if they were to ever bomb old architectural stuff. e.g. when hitler ordered the eiffel tower to be destroyed, the germans did not fall on his command.
Fascinating! I was born in 1931, after the date of these films, but I remember there were still quite a lot of horse drawn vehicles then, and nothing like as many cars The milkman, the baker and the coal man still delivered with horse and cart. Many funerals used horses then.
@@i0nlz Sorry, BB - where do you get the 2007 from?? Th'is year is 2020; I am not 76, I am in my 89th year. Is your math a bit dodgy!! - or am I missing something?... All the same, I appreciate your come back. Cheers, mate.
pentirah5 if you don’t mine me asking, were you from London? If so, what was it like being sent away from London during the war? Where did you go? What were your overall thoughts on what was happening at the time?
@@tobyw9113 Interesting question, Toby. My WW2 experience was not typical. Yes. I was born in SW London. When the order went out to evacuate all the children to safer parts of the country, my mother would have none of it! She said 'we are a family and we will face it together.' So I spent those years in London and experienced all the bombing - first by aircraft flying over from Germany every night, then later from flying bombs, which were very scary. At the end of the war Hitler was launching huge missiles with war-heads that flattened whole streets in one go. There could be no air-raid warning because they just arrived out of the blue. At first the Government told us it was 'gas mains' blowing up, but later they had to admit what it really was. There is much more I could tell you, but I think this is long enough! -Thanks for asking..
Those have stood through Wars and Riots. But soon they’d be took down by the forces inside. As sir Oswald Mosley once said “So The British who for 1000 years have never been conquered from the foe without, can be subdued by the foe within”
I'm a Londoner and this brought tears to my eyes. I still remember some landmarks that I knew when I was a little girl. May London carry on as a city with history, beauty and to be seen by future generations!!!!!!
it has not carried on, it is now a decaying hell-hole of muggings and stabbings, cockneys are no more, the culture changed, and let us not forget we all ignore and happily accept that terrorism is part and parcel. No Brits live there, the elite laugh at the dead cockney culture.
Fantastic! I was thinking of my grandfather while watching, he was born in 1911 over there (I'm in Australia), he used to tell me stories and show me photos of his life there. He came out to Australia in 1927 as he had always had a yearning for the bush. He bought his farm and live stock and had it the whole time until his late 80s and he died 1998. This footage made me feel connected to him.
That's awesome, your Grandfather outlived mine by one year, but mine was born five years later. My great Grandfather was a Met Police officer a little later, moving from Cambridge, I now live in Norwich, about 100 miles north of London.
Well said, the West has a horrid apathetic feel now. Different races who hate each other forced together. Everyone deeply immersed in their phones, because reality is so bad. Whites unable to be left alone anywhere, except parts of Eastern Europe. Moscow looks like it has life and soul.
Thats wha tmakes it nostalgic you see people when yhey were alive but now they been dead for a hundred years. And yhey have no idea you are just randomly looking at them but they been born again but dont know that maybe one of them was you in youe padt life
Our eternal gratitude to the cameramen and early filmmakers who made and preserved these films. So sad none of these people are still with us Thanks for the memory
@@TonyEnglandUK and many more millions of videos of total nonsense that will leave historians bewildered as to what really happened in the 21st century
@Houston's mccaine sorry but to be truthful and not many people are nowadays, people left firstly because it was tatty and downtrodden and wanted to live in a nice area, secondly because of immigration and wanting to live among English people again, who just happen to be white. Areas that have a balance the local people stay in once it becomes more black and particularly more muslim many white people leave. People for the most part like to live with people like themselves, who share a similar background with the same cultural values. You can call it racist if you wish to but it remains a fact of life.
I really appreciate how you matched the angles, frames, and positions of the then and now videos. As an amateur and I have tried that in an old city with intact old structures and its not easy, and you come so close as to be nearly exact. Its amazing to see the city so preserved, while the people and particularly the young children, probably long gone.
Wow. What a treat to be able to hear the oldest sound of Big Ben chiming :) Really enjoyed this video. Splitting the screen between the different eras gave me goosebumps. Thanks for making this.
I absolutely love how this video was made with the map showing you the direction of the shot and the screen cut into two where you had the old pictures/ films to the new ones . Enjoyed fully 👍🏻
As I watch these videos of old Europe I am always amazed at the craftsmanship, expertise, vision, sensitivity and creativity of the people then; Italy France England Germany etc. - truly a marvel to behold! I just love this so much it is heartbreaking what is happening!
Don't be so negative. People were still dying of cholera at the time some of these videos were taken. Working class children were working as chimney sweeps, women couldn't vote, gay people were slung in jail, it was hardly the gentle idyll you'd have it be. Things have changed for better and worse, but on the whole suffering has been greatly lessened.
Blame AMERICA? If it weren’t for us you’d never have stopped killing each other! We REBUILT YOU from the ground up and were the only thing that kept you all together after WWII! Thanks to America’s help you were able to rebuild quickly and better than ever before. If it weren’t for America, half of you would probably have fallen to communism when Stalin would have continued marching west, while the other half of you would have had yet another territorial war or three. Now you’re once again ruining yourself with mass migration, and maybe once again we’ll have to fix that too. Seems like Europe has just historically had problems getting by.
This is terrific stuff, and you have done the matching shots with affection and care. Thank you for this gem. The fleeting appearance of the woman on her bicycle (in 1896, no less) was priceless.
Showing the points of reference and side by side comparisons are amazing! I can’t explain the feeling this gives me. I wish we could do this with everything in this world. Somewhere is special to someone
Made me cry our beautiful London that I grew up in is no more, breaks my heart. A train ride to London going past the schools and the streets you can see the change. True Londoners were driven out bit by bit.
I AGREE❗️A SINCERE THANKS TO EVERYONE OF THOSE WHO PUT SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT AND MEANS INTO MAKING THIS GREAT FILM. I APPRECIATE YOU❗️ THANK YOU❗️THANK YOU❗️
I’m really loving the double decker horse drawn carriages. Watching this will humble you really quickly. These people are no different to us, born to the era assigned to them, living their lives, adhering to the politics they believed in, falling in love, walking on dates, going on family outings, going to funerals to bury loved ones and then just like that they became ancestors and that was just basic footage of a time cameras weren’t so easily accessible. 160 years from now our descendants will be looking at our videos in awe at our “prehistoric” ways of life
160 years from now, they'll either be watching video's of TikToks with their hands over thier eyes in embarrassment, or if society continues as it is, they'll all be out hunting and being amazed by fire 😅 Agree wholeheartedly about the rest of this👌
Couldn’t disagree more London today is over crowded, Streets and roads are constantly being dug up, To many closures it’s actually a disgrace, Councils are a disgrace and so are Transport for London. Couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery!
Imagine how amazing it would be to travel back in time as a ghost and just experience how different things were, the culture, the fashion, how people behaved. All with the benefit of hindsight and knowing what was coming for these people, i would absolutely love that. However i think it says something that we cant, that we should all appreciate and live in our own moment, the moment that we have been individually gifted and belong to.
This is so poignantly and beautifully done. What a marvellous compilation of historic film footage that has been meticulously researched and combined with contemporary footage in the exact same locations. Apart from the modernisation of transportation, it’s startling to see how relatively little has changed. For someone arriving in London over 25 years ago and calling it home most of the time since, this certainly makes one very proud to be a Londoner.
Acutally crazy to think about that at the same time they recorded London and the people in the 1890s was the same time that Jack the Ripper walked around.
I'm watching this in 2020 in London when we can't go outside because of the pandemic. All the people usually on the streets are not there at the moment. Just like all the people in the old footage are now gone. It's an odd feeling to know that someday, the same streets and places will still be there... but no one from this world will be. Kind of feels like we're rehearsing for when we'll actually be gone. But it is comforting - now is just a moment in time, like all the others. It fits into place with them.
I can imagine it, feeling that I'm walking there now in London 1890s. Life was so rough but because people were stronger they were happier and more understanding and grateful to art and reading. The Art of Life.
Lelleith Murray Those defences were put up to stop IRA bombers unfortunately. They would’ve loved to post their letter bombs easily through 10 Downing Street like that
I found this of great interest. As a young student nurse in the 1960s I often went into London by bus from Shooters Hill on my days off, to go to a museum or gallery, have lunch somewhere and wander around a bit before returning to the Brook Hospital Nurses' Home. Good days...
@@franknada8235 Good. Amount of territories Britain had conquered. Tides will change. For every actions there is a reaction, During this time India was still being occupied for 100+ years.
I was born in East London, officially a cockney as I was born within the sound of bow bells (so my Nan always told me). My Dad traced our family tree back to the 1700's and my ancestors were still in London then! its so amazing to see it 100 years ago. I moved out into Essex later on but many of my family still live in the East end. London may look the same but sadly it had changed a lot in recent years and many Londoners have moved out. I still remember going around all the sights as a child with my Dad.
My forebears lived in the East End. Cockneys through and through. My Grt Grandparents lived in Brick Lane , Whitechapel in 1890. There’s no Cockneys there now. Whole area is a scaled down Bangladesh with even the street name and railway station names in Bengali. Their lives were so hard , living a family of 8 in two rooms. Grt Grdma had 13 children of whom 7 died. Both Grtgrandfather and Grandfather were boot and shoe finishers ( lasters) and Grandfather also fought in the Boer and First World War. For what? Both died youngish. 54 and 63 respectively.
WE lived in Stevenage from 1963 on. The real Cockney's were there. I remember church socials on Thursday nights where Knees up Mother Brown and all the wonderful East End culture was still extant. I am still in touch with some of the children of those people., but the Good Ole days are gone... they had gone before we left there in the seventies. We went to another town in the West country where we were hated ( I mean that!) but when we emigrated to Texas in 1980 it was our old friends from Cockney Stevenage who gathered us all together again and we had a sad, but wonderful Farewell Party. Long live the memories of "Bow Bells!
east end culture is now dead, London is now a bengali and somali slum, machete gangs rule, and the elite laugh at the death of the white working class and their happy simple culture
I was recently talking about how I miss the old architecture. Sometimes I’m walking around my city and I see modern buildings next to the older buildings and I just think it looks so bizarre and out of place ahaha
@@googlesucks7840 idk communists are the ones who are known for disgusting buildings. Unless you're talking about the rebuilding of london after the bombings
@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 lol. Yeah, I mean't the quick, cheap re-building in the 50's and 60's, not us copying Hitler's designs. Soviet buildings are ugly though.
Amazing how little has changed. Even seeing the same signage and light posts and dividers 130 years later. Love it. I spent some time in London, and visited quite a few of those locations shown. What I loved about London, was how much you feel as if you're surrounded by history. It doesn't take much to imagine, that if all the cars and most of the lights vanished, it could easily pass as a stroll through the 19th century. Started in London and worked my way north, and overall, I really enjoyed pretty much everywhere I visited in England.
that's actually quite common in European cities - that large parts of them look exactly the same centuries later. It's a little more impressive in cities that weren't severely bombed during WW2, but even an architectural mess like Berlin has parts that have remained unchanged for centuries.
@@thesteelrodent1796 Yes. Took a road trip starting north of Berlin a the way to the southern Bavaria border. Stopped off at notable locations every few hours and was glad I did. Some of the small villages felt like bubbles in time. Just remove the cars. Absolutely loved it. Took parts of the "Fairy Tail trail".
Compared to other oldest footage of this series, London seems to have changed the least. Which is what makes it great when you visit and see all the old architecture and history around you.
Well a lot of London is very authentic and you do see a great deal of the old architecture still standing but you can see quite a few changes that can most likely be attributed to the blitz of the second world war, although Paris was occupied in the war it was never heavily bombed by the Germans thus a lot more older buildings remain!
A lot of those buildings were terrible to live in. No running water, no sanitation, water pots collected in the morning and shared between the whole block. Yes, the modern ones are ugly. But at the time they were really popular because of how bad conditions were for normal people. It is a shame we didn't have more foresight and retain the Victorian and Georgian aesthetics though.
I think all eras have good and bad buildings. The old ones we see are the good old ones. The bad ones were torn down. In 100 years we will have the good old 21st century buildings, the bad ones will have gone to be replaced by good and bad 22nd century ones :) And so on.
It's quite astounding how much of London is Still around. Damn, they knew how to build beautiful buildings that would last the test of time.. Amazing!!!
I must say, some Londoner from 1900 who would time jump to 2019 would feel at home and lost at the same time. Kudos to the people who took care of these important monuments , because they all have remained beautifully intact and sometimes even were enhanced.
45% of British NHS Doctors are Black, Asian or Ethnic minorities. You people think different skin colours are bad because clearly you've never interacted with them
Eh? Loads of building were torn down to make way for new ones. Sometimes there's no choice like the great fire and the bombing. The Victorians were terrible for plowing through medieval cities to make way for their railways. Post war UK cities were demolished to make way for concrete tower blocks and developments that were seen at the time as the buildings of the future. Euston Arch is one example of historic architecture that was lost. St. Pancras was only saved after a campaign to save it. What you're seeing here are the major landmarks of London that weren't touched, no-one's going to knock down St Pauls.
Really enjoyed your video. Loved the split screen! These amazing historic buildings have been thoughtfully maintained over time, which is very nice to see. Thanks for sharing!
This is fabulous! Well done to whoever put this together. So happy to see many of the buildings are still there and preserved as they were. Thanks for sharing.
@@seasidesmilertj1182 always been a shit hole this is the queens town tell me what greater london looked like back in those days...... Thats right a shit hole
Fantastic photographs and historical videos. The old/modern comparison videos are exceptional, taken from the exact same viewpoint. Amazing!. Well done, really enjoyed it.
Yeah, I was walking past a school the other day and no children were white. It’s very deceptive as most whites just commute in for work but the residents are no longer white British. Just white wealthy and non white British
@@samwell2386 It's a European city that has existed for thousands of years, populated by Europeans. Only in the last 40 years or so has the government fucked us over so badly that actual English people are now a minority. This means that London has lost much of its culture ironically, as the people that want all these foreigners often say it brings more culture. Have 1000 foreign cultures in a place where there used to be one native culture is extremely boring and depressing to see.
fascinating, especially the split screens showing the same location in the present era, and how despite WW2 bombs and all that so much of London has barely changed. the maps with camera angle information also help bring this to life. I wonder if it will be possible for someone to make a similar film in 2115! Simon
London and Paris are really two wonderful cities to walk around and see the sights. So much history and yet modern day vibrancy. Once the pandemic is over the action will come back.
1:05 1890 ... my grandad was born in 1893, footage from before even he was born, amazing. They had my father late and I never met my grandad he died 23 years before me. Thank you for this video
@@justintime1343 Yes, you can't get within quite a few metres of No.10. Depending on the angle you are viewing Downing Street from, you may be able to see a little of the buildings. You can see a bit from St James's Park but if you walk through Horse Guards Parade or round by the Mall up to Buckingham Palace, you may get a better view from the other side. The security has hugely increased since the 80s and you can hardly see much of Downing street now.
So wonderful to see :-) I am from Denmark , but i just LOVE London , and of course not only London , but all England , so much that i am an anglophile .Thank you so much for this video.
Yestervid. As a lover of London history, photography, videography and editing, this is the best clip I have ever seen. I say that without hyperbole. You are indeed a star !!!
Yeah except you would die from the flu or other diseases that had no medicines and cures back then. Cholera and typhoid were still rampant and no welfare if you had no income.
Stannis Baratheon probably be dead by 30 with consumption or starvation no penicillin no NHS filthy conditions no decent housing no sanitation no thanks
Excellent.Thank you.. Wow. My Canadian city was literally a wooden fort at the time of the oldest film of London. Makes me proud to share such an amazing heritage. London, the centre of all that ‘pink’ on the world maps that hung in our classroom wall next to the Union Jack.
Big iron gates across Downing street now to create a green zone to keep the politicians cosy and safe from the fallout from decades of their social engineering experiments. 1:30
@@garethoneill5676 And in the 18th century, Ireland resident born Englishman Jonathan Swift was moved by inhuman "Christian" English cruel laws and policies suppressing the Irish to write his (intendedly satiric reductio ad absurdem) A Modest Proposal (that the English solve their "Irish problem" by eating Irish children) to show the English by (then) caricature how inhumanely unChristian their policies were. The Irish want for their country what America achieved for itself (and now Brexiters want for England), home rule, not "government from afar" insensitive to local issues.
I mean, NY and tokyo have got the modern skyscrapers but there's just something a bit more special about the gothic architecture in london (and indeed the rest of the UK). I still think it's the greatest city on earth. Culture, history, technology, beautiful architecture... london has it all.
Indeed : " When a man is tired of London , he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford " . Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784 . From an anglophile Dane .
I am so glad to see my dear old London has not changed too much. I remember it during WW2 and although so much was destroyed, it was in a time warp. There wasn't much traffic, horses were still used, and mercifully, traffic lanes had been introduced. I noticed the chaos when it was a free for all in the streets. No wonder so many people were run over in those days! My grandmother spoke of it and said how the streets were filthy from the horses, it was difficult in long dresses to keep them away from dirt, modestly. My mother remembered the horse drawn buses and trams.
The buildings that remain from that period have in many cases had the coat of coal-fired pollution cleaned off and look so much better than they did fifty years ago when I first went myself. The difference is amazing and can be seen in this video.
They had crossing sweepers, hundreds of them, who swept a clean path at major crossing points , corners etc for the cost of a few pennies. The streets were also cleaned by the municipal authorities. Have a look at the footage - do the streets appear very dirty to you? Ladies held up their dresses out of the mud and wet. How old are you that your mother remembers omnibuses? They were gone before WW1.
@Fallout Plays Yep the “shit” is not on the buildings anymore. It’s on every street. Many areas beyond recognition. Certainly if my Cockney forebears came now in a time machine they would not even know what country they were in. Brick Lane where they lived in 1890 is Bangladesh.
@@joanthewad7510 Things change, get over it. How one dimensional of you to point out that now people who work in Brick Lane might have once come from another country......as my old Mum once said, have sympathy for those that hate. If you actually look at Brick Lane, those people you are referring to are being priced out by a new generation.....how do you feel about that?
17 September 1917. My grandfather was in London that day, after being wounded on the Western Front on 3 May 1917. Remarkable to realise that some of the lamp posts he saw are still there 99 years later. Congratulations on getting the camera angles exactly right
The cast for the cast-iron “dolphin” lamp-post resides in a workshop somewhere and they are still produced from time to time with the year updated. They are often required for new riverfront developments.
Wow. Amazing but so depressing. These places mean nothing to the people who live in London today. The people and culture that created all that is gone.
@@Moonscafe7 Because they and their ancestors didn't build it and it isn't an expression of their people. In English: "Mean nothing" is idiomatic and doesn't literally mean absolutely nothing. Of course it has meaning to them. But not the same way as it does with somebody who can identity with it.
Alex Smith You could right up till 1980. It was the Northern Ireland troubles which first prompted the closure. You could walk 10 feet from the Prime Minister's front door with only a uniformed policeman to stop you knocking on it.
I remember standing across the road from the famous door with my parents and sisters. It must have been about 1980. I went back last year with my nieces and it was totally different. There was armed police, crash barriers, and a man walking up and down with a placard with "I AM NOT A TERRORIST" on it. Different times...
it's funny how old black and white footage can make something/somewhere look so mysterious and ancient and pretty and 'better than it does now', but when you see the exact same place/thing now, looking exactly as it did, but in HD 21st century quality, it looks average. We forget, it looked the same back then
GoldenSilents Don't get me wrong, I bloody love London! But in this old footage, the view of a simple building or lamp post can look so mysterious and archaic, yet that exact same, unaltered view now looks average and normal.
I at 82 years of age found this to be a brilliant video, thank you so much...Ramon
Are you a troll or are u serious to be 82 years of age
+Ryan Stone
Are 82-year-olds not allowed on UA-cam? ;)
Ramon Williams you're adorable
@@michaelmurdock7331 You must be a pooofta....NO DOUBT.
@@Tom_Selleck308 I don't speak American . You dumb yankee
All those people dead and buried, lived in the same city we do today, went to work on the same roads we use today. Makes you wonder what life is all about. What are we doing here, what are we waiting for
ashley sefton was thinking that during the video, really makes you think, doesn't it.
Faizaan it does in deed. 200 years from now we will probably have someone watching clips of us.
I too wonder this. Very interesting!
Life is a bittersweet cycle
Waiting for Jesus to return
Other people just mash together old clips. This carefully researched and lovingly edited artefact is a thing of beauty. Thank you.
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The side maps were quite useful
A compliment without putting others down would be nice. 😉
@@cheezheadz3928 So what's stopping you?
Yes, it is quite clear that London is loved.
My father in law was born in 1924 and he passed away last summer. Is amazing and actually quite emotional to see what the world looked like in his childhood. Thank you for this.
I'm sorry to hear about your loss, may you cherish those memories forever and keep them close to your heart. We were all young once and got old. ❤
London from 1890 to today, still amazing !
Greetings from France.
Erwann L'inconnu
Hopie Tomas Yes ?
I know I'ma total stranger but I was wondering if you can send me some pics of beautiful France
Erwann L'inconnu
Greetings right back to you, neighbour.
1:45 when the guys pass the camera and turn to look at it at the same place at the same time nearly a hundred years apart. I love that. Nice job lining up the films like that.
*Intelligent editing. ;)*
Imagine if it turns out they were related!
must be very weird standing in the same footsteps as those who originally filmed the originals, thanks for creating this wonderful video.
Chlarie Peace very illiterate
@jogga singh teidy Thats it , its all about the journey!
I thought the same thing, dont try and explain your obscure brain thoughts to people, they will never understand!
I'm not a British, not a Londoner but this epic footage makes me goosebumps.
It's incredible that's even an old light post in the footage be standing there up to now.
considering the Germans bombed the hell out of London twice, it's amazing all these old buildings were left mostly unharmed
True, Church ⛪️ 1000years old
@@thesteelrodent1796 Believe it or not, a lot of the germans felt guilty if they were to ever bomb old architectural stuff. e.g. when hitler ordered the eiffel tower to be destroyed, the germans did not fall on his command.
Fascinating! I was born in 1931, after the date of these films, but I remember there were still quite a lot of horse drawn vehicles then, and nothing like as many cars The milkman, the baker and the coal man still delivered with horse and cart. Many funerals used horses then.
@@i0nlz
Sorry, BB - where do you get the 2007 from?? Th'is year is 2020; I am not 76, I am in my 89th year. Is your math a bit dodgy!! - or am I missing something?... All the same, I appreciate your come back. Cheers, mate.
Big Bot
Yes - I figured that out after I posted. Sorry! Yes. I am heaps older than you - aren't you lucky. Cheers, friend!
pentirah5 if you don’t mine me asking, were you from London? If so, what was it like being sent away from London during the war? Where did you go? What were your overall thoughts on what was happening at the time?
@@tobyw9113
Interesting question, Toby. My WW2 experience was not typical. Yes. I was born in SW London. When the order went out to evacuate all the children to safer parts of the country, my mother would have none of it! She said 'we are a family and we will face it together.' So I spent those years in London and experienced all the bombing - first by aircraft flying over from Germany every night, then later from flying bombs, which were very scary. At the end of the war Hitler was launching huge missiles with war-heads that flattened whole streets in one go. There could be no air-raid warning because they just arrived out of the blue. At first the Government told us it was 'gas mains' blowing up, but later they had to admit what it really was. There is much more I could tell you, but I think this is long enough! -Thanks for asking..
How do you see the changes that happened in London and UK over the years?
They need to send a thank you note to the company that made those lamp post. Over hundred years and still standing.
they are much older than that.
Those have stood through Wars and Riots. But soon they’d be took down by the forces inside. As sir Oswald Mosley once said
“So The British who for 1000 years have never been conquered from the foe without, can be subdued by the foe within”
you are right
Probably not made in China😁
@@MichaelJ44 do you mean the Fascist?
I'm a Londoner and this brought tears to my eyes. I still remember some landmarks
that I knew when I was a little girl. May London carry on as a city with history, beauty
and to be seen by future generations!!!!!!
More like a tragic and inevitable decline.
it has not carried on, it is now a decaying hell-hole of muggings and stabbings, cockneys are no more, the culture changed, and let us not forget we all ignore and happily accept that terrorism is part and parcel. No Brits live there, the elite laugh at the dead cockney culture.
London is becoming a cesspool and u know why
Fantastic! I was thinking of my grandfather while watching, he was born in 1911 over there (I'm in Australia), he used to tell me stories and show me photos of his life there. He came out to Australia in 1927 as he had always had a yearning for the bush. He bought his farm and live stock and had it the whole time until his late 80s and he died 1998. This footage made me feel connected to him.
That's awesome, your Grandfather outlived mine by one year, but mine was born five years later. My great Grandfather was a Met Police officer a little later, moving from Cambridge, I now live in Norwich, about 100 miles north of London.
I have a yearning for bush also.
@@rnw2739 :))
"Bought his farm"...from native Australians....😁😁😁😁😁
London had much more character back then.
Folkvar What do you mean by character? And how can you tell from a few silent movie clips?
But now it has more characters, from all over the world.
Salpeteroxid but those "characters" are NOT from London cuz they didn't originate in London
Well said, the West has a horrid apathetic feel now. Different races who hate each other forced together. Everyone deeply immersed in their phones, because reality is so bad. Whites unable to be left alone anywhere, except parts of Eastern Europe. Moscow looks like it has life and soul.
John Sinclair Excellent point
Crazy how they constructed those buildings that still stands today, my house is on its last legs and it's only 40yrs old
That's because God made them.
reearch mud flood.
@Phil Cadey yer mom
That’s because a lot of them were built by bodgit and leggit😳😅
innit!
This makes me nostalgic for a time i wasn't even alive🥺
Thats wha tmakes it nostalgic you see people when yhey were alive but now they been dead for a hundred years. And yhey have no idea you are just randomly looking at them but they been born again but dont know that maybe one of them was you in youe padt life
Our eternal gratitude to the cameramen and early filmmakers who made and preserved these films. So sad none of these people are still with us
Thanks for the memory
What a difference today - future generations will have millions of historical videos of our time on this planet.
@@TonyEnglandUK and many more millions of videos of total nonsense that will leave historians bewildered as to what really happened in the 21st century
Excellent. I particularly enjoyed the spit screen 'then and now' shots. Obviously a time-consuming exercise, but well worth it.
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Indeed
Very well put together, I enjoyed it
London has changed more in the last couple decades than it has in well over a century.
RIP London.
Liberal's dream "multiculturalism" has become reality.
@@Lauren-jq6up didn't mind the Hindus but the Muslims don't integrate at all
Christine Dennison true
@@myname604 wouldn't be surprised, but you will be accused of scaremongering
@Houston's mccaine sorry but to be truthful and not many people are nowadays, people left firstly because it was tatty and downtrodden and wanted to live in a nice area, secondly because of immigration and wanting to live among English people again, who just happen to be white. Areas that have a balance the local people stay in once it becomes more black and particularly more muslim many white people leave. People for the most part like to live with people like themselves, who share a similar background with the same cultural values. You can call it racist if you wish to but it remains a fact of life.
I really appreciate how you matched the angles, frames, and positions of the then and now videos. As an amateur and I have tried that in an old city with intact old structures and its not easy, and you come so close as to be nearly exact. Its amazing to see the city so preserved, while the people and particularly the young children, probably long gone.
Wow. What a treat to be able to hear the oldest sound of Big Ben chiming :) Really enjoyed this video. Splitting the screen between the different eras gave me goosebumps. Thanks for making this.
I absolutely love how this video was made with the map showing you the direction of the shot and the screen cut into two where you had the old pictures/ films to the new ones . Enjoyed fully 👍🏻
As I watch these videos of old Europe I am always amazed at the craftsmanship, expertise, vision, sensitivity and creativity of the people then; Italy France England Germany etc. - truly a marvel to behold! I just love this so much it is heartbreaking what is happening!
morons like you are the cause
Europe, as it once was, does not exist anymore. What a shame.
Don't be so negative. People were still dying of cholera at the time some of these videos were taken. Working class children were working as chimney sweeps, women couldn't vote, gay people were slung in jail, it was hardly the gentle idyll you'd have it be. Things have changed for better and worse, but on the whole suffering has been greatly lessened.
Blame AMERICA? If it weren’t for us you’d never have stopped killing each other! We REBUILT YOU from the ground up and were the only thing that kept you all together after WWII! Thanks to America’s help you were able to rebuild quickly and better than ever before. If it weren’t for America, half of you would probably have fallen to communism when Stalin would have continued marching west, while the other half of you would have had yet another territorial war or three. Now you’re once again ruining yourself with mass migration, and maybe once again we’ll have to fix that too. Seems like Europe has just historically had problems getting by.
awakeningspirit20: (lol) Well stated. U.S.- envy is amusing as it is pathological.
This is terrific stuff, and you have done the matching shots with affection and care. Thank you for this gem. The fleeting appearance of the woman on her bicycle (in 1896, no less) was priceless.
Showing the points of reference and side by side comparisons are amazing! I can’t explain the feeling this gives me. I wish we could do this with everything in this world. Somewhere is special to someone
Made me cry our beautiful London that I grew up in is no more, breaks my heart. A train ride
to London going past the schools and the streets you can see the change. True Londoners were driven out bit by bit.
Linda Josephine honestly wish I could turn back time, majority are rude, foul mouthed people who do not appreciate the beautiful city..
well said.
Linda Josephine- it is never too late to reclaim your birthright; you just need the collective will of the people !
@@KieranFitzs Thats because their ancestors didn't build any of it!
@Karl Pilkington Your people fought on the wrong side of the war, what makes you think you'll pull up your nickers now and fight for whats right?
I can't imagine how many hours of research, filming and editing this one video took! I hope you made a good profit...well done!
if he found this on the web it musta been easy.
ANTIQUEFOTOS there is no ads
While everyone is arguing politics and agendas, I'm sitting here thinking the same thing. A lot of work went into this and it's a wonderful vid.
I AGREE❗️A SINCERE THANKS TO EVERYONE OF THOSE WHO PUT SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT AND MEANS INTO MAKING THIS GREAT FILM. I APPRECIATE YOU❗️
THANK YOU❗️THANK YOU❗️
Yes. I really enjoyed watching it. Very clever editing.
The soldiers at the Tower Of London replaced by poppies. Little did they know what was coming.
dajjal
What an ugly City
+Jeff Anderli It is now.
+Jeff Anderli if you mean the modern one, I must agree
+Jeff Anderli Have you been there?
I’m really loving the double decker horse drawn carriages. Watching this will humble you really quickly. These people are no different to us, born to the era assigned to them, living their lives, adhering to the politics they believed in, falling in love, walking on dates, going on family outings, going to funerals to bury loved ones and then just like that they became ancestors and that was just basic footage of a time cameras weren’t so easily accessible. 160 years from now our descendants will be looking at our videos in awe at our “prehistoric” ways of life
The comments are equally as entertaining.
Well said!
160 years from now, they'll either be watching video's of TikToks with their hands over thier eyes in embarrassment, or if society continues as it is, they'll all be out hunting and being amazed by fire 😅
Agree wholeheartedly about the rest of this👌
Omg I love this comment 🥰
Couldn’t disagree more London today is over crowded, Streets and roads are constantly being dug up, To many closures it’s actually a disgrace, Councils are a disgrace and so are Transport for London. Couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery!
Imagine how amazing it would be to travel back in time as a ghost and just experience how different things were, the culture, the fashion, how people behaved. All with the benefit of hindsight and knowing what was coming for these people, i would absolutely love that. However i think it says something that we cant, that we should all appreciate and live in our own moment, the moment that we have been individually gifted and belong to.
OMG what a fantastic video! Perfect editing !!!!
@Tony As opposed to cardboard cut outs now.
Am I the only one who felt really proud of the trees in the comparisons?
Like, you could see them before and they grew up so big and strong. 🌳
You have issues ...
The trees grew "big and strong" and... "Christ is watching"? Smdh.
@@blackmore4 Who put a bee in your bonnet?
@@BubbleFizz
That'd be "Christ" ;)
blackmore4 agree
This is so poignantly and beautifully done. What a marvellous compilation of historic film footage that has been meticulously researched and combined with contemporary footage in the exact same locations. Apart from the modernisation of transportation, it’s startling to see how relatively little has changed. For someone arriving in London over 25 years ago and calling it home most of the time since, this certainly makes one very proud to be a Londoner.
Obviously a lot of good work has gone into making this. Excellent production.
Excellent presentation. Regards from The Colonies. Queensland, Australia.
Wonder what these ppl would think if they were transported forward to 2019 London. They would probably cry.
King George V - 🤣🤣 exactly mate this country as a whole is fucked beyond repair.
They would be terrified. I have been in the wilderness for over two weeks walking, and on return to 'civilisation' cars were scarey.
On the contrary, loads of them would be delighted to be rid of the grinding poverty, female oppression, rickets, smallpox and chimney sweeping.
Roger French yep when the seen all the pols litaunians ,Syrians
Damn fucking right they would! !!!
I'd love to go back 120 years and see turn of the century London
That'd be awesome!
Just don't live there. Really bad times for most people
Acutally crazy to think about that at the same time they recorded London and the people in the 1890s was the same time that Jack the Ripper walked around.
ripper 1888 all deaths
@@COLEEN322 pretty much the same time tho
Lord Nelson died in 1805
Ha ha I didn't see that Lord Nelson was the person you were replying to. My apologies
@@suzannemcgowan1012 Which means?
The great grand old days
Heart weeps looking at the ancestors.....
I'm watching this in 2020 in London when we can't go outside because of the pandemic. All the people usually on the streets are not there at the moment. Just like all the people in the old footage are now gone. It's an odd feeling to know that someday, the same streets and places will still be there... but no one from this world will be. Kind of feels like we're rehearsing for when we'll actually be gone. But it is comforting - now is just a moment in time, like all the others. It fits into place with them.
"Rehearsing" for our death... interesting way to look at it.
Some striking words! 👽👍🌍🌟
Quite captivating and true and makes you think I like it.
I can imagine it, feeling that I'm walking there now in London 1890s. Life was so rough but because people were stronger they were happier and more understanding and grateful to art and reading. The Art of Life.
Were they ‘happier’ though?
Living in the uk and seeing this footage I can’t explain the feeling
Sadness, pride, loss, envy just a few of the emotions that it brought out in me
Wow that is incredible! Thanks for sharing folk
Sir Mosewald of Osely The High Executioner omg leave them be u spud. nowadays people like you judge anyone
@Sir Mosewald of Osely The High Executioner touch grass
@@euryptrey 💀
@Sir Mosewald of Osely The High Executioner touch grass
Or some rocks
Whatever that's outside that isn't bad for you
main difference i noticed between then and now is back then theres no barriers, now we cant go anywhere
No barriers is within recent living memory.
I remember as a child being able to walk right up to no 10 Downing Street-can't do that now!
Lelleith Murray
Those defences were put up to stop IRA bombers unfortunately. They would’ve loved to post their letter bombs easily through 10 Downing Street like that
In those days British erected barriers in the colonies to segregate the people they subjugated in their own countries. Now the the tables have turned.
I saw the same thing
I found this of great interest. As a young student nurse in the 1960s I often went into London by bus from Shooters Hill on my days off, to go to a museum or gallery, have lunch somewhere and wander around a bit before returning to the Brook Hospital Nurses' Home. Good days...
The Brook has now been closed for sometime just like the Shooters Hill hospital.
Imagine if we could see images of Rome 2000 years ago.
We can’t so shut it you flannel
U wouldnt like it..
Eveyone idealizes so so much
@@franknada8235 Good. Amount of territories Britain had conquered. Tides will change. For every actions there is a reaction, During this time India was still being occupied for 100+ years.
Look up information about the Chronovisor and Father Enetti. Anthony Basagio says it was real!
@@GH29111 That's what you think! The Chronovisor was a reality, and it worked. The Vatican had it dismantled and it was kept top secret.
Omg!!! so it's true that people used dress so nice back in the day, they would get a heart attack if they saw how people dress now a day.
lol
True. Everyone is a slob today.
JC 1 ik it's a real shame
Eddies Channel 2005
wimolus G yes?
Lovingly done, and induces incredible nostalgia. Thanks for the hard work you put in
I was born in East London, officially a cockney as I was born within the sound of bow bells (so my Nan always told me). My Dad traced our family tree back to the 1700's and my ancestors were still in London then! its so amazing to see it 100 years ago. I moved out into Essex later on but many of my family still live in the East end. London may look the same but sadly it had changed a lot in recent years and many Londoners have moved out. I still remember going around all the sights as a child with my Dad.
My forebears lived in the East End. Cockneys through and through. My Grt Grandparents lived in Brick Lane , Whitechapel in 1890. There’s no Cockneys there now. Whole area is a scaled down Bangladesh with even the street name and railway station names in Bengali. Their lives were so hard , living a family of 8 in two rooms. Grt Grdma had 13 children of whom 7 died. Both Grtgrandfather and Grandfather were boot and shoe finishers ( lasters) and Grandfather also fought in the Boer and First World War. For what? Both died youngish. 54 and 63 respectively.
Yeah it's not east end anymore it's east India and Somalia.
WE lived in Stevenage from 1963 on. The real Cockney's were there. I remember church socials on Thursday nights where Knees up Mother Brown and all the wonderful East End culture was still extant. I am still in touch with some of the children of those people., but the Good Ole days are gone... they had gone before we left there in the seventies. We went to another town in the West country where we were hated ( I mean that!) but when we emigrated to Texas in 1980 it was our old friends from Cockney Stevenage who gathered us all together again and we had a sad, but wonderful Farewell Party. Long live the memories of "Bow Bells!
Other than the City, it's a dump now.
No pride or dignity.
east end culture is now dead, London is now a bengali and somali slum, machete gangs rule, and the elite laugh at the death of the white working class and their happy simple culture
an example of how modern architecture has killed a lineage of good taste and beauty once flourished in old cities
Marcelo Blu maybe someday some of those previous aesthetics will be brought back.
I was recently talking about how I miss the old architecture. Sometimes I’m walking around my city and I see modern buildings next to the older buildings and I just think it looks so bizarre and out of place ahaha
You can kind of blame some of that on Hitler but London was always a functional working City.
@@googlesucks7840 idk communists are the ones who are known for disgusting buildings. Unless you're talking about the rebuilding of london after the bombings
@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 lol. Yeah, I mean't the quick, cheap re-building in the 50's and 60's, not us copying Hitler's designs. Soviet buildings are ugly though.
One day we're all going to be gone. All of us. Just like these people. This thought somehow makes me feel more connected to everybody.
It's quite comforting to know that universal nature will always trump all at its time of choosing.
Don’t panic. Do you remember before you were born? It’s the same when you die. Pre birth and post death are the same state of awareness
@@mudsliemuddy2338
Wow thanks!
Mudslie Muddy how do you know, we don’t know the feeling until we actually die
@@mudsliemuddy2338 i remember swimming in my dads balls but before that no
4:27 this part hits me so hard, so depressing but touching and just amazing all at once. Thank you
Amazing how little has changed. Even seeing the same signage and light posts and dividers 130 years later. Love it. I spent some time in London, and visited quite a few of those locations shown. What I loved about London, was how much you feel as if you're surrounded by history. It doesn't take much to imagine, that if all the cars and most of the lights vanished, it could easily pass as a stroll through the 19th century. Started in London and worked my way north, and overall, I really enjoyed pretty much everywhere I visited in England.
that's actually quite common in European cities - that large parts of them look exactly the same centuries later. It's a little more impressive in cities that weren't severely bombed during WW2, but even an architectural mess like Berlin has parts that have remained unchanged for centuries.
@@thesteelrodent1796 Yes. Took a road trip starting north of Berlin a the way to the southern Bavaria border. Stopped off at notable locations every few hours and was glad I did. Some of the small villages felt like bubbles in time. Just remove the cars. Absolutely loved it. Took parts of the "Fairy Tail trail".
Compared to other oldest footage of this series, London seems to have changed the least. Which is what makes it great when you visit and see all the old architecture and history around you.
I find Paris more authentic but I have never seen London so maybe you're right.
***** Agreed, too many who live there don't appreciate it though.
Well a lot of London is very authentic and you do see a great deal of the old architecture still standing but you can see quite a few changes that can most likely be attributed to the blitz of the second world war, although Paris was occupied in the war it was never heavily bombed by the Germans thus a lot more older buildings remain!
The center maybe, but visit London and all you'll see is construction, also, don't forget all the skyscrapers now.
+Orange is the new black - You aren't even a Brit, never mind a Londoner, how would you know?
Love the comparative now/then format: ends up being a very compelling way to view the old films, thank you!
Watching this video is like looking at the other world........
Yeah! Like another dimension! I wish I could go there!
One I wish I could step into.
The world was black & white back then, how dull. ;)
There was color, Just no color film.
Whoosh!
What an amazing collection of before and now footage. Defs a keeper. Fascinating watch. Cheers from New Zealand.
A really well put together film, the split screen & showing the cameras positioning is a touch of genius. Well done 👍.
Love how you have taken time to do this. Makes me love my London even more. Thank you
I have to say, the modern buildings added post war look sucky compared to their Georgian and Victorian forebears.
A lot of those buildings were terrible to live in. No running water, no sanitation, water pots collected in the morning and shared between the whole block. Yes, the modern ones are ugly. But at the time they were really popular because of how bad conditions were for normal people. It is a shame we didn't have more foresight and retain the Victorian and Georgian aesthetics though.
I wonder why?
I think all eras have good and bad buildings. The old ones we see are the good old ones. The bad ones were torn down. In 100 years we will have the good old 21st century buildings, the bad ones will have gone to be replaced by good and bad 22nd century ones :) And so on.
@@wodenravens - You can always retrofit the ‘mod-cons’. You can’t retrofit good taste when the whole building is a carbuncle.
A bit like your vocabulary
It's quite astounding how much of London is Still around. Damn, they knew how to build beautiful buildings that would last the test of time.. Amazing!!!
Deserves a youtube Oscar for production and editing. Brilliant!
Autumn 1971. I painted the railings outside Number 10 Downing Street (gloss black) and carried 10 litres white emulsion paint through the front door
Nice anecdote...
Maurice Andrews - the 10 Lt of emulsion is still there next to the door... along with your brush
I must say, some Londoner from 1900 who would time jump to 2019 would feel at home and lost at the same time. Kudos to the people who took care of these important monuments , because they all have remained beautifully intact and sometimes even were enhanced.
@ let me guess "Indian people bad, Muslim bad, other cultures bad" is this what your gonna say
I was about to say, I'm amazed.
@@drunkensailor5771 well I'll stay it Muslims and blacks have destroyed the west
@@drunkensailor5771 You mean the truth?
45% of British NHS Doctors are Black, Asian or Ethnic minorities. You people think different skin colours are bad because clearly you've never interacted with them
This post is the best at showing past and present. No other posts come close. Thanks for the great work involved in creating this.
I Love how they have maintained and preserved the old architecture of the buildings instead of tearing them down and rebuilding new ones.
Eh? Loads of building were torn down to make way for new ones. Sometimes there's no choice like the great fire and the bombing. The Victorians were terrible for plowing through medieval cities to make way for their railways. Post war UK cities were demolished to make way for concrete tower blocks and developments that were seen at the time as the buildings of the future. Euston Arch is one example of historic architecture that was lost. St. Pancras was only saved after a campaign to save it. What you're seeing here are the major landmarks of London that weren't touched, no-one's going to knock down St Pauls.
As a yank, I have visited many times...it is my favorite city in the world...this video helps explain why...
a somali shitfest now, stay away, sadiq khan loves the machete gangs
Really enjoyed your video. Loved the split screen! These amazing historic buildings have been thoughtfully maintained over time, which is very nice to see. Thanks for sharing!
This is fabulous! Well done to whoever put this together. So happy to see many of the buildings are still there and preserved as they were. Thanks for sharing.
This just reminds us....People come and go, but the world goes on..
man I was born WAAAAAAAY to late.. back when London was London.. now this place is an absolute dive...
Yeh mate I would love to go back to the good old days of jack the ripper, the plague, and back to back houses with poverty and famine
@@henry-hg5lq I'm Not your mate.. but I getcha point...
Henry Collis would rather a short life in that time, than a long one in that new melting pot shithole!
@@seasidesmilertj1182 always been a shit hole this is the queens town tell me what greater london looked like back in those days...... Thats right a shit hole
@@henry-hg5lq 😂😂😂
Love London, love from British Columbia, canada!
Atlas
Haha, don't listen to this imbecile. Love to Vancouver, Kamloops, Prince George and all the other cities in BC❤️
So beautifully done and with the melancholy music added. This brought a tear to my eye. Thank you for creating this touching piece of history.
Fantastic photographs and historical videos. The old/modern comparison videos are exceptional, taken from the exact same viewpoint. Amazing!. Well done, really enjoyed it.
It's heart breaking looking at London today
Yeah, I was walking past a school the other day and no children were white. It’s very deceptive as most whites just commute in for work but the residents are no longer white British. Just white wealthy and non white British
What’s wrong with non whites?
@@samwell2386 It's a European city that has existed for thousands of years, populated by Europeans. Only in the last 40 years or so has the government fucked us over so badly that actual English people are now a minority. This means that London has lost much of its culture ironically, as the people that want all these foreigners often say it brings more culture. Have 1000 foreign cultures in a place where there used to be one native culture is extremely boring and depressing to see.
@An honest chap So you're gonna tell how do I and my family feel about eroupean people... Ok
destruction of your major cities is just part and parcel of living in a diverse society
fascinating, especially the split screens showing the same location in the present era, and how despite WW2 bombs and all that so much of London has barely changed.
the maps with camera angle information also help bring this to life.
I wonder if it will be possible for someone to make a similar film in 2115!
Simon
+citytransportinfo Maybe in 3D's I guess.
London and Paris are really two wonderful cities to walk around and see the sights. So much history and yet modern day vibrancy. Once the pandemic is over the action will come back.
Monument of HitIer is under construction.
Now soooo much so called refugees in these countries
Last time i was in Paris it smelt like a toilet!, all those non native invasive species pissing where they like!! Wont ever go back
man said paris is a wonderful city
London is now a sinkhole , they now put signs up to tell the cultural enrichers not to shit on the street.
1:05 1890 ... my grandad was born in 1893, footage from before even he was born, amazing. They had my father late and I never met my grandad he died 23 years before me.
Thank you for this video
That nasty modernist architecture is creeping in.
Thanks to people like gordon ingram!!!!!
This was great fun to watch, and thought provoking. I LOVED the side by side “then and now” clips.
Thank you for posting this!
🙏
What a beautiful gift to the world this is. Every frame lovingly presented and matched with the present. Thank you.
yes it was given to the scum of somalia and bangladesh, beautiful indeed, machete gangs will welcome tourists now
I worked in central London when Downing Street was open , the only security was one policeman at the door. That was the case up to the eighties .
Downing Street's entirely closed off?
@@justintime1343 Yes, you can't get within quite a few metres of No.10. Depending on the angle you are viewing Downing Street from, you may be able to see a little of the buildings. You can see a bit from St James's Park but if you walk through Horse Guards Parade or round by the Mall up to Buckingham Palace, you may get a better view from the other side. The security has hugely increased since the 80s and you can hardly see much of Downing street now.
My god if there was no security in the current year somebody would of stormed in there hunting down Boris 😂😂
An excellent video, beautifully put together.
So wonderful to see :-) I am from Denmark , but i just LOVE London , and of course not only London , but all England , so much that i am an anglophile .Thank you so much for this video.
Thank You, Maria. You are welcome anytime...
move to london then
@@Trickroad I would if i could , it is one of my biggest wishes in my life .
@@Trickroad He could take your place if you live there...
I’m from the US but my Great Great Grandfather was from England he was born in Stockton and his Dad was born in Wales.
Yestervid. As a lover of London history, photography, videography and editing, this is the best clip I have ever seen. I say that without hyperbole. You are indeed a star !!!
Wow to think you can still get the EXACT same photo camera angles today
Yeah man.. you can literally stand infront of the same windows where people used to stand a 100 years ago. That's cool.
Think how amazing it would be to live in this time. No media or UA-cam drama. I wish i was born in these days.
Yeah except you would die from the flu or other diseases that had no medicines and cures back then. Cholera and typhoid were still rampant and no welfare if you had no income.
I sympathize. It does sound like you want to go out camping, though. Perhaps you need a bit of you-time.
Stannis Baratheon yeah I do too
Stannis Baratheon probably be dead by 30 with consumption or starvation no penicillin no NHS filthy conditions no decent housing no sanitation no thanks
Stannis Baratheon He says while commenting on UA-cam...
Notice how Downing Street was so accessible to the Public in those days?
Downing Street was still open to the public in 1973. I remember walking past 10 Downing then.
@@mary-clarecarder3709 It wasn't till about 10 years after the mass immigration started, just had to have that diversity.
It was just another Georgian street till about 4o years ago
It was Margaret Thatcher who had the gates installed in the 1980s.
@@faithlesshound5621, correct, due to IRA bombings in the UK
Excellent.Thank you..
Wow. My Canadian city was literally a wooden fort at the time of the oldest film of London. Makes me proud to share such an amazing heritage. London, the centre of all that ‘pink’ on the world maps that hung in our classroom wall next to the Union Jack.
nobody is now proud of the decay of the world's greatest city, machete gangs run free and the police and judiciary look on and laugh
Big iron gates across Downing street now to create a green zone to keep the politicians cosy and safe from the fallout from decades of their social engineering experiments. 1:30
Probably more to do with international terrorism, but, right on man.
Or so that nobody strolls in and kills the politicians...
I thought it was because of the Irish
They were actually put there to protect the politicians from the IRA: fellow white Christians
@@garethoneill5676 And in the 18th century, Ireland resident born Englishman Jonathan Swift was moved by inhuman "Christian" English cruel laws and policies suppressing the Irish to write his (intendedly satiric reductio ad absurdem) A Modest Proposal (that the English solve their "Irish problem" by eating Irish children) to show the English by (then) caricature how inhumanely unChristian their policies were. The Irish want for their country what America achieved for itself (and now Brexiters want for England), home rule, not "government from afar" insensitive to local issues.
I mean, NY and tokyo have got the modern skyscrapers but there's just something a bit more special about the gothic architecture in london (and indeed the rest of the UK). I still think it's the greatest city on earth. Culture, history, technology, beautiful architecture... london has it all.
Invincible Reason All 3 Cities Are Great
I’m From Philadelphia Tho
The uk creepy asf imo
@@christina7215 Nonsense, lived in London my whole life.
@@NLS_7 No it isn't you stupid racist twat.
Indeed : " When a man is tired of London , he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford " . Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784 . From an anglophile Dane .
Brilliant vid!
Really well filmed and edited to closely give the same perspective of the early footage,
Really enjoyed that.
I am so glad to see my dear old London has not changed too much. I remember it during WW2 and although so much was destroyed, it was in a time warp. There wasn't much traffic, horses were still used, and mercifully, traffic lanes had been introduced. I noticed the chaos when it was a free for all in the streets. No wonder so many people were run over in those days! My grandmother spoke of it and said how the streets were filthy from the horses, it was difficult in long dresses to keep them away from dirt, modestly. My mother remembered the horse drawn buses and trams.
The buildings that remain from that period have in many cases had the coat of coal-fired pollution cleaned off and look so much better than they did fifty years ago when I first went myself. The difference is amazing and can be seen in this video.
They had crossing sweepers, hundreds of them, who swept a clean path at major crossing points , corners etc for the cost of a few pennies. The streets were also cleaned by the municipal authorities. Have a look at the footage - do the streets appear very dirty to you? Ladies held up their dresses out of the mud and wet. How old are you that your mother remembers omnibuses? They were gone before WW1.
It's completely different. Graffiti everywhere, crackheads laying about the street and not a white face in sight.
@Fallout Plays Yep the “shit” is not on the buildings anymore. It’s on every street. Many areas beyond recognition. Certainly if my Cockney forebears came now in a time machine they would not even know what country they were in. Brick Lane where they lived in 1890 is Bangladesh.
@@joanthewad7510 Things change, get over it. How one dimensional of you to point out that now people who work in Brick Lane might have once come from another country......as my old Mum once said, have sympathy for those that hate. If you actually look at Brick Lane, those people you are referring to are being priced out by a new generation.....how do you feel about that?
17 September 1917. My grandfather was in London that day, after being wounded on the Western Front on 3 May 1917.
Remarkable to realise that some of the lamp posts he saw are still there 99 years later. Congratulations on getting the camera angles exactly right
Codenwarra Cove it makes it all seem so much more real...
I remember 1896 in London and it truely was a marvelous time to be alive. The tea was exquisite.
Michael Arctor Indian tea?
The cast for the cast-iron “dolphin” lamp-post resides in a workshop somewhere and they are still produced from time to time with the year updated. They are often required for new riverfront developments.
I'm so glad someone filmed this, & that someone found this old footage
Wow. Amazing but so depressing. These places mean nothing to the people who live in London today. The people and culture that created all that is gone.
No,sorry I'm still here but I take your point. Cheers.
@@mr-crokodile They'd probably puke.
THE PEOPLE AND CULTURE DAT ACTUALLY BUILT IT WERE ALL " TARTARIAN " 😑
How do you know it means nothing to them?
@@Moonscafe7 Because they and their ancestors didn't build it and it isn't an expression of their people. In English: "Mean nothing" is idiomatic and doesn't literally mean absolutely nothing. Of course it has meaning to them. But not the same way as it does with somebody who can identity with it.
1:32 I love how back then you could just walk into Downing Street
Alex Smith You could right up till 1980. It was the Northern Ireland troubles which first prompted the closure. You could walk 10 feet from the Prime Minister's front door with only a uniformed policeman to stop you knocking on it.
I remember standing across the road from the famous door with my parents and sisters. It must have been about 1980. I went back last year with my nieces and it was totally different. There was armed police, crash barriers, and a man walking up and down with a placard with "I AM NOT A TERRORIST" on it. Different times...
I used to walk past Downing Street on my way to school every morning. Some mornings a convoy of black Jaguars would go in or out of the gates.
Alex Smith No you didnt .
I went to school in Westminster
it's funny how old black and white footage can make something/somewhere look so mysterious and ancient and pretty and 'better than it does now', but when you see the exact same place/thing now, looking exactly as it did, but in HD 21st century quality, it looks average. We forget, it looked the same back then
I guess it just feels mysterious because it was like a century ago, but your right
London could never be "average".
GoldenSilents Don't get me wrong, I bloody love London! But in this old footage, the view of a simple building or lamp post can look so mysterious and archaic, yet that exact same, unaltered view now looks average and normal.
I agree.
In 100 years people will find our footage mysterious as well
London then and London now is still a beautiful city. I visited this lovely city couple times and I always love the city.