Ride on the Tramcar through Belfast (1901)

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  • Опубліковано 15 лип 2008
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  • @ant697
    @ant697 15 років тому +7

    I think the woman doing the voiceover sounds very natural and the music is spot on.

  • @Thomas828
    @Thomas828 7 років тому +18

    This is the city my great grandparents knew, all eight of them! It's vastly different to the Belfast where I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s! And today's Belfast is different again.

  • @JEANNEBOLEYN
    @JEANNEBOLEYN 12 років тому +7

    Imagine this scene suddenly unfolding before you ! Fascinating and such good clear quality.

  • @timsears6742
    @timsears6742 12 років тому +5

    These films are very facinating to watch. Love it.

  • @FaerieCrone
    @FaerieCrone 13 років тому +4

    It may look quaint and all that to look at this now, but life was bloody hard back then. Most of us these days wouldn't last five minutes.

  • @ToyzNWheelz
    @ToyzNWheelz 12 років тому +5

    This is priceless history!

  • @martinjohnston4274
    @martinjohnston4274 5 років тому +2

    Wonderful and significant historic record of daily life in the city streets more than 100 years ago.

  • @4pidgey357
    @4pidgey357 10 років тому +8

    That's me standing outside the cigar shop.

    • @jeffw1267
      @jeffw1267 7 років тому +1

      I was there too, which means that I have had sex with women in three different centuries.

  • @AvatarPrimus
    @AvatarPrimus 15 років тому +3

    beautiful!!! i love those times!!!

  • @rayito2005
    @rayito2005 7 років тому +3

    Gracias por subir estas joyas ;)

  • @thomasbroadwater2214
    @thomasbroadwater2214 3 роки тому +2

    I love all the long skirts and tiny little waists. Just so cool.

  • @madbob73
    @madbob73 16 років тому +4

    I actually think the voiceovers give good insight personally!

  • @Stand663
    @Stand663 Рік тому +1

    How smart and well dressed they were.

  • @KaBoomChannel
    @KaBoomChannel 10 років тому +6

    1901 Oscar Wilde died the year before and James Joyce just started writing.

  • @UISTMAN59
    @UISTMAN59 15 років тому +2

    Great piece of film.

  • @adamsyed5535
    @adamsyed5535 10 років тому +14

    I'd love to step into this video and check out the interior of "The Cecil Cigar Store."

  • @IFE20007
    @IFE20007 12 років тому +4

    When i get a time machine i'm going to set it to 27th of may 1901 belfast

    • @RSimusic
      @RSimusic 7 років тому +1

      clearly you never get one or you'd be in this video.

  • @faran1684
    @faran1684 9 років тому +2

    Beautiful video! I wonder if it's black and white that makes the video interesting 100 plus years later or if it was a color video what would have been the feeling of the viewer.

  • @edgaralanpoe.1173
    @edgaralanpoe.1173 5 років тому +1

    Reallly really wonderfull..!!

  • @GroundUpFilms
    @GroundUpFilms 12 років тому +3

    Ah yes, the Nokia Baguette was a popular model at the time.

  • @JEANNEBOLEYN
    @JEANNEBOLEYN 12 років тому +2

    Those tram drivers appear to be staring straight at us

  • @writeract2
    @writeract2 3 роки тому +1

    Treasure absolute treasure.

  • @criticalhard
    @criticalhard 7 років тому +4

    Those street lamps were so beautiful and omg no fucking wires 👏👏
    Also, i feel weird not seeing cars :/ lots of 1900's videos show cars but these don't have.

    • @trainrover
      @trainrover Рік тому

      very few telegraph posts (poles) around BI towns & cities even back then...must burying the wirings've discouraged sabotage, e.g?

  • @jaguar5962
    @jaguar5962 13 років тому +2

    @Sibelius92 So do I ;-) , i'm french ..i do love that old films , I wonder how people feel loocking at those films , it had to be very strange and so funny .. today nothing astonish us , it's so sad ...

  • @mikeyoung7660
    @mikeyoung7660 5 років тому +1

    Amazing

  • @tstuart7333
    @tstuart7333 2 роки тому +1

    At a time when it was a beautiful city.

  • @sylvier9548
    @sylvier9548 3 роки тому

    belle vidéo

  • @JEANNEBOLEYN
    @JEANNEBOLEYN 12 років тому +3

    @Ajc176 I agree. A pity all of Victorian Belfast is vanishing forever..such as Gallaher's, the terraced houses,, department stores like Robb's. Sailortown is just a memory

  • @Hornwiesel
    @Hornwiesel 9 років тому +2

    I wish I had a time machine. But I suppose life back then wasn't that different from todays.

  • @ramonguevara3118
    @ramonguevara3118 11 років тому +2

    look how simple life use to be back then

  • @garydavid1788
    @garydavid1788 2 роки тому

    The population of Belfast was approx 350000 in 1901 ... Way higher than than it is today at a lot less than 300000....

  • @AdLaura
    @AdLaura 12 років тому +2

    lol...that's the first thing I thought of also.

  • @RandomnessTube.
    @RandomnessTube. 9 років тому +2

    from belfast there seems to be much more people on the streets back then or is it just me?

  • @thebeardedseeker5633
    @thebeardedseeker5633 4 роки тому +2

    that was life in Belfast 119 revolutions around the sun ago.

  • @Vikingdescendent
    @Vikingdescendent 14 років тому +2

    Wonder what this footage would look like in colour? Thanks for the time travel.

  • @paulkirkpatrick6371
    @paulkirkpatrick6371 3 роки тому +1

    This was.a.super video 2 see of belfast over 100 year ago belfast city centre was booming then with people and shops not like 2.days.run down city centre and derelict buildings

  • @bozmar1
    @bozmar1 8 років тому +7

    Almost no fat people on streets like today

    • @rexluminus9867
      @rexluminus9867 5 років тому +2

      Mario Mario. They drank whole milk + real fat, butter. Now most of you eat junk & processed food. Too much suger.... etc.
      Lasy ass people now. No walking .
      You make your own pathetic life.

  • @JEANNEBOLEYN
    @JEANNEBOLEYN 12 років тому +3

    The woman shown at 1:01-1:05 appears to be using a cell phone. Bizarre.

    • @rexluminus9867
      @rexluminus9867 5 років тому +2

      Jeanne Griffin. Could be a time traveller???

  • @LeeMcDaidDonegal
    @LeeMcDaidDonegal 15 років тому +1

    Edgar Bronfman jr is looking to see if he can get a virtual version of those wheeled signs to put on youtube!!!...

  • @LauRa-re9un
    @LauRa-re9un 4 роки тому +1

    Those poor horses.

  • @sureshpandey9485
    @sureshpandey9485 5 років тому +2

    A very peaceful and safe era to live in. No mobile , no TV, no missiles , no bombers and no Islamic terrorist..

    • @PlanetaryCitizen
      @PlanetaryCitizen 3 роки тому

      just poverty!

    • @Drifty40
      @Drifty40 2 роки тому +1

      @@PlanetaryCitizen
      Poverty existed in every city in Britain and Ireland and every other city around the globe.
      Ridiculous comment.

  • @applecounty
    @applecounty 15 років тому +2

    Whoever looked after the track did a good job. I suppose Horse-drawn vehicles were not as heavy?

  • @jtswaffles
    @jtswaffles 13 років тому +2

    How does one horse pull all of that?

  • @bardo0007
    @bardo0007 12 років тому +2

    @FaerieCrone Not true , I think we would last maybe 2 hours

  • @rvsaraiva
    @rvsaraiva 15 років тому +3

    damn! everyone is dead on this film.

  • @johnk6346
    @johnk6346 6 місяців тому

    It looks like people on average were taller than people today, also I notice in these old films there are very few old people. I think a lot of things we are not being told the truth

  • @alexfernandohuenten1374
    @alexfernandohuenten1374 5 років тому +1

    good cigarretes.

  • @JEANNEBOLEYN
    @JEANNEBOLEYN 12 років тому +3

    Isn't that an RIC man walking by the parked tram at the very end?

  • @2mnaveed
    @2mnaveed 4 роки тому +1

    So many Charlie Chaplin's in one movie

  • @henrycohn5085
    @henrycohn5085 9 років тому +2

    ...notably smooth?

  • @jaguar5962
    @jaguar5962 13 років тому +1

    @Sibelius92 did you see the little dog running , at the top of the film at 2:00 ?? :-)))

    • @rexluminus9867
      @rexluminus9867 5 років тому +1

      jaguar5962 Yes that little 🐕dog was late for the randevu at 2:02.

  • @Rainsofchange
    @Rainsofchange 10 років тому +4

    Interesting! All of those streetlamps run off of gas or kerosene? Were men charged with turning them on in the evening?

    • @bingola45
      @bingola45 5 років тому +3

      A 'Leerie', in fact.

  • @fernandoalves67
    @fernandoalves67 11 років тому +2

    Wolli foi abominável, Edison eletrecutar àquele inocente elefante.
    Mas, deixar um cavalo morrer na lua foi cúmulo.
    Se estiver errado, perdoe-me.
    Pobre animal!
    Seu dono jamais o esqueceu.
    Há uma odisseia que cerca tal fato.
    Aquele corpo marrom escuro encurvado no chão, que cena!
    Chorou-se por ele como se fosse um filho.
    Com razão foi e será sempre um nobre ser.
    Wolli, choramos e sentiremos a falta de nossos amigos animais enquanto vivermos.

  • @SamusMaXximus
    @SamusMaXximus 13 років тому +1

    @tomba1937 Dude you're right. Now this with Chaplin's Time Traveler.... They're everywhere.

  • @Clint945
    @Clint945 12 років тому +2

    @Sibelius92
    Careful, It'll ruin the colour in your clothes :(

  • @ashingtoon
    @ashingtoon 14 років тому +2

    Fantastic!! But look how pig sick the horses are... drudgery or what!

  • @marvy1118
    @marvy1118 15 років тому +1

    Dust in the wind.

  • @fernandoalves67
    @fernandoalves67 11 років тому +3

    ok

  • @hanky2112
    @hanky2112 15 років тому +1

    you figured that one out all by your self?

  • @trainrover
    @trainrover Рік тому

    w o w . . .

  • @alexanderivanenko9605
    @alexanderivanenko9605 6 років тому +2

    Everybody is wearing a hat!

  • @kennethj1956
    @kennethj1956 14 років тому +1

    Two blokes are fighting fist-a-cuffs in the background; why o why won't anybody stop them?

  • @crazydaniel71
    @crazydaniel71 14 років тому +2

    Excuse me, but the use of that word 'Fenian' is not appropriate and one could find it offensive. This is a beautiful video showing how Belfast used to be, not a forum to discus where the responsibility lies to how it became how it is today.

  • @neonskyline1
    @neonskyline1 4 роки тому +1

    Sand on top of the cobbles

  • @jeffw1267
    @jeffw1267 7 років тому

    The world's oldest woman as of today (8/12/17), Violet Brown, had just passed her first birthday when this film was made. And I had sex with her. Not when she was one year old! You people are sick.

  • @tonygriffiths7864
    @tonygriffiths7864 10 місяців тому

    i was born in the wrong century

  • @bingola45
    @bingola45 5 років тому +4

    Wonderful days, before Belfast was crawling with Irish!

    • @seancurran6590
      @seancurran6590 5 років тому +2

      Stenaline have great one way ticket offers to Cairnryan. So ye can gae awae ain hame to Scotland. If they'll have you.

    • @geraldo23
      @geraldo23 4 роки тому +1

      This was Belfast Ireland, I.e before Partition you absolute idiot! Northern Ireland hadn’t been born yet. You clearly know shit about history. Protestants are largely from Scotland, the indigenous Ulstermen are Catholic/ Irish, who come from gaelic tribes that had populated the region for millennia. Idiot.

    • @meyou-gi8xq
      @meyou-gi8xq 2 роки тому

      There's always one 🙄

  • @EmArgh
    @EmArgh 4 роки тому +2

    Man, people must of been boiling or soaked back then.. No T-shirts anywhere, all grey/black suits... perfume must of been expensive, bathing wasn't as easy as now. Bet it stunk half the time. Amazing footage. Love it.

  • @jeanmichellorenzo3672
    @jeanmichellorenzo3672 2 роки тому

    1:03

  • @nonyabusiness8487
    @nonyabusiness8487 10 років тому +9

    Hats, Hats, everywhere hats. men, women and children. Women all dressed up, men in suits and today? people can care less how they look

    • @drServitis
      @drServitis 4 роки тому +4

      Wear a suit then. Who needs that pretentious baggage? With that way of life came an enormous amount of judgementalism. If you weren't dressed just right you were looked down on and not accepted.

    • @howardmckeown7187
      @howardmckeown7187 2 роки тому

      can't care less

  • @rockinbillyboy
    @rockinbillyboy 14 років тому +1

    @scollinsireland There's always one to bring that crap into it.
    Just enjoy the film and leave that shit out of it!!

  • @raider8sox
    @raider8sox 14 років тому +2

    back in the days, where you can walk in the streets at night, without getting shot, so sad what gangs have done to beautiful cities!!!

  • @marklfc07
    @marklfc07 14 років тому +2

    @Rentaghost76 remember everyone was irish back in them days there was no such thing as 'northern ireland'

  • @Fronika
    @Fronika 15 років тому +2

    Awful voice over, what a poor speaker.