Wonderful indeed. My Mother would have been 11 when this was filmed, and living half the year in Montague Mews W1. Her Mother My Grandmother was at this time working as a seamstress in the Drury lane theatre shown here, and my Grandfather worked in The building in Whitehall in a first floor office overlooking Horseguards parade. That War Memorial was quite new. Just 6 years after the end of WW1 . I went there many years with my Grandad on Remembrance day marches. He carrying the flag my Grandmother had sewn for his group to carry. I remember him polishing the leather of the flag strap he used to rest the pole in when he carried it.
Thanks so much ... I released them first on Vimeo, so all their viral potential went there ... Vimeo isn't as popular as UA-cam, but it's got maybe 400,000 views.
@@zacharywilson9596 he didn't mention race. Our culture is disappearing for many reasons. Globalism, Technology, Values, and yes... mass-immigration. And you can't prove that wrong.
Thank you so much for uploading this and "London in 1927 & 2013". They are both exceptional and must have taken a lot of time and patience to create. Wonderful!
What an amazing video, so cool to see what they would have been doing back then at that exact same spot, thank you so much for the creation of these videos, so lovely to get a glimpse of the past
London is one of very charming cities I have been to. It is old,graceful and in spite of cold weather ,very warm city.👍👍 I also like New Delhi in India,Raleigh in USA,Kuwait city in Kuwait,Tehran and Shiraz in Iran.
Simon Smith, may I please congratulate you on some sterling work here. It must have taken you a great deal of time and effort. Shows so much love and humour. Thank you. Oh how I would adore the whole of London to be done and captured in this clever style of yours. But it would take you about 500 hundred years. Roughly. You have managed to do this work so seamlessly. I think possibly because you don't think of it as work and so you are able to flow so naturally. Just superb!
Love this, it's as if you are opening a window in our time and space and peering into the actual live past as each time line goes about their tasks and errands and living out their lives... And not giving a single thought to to the future they will have on UA-cam viewed by their great great grand children...! The closest we can come to actual time travel...
Very professional and a great watch... I have several hundred old postcards from the begining of 1900's that covers my place of birth in Forest Gate, West Ham, to my old school and haunts, including places I've worked, to where I live now in Surrey....I've always wanted to go round and photograph the present locations...any tips would be great and any help on what software to use... I was very familiar with photoshop many years ago but would be very expensive today I would've thought. Thanks again for posting.... a great look of old/new London.⚒
This is not true anymore. The vast majority of the Brutalist offices and tower blocks built since the 60s have been/are being demolished to make way for generic posh apartments. Buildings older than those seem to fare better purely because they are most likely listed on the heritage register, or falls into designated ‘conservation areas’ so that the owners are not legally allowed to destroy their appearances without going through a lot of bureaucracy. So what developers do, is to keep the appearance ‘old/original’ so as to please the relevant authorities. A typical yet utterly disgraceful practice these days (since the past decade or so) is to keep the front facade of the building, and demolish the rest of it-that way despite most of the building is effectively destroyed, it’ll still look the same from the outside. So yeah, it’s sad but as I said these days your point is simply not true anymore.
what an exquisite piece, , i should like to use a 10 second piece of your video mini doc i am making of the differences between 1924 and 2014 , may i use a slice
You are such a creative and talented man Simon I always thought that Do so miss our long talks maybe when you are not so I hope you find the time Allie
Yes, the video is technically excellent - in fact, even more so than your 1927 and 2013 video. However, the big advantage of the latter was that the spit screen gave one a chance to see how things have changed - which this video does not. And the changing face of the capital is what I find most fascinating.
Agreed. I would also add the speed at which it all goes is too fast to really appreciate anything of what we see. By contrast the flashcards seem to remain too long. Final point-the old footage doesn't appear to have been put through any motion stabilisation, making for some particularly jerky matches. 2¢
Then and now, these words from T.S. Eliot's "The wasteland" still resonate. Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street...
I can't help my self... I keep watching this is there something wrong with me??... I don't think so it's brilliant. .. do you know jooles guides? joolzy.
London was bombed WW2 and it would be interesting to see what been built in place of the bomb damage. There was a trian station called Broad st which has been demolished and redeveloped closed 1980,s. there is cine footage from 1920,s of it. Its all ways interesting to look back in time to see the changes You have done a very good job here. There is a site called old maps on line co.uk with maps going back to 1850 and where I live show,s it was once farm land.
![A Day in Old London in 1920 in colour! [AI enhanced HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xXS_yHDakaA/mqdefault.jpg)
![[60 fps] Laborers in Victorian England, 1901](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5HbElEqm1TQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Fantastic city, I´ll never get tired of London.
Absolutely wonderful. A triumph!!!! More please.
Almost perfect angles and focal lengh! Tihis is just... WOW! Thank you for this "DEJAVU" like timetravel!!!
Fantastic!! Thank you for this film. I love London, and I'm a fan of 'then and now' comparisons. Brilliantly done. Thank you so much.
IN A WORD,"FANTASTICAL",.... TY PEACEFULLY JULIO
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Stunning work! It's like looking through a window in time...
Wonderful indeed. My Mother would have been 11 when this was filmed, and living half the year in Montague Mews W1. Her Mother My Grandmother was at this time working as a seamstress in the Drury lane theatre shown here, and my Grandfather worked in The building in Whitehall in a first floor office overlooking Horseguards parade. That War Memorial was quite new. Just 6 years after the end of WW1 . I went there many years with my Grandad on Remembrance day marches. He carrying the flag my Grandmother had sewn for his group to carry. I remember him polishing the leather of the flag strap he used to rest the pole in when he carried it.
Wow that amazing
Absolutely wonderful such pains taken to get it just right not just a shot in the right direction Thank You
Wonderful stuff! And the way you've edited it... literally a 'window to the past'!
What a wonderful film, well done !
Its crazy to think you were standing in the exact spots of the original film makers. How does this not have 1M views?!
Thanks so much ... I released them first on Vimeo, so all their viral potential went there ... Vimeo isn't as popular as UA-cam, but it's got maybe 400,000 views.
Masterpiece!
This video is honestly amazing, well done!
Spectacular!
So wonderfully done. Thank you. Very much enjoyed that!!!
I love the UK 🇬🇧! And London is so beautiful! I love the English culture so much, thank you for making this video!
Make the most of it. It's disappearing fast!
mascara snake Finally! I found the racist.
@@zacharywilson9596 he didn't mention race. Our culture is disappearing for many reasons. Globalism, Technology, Values, and yes... mass-immigration. And you can't prove that wrong.
@@zacharywilson9596 you are actually the racist
Thank you so much for uploading this and "London in 1927 & 2013". They are both exceptional and must have taken a lot of time and patience to create. Wonderful!
Beautiful
What an amazing video, so cool to see what they would have been doing back then at that exact same spot, thank you so much for the creation of these videos, so lovely to get a glimpse of the past
Excellent work. Fascinating.
masterpieces. very cool.
London is one of very charming cities I have been to. It is old,graceful and in spite of cold weather ,very warm city.👍👍 I also like New Delhi in India,Raleigh in USA,Kuwait city in Kuwait,Tehran and Shiraz in Iran.
What was Shiraz like?
simply great!!
Simon Smith, may I please congratulate you on some sterling work here. It must have taken you a great deal of time and effort. Shows so much love and humour. Thank you. Oh how I would adore the whole of London to be done and captured in this clever style of yours. But it would take you about 500 hundred years. Roughly. You have managed to do this work so seamlessly. I think possibly because you don't think of it as work and so you are able to flow so naturally. Just superb!
Very well blended together.
Beautiful I want to see Seattle done like this
Marvellous. And the other one too, the one which does not allow comments.
Simply marvellous, Mr Smith.
Congratulations!! Great job!!
Love this, it's as if you are opening a window in our time and space and peering into the actual live past as each time line goes about their tasks and errands and living out their lives... And not giving a single thought to to the future they will have on UA-cam viewed by their great great grand children...! The closest we can come to actual time travel...
awesome video, love it! ♥
Let me add my comment to all those pointing out how WELL this has been done. Congratulations on your achievement.
Dang! You didda great job on those! Perfect alignment.
tastefully and skillfully done. thanks. maybe its because im a londoner that i love london so..........
Excellent..bravo
Very nice 👍
First of its kind I’ve seen, absolutely fascinating, like watching ghosts almost, great work 👍🏿
just fantastic !! thanks very much.
Brilliantly done simon
The montage is I N C R E D I B L E !
Amazing! Thank you.
That is awesome! Well done!
Very well done!
Great work!
I like London is very beautiful
True time travel!
Well done....
Very professional and a great watch... I have several hundred old postcards from the begining of 1900's that covers my place of birth in Forest Gate, West Ham, to my old school and haunts, including places I've worked, to where I live now in Surrey....I've always wanted to go round and photograph the present locations...any tips would be great and any help on what software to use... I was very familiar with photoshop many years ago but would be very expensive today I would've thought. Thanks again for posting.... a great look of old/new London.⚒
The greatest city in the world!
Most buildings over a decade still survive. That's why I like London more than anywhere else.
This is not true anymore. The vast majority of the Brutalist offices and tower blocks built since the 60s have been/are being demolished to make way for generic posh apartments. Buildings older than those seem to fare better purely because they are most likely listed on the heritage register, or falls into designated ‘conservation areas’ so that the owners are not legally allowed to destroy their appearances without going through a lot of bureaucracy. So what developers do, is to keep the appearance ‘old/original’ so as to please the relevant authorities. A typical yet utterly disgraceful practice these days (since the past decade or so) is to keep the front facade of the building, and demolish the rest of it-that way despite most of the building is effectively destroyed, it’ll still look the same from the outside. So yeah, it’s sad but as I said these days your point is simply not true anymore.
Wonderful London
Superbly well done. Congratulations.
So cool!!!
what an exquisite piece, , i should like to use a 10 second piece of your video mini doc i am making of the differences between 1924 and 2014 , may i use a slice
You are such a creative and talented man Simon I always thought that Do so miss our long talks maybe when you are not so I hope you find the time Allie
Fantastic! Very cleverly done 😊😊😊
Nice video...👍👍👍
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Yes, the video is technically excellent - in fact, even more so than your 1927 and 2013 video. However, the big advantage of the latter was that the spit screen gave one a chance to see how things have changed - which this video does not. And the changing face of the capital is what I find most fascinating.
Agreed. I would also add the speed at which it all goes is too fast to really appreciate anything of what we see. By contrast the flashcards seem to remain too long. Final point-the old footage doesn't appear to have been put through any motion stabilisation, making for some particularly jerky matches.
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Well done! I've had many a pint in the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese.
I'm surprised that a lot of this survived the London bliz
That was fabulous, how it should be done
London best capital city in the world
Exceptional video.
Good video👌👍
Then and now, these words from T.S. Eliot's "The wasteland" still resonate.
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street...
Тени прошлого с нами!
I can't help my self... I keep watching this is there something wrong with me??... I don't think so it's brilliant. .. do you know jooles guides? joolzy.
Ah, London is behind Jakarta, London is 8,993,930 population and Jakarta is 9,728,278
I'm surprised a lot of this survived the London bliz
If only the old londoners foresaw today's london
London was bombed WW2 and it would be interesting to see what been built in place of the bomb
damage. There was a trian station called Broad st which has been demolished and redeveloped closed 1980,s. there is cine footage from 1920,s of it. Its all ways interesting to look back in time to see the changes You have done a very good job here. There is a site called old maps on line co.uk with maps going back to 1850 and where I live show,s it was once farm land.
finding the exact position to place the camera must have been a BITCH ! Well done
lots of this almost got blew up
London in 1924 and 2014
Now is Londonistan 😔😢
It isn't but you're definitely a fuckwitt!
Very well done!