@@Adey308QV is that a joke? Life was brutal and harsh back then. If you were poor you could be killed and no one would even care. Life expectancy was a fraction of what it is today
@crispybits3765 is right. The architecture stayed. However let's not glorify the past. Most urban people of this time would have lived in poor hygene, close to factories with integrated gangs. However, let's try to preserve the Christian values which sustained and built our democracies (be that flawed democracies)
@@jamiedavies9038yeah you are right about the poor hygiene etc but there would have been a community that doesn’t exist today. Sadly, that London is lost forever
Love it! My dad was born in 1926. London is where I was born & I still live there so I found this video very entertaining. Would have loved for it to be longer though!
Beautiful look at how well things are made beautiful architecture with extra details little spires on top, colorful signage, cars, lots of cars working and running industrial, everybody’s wearing hats 🎩 🎩
Thank you for the video. American here who loves Britain and London. Worked in London in the late eighties and visit annually now. It's still beautiful and my favorite city in the world!
@@liamhollin8265 Yes ...they are classic and elegant! Can't say I own one but I do own a full size proper British phone booth that sits in my house in Cincinnati. It's quite the conversation piece. 😊
@@dsdwtn5911 that's cooler than 4 little fonze's😊 have you ever been to the "ace cafe" it's on the north circular, at stone bridge park. have a Google of it, I think you'd like it.
In my think,before 1860s is too early for us,there is no videos and pictures are too few,no sympathy for us. After 1960s we get too many messages and too close,and no mystery,so the videos and the pictures of 1860s ~1960s is fantastic.
Being pedantic, they are enhanced rather than restored. Restored would only bring them back to an "as new" condition when filmed. This has enhanced the clarity, added colour and sound. It has been done amazingly well.
Being from America, it gives me insight as to how the British used to live. It makes me sad to think that some of those buildings that were lost to the bombings in Great Britain during World War 2, were replaced with buildings that were esthetically inferior. What a country it must have been then.
@@hs964no lots of beautiful buildings came down, the east end buildings were not ugly but were run down and if restored would have been beautiful. Now we have revolting brutalist architecture which was created out of necessity due to Britain being bankrupted by the war (and the US insisting we repay them when they came into the war)
You're right Kathleen, many of the buildings are not as esthetically pleasing as they once were. Some of it was as you say due to WW2/Luftwaffe, but a lot of it was self induced by modern Architects indoctrinated by Brutalism and Le Corbusier. Although, Fleet Street still looks much the same and most of the original buildings are still there intact. 👍🏢
It's so amazing to walk around London and the buildings some are still there. Like in your video Trafalgar Square the big white building on the left is South Africa House and is beautiful inside. Lovely, thank you.
OK, have to ask: did you intentionally add a sound effect at 1:15 to accompany the guy that, due to upscaling, looks like he's getting sucked into the truck? Because if not, boy is that perfect.
My late grandmother was born and raised in London in 1926, a real East Ender. Amazing to think this was the world she grew up in and how much changed in her lifetime.
This is such a delight to see! Fascinates scenes. It feels so close and so far away at the same time. People are wearing elaborate, elegant outfits, and the streets sometimes look like decorations to a movie, but citizen still have same problems, same destinations on public transport, same newspapers. Lovely throwback. Thank you so much!
I would've loved to have been able to be in London at those times. What a place it looked like. Awesome historical locations and landmarks like Trafalgar Square, and more. I know it's there still today, but the city isn't quite the same. I can't say much about it because I have not yet visited London, but it seems there is a charm to the city present in this video that has been lost to time, just like many great cities here in the United States.
What's immediately obvious to me is, the cleanliness. No rubbish, no bins, no advertisements, no people just hanging around. Everybody going about their business. People didn't eat between meals in those days. Didn't see any fat people either. Imagine what it will look like in another 100 years?
@@michaelb2388 People didn't eat on the streets. They were usually going from A to B and not going to waste money on food when they weren't hungry. No fast food joints and countless cafe's. People didn't have lots of money to waste. And obesity was very rare. And if you did have litter, you'd put it in your pocket until you could dispose of it.
You can't be that stupid? This is a film of the pretty and clean bits of London, its also in very low resolution. Most of London back then was a complete slum. "The city was marked by high unemployment, low economic growth, and poor living conditions. London's poor lived in unsanitary, polluted slums that were densely populated. Children and adults born and raised in the slums were often unhealthy, weak, and malnourished. The UK experienced historically high unemployment in the 1920s, with one million people consistently unemployed. The working conditions of manual workers in London were poor. There were great inequalities of income and wealth in the UK, with 87% of private property owned by 882,000 people"
everything shown here is pretty much richer areas, go down a back street back then and it a be way worse than it is now. the only real difference is the amount of people
My grandparents (from the Wirral and Liverpool) lived in London in the 1920s. It was especially nice seeing Trafalgar Square, as my grandmother had said that she loved going to concerts at St Martin-in-the-Field.
I think York should become the official capital of England along with it's own English parliament. London is an international city now and can still be the British capital. There is nothing wrong with some level of diversity, but if the English population drops below 50%, which it has in certain parts, then the city is actually becoming less diverse. Most ethnic minorities want to live amongst English people, not replace them completely. That is why they migrated here in the first place. London has always thrived with minority communities but still retained the English history and traditions of the area. The east end always had minorities living amongst the Cockney's, but now that proud history and tradition has all but gone. So I think we have to careful to preserve our local culture as well as add to it.
@@simongardner3766 Oh preserve the cultures you say? Certainly didn't want to preserve the Scottish and Irish culture back in the day. Quite the opposite I'd say.
This is just fascinating to watch having been born in London Notting Hill seeing everyone in there smart suits. Looks so wonderful. My dad was born in 1926🇬🇧
Hard not beautiful...but everyone worked together n helped each other....beautiful I think u may be referring to is etiquette...manners... dressing to go to Oxford St...visiting...presentation was very important...thanking you for helping me to realise n process...🎉
Before the first war was imposed on us people worked together. The establishment with their German establishment relatives murdered millions and dampened our spirit. After the second war softened us up sufficiently they started with the replacement migration.
Well here is a deep dive. The double-decker bus that passes by has a sign advertising the Noel Coward play Easy Virtue with the American actress Jane Cowl. Two years later, Hitchcock made a silent film of it. She is not in it.
Did you use a different colorizer? Colors are not as vibrant as before. I must say I much prefer your old method, without the "Enhanced by GD" watermark, logo's and in-picture descriptions (which can easily be handled with CC captions in UA-cam). Historic footage should remain as pristene as possible.
My paternal grandmother went to Europe in the Summer of 1927 after graduating from Cal Berkeley. They took the train from the East Bay (Richmond, Ca), to Chicago and on to New York City, then sailed on the SS Minnetonka from NY to London. This is pretty much the London she saw at 21 as an American flapper w/ her sorority girlfriends. RIP Ruth (1906-1985).
Great video, looking at the way their feet move, I imagine if a person was filmed walking backwards, you would have the worlds first version of "Moonwalking". 🙂
Every time I pass Trafalgar Square I'm dismayed by what a chaotic mess it always is with ugly portacabins and barriers everywhere. Watching this video I realise it's always been that way!
Eh? You clearly know nothing about how appalling much of London was back then. Much of it was horrific. Areas like Piccadilly and kings cross, Soho, marble arch and Trafalgar Square were incredibly seedy - full of prostitutes male, female and sadly also many children. People had no more "respect" back then than they did now. They may have been much more deferential, but there were some appalling things going on pretty brazenly
@@zeddeka Maybe so, Gran never spoke of such things to me as a child, but I know she loved visiting London, (we’re talking 1920’s), she’d often talk to me about it, and that’s the memory I like to keep.
Not one adult you see in this footage will be here now. A new born would be 98 years old today. This period of time is so close now to disappearing from living memory altogether and forever.
oh look one of these comments. no it was just the same back then, but the class difference was even larger. everything you see in this video is from richer areas. Things were no way better back then, unless you think child labor, thrown out rubbish and waste on streets. gangs were still very much a thing, and no one took care of you when you was ill unless you were rich.
Nice footage. Also the same old fools who long for those days. No penicillin, no healthcare, awful working conditions for all but the rich, depression around the corner, civil rights almost non-existent. I could go on. It's a brief snapshot of the posh area of London. Life was a short and terrible grind for most.
@@simbee3634 The pollution must've been really quite something given it turned buildings completely black and is still visible even today on the odd random building where it hasn't been cleaned off. Now consider everyone was breathing that air.....
@@simbee3634 thank you for a post that makes sense. crazy how many people glorify this stuff like it was perfect. no it was not, not even close, if anything worse unless you was filthy rich
Love how it’s at normal speed and just enough colour to not look over saturated, looks a lot more relatable than a black and white sped up film that looks like Charlie Chaplin should be in it 😂
Lovely look back at London. However the UK is not just London. Yes it was bombed and many lovely buildings are gone, but that happened all over. At least we still have our 5,500 castles to appreciate all over the UK. I wish people would not just visit London then go home saying they have been to UK. So many more beautiful places here.
A mix of amazement and sadness for what has been lost.
Most of the what is on the video is still there today, architecturally speaking anyway. All places change though.
@@Adey308QV is that a joke? Life was brutal and harsh back then. If you were poor you could be killed and no one would even care. Life expectancy was a fraction of what it is today
@crispybits3765 is right. The architecture stayed. However let's not glorify the past. Most urban people of this time would have lived in poor hygene, close to factories with integrated gangs.
However, let's try to preserve the Christian values which sustained and built our democracies (be that flawed democracies)
@@jamiedavies9038yeah you are right about the poor hygiene etc but there would have been a community that doesn’t exist today. Sadly, that London is lost forever
@@jamiedavies9038 let's try preserve the Christian values that most of the country don't even believe in anymore? Doesn't sound right to me.
Love it! My dad was born in 1926. London is where I was born & I still live there so I found this video very entertaining. Would have loved for it to be longer though!
My dad was born in 1920 in Stepney, we left London in 1959 for leafier Kent but London will always be my home.
Beautiful look at how well things are made beautiful architecture with extra details little spires on top, colorful signage, cars, lots of cars working and running industrial, everybody’s wearing hats 🎩 🎩
Thank you for the video. American here who loves Britain and London. Worked in London in the late eighties and visit annually now. It's still beautiful and my favorite city in the world!
Well said Sir. From an Englishman.
do you have a soft spot for our old cars? ( in particular them old jags)
@@liamhollin8265 Yes ...they are classic and elegant! Can't say I own one but I do own a full size proper British phone booth that sits in my house in Cincinnati. It's quite the conversation piece. 😊
@@dsdwtn5911 that's cooler than 4 little fonze's😊 have you ever been to the "ace cafe" it's on the north circular, at stone bridge park. have a Google of it, I think you'd like it.
Where’s darkie the koon
Incredible! Our modern-day time-travel camera for peering into the past.
These restored videos are ceaselessly fascinating... Thanks for sharing!!
In my think,before 1860s is too early for us,there is no videos and pictures are too few,no sympathy for us.
After 1960s we get too many messages and too close,and no mystery,so the videos and the pictures of 1860s ~1960s is fantastic.
Being pedantic, they are enhanced rather than restored.
Restored would only bring them back to an "as new" condition when filmed. This has enhanced the clarity, added colour and sound.
It has been done amazingly well.
Less crowded and the shops with the awnings look great.
Fabulous. Thank you.
Being from America, it gives me insight as to how the British used to live. It makes me sad to think that some of those buildings that were lost to the bombings in Great Britain during World War 2, were replaced with buildings that were esthetically inferior. What a country it must have been then.
Most of those beautiful buildings you mentioned are still there. It was the ugly east end buildings that came down and were replaced
@@hs964no lots of beautiful buildings came down, the east end buildings were not ugly but were run down and if restored would have been beautiful. Now we have revolting brutalist architecture which was created out of necessity due to Britain being bankrupted by the war (and the US insisting we repay them when they came into the war)
You're right Kathleen, many of the buildings are not as esthetically pleasing as they once were. Some of it was as you say due to WW2/Luftwaffe, but a lot of it was self induced by modern Architects indoctrinated by Brutalism and Le Corbusier. Although, Fleet Street still looks much the same and most of the original buildings are still there intact. 👍🏢
It still is.
german cities got bombed a lot more we made sure uk still as great old buildings
Well done for correcting the playback speed. For decades we had to tolerate archive footage being played back too quickly.
Yeah I always slow them down if they haven’t been and they look more realistic otherwise everything looks like it’s in a Charlie Chaplin film 😂
It's so amazing to walk around London and the buildings some are still there. Like in your video Trafalgar Square the big white building on the left is South Africa House and is beautiful inside. Lovely, thank you.
OK, have to ask: did you intentionally add a sound effect at 1:15 to accompany the guy that, due to upscaling, looks like he's getting sucked into the truck? Because if not, boy is that perfect.
Woah, as someone who's 17, I'm genuinely liking the old London, I mean I've been interested in archives, but this takes my top spot! :D
These restored videos are endlessly captivating! Thank you for sharing!
My mum and dad were born in that year, in Stepney and Walthamstow . . . A different world.
do you have any old pictures of walthamstow.
@@orangefacedbuddah1776 nothing substantial as far as I know, only portraits really.
Love your work ! They are history lesson in themselves.
Howdy 🤠👋@glamourdaze Your Channel Always Brings a Smile 😁to My Face! Incredible 💖Footage!!! Ty
London looked so civilised and tranquil
Certainly not today!
@@12alocinOh please. What the camera didn't show.
Yea until bombs started dropping on it and people have to live in fear for like 4 years hiding underground.
You wouldn't know we came close to a civil war in that decade - ie May 1926.
Before traitors sold us out.
I love your videos! 💐💖👋
My late grandmother was born and raised in London in 1926, a real East Ender. Amazing to think this was the world she grew up in and how much changed in her lifetime.
This is such a delight to see! Fascinates scenes. It feels so close and so far away at the same time. People are wearing elaborate, elegant outfits, and the streets sometimes look like decorations to a movie, but citizen still have same problems, same destinations on public transport, same newspapers. Lovely throwback. Thank you so much!
Seriously, what proportion of the population do you think could afford clothes like that? 1%? 2%?
Fantastic!! Congratulations!!
Amazing! My dad was born on Jan 25 1926. Can’t help wondering if my grandad was driving one of those buses, too.
Wow not just restored to life. But restored to amazing life. What an achievement. 👏
I would've loved to have been able to be in London at those times. What a place it looked like. Awesome historical locations and landmarks like Trafalgar Square, and more. I know it's there still today, but the city isn't quite the same. I can't say much about it because I have not yet visited London, but it seems there is a charm to the city present in this video that has been lost to time, just like many great cities here in the United States.
What's immediately obvious to me is, the cleanliness. No rubbish, no bins, no advertisements, no people just hanging around. Everybody going about their business. People didn't eat between meals in those days. Didn't see any fat people either. Imagine what it will look like in another 100 years?
No bins? Where did they put their rubbish in those days?
@@michaelb2388 People didn't eat on the streets. They were usually going from A to B and not going to waste money on food when they weren't hungry. No fast food joints and countless cafe's. People didn't have lots of money to waste. And obesity was very rare. And if you did have litter, you'd put it in your pocket until you could dispose of it.
The ground may have been clean but the air sure as hell wasn't.
You can't be that stupid? This is a film of the pretty and clean bits of London, its also in very low resolution. Most of London back then was a complete slum. "The city was marked by high unemployment, low economic growth, and poor living conditions. London's poor lived in unsanitary, polluted slums that were densely populated. Children and adults born and raised in the slums were often unhealthy, weak, and malnourished. The UK experienced historically high unemployment in the 1920s, with one million people consistently unemployed. The working conditions of manual workers in London were poor. There were great inequalities of income and wealth in the UK, with 87% of private property owned by 882,000 people"
everything shown here is pretty much richer areas, go down a back street back then and it a be way worse than it is now. the only real difference is the amount of people
Wow, amazing! Makes it look like it was filmed last week!
My grandparents (from the Wirral and Liverpool) lived in London in the 1920s. It was especially nice seeing Trafalgar Square, as my grandmother had said that she loved going to concerts at St Martin-in-the-Field.
I was in London this past summer. It wasn't the city I remembered visiting years ago. It is awful now.
@@gerardmackay8909 Welcome to the New World Order
I think York should become the official capital of England along with it's own English parliament. London is an international city now and can still be the British capital. There is nothing wrong with some level of diversity, but if the English population drops below 50%, which it has in certain parts, then the city is actually becoming less diverse. Most ethnic minorities want to live amongst English people, not replace them completely. That is why they migrated here in the first place. London has always thrived with minority communities but still retained the English history and traditions of the area. The east end always had minorities living amongst the Cockney's, but now that proud history and tradition has all but gone. So I think we have to careful to preserve our local culture as well as add to it.
@@gerardmackay8909 it's awful that so much money is spent on London. That London creates so much wealth is purely by design.
@@colinharbinson5510 .... America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 🤨 should I continue?
@@simongardner3766 Oh preserve the cultures you say? Certainly didn't want to preserve the Scottish and Irish culture back in the day. Quite the opposite I'd say.
This is just fascinating to watch having been born in London Notting Hill seeing everyone in there smart suits. Looks so wonderful. My dad was born in 1926🇬🇧
Amazing!
What an elegant relaxed pace of life compared to today.
My mother and father would have been 15 years old then.
This video urges me to break out my electric tea kettle and my box of earl grey along side some tea biscuits. 😂
Everything was more beautiful in those days!
Hard not beautiful...but everyone worked together n helped each other....beautiful I think u may be referring to is etiquette...manners... dressing to go to Oxford St...visiting...presentation was very important...thanking you for helping me to realise n process...🎉
it really wasn't,you do realise this part of london was and is were the establishment live and lived.
Before the first war was imposed on us people worked together. The establishment with their German establishment relatives murdered millions and dampened our spirit. After the second war softened us up sufficiently they started with the replacement migration.
This video fails to show the reality of living for most of the population which was dreadful.
Excellent and mesmerising
Just amazing.
very very nice !! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The city in this footage was called London. Doesn't exist anymore!
The footage you don't see is the Brits pillaging and plundering Africa and South Asia. Job well done those chickens roost
I was in London yesterday, it definitely exists. I think people would have noticed if it had vanished.
@Solinvicti You know what I mean, unless of course you're completely stupid!
Might wanna check a map, it's still there and just as beautiful and chaotic as it has always been
@melancholymelon5316 Geographically yes, but in numerous other ways it's not the same.
Just beautiful. My father,born in Nine Elms would have been 10 years old. ❤️❤️❤️
That is wonderful! A real time warp.
0:31 - I am that lamp post, but was melted down during the war, I now form parts of the repair work in Vauxhall Bridge that was done in 1963.
Wonderful
Amazing, it's like a film set.
How do you find this footage?
Wonderful footage!
Great footage.
Well here is a deep dive. The double-decker bus that passes by has a sign advertising the Noel Coward play Easy Virtue with the American actress Jane Cowl. Two years later, Hitchcock made a silent film of it. She is not in it.
These footage are closest thing we have to time machines😊
Did you use a different colorizer? Colors are not as vibrant as before. I must say I much prefer your old method, without the "Enhanced by GD" watermark, logo's and in-picture descriptions (which can easily be handled with CC captions in UA-cam). Historic footage should remain as pristene as possible.
That’s awesome. I could imagine Virginia Woolf walking through the streets of London.
..and Somerset Maugham 🙂.
Still looks the same, which is the beauty of Europe. They keep their buildings as they always have been
Great Video
My paternal grandmother went to Europe in the Summer of 1927 after graduating from Cal Berkeley. They took the train from the East Bay (Richmond, Ca), to Chicago and on to New York City, then sailed on the SS Minnetonka from NY to London.
This is pretty much the London she saw at 21 as an American flapper w/ her sorority girlfriends. RIP Ruth (1906-1985).
It's so long ago, that it almost is like going back in time!....
Great video, looking at the way their feet move, I imagine if a person was filmed walking backwards, you would have the worlds first version of "Moonwalking". 🙂
Another glimpse of the roaring 20s
Love the KIA-ORA advert on the back of the bus.
Anyone else think London was a lot more civilised back then than it is today??
I cant get over how clean it was
This doesn't seem all that different than when I visited London 50 years ago. I haven't been back to Europe since then though.
Every time I pass Trafalgar Square I'm dismayed by what a chaotic mess it always is with ugly portacabins and barriers everywhere. Watching this video I realise it's always been that way!
My dad was born in Clerkenwell 1914 and told me stories of old London and the pirate buses and horse drawn traffic.
Not one annoying tourist oust side Horseguards! Amazing to see this and how it was, shame it couldn’t continue to being civilised.
love the annette hanshaw at the end
What a privilege to have been around then.
Not sure about that. More polluted air, lower life expectancy, slums.....
@80sandretrogubbins25 bit like today then.
A different world!
And now one of the most dangerous cities on earth.
It has always been an incredibly dangerous city
Nice work, though I doubt the Thames has ever looked that colour 😂 Harrods vans were also green with gold livery…as they still are today.
I miss a time I never knew.
Wonderful old London. My gran always put on her smartest clothes to ‘go up to town’. People had self-respect in those days, and for everyone else.
Eh? You clearly know nothing about how appalling much of London was back then. Much of it was horrific. Areas like Piccadilly and kings cross, Soho, marble arch and Trafalgar Square were incredibly seedy - full of prostitutes male, female and sadly also many children. People had no more "respect" back then than they did now. They may have been much more deferential, but there were some appalling things going on pretty brazenly
@@zeddeka Maybe so, Gran never spoke of such things to me as a child, but I know she loved visiting London, (we’re talking 1920’s), she’d often talk to me about it, and that’s the memory I like to keep.
London now looks like" take your pick depending of following based on the district " Karachi/Delhi/Lagos/Tirana
I note that a lot of the brand names on ads on the buses are still around today.
1:15 is still there at 49 Fleet Street.
These watermarks are distracting.
Excellent work, although the Thames was never blue! It has always been a sort of khaki colour, a brownish greyish green
Old times are so good
Not one adult you see in this footage will be here now. A new born would be 98 years old today. This period of time is so close now to disappearing from living memory altogether and forever.
London, England. Lost forever 😢
Wow!!
This is our Time Machine.
The sound is pretty good for 1926!
Absolutely amazing and such a very different time . King George V & Queen Mary reigning .
Good video - please show one from New York in 1826
Crazy to think my Irish grandmother was already fourteen when this was filmed.
Love the Dewar's logo at 0:42
And in just 100 years it's now a violent dangerous dump of a place
just like most of london was 100 years ago.
@@orangefacedbuddah1776 Tosh. Read some social history
@@orangefacedbuddah1776 its far worse now. Unless your blind.
So nothing changed then
oh look one of these comments. no it was just the same back then, but the class difference was even larger. everything you see in this video is from richer areas. Things were no way better back then, unless you think child labor, thrown out rubbish and waste on streets. gangs were still very much a thing, and no one took care of you when you was ill unless you were rich.
Dirty buildings, clean people.
If only they could see it now …😢
Sigh.
No litter and no pot holes or bad roads … and we think we have progressed since then
Fascinating to me that the buses were open topped, would have been great……in summer only!
All this got taken away from us by men in suites wanting bigger GPD.
London is still there pal
Nice footage. Also the same old fools who long for those days. No penicillin, no healthcare, awful working conditions for all but the rich, depression around the corner, civil rights almost non-existent. I could go on. It's a brief snapshot of the posh area of London. Life was a short and terrible grind for most.
Plus every building black with soot and terrible problems of pollution. I just remember smogs!
@@simbee3634 The pollution must've been really quite something given it turned buildings completely black and is still visible even today on the odd random building where it hasn't been cleaned off. Now consider everyone was breathing that air.....
at last a sensible post,one of about 5.
@@simbee3634 thank you for a post that makes sense. crazy how many people glorify this stuff like it was perfect. no it was not, not even close, if anything worse unless you was filthy rich
Yes is amazing. In 4k and colour looks a lot more recent until you realise is 1926 .
Love how it’s at normal speed and just enough colour to not look over saturated, looks a lot more relatable than a black and white sped up film that looks like Charlie Chaplin should be in it 😂
If the people in this footage only knew what was to come.
Almost looks like a place I'd want to visit.
I know what you're all thinking. And you'll be right.
I am certainly thinking it.
@alanmorris1831 For goodness sake don't state the obvious though.
@@paulyflyer8154 No, I don't fancy 3 years in Belmarsh...
Where’s sand bo
Lovely look back at London. However the UK is not just London. Yes it was bombed and many lovely buildings are gone, but that happened all over. At least we still have our 5,500 castles to appreciate all over the UK. I wish people would not just visit London then go home saying they have been to UK. So many more beautiful places here.
All those people enjoying life, unaware that in 14 years time bombs would be falling from Germany…. Amazing videos