Living Wigan (1902)
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2008
- This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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It's incredible how we can watch films over a hundred years old. It was a different world back then. It's like a different universe. These videos are gold. I can't believe people would just ignore them. They are a small, short journey to the past.
My heart just melted a little watching this. Such a lovely people, they were so much better than us in every way. I hope they are in peace now.
I love how well dressed everyone were... suited and booted.
What a beautiful old film. The word humility comes to mind. We think that town centre belongs to us but it doesn't, we're just minding it.
This was not all that long ago for me, my grandfather was born in 1879 not far from here so he would have been around twenty years old at this time. I still remember visiting him in his two up and two down house. It only had one tap (cold water). The floor was flag stones and he used to cook on an iron stove that was part of the front room coal fire place . There was a cast iron kettle that hung over the fire that was always on the boil. He had no electricity just gas lights. He bathed once a week in a tin bathtub (whether he needed it or not) that he filled up with hot water from the kettle. and cold water from the one tap. He brought up three children in that house, a small family at the time; he was one of ten. Compared to many in this movie, he probably lived in luxury.
I live in this town in England, its fun to see its evolution
At that moment they had no idea that 116 years later, they would be making people chuckle on youtube. I find these long dead children of the past to be quite a nice bunch.
For some reason when I see these old films, I only think of those young boys and wonder how many of them died on the fields of Flanders, 12 to 16 years after this film was made. So sad.
I just love that little girl wearing the bonnet. Seeing her excitedly flailing her arms to the camera, a big smile on her face, just melts my heart. I wish we knew who she was.
These are lovely people so nice to see them smiling
My great grandfather was only five years of age when this magnificent film was made in 1902 and twelve years later at the age of seventeen years of age would go to war with the king's regiment of Liverpool in ww1 only to pass away in 1929 aged just 32years old from pneumonia leaving his wife my great grandmother and his two daughters and only son my own dear grandad on my mum's side of the family God bless all who featured in this film footage anyone who could be my late ancestors from Wigan, Ince and Hindley areas of Lancashire England.🌹🕊️🙏👍😎
bet the flat cap maker was a good trade those days.everyone seems to have one.
This film is of special interest as a relatively rare shot of a steam tram in action. It may also show one of the last of them on that particular route. Towards the end of the sequence you can see an adjoining street with the traction poles and overhead wires in place, and one of the new electric trams coming up the hill. The steam trams were of special significance to Wigan as a lot of the engines were built locally by Wilkinsons, a firm specialising in colliery winding engines who diversified into what must in the 1880s have seemed a growing market. Unfortunately their life was a relatively short one, as from the late 1890s the cleaner and faster electric trams started to take over from them. For full details see E. K. Stretch: The Tramways of Wigan.
beautiful film of happy people of Wigan from so long ago.
A beautiful piece of film
Watched this again, the girls in the shawls, hadn’t noticed them before. People swinging their hats round, so young and vibrant, almost can’t believe they all died before I was even born. Respect ❤
12/13yrs later, plenty of those young boys would probably lose their lifes such a waste after seeing them having fun as kids.
Everyone looks so happy today in Wigan totally different lot of people hang they heads it's a shame really where have all the Wiganers gone fantastic evening people salt of the earth.
It would of been great memories for all of them looking back watching it too
many of those children went off to war I suspect.