Victorian women | Life in Victorian times | 108 year old woman | Money Go Round | 1977
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2018
- Joan Shenton speaks to Mrs. Florence Pannel born in 1868 speaks to about life for women in Victorian times, and also what it was like setting up a Beauty care business during those times including her life in Paris. This is the complete section of the interview that appeared in the show.
First shown: 25/02/1977
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She's recalling a 100 year old memory from her childhood. I cant remember last week.
at 108 years old, and to be coherent? You can bet her level of wit and intelligence was unmatched when she was in her prime.
I heard as you get older you remember better of time when you were young
househansa of course not because after our childhood nothing really rememberable happens any more.. at least not every week like it used to back then
I can remember a few things from when I was 7, but only very few. Visiting my grandfather in hospital - just seeing someone going from being quite robust to lying in a bed still complaining and then suddenly, no longer around. Also remember an argument with a girl in school when the teacher got a bit involved - all this was in 1979. It's quite hazy before that - I remember only a few things before that.
i disassociate most of the time so i’m sure when i’m old i won’t remember much either lol
She was 44 when the titanic sank.. crazy
You got that right for sure. Amazing
@Zip Zappa ok smart ass. Social media we can be flexible with the English language thank you.
@Zip Zappa you don't have to be so English perfect. You're acting like the pupil who said 'please miss, she never said please"
@Zip Zappa aww some1 gettin all sensitive n dat, spekin English on social media we need to speak in proper English before zippy zapper here will get offended.. awww don’t cry, here’s a tissue. we shall all write in full sentences for your pee brain to understand, don’t u worry.
@Zip Zappa I must say you’re the loser who is part of the Nazi Grammar and Spelling police
Florence Pannell. Born in 1868, the same year as Tsar Nicholas II. Older than Churchill by 6 years. France still had an Emperor. 18 when the Statue of Liberty came up, 21 when the Eiffel Tower was built. 35 when the first airplane flew, 46 when WWI started, 59 when the first TV broadcast was made, 77 when WWII ended, 89 when Sputnik orbited the earth, 101 when humans landed on the Moon, 111 when the Shah of Iran was overthrown, and died in 1980, the same year as John Lennon. She was the oldest person in Europe at the time of her death.
What a ride.
Top tier comment. Amazing to see that - already had lived 100 years and witnessed humans landing on the moon. Absolutely wild
Now that’s perspective
Feels like a Vsauce bit for his illusions of time. Such a fascinating timeline
Older than fucking Vladimir Lenin, Calvin Coolidge, Joseph Stalin, Douglas Macarthur, and Mao Zedong
I know you are referred to her life and how she lived when you say"what a ride " but that phrase can also be picked up wrong depending on where you live 😂
Just remember that Florence was 48 years old when the first wold war, and 77 when the second. And she still lived 35 more years after that event. Incredible.
your math aint mathing huh
Ok
If Mrs. Florence was 108 in the year 1977 that means she probably was born in 1869. World War 1 started in 1914 so she would have been 45 and then World War 2 started Sept. 1939 so she would have been 70.
Her date of birth- 1868. And death is 1980. This is what the events she lived through- Ten years war (1868), Spanish American war (1898), world war 1, world war 2, even Korean and Vietnam war . Dang
@@nitrowolf17 living during the victorian era was a war itself
Imagine being able to casually say, “if I recall correctly, it was 100 years ago.”
The Night Watcher I’ll be happy if I can say 80 years ago, lol.
That would be so funny 😂
Hahahahahaha
Wade L. I’ll be happy if I can say 20 years ago
I rather die today
Her brain has more memory than Windows 2000.
The majority of the world does dear.
Wandrative but a majority of the world isn’t 108 years old 😉 it’s amazing really.
Windows 1860 is amazing
Looool 😂😂😂
My favorite comment here so far ^^
She passed away 3 years after this was made. She was 111 years old. That's absolutely wild. It's kind of sad to think she may have outlived any potential children though
That happens to a lot of elderly people. They outlive friends and family
I wonder if she ever got to fly
i once had a patient who turned 100 years old. i wished her a happy birthday and asked if she would celebrate. she said "with whom? theres no one left but me"
@@beancelineawww so sad
R.I.P. 🙏
Incredible. Her mind is lucid, her speech not only precise, but she’s a great storyteller with a great voice.
@@user-tv1xj5ji6x you good bro? 💀
🕊
She looks younger for 108!!! What a LADY 🕊️👍🏼
maybe she making shit up
She looks 75
This woman was already 46 when WW1 started, Jesus...
It's crazy to imagine lol
@@mrtraa2639 Or even a great grandson
@@mrtraa2639 in WW1 even!
WW1 started in 1914 you dumbfuck.
And dont moan our godfather Jesus!
Imagine being born in the era of queen victoria and living enough to watch star wars like bruh tf
Imagen
Space Odyssey's amazing enough tho
🤯🤯🤯
That's a lovely picture. 🥰
Born before planes existed, lived long enough to see men on the moon.
"Mother, when I grow up, shall I have to be married?" To think that 130-140 years ago some little girl made that statement and never thought of it again but it survived for more than a century to be told in this video. That some little girl from the victorian era had a conversation and it still survives.
The scene she described was a cartoon in the magazine Punch. Although I’m sure many conversations like that were had!
But when the internet is eventually lost even that will disappear. When the last traces of our civilization inevitably burn after some disaster or war, we all will be forgotten. Even the very species he belong to and planet we call home. So the value you find is temporary, but so is all things.
@@RisingFlag100 Or when oil runs out (coming soon) EVERY modern technology, transport and machine will no longer work. As everything relies on oil. 99.99% plus of all species that ever existed have gone extinct, and our species is also on the way out, we are currently DE-evolving as is obvious from listening to people from 100 years ago and more and more biological markers in humans are proving this true.
@@buongiorno9714 Haha. Good stuff.
@@RisingFlag100 everything is temporary yes, except out spirits, the real us. When we die out body will fade away but the real us will be alive on eternity. Just wanted to tell you that Heaven and Hell are real eternal destinations for every human spirit, and that Jesus Christ said 'I AM the Way, the truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by Me'. For God so loved the world (us) that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but receive eternal life. God didn't send Jesus to condemn the world, but that through Him we might be saved.
Being 108, she looked good!! Her skin was healthy looking!! Her brain was youthful.She got to live to see a lot of change!! RIP
yea u would think she would look wayyy older , she honestly don't look 108 she looks good
@@nobody-qz1tg She worked in beauty. That tells me one thing of the hundreds she used on her skin over the years may have been the answer. Maybe she did actually have the answer huh. Strong lady.
Even her legs look like they belong to someone younger
nobody alive today born in the last 30 years will last that long now because technology it messed your brain up
Yes I noticed her legs did look like from a much younger woman
Born 1868, made it to the internet
Unfortunately not, she died in 1980
@@noirblanque5324 i mean she is on the internet NOW and forever. Well, until internet is taken from us for "security reasons"
hugh mongus it wont be pretty when that happens, very likely the end of civilization. I say this merely in the fact that not enough people will be able to adopt a pre technology lifestyle successfully and will lead to violence paranoia ect ect
@@edu.33 In this way, Vladimir Lenin is on the internet too.
hugh mongus oh
Imagine being old enough to be skeptical of airplanes back when they “first came out”
She was 35 yo by their invention date.
I wouldn't blame them for being skeptical, many people died in planes in the beginning.
@@DiceDecides and people still do die
I was sceptical about phones with touch screen when they first came out, because normal keys seemed faster when writing SMS... lol
For several decades, airplanes could not fly safely at night. Had no cabin pressurisation. Were not very fast. Had a poor safety record. Before the DC3, no airplane made a reliable profit. The first models that clearly showed that aviation was fast, comfortable and profitable were the DC6 and the Lockheed Constellation. Before 1946-50, one had a right to be a bit sceptical of civilian aviation.
My grandparents were born in 1900 and 1902. They would tell us stories about how people their parents' age reacted when they first heard about trains. They called them moving worms made of steel. Then when planes came out, they called them flying birds made of steel. Everyone was terrified of both events
Hello Carolina, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
@@user-tv1xj5ji6x
Safe from the vaccines
THAT'S SOUNDS SO AMAZING AND WONDERFUL!! 😭😭🥺
@@user-tv1xj5ji6x They're dead , the oldest person alive now was born in 1904
@@BrasilNacionalista0001 Okay. Hope you’re having a nice and a wonderful day today??
"Nothing is the same. Everything is changed". She is a real life time traveler. Let that sink in for a moment.
Well by that logic, we're all technically time travelers
@@jaffa3717 When she says that it’s obviously because she was born sometime after the First Industrial Revolution and was giving that interview at the beginning of the globalization in the middle of the Cold War… That’s a journey we would never be able to understand
Imagine being born three years after the Civil War in the United States ended and living to see Star Wars come out! Absolutely incredible!
Yes your right.
Same thing with us. Our technology is moving way too fast...Imagine saying in 1977 that everything is changed.
she lived to be 112. imagine being 80 years old and still having another 32 years to live
😂
I am 62, that's what keeps me going, hope.
I'd rather not
Only if you have a sharp mind like her
That’s the goal!
I am 82 years old, and when I was young, my grandfather told stories of young men waiting at street corners waiting to see a woman’s ankle when she stepped off the curb!
Oh my god!!! As a Muslim woman I find this hilarious for some reason :D
Please tell us more about your experiences and the war, before it and its aftermath.
LMAO imagine those men now , women now wear next to nothing . those men would have a field day in this era.
so no matter how conceiling the clothes, creeps will be creeps - . -'
Faye Ritenburg
Oh how I wish they could see today ! Although, prostitutes always existed. Older eras really weren’t as naive or “prude” as we make them out to be lol
She mentioned "Punch". "Punch" was a British weekly magazine of humor and satire that ran from 1841 to _2002._ It played a significant role in the development of the British sense of humor and is often cited as a landmark in the history of humorous magazines. It is largely forgotten nowadays.
A bit of a bold statement to claim that one publication played a significant role in the British sense of humour. I suspect our dry wit has been this way for centuries before Punch ever published it's first edition - it's just a quirk of our culture.
@@crowbar9566 Yeah, I think Punch reflected British humour (and adapted to it) rather than developed it.
@@crowbar9566 True. Otherwise how would a publication like Punch even come into existence it beggars belief.
I'm guessing that's where "punchline" comes from?
No, a punch line is the conclusion of a joke after being set up by misdirection.@@PanthraxIV
I wish this was longer. I wanna hear everything this woman has to say about her life and the people/world around her.
fucking cheers to that
I was thinking the same thing. Video cut out so quickly :/
I feel the same. I just wanted to hear her keep talking and telling us stories.
i wanted to hear about the business.!
Florence Pannell's tales. The transformations she's witnessed are truly mind-boggling! 🚀
That old victorian accent😍😍
Yes...i like very much.
@@bekkerz7789 yes.its thrue.
sound a lot like John Hurt, the late actor
Oh yes yes
@@bekkerz7789 - & the Brits rag on the Americans now for preserving that R in many dialects...
imagine asking about the 60’s and then being asked which one
And the 70s
@mr red r/Woosh
@mr red well, you must be fun at parties...
😂
mr red I guess someone pissed in your Cheerios
I love how I was born 118 years after this woman yet I can completely understand her and would easily be able to hold a conversation. She saw massive change in her lifetime.
Ye people could speak english 118 years ago. What a shock
she was Born in 1868 when the Titanic sunk she was 44 years old the fact that we can even see a video in color of her speaking is mind blowing and remarkable it shouldn’t be possible but it is.
It's pretty mad, however we may be lucky to experience the same level of change in our lifetimes.
@@unholylemonpledge9730You crackhead. Clearly they're referring to how little our language has changed in the past ~150 years. If we were to have this woman talking with someone her age in this video when she was say, 10 years old, they would have been born in 1771. There's a greater difference in language between 1771 and 1879 than 1869 and 2023. Basically every century you go back the change is more dramatic
@@Robert_Danielit wasnt titanic though, it was replica Olympic afaik it was planned to kill big names before going to Usa look it up
So I'm currently 16, I have this rare heart disease and doctors have recently told me I probably have 3-4 years of time. Watching these kind of beautiful and heart-touching content makes me cry a bit. I'd do literally anything to have more time on this Earth, but you can't change your fate, they say. This lady is very inspirational and I hope she enjoyed her long life. Rest in peace
I'm sorry you have to watch the time count down. I hope you will be able to lay in the house of the Lord once you're gone. That is much much much better than having to be on this earth. I'll pray for you.
Wow so sorry god is with you spend as much happy memories here on earth as you can keep smiling 🙂
@@rghaw Thank you for your kind words. I suppose, I won't suffer that much when it happens, so it makes dying a little bit easier. I've had very active and productive life, I've enjoyed it. I hope, that my soul will be finally at rest and if there is any afterlife, I'll make sure, that I throw a hell of a party when I'm there.
@@themoocher3029 Dying is something you'll never fully accept. However, I've made peace with it. I've had very active and productive life and I will continue doing it until my last breath, of which I don't have that many unfortunately. I'm smilling as much as I can, because some dying people can't enjoy their lives. I don't have that much time. My dreams are like a clouds, that I could never reach. My deepest dreams are basically destroyed. Whereas, I'll try my best not to spend my final years worrying about it so much. Life shouldn't be something taken for granted, it's not. That is fate, that is unchangable. Thank you for your kind words, stay positive, which is the key to everything.
@@whoislenka You are very wise. You are completely right. No one can prevent it if it's destined to happen. Obviously, miracles can happen, but that doesn't mean that it is certain they will. You're doing a very wise thing by accepting it and being positive about it.
“In Paris, nothing mattered” How grand
Sad THAT Paris is gone for good...
@@Lea_Kaderova ...no. ?
@@Lea_Kaderova wdym?
@@Lea_Kaderova No worries Lea, I went to Paris for the first time recently and I saw quite a bit more than ankle on those splendid Paris streets. So whether you wanna dress light or you just wanna look at hot girls, no matter, still no such thing matters in Paris!
@@jasmim9194 She means that it's full of non-white people now.
So she was 19 when Jack the Ripper was terrorising London
Oh god oh fuck
That's when she thought I'm heading to Paris mate
oh damn
@@amelcamel858 lmao.
She was around when Jack the Ripper came about and died as Ted Bundy's rampage came to an end.
This is an incredible interview. My great great aunt who died at a 104 back back in about 1999 remembered Titanic sinking. She would say I was just a child then but I remember people crying in the streets hadn't seen anything that bad until the great depression came.. She then proceeded to tell us a story about how she watched a man go withdraw most of his savings out of a bank throw all of his money out on the street and then shoot himself in the head. Died right there. She was a hard ass and a quiet little old lady at the same time. When she died, she passed with a bullet hole lodged in her shoulder. Been there since 1939 she would say and then mutter some curse words about her old ex husband. Once she also told a doctor to piss off because she wasnt explaining why she had that bullet in her and she was 99 and not going to psychical rehab (she broke her hip slipping) and also not going to do anything else she damn well didn't want to do. It was hilarious. I really miss her
Thanks for sharing that
wow lol seems like someone id like to have met myself ❤️
Love her ♡
She remember the titanic ,wow!!!!
Plot twist - she held the gun and made him withdraw the money?
From 1868-1977. She witnessed the Victorian age, the Industrial revolution, the Titanic, invention of the Teddy Bear, the first tour de France, the first modern Olympics in Greece, invention of the Airplane, Hawaii joining America, Pluto's discovery, invention of the US national anthem, the first FIFA World Cup, WW1, WW2, MLK, Malcolm X and the Civil Rights movement, the Korean independence and the Korean war, the Vietnam War, JFKs assassination, the birth and death of Elvis Presley, the Hippie movement, Michael Jackson, Invention of the Compter.. What a life
More than that.. She probably didn't witness American stuff so much, had more important things to witness
A lot of those things are american movements that had very little relevance in britain Who is malcom x??
uhh hawai'i did not join america. they were a sovereign nation that was overthrown. they are still, understandably, upset.
She’s British lmao. The fuck would she care about Hawaii joining America
**very eurocentric (even more american) comment**
For being 108 years old she actually looked pretty good
Ikr look she’s was actively movin and everything and u can actually understand her talking
@@angelinaduot1709 is there any reason why you should not understand🤔
@@misscoutts6193 A lot of old people, even way younger than her, can't speak properly anymore, they can't put together a logical speech, or can't articulate words in a clear way etc.
@@etienneditolve1567 why!?
miss havisham The older a brain gets, the more it deteriorates.
Her voice is gorgeous. Something you’d hear in a old Disney film.
Agree
Reminds me of the lady from the Aristocats
Grandmother Willow..
Simp
Basics Politics oh shut the fuck up
It's remarkable to know this woman lived to be 111 years old.
There was a lady last year that lived to 119 and another recently that lived close to 119. I believe living very long will become more common.
@@KingJackson11355 Yes
@@KingJackson11355 if your healthy
I think she lived to 112
Honestly even at the age of 30 right now I get such an ominous feeling about how much things have changed in the last few decades. So many things in life feel different. I can’t imagine how much more so it must feel when looking at change over the span of a life lived for over 100 years
What has changed? Nothing has changed in these couples of decades imo.
Things like personal computers and such we've had them for ages.
@@Zenovarse idk, in 30 years alot has changed. fashion, smartphones, political ideas, pop culture, price of life, and even some values don't hold up anymore in many places, or there's new ones, or evolved. not to mention what personal individual changes come through such times
@@Zenovarse Nothing?
Are you even out of your bed? Biggest change? EVERYTHING Where should i start. Smartphones? Internet is getting huge AF. Finance crash. The massive dying of the great barrier reef and a lot of more to the World and climate. I can talk on and on
I feel like technology is accelerating, and people like me who were born around the time this lady died will see more change in our lives than she did if we haven't already.
Only 1860's kids will remember
Hahaha
😭😭😭😭😭
IKR
That made me breath forcefully out my nose
😂
Watching interview of lady born in 1868, broadcasted in 1977, in 2019. Wow.
And reading your comment in 2092!
@@nicklessincage Deep as fuck bro
Mind blown.............
Now she’ll be immortalised on the internet.
All I need to do is write this reply and my words are immortalised in the internet
I love that she said she’s more adventurous now that she’s 108 ❤
She was born in 1868. Just a year after Queen Mary who was Queen Elizabeth II’s paternal grandmother.
This lady lived through Tchaikovsky AND the Beatles
Damn
she probably didnt know anything about/ didnt care about the beatles
Wagner and Bowie even. Berlioz and post-punk at the greater extreme...
And the sex pistols.
And there to see the beginning of the Jackson five, sadly not there to see the rise of Michael Jackson (little Michael as she may of known him by)
And Black Sabbath.
Imagine being born when everything was horse and wagon and then live to see people walk on the moon
I like how she says she "didn't fancy" planes "when they first came out" and she truly could say such a thing! I think it's awesome that she was over 100 years old and said she was "more adventurous."
Teddy Sundin my grandmother would talk about going from travel of the ox and cart, to men landing on the moon.
🌟༻🅹🅰🆈🅵🅰༺ ✓ • 5 years ago ha ha, I love it!! (But you know, it’s the only place you can get green cheese !)
(She was born in 1889.)
Fact: there was no moon landing. Let the Bible be the authority in all matters. God tells us through His written word that the earth is fixed and cannot move, the sun is the one rising and falling, and there is a see through firmament above us(and water behind it,WHICH IS WHY THE SKY IS BLUE). Under the firmament in our sky is where the sun, moon & stars are located. Goodness, Satan has really deceived those who don’t read their bible! Pretty easy for him to do so. Hopefully Satan didn’t turn you away from believing in Jesus as our only means to get to heaven too!
@@thebodyofchrist56 sorry it's no longer 12AD go away
Her accent is not at all like the English accents we hear nowadays. So vintage and classy sounding, she even R-r-r-r-r-rolls her R's sometimes. An awesome piece of history.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
@@edithbannerman4 good n u?
I love her precise speech, with the rolled "R"s. Very formal, enunciating every word. I wish we still cared about our speech this way.
She was literally in her mid-twenties when Jack the Ripper was around.
Now he's just found in the stripclub and is now known as jack the stripper
*And Jonathan Joestar.*
Creepy
@@Princess2Warrior What If she's actually just Erina joestar
wow of all the things that's what I thought about too
She was alive when Jack the Ripper was considered the 1st serial murderer
I realized that, imagining her in Ripper times London, she was in her 20s even then, whoa
Jaymeehoffstar;) But who would suspect such a fine young lady?
@KoivuTheHab germany was formed in 1871
he’s still considered the first serial killer, but get what you mean haha
@@suckmydingledong har har 😜
My great Nan died around 1997. She made it to 108! Amazing!
Wow did she have any tricks for living so long?
This is amazing... 108 years old and she speaks with such clarity and confidence in her voice. I'm very proud of this lady and amazed by how much story she must have lived
3mins isn't long enough. I need to hear at least 5 Hours of everything she has to say
Not 5 hours act her whole life out to us while she telling her life story
I would listen to her for whatever time necessary. And still i would want to hear so much more.
Same!
As long as it takes!
Same I could listen to her for hours.
When you've only been dating for 3 years
And she flashes her ankle
B. A
That made me laugh more than it should have 😂
*ahem* courting.
700
SCANDALOUS
she belongs to the STREETS
How lucky are we, to be able to see this beautful lady's interview still in 2022!
Imagine at 108 years old still having such an excitment for life as to say she would happily ride on a plane beacause "I'm more adventurous now". What an incredible woman!
Interviewer: "What's the biggest change you've seen?"
108-year-old woman: "EVERYTHING!"
Quote of the century
But which century? 😅😆
Quote of the centuries 😃
Quote of the last 3 centuries
@@DMCS1917 yesssss 😄😅😆
Quote of this last year...
Imagine having 100 years of memory. No wonder old people want to tell stories.
And here I am, legit can't remember what I did last week.
Always listen to an elder's story if they want to share.
It's a privilege to listen to them.
And I'd be there to listen to her
I love conversing with the elderly community they are magical with their stories 😍
Her capacity to converse and her lucidity is incredible
My grandmother died last year, in her nineties, and now I’m finally starting to realize, the questions I asked her about things changing over her lifetime was a terribly difficult question to answer. *Everything!* But the essence of our struggle and suffering, will last as long as we have brains. My grandmother was a geneticist and doctor, the kindest and most intelligent person I’ve ever met, and suspect will ever meet.
Long life, and best of luck to everyone out there!
"have you ever been in an aeroplane"
"when they first came out I didn't fancy them".
sounds like electric cars
@@gjdud12 True, I find their technology fascinating but most petrol heads could care less about them.
@@TimSlee1 im one of those, but I am also a tech head so i have mixed feelings...
@@gjdud12 What also fascinates me is the speed and acceleration of electric super cars, they perform just as well as petrol cars in those departments.
Tim Slee Not in range and acceleration... at least yet
She's so old, she might have heard stories about Napoleon from her grandpa.
She probably knew someone who was alive during the french revolution
One of the top comments talked about how she could of watched the star wars movie it’s seems so crazy she was born when there were no light bulbs and airplanes and now should could watch a star wars movie in a Movie theater or on a tv at home it’s seems so crazy the time difference and how technology has evolved so much over the years I mean think if she was alive now she could watch shows on giant flat screen TVs or do vr or something ahhhh it just seems so crazy
@@randomkidwithnofriendslive When you think that a human life is about 80 years, and there have always been people who turned 100 or more, we’re not that many human lifes away from the middle ages. Literally 8 people away from the crusades.
She could have grown up with people born into slavery in the USA, and could have spoken to people who were slaves in England. Could have spoken to people who were at the last hanging, drawing and quartering in England.
Thomasuki267 yeah it seems crazy
I get good energy from this lady I don’t know why.. she’s so endearing.. rip sweet lady
I wish this interview were much longer. She was bright, so interesting and so charasmatic. They could've made this at least a half hour, she had so much to share with us.
My great grandma was born in 1898, my grandma was born in 1929. Both lived to their mid 90s. My grandma just passed away last month at 95. Sadly she lived in a nursing home for 9 YEARS, she should've never been moved there with nearly a decade of life left, and lost both her mind and physical abilities shortly after moving there. Was essentially a living vegetable her last 5 years.
being that aware at 108 is literally a miracle of biology.
especially being able to talk and have a sharp mind
My grandma is 106..and lives with us
And very alert with great recall. I would love to see a longer interview with her. I have so many questions.
@@renuhazari544 My great grand mother lived to 107. It's funny because she had to dye her hair grey because it was growing back black!
@@natlisan ohh wow ...my grandmas hair turned greay just few years ago and thy are really well now..like atoesst she is not bald now
She was:
Born 3 years after slavery was abolished in the U.S.
35 when the airplane was invented
46 when WWI happened
71 when WWII started
101 when the moon landing happened
And the U.S. was less than a century old when she was born
Brendan Berney And more than 2 centuries old when this interview was conducted
Imagine going from the invention of the airplane, to watching man step on the moon. I would've loved to ask her what she thought of it.
Pin this comment yo
Why are you comparing a great british lady like this to that ignorance filled shithole the US
I slap chickens Not everyone in the US is ignorant and uncultured, although most people outside of a fee select areas are.
I love that this Victorian woman who'd survived to 1977 took down the Victorian Age with humour and made it clear she was on the side of Women's Liberation.
This is the real “Back in my days...” that really hits
"I'm a bit more adventurous now."
Says the 108 year old
That was my favorite part! Feisty old lady. :-)
"Adventuresome." I love that word.
Venturesome*
Brilliant. Going to use that more myself.
Eli Egbert stolen comment
yeah freaking amazing haahaha
She lived to watch the peak of colonization, 2 world wars, a moon landing, a cold war, countries come and go. Hell she lived during the indian wars..
Also imagine how music changed for her xD
Lucky for her she passed before rap.
@@soylentgreen7074 lol.
I'm 20 and can't remember when I was 10 😂
Yea from like Beethoven to Ozzy or something lol
@@VektorV2 She outlived Hitler and Stalin.
Wow! Her memory and ability to carry herself the way she did. Remarkable. Love her proper accent.
This woman was already 30 before the 20th century even began and we are seeing her clearly speaking and in a relatively clear video. I enjoy watching these videos of people from the 1800's. They've seen history change the most out of anyone in my opinion.
This woman had lived through the most breakthroughs in world history. Imagine seeing it all. She was a child before the lightbulb was ever invented and was eventually able to see men walk on the moon.
Damn.
Boer War, 2 World Wars, Russian Civil War, Easter Rising, 6 British monarchs, light bulb, radio, airplane, zeppelin, moving pictures, cars, colour photograph, zipper, television, atom bomb, space rockets, Coca-Cola, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, women's votes, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Titanic, Hindenburg, San Francisco earthquake, JFK assassination.....the list goes on!
holy shit, i got goosebumps for real!
@kolo guilty
Not in History. Just in modern History
no one's gonna talk about how shes still strong and talk clearly like shes in her 80s?
[edited] everyone thank you sm for the likes! ^^
Thank you..and how she's still attractive at 108!!?!
Her skin is phenomenal for 108!
Yes, she is extremely well preserved. Grand lady.
Michael T. Your comment is a bit creepy.
@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 There is nothing "creepy" about my comment. However, your immature interpretation of my comment is quite telling.
1:13 "There was a woman crossing the road, holding her dress up, showing her ankle to there!"
"Tut!"
Oh this is so precious, truly a relic of a bygone era. Imagine those gentlemen now if they were to walk through Shoreditch on a Friday afternoon in summer, they wouldn't know where to look 😂😅
it is really, and i mean really amazing that we have this footage. she was literally walking history and we are lucky to be able to watch this interview even though it's kinda short
This lady likely knew people born in the 1700s wtffffff
(edit): Since there are so many people replying with the same response, i'll explain why what I said was true. In the 1800s, the mortality rate of children was very high which significantly brought down the average life expectancy. People who made it out of their childhood typically lived a long life similar to modern day life expectancies. So if this lady remembers an elderly person from when she was around 10, which would have been in the late 1870s, there is a good chance that person was born in the late 1790s (Yes! 1799 is still the 1700s!). I have seen plenty of photos from the 1800s where there are people who look to be 70 or 80 years old.
Really makes you think about how recent 1700s, 1600s etc really are and how quickly we've developed
Very well said,,, isint that craziness. Really makes u think x
I loved the video 💗
@iiCause Viibes plenty of people lived past 60.
Are health was dismal a few 100 years ago, think it depended where you lived. London city v rural ,, big difference on life span I'd say xx
Yeah, her parents or grandparents.
It blows my mind that someone born in the 1860s might have gotten the chance to see Star Wars.
Oh my gosh. Mind blown.
Love this hahaha
Dude, this is insane. I love it
Wow. That contextualises it
My great aunt, who died when I was 13, was born at a time when the only technologies were steam trains and telegrams. No motor car played a role in her wedding. A few years before her death at age 90, she published an article in a journal of regional history pointing out that she had lived into the era of nuclear weapons, direct dial long distance, and astronauts orbiting the earth. She never drove, and she never mentioned seeing a movie. I have forgotten if she had a TV set. She stopped buying clothes in the 1920s. She had a secret vice: a bit of whiskey mixed into some hot milk, just before going to bed. It was for medicinal purposes, mind you...;)
When she died, she left me a bit of money in her will. That bit of money enabled me to attend an Ivy League school without a scholarship. I remain deeply grateful to her.
What a treasure. I want this interview to be so much longer❤
Absolutely fascinating! Her clarity of mind and storytelling skills are truly remarkable. It's heartwarming to witness someone with such a rich history share their experiences. She lived through an era of immense change, and her perspective is a treasure. 🌟
Imagine listening to the actual voice of a person from 1977,who was born in 1869 and listening to it in 2021.
Exactly what I was thinking!! 🙋
150years
1868*
That's what makes this so effing cool!
Imagine reading this comment 30 years from now even cooler
I wonder what she'd think if she knew I was sitting in my car on my lunch break at work, watching her on a phone in my hand in 2019?
Just saying "2019" to somebody who was used to dates starting with "18" for the first 32 years of their life would probably seem really trippy!
Dont you think that moon landing was a bigger deal?
She would say that if you have it in your hand now, it is mostly because of people born in 19th century. We should all thank them.
My sentiments as well!!! My daughter and I are watching in the car on her lunch break at school. What would she make of my sending this video to my 85 year old Aunt, who will watch on her iPad. I wonder what the world will be like when we are centurions (hopping that we will be so fortunate)? Here’s to Enjoying lunch in our cars with technology!:-D
I am.doing the same lol
This woman is as 'sharp as a tac' / very lucid - amazing. What an incredible life she had!
Remarkable woman and testimony. The stored knowledge, what her eyes have seen and the way she brings her recollections to life with such vivid expression : I could listen to her for hours! Thank you for this
She was 72 when WWII started. That’s unbelievable!
She lived through both World Wars, AMAZING!
Are you crazy? How come that is unbelievable? Of course there were people around that age and older when the war started! It didn't affect only young people for goodness sake!
Dream TheDream89 it’s crazy to think about. No need to get so logical.
She was 70 when World War II started and 71 when America entered the war.
@@dreamthedream8929 You completely missed the point, actually talking to someone who was that age and lived through it
108 years old and still her mind is sharp as a tack.
They were focus enough (with the moments infront of them) unlike us we spent too much time here on the Internt..
@@onlyniceviar Boohoo phone bad
@@onlyniceviar neoboomer
@@onlyniceviar btw
On the internet you can choose between watching 5 minute crafts and reading scientific literature. It's your will that makes the difference
@@cutebunny6690 you know they only do dumb shit without utilizing the potential of the internet. they're just projecting it onto others.
Most major inventions happened during her time. For thousands of years things were pretty much the same. My dad who was born in1918 and my grandparents in late 1890s would say the same. My grandfather didn't learn to drive or care for cars, but my dad loved everything about them (new generation for cars). It reminds me of the kids now with all the knowledge of technology. I ask my niece about so many things. I wish we could hear more stories from this lady.
Change has always occurred, albeit more gradually.
Often I research the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, and one thing that intrigued me was how the whole civilization became completely unrecognizable to how it started, from small wooden huts to giant city-states and elaborate palaces like those at Babylon and Ur.
Thanks for sharing this. Lovely to hear directly about the past from those who lived it. Treasure the time you can have with the oldest generation while they are still around.
she was born 26 Dec 1868 and died
20 Oct 1980
111 years, 299 days
Thats almost WR by today standarts
I was a month old when she died.
That’s bonkers when you really think about it
That is astounding! God willing I make it that long
She would be 150 years old now
Someone should have spent a week interviewing this woman. A couple of minutes is not enough.
Hear, hear!
Ikr!!!!
Yeah I was just thinking that. More specific questions too.
@@mabel8179 The interviewer's questions were so moronic.
I totally agree I could of spent a long time in her company listening to her . I still remember some of the stories my nanny told me as a child not many sadly .
this woman has seen empires fall, countries rise and crash, life altering inventions, the death of the russian imperial family, men walking on the moon, germany had only unified a few years ago when she was born, she has seen everything.
At the end when she says everything has changed that brought back a memory. In Ireland in 1984 I met a 90 year old man who was near this women's age who could not express enough how every single thing around him had changed. He kept saying it was unbelievable. It must have been quite a thing to live through the C20th century.
I may be wrong but it seems to me that 20th century was a rollercoaster compared to previous times. A lot of bad things happened and at the same times a lot of positive changes happened and changed our lives, both practically and mentally. And yet this start of 21st century seems less interesting, it reaks of cultural stagnation and political back walking.
@@negy2570 I would disagree. The greatest transformational century in history is undoubtedly the C19th. That is the way we thought about life changed, (e.g. by the end of the C19th everyone arranged their day by clock time. Just this alone was a profound change from a past where a day was just one thing, not divided into hours or even for most into activities) However the C20th delivered on the C19th thinking into lots of small improvements in people's domestic lives. So it felt like new gadgets or behaviour was a consistent flow but the thinking was all from the C19th and still is.
imagine how surreal it would have been for them if they also got to see the present day
she lived through no cars to moon landing. checkmate@@flashtrash7830
@@flashtrash7830 I once read a biography of Sir Sanford Fleming (1827-1915), who invented time zones, and it made the same point. The Industrial Revolution was the biggest material change in human society in ten thousand years, the switch from farming to industry as the mode of production. Fleming was born as the Industrial Revolution was getting started, just before the invention of the railway and the telegraph, and died in a world with telephones, film, cars and aeroplanes. But I would say that Florence Pannell witnessed a lot more changes in society and in technology in everyday life. She was born before the torrent of inventions in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, most notably the telephone, the gramophone, the incandescent bulb, the car and film. She ended her life in a world with jet airliners, colour television, the contraceptive pill and the first personal computers. When she was young, women had far less rights than men, married women were effectively the property of their husbands and a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. The 1970s saw the permissive society, the Women's Liberation Movement and the Sex Discrimination Act. I love that this Vctorian woman who'd survived to 1977 took down the Victorian Age with humour and made it clear she was on the side of Women's Liberation.
Imagine remembering something that you saw 100 years ago, that's nuts
I can't remember my life from 10 years ago
@Urso Ursidae SAME
Then there’s me, I can’t even remember what I was doing yesterday 😂
Only the highlights. And apparently your favorite cartoons ;)
Look at dementia, more recent knowledge disappears first. It's the childhood stuff that sticks around in the back of your mind
Urso Ursidae 💀 why is this so relatable
Old people are time capsules that get ignored 😔
True
Joseph Stalin Why should they "shut up"?
@Joseph Stalin You are just a disgusting rude person. Telling someone who gave a great comment such filth.
You must live in a bin.
@@jasminflower3814 I mean, he is Josef Stalin. One of many infamous Russian leaders. He's not a nice person.
Well most old people nowadays seem to not remember shit, or just dont want to be bothered.
British English is so elegant, wonderful accent to hear
I wish people had that same excellent enunciation today, so very easy to understand what Florence is saying.
I had to look up her phrase "in punch" what that meant, and I never really found a definition anywhere.
I believe she's referring to a British magazine named "Punch"@@c.rutherford en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(magazine)
@@mariabjorkdahl5166 I would never have guessed that. She said it several times so she must have been a fan of it. Glad to sort that out!
Face and hands: 108 years old
Legs: BRAND NEW
Legs always covered from sunlight and the elements.
Its definitely the stockings. My grandmother died at 102 and she always wore stockings and they made her legs look perfect
She could definitely get it
Wear sunscreen people
You've taken this to worrying new places
This woman couldn't even vote until she was about 50... that's crazy
@Han Lockhart that's one hell of a way to put it. Yes nothing, except you know:
Forced to organize and protest for their rights.
Deal when mistreatment daily from even their families.
Run countless countries during two world wars with no thanks from the men waging those wars.
Be treated like baby factories or no more than maids otherwise.
Maintain impossible levels of modesty so men wouldn't rape or abuse them.
Be used as commodities in affluent families when they needed something.
Women in the west were repressed and treated like absolute shit. Even the ones in the upper echelons of society. Sure, it wasn't as bad as other demographics, but it's all the same. It was unacceptable and drawing comparisons like this pointless. Incredibly disingenuous of you to try to put it into "perspective" when you yourself don't have it. Wanker.
The best part is this even the worst of it, but you still probably think being conscripted is worse than a life of servitude. Get real.
@Han Lockhart WOMEN GOT IT FOR FUCKING NOTHING?Women could not vote, had to marry who they parents wanted, had to submit like an unhumanized being, being spanked according to their husbands pleasure. Even today, a lot of them have rights denied. Are you mental or what, FAKE?
@Han Lockhart I Honestly miss when men had to go battle and die. Honestly, then i wouldnt have to read shit like this. DAMN DIGITAL INCLUSION
@Han Lockhart so, how weren't women oppressed in the past when they weren't allowed to do anything without their husbands say so? It is true that women were not allowed to be property owners, and many, if not all female authors took up pen names in order to be taken seriously. Do explain how, if they were not oppressed, this occurred, with factual evidence that is not solely opinion based.
Also, you're actually wrong on ordinary men being unable to vote, as before the early 19th century only wealthy men who owned numerous properties were allowed to vote. By 1867 all Borough householders (e.g. tradesmen, shopkeepers etc) were allowed to vote. Then, in 1884 all men and rural householders (e.g. Farm workers, miners) were put on the same footing as the Borough ones. Therefore ALL men (over a certain age) could vote. It wasn't until 1918 when all men over 21 and wealthy women over 30 were enfranchised, and then 1928 when all sexes could vote at 21. Voting age in the UK reduced to 18 as of 1969 and remains that way today. I would recommend you educate yourself before spewing your opinions. You have been brainwashed yourself by the patriarchy as much as feminists have been brainwashed by their experiences. (I have political and philosophical academic qualifications so I believe I am well informed on this subject, however I am open to debate on how you perceive this. However, it is a fact that men had the voting rights significantly before women, and to the best of my knowledge being an army veteran had nothing to do with it.)
Have a nice day :)
I so wish this was longer! I could listen to her for hours.
Such an invaluable clip. I'm so grateful to live in an age like this. To hear stories of people I'd never have known otherwise.
Har to imagine that she has probably met people who were born in 1700s.
The average life expectancy at birth in 1800 was 40 yrs old, so i doubt if she met many.
@@cerneuffington2656 not everyone was dying at 40 buddy. She was born in 1869 and at just 5-6 years of age she must have met elderly who were in their 80s. To assume there were no elderly people around at that time is just silly.
@@cerneuffington2656 Average life expetancy was that low due to the high child mortality. When that many children died before the age of 5 it pulls the average down to a level not accurately reflecting the expected lenght of life at the time. Average age of death for those who lived to be 20 would be a better measure.
@@cerneuffington2656 actually, 3rd century CE peoples life expectancy was 50 if they lived past 10. up the age a bit.
@@cerneuffington2656 many children died young which means that there were also old people.
“I didn’t trust the planes when they first came out”... I would have said the same 😊
I still don't trust them.😆
I have that same feeling every time a new Xbox comes out.
@@donnaharris8097 I'll tell you that planes in the Americas had a far more common place (as in The United States) they had the Boeing 737 Max at the time which had luxury meals and very loud music to take away from the loud propellor...oh my bad, Marx line mar I meant, ya, the propellers were quite the uncomfort and made up 60 percent of the sound on the plane. Really surreal feeling and provided a great and relaxing swing away from home life...although their was the chance for a hijack to occur or gundown..but not when you payed high money for a nice flight! It felt more human and natural back yesterday..now, everything is so alien and uncomfortable and distant feeling, nothing seems genuine..
@@donnaharris8097 very cool information by the way!
Yea it's like Space tourism for me, even if I had the money I'd rather wait to make sure it's extremely safe.
She looks amazing for a 108 years old lady...
There's an african proverb that says ''When an old person dies, it's library that burns down to ashes''.
isn't like 80% of Africa illiterate?
@@arous22 Doesn't mean people don't have tales to tell or knowledge about certain things.
@@arous22 says who?!
@@arous22 So I guess the only exposure you get to Africa is from the commercials on TV asking for 1 cent a day, huh? That's a whole fuckin continent you're joking about, my guy.
I thought it was from Borges the Argentinian writer.
“Everything has changed”
Imagine being born in the age of horse and buggies, steam power, corsets, Victorian dresses, men in full suits, operas & marching bands and living to see the day of men walking on the moon, satellites sent to distant planets, miniskirts, t-shirt and jeans, the Sex Pistols and disco. I can’t imagine make sense of a technological and cultural leap that massive
Exactly! I'm sure they thought the world would soon end.
Kris Ferrero
Or living in a time when people still believe the Sex Pistols were real....they were an example of early CGI, created in a studio by George Lucas
I once asked my mother about that. She is only sixty, but when I think of how things were when she was a little girl, and how things are now, I see a huge difference in society, technology, international politics, etc. She told me doesn't feel the change, and only looking back and reflecting on the past she feels like things have changed, but progress is not a leap, it is more like a continuous process.
@Kris Ferrero that’s a discussion for another time
imagine just missing out on twerking!
Florence Pannel is just awesome. It is sad we know so little about her.
I can't imagine being present during both world wars, the invention of cars, planes, telephones and machines to mass produce products. Mind boggling.
My Great Grandmother was born in 1887 and died in 1991 aged 104. Her lifespan covered the Boer War ( Started 1889) right through to the First Gulf War (1991). She lost 2 brothers in the Great War, which she never talked about. I wish now that I had spent more time talking to her and asking about her past. Something I will always regret now that it's to late.
@@bovinestool1681 cool
The sad part is even though people live through such large events, they'll just go 'meh' and forget until some up-and-coming reporter prods them for a historical segment far in the future :/
shame she didn't see the internet
I can't imagine being alive in the times of Tsaikovski and Black Sabbath's Paranoid. 😂 For me (born in 1994), they seem to be worlds apart and both being ancient history to me, but they can be fit in to a life span of one woman.
You know they’re British when the first thing they do is throw a jab at the French
There fault for invading our island. ;P We got em back though .. In fact we wiped the floor with them haha
Everyone throws a jab at the French because nobody likes them.
@@offended323 Gosh! We colonised you buggers for two centuries!! Even your hero Richard lion heart couldn't speak a single world of this mumbo jumbo you guys call Inglishe ! Ok lets be fair, we were kind of happy to find you around during WW2 ...but still no reason to get a bit head about it!
@@alanandconnielast read the comments below!
@@hudiscool4186
Are you directing your comment to the wrong person, or are you just completely wrong?