Posters on here say that the air was so clean. It was clean by the sea but in the cities and industrial areas there was terrible pollution . I lived in an industrial town in the North West of England. My aunty (born 1908) said you could see 50 chimneys from where she lived in the town. All belching out thick smoke. I would love to go back in time for a visit but am under no illusions. Some things could be said to be better than now but many things are better.
Born on Sparth Bottoms hill me in Rochdale close to the Roch with thick with smoke and Bronchial problems. It started to change with the first clean air act of the early 60's. Huge areas had to swap to smokeless fuel, which gave everyone an headache instead. My Father saw the light and moved us to Bispham/Blackpool where the Sun always shone until around November. The two places set in different times. Bispham had Gas for heating and indoor bathrooms, and nobody polished their front steps on a Saturday morning.
The ordinary working man didn't have paid holidays back in 1904. The best they could do was a Sunday outing if they lived close enough to Blackpool. All of these people on this film are likely to be local inhabitants or rather better off than the average mill-worker of the cotton-spinning towns. Middle-class possibly unless Mitchell & Kenyon were filming on a Sunday. Did anyone spot the fire engine at 2:16? I wonder whether the locations featured here still exist. At 6:20 the cop respectfully salutes the ladies crossing the road & will the crowd of people all get on the tram? 7:25 what looks like a line of redundant horse-trams and machinery flat-cars in a rail siding. It certainly looks like the film was shot on a weekend. A Saturday going by the cricket match. Unless sport was OK on the Sabbath?
when looking at british trams, they were self powered, with a center rail in the ground, trolley buses had a fishing pole, and overhead electric, so not trams, i traveled on both, only foreigners, called them trams, or tram cars, thats a trolley bus, the same goes for lift or elevator
The tram picks up 550 volts Direct Current from the overhead line. The rails are grounded. So there is a complete circuit with just one trolley-pole. The tram has a controller that goes through several notches, maybe six that will correspond to increasing speeds and also a switch to make the tram run in both directions. To go back the way you came the conductor would use an insulated pole to catch hold of the trolley-pole and walk it around 180 degrees. At 9:06 you see a man carrying such a pole. Where he is the tracks take a 90 degree turn. There was a great likelihood of the trolley coming off the wire at such spots that the tramway company stationed a man there to help re-connect the power & send the tram on it's way. Very much later Blackpool used a different means of collecting the current from the overhead line immune to such issues.
Anyone know what train station that is towards the end as the tram goes over what appears to be a bridge?. In the film you can very clearly see Blackpool tower in the distance. I've looked up both Lytham station and St Annes on Sea station, and I can't find any vantage point that would show the tower from that distance from those railway bridges. Unless it was taken from another train station, possibly Blackpool South station?. I would've thought the tower would've been a little too far away to be seen from Lytham or St Anne's stations.
It would have been Blackpool South Station ... the trams route from St Annes goes Clifton Drive onto Squires Gate Lane then down Lytham Road where it goes over the bridge near Station Road ...
@@birtylad Thanks for that. I thought it couldnt be North station or Central station as the tower would've been very close. If that's from the bridge at South station it's unrecognizable now from that film.
Dag Jab Blackpool south station was at the top of station road in 1903. Today Blackpool south is in a new location about a mile north. It all still looks the same. It’s a wonderful video.
@@drewdavid780 How you sure it was in a different place back then?. I've looked up on street view where South Station is, and apart from a few modern buildings, fences and station buildings, you can tell it's in same spot as seen in this film; you can make out the tower in the distance in the exact same position when the tram goes over the bridge. The station itself has altered as there used to be more lines that connected to other areas and it's now a car park with other buildings. But apart from that it's the same station in the same place. I haven't heard of that station having originally been elsewhere.
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Amazing to watch these... Like a time machine!
So long times ago the windmill at Lytham is still existing..and so much has changed now..
Everything is clean and tidy no cars clogging the roads everyone in there smarts! Love this dtuff
It's nice to see many people on bikes.
My grandmother (lived in Salford) loved going to Blackpool, she must have used that mode of travel.
Posters on here say that the air was so clean. It was clean by the sea but in the cities and industrial areas there was terrible pollution . I lived in an industrial town in the North West of England. My aunty (born 1908) said you could see 50 chimneys from where she lived in the town. All belching out thick smoke. I would love to go back in time for a visit but am under no illusions. Some things could be said to be better than now but many things are better.
Born on Sparth Bottoms hill me in Rochdale close to the Roch with thick with smoke and Bronchial problems. It started to change with the first clean air act of the early 60's. Huge areas had to swap to smokeless fuel, which gave everyone an headache instead. My Father saw the light and moved us to Bispham/Blackpool where the Sun always shone until around November. The two places set in different times. Bispham had Gas for heating and indoor bathrooms, and nobody polished their front steps on a Saturday morning.
So much new wine poured into so many old bottles.
Britian,prosperous ordered clean and confident.
these comments are always the maddest. it was no cleaner back then.
VERY RELAXING TO WATCH
No McDonald's there..people are so elegant☺
Public transport was brilliant then.
Gold old public transport the tram clean as well.Shame a lot of towns and cities got rid of them
Eirug Sion Griffiths: There are still plenty of trams in Blackpool.
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Everywhere looks so clean lol
beautifull
Clifton Arms hotel right at the beginning?
Apart from the obvious advances in medical science and social housing, have things got that much better for us over a hundred years on?
NO !!!
cool
fascinating
really really is
every person is this vid gone, love life
The ordinary working man didn't have paid holidays back in 1904. The best they could do was a Sunday outing if they lived close enough to Blackpool.
All of these people on this film are likely to be local inhabitants or rather better off than the average mill-worker of the cotton-spinning towns.
Middle-class possibly unless Mitchell & Kenyon were filming on a Sunday.
Did anyone spot the fire engine at 2:16?
I wonder whether the locations featured here still exist.
At 6:20 the cop respectfully salutes the ladies crossing the road & will the crowd of people all get on the tram?
7:25 what looks like a line of redundant horse-trams and machinery flat-cars in a rail siding.
It certainly looks like the film was shot on a weekend. A Saturday going by the cricket match. Unless sport was OK on the Sabbath?
when looking at british trams, they were self powered, with a center rail in the ground, trolley buses had a fishing pole, and overhead electric, so not trams, i traveled on both, only foreigners, called them trams, or tram cars, thats a trolley bus, the same goes for lift or elevator
WOLFROY47 you don’t know much about trams!
Sorry, chum, but you know very little about trams!
The tram picks up 550 volts Direct Current from the overhead line. The rails are grounded. So there is a complete circuit with just one trolley-pole. The tram has a controller that goes through several notches, maybe six that will correspond to increasing speeds and also a switch to make the tram run in both directions. To go back the way you came the conductor would use an insulated pole to catch hold of the trolley-pole and walk it around 180 degrees. At 9:06 you see a man carrying such a pole. Where he is the tracks take a 90 degree turn. There was a great likelihood of the trolley coming off the wire at such spots that the tramway company stationed a man there to help re-connect the power & send the tram on it's way.
Very much later Blackpool used a different means of collecting the current from the overhead line immune to such issues.
Never see any buildings being built?
Anyone know what train station that is towards the end as the tram goes over what appears to be a bridge?. In the film you can very clearly see Blackpool tower in the distance. I've looked up both Lytham station and St Annes on Sea station, and I can't find any vantage point that would show the tower from that distance from those railway bridges. Unless it was taken from another train station, possibly Blackpool South station?. I would've thought the tower would've been a little too far away to be seen from Lytham or St Anne's stations.
It would have been Blackpool South Station ... the trams route from St Annes goes Clifton Drive onto Squires Gate Lane then down Lytham Road where it goes over the bridge near Station Road ...
@@birtylad Thanks for that. I thought it couldnt be North station or Central station as the tower would've been very close. If that's from the bridge at South station it's unrecognizable now from that film.
Dag Jab Blackpool south station was at the top of station road in 1903. Today Blackpool south is in a new location about a mile north. It all still looks the same. It’s a wonderful video.
@@drewdavid780 How you sure it was in a different place back then?. I've looked up on street view where South Station is, and apart from a few modern buildings, fences and station buildings, you can tell it's in same spot as seen in this film; you can make out the tower in the distance in the exact same position when the tram goes over the bridge. The station itself has altered as there used to be more lines that connected to other areas and it's now a car park with other buildings. But apart from that it's the same station in the same place. I haven't heard of that station having originally been elsewhere.
vanilla skies
Damn all of these are dead now, even the children, the passage of time is so strange
Not sure this is Blackpool, i dont see your Pakistani in it
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@john woodham Are you serious I am pakistani and my whole family are extremely educated
notice no cars driving around no petrol fumes then plenty of fresh air then except when a horse dumped a load of shit on the road
no black faces
Briliant
Racist much