Photos of the counties of southern England in 1938
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Here I present a series of photographs of southern English counties, taken in 1938 by an American photographer. These photographs give a wonderful impression of England before the War. Many of the villages have little changed over the years.....
Music:
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Wish I could turn the clock back. We may have been financially poorer then but life was far happier and much more peaceful.
Mick Peters no stabbing then eh!
If only.
No, you were young once and your parents shielded all the shittier things in life from you. And then you grew up and started to see life through an adult's eyes
@@pakistanidalek I was there. London was a bomb site, that was bad, and now the newcomers have made it worse.
@@denisoleary5302 No. The bombsite london with all its dirt, filth, smog and slums was a lot worse .
I am Scottish and adore my country's majestic scenery, but there is something about the modest beauty and tranquility of these English villages that I love. I think it may be the sense of safety they exude. I'm aware that's probably an illusion but a harmless and comforting one.
excellent ! young lady. we are losing our Stiff --upper
I am also Scottish and I agree with every word you have written the serenity comes right through the photographs ,wonderful
Fortunately for Scotland it still has its majestic scenery and its culture is relatively intact. There'll be nothing English left soon yet if we complain we're racist.
@@ngipiksari The tide is turning my friend.
@@philiplancaster9668 I hope you're right but I suspect the damage is done
I remember this England when the milkman delivered with a horse and cart. The horse was a piebald and her name was Dainty!
@Jésus Rapigay I grew up in Penge SE london during the 70's and remember the rag and bone man on his horse and cart shouting "any old iron". Not so long ago.
@@piggypiggypig1746 ..'AROLD.....!!
@@1946nimrod Haha!
@@piggypiggypig1746 Luton,1969...
lovely story.
In the village where I was raised ..in the West Country I remember the blacksmith's forge
That village has been gobbled up by the nearby city...😞
Thank you so very much. I am so grateful for these lovely photographs but right now I can’t say much more as I am so overwhelmed with memories and remembering how life was even though the country then was on the brink of war. Thank , thank you again and I think those of us who can still remember the beauty of the countryside, the villages, hamlets , even how the towns and cities were , I feel so lucky to have known it and all the wonderful people who always had a cheery smile , always a greeting and the kindness and simplicity . Oh dear , I am getting very sentimental.
Thank you for that piece of sentimentality 🙂
Looking back in my late 70s, I realise how fortunate I was to grow up after WW2 and know much of the
rural England we see here. How EMPTY of traffic the streets were then. My solo bike rides around.
west country byways remain with me still. Thank you for this delightful journey to the past.
Thank you very much, Mark. I am really pleased you enjoyed looking at these wonderful photos from a bygone age. Indeed, we are most fortunate to have been born after WWII.
Just a decade divides our ages. How right you are, the streets were empty of traffic. Take away the modern signs of life and so much remains from the times of my youth.
England.
The very essence of what makes the western world what it is, and indeed, what it stands for! ...(and I'm Irish)
God Bless England
Those people have gone unfortunately....
Totally beautiful, especially set to Vaughan Williams. It's how I remember England in the nineteen fifties. Thank you
me too and even in the early nineteen sixties...
This is how our country should look.....not like a third world dump its become
They Promised Us a land fit for Hero's, Go fight for the England you Know, tell em that at Dover Now, they'll be Rubber Dingy's all over , the white cliffs of Dover.
Full of people who have no right to be here with their disgusting customs.
If you think the majority of people lived like this in 1939 I don't agree.
@@Hex-Trinity Lived like what???
Bowler58 .? How would you know ?
I so long for my old England back..loved and missed so much.RIP.
Yes coming home from school and your mother in the kitchen wearing an apron,
Denise Bond my mother always seemed to have a tea towel tucked in the ties and she would use it for everything like flicking away flies from air , shooing the cat out and getting things from the oven , Christ the germs!! Ha ha
@@alicewestbury4817 Absolutely right! That's how I remember it - ah! Those halcyon days, immortalised here by VW's peerlessly descriptive music.
Philip Lancaster yeh I always remember hearing the solid steady voice of the man reading the shipping forecast on a dark winter morning and hearing the mournful sound of the foghorn as we lived by the sea. That memory all rips at my heart. Ha
@@alicewestbury4817 What's wrong with solid and steady? Don't YOU hanker for past treasured memories of England your native land?? I know I do!
I'm weeping for my beautiful England.
Heart-breaking. I was born in Epsom just after the war and remember our milk being delivered by horse and cart, the 'bread man' bringing his basket of bread to the door and coal being delivered by men who looked as though they'd been down the mine to get it. I loved hearing the church bells ringing across the common from Christ Church, on a Sunday morning, watching the cricket being played on Stamford Green and going with my friends to the Stew Ponds to find frog spawn - and the bomb crater where we could find sticklebacks!
We didn't have a car but my dad could drive so if he was able to borrow or hire one he would take us out through wonderful villages, to Silent Pool and often to Wisley Huts where we could paddle and swim in the lake.
The old pub across the lake has long since been demolished and it's remains lie under the motorway, the hay fields of Epsom common are now woodlands - nice, but no skylarks, the beautiful old seventeenth century buildings that were in Epsom town have made way for a one-way traffic system and the lovely floral roundabouts at each end of the town are now busy traffic lights. All in the name of progress.
I'm under no illusion about the hardship and poverty that existed in the past - my family were of Welsh coal mining/quarrying stock. That doesn't prevent me from grieving for the England I knew and loved - and know can never return.
Quite a lot of that is still there. I noticed the overhanging clock at Abinger Hangar too.
Beautiful no mobiles no social media pleasant well mannered people total bliss
Aye, no crime either. Policeman were a lot younger, you didn't have to look your doors at night, we still believed in Father Christmas and the streets were paved with gold. Great times.
Cause all the crimes were sent to Australia
No big brother.
@@pakistanidalek was that a really poor attempt at sarcasm? Started well but ended quite bizarrely
@@ronniedixon1128 A bit like life in that respect.
From 'The Lark Ascending' to the dark descending.....
Perfect metaphor.
Indeed - perfectly played by Hilary Hahn - though I still prefer the classic Boult recording with the incomparable late Hugh Bean. There was something about that recording's sheer sense of repose.
Sad but true .
Thank you for all your beautiful photos. It is all bitter sweet to see.
These scenes Eight years before I was born. Maybe no mod cons but seems like a kinder, gentler world that another war and unbridled immigration destroyed. When people made trunk calls and spoke to a lady to place the call.
I lived one year in London 1976 and visited England several times. By the late 1990's things had vastly changed and from what I hear and read of recent times some places are unrecognisable.
It was not a perfect world, that does not exist but I lament with a sad heart the attack on English and British culture that is now on the march.
One of those attacks came from the disgruntled population itself. Having fought two wars on behalf of the super rich, the British working man demanded a better share of the affluence of the country at the same time as the national affluence had evaporated through the funding of those wars. The British culture had always been one of oppression and exploitation of the vulnerable. (Dickins described some of that ). The culture that most of us remember never existed in the first place.
@@smitajky get a job.
@@smitajky Nice to hear from such a ray of sunshine!
@@smitajky Agreed. And look at the living conditions of ordinary people. How many houses with tap water ? How many with an heating ? How many even with electricity ? It looks pretty from the outside, but living there at this period was a different thing...
Charlie K Better in some ways, far worse in others
Not just England but Europe too was so beautiful before war destroyed so much.
More than war, the American 'way of life' was the end of genteel Europe.
@@ol7469 Yes. The Americans should have let Stalin have the damned place.
Yes. The second war was caused by the first and the first was MADNESS...so much destroyed and lost...
So beautiful! Thinking how many wars were fought to stop us being invaded,how many lives taken to protect us ... for this current invasion to finish us off without a shot being fired?? All done not by an enemy we didn't recognize but by an enemy within- our own traitorous people!!"
Take heart.
The enemy of British Culture will be defeated now that it is being exposed.
@@JustSayin993 I don't know..........................
My sentiments exactly.
@@JustSayin993what exactly is British culture? A curry? A kebab? A Spanish beer? 🙄
@@markmoran916 You may be confusing culture with customs.
Long before we ripped up railways and covered everything in concrete.
And mosques.
We over fill the country with people with the hope of more taxation, we farm people to tax them.
@@LabRat6619 it's called GDP.....
@@TheVickersDoorter And prejudiced bigots.
@@TheVickersDoorter And bigots.
Such beautiful scenes of the England I once knew. As a person who was born in the mid-1950's I feel sad that this is the England that I'll never see again.
Well we must have voted for it, I mean it must have been in the various parties manifestos. Wasn't it.?
sadly i know only to well that you are quite right, we have seen the best,
I know it looks very picturesque but there might have been disadvantages. Bad drains, polio, scarlet -fever, diphtheria, virtually all children who got cancer died of it whereas now 70% are saved. A lot of young people died of T.B. especially those from poorer circumstances. The air in London was terribly polluted there were dreadful smogs & many died.
And there is so much more awareness of child abuse. A child trying to say that something bad happened now has far more chance of being listened to. Back then you were expected to cover it all up, would be likely to be punished for lying if you said anything or worse, young girls of the age of 11 or 12 were accused of enticing & corrupting mature married men into getting sexually involved with them & these girls were sometimes seen as a moral danger & were locked up for thr rest of their lives in mental hospitals. All because they were abused by a man 4x their age, who got away scot free! Thank goodness we have more awareness now. Whereas back then children were automatically regarded as the one who must be in the wrong. There was basically an underlying negative attitude towards children & young people.
@Gorgon Don And to the gypsies & travellers who in the U.K. had their children stolen from them by the authorities even as late as into the 1970s.
Lost, this septered isle,an England gone forever, how my Anglo Saxonheart bleeds.
You can’t even manage to spell “sceptered”! 😂
Many Britons were living in awful septic city slums in 1938, slums that often survived into the '60s and '70s. The picture-book countryside had lots of hidden poverty. Things were fine back in the '30s if you had money (as ever).
Anglo Saxons were Germans.
Richard White ..spilling dies mutter
@@clearlake3492 When the "sceptre" is mispelled by leaving out the c for godsake. it takes all the poetry out of the line.
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for her self
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in a silver sea' "
I have just subscribed as I wanted to view my Country as it was before the UK Corporation destroyed it. I watch with great sadness and a heavy heart. I am an amateur photographer and shoot landscapes, these images represent all that was peaceful and beautiful on our land, many thanks to all of the photographers that cared enough to capture a moment in time. Bless us all.
All the occupants are working in London, so they can afford these stinking old wood and straw hovels, that have No toilets --but a hole in the ground at the bottem of a long garden, No running hot water, or--in some cases, no cold either, but a Well, also at the bottem of the garden. NO electricity or Gas, only Oil lamps, and one small fireplace for heating the whole building. DAMP ?? you don't know the meaning of it, which often froze the Bed Blankets to the walls, so cold were the winter's. Shopping ? one small corner hovel, with very limited food choice. I'm quoting from a famous autobiography book, written by a former Wartime Land Army Girl. She --a volunteer, and from a well to--do family, pulled no punches. But stuck to it throughout the War. Could modern 'Have-alls' manage that---I doubt it.
Philip Croft Right up to the late 60s ,most were like that .
Bloody freezing ...now with so called progress,many who have heating can’t afford it ,in the present economic climate.
So back to the old days.
@@susanbrown2909 I grew up in what was then a village, no central heating and pretty basic living I suppose we were poor, but too busy having fun to notice.
@@colinharbinson8284 I grew up without central heating and having to boil a kettle for hot baths. Survived it though. I’d prefer to be back in those time# rather than now tbh.
I suppose what you don't have, you don't worry about
Oh yes, those were the days-when working class folk didn’t have a pot to piss in; living in slums without a bathroom or toilet; no free healthcare; kept in their place by those better off. Oh yes, those were the days!
John Long.
A sad but perfectly understandable.view. I really wouldn't argue with it but folks could walk down the street in poor lighting without being attacked. They weren't at risk of being clobbered by an electric scooter. They could leave their doors open without worry. Teenagers weren't insolent to or scathing of, older folk nor resent their very presence. One said on TV during the Brexit Melee, (a young woman) "Old people shouldn't be allowed to vote.."
Bank Holidays meant that branches were closed for the day. Very inconvenient
but we DID have bloody branches even if they did have lunatic opening and closing hours..
Drugs meant medicines. Doctors expected to do House Calls as well as MIX and dispense the bottles.
John, as you so clearly point out, much needed change has improved dramatically but are as happy as folks were then.
1938 was going along very nicely thank you, unaware of the disaster about to befall it in 1939.
I WAS BORN. Things went steadily down hill from then on!
Regards John....
MauriatOttolink , thanks for the reply. I agree with much of what you have to say. I certainly wasn’t blowing a trumpet for how society has become today. It was merely a criticism of how it was back then. Although some things have improved there is a lot that is wrong with the way we have developed. Thanks again and best wishes. John
John. Such great joy to bring to the party. Old folks here arrived in good spirits. Most, will depart happy and contented. Cheer up lad.
Mrbobinge
Hey Mrbobinge,
Wise words indeed.
Regards, John
we are a 3rd world country now. so sad.
@@clearlake3492 Gosh you really have your finger on the pulse lol
clearlake Nauseating.......I am surprised you would allow ‘them’ the air to breathe,
@@clearlake3492 Do you really believe that? Or are you making an ironic reply to DAVE GALEA, thereby faux-masking your true communist credentials.
Do tell me - please.
@@clearlake3492 Ok - to be honest it's not always entirely clear (on social media anyway) when someone is being serious or merely ironic.
I haven't trawled far enough back in this thread to see why Dave Galea thinks the UK has become a 3rd world country. For the record, I don't agree that we've become a 3rd world country, but there is nevertheless some reason for his view.
I don't have any problem with people from different countries or who have a different skin pigmentation, but I do have certain problems with aspects of some 'working class people' - or should I say properly, (though this is a term that some would have a problem with) "lower class" people. This isn't about race, or skin colour: it's much more to do with 'class' whatever one thinks that is, and education - or rather lack of it. The main reason why Brexit had so many supporters was not because of immigration (though those who voted Remain would like to paint it thus) but one of sovereigny, self-determination and our status as a Nation State rather than a subservient 'area' within an all encompassing and autocratic EU.
Btw, this video was about England as we would like to 'remember' it by visualisation, our rose-tinted version of it. There is a sense that things were better then, even if that was not always strictly true. As said elsewhere, life was hard for those that had less, people died earlier from medical conditions, you worked till you dropped etc etc. However, many people feel deeply attached to their imagining of what England was (or may have been). There is nothing wrong about this: remember John Major's comment about the elderly lady cycling to Evensong ? It is what people LIKE to think.
A pot of tea, made properly with real leaves with the teapot warmed properly, beautiful English countryside villages, Elgar's music, listening to the Queen's Christmas broadcast, enjoying the Last Night of the Proms by singing Land of Hope and Glory till you're blue in the face......
These things are deep in our collective subconscious, and we are deeply ill at ease when some on the Left try to accuse us of being little Englanders because we enjoy the above things. It's why we fought two world wars. Why should the Communists and the spoilers take that away from us?
@@clearlake3492 They tried that in Victorian times but it didn't work. At least The UK isn't just one big shit hole like it was then, though.
"Glorious England" as it was just before the young men like my father went off to help save the world from the Germans (again ! )
keith rose, i know and understand that what i'm about to say may be a bit hard to comprehend as it was for myself, but you may like to look on bit chute and look at EUROPA THE LAST BATTLE - FULL VERSION (2017) if you can not find it go to google, it is 12 hours long but it will give another truer perspective on ww1 and ww2 + why we are where we are now
@@colinrossiter5719 Always willing to be informed with another perspective. Thank you !
I believe he was fighting to conserve the status quo.
@Al Bundy for President Patton was a prick then .
Yes, just like my Dad who was twenty years old at the time this film was shot - and his elder brother, Joe (who, was a 'Regular' serving aboard H.M.S. Sutton - a coal-fired minesweeper sloop - and who, two years later, in late May, 1940, would be helping to evacuate soldiers of 2 British Corps, B.E.F. from the beaches at La Panne, north of Dunkirk, in the closing days of Operation Dynamo.
My father saw a great deal of action 'up close and personal' at a time when the armed forces of Great Britain and her Empire were very much 'on the back foot'.
His unit - 234 Battery, 68th (4th West Lancs) Medium Regiment, R.A. went from a 'standing start' into a 'baptism of fire' during which they experienced eighteen months of intense war-fighting from December, 1940 (North Africa - against the Italian Army); April - May, '41 (Greek campaign in support of the Greeks Army vs an invading Italian army, and then against the Germans); 20th May - 1st June, 1941 (Battle of Crete - during the evacuation of the 4,000 British and Australian soldiers of the garrison of Heraklion by Force B of the R.N. on 29th May, the cruisers, Orion and Dido, and five destroyers [two sunk] came under relentless air attack by the Luftwaffe from 06.00 until 15.00 hrs. Over 1,000 of the soldiers embarked by Force B were killed or wounded - over 560 on H.M.S. Orion - the cruiser my father was on - alone).
234 Battery lost a hundred men killed in Greece and on Orion - including, almost to a man, it's N.C.O's.
Having been brought up to strength near Cairo, Egypt, the regiment was then in action in the Western Desert almost continually until the 20th June, 1942 when practically the entire unit 'went into the bag' following the capture of the garrison ofTobruk (over 30,000 men) by General Rommel's Afrika Korps.
The remainder of Dad's war was spent as a P.o.W., first in Italy, then - following the Italian armistice in 1943 - Germany.
His generation lived to see the country they loved - and for the preservation and freedom of which so many of their fellow countrymen - and women - had fought and died - transformed beyond their wildest nightmares by mass immigration from the Turd World*.
I served in the Territorial Army during the '70's. My 'reason in writing' for wishing to join a prestigious light armoured recce unit was. 'If the country's worth living in it's worth fighting for.' This opinion was expressed by the majority of contributors to Nick Pringle's book (see below).
* (In)sincere apologies for the 'Freudian Slip'!
P.S. Viewers of this comment might be interested in the book 'The Unknown Warriors' by Nick Pringle, which is a compilation of the views of British W.W.2. veterans in response to his questionnaire regarding their experiences during - and post - the war, and their opinion as to whether the sacrifice of their comrades was 'worth it'.+
+'Spoiler alert' - In the majority of cases, the answer was 'No'
As the world looked before electrical wires were draped everywhere, every ground surface was covered in asphalt or concrete and every small item was shrink wrapped in plastic.
Thank you for this really beautiful presentation. It makes me homesick.
Exquisite choice of music as well.
makes me homesick too
The serene, harmonious and very interesting video on the background of a gentle, the wonderful music! I think this video makes you nostalgic for England... Thank you very much, dear Nigel! Have a happy day! Hugs!
Yes, I am in nostalgic mood this week, my dear Natasha. I can indulge my memories of my home land from the comfort of a chair in glorious sunshine!! The best of both worlds...... Plus, so many of these villages have little changed since these photographs were taken. I have visited them all at some stage in my life.... Happy days! With seasonal greetings, best wishes and hugs! Nigel
Long live my long past - she is in my heart forever -
Pity there is no England anymore
@@clearlake3492 I now live in Saskatchewan Canada, the England I grew up in is gone forever.
@@clearlake3492 LOL... I came here legally and am now a Canadian citizen , Canada is my country now.
@@clearlake3492 Many came to the UK illegally and they are still coming illegally.. That's the main reason the UK is now a shit hole.
Mick Boon That sounds delightful, how are you finding it over there?
@@astereux4519 Canada is a vast country with 7 time zones. The province in which I live ( Saskatchewan ) is 1 1/2 times the size of the entire UK with a population of about 1 million people...I have freedom here that is lacking in the UK. The UK is a tiny country that is full to the brim.
Now we know why people were less depressed than today
Thank you for those pictures. England - a truly beautiful, old and gentle land. This is the land my dear, late father volunteered to fight for, and fight he did, all the way off the beaches, right through to Berlin. He returned to marry and father two sons, all whilst doing a very useful job.
Since then our population has increased from around 40 million to now, 65 million and rising, including many who come here, not to become like us, but to take and criticise. The island is now overcrowded, and I should know as I spent a lifetime attempting to ameliorate the effects of that overpopulation.
If only we had had leaders who loved our country and not low people who have loved only themselves, whilst despising our people. If only....
How peaceful and tranquil...
I'd like to think that you are among the vast majority. We we survive, no matter what.
Yawn same old same old racist comment
It would make me feel even sadder if I saw pictures of the exact places today.
They may have changed little, apart from the traffic, but their rustic inhabitants will have been replaced by the well-off.
Some haven't changed much apart from traffic, yellow lines and road signs.
Probably flattened fo a motorway or housing estate.
17th century blacksmith replaced by a Pakistani mini market.
Take your rose tinted glasses off! One month living in the 1930's you will be begging to go back to the future.
These wonderful snapshots show a lost world of small, self-governing communities with modest tastes and gentle manners. England then was unique in its lack of hysteria coupled to confidence in its own peaceful values. Sometimes in France one encounters the same atmosphere of self-reliance coupled with stoicism, but France has different traditions, whist rapidly developing the same brash crudeness which so disfigures life here.
If we ever recover, possibly through some sort of revolution, these images will show us the tranquillity possible in a properly ordered society.
I'm Very glad I was born then we are the lucky ones such a great youth even with the war I feel sorry for babys being born now under Islamic rule very sad.😈
Fear not good people, for this England still exists! Visit these beautiful villages tea and cake while you still can.
Can't park your car, no spaces-too many people all round. Where once you could pull up and take a stroll you now have to drive up and down one way systems and park in a council space or the local sainsburys for ££££ - sorry no it's not the same.
Also lovely to watch though, thank you for posting
@@clearlake3492 am I elite? that's news to me, thanks for the promotion though
@@clearlake3492 I am working my way up to being of good breeding.
@@clearlake3492 Cake? He has promised us The Moon!
Don’t be sad folks, most of these places are still here. I recognised them easily. Go have a look and skip the racist comments.
We are richer, yet somehow so much more poor.
No, we are just richer. Check out the slums of the good old days.
TRUE THAT
@@ivornappinion9406 poorer in life
People are poorer nowadays in real terms of wealth. After decimalisation, inflation and
low wage increases for decades we are now much worse off. Bread 2d in 1938 £2 a loaf
or more now, for basic bread.
@@voicezful Where do you buy your bread from? I never pay more than £1 for a loaf. 2p in 1938 is the equivalent of around £1.30 now. How much was a wireless or television or car or fridge in 19388 compared to now?
Thank you Nigel for sharing with us an idyllic and wonderful world we all aspire to live in but has unfortunately slipped away slowly but surely. As a Canadian living in Canada, seeing these images of rural England to the cherish music of our beloved Vaughan Williams evokes in me a sense of déjà vu.
The houses just blended in with the surroundings
Everything blends together because its all the same colour
dont worry in 50 years these new houses will blend in too by falling down and slowly decomposing back to nature judging by the shoddy materials and building going on today
Long before Blair invited 'all comers' in!
Had it not been for the British granting us sanctuary, my French huguenot ancestors would have been annihilated.....
clearlake Absolute nonsense. Just because someone expresses an opinion that does not appear to be within woke or the sphere of the politically correct does not make them racist. We live in a democracy where people are allowed to express their sincerely held views.
@@tinabaker4662 That's why England is the way it is today - not enough people like you and too many people like 'clearlake'.
Violin Accordion what are you views on this beautiful English backdrop from yesteryear?
What rot! Try looking up the history of immigration. It was open to all Commonwealth citizens up until 1961, when that was stopped, owing to, er, Commonwealth citizens taking advantage of their freedom to come here.
I remember towns and villages like this. A completely different world .Then we all became obsessed with the motor car.
And the internet. If only we could uninvent the internet and colour photography. Imagine a world like that? Heaven!!
Yes...The creator provided the horse to tug us around ...no noise ,no lung damaging particles ,and reduced air quality .
Now it’s acrid cars belging out toxic fumes,noise ,accidents etc.
More concrete laid per mile..
If only we could get decent people in running our country to put things to right.
Mother Earth won’t keep taking this crap,and we can’t keep adapting.
Something has to be done...
me too. The motor car has lot to answer for...a horror
@@susanbrown2909 Yes
It would have been useful if the locations were titled on the screen.
Another Western European nation lost.
This doesn't look too different from my village today lol
Dog whistle alert !!!!!
@@Paul-md8de Do you enjoy having your head in the sand?
@@jaywilliams9294 Give it a few years, Mr. Williams.
@@petebondurant58 No only rich people live in small villages nothing will change there
Exactly in the Moment if I want to drink my Earl Grey and eat some Sweets UA-cam's Algorithmen present me this Beautiful Pictures of old England, Atmospheric Photos.
Thanks a lot for the British Blood toll for liberation from Fascism.
Greetings from Germany.
Today l heard of 50 boat loads of illegal immigrants arriving on the shores of England, now l watch this..
England has had a constant stream of immigrants, dating back to the Iron Age. I'm sure it will survive this lot as well.
@@susantunbridge4612 they were all from Europe and cultures that were not dissimilar to ours.
@@susantunbridge4612 Ah,the woke lefty arrives with deluded wisdom.
This is the England I would have liked to live in; between the two World Wars.
Only if you were wealthy or a member of the aristocracy. The lives of ordinary people were pretty miserable. You have seen one too many movies romanticizing that era.
That was the England that my mother remembered so fondly, especially in her final days. She died aged 96 in 2015 having lost my father in 1998. In the end she said that she was ready to go because she couldn't recognise her country any more. RIP Mum and Dad.
During the great depression.
During The Great Depression? What a strange person....
So beautiful, both images and music. Thank you for this.
I would have liked to have seen captions showing locations.
Lovely video, but maybe looking through "rose coloured spectacles" .
It wasn't all quaint thatched cottages. A lot of people lived in relative poverty.
"A lot of people lived in relative poverty" ... in quaint thatched cottages.
Fully agree on the locations, but it's not easy. I think I recognised a couple of places (Alfriston? Guildford?), but I'm not sure.
And not a burka insight
What an original comment! Your parents must be very proud
...and all hats worn the right way round!
Narrow minded ignorance is the problem this country is burdened with, not different cultures or progress. You are a fine example of the root of racism and hostility that stands in the way of a peaceful world!! I bet the farthest you've travelled to experience the world's cultural beauty is Benidorm and you still had an 'English' breakfast every day!
One thing is for certain, we will not be nostalgic for 2020 in eighty years time!
People will. That's how nostalgia works. You grow up, stop believing in Father Christmas, start paying bills and see life through an adult's eyes. If only we could go back to being children again....
@@pakistanidalek Can't imagine people will be nostalgic for Covid, polution, global warming, etc.
@@petersawyer8044 They won't. They will just be nostalgic about all the positive things. A bit like people who are nostalgic now to be honest. That's how it works. We forget all the shitty and boring bits of our lives.
People are nostalgic for the early 2010s ua-cam.com/video/5Kg0IB0GU9s/v-deo.html
@@petersawyer8044 - People of today are not nostalgic for polio, rickets, diphtheria, infant mortality, the Great Depression, rampaging genocidal fascism, women disqualified from voting, backstreet abortion, industrial injury, workhouses, insane asylums and being born into lifelong servitude.
They’re nostalgic for their mum’s apron, rousing Churchill speeches on the wireless, winning the war, the smell of freshly baked jam tarts and that boy riding his bike down the cobbles on the Hovis advert.
Nostalgia is bullshit. Fun, enjoyable bullshit.
Lost this septic Isle ! Its almost gone, when the Queen departs , It will be all over for us Saxons
@@clearlake3492 I think Uncle Stuka was being ironic.
@@clearlake3492 Funny but uncalled for.
Wouldnt we enjoy a staycation here so peaceful. And Vaughan WilliamsMusic so fitting
But this is totally impossible how could they possibly have flourished and thrived without racial diversity.
Easily
They kept any minorities in their ghettoes. Jews here, Irish there, Chinese, Africans etc somewhere else. You wouldn't meet them unless you went to those places. In fact, it's only been the last 20 years there has been much spread of minorities outside the port towns and big cities.
@@freeganjustin6699 Oh right, nothing to do with the number of foreign born immigrants rising by 20 times since the war then.
@Jésus Rapigay Haha! You have a point!
Living in a country village the population is still virtually entirely white.
I wasn't even born until the 1980s but this still makes me cry, my soul remembers this England, & the England of Alfred's dream.
Most dear to them that love her
Most great to them that know.
Her fortress is a faithful heart
Her pride is suffering
I agree. Love this
Gosh, and a view looking down the High Street, Winchester (the Roman Principia) and with the large Clock hanging over the street from the Old Guildhall (now Lloyds Bank), that clock being made by the town clockmaker, my 6th gt grandfather David Compigné (born 1671) and made by him for the City in 1712 or 13 to commemorate Queen Anne's recent visit to the City.
That really is something!
Do you mean @ 3:30? Isn't this Guildford?
@@missasinenomine At 3.30 into the film and with 'our' clock thats the ancient City of Winchester (I know it well, since 1958) and looking east down the Roman Principia/High Street. I must go to Guildford however, I've only been by it from the Hogs Back, I'd like to to see the cathedral.
@@frankparsons1629 Oh. I won't argue with you. But 3:30 looks very similar to Guildford HS with the overhanging Town Hall clock. (which is gold btw). And there in the background is the Hog's back which you mention. However, I've never been to Winchester, so take your word for it. W & G must had the same town planners!
@@missasinenomine Thanks to Google Earth I dipped into Guildford and there, as you say, there is the gold clock hanging over the street. At Winchester in that photo you will see further down the street on the right is the medieval Buttercross and in the distance is St. Catherines hill. We have our Annual Family gathering in Winchester every October and we go to our (very black) clock to pay our respects to our ancestor David who made the clock. Below it is a statue of Queen Anne, the building is the Old Guildhall. If you can't visit Winchester then go in to Google Earth and do look at the cathedral which is early Norman and though not as massive as Durham it is an impressive pile (1080); the Normans pulled down 2 Anglo-Saxon Minsters to build there.
It would be interesting to have a video showing the slums in the East End of London of the same period, just so we don't get too dewy-eyed.
Well said sir, I agree completely that these wonderful images paint a one sided picture of life at this time. The majority of the working classes had a far less salubrious environment in which to live.
There are examples, also West London - even in the 1900s - 1950s - appalling squalour.
I am dewy-eyed after seeing this beautiful video. I wish i could go back. And never leave.
This is true i was thinking something on the same lines....for some of us this is the closes thing of heaven on earth ...too idealic !!!
@@toke7560 Followed by myself.
This was the country that our parents fought and struggled for 1939 to 1945 so that we their children could enjoy s country not despoiled by the Nazis..
It looks so safe so much a home that when war over the same people voted to build Jerusalem here....
God Bless them as that wonderful tough reselute selfless generation passes away..
I know I am not the only one to feel both pride and sadness at how beautiful our home once was. Look at it now. Soulless. Invaded. Ugly. Overpopulated. Such destruction has been done by design.
We have a Parliament of politicians who are effectively agents/quislings of vested- and supranational interests, whatever their Party labels.
Ugly? I think you need to travel around....when CV fades...and get off the motorways and A roads. This country is still very beautiful!
@@Bethi4WFH I have travelled all around the UK thanks Hun, and have seen this once charming land turn into something unrecognisable. It's not my eyes that need attention but clearly yours
Hard to imagine, seeing these images ,that the country was on the brink of one of the biggest threats to it's existence imaginable. Thank you for bringing back childhood memories.
That's how England was and how I wish it still was ! We should have listened to Enoch Powell !
Seriously,you cannot just blame the changes on a small racial minority.
Love these photos and the presentation...a snapshot of aspects of England within living memory that seem so different from today . Makes you want to get in a time machine and travel back . But I wonder how many of us ,used to our modern lives ,conveniences and comforts ,would genuinely enjoy it ,
david cousins .Me .I would go back to 1938 , it's a few years before the start of my life in the 40s everything was in black and white , first time I heard stereophonic sound was when 2 bombs exploded at the same time, Knowing what I know now yes I would go back, I am ENGLISH born and bred from many generations of ENGLISH ancestors , I live in small village in one of the shire counties, through choice .never wanted to be rich or famous , in fact only 2 things I have ever needed , Good health and infinite wisdom , taking into account what is now going on in this Country I am glad to be on my way out rather than on the way in.
David Cousins. That's a very thoughtful summary of my feelings exactly.
@@rogerking7258 Thank you.I thought it best to put it in writing before alzheimers decides it's my turn to forget memories of Englands damp and mouldy land which I think is a better description for most of the time during the year .
Just within the living memory of those who would have been old enough to have appreciated pre war Britain. My parents' neighbour, Mrs C, was born in 1919 and celebrated her 102th birthday yesterday.
This gives me the deepest nostalgia for a time gone by, for things and surroundings I’ve never had the pleasure of experiencing.
Born in ‘61 my earliest memories are of the remains of these times..
Each year I return to Britain I purposely search out the beauty of the countryside and it’s quaint towns and villages.
Exquisitely presented, thank you.
Me too.return every year except this year.born 1949.such a wonderful childhood.
Fabulous images! Paradise Lost.
Paradise always lost when we turn from the Living God of the Bible.
And cannot follow John Milton for Paradise Regained!
It's the music that does it, lovely, very nostalgic. At 2.59 is Corfe Castle and not a lot has changed apart from the cars parked everywhere.
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Classic FM listener favourite ❤️
Superb brings back happy memories of my youth !
Not an ethnic minority in sight..
Very moving, especially when compared to today......
Reading a lot of comments on here I get the distinct impression that most people are very much not in favour of doner kebab and chips with 4 bottle of coke all for a fiver!!!
Could never understand why today's youth seem addicted to lukewarm, greasy smelly foreign food prepared in premises of dubious hygiene practices.
Gospelman
That’s the problem with English fish and chips!
Certainly images of Abinger Hammer and Shere, both near Guildford in Surrey
Probably. 3:36 Guildford, by the river Wey?
Shere has changed little.
@@tomkent4656 . Except for all the SUVs jamming the place up!
Beautiful pictures. Beautiful music.
Beautiful: made even more so by the music.
Beautiful. And on top of so much beauty, we hear an American rose, Hilary Hahn, playing The Lark Ascending, arguably the most iconic of compositions by one of the most quintessentially English composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams. What a great choice! (And with so much oomph that puts my old Hi-Fi to shame... damn!)
Yes, that's a very good rendition. To my mind, that by Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra remains the best, but different accounts please different people.
@@graemedurie9094 Thank you for the insight. I will look into your suggestion.
Hilary Hahn has been, for many years, one of my favorite violinists. I absolutely love her pitch-perfect intonation, flawless technique, and presence on stage (based on what I have seen posted on UA-cam). But, of course, there are other very good renditions of The Lark Ascending. Here's a hyperlink to another favorite of mine:
ua-cam.com/video/mof12M4B-1g/v-deo.html
I hope you like it.
@@miguelcoelho3877 I ADORE Hilary Hahn.. I don't know if you like Sibelius ( many English people do) but
her performance, on You Tube: Sibelius : violin concerto (Hilary Hahn) Conducted by Mikko Franck with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France ...all is perfect sound, filming , music Mikko Franck sits because he has a damaged back - I also love the rapport between him and Hilayr Hahn and between them both and the Orchestra.
It is so beautiful it makes me cry.
There is a difference between nostalgia for the past and actually living in it.
Take your rose tinted glasses off one month in the 1930's you will be begging to come back to the future!
No national Health service then.Children died from fevers and TB etc.
@@col4574 Not for lack of a health service, the technology wasn't there. Whether prince or pauper everyone is susceptible to illness if there is no known remedy, and treatments for TB were experimental at best in those days.
Certainly, a valid observation. I still remember with a shudder the old belt-driven dental drill taking
forever to do its job on my childhood teeth. But these unspoilt images remind us that progress can
also mean regrettable destructive disregard for a heritage acquired over centuries...with no way of
repairing the damage and loss inflicted along the way.
How so very sad a once great country, destroyed by imigration
One thing they can't take away is our great history! Not one foreign looking face either! Anyone got a time machine?
England in aspic. Great for those who wallow in nostalgia. Perhaps we need some balance with pictures of east end of London and northern cities.
We see enough of those London pictures. They never took photos of decent hard working families in London and other cities. I remember an old photographer telling me that he only took photos of the worst places. The decent working class families never interested them. So we have thousands of photos of the worst cases but never of the average working class families. The great hard working and decent were of no interest to photographers.
The English have been stabbed in the back
I'm the famous Eccles! By the hidden hand,of liberals.
To quote the late, great Candida Lycett Green, lover of her and our country, "Unwrecked England".
No yellow lines,little traffic,I can remember those days sadly gone,..thanks for the memories.
Long before cars ruined everything and out of town supermarkets
And the internet and colour photography and growing up and policeman seem to be getting younger and we didn't have to lock our doors at night....
There's even a Hovis sign! Bertie Wooster's England.
Here! I will not have you badmouthing Hovis.I still eat it.
When this country was great Britain an era you will unfortunately never see again
Winchester/Hampshire and Corfe/Dorset are not "home counties"! How about "Wessex"?
We no longer die from TB, our children are not paralysed by Polio, are immunised against the dreaded whooping cough. Our homes are warm in the winter and we can visit the doctor without having to find the money to pay for it. A stint of unemployment does not see our children go hungry. There are lots of things I am nostalgic about for those far off days, but lots to be thankful for today
I get so nostalgic about my country, it is sometimes too much. Gone forever but I still have memories and also beautiful films and photos to see thankfully. But sorry to say my country is now an alien place full of aliens. Thank you for photos.
Just been for a walk over the fields .Did not see any aliens,or anyone not British.
@@col4574 open your eyes then
I now live in a rural village in the South West of France and can honestly say that life in many parts is still the same as this. I love it.
Same here. South West France too and being born in the early 40s life here is as I recall it was all those years ago. Pure tranquillity.
Bonypart, We are just a small village and yet we have a bakery, butcher, pharmacy, tabac, post office and two general stores.... love it.
@@sinemetu9037 You are lucky. I live in a tiny hamlet and the nearest village has no shops. It's a fifteen minute drive to a bigger village with all that you listed.
So heartwarming seeing these so beautiful English villages. Reminds many older English folk of the way we were....the way our beautiful country once was. It isn’t anything like it once was. A crying shame to my way of thinking. Special folk try to keep up our traditional way of life, but it becomes more and more difficult as the years pass. ‘Thanks for the memories’ as Bob Hope once sang........beautiful....
A lovely compilation. It's nice to see Corfe Castle in Dorset back in time.
hasn't changed much; that's why we recognise it
England was so lovely before it was taken over by motorcars and hedge funds.
yoooooo--silly twisted boy
It would be great to know where the place's were .
This was England Before Diversity - Which Is The Code Word For Replacement Of Native Citizens
Before England opened the floodgates :(
Tony Baird you mean to Jewish refugees that needed to flee the nazis ? Etc .......
@@yasminmant2666 No. The Jewish refugees who came here were welcome and they made a positive contribution to the UK. I'm talking about the immigrants who come here and hate the country that gave them refuge.
How about adding the British benefit scroungers that would make the people of 1938 turn in their graves , getting every benefit available, having child after child , no respect for the housing they are living in , catch my drift
@@yasminmant2666 Go on then, add them.
I don't think many of our ancestors would be impressed with modern England.
Ah, bliss. Back in the day when the working classes knew their place.
Women and children working in mines, malnutrition, rickets, polio, no NHS, flu epidemics and a world war looming.
Perfect.
🇬🇧
From unwashed to brain washed leading to present day bitter sarcasmyelitis.
Ah...I recall it being said that cynicism is the last resort of idealism. These images are a delightful
evocation of better things on view from another age and have their value as such. It is the upside
of human nature to aspire to that sort of attitude in life - and long may it be so..
Selling England by the pound.
Beautiful images, and a comment section riddled with miserably insecure people wearing rose-tinted glasses.
The old England I love ,before mass immigration.
Sadly, the phrase "gone with the wind" comes to mind.
Ican hardly bear to look at it I was at primary school in the 50s , it is heartbreaking to see what we have had stolen from us
Ah a time when children actually played and toys didn't have a plug, bet the street lamps were still lit by gas.
Ah, yes. Gas! Not dangerous, smelly, expensive or polluting at all. They should ban toys now. It just turns children into grump adults
Ahhhh.....not a mosque anywhere to be seen!
"oh my god", simpler times and so beautiful????? Where did we go wrong???
Parliament.
As a nation on the whole we turned from the God of the Bible.If you disagree with this John you become part of the (Where did we go wrong).