A wonderful trip through Shakespeare's land in 1910 in colour! [A.I. enhanced & Colorized]

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  • Go back more than a century in time on a spectacular trip to see the England that Shakespeare used to know! Visit his favorite haunts like Leamington Spa, Kenilworth castle, Stratford upon Avon, Warwick & Warwick Castle, Anne Hathaways cottage and much more.
    Anne Hathaway was Shakespeare's wife whom he married in 1582. Shakespeare's most important works were written around the year 1600.
    We also see the house of Marie Corelli. She was a novellist who moved to Stratford-upon-Avon in 1899 and did a lot for this town.
    This film has been motion-stabilized, speed-corrected, A.I. enhanced and colorized by means of sophisticated modern software.
    For more details, please see the timeline below:
    00:00 Leamington Spa
    00:33 Kenilworth castle
    01:21 Warwick Guys Cliff Mill
    01:42 Warwick Castle
    02:12 On the road to Stratford Upon Avon
    02:30 Between Warwick and Stratford Upon Avon
    02:48 Beautiful old bridge, next to Charlecote Garden Centre
    03:15 Notice no tarmack but hardened dust roads!
    03:21 Some gate (location?) A unique construction!
    03:42 Stratford Upon Avon
    03:51 Anne Hathaway's Cottage (pity we don't see the lovely garden!)
    04:09 Shakespeare's birth place, Grammar school & Memorial theater
    04:16 Shakespeare's birth place
    04:28 Shakespeare's Grammar school
    04:45 Memorial theater
    04:58 Home of Marie Corelli
    05:16 On the river Avon
    05:50 Boating along the banks of the river Avon
    06:12 Slightly over-exposed film footage (could not be corrected). Location (?)
    06:24 The end.
    Music: Claude Signet: "Countryside Breakfast" & "Coming of Age".

КОМЕНТАРІ • 942

  • @Rick88888888
    @Rick88888888  3 роки тому +138

    *I hope you will enjoy this film* Don't forget to *subscribe* and also watch the other 200+ videos on my channel!
    *Please press the CC captions button to read the locations while the film plays* and please *don't* comment that "Everybody in this film is now dead". I have seen that comment now about 1000 times under my films... So cliché!

    • @caracara7063
      @caracara7063 3 роки тому +4

      Marvellous job.🙏🙏

    • @SunshineAndSails
      @SunshineAndSails 3 роки тому +4

      Fantastic job Rick, can I ask, what is the music for the beginning? I know it's probably a stock song but me wife luvs it so. Please?

    • @Rick88888888
      @Rick88888888  3 роки тому +4

      @@SunshineAndSails The music titles are under the 'SHOW MORE' button

    • @paulukjames7799
      @paulukjames7799 3 роки тому +4

      Yes it gets so boring about every one being dead like people need to be told that, excellent enhancements really puts you back in time and get a flavour of things no graffiti excess signage or litter a much better place than now

    • @jasonbrown9731
      @jasonbrown9731 3 роки тому +1

      What music is this?

  • @eroche12
    @eroche12 3 роки тому +330

    The gate system at 03:24 fascinating

    • @Suteruni
      @Suteruni 3 роки тому +27

      Yes, never seen that before!

    • @tombristowe846
      @tombristowe846 3 роки тому +44

      It's called a clapper style.

    • @1funkyflyguy
      @1funkyflyguy 3 роки тому +17

      Very simple, but effective.

    • @dukadarodear2176
      @dukadarodear2176 3 роки тому +10

      Very interesting.
      I'm saving the video because of the gate (I've never seen one here in Ireland) - not because of Shakespeare. He could barely write his name.

    • @1funkyflyguy
      @1funkyflyguy 3 роки тому +2

      @@tonyjohno7570 lol.

  • @charlottec8334
    @charlottec8334 3 роки тому +25

    Watching this made me quite emotional... What have we done to our world.

  • @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669
    @serenitypeaceandcomfort3669 3 роки тому +43

    How beautiful England was. So calm, peaceful and serene.

    • @fredbloggs545
      @fredbloggs545 3 роки тому +8

      For the middle and upper classes shown here. The working class were too busy dying down mines to be boating.

    • @mrkillman555
      @mrkillman555 3 роки тому +3

      @@fredbloggs545 And for the middle and upper classes life still is the same as it was, calming, peaceful, and serene

    • @kickpublishing
      @kickpublishing 3 роки тому +6

      Much is still the same, just the highstreets are ruined and the housing estates are an eyesore - villagers spend nights awake worrying about one being built near them and stuffed with half the world who have no investment whatsoever in the country other than to milk it for all they can get.

    • @fredbloggs545
      @fredbloggs545 3 роки тому

      @@kickpublishing
      There speaks a NIMBY.

    • @nigelcarren
      @nigelcarren 3 роки тому +1

      Indeed, and not a single two-stroke strimmer, leaf-blower or chainsaw to be heard! 🙏🌞

  • @MonkFishTV
    @MonkFishTV 3 роки тому +462

    Wish the country still looked like this. Only when everything has been ground down can we see what has been truly lost.

    • @soulreadanalytics9781
      @soulreadanalytics9781 3 роки тому +14

      True

    • @importantjohn
      @importantjohn 3 роки тому +61

      Most of the cities or working class areas (ie 99% of the county) did not look like like this. They looked like hell on earth. You can see other films from the same period to prove it. You are incredibly fortunate to live in the current period, most people back then would kill to swap places with you.

    • @Etheldreda-
      @Etheldreda- 3 роки тому +42

      @@importantjohn You’re wrong, life in the big cities could be harsh but overall life was better

    • @matthewsmith2787
      @matthewsmith2787 3 роки тому +34

      My grandma said life was easier back then

    • @j.burgess4459
      @j.burgess4459 3 роки тому +21

      There were some downsides too ;-) The general wealth of people, medical care, life expectancy, stuff like that wasn't so great. Nowadays "poor" people have cars and mobile phones. Back then they might have had literally nothing...

  • @andynixon2820
    @andynixon2820 3 роки тому +80

    I've never - ever seen anything like that some gate before . It's genius .

    • @Ginny202
      @Ginny202 3 роки тому

      @Cian MacGana I think 'some gate' and the road just before that, is going past the grounds of Charlecote Park.

    • @sharpduds
      @sharpduds 3 роки тому +2

      It's great example of an old stile. There are a few other variations, some resemble offset circular stairs (if that makes sense), that I've seen in older photographs of England, and on older estates and historic sites here in New England. There is an excellent book on the subject and so much more, called The Forgotten Arts and Crafts, by a gentleman called John Seymour. I believe you can purchase it online or through a used bookshop for fewer than $40 USD, or £50 GBP

    • @rackpunch4026
      @rackpunch4026 3 роки тому +3

      Clapper gate. We have them in Kent too.

    • @sharpduds
      @sharpduds 3 роки тому +1

      @@rackpunch4026 Of course it's called a clapper gate!

  • @jec1ny
    @jec1ny 3 роки тому +324

    For what was and is no more, I could weep.

    • @iloveanimals1662
      @iloveanimals1662 3 роки тому +15

      Me too

    • @yeahyeahyeahyeahwhatever
      @yeahyeahyeahyeahwhatever 3 роки тому +43

      For me, watching summons the most incredible melancholy memories of a paradise lost. Not, one of rose-tinted spectacles, but of a genuine recollection of a purer world in ways most of us humans hold dear.

    • @bernadette573
      @bernadette573 3 роки тому +16

      So beautiful and full of tranquility.

    • @Boudicca165
      @Boudicca165 3 роки тому +13

      @@yeahyeahyeahyeahwhatever
      That is so beautifully said, thank you.

    • @dennisroyhall121
      @dennisroyhall121 3 роки тому +8

      That, so very very sadly is the price for having lived, loved and felt.....To live and love...aye, so fine...but to have feelings in favour, feelings so intense they almost begin to hurt because as it were they remind you of another truth that feelings lived and discovered for the very first time
      cannot be re-lived in the same way...Knowledge and knowing have taken over and that’s all right and birth has been given to....memories, souvenirs...Desirable but of course and splendidly so; but that world...that universe of difference between not knowing and then discovery, happy revelation, that is supreme.

  • @strat4ordgirl
    @strat4ordgirl 3 роки тому +77

    The “some gate” is the Stepping Gate in Charlecote Park, Charlecote House and Park still very much exists and belongs to to the National Trust. Closed through Covid but hopefully will be opening again very soon.

    • @neilfranklin5644
      @neilfranklin5644 3 роки тому +1

      Mr bean should go over that stepping gateshead could get tangled up in it be so funny.

    • @Rick88888888
      @Rick88888888  3 роки тому +7

      Is that gate still there?

    • @clearlake3492
      @clearlake3492 3 роки тому +9

      @@Rick88888888 Yes.

    • @arlosmith9504
      @arlosmith9504 3 роки тому +1

      @@clearlake3492 Where? I've been to Charlecote, never seen it.

    • @TobyBAshworth
      @TobyBAshworth 3 роки тому +5

      @@arlosmith9504 If it's still there it's to the left of the entrance to the garden centre, on the opposite side of the road to the entrance to the park. It's not the original gate, of course. There used to be a sign describing it. It can be seen on Street View if you use the clock feature to turn back a few years.

  • @mikesaunders4775
    @mikesaunders4775 3 роки тому +21

    Beautiful, but heartbreaking. Stratford -Upon-Avon has been turned into a Theme Park, and much of the countryside has been lost to Motorways and the High-Speed 2 vanity project

  • @MrMenefrego1
    @MrMenefrego1 3 роки тому +31

    This must be such a blessing for English folks to see.

    • @user-ep8xo1od9o
      @user-ep8xo1od9o 3 роки тому +3

      It really is

    • @td370
      @td370 3 роки тому +10

      More depressing if anything. The England that was stolen from us.

    • @MrMenefrego1
      @MrMenefrego1 3 роки тому +1

      @@td370 How so?

    • @reasonabledoubt6908
      @reasonabledoubt6908 3 роки тому +1

      Sadly its not. Streets were never cleaner for one thing apparently

    • @chops6416
      @chops6416 3 роки тому

      The flip side to this 'perfect lost England' is life in cities, not so beautiful at all. Very hard lives and a short life expectancy, 50 if you were lucky.

  • @gabriellebaalke6704
    @gabriellebaalke6704 3 роки тому +8

    This is beautiful. It is the England I imagine... even as I live in the England of 2021.

  • @silliaek
    @silliaek 3 роки тому +135

    Electric trolleys, bicycles, and sheep for lawnmowers-- we're now trying to get back what we had 110 years ago.

    • @nepnamja6686
      @nepnamja6686 3 роки тому +1

      So true I heard Britain is removing Diesel and petrol car by 2030.

    • @adamnoman4658
      @adamnoman4658 3 роки тому +16

      @@nepnamja6686 And the native Britons by 2050, is it?

    • @user-jt1jv8vl9r
      @user-jt1jv8vl9r 3 роки тому +4

      @@adamnoman4658 the native Britons were pushed out 1,000 years ago I believe. Depends how far back and what timescale you consider.

    • @bonechip01
      @bonechip01 3 роки тому +5

      @@user-jt1jv8vl9r Pushed where? Into the North Sea?

    • @farzanamughal5933
      @farzanamughal5933 3 роки тому +1

      @@adamnoman4658 Shut up

  • @deefitzgerald2906
    @deefitzgerald2906 3 роки тому +7

    I would give anything to have lived at that TIME of LIFE.....People Dressed so BEAUTIFUL and LIFE had to be a little more slow than the way we live today....The men crossing over the gate the FIRST ONE OMG how HANDSOME that Young man was and the other were also BEAUTIFUL and so well DRESSED...I just LOVE seeing how life used to BE......I do not know WHY but when I see this they make me what to cry 😢.....

  • @harvey2081
    @harvey2081 3 роки тому +140

    Wow, Thank you so much, This old world we see wasn't that long ago but is so so different from any thing today, what a contrast.

    • @stumccabe
      @stumccabe 3 роки тому +9

      No, there are still parts of England like this.

    • @benkleschinsky
      @benkleschinsky 3 роки тому +5

      I know it's pretty incredible to put time into perspective like this. The world didn't change for millions of years, but even 50 years ago seems like another universe.

    • @oldlonewolf9649
      @oldlonewolf9649 3 роки тому

      I love this passage, I will make the same in my fence.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 3 роки тому +1

      Well, on the surface yes. But it's all visuals isn't it. These mansions lining the inner city routes, were created and paid for by the very rich. I was informed of this on a TV programme a few days ago. MANY homes of the poor were demolished. A copy of the Parisian Boulevards , by German architect , Haussmann.

    • @funquay2219
      @funquay2219 3 роки тому

      @@stumccabe But fashions in clothes have changed a bit!

  • @user-bh4rx8mf8g
    @user-bh4rx8mf8g 3 роки тому +82

    A video like this certainly makes one feel that the world was very much more beautiful one hundred years ago.

    • @now591
      @now591 3 роки тому +3

      It was very much more beautiful!

    • @JanuWaray
      @JanuWaray 3 роки тому +2

      If only we could turn back the hands of time!😩😢😫

    • @jimjiminyjaroo300
      @jimjiminyjaroo300 3 роки тому +8

      Shit time to live. Awful. Unless you were the aristocracy. If you were a pleb, it was nasty.

    • @user-bh4rx8mf8g
      @user-bh4rx8mf8g 3 роки тому +6

      @@jimjiminyjaroo300 Rather a platitude, isn't it? Every time in history is less comfortable if you're poor than if you're rich. One the whole though, each age improves on those before them. Today's English working class live in luxury unimaginable to English royalty six hundred years ago.

    • @maccagrabme
      @maccagrabme 3 роки тому +1

      It would have been for the wealthy, they were living in paradise until the war. If only the poor had been paid more money or there was a welfare state. It seems the working class have always been treated like scum apart from after WW2 for a brief period.

  • @rickysguitar
    @rickysguitar 3 роки тому +2

    Something wonderful always strikes me in these old films.
    All these people are long dead. And soon, so will you and I.
    Get living today. Don't engage in activities that divide us.
    Ignore the noise of the media and pursue the things that make you happy.
    This life is short but sweet and every day above the dirt is a good one.
    The void of infinite oblivion is forever. All we have is now.

  • @peterrea2793
    @peterrea2793 3 роки тому +5

    When England was still beautiful England!

  • @markwoods6794
    @markwoods6794 3 роки тому +15

    I live in Stratford so watching this was amazing! Loved the curiosity from the young boys watching whoever was filming.

    • @goodlookinouthomie1757
      @goodlookinouthomie1757 3 роки тому +1

      I live in a neighbouring village. Stratford is a lovely place still on a summer day out boating down the river. As long as you get there early :)

  • @polishedup6905
    @polishedup6905 3 роки тому +24

    This is lovely I was born in Stratford upon Avon and my parents and grandparents worked the land and infact my father has just retired at 82 and by the special gate I think it could be charlecote park it's a national trust place now, this is very interesting this is really nice

  • @sisirkattempudi7155
    @sisirkattempudi7155 3 роки тому +4

    Beautiful, and irenic. I'm sure their daily lives were challenging like ours, but man, everything was so beautiful.

  • @cw1294
    @cw1294 3 роки тому +18

    The young boys are fascinated by the camera, so perfect it almost looks like a movie set

    • @Lightnings
      @Lightnings 3 роки тому

      There's a lack of genuine emotion in today's world, the spoilt lives we're living. Therefore seeing this is such a relief...

  • @missionpassed4584
    @missionpassed4584 3 роки тому +6

    Just to be able to step into the screen and take in the scenery and the peace that was then, no noisy cars, buses, trains or airplanes, a few yes maybe early vehicles but non compared to now, just the birds and bees of nature, pure bliss.

  • @busybee3458
    @busybee3458 3 роки тому +92

    Hauntingly beautiful music and scenery. So evocative and poignant. So serene. Little did the people going about their daily lives know what lay ahead of them. Those poor young men would probably have gone to fight in the first world war. The young boys would have fought in the second world war. Unimaginable grief. Thank you Rick for your work. I am so glad your chanel found me. From Dublin.

    • @keithjones6023
      @keithjones6023 3 роки тому +10

      Yes, the young men at the time would have been enjoying a fairly quiet life, only to be transported in a few years time to another world of unspeakable horror. Reminds me of that classic song by Edwin Starr, War, What is it Good For? Absolutely Nothing!

    • @Rick88888888
      @Rick88888888  3 роки тому +3

      Thank you very much!

    • @doctorbritain9632
      @doctorbritain9632 3 роки тому +3

      @@keithjones6023 88.5% came home. Just 2% of the UK population died in WW1. As a percentage of population more died in the English civil war {over 4%}

    • @megenberg8
      @megenberg8 3 роки тому +1

      that is a very observant comment. all true too. this is a wonderful and beautiful film. truly.

    • @tphicks9135
      @tphicks9135 3 роки тому +1

      I love the clip also, fascinating. From Wicklow!

  • @jotat1046
    @jotat1046 3 роки тому +102

    I am the first brazilian to comment in English, what a beautiful image, one of the stages of the great writer Shakespeare. Wherever he went and created his great works.

    • @Boudicca165
      @Boudicca165 3 роки тому +11

      Your English is excellent,
      welcome!💐

    • @pmacc3557
      @pmacc3557 3 роки тому +2

      So is yours Isabelle👍😁

    • @mtlicq
      @mtlicq 3 роки тому +2

      @@Boudicca165 even better than Shakespeare's English : )

    • @yiman7370
      @yiman7370 3 роки тому +2

      Calm down. I live in UK, u wouldn't like the weather and the lifestyle here.

    • @jotat1046
      @jotat1046 3 роки тому +1

      @@yiman7370 I wish I lived there in this beautiful country, where the Royal Family lives mainly the legendary figure of Queen Elisabeth and get to know the huge culture of all of Britain up close.

  • @christophernorton33
    @christophernorton33 3 роки тому +3

    Enchanting it's like being in a beautiful dream. I wonder if the people in this video realized just how fortunate they were living in such a magnificent place & at a very special time.

  • @melware2784
    @melware2784 3 роки тому +3

    Such pristine roads, clear of all disfigurements !

  • @TheScreamingFrog916
    @TheScreamingFrog916 3 роки тому +10

    I find these restored, colorized, films fascinating.
    It really makes history come alive for me.
    Thanks for this.

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 3 роки тому +2

    I was born in Warwickshire, it is "home" to me. This video was utterly delightful as I saw places that I know.
    I am amazed at how little has actually changed in the parts that I know best, especially Stratford. The scenes outside the Birthplace, the grammar school and Anne Hathaway's could have been taken from a recent film set in the period. The deer park at Charlecote was instantly recognisable as was the view along the Avon towards Holy Trinity. I did not need to use my imagination to see myself there in 1910.
    People believe that this country is now a worse place, yet whilst it is not perfect, much is better than during 1910. Grinding poverty was commonplace. People died of diseases now controlled, or from working conditions now regulated.
    I certainly would not want to give up my central heating, double glazing, fridge, freezer, nor Internet to live in the rose-tinted times that never really existed. My grandparents lived then, and after the FWW moved into the house that is now mine. If I could go back and show them life today I'm sure that they would choose my version of the house instead of theirs.
    As Gladys Knight says at the start of the song "Try to Remember":
    Hey, you know, everybody's talkin' about the good old days, right
    Everybody, the good old days, the good old days
    Well, let's talk about the good old days
    Come to think of it as, as bad as we think they are
    these will become the good old days for our children
    So many look back, usually through rose-tinted glasses, and think the past is better than it was. In some ways it was, in many ways it was not.
    Much as I enjoy watching a video like this, getting a buzz of "feel-good" from it, I'm very happy to have the benefits of today. I certainly would not want to be transported back.

    • @Rick88888888
      @Rick88888888  3 роки тому

      Thank you for your long, interesting comment.

  • @nickwoodward3034
    @nickwoodward3034 3 роки тому +28

    Not sure why this popped up in recommended, but I have lived in the area (Stratford-upon-Avon and Wellesbourne) for almost 40 years. And its fascinating to see all these local places in the past! Thank you for uploading. Awesome video!

    • @whatsay3382
      @whatsay3382 3 роки тому

      thats awesome, do you feel like any place is still the same in the video?

  • @SamanthaN92
    @SamanthaN92 3 роки тому +21

    Crazy to see people just living their lives over 100 years ago and knowing every single one them is no longer with us. We all will eventually be there one day as nothing lasts forever 😔 If only the buildings and castles could talk ❤️

    • @bohnert75
      @bohnert75 3 роки тому +3

      Now 110 Years later we see a little moment in their lifes, they never thought about this. I always think, what have they done after this and in the rest of their live.
      That is overhelming for me.

    • @monkeytennis8861
      @monkeytennis8861 3 роки тому

      No shit. How original.

  • @guffylewis
    @guffylewis 3 роки тому +18

    Great film , thanks for taking the time to do this.. On all these old films it always amazes me how clean the streets were. The effects of no fast food waste and people really caring about the places they lived in.

  • @gregholt
    @gregholt 3 роки тому +1

    So beautiful. A reminder that things don't always get better and better.

  • @matthewsmith2787
    @matthewsmith2787 3 роки тому +44

    This is why they call it the good old days, a time when the world was a more simple place and respect and decency ruled. Not saying everything was perfect, what is? But today’s world is rather shocking in comparison

    • @CroBer09
      @CroBer09 3 роки тому +4

      So true😔

    • @ObakuZenCenter
      @ObakuZenCenter 2 роки тому +1

      You mean when most people in the UK lived in grinding poverty and died young.

    • @luissantiago8446
      @luissantiago8446 2 роки тому +1

      The present age has witnessed an absolute collapse in standards all across the board. If folks at that time could be transported to our time they would be appalled at the manner of dressing, which has declined to an abominable state. The lack of common civility, common morality and just common sense. Any culture that deems it normal for people to outwardly, and surgically change their genders or even to remake themselves into something resembling animals is in no position to be judging the people in this video. Its laughable that any lucid and sane mind would render our inverted and disoriented times as "normal."

    • @jakobneirinck
      @jakobneirinck 2 роки тому

      @@ObakuZenCenter i think you know what we mean! Could have learned so much from the past but look around..

    • @jayarajjohnson2476
      @jayarajjohnson2476 19 днів тому +1

      @@CroBer09 You're right. todays world is disgusting... a synthetic world...

  • @backwaterskinny
    @backwaterskinny 3 роки тому +4

    And one day people will watch videos of life in 2021 and wonder how it was so beautiful back then.

  • @RichardTingey
    @RichardTingey 3 роки тому +34

    UA-cam never ceases to amaze me. Thank you so much for sharing this incredible amazing quality film of a bygone period. Obviously it was coloured at a later stage, but whoever did it was a true expert.

    • @Rick88888888
      @Rick88888888  3 роки тому +22

      I restored and colored it, thank you.

    • @bazerwazer6180
      @bazerwazer6180 3 роки тому +10

      @@Rick88888888 Take a bow Rick, you did a wonderful job! Thank you so much.

    • @megenberg8
      @megenberg8 3 роки тому +5

      @@Rick88888888 a winner and a 10 and then some EXCELLENT!!!

    • @AlexMRL
      @AlexMRL 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, UA-cam recommending this actually is kinda nice. :D

  • @christinethornhill
    @christinethornhill 3 роки тому +2

    I just found you completely by accident, and it’s made my day ! My dear old Grandfather was born in Warwick , he used to tell me many stories of his younger days in the area including visits to the cape
    ( possibly a pub near water , I believe) ..... how wonderful those way gone times were for him . He later went to work for Vickers Armstrongs as an Engineer throughout WW2 with his sons . I’m now in my seventies, so this really is a real delight to see . Many thanks for bringing life into my memories. 🙏🏼❤️

  • @Jenherbillie
    @Jenherbillie 3 роки тому +10

    ‘Some Gate’ is still there and the same design, still used today, to walk alongside Charlecote Garden Centre 😃

  • @sandman5211
    @sandman5211 3 роки тому +22

    Absolutely fantastic, and the music. Thanks from Australia

  • @myfavs5393
    @myfavs5393 3 роки тому +32

    This is wonderful. Thank you. England before the collapse of civilization

    • @andrewwigglesworth3030
      @andrewwigglesworth3030 3 роки тому +1

      True, you hadn't been born yet.

    • @smokingzen
      @smokingzen 3 роки тому +6

      @@andrewwigglesworth3030 ...and it would seem you were only born yesterday.

    • @keithrose6931
      @keithrose6931 3 роки тому

      @@smokingzen good come back !

    • @soldierofchrist888
      @soldierofchrist888 3 роки тому

      "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
      giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;" (1.Timothy 4:1)
      "Let no man deceive you by any means:
      for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
      and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"
      (2.Thessalonians 2:3)
      "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
      For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
      Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
      Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
      Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." (2.Timothy 3:1‭-‬5) KJV

  • @timh.7283
    @timh.7283 3 роки тому +2

    So beautiful, he sighed wistfully. And Stratford today..........

  • @JD-kg3mx
    @JD-kg3mx 3 роки тому +2

    This was phenomenal. I don’t have the words that will express the emotions you provoked. I was lamenting about a distant place, in a storied history back in time and I was longing for days in places I’ve never lived. That’s an accomplishment of some of our greatest film makers. I liked the virtual excursion of a tiny segment of British history. If I may, “good show”.

  • @daveurbex
    @daveurbex 3 роки тому +6

    My grandpa was 1yo and my grandma (his "future" wife) was about to be born yet... Unbeliavable, thank you so much for upload ❤️❤️❤️

  • @plowmensclocks
    @plowmensclocks Рік тому +2

    Beautiful! The colour makes these scenes truely alive. Thank you!

  • @DA-gn2my
    @DA-gn2my 3 роки тому +1

    It seems so simple, quiet and peaceful back then, also too it reminds me of some of the old paintings of famous artists

  • @PandaA-cv3mm
    @PandaA-cv3mm 3 роки тому +12

    Thank you. Such beautiful rehabbed footage. Well done. So romantic to be transported to a time before major technology when people talked and went for strolls in their finest clothes. I am almost envious even though I know they had their challenges. Light to all. 🙏💜🕊

  • @alba3474
    @alba3474 3 роки тому +7

    These videos are pure gold... I will never get tired of watching them, everything seems so calm, beautiful and different, it's like seeing another completely different world. Thank you so much for your work! If it wasn't for this channel and others, I wouldn't be able to see these coloured and restored old videos.

  • @nicob6391
    @nicob6391 6 місяців тому +2

    I have family living in this area and the video is amazing to watch…how beautiful England was!

  • @ritaymbernon4801
    @ritaymbernon4801 3 роки тому +18

    Tancks for your films.From Spain.🌍

  • @Unidentifying
    @Unidentifying 3 роки тому +19

    This is so amazing, great choice on the music too, very mystical feeling.
    How time is such an interesting thing

  • @mauricioandreoli6457
    @mauricioandreoli6457 3 роки тому +52

    The film was edited perfectly . Congrats mate for display it.

  • @CouncilOfWolves
    @CouncilOfWolves Рік тому +2

    It's like a beautiful moving painting.

  • @nordiskkatt
    @nordiskkatt 3 роки тому +2

    I clicked this to see the fashions, and was delighted to get the surprise of seeing Marie Corelli's home! I really did not expect that, but how wonderful!

  • @mauritiusdunfagel9473
    @mauritiusdunfagel9473 3 роки тому +4

    How peaceful and unhurried it all seems!

  • @notapplicable430
    @notapplicable430 3 роки тому +129

    I would like to have a conversation with the people in this film, to understand their thoughts about life and the world.

    • @terencefitch1604
      @terencefitch1604 3 роки тому +4

      Ps, the house on the river is Guy's Cliffe. The Mill is known as Saxon Mill.

    • @macraghnaill3553
      @macraghnaill3553 3 роки тому +16

      my grandparents era
      My grandad born 1897, joined up when he was 18, got gassed with mustard gas, was a fire warden in 2nd war died age 62
      My nan born 1899 also served during the war in the cipher room.
      they married in 1920, grandads family wouldn't speak to nan as grandad "married below his class"
      [nans family were middle class] they had 5 children [my mum and her elder brother both served during the 2nd war] all survived the war
      Nan and grandad worked hard and saved and were able to buy their own house in 1946

    • @andrewmayo6084
      @andrewmayo6084 3 роки тому +3

      Got close the conversation. My father was born in south Warwickshire in the year this film was made.

    • @andynixon2820
      @andynixon2820 3 роки тому +3

      My grandfather was born in 1901 so 9 years old at this time . He was working class but formal , strict and stoic , I'm sure this is how these people were as well.

    • @andynixon2820
      @andynixon2820 3 роки тому +13

      @@creamwobbly I doubt he is but you sound like a bit of a knob for asking .

  • @blahblahblah2699
    @blahblahblah2699 3 роки тому +2

    What a beautiful video of our green and fair land, or once was.

  • @francesraybould329
    @francesraybould329 3 роки тому +1

    I was borne here ,and at 76 just moved back after living in USA Cornwall and lots of other places in U.K. .l love it and these old phots

  • @jeanwells7232
    @jeanwells7232 3 роки тому +12

    A beautiful reproduction. You are so talented and your channel gives so much joy. Thankyou again from the Midlands of England.

  • @AnnabelleJARankin
    @AnnabelleJARankin 3 роки тому +4

    What an idyllic world it looks. Wonderful, as you say!

  • @hughrainbird43
    @hughrainbird43 3 роки тому +34

    How peaceful it all seems without the wholesale invasion of the internal combustion engine.
    The "gate" at 3:22 is called a "clapper stile" if I remember my "I-Spy in the Countryside" book correctly - you wouldn't want to let go of the "clappers" when you were astride it, that's for sure!
    The caption writer at 4:11 wants to brush up on his grammar "Grammer School". I ask you!
    The young lady outside Marie Corelli's house at 6:24 looks a bit "fast", no wonder the lady in the black dress is having a stern word with her!
    The location??ed at:4:46 is the original Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, rather than the ancient building which is captioned as such. It was built in 1879, but destroyed by fire in 1926. Fotunately the Library and Art Gallery survived, and the treasures including Shakespeare first folios, and historic paintings kept therein were saved. The rebuilt theatre reopened in 1932.

    • @thereunionparty
      @thereunionparty 3 роки тому +2

      I think the conversation outside Marie Corelli's house was at 5.09 but I too was wondering why it was so abrupt.

    • @jillianhorsley5985
      @jillianhorsley5985 3 роки тому

      Thanks for the clapper info....ingenious.

  • @doctorbritain9632
    @doctorbritain9632 3 роки тому +17

    I'm not entirely convinced we've made what could be loosely termed as "progress".

    • @thomasm1964
      @thomasm1964 3 роки тому +2

      Wheras I AM entirely convinced we haven't!

    • @doctorbritain9632
      @doctorbritain9632 3 роки тому +2

      @@thomasm1964 I was being a little sarcastic, so I think we're in agreement here.

    • @thomasm1964
      @thomasm1964 3 роки тому +2

      @@doctorbritain9632 I know you were. I was also being a little tongue in cheek.
      Someone somewhere is going to work out how to express tone unambiguously in text - and that someone is going to make millions!

    • @doctorbritain9632
      @doctorbritain9632 3 роки тому +1

      @@thomasm1964 let's do it...

    • @doctorbritain9632
      @doctorbritain9632 3 роки тому +1

      @@creamwobbly I'm not talking about modern science , I'm talking about general deportment and the way of life. I can't believe you took so much time to completely miss the point. The idea that all "progress" is good is ridiculous. Let's talk about death by obesity and diabetes then. The numbers are exponentially higher than people with gammy legs from 100 years ago.

  • @Paul_Lucas
    @Paul_Lucas 3 роки тому +74

    Marvellous. Thanks for sharing.

  • @stevedixon4310
    @stevedixon4310 3 роки тому +22

    Just Brilliant, thank you....

  • @ellenchevarie8517
    @ellenchevarie8517 3 роки тому +1

    I'm mesmerized by old pictures and videos.the babies in pram have even grown old and gone.some how I can't explain my fascination with the past

  • @smogland7933
    @smogland7933 3 роки тому +2

    Yes, our old way of life was taken from us, and it can be hard to watch footage like this and realise just how much we have lost, but do not forget, we can get this back, there is always hope.

    • @fredbloggs545
      @fredbloggs545 3 роки тому

      The old way of life where 2 million children were forced to work in industry for very little money? Yeah, it was so great back then!

    • @smogland7933
      @smogland7933 3 роки тому

      @@fredbloggs545 You know that is not what we mean.

    • @fredbloggs545
      @fredbloggs545 3 роки тому

      @@smogland7933
      I only know what is in your comment. I am not psychic.

  • @antigoogleman1135
    @antigoogleman1135 3 роки тому +6

    Pure golden era...
    Then the war came and all things changed...
    Those blue remembered hills..!

  • @cne1975
    @cne1975 3 роки тому +17

    Beautiful

  • @O.K.Pemby10
    @O.K.Pemby10 3 роки тому +1

    This is amazing to watch. I worked in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2014 and when I walked to work I always wondered what it used to look like 100+ years ago. Thank you for this ❤

  • @wyominghome4857
    @wyominghome4857 3 роки тому

    I'm so glad these films have been saved and to a large extent restored. So lovely. Thank you.

  • @jeantetreault132
    @jeantetreault132 3 роки тому +3

    God knows, i’ve seen so many colorized films, that have been enhanced, over time and yet that were very well done, but never as good as this one. As opposed to some other colorized movie films, appearing to glossy and leaving to much of a tinted purple reflexion shade around the images, the colors on this motion picture seem so revealingly beautiful, but most of all very natural. Thank you. Johnny, Montréal, Canada.

  • @arielgrushka
    @arielgrushka 3 роки тому +5

    This is so wonderful! And the song makes it even more nostalgic

  • @tonisiret5557
    @tonisiret5557 3 роки тому +2

    Starting to see motor cars; a lot less people. The 20th century changed civilisation so much, & our brains still haven't caught up! Thank you so much for posting this 👍

  • @amychidley3906
    @amychidley3906 3 роки тому +1

    Much beauty here to be seen. Thank you for showing us! There are some aspects of these times that are to be envied. However, not all is worse in the 21st century. For example, that gate is quirky and clever, but inaccessible to wheelchairs or prams. Disabled people now have a lot more freedom to enjoy the outdoors, never mind the ostracism etc. I also noticed the finery of the pedestrians. The poor are not featured (hidden). I think there is much to be thankful and much to lament about different times in history. Let's do that as we try to navigate this challenging time in our history, looking with hope towards our future and our children's future.

  • @jacquesmertens3369
    @jacquesmertens3369 3 роки тому +8

    The algorithm paints the black costumes black, but it paints the trams purple. Why is that?
    It's fantastic to see Guy's Cliffe, when it had not fallen into disrepair yet, and before it burnt down. What a magnificent, magical place !!
    Same goes for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, before the fire of 1926.

    • @Rick88888888
      @Rick88888888  3 роки тому +1

      The purple haze is a problem in the DeOldify software.

    • @stevekitt52
      @stevekitt52 3 роки тому

      A. I. software does struggle with colours of clothes and machinery at present, but the more it is trained, it will improve over time. (I use A. I. software for various photo applications)

  • @MrEjidorie
    @MrEjidorie 3 роки тому +3

    1910 was the year when my grandmother was born. (She has passed away in 2002.) This was Great Britain`s most glorious period.

  • @willowwobble
    @willowwobble 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent colouring of the black and white original. Thank you, a window through time to a more peaceful England.

  • @mrsgbee8246
    @mrsgbee8246 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful. So much knowledge and craftmanship in buildings and gardens and clothes. Lost today. The carefull thoughtfulness and tidy work at no great cost.

  • @yeahyeahyeahyeahwhatever
    @yeahyeahyeahyeahwhatever 3 роки тому +9

    UA-cam needs a ❤️ button for uploads such as these, rather than a generic thumbs-up.

  • @redwandennaoui4508
    @redwandennaoui4508 3 роки тому +7

    Beautiful, so rich in history, thank you for sharing

  • @jontyarnold8522
    @jontyarnold8522 3 роки тому +1

    Absolutely beautiful, tranquil music.....despite WW1 being only 4 years away, the country seemed a much calmer place.....

  • @itsBishopsound
    @itsBishopsound 3 роки тому +1

    Proud to be born and bred in Warwickshire.... Super film Thank you

  • @jaynelymer6442
    @jaynelymer6442 3 роки тому +11

    Amazing footage, so poignant only 4 years until WW1. Nice vehicles love the motor bike and sidecar on the bridge and that gate !!!! want one of those. 🥰👍

  • @ptaylor5014
    @ptaylor5014 3 роки тому +18

    I enjoy all your videos it takes me into the past that i never lived, it looks so tranquil and at ease, no BS that we are currently witnessing and no Tech either, i would love to time travel back to the late 19th or early 20th century.

    • @behindyou666
      @behindyou666 3 роки тому

      It wasn't an easy nor tranquil time at all. Everyone's life was very hard, everyone fought hard to survive with the exception of some rich, powerful people who had it alright.

    • @altradecull9149
      @altradecull9149 3 роки тому +1

      @@behindyou666 yes and four years later we all know what happened

    • @behindyou666
      @behindyou666 3 роки тому

      @@altradecull9149 very true

    • @francessimmonds5784
      @francessimmonds5784 3 роки тому +1

      ÞórlæifR with the exception of the 1% most people's life was tough. The lucky ones had poor paying jobs in service with just one morning off a week to go to church, no holiday, no sick pay, no rights. There's no NHS, no antibiotics, nasty diseases like diphtheria, sleeping sickness, the pox, small pox, tb etc.etc.

    • @behindyou666
      @behindyou666 3 роки тому

      @@francessimmonds5784 Even for the 1%, life wasn't perfect.

  • @cmiguel268
    @cmiguel268 3 роки тому +1

    wonderful to see where Shakespeare was born, Strappon Avon, in 1910.

  • @dalefrary
    @dalefrary 3 роки тому +1

    Guys Cliffe. Forever in my heart.

  • @jimmycakes7158
    @jimmycakes7158 3 роки тому +13

    When someone says what is England show them this

    • @jacquilayton2557
      @jacquilayton2557 3 роки тому +1

      Why lie to them, when people ask what is England, it used to be this.

  • @d.marques4700
    @d.marques4700 3 роки тому +5

    Wonderful countryside! And not overcrowded yet!...

  • @charlesvanderhoog7056
    @charlesvanderhoog7056 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks for this wonderful footage. I enjoyed it very much, really. Warwick is in the middle of mid-England, like Stratford -upon-Avon. And there were HALF as many people and virtually no motorcars, which makes for a lot of peace and quiet, and space. Life ran at a leasurely pace unless you had to work for a living in a coal mine or something. It was the most wonderful time ever, if and only if you belonged to the upper-class.

  • @glenng
    @glenng 3 роки тому +1

    I have been looking for old footage of Leamington for a long time. I moved here from Ireland in 1994. This footage reminds me a lot of home.

  • @janethall2289
    @janethall2289 3 роки тому +3

    I was born and bred in Sona and this is better than what I was taught or even saw - photos are awesome, hope (with locals) to render truthful the comments.

  • @dmf2475
    @dmf2475 3 роки тому +3

    Incredible and to think that this is less than 300 years after Shakespeare's death.

  • @stanleywoodison8699
    @stanleywoodison8699 3 роки тому +1

    It's wonderful how colour brings these old films to life.

  • @kriztianb4755
    @kriztianb4755 3 роки тому +1

    If i could go back to when things were like that i wouldn't hesitate

  • @doeharris5363
    @doeharris5363 3 роки тому +4

    Stunning video, l wish we could go back in time when life liked so idilic, slow and easier than today. Thank you so much for sharing your video. 😊😊😊😊🐱🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @sapnaphilip7293
    @sapnaphilip7293 3 роки тому +4

    I feel it was a different time in that they may not have felt the nostalgia and lost world if they, the people in the film, had looked back a 100 years from then. Feels like a time of quiet acceptance....and why are there no more beautiful profound buildings, castles being built? It's all concrete and steel.

    • @bettyrizzo1653
      @bettyrizzo1653 3 роки тому

      Sadly, I think that it’s by design. Ugly architecture helps create an ugly ambience. It’s amazing how surroundings can affect the collective energy. All artists, architectures and creative designers know this ...

  • @softturd
    @softturd 3 роки тому +1

    thanks for the upload...such times, we never knew what we had til its gone

  • @beerbread
    @beerbread 3 роки тому +1

    Marvelous. So very peaceful, truly a lost world.

  • @m.j.9627
    @m.j.9627 3 роки тому +3

    The gate alone is worth a subscription.

  • @poohbearrichie72
    @poohbearrichie72 3 роки тому +3

    Oh wow! Thank you for this video it's simply wonderful and so relaxing...

  • @preetisingh45612
    @preetisingh45612 3 роки тому +1

    Stratford upon Avon. Wonderful. Shakespeare's birth place.I read all about Shakespeare in literature. 😊

  • @annapavlova2579
    @annapavlova2579 3 роки тому +2

    Good old England... With love from Russia!