I find those contextualized sentence mind blowing. For us human even a time frame of 100 years is so huge so to see you put into perspective a person of the 1700 all the way to the Beetles is amazing. 300 years of history in one comment.
It is an interesting thing to think about. If you were born in 1995 then the oldest person alive at that time would've been Jeanne Louise Calment who was born in 1875 (who would've been alive during the recording of this film). If you live for 81 years then you'll pass away in 2076. Now imagine someone born in 2075 and will live for 125 years (which may be likely as medical science improves) then that person will pass away in 2200. So in your lifetime, there will people living in both 1875 and 2200 which directly connects you to 325 years of history despite only being alive for 81 years. This one person's lifetime contains people that experienced the Victorian lifestyle and people that will go on to experience an unfathomable futuristic world.
@Sharron Clark I got your point, but you're being gracious with poor and poorer. What a f*cked up zeitgeist to be in. All things considered, many of us are having a many fold better existence.
huh the film is 120 years old what is weird about it? you know what is really weird? i see dutch people outside en i see them everywhere and they don´t know that they´re dead they move around and act like they´re zombified or as a clone at some point they just unplugged ´the thinking processor´
@@OutragedPufferfish no noho not Whaaaat it´s going on right now they don´t have their own thought-out views ´n opinions anymore they just quote state program catch-phrases and msm propaganda and stand by it it´s happening in my own family for God´s sake they´re gone scared and numb cannot be reached anymore believe me i tried ´n tried till i got a speaking-ban from certain family members given without blushing or blincking people i grew up with and knew as individuals who knew where they stood and why well they´re gone it´s not new going on for 10-15 yrs now
This feels like two audiences observing each other across time. One from 1901 England staring through the strange device at the one that is worldwide from 2021, who are staring back through their own devices.
So crazy what that generation lived through…WW1, plague, WW2. The sheer amount of death which took place around the world from like 1914-1950 is staggering.
When I started work in a care home aged 16 in 1985, there were several residents over 100 years. Eldest was 105, so born in 1880. He'd be 21 here. It really is mind blowing the changes they must have seen. I feel privileged to have spent time with them
I used to look after a bloke who was 106 when he died born 1906 George Nicholson he was called used to think when helping him get ready all the memories he would've had from growing up in the 1910s and 1920s.
I’m 1990 when I was 3 my gma was 100- that would have made her around 11 then. She lived a little longer than that so hearing stories back then I just couldn’t comprehend. I still can’t in my older age how amazing it is to see how time flies yet seems so far away
My great great grandmother was born in 1885 and lived to 1983, she was a slave . My great grandmother born 1926 lived to 1992, she wasn’t a slave but she had to pick cotton as a kid. My grandmother born 1960 is currently still living I love to hear all the stories she tells about her mom and grandmother, only just about 30 years ago they were still here , this was not a very long time ago as there’s many people living past 100
@@PrincessYonna1 Thank you for saying it. The racist whites descendant of those evil slave owners be trying hard to act like nobody alive today has remotely a connection with slavery where your grandmother alive today was alive in the same timeline than her relative that was a slave.
I love the young children . The young boys especially laughing and mugging for the moving picture camera . Little did they know that after they were gone people in the 21st century would be looking at them . They make me smile . What a picture from the past ! Thank you for posting!❤
Exactly for a minute I actually felt like they were looking at me looking at them it was so freaking wierd😨,But I really enjoyed it amazing what great job he did to clear up the pixels.
This is 1,000,000 times better than any book or lecture, you feel infinitely closer to the people in the film, chances are that some of us watching are even related to them and I think it's really nice that all these people are immortalised in such a way!
This is so fascinating, all these people didnt know that they are looking straight into the faces of people who are living 120 years after them, so epic
I wonder how the Camera looked like they seem to give quite a stare at it If you ask me they must not see a camera alot imagine if they seen the technology we have now it would blow their minds how this world changed
Why do I find this addictive? I’m fascinated by it, as fascinated as they are seeing the camera. It truly feels like time travel, like we’re looking at each other.
Yes!!! It's crazy to think that they had no idea their lives for a moment would be archived and watched by people all over the world on their own little devices more than a century later.
That would be fascinating. There wouldn't need to be any 'missions'. Just walking around the streets with sound and visuals. Someone clever do it now 😞
I can't believe all those faces are dead today. They would have never imagined that in 2020 some random peruvian guy sitting at his COMPUTER at 11pm would be watching them with awe.
There was a couple babies, who theoretically could be alive today...a lot more probable in the year 2000...imagine, most of those young boys got mutilated in France 15 yrs later
@dread true dughhh. No one is disputing that you jack ass. But now that thawi are all dead, who knows if they are actually there looking at us the living
@@Shilgne1 I think you're right, an unintentional coincidence which results in that man literally taking that position in the history books forever, yet he probably never will be recongized for it officially on any Wikipedias.
I love how despite the horrible living conditions everyone remains to dress elegantly, and also I love how everyone acts either classy or goofy when the camera is pointed towards them 😭
@@moon_0207 of course but my point is if westerners are complaining that the concept of a woman covered head to toe is alien to them then this video is a proof it isn't...
3:29 (standing on the left) 3:38 (standing on the right) 3:49 (following the camera) 4:16 (smiling at camera on the right) 4:50 (walking away from the camera) 5:19 (bottom right corner) That boy was following the camera all day.
His behaviour towards the camera seems almost professional. If he was a local who dressed up in his Sunday best and followed the camera all day you would think he would fool around a bit , pull a face here and there, but his manner does suggest he was with the film crew.
@@stevethea5250 I don't think he's black. He's in a group of men whose faces were all blackened with soot. If you look at his arm you can see it has splotches of soot on it as well.
There's a lot to take from this video, but one thing that stands out to me is how happy some of them look. They hardly had anything, yet we're happy. These days we have so much more and a better way of life, yet most of us struggle to crack a smile.
That’s how you know this time age is rough when not a single person steps in to stop just lets them get on with it until one of them is knocked out....
I get an odd feeling that they're staring into the future at us as much we're staring at them in the past. They seem completely captivated by this strange thing called a camera!
And many of them would die in the 1st & subsequently called for a decade &1/2 the last war. From either trench warfare, mustard gas or the various diseases that spread so quickly in the trenches including the Spanish Flu. But the youth in 1901 sure look like they knew the new century was going to be fantastic.
Imagine for a moment that someone in these videos could have an email address. My great grandfather was born in 1901 and when he passed in 2002 he was on the internet.
there's something incredibly otherworldly about this. i've dreamed of time travel all my life, as i'm sure many people have, and this is the closest thing to it that i've ever experienced.
I agree it is like time travel. Absolutely fascinating. My grandfather was six at the time so theoretically he could have been in a film like this. They had such crap clothes, especially the trousers. Life was tough for the poor.
The profundity of this footage, for me at least, is how recognisable all the faces are - the reactions, the expressions, the stares. "Victorian England" feels so alien as a concept, like a different world. But no, it's the same world, with the same people feeling the same things as I do. People are the same as ever.
Depends on what you mean by “the same”. In Uxbridge shopping area (Boris’ constituency) today I would say only 10 percent of the very busy place were white British.
Don’t kid yourself we’re the same. I don’t think you’ll ever know how it feels to pick which of your children will have to become a prostitute so that the others will have food in the table.
This is amazing. At 4:59 in the bottom right of the screen there are 2 friends walking from the workhouse who, to seemingly entertain themselves, decide to start punching the shit out of each other. These people were hard as nails... the children have the aire and comport of grown men. Their eyes are disturbingly world weary for such tender years... Mad to think all these people are long dead... feels like we are staring at legions of ghosts and they are staring right back at the future
The young man at 4:24 giving an F+++ Off 'V' sign made me smile and his reaction a few seconds later leads me to believe the cameraman commented on it.
He looks like a nasty piece of work to me. Cold hard people in cold hard times. If he's 16 then, in 1914 he would have been 29. Did he see & survive WW1?
@@ianharwell7500 very good point unfortunately. These boys had no idea of the absolute horrors that was about to befront them. Even after their damn hard youth.
Not surprising. Working class children were forced into labor as soon as they could be, even as young as 4 years old. Naturally they'd look 'grizzled' and 'worn' before they're even teenagers, especially since they worked long hours too. Just as much as the adults. All that plus poor nutrition and hygiene.
See that kid flicking the V's at 4:23? That's the first ever documented incident of someone using that hand gesture. I read it on Wikipedia! "The first unambiguous evidence of the use of the insulting V sign in the United Kingdom dates to 1901, when a worker outside Parkgate ironworks in Rotherham used the gesture (captured on the film) to indicate that he did not like being filmed." (The idea that bowman in the middle ages flicked the V at their enemies to prove that they can still fire arrows is apocryphal.)
Janice Granville The world is turning itself inside out about this pandemic, but could you imaging living through the world wars. ~100,000 people have died due to COVID19 in 4 months in America. ~500,000 soldiers died during the 3 month long Battle of Passchendaele along with 850,000 casualties. ~300,000 soldiers died during the Battle of the Somme, with ~19,000 British dying on the first day. In total ~1,300,000 casualties. Bless them.
They had no idea staring at that newfangled camera gadget that people all over the world would be watching them over a century later. This restoration is incredible. Thank you for posting!
@Yosemite2020 G I desperately hope nothing major destroys all our media by then. I want our little memories to become something for those in 2121, the way this footage became something for us.
@@greg4081 not really. "Cameras" had been around since the 1820s, and widespread since the 1830s. For them, it was the amazement that the pictures are MOVING.
Kidnapping by Indians was the first Western film produced in 1899 in England so its very possible that he saw the movie and wanted to act like a cowboy
The crazy thing is, watching all those boys laugh and point at the camera, you have to wonder which of them would end up dying in WW1. This would be the first and maybe last time their faces would be seen through a lens.
My grandfathers 4 uncles died in British army in WW1. They were Irish Catholics and a few years later the British army were fighting the Irish in the war of independence
@john smith Did you not read the first paragraph of the article???? Spanish flu CAUSED the bacterial pneumonia by depleting the cells that line the bronchial tubes...which allowed bacteria to invade the lungs (causing pneumonia). The cause of death was, ultimately, Spanish flu. I agree that CNN and other mainstream media outlets are l3ftist propaganda, but your lack of any sense of reading comprehension is making you look like a buffoon.
The fact everyone just stares at you really makes you feel like you travelled back in time and they are all scared but curious of this person who looks so different than everyone else
I think part of why they stand so still and stare is that they're used to having to be very still to get their picture taken and they've probably never heard of video before and can't quite wrap their head around it.
That is simply erie. They look like they had a rough life but they seem happier than many people today. I guess because they had a lot less free time to fret over pronouns or cook up more reasons to be a victim.
Well, the tradition is from Caucasian/White females of antiquity. The tradition remains in some nations. Demographics in those countries do not reflect what they used to be. 🙂
@@Beepbeepbeepbe It’s the colorization from the person who added color to the video. If you look closely you can see it on several men. Their phenotype is Caucasian. It looks like soot, dirt, etc. The original is in black and white. Artistic license was taken to colorize in any way they wanted.
3:08 The kid in the middle looks old. I can't tell if it is caused by a birth defect or if he was in an accident or fire. His skin texture looks like a skin graft like a burn victim has( 3:13 when he faces his right). Could be the camera and lighting playing tricks on my eyes.... Other than that, the kid looks happy, healthy and energetic.
what I find amazing about all these old videos is the way people dressed back then. Almost every male person is wearing a suit, even little kids are wearing a 3 piece suit.
The clothes are pretty grubby and everyone probably smelled pretty bad since clothes were only washed once a week. Most of the women are wearing large aprons to protect their clothes and I'm guessing that those were washed and changed more frequently.
It will be crazy that 100 years from now, people in the 2100s will be looking at videos of us now and having the same reaction. Not to mention looking at these vintage videos too (200 years ago). Crazy!
It’s hard to imagine that these people actually existed a hundred years ago. No one knew that two world wars will brake out during their time. Some of them died during the First World War, some on the second. A lot has changed in just one century. There’s a lot to take in from this video. Thanks.
I know, it's weird. Every single person you see in that video is a real person just going about their life. These aren't actors, or cartoons - these are just normal, everyday people. This is what their world looked like. And a lot of them lost their lives not many years after this was taken. If we ever invented time travel, I would love to just go back to older periods of human history and ask: What is your life like?
@@swfcocs1 I kind of guessed that by his look, but what really surprises me is that - according to Wikipedia - sir Winston was totally unaware of that as late as in 1942. Which is even more surprising considering he had been running the Home Office for almost a year.
Basically when people started using cars, before then people walked, it rains a lot, so you put on a hat, it wasn't an overnight thing but as more and more people had cars, more and more people didn't feel the need to wear then anymore.
I noticed that too. A lot of it seems to be a joshing or ribbing that there is a camera. I wonder if the cameraman had a large sign behind him explaining what hes doing. The camera is definitely a novel occurence for them for sure. However, there is a lot of pushing and bumping that seems par for the course while being in a public street. Very odd for us to see this.
I look at the kids in 1901, then think where they'll be thirteen years latter: the trenches of France, engaged in the nightmare curtain raiser for the 20th century.
If they make it to 1918 they will then experience the Spanish flu pandemic. We have had it pretty good in modern times, hopefully our generation can look back and say we met our challenge with dignity and honor.
IE 87 it’s a bit depressing when I look around and wonder if this might be our “golden age.” There’s always some who rise to challenges, but too many who don’t dominate the story. Sorry to be such a pessimist.
My father was born in England 1901, volunteered for WWI and served as a horse boy in the artillery. He went on to survive the flu and the depression . Got called up for the BEF in 1939, was picked off Dunkirk beach, patched up and sent to northern Africa. He made it home, died 1972.
Yes, it's shocking when you think of the future looming over of these people. But it's also mind-blowing that we do not know what the future has in store for us 13 years from today.
In the '80s when I was in high school in N. Ireland, we'd go to the pub after school, order fries and pint. Nobody said a thing. On our prom night, we had drinks in the headmaster's (principals) residence before the dance. We were treated like adults at 16. Here in the US, an 18 year old can barely cross the street unattended - and that is not an exaggeration. Although, if they need you to go to Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq or Djibouti, you will get treated as such, but still no drink or smokes.
And to think some of the kids, would fight in WWI, WWII come back to the Great Depression and still work. These kids would have worked and lived a thousand lifetimes of pain while we sit here and just watch.
Something stuck out to me. The children don't carry the aura of children. They all look like smaller adults. You can imagine the crushing challenges of life at that time rested on children as much as adults, where as today, for the most part, kids are safeguarded (child protection services, the state, foster system). Like looking into the actual face of history itself, I feel out of place, as if I wasn't supposed to see this. These are so fascinating.
Yeah, modern kids don't know how lucky they are with their Childline, and CPS. In my day you would get bummed off a tramp and never complain once. You would have to ride your bike home, too, even with a sore bottom, for 20 miles. If your parents found out you didn't say "thank you", they would drag you out to find that tramp, by your ear, and let him have a round two. Those were the days...
It would be just as eery for them, if they knew that looking into the camera, they are looking into the eyes of someone 119 years in the future, holding a cinema in the palm of their hand, staring back at them
2:46 The amazed boy with a piece of cloth looking straight to the camera... His eyes and face seem so Sad but deep, like he knew there was something wonderful behind... He was immortalized as the unknown cute boy!
Almost all the children are understandably self-conscious and mugging to the camera. But the lad at 2:46, clutching the cloth to his chest is strangely compelling. Fascinated by the camera but not concerned with how he is captured by the camera. A special soul.
He was so fascinated. He didn't even mind someone bumping into him. And his little smile before it. So much hustle and bustle around him. Wonderful footage. Truly amazing
Isn't he just! I thought that exactly. There is footage from the 1960's Rolling Stones gig at Altamonte where a young hippy bloke also stands out, he's shaking his head as if to say ''What's going on....No...Why'' after so much violence and bullying and murder at that festival.
@@shadowshadow2724 Backwards?Srsly?bruh people these days just wear t-shirts and plain clothing on the streets.In the video,even the children wear suits and vests lmao
@@Martin-km4sl It was known , at least at one time, as 'modesty' wear, but the woollen scarves covering the head and shoulders were also protection against moving machinery parts as all women had long hair, even though it was worn up a lot of the time. Also, the scarves provided warm protection from the biting winter winds and rain. So a dual function really.
Pay attention: almost all the people in this short clip are wearing clogs. Shoes with leather soles were too expensive for working people those days. The distinctive walk of that people is also worth notion: they walk with their legs straight, their ankles almost don't bend.
4:22 - The two fingers in a V facing palm inward / back of the hand outward is the British version of the middle finger. We were all flipped off from 120+ years ago.
@@theilluminatibenefactor I can see blokes in the modern era doing the exact same shit if you put a camera near them. Its funny to think how little we've changed over the past 120 years.
Look how the women were covered up. They make propaganda "before and after" still images of Afghanistan in the 60s or Iran in 70s. Maybe we should do some for them from 1900s vs how they are almost naked, tattooed or changed their genders today. Imagine if those saw these today?
It's so weird and haunting ... All these people had dreams abd desires, yet they're all dead after living in what seems to be a very hard life compared to ours. And this was before the war
The Parkgate Ironworks was founded in 1823, and renamed Parkgate Iron and Steel Co. in 1888. By 1901 it employed over 6,000 people, making it one of the largest employers in the Rotherham area. Its workforce included many children as half-time workers, which accounts for their numbers here. The works closed in 1982 and the site is now occupied by Parkgate Shopping centre. This film is thought to have been shown at the annual Rotherham Statis, the local Wakes fair, where the Parkgate workers would have had the opportunity of seeing themselves on screen.
at that time children's fashion was for rich people and for the people the clothes were always the same model either man or woman with some variation so they look almost the same
The Dark Knight Because as soon as they are born they were acquainted with the life of the grown man, working in the factories from an infant age. There was no such a thing as a "childhood" we know today.
So nice to see so many sisters wearing the burqah in this video. 😜 In all seriousness, these ladies (and gentlemen) knew how to live. They worshipped their Lord, covered themselves from head to toe not just cos it was cold but also out of modesty. They were probably virgins in their wedding night, stayed with the same partner until death, didn’t divorce or sleep around. Compare that to people today.
![[4k, 50fps, colorized] (1901) Panoramic View of the Morecambe Sea Front.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/oTXL6OrfWsw/mqdefault.jpg)
Some of the older people in this clip met individuals who were born in the 1700s when they were younger. Some of the younger ones heard The Beatles
I find those contextualized sentence mind blowing. For us human even a time frame of 100 years is so huge so to see you put into perspective a person of the 1700 all the way to the Beetles is amazing. 300 years of history in one comment.
Now that is just incredible to consider.
It is an interesting thing to think about. If you were born in 1995 then the oldest person alive at that time would've been Jeanne Louise Calment who was born in 1875 (who would've been alive during the recording of this film). If you live for 81 years then you'll pass away in 2076. Now imagine someone born in 2075 and will live for 125 years (which may be likely as medical science improves) then that person will pass away in 2200.
So in your lifetime, there will people living in both 1875 and 2200 which directly connects you to 325 years of history despite only being alive for 81 years.
This one person's lifetime contains people that experienced the Victorian lifestyle and people that will go on to experience an unfathomable futuristic world.
This is all so confusing 😨
Imma dip
@@gurditrehal3348 Some people were born when their fathers were old. Three Generations of that can produce surprising result.
They stare into the camera, having no idea people from a century later are staring back.
Nothing is better than your comment
Solid comment
Like mine
@Sharron Clark I got your point, but you're being gracious with poor and poorer. What a f*cked up zeitgeist to be in. All things considered, many of us are having a many fold better existence.
와 지렸다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
It’s wild to realize that all these people, every single one you see, the adults and the kids, have all passed away. Damn.
huh the film is 120 years old what is weird about it?
you know what is really weird? i see dutch people outside en i see them everywhere
and they don´t know that they´re dead they move around and act like they´re zombified or as a clone
at some point they just unplugged ´the thinking processor´
@@nillehessy Whaaaaat
@@OutragedPufferfish no noho
not Whaaaat it´s going on right now
they don´t have their own thought-out views ´n opinions anymore they just
quote state program catch-phrases
and msm propaganda
and stand by it
it´s happening in my own family for God´s sake they´re gone
scared and numb cannot be reached anymore believe me i tried ´n tried
till i got a speaking-ban from certain
family members given without blushing
or blincking people i grew up with
and knew as individuals who knew where
they stood and why well they´re gone
it´s not new going on for 10-15 yrs now
And many of them killed soon, in the IWW
I was just about to comment about that myself. This was almost 120 years ago. It's crazy!!!
The children being silly making faces at the camera. So innocent and adorable. Wonderful smiling faces. Can't help but smile back.
the same kids sadly will go fighting during WWI ...
they wont be smiling for long 1914 is around the corner
Those kids already had to work into labor at that age. The faces say it all
It's unfortunate that many of these children might have been unpaid workers on a factory
😊
This feels like two audiences observing each other across time. One from 1901 England staring through the strange device at the one that is worldwide from 2021, who are staring back through their own devices.
Surreal
Omgg yess
120 years apart
That's so well put - I'm glad I'm on this side of the temporal fence.
Underrated comment
A lot of those youngsters went on to fight in WW1.Imagine the horrors those poor kids had seen thought out their lives. Bless them
@SharkTank Leave
Many them died in WWI
Thought or through, which was the word you intended?
@@shadowjack8oh no! The grammar Gestapo are out in force 😂😂😂yawn...zzzx
So crazy what that generation lived through…WW1, plague, WW2. The sheer amount of death which took place around the world from like 1914-1950 is staggering.
When I started work in a care home aged 16 in 1985, there were several residents over 100 years. Eldest was 105, so born in 1880. He'd be 21 here. It really is mind blowing the changes they must have seen. I feel privileged to have spent time with them
I used to look after a bloke who was 106 when he died born 1906 George Nicholson he was called used to think when helping him get ready all the memories he would've had from growing up in the 1910s and 1920s.
I’m 1990 when I was 3 my gma was 100- that would have made her around 11 then. She lived a little longer than that so hearing stories back then I just couldn’t comprehend. I still can’t in my older age how amazing it is to see how time flies yet seems so far away
My great great grandmother was born in 1885 and lived to 1983, she was a slave . My great grandmother born 1926 lived to 1992, she wasn’t a slave but she had to pick cotton as a kid. My grandmother born 1960 is currently still living I love to hear all the stories she tells about her mom and grandmother, only just about 30 years ago they were still here , this was not a very long time ago as there’s many people living past 100
Nice!
@@PrincessYonna1 Thank you for saying it. The racist whites descendant of those evil slave owners be trying hard to act like nobody alive today has remotely a connection with slavery where your grandmother alive today was alive in the same timeline than her relative that was a slave.
I love the young children . The young boys especially laughing and mugging for the moving picture camera . Little did they know that after they were gone people in the 21st century would be looking at them . They make me smile . What a picture from the past ! Thank you for posting!❤
Yes and you not know will watch read yours comment from 2124 future liver people in 22nd century people but we will die in 2124 very sad
This is uncomfortable. Feels like they're staring into the future at us while we stare into the past at them.
Yup. Strange af
its wigging me out & i dont know how to feel
Exactly for a minute I actually felt like they were looking at me looking at them it was so freaking wierd😨,But I really enjoyed it amazing what great job he did to clear up the pixels.
yes, like a window to other age
"So enjoy your time, travel experience HUMAN..."
"Those poor children workers had no childhood"
Considering a good part of them probably died in WW1, they had no adulthood either.
No childhood or adulthood
Makes you wonder what they lived for
who knows what future people will say about our small children if corona mutates in a monster ...
They probably had a better childhood than most these days.... No junk food, computer games etc Just coal dust and whisky
childhood or not, they are better dress for sure. look at them style!
Armoured Rat bruh y u hating on everybody take a chill pill and relax while u enjoy this video
I love how everyone starts smiling immediatly when they realise that they are being filmed
Привет!
@@ЮлияРоманова-ф5д penis?
They'd be doing a lot of smiling today
My favourite is that guy in 4:23 .. he gave the cameraman the finger, lmao.
@@mazeppa1231 ye I saw that .The thought that they were all so polite back then has now been erased.Maybe he was scared of the camera
This is 1,000,000 times better than any book or lecture, you feel infinitely closer to the people in the film, chances are that some of us watching are even related to them and I think it's really nice that all these people are immortalised in such a way!
This is so fascinating, all these people didnt know that they are looking straight into the faces of people who are living 120 years after them, so epic
Wow
The crazy part is people 120 years later are going to look back to our RUclips Video's livestreams etc etc..
@@Tengri_COD yea thats exactly that what i am thinking about:)
@@Tengri_COD same here
@@Tengri_COD not if susan has her way by that time all the video's will be removed for hate speech due to wokeness.
The one behavior that hasn't changed: people goofing around in front of the camera.
I wonder how the Camera looked like they seem to give quite a stare at it If you ask me they must not see a camera alot imagine if they seen the technology we have now it would blow their minds how this world changed
SenyuHero basically looked like a giant camera lolz
Bullshit. You get punched if you film people nowadays.
Lol
@@senyuhero It'll be a big box on a tripod the size of a man
Why do I find this addictive? I’m fascinated by it, as fascinated as they are seeing the camera. It truly feels like time travel, like we’re looking at each other.
ME TOO...
Because the Time not exist perhaps..
It's very hypnotic. I suppose because of its elusiveness.
Yes!!! It's crazy to think that they had no idea their lives for a moment would be archived and watched by people all over the world on their own little devices more than a century later.
me to same thought
As history buff and gamer, I wish in the future they'd make VR of you walking around in the 1900s and see how it was back then.
And then use this footage for it?
That would be fascinating. There wouldn't need to be any 'missions'. Just walking around the streets with sound and visuals. Someone clever do it now 😞
I've always hoped for this. That would be so amazing.
My dream
Standing in a circle to watch a fist fight...
No one in 1901
I can't believe all those faces are dead today. They would have never imagined that in 2020 some random peruvian guy sitting at his COMPUTER at 11pm would be watching them with awe.
@DATING HARLEY QUINN imagine.
Some people in this film is alive just older than every single comment and creater on here
@@b-ballkidvlogz9944 do you know anyone from this footage being 119 year old right now ?
@@Veckler Yes and he is not a British.
There was a couple babies, who theoretically could be alive today...a lot more probable in the year 2000...imagine, most of those young boys got mutilated in France 15 yrs later
It’s kinda creepy lol it looks like they are just astonished to see us as we are to see them.. feels like they’re looking right back at us... wow
That’s exactly how I felt too.
@dread true obviously they know that goofball they were just pointing out how astonished they were looking at it
Seeing this video in color, instead of the usual black and white film, makes these people more real, or alive, to me.
Yes! From the other side
@dread true dughhh. No one is disputing that you jack ass. But now that thawi are all dead, who knows if they are actually there looking at us the living
01:18 - The man with his sign advertising it on camera was a marketing genius well ahead of his time
I know whose Passion Play I'm seeing when I time travel to 1901.
4:24 lol u wot mate
That's probably the first television ad ever
@@Shilgne1 I think you're right, an unintentional coincidence which results in that man literally taking that position in the history books forever, yet he probably never will be recongized for it officially on any Wikipedias.
Ad duration: 119 years
Impressions: 1.6 million
Now that's what I call an effective ad campaign!
I love how despite the horrible living conditions everyone remains to dress elegantly, and also I love how everyone acts either classy or goofy when the camera is pointed towards them 😭
especially women wearing hijab , and today the British say that these clothes are alien to them,
@@LiveInTravelI don’t think it’s hijab. It’s just a shawl.
@@moon_0207whatever the name is, they are literally covered head to toe... Doesn't seem too much different than the hijab
@@AzelVonAzrael not necessarily. There’s more religious meaning behind the hijab
@@moon_0207 of course but my point is if westerners are complaining that the concept of a woman covered head to toe is alien to them then this video is a proof it isn't...
3:29 (standing on the left)
3:38 (standing on the right)
3:49 (following the camera)
4:16 (smiling at camera on the right)
4:50 (walking away from the camera)
5:19 (bottom right corner)
That boy was following the camera all day.
I think he may have been related to someone associated with the filming. He looks smartly dressed compared to the other children.
Good catch!
İ've noticed too.
His behaviour towards the camera seems almost professional. If he was a local who dressed up in his Sunday best and followed the camera all day you would think he would fool around a bit , pull a face here and there, but his manner does suggest he was with the film crew.
Maybe he was related to the camera man.
The clips look like they were taken on different days.
When the most popular diet program was trying not to die.
1901 was not a bad time for food in the Victoria era. It was much worst in the 1950’s in England then the early 1900’s.
@ArtieKay BLACK GUY PLAYING WITH WHITE GUY 1:10 *WHOLESOME*
@@stevethea5250 I don't think he's black. He's in a group of men whose faces were all blackened with soot. If you look at his arm you can see it has splotches of soot on it as well.
So much White Privilege in display
@@katovomkozies feel bad for you mate.
That moment when you realize that most of these kids in the video were the ones to fight in the first world war...
That's so strange... I thought of that too.
as well as most of these people sufferd thru their own pandemic
Ouch 😢
You're looking at Strong Men
Better them than us.
There's a lot to take from this video, but one thing that stands out to me is how happy some of them look. They hardly had anything, yet we're happy. These days we have so much more and a better way of life, yet most of us struggle to crack a smile.
internet and social medias ruined everything ,we compare everything now ,seeing ppl's lives thru social media
They look miserable to me.
@@dustygatrell-ru7tgI know right? You could even see that some had barely slept.
5:00
This is probably the oldest street fight footage shown in 4K
That’s how you know this time age is rough when not a single person steps in to stop just lets them get on with it until one of them is knocked out....
Worrrrldstaaaaarrrrr 🤣🤣
@@TheodoreGrevers-bg3zw thats it, im just gonna carry a massive tripod around with me everywhere so i never end up on r/killthecameraman
Eddie hearn would have stuck that on PPV
Bum Fights: The Prequel
I get an odd feeling that they're staring into the future at us as much we're staring at them in the past. They seem completely captivated by this strange thing called a camera!
That´s very poetic...well put. My sentiments exactly
Cameras back then were massive so im not surprised
And many of them would die in the 1st & subsequently called for a decade &1/2 the last war. From either trench warfare, mustard gas or the various diseases that spread so quickly in the trenches including the Spanish Flu. But the youth in 1901 sure look like they knew the new century was going to be fantastic.
Deep words💔😔👌🏼
Yes!
The most interesting thing I take away is how people react to being filmed. Such curiosity displayed by many of them, and caution by others.
They always look confused as hell, like most of them think that they are taking a picture
I've been in India and Africa. They've behave in the same way.
😂
@justice start YES EXACTLY
We look the the same when a google streetview car drives by.
Imagine for a moment that someone in these videos could have an email address. My great grandfather was born in 1901 and when he passed in 2002 he was on the internet.
Lol😊
damn, life was hard. those kids don't even look like kids.
That's just England lol.
Many must have perished during the First World War...
@@The_Last_Pants_Youll_Ever_Wear Working class kids looked great in Moscow or Naples did they?
@nasim whitehouse It is very unfortunate but true...
Well, that's White "privilege" for you.
there's something incredibly otherworldly about this. i've dreamed of time travel all my life, as i'm sure many people have, and this is the closest thing to it that i've ever experienced.
Meditate harder.
i know what you mean...i get mesmerized looking at videos like this. good to know im not alone.
I agree it is like time travel. Absolutely fascinating. My grandfather was six at the time so theoretically he could have been in a film like this. They had such crap clothes, especially the trousers. Life was tough for the poor.
Old 19th century stereoviews are a great way of time travelling as well, so long as your eyes can work with them.
What r you smoking?
The profundity of this footage, for me at least, is how recognisable all the faces are - the reactions, the expressions, the stares. "Victorian England" feels so alien as a concept, like a different world. But no, it's the same world, with the same people feeling the same things as I do. People are the same as ever.
Depends on what you mean by “the same”. In Uxbridge shopping area (Boris’ constituency) today I would say only 10 percent of the very busy place were white British.
Don’t kid yourself we’re the same. I don’t think you’ll ever know how it feels to pick which of your children will have to become a prostitute so that the others will have food in the table.
@@oldman1734 A significant number of these people would’ve been the children of Irish migrant workers.
@@markofsaltburn. I’m not sure of the significance of your comment.
Same as I thought, people’s emotions don’t change
This is amazing. At 4:59 in the bottom right of the screen there are 2 friends walking from the workhouse who, to seemingly entertain themselves, decide to start punching the shit out of each other. These people were hard as nails... the children have the aire and comport of grown men. Their eyes are disturbingly world weary for such tender years...
Mad to think all these people are long dead... feels like we are staring at legions of ghosts and they are staring right back at the future
sad : c
I too had the impression that was two fellas scrapping for their jollies. Tough times create hard men. Look at the state of what we got now.
The adults are all like "I want to be in this, but I don't want to look like I want to be in this"
😂
Crazy when you realise how many of these kids would have ended up in the trenches in WW1
yes and all for nothing!!!
I see...another white rose...good
Or in the Titanic
Crazier that they would be working before then as children
@@now591 not exactly
I like how shocked everyone is towards the camera.
Yeah, I feel so strange when I look at them and see their reaction on camera
1900 - headcover
2020 - facecover
The camera was probably as big as a telephone kiosk!
it is 1901 you dumbass
@@SabinaVamp sex?
The Austrian Painter was only 12 when this was originally filmed.
And that bald Italian guy was already 18 and teaching
😂😂😂 zio Adolfo e zio Benito 😅😅😅
I want to see the 14 act Passion Play all animated just so he knows that his advertising from 1901 reached me here in 2020.
This.
Mel Gibson, perhaps?
Interesting to note that Passion Plays were the earliest form of theatrical performance in Britain, a tradition dating back to the middle ages.
How would he know.
I want one of those ‘Lantern Seats’!
The young man at 4:24 giving an F+++ Off 'V' sign made me smile and his reaction a few seconds later leads me to believe the cameraman commented on it.
is he saying "Wan_er" ?? or Back off?
😂😂😂😂
He looks like a nasty piece of work to me. Cold hard people in cold hard times. If he's 16 then, in 1914 he would have been 29. Did he see & survive WW1?
@@ianharwell7500 very good point unfortunately. These boys had no idea of the absolute horrors that was about to befront them. Even after their damn hard youth.
He threw a piece sign and then the cameraman ask him if he a time traveler
All those kids just looked like tiny old people.
And now they are dead people.
Not surprising. Working class children were forced into labor as soon as they could be, even as young as 4 years old. Naturally they'd look 'grizzled' and 'worn' before they're even teenagers, especially since they worked long hours too. Just as much as the adults. All that plus poor nutrition and hygiene.
Idk why but, for me I always find Caucasian guys in this era more attractive than now 😅 the kids are very cute and charming
YES!!! i was like why do they move so adult like. that was intense conditioning of hardship
GIwillo no no they look very mature one child looked like a 45 year old man
My grandad was twelve then my nan was eleven.I remember them both in my childhood they were great human beings.I was born December 1949.
Probably most of the young boys in this film had to witness the horrors of the trenches years later.
Most definitely or WWII
🥺😢🍁🇨🇦.
And the elderly in this video may have witnessed the Jack the Ripper case.
@@melloangelwolf8611 Too old for WW2 since England entered 38 years later. You had to be between 18-41 yrs old to get drafted.
@@agnieszkawojak4081 Jack the Ripper was only a decade earlier.
Feels like I actually traveled back in time and everyone saw me.
I felt like some of them were staring right at my soul😳
Maybe u did.
I see dead people
@@zackbarkley7593 this ain't a scfi netflix movie though
Lunatic
@@mamindhive open your mind..
See that kid flicking the V's at 4:23? That's the first ever documented incident of someone using that hand gesture. I read it on Wikipedia!
"The first unambiguous evidence of the use of the insulting V sign in the United Kingdom dates to 1901, when a worker outside Parkgate ironworks in Rotherham used the gesture (captured on the film) to indicate that he did not like being filmed."
(The idea that bowman in the middle ages flicked the V at their enemies to prove that they can still fire arrows is apocryphal.)
Well, Wiki may not always be the most reliable source, but regardless it blew my fucking mind reading that.
Amazing, thanks for this tidbit.
kid looked aggressive as fuck lol
Looks like he's saying "Piss off." haha
Linh Nguyen I would be too if I had to work that hard, for that long at that age
I bet none of these people even remotely thought people would be watching them over 100 years later, long after all of them passed away.
The boys we are looking at here are the 'lost generation', the ones who would die in the green fields of France upon reaching adulthood.
#RIP
#RIP😭
Victims of the spanish flu as well
That’s the sad part of it.Little did they know what was coming.
Janice Granville The world is turning itself inside out about this pandemic, but could you imaging living through the world wars.
~100,000 people have died due to COVID19 in 4 months in America.
~500,000 soldiers died during the 3 month long Battle of Passchendaele along with 850,000 casualties.
~300,000 soldiers died during the Battle of the Somme, with ~19,000 British dying on the first day. In total ~1,300,000 casualties.
Bless them.
They had no idea staring at that newfangled camera gadget that people all over the world would be watching them over a century later. This restoration is incredible. Thank you for posting!
Indeed what a technology we have. Little did we know maybe one of them is our ancestors 😂
Just like you don't know that CIA ultra-close-satellite cameras today have you picking your nose and people 300 years from now will be viewing you.
@@davidb2206 That's what I was wondering. What are we doing now that they will be watching in the future. I guess that answers my question 🤭
@@davidb2206 lololol
@Yosemite2020 G I desperately hope nothing major destroys all our media by then. I want our little memories to become something for those in 2121, the way this footage became something for us.
Looks like people are watching from the past through the “camera hole” to present, incredible
oh... oh god. im so ashamed for what theyre seeing
well by looking at a camera in the 1900s you were kinda looking at the future
So that's why the kids are laughing at me, 😔
@@pvtperkins1455 Theyre don t seeing!
@@greg4081 not really. "Cameras" had been around since the 1820s, and widespread since the 1830s. For them, it was the amazement that the pictures are MOVING.
Thank you for this footage wow amazing
I love the way that kid at 3:07 is posing
Youll never see anyone pose like that unironically ever again.
@Fahim Hussain if that kid were his grandfather, the commenter would be old af
David Bowie and Scott Weiland
Lol then you haven’t met zoomers
Kidnapping by Indians was the first Western film produced in 1899 in England so its very possible that he saw the movie and wanted to act like a cowboy
Jojo pose
In before HOLY SHIT IS THAT MOTHERFUCKING JOJO REFERENCE?!?!
The crazy thing is, watching all those boys laugh and point at the camera, you have to wonder which of them would end up dying in WW1. This would be the first and maybe last time their faces would be seen through a lens.
My grandfathers 4 uncles died in British army in WW1. They were Irish Catholics and a few years later the British army were fighting the Irish in the war of independence
wow JUST WHAT I WERE THINKING!
Wow. Deep 👌🏽
I was thinking the exact same thing, many would have enlisted and probably died fighting...
I thought the exact same thing. They have no idea what awaits them.
These poor boys would've fought in two World Wars and suffered Spannish Flu if they survived that long. Absolutely tragic.
Damn. Didn’t think of it like that...
True but some of those kids could have been still alive to watch the Apollo Moon Landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s on live tv..
@john smith Did you not read the first paragraph of the article???? Spanish flu CAUSED the bacterial pneumonia by depleting the cells that line the bronchial tubes...which allowed bacteria to invade the lungs (causing pneumonia). The cause of death was, ultimately, Spanish flu.
I agree that CNN and other mainstream media outlets are l3ftist propaganda, but your lack of any sense of reading comprehension is making you look like a buffoon.
Not to mention Tuberculosis and Polio. BTW notice the wooden shoes?
endless parade of stinkpots
4:59 oh my god this has to be the oldest footage of a street fight. I love how people look back at it.
The fact everyone just stares at you really makes you feel like you travelled back in time and they are all scared but curious of this person who looks so different than everyone else
Lol thats what Ive been thinking
Sad thing is that most of them or all of them are dead
@@dmv_jmoney3446 no shit lol
I think part of why they stand so still and stare is that they're used to having to be very still to get their picture taken and they've probably never heard of video before and can't quite wrap their head around it.
@@dmv_jmoney3446 Gee, what an original thought.
Imagine not knowing how cool you’re gonna look in a hundred years
Hundred and twenty, even!
Cody Sherry 119 odd
Yes. People look humble
That is simply erie. They look like they had a rough life but they seem happier than many people today. I guess because they had a lot less free time to fret over pronouns or cook up more reasons to be a victim.
They're all dead now which is the weirdest thought
1:24 Even in 1901, people were interrupted by banner ads...
And at 1:26: "Come on, lads. Let's go block that pop-up."
You can see all English ladies are wearing scarfs, veils, and long robes which look exactly like Muslim women Hijab in our days
Well, the tradition is from Caucasian/White females of antiquity. The tradition remains in some nations. Demographics in those countries do not reflect what they used to be. 🙂
1:09 onwards you can clearly a West Indies black man
@@Beepbeepbeepbe It’s the colorization from the person who added color to the video. If you look closely you can see it on several men. Their phenotype is Caucasian. It looks like soot, dirt, etc. The original is in black and white. Artistic license was taken to colorize in any way they wanted.
they probably wear it for modesty
@@aliza6576it's called a shawl they wore them cos they couldn't afford coats
I can’t help but wonder how many of the boys in the video perished in the trenches of France and Belgium.
It seems I'm not the only wondering the exact same thing... I really wish we could live in a world where there had not been any world wars
@@caligariwulf788 Sadly wars exist for a reason to reflect what we are as a human being. If we ever didn't have wars, human beings ceases to exist.
I was thinking that myself.
Unfortunately, probably a great many. I'll admit I thought the same thing as you.
That was my exact same thought too.
The kids look well older in their faces, hard times in them days
@Spanish John Nope
@Spanish John You look like Greta Thunberg.
3:08 The kid in the middle looks old. I can't tell if it is caused by a birth defect or if he was in an accident or fire. His skin texture looks like a skin graft like a burn victim has( 3:13 when he faces his right). Could be the camera and lighting playing tricks on my eyes.... Other than that, the kid looks happy, healthy and energetic.
Back then 15 was like 22.. life was rough..
Check out Wayne Rooney when he was 21.
what I find amazing about all these old videos is the way people dressed back then. Almost every male person is wearing a suit, even little kids are wearing a 3 piece suit.
There was no such thing as children's clothes back then unless it was for the rich or babies. It was just different sizes of the same clothes.
The clothes are pretty grubby and everyone probably smelled pretty bad since clothes were only washed once a week. Most of the women are wearing large aprons to protect their clothes and I'm guessing that those were washed and changed more frequently.
I have noticed that most women were wearing head scarf like Muslims women do.
most forbidden documentary.,. Europa The Last Battle at archive . org
And women are all dressed up modestly
It will be crazy that 100 years from now, people in the 2100s will be looking at videos of us now and having the same reaction. Not to mention looking at these vintage videos too (200 years ago). Crazy!
It’s hard to imagine that these people actually existed a hundred years ago. No one knew that two world wars will brake out during their time. Some of them died during the First World War, some on the second. A lot has changed in just one century. There’s a lot to take in from this video. Thanks.
I know, it's weird. Every single person you see in that video is a real person just going about their life. These aren't actors, or cartoons - these are just normal, everyday people. This is what their world looked like. And a lot of them lost their lives not many years after this was taken.
If we ever invented time travel, I would love to just go back to older periods of human history and ask: What is your life like?
It will be great if they get similar footage from Egypt. Will be great to see the pyramids being built and the pharohs(?) enjoying life
@@robertwilson3866yeah that would be great
@@robertwilson3866You'd die of the spooks if you watched it.
These young boys in that video will be sent to the war in a decade later.
Sadly, WW1 would deny many of these young lads the opportunity to see old age.
yep and all because of 1 man being fucking assassinated
Old age is overrated
@@_____________8447 better to me than the alternative.
My thoughts also. Sad they wiped out almost their whole generation of men.
Very tragic, indeed.
Just realise the fact that all young people in this footage with a curious look looks exactly like we all watching this video. )
True that, this video mesmerises me
Возможно люди будущего тоже будут на нас смотреть так.
I would imagine a lot of these boys and men died in WW1.
Indeed, though one lad at 4:21 ish sticks two fingers up, which if you're not British is the same as giving the finger everywhere else
@@swfcocs1 I kind of guessed that by his look, but what really surprises me is that - according to Wikipedia - sir Winston was totally unaware of that as late as in 1942. Which is even more surprising considering he had been running the Home Office for almost a year.
Gracias por enseñarnos esas maravillosas escenas, al que las grabó y al que las puso en You Tube.
I wonder when people started saying, "you know what, I'm not wearing a hat any more"
I'd say late 40's
Basically when people started using cars, before then people walked, it rains a lot, so you put on a hat, it wasn't an overnight thing but as more and more people had cars, more and more people didn't feel the need to wear then anymore.
The 60's
This made me laugh probably more than it should have.
😂😂😂
These people are walking around and constantly pushing each other not even noticing it.
Yes❤️❤️
Yes, they walk aimlessly like if they were lost. They don't look happy either.
I noticed that too. A lot of it seems to be a joshing or ribbing that there is a camera. I wonder if the cameraman had a large sign behind him explaining what hes doing. The camera is definitely a novel occurence for them for sure. However, there is a lot of pushing and bumping that seems par for the course while being in a public street. Very odd for us to see this.
@shannonandsheila1 the children are having more fun than the adults, that's true.
Spot the black?
The kids are fascinated by this new technology but most of the adults shy away from it. Some things never change
😂😂😂😂
Por qué será?
Look at the women, they are modest and walk with honour
I look at the kids in 1901, then think where they'll be thirteen years latter: the trenches of France, engaged in the nightmare curtain raiser for the 20th century.
If they make it to 1918 they will then experience the Spanish flu pandemic. We have had it pretty good in modern times, hopefully our generation can look back and say we met our challenge with dignity and honor.
IE 87 it’s a bit depressing when I look around and wonder if this might be our “golden age.” There’s always some who rise to challenges, but too many who don’t dominate the story. Sorry to be such a pessimist.
My father was born in England 1901, volunteered for WWI and served as a horse boy in the artillery. He went on to survive the flu and the depression . Got called up for the BEF in 1939, was picked off Dunkirk beach, patched up and sent to northern Africa. He made it home, died 1972.
David Porter He was an amazing man. Looks like we may have to go through our own fires, and can only hope to measure up to the same standards.
Yes, it's shocking when you think of the future looming over of these people. But it's also mind-blowing that we do not know what the future has in store for us 13 years from today.
4:22 this bloke just said piss off to over 2 million people from the future.
He said 'Twat'. It means vagina.
@@anvilbrunner.2013 No, he said two words or one word with two syllables.
@@budte you're spot on !
Whatever it was he said there's no doubting what he was trying to convey haha
@@budte Twat fuck off. Three words. He said twat while facing & fuck off whilst turning away.
I'm 41 and one of my grandfathers was born in 1894. He could literally have been one of those children 😯
Cool im 11 and if someone sees my comment after 100 years, do not forget me XD
Wow. How old was he when the child who was/is one of yours parent was born?
wow, similar. I'm 40 and my paternal grandfather was born in 1888
I'm 40. Mothers side, grandfather 1894 grandmother 1896.
I'm 25, but on my dad's side, my great grandparents were both born in 1892, my Grandfather 1914.
Women of that time did not like to expose their bodies unlike women of today..
Thats called perv3rted mind you have. Why do you care 😂
And to think so many of those men / boys went off to fight and die 13-17 years later. Very sad
:/
I was thinking exactly that. I was wanting to shout into there and warn the poor things.
women handing them white feathers and calling them cowards if they dared to refuse.
@@xcidgafhamas I'd have enough feathers to stuff a pillow. Always a bright side.
All of them, including women died
The children look like miniature adults. And they are all unsupervised. It's an entirely different culture.
KingOfKings Unsupervised is why they became stronger and better people.
No helicopter parents then.
Nowadays kids are supervised... by tablets.
In the '80s when I was in high school in N. Ireland, we'd go to the pub after school, order fries and pint. Nobody said a thing. On our prom night, we had drinks in the headmaster's (principals) residence before the dance. We were treated like adults at 16. Here in the US, an 18 year old can barely cross the street unattended - and that is not an exaggeration. Although, if they need you to go to Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq or Djibouti, you will get treated as such, but still no drink or smokes.
Kids grew up to become strong individual adults, unlike todays kids.
- Police officer, there was a robbery
- Describe to me what he was wearing
Lol
exactly, really brings to light how much more diverse clothing is these days.
-Person: Officer, there was a robbery
!
-Cop: What was he wearing?
-Person: Yes.
@@friedchicken1
-Cop: Say no more, let's get that son of a b*tch
Therefore they needed Sherlock Holmes
And to think some of the kids, would fight in WWI, WWII come back to the Great Depression and still work. These kids would have worked and lived a thousand lifetimes of pain while we sit here and just watch.
Something stuck out to me. The children don't carry the aura of children. They all look like smaller adults. You can imagine the crushing challenges of life at that time rested on children as much as adults, where as today, for the most part, kids are safeguarded (child protection services, the state, foster system). Like looking into the actual face of history itself, I feel out of place, as if I wasn't supposed to see this. These are so fascinating.
Yeah, modern kids don't know how lucky they are with their Childline, and CPS.
In my day you would get bummed off a tramp and never complain once.
You would have to ride your bike home, too, even with a sore bottom, for 20 miles. If your parents found out you didn't say "thank you", they would drag you out to find that tramp, by your ear, and let him have a round two.
Those were the days...
So true
Remember just the 90s we were more mature ..It's
@@jav7899 don't be sad ...hard times forge hard men
They had to go out to work sometimes as soon as they were able, and had to grow up quick
I feel like most of the children have such old faces. They’re just little bodies with old peoples faces on them.
I think it's cause they had to grow up so much faster in those days as well as becoming independent
I thought of the same thing! Explains old paintings and how kids in them look old. It's really puzzling...
They've got bills to pay, get back to work!
I would add to that some of them appear to have the look of stunted growth from malnutrition
Especially In working class and lower income families of the time, children were expected to look after their younger siblings and be breadwinners too
I'm staring at ghosts and they are staring back. Chills.
Or maybe they are reborn again
@@wakeup6778 ;)
It would be just as eery for them, if they knew that looking into the camera, they are looking into the eyes of someone 119 years in the future, holding a cinema in the palm of their hand, staring back at them
It’s quite possible a handful of these people are still alive.
@@MixedThruMusic dead now due to the rona
This is the very END OF VICTORIAN ENGLAND. She died in 1901. Then it was the Edwardian era. Amazing footage 👏
Man, the hat industry must've been booming back then...
In 120 years when people see images of today, they will be saying, the mask industry must’ve been booming back them…
Why were the women covering their heads, it was a thing then?
@@barbarabivins6923 Women were expected to be modest, yes.
@@barbarabivins6923 it’s cold in England
Head lice prevention possibly
2:09 I love the little boy who starts grinning and makes a rude gesture at the camera! Some things never change
lmaooo
little bustard. ( actually he's older than me anyways)
2:46 The amazed boy with a piece of cloth looking straight to the camera... His eyes and face seem so Sad but deep, like he knew there was something wonderful behind... He was immortalized as the unknown cute boy!
Não mesmo
@@Martin-km4sl S T F U
👍👍
The fact that everyone's photobombing is so entertaining. We humans are all the same - always fascinated by the new concepts 😊
Almost all the children are understandably self-conscious and mugging to the camera. But the lad at 2:46, clutching the cloth to his chest is strangely compelling. Fascinated by the camera but not concerned with how he is captured by the camera. A special soul.
He was so fascinated. He didn't even mind someone bumping into him. And his little smile before it. So much hustle and bustle around him. Wonderful footage. Truly amazing
and I’m captured by him!!! 🤩
Isn't he just! I thought that exactly.
There is footage from the 1960's Rolling Stones gig at Altamonte where a young hippy bloke also stands out, he's shaking his head as if to say ''What's going on....No...Why'' after so much violence and bullying and murder at that festival.
He gives me "protagonist" vibes, like he's the main character in all this..
👍
Their clothes for today's standards make them look stylish, even the children
really ? not backwards?
I'd say more of SMOKING SEXY SYTLE !!!
@@shadowshadow2724 Backwards?Srsly?bruh people these days just wear t-shirts and plain clothing on the streets.In the video,even the children wear suits and vests lmao
@@Martin-km4sl Those were the older ladies. The younger ones wore loose fitting dresses. Non-provocative but still really pretty.
@@Martin-km4sl It was known , at least at one time, as 'modesty' wear, but the woollen scarves covering the head and shoulders were also protection against moving machinery parts as all women had long hair, even though it was worn up a lot of the time. Also, the scarves provided warm protection from the biting winter winds and rain. So a dual function really.
2:13 he totally just flipped us off!
Pay attention: almost all the people in this short clip are wearing clogs. Shoes with leather soles were too expensive for working people those days. The distinctive walk of that people is also worth notion: they walk with their legs straight, their ankles almost don't bend.
Why they dont bend
interesting...now i see
guess wooden clogs are heavy on feet and hurts for a long walk?
@@Phantom-ez4zv Clogs were usually made of wood, so they were not flexible.
@@ALIANALISA no need to be a d!ck, my guy's just asking a question.
4:22 - The two fingers in a V facing palm inward / back of the hand outward is the British version of the middle finger. We were all flipped off from 120+ years ago.
Maybe the guy didn't want to be filmed
@@theilluminatibenefactor I can see blokes in the modern era doing the exact same shit if you put a camera near them.
Its funny to think how little we've changed over the past 120 years.
@@cyqry I wonder when we will fully change. 2200?
Что бы пишешь? Пиши по русски
@@АлексейПавлов-р9з Он просто говорит, что означает жест рукой в Британии.
So this is what time travelling feels like... The closest feeling to time travelling
i believe it is , thats why everyone stops dead in their tracks lol jk
It’s really creepy it’s like we watching ghost
Look how the women were covered up.
They make propaganda "before and after" still images of Afghanistan in the 60s or Iran in 70s. Maybe we should do some for them from 1900s vs how they are almost naked, tattooed or changed their genders today. Imagine if those saw these today?
@@Ibn_Abdulaziz To show how far they've regressed back to medieval times in Afghanistan and how far forward the west has moved.
@@hetrodoxly1203 Like doubting and debating what genders you belong to?
C'est tout simplement ...formidable!et très émouvant 😮❤
Imagine telling these people at the time that in the year 2020 people would watch this
@@c7uk yeah some dodgy phrasing there lmao
mdhs 😁 Maybe you just missed “on miniature handheld picture-houses” at the end 😉
Some of us watching them on mobile phones too. 😂
What if I told you 100 years from now, a new generation would be reading through these very comments we are submitting today?
@@1LuvMLPFiM What if I told you 100 years from now, a new generation wouldn't give two poops about these very comments we are submitting today?
It's so weird and haunting ... All these people had dreams abd desires, yet they're all dead after living in what seems to be a very hard life compared to ours. And this was before the war
Before both wars. Before Titanic.
@El Dimos Karam it probably was pretty fucking serious to the people who died and their friends and family
I'm sure they had things that make them happy in their private lives, that just doesn't go down in history books
That's what you call "white privilege." (sarcasm)
"seems to be" It was without question a harder life. People nowadays wouldn't last 6 months living the life these people had.
The Parkgate Ironworks was founded in 1823, and renamed Parkgate Iron and Steel Co. in 1888. By 1901 it employed over 6,000 people, making it one of the largest employers in the Rotherham area. Its workforce included many children as half-time workers, which accounts for their numbers here. The works closed in 1982 and the site is now occupied by Parkgate Shopping centre. This film is thought to have been shown at the annual Rotherham Statis, the local Wakes fair, where the Parkgate workers would have had the opportunity of seeing themselves on screen.
Very interesting...thank you.
of course it was fucking thatcher that closed the place
Bruh what, the amount of times I've been there and i never knew it wasn't an outdoor shopping center..
@@caesar_06 🤔🤣
Thanks for that
...and their gaze shall continue to be met by the viewers - for centuries to come...
Almost every child looks like a mini adult.
Ik probably they didn't eat healthy or stress so much 🤷🏽♂️
well they were...the kids went to work in factories because no child labor laws.
at that time children's fashion was for rich people and for the people the clothes were always the same model either man or woman with some variation so they look almost the same
The Dark Knight Because as soon as they are born they were acquainted with the life of the grown man, working in the factories from an infant age. There was no such a thing as a "childhood" we know today.
They had to grow up faster back in the days.
2:46 the blonde boy who just gazing at the device for ages makes me feel so sad that he’s gone
We aren’t meant to be here forever. Don’t be sad. The reality is, and I think most people would agree, is that it would suck to be immortal on earth.
true af 💀 he's kinda cute tho
@@l3vexly23 lol i thought im the only one✋😀😭😭💀 but still makes me feel sad
I was touched as he gazed into the camera with complete wonder. We will never know his name.
@@l3vexly23 lmao
Reminds me of someone who commented in a similar video,
“Someone tell me why I fell in love with someone’s grandpa”
This is wild. Like I'm literally watching this over 100 yrs later.
Everyond
Wow, really? That's wild. I didn't think of that.
@@gxsgdhdhrgdhfhdrdhjdhjtfd Yeah bro, me neither.
Its almost 120 years later, i can’t really process how much time that really is.
So nice to see so many sisters wearing the burqah in this video. 😜
In all seriousness, these ladies (and gentlemen) knew how to live. They worshipped their Lord, covered themselves from head to toe not just cos it was cold but also out of modesty. They were probably virgins in their wedding night, stayed with the same partner until death, didn’t divorce or sleep around.
Compare that to people today.
England 1901: everybody is white
England 2101: nobody is white
Correction:
England 2101: multiracial jungle
The young guy at 4:22 isn't too happy and the 2 fingered gesture hasn't changed in 119 years!
HaHa! Amazing catch. Brits seemed liked a much rougher crowd back then- a lot of these people look tough.
Love DicedTomatoes That’s because you are looking at Victorian era peasants, not aristocracy
I like the stern look he gets from the chap at the door when he lets them in.
Looked like he called the cameraman a wanker too.
yeah, i caught that too