Electric Tram Rides from Forster Square, Bradford (1902) | BFI
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A real treat and wonderful insight into life over one hundred years ago. I enjoyed this more than I can say. Must mention the fitting background music which actually enhances this clip as opposed to the usual overpowering explosions and drums with their cheapening qualities that mostly dominate media presentations these days. Finally the narrator was as clear as a bell and I didn't have to strain to hear one word.
It's good that historical footage like this has been preserved. It looks like it was only filmed yesterday.
The film negatives were found in old barrels in 1994 in the basement of a building. They were then successfully applied to film, taking care to regulate the speed because cameras those days were hand-cranked. So basically this was filmed over 100 years ago and with today's technology able to see the film almost as if it were yesterday.
Absolutely amazing I'm here in Bradford 2023 watching these people going about their daily life little did they know that someone will be watching them 120 years in the future on a handheld electronic device halfway around the world,
Thank you Mitchell and Kenyon wherever you are.
ive lived here 35 years and my father 49years, man it has changed even in 1960 things still had some vintage to them, it seems to have all but disappeared.
I have to stop watching these old nostalic clips... Makes me so emotional, it was a time when you got a good salary for driving a tram and you had a job for life....
Women couldn't vote nor have a bank account without their husband's permission, child labour was a thing, there were no antibiotics and people died stupidly from diphtheria, tetanus or polio.. Yeah, it makes me cry too.
@@rosiebowers1671 I'll bet your fun at party's.
Wow...I was born in Bradford in 1997. Still here now in 2015. It has changed so much.
Hope it's in colour now lol
As they say in 21st century Bradford... "Allahu Akbar" ;-)
Love the old feller on the tricycle!
Everyone in this clip are long gone. A sobering thought.
All this is so beautiful..!! Awesome nostalgic a view past from the our lives..!!
Just like gazing through a window into another age.So sublime.
And not a single takeaway in sight...
practice of the coffee industry cloth industry industrial City Bradford where the Queen Victoria would come to collect crown half a crown half a bob Bob's your uncle uncle Sam DC Chicago boys Batman and the Blackman leader of Chicago Gotham Gotham City gotha City of Albert Einstein and Albert Victoria husband Albert vice Royal gotha claiming himself as a god judge and jury judiciary
@@GULFRAZMAJEEDseye8eyes could you elaborate on that, please?
You know where that is going😂
The quality of this is amazing. It must've been remastered, because I didn't think they had the technology to make a film of this quality until about the 1920's.
Hauntingly lovely. Just lovely. Thank you.
to bitterchew: yes, many films of the era looked abnormally fast because the cameras were hand cranked.....no electric or spring driven motors in them....also i believe there were less frames per second.....that would also tend to make them move faster
The 4 well dressed women with the hats looked so classy. The assistant at 0.30 made a good decision to get them to walk back and film them again.
Strange how many people walked on the road in those days
Especially when smart dress girls have to step around horse droppings...
Think about it, would you be walking in the street with a big dress no less with horse schit like a mine field? Somethings not right.
i was there not long ago and was shocked to see what kinda ppl are bases there now.
Well, I guess I’m one of the people who is “bases there now”, as you so eloquently put it. I just quietly get on with life and mind my own business, same as my neighbours. What’s so “shocking” about that exactly?
These film clips are so important for historical and social reasons
I enjoyed this clip immensely. It's a brief glimpse into a way of life 106 years ago. I love the young women's dresses but am glad I don't have to wear them now!
Those guys would be pissed off if they saw bradford today, i live there.
to WKUHilltopper: I am an American and this almost looks like Boston from this era. Things were so rough for people back then. When I look at old films like this I always think.....my God these people actually lived, had a life just like me and they are gone and forgotten just as I will be. I have been searching my family tree and come to find that many of my ancestors lived 8 to a house (not a big house either). They must have been tripping over each other in such cramped housing
if they only knew what was to come .. the Great War , World war 2... their lives were so hard .. we have it so good in comparison
wow. Those people acutually look like they enjoy living in Bradford. things must have changed a LOT!
No things haven’t changed a lot. I enjoy living in Bradford now.
Fascinating to see how our city looked in 1902. How many people would recognise the street if the voiceover didn't say where it was?
I love all the archived photos of Bradford it looked so much vibrant and cultural. I hope with the new developments it can become much better :)
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Me. It's obvious to me they're heading towards Manningham Lane.
lovely video. it's good that something like this has arisen.
as a bradfordian this is priceless thank you for uploading =]
The buildings you see near lister park are still standing. As well as majority on manningham lane. Reminds of living in bradford in the 60s.
This is definately a look back in time.
It's crazy to think, all these people have all passed away now, it was nice to see them having fun living life
1902 wow ... I just want to say r.i.p all .
Wonderful.
Bradford, of course, has changed a lot since then, not always for the better....ahem........
Real shame now and will be forever a shithole
Before it became Bradfordistan !
You didn’t complain when the immigrants ran the factories, mills and foundries.
@@theoriginalshakil8013 In your dreams....
@@tonylaverick7865
No, seriously. It actually happened.
Things changed alot nowdays. It's funny how they were crossing the road and walking on the middle of it lol,there was no traffic rules I guess, it's alot better now with no doubt. poor donkey 1:53
I live in Bradford now & I'm so proud of its history. I just wish a lot more were like me & if they were we could make Bradford a really good place again. I just wish people would realise that the history of Bradford didn't start when the first Asians moved in to the city. I just wish the council would stop ripping the heart oout of our beloved city
Let me just clarify this my parents come from Kashmir/Pakistan they moved to the uk when they were fairly young back then they needed people working in the mills as they people in the Uk didn’t want to do that role so they called many immigrants over to do the job ! I and my siblings were then born in the Uk I hold my British and Kashmiri heritage very close to me, I have worked hard end educated myself and I like to give back to the country has given us so many opportunities by working for the NHS , not all of us are bad ! So plz don’t generalise
@@afsahnaz858 noone said Bradford got worse after asians came or that they're all bad. Just that ppl seem to forget our past.
This footage is a time machine.
I live on this road 😂🧡🤍❤️💚 the peaple we're so smart and modestly dressed
It's like watching ghosts.
always makes me wanna go to the past by time machine... i want to talk to them. handshake with them. i want to talk to the ladies. i want to live in that time for a while. ONLY IN MY DREAMS.
I feel the same way, I'll let you know when I Finnish building my time machine, having flux problems
Interesting tramway. Great for modelling. Gauge was 4' which in 00 scale is nearer the 16.5 mm track than normal railway gauge.
Like the tricycle. Other than along the valley though it is a steep climb out of the valley.
What a great city .
I walked up and down that street every day in the 1980s i can recognise some of the buildings
nice to see how bradford was over one hundred years ago and sad to see its actually declined rather than get better.....wish i was born then...atleast it was a better placer and a lot more cleaner....
Breaks my heart.
At 1:25 I bet it wasn't much fun driving those trams in winter time.
Truly wonderful archive footage. at 25 seconds the side road to the right is Thorncliffe Road, at around 1 minute 12 seconds a horse drawn van appears and turns down Clifton Streeet towards Thorncliffe Laundry, the van is quite clearly a delivery vehicle for the laundry.
Simply a stunning view of life in 1904, that's a one hundred & eleven years ago. I seriously doubt that life is as good then to what it is now. However life goes on, one day we may look back and learn.
Now look at state of it
Late as 1969 it was just like nothing has changed from time of this film all the Cobble Street was there a couple roads were still there electric tram buses were still there Bradford City Ground haven't changed talking about the football Bradford City Ground Midland Road haven't changed in 1969 the Orange marches used to go on Midland Road 1969 Protestants and Catholics fighting each other 1969 lots of foggy days all the buildings were still black from chimney smoke and gas light Street gas lights 1969 Bradford Manningham Lane
That poor donkey at 1.49 Looks like it's on its last legs. I bet the poor sod didn't see 1903
Sadly animal cruelty was rife back then. I doubt it's changed much today 😞
Incredible
Evidently a lot of these people never saw a 'movie' camera before, and perhaps only saw the end result at a cinema, if they had ever been at one or if any had been set up in their areas. Meanwhile, it's a pity to think that a lot of these lads will be killed in the (not so ) 'Great' War in a dozen years or will be maimed or left limbless or with half a face, or whatever (permanent shell shock?). And if that won't do the trick, many, along with the girls and women will die of the 'Great' Flu Epidemic that would soon later sweep the world. To think that they could never know what we do. And to think we can never go back in time to prevent these tragedies.
old films always used to have everyone walking abnormally fast, i guess they found a way to make them look normal
You mean by slowing it down ???
the ting that really amazes me about this time is you dont see overweight people....
Amazing video. I love P/B videos. *-*
Fantástic from Brazil.
All things must pass. What would we think if we could see the famine of 1245 or the dead on the battlefield of Towton in 1461? Our time will be as remote as this in 2120.
Old video beautiful
It is indeed
WKUHilltopper, in fact I live 2 miles from Bradford City Centre. 200 miles north of London roughly
Motorcars may indeed pollute, but whom amongst us would prefer a return to a plentiful and widespread distribution of 'road apples'?
Amazing film. Are any of those buildings still there?
Amazingly clear quality film footage considering this was 1902, others like it are the Halifax footage, Morecambe prom footage from the same time and others. Just a pity the only known footage of the Titanic taken in Belfast in March 1912 is very poor and doesn't come close to this. I wish Mitchell and Kenyon where there to film that. Just shows the technology was there back then, but I suppose very few people had access to the right professional camera and film stock. I've seen photos from the 1900s that are 10x better in resolution than most of the family photos I have from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s until the advent of digital.
This would be a great piece of film to remaster and colourise. There's a guy on RUclips named Denis Sheirfy (or something or other) who takes these films, enhances them into a higher res, stabilises them, and adds colour to them in breathtaking realism.
This footage is enhanced by a cam tech pro if enhances pixels to make it more clearer the original footage is all blurry
Oh man!! So many CHARLIE CHAPLINS!!!
Wow so is this PRE- RAJAS CHICKEN & CHIPS?!
Wild
well said
un beaux document
eye remember it like that when eye was a kid in the late 60's the building's was all black of soot dust, you could not see where you was going in the fog.
I can't believe it looked like that!
And now most of those buildings have been knocked down and replaced witht those modern monstrosities.
Poor horses,dog and donkey!! Yeah they are gone!
The best city in UK , have anyone noticed the woman crossin the road in 00:37 ? why was she dressing like that?
😊 bela época muito lindo gostei de ver
LOL. Very good.
@brucelee12 nah they would have accepted the changes that have come, we have to remember that it is the people who make the area, there are somevery good people living and working here and they are of all backgrounds, i think BD5 especially LIttle Horton is probably the most integrated area in central bradford.
this mitchell and kenyon film shows the poor and affluent, back then deseases were rife, poverty, there was no NHS. nevertheless the film is a poignant reminder of the past good or bad
which road or street is this ? i like to know so ic an google map it and see if everything looks the same even the street light lamppoles
Omg that’s the street I live in now
So interesting only if you could travel time
After 1902 Bradford went on to become the richest city in Britain, then plummeted to become the poorest city in Britain.
When the mills closed, that's when the city went poor 🙁
@ashrafilm
aye and look at the area now,
as the ladies at least walk by i´ve heard a "thank you" from the cam-man.
h.m.
Color lifted the spirits of people so much in the late 1930's that the color bomb was given credit for ending the worldwide depression. Thank You, I am done talking with letters.
In the 1960s I also look the same nothing has changed as I walked in the same Street as a kid observing many abuses of human right Bradford was the last place to change
What strikes me about these films is that you see hardly if any overweight people. Everyone is walking and riding bicycles, even an older gentleman at 1:36.
***** Exactly, it's now full of shit like you.
Ed Shed aww did i hurt your feelings the truth hurts sometimes
Ed Shed so why are you moaning at me or are you a leftie
***** why are people so preoccupied with religion and race ?? everyone seems so dismissive and ignorant its crazy. we're all in this together for fucks sake
Ed Shed btw i am not from bradford you muppet
where are the power lines for the tram ?
How civillised we dressed then!
what did they not stage and plant
cool
It is interesting to see how they created films back then and then we can see the way they are dressed which I've always found facinating. The girl's look so skinny and curved, probably a corset. Must've been painful.
@weedyak Walk round South Walsall mate,,Now THAT is Pakistan....
few avenues or even boulevards around the BI there
I have noticed that everyone, in the scene that I have just watched, was looking at the camera. That was probably because that cameras were rare to com by in, 1902.
The narrator states in the film that the cameraman and his assistant walk along asking people to take note of the camera.
Kevin C. they were rare in 1890's but more common in 1900's tho.
@speedfreak18ish The film starts opposite the present day sex shop on Manningham Lane going up towards the turn off for the football ground. It is then cut and carries on about 100m further up with the 3 girls near Thorncliffe Road. All these buildings have been changed. However, from 2:00 you should still be able to see the buildings shown as they are the villas you can see before the traffic lights on the junction with Queens Road which is the road you see at the end of the film on the right.
may i just add mike, BD5, the greatest area in bradford and england, for all time, why? because it made our family fortunes.
I find it somehow heartrendingly poignant..
@GooseGreen82 Thanks alot :)
Oh Good one!
LOL
Just think: This is pretty much as far back as we can go now in terms of movies. There are a few from the late 1800s but the quality is pretty much crap. But just think: In the future 100, 1000 even 10,000 years from now if mankind survives that long, people will be able to see us today in HD video. Digital never degrades. Imagine if the Egyptians had HD cameras 5000 years ago, we could watch them in HD video today with sound and it would look like it was filmed 2 seconds ago.
wildenfree1 - That is a great point and something I never considered, I mean seriously, who really saves their movies today? My God, I saved absolutely nothing. Cellphone breaks, computer breaks, everything that was on there is gone and I dont think twice about it. I think there are some people out there though who are obsessive about stuff like this who save stuff in vaults, but like I said in my initial comment it depends a lot on society as well, if we are even still around thousands of years from now. It's not like it was thousands of years ago when the entire world population was 6 million and the biggest military weapon on earth was the bow and arrow. Now we got 8 billion people with almost a 3rd of that living under religious psychopaths who are a hairs breath away from getting their hands on nuclear weapons so needless to say we would be lucky to last even another 100 years. I mean look how many wars we've had since 1914. If things do go that way, I think just the sheer volume of recorded material will ensure that at least some of that info will survive and if humanity does pick itself up from the ashes and rebuild, they will get to a point where they could see that information so it is quite possible that 50,000 years from now people will see us. Even a million years from now, whose to say a new species doesn't evolve while humans are extinct? Like George Carlin said, "saving the earth" is bullsh*t...The earth will go on no matter what we do. It's survived billions of years of asteroids, meteors, earthquakes, volcanoes, yet people always think it will end when humanity ends. No it wont, it will still be here billions of years from now unless some meteor smashes it into pieces.
"Digital never degrades" - but the media on which it is stored sadly does. Formats also become obsolete.
Unless there is a concerted effort to copy a video to newer media before the old is unplayable for one reason or another then it won't last as long as a strip of film.
I agree with nearly all the comments here, but we can forget times change, everything changes.... Change is good!
Not necessarily....
cleogtw - What did you mean by your comment about your Granddad and your Dad fighting the wars in regards to Bradford?
Just curious over here in Washington.
Can anyone tell me the name of the actual street on which this tram ride ride is being taken ? I'm trying to find it on Google Street View.
Manningham lane. At Clifton at Junction @1:08