WOW! A BEAUTIFUL MOMENT! Everyone in this photo is gone. I wonder what life they may have been through. How I wish that in that moment there was a person praying that I was not going to be born into this world. This world is very scary. Is life an accident or a plot?
Seeing clips like these really does make you appreciate how short life is. My grandfather hasn't even been born at this point and has since passed away.
I sent this to my Nan who is 97 and living in a nursing home. She was working in London by the early 1940s, so this brought back lots of memories for her. So thrilled to be able to share it, thanks!
This is absolutely unbelievable. The clarity and HD make it feel as though I am on the street with these folks. What a simple, pivotal, and exciting, time to be alive. I often think about all these people and their day to day lives. What it would be like to go through a day in the 1800s or early 1900s and I no longer have to wonder. Never before in history has anyone been able to see this like we do with such clarity and color. Truly incredible.
Hello. It's good that I live in the 2300s. We have the opportunity to travel through time and observe you from afar or disguise ourselves as locals and walk among you, but unfortunately we do not yet have the opportunity to become invisible ourselves. We are forbidden to communicate with you and change history, but I am writing this comment in 2022, which for me is also a distant past. I am very glad that I can communicate with you at least via the Internet, it is so unusual to live life in 2022, when people still do not know what it is to see aliens on the streets every day.
not sure, 1930s was also the time when the possibility of a new world war was fast approaching, Nazi just came to power and already made claims over Czechslovakia and Austria, while there was no Internet but it was already all over the media .( i.e. newspapers and radio, TV not yet born). They might not realise what was to come just as we were not certain what to come as a result of Russian-Ukrainian war, but the tense was already in the air by then.
@@eddielung31 Austria was always part of Germany, it's just Prussia forced Austria to leave the Reich in 1867. The Anschluss of 1938 was just a natural progression of a united Germany. Of course most Austrians today will not agree to this but then Austrian history from 800 to 1867, when Austria was a very important part of Germany, is conveniently forgotten.
@@indysbike3014 Not me! I'm gonna freeze (cryogenically preserve) myself and leave instructions to be revived in 2140! Then I will be hailed as some kind of a super being as I'll be the only one who couldn't read others thoughts!😊😊
My grandmother (whom I had dinner with just last night) was born in East London (Whitechapel) in 1928. She remembers evacuating London during the war. She says she still has very clear memories of being in London as a young child so I am going to show her this video to see how she reacts!
@af- yes. A last look at a time of calm, or just before Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. Funny when you consider this was also the time of The Depression. I see color and calm, everyday life. She will likely be very happy and thankful to you.
I'm feeling nostalgic too, south London is my birthday place, I was born in 1983 and I moved to Birmingham now and have my IT business here, still I will visit there soon. Love❤ it
What has impressed me here is the sound design, stereo seperation, attention to detail of car horns and bicycle bells, as well as tyre and exhaust and tram noises. Truly remarkable recreations of sound. Well done.
@@DanM-pw9nl It does say at the beginning of the video on the title slide that it has been colourised, and that it is not historically accurate. It would be impossible to get the exact colours without them being recorded as they were at the time.
@MageBurger Well doesn't really matter at the end of the day. We have the recordings here asnd just the fact that they exist is interesting enough. No need to aks questions that don't need answers. It's weird watching this because it feels like it's a movie or a look a like kind of short film or something but knowing it isn't is just very very weird and cool.
@MageBurger Because the question asked in this context doesn't concern the subject at all. It doesn't matter why these recordings exist I'm just saying that we should just enjoy them. Why would it matter who filmed these or why? Makes no difference so the answer is not needed.
Every single person looks as smart as a modern day person would if going to a wedding. And they are all so slim ! Fantastic and eye opening video, thank you.
@@paulyflyer8154 Yes, they didn't eat processed garbage or "fast food", probably rarely ate sugar, didn't snack between meals and walked a lot............
This sort of thing really brings home that history is about real people's lives rather than remote tales from some other world. Its easy to forget looking at a grainy black and white film made jerky by low frame rates that the scene did not look like that to those people. It was as fluid and vibrant as anything we see with our own eyes.
It's almost as if someone has went back in time with a 4k video camera. It absolutely changes your perception of what life was like back then, usually only seen through jerky, grainy black and white film or the movies. It looks overwhelmingly real.
@Pixie Pete We had created "third world" countries. They were/are poor because we invaded them, took their resources and made our own country rich at their expense!
@Pixie Pete You mean the third world that Great Britain colonized. All what these oppressed people did was to help a declining empire stay afloat a little longer, and then you whine that they come and live with you. Fucking poetic justice!
@Pixie Pete You are aware of British history? With an Irish name like Dee I'm surprised you're casting any aspersions - Cromwell decimated Ireland. Sad little racist. Edit: Sorry, meant; sad little racists, both of you.
@Pixie Pete your country explored the third world as was the case with india which was one of the biggest economies in the world and when it became independent it was one of the poorest but nowadays the world economy is returning again to asia while your country prefers to be the puppet of america and its endless wars including its color revolutions and supporting neo-nazi battalions in ukraine like the azov battle it's karma
The population of inner London was bigger then, but fewer cars maybe and no mass tourism by air then. 21 million visits in 2019 but vs 9.4 million living in London. I find most tourist popular cities in the world are overcrowded in summer
This footage makes it feel like this has all passed in the blink of an eye. Strange to think most of those people will now be gone. It’s as close to time travelling as we can get. Amazing!
@@upturnedblousecollar5811 you don't have to imagine. Depending on your age you will live through some interesting times if climate change isn't take care of.
Let’s not forget that this is at the start the Great Depression which began in 1929. Look how elegant the people were dressed. Another 10 years and Second World War starts. To be able to see back into the past like this is just absolutely amazing!
Yes even the working class had more pride about themselves back in the day ,& would make the effort . Now it’s all scruffy casual gear & suits only worn at Weddings ,Funerals ,Christenings & court appearances .
@@maskedavenger2578 …would you like to wear those heavy fabrics and have a limited choice? Elegant people then as now we’re the minority….today scruffy dominates as dowdy did. then. At least today we have a wide choice of affordable clothes, so it’s up to us to dress classy. I do believe comfort is very important….ask any woman today put on „complicated“ undergarments, chuck out trousers ,constantly have a hat on etc. plus the atmosphere was much more polluted then. Also these images are of the west end where the more affluent circulated.
@@jbac45 I was born in the near mid 1950 ‘s & they were just a continuation of the 1930’s as everything had been put on hold during WW2 . I am male & as I remember the clothes were better quality & lasted longer . Fashions come & go & return ,the only thing that changes Is some are made with new types of materials . I remember seeing more people of all classes dressing more elegant back then in past decades ,than I tend to see now . Even back in the 1960’s & 1970/‘s the great unwashed still made the effort to dress up for a night out even down the pub . We still have pollution ,it’s just more hidden now ,unleaded fuel contains more cancer causing chemicals ,than the fuel it’s replaced . There is no doubt that standards have dropped in many kinds of ways ,& in all classes in the U.K. during the last half century .
@@maskedavenger2578 Nice to meet you. I was born in 84, but apart from this hidden laptop mw and my wife live like the 50s, even our telly, clothes etc, clothes were made better thats why i wear them, plus bonus women wore stockings, got me drape and creepers first car i past my test in was a 59 Hillman Minx, Now I have a 59 Ford Thunderbird, wanted something more Rock N Roll.
No traffic lights, No Yellow lines, No driving test, No sign of badly dressed people and beautiful steam trains. How far have we moved forward in 90 plus years.Thank you for sharing
That's because a, this is the richest part of London (a world away from the slums not far) and they didn't have so many traffic lights and yellow lines for the simple reason that there were less cars, which was I suppose a good thing
@@germaniceltLondon had a large Jewish, Chinese and Indian community. The docks saw to that. However, they tended to keep themselves to themselves back then.
@@antares_m20 Humanity is rotten, my man. Power is taken by those who are the most violent, and then they, too, are wiped out and the next set of depraved bastards move in, and the wheels of the bleedin' bus go round and round. You do have a point, though...
@@NASS_0 if this was taken today people would be trying to break the camera saying you don't have permission to video me 🤣 this is definitely of better times regarding how people behaved.
@@JamesAFCWFC Not to the extent of it does today. Try doing this video in 2022, if you don’t get your camera robbed. If you turn up on time because the trains are always on strike or late. If you can afford the carbon tax
I don’t think a lot of people understand or appreciate how much work is involved, this is truly amazing! And a lot if the work is even better than some that was done a few years back . This is one of the best, thank you for all of your hard work, letting us see what the works was really like , in this case the 1930’s..
It's incredible, when they look at the camera, it feels like they are looking at you... And to think that one day (soon) we will be able to "go" there virtually, and even interact inside this time period...fascinating ♥
I am flabbergasted at the quality of your final product - the work involved in producing this is insane. I’ve done some upscaling myself and it’s incredibly hard work, and that was just with 1960s footage. This really is another level.
I'm 20. My paternal grandparents were born in 1915 and 1916, respectively. To see the world they lived in as young adults is fascinating. I wish I could have met them.
@@Sin-gv9tuRacism will always exist in those times it was blatant and now it's inside people's minds and stares they give infact i would chose to live in a era where Racisms existence is accepted rather than now people acting all so accepting tolerant progressive but in their minds they are more racist than their ancestors had ever been. ( Which is because now it's World has become a village you bump into people from all over than population is way more also so much things and luxury exists now for people to be envious about example a brown guy in London having a 7 rolls Royce different colours one for each day of the week lol
No idea what you're talking about. It's beautiful footage and yes people dress beautifully and the cars, buses and buildings all look beautiful. But the same could still be said for today if you walk through Central London.
@@JudsonMatt88 London today is garbage! Cultural heritage is gone, and most of the people aren't even English. Human civilization peaked a few decades ago. Now we're just waiting for the next so-called "pandemic" (bird flu transmitted to humans, coming soon) to complete the fall of civilization as we know it.
My Gramps (Arthur) was born Walthamstow in 1907. He often spoke about how good the 1930s were. He lived and worked in London and seeing your wonderful remastered film brings the memories of him flooding back to me. What a time to be young. Thank you.
@@NASS_0 I looked at the original black and whites of all your videos and they looked pretty good as well but you did an amazing job bringing realism into it with the audio and I can safely say you got the colors very close on the lighting and building structures.
@@MukeshKumar-jo3jl its real footage lol but they added colour ( which they said wasn't correct) to the video and sound, but still they did a great job and , originally this vidoe ( which is made up of a few short films) would have been in black & white
Kids in school need to see this. If I was a history teacher, I'd ask your permission to show this in my class. It gives such a great sense of history. Really beautiful work. Thank you.
Government & Highways Agency also need to see this, notice how almost all the pedestrians are looking where their going when crossing the roads! It's all most like their responsible for their own safety
@@vincentl.9469 Actually, that was about the time of the 100 pound car that was introduced by Morris. If you kept your job, you could probably buy one, and it was about equal to paying 6000 pounds for a new car, making it cheaper than most motors on sale today
How sophisticated and well dressed they all are. Still remember my late father always dressing well with shirt, tie and a suit when going out and even when going to the local to meet friends.
They also wouldn't be seen without a hat. I had to polish my dad's shoes every Friday evening. He said that unless he could see his reflection in the polish they weren't ready! He was a guardsman in Coldstream Guards.
Agreed. Men in particular like to dress as boys with their shorts, T shirts and trainers. In fact many boys are more formally dressed than adult males. The other point is that getting dressed smartly for a trip into the City Centre was the custom in all British towns and cities. Like your deceased father I too am sufficiently old to remember.
@@PlaneNuts2024 Nowadays people are making fun of Muslim women for adhering to their beliefs and covering their hair. it's not long ago that both men and women covered their hair in British and Western society, as is evident from this video. Compare this to people walking around half naked today, and we realise how far we have fallen. At least the Muslim ladies are upholding their beliefs.
Thank god for the 60s it changed for good. Freedom to wear whatever the hell we want and what is comfortable, not the same old boring and uncomfortable suit
Hey,Dal I'm 75 this smart dress business lasted late 60s after that people dress like hippes, in 60 I use to wear suit and tie even go in to work in factory.This day if I wear suit look funny on me because no one around wear one.good old days, even picaddilly circus look great those days.
Whenever I use to see clips of time periods like this in black and white and with the dodgy frame rate , it almost felt unreal . Seeing stuff like this just brings it to life .
Old film footage of anything prior to around the 70s had us believe that people who lived back then saw everything in black and white and on grainy film - this film looks and sounds like the uploader has a TARDIS in their bedroom and went back in time with a Go Pro! Video quality, colour and stereo sound!
Yeah the non-existent obesity problem is a stark contrast with today. No wonder though, with our modern diet of high sugar, refined carbohydrates, ready meals and junk foods.
Stunning quality. I couldn't look away as it was so lifelike in colour and in HD quality. As a Londoner, I am familiar with the locations in the film. Waterloo Station is especially close to me - having used it in my daily commute for over 40 years. Thank you for all your hard work in creating this piece of work.
@@paultutty4302 I think the curvature of the platforms and the (now gone) road where the taxis used to drive up a ramp from road level to platform level, convince me that it's Waterloo.
@Glasgow Rossco It's one of the things that lures visitors and settlers to London. The thing that has made London worse is motor car ownership, not just clogging up the city (look at the video clip of Piccadilly Circus and compare it with now), but clogging up residential streets in the suburbs. But I have to confess to contributing to that when I lived in London.
@Glasgow Rossco worse. Wherever there's high diversity there's high crime. Over here in America 13% of our population commits 50% of our violent crime.... that's all I'm going to say about that
@Glasgow Rossco "diversity is the main thing that puts people off visiting and settling in London"? Really? Where did you read this? Can you provide a source for this or is this just your personal opinion?
Such a different aura about the place back then. Very few private cars, lots of busses, pedestrians walking and crossing where they liked! The old, smaller fountains in Trafalgar Square, too.
It’s the fact that private cars now use the streets as freeways. We need lower speed limits to prevent speeding and make sure people aren’t killing childre n just crossing to get to school. Pedestrians are killed so often. 🤦♂️
@@finz5852 Isn't that already the case in Central London? No one normal drives in traffic when they can take the tube. Only rich people who don't want to mingle with commoners drive around soho
This is amazing. What's really beautiful is how decorative everything is. From the vehicles to the facade of the buildings and the clothes, a lot of effort was made to make things look nice. It's also not lost on me that this is in the well to do part of London and that the poorer areas did not look the same.
At 1:44 is an ad on the side of a bus for Radiolympia. An annual trade show for radio manufacturers held in the Olympia Exhibition Center in Earls Court. Pre War the show always seemed to open on a Thursday and the ad says the show opens on August 15'th. Which would make the year either 1929 or 1934. And a quick look at the cars and the fact that there are still a few open top buses (which they started to phase out mid 1920's) makes it look very 1929. Not 1934. So that would make this film shot in July / early August 1929. The Piccadilly Circus segment. A few years after the major rebuild of Regents Street. Based on the fact its a sunny day it was most likely shot during the first two week of July 1929. As although it had been a very sunny / dry spring and summer in London up til then the good weather broke in third week of July 1929.
This is just so stunning! Wonderful work on the colorization and particularly the sound design. You could just step into these pictures. Thank you for sharing.
I am quite old and left UK with my parents about 70 years ago. I can still picture many of the people I used to know and still miss so many of the delightful people I used to know. Getting close to 90 has advantages and drawbacks.
Thank you for your comment. Has brought a tear to my eye. I am somewhat younger ( mid 50s) but am fascinated by what our older folks have experienced like you. Respect 🙏🏻
Well don't worry, it's nothing like it was, its a complete hole now, you're not missing anything, and you got to live through the boom so you've got one up on every member of the millenial/zoomer generations.
@@ljones2087 your type of comments are so freaking weird. Do people like yourself honestly believe things were better for the majority of people at this time? Seriously?
My dad,born in 1908 always said the best days were the 1930s I can see why. My best days,born 1949,were late 60s early 70s,In those days I wandered around Central London in the evenings,wouldn't try it now,rarely go out after dark.Those poor people in the video did not know of the hours that would be unleashed in just a few years. Great video,will subscribe.
The clip of Waterloo station and the close ups of the departing and arriving passengers amazing, sobering to think that within 10 years the UK would be at war and the appearance and nature of all those captured in the film would change dramatically. Thank you absolutely first class
I am truly stunned at seeing the quality of this! As someone who has captured life in my own town in 1995 and 2015, this person who filmed this has left us with a true view if life in 1930s London! Thank you for the wonderful work.
Such a great piece of documented history. The clarity of the clip is astonishing. Thank you for posting these - I’ve been a subscriber for some time and I make a point to watch every clip you post. Your hard work is appreciated.
I wonder if there's anybody of high status in this video like someone in a posh car like a old rolls royce or bently.. It's also nice to see all the job opportunities.. every bus has a driver and a guy on the back not just one.. it seems this could be when the world was at its economical finest.. jobs opening up everywhere people walking around like theyere on a mission and like they have something to do.. if this was modern day you'd see people on their phones 24/7 soul lessly walking around not knowing what to do where go
Was wondering the whole time, of the stories behind every person. The sailor at the train station. Did he survive on WW2? Did he make WW2? Where there any people who are recorded in history, later? How many of these people are alive, now? A handful of (then) children? Any mistresses of famous men? Any WW2 heroes? Any SOE volunteers or ATA flyers? Just so wonderful to watch. What of the few people who keep looking at the camera? How thrilling if they had left their name and been identified, as an individual - how amazing if a gt gt grandchild saw this and realised the link! Any famous writers down to London for the day? A. A. MIlne might have been at the train station - or Enid Blyton... Just thrilling! Maybe the mother of a Bletchley Park worker, during the war? Oh to have that little identity arrow, pointing out people who are now of so much interest... Maybe Violette Szabo or a teenage Leonard Cheshire or Pauline Gower, up to see an expensive dentist?
Incredible restoration work here! So interesting being able to look so cleanly back into the past! A bit of a strange feeling that I am looking at all these once living people as "ghosts" in a time long past. Thank you for this. Simply amazing!
@@millsshumps1968 What does your comment even mean? Picadilly and train stations were the epitome of people from different backgrounds coming together - office workers and office bosses, shop workers and shop customers etc. It wasn't the coalmines.
@@MS-sb9ov If they'd filmed this in poor residential areas eg the East End it would look very different. These are middle class people in fancy areas of the city.
There are many 'colourised and enhanced' films on RUclips but this piece of film is in a class by itself. it has been done in such a perfect way that one could be forgiven for thinking it's a recently filmed period drama. It's both haunting and stunningly beautiful to see and also, to think that everybody on the film is likely to be long dead. A masterpiece creation. Please upload more of this quality!
I love watching videos like these of where you step back in time for those few moments. You have done an amazing job of restoring these shots and now, 1000's of people can enjoy this great history for many years to come.
A "thumbs up" is not enough praise for this. That is amazing work, congratulations. The muted sepia effect in the colouring is perfect for the era, loved the clarity achieved by the upscaling process. Amazing tp see how elegantly dressed everybody was in those days and the unforms of the station guards. The lack of traffic lights, direction signs, road signs etc. allows the beauty of the city to be seen in full. Love seeing footage of the old vehicles and trains in motion
The good old days when Bovril was a major brand that had massive advertisements in Piccadilly Circus instead of some American bank that no one cares about.
Utterly breathtaking. I was on London Transport in the 70's. Everything there is recognisable; from the conductors hanging off the back, people dodging the traffic; right up to the bus route numbers. So much has changed since the 1980's. Rarely for the better. Thank you for the time and effort this must have taken
I noticed the 'used tickets' box on the platform of the buses, as used on the Routemaster's right up into the '90's. Must have been a tried and tested bit of function!
Yes, I couldn’t help but notice how healthy people looked, briskly walking and running to cross the street or catch the train. Society has become lazy and over indulgent nowadays that has lead to a real health epidemic worldwide. 😮
Probably washed themselves once a week at best, cleaning their only suit consisted of giving it a good beating and hanging it outside, hats were as much to prevent headlice as anything else. Yep, presentable but dirty - luckily there's no "smellivision"!
@@cyberwomble7524 but people nowadays are no different just take the tube on unlucky days and you will see for yourself. But I get what you are saying.
@@cyberwomble7524 You are guessing but they still look better than we do today but we have jeans and body spray now. Show some respect we owe our freedom to that generation and we could not live for five minutes on their rations.
@@Michael.Talbot - Well said. Despite all we have, yet we are more depressed, unhappy compared to this generation. There is a simplicity in their way of life that's very moving.
Wow! Being a Londoner, I found this really eerie to see, it was almost like watching ghosts and I genuinely had goosebumps all the way through. Absolutely fascinating 👍
@@78a67h Just the thoughts I've been having. Every time I see one of these videos. My mother would have been in her teens at this time. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 93. We are watching ghosts in a machine. Hundreds of versions of what is called 'Portraits of the Vanity'. The sitter is holding and gazing at a skull which is symbolizing the transitory nature of life. The glistering vitality of the present. made distant past by the passage of time.
Wowww.. I'm absolutely blown away by this video because this clip looks like it's only just been recorded in HD it's that clear??? And I love the sounds you've overlayed in this clip because it suits it absolutely perfectly 🤯 BRAVO 🙌🙌
This is amazing: so clear and real. I’m amazed how clean the roads are. The horse was king until 15 years previously but I still expected to see some. I’m surprised how quick the traffic moved and how the pedestrians had to run to get out of the way. Everyone seems in such a hurry: more so than today. Wonderful to see the fashions of almost 100 years ago. Almost everyone wears a hat.
Horses were still somewhat regular until the 1950s it's just the roads shown here were in a wealthy area where the remaining horse drawn vehicles would have no business being
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 Nonsense. Perhaps in rural areas, were horses to be seen. But most cities on the Continent, and in Great Britain had motorized traffic.
I lived in London in the late 70s and had some good friends there and used to go down the West End regularly on a weekend. I live these days in a declining America and watching this makes me wish I could climb into a time machine and go back to the 1930s.The people looked more elegant and wholesome and the streets and buildings mirrored the people themselves. I watch videos of old Dublin ,New York and London and I really shouldn't because all it does is make one wish for what one can never have.💔
I love those old buses with the curved staircase on the outside, kind of romantic. All the women look very classy with their hats. Lovely scenes, thanks for your excellent work👒👜.
Because they're not filming poor areas. Poor people were packed into the slums. There's not even that many more people now, they're just spread out more evenly. Less tourists then as well. Also these are areas of the city with businesses and landmarks etc not residential areas.
@Gary Gravy you think theres 10 million undocumented immigrants in London alone? You're smoking something my friend. Do you know what kind of numbers those are? The pop of London is 9.5 mil and you think theres another 10 million undocumented people?????
I can only reiterate the thoughts of all the other commenters. I was mesmerised to and transported back in time as though it were yesterday. Thank you so much for sharing this stunning film with us . Hope you can do many more but appreciate just how much hard work and artistry went into doing this.
Great clarity, especially considering how difficult it is to clearly show faces. Makes it very easy for one to imagine being there. As for people they from all social levels seem so fit, properly dressed, and well groomed.
Just look how well dressed and well groomed everybody is. People obviously took pride in their appearance in those days. So much style and elegance on show in one place that's something you rarely if ever see today...
@@chroma6947 Oh, you mean those of the 'religion of peace and child sexual exploitation' with their knifings, pavement mountings and bombings of tolerance...indeed. But you're forgetting the benefits of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity (DIE). I'm sure there must be some!
This is extra cool for me as I recently went on a week long trip to London with my family. We live in Norway and are norwegians, so seeing a big and beautiful city like London, was a truly memorable experience. Love to all the british people out there!
After watching a few of these videos; there's such a dapper swagger that we would never expect to see just out in the streets today. A small portion of that is from noticing the camera, I'm sure. But I think most of it comes from the fact that who you were on the street was who you were known as, back then. We have a million ways to establish our persona online, or to connect through phones. But back then people used to walk around and present themselves in person.
They didn’t know back then what a wonderful time they lived in compared to today. My grandmother brought 2 children up during the war in London…she had 3 children though….dad was eventually evacuated to Cornwall. Beautiful video. My London ❤️
Wow,simply,Wow!! I think it is your best restoration video !! Great work !! And thank you for bringing back to life those old videos !!!! You deserve more than 426 k !!
My mom was Born in 1930 in Laredo Texas and she used to tell me they didn't have electricity and running water until the 1940s , she used to tell me that when she was around 10 years old a couple from England come to her school and everyone looked at them as if they were movie Stars or something, they were very well dressed up.
Ha ha. That reminds me when my brother and I first visited California as teenagers in the late 1960’s. People everywhere would want to know about our strange accent and what was Australia really like, most knew absolutely nothing about it. We found this extraordinary. Don’t recall seeing a single homeless person in the streets and we moved around a lot.
Yup. In 1920, only 30% of American homes had electricity, and by 1930 70% did. That's still a significant segment of the population that didn't. Or indoor plumbing either.
Mesmerising to look back in time before the War and so well restored. The colour is excellent and quite subtle, not overdone, just the right balance. I surmised that it was Waterloo station, looking at the Southern Railway locos and spotting Farnham as a destination. Love the women's shoes!
Pretty strange to think that everyone in this video has now passed. Awesome video btw. I was captivated by it. My fave was definitely the railway station.
This is amazing! Found it quite soulful thinking of all those people long gone, What their dreams and hopes were, did they know the horror of WW2 to come etc and I assume the train station is Waterloo you could tell with the rigid dress code what class people were, all in all you've done a fantastic job restoring this and added appropriate sound, Great job Cheers Jim, Surrey👍
@@blairmccarthy427 most seemed to be aged late 20’s early 30’s, we’d surely know if any were still alive today as they’d be around 115 years old. No children to be seen in that clip.
Amazing to see no one was walking their dog back then. I find it a plague that almost every family nowadays owns 1-3 dogs they share their home with. Animals belong in the wild. Dogs cats birds are no different.
Fabulous! It's difficult to describe in words but most of my life I have only seen this type of footage in black and white and one gets so used to it that it seems like that was how life really was back then. The colourisation makes it so much more authentic and the characters somehow come to life.
This is a work of art! Random people going about their business, buses, lorries, and cars trying to get from A to B, and doing their daily chores and deliveries. Just watching this it feels like I went back in a time machine, it's so surreal. The staggering reality of this is that probably none of the people and transport used are any longer with us, yet at this specific moment everybody is so determined to go about their business as if the world was going to last forever. What would they think if they knew random people were watching them now on a random day, but simply in awe of it! This teaches me that Life is short, and we're only temporary visitors.
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WOW! A BEAUTIFUL MOMENT! Everyone in this photo is gone. I wonder what life they may have been through. How I wish that in that moment there was a person praying that I was not going to be born into this world. This world is very scary. Is life an accident or a plot?
Seeing clips like these really does make you appreciate how short life is. My grandfather hasn't even been born at this point and has since passed away.
And how crappy some of these places look now by comparison.
@@vincevirtua If you're still around on 90 years I think you'd look pretty crappy too!
@@yeldarleumas1847 debatable
I get that. My grandfather was born in 1935, he passed away about 5 years ago from cancer. Life is fleeting isn’t it.
My father died aged 46. That's 35 years ago.
I sent this to my Nan who is 97 and living in a nursing home. She was working in London by the early 1940s, so this brought back lots of memories for her. So thrilled to be able to share it, thanks!
What does she think of the shit going on nowadays
@@jamesbogart gammon
@@jamesbogart damn lol
I think if I were your Nan I’d want to cry seeing this and then seeing what it has become
You are very gentle.
This is absolutely unbelievable. The clarity and HD make it feel as though I am on the street with these folks. What a simple, pivotal, and exciting, time to be alive. I often think about all these people and their day to day lives. What it would be like to go through a day in the 1800s or early 1900s and I no longer have to wonder. Never before in history has anyone been able to see this like we do with such clarity and color. Truly incredible.
I agree
Hello. It's good that I live in the 2300s. We have the opportunity to travel through time and observe you from afar or disguise ourselves as locals and walk among you, but unfortunately we do not yet have the opportunity to become invisible ourselves. We are forbidden to communicate with you and change history, but I am writing this comment in 2022, which for me is also a distant past. I am very glad that I can communicate with you at least via the Internet, it is so unusual to live life in 2022, when people still do not know what it is to see aliens on the streets every day.
yes the quality of very old recordings has certainly improved dramatically.
not sure, 1930s was also the time when the possibility of a new world war was fast approaching, Nazi just came to power and already made claims over Czechslovakia and Austria, while there was no Internet but it was already all over the media .( i.e. newspapers and radio, TV not yet born). They might not realise what was to come just as we were not certain what to come as a result of Russian-Ukrainian war, but the tense was already in the air by then.
@@eddielung31 Austria was always part of Germany, it's just Prussia forced Austria to leave the Reich in 1867. The Anschluss of 1938 was just a natural progression of a united Germany. Of course most Austrians today will not agree to this but then Austrian history from 800 to 1867, when Austria was a very important part of Germany, is conveniently forgotten.
I’m so glad that one day someone just decided to record this, because little did they know it’s like a Time Machine nowadays
And in the year 2140 people reading these comments can read our thoughts. And all of us will be gone.
@@indysbike3014 Not me! I'm gonna freeze (cryogenically preserve) myself and leave instructions to be revived in 2140! Then I will be hailed as some kind of a super being as I'll be the only one who couldn't read others thoughts!😊😊
@@kashd4668 hahaha definitely not mate
All aside, I love the architecture of the time, when there were no buildings without soul. Each building was a piece of art and beauty.
yes looted wealth from other nation and then made their city beautiful.......
I agree, our cities are becoming uglier and uglier :(
@@mirzashakil6122 well said...
Luckily much of what you see survives. It was the Great Fire, centuries earlier which wiped out most of London's older buildings.
@@Allan-et5ig older curse
My grandmother (whom I had dinner with just last night) was born in East London (Whitechapel) in 1928. She remembers evacuating London during the war. She says she still has very clear memories of being in London as a young child so I am going to show her this video to see how she reacts!
@af- yes. A last look at a time of calm, or just before Hitler’s Blitzkrieg.
Funny when you consider this was also the time of The Depression. I see color and calm, everyday life.
She will likely be very happy and thankful to you.
Whitechapel is now an absolute dump
It will probably make her cry
Wow ..... my respects to your grandmother. The last of that generation in my family passed many moons ago.
I'm feeling nostalgic too, south London is my birthday place, I was born in 1983 and I moved to Birmingham now and have my IT business here, still I will visit there soon. Love❤ it
This is the closest thing to stepping into a Time Machine. Amazing work remastering this.
It's amazing how it's mostly white people. The media today acts like London has always been multicultural when it hasn't.
no all is looted
@@mirzashakil6122 What are you talking about ??
@@wingaard I told about how Britain looted all the wealth from my country and made London....
Its just a wish and our imagination
What has impressed me here is the sound design, stereo seperation, attention to detail of car horns and bicycle bells, as well as tyre and exhaust and tram noises. Truly remarkable recreations of sound. Well done.
Can someone explain, are the sound and color in this video and the Paris one totally fake?
@@DanM-pw9nl It does say at the beginning of the video on the title slide that it has been colourised, and that it is not historically accurate. It would be impossible to get the exact colours without them being recorded as they were at the time.
Thanks, I didn't understand if it was just enhanced and originally had some color but wasn't as bright. The same with the sound@@westcountrywanderings
@@DanM-pw9nl ... The sound is not original as the film would have been originally silent, so all the sound is falsely added.
Have to thank whoever had the idea to recording this knowing people in 90 years time might want to see how the world once looked
@MageBurger rest assured there was no cctv back then
@MageBurger Well doesn't really matter at the end of the day. We have the recordings here asnd just the fact that they exist is interesting enough.
No need to aks questions that don't need answers.
It's weird watching this because it feels like it's a movie or a look a like kind of short film or something but knowing it isn't is just very very weird and cool.
@MageBurger Because the question asked in this context doesn't concern the subject at all.
It doesn't matter why these recordings exist I'm just saying that we should just enjoy them.
Why would it matter who filmed these or why?
Makes no difference so the answer is not needed.
Finally it's here the clip you all wanted. ruclips.net/video/29uqXPNizXk/видео.html,
Photographer hit by bus but film was saved.
Every single person looks as smart as a modern day person would if going to a wedding. And they are all so slim ! Fantastic and eye opening video, thank you.
This is a wealthy part of London. There were many slums and a deep economic depression at the time.
This is because people worked hard and lived hard life ,they didn't had easy life,free houses 🏘️ free benefit money from Government.😅😅😅😅
So slim ? maybe because they're played outside more ...that being more active than today's teenagers who most of time glued on their mobiles.
Yes everyone was naturally on a ketogenic diet back then. Insulin resistance and obesity was unknown until the 70's.
@@paulyflyer8154 Yes, they didn't eat processed garbage or "fast food", probably rarely ate sugar, didn't snack between meals and walked a lot............
This sort of thing really brings home that history is about real people's lives rather than remote tales from some other world. Its easy to forget looking at a grainy black and white film made jerky by low frame rates that the scene did not look like that to those people. It was as fluid and vibrant as anything we see with our own eyes.
Exactly just technology was poor back then i think nobody can even predict where our technology will be in 2130… if there will be still life…
It's almost as if someone has went back in time with a 4k video camera. It absolutely changes your perception of what life was like back then, usually only seen through jerky, grainy black and white film or the movies. It looks overwhelmingly real.
A Better life then now.
@@mus139 Right...
How clean the roads and paths look , how new everything is , people seem very well dressed and happy , what an amazing time in London
@Pixie Pete absolutely
@Pixie Pete We had created "third world" countries. They were/are poor because we invaded them, took their resources and made our own country rich at their expense!
@Pixie Pete You mean the third world that Great Britain colonized. All what these oppressed people did was to help a declining empire stay afloat a little longer, and then you whine that they come and live with you. Fucking poetic justice!
@Pixie Pete You are aware of British history? With an Irish name like Dee I'm surprised you're casting any aspersions - Cromwell decimated Ireland. Sad little racist.
Edit: Sorry, meant; sad little racists, both of you.
@Pixie Pete your country explored the third world as was the case with india which was one of the biggest economies in the world and when it became independent it was one of the poorest but nowadays the world economy is returning again to asia while your country prefers to be the puppet of america and its endless wars including its color revolutions and supporting neo-nazi battalions in ukraine like the azov battle it's karma
it looks very beautiful compared to the modern day and everything seems to have a kind of flow
Its at a faster speed than it was in reality .
How empty the streets were even in the day. A very different world to the one we live in
Because there was work in the country sides then. Population was similar.
The population of inner London was bigger then, but fewer cars maybe and no mass tourism by air then. 21 million visits in 2019 but vs 9.4 million living in London. I find most tourist popular cities in the world are overcrowded in summer
They also look much cleaner
Before 1970 there was about 3 billion people alive in this world.Now there is 8.
Yeah the world we live in now is ABSOLUTELY FOUL!! and run by PARASITIC PSYCHOPATHS!!
This is such a good video! The colourisation and the quality are fantastic, it’s like it was recorded today!
This footage makes it feel like this has all passed in the blink of an eye. Strange to think most of those people will now be gone. It’s as close to time travelling as we can get. Amazing!
Imagine people 100 years from now reading our comments and thinking _"Life was so simple back then, look what we can do now."_
@@upturnedblousecollar5811 you don't have to imagine. Depending on your age you will live through some interesting times if climate change isn't take care of.
shouldn't that be 'look what we can't do now' ...as the AI cyborg grabs the human and forces them back to work @@upturnedblousecollar5811
Most these people didn't see the turn of the century.
@@Impuritexu honestly believe the climate change bs? 😂
Every one was so classy. They took pride in how they looked. Also find it scary that everyone filmed is now gone
Oiled - We had a country to be proud of back then, sadly no more these days with the ‘wokies’ in charge, just look at the London Mayor.
Why doe? Death is a fact of life. That’s like watching an old wild animal documentary and thinking “scary how all these animals are all gone”
Everyone dies. Fact of life.
Yah, classy, women were expected to please their men whenever the men wanted. Cook all meals and raise their kids. Sounds great doesnt it...
@@thornbottleyou really have a tenuous grip on the facts.
Let’s not forget that this is at the start the Great Depression which began in 1929. Look how elegant the people were dressed. Another 10 years and Second World War starts. To be able to see back into the past like this is just absolutely amazing!
;))
Yes even the working class had more pride about themselves back in the day ,& would make the effort . Now it’s all scruffy casual gear & suits only worn at Weddings ,Funerals ,Christenings & court appearances .
@@maskedavenger2578 …would you like to wear those heavy fabrics and have a limited choice? Elegant people then as now we’re the minority….today scruffy dominates as dowdy did. then. At least today we have a wide choice of affordable clothes, so it’s up to us to dress classy. I do believe comfort is very important….ask any woman today put on „complicated“ undergarments, chuck out trousers ,constantly have a hat on etc. plus the atmosphere was much more polluted then. Also these images are of the west end where the more affluent circulated.
@@jbac45 I was born in the near mid 1950 ‘s & they were just a continuation of the 1930’s as everything had been put on hold during WW2 . I am male & as I remember the clothes were better quality & lasted longer . Fashions come & go & return ,the only thing that changes Is some are made with new types of materials . I remember seeing more people of all classes dressing more elegant back then in past decades ,than I tend to see now . Even back in the 1960’s & 1970/‘s the great unwashed still made the effort to dress up for a night out even down the pub . We still have pollution ,it’s just more hidden now ,unleaded fuel contains more cancer causing chemicals ,than the fuel it’s replaced . There is no doubt that standards have dropped in many kinds of ways ,& in all classes in the U.K. during the last half century .
@@maskedavenger2578 Nice to meet you. I was born in 84, but apart from this hidden laptop mw and my wife live like the 50s, even our telly, clothes etc, clothes were made better thats why i wear them, plus bonus women wore stockings, got me drape and creepers first car i past my test in was a 59 Hillman Minx, Now I have a 59 Ford Thunderbird, wanted something more Rock N Roll.
No traffic lights, No Yellow lines, No driving test, No sign of badly dressed people and beautiful steam trains. How far have we moved forward in 90 plus years.Thank you for sharing
no burqa , no mosque , no madrasha
No multiculturalism.
@@markdeer952 Well, with the food on offer at the time that's no surprise.
That's because a, this is the richest part of London (a world away from the slums not far) and they didn't have so many traffic lights and yellow lines for the simple reason that there were less cars, which was I suppose a good thing
@@germaniceltLondon had a large Jewish, Chinese and Indian community. The docks saw to that. However, they tended to keep themselves to themselves back then.
Immediate impressions: architecture beautiful, people slim and well-dressed, and streets surprisingly clean!
So diversity isn't our strength.
@DropkicktheDecepticon with the looted money from around the world by torturing them to death, ueah yall arent going to heaven atleast.
@@antares_m20 Yes, the West looted all those mud huts.
@@antares_m20 marxist dunce.
@@antares_m20 Humanity is rotten, my man. Power is taken by those who are the most violent, and then they, too, are wiped out and the next set of depraved bastards move in, and the wheels of the bleedin' bus go round and round. You do have a point, though...
This is the closest we have to time travel. Simply amazing, great job.
Thx ;)
@@NASS_0 if this was taken today people would be trying to break the camera saying you don't have permission to video me 🤣 this is definitely of better times regarding how people behaved.
@@mattlawton4715 yeh because crime famously never happened before the 1950’s🚮
@@JamesAFCWFC
Not to the extent of it does today. Try doing this video in 2022, if you don’t get your camera robbed. If you turn up on time because the trains are always on strike or late. If you can afford the carbon tax
@@MichaelJ44 exactly bang on 👍
I don’t think a lot of people understand or appreciate how much work is involved, this is truly amazing! And a lot if the work is even better than some that was done a few years back . This is one of the best, thank you for all of your hard work, letting us see what the works was really like , in this case the 1930’s..
thank you very much🙏🙏
Yes very welcome
We should all be very thankful. This is some brilliant footage.
It's incredible, when they look at the camera, it feels like they are looking at you...
And to think that one day (soon) we will be able to "go" there virtually, and even interact inside this time period...fascinating ♥
I am flabbergasted at the quality of your final product - the work involved in producing this is insane. I’ve done some upscaling myself and it’s incredibly hard work, and that was just with 1960s footage. This really is another level.
Was east London really dangerous at this time I’m not from uk but I have heard it was very bad back in the day
@@bigruckus8664 nope. It wasn’t
the Londoners are so thin, men especially. Probably had 2 meals a day; early breakfast and tea at 3 pm. Depression.
I'm 20. My paternal grandparents were born in 1915 and 1916, respectively. To see the world they lived in as young adults is fascinating. I wish I could have met them.
My great grand parents born in 1928 and 1930. I'm 19 years old, but I wish I was born in 1910s , that time was really seems peaceful.
@@RaviSingh-ez6hrRavi Singh? Yh no, colonial times if in London you'll face racism 😭😭😂😂😂😂
@@Sin-gv9tuRacism will always exist in those times it was blatant and now it's inside people's minds and stares they give infact i would chose to live in a era where Racisms existence is accepted rather than now people acting all so accepting tolerant progressive but in their minds they are more racist than their ancestors had ever been. ( Which is because now it's World has become a village you bump into people from all over than population is way more also so much things and luxury exists now for people to be envious about example a brown guy in London having a 7 rolls Royce different colours one for each day of the week lol
@@Addy-745 nah mate, you could literally get killed for being a different colour in those eras mate
My Mother was born in 1930.
The signage on the buildings. Everyone took pride in how they looked. Really beautiful and sadly long gone.
We have got so very distant from reality, greed has become the leader and the heart all but forgotten
For your throat's sake, smoke Craven A! :-)
No idea what you're talking about. It's beautiful footage and yes people dress beautifully and the cars, buses and buildings all look beautiful. But the same could still be said for today if you walk through Central London.
@@JudsonMatt88 London today is a shadow of it's former self, and totally unrecognizable.
@@JudsonMatt88 London today is garbage! Cultural heritage is gone, and most of the people aren't even English. Human civilization peaked a few decades ago. Now we're just waiting for the next so-called "pandemic" (bird flu transmitted to humans, coming soon) to complete the fall of civilization as we know it.
Is like going back in time ❤🤩amazingly done remarkable
My Gramps (Arthur) was born Walthamstow in 1907. He often spoke about how good the 1930s were. He lived and worked in London and seeing your wonderful remastered film brings the memories of him flooding back to me. What a time to be young. Thank you.
Thx ;))
I was born in Walthamstow in 1950 - only 20 years after this.
@@Pierlover E17.....👍
This might be your best remaster yet, very nice quality. Keep up the good work! 👍
thank you very much 🙏
@@NASS_0 I looked at the original black and whites of all your videos and they looked pretty good as well but you did an amazing job bringing realism into it with the audio and I can safely say you got the colors very close on the lighting and building structures.
I agree
@@rocker-barrel4786 how do we know this is real footage?
@@MukeshKumar-jo3jl its real footage lol but they added colour ( which they said wasn't correct) to the video and sound, but still they did a great job and , originally this vidoe ( which is made up of a few short films) would have been in black & white
Kids in school need to see this. If I was a history teacher, I'd ask your permission to show this in my class. It gives such a great sense of history. Really beautiful work. Thank you.
very few private cars..most working people could not afford them
Government & Highways Agency also need to see this, notice how almost all the pedestrians are looking where their going when crossing the roads! It's all most like their responsible for their own safety
@@leefurniss yes..now it's all the drivers fault. look at the highway code
@@vincentl.9469 Actually, that was about the time of the 100 pound car that was introduced by Morris. If you kept your job, you could probably buy one, and it was about equal to paying 6000 pounds for a new car, making it cheaper than most motors on sale today
@@charlesc.9012 Interesting. wages were low for many..but I guess it's all relative. A lot of personal transport was either a motorbike or cycle...
When you think that all of those people are now dead it’s a rude awakening of how fleeting life is , I was born in 1937 in London.
How sophisticated and well dressed they all are. Still remember my late father always dressing well with shirt, tie and a suit when going out and even when going to the local to meet friends.
They also wouldn't be seen without a hat. I had to polish my dad's shoes every Friday evening. He said that unless he could see his reflection in the polish they weren't ready! He was a guardsman in Coldstream Guards.
Agreed.
Men in particular like to dress as boys with their shorts, T shirts and trainers.
In fact many boys are more formally dressed than adult males.
The other point is that getting dressed smartly for a trip into the City Centre was the custom in all British towns and cities.
Like your deceased father I too am sufficiently old to remember.
@@PlaneNuts2024 Nowadays people are making fun of Muslim women for adhering to their beliefs and covering their hair. it's not long ago that both men and women covered their hair in British and Western society, as is evident from this video. Compare this to people walking around half naked today, and we realise how far we have fallen. At least the Muslim ladies are upholding their beliefs.
Thank god for the 60s it changed for good. Freedom to wear whatever the hell we want and what is comfortable, not the same old boring and uncomfortable suit
Hey,Dal I'm 75 this smart dress business lasted late 60s after that people dress like hippes, in 60 I use to wear suit and tie even go in to work in factory.This day if I wear suit look funny on me because no one around wear one.good old days, even picaddilly circus look great those days.
Whenever I use to see clips of time periods like this in black and white and with the dodgy frame rate , it almost felt unreal . Seeing stuff like this just brings it to life .
Notice absolutely nobody is obese
Old film footage of anything prior to around the 70s had us believe that people who lived back then saw everything in black and white and on grainy film - this film looks and sounds like the uploader has a TARDIS in their bedroom and went back in time with a Go Pro! Video quality, colour and stereo sound!
@Appleby No need to be rude mate, that's just what Londoner's faces look like.
Yeah the non-existent obesity problem is a stark contrast with today.
No wonder though, with our modern diet of high sugar, refined carbohydrates, ready meals and junk foods.
@Field what's a "sort of" Londoner?
Stunning quality. I couldn't look away as it was so lifelike in colour and in HD quality. As a Londoner, I am familiar with the locations in the film. Waterloo Station is especially close to me - having used it in my daily commute for over 40 years. Thank you for all your hard work in creating this piece of work.
I was convinced it was Victoria station? I might be wrong.
@@paultutty4302 I think the curvature of the platforms and the (now gone) road where the taxis used to drive up a ramp from road level to platform level, convince me that it's Waterloo.
@Glasgow Rossco It's one of the things that lures visitors and settlers to London. The thing that has made London worse is motor car ownership, not just clogging up the city (look at the video clip of Piccadilly Circus and compare it with now), but clogging up residential streets in the suburbs. But I have to confess to contributing to that when I lived in London.
@Glasgow Rossco worse. Wherever there's high diversity there's high crime. Over here in America 13% of our population commits 50% of our violent crime.... that's all I'm going to say about that
@Glasgow Rossco "diversity is the main thing that puts people off visiting and settling in London"? Really? Where did you read this? Can you provide a source for this or is this just your personal opinion?
It's staggering just how many buses appear in this short video - and most of them are double deckers, too.
Such a different aura about the place back then. Very few private cars, lots of busses, pedestrians walking and crossing where they liked! The old, smaller fountains in Trafalgar Square, too.
We forget today that this was the norm and what is normal for humans. Only in the last 50-60 years or so its really changed.
It’s the fact that private cars now use the streets as freeways. We need lower speed limits to prevent speeding and make sure people aren’t killing childre n just crossing to get to school. Pedestrians are killed so often. 🤦♂️
That’s gunna be the future soon so don’t worry,people won’t be allowed to drive unless super wealthy and you will have to take the bus/walk
@@finz5852 The fun part is that this is all by design and the majority of car owners are oblivious to it.
@@finz5852 Isn't that already the case in Central London? No one normal drives in traffic when they can take the tube. Only rich people who don't want to mingle with commoners drive around soho
A 8 min video showing a video of london 80+ years ago in stunning Restoration quailty! Amazing!
thank you very much 🙏
This is amazing. What's really beautiful is how decorative everything is. From the vehicles to the facade of the buildings and the clothes, a lot of effort was made to make things look nice. It's also not lost on me that this is in the well to do part of London and that the poorer areas did not look the same.
At 1:44 is an ad on the side of a bus for Radiolympia. An annual trade show for radio manufacturers held in the Olympia Exhibition Center in Earls Court. Pre War the show always seemed to open on a Thursday and the ad says the show opens on August 15'th. Which would make the year either 1929 or 1934. And a quick look at the cars and the fact that there are still a few open top buses (which they started to phase out mid 1920's) makes it look very 1929. Not 1934.
So that would make this film shot in July / early August 1929. The Piccadilly Circus segment. A few years after the major rebuild of Regents Street. Based on the fact its a sunny day it was most likely shot during the first two week of July 1929. As although it had been a very sunny / dry spring and summer in London up til then the good weather broke in third week of July 1929.
Well done to those involved in remastering this film! The clarity of the film is superb
Love all of the fashions, especially all of those hats people wore. So much more stylish back then. Lovely to watch.
I love the bus conductor's cheeky wave at 1:42
This is just so stunning! Wonderful work on the colorization and particularly the sound design. You could just step into these pictures. Thank you for sharing.
Outstanding. I shudder to think what London will look like 100 years from now.
Wow. I felt like I was there. It’s almost like someone travelled back and filmed it on a modern phone. Well done, amazing work.
I am quite old and left UK with my parents about 70 years ago. I can still picture many of the people I used to know and still miss so many of the delightful people I used to know. Getting close to 90 has advantages and drawbacks.
Thank you for your comment. Has brought a tear to my eye. I am somewhat younger ( mid 50s) but am fascinated by what our older folks have experienced like you. Respect 🙏🏻
@@michaelhawkins7389 You are partially correct, but I have loving children and grandchildren.
Well don't worry, it's nothing like it was, its a complete hole now, you're not missing anything, and you got to live through the boom so you've got one up on every member of the millenial/zoomer generations.
Try move back
@@ljones2087 your type of comments are so freaking weird. Do people like yourself honestly believe things were better for the majority of people at this time? Seriously?
It almost makes it look like a film set with how smooth the framerate is, it looks incredible!
Its got a live immediacy to it hasn't it
Fascinating to see how well turned out people look, also the relative quietness of Piccadilly Circus.
WOW ! ...watching in HD on my TV.
The clean and crisp , fluid picture really hits home. Incredible work NASS !
thank you very much 🙏 🙏
My dad,born in 1908 always said the best days were the 1930s I can see why.
My best days,born 1949,were late 60s early 70s,In those days I wandered around Central London in the evenings,wouldn't try it now,rarely go out after dark.Those poor people in the video did not know of the hours that would be unleashed in just a few years.
Great video,will subscribe.
The clip of Waterloo station and the close ups of the departing and arriving passengers amazing, sobering to think that within 10 years the UK would be at war and the appearance and nature of all those captured in the film would change dramatically.
Thank you absolutely first class
I am truly stunned at seeing the quality of this! As someone who has captured life in my own town in 1995 and 2015, this person who filmed this has left us with a true view if life in 1930s London! Thank you for the wonderful work.
1930s in High Definition! Looks like a movie set. Unbelievable
Such a great piece of documented history. The clarity of the clip is astonishing. Thank you for posting these - I’ve been a subscriber for some time and I make a point to watch every clip you post. Your hard work is appreciated.
thank you very much 🙏
NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THE TURD WORLD !!!!!!! DO A SIISE BY SIDE NOW AND THEN!!!! LAS VEGAS !
@@beyondalpha1072 what are you talking about?: Las Vegas is in America lol and looks awful , LA is better
Totally amazing video of 30s London. Beautifully captured. Makes you wish you could be there. Thank you for sharing a lovely treasure from the past.
thank you so much
@@NASS_0 Would you able to do York , England? York is a beautiful city with alot of History hopefully there is some old footage of York
I wonder if there's anybody of high status in this video like someone in a posh car like a old rolls royce or bently..
It's also nice to see all the job opportunities.. every bus has a driver and a guy on the back not just one.. it seems this could be when the world was at its economical finest.. jobs opening up everywhere people walking around like theyere on a mission and like they have something to do.. if this was modern day you'd see people on their phones 24/7 soul lessly walking around not knowing what to do where go
Was wondering the whole time, of the stories behind every person. The sailor at the train station. Did he survive on WW2? Did he make WW2? Where there any people who are recorded in history, later? How many of these people are alive, now? A handful of (then) children? Any mistresses of famous men? Any WW2 heroes? Any SOE volunteers or ATA flyers?
Just so wonderful to watch.
What of the few people who keep looking at the camera? How thrilling if they had left their name and been identified, as an individual - how amazing if a gt gt grandchild saw this and realised the link!
Any famous writers down to London for the day?
A. A. MIlne might have been at the train station - or Enid Blyton...
Just thrilling! Maybe the mother of a Bletchley Park worker, during the war? Oh to have that little identity arrow, pointing out people who are now of so much interest... Maybe Violette Szabo or a teenage Leonard Cheshire or Pauline Gower, up to see an expensive dentist?
I would hate to be there with my brown skin 😂
Incredible restoration work here! So interesting being able to look so cleanly back into the past! A bit of a strange feeling that I am looking at all these once living people as "ghosts" in a time long past. Thank you for this. Simply amazing!
London these days is much better, much more exciting, diverse, with lots of interracial couples walking around.
This looks like it could have been filmed yesterday.
Absolutely stunning!
This has absolutely blown my mind, just thinking all those people just getting about their days and not one of them is still with us
My dad was born in '27 he's still with us.
I found this strangely relaxing. Thank you. I noticed how few people looked flustered; no-one slouched; everyone was well-dressed.
During this period of time only working class people would roam around this part of London as well as dress for the occasion.
@@millsshumps1968 What does your comment even mean? Picadilly and train stations were the epitome of people from different backgrounds coming together - office workers and office bosses, shop workers and shop customers etc. It wasn't the coalmines.
And alot less fat or overweight people
@@mrbritannia3833 😂😂😂😂
@@MS-sb9ov If they'd filmed this in poor residential areas eg the East End it would look very different. These are middle class people in fancy areas of the city.
Colorising and remastering is getting better every day! Thank you for all the effort you and people like you put into projects like this!
There are many 'colourised and enhanced' films on RUclips but this piece of film is in a class by itself. it has been done in such a perfect way that one could be forgiven for thinking it's a recently filmed period drama. It's both haunting and stunningly beautiful to see and also, to think that everybody on the film is likely to be long dead. A masterpiece creation. Please upload more of this quality!
I love watching videos like these of where you step back in time for those few moments. You have done an amazing job of restoring these shots and now, 1000's of people can enjoy this great history for many years to come.
A "thumbs up" is not enough praise for this. That is amazing work, congratulations. The muted sepia effect in the colouring is perfect for the era, loved the clarity achieved by the upscaling process. Amazing tp see how elegantly dressed everybody was in those days and the unforms of the station guards. The lack of traffic lights, direction signs, road signs etc. allows the beauty of the city to be seen in full. Love seeing footage of the old vehicles and trains in motion
thank you so much ;)
The good old days when Bovril was a major brand that had massive advertisements in Piccadilly Circus instead of some American bank that no one cares about.
Utterly breathtaking. I was on London Transport in the 70's. Everything there is recognisable; from the conductors hanging off the back, people dodging the traffic; right up to the bus route numbers. So much has changed since the 1980's. Rarely for the better. Thank you for the time and effort this must have taken
It's filled with undesirables who are not English
I noticed the 'used tickets' box on the platform of the buses, as used on the Routemaster's right up into the '90's. Must have been a tried and tested bit of function!
I was a foreign student in London in 1983 and I seem to remember we could just step up on the double decker bus while it was moving.
Yes, I couldn’t help but notice how healthy people looked, briskly walking and running to cross the street or catch the train. Society has become lazy and over indulgent nowadays that has lead to a real health epidemic worldwide. 😮
To be fair, many parts of London are now a lot nicer than they were in the 80s.
I love how everyone looks so presentable and taking such pride in their appearance. Thank you for uploading this.
Probably washed themselves once a week at best, cleaning their only suit consisted of giving it a good beating and hanging it outside, hats were as much to prevent headlice as anything else. Yep, presentable but dirty - luckily there's no "smellivision"!
@@cyberwomble7524 but people nowadays are no different just take the tube on unlucky days and you will see for yourself. But I get what you are saying.
No fatties!
@@cyberwomble7524 You are guessing but they still look better than we do today but we have jeans and body spray now. Show some respect we owe our freedom to that generation and we could not live for five minutes on their rations.
@@Michael.Talbot - Well said. Despite all we have, yet we are more depressed, unhappy compared to this generation. There is a simplicity in their way of life that's very moving.
Wow!
Being a Londoner, I found this really eerie to see, it was almost like watching ghosts and I genuinely had goosebumps all the way through.
Absolutely fascinating 👍
@m v looks better than now
You are seeing ghosts, almost every single one of these dudes are not with us today, and the odd exception must be100+ yo.
@@78a67h Just the thoughts I've been having. Every time I see one of these videos. My mother would have been in her teens at this time. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 93. We are watching ghosts in a machine. Hundreds of versions of what is called 'Portraits of the Vanity'. The sitter is holding and gazing at a skull which is symbolizing the transitory nature of life. The glistering vitality of the present. made distant past by the passage of time.
@@78a67h Nobody I saw was under 20, so to be alive, they'd need to be over 110+, I wager that they're ghosts now..
Very well put. I'm very familiar with these streets - and this truly is a memento mori.
Wow an insight of life during the 1930’s . The clothes, cars and buses. Great and restored with such clarity.
love the clothes
I have no words to describe how amazing this is. It's literally like a time machine to the past.
I'm amazed at the standards of dress and also the beauty in the design of the buses, trains etc. What a different world from today
i think Victorian England society would disagree
@@lorrainehopkins3030 it's the 30s
Right?! They would never go out of the house in their pajama pants, lol!
You realise that this is Central London and they were all upper class people there then?
I recall when gentlemen and ladies dressed well in working class areas, style was.the thing.Millions of family photos attest to it.
Wowww.. I'm absolutely blown away by this video because this clip looks like it's only just been recorded in HD it's that clear??? And I love the sounds you've overlayed in this clip because it suits it absolutely perfectly 🤯 BRAVO 🙌🙌
Excellent work! A masterpiece. It's like a time machine.
This is amazing: so clear and real. I’m amazed how clean the roads are. The horse was king until 15 years previously but I still expected to see some. I’m surprised how quick the traffic moved and how the pedestrians had to run to get out of the way. Everyone seems in such a hurry: more so than today. Wonderful to see the fashions of almost 100 years ago. Almost everyone wears a hat.
Horses were still somewhat regular until the 1950s it's just the roads shown here were in a wealthy area where the remaining horse drawn vehicles would have no business being
A window in a time gone by
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 Nonsense. Perhaps in rural areas, were horses to be seen. But most cities on the Continent, and in Great Britain had motorized traffic.
@@LUIS-ox1bv I never said they didn't but horses weren't replaced overnight and were still found in cities till the 50s occasionally
I must say, I was very pleased by the sight of locomotives of Southern Railway at work at a station in such high detail! Outstanding work, Nass.
Crazy to think that everyone in this footage is no longer with us. Life comes at you fast!
There were some children. Could easily still be around.
Are you sure,how do you know,perhaps you are reincarnated and you don't remember past life 😅😅😅😅😎😎😎
@@jgriffin282 a new born in 1930 is 92 this year, children slightly older are about 100 rn. In a few years they’ll be completely all gone
@@thedreamer4222 so?
@peterpickguitar yes he is I can confirm it. He was still reading the same newspaper also
I lived in London in the late 70s and had some good friends there and used to go down the West End regularly on a weekend. I live these days in a declining America and watching this makes me wish I could climb into a time machine and go back to the 1930s.The people looked more elegant and wholesome and the streets and buildings mirrored the people themselves.
I watch videos of old Dublin ,New York and London and I really shouldn't because all it does is make one wish for what one can never have.💔
I love those old buses with the curved staircase on the outside, kind of romantic. All the women look very classy with their hats. Lovely scenes, thanks for your excellent work👒👜.
thank you very much 🙏
I was thinking the same. They should bring the old buses back for novelty 😀
@@tedoneilclark4710 yes, they look fun...sure the tourists would like them 😊.
This is an incredible restoration, absolutely first class work.
thank you very much🙏🙏
Amazing to see. It looks practically deserted compared to the overcrowding now
strangely the population was roughly the same
@Gary Gravy it wer lovely before all the blacks came 'ere innit
@@astroboirap racist
Because they're not filming poor areas. Poor people were packed into the slums. There's not even that many more people now, they're just spread out more evenly. Less tourists then as well. Also these are areas of the city with businesses and landmarks etc not residential areas.
@Gary Gravy you think theres 10 million undocumented immigrants in London alone? You're smoking something my friend. Do you know what kind of numbers those are? The pop of London is 9.5 mil and you think theres another 10 million undocumented people?????
I can only reiterate the thoughts of all the other commenters. I was mesmerised to and transported back in time as though it were yesterday. Thank you so much for sharing this stunning film with us . Hope you can do many more but appreciate just how much hard work and artistry went into doing this.
Great clarity, especially considering how difficult it is to clearly show faces. Makes it very easy for one to imagine being there. As for people they from all social levels seem so fit, properly dressed, and well groomed.
Just look how well dressed and well groomed everybody is. People obviously took pride in their appearance in those days. So much style and elegance on show in one place that's something you rarely if ever see today...
@John Rider ..yes especially when comparing how much more difficult to launder clothing was back then.
In one word I'd say they exude _propriety._
@Pixie Pete Yes I like the word propriety, a 'thick' concept like honour and responsibility.
Before the groomers came over
@@chroma6947 Oh, you mean those of the 'religion of peace and child sexual exploitation' with their knifings, pavement mountings and bombings of tolerance...indeed.
But you're forgetting the benefits of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity (DIE). I'm sure there must be some!
Fabulous!! I felt like a time traveler! Images so clear! Thank you loved 🥰 it
Visuals are amazing but congratulations on creating the soundscape too. It's just as important in making this seem so 'real'.
Thanks ;)
This is extra cool for me as I recently went on a week long trip to London with my family. We live in Norway and are norwegians, so seeing a big and beautiful city like London, was a truly memorable experience. Love to all the british people out there!
Hi chubby send me a picture of yours
Norway is my favorite country, absolute in love with everything about it. Greetings from Berlin
After watching a few of these videos; there's such a dapper swagger that we would never expect to see just out in the streets today. A small portion of that is from noticing the camera, I'm sure. But I think most of it comes from the fact that who you were on the street was who you were known as, back then. We have a million ways to establish our persona online, or to connect through phones. But back then people used to walk around and present themselves in person.
They didn’t know back then what a wonderful time they lived in compared to today. My grandmother brought 2 children up during the war in London…she had 3 children though….dad was eventually evacuated to Cornwall. Beautiful video. My London ❤️
Wow,simply,Wow!! I think it is your best restoration video !! Great work !! And thank you for bringing back to life those old videos !!!! You deserve more than 426 k !!
thank you very much 🙏
My mom was Born in 1930 in Laredo Texas and she used to tell me they didn't have electricity and running water until the 1940s , she used to tell me that when she was around 10 years old a couple from England come to her school and everyone looked at them as if they were movie Stars or something, they were very well dressed up.
Ha ha. That reminds me when my brother and I first visited California as teenagers in the late 1960’s. People everywhere would want to know about our strange accent and what was Australia really like, most knew absolutely nothing about it. We found this extraordinary. Don’t recall seeing a single homeless person in the streets and we moved around a lot.
Yup. In 1920, only 30% of American homes had electricity, and by 1930 70% did. That's still a significant segment of the population that didn't. Or indoor plumbing either.
Mesmerising to look back in time before the War and so well restored. The colour is excellent and quite subtle, not overdone, just the right balance. I surmised that it was Waterloo station, looking at the Southern Railway locos and spotting Farnham as a destination. Love the women's shoes!
Yes quite obvious it's Waterloo, especially if you are a London commuter. Wonderful stuff.
I feel like I was taken through a “time warp” into a distant past where the fog had lifted. The clarity is extraordinary. Thank you for sharing. 👏👏👍😀
Pretty strange to think that everyone in this video has now passed. Awesome video btw. I was captivated by it. My fave was definitely the railway station.
Wow, whoever contributed to this clarity deserves huge credit. Fantastic. It’s like going back in time!!
Artificial intelligence 😉
This is amazing! Found it quite soulful thinking of all those people long gone, What their dreams and hopes were, did they know the horror of WW2 to come etc and I assume the train station is Waterloo you could tell with the rigid dress code what class people were, all in all you've done a fantastic job restoring this and added appropriate sound, Great job Cheers Jim, Surrey👍
So true. Filmed around 85 years ago. A bygone era for sure.
@@blairmccarthy427 most seemed to be aged late 20’s early 30’s, we’d surely know if any were still alive today as they’d be around 115 years old. No children to be seen in that clip.
What do you mean...I am still here ! Admittedly younger then
@@michaelwalsh9145 3:50 a child
@@Terozad one 😀😀😀
Amazing to see no one was walking their dog back then. I find it a plague that almost every family nowadays owns 1-3 dogs they share their home with. Animals belong in the wild. Dogs cats birds are no different.
humans are animals
dogs are essential in high crime places
This is one of my all time favourite youtube channels
thank you very much 🙏
Mine too!❤❤❤
Fabulous! It's difficult to describe in words but most of my life I have only seen this type of footage in black and white and one gets so used to it that it seems like that was how life really was back then. The colourisation makes it so much more authentic and the characters somehow come to life.
That elegance of the 30s… I do wish I could make time traveling whenever I please to escape…
This is a work of art! Random people going about their business, buses, lorries, and cars trying to get from A to B, and doing their daily chores and deliveries. Just watching this it feels like I went back in a time machine, it's so surreal. The staggering reality of this is that probably none of the people and transport used are any longer with us, yet at this specific moment everybody is so determined to go about their business as if the world was going to last forever. What would they think if they knew random people were watching them now on a random day, but simply in awe of it! This teaches me that Life is short, and we're only temporary visitors.