5 Astonishing Films from Victorian Britain 18.11.24 1723pm i always thought how tedious it must have been for people watching mr grace as he batted his way into the record books...not leaving the crease when given out etc etc... the seemingly recreated set scene of some dude from heywood (who looked akin to mr grace) hung on the wall of a heywood pub - kindda made me laugh...
@@JJONNYREPP Grace after being bowled. 'Windy today isn't it umpire?' Umpire. 'Yes it is. Mind it doesn't blow you hat off on your way back to the pavilion.'
@@Poliss95 Comments on ‘5 Astonishing Films from Victorian Britain’ 19.1.24 0441am i didnt get that joke... and as a result i shall don a beard and dismiss any decisions made or pending regards my conduct... wot o!!! i think cricket must have been really boring in Grace's day... text book shots being the way of things... i mean, i get the complaints re: the dangers of cricket ending up like a poor man's version of baseball... but we need those mavericks like livingstone and botham of old - twatting the ball for 6 at every given opportunity. some exciting players are required. and as role models for future players, you can't go wrong...
@@JJONNYREPP Grace was suggesting to the umpire that it was the wind that had knocked off the bails, not the ball, and therefore he was not out. The umpire sent him on his way. Bradman, who is regarded as the finest batsman who ever played, hit only 6 sixes in his entire career. His test career average score was 99.4.
@@Hsdias It boggles my mind that I knew somebody who was born in 1884! (140 years ago) My grandfather, Matt Mattinson, fascinates me, because he was a bona fide Victorian gentleman. Matt's youngest grandchild is 43. Matt died in 1968, aged 84. His son died in 2022, aged 90. I'm 62.
Wonderful! I wonder if any of those people felt any premonition of how their world was about to change with the dawning of the new Century? Within the space of a few short years motorcars would replace the horse-drawn carriages, and men would take to the air in their 'flying machines'. The rest is history - a VERY rapid history!
It’s amazing how good everything looked back then. I would love to see such days again where architecture is designed to look nice and people dressed well…
@ You should see the slums of this era. Not that that has anything to do with the point. How many middle class people does one see making the slightest effort to dress well nowadays? Or even the upper class? They seem to favour nothing more than a t-shirt and jeans nowadays. It’s a shame to see the how much small things like that have decreased in only 100 years
@@dylan-kerry 'I would love to see such days again where architecture is designed to look nice'. The houses most ordinary people lived in were absolutely terrible. Unfit for human habitation. There were books written shortly after those films were made condemning the clothes as unhygienic and how should wear the new hygienic styles now.
The overdubbed piano music makes it seem almost restful when it would have been a noisy smelly chaos! As others have said there is something incredibly poignant about footage of people long gone and playing their role in the birth of the 20th century and the 'information age'. Like the Mitchell and Kenyon films this is a wonderful snapshot.
@mfwebpea2935 No. That's set on another planet where they have copied the culture of Chicago gangsters from a book another starship brought. They travel back in time in 'Assignment Earth'.
5 Astonishing Films from Victorian Britain 1718pm 18.11.24 banal activities filmed for family or friends becoming historical archive - deemed authentic. i was reminded of the terrible fall the guy, during the opening of the middleboro dockland bridge, suffered - and, of course, such an event was filmed for posterity...
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This footages more than 125+ years ago. All the people even in horse also vanished (died) from the world.. Happy to see this iconic video!
5 Astonishing Films from Victorian Britain 18.11.24 1723pm i always thought how tedious it must have been for people watching mr grace as he batted his way into the record books...not leaving the crease when given out etc etc... the seemingly recreated set scene of some dude from heywood (who looked akin to mr grace) hung on the wall of a heywood pub - kindda made me laugh...
@@JJONNYREPP Grace after being bowled. 'Windy today isn't it umpire?' Umpire. 'Yes it is. Mind it doesn't blow you hat off on your way back to the pavilion.'
Lo misma estaba pensando.Este film es una verdadera joya del pasado.
@@Poliss95 Comments on ‘5 Astonishing Films from Victorian Britain’ 19.1.24 0441am i didnt get that joke... and as a result i shall don a beard and dismiss any decisions made or pending regards my conduct... wot o!!! i think cricket must have been really boring in Grace's day... text book shots being the way of things... i mean, i get the complaints re: the dangers of cricket ending up like a poor man's version of baseball... but we need those mavericks like livingstone and botham of old - twatting the ball for 6 at every given opportunity. some exciting players are required. and as role models for future players, you can't go wrong...
@@JJONNYREPP Grace was suggesting to the umpire that it was the wind that had knocked off the bails, not the ball, and therefore he was not out. The umpire sent him on his way.
Bradman, who is regarded as the finest batsman who ever played, hit only 6 sixes in his entire career. His test career average score was 99.4.
Wonderful footage. RIP people. RIP horses.
I love watching these old films, I feel nostalgic for something not even my grandparents are old enough to remember
@Hsdias My grandparents remembered Victoria's days.
My paternal grandfather was 12 in 1896!
@@Poliss95 wow that's nice, mine don't
@@marcse7en that's amazing
@@Hsdias It boggles my mind that I knew somebody who was born in 1884! (140 years ago) My grandfather, Matt Mattinson, fascinates me, because he was a bona fide Victorian gentleman. Matt's youngest grandchild is 43. Matt died in 1968, aged 84. His son died in 2022, aged 90. I'm 62.
Fascinating footage ❤
That horse drawn bus at the start of the Sunderland Bridge sure had a bumpy ride.
Brilliant as always 👍🏻🇬🇧
Amazed at how it used to be and the everyday things we've never experienced.
I watched twice. No one was texting!
@gabbyhyman1246 They would have been but their batteries were dead and the charger had yet to be invented.
At the end of the W G Grace sequence is a brief glimpse of K S Ranjitsinhji.
It was wonderful to see them in action.
My paternal grandfather was 12 in 1896!
Wonderful!
I love old things
Great video & love the music 🎶 perfect soft not raucus 😊
Nostalgic 🥹
The dude on the bridge near the lamppost just staring at the camera looking at it like WTF? 😂
Saudações do Brazil 👍🇧🇷
so many people wore hats back then
Wonderful! I wonder if any of those people felt any premonition of how their world was about to change with the dawning of the new Century? Within the space of a few short years motorcars would replace the horse-drawn carriages, and men would take to the air in their 'flying machines'. The rest is history - a VERY rapid history!
I wonder if you do feel it
Thank goodness these films exist because in 30 years they will be trying to tell you Britain was always majority African & Asian
Don't think WG would have made todays MCC (England) team, batting a bit suspect.
It’s amazing how good everything looked back then. I would love to see such days again where architecture is designed to look nice and people dressed well…
@dylan-kerry You should see the slums of that era.
@ You should see the slums of this era. Not that that has anything to do with the point. How many middle class people does one see making the slightest effort to dress well nowadays? Or even the upper class? They seem to favour nothing more than a t-shirt and jeans nowadays. It’s a shame to see the how much small things like that have decreased in only 100 years
@@dylan-kerry 'I would love to see such days again where architecture is designed to look nice'. The houses most ordinary people lived in were absolutely terrible. Unfit for human habitation.
There were books written shortly after those films were made condemning the clothes as unhygienic and how should wear the new hygienic styles now.
@ They all looked nice. Nothing nowadays forms much of a comparison at all.
What powers the monorail rides??
Is the first film segment at the Devil’s Dyke above Brighton?
look at the speed those rides are going! people back then sure knew how to handle their g forces.
The overdubbed piano music makes it seem almost restful when it would have been a noisy smelly chaos! As others have said there is something incredibly poignant about footage of people long gone and playing their role in the birth of the 20th century and the 'information age'. Like the Mitchell and Kenyon films this is a wonderful snapshot.
Yes, that film of Hyde Park corner would have been very noisy with the stench of horse manure.
I’ve noticed there are no overweight people
Apart from Queen Victoria.
W. G. Grace looked like quite the portly fellow to me
Before vegetable oil.
❤
Reminds me death
Where yhe trains. Those were great
They travel back in time on Star Trek for piece of the action
@mfwebpea2935 No. That's set on another planet where they have copied the culture of Chicago gangsters from a book another starship brought. They travel back in time in 'Assignment Earth'.
5 Astonishing Films from Victorian Britain 1718pm 18.11.24 banal activities filmed for family or friends becoming historical archive - deemed authentic. i was reminded of the terrible fall the guy, during the opening of the middleboro dockland bridge, suffered - and, of course, such an event was filmed for posterity...
wow
Sure, they all dressed sharply, but I can guarantee you the smell was not great