Jamaica Street, Glasgow (1901)
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And none of them could have dreamt that 109 years later, we would be watching them via You Tube on computers!
Stunning insight into the past. Thanks so much.
How’d u know ?
121 years later now
@@stephenwalker850he’s a time traveller mate. We went to school together
My grandma was born in Glasgow 1901. This is precious to me. Thank you!
That was so amazing to see. I live in New Zealand and my great great great grandparents left Glasgow at about exactly this time, setting sail for NZ. So cool to see a snapshot of what must have been their world.
I am always touched by how hard the horses are made to work. 🐴
Nearly all the carts were empty (?)
What an incredible piece of film....and restoration.
Amazing old film, if I had a time machine I would see my Grandfather as a three year old and meet his Mother who died when he was only five.
I think the fact some of them are making eye contact with the camera makes it even more special. Mesmerising.
Something very humbling about watching this. Hard to express in words. Another time & another place...
Watching these films makes me tear up every time. A sadness comes over me seeing all these vibrant people, all with lives and families, going about their business, and now no longer alive. Does anyone now even know or remember their existence? And yet I can't stop watching any of them.
Thank you BFI: I love these beautiful old movies. Like watching the ghosts of our ancestors. I wonder if anyone has ever have been identified from these movies?
This film is incredible. I could literally watch this all day.
if there is a heaven those poor bloody horses deserve to be in it
I was thinking of that as well.... so sad to see the horses
They were eaten!
This is how they were treated 5000 years
Scott Whitley just since the industrial revolution really
Took the words out my mouth
My father was 13 in 1941 and used to regularly collect goods in Glasgow by horse and cart from Buchanan Street railway station and transport them to the Cooperative fruit and veg storage depot in Giffnock.
Strange thing was the horse he cared for and worked was blind but my Dad loved him, said he was a really peaceful natured horse. He ended up in the army in defeated Germany shortly after the war ended, said the devastated German cities were horrendous he was in RAMC or as he used to joke, Rob All My Comrades, Royal Army Medical Corps. He worked with horses and loved them.
I’ve often thought that if I had a horse and cart (if that was the main mode of transport), that I’d love my horse and I’d speak to him on lonely journeys.
Once upon the time. Oooh their people. Thank you for building for us. RIP.
This makes me so happy thinking I walk down that exact street everyday
This was filmed the year my late father was born 1st February 1901 at 43 Cramond Street, Glasgow.
The horse and cart men are now the modern day white van men. Like the woman showing herself to be camera shy when she puts her hand to block her face.
Great piece of footage to look at. My grandfather would have been 13 years old when this was shot.............amazing!
Hope you get to see this comment, my grandfather born 1900 was a carter delivering the bricks ect, to build social housing in the 1930's the horses names where Punch & Judy.
I heard here in Quebec that white van bears a shady meaning around the BI there...these carters look so orderly, leisurely staying kerbside even, right..!
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This type of video transfixes me. I often wonder if I am viewing an ancestor. I will never know. Wonderful work.
so wish i had a time machine
Oh yes
I muss see this time wiht my eyes
This is a time machine. Film is the closest thing we have to a functioning time machine. Amazing clarity we are actually looking at what specific people were doing 120 years ago.
We can never know what a thrill and novelty it was for people in 1901 to see this footage. Can't be sure what the motivation for shooting it was but we descendants will forever be in his debt ...... the people seen here alive and vibrant are not even ghosts now. Sad.
Barry Poupard Well said good words. Most of those have gone by now. Their struggles and dreams faded in to the past. 💤
RIP MANY GOOD PEOPLE.
@@rexluminus9867 Well...not most, ALL. This was shot 118 years ago. :')
It struck me while watching this that in all likelihood many of the boys you see in the film probably wound up in the trenches of WW1 where a large percentage would have lost their lives.
bluesborn it's life bro...... the fucking life
flakjack - just a thoughtful understanding muse, no one is saying they are the first to think it. Not sure why you felt the need to point that out.
@WE WUZ VIKANGS!!! n shiet. It was nothing to what you white south Africans did to the blacks even in my lifetime.
Very nice 🎶music fits the life struggles of those people. Wasn't easy at all. Thanks for uploading it.
Nice to see Paisley's Department Store in the background, which used to stand on the corner of Jamaica Street and the Broomielaw...remember being in it once back in 1975, met by a very formally dressed "concierge" who directed us to the appropriate department level in the store...was well chuffed being called "madam" at 18! Gone now, like so many other fine Victorian Glasgow buildings.
Now the Jury's Inn :(
Yes Lorraine…..I am only 2 years older than you …..
I can remember getting off the East Kilbride bus on Clyde street,
then heading up Jamaica street in the the late sixties,
and that was just over 50 years ago…..oh how times have changed…. 🤔
Sends a wee tingle up the spine
It's a lot different now, far more busy and it has Hotels and Dance clubs and Pub's but nice to see the way it was then.
Funny how everything from the past somehow seems cozy. Probably just knowing I had family there at the time makes me somehow nostalgic.
The dress code back then was amazing most people with suits and ties wow
For women it was too umconfortable. I prefer these days
@@LauRa-re9un But these days dress has triggered rapes and too much vulgarity don't you think ?
@ Tiger 1, dress doesn't trigger rapes; men do.
Videos like this are such a headspin. The people you see in this video are just going about their daily lives as you and I are at this very moment; except this shows people of 120 years ago. Think about it - 120 years! So much time has passed since then. Every person you see in this video has lived their lives, passed away and left their mark on history in their own way. So much about how we live our lives has changed since then, too. Technology, medicine, culturally, etc. Just fascinating to watch things like this.
Enchanting, deeply moving. Like watching ghosts from our past! Mesmeric.
Noticed 2 people hiding their faces from the recording which I thought was strange but its a wonderful film, love it 😊
My Grandad had a Horse and Cart at that time,he was in the scrap metal business…..
Had stables in Pollokshields ….
Just to think how many times he would have travelled over that bridge …..
I wish I could go back for one day with him and experience “Old Glasgow”
Hats, hats, and more hats!
Like it was illegal to show the top of your head. The higher the hat, the higher of class i’ve noticed.
The Street at the end is Royal Crescent, just off Sauchiehall Street, just west of Charing Cross. go to google street view and go onto Royal Crescent and look west. The buildings have changed, but very little considering over 100 years have passed. Amazing footage. ;0)
Thanks for posting.This was very interesting.
Astounding bit of film imho.
Incredible piece of film. Not only is the quality excellent: it's as if you've gone back and you're actually there, but it's like cleanwax says, we're almost communicating with them.
Its an amazing poece of history. Sure i saw myself in there somewhere.
Fantastic! My great,great grandfather was born in India and ended up here.
Czas zatrzymany w kadrze.To pokolenie już odeszło pozostawiając po sobie wiele dobrego.Czas i przemijanie pokolenie po pokoleniu.Nasze trwa w tym teraźniejszym czasie ale i ono przeminie. Więc i my pozostawmy po sobie mile wspomnienia.
very very nice Video to the Old Time!
everybody dressed so nicely. really wonderful to watch those videos.
Wonderful footage of Jamaica Street.
The Light of other days...
One of my 4x great-grandfathers was a master coffee roaster in Glasgow. He was born in 1811 so most likely dead when this was filmed. Horse and carts back then were called vans.
God bless Mitchel and Kenyon 🎥👍
that is so true
I love this comment i believe i made a similar one a while back
what amazes me how ancient these people are even the very young.
I'm almost 50 and my great grand father would have been a very young man at this time.
The age of this film just amazes me and looking at all the people just living like it's present day. i can almost feel the warmth from the sun on their faces.
absolutely brilliant
Interesting that the wagons and vans are nearly all driven from the nearside and the few passenger carriages from the offside or right, which is the traditional side when the rule of the road is to keep to the left. I wonder if it is because the commercial vehicles are lower and it is safer to have a clear view of the kerb and any pedestrians stepping off it.
💢🎥 would have been great to hear them, great video
love this! wondering what end of Jamaica street this was, and it's absurd to think all of those townhouses were demolished and replaced with the hotels and student hostel there today?! what is the soundtrack on this? thanks for posting
Dawn of film.
Great to watch this.
So Great!!!!! Love It!!!..
My Great Grandfather was a Carter. Hard toil for little pay but they got up and did it every day. Work hard bringing home the pennies. So proud of out working class peoples ⚒️💖⚒️
If you look closely at all these films, you see almost no overweight people. Compare that to what you would see today on a typical street.
Did they work harder? Not eat as much? Poor health?
maybe it's because their government gave them sound dietry advice like don't eat too much red meat, butter, eggs. Eat more cereals, grains, low fat margarine, vegetable oils, low fat this that and the other packed with sugarNo? Must be just us then. What a poignant film. Amazing
That was in 1901 and now in 2019 they say that obesity is directly linked to poverty, yeah I don't believe it either...
All of the above...poverty too
because theres more freely available food as it wasnt yet mass produced. it was virtually impossible to become overweight as an ordinary person back then, especially in glasgow. old aristocrats were usually fat as shit.
and work (by which i mean both an actual trade and a housewife taking care of a family) required far more manual labour than it does now
Sugar. That's the difference, everything today is packed with sugar and we have much more sedentary lives. Plus central heating means we are much warmer, whereas people back then used more calories just to keep warm.
great footage ,I stay in cumbernauld village near glasgow and this is fascinating as i am into social history,it,s not very often u come across live footage,
This film is proof that we haven’t always been a diverse society.
Very nice video. I like it!
amazing video
Priceless treasure!
no purple shellsuits or baseball caps .....bliss !
however the roads are just as bad and in fact they are worse now......
thanks BFI ........you really are the best restorers and archivists in the world , our heritage cannot be in better hands .........thank you.
it's haunting how they look into the camera not knowing that we, at our computers, would be looking back at them over one hundered years later.
Peaceful times people dressed elegant and worked hard to be somebody
Is this the earliest ever piece of film footage made in Glasgow? Must be close.
If you look closely at 0.31, you'll see me there. At 122, I'm still going strong.
It's just amazing to see the traffic made up solely of Horses pulling wagons/carts and all going along at walking pace. So different in comparison to the traffic in 2023.
Was that the orange walk at the end?😂 aye still a pain in the arse since 1901.
That guy driving the wagon loaded with lumber at 00:23...sitting right on the load. It sure was safety first back then, huh?
Thanks for posting these by the way! They're a great look into the way people lived back then. =)
human beings with busy schedules living in the present with many thought going through their heads. thinking about the weekend, having a few pints tonight. Before most of our dead Grand and great Grand Parents where even born. This is a look at ancient life as if being there.
those were the days,amazing old film,and not a pole to be seen
@VOXS2 Jamaica Street is alive and well and is just next to Glasgow Central railway station. Unfortunately the street lights have gone, and the horses and carts etc...but the streets of Glasgow are still full of well dressed people and we have the best shopping outside of London. Although we are mostly drunk...most of the time. Nice.
with my family there in 1901 i wonder what my 5 year old Grandmother would be doing at that moment--
Wonderful to see. TellyDoofers house is 'round the corner & would be recognisable to the persons in some ways.Awsome!
amazing footage, the guy picking his nose made me laugh too!
Can you do the Gorbals how life used to be 70 years ago as my dad live there and he was 7 years old before he got his first pair of shoes thanks very much
Beautiful Film. My Gran was born in 1907 . I wonder if she would have seen that ?
Horses were the back bone of transportation in those days.
No traffic jam though?
Few years later, petrol cars took over!
The parade at the end was actually from Saltmarket Street heading to Glasgow Green. Not at the top of Jamaica street!
It definitely wasn't the top of Jamaica Street. But why do you think it was Saltmarket? It doesn't look like Saltmarket at all.
Revolver does kinda look like salt market just before where the dodgy dvd shop was for years
@@Revolver1981 Parades to Glasgow Green?
@@KarenBrodie That's not Saltmarket though. It might be the Gorbals.
defo on Jamica st bridge, Paisley's Department Store in the background at corner, which sat on Jamica st. Bromielaw ...next street up to the right outta camera is saltmarket (the clutha pub etc)
That is amazing, just think back then that you where walking down the street and seen a camera filliming, you would have never have thought that over 100 years later people would be looking back on it in amazment, ever person there had a story to tell, wonder what on that day they where doing?
delivering some shelving then having a few loggers and lime I would imagine
i wonder where he is buried
@VOXS2 Unfortunately Jamaica Street is a bit rundown these days. There's an ugly multi-storey carpark and few gapsites where new buildings were planned (before the recession). There's still some great old buildings though. A lot of Glasgow's old architecture has survived. Its the biggest asset of the city.
in Glasgow!
Mad to think everybody in this video is deed noo 😳
Scott cee glasgow i think its better that way. If they saw what Glasgow and the rest of the uk is like today, they would probably WANT to be dead I’m afraid
I can be seen in this video pushing a cart at 46 sec .. hard times indeed..
The same scene now would be neds in track suits!
It's wonderful to see Glasgow in such detail. What on earth possessed the BFI people to graft this inane music from the sixties onto an obviously historically interesting piece of footage?
Clive, silent film frequently looks speeded up on TV etc because they were copied at sound speed whereas the originals are hand cranked and vary from 8 to 20 frames a second. The BFI people who restored these films carefully varied the copy speed to make 'em look good. Google "BFI Mitchell & Kenyon restoration" or similar to find out more....
so many hats.....
I just want to be there
Thank goodness there was no police ticketing for driving too close.
Wonderful spectacular footage. To see people wearing collar and tie or bow tie as standard and the ladies looking wonderfully dressed with pretty bonnets all taking pride in their appearance.
I wonder what happens to all the horse dung!
Is he texting while driving at 1:17?
1:45 a nose-picking for the ages.
I think he was chewing his fingernail.
It would appear that the internal combustion engine had yet to make an appearance in Glasgow.
I don't think this is Jamaica St.
It looks like Glasgow X when there was a railway opening at the cross between High St-Argyle St. Great movie anyway and a credit to the people who made it,and those who preserved it. Wonderful
@cleanwax Exactly what I was thinking.
Fucking Proud I am
@NiallMS That's a very good question. I have a blog to start the trend Many Hatty Returns.
I always wear a hat every day
My ancestors lived on Havanna Street in the 1870s. My gt gt grandfather committed suicide by jumping into the Monkland Canal.
My grandpa might have been one of those boys. He was 11 in 1901.
My Dad lived somewhere around the corner, he was born in 1919, if his dad was living there from birth he would be about that age or a bit older
I'd swear Glasgow be the place that Montreal here tried to emulate the most of all places, I'd swear it