Rock of Gibraltar (1930s)

A film about Gibraltar from the Living Book of Knowledge series. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
1930s, Gibraltar, British Oversees Territories, Iberian Peninsula, educational films, Rock of Gibraltar, Jabel-al-Tariq, promontory, promontories, O'Hara's Tower, Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Catalan Bay, Moorish Castle, Bay of Gibraltar, reservoirs, town of Gibraltar, boulevard, hilly streets, merchants with pack donkeys delivering to houses, local butcher herding poultry, street scenes, horse-drawn carriages, car struggling to get through crowd of pedestrians, Church Lane, Church Street, Moorish Architecture, Southport Gates, tunnels, children running through street after school, vendor selling goods, Muslims, old city gate, southern part of town, Gunner’s Parade, Governor's Parade, military guardhouse, shepherd herding flock of sheep

[@oliversherman2414]

Very interesting video. I'm from the UK but I've been living in the south of Spain for the last couple of years. I've visited Gibraltar more times than I can count since moving here and it's one of my favourite places locally 🇬🇧🇬🇮

[@kmfw72]

This was from the 1920s, not the 1930s, as Gibraltar changed to driving on the right in 1929.

[@Dr.Pepper001]

Did they have talkies in the 20's?

[@greengardengreen6666]

@@Dr.Pepper001 in the 1920s they had voice overs but recording people whiles being filmed at the same time wasn’t introduced until the 1930s.

[@eliottsantos2654]

This is most definitely 1920s Gibraltar.

[@lablackzed]

Very historical footage in comparison to the way Gibraltar looks now .👍

[@mr.hodlbitcoin]

Hi, fancy bumping into you over here

[@davegreenwood1663]

Boy how thats changed in almost 100 years .Full of high rise buildings now.

[@smplfi9859]

it's littered with mid-rises @4:46

[@Basauri_48970]

As it befits this well known unscrupulous money laundering, tax heaven site.

[@superted6960]

British since 1873? Don't think so. Captured by Anglo-Dutch forces in 1704 and ceded to Britain in perpetuity under the Treaty of Utrecht, 1713.

[@smplfi9859]

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[@Basauri_48970]

Except it was just the rock that was ceded to Britain. The land where the houses and airport lay was stolen from Spain. See for instance how in the 19th century Spain allowed Britain to set up a temporary hospital beyond their limits during a yellow fever epidemic, on compassionate grounds. Once the epidemic was over, Gibraltarians never left the land; they incorporated it as theirs. Such lovable and trustworthy people!
Interesting to google a map of the ceded territory in the 1713 treaty of Utrecht and compare it with Gibraltar's current size now, after the illegal expansions.