Edwardian London / HD Colorized

[@BrightStyle]

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[@EricLehner]

Remarkable quality. So much tradition and character in British society at the time, amongst the British people. End of an era.

[@ruijorge3]

I'm sure the slavery and weather weren't great. Life was absolute misery and hell. It's a fact.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

​@@ruijorge3you can't argue with drunks,religious maniacs , racists or my wife....

[@ThePorkReport]

@@ruijorge3 Slavery LOL Whites invented abolition. The English outlawed slavery in the early 1800s, about 100 years before the first African nation, Ethiopia, did so in the 1930s. Thousands of English died trying to end slavery in Africa, but they couldn't succeed because it was so engrained there. You're welcome.

[@Bigbro28]

Call me whatever, but I still prefer the fashions of the Edwardian era compared to the stuff we wear today.🇦🇺

[@sparsh415]

I cant imagine it would be comfortable for Women as those corsets affected their internal organs as they were so tight. Imagine how hot the layers of clothes and material would be in the Summer Heat.

[@annanardo2358]

Working class people could never dress nice because of their jobs. Women who had to wash laundry and scrub floors couldn't dress like that. And the women who DID, didn't know how to even wash their own clothes nor clean and polish their own shoes.

[@zyxw2000]

@@sparsh415 And the men always wearing suits in the heat of summer.

[@maryhamric]

@@sparsh415 Actually it is a myth that corsets were uncomfortable or painful or affected internal organs. Corset were most often custom made and provided great support and fit. I wear a corset regularly and it's very comfortable. There were, and are, mesh corsets for summer and clothing layers for summer were natural fibers that breathed and were not hot.

[@maryhamric]

Agreed!

[@NameRequiredSoHere]

The color and sharpness make the people so much more relatable.

[@andycotton162]

Thank-you for colourising these images, it really brings them to life!

[@AW-uv3cb]

Great video, thanks for putting it together! Just in pure aesthetic terms, Edwardian female fashions are my favourite period in history, these hairstyles and gowns are so flattering and the daily wear seems to be fairly practical. I wouldn't want to live back then (I'll take my voting rights, higher education and social security systems, thank you very much ;-) ), but the quality and detailing of middle- and upper-class clothing back then is on a different level. The people who made them were real masters of their craft!

[@zyxw2000]

Those corsets damaged your internal organs. And imagine wearing that in August!

[@jjaus]

What percentage of women do you think wore these hairstyles and gowns? 1 or 2%?

[@colinlambert882]

Photograph at 5:32 is Edward Francis Frazer in Royal Field Artillery uniform, apparently snapped in a studio in Waterford. The Ascot shot at 8:47 must be the Earl with his wife - the Countess, as there was never a title called “Wedell”. The Earl married his American beauty, Winnafreda Yuill, in 1907. Street scene 1906 is more likely 1911, Coronation year, as the military insignia over the doorway is GR, not ER, and the crude portrait looks like a dark haired George V. 124 years later No. 16 bus route still starts at Paddington Station, travelling up the Edgeware Road to Cricklewood Broadway, though now extended Tesco, Brent Park, which at the time would have been Green fields. Homeless women @16:4 are outside Christchurch Spitalfields churchyard. Ironic that the church at the time didn’t help them.

[@lindyc.2552]

My dad, born in 1920 in Indiana (to recently arrived parents from England), was named Albert Edward, after the late king (Queen Victorias eldest son). My fathers parents intended to return to England. BUT the crossing over to America from England had been so rough, my grandmother would not get on another ship to go back to England. So, they stayed in the U.S. I love your videos!

[@daveweiss5647]

If only we could have retained the good...style, discipline, aesthetics, loyalty, self respect, family, culture, tradition, etc, etc...

[@Londonechoes]

A Deep History

[@skipintroux4444]

It will soon enough be forever erased from history by the islamists.

[@tatata1543]

Minus the poverty, polio, TB , exploitation, rickets, etc etc

[@tatata1543]

@user-io2et5bv2s Around the time of these photos Britain was constructing the world’s first concentration camps in South Africa and carrying out the Amritsar massacre. Moral my arse.

[@NameRequiredSoHere]

We've gotten rid of a lot of the social injustice, but did why couldn't we have kept civility. etiquette, courtesy?

[@margaretpepper3550]

What Britain had & then proceeded to throw it all away....

[@davestevenson9080]

I wouldn't say they threw it away, international finance (probably as close as I could say to the true group) destroyed it from within

[@55points]

enforced immigration without proper vetting tends to do that to any country. Which of course is the goal of their revolting NWO. All these leaders of the free world know power and extreme wealth will come their way. Unfortunately for them the do not understand history. There is always some one else who wants that power and suddenly they are "removed" or end up having an "accident".

[@Richard-yd1ws]

Don't think so 1. Continued fighting with the French when Lenin had handed thr Ukraine, and the Caucasus to the German military dictatorship 2, With the Commonwealth. stood alone against Hitler whilst Stalin made made peace deals with Hitler and the US sat on its hands 3. With the US and the Commonwealth defeated Japanese military aggression in Asia 4. With its allies, stared down the Soviet military dictatorship Bl**dy miracle we're still here

[@murmursmeglos]

Saying Britain threw it away is a little OTT. Probably more a result of the modern world. It's sad to think that two world wars were going to befall these people. But I think it can be said that for a fairly mid-sized island, Britain completely over-achieved from the 18th century onwards. The long-lasting effects is the English language dominating the world and the 21st most populated country having the 6th largest economy.

[@R_Catesby]

@@davestevenson9080 I'm so glad someone who knows and also watches these videos I think joining both world wars was a major mistake and international finance certainly played a role in influencing these mistakes. Yet even if we hadn't made them the masonic elite would have proceeded to destroy Britain through different means

[@pluffer241]

Love the woman holding her cat for the photo 15:52 'everyday street scene 1906'. I think it's not quite an everyday street scene as there are coronation decorations.

[@MeStevely]

Indeed - George V coronation (1910). Still, only 4 years out. Also, the Piccadilly Circus photo at 3.41 is clearly from 1919-20, as Alice Delysia was starring in Afgar at the London Pavilion.

[@roughriderreturns5039]

A pleasure as always. Thank you, very much.

[@timothyharker5549]

Excellent series of photos. The enhancement and colourisation really bring the era to life. One correction to a caption: the street scene around 11m 30s is not London, but Bigg Market in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Most of those buildings are still there, except the turreted building in the middle of the photo, which has been replaced by a monstrosity of the utmost hideousness.

[@Carole-sd4gg]

Wonderful - many thanks for enabling us to see these scenes from the past. I do like the old cars (horseless carriages!) and taxis, and omnibuses. I would so like to be able to go back in time and spend a few days in London in the early 1900s.

[@EdDirben]

OK, but please don't bring any of their deadly diseases with you when you come back.

[@manuellubian5709]

I think it's absolutely fantastic that you were actually able to find names and give appropriate captions to each of these pictures. It's almost as if in a way you were able to give life and breath back to these people who have clearly been dead for close to 125 years. I like the fact that the pictures and the other film bits that you were able to curate are not just rehashing of some of the other photos I've seen on other channels. However I hope you can continue to grow and mature in your art form. The only thing that for me kind of detracted from the whole experience of the fact that on some Prince that you have chosen to colorize you've got like two three four different colors going on the same vestments and sometimes the clothing items colors are not consistent top to bottom. Either way I still gave you a thumbs up on the video it was still a very enjoyable to watch thank you for such an enjoyable time.

[@vivienwilliams1538]

Enjoying this a lot. At 15.58 minutes can't help noticing how slim everybody was. No fast food chains and Mars Bars back then.

[@weekdaycycling]

Corsets made them so slim.

[@sparsh415]

Life was much more active as well then as virtually everything was manual and not automatic. Imagine doing your Laundry washing by hand and then putting it through a mangle etc+ working class people were poor and would have had a limited diet available to them.

[@60toodles]

they look slim because the fashion was to squeeze into corsets.

[@hamster4618]

@@60toodles and those who didn’t wear corsets, simply didn’t have that much food.

[@jjaus]

Only a small percentage of vain rich people wore corsets. The rest were hungry. Not many pics of the majority.

[@awakeningalchemy5744]

That was brilliant! Thank you so much. Just subscribed. You've really brought the people and era to life.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.

[@PangurBan-l1s]

I thought I would watch a few photos then move on. I could not stop, what a wonderful thing that you have done. I have subscribed. Thank you.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.

[@madeleine7411]

This video is thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you!

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.

[@hamper22]

Every time I watch these videos. I wonder what the life story is for each person. Sometimes I get lost in my imagination and dream up a life based on what I feel from the person in the picture, the animals too lol

[@tonyasimpson1218]

I love watching your channel plus you play the BEST music.

[@BrightStyle]

Thanks a lot !

[@QUECHULAESPUEBLA94]

Great video and excellent quality !👏👏👏

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much !

[@atawallpa28]

unbelievable good, thx 👍 thumb up ... best wishes from germany

[@AniNoroV]

Very interesting photos. It was a beautiful era.

[@markshrimpton3138]

If one was middle class or wealthy.

[@AniNoroV]

@@markshrimpton3138 Yes, of course. But people always want to believe in fairy tales. And it's nice where we're not.

[@jjaus]

@@AniNoroV You are fortunate to live now. For most then, life was hideous.

[@brendalloyd1903]

Look how the streets are lovely and clean. No snacking in the street so no litter

[@MareeTeolanafo]

The streets would have smelt to high heaven due to the horse droppings.

[@hamster4618]

@@MareeTeolanafo not to mention the smell of unwashed clothes/people. The smell of human waste from outhouses and such.

[@martinnogales2259]

Amazing hera !!! Brithis heritage , culture , values , Tea , footbal , trains , Industrial revolution , modernity , love England

[@zyxw2000]

Enslaving half the world in the British Empire.

[@strangelee4400]

@@zyxw2000 And which part of the world are you?

[@hamster4618]

Hardship, death, sickness, child labour, smog.

[@QuoPaperPlane]

@@zyxw2000 And now they're getting their own back and literally dumping on the streets. We give 'em railways, they give us turds.

[@abcxyz8787]

Wow amazing quality.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you very much

[@alexg1668]

The picture of the homeless women on the benches was impactful.

[@raoulmoat6762]

Nowadays they could do onlyfans

[@AW-uv3cb]

@@raoulmoat6762 Not sure what exactly you're trying to say with that comment (though it sounds like you're taking a dig at modern women for some reason?), but prostitution was very, very wide-spread in Victorian and Edwardian London, with most women (as always) being driven to it for want of money, since there were very few independent jobs they could do in a society that prevented them from getting an education. While a few lucky ones were able to make their way up in society by getting rich patrons or establishing their own brothels, most of them worked on the streets, which was both unsanitary and dangerous, not to mention the risks coming from the lack of reliable birth-control, such as STDs (some of them deadly in those days) and unwanted pregnancies (also coming with a lot of risks). If I had to choose between being a sex-worker in the early 1900's (or even just a destitute person in those days, because that was no picnic either, and the living conditions of the poor were abysmal) and doing onlyfans in modern times, I'd probably choose the latter if it got me financial stability and the ability to control the way I interact with my clients.

[@raoulmoat6762]

@@AW-uv3cb onlyfans isn't 'prostitution' try and learn something for once

[@jjaus]

Reality. The other pics were mostly the fortunate.

[@heru-deshet359]

Ladies were naturally drop dead gorgeous!

[@hamster4618]

Most would not be as a result if the poor living conditions

[@sparsh415]

Thanks, I really enjoyed your video as it is a window into the Past and have now subscribed.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it.

[@martagrant2908]

Thanks for sharing this amazing video ❤🎉

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you for your comment

[@rocioguevaraobando9075]

Bellísimas fotografías históricas. Arte valioso. 🤓🌸📸

[@bar10ml44]

This was incredible and appreciated but I also find it deeply sad and emotional

[@chrissiecarr5721]

Thank You so much I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into this video 👌🏻I throughly enjoyed the experience and felt like I was home!!💕🇦🇺

[@lisagreenway8410]

I love seeing all these beautiful photos of London before most of it was destroyed in WW1. All the gentlemen and women dressed so well at all times, and it’s a shame that all the men would have been enlisted not long afterwards, but to see history like that is amazing and to think I was using a “Pear’s” Soap bar today and seeing them being advertised all that long ago is wonderful. X

[@Peter-sk5vg]

my dad, who was born in 1910, came directly out of this world. Small wonder Jimi Hendrix was anathema! Hats we de rigeur it seems, and I wonder what the prevailing accent actually sounded like.

[@rogerbixley6911]

I enjoyed watching that.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you very much, I appreciate it.

[@marcholbeck3286]

Very good and very enjoyable but again I would question some of the dating as being later than advertised owing to the number of motor vehicles and scarcity of horses.

[@Neil-wb2xl]

quite a modern looking world for the age it was

[@AnotherAmy]

What an odd lot. Nice work, though! Thank you for sharing it.

[@ianbond3885]

I think there needs to be some date checking here. There is a photo labelled "New Oxford Street 1908" showing an omnibus advertising a musical comedy entitled "The Dairymaids" at the Apollo Theatre. However, "The Dairymaids" ran at the Appollo between 14th April - 8th December 1906. In 1908 it ran for a very short revival (83 performances) at the Queens Theatre. There is also a photo labelled "Everyday street scene 1906" depicting a tea and dining room covered in coronation bunting - and yet Edward had been on the throne for 5 years by 1906 so this photo is much earlier. Videos such as this are an extremely valuable insight into the past, but only when information is accurate, so please Bright Style, do something to correct the information you supply.

[@margarettodd1074]

Wonderful much appreciated ❤

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much !

[@lillymay3632]

I love how people dressed so well in those days. So much self respect, dignity and decorum.

[@irisheyes5890]

It was so until the 1960’s

[@jjaus]

RICH people. The 1%. If not less. Do you really think almost everyone looked like that? SMH.

[@jjaus]

@@irisheyes5890 Including the 30s, wars, post wars?

[@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci]

We should be thanking you for this wonderful pictures for bringing these people alive in black and white they're not real and color their real people and they're alive

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it

[@NedGough]

Life in Edwardian England was wonderful -- if you were rich. And antibiotics were 30+ years away, so you had a good chance of dying even if you could afford the rudimentary healthcare, which few people could. Everyone from the Romans to the Elizabethans has always said 'What is the world coming to?' And 'It used to be so much better'. It's mainly nostalgia. And on these videos it usually means moaning about England not being safely white any more, sometimes actually saying it, sometimes not. It's ugly.

[@jjaus]

One sane person in the comments. I salute you!

[@cijmo]

Thank you for this - the one thing I always forget about is how beautiful the colours were. The music in the last portion, what is that? Someone in my childhood used to whistle it a lot. I don't remember who it was, maybe a shopkeeper or someone else's grandfather, as all my grandparents were gone by the time I came along but it sounds so familiar.

[@juliewillard1367]

These were also hard times. No NHS, no real social care. We actually live in the best times now with housing, plentiful food, able to heat our homes. Morally maybe it was better but it was hard back then for the average family.

[@joeymcfloey2467]

Excellent point!

[@Sally237-s4w]

It’s got harder since Tory toffs got in.

[@howtubeable]

Colorizing skin tones is always difficult. There is a blue undertone to skin that is difficult to colorize. This is a good video, and I'm not complaining. I just wish there were a way to colorize skin tones more realistically.

[@juliegale3863]

The age of my father’s birth. Grandfather was a London architect and would have known all these scenes.

[@weekdaycycling]

7:26 Many of these kids would have been sent to die in World War 1. It's hard to imagine how women at that time survived with such tiny waists.

[@RighteousReverendDynamite]

The women did not have time or the means to set up a clunky large camera on a tripod with a flashpowder pan at the local Gymnasium to photograph them engaged in primitive weightlifting and call out in horror at Gentlemen who had stepped into the line of the camera's aim! They would just lean against the band that was on the mechanical jiggler contraptions for an hour then have a light tea.

[@jjaus]

Don't stress. Only the small percent of idle rich had time for such an idiotic caprice.

[@55points]

Faces lost in time, wars would come. Millions of these young men and these young boys in this first picture will die in them You are only guaranteed the moment you are in, in time. The same for each of us today. That will never change.

[@Neil-wb2xl]

many of those disciplined young men died in the great war and society lost its sense of continuation

[@madlenellul3430]

Pitty about the lack of red in the colorisation. For example the guards officer at about 5.30. The tunic is scarlet. However I do notice this problem appears to be within the process . Thank you though for a glimpse into yesterday..🤗🇦🇺🇺🇸

[@andrewgibbon-williams7974]

What strikes me about these now ancient images is just how all classes to English society took pains to appear well dressed and respectable when appearing in public. Not all of them were rich. They had a sense of propriety, and they did their best to appear clean and handsome. They felt they owed it to themselves. My own grandmother was one such. At home she might slouch around in a dressing gown, but NEVER in public. For that you had to dress. How things have changed!

[@LindaIreland-kg4jx]

Great times me thinks love the way dressed etc manners u name it

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

My parents were born before WW1- strange to think this how their parents dressed! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@susanstewart1402]

Beautiful tailoring 1:31 portrait of Arthur Watson.

[@giovanniromito8967]

If only these people could have seen in the future what shitty world we live in today !!😢😢

[@louise_rose]

More to the point, all of these people (or nearly all of them) lived through WW1 ("the Great War") which tore up the frames of the world they had known. Many of them will even have lived to see WW2, or at least to hear of that guy called Hitler taking over in Germany

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Especially the people living in slums and workhouses...😂😂😂😂

[@juliewillard1367]

@@johnathandaviddunster38exactly!

[@hamster4618]

The vast majority would have traded with today in a heartbeat. Somehow people like you forget or simply ignore child labour, even shown in these pictures. You forget the gruelling 12 hour workdays, 6 days a week. The poor food, the poor conditions people lived in, the smog. 1 in every 4 to 5 children didn’t make it past 5 years old. They DIED. One of the shitty things today are the extremely spoiled people whining about their lives, when they have practically every luxury in the world.

[@FLORIDIANMILLIONAIRE]

The clothing options for men are amazing

[@timothyharker5549]

The date of the picture at 16:00 must be 1910, as that was the year of George V's accession (note the "GR" on the banner above the door)

[@orettacarter1312]

Just imagine being homeless at that time, in the cold winters.

[@jeanwood6392]

All dead and gone , you had the best time, your England is now lost.

[@AW-uv3cb]

Small children working in factories and mines? Workers shot for protesting for their right to a free weekend? Domestic servants (who around the 1900's formed one of the biggest professional groups in the UK) who worked such long hours that, according to their own testimonies, their daily routine on the frontlines of WW1 seemed comparatively easier than their regular life? Women locked up, beaten up and ridiculed for demanding voting rights? Workhouses for the poor? Terrible living conditions for the many poor in the cities? Babies taken away from unmarried mothers? These are beautiful photos with beautiful fashions, and it's hard to resist their charm and a sense of nostalgia, but let's not forget that they present a very narrow picture of the lives of the lucky few, whose easy existence was only possible thanks to the hard, thankless and mostly underpaid labour of the silent majority.

[@hamster4618]

Yes. Of course the best time in England was when child labour still existed. That is, if kids made it that far. In 1900 around 1 in 5 children died before the age of 5. Dead and gone, but those were the days. 😂 Smh

[@jeanwood6392]

@Hamster4618, ah yes when Ricketts , Diptheria and Scarlet Fever ruled the day

[@johnmurray8428]

I wonder, as I always do with photos of the Edwardian era, how many of the subjects survived WW1? Thank you, I will share with our history group.

[@markshrimpton3138]

That’s pretty much what I was thinking.

[@AW-uv3cb]

I always have the same reflection when I read about or look at photos of people in the 1920s and 1930s. Hard to fully enjoy even the happy stories of their lives when you know the horror that's coming.

[@markshrimpton3138]

@@AW-uv3cb I’ve got photos of my respective grandfathers and their various brothers, posing for the camera, oblivious of the hell of the Great War that they’d serve in.

[@danielependola1580]

Grazie per aver messo queste immagini, avrei voluto entrare anche io in quelle immagini e scappare dal 2024 e ritornare al 1904, oggi è tutto decadente e alle volte indecente, l'indecenza la maleducazione e il non rispetto è normale routine oggi purtroppo, due guerre mondiali a questa decadenza ci hanno portato, questo non è progresso e regresso e rispetto al 1904, ci siamo trasformati ma in modo peggiore e non migliore, non mi interessa se si moriva prima o se non c'erano gli antibiotici, era tutto diverso piu' umano piu' rispetto piu' educazione.

[@annamariehewitt3173]

You are a Whiz at this Bright Style...

[@BrightStyle]

Thanks

[@1960dave1960]

Sorry , just spotted something……😊@ 15.49 there is a street scene noted as 1906, with a G.R, GOD SAVE THE KING, George V didn’t ascend to the throne until 1910…..I remember it very well……..😊😊

[@blubblub777]

I like this picture 15:48 😊

[@nemesislooms6315]

Interesting. AI colouring is getting better. More academic rigour is required with respect to dating however. At 15:51 the street scene clearly shows decorations for the coronation of George V, whose cypher appears above the shop doorway. This can therefore NOT have been in 1906 as captioned, since he reigned from May, 1910 and was crowned in June 1911. This rather calls into question the accuracy of the other dates stated.

[@ludovica8221]

Right and some color choices are very iffy too

[@janstaz]

So sad to know most of the young men would have to go to war. Such pretty girls as well

[@thecripplesable]

Everyday street scene in London 1910, is in Newcastle not London. The building with the clock tower is Newcastle town hall, which is no longer standing.

[@pmajudge]

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[@Peleski]

A lot of the very brightly coloured buildings look a bit Disney. Old London was a very polluted place and the buildings simply would not have been so bright. People were burning coal for everything domestic and transport related.

[@kasie680]

Oh this is cool! But I have a question! How do they know what Colours people were wearing? Or is it just a guess?

[@BrightStyle]

Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.

[@kasie680]

@@BrightStyle that’s what I mean, do the artists just use whatever color they think fits the picture

[@Dana-KillerQueenAntiqueJewelry]

It’s likely an odd collection of photos because it still wasn’t common to have a photo taken 😊

[@АлекпероваОльга]

👏👏👏

[@siti-hon-asi]

めっちゃ空気汚れてそうな霞み具合だけど2枚目の写真好き

[@whichkatami]

12:51, the figure in doorway on far right, advertisement statue, a camera glitch? It’s head deformed and has no facial features. A paranormal apparition? The earliest photos are typically un-tampered and ones where very strange things appear.

[@tanja6614]

👍🌹

[@BrightStyle]

Thanks

[@guldenaydin9918]

💝

[@Медвежонок-р8о]

Лондон с 16 века под властью глобальной элиты.

[@ChavJag]

Wow thankyou SO much. You've done an amazing job. Some of the women looked like right stuck up old cows :-)

[@redmi9834]

It was very much a time of class and knowing your place in it. My grandmother was an Edwardian and my mother was put onto service in a household of one of the titled knighted families related to the Queen Mother's family. She told me stories of the rules of hierarchy and knowing your place even amongst the servants.

[@ChavJag]

@@redmi9834 My nan and grandad were irish and they had 10 kids. I asked my auntie donne once why Nan was so tough and she said "she had to be with all us kids"

[@redmi9834]

@@ChavJag My grandmother had nine children and three died in infancy of pneumonia.

[@ChavJag]

@@redmi9834 Heartbreaking

[@es7821]

The sailor from HMS Winchester and his bride must be a post 1918 photograph since the was no HMS Winchester in service in 1908.

[@kristinairmer2813]

Beautiful clothes . Except the corsettes

[@drgeoffangel5422]

We ,lost something over time, like everything!

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Jack the Ripper would have been shocked at modern forensics...

[@foofookachoo1136]

I love the pictures, but the music DEFINITELY doesn’t match up with these great pictures!! Please try for music that fits the pictures!

[@lexbro]

Try turning the sound down

[@user-rc8vd9fu9u]

I think I was born out of time, I should have been born 150 years ago!

[@AW-uv3cb]

While I get the sentiment and how easy it is to romanticise the past when you only look at photos of the middle and upper class, please remember how hard life was for the working and the poor who formed the vast majority of society in those days. Workhouses for the destitute? Factory workers being shot dead when they protested for what we today consider basic workers' rights (like a free weekend or pension fund)? Women locked up for demanding voting rights? The unsanitary living conditions of the poor? Small children routinely working (and dying) in factories and mines? Or even simple things we take for granted today like dental care (and doctors washing hands before they touch their patient - the first doctor who suggested it, after noticing that the rate of death for women in childbirth in his public hospital where doctors were delivering babies after dealing with dead bodies was way higher than elsewhere, was mocked and ridiculed by the majority of the medical profession). I love the fashions of the past, and there is a sense of nostalgia and a more stable world in photos like these, which is hard to resist, and of course in many ways they were exciting times of change and development, but let's not glamorise it overmuch. For the vast majority of modern people life back then would probably seem much more callous and harder than today, and you had to be very lucky to have a life of comparative ease. For most people those days would have been just as messy and confusing as our time seems to us, only they didn't have the rights and amenities we have now. We should count our blessings.

[@davestevenson9080]

@@AW-uv3cb you are indoctrinated and deny the abject horror of the present

[@sparsh415]

@@AW-uv3cb Working class people live a much higher standard of living these days and have many more opportunities+ we have the legal right to an education so are no longer illiterate.

[@hs964]

People always see themselves in the ruling class - not the flower selling in Covent Garden who would get "knocked up" and be end up in the work house with her 1 year old baby in the cemetery.

[@davestevenson9080]

@@hs964 all my grandparents say their youth was better than mine, maybe it is you seeing things incorrectly?

[@irisheyes5890]

Those poor women and their need to squeeze the waist so hard.

[@rovhalt6650]

Bring it back.

[@hamster4618]

What? The poverty? Child labour? Disease? Smog? High infant death rate? 12h/6d workweeks? What exactly would you want to return?

[@victoryforvictims3522]

I would be willing to dress up as an old timey refreshments vendor with cart and acutriments and walk around NY subways. Eventually, you would be able to have it. Things have died only because it’s been allowed to.

[@RighteousReverendDynamite]

In a Simpson's epsode, Miss Krababble is seen enjoying a nice hot bubble bath with candles reading from an "Edwardian Secrets" catalogue!

[@dallaskenn]

2:32 Such an obvious opportunist-poseur so early on.

[@1960dave1960]

I can’t see a Costa or a Mobile Phone anywhere…..🙈🙉🙊

[@deanronson6331]

At least 23 per cent of people in urban working households and 18 per cent of working households had income insufficient to meet minimum needs in Edwardian England.

[@QUECHULAESPUEBLA94]

Minute 3:32 is man in drag ! 😮

[@redmi9834]

It looks like it. It

[@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci]

No man in drag come on get your act together people

[@puggle9983]

If it IS a woman she's being VERY bold being photographed in her underwear, !!!!

[@meganhuggins7494]

It was a young woman!!

[@onetruekeeper]

Who decided that cars drive on the left side of the road instead of the right as in most countries ?

[@hamster4618]

I heard an explanation that was so logical I think it may be true: Stemming from when people rode horses. As most people prefer getting on a horse from the left hand side of the horse, it became most logical to continue riding on that side.

[@helen-vb6kw]

11.28. Not sure this is London

[@fus149hammer5]

I noticed that some of the union flags hadn't been colourised. THREE CHEERS FOR THE GREY WHITE AND BLACK!😂

[@cloudhop]

The nearest we will ever get to a Time Machine ....(music choice is annoying)

[@ЗояКушнир-э1и]

Черно - белые фотографии более наглядно отражают то далекое от нас время.

[@formwiz7096]

Even in the poor areas, streets were clean, nobody looked like a bum.

[@stevendaniel8126]

I was born in the wrong century.....

[@AW-uv3cb]

Well, if you were born when those photos were taken, your childhood would have been spent in the shadow of WW1 and you'd likely have ended up drafted in WW2 (or, if you were born earlier, you'd have been sent to the frontlines of WW1. And it's not like the life of the working majority in industrialised 19th century Britain was that easy). I do get the sentiment, believe me, I really do, these photos are wonderful - but we who live in developed countries today should really count our blessings. I'm Polish and I was born a few years before the Soviet Union fell, and while there were so many wonderful things to enjoy in the decades before, great music and art and fashions etc., I consider myself extremely lucky not to have had to experience the horrors of WW1, WW2 and the political oppression that came after (or even the period of rebuilding, like what the UK went through. After WW1 there was a widespread problem with women not being able to find partners because so many men had been killed, and after WW2 the UK had food rations till 1954). We rightly praise our grandparents' generation for their courage and grit during those days, but their lives were marked by generational traumas we can't even imagine, and I wouldn't wish them on anyone.

[@hamster4618]

In addition, as 1 in 5 kids died before the age of 5, odds are you didn’t even make it to WW1. But then again, if you did, thankfully you’d be hardened by the time you went there as vast amounts of kids were accustomed working long gruelling hours, 6 days a week from the age of 10.