Great Britain in the 1890's - 1900's Victorian Era / 55 Extremely Rare Exciting Photos Colorized

[@BrightStyle]

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[@IceLynne]

Women haven't had rights for most of history and still don't in some countries. I don't see how it helped anything to give us rights, we're just a bunch of Eve's.

[@susanellis8067]

@@liamoconnor9487there weren’t any, very very few in those days

[@liamoconnor9487]

@@susanellis8067 And yet, we can't even make a tv show about medieval Britain, these days, without including loads of black people in it.

[@andrewjohnstone963]

@@liamoconnor9487 I couldn't agree more !

[@sarahreid48]

Not that impressed

[@LOGANBOGGS-i3y]

1890's-1900's photographs are great and they will be too and I eternally will continue to enjoy them too now.

[@keepingitrealwithrooglemur3372]

I am a drainage engineer in london and still find the white ceramic Victorian drain still in use and in remarkable good condition. That was when things were designed and built to last. Amazing really

[@Tensquaremetreworkshop]

And there are buildings (e.g. in Rome) still standing, and being used, 2000 years later.

[@angelamary9493]

Agree

[@Hy-Brasil]

we should still build things to last. we must abandon the mentality of planned obsolescence at all cost. We love to criticize our ancestors for being greedy, but they weren't so greedy that they sold products designed to fail - often injuring the consumers. we need artisans, engineers, repairmen and tradesmen like never before. and YES we CAN afford it. think how much money would be saved if we weren't constantly replacing junk with more junk. and we all know the origin of this junk..... it's a five letter word that starts with a C and ends with an A.

[@bobwallace9814]

@6:55 the muffin man. Remember that old song, Do You Know the Muffin Man that lives on Drury Lane? It was written to warn kids and family of a murderer on Drury Lane who sold muffins to entice kids to their doom.

[@gretetimm]

There is almost nothing more exciting than these photos from the turn of the century. Greetings from Berlin-Brandenburg.

[@agl3083]

Hello 👋🏻

[@mooseing22]

What I love about this channel is they tell you almost exactly where & when the photos were taken. Especially the London photos. I know many of the streets and find it fascinating. History is also a favourite subject of mine. This is perfect for someone like me.

[@pillansc1]

The photograph of "Oxford St" with the omnibus advertising Eno's on its side, is, in fact, of Piccadilly, with the façade of the Royal Academy on the left

[@paulstevenson615]

Absolutely superb collage of photographs from times gone by, makes me feel sad when i think that all those people of mixed ages captured in glorious colour have all passed on 😔

[@imwelshjesus]

Nevermind, you'll soon be joining them.

[@frankparsons1629]

@@imwelshjesus Cheerful.

[@DRPANAM22]

Vielen Dank für die tollen Fotos. Immer wieder schön sie coloriert zu sehen. Ich freue mich immer darauf.

[@delythdavies5194]

Fascinating to step back into the past, lovely photos!

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much!

[@annewilson3194]

Great collection of photos - I live in Brighton, East Sussex, UK and need to point out that your photos of Brighton beach, are in fact of somewhere else. Brighton doesn't have a sandy beach. It is in fact a shingle beach (pebbles).

[@naturalroyalflush]

I lived in Brighton . Was wondering about that sandy beach.

[@AmberPanda]

You beat me to it, I lived in West Sussex and was going to say the pictures of Brighton beach are incorrect, it has a pebble beach.

[@EdekLay]

I think they later added the pebble, a rare known fact about the Victorians is that they HATED sand between their toes. That's why we still see the pebbles to this day.

[@jean6872]

@@EdekLay I believe this is pure myth. Sorry.

[@VMM34]

​@@jean6872Just been reading that Brighton beach originally consisted of mud, but the first groynes built in 1724 captured the pebbles and it's been a pebble beach since then

[@salvadort.s.5243]

Beautiful video. Thank you for showing us the beauty of a time. Our best wishes to you.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much!

[@kirstymackenzie2437]

Found all of this really interesting. Love how the photos have been coloured! Just fascinating, especially like pics of London in olden days as someone raised in London.

[@BrightStyle]

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[@markpavlowski7223]

"Love how the photos have been coloured"...really...??..I thought they appear "hideously" white...where are the 'Stonehenge' builders...??

[@captaintorch983]

There are a few doubts about dates and places. However, a famtastic collection of images. Thank you so much!

[@Wingnut-z8m]

Absolutely glorious photos. Thank you for uploading

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much!

[@georgerobinson9384]

Beautiful photo's. The Brighton beach one brought back memories. Grew up in Brighton and spent a lot of time on the beach and the piers. Much of that time was when I should have been in school.

[@davidharle8794]

Wonderful pictures, so much more impactful in colour, even though I love black and white! Very well done and thank you for sharing your work.

[@marchellabrahams]

Greatly enjoyed this; thank you. You might like to know that the Married Woman's Property Act went on the statute books in 1882, significantly improving the financial lot of married women. This meant among other things that they could own and control their own property.

[@markshrimpton3138]

I was going to point this out but you’ve saved me the trouble. It’s not entirely true (as the uploader states) that Victorian women had no rights. Certainly the situation was horrible in comparison with now. In 1883, in Nottingham, my great-great grandmother had her violent brutal husband arrested. The court found in her favour! She wasn’t a wealthy woman, in fact she was very poor.

[@andrewlilley3660]

@@markshrimpton3138 Yes, however, now the system is just as oppressive toward men as it was toward women of this era, and probably more so.

[@VMM34]

​@@andrewlilley3660Well now you know how it feels

[@andrewlilley3660]

@@VMM34 That seems a very childish thing to say. The point is, it is women who will suffer long-term, not men. Because men make the world work or haven't you noticed that? Men can get along fine without women, but women can't make it without men.

[@VMM34]

@@andrewlilley3660 Women can get along fine without men. We can raise a cruck A frame for a house, plough fields, plant and harvest, cook, dig wells. We don't need you.

[@darrelltregear756]

Now look at the state where in a 100 years on .

[@RobertAllenroballen2]

Very cool, I enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@BrightStyle]

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[@catherinedutilleul4208]

Thank you ! very intersting ☺

[@BrightStyle]

Thanks i appreciate it

[@Ceorolus]

Packed full of information and delightful to look at. So much has changed. Nice work.

[@BrightStyle]

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[@annamariehewitt3173]

Another bloomin' great video by Bright Style.....Thanks

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you very much !

[@n.p5463]

Great pictures

[@jennywren8937]

Beautifully presented. Thank you

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much!

[@stephend4909]

7:07 Those are great looking bikes for 1890! I'm stunned. Perfect design and crafting, and they look new, like I could buy one tomorrow. They may not have had shimano gears but the bicycle on the left has a lever on the right handlebar, could it be, could it be...? Whatever it is they are advanced pieces of kit. The foot-pedals, which look contemporary, tell you that they had an eye to efficiency, the front rake is good and the trail is long which would give stability over rough ground. Beautiful. These are truly lucky girls, Daddy!

[@RonMcKenzie-bw7iq]

Love the video. Saddens me to see people who obviously have passed away. But gladdens me at the same time because these are recorded memories that live on. And the new babies about to be born to live their lives and die in the same environment. Nobody knowing what their future would bring. Great video.

[@martagrant2908]

Thanks for sharing this amazing video 😊❤

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you😊

[@arfurwitt6221]

We looked clean , smart and organised. We also appeared proud and confident back then. What happened?

[@conbro0985]

Multiculturalism

[@paulohagan3309]

Not everybody looked that well. Photographers didn't want to photograph the slums of Dublin just around the corner from Trinity. Also two world wars and the American effort to break up the Empire didn't help. Thatcher made sure society and community didn't exist. Nothing lasts forever.

[@paulohagan3309]

Not completly correct, now I think about it. There were people taking phots of slums and suchlike but they would probably have been more socially aware.

[@mogznwaz]

Multiculti liberalism

[@mogznwaz]

@@paulohagan3309Rubbish. Thatcher did nothing of the sort. Community is created by US no one else.

[@s.tranger1074]

"A time of great growth and prosperity" unquote! Shows how much you know! I would suggest you take your rose tinted spectacles off and look at how the average family got by and lived. My grandmother had 11 children (including two sets of twins"). Only 4 survived including my mother. Don't glamorise it as if people today are somehow less prosperous - THEY ARE NOT BY A VERY LONG WAY.

[@harry130747]

Most people back then had a hard life and died young. We are the luckiest generation ever. Things can only get worse from now on.

[@martyncivil45]

Timeless photos..... great job! 👍

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much!

[@roughriderreturns5039]

Nicely done, as always.

[@BrightStyle]

Thanks😊

[@FedericoDLP]

Super! Great picture definition. To think that my grandparents were born in the Victorian era!

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much!

[@abubakr5627]

Someone has to invent a time machine; it has been long overdue.

[@markthompson4478]

I bet the Victorians would be disgusted at what has been allowed to happen to the UK since 1945

[@harry130747]

Most people today are disgusted.

[@CPDutch]

I wasn’t expecting Limerick or Dublin photos to be in a post about Victorian England 🤨

[@harry130747]

Britain. All Ireland was part of Britain back then.

[@dee2251]

Absolutely amazing!

[@whoswhoatthezoo9372]

I can’t get over how sharply defined you’ve managed to make these, 100+ years old photos. I love the colourised photos, but can understand how some people prefer the b/w and sepia toned photos as well. At least the methods we use these days don’t result in the colour obliterating the original b/w photos for all time. I find that some of the colouring processes aren’t nearly so well done as others, these are good. 👍

[@chuckylugs9607]

Brilliant ✨ ..just wondered how that carriage at 1:11 did not break under all that luggage and folk on it 🫨

[@BrightStyle]

Thanks

[@MrDavidc]

Great photos. Most of the products in the ads still on sale.

[@JANICEJANILLY]

Oh how we’ve changed, not for the better I’m afraid

[@paulohagan3309]

Depends Janice. As a woman you have considerably more rights now than you would have in those days. But yes, I admit that for me they did dress rather more elegantly in those days. And of course, no nuclear weapons or AI hanging over their heads. But then again no antibiotics and a considerably more primitive medical system which by the way, you had to pay for like the Americans do today. Swings and roundabouts.

[@RyanKeane9]

I agree. Was just thinking I could certainly do with dressing smarter like the men did back then.

[@tatata1543]

@@paulohagan3309And an average life expectancy of 45 plus the members of the middle classes shown here might have had it good the lives of working people were a struggle against disease and poverty.

[@paulohagan3309]

Oh absolutely. Read the novel 'Ragged, Trousered Philanthropists' to fill you in on the ghastly poverty of ordinary people in 'the greatest country in the world'.@@tatata1543

[@musician4776]

@@RyanKeane9dress smarter then? They only did it back then because they had to. You have that choice.

[@Dominik40301]

Also, it hard to imagine that people actually wore those huge hats (men) in daily life, it looks more like they wore them just for taking photo.

[@daisyroots8926]

Such beautiful photographs.. when men looked like men and women were elegant mostly

[@harry130747]

The rich/middleclass women were elegant. The poor wore rags and cast offs.

[@Hy-Brasil]

if i'm not mistaken, the "Authentic Victorian Couple" is actually the last surviving veteran of the Napoleonic Wars... at least that's the caption I remember reading when i first came across that picture several years ago. if it's true then it's something worth noting.

[@davidreed9671]

The Ludgate Circus railway bridge was always a bright pale blue and the shields painted but predominantly bright red. Manchester's horse drawn trams where white and bright red.

[@caroletraynor8763]

I really felt sorry for that poor horse having to carry all those trunks along with the kids. It's so cruel.

[@paulohagan3309]

I've seen a couple of photos from those days with horses in them. Animal welfare wasn't a priority then.

[@bertiewooster3326]

Carole the trunks were empty.

[@caroletraynor8763]

@@bertiewooster3326 I doubt that they were.

[@bertiewooster3326]

@@caroletraynor8763 Its true I was one of the lads who put them on the wagon we were paid 1 penny !

[@colinu9209]

@@bertiewooster3326the kids were also empty , not like the modern lardies😂

[@cyberneticinterfacemodular3996]

Blackpool beach was another good outing for my ancestors in 1900 with summer in paris and Italy and Nice.

[@Dominik40301]

7:16 , wow, photo was taken in 1876, Assassins creed Syndicate, a game that is set in 1868 shows how victorian London looked back then, but to have actual photo of people from that period, this is not just portrait photo where single person poses, this is on street while people do their regular stuff and wear their daily clothes, wish there was more photos like this from 1870s or older

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

The color humanizes them. It shows they were people just like us. ❤

[@321bytor]

Never knew Dublin was in England...

[@paulohagan3309]

Nor Limerick. Though the English tried to turn Ireland into a mini-me England. Those chaps at Trinity looked like they were the very rulers and inheritors of Empire. Except of course not part of England when it came to famine relief ... Still, liked the photos anyway. 😄

[@jameswarrington9402]

Lighten up it was not intended to offend you and it made it plain it was Ireland. I for one knew it was and loved the photos. My mother was Irish there’s probably as many of Irish decent in England as Ireland. Times move on it was a silly typo error but it was made plain it was Ireland at those times.

[@paulohagan3309]

Who said we were offended? The Irish have free speech these days and what's the harm in pointing out some geographical errors? What on Earth are they teaching in English schools?🙄🙄 Maybe an emphasis on the shingle of Brighton beach? Brightonians seem to be quite offended by that, judging by this comment thread. @@jameswarrington9402

[@SunofYork]

@@paulohagan3309 People who live on spuds should expect a blight

[@paulohagan3309]

Perhaps.But they should not have to expect our British cousins should let us starve to death. Or maybe you think we should? Fellow Irish people, when you hear the West Britons tell you how we should go back to the UK and let the English take care of us, remember KZbin posts like this. Fellow EU nationals. When the Brits come back begging to be let into the EU remember KZbin posts like this. Their contempt for you, especially the English, hasn't changed.@@SunofYork

[@lilgeorge34]

Great video....but I felt sorry for that poor horse having to pull that cart with all those cases and people on top.

[@robertjames6640]

In the photograph “ authentic old couple,” the man wears a medal indicating he is a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. That is if my eyesight is on cue.

[@ludo9234]

I thought it was for service in South Africa . It looks like Victoria on the medal. But whatever it was the old soldier was wearing it with pride. Although probably a poor chap.

[@dansmithwave]

It's a well-known photo, usually dated 1850, not 1870s. He's always referred to as a Waterloo veteran, though I don't know if that just gets repeated over and over till it becomes true?

[@bobbythompson3544]

I noticed the medal and was immediately drawn to it, surely such a medal would be easily recognised by an expert, instead of taking a guess, surely our hero deserves better!

[@markpavlowski7223]

@@dansmithwave yes

[@georgebrown1543]

God I miss those days.The clip clop of horses hooves, the smell of manure in the streets, the sound of an underage child hawking newspapers on the street corner, the sound of an occasional steam boiler explosion with people running for their lives. If only we could go back in time!

[@devilsadvocate756]

Amazing clarity.

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you !

[@lordburney8101]

Remember diversity is our strength

[@parvindermander5664]

Fascinating

[@frankparsons1629]

Why do women's bike frames have a dropped crossbar, funny question! You try passing your leg through without it, especially with 100 yards of material for a skirt (and under garments!). Nice video by the by.

[@craigmullen9046]

When we was indigenous, when we had Community. When we knew who we are .

[@wakeupuk3860]

Oh yes. I thought that as well. Both my grandfathers started work at aged 12 in the 1890s and would tell me of what their life was like in Hackney and in all ways it was about family, friends and so many people they knew and came across every day, ie community.

[@craigmullen9046]

@@wakeupuk3860 join us at Patriotic Alternative play your part, Embrace the struggle!!!

[@SonsofThunder1234]

Indeed. We had British identity then. No outsiders seeking to erase British community and cultural identity.

[@topsyfulwell]

You reap what you sow mate. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@craigmullen9046]

​@@topsyfulwellhow do you work that out??

[@MariaBall-Kawecka]

Fajnie by było się przenieść na chwilę w tamte czasy😊

[@jcc2c22]

For a moment only. One needs to remember there was no toilet paper back then. 😢

[@michealhand1001]

​@@jcc2c22Yeah but they had news paper cut into squares😂

[@michealhand1001]

Hello I,m working on Building a time machine, I will contact you when I have achieved it.😂

[@paulohagan3309]

That you John Titor? Or maybe the Doctor?For God's sake man stay away from Skaro and Mondas. There are people on this thread have enough issues with multiculturalism already.@@michealhand1001

[@williamstringer6519]

The downtown London 1890 picture shows St. Mary Le Strand, not St. Clement Danes.

[@NorthernMan932]

People often use the phrase "the good old days" for many in the Victorian era they were far from content with their lot. Poverty was rife, women and children had few rights and some were lucky to even own a pair of shoes, research Spitalfields children. It's just a shame the people of today don't appreciate what they have.

[@harry130747]

Read "The water babies" Also Charles Dickens.

[@robertblackburn752]

Fascinating collection of photos. One error I spotted...Brighton beach is not sandy, it’s made up of flint pebbles as is most of the south east coast.

[@BrightStyle]

West Wittering is a Sandy beach located near Chichester in West Sussex.

[@mrpopo8298]

@@BrightStyle Then you should put Chichester, not Brighton. It's 40 miles away, which is a lot in the UK; it's a small country.

[@sunnyjim1355]

7:53 Again... this is definitely NOT Brighton Beach, which has a very pebbley beach, and has had for millions of years! It's hard to say where this one is/was though... as it seems to be just a short 'jetty' pier. Or maybe it just wasn't finished. Or maybe it just doesn't exist any more. But one thing is for certain... it's definitely not at Brighton. My best guess for this is Felixstowe Pier (going by the look of the pier itself), although there are serious problems with the shape of the coastline then. So, I really don't know.

[@Dave1502]

9:19 what is that by the woman's hat???

[@RyanKeane9]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[@bobmcguffin5706]

Why is 1:06 blurred over the word Brighton?

[@dojocho1894]

great work keep it up

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much!

[@frankparsons1629]

At 4:45 I'd say possibly, seen to the left hand of bus no. 70, roadmenders at work in the middle of all the traffic, the chap towards the left of the group with a fire/hearth the cart having a vertical chimney. Other than that funny kind of spot to stop and make a brew! 5:42 "Downtown" London, where/what the heck is that, must be American!

[@2MuchPurple]

I really enjoy these old photos and the colorization but a few of the photos near the beginning were not dated correctly. There were noticable and obvious differences between ladies fashions of the 1860s and 1890s or 1910s.

[@paulbuckland132]

Quite: the picture of the group at 2 mins is clearly not 1900, but around early 1920's

[@DavBlc7]

One picture I knew was dated early 1920s because women's clothes were different.

[@captaintorch983]

Yes I thought so as well.

[@urchinnorton7632]

Brighton beach is a pebble beach btw

[@BrightStyle]

West Wittering is a Sandy beach located near Chichester in West Sussex...

[@rob20452]

At 1.00 never seen Brighton beach with sand in my life pebbles and tar😂

[@muffassa6739]

My Grandfather was born in England in 1888 and he told me many stories about growing up in the UK 🇬🇧

[@muffassa6739]

And I forgot my Great Grandfather was a Bobbie police officer.

[@michaellaw3943]

The beach at Brighton is of pebbles not sand 6:35. That is not Brighton beach.

[@BTurner.]

Loved that, times were hard but people were genuine and had standards, unlike today.

[@harry130747]

Most of them very poor and repressed.

[@pmajudge]

EXCELLENT ! if NOT OUTSTANDING!!! MANY THANKS ! FROM , U.K. (2023).

[@BrightStyle]

Thank you so much!

[@pmajudge]

@@BrightStyle A Fantastic Job ! Must have taken Hours & Hours to Perfect ! Thanks Again Indeed ! From, U.K. (2023).

[@stevo728822]

1:03 Not sure that's Brighton. Brghton has a pebble beach.

[@skathwoelya2935]

2:37 How do we know this was a man in drag?

[@kirstymackenzie2437]

Er, its obvious!! Its a man in a dress! Either that or a really ugly woman! 🤣

[@sveinbjrnv7291]

Because he looks like these transformers of today

[@hoylandy]

WOW Thank you !!!!!!

[@RicktheRecorder]

'Holiday season' I think should read "Going home at the end of term'.

[@sunnyjim1355]

1:00 That is definitely not Brighton Beach. First, BB has a pebble beach, not sandy. Second, top left... what's that on the 'horizon'. At first I thought it was an island, but I don't know anywhere like that off of the south coast (assuming that that is even correct). Then I thought maybe it's a ship - not likely, it would have to be BIG, and there's no indication of funnels here. Then I thought... maybe it's a pier? Well, it would have to be a long pier! And there is one, 2.16 kilometres long at Southend which opened in 1889! And if you use Google streetmap to get a similar view today, it certainly has a similar shape viewed from this angle. And Southend certainly has a sandier beach than Brighton. So, I'm saying that this is definitely not Brighton, and certainly much more likely to be Southend.

[@BrightStyle]

I’m sorry. I made a mistake. West Wittering is a Sandy beach located near Chichester in West Sussex.

[@Oldladysgin]

You show some photos of Brighton Beach in Sussex. The town has a pebble beach and has never had a sandy beach. Good photos but perhaps the town is mistaken.

[@davidroberts5602]

Hi thanks for sharing this video with me just goes to show how we were in the day David ❤️🇬🇧👌👍

[@christina-yp6jy]

Thank you.

[@BrightStyle]

😀👍

[@jacobrivers5728]

Thanks for this trip down Memory Lane. I was born in Whitechapel, London where Jack the Ripper roamed at night in the 1880s. I'm always interested in seeing what London looked like in the 19th century. The photo @ 2.12 is not 1900 and it's not a Victorian family; judging by the fashion, it's 1920s.

[@christopherdean1326]

I thought that seemed wrong. As you might tell from my post above, I am something of a student of the Whitechapel murders, and have visited the various sites several times.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

You are dead right there. I have just posted a comment saying the very same thing.

[@GaryYoung-eq1ph]

Looks like fun times if you live long enough 2 enjoy it

[@andyxox4168]

Where are all the black people, you know the ones that always lived in the UK and “built Britain” ? … 😂😂😂😂

[@AllanStevenson-o2x]

At 2:18 photograph of police. Greater Manchester police did not exist to 1974. Possibly Manchester City police?

[@durfelx3890]

would be great to see the street pictures retake showing those streets as they are today...........

[@mikewinston8709]

How many of the young depicted died in WW1 I wonder?

[@marcholbeck3286]

Very good photos and enjoyable to view. I would however question some of the dating,for example 4.47 traffic Piccadilly Circus London. I doubt there we that many cars in 1911 let alone 1901 but it is a minor point and does not detract.

[@williamskyner2887]

The majority of photos were taken from 1890 onwards how so much has happened in 133 years what we will see in the next 100 years I can't imagine but I pray that all leaders will see sense and stop the hurt and greed

[@Cartamandua]

All of my Grand Parents were born in Victorian people. I can remember the living, breathing, lovely people.

[@2MuchPurple]

So were mine. Dad's parents were born in the 1870s, and mom's in the 1890s. Unfortunately I only knew one of them, and she died in 1968, when I was 18 and she 92.

[@Baruch-q4n]

My maternal grandad was born September 1889,my maternal grandma November 1890.I remember them both very much.

[@leoniecummin1572]

Interesting pictures. Thanks for posting them. Just one point that I think is incorrect. The beach at Brighton is not sand, but pebbles.

[@christopherhawkes5669]

Definitely not Brighton, I was there.

[@WTU208]

7:05 women's bikes had a dropped crossbar to clear their skirts and allow ease of mounting / dismounting.

[@richardharrisson5250]

The picture of "St Clement Danes" Church London is in fact of St Mary le Strand London. A common mistake.

[@bernhardnizynski4403]

Beautiful!

[@stephensmith799]

Stunning.

[@Polly-Galgo]

No sand on Brighton beach! Haha, maybe New Brighton? Also, Queen Victoria only wore black following her husband’s death.

[@JalufoFoy]

Interesting that Victorian "England" seemed to include Ireland and Scotland

[@kopynd1]

definitely got the specification wrong when it comes to male female bicycle's, 1 slip off the peddle and a man could do some real damage on that cross bar