Island People (1941)

[@rayrumming7901]

Oh to go back in time.

[@smegmalyzer]

+Ray Rumming thats right, a war, good idea

[@arriesone1]

Ray Rumming If only eh.

[@karensheldon1366]

Our perfect island. Of course she wasn’t perfect but it was our island.

[@mathewgreen4099]

A nice short, thanks for posting.

[@alexandergordon7203]

Churchill: 'Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth[e] last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour." '

[@hhoward14]

That was when children could be trusted not to knock the oil lamp over...

[@frantisekjanosik5339]

good history document.

[@coleenallen5963]

We were so proud I was as a boy when I saw an Army Band it was very British we were one But now gone to far we need English people looking after England that’s why it was Great Britain Very Sad

[@jpstenino]

Excellent photohraphy

[@marcioferreira8538]

Belas imagens 👍👍

[@ianperry9914]

How do we get it back .

[@nemo6686]

Easy: invent a time machine and warn people that voting for government to provide services is an exercise in egoism doomed to failure. I'd set it for May 1945, when National Socialist Germany had been defeated and the British people immediately elected a government of socialists promising nationalisation.

[@aardvarkmcgillicuddy]

Unfortunately, no longer separated from Europe by the English Channel.

[@greghill7759]

Oh, how times change. Happy now?

[@uaung6140]

very good history

[@Signals927]

Those were the day's.

[@pmacc3557]

Now that is team work of a unified country !

[@garythomas6410]

When adults were in charge.

[@blakepablo1035]

Instablaster.

[@andrewgibbon-williams7974]

There once was a time when Great Britain set standards of civilised behaviour. Almost the entire world acknowledged it. This culture had evolved on the back of disgraceful colonialist exploitation. Notwithstanding that horror, most people in the UK and the Empire/Commonwealth appreciated its stability. People, wherever, like to know where they stand. This culture is now extinct. Many regret its passing.

[@kesmarn]

"Stenographer Jane knows much more about the stock market than her employer. In fact she is the only reason he still has a job. Jane makes one tenth of the money that her employer does. Unfortunately the "fringe benefits" he keeps offering involve nothing that she is interested in."

[@gavinreid8351]

48 million. Now closer to 67.

[@sarahlouise7163]

nearer 80 at least now

[@danielgreen3715]

This is what it is to be English where did we go???

[@michaeljamesmacaulay1689]

Ahh ~ the good old days when humans "made the world go round". Now humans are controlled by computers, and mistakes are blamed upon the machines. "Hi-Tech" will eventually render humans redundant.

[@kiwitrainguy]

This film was probably shown in the USA at the time to help convince them to come in to the war on the British side.

[@thinking-as-I-wander]

That film was Mrs Miniver...... Before its release 90% of Americans were against coming to the aid of the British-----after its release 90% of Americans were in favor of immediately helping the British

[@kerriegrant6293]

Ah i remember this world, i was born in april 1941, when sanity ruled

[@pauledwards6723]

I don’t think sanity ruled in 1941 by a long shot

[@edwardkerrigan5356]

@@pauledwards6723 Compared to today it did.

[@edwardkerrigan5356]

@@pauledwards6723 Were you around in 1941? If not you can't judge.

[@Ess666]

@@edwardkerrigan5356 jesus effin christ - are you allowed out on your own

[@edwardkerrigan5356]

@@Ess666 Yes - when Covid doesn't interfere.

[@johnjones6601]

Shot in the year 1941 BE

[@photosphotos]

I thought there was a war on? I must have been mistaken, oh well.

[@modestMouseism]

/pol/ was right

[@kevinbrigginshaw719]

I LIVE THERE.... BUT WORK IN HAITI..

[@PIANOPHUNGUY]

Of course he meant to say soccer.

[@anuradhainamdar8967]

If this was the scenario in 1941 then it is certainly frightening because it means that mothers are use tubful of water to bathing children, grass mowers emitting carbon is already in use which is alarming for environment. Now the earth is burdened by about 9 billion people wasting water in watering grass lawn and using water in bathing their children in bathtubs, the situation in the poorer countries like India is more horrendous because it is using its precious ground water in tube wells. And so we have been handed a urgent problem of environmental damage, degradation, denudation ,extreme fragile ecology.

[@nemo6686]

Wow: I'm sure they had bigger environmental concerns in 1941 than lawn-mowers. As to the water - do you expect them to send it to India? How does consumption in places where water is abundant affect people where water's scarce?

[@sarahlouise7163]

almost twice the population in 2023

[@billstamford1043]

Where did they go then. I mean one minuet their there and then they are gone. Don't seem all that activity counted for much. I better stop there or the label of Racialist will come to mind.

[@smegmalyzer]

+Bill Stamford where did who go then? 1941, there was a war on

[@olivercromwell9500]

What a load southen crap