Oxford, England 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created sound design for this video of Oxford, England 1924, You can see several scenes of Oxford and its Universities.
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound design only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
✔ Face Restoration
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.
B&W Video Source: Musée départemental Albert-Kahn dans le département des Hauts-de-Seine (Sauvageot, Camille)
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[@NASS_0]

Would You like to live back in the 1920s??

[@phillipecook3227]

Only if you could guarantee my health and a reasonable income.

[@ringo4419]

Colour, not color

[@phillipecook3227]

@@Roadrunner_1000 You forgot no antibiotics and primitive dentistry ....

[@Muswell]

No. We would have been called up in the army 15 years later.

[@claudiojunior9618]

Absolutely

[@jonjames7328]

Look at all those British people with shared history, shared values and shared aspirations. Wonderful.

[@denisdaly1708]

Ah yes... Colonialists who committed genocide in Kenya, Sudan, came up with the idea of concentrating camps in South Africa, 300,000 dead in one, still busy pillaging India.. shared values indeed.

[@Challenger2A7]

​@@denisdaly1708There's always the miserable communist isn't there, who has to point out what he thinks nobody else knows. The world isn't going to change just because you're in one h*ll of a state with yourself. Try to be happier.

[@JoshuaMSP1995]

@@denisdaly1708Almost entirely wrong. You're confusing the normal working classes of Britain with the elites. The British Empire never committed genocide, or invented concentration camps.

[@jimthompson9370]

@@denisdaly1708 I wonder how grateful the descendants of those colonised are for their ascendancy from a Neolithic society? You know, the introduction of Christianity, literature, science, law, abolishing slavery, the wheel. They must be very grateful.

[@richardmacey3619]

@@denisdaly1708You complete anti British saddo, do you work for the BBC by any chance?

[@allanfoster5418]

Well dressed people. no litter. no traffic jams.

[@MrPINKFL0YD]

Yes no people like you also

[@carlpierce2486]

Many less things to actually drop.

[@allanfoster5418]

@carlpierce2486 that is true.

[@HereIam-kx2yr]

No Muslims no blacks no drugs no chavs take me back in time

[@BottleBri]

Where did everything go? This green and pleasant land…..now utterly ruined by politicians.

[@nevillemason6791]

The 'green and pleasant land' where millions lived in appalling housing conditions, TB and other deadly diseases were rife. Ah yes, the good old days!

[@jonjames7328]

Agreed. A land increasingly populated by immigrants whose values are at odds with a thousand years of history and who have no desire to fit in and knuckle under.

[@davestevenson9080]

@@nevillemason6791 you really think today is better? utterly delusional

[@johnlynch4901]

ruined by "diversity"

[@thomasreed49]

@@johnlynch4901 The turning point was 1948 startof the Windrush generation. 😪😪😪Not only did they want to come here they wanted to destroy our culture. I think it’s safe to say that I have succeeded.

[@almightyredskull]

Thank the person who took the time to capture this footage in 1920...

[@GordoGambler]

It was graduation day obviously.

[@Wyattinous]

There’s always an air of mythical-ness watching these, as if old story books came to life. I always meditate on the person behind the camera with these footage. A person who had the means to own a camera and took their weekend/leisure time to snap these for who knows what reason. So lucky to live in a timeline where we can see all this.

[@missasinenomine]

Yes. The photographer was actually standing in the centre of Carfax crossing!

[@phillipecook3227]

Well said. The place and time we're watching is so far removed from ours it could almost be a work of fiction.

[@5piral0ut]

@@phillipecook3227Yes, and only 100 years ago. I wonder how it will look in 2124.

[@martytdd1606]

Cars hadn't even been around very long and already they are everywhere, companies already ruthlessly competeing. The roads here are dominated by them, anybody older than 20 years must have been amazed, also by the cameras.

[@janeelizabeth2207]

I was born and raised just outside of Oxford, also worked and socialised in the city centre, truly lovely to see this footage, thank you.

[@centraljersey69]

Thank you for all the hard work you do with restoring and colorizing our past so it's not forgotten.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;))

[@Surreptitious_1]

Born and raised here, as were my family going back 1000+ years. It's fascinating to think this was my great grandfathers era.

[@davzer3773]

Me too, it’s wonderful to visit the village cemetery and see the graves of all my forebears. Ancestors that fought for the people of this country through not only world wars but other conflicts. Do people of today care or is this country changed for good?

[@marknestbox]

Curious. How did you manage to track your family tree back over one thousand years? What written accounts and records did you reference? Very few such extended timelines exist outside of the Royal Family. Astonishing. Thank you.

[@Klown84]

@@marknestboxyou get his point I’m sure. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@titteryenot4524]

Why, when it comes to architecture, does absolutely everything look more beautiful than stuff today?

[@jasbo9734]

Totally agree. Oxford is now blighted by some monstrous buildings.

[@Sonnycorleone162]

Nass, Another great upload. Reminds me of the 1980's TV series "Brideshead Revisited" with a young Jeremy Irons & Anthony Andrews as young rich lads in Oxford University in the 1920's. Thanks for the upload.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much bro!

[@codex3048]

Oxford had remarkably wide streets for a town plotted in the Middle Ages.

[@purplepennybroome669]

The wide streets are outside the city walls. Within the city walls are still narrow streets. Much of medieval Oxford was destroyed by the university when individual colleges were built.

[@claudiojunior9618]

Those streets are no longer wide.

[@Ralstro]

The streets would need to be wide to accommodate horses and carriages travelling in either direction.

[@drzander3378]

Lots of medieval cities in England have a small number of wide streets and a myriad of narrow - sometimes very narrow alleyways - running off them. In medieval times, the wide streets were where markets were held as well as certain trades and civic activities requiring space.

[@stevef9530]

3:54 The view up the High from Queens Lane bus stop, where I would wait with my brother for a bus to school. Being born and raised in Oxford in the 50s-70s, I thought all cities were like that. Was most surprised to find that they were not…

[@jeremypearson6852]

I was raised in the UK and moved to the US forty years ago. Next month, my wife and I will visit Oxford for the first time. I expect most of the buildings in this film will still be there. I recognize some of the places from Morse.

[@DarrenAJordan]

Enjoy your trip! Would be interested to hear what you think of Oxford, am planning to visit there myself someday.

[@paulcarter2907]

May I extend a very warm welcome to you both...

[@jimthompson9370]

It’s pretty much the same. Maybe slightly busier than some of the clips, and a more ‘diverse’ city - Looks like Canton sometimes, a trans-rally at others. I’d go during the week. Still lovely though. Enjoy your trip!

[@User.adymitch]

Expect a non white community .

[@drzander3378]

I went to Oxford University and the locations in this footage are mostly recognisable. Thankfully, Oxford was largely spared from bombing during WW2.

[@BrassLock]

Beautiful "Bullnose" Morris Oxford (or Cowley) featured in several scenes. My Grandfather owned one for several years during the 1920's and toured extensively on weekends with the family.

[@darkstatehk]

This is the England I love. Just look at the splendour. Oh England, how you have lost your way. I shed a tear to what it has become.

[@robbie12359]

It lost its' way when it got rid of Jesus Christ. Everywhere you see that the morality of the bible has not been embraced there is nakedness, immodesty and rebellion. This was a time when there was a general fear of the good Lord and adherence to His principles of life even if they were not born again believers.

[@carolhiller1112]

As a 1950s child born in Oxford was so lovely to watch as this would have been the time my grandparents would have been around. The clothing, transport had changed from when I was a child and brought back memories of how Oxford was. Today I’m still living in Oxford but it has changed for the worse in my opinion. It’s lost its character and charm. Amazing to watch this though, truly amazing ❤❤❤

[@uneqejam]

Its character, it will never lose it, not Oxford, not for as long as it continues to be a University - maybe it's going through hard times in terms of its spirit, but there will always be something in Oxford to keep alive the vein of Truth it purports to cling on and pursue, so on that regard, it will always be relevant, so of character....

[@karstent.66]

@@uneqejam The frst thing I noticed about Oxford, the very first time I came to it, was 3 muslim girls, and a little bit later, a Mosque... It destroyed my imagination I had about this place all the years before. And there is this huge military site, on old airfield.... Anyway, soon you will be foreigner in your own country and they will call you "colonists", like once in India...

[@uneqejam]

@@karstent.66 I was talking about Oxford centre really, the buildings, what it conveys when you see it!! On the other hand, times have changed, so let's hope that in that change, its remedy comes also, Who will convert and in the end make "blend" the newcomers as well, and it all turns back beautiful and wonderful as it was before....Our Lady of Walsingham, have mercy on us!!! ✝️ ✝️

[@karstent.66]

@@uneqejam I know what you were talking about and i expected to find an Oxford that fits to its reputation it has, even outside of the UK. Of course I understand this town is not just a middle aged museum. People need to have to work something as well.

[@anderssandberg5759]

It is an odd feeling to recognize the places where I go every day in this footage. Main difference seems to be far less signage in the street space.

[@jbuk4369]

I don't recognise the building with the unusual Solomonic columns seen on the right, around the 4.33 mark. Was it demolished or was it destroyed during the war?

[@Harrison5ived]

@@jbuk4369 It's the entrance of University Church of St Mary the Virgin, on the High Street. The columns are still there today but their actual colour blends into the rest of the building and they're easy to miss. Something about the colourisation of this video emphasises the shadows and they really stand out. Have a look on google and you'll see how the church looks today, pretty much the same.

[@anderssandberg5759]

@@jbuk4369 That is the entrance to St. Mary's. Still around.

[@jbuk4369]

@@anderssandberg5759 Thank you so much. I don't know how I could have missed it. I must have walked past St. Mary's at some point, or maybe it was one of the city's treasures that I somehow missed. Anyway, I went to their website and there it was; complete with squiggly columns! God bless.

[@l3eatalphal3eatalpha]

And lack of advertising.

[@samtheman_tv]

Always amazed and totally in love with the fact that it’s still the same today in most of these clips!

[@scratchy1704]

Not 1 mosque in sight.No burkas,no one in drag.

[@Jackomac43]

​@@scratchy1704 Get a life

[@brianthesnail3815]

It does. It was barely different in the 1980s when I was there as a student. I feel it has changed a lot now though when I go back.

[@tennysonfordblackbird2087]

A town of great beauty and historical events in Englands long history

[@gerardmackay8909]

‘Et in Arcadia Ego’ so evocative of Brideshead Revisited I half expect to see Charles and Sebastian walking arm in arm. Magical time to be living a comfortable and privileged life in Oxford but pretty rough and precarious for most people behind the scenes. Your videos are stunning and are a pleasure to watch but it just really emphasises how very transient we all are.

[@prins_af_danmark]

THE GRASS WITHERETH.

[@NASS_0]

Like And Share Please! Thx to ThomasTCB For his suggestion.

[@renatoamaral2029]

Just shared with a dear lady that I like very much! 😊

[@NASS_0]

@@renatoamaral2029 thank you very much!!

[@LaughingLion4Ever]

Somewhere in that city at that time, JRR Tolkien was thinking about writing The Hobbit. The rest is history.

[@abigailstradler4923]

Wow, you're RIGHT 😯

[@GordoGambler]

Where is George Orwell?

[@ECWAlex]

Tolkien may even be in it.

[@missasinenomine]

And CS Lewis?

[@webstercat]

Tell me you wouldn’t like to time travel there. I can’t imagine the thrill of being able to do such a thing….

[@paulineshelley4421]

My dad was born in 1921 in Holywell st. My Grandparents could well be in that film somewhere. Remarkable footage!

[@SpiritintheSky.]

Extraordinary. One hundred years ago brought "back to life". Thank you so much.

[@insitetoursirelandltd.5795]

Absolutely stunning. Excellent work!!

[@NASS_0]

Thx!

[@1minigrem]

Clean streets and people who took pride in their appearance, no leisure wear or fast food rubbish littering up the place, just quiet pride in themselves and their surroundings, I would love to have lived then.

[@krashd]

Odd, everyone there would have loved to have lived now.

[@stevef9530]

@@krashdHow do you know?

[@martinchamberlain542]

I think life back then would have been very good for those with money, right up to the point where you got toothache!

[@martinchamberlain542]

At 12.00 the chap on the left looks just like the image on the shroud of Turin.

[@ac1646]

@@stevef9530 Because they'd still be alive 😂😂

[@deano3580]

Fantastic film. I love that it shows the dawn of the motoring age. What were presumably cobblestone streets have received asphalt presumably not long before this was shot. However, no signage, no road markings and no traffic lights as yet.

[@Philcopson]

Not the "dawn" of "The Motoring Age" - definitely into adulthood by then. The car had been around for some 30 years when this was filmed and the era of "mass production" was well under way. Eg - by 1926, 150,000 examples of the "Bullnose" Morris Oxford had been made.

[@bardo0007]

Most of the faces are too dark which is a pity, but for a video from 1924 this is still amazing. Thanks.

[@ThomasTCB]

Amazing Work NASS!

[@NASS_0]

Thx!! ^^

[@ThomasTCB]

@@NASS_0It’s an honour for you to have done my suggestion!

[@JohnDavis-gu9jx]

Very well presented, nice to see vintage cars in their prime - many Morrises, of course, a nice Vauxhall 30/98 at 1.15, a Riley Redwing (a real undergrad sporty car) at 2.52, and a RR Silver Ghost at 9.30.

[@sissitop1505]

Wonderful impressions of a marvellous city, thank you very much for sharing

[@kitsullivan1583]

0:06 St Aldates looking forward toward the High Street. 0:20 Parks Road looking toward Broad Street and the Clarendon Building in the middle ground. 0:30 Parks Road closer to the Clarendon Building. As the camera pans to the right we can see the Sheldonian Theatre with the domed top. 0:47 Broad Street looking toward Holywell Street with the Clarendon Building on the right. 0:57 Broad Street looking toward Magdalene Street. Balliol College is on the right. As the camera pans to the right we can see Trinity College. 1:15 St Aldates looking down toward Christ Church which can be seen in the background on the left. 1:27 St Aldates and a closer look at Christ Church. 1:42 St Aldates and a closer look at Christ Church. 1:52 St Giles with Martyr’s Memorial on the left. 2:01 St Giles and a closer look at the Martyr’s Memorial. On the left is Balliol College. 2:14 Cornmarket looking towards Tom Tower in the background. The large stone building jutting out on the left is St Michael at the North Gate. 2:26 St Aldates. 2:41 Unsure. It maybe St Aldates. 2:57 High Street. 3:02 High Street. 3:27 High Street. 3:38 High Street with on the right in the background, University Church of St Mary the Virgin. 4:03 Queens Lane looking from the High Street. 4:10 High Street. Standing near the twisting columns of University Church of St Mary the Virgin on the right. 4:24 High Street looking toward the Carfax Tower in the background. 4:39 Carfax Tower looking from the High Street. 4:57 High Street looking toward the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. 5:11 St Giles Church on the Banbury Road. 5:19 Banbury Road looking at Oxford War memorial. 5:31 Unknown. 5:41 Radcliffe Square with All Souls College in the background. 5:53 Tom Quad, Christ Church. 6:05 Unknown. 6:21. Looking from Oriel Street toward the entrance to University Church of St Mary the Virgin. 6:29 Oriel Square with Oriel College on the right. 6:40 Oriel College. 6:52 Oriel College. 7:00 Merton Street looking toward Merton College. 7:09 Merton Field looking toward Merton College. 7:15 Entrance to Merton College. 7:25 Bridge of Sighs (Hertford Bridge) on New College Lane. 7:34 Unknown. 7:44 Unknown. 7:53 New College cloisters. 8:12 New College. 8:24. New College cloisters. 8:38 A 420 (The Plain) looking toward Magdalen Bridge with Magdalen College in the background. The building to the right foreground is the Victorian Fountain. 8:50 Looking from Longwall Street toward Magdalen College. 9:04 Magdalen Bridge looking toward Magdalen College. 9:17 Magdalen College with Magdalen College Library in the background on the right. 9:29 Entrance to Magdalen College. 9:43 Old Quad, Magdalen College. War memorial no longer there. It is now at In the old burial ground opposite the King and Queen Public House, High Street, Wheatley, South Oxfordshire. 9:55 This maybe one of the female only colleges at the time, Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville College, St Anne’s, St Hilda’s and St Hugh’s. 10:18 Wadham College. 10:25 As above. 10:40 As above. 11:10 Entrance to Wadham College on Parks Road. 11:33 Entrance to the Bodleian Library. Opposite the Sheldonian Theatre. 11:45 As above. 11:58 As above. 12:10 Maybe the same as above. 12:33 Standing to the right of the Sheldonian Theatre. In the background Clarendon Building. 13:05 Standing next to the Sheldonian Theatre looking toward the Bodleian. 13:11 Merton Street and Merton College on the left. 13:19 All Souls College looking from the roof of Radcliffe Camera. 13:42 Probably looking from University Church of St Mary the Virgin. 14:08 As above. 14:32 Possibly shot from the top of Magdalen Tower. 14:55 Botanical Gardens with Magdalen College in the background. 15:14 Christ Church Meadow looking toward Christ Church. 15:28. As above.

[@ac1646]

Wow, thanks for doing this. I know a lot of the views but it is amazing that you took the time for everyone's benefit. 😁😁👏👏

[@adamhughes4442]

I feel sorry for all the baby boys in the early 1920s. They would be the first in-line for the trenches less than 20 years later! Born in the quiet calm of Oxfordshire and destined for the hell of War!

[@david-spliso1928]

Trenches?

[@adamhughes4442]

@@david-spliso1928 some trenches were dug during the second World, ...but that's not really my point ...as I think you know. . .!

[@david-spliso1928]

@@adamhughes4442 I see your point but trenches in WW2 were very rare following advanced mechanisation. Ergo it's not known for trench warfare. Still sad as you point out that any of them had to go to war, even if it was generally nowhere near as devastatingly bloody as the First for British lads.

[@dianastevenson131]

My dad was born in 1924. He landed in Normandy on D-Day 3, at the age of 19.

[@paulmurphy2583]

Oxford and Buckinghamshire light infantry, well known for the horsa glider attack capturing pegasus bridge and liberating the first building in France (the cafe next to the bridge) on D-Day. They captured and held the bridge until relieved by paras a few hours later. They would have been children or young men at the time of this footage.

[@Harrison5ived]

Incredible to see, especially as someone born and raised there. It's so unchanged in many ways but still looks like another world. Thanks!

[@asan1050]

NASS! Thanks for posting this video

[@NASS_0]

Thx bro!

[@anyaharris5617]

Nothing changed, really. The iconic buildings are still the same. Oxford was just as busy as it is today. Only no horses these days :))) I know Oxford very well and love it. ❤️

[@StephenFletcher-vf9im]

A great piece of film, looking at a past I was not a part of is a deep experience, I could watch it for countless hours. A very realistic audio addition.

[@TopWorldTalentHD]

Very nice mate, thanks again for sharing!!🙃😉

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@robertpagetfilms]

A skilled and experienced cameraman. Some great compositions. The pan from a building to parasols, wow. Is that Oxford Brewery belching out steam and smoke in the distance?

[@lefebvresandra]

Great Video! Wish I could go back in time. Thank you for all your work.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you

[@lefebvresandra]

@@NASS_0 Right back at you! ❤

[@davis7099]

The city has hardly changed on the High st but Cornmarket and St Aldates has very much altered ( demolitions and rebuilding) in 100 years. This was the era of the start of massive growth of the car factories in Cowley and then the building of Barton and the estates of the 30s.

[@maria9132]

Lovely capture of beautiful Oxford in a bygone age. I was there in the sixties and had great fun.

[@Valvey789]

Reminds me of "Brideshead Revisited," set in Oxford in that period.

[@samuelfielder]

Great to see this. I had forgotten how much soot there was on buildings in those days (and up to the 1950s). The added sound is well done, but I did wonder if it was really that noisy in those days. Judging by the number of motor vehicles shown, I doubt if there would have been that dull background roar that we get nowadays (until EVs take it away again).

[@susankeating8678]

I lived in Oxford for 46 years so I know all of these streets. It’s fascinating seeing the buildings of which I’m so familiar. Not much has really changed apart from the cars! I don’t ever recall seeing a horse & cart though, that was a bit before my time! Thank you for this video, I found it wonderful to watch & reminisce 👍

[@henrywhyte]

hey NASS, great video!

[@JSFGuy]

😁.. just started you haven't watched any of it. How is it a great video if you haven't watched it?

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!

[@Mimi-zh7wc]

0.30 = Broad Street. I was there yesterday and it's barely changed. Thank you, from an Oxonian.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@QPRTokyo]

Thank you for your hard work.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@herberthartwig8544]

As always Nass, wonderful 👍

[@sezziek1]

I just want to cry! This is so amazing!! It doesn’t look so different now.. the buildings. I was born in the Radcliffe infirmary.. 😦😍😍😭

[@stephenlever419]

Amazing amazing ,,, thank you for this ,,, what would those people make of what our country looks like now ,,, unrecognisable 😢😢😢

[@noeldoyle4501]

Thanks very much for your enjoyable video, a marvellous help to people interested in history. I wonder did the people in this video achieve what they wanted - .

[@miguel--rush]

Excelente...muchas gracias....muy buen trabajo.!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@1258-Eckhart]

The major difference is really the blackness of the buildings - now all the stonework has been cleaned back to the original honey-gold.

[@phillipecook3227]

Beautiful work.

[@anteuzel5324]

GREAT VIDEO SUPER NASS BIG SUPPORT FROM CROATIA

[@NASS_0]

Thx bro!!

[@normbeers]

Very nice to see. May I say that you could lighten it up to be truer to what it was actually like. Thank you for your fine efforts.

[@scottnyc6572]

Who else noticed the old flag of St.George?

[@JSFGuy]

Everyone is dressed to the 9s...

[@NASS_0]

Hi Jef!! ^^

[@JSFGuy]

​@@NASS_0🙋🏻

[@StevenGreen-sh9jf]

A lovely video,thanks.

[@GC-rf2st]

Rather good or what. What a cracking job

[@kennshearer526]

Remarkable. Brilliant job.

[@maggiebrimson9957]

Fantastic, brilliant....seems you could walk, cycle, drive every which way! enjoyed it so much.. thank you !

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@missasinenomine]

"every which way". So American! (17th Century English)

[@stevendswg]

Very high accident rates. Poor brakes. No MOT. No seat belts. No driving licences. No road signs.

[@dojocho1894]

Your doing the great work for humanity..God Bless

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much!!

Muito bonito, belo trabalho!! 👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@curaeus007]

First class stuff NASS!

[@derekeaton-yl9ni]

Fabulous old fashioned footage, I so much enjoyed it.

[@shanemillard1339]

I wish England was still like that. My heart aches.

[@londo776]

did not take long for the racists to come out. This was a terrible time for the average person, children constantly hungry, living in squalor,, what on earth is wrong with you people

[@Bluedex2011]

Great work ! It really brings the film to life. andI would love to visit this town someday . The colors are awesome, do you do any post colorization work using other software like DaVinci Resolve or Premier Pro ?

[@NASS_0]

Thx!! DaVinci Resolve is great for correcting color!

[@Steve-Cross]

It’s amazing to think that all that humanity, no longer exists. They are just shadows of our past now. Wonderful colouration of this old footage and the soundscape used, really worked. You could almost believe this footage was only taken a year or two ago. Thank you. 👍 Edit: Also loved the drone footage towards the end. 😂

[@gasmith7486]

Someone needs to tell them that they are driving on the wrong side of the road.

[@renatoamaral2029]

Haha 😂😅 Good ❤

[@ac1646]

LOL. As a Brit I watch so many North American vids that I get cognitive dissonance when watching British vids featuring driving. Luckily when I do drive, my years of driving on the left kicks in (everyone will be relieved to know). 😊😊

[@stud105]

What language you speaking boy?!... 😉

[@pauldavies152]

Look how clean those streets are. Beautiful cars, buildings and people going about their business in relative peace. Fast forward 100 years- how times change

[@suecox2308]

Wonderful to see the women in their undergraduate gowns; I didn't realize women students were admitted to the university that early.

[@sunnysideup33]

Early? Well..

[@Peteroranje]

They had only just been allowed to graduate! 1920. First women's college was 1878.

[@bfcmik]

@@Peteroranje That was a long course then. 42 years learning before you could graduate. Most of them didn't look that old! 😂 A quick Google check shows that women took their exams in 1879 but were not 'admitted to the University' until 1920, i.e. were not awarded their degree until that time, they were, instead, given a 'Certificate of Competence' which was generally considered to be equivalent. The 1st British University Degrees awarded to women were by the University of London in 1878.

[@davidmatthews9088]

Amazing how the brotherhood is in the process of bringing all that is good to an end.

[@Mister.Glenn.]

Nice Video 👍

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@putriniaaVlogs]

Beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤ nice video classic ❤❤❤❤❤

[@danfreisting2874]

Wonderful! Like you were there.

[@alanjones6359]

That bobby is a living traffic light !

[@susanrudge5817]

Fascinating film - thank you. The buildings still remained black in the 1950s. Subsequent decades have seen them returned to their original honey coloured appearance.

[@davidschofield5194]

I was going to say this too. Worrying that the 1950s were nearer to then than to now!

[@gbentley8176]

Smokey coal fires, spalling stone from centuries of soot. Super video and in the late forties and fifties it looked much the same. Cleaning up was starting then.

[@roughriderreturns5039]

Thank you.

[@martinbennett2228]

I was trying to work out the time of year. From some of the shadows it must have not been far from June 20 but although it was sunny it did not seem to be too hot. It could have been late May, but I would have expected to see more undergraduates with gowns. Life was so much more sedate; we have lost that for ever, however my grandmother who would have been about 17 when the Great War broke out, told me once that life had been so much less hurried and simpler before the first world war.

[@Joker-yw9hl]

Stunning

[@stephenbaker7079]

What wonderful footage - where are the sources of these century-old films - I'd be very pleased to know!

[@charlyjames9145]

Just been checking out these vistas on google maps and its remarkable how little has changed in 100 years, shame the same can't be said about many other British cities!

[@ac1646]

Yes well sadly a lot were bombed during the war. Luckily Oxford wasn't.

[@RicktheRecorder]

Wonderful and evocative. Surprising how much vehicular traffic - in one shot a traffic jam at Carfax - and so few horses. 'Oxford and its colleges' not 'Oxford and its Universities' in the description.

[@storiesreadaloud5635]

Who built those structures?

[@tooleyheadbang4239]

Highly-skilled professionals called 'stonemasons'.

[@storiesreadaloud5635]

@@tooleyheadbang4239 Nah

[@tooleyheadbang4239]

@@storiesreadaloud5635 Well it certainly wasn't Robert 'Concrete Bob' McAlpine!

[@KevinTheCaravanner]

Great attention to detail NASS such as English voices. Though I reckon there’d be less car horns; the Brits are quite reserved in their use.

[@_Bubchen_]

Wonderfull

[@FilmbuffWSussex]

Elegiac footage..looks around 1920, some horse -drawn transport in evidence. The documentary is well-filmed and the compositions mostly well thought out…

[@bewareofpigeons]

Uncanny: like a time machine. Architecture unchanged: living creatures all dead. All those literary figures there at the tume - Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene , Harold Acton etc, - long gone.

[@renatoamaral2029]

Outstanding job, Nass! Are you a boy or a girl? Just curious! 😉👍👍👍

[@NASS_0]

Thx!! a man!! x)

[@wyyrdojim]

It’s cool to see all the “new” cars.😎

[@vs5537]

Curious, it looks like we had more cyclists back then than nowadays 😢

[@chrisblay]

A University town/city will always have more cyclists.

[@GordoGambler]

That was before car loans. LOL. Even bikes were expensive.

[@londonwestman1]

I think there would be more bikes than in this video today in Cambridge. And also in places like Amsterdam.

[@hannahyeadon3087]

Fascinating film - thank you ! My only criticism is to sound design dept - can I hear someone shouting ' big issue !!'

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@chrisbrewer737]

Big Issue seller made me laugh! 😊

[@marts500]

Wow...i did not expect the streets to be as busy as that for some reason.

[@1258-Eckhart]

My sister once gave me a photograph album of Oxford from the same time as this film and the streets are notably empty, with the very occasional Bullnose Morris.

[@NorthernHandle]

Back then was great in a sense of how places were built and made, many architects really put so much into their work even without Health and Safety rules, they really got the job done and it paid off since most of the buildings and structures are still around today.

[@user-yi2pi8eb7e]

Обожаю такие кадры!

[@Baskerville22]

Those University buildings could have benefitted from high-pressure water cleaning

[@jbuk4369]

Coal fires, I think.

[@jacekbukaczewski]

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