A Day in Old London in 1920 in colour! [AI enhanced HD]

[@Rick88888888]

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[@AWhileHanlin]

Great detailed work on the video. Thanks!

[@robertasagba3668]

Nice video but deceptive. Workhouses and poorhouses were still in operation at this time, so definitely not as rosy as it seems.

[@dazza9326]

Jolly good show old boy.

[@Rick88888888]

@@dazza9326 Pip pip Tally ho!

[@forgive7449]

@@AWhileHanlin fascinating to think that some of the elderly featured here knew and met people who were born in the 1700's.

[@MaxFPSGamer]

Today my Nan celebrates her 100th birthday. That’s why I’m here, to get a glimpse of what the world was like in her youth. She always said she was determined to reach that age and get her card from the Queen. Today that finally happened. Sadly she won’t know it as due to her dementia she is barely cognitively aware. Her doctors don’t think she’ll last much longer but at least now she’ll be able to subconsciously let go. I love you Nan. Happy 100th birthday. 🥰🥳🎂 Edit: Thanks for all the kind messages and replies. Unfortunately my Nan passed away peacefully in her sleep 8 days after I wrote this comment.

[@Rick88888888]

Congratulations to your Nan! PS: this video is not American based but about London. I am Dutch (from The Netherlands).

[@MaxFPSGamer]

@@Rick88888888 Thanks, and sorry yeah my bad. I watched another video before this that was about America so got it mixed up.

[@stevielegend325]

🙏❤🙏

[@erictyson5947]

God bless, amen

[@jamesandrobbie1]

My dad almost made 100. He was looking forward to his card from the Queen. Alas, not to be. Life goes on.

[@coaldust01]

Imagine having the correct clothing and then going back in time to blend in unoticed, then to go exploring, how fascinating would that be.

[@pixiequeen5240]

Watch outlander!

[@newmankidman5763]

@coaldust, even if we had a time machine, the two biggest problems we would face if we went back in time a few hundred years would not be the lack of phones and computers as most people might think, but the lack of anaesthetic and toilets. Anaesthetic and toilet are world's best inventions

[@reneezancewoman]

I don't think it'd fly for someone like me (black), even if I were wearing proper clothing and could speak 1920 Londoner dialect 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@newmankidman5763]

​@@reneezancewoman, in any case, it would be easier for you as a woman than a man. Besides, if you taught yourself how to work the system, you would be fine. For instance, even today, especially in the USA, there are a lot of people of colour being oppressed and kept down by the police, judges, prosecutors and the system as a whole, however, some people such as Oprah Winfrey, and Tyler Perry managed to avoid their brutality and oppression and do extremely well for themselves because they taught themselves how to work the system

[@Nadiesalevivo]

@@newmankidman5763 2 in a million. Same goes with white people. It's cold good luck and hard work TOGETHER

[@trnka2351]

My Grandmother was born in London in 1910. This old footage of life in the 20s gives me a glimpse of what life for Her must have been like growing up. Amazing!

[@Elconbrioso]

From the time when, just about every Man wore a hat, had pressed trousers and shiny shoes . What a difference colour makes - thanks for taking the time and effort to post this.

[@roeng1368]

Ah, back when Architects made buildings that were nice to look at and be in.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

Modern architects: "My mission isn't to conform to outdated aesthetic ideals or produce buildings that people don't feel dehumanised in, it's to make money and win awards from people who wouldn't know good architecture from a pile of dog dollops."

[@edwin11373]

It's the sign of the times. You don't expect architects and artist to do the same shit forever. Besides, beauty is in the eye....

[@roeng1368]

Anyone see Coventry city centre lately ...................

[@multipipi1234]

Yeah...miners cottage where I come from.

[@karadiberlino]

@@edwin11373 No it‘s not. Living in concrete is unhealthy in many ways. Also most architects are incompetent because of competition. I work in real estate and in an area with many new houses. Innovation is lacking, yet high-maintanance electronic gimmicks are viewed as „progress“... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It really is all about money, believe me.

[@deletebilderberg]

My Grandad worked at Covent Garden market at that time. 14-15 years old. Travelled in from east London every morning. Eventually ended up working in the docks. Very tough man, with a heart of gold.

[@stephenguppy3466]

I once had a conversation with my Grandad in the 1970's. I had just been to London for the first time and was so excited by the experience. Grandad said, I went to London once. Didn't like it. Far too busy. I asked him when this was. He said, 1926! Bless him.

[@bernadettehays453]

The Men & Women dressed so elegantly, compared to now!people took pride in themselves. A time not governed by greed. Loved this film. Thank you.

[@miarrem]

Yeah, those London slums were beautiful

[@francessimmonds5784]

miarrem and lol. Everyone seems to think London was like a fairytale back then. They forget about the horse shit, smog and poverty.

[@dianehansen5552]

It's not 'greed' to want food on your table, nice clothes, a job, a vacation and the like. People are no different. If anything many people don't want to work at all and that's a bigger problem than 'greed.'

[@JfK--OBJECTivE]

@@dianehansen5552 You're right, a good example of people that don't want to work, YT influencers.

[@paulandrew6457]

Wonderful footage. A lot of people are romantising the era. Sure there were good things back then but every City has two tales even to this day. The life or the wealthy and the life of the poor. My dad lived in the Eastend of London and that was pretty much slums and terrible living and working conditions and no NHS - most of his family died young. It was the best of times and the worst of times.

[@debbiesunlight7047]

Mine too , Bethnal Green.

[@helenamcginty4920]

My mum was born in Stepney in 1920. She never knew her grandad. He and his brother died of the flu pandemic in january 1919. Life was not easy like you say. Going through the census revords for family history I notice many of the houses hsve more than 1 family living in them. My mums house was split between her family and a mother and daughter upstairs.

[@77anarchy]

@Leona Bastet Your comments absolutely echo my feelings watching this compared to footage seen of over past few years .. Heartbreaking to see what has happened to any of our ancestors hopes for a better future for their children. What a crazy mess we are in now !! Stay safe ! Stay strong !

[@dgontar]

@@helenamcginty4920 They should make more films about such people, document their lives. To me the period between 1870-1930 is the most interesting time period of London.

[@Truth1561]

@Leona Bastet the father in the poorer families was often a drunk who came home and beat his wife ( and sometimes the kids) senseless. My great Nan was one KFC’s those lucky women with a husband but died very young, probably from stress. Children often died before they even reached school age. TB and polio were rife. No contraception, no welfare state and no NHS. Ah yes, the good old days.

[@Nostalgicjase]

I'm loving the accompanying music as much as the film.

[@abbylama5479]

And I stopped watching because of the music.

[@JMJ4444-f2n]

lol ❤️🙏✝️😊

[@PLuMUK54]

I'm feeling old now as I was able to sing along with much of it!

[@nct948]

@@abbylama5479 it is easy to turn it off

[@statesman01]

Just read about the 2nd oldest person in the world, a French nun, who turns 117 tomorrow i.e. was born on 11th Feb, 1904. She's in the news because she just recovered from Covid. She would have been 16 years old in 1920 when this video was taken. So when we think about everybody in a video like this not being alive anymore, we can't be 100% certain of that.

[@katyburns9758]

I read that and my thoughts went exactly to this too!

[@josemendes2530]

in the future people will have eternal life on earth. psalm37.29

[@hempirerudy8738]

Well they are all 90% dead . Why stop to wonder which 2 in movie are 97 year old living skeletons

[@Србомбоница86]

@@hempirerudy8738 skeletons?

[@deltanovember1672]

@@josemendes2530 How is that possible? Or shouldn’t I ask?

[@Niko5black]

The media keeps saying how Britain was so multi cutural in the past on this island.....insane

[@OakwiseBecoming]

Lies to condition us to accept our demographic replacement

[@bnanaaasbrown9529]

Lies lies lies.

[@kerrybevan5483]

This is so wonderful! I am currently transcribing my Grandfather's 1920 diary , when he lodged at the Y.M.C.A on the Tottenham Court, and worked in the city. He describes his daily routines including his many lunch time strolls to the parks of London. This film has brought his diary to life!

[@Europa1749]

Considering how it is now, can't even imagine how it will look in another 100 years, glad I won't be here.

[@MrEncore91]

You and me both pal

[@seriouslyryan6592]

London has changed for the worse imo. It’s lost it’s culture and now host too many foreign ones. No identity, it’s a mess

[@lakshmivaidyanathan2254]

@@MrEncore91me too some twenty years remaining

[@MrEncore91]

@@lakshmivaidyanathan2254 I'm only 30 and already want out 😂😂

[@lakshmivaidyanathan2254]

@@MrEncore91 but why

[@anthonywalsh785]

wonderful scenes of london from a hard to believe, 100 years ago.

[@cully7927]

imagine 100 years from now watching our cities and being just as amazed....incredible

[@Robert_Manners]

@@cully7927 I know we take our surroundings for granted don't we. It's only when you get the opportunity to see this you wonder what another 100 years will look like for our future generations.

[@jimmycakes7158]

@@Robert_Manners the difference is people back then were in awe of their architecture, today modern arch is horrible and will be seen as such in 100 years

[@elacha2587]

My Maternal Grandmother was born in 1910 and this is the London she would have known. She passed away 2000. The changes she saw just unbelievable.

[@jetfuelgirl]

Its strange how they all walk so upright, and stop to notice nature and things around them. Now days everyone slouches and have their gaze fixed on their phones.

[@multipipi1234]

Everyone..? I don't .

[@sabah4123]

These days, too much distraction!

[@jetfuelgirl]

@@multipipi1234 There is no need to be hypersensitive, it was a term loosely used to express my personal opinion on the current general population of a modern city in a 1st world country and then some. It was not a personal critique on you, I don't know you pip. I'm sorry I simply assumed that "most" people reading this would know I was generalising. :)

[@jackwithahat8601]

Well, nowadays we have a machine of miracles that can do anything in the palm of our hands anywhere and anytime at all. Bet my ass I'm gonna be using it instead of wandering around looking at cobblestones and city plants every day lol.

[@yvonnewalesuk8035]

@@jetfuelgirl 👏👏👏 for such an eloquently expressed sentiment.

[@heddwyncloakoftimekeep7744]

My god its beautiful. I live in Wales but love this, the environment, the outfits, the cars driving calmly down the old roads, its things like this that make me want to invent a time machine and go back to see this all, it's amazing.

[@kustocks]

the lady, bless her soul, at 5:35, when she smiled to the camera I smiled back and I just couldn't stop smiling

[@britusman]

yes, me too

[@shanefrance5071]

Wish London was like that still

[@nopretribrapture2318]

yes ,there was something so quintessential about those days!

[@LegendarySpaceRipper]

The aesthetic, the lack of machete/acid/terrorist attacks. Obviously, there was crime but not like it is now as it seems more barbaric. We have better technology and such yet we also have worse people. People born just to cause misery. We got involved in a massive war for what? Destroy the economy which is why we were involved in the EU, a so-called union that hated us since the beginning despite the fact that we helped their countries. We could have joined Germany, a country that actually respected Britain. The fact that Hitler showed us more respect than those in Germany and other beloved allies is rather sad. We are still getting involved in stuff like Ukraine. These people would never acknowledge us, give us refugee or anything yet if we did the same, the tiresome human rights brigade comes out. If I was in control, I would focus on rebuilding this country. I would restore the libraries and places for people to attend, have a coffee and such. Fix the roads properly and make a lot of changes to laws to stop evil from reigning. Not sure about the death penalty as it can be abused and misused but some people deserve no mercy for the things they do.

[@nopretribrapture2318]

@@LegendarySpaceRipper one of the many reasons why i disassociate myself from people amap,56 years of constantly bad ones in my life,inc family, you just can't beat retreating to the countryside, though im partially disabled because of what my ex husband did to me,i can still drive and often visit there, it's definately an oasis of healing and peace!, and yes absolutely agree with you ,there's something very sinister about this Ukraine war,it's as if it was pre planned by the world leaders,especially the USA, from what ive heard

[@harrynking777]

Yes. London is such a dump now with all the metal barriers, rubbish and roadworks.

[@dambuster6387]

To think this 100 years ago and the film has survived is amazing .

[@TralfazConstruction]

You said it, what a rare and precious artifact. What does that say of everything that we record or photograph digitally? How might it all look in one hundred years?

[@edwardbisono6714]

No crowds at all... Fantastic!!!... Beautiful.

[@richmck007]

Evolution my friend...Evolution and tourism! Much needed capital and investment brought about change. No capital can do without it. Cities had to take the rough with the smooth! Talk about ruin when mass tourism hits.

[@erickariuki6842]

Millions had died from the war, diseases were rife, colonial massacres were going on around the world and the great depression was just around the corner

[@jameswinters7920]

Love these Old COLORIZED videos. Those who study history expand the span of their own lives. It's like time travel. Wonderful

[@001Geoff]

Thank goodness that these films were produced so that future generations can enjoy these historically important pieces of footage.

[@English.Andy1]

My Grandmother is 100 years & still going strong. Amazing to see the world she was born in too & in colour.

[@paulukjames7799]

Lovely images of old London no litter, graffiti, cranes, cordoned off areas or endless signage so nice

[@birdsaloud7590]

People seemed to have much more dignity and pride in what they did and how they dressed.

[@maryanneparrish6089]

Yes, they did.

[@multipipi1234]

Did they. On the strength of this footage. Remarkable .

[@zx50]

@Birds Aloud As far as how they dressed goes, it could be that that was the only items of clothing that clothes shops sold back then. I really can't imagine clothes shops selling female clothes that showed much flesh at all. Britain in the 1920s would have been very conservative when it came to clothes, especially female clothes.

[@zukispur5493]

Not the poor

[@stellarossaCPCU]

Perhaps there wasnt much else to wear.

[@donnashapleigh4863]

Like many people said this is a glimpse into the world of our relatives! My grandmother would of been 20 when this was filmed and lived in London. I like to imagine it was her strolling through the park or quickly crossing the street. It made me feel closer to her even though she's been gone 36 years. Thank you!

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

My gran was 16.

[@basicdose.9872]

These people passed away. Rest in Peace.

[@KW-rb4vf]

How strange and sad it is to think that everyone in that video is gone now.

[@colleenkennedy1934]

Not at all... if they were all still alive that would be strange cuz it was 100 years ago, duh

[@elias7748]

My great great grandfather was born in 1871. He would be 150!

[@godzilla9416]

Which province r u from?

[@lakshmivaidyanathan2254]

@@kennyahs8995 all of them gone

[@RendererEP]

My nan's first cousin (so i assume she is my second cousin???) was born in 1920 and passed away only last year, so she would have been alive when these videos were recorded, but instead she was being brought up in the war of indipendence and civil war period in rural Ireland, but probably doesn't remember

[@stretfordender11]

No security gates, walls, barriers needed for many of these landmarks. How times have changed.

[@philthompson8574]

Stretford reds Not so many years before this Queen Victoria was so unpopular she needed police protection when she went out. Check it!

[@onemomenttohislifespan]

because most of these modern landmarks we know today were just things for them then they weren’t thT old

[@stretfordender11]

@@philthompson8574 theres always some weird lefties knocking about

[@philthompson8574]

Yeah just mass poverty and early death

[@silverbullet2008bb]

X factor Ariel

[@terrycourt123]

If the people in the film could see the country now they’d be ashamed and embarrassed.

[@Kaybossboi]

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[@CaponeyBalogney]

You acting like people didnt kill and rape all day in those times 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@moritzguderian8381]

Yeah what a shame eh.

[@naradaian]

R U a bot or not

[@topcat1358]

What a great and beautiful film. So sad to see such a beautiful city become the shithole it is today, only 100 years later. Almost makes you cry.

[@KaylaNoelle1]

My Great Grandma was 7 or 8 in 1920. She passed away in 2008 but I got to have a Great Grandmother in my life for 14 years which I am grateful for! She used to tell me how exciting the 1920's were, even for a child, how rebellious and youthful everything seemed because society was changing so quickly. ... and then how disappointing the 30's -50's were, she was into the 60's though!

[@keithjones6023]

My mother was born in 1920, she's still with us. Covid put pay to her 100th birthday celebrations last year, but happy to receive her birthday card from the Queen!

[@stephenburnage7687]

My grandmother was born in 1888 and she also talked extensively of the 1920's. The arrival of movies, especially Charlie Chaplin, greatly entertained them.

[@R33Racer]

Oh London, how pretty you were 100 years ago. What the hell happened?. . .

[@princebuster93]

Solvalou Jesuit infiltration.....

[@southlondon86]

If only we could go back to the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley 😢😢😢

[@esterherschkovich6499]

No ugly tall buildings that will not last

[@civishyperboreum6853]

Liberalism, distruction of family and mass migration

[@elias7748]

Modernism happened.

[@grammaticalchainsaw7318]

My Great Great Great Aunt was born in 1919 and is still with us today!!

[@MrRobbyvent]

make a YT video with her reaction to these images!!!

[@keithrose6931]

A second of time capturing someone's life as it happened . I wonder if they could imagine someone would be watching them years after their demise on one's phone or tablet ?

[@keithjones6023]

Imagine how people might be watching us in a 100 years time. Well if there is a 100 years time 🙄

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

"Someone watching us on a phone? What nonsense! Haven't they got anything better to do?" "Erm.... Not really, no."

[@Merseysiderful]

8:26 Veterans from the Crimean War of 1853. Incredible !

[@tri5ia]

Thank you for this. My mother was born in Highgate in 1914; this is the London of her childhood.

[@wendyhart134]

WW2 came along and perhaps many of the lovely houses , churches and monuments are lost forever .... Beautiful thank you.

[@yasminm7157]

I thoroughly enjoyed that! Thank you so much for uploading and letting us all enjoy this absolute gem. Great job 👏🏼👏🏼

[@princetonburchill6130]

My grandmother lost her first husband at the Battle of the Somme leaving her a widow at the age of 30 with three children to raise on her own. Because there was such an enormous shortage of eligible young men she feared she would have to spend the rest of her life living alone. That was until she met my grandfather who had just been discharged from a military hospital recovering from a badly injured leg which he almost lost - from playing football!

[@musthaveacamel2157]

Sound's like your Gran loved the tail, good on her

[@kevwalsh9146]

Poor old London. Look at what’s happened to this once lovely place. After generations of our family being born and bread here we have had to move because it isn’t safe for our children to grow up. God bless you London and good luck. Your going to need it. So sad😞

[@kevwalsh9146]

Nicky L born and bred = birth and upbringing. Born and brought up in a certain area

[@brits72]

@Nicky L born with a loaf at foot 😂❤️

[@truthmatters5170]

It's so surreal that a century later this would be viewed by millions on a weird thing called KZbin!!!

[@deano3580]

Many of the buildings remain the same but life for the majority of people in London is unbelievably better now and that is the real achievement of the 20th century.I look at those people and think no NHS, no affordable doctors, no inside toilets, damp cold housing, few employment rights, relatives killed in wars. I wish we could hear their voices. Fantastic film and thanks for posting.

[@johnrea2115]

A few more years of 1% progressive policies and for the rest of us the world will revert to the conditions of the 20’s

[@richardwills-woodward]

It wasn't that bad for most contrary to popular belief. Only the worst situations are highlighted, and for those people, life is immeasurably better. For others, that died of curable diseases affects all people and of course that is better. However, societally, the UK is a lot worse than the 1920's. Crime, degradation, slums are all up. The slums today simply have inside toilets, better sanitation, electricity and no fires but also no character, but that's about it.

[@andrewrobinson8305]

If they have inside toilets, electricity & heating then they’re not slums! As for crime, you can’t possibly compare it because most crime went unreported in those days.

[@richardwills-woodward]

@@andrewrobinson8305 People were not shot and stabbed on today's scale, so it is not about not reporting, but I have have to refer you to grey council blocks and slum area housing regards slums. Yes, it is India poverty, but it is horrendous environment to live in compared to most of the UK.

[@richardwills-woodward]

@Geo DnB For inner city dwellers and mostly to the east of city centres. This was not the condition for the vast majority in the 1920's.

[@neilproctor5163]

I'd rather have lived in this version of London, than the London I currently live in! London is a crap hole now - I know, I live here!

[@jamesroche5258]

To think 80 years after this film I'd be making way home through Trafalgar Square in the early hours of the morning Having left a rock club. Waiting for a night bus to take me home. Brilliant film.

[@raymcdonald6734]

My great great aunt Bessie was in service to a rich family at that time and I remember looking at the old photos as a child. This is truly wonderful to see what it was actually like. She lived to 101 and was still working well into her 90’s! Made of sterner stock then!

[@ST-mn6nw]

They definitely were, Bessie sounds lovely

[@dawnbeake2986]

How smart the people looked in those days with their hats and suits. Those were the days! Loved the music too.

[@slurmcarey3069]

But they all wore the same thing. Not much identity

[@haywoodmiddleton2956]

Slurm carey the identity is British and they were proud

[@T1000-s4j]

They look nice but most people didn't shower back then or brush their teeth daily, so most would stink

[@BioChemistryWizard]

@@T1000-s4j People had massive bath houses in medieval Europe, you don't think they would be bathing 700 years later?????

[@ian_b]

My Dad was born in 1929 so basically into the world in this video and died 4 years ago. Something that's stuck for no reason in my mind was when I was a child in the 1970s I drew an imaginary car. It looked like the Homermobile and had a rocket engine. Dad said the rocket engine was probably a bit much and said what he really wanted was a car that he could select a destination, push a button and it would drive itself there so he wouldn't have to drive, which I thought in my little boy brain was a bit unexciting. But he lived to see GPS maps on cars and the development, if not general deployment, of self-driving cars. That's a lot of progress he saw in one lifetime.

[@lovedaybebe5881]

That’s a wonderful observation . Your father had a forward thinking mind . I’m such a country girl , the pace of a horse and cart would better suit me . “ oh my look at those cowslips “ 🙏

[@markpulling12]

It amazes me how they built all those wonderful buildings without all the tech and machinery we have today ... great video thanks

[@theheartoftexas]

Thanks for posting these London films! I really enjoy watching them. It’s a privilege to be able to look back in time and see the people and places of different eras.

[@Rick88888888]

Glad you like them!

[@dscapes1]

Imagine if those people could see London today a hundred years later. OMG the shame!

[@jozombie843]

I sometimes wonder if humanity reached its peak and now we are on the decline… somewhere in the last 100 years I think the peak may have been met. I was only born in the 80s and I was so much happier in the 90s and 00s than I am now. The world seems broken somehow now :(

[@scottwilson6467]

I agree dude! The 90s and 00`s were two great decades for me in my younger years. Im now turning 40 this year and i look back on these decades like ok that was a cool time and i had so much fun but now its like im sitting wondering ok what next for the 20s decade as the 10s were pretty shit and im like meh the worlds gone to shit with nothing positive on the horizon so it would seem ..... Hopefully im wrong though and this decade turns out to be a great one but its not off to a good start with covid and the Ukraine war is it? Lets see wot other man made disasters are waiting around the corner for us to make everyones lives miserable lol !

[@carolinenoble1321]

I agree Jo, I was at my peak late 80's and early 90's. I just live day to day, surviving mentally and physically. I like watching these videos when life seemed simple then.

[@freakyindia]

I somehow agree. I was born in the late 70s. The 80s and 90s were awesome years! I’m truly happy to have been born before all these so-called technology and social media came about. My childhood years were spent playing outdoors and I will definitely not trade it with anything else.

[@fluteplayer]

Same here.

[@SaucyJack88]

To put things in perspective: the Romans thought they reached the peak in the 3rd century and the world went in decline afterwards (which it did with the visigoth invasion, the sacking of Rome, the great schism, and ultimately the destruction of the Roman Empire). Then the Victorians believed they reached the peak in 1900 and the world went in decline afterwards (which it did, first with the Great War breaking out and then the Spanish Influenza fucking everyone up). Then the people believed the Roaring Twenties was the peak and the world went in decline afterwards (which it did, with the Great Depression leading into World War 2). Then people (like you) believed we reached the peak in the 1980s and 1990s, after which the world went in decline with 9/11, the Great Recession of 2008, the COVID pandemic, and "woke" progressive politics ruining our countries, which is indeed the case. But the point I'm trying to make here is that every time the world went in decline, it bounced back and reached a new height afterwards. This is no exception. This decline we're in right now will not be permanent.

[@philipchretienkarlsson8157]

This was really lovely, and thanks for your loving work restoring and colorizing these old images.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

There's a look of those wonderful hand coloured photographs that were produced in those days.

[@hjilp6745]

Londyn piękny sto lat temu i obecnie Krystyna 🥰

[@linziherbert965]

Excellent work finding, collating and sharing this. My mother had just been born(end of 1919, but my father was still 2 years away). My fraternal grandparents were Londoners and your film enlightened me as to their lifestyle. Many thanks.

[@davekelly5503]

Captures the soul of old London. A soul that is sadly lacking in modern day London . Sad ,very sad.

[@southlondon86]

What we need are real Britons like in the good old days of Jimmy Savile and Myra Hindley. Sadly they are long gone but never forgotten 😢

[@davekelly5503]

@@southlondon86 sorry, I don’t understand your response. It’s nonsensical. What did I say that lead you to imply that I was wishing for the return of people like Jimmy Savile and Mira Hindly ?. The film was edited in a manor that is evocative and raised emotions of nostalgia for a time in this country that I feel does not now reflect modern day England. My intention was not to offend you or anybody els. But if you were offended to the point were you feel it necessary to reply to my comment then please could you do so in a mature intelligent way that I and other people reading it may understand your argument . Using lowest common denominators to make your point is how a child may respond, and not that of a middle aged aged person .

[@malakaragua702]

@@southlondon86 vile hater

[@malakaragua702]

@@davekelly5503ignore the troll, she's just being disgusting

[@southlondon86]

@@davekelly5503 All I’m saying is that before the vile foreigners came in, our England was perfect.

[@paulwestwell7160]

To think the Chelsea pensioners at 8.28 could have been born before Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 is mind blowing.

[@PsytanicA]

I just wish we could go back to these times. People actually worked, more well mannered, more better dressed and above all had a graceful gentry about them. These ladies and gentlemen were the backbone of society. 2020 has nothing on 1920. This is London at it's finest and proud with honor.

[@leegilmour8090]

Definitely more manners and respect.

[@kennethandersson4325]

I love to see all this old movies. This is how our days should be nowdays. Not everything was good this time, but I think most of the people was happier that time.

[@nigeldarragh1026]

Brilliant footage of London and to think it's was a Hundred years ago fabulous

[@stevewood7884]

And no police surrounding the camera Man for filming.

[@timjames8351]

It looks very leisurely. People strolling and taking in their surroundings instead of staring at their phones.

[@DrLoverLover]

Staring into newspapers

[@lmusima3275]

It’s very nostalgic to watch this even though its long long before my time. My grandmother was born around this time. I was born in London in 1977. Watching this video I can recognise several places featured in video like Trafalgar Square and the monuments surrounding it, Westminster Abbey, the horse guards etc.

[@lindab8397]

Wow so lovely , especially to see such empty roads , England was a lovely place back in the day .... time of my grandparents and when my father was born. 1919

[@johno6637]

When there was respect and manners ,sadly long gone.

[@OakwiseBecoming]

White nations without white super-majority are turning into slums.

[@timsmith2279]

Good manners were still around before the “Rock & Roll” and “Punk music” arrived !

[@007JHS]

The picture quality is amazing

[@EvaMissDestruction]

I love these videos. My dad was a child then and it helps me have a glimpse of his childhood, what he would have seen, what clothes my grandparents would have worn etc. Although life was so hard for so many, the community spirit that many shared was wonderful in many ways. Much of this heritage has unfortunately been destroyed with building new things but this was an important part of history and should be preserved and remembered. Thanks for sharing this 😁

[@Rick88888888]

I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@martalobos7822]

People seemed to walk slower then. I wonder why we rush so much in London now.

[@Isleofskye]

Out of my way It's a BUSY day !

[@W1728now]

No cell phones, people enjoying the great city, and human slow pace of life., less is more and today we don’t appreciate life, we just take from life whatever we can ... hard times are more meaningful!

[@MP-uz5ks]

Hard Times will be back.

[@cinderellacomplex7]

You make it seem as if there weren't hard times back then lol. The video didn't show you the slums of London.

[@MammaKush88]

Umm.... hell nah.

[@richmck007]

Peoples’ mindset was different back then. Today’s way of thinking was not invented yet...

[@paulgriffiths6344]

Where are all the people saying "you can't film me without my concent"?

[@andylindsaytunes]

I like how in every scene, at least one person stops what they are doing when they notice the camera, and they spend a bit of time pondering what is being filmed and why.

[@msjdb723]

👍🏻

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

Nowadays people would be physically attacking you for filming them.

[@honkler1697]

Thank god they're not around to see the state it's in today.

[@vhkdave3284]

I wish London was still like this. It’s horrible now, bad crowd :(

[@JJJJ-fi9dg]

The consequences of Thatcherite neo-liberalism

[@vhkdave3284]

@@JJJJ-fi9dg AT LEAST BEACHING STOPPED IT SPREADING TO THE COUNTRYSIDE. oops caps. She realised towards the end that she had been played for a fool I think.

[@esterherschkovich6499]

Good and bad in all..

[@esterherschkovich6499]

@@JJJJ-fi9dg total rubbish

[@tmgeza]

They never thought me in Africa will be looking at them in 2020 on a smart phone, I wonder what will be happening in 2120. I know I will be dead by then

[@andrewparkinson7760]

Fascinating insight into how folk used to live! My father was born in 1923 so it must have been like this in his childhood.I am fascinated to see the old cars and the dress sense of the day with everyone wearing hats! Well doneAndy

[@criticalmass3829]

They're all going about their lives with that air of immortality we all have and all their worries burdening them. Yet they're all dead now and it doesn't matter. Don't worry about life folks, just enjoy it, when it's gone it's gone.

[@supergran1000]

Sobering, but true.

[@mybackpocket]

4:49 they realise they're being filmed and one even raises his hat in recognition. Manners.

[@davidrasch3082]

The generation which fought the Great War and endured Flanders' Field.

[@tonyeff4447]

Yeah, just hand it all over a few short years later

[@ralphaverill2001]

At last! The perfect audio of period music from the same time as the video was recorded. Thank you!

[@tomash6805]

To think it's actually got worse and not better in a hundred years. Was beautiful here.

[@smecker9611]

My great grandpa was born in London on 1897. He fought in ww1 for the British army when he was 17. When he was done with the war he immigrated to NYC. When I was little he would always tell me about what he saw in ww1 and about his childhood. He said when he was in ww1 a mustang chased him down. When he was a 11 years old he met Edward VII. He said back in his days everyone dressed properly, acted with respect, and everyone was hardworking and not overweight. He died on 1997 he was 100 years old.

[@kensyskye8965]

I actually beam with pride when I see old footage of my once wonderful city! ❤️ Sadly, I left four months ago due to the dire mess it’s in now...😣

[@ecclesiaxxi6210]

I can't wait to leave too! Counting down, ...hopefully soon!

[@kensyskye8965]

@@dreamyanon5151 your name is interesting ......🧐 Take a long walk around the Eastend of London at night.....

[@kensyskye8965]

@@ecclesiaxxi6210 just stay focused and you’ll be gone! It took me a year to get away and I don’t regret it one bit. My family are all Londoners and I was the last to leave, sad but had to....✌🏻

[@ecclesiaxxi6210]

@@kensyskye8965 Sorry you had to leave your family home town, I can't imagine how heart breaking (and enraging) that must be for you :( Also, thank you ^_^

[@kensyskye8965]

@@ecclesiaxxi6210 awwww thanks for your comment. The things I saw and had to deal with in the end just broke my heart, but once I accepted the reality of the new London I felt better. I live in a beautiful location now, where people care about one another and the environment they live in. No rubbish on the streets, smiles and good mornings, low crime rate and most of all a lovely sense of belonging. Amazing tbh! I wish the same for you, just stay focused and do it! 🙏🏼✌🏻❤️

[@cph2004]

The wind in the trees and the bashful smile at 5:36 brought the video alive for me. Thanks for uploading the window of time.

[@garyfinch377]

That was a beautiful vista. The young lady and her smile giving joy to people a century later.

[@natalierozean5989]

I enjoyed the woman wearing a hat, standing alone, deep in thought, peering over the water

[@Naza_44]

Queen Elizabeth II was to be born 6 years later on April 21st 1926.

[@nathaliewade752]

same year as my gran so cool

[@antonv.]

Nice time travel

[@thekurdishgirl6538]

l wont to be a Time Travler and come back to 1920s 😭😭😭😭😭

[@guts8249]

@@thekurdishgirl6538 so come to Brazil

[@thekurdishgirl6538]

@@guts8249 did Brazil made Time machine?🤔

[@patriciajohnsonson8639]

People dressed so nicely back then. They took pride in their appearance. They dressed so decently.

[@whiteeaglewarrior]

yes now its skintight ripped jeans and skin tight low cut tops and men with jeans hanging off their ar...... trash

[@gloriaortiz1227]

Well fashion designers can always go back to designing these clothes again😊

[@patriciajohnsonson8639]

@@gloriaortiz1227 Wouldn’t that be nice! It would be so wonderful to see our society dressed nicely again. 🙂

[@dunoonhearts]

Need to remember that most of these films are predominantly middle and upper class situations, bet the working class don’t look so grand.

[@patriciajohnsonson8639]

@@dunoonhearts oh brother. My father was a carpenter…. Working class. He wore carpenter coveralls to work. When he went to dinner with my mother he dressed nice. Dress pants, shirt and a tie. He had a suit but didn’t wear it except for special occasions. He generally wore black pants and later jeans when he was working in the yard. Even working class had nice clothes and dressed nicely. They may not have had many clothes, but the ones they had were well made and fit them well. No tears, or raggedy clothing for them, or for us, their children.

[@kitkat8231]

Everyone is so incredibly calm and put together. My, my, how times have changed.

[@c.k.3818]

you can't tell if they are calm in this. he could have gone home and killed his wife. you don't know

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

Of course the 2 loonies had to reply to make sure everyone knows the change has been very good (yes indeed) and nooo they were not calm (because implying something good about the past is a big nono, everything was terrible, always, rule number 1).

[@marleyite]

This was like over 100 years ago. Would be pleasantly surprised if any location on this planet didn’t undergo some sort of change within that time frame.

[@jordane8526]

@@marleyite Uncontacted tribes, vast swaths of rural Africa, remote and montaneous communities, the Amish and the Mennonites..

[@dazzeerascalftm]

@@c.k.3818 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Jesus Christ

[@Rick88888888]

If you like my work and wish to DONATE then please goto: www.dsh2000.com/donate.html By all means share your experiences and/or that of your (grand)parents of how life was in London in the 1920s. Please do NOT start any debate about how the UK has changed as a result of the influx of other nationalities etc. This is a historic channel and not the right place to discuss the problems in today's turbulent world. Hatred comments will be removed. Thank you for your understanding.

[@johanboer7157]

Amazing! If I'm not mistaken, "Lovely Lady" is from the film "King of Burlesque" (1935). It is also performed by Tommy Dorsey: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2KtloCIot6af7M

[@Rick88888888]

"Lovely Lady" sung by Bing Crosby with the Victor Young Orchestra: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIe0gKxvfKqYmqc

[@martincook318]

I Never said anything about the Problems that are about today what I said was that it's a shame that a lot of tha lovely old Buildings were destroyed by Enemy Bombing twenty years later and for what it's worth I'm not trying to get into a Political argument

[@dobl-ys3jg]

Rick88888888 the pub called the Garden of Allah, a portent for the destiny of the whole city.

[@Rick88888888]

@@dobl-ys3jg I hear what you say. However it is not a pub but Theater Royal in Drury Lane performing a play in four parts with this title. Here is the program: pictures.abebooks.com/LITTLESTOURBOOKS/2387150485.jpg

[@jeremypreece870]

There isn't much to feel nostalgic about, the horrors of WW1 just finished, two waves of a pandemic and less than two decades to WW2 - more death and a lot of destruction. A lot of people look at these films and say how much better life was then etc.: But it really wasn't. However, this is a really great piece of history brought to life. The music really fits as well.

[@ziggypop79]

Yeah a real pandemic

[@LRC92]

Not to mention the Great Depression just around the corner.

[@greatomeister675]

Thank you!

[@jeremypreece870]

@@LRC92 true

[@tamlin2815]

It looks so clean...

[@cosm1cstar]

No fast food takeaways or corner shops selling endless crap junk food .. hence no wrappings, no litter 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😁😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@PicsReviews]

Feels so nice to watch no mobile phones in hands just enjoying the nature 😊

[@mt508]

No. It's just natural selection taking it's course

[@GhastlyCretin]

Architects actually had talent.

[@colmitch4754]

Looks like heaven compared to now 2021

[@garypowell1540]

The incredible thing about colourised film is that it is the next best thing to time travel. It makes things in these old films look so much more human than things do today. Who would want to go back to a black and white past, but a colour one looks irresistible? Life looked so much more simple and comprensible back then, with not a computer, cell phone, or face mussel in sight. One marvels at the beauty of the buildings and how much care, thought and skill went into their construction, many of which are still standing today in all of their glory like they were built yesterday. Unfortunately divided by ugly modern monstrosities, like they were conceived by the devil him/herself for Robotic Zombies to work within. The people looked proad, happy, clean, well dressed and optimistic about the future. Now days? Well best not to think about that, while the future now looks so grim it's best not to think about that either.

[@TimothyMichaelJones]

Great footage. Check out the guy at 6:40, Covent Garden. Nonchalantly strolling along carrying about 10 feet of baskets on his head with one hand in his pocket. Very cool guy!

[@gwenowens6727]

This is filmed just a few years after the end of the First World War when approx 880,000 British forces died, 6% of the adult male population and 12.5% of those serving. That doesn’t take into account all the deaths of troops from Britain’s colonies. I think of the trauma these people had experienced and the continuing trauma of those who returned from the war, many disabled and disfigured. They had also endured the flu pandemic which killed 228000 men,women and children in the UK. No wonder the streets look empty.

[@musicloverlondon6070]

Was thinking exactly the same thing. A lot of real grief around at that time.

[@mkdy218]

Well said Gwen

[@placidwaters2415]

When London was still London.

[@Thomes-Maisling]

When was the name changed?

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

London is still London for goodness sake

[@aldonamijalska2554]

The demographics of London has changed dramatically for the worse. So much so, it can not be considered the same London as shown in this video. A majority of the population is no longer ethnic English or even European. My friend was an exchange student in London for a couple weeks and when she first took the subway wearing shorts and a tank top, she saw that nobody in her carriage was even White and there were a bunch of African and Arab men staring at her like they have never seen a young European woman before. She never took the subway after that and just used carpool or taxi to get to school.

[@Minnnty_grinnn]

@@aldonamijalska2554 read the description mate

[@nektekket852]

Absolute nonsense! I live in the area with the highest level of immigrants in London, about 40%, get a little further in or out and it's 90% British, don't let the pound shop Enochs lie to you...

[@reinhard0069]

I know life was a lot tougher back then but I absolutely long for simpler times. The world today is horrible.

[@jaysilveria6319]

The world was horrible and it’ll always be horrible. That’s why we invent and buy a lot of nice things to make it a little better.