Ride on the Tramcar through Belfast (1901)

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[@ant697]

I think the woman doing the voiceover sounds very natural and the music is spot on.

[@Thomas828]

This is the city my great grandparents knew, all eight of them! It's vastly different to the Belfast where I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s! And today's Belfast is different again.

[@JEANNEBOLEYN]

Imagine this scene suddenly unfolding before you ! Fascinating and such good clear quality.

[@timsears6742]

These films are very facinating to watch. Love it.

[@ToyzNWheelz]

This is priceless history!

[@FaerieCrone]

It may look quaint and all that to look at this now, but life was bloody hard back then. Most of us these days wouldn't last five minutes.

[@martinjohnston4274]

Wonderful and significant historic record of daily life in the city streets more than 100 years ago.

[@AvatarPrimus]

beautiful!!! i love those times!!!

[@Stand663]

How smart and well dressed they were.

[@4pidgey357]

That's me standing outside the cigar shop.

[@jeffw1267]

I was there too, which means that I have had sex with women in three different centuries.

[@madbob73]

I actually think the voiceovers give good insight personally!

[@UISTMAN59]

Great piece of film.

[@rayito2005]

Gracias por subir estas joyas ;)

[@thomasbroadwater2214]

I love all the long skirts and tiny little waists. Just so cool.

[@adamsyed5535]

I'd love to step into this video and check out the interior of "The Cecil Cigar Store."

[@rafaeljimenez3166]

Pelicula en ESPANOL

[@rafaeljimenez3166]

Join start

[@KaBoomChannel]

1901 Oscar Wilde died the year before and James Joyce just started writing.

[@faran1684]

Beautiful video! I wonder if it's black and white that makes the video interesting 100 plus years later or if it was a color video what would have been the feeling of the viewer.

[@IFE20007]

When i get a time machine i'm going to set it to 27th of may 1901 belfast

[@RSimusic]

clearly you never get one or you'd be in this video.

[@JEANNEBOLEYN]

@Ajc176 I agree. A pity all of Victorian Belfast is vanishing forever..such as Gallaher's, the terraced houses,, department stores like Robb's. Sailortown is just a memory

[@jaguar5962]

@Sibelius92 So do I ;-) , i'm french ..i do love that old films , I wonder how people feel loocking at those films , it had to be very strange and so funny .. today nothing astonish us , it's so sad ...

[@edgaralanpoe.1173]

Reallly really wonderfull..!!

[@GroundUpFilms]

Ah yes, the Nokia Baguette was a popular model at the time.

[@JEANNEBOLEYN]

Those tram drivers appear to be staring straight at us

[@writeract2]

Treasure absolute treasure.

[@ramonguevara3118]

look how simple life use to be back then

[@tstuart7333]

At a time when it was a beautiful city.

[@garydavid1788]

The population of Belfast was approx 350000 in 1901 ... Way higher than than it is today at a lot less than 300000....

[@criticalhard]

Those street lamps were so beautiful and omg no fucking wires 👏👏 Also, i feel weird not seeing cars :/ lots of 1900's videos show cars but these don't have.

[@trainrover]

very few telegraph posts (poles) around BI towns & cities even back then...must burying the wirings've discouraged sabotage, e.g?

[@sylvier9548]

belle vidéo

[@Hornwiesel]

I wish I had a time machine. But I suppose life back then wasn't that different from todays.

[@AdLaura]

lol...that's the first thing I thought of also.

[@mikeyoung7660]

Amazing

[@RandomnessTube.]

from belfast there seems to be much more people on the streets back then or is it just me?

[@Vikingdescendent]

Wonder what this footage would look like in colour? Thanks for the time travel.

[@thebeardedseeker5633]

that was life in Belfast 119 revolutions around the sun ago.

[@LeeMcDaidDonegal]

Edgar Bronfman jr is looking to see if he can get a virtual version of those wheeled signs to put on youtube!!!...

[@paulkirkpatrick6371]

This was.a.super video 2 see of belfast over 100 year ago belfast city centre was booming then with people and shops not like 2.days.run down city centre and derelict buildings

[@LauRa-re9un]

Those poor horses.

[@jtswaffles]

How does one horse pull all of that?

[@applecounty]

Whoever looked after the track did a good job. I suppose Horse-drawn vehicles were not as heavy?

[@bardo0007]

@FaerieCrone Not true , I think we would last maybe 2 hours

[@JEANNEBOLEYN]

The woman shown at 1:01-1:05 appears to be using a cell phone. Bizarre.

[@rexluminus9867]

Jeanne Griffin. Could be a time traveller???

[@bozmar1]

Almost no fat people on streets like today

[@rexluminus9867]

Mario Mario. They drank whole milk + real fat, butter. Now most of you eat junk & processed food. Too much suger.... etc. Lasy ass people now. No walking . You make your own pathetic life.

[@henrycohn5085]

...notably smooth?

[@fernandoalves67]

Wolli foi abominável, Edison eletrecutar àquele inocente elefante. Mas, deixar um cavalo morrer na lua foi cúmulo. Se estiver errado, perdoe-me. Pobre animal! Seu dono jamais o esqueceu. Há uma odisseia que cerca tal fato. Aquele corpo marrom escuro encurvado no chão, que cena! Chorou-se por ele como se fosse um filho. Com razão foi e será sempre um nobre ser. Wolli, choramos e sentiremos a falta de nossos amigos animais enquanto vivermos.

[@jaguar5962]

@Sibelius92 did you see the little dog running , at the top of the film at 2:00 ?? :-)))

[@rexluminus9867]

jaguar5962 Yes that little 🐕dog was late for the randevu at 2:02.

[@JEANNEBOLEYN]

Isn't that an RIC man walking by the parked tram at the very end?

[@Rainsofchange]

Interesting! All of those streetlamps run off of gas or kerosene? Were men charged with turning them on in the evening?

[@bingola45]

A 'Leerie', in fact.

[@johnk6346]

It looks like people on average were taller than people today, also I notice in these old films there are very few old people. I think a lot of things we are not being told the truth

[@alexfernandohuenten1374]

good cigarretes.

[@rvsaraiva]

damn! everyone is dead on this film.

[@2mnaveed]

So many Charlie Chaplin's in one movie

[@SamusMaXximus]

@tomba1937 Dude you're right. Now this with Chaplin's Time Traveler.... They're everywhere.

[@Clint945]

@Sibelius92 Careful, It'll ruin the colour in your clothes :(

[@fernandoalves67]

ok

[@hanky2112]

you figured that one out all by your self?

[@sureshpandey9485]

A very peaceful and safe era to live in. No mobile , no TV, no missiles , no bombers and no Islamic terrorist..

[@PlanetaryCitizen]

just poverty!

[@Drifty40]

@@PlanetaryCitizen Poverty existed in every city in Britain and Ireland and every other city around the globe. Ridiculous comment.

[@marvy1118]

Dust in the wind.

[@ashingtoon]

Fantastic!! But look how pig sick the horses are... drudgery or what!

[@kennethj1956]

Two blokes are fighting fist-a-cuffs in the background; why o why won't anybody stop them?

[@trainrover]

w o w . . .

[@neonskyline1]

Sand on top of the cobbles

[@alexanderivanenko9605]

Everybody is wearing a hat!

[@jeanmichellorenzo3672]

1:03

[@jeffw1267]

The world's oldest woman as of today (8/12/17), Violet Brown, had just passed her first birthday when this film was made. And I had sex with her. Not when she was one year old! You people are sick.

[@tonygriffiths7864]

i was born in the wrong century

[@bingola45]

Wonderful days, before Belfast was crawling with Irish!

[@seancurran6590]

Stenaline have great one way ticket offers to Cairnryan. So ye can gae awae ain hame to Scotland. If they'll have you.

[@geraldo23]

This was Belfast Ireland, I.e before Partition you absolute idiot! Northern Ireland hadn’t been born yet. You clearly know shit about history. Protestants are largely from Scotland, the indigenous Ulstermen are Catholic/ Irish, who come from gaelic tribes that had populated the region for millennia. Idiot.

[@meyou-gi8xq]

There's always one 🙄

[@raider8sox]

back in the days, where you can walk in the streets at night, without getting shot, so sad what gangs have done to beautiful cities!!!

[@crazydaniel71]

Excuse me, but the use of that word 'Fenian' is not appropriate and one could find it offensive. This is a beautiful video showing how Belfast used to be, not a forum to discus where the responsibility lies to how it became how it is today.

[@rockinbillyboy]

@scollinsireland There's always one to bring that crap into it. Just enjoy the film and leave that shit out of it!!

[@EmArgh]

Man, people must of been boiling or soaked back then.. No T-shirts anywhere, all grey/black suits... perfume must of been expensive, bathing wasn't as easy as now. Bet it stunk half the time. Amazing footage. Love it.

[@marklfc07]

@Rentaghost76 remember everyone was irish back in them days there was no such thing as 'northern ireland'

[@nonyabusiness8487]

Hats, Hats, everywhere hats. men, women and children. Women all dressed up, men in suits and today? people can care less how they look

[@drServitis]

Wear a suit then. Who needs that pretentious baggage? With that way of life came an enormous amount of judgementalism. If you weren't dressed just right you were looked down on and not accepted.

[@howardmckeown7187]

can't care less

[@Fronika]

Awful voice over, what a poor speaker.