Tram Ride into Halifax (1902) | BFI National Archive

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[@g1m2e3]

Nice to see old lane mill with the clock and bell tower. I was walking round the now derelict mill the other day.

[@MetalboxJ]

Absolute Gold. Eerie to see the old mill that still stands. I explored it earlier this year .

[@mick62mick]

It's quite fascinating, to maximise the screen, turn the sound down and have a two minute tram ride that happened over 11 decades ago. It really is like time travel ! LOVE these long-ago videos!

[@Topdoginuk]

A brief momment captured live and in such great quality, Wow! I'm still trying to work out Dean Clough aspects and I think it ends on North Bridge. A fantastic piece of film and a credit to the person that put this up. Thank you.

[@MegaALEXLOUIS]

I grew up in a house overlooking everything from 1 minute onwards! It was filmed a long time before the dry ski slope went in!

[@Michaelxxx1936]

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to show this video. Such a long time ago now and such hard times too.

[@retrorocker44]

wonderful old film

[@K1LL3R269]

That building at 1:25 is Old Lane Mill, it still stands. abandoned and overgrown

[@gavster_999]

Just before at 1.19 you see the Old Lane Inn, sadly demolished about 2011 I think?

[@K1LL3R269]

@@gavster_999 Yeah looks to be right

[@MetalboxJ]

I explored it just last week.

[@vinnyslad]

Hey I can really see my old house on this clip at the bottom of Ovenden Way leading down to the Old Lane -- what nostalgia I moved to Ovenden in 1964 eee bah gumm

[@garryvarley9218]

Great way to see my old home town

[@terrytalktometibbs]

fantastic video i live in the spot where this is taken and worked in the dye works shown until the day it closed in 2001.

[@MetalboxJ]

It closed before 2001 surely!!!

[@terrytalktometibbs]

@@MetalboxJ the dye works or the tram line?

[@MetalboxJ]

@@terrytalktometibbs Dye works, I was exploring it just this week. Fascinating but I thought it shut decades ago ???

[@terrytalktometibbs]

@@MetalboxJ yes it does look like that way. The factory closed for business in 2001 and demolished in 2004 the mill obviously still stands but had been mostly empty and derelict since the late 70s.

[@MetalboxJ]

@@terrytalktometibbs Ah, I see. I misunderstood and you meant the mill closed in 2001 👍👍

[@PhillipCreeper]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this.

[@d.p.davies7553]

Thanks. Enjoyed it very much.

[@waynerenshaw5010]

Horse and cart cobbled road! I’d love to go back to that era in a time machine! Love these old clips👍

[@scrapesmusic]

Some more really great footage of Halifax from a family on vacation in the 50s! scrapes - All the Houses

[@marius478]

In the era of Kings and Emperors...

[@Ed3242]

This is great.

[@MetalboxJ]

Gold.

[@sandymaison4463]

mad this is nearly 120 years ago

[@stephenfisher106]

Nostalgia Nostalgia great

[@bluenoserr]

It took me embarrassingly long to realize that this is the Halifax in England.

[@thatstheguy07]

bluenoserr I kept saying to myself... where the hell in halifax could this be?? Lol.

[@youngsteph1]

I knew straight away it was Halifax in England. Never considered anything else.

[@vkkapil2884]

I was taking it as halifax in Canada until i read your comment 😕

[@Spillage66]

When referring to the original place, there's no need to state its geographical location, as the secondary place would have this instead. (ie: Paris. Not Paris France. Paris Texas.) Halifax is in Yorkshire, England.

[@rexluminus9867]

Spillage66. That's right. Thanks.

[@bencrowther9119]

such an amazing piece of film makes me feel cold just watching it love the smoking chimneys

[@WhiteCamry]

In the first 45 seconds those snow-covered slopes looked like they'd been marked for house-building.

[@gregy797]

I've seen this footage in alot of documentaries and even in American history ones

[@tiernieves5940]

Taken on Friday, July 31, 1903.

[@amandamurphy8410]

January...

[@zsoltcsatorna347]

What is the building on 1:21 on top and on 1:01 in the middle on bottom?

[@paulreynolds9003]

It’s grim up north.

[@joeking55555]

NOT CHANGED MUCH HAS IT?

[@nozecone]

Halifax, ENGLAND.

[@halburd1]

you should say which halifax this is lol. many think it looks like halifax, nova scotia, not halifax in england. lol

[@samanli-tw3id]

I think “tram” here refers to this🚠

[@samdub]

@RAZZAONE1 Raz you gob shite, nice to see you watching vids like this though.... Wonder what you were doing on the roof eh?

[@rexluminus9867]

samdub. Avoiding work while having a smell a vision joyful inhalings.

[@JoeBarnes95]

ah, back when britain was a much better place to live

[@johntaylor5605]

Why not mention the English that are the second largest group in Nova Scotia and it seems most of the place names towns/city's are of English descent. I don't see anywhere named after anywhere in the Republic of Ireland.

[@2853lner]

ah..., a bit of soot and carbon monoxide, did you good. You should have seen the state of the rivers!

[@rexluminus9867]

brett challenger. Narrator sad " "beautyful" industrial site !!! Really !??? Ugly dirty polluted is beautyful to you ? Than clime up and seat on that chimney and enjoy the sights. Inhale that sweet chemical smoke. The video is good.Nice to see the historical values. Thanks.

[@OutlawMinniePearl]

OMG, in my little frontier pea brain I always thought Nova Scotia was a time warp to Merry Old Scotland & for Ireland you go to Newfieland! OMG, IT LOOKS LIKE PITTSBURGH IN THE 50s! (1905 Pgh was worse!) What about the quaint fishing villages & high rate of red heads? Do the men wear kilts & folks speak Gaelic? I thought it was the go-to place for pure Scottish culture in the New World! But I willfully repress my knowledge that A. Carnegie was a Scot & the old country looked bad in this era too!

[@vaibanez17]

I'm glad I didn't live then. Look at all that pollution.

[@kennethj1956]

Good thing all this blight was destroyed during WWII otherwise society would never move forward. The good thing about technology was the 'color bomb' that was set off in the late 1930's; the most famous example of that event was the filming of the "Wizard of Oz" black&white during the first part of filming then color as color was newly discovered and enjoyed by all. The color bomb was credited to the end of the great depression as it lifted spirits.

[@johntaylor5605]

Again Newfoundland, the English are the biggest ethnicity.