Waverley Steps A Visit to Edinburgh - Colorized - 1948 - Full documentary - Life in scotland in 1948

BFI film. The BFI 30 minute documentary "Waverley Steps (A Visit to Edinburgh)" was made in 1948 directed by John Eldridge and created by Greenpark Productions. Stylistically in borrows on the German expressionism of the 1920s.
#1948 #scotland #scotish-footage

[@keithextance6993]

A fascinating glimpse into Edinburgh unfortunately long gone…

[@daveated1]

Edinburgh hasn't changed too much.. still recognise a lot of the streets.

[@SmackWild-yb1rr]

City of my birth. Fascinating to see how it looked, and how people lived and worked there, during my parents and grandparent's generation.

[@GuitarandMusicInstitute]

Absolutely brilliant to see Edinburgh back then.

[@carloshenriquedesouzacoelho]

No country was well after the second world war . Neither the UK nor Europe ! The UK erstwhile showed excellent railways systems,mainly in Scotland ! Very interesting to have watched on Edinburgh about 1948 . . . Thanks a plenty !

[@SquirrelLeech]

This is the version of the city my grandad grew up in, absolutely lovely

[@scottishnotbritish843]

Haha! He's about 500m from the castle and it's on a massive hill behind him. She also gave him directions (In Danish!!?) telling him to go right, if he turned round it would be left....braw film though!

[@hfranke07]

Funny.... the ship "Løgstør" is danish. The Ø is a danish letter, and the name is a danish city in Jutland, Denmark. And boy does he look like a dane.....I love love love Edinburgh, been there a ton of times...... and I think I might have a wee lassie waiting for me there....

[@daveated1]

Great quality... thanks

[@free_gold4467]

Wonderful, charming film.

[@themovieandtvstore5318]

A really interesting look into the past of Edinburgh, my earliest memories are from the 70's, some things still seem to be the same. One thing I did notice at 16.26 you can clearly see a young boy urinating into the street and two shocked ladies moving away from him. So Edinburgh 1948 - warts and all :)

[@Berlitz81]

The smartly dressed people going about their everyday business in a relatively crime free Edinburgh is representative of most wokeless societies throughout the free nations of the Western world. Cultural diversity and drugs have changed all that.

[@lewiscopland4568]

I'm sorry the media has poisoned your mind to believe that.

[@felixthecat265]

Not sure I buy that.. I was born an brought up in the city in the 50s and I remember many dark faces on the streets.. mostly students from the Empire attending the University. Edinburgh was always a cosmopolitan city. As for drugs, they were there as well, although "reefers" (cannabis cigarettes) were probably the fashion of the times. In those days whisky and beer were the main substances of addiction! That said, my father was a pharmacist in the city and supplied opium to an old Chinese lady who lived above a Chinese restaurant at the end of Chambers Street. She was a registered addict and could be legally provided with the drug in those days. Edinburgh was and always will be a city of contrasts..!