Watching this was fascinating. Recognising some of the location and the longer sequences gave me a surreal sense of being taken back in time. Thanks you.

@chrissycanvasart

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too this is great to watch 😁😁

3:02 The man walking with a stick must have been aged about 75 and born around 1830. Amazing.

I just can not stop thinking of all these people who lived at that time! Can not stop looking to their faces! They all had dreams, worries and maybe deadlines.. they were (like us) walking and travelling to do their stuff. Some of them were just a kid with all the (future) in front of them. Some where already old.. it is very moving thinking that no one of them is out there now. Life flew so quickly! They would not imagine that people like us will be watching them asking god to bless their souls. The scene of that cemetery next to the tram was specifically moving for me. As those people on the tram was alive well dressed and maybe chatting about everyday stuff not knowing that very very soon they will be in the same place! I always think that life will flew very quickly for us as well. This life that looks long, rich and busy, will just pass so quickly and we will be a memory just like them!

@wackyraces01

6 жыл бұрын

Mohammed Swileh Wow that's amazing everything you've written is exactly as I was thinking !!! Couldn't have put it better myself 👌👌👌

@wulfsternhammer8919

6 жыл бұрын

Mohammed Swileh i think exactly the same thing my friend as i scan all the faces thinking they're all buried near me somewhere as i live here & cremations weren't the thing here back then

@wulfsternhammer8919

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Newman i've heard of that inscription before, i can't remember where though but it hammers home one's own mortality

@captainarcher2

6 жыл бұрын

I like your comment. It's deep,reflective and to me brings up the issue of Heaven or Hell. The people in this clip are still very much alive,but not as you or I would asume.

@chrissycanvasart

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely what I was thinking too☮️

Love this! But for everyone saying how wonderful it was to live back then, all I could think of is walking around in the spring/summer wearing layers of undergarments, long cotton stockings, and being laced into a corset all while wearing long skirts, long sleeves, and a hat on my head!

To think that this was filmed 52 year's before i was born. .thank you for sharing.

It's so nice to be able to go back in time this way. Love it.

@robertdrinkall8947

6 жыл бұрын

Good view into the past, so sad to think that everone in the film is now dead.

@RHR-221b

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertdrinkall8947 Only dead on this Astral Plane, R D. Stay free. R 😎

Love the trams. nothing beats classic double decker trams. Love how there are no stations people just congregrate right in the middle of the road and wait for it.

A different World back then, wonderful to see and it was beautifully free of street clutter...thanks for posting this jewel of time travel...

There's something saddening about watching these old reels. I see these individuals, and try to place myself there; walking on that path, on that day, seeing this weird machine following my movement; going about my daily life (whilst trying to imagine what a day was like back then) and then... I always end up taking myself out of that person by knowing the future - in a few years this person is likely in the trenches or worse, times are rapidly changing, but not by much - during this war there is a massive change in the Empire, and when this war is over the Empire is a shadow of its former self - in another few years there's a great economic shift in the world, things go bad for a while - in a bunch of years things start shuffling in Europe and a regime forms - a few more years later another war starts... around 20 years after this war technology starts ramping up, and each few years the "sci-fi of yesterday" gets closer to reality. It's both humbling, and frightening, to see this footage in this time period, and trying to imagine being any of these people. The hell of war, depression, changes in culture and enviroment right through to technology.

@ramaraksha01

3 жыл бұрын

Try being a colony of these people - brutally exploited & starved to death!

Fascinating. Thank you for uploading this.

Beautiful and strangely moving. Thanks.

My wife is from Lytham, I recognise many of these scenes. A lot of the trees have gone, everywhere looks so clean and smart, including the people. Thank you for this upload, it’s a real treasure.

@adolflenin4973

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome mate

@trainrover

Жыл бұрын

trees, as in invisible ones? my beef with G.B. is its stinginess at treeplanting...here, be jaunty chez Isle o' Dr Seuss ;) kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYKiz8mlddKaj6Q.html 🍸 💋

Absolutely fascinating! Incredible to see how much the Fylde coast has changed in over a century!

Take the lad at 1.33 for instance as he begins to follow camera round but never runs up to it or pulls tongue out or gets cheeky he just keeps walking along in a very polite and pleasant way..bless him and bless them all..😊👌

@tdonovan4735

6 жыл бұрын

There are still people like that today

@ghostlylover99123

6 жыл бұрын

Andy D that's because his family are the ones holding the hands of the smaller child

@captainarcher2

6 жыл бұрын

It's to late to bless them. Some are in Heaven And most are already damned and in Hell. Focus on Blessing those who are alive now who have Faith in Christ Jesus. and those who may not have faith in the Living God and His Son.

@doyleperkins7663

6 жыл бұрын

Andy D "God bless us, Everyone."

Everything so neat....so clean....slow-paced....and nearly as quiet, one can imagine, as the film (no loud cars, no loud music, no raucous Harley's 3 miles away)....possibly the very faint tones of someone's Victrola playing Wagner a block away. People sitting on their front porches watching buggies going past. Everyone respectful of everyone else.

Completely absorbing. Thanks for sharing this.

Thank you,really enjoyed my tram ride,nice to see people all dressed in there best bib n tucker,and the tower then comes in to sight,that was what Sunday's by the sea were all about.xxxx

Thanks for posting this. Fascinating to see how Lytham has (and yet hasn't) changed, and to see how narrow and sand covered Clifton Drive was.

Thank you for posting. Just like the previous comment - it's like being taken back in time. I love these videos, what better way to get a sense of daily life in the early 1900s. Much appreciated.

It's so amazing and fascinating to watch and now humbling as everyone you see has long passed 😊👌🌹

@boxingexpert9919

4 жыл бұрын

You never no some may still be alive

@duster15670

4 жыл бұрын

David Saul haha..even a baby in the video would be 117 now!!!...oldest person in the world isn’t even that..😳

@boxingexpert9919

4 жыл бұрын

@@duster15670 there's bound to be quite a few alive the food was better back in those days

@duster15670

4 жыл бұрын

David Saul hahaha

Thanks, for sharing this truly beautiful film.

Amazing clarity and so nice to see a real English setting "alive" before the madness of war set in. Thank you.

@tdonovan4735

6 жыл бұрын

True - but do NOT FORGET the slums that existed at the time. The working class were DIRT POOR with overcrowded house: F family of 6 in a 2 bed house with no bathroom and an outside toilet. Did even have a front garden - just straight out of the house into the street. Those were not in this film but MILLIONS lived like that

@ghostlylover99123

6 жыл бұрын

Hazel Brooks or mass immigration

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.

@johnross2924

Жыл бұрын

That is so true, I've never thought about that before.

I can't believe my eyes seeing things that were modern back then a beautiful old fashioned world thanks

@blank-dr2kx

3 жыл бұрын

Go on Google maps and search Clifton Arms Lytham Saint Anne's and that's the building where we start in this video. If you go on Google Street View, you can pan around to see each building

This video is FANTASTIC - I LOVE IT. But do NOT FORGET the slums that existed at the time. The working class were DIRT POOR with overcrowded house: F family of 6 in a 2 bed house with no bathroom and an outside toilet. Did even have a front garden - just straight out of the house into the street. Those were not in this film but MILLIONS lived like that

@favesongslist

6 жыл бұрын

I am in my fifties and I remember no bathroom and an outside toilet, things have changed a LOT in the last 50 years, from when people were wearing their best clothes to church, shops closed on Sundays, and the cars all stopping for remembrance day.

@25blondie

4 жыл бұрын

Some were but plenty weren't. My gran was a young girl then, working class, mill town, and had a very happy young life. Often told me stories, and many didn't think themselves deprived, lived ordinary lives from what I heard.

Thank you for this invaluable insight into what life used to be like!

Absolutely amazing and spine chillingly moving of a time long long ago that I thought I would never ever see like this... Truly appreciated thank you very very much 😁😁😁😁👌👌👌👌

Thanks for posting.As a resident of Lytham I found it a fascinating glimpse of the past.

Amazing and many Thanks for sharing

This whole scene is an amazing world long gone. Love seeing it. I like the two little girls walking in a buddy hold. (7:08).

@ghostlylover99123

6 жыл бұрын

ken britton they are sisters! Sisters were closer back then, since they didnt have stupid stuff that tore them apart, like makeup or whatever girls fight over nowadays

@thebones

4 жыл бұрын

@@ghostlylover99123 what a clown,

@ghostlylover99123

4 жыл бұрын

@@thebones have you seen those uglies these days? no wonder men brought out a wide make up range... only ugly breeches need a helping hand!

@sda9995

4 жыл бұрын

@@ghostlylover99123 My daughters get long great!! Girls will be girls!!

@ghostlylover99123

4 жыл бұрын

@@sda9995 haha yeah, totally

It is all so solid and well-ordered as was to be expected- a Victorian resort looking forward to the future under the new King Edward VII at the high point of Empire before the Great War changed everything. It is interesting to see those grounded tram car bodies at about 9:00- presumably, redundant horse trams that had been cut down to make summer houses or sheds- ready to be shipped off by train. As a kid there were just those sort of old trams from the Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway in gardens north of Portsmouth- but they were old electric trams scrapped in the 1930s. I had a piece of one for a while before my dad chucked it out!

Been here today! Weird to see it back then! thanks

And to think, Blackpool was the only town in Britian wise enough to keep their trams. But then, just along the coast for holidaymakers.

@wulfsternhammer8919

6 жыл бұрын

marvin watkins new track being laid from north pier to central station also talks underway of resuming a service to marton

@gavinreid8937

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah ,& the line coulda remained from Fleetwood to Lytham but the Mayor of Lytham decided no ,blocked the line & put buses on instead. Like the marton line , it,ll probably cost millions to get back what they already had!

@MrRockmuso

6 жыл бұрын

I think you mean Blackpool North station up Talbot Road. Blackpool Central was demolished and turned into a huge car and coach park in the late 60's.

Fantastic video. Hopefully something that could return one day.

@wulfsternhammer8919

6 жыл бұрын

Trams to Lytham when oil runs out, & it will eventually

Wonderful film 🎥

Hi I'm following you because this is great I live near Blackpool 😎 and I love old stuff, so thanks allot for your videos 👏 👍🇬🇧

Brilliant. And no pseudo-music. Thank you

wow the windmill is still there!

Fantastic. Thanks. This was taken the year before my house was built...

Fascinating piece of film, pure gold👍

@blank-dr2kx

3 жыл бұрын

Have look on Google maps for the exact location. The video starts at The Clifton Arms. The building is pretty much unchanged in 122 years

Oh my heart, what is the nicest of those days

superb recordings, tellingly revealing throughout their glorious silence...growing up on G.B., I'd presumed that everywhere else had developed similarly.......!

Love watching these

My Dad would have been 7 or 8 years old and living in Scotland when this was filmed. Obviously, he is now longer alive, but If he was I bet he would have really enjoy watching this. I know I did.

GREAT VIDEO TO BE ABLE TO GO BACK IN TIME

Watching this and other videos of this time period and seeing the places, fashion, bit of the culture, then looking at ours it make me wander how much we have advanced in somethings and regressed in other areas. (Medical vs Morals) I have to say looking at their time period fashions, manners ease of pace ... they had a lot to feed the soul of a person. At the same time you could see the industrial rev picking up the pace in this and other vid of the same time. Knowing that the world leaders and events of history leads them into 2 wars 1918 and 1939 it makes you wander. Does society focus on the right things or are prone to make the same mistakes? Not to mention the people themselves who choose the leaders, they say the sins of the parents fall on the children (or mistakes if you will) How much of this is also to blame for their failures?

I am amazed at the quality of films this old...as they must have all been shot on nitrate based stock.

@tomkent4656

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks to the BFI for its restoration!

I appreciate these so much. Interesting seeing the curious looks the people give to the camera as it was such a novelty at the time. I wonder if that cat crossing the street was anyone's pet. Fascinating and thanks for posting.

@paulnicolas172

Жыл бұрын

Yes it was

The Edwardian Era is that time in history I like the most! Thanks!

and to think 100 years later we would be living like we are

Everyone wore hats!!

@NicholasCoulter

6 жыл бұрын

JerseyJoe in 100 years men will think why did woman wear clothes 100 years ago 😂

Awesome!

Great. Thank u

These videos are awesome My great-grandmother was born in 1901 she died when i was 7 years old My great grandfather was 1895

I find this so moving all these people from long long ago....it makes you stop and think how very very short life is 😢

@wackyraces01

6 жыл бұрын

Blackporsche roadster You're absolutely right... we should all try and make our lives better!! 😁

@wackyraces01

6 жыл бұрын

Blackporsche roadster You're right it's not always so easy for everyone our circumstances are all very different.... And I'm sorry to hear what happened to your car some people are just rotten to the core

@wackyraces01

6 жыл бұрын

Blackporsche roadster Oh yes those sunny golden carefree days of the past I remember them well !! I really hope you find them again Life can be cruel especially when you lose a loved one it's very very hard, so sorry for the loss of your father I know how that feels 😢

It's amazing to think how far we have come in a hundred years.

@blank-dr2kx

3 жыл бұрын

Hi mate, go on Google maps, - Lytham Saint Anne's, Clifton Arms. It starts where this video does. If you go to Google Street View and pan around you can simulate this old video in real time and image where they all were

Thanks

Amazing.

Lovely film I bet those people would be turning in their graves if they could see what England as become

amazing

In contrast to some, I'm surprised how little has changed. Admittedly the trams have been replaced by cars, but most of the buildings shown in Lytham are still there. There are far more trees now too, particularly in Lowther Gardens and by Skew Bridge.

no jeans in sight,elegant days

@2kstyles

4 жыл бұрын

so, you've never worn a pair of jeans in your life?

@abilou7225

3 жыл бұрын

So you walk about with a top hat and cane yeah?

@john111257

3 жыл бұрын

@@abilou7225 Jeans for me

Amazing

Stunning movie,love the idea,suggesting there's nothing new here,of the near 360degree pan of your seafront..that movie makers were experimenting,albeit unwittingly perhaps with a certain technique and style...thanks for posting,Peter...

remarkable footage

There's something so bittersweet about these films. We know what these people can never know: that soon will come a war of such horror the world will believe it could never be repeated, followed immediately by an influenza pandemic that will kill many more tens of millions. From our perspective we know that the rest of the century, and the horror that came with it, played out at a speed which must have been dizzying. As they cannot see what we know, likewise we cannot see beyond the frame and into their world. We cannot see the poor, living and dying in the industrial cities which produced much of the wealth on display here. We cannot see the violence meted out against women in a deeply patrician society, nor the horror visited by the British Empire upon those peoples unfortunate enough to be in the way of the ruling elite and whatever distant natural resources they wished to plunder. Then there's just the simple sorrow that comes with the passing of time. The same view today from Lytham Road bridge shows a faded parade of shops to the left, opposite where the station once stood. The Grand Hotel was pulled down in the last few years, ending its days as a seedy hive of bedsits. Now there are no parasols and ornate railings, just chevrons and a speed camera.

@Teapot-Dave

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, you're a little ray of sunshine aren't you? ☺

@juanflores2882

6 жыл бұрын

In the future we will be seen as those living under the shade of nuclear destruction.

@wulfsternhammer8919

6 жыл бұрын

Seán Ó Caoimh i stayed for a few months at the grand in 1986 with my dad on the second floor overlooking the car park that was once the station, it was run by a polish couple i think, i also lived in the top flat on the corner of withnell road with my fiance in 1987 which is just out of shot here

@tdonovan4735

6 жыл бұрын

VERY, VERY WELL SAID !!!! SO TRUE !!!!

@jonathandowns4525

6 жыл бұрын

Seán Ó Caoimh no doubt people of the future will watch our videos and feel the same way

interesting thankyou

simply haunting.

FASCINATING !!!!!

Lovely

Another wonderful piece of captured moments in time by Mitchell & Kenyon.Sad to think that all those people are long gone,but one of the trams still survives at Crich National Tramway Museum,although it only survived sorely neglected as a works tram,

Thank god for no accompanying music (!)

@lafingas555

5 жыл бұрын

Could maybe just turn it down if there was.

so interesting

They moved those big cable cars with electricity, but here we are over a hundred years later and we're moving are small cars with polluting gasoline.

Fascinating. So much better without all these cars on the road. Not a car to be seen, but they had been invented.

@wulfsternhammer8919

6 жыл бұрын

stunninglad1 i agree it can take some time crossing a busy dual carriageway im sick of the things cant wait until the oil runs out because without that theres no industry to even make electric cars back to ol' dobbin 🐴

Amazing film. Umbrellas as sunshades in Blackpool.

people 100 years from now will watch our videos and be like WOOAAAAHHHH!

Saddens me to watch this video and to see everyone living there daily lives, whether they're happy or not. They are now all gone. All the worries and stress has gone, all the things they owned doesn't matter anymore. And it scares me that the EXACT same will happen to us. Nobody is immortal. Its time I lived my life by solely making people happy, and not chasing money and other materialistic things.

The elm tree at 2:57 is preserved on film forever.

I know there was of course grinding poverty in those times, but these scenes look so eloquent, the people content and respectful in their appearance. No rivers of noisy polluting traffic. It looked like a world for people, not machines. It would be so nice to go back there and spend a day or two exploring.

@Mike-bh6po

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was so very different in the 1950s. I remember the man with a long pole coming round and lighting the gas street lights, and the knife sharpener on his bike fitted with a grinding wheel for the housewives to come out and have their knives and scissors sharpened.

Goes right past where I live!

Seems to be a warmish Summers day. Everyone appears pretty smartly dressed. And wear headgear, its all so different back then.

Did you notice right at the end at 10:35 the man on the right in the foreground hits the one on the left and he is definitely not expecting it and is somewhat startled.

❤ muito lindo gostei de ver 😊😊

People dressed so modestly esp the women. No cars everyone on bikes and trams how lovely to see this long gone era.

With oil and the auto, everything changed. This was the last you would see of the old world. The price for all that would be tens of millions of lives, pollution, overcrowding, noise, drugs, and a UK never again to be the power that it once was. What strikes me about the era is that when people were out and about, it was important to be at your finest. Looks matters. Conduct mattered. The harshness of their world lied hidden, at least for those with money, underneath this superficial veneer that looks really great on film. So I"d love to visit, but not actually live there..:)

@MrSivansuresh

6 жыл бұрын

Kent Aldrich I am a dark-skinned Indian. I definitely want to visit those times. I would definitely face lot of hardcore racism but I would arouse lot of curiosity among those people. I will be instant celebrity. People would want to know about me, my country and culture.

@cindywehle2721

6 жыл бұрын

Kent Aldrich I agree about the negatives, except I think the average person lives better today, at least more comfortably.They had big alcohol problem then. And UK is prosperous.

You can still see some mud lanes in the main road. Tarmac-ing was still being rolled out (pardon the pun) at the time.

Hi Peter, Great Video! I was wondering what the copy rights were on this video? Thanks

As a child of about 5-6 I stayed at my grandmothers for a while in Clevelys about 1962. Next door lived a huge imposing man, we knew as Mr King. He was in his mid 80's so must have been born approximately in the 1870s and therefore had lived through this era and perhaps ridden on these same trams. What was most remarkable other than him being a very mellow bloke was his heavy Lancashire accent which would probably be very difficult to understand for most people today.

Que diferença! Eles já tinham até veículos movidos a eletricidade enquanto nós, aqui no Brasil, ainda éramos uma país de caciques e morubixabas, totalmente rural e sem nenhuma cultura. Vendo esses filmes antigos, temos uma clara ideia da diferença abismal que nos separam dos países desenvolvidos.

Thanks for not adding rap out of time and space

if only this film could be colourised

@doyleperkins7663

6 жыл бұрын

gallafey No, absolutely not...If ever there was a time that the old adage held true, that black and white photography captures the soul or inner essence of things, of people, of the times, it is this film. Whereas I will agree that films from the 20s, 30s, through the early 60s look better colourised...those from the early part of the twentieth century needs must be left alone. It is more than a cad who would violate the integrity of these types of films by hand tinting each and every frame-no it would be a short-sighted individual, indeed, who could not recognise that before them is a veritable time machine...if they just leave the film alone.

@davids8449

4 жыл бұрын

Just as well it is not colourised in 2020 all the men would be wearing pink hats

Suggestion: this looks more natural at KZread speed setting 1.25 . . .

The lost world of Mitchell and Kenyon great dvd.

I actually didn't know Lytham had a pier!

Almost everyone on foot and no obesity!

@ghostlylover99123

6 жыл бұрын

Peter Weeds yup, even though obesity was there, it was extremely few and far between

@christopherwhitehead8946

4 жыл бұрын

I think less food had something to do with it....

@Robert_Manners

4 жыл бұрын

@@christopherwhitehead8946 Yes with less privilege people walking about and as you say the large supermarkets we have today supported by global supply chains didn't exist.

@ghostlylover99123

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherwhitehead8946 I don't think it had to do with the amount people were eating, I think it's the quality of the food, then and now, that determines whether a society is largely obese or healthy, so to speak

@christopherwhitehead8946

3 жыл бұрын

@@ghostlylover99123 the quality of food is excellent now. And cheap. That is good and bad. There is plenty of safe, clean food for all in developed countries, which is good. But because it’s cheap , people can eat too much, and what’s more too much high calorie, high cholesterol, sugary, fatty foods. And they do.

Was the fellow with the long poll at 10-32 there to lift the overhead cable of the tram pickup, just incase someone might get electrocuted as they elite??

Not one plece of litter!

@michaelprobert4881

6 жыл бұрын

But huge dollops of horse poo

@wulfsternhammer8919

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Probert lol i was going to put that

@ghostlylover99123

6 жыл бұрын

Les gibson oh it's there, just not in plastic form

@truth.speaker

6 жыл бұрын

Less to consume. No obesity

Did anyone spot the horse-drawn steam fire engine? This was the year the trams with trolley poles were introduced. The stored trams at Squires gate bridge: Are they the original trams that collected current with a 'plough' that ran in a slot between the rails? Remember that the well-dressed people are middle-class. It was long after this was filmed when a working man had time off with pay.

Wow. No cars to be seen. It was so different then. Really not that long ago.

@doyleperkins7663

6 жыл бұрын

Bee Smart I know...it was just yesterday...or at least the day before last Tuesday...

@LeeRaldar

6 жыл бұрын

Radio was just being rolled out in Britain in 1904, television was unheard of and passenger air travel was still in the realms of science fiction.