Amazing to watch these people going about there daily lives. How wonderful it would be to have a time machine and walk among them, talk to them without them ever knowing that you belong to another time.

@rexluminus9867

5 жыл бұрын

That's a great 💡idea! Older English + slants to be checked. Time to time you would be asked about your accent/dialect. 😂Haha!

I never thought watching people walk down the street for 5 minutes and 26 seconds could be so interesting.

I must admit , it makes me sad to think that everyone even the very youngest person in this film has now passed....yes, time is the biggest killer...enjoy life .

It's rare that I watch something a few times over. My grandfathers father would have been a child in 1902, Sheffield. A strange sense of contentment from watching this. Thank you for uploading.

@robertp.wainman4094

2 жыл бұрын

I know just how you feel - lovely to see Sheffield as my grandparent's would have.

Not a single 'Smart-Phone-Shuffler' or morbidly obese person eating a sausage roll on the hoof in sight! Just thousands of slim very upright people in hats!!! BRAVO and RIP to them all. I hope they lived a good life.

@robertp.wainman4094

2 жыл бұрын

No takeaways!

Absolutely Awesome I love looking at our past history

My great uncle was born in Sheffield ( Brightside ) in 1893, so he,d be 8 when this was filmed , he and my other ancestors could be on this film, he went on to die in ww1

Wonderfully clear images of Sheffield life - thank you! My Mother, born 1917, would tell me how as a little girl she would accidentally - on purpose - step on the 'stop button' located on the floor of some Sheffield trams and the pretend telling off she'd receive from the conductor. Probably a bit happier in their jobs than some of today's equivalents.

It's kind of creepy knowing everyone one in the film is dead even the children. Time is the biggest killer.

@ratchfordgeorge

6 жыл бұрын

not just everyone in the film being dead, every human at this time on earth is dead.

@patsmith6867

6 жыл бұрын

Yep , the oldest person in the World is Kane Tanaka born January 2 ,1903 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people

@neonskyline1

3 жыл бұрын

Time is man made, you live as long as you live

@charlottebruce979

3 жыл бұрын

@@neonskyline1 whether its man made or not they are all dead, and we will all die.

My long-gone great-grandfather was a 6 year-old little boy when this was filmed!

No matter how bad things get... Sheffield is a remarkable place. A blanket of valleys. Streets entirely directed by the hills and rivers beneath them. Incredible heritage in the architecture and the layout of the cities, with distinct regions retaining their character. Sheffield is a rare example of modern city where you can travel around and still get the full story from when it first formed. Everything is there for a reason.

Wow! Just think ALL of the people in this video are dead even the babies in the baby carriages. I also notice how much better these people dressed than we do now! Life was much slower then. Thanks for sharing these fascinating scenes from the past! Btw, I am an American, but I figure America was probably about the same back in 1902.

Looks like they went down west street and turned left before the cathedral towards kwick-fit at that roundabout. It's amazing to know that someone in the video has relations to me. Also, I really do wish we dressed like they did. Looks so much better and smarter.

@bonniecat2918

6 жыл бұрын

I Shot Your Pet Bee Hi I was wondering where they were. I’ve lived in Sheffield my whole life and watching this is amazing. They say that the past is another country and you can see why

Fantastic, intriguing and fascinating. LOVE IT!

Absolutely wonderful, amny thanks for uploading.

It's almost incredible! Wonderful people at the time!

Amazing footage...how well dressed they were then and not a fat person in sight...thanks for sharing.

Many thanks for posting. Sheffield as my great grandfather would have known it (worked in the Accounts Dept. at Sandersons).

❤ 😊 обожаю смотреть такие хроники! ❤

Must be one of the first Dashcams 😀

Amazing to watch this. These were the days when people took pride in their appearance, not like today.

Bacana ver estas senas cotidianas do passado, ja havia neste tempo ja tinha milhares de pessoas vivendo nos centros hurbanos.

No obesity, trim slim women, look at the way the children run & play - how beautifully formally classily dressed everyone was/

@marty8535

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, adults wearing proper "grown up" clothing, not adult sized kids clothes as today!

@HenryPage

6 жыл бұрын

Much less refined sugar consumed. Diet moderate to high in fat with low sugar and salt intake. White sugar is a killer. Same goes with the clothes really. That was not the age of trainers, jogging pants and Lycra leggings that I feel expose a bit too much. My grandmother was born in 1894 and she always wore a hat and gloves when going out. Lighter versions were used in summertime but still always dressed with those standards..

@hannahdyson5603

5 жыл бұрын

A lot of malnourishment on the other hand. And bad hygeneie

Amazing. Thanks for not putting music or sound effects behind it.

Wonderful waht a great City & a Wonderful Old Time

@robertp.wainman4094

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Sheffield really was a mighty city.

Superb, thanks

Just fascinating.

I live literally 2 minutes away from the 1st clip on queens road, so bizarre

This was done with a 35mm cine film camera. The reason for the jerkiness in the image is because the film was shot at something like 16 frames per second. If run back today at the standard 24 frames per second, the images would appear to be going too fast, so for transfer to video or DVD, it has to be slowed down by an odd process of printing or scanning each second frame twice, which makes the image appear jerky. However, if you could see this film projected onto a screen from a 35mm cine projector and the speed slowed down to around 16 frames per second, it would look just right with no jerkiness.

Bloody hell the trams had better service back then

@michaelbrinkers3765

5 жыл бұрын

I've been devouring the KZread videos of your wonderful London Transit systems and rural railways. Regardless of of the changes of technology, I admire UKs tradition and future plans in the area of mass transit. Here in America, we are so lazy, we need to drive a car just to cross the street.

Brilliant! Just like having a time machine

The good people of Sheffield had an anarchic view of road safety, blithely ambling among the moving vehicles. Amazing.

I’m amazed how the pedestrians walk so casually across the road in front of trams and horses and carts. I wonder if there were many accidents.

great footage. was secretly hoping to see Blakey standing impatiently on the side of the road with his little clipboard and pencil.

Living History, Great to watch!

Crazy to think how much has changed since then...

Wonderful piece of film. I read somewhere that the large single letters displayed were to help people who couldn't read as they only needed to identify one letter. has anyone any thoughts on this?

@heddameyer i was looking at this for a project in college and it reminded me of black butler so much...like you'd probably see cel and Sebastian walk by and not even realise

You'll notice how much better physical condition people were in than today, because they walked almost everywhere.

@dannymiewdg

6 жыл бұрын

D. M. Bell no

@Rog5446

6 жыл бұрын

At the speed those trams were traveling, walking was probably much quicker too.

@elsa7281

6 жыл бұрын

No one directing traffic, no traffic lights, no left lane, no right lane. It's amazing people made it out alive from all that confusion.

@Rog5446

6 жыл бұрын

There is a theory that if you do away with traffic lights and signs, people will be more careful when using the roads. This has been tried in Holland and the accident rate fell and in addition, the police did not have to worry and keep a lookout for cars jumping red lights.

@geoffreylee5199

6 жыл бұрын

D. M. Bell and they ate a-lot less then too. Little disposable income, no electronics.

The 2nd Tram (E) that turns across the filming tram at the bottom of the moor appears to follow invisible tracks. I presume the 1st tram (NE) goes up cemetery road and the 2nd tram goes up ecclesall road and the tracks are not picked up on the film or has it derailed ?

@ianford138

7 жыл бұрын

I think the E tram has derailed. The tracks turned up Ecclesall Road and then a second junction branched off left up Cemetery Road - I remember getting my bike wheels stuck in the tracks back in the 50's although the N.Edge line had closed by then. The NE tram - I suppose - is bound for Nether Edge and turns correctly, the E tram would be for Ecclesall and should follow the same tracks initially but seems to turn too soon . Before the film jumps at about 58 secs you can see the driver looks to his left and seems a bit disconcerted and the pick-up trolley is stretching away at an odd angle to the viewers right. One of the most interesting thing about the film is that we are in that brief period when there were "modern" electric trams, hundreds of horses and no motor vehicles ( and pedestrians seem to have a very casual attitude to road safety!)

@TheWINWICK

7 жыл бұрын

I used to train tram drivers and at such locations, where there were facing points, the speed had to be at a minimum. If it had derailed I don't think it would have travelled as far. It does appear to be travelling on invisible tracks but I don't think we will ever know if it did derail. I don't know if you noticed the manager with the tram inspector in High Street opposite York Street approaching the tram with curiosity regarding the cameraman, I wonder what they said to him?With regard to the pedestrians having no regard for their safety, I think we have to remember that the very early trams along with other vehicles didn't move much faster than walking pace and must have made a racket as they approached.

@ianford138

7 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure how tram brakes worked in those days - you will know better than me but I believe that rather than braking the wheels, a couple of shoes each side were forced down onto the flat part of the rail, so I guess that if the tram had derailed the brakes would be pretty useless anyway. Interestingly at about 2mins 30 a chap pops out and appears the move or assist the facing points to move between the two trams going different routes: also on at least two occasions the conductor appears to lean out to check that the trolley head is actually following the tram. I guess the cameraman must have been standing part-way up the stairs to judge by the driver's hat - perhaps the manager might have taken a dim view of this arrangement!

Look at the tram at 0:54. It appears to de diverging where there are no tracks. Or is it an illusion?

Very good!!. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

The chap from 1:53 through 1:55 walking towards on the left sidewalk appears to be on a 1902 cellphone.

The speed can be electronically slowed down with video editing software but in my experience it really doesn't help. A certain amount of jerkiness remains.

No traffic lights, no traffic..excellent.

Things have changed a lot since 1902

WOW!!!😃

Queria ter vivido nessa epoca

@meirivieiradesouza1356

5 жыл бұрын

Nossa, eu também. Gostaria muito ter vivido esta época. Claro que hoje estaríamos mortos a muitos anos..kkk Mais ainda assim, queria muito ter vivido esta mágica época. Eu sendo mulher , gostaria de usar estes vestidos compridos, estes chapéus, estas lindas sombrinhas de pano..ah, que coisa linda.. esta epoca os dias eram mais doces , mais inocentes, mais românticos que os dias atuais. No mais, desejo a voce muita saude e muitos motivos para sorrir nesta vida. Abraco !!.🖐

Looking at the vid it looks like west street,anyone have a idea where the opening 2 mins is?

@phil8o

8 жыл бұрын

First shot is here (A61/ London Rd junction ) www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3636707,-1.47246,3a,54.2y,27.91h,86.83t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZrVA2HDk0IWwRA5QzTpV2g!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DZrVA2HDk0IWwRA5QzTpV2g%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D97.418015%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656 Next segment looks like more of London Road heading in.

@desolate1959

8 жыл бұрын

Yes thanks for that I agree.

Not a bare head to be seen. Originally coming from what was a major hat mfr area, one of the things I notice in old films.

Put Music on this Wonderful Video!

The start looked like Fir Vale area...

Its quite a strange feeling to think every single person seen in this film is now deceased!

these are the greatest videos , because it shows people doing everyday life things , no sporting event or political speech , like getting into a time machine

Bellissimo

Algien podria decirme xq en esa epoca abia tanto niño en la calle sin el cuidado de sus padres algun historiador q me responda x fa

good visibility! 200ft then smog...

But the Hong Kong 1885 Peak Cable Tram still set the record of being the earliest non horse driven vehicle.

@tdpay9015

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure that's correct. Charles Joseph Van Depoele's first electric railway was laid in Chicago early in 1883, and he exhibited another at an exposition in that city later in the same year. In 1885, he invented and demonstrated the first trolley pole, a device used by electric streetcars (trams) to collect current from overhead wires, introducing it publicly on a line installed temporarily at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition in autumn 1885, reportedly reaching 65 mph.

@jerryhayes9497

8 ай бұрын

Railways had been around for half a century😂

My Grandfather was 8.

@satsumamoon

7 жыл бұрын

Mine was seven . I wonder if they met? :)

It sounds Stupid but, I learned to tell time on a Buffy & Jody watch. Made in Sheffield, England.

@rhannay39

6 жыл бұрын

No it doesn't :-)

Women in them days had as much covered as Muslim women do today.

@miriamabdulla9936

5 жыл бұрын

Modest like Muslim women and not a tattoo in sight.

@ashyclaret

5 жыл бұрын

Think it was due to all the soot floating about.

👍🧡

Hardly any old people.

@retrobilly1986

5 жыл бұрын

Punchbag Tickler that’s because most people back then didn’t live past about 40 years.

It hurts to see

@ministryofanti-feminism1493

5 жыл бұрын

I hear that. Sheffield has been given over to the Third World now.

People walking along the road as much as the pavement

looks better slowed down, my Grandfather was about 7 in 1902

pedestrians seemed to be suicidal back then ?

@jeremycubs8331

6 жыл бұрын

WOLFROY47 But there wasn't any vehicle went past 30mph back then lol

Who is cleaning up the horse crap?

@shakespeare_hall4788

6 жыл бұрын

Professional horse crap pickeruppers of course !

This film is so old, Sheffield had two decent Football teams.

@nickc9398

6 жыл бұрын

Ulster Groundhopper I know! Both Wednesday AND Hallam FC were decent.

Last runs were in the 1950s. Then the system was rebuilt.

For 1902 the video camera isn't too bad, would have been more interesting if there was sound.

@davidrayner182

6 жыл бұрын

No video cameras then. This was done with a 35mm cine film camera. The reason for the jerkiness in the image is because the film was shot at something like 16 frames per second. If run back today at the standard 24 frames per second, the images would appear to be going too fast, so for transfer to video or DVD, it has to be slowed down by an odd process of printing or scanning each second frame twice, which makes the image appear jerky. However, if you could see this film projected onto a screen from a 35mm cine projector and the speed slowed down to around 16 frames per second, it would look just right with no jerkiness.

I lost count how many Charlie Chaplin look alike lol.

Much less litter on the streets back in the day 🤔

@peterboothby2878

3 жыл бұрын

Only horse muck!

Spot the man without a hat lol!

While Great Britain was yet great.

@Jungleland33

6 жыл бұрын

Maureen Barnes it still is. The "great" refers to the geography of the British isles, not to military conquest.

@ericthemauve

6 жыл бұрын

Try telling that to the UKIP knuckledraggers.

@HenryPage

6 жыл бұрын

As Trump said: "I have great respect for the U.K. United Kingdom. Great respect. People call it Britain. They call it Great Britain. They used to call it England, different parts." You too have misunderstood why Great Britain is 'great' but at least you know it is still called England (unlike Trump)

Look at the woman at @3:42 getting on the moving tram WITHOUT BREAKING STRIDE. Women today...sheesh. Can't even get on an escalator without stutter stepping or stopping completely. And she isn't even a young woman. Total athleticism.

Cities were better before cars forced out all the people.

All these people are dead.

A commentary would be better to explain where we are.

@britishwhizkid

9 жыл бұрын

Hi Paul .. Its a good idea but im not sure how to do all that and as for the music, well most of it on youtube was rubbish and dint really have music that fitted the video... Anyway if you want to do the commentary then upload a video of it if you know what your doing and i will delete this video ...cheers

wow, even back then you Brits drove on the wrong side of the street

@YorkyOne

5 жыл бұрын

I think you will find that we drive on the correct side of the street.

Music could be better.

@xenu-dark-tony

6 жыл бұрын

Somebody posts an almost miraculous piece of film from 115 years ago, and all you can do Paul Taylor is make negative comments! I hope this was just a one-off, and not a reflection of your everyday personality.

Walking deads

It's so English no asylum seekers then . .no we car nd move for them...