Two Color Films Showing Life in Great Britain During the 1930's

YouTube ^ | 1935 & 1939 | BFI

[NRx]

The first is a trip down the river Thames and a look at the Pool of London, then one of the busiest ports in the world. Lots of steamships. The second, linked in the comments below, shows scenes along the Great North Road which was a major coaching road in the 18th and 19th centuries passing through lots of very old small towns and villages.

[NRx]

The Great North Road in 1939 on the eve of the World War.

https://youtu.be/CPhkZSWxt_I

[luvbach1]

Good color; alo, good colour.

[Persevero]

I️ also recommend the documentary “7 up” on Netflix, which begins in the u k in the 1950s. Great stuff.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I think they took it off, I just looked it up. “7 up” is the name? I also tried “Seven up” no dice.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

This is amazing. This is 80 years ago when Hillary was around 30 years old.

[ClearCase_guy]

Short on time now, only saw a tiny bit, but I saw two workers maneuvering a tug boat. They were wearing “suit jackets” and “men’s hats” while they performed their manual labor.

Now people in offices don’t even dress like that most of the time. Sigh.

[Impala64ssa]

Interesting. I was watching footage of the blizzard the UK got hit with in 1963 on YouTube.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Back when Great Britain was still ‘great’ (and my country was still the ‘Dominion’ of Canada and we celebrated ‘Dominion Day’, NOT Canada Day, on July 1).

[Fiji Hill]

At 4:10, the Dartford, a freighter, is being towed by a tug. On June 12, 1942, while it was sailing in a convoy off the coast of Canada, Dartford was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124, taking 30 of its crew of 47 down with it. U-124 was part of a "wolf pack" flotilla of submarines that attacked the convoy, sinking five additional ships.

In April, 1943, U-124 was attacked by a British surface ship and went down with all hands.

[wally_bert]

Bookmarked for later.

[Persevero]

Oh so sorry. It’s on youtube (Seven Up)

I really do recommend it. Hope you try for it.

[Riley]

I did the same thing, tracking down the fates of those ships that I could identify. ‘Hobson’s Bay’ survived the war and was scrapped at Faslane in 1955.

[golux]

At around 4:51 you can see some sailing barges.
This was a fine art: you’d be sailing along with a massive cargo, your mast would be up,
then you’d come to a bridge, let your mast down on the tabernackle,
“shoot” the bridge,
stay underway,
and pop your mast back up with a successive series of joists and elbow grease,
remaining underway and with steering way,
and just keep on sailing.
AWESOME!

[Ronald_Magnus]

Fascinating. Thanks.

[Spunky]

Ping for later viewing.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Thanks!

[SoFloFreeper]

Berlin in 1945:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5i9k7s9X_A

...back when the west defended itself against statists and those who hate the Jews. Today, almost without exception, the cultural tide goes with Islamists and statists who worship government and who hate the people of God.

Hope and pray for a spiritual revival.

At any rate, this video is from the aftermath of Berlin’s destruction.

[SunkenCiv]

[texas booster]

Thanks for the link.

BTTT.