[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]

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.

[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.

[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.