Posted on 07/19/2021 4:45:43 AM PDT by RandFan
Colourised footage of England in 1901, everyone intrigued by the camera
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Everyone you see on the video is most likely dead. Even the youngest would be over 120 years old.
Amazing to see them in their costumes, hats and shoes. At times, They seem to be posing at the camera.
And I like the kid thumbing his nose at the camera.
Not one overweight person. not one.
Every single one of those people are spending an eternity somewhere. I sure hope they made the right choice.
Kids everywhere, going about their business or mugging for the camera. Women in shawls making it into the middle of the frame. Most adult males don’t seem to want to be in the shot. They glance ot the camera and move on or they’re coming and going in the background.
What is with the shawls? Modesty? Keeping the soot off?
“What is with the shawls? Modesty? Keeping the soot off?”
I’m guessing warmth and protection from the elements. I have one of those tightly woven wool shawls I picked up when visiting Ireland. It is so warm, and keeps me relatively dry in the rain. You’ll note, every man has some sort of jacket and hat, but the women wear shawls instead.
Couldn’t help but think that a large percentage of all the Cockney boys in that film ended up sixteen years later pushing up poppies under some field in France or Flanders. 1901 was an optimistic year. The new century delivered differently than most could have expected.
It is cold and they lack central heat
Watch later.
Not one overweight person. not one.
Less than a hundred years later, governments of western countries would start advocating for the nonsensical high-carb, low-fat diets leading to a crisis in metabolic related diseases, resulting in 1000s times the deaths that the coronavirus ever caused.
Given the wooden clogs on the boys doing the “I’m all that” pose for the camera, and the prevalence of shawls, I’m thinking it’s a mill town somewhere in Lancashire. The mill girls were too poor to wear their one good “Sunday hat” on weekdays.
I have the shawl my great great great grandmother wore on the boat coming over from Ireland. It's been floating around in the family for over a century and it came to us when we gave our daughter the same name as that ancestor and everyone thought it belonged with her now.
It's black, thick, course. and still in perfect shape after over 100 years. Would certainly shed light rain and keep you warm.
My take looking at those vides was that it was likely an immigrant area being filmed. Irish perhaps. I've not seen any videos of that era where English women were wearing wool shawls.
What is with the shawls? Modesty? Keeping the soot off?
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London weather, damp and dank for much of the year, was worse to endure a hundred years ago when the streets, sewers, buildings, etc. were primitive compared to the city as it is today.
Please, sir, I want some more.
Given the wooden clogs on the boys doing the “I’m all that” pose for the camera, and the prevalence of shawls, I’m thinking it’s a mill town somewhere in Lancashire. The mill girls were too poor to wear their one good “Sunday hat” on weekdays.
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Cogent thinking! Most viewers, myself included, assume it’s London, but it could be elsewhere.
Ping for later viewing.
The colorization is pretty crappy looking.
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