Did anyone else notice the sign identifying where the "chemist" was located 10:01 ? I'm guessing this is how they used to refer to the neighborhood pharmacist! Is this correct?
Even though it was mostly in construction it was still much cleaner than Blackpool now Also I liked the open-ness Wide roads, people walking on the streets/road instead of tons of cars A lot of open fields Cars ruined the way we designed towns and cities especially in America
What I find amazing about those houses being built, which are now well over a hundred years old - and probably still standing too, is not so much the quality of the red bricks used (I've heard that alot of houses and buildings built back then were made using lime mortar which is much stronger) but those huge stone gate posts that adorn the front of the gardens to those houses. How the hell did they construct and lift/move those massive stone slabs without any modern electric lifting machinery?.
superb recordings, tellingly revealing throughout their glorious silence...growing up on G.B., I'd presumed that everywhere else had developed similarly.......!
Was this one of the reels found in the basement of an old tailors shop, on Darwen St. Blackburn? If it was, the tailors and haberdashery shop used to belong to a relative of mine, by the name of Thomas Blackshaw.
No bdooly mobile phones no noise! Cars motorcycles vans buses trucks ! Planes peace! We may have better dental. medical care a sophisticated way of life now but we're certainly lost something!!
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.
“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.
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.
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 Admittedly the trams have been replaced by cars, but most of the buildings shown in Lytham are still there.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.
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.
My grandfather’s days my dad was born 1913 he used to talk about how cars were just coming along when he Was young in the last minutes of the film you can just see Blackpool tower in the back ground.from x telephone engineers point of view all the poles have cross arms and opened wires no plastic in them days to insulate the wires ceramic pots would have been used each pair would have been 1 line +&- like a battery 50v dc
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
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
Seems strange seeing how Lytham etc used to look. I wonder what people will think of 'today' in 100 years from now? And as for the video, how many men/boys went off to war 11 years later and didn't come back? Sad to think!
What's the different between Lytham and Lytham St Annes, or St Annes-on-Sea?. Are they one town or two separate towns?. I've heard people say they are separate places. Is the current pier called Lytham or St Anne's pier? if it's Lytham pier then that's confusing as Lytham would be the pier shown in this video, which is no longer there.
Two towns originally. Lytham evolved over a longer period. St. Anne's was developed from almost nothing in the Victorian era. Over time, the space between the two was built on and there's now little to demarcate the two. Both towns had piers but Lytham's was demolished in the mid 20th century.
I've watched this clip a few times but only noticed the pier at the start. I thought there was only ever one pier, which is the one further up at St Annes, so was there originally two?. Looked up closed piers on Wikipedia and it didn't mention St Anne's having a long since closed pier.
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...
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!
