Wonderfull footage of a bustling city. pedestrians seem to walk in every direction amongst the traffic, how sad to see thall those young cadets knowing that many of them would be killed during WW1.
So much of Liverpool has been destroyed, my area 100 yrs ago had gardens , ornate lighting, 3 and four storey Georgian houses all been replaced by cardboard council estates, Now they have destroyed Islington and London Rd it really is a crime.
Fantastic view into the past. To see buildings we've grown up with and know so well, used a lifetime before we were born. Gives you the feeling that this great city doesn't belong to us, we're just passing through. Thank you.
It's crazy that we still have footage like this so many years later. Amazing to look into the past, so to speak, and I love that you can still see little human moments. Much has changed, but much remains the same, too.
I love the way sound as been added, obviously the sound wouldn’t be accurate to that time, all film would’ve been silent, they would’ve had to guess maybe what the sound would’ve been like, but it’s brilliant how it has been done with new sound and colour👍🏻
I really cannot put into words how amazing watching this nor can I fully express my gratitude and appreciation for all the effort that went into this film . Truly astonishing and amazing. Thank you to all involved
Trafalgar Day sure was a big deal back in 1901. How times change. I love the two policemen "in hot pursuit" ie strolling leisurely, in the final film. They look just like the Thompson Twins from The Adventures of Tintin!
Absolutely 💯 Amazing I'm from Preston but I have always had a love for Liverpool and I am currently working there a city taxi 🚕 driver Proud to work in the city I love Liverpool
What a brilliant video compilation and so expertly done showing old Liverpool and the people who lived there. As a boy I remember going on the overhead railway and also going to see with my dad the Empress of Canada sunk and on its side in the Gladstone Dock in 1953. Liverpool was such a big, bustling and prosperous international port but many of its citizens lived lives of poverty and lack of opportunity. Thank you for this video filmed during the days of my parents and grandparents. It is both fascinating and educational.
my Grandad was an old Scouse with Parkinson's. I tried so hard to understand him but he sounded like he was speaking gibberish. Love ya Grandad, maybe we'll talk someday
Astoundingly stunning, having grown up in a pub in Liverpool City centre in the 70's (Old Fort) myself & my brothers know every inch of the city, in the 70's the whole place was closed on a Sunday, what a playground for us! How funny, the 1st ever Crimewatch reconstruction was about a scouser stealing.🧐😜
Really enjoyed this video. Thanks. I grew up in Liverpool and my grandparents were around 20 in 1901 - Interesting to see the city they lived in and to match the pictures with the stories I was told as a child. As someone said in the comments 'We are all just passing through'
The art of conversation is dying out due to phones,lack of tolerance and an ability to communicate The past should be shown how we as a people communicated and interacted ,people knew their neighbours and as a community celebrated and commiserated together ,let hope we have not gone to a point of no return and communities are no a thing of the past
@@dalechetto9692 we are a global community now. Or we would be if old farts weren't so scared of brown people and teenagers. The isn't a loss of communication, people are just xenophobic cunts that still think we can succeed by isolating ourselves to little towns or even as single countries. The world is modern and fast, either catch up or fall behind
@@ResonantRTS It simply means that now England is not England anymore, and the situation will get worse over the next decades. The rapid demographic shift changed England beyond recognition. Don't take my word for it, go and check yourself London, Birmingham, Leicester, Bradford, for example, and you'll see that the only English thing remained is some of the architecture.
Beautiful. I wish city centres would look like they did back then! It’s incredible to think those places we walk past have so many stories behind them, and have witnessed so much.
Casual clothes didn't really exist in those days though. My grandad wore shirt n tie every day wether just sitting at home or going out. Tshirtz etc didn't exist, if they did sure he would have worn them,at least sometimes.
Find it fascinating watching all these people going about their daily routines and wondering where they're going and what they did for a living. To think that these people were part of our history and the evolution of technology/money/policing etc etc is just crazy. I wonder what they'd make of the world they helped build the foundations of.
Comments section "It all look so wonderful, everyone in suits, they look great" Reality - Most people working from the age of 8, many in factories or down mines until they eventually die at the ripe of age of 45, if you weren't "lucky" enough to be sent off to fight wars on the other side of the planet.
Life was physically harder but people generally dealt with it. Contrasting with today where life is physically far easier and yet so many are struggling with mental issues.
Love these films of way back when Liverpool was a big city in them days 1890s great to see the city as it was then,, im a Middlesbrough lad born n bred i love watching these films i would of loved to be born in the victorian era,, things were so different back then hard life but not like today,, nice to see old liverpool.
Facial hair was a requisite for men in those days....it defined you as a toff...of sorts ..beards are making a comeback in the 21st century...but somehow they dont seem to carry the same gravitas
What a wonderful collection of images from the Victorian period in Liverpool and the marvellous legacy of buildings you can still walk past today. At 7.38 North Castle Street that ran into South Castle Street to join Canning Place. I walked this route many times when I worked in Liverpool City Centre in the mid 1960s. Sadly many of Liverpool's main thoroughfares like Scotland Road, Great Homer Street, Netherfield Road and Park Road were lost by the 1970s, while there were Court houses that were overcrowded and unhealthy, a lot of large Victorian houses some with gardens were lost. If only a mix could have been included in new developments. in recent years those marketing refer to the 3 major buildings at the waterfront, as the 3 graces. Seldom is it mentioned they were a legacy of the Victorian Society in Liverpool all those years ago. What would those people make of these areas today.? Victoria Street in the 60s 70s, 80s was a thriving place for business commerce restaurants and small business today it seems soulless.
I have a theory that I think is true which is that when you die you're then born again into a fresh body in the same city that you lived in in your first life. So for example take a ten year old boy as seen in this film in 1901. Let's say he lives until he's 58 which I'm guessing was about the life expectancy at the time. So he will die in 1901 - 10 + 58 = the year 1949. Then he'll come again in someone else who's really the same person, in the same city in this case the wonderful Liverpool. So he'll now be 73 watching this in 2022. So if you're 73, you may well be him, say a 50-50 chance
your comment is more or less word for word what ive just said while i was watching it, absolute madness how youve wrote this 10months before i watched it haha
Fascinating! I know Liverpool well and this is the nearest I'll get to going into a Time Machine. The colour and sound make it very vivid. It's very noticeable how much shorter the men in this time period were compared with men today ( who generally range between 5'10 to 6'). Most of the men in this film look to be in the range of 5'5-5'8. Not tiny ( medium height) but I only noticed one six footer here. Interestingly the women don't look much shorter than women today ( although some of the young uns in their 20s can be 5'8 or above, but mostly they are 5'3-5'7).
Has anyone noticed that the Liverpool Police are very tall, in those days they had to be a minimum of 6 foot not like today, some of the Police Women appear to be about 5 foot 4 inches and about the same in girth, I wont comment on the Men.
Love spotting the little human moments like 6:20 where the young maid is transfixed by the camera and doesn’t depart with her group until nudged by her colleague 😄
Magnificent colourisation, I predict the next big advance in old film restoration will be to make them pin-sharp instead of blurry. It can currently be done very easily with still photos by using enhancement software but doing it with moving images is in the future.
