Details: Category: History; Published: 18 December 2020

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An extremely interesting collection of colourized old film footage about London more than a century ago. This footage spans a period between 1895 and around 1915. Many viewers keep commenting how few people from other nationalities can be seen in this film. However, there have always been Chinees, Indian, Irish and other immigrants who lived in London, among other in the East End. A film that shows life in these districs will be uploaded next year. Another comment involves the small number of obese persons in the streets. One should realise that poverty was widespread in those years. Most Londoners could not afford good and abundant food nor was there a decent health care service. The NHS did not exist until 1948. Only the upper class (about 1% of the population) were reasonably well-to-do. Some footage is very old and damaged, so the picture quality varies with each scene (from excellent to reasonable). There is not much that can be done with software to repair damaged film. From a historic perspective we decided to enhance as many old films as possible, including the lesser quality ones. The original film has been motion-stabilized, speed-corrected, contrast- and brightness corrected, de-noised and restored, enhanced and colourized with sophisticated Artificial Intelligence sotware. Timeline (please help to improve this!): 00:00 Welcome to old London around 1900! 00:04 Empire Theater at Leicester Square 00:46 Westminster Bridge and Big Ben clock tower 01:15 Tower Bridge 02:00 Many pedestrians on Old Waterloo Bridge (demolished in the 1930s) 03:58 Foggy London, Location? [Near Bank of England?] 04:21 Piccadilly Circus with Eros statue 05:07 Pettycoat Lane market 07:38 Hyde Park Corner near Apsley House ("No.1 London"], Duke of Wellington residence 08:10 Hyde Park Corner 09:14 The Strand looking east towards St.Clements Danes Church 09:30 Location? 09:45 Crimean War memorial near Pall Mall 10:00 Court building 10:15 Charing Cross Station entrance 10:35 Busy Traffic (near Trafalgar Square?) 12:10 Thames Embankment near Westminster Bridge; Boats to Greenwich 12:27 Black Friars Bridge 13:04 St.Margaret's Church and Big Ben 13:20 Beer barrel transportation 13:29 Trafalgar Square and National Gallery 13:58 Base of Nelson's column with the four lions 14:13 Looking up the Strand 14:16 Suffragettes protesting for Women's Rights 14:28 Suffragettes procession 14:36 Royal Exchange (building with pillars) and the Bank of England 16:41 St.Bartholomew's Gatehouse in West Smithfield, next to Barts Hospital 17:25 St.Bartholomew's church 18:08 St John's Gate, St John's Lane in Clerkenwell 18:35 Crosby Hall, home to Thomas More, in its old location 19:45 Old Dick Whittington Pub, oldest in London, Est.1500 20:03 Henry VIII's wonderful hunting lodge in Chelsea 20:27 Outskirts of London 20:31 Spaniards Inn, Spaniards Road, Hampstead 21:01 Extremely old (damaged) footage 22:14 Horse-drawn Fire brigade 22:57 Location? 23:40 Naval Officers gathering, Admiral William Sims of the US Navy 23:53 Nancy-pants officers (sorry!) 24:02 House of Parliament seen from the Thames 24:14 Grenadiers procession 24:45 Street scenes 25:05 Liverpool Street Station 25:25 Snowball fight in the Park (which park?) 26:02 The End. The music is by Harry Davidson and his Orchestra. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. If you like my work, please donate via: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Rick8... Thank you very much! NOTE ===== Please DO NOT comment about the influx of foreign nationals into the UK or make other potentially inflamable comments! The aim is to keep this channel respectable, decent and free from hatred and obnoxious, polarized debate. This channel should be a joy to watch, friendly and respectful. SO JUST ENJOY THIS OLD FOOTAGE and by all means do share the experiences of your (great) grand parents about life in London a century ago! Hatred comments will be removed.

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