Greb147 6,808 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 Brilliant footage from over a century ago. Very humbling and poignant that all of those souls are long gone. Looking them in the eyes is like two audiences observing each other across time. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 19,331 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 33 minutes ago, Greb147 said: Brilliant footage from over a century ago. Very humbling and poignant that all of those souls are long gone. Looking them in the eyes is like two audiences observing each other across time. What you smoking 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greb147 6,808 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 8 minutes ago, kanny said: What you smoking Quite a humbling little video. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 19,331 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 Just now, Greb147 said: Quite a humbling little video. Tbf it is Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greb147 6,808 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 How about Paris 1890, certainly better dressed than the northern workers of England. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh_red 4,303 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 Seen those videos a while ago. I love that sort of stuff. The local facebook page usually has loads of old pictures of the town over the years and its great to see how it all used to be . Streets without any parked cars making you see how big the roads actually are . Big trees in centre of town where now all thats left is the old walls that surrounded it giving no inditaction of the huge trees that used to be there. As ive got older ive started to pay more attention to the towns history. Its tempting with all the old pictures and videos to look at them wondering about their lives and how they used to live but fogetting that we are the same people to people in the future . I look at old local football team pictures and see the older guys in pubs in the prime of their life as youngsters who are now retired or long gone . In 30 years time people will be looking back at photos of me and my team thinking the same . To be honest im not sure what im rambling about here 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shaaark 10,114 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 4 minutes ago, Welsh_red said: Seen those videos a while ago. I love that sort of stuff. The local facebook page usually has loads of old pictures of the town over the years and its great to see how it all used to be . Streets without any parked cars making you see how big the roads actually are . Big trees in centre of town where now all thats left is the old walls that surrounded it giving no inditaction of the huge trees that used to be there. As ive got older ive started to pay more attention to the towns history. Its tempting with all the old pictures and videos to look at them wondering about their lives and how they used to live but fogetting that we are the same people to people in the future . I look at old local football team pictures and see the older guys in pubs in the prime of their life as youngsters who are now retired or long gone . In 30 years time people will be looking back at photos of me and my team thinking the same . To be honest im not sure what im rambling about here Makes perfect sense to me mate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greb147 6,808 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Welsh_red said: Seen those videos a while ago. I love that sort of stuff. The local facebook page usually has loads of old pictures of the town over the years and its great to see how it all used to be . Streets without any parked cars making you see how big the roads actually are . Big trees in centre of town where now all thats left is the old walls that surrounded it giving no inditaction of the huge trees that used to be there. As ive got older ive started to pay more attention to the towns history. Its tempting with all the old pictures and videos to look at them wondering about their lives and how they used to live but fogetting that we are the same people to people in the future . I look at old local football team pictures and see the older guys in pubs in the prime of their life as youngsters who are now retired or long gone . In 30 years time people will be looking back at photos of me and my team thinking the same . To be honest im not sure what im rambling about here Yep, my village has the same sort of FB group. It's quite moving when you see old pics of the place you grew up and it's true, nature had more of a hold back then and it's sad to know those days are gone. Edited March 29, 2021 by Greb147 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gav 1,708 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 And even over a hundred years ago you'd get folk acting up as soon as the camera comes out they were a curio then though, see them watching the bloke cranking the handle. The tech now to colourise, upscale and stabalise is impressive. I watched that first world war one last year, poignant to say the least. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gav 1,708 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) - IMDb WWW.IMDB.COM Directed by Peter Jackson. With Thomas Adlam, William Argent, John Ashby, Attwood. A documentary about World War I with... That's the one 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greb147 6,808 Posted March 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 Queen Victoria the year before her death here in 1900. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken's Deputy 4,456 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 My Uncle 'Nig': He seems to have had that jaw thing that Mush referred to recently. That royal line? This shot doesn't do it justice. But, I knew the man. Eddie The Eagle would have thought twice about going down that slope! Called 'Nig', short for " Nigger ". Because he was given to riding about, all summer, stripped to the waist. Got tanned so dark even our own people called him that. No one took offence. Not him. Or on his behalf. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gav 1,708 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 I have some cracking photos going back to victorian times of my ancestors, a relation did our family tree back to 1652, very interesting showing to grandkids. Some census data showing they were all farm hands, labourers and Hackney carridgers. I love going through it all. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
low plains drifter 9,459 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 7 minutes ago, Ken's Deputy said: My Uncle 'Nig': He seems to have had that jaw thing that Mush referred to recently. That royal line? This shot doesn't do it justice. But, I knew the man. Eddie The Eagle would have thought twice about going down that slope! Called 'Nig', short for " Nigger ". Because he was given to riding about, all summer, stripped to the waist. Got tanned so dark even our own people called him that. No one took offence. Not him. Or on his behalf. This reminds me of one day as a trainee landscape gardener summer of 2000/1, as we approached the Tyne tunnel from the south side they were checking a few vehicles, as I was crammed in the back of the fiesta van with owd Al, aka the bare Knuckle champ, Al piped up they'll think we're fuckun darkies with these sun tans we've got 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken's Deputy 4,456 Posted March 29, 2021 Report Share Posted March 29, 2021 12 minutes ago, Gav said: A relation did our family tree .... Some census data showing they were all farm hands, labourers and Hackney carridgers. I love going through it all. Our past is what makes us who we are, Gav. Lose our heritage? We'll lose ourselves. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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