Hey, at least it's not yet another poll! ;-)
That is pretty cool. I wish I could see more than just the one minute clip!
Ping
Wow! Way Kool!!
I would love to see it too...London WITHOUT a single mosque.
Times were different back then.
Cool.
Fascinating! It looks just like it does in my head while reading Sherlock Holmes stories.
“I have often walked... down this street before...”
I’ve been looking at it. Thinking about things.
There are no motor vehicles. Even the double-decker bus is horse-drawn. The smell of the poo from all those horses must have been overpowering.
None of the people in it, except maybe the baby-in-arms during the girls’ dance, is still alive. Probably not the baby either.
The little boys posing on the bridge and jumping in the river would have been of military age, if not at the outbreak of WWI, then at least at its end. Survivors might have formed the backbone of Britain’s WWII strength.
The only functioning airplane in existence was owned by two brothers in Dayton, Ohio.
Hitler was 15 or 16; his father had just died the previous year, and this year he would drop out of school.
Winston Churchill met his furure wife at a dinner.
I’ll let others add as they see fit.
“Feed the birds, twopence a bag...”
Here is a bit more of that time-
Those WACKY Edwardians~
I find it interesting that this clip doesn’t make everyone look like they’re going 100 mph like most film of that era.
Bump for later viewing.
Someone in that clip could have sailed on the Titanic in 1912.
My first thought was the opening scene to "My Fair Lady" ... and anyone that has worked horses can appreciate how markets were worked back in those days.
Fascinating.
The Brits had a hop in their step, and why not? Britannia ruled the waves, and the sun never set on the British Empire!
As I had no idea what Bovril Vinolia meant, I looked it up.
Vinolia was a soap, manufactured by Pears. You can still buy it: The Soap of the Titanic
Bovril was a beef extract, originally called "Johnston's Fluid Beef." While something called Bovril is still manufactured, it sounds like the product succumbed to modernity in 2004. From Wikipedia:
In November 2004, the manufacturers, Unilever, announced that the composition of Bovril was being changed from beef to a yeast extract, both in the hope of allaying fears of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and to make the product suitable for vegetarians and vegans. According to Unilever, "in blind taste tests, 10% didn't notice any difference in taste, 40% preferred the original and 50% preferred the new product."
Wow. Fantastic!
Saw the clip. Its really beautiful.