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  • The Oldest Known Photos of London Show What Life Was of Queen Victoria's reign. A lot of the Scenes Look Idyllic But Life is Thought to Have Been Fairly Tough at The Time.
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  • @BrightStyle
    @BrightStyle  Před 4 měsíci +90

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    • @user-ny3kv7lk2u
      @user-ny3kv7lk2u Před 4 měsíci

      Bogactwo Anglii , jest oparte na kradzieży, wyzysku innych narodów ( kolonizacja Afryki ), i na morderstwach.
      Nie ma czym się szczycić.

    • @meichong8278
      @meichong8278 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@user-ny3kv7lk2uBORING ...boring..boring you need to demand your money back from whatever university you went to !!! The industrial revolution started in the UK and much was made from that around the world as the UK dragged countries into the future , many countries are fortunate that the UK took them under their wing because the alternative could have been Belgium for example and I'm sure the people of Congo could tell you about life under them !!! You have been taught a left wing view of the world ...... I'm extremely sorry for that ...🤮🤮🤮🤮

    • @SUECLAPSON
      @SUECLAPSON Před 4 měsíci +2

      Several errors in captions...need proof reader!😮Lovely photos

    • @smith_erleans7524
      @smith_erleans7524 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Hi, are your photos archived. I recognized a sign for the Midland Railroad. That was in Colorado too.

    • @leninhadeandrade4173
      @leninhadeandrade4173 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Parabéns ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤amo história ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @user-yz8pw9dv2n
    @user-yz8pw9dv2n Před 4 měsíci +488

    Those were only the good old days for rich people with good health.They were terrible days for the working class such as my family.

    • @clintoncyrilvoss4287
      @clintoncyrilvoss4287 Před 4 měsíci +45

      You need a little violin to play a sad tune to go along with your woffle

    • @keatsgb
      @keatsgb Před 4 měsíci

      Yes, there was zero white privilege for the workers

    • @ericdoran24
      @ericdoran24 Před 4 měsíci +69

      ​@@clintoncyrilvoss4287 Read The People of the abyss by Jack London , this should enlighten you as to what life was like for the working class in Victorian London.

    • @kelrogers8480
      @kelrogers8480 Před 4 měsíci +33

      My family were working class too. They weren't miserable.

    • @kelrogers8480
      @kelrogers8480 Před 4 měsíci +25

      We read a lot and that's why we don't get on our high horses about the past which we cannot change. Much reading and study has made us balanced, critical thinkers. On the other hand, there are millions of people in the world today who are undergoing unimaginable suffering. What are you doing for them? And what will those in the future say about you? Will they say you lived in selfish luxury, and did nothing to help those in need, while you moaned and wind about the past injustices? Or will they look back with respect on the fact that you made a difference in those poor people's lives?

  • @clarepartrick1066
    @clarepartrick1066 Před 4 měsíci +41

    English people’s
    ancestry shown right here , this country made a big mistake in changing courses for what we have today.

    • @gweilospur5877
      @gweilospur5877 Před 2 měsíci

      At that time we were occupying and exploiting countless other countries and that’s how we got rich. Accepting some immigrants today is the least we should do.

    • @angge4261
      @angge4261 Před 2 měsíci +2

      No idea what you mean, you make no sense. I think women would largely disagree. As would the poorer and more downtrodden people etc. Victorian life was not the romantic bulldust shown or strongly implied here by BS.

    • @A2Z1Two3
      @A2Z1Two3 Před 2 měsíci +2

      ​@@angge4261They mean the victoriana in the photos will now be a minority in the big cities

    • @angge4261
      @angge4261 Před 2 měsíci

      @@A2Z1Two3 ahh. I see. I think/hope I have the gist.

    • @CHRISANDREOU4199
      @CHRISANDREOU4199 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@angge4261
      And we will be muslims,
      Englands most popular boys name for the last 10 years has been Muhammad

  • @Texaslonestargal
    @Texaslonestargal Před 2 měsíci +12

    I noticed that even the places identified as poverty stricken, the people were dressed nicely. At least they weren’t wearing pajamas around town like some do today.

    • @stevo091
      @stevo091 Před 25 dny +1

      Classic 😂😂😂😂

  • @user-xc1fo2sh1c
    @user-xc1fo2sh1c Před 3 měsíci +70

    Thank you for putting this video up of my London, I am a true Cockney born in the City of London, within the sound of Bow Bells. Unfortunately it is too late, London is no longer. The East End of London now has Canary Wharf and the Square Mile has lost so many of its quaint buildings and courtyards. Back in the 1970's, on a cold a rainy afternoon, one could get from the Minories to Cannon Street Station without getting wet by using the various office buildings as walkways. All gone now, I am afraid, replaced by towering blocks and locked doors with Security Guards guarding the premises.

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 Před 2 měsíci +17

      Londonistan.

    • @Mounhas
      @Mounhas Před 2 měsíci +6

      @@mjh5437 Dumb comment as opposed to the reflective comment of user-xc1fo2sh1c who is referring to the soulless blocks and the disappearance of all those alley ways which I remember well.

    • @mikerandall7571
      @mikerandall7571 Před 2 měsíci +10

      I too remember all those alleyways,I was a City office boy in the 50s,so sad it is all gone to be replaced by soleless tower blocks, and all the people I knew have gone.

    • @user-xc1fo2sh1c
      @user-xc1fo2sh1c Před 2 měsíci

      Heartbreaking isn't it, but I guess one should never go back to a place after having left it for years. My Father died 43 years ago, but I remember him coming home one day and saying that he had seen a man standing by the railing near Gardener's Corner, Aldgate. The man had tears running down his face, so my Dad went over to him and asked if he could be of help he told my Dad that his family had emigrated when he was a boy and he had finally had the time and the money to return, but he didn't recognise anywhere@@mikerandall7571

    • @mjones4083
      @mjones4083 Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@Mounhas True comment more like .

  • @KatherineAlfaro-zf2gk
    @KatherineAlfaro-zf2gk Před 2 měsíci +14

    The photos were extraordinary. What I am astrounded by is the vast number of adults and children in the streets. The streets were clogged with horses, carriages, omibuses, and,tons, and tons of people. My thoughts go forward to the time after World War 1. Britain lost so many men during the war. Time for contemplation.

  • @deborahharris2962
    @deborahharris2962 Před měsícem +3

    Thank you. Some of the photos were like paintings.

  • @claregale9011
    @claregale9011 Před 4 měsíci +96

    They knew how to build beautiful structures in those days , lots do still stand today all over the u.k and many are hundreds of yrs older , you can go down many streets and be transported back in time . Great work loved the photos 😊

    • @gweilospur5877
      @gweilospur5877 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Most beautiful structures only seem beautiful to people hundreds of years later. When they first re- built St Paul’s Cathedral after the 1666 fire almost everybody thought it was the ugliest building in London.

    • @seanpetaia
      @seanpetaia Před 4 měsíci +4

      Honestly most modern buildings in UK have already been destroying old classics building in London. Soooo I am not surprise about it 😒🙁

    • @gweilospur5877
      @gweilospur5877 Před 4 měsíci +4

      @@seanpetaia Not true. The only time old classic buildings in London were destroyed was during the bombing in WW2. Britain has had a programme of preserving Listed Buildings for many decades, even a relatively modern building such as Battersea Power Station was preserved.

    • @Alfie-ft3bx
      @Alfie-ft3bx Před 3 měsíci +4

      @@gweilospur5877 yes, but when they were planning to put new houses up, they demolished perfectly good homes and buildings, so there is no excuse there.

    • @gweilospur5877
      @gweilospur5877 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@Alfie-ft3bx Things can’t stay the same forever. Nobody would demolish “perfectly good” buildings for no reason, it wouldn’t make sense financially.

  • @trumbleslum
    @trumbleslum Před 4 měsíci +166

    The city of London is nothing like it used to be. Sometimes progress is not always for the better. Rest in peace my once beautiful London.

    • @citizen1163
      @citizen1163 Před 4 měsíci +13

      @trumble Well said!

    • @jacklondon2608
      @jacklondon2608 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Yeah! I say bring back the Romans.

    • @schaudhry4976
      @schaudhry4976 Před 4 měsíci

      Britain and its elites were living off the wealth of ‘ their’ empire. While the working classes of Britain lived in poverty. Rose- tinted glasses eh?😂

    • @artistjoh
      @artistjoh Před 4 měsíci +16

      I much prefer the newer London to the Victorian version. That Victorian city was full of crime and social injustice. Workhouses were common. Charles Dickens was sent to one at the corner of Chandos and Bedford at the age of nine because his family could not afford to feed him. But aside from that hideous side of Victorian London, I love seeing modern as well as older buildings all mixed up. It is visually a much more interesting city than it used to be. I love everything from the Gherkin to the Art Deco Oakwood station and am so glad they are in a city that also has the Royal Exchange and the Actors Church.

    • @pduffy421
      @pduffy421 Před 4 měsíci

      @@artistjoh There is more crime in London now than in the 1800s!!!! Most of it by foreigners of many kinds.

  • @user-yz8pw9dv2n
    @user-yz8pw9dv2n Před 4 měsíci +44

    My dear grandparents whom I knew and loved were school children in the 1890s.

    • @gweilospur5877
      @gweilospur5877 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Ah, so your old ancestors were children some time in the past. Amazing!

    • @evemarie1605
      @evemarie1605 Před 2 měsíci

      pointless sarcasm:- some critters are a total waste of skin.@@gweilospur5877

  • @TrueBrit1
    @TrueBrit1 Před 3 měsíci +39

    London in 1890 - a sheet-hole.
    London in 2024 - an even BIGGER sheet-hole.

  • @user-kp5dr2gr7g
    @user-kp5dr2gr7g Před 3 měsíci +11

    I'm watching the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett and the clothes and mode of transport have me imaging Sherlock traversing those streets. Love it!

  • @SpinningCracKFisT
    @SpinningCracKFisT Před 12 dny +4

    Couldn't be happier to have innocently stumbling upon this channel. My kinda content. I'll be subscribing!! Thank you!!!

  • @etch-a-sketch
    @etch-a-sketch Před 4 měsíci +38

    Really exquisite photos. Fascinating for anyone who loves history, architecture, or simply to observe society as if living during the times of our late relatives and ancestors.

  • @Mark.Andrew.Pardoe
    @Mark.Andrew.Pardoe Před 4 měsíci +39

    Whato all,
    This is some of the best colourisation I have seen. Well done.
    If was fun reading the Americanisms in the captions. We don't have flashlights, we have torches; pavements not side walks; central not downtown. Also the captioned photograph "Horse drawn bus" is actually a horse tram. And I believe the Coldstream Guard would have a red tunic not a blue one.

    • @drewmurray2783
      @drewmurray2783 Před 4 měsíci +8

      not to mention so many incorrect captions and locations.

    • @chaoticgiraffe
      @chaoticgiraffe Před 2 měsíci

      And describing people as "poverty-stricken" when they've got freshly starched aprons on... they'll be turning in their graves!

    • @Carole-sd4gg
      @Carole-sd4gg Před 27 dny

      @@drewmurray2783 well, I enjoyed it. My grandmother was born in 1874 and when I was a child she would tell me all about London during her childhood and how poor it was for so many. I remember her horror at how many children she saw without shoes. She was lucky enough to have parents who were well off and she lived to be nearly 90. I hate London now but not because of shoeless children!

    • @sheridan-wildewood
      @sheridan-wildewood Před dnem

      Not to mention Queen Victoria dressed so colourfully! Somebody who was famously in mourning for half a century!

  • @Joeblogs263
    @Joeblogs263 Před 20 dny +3

    I saw a video of a very old woman, who was talking about how the poor, lived in this time period. While having an unsettling, intense look in her eye. She said she grew up, rarely eating things, that are not cabbage, bread and potatoes. Lived in filthy conditions, with one toilet for the whole street.
    Went months between being able to afford to have a bath etc These pictures, just show you the nice side of things. By modern standards, most people, lived in conditions worse than most 3rd world countries today. The actually introduced free school meal's in the early 1900's.
    As so many young men, were too malnourished, to be recruited into the military. Living conditions, were very miserable for most people.

  • @user-bi9nu8lq5g
    @user-bi9nu8lq5g Před 4 měsíci +14

    Victorian electric car 1899. They really were great inventors.

    • @hypsyzygy506
      @hypsyzygy506 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Crude electric carriages were first invented in the late 1820s and 1830s. Practical, commercially available electric vehicles appeared during the 1890s. An electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. In the early 20th century, the high cost, low top speed, and short-range of battery electric vehicles, compared to internal combustion engine vehicles, led to a worldwide decline in their use as private motor vehicles. Electric vehicles have continued to be used for loading and freight equipment and for public transport - especially rail vehicles.

    • @marangelasp7462
      @marangelasp7462 Před 12 dny +2

      Yes, and many of those things built back then were so durable. Made to last forever. Not the crap we have nowadays.

  • @DjNikGnashers
    @DjNikGnashers Před 2 měsíci +8

    Amazing !
    So crisp, so clear, and in colour.
    And almost zero foreigners.

  • @mohammedsattar1289
    @mohammedsattar1289 Před 3 měsíci +4

    East London and Whitechapel have significant changes even when I landed in 1969 . Terrible housing conditions, outside toilets,bedbugs, public baths , absolutely horrendous conditions yet life was beautiful and peaceful and enjoyable.

  • @theprior46
    @theprior46 Před 4 měsíci +19

    Such skilful work colourizing those photos. A real sense of place comes over and it's a beautiful time-machine to see life so long ago. Stunning how very mobile thousands of people were in any confined area on foot or on buses taxis etc. Seeing a dozen men on top deck 9 or 10 feet up makes me shudder to think of what accidents there were when eg a wheel came off a bus and tipped them all onto hard ground - not a good thought. Photography was in its infancy then and the quality of photos is quite remarkable. Thanks for a great slide show.

  • @ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968
    @ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968 Před 4 měsíci +17

    my old London.

    • @itzjustmolly8509
      @itzjustmolly8509 Před 4 měsíci +15

      Not so good old London today, it’s changed beyond recognition and that’s not the indigenous people that has changed it.

    • @forsakingfear3652
      @forsakingfear3652 Před 4 měsíci

      Exactly. ​@@itzjustmolly8509

    • @Carole-sd4gg
      @Carole-sd4gg Před 27 dny

      @@itzjustmolly8509 - exactly so

  • @citizen1163
    @citizen1163 Před 4 měsíci +15

    Thank you for sharing these fascinating, bitter sweet photos. Many generations of my family come from East End docklands. I still live in London. Peace ❤

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 4 měsíci +3

      Thank you so much, I really appreciate it

  • @Bob-Horse
    @Bob-Horse Před 4 měsíci +17

    Fascinating photos of the people that helped build London. What a contrast to the London we have today. Just a point, I believe the tunic of the Coldstream Guardsman would have been red, as they use today.

    • @sandgrownun66
      @sandgrownun66 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Wrong. According to revisionist history. London was built by recent immigrants.

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 Před 2 měsíci +7

      @@sandgrownun66 The Windrush mob apparently ""Re-Built Britain"" when they weren`t too busy being roadsweeps and bus conductors and dustmen lolol

    • @sandgrownun66
      @sandgrownun66 Před 2 měsíci +6

      @@mjh5437 The mob, who were not employable in their home islands. So happened to find some empty space on a freighter, and Britain has been saddled with them ever since.

    • @manichairdo9265
      @manichairdo9265 Před 2 měsíci

      2000 years ago? Evidence. 😂😂😂​@@sandgrownun66

    • @gbs5736
      @gbs5736 Před 3 dny

      Interestingly, I saw this same photo of the guards standing outside looking for recruits somewhere else and the uniforms were red! Go figure. I have wondered why so much of the colorization in most all clothing is some shade of blue. Was everything blue back then?

  • @victorrowntree8041
    @victorrowntree8041 Před 4 měsíci +36

    Absolutely fabulous and very interesting video presentation! The best I have ever seen recapturing the historic life and times in dear old London. Thank you Bright Style you are really cool!

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 4 měsíci +4

      Thank you so much, I really appreciate it !

    • @Carole-sd4gg
      @Carole-sd4gg Před 27 dny +1

      @@BrightStyle - yes, I enjoyed it so much and will view again soon. Tears of nostalgia in my eyes!

  • @ianlawrie919
    @ianlawrie919 Před 4 měsíci +12

    Superb! What a beautiful trip down a long memory lane 👍👏👌

  • @hilaryray6831
    @hilaryray6831 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Thank you for these wonderful old photos, sensitively coloured. Real life wasn’t only in shades of sepia or grey. ❤❤❤

  • @HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey
    @HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey Před 3 měsíci +6

    Lovely photos's of the time of my grand parents and great grandparents. I am so glad I was born when I was though.

  • @martinriley106
    @martinriley106 Před 2 měsíci +2

    My Great Grandfather (mother) was a surgeon at St Bartholomew’s in London, my Great Grandfather (father) was lighting the street gas lights in Finsbury (same area). Just remember we still had the poor houses then too and if a child stole a loaf of bread he could go to Borstal for 5 years. My Dad did in the 20’s and 30’s.

  • @roughriderreturns5039
    @roughriderreturns5039 Před 4 měsíci +12

    A nice start to the weekend. Thank you very much.

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 4 měsíci +2

      Thank you, I really appreciate it

  • @chrismomo1977
    @chrismomo1977 Před 11 dny +2

    @11:56 if one of those folks are aged 83 years old, then we are witnessing in color a person born in 1799, it's fascinating to look into the eyes of someone that's 3 centuries away.

  • @ModTrash
    @ModTrash Před 4 měsíci +7

    Great video. Lovely to see Woolwich (Beresford Street) as it was.

  • @meteor2012able
    @meteor2012able Před 4 měsíci +37

    I am a social_behavioral scientist and VERY appreciative of your focused views of Victorian London. The obvious social stratification, horses,carriages, businesses, hustle-bustle, and the "people" closeups...etc. To me, these pictures are laden with meanings that extend deep into my professional interests.
    Thanks a million...keep doing this work...❤.

    • @orlandomontfort5101
      @orlandomontfort5101 Před 4 měsíci +15

      Any insight on the white population replacement in London?

    • @seanpetaia
      @seanpetaia Před 4 měsíci +2

      We have lose those simple times in our modern era 🙁

    • @sandgrownun66
      @sandgrownun66 Před 3 měsíci

      These photos are a record of wh1te suprem@cy. Not one single ethn1c m1n0r1ty in sight.

    • @BruceAlarie
      @BruceAlarie Před 2 měsíci

      we live in a dark age now my friend@@seanpetaia

    • @norwegianzound
      @norwegianzound Před 2 měsíci

      @@orlandomontfort5101 Can only be a good thing. Time for the white brits to give back what they stole.

  • @taniahuang-taylor5076
    @taniahuang-taylor5076 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Thank you for this fascinating presentation! I was born in the East End of London in 1949 and although these photos were before my time, I feel very nostalgic for the old London I knew.

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 2 měsíci

      Thank you very much, I sincerely appreciate it

  • @Eduardo-uo7qs
    @Eduardo-uo7qs Před 2 měsíci +4

    Great London
    I visited the City in 1993
    Nice and wonderful people
    One day I hope to return again
    Congratulations and thanks for sharing us the vídeo.
    Rio-Brazil

  • @marangelasp7462
    @marangelasp7462 Před 12 dny +2

    Beautiful, breathtaking, brilliant!😍🤩🤩❤

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 12 dny

      Thank you so much !

    • @KatVog
      @KatVog Před 5 dny

      ​@@BrightStyleIf WE could only go back in time.

  • @George10767
    @George10767 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Thank you so much for this presentation of Victorian times. We have much to learn from the Victorians. For those wishing to view or record this presentation, please note that (unfortunately) the visual "Quality" *defaults* to 320p. BUT this figure may be changed to 480p, 720p or 1080p. Just click on the "flower" shape (bottom of picture) and simply upgrade the visual quality. I recommend 720p.

  • @FilmbuffWSussex
    @FilmbuffWSussex Před 4 měsíci +9

    Thanks for posting these wonderful photos…an ancestor of mine ran a London omnibus and these pictures certainly jettison me back to those times…

  • @eucitizen78
    @eucitizen78 Před 2 měsíci +3

    You presented the photos as should be, not zooming in and out thank you for this.👍

  • @wendygraham6863
    @wendygraham6863 Před 3 měsíci +5

    The photo of the real victorian couple was actually taken in 1850, the man was a british survivor of the Napoleonic war, so this phot0 was appro 35 years after the battle of waterloo, you can see the medal hes wearing, sadly although fighting for his country he looks as though he was living in poverty

  • @petercarrana5464
    @petercarrana5464 Před měsícem +3

    The man with top hat at 1:19 has Waterloo medal...

  • @freddieqmercury5961
    @freddieqmercury5961 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Great presentation, thankyou for keeping the pictures on screen, long enough to appreciate them.

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 4 měsíci

      Thank you so much, I really appreciate it

  • @Hicock1
    @Hicock1 Před 3 měsíci +5

    wow brilliant a little look back in the day amazing

  • @cijmo
    @cijmo Před 4 měsíci +8

    Thank you for the presentation. It's so nice to see the old city. I know people always go on about how it has been ruined but I still find London to be a beautiful and exciting city.

  • @johnogrady2418
    @johnogrady2418 Před 21 dnem +1

    Thank you so much for being honest and upfront about the photos being colorized! You Are Good.

  • @evemarie1605
    @evemarie1605 Před 2 měsíci +2

    These are amazing restorations:- the accurate and detailed colourization let's us step back into the distant past like travelling in a time machine and reconnect with our ancestors, the original black-and-white photos can be so abstract and other-worldly!

  • @herewardcuthbert
    @herewardcuthbert Před měsícem +3

    The photo at 1:20, real victorian couple, 1874. The medal worn by the man shows that he fought at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.

  • @Mark.Andrew.Pardoe
    @Mark.Andrew.Pardoe Před 4 měsíci +7

    And furthermore, the Princess Theatre was in Oxford Street not Regent Street and Oxford Street did not receive much bombing during WW2.

  • @martagrant2908
    @martagrant2908 Před 4 měsíci +9

    Thanks for sharing this amazing video 🎉😊❤

  • @user-tg9nn4nn9h
    @user-tg9nn4nn9h Před 3 měsíci +3

    Many thanks for those delightful photos! Obviously the colour had been added afterwards but it was done very well.

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Thank you so much, I really appreciate it

  • @jimmytiler5522
    @jimmytiler5522 Před 4 měsíci +6

    I lived in London years ago about 50 or so walked all the streets. Even drank in the last pub where those of the Mayflower had there last pint and meal.

    • @theheartoftexas
      @theheartoftexas Před 4 měsíci +3

      I’d love to know the name of that pub if you remember?

    • @AngloSaxonVanguard
      @AngloSaxonVanguard Před 3 měsíci +3

      ​@@theheartoftexasit's called the Mayflower in Rotherhithe London

    • @theheartoftexas
      @theheartoftexas Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@AngloSaxonVanguard Thank you!

    • @donnajean3202
      @donnajean3202 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I thought the passengers on the Mayflower were Puritans and didn't drink alcohol? I am supposedly descended from one of the Mayflower passengers. Apparently there are 4 million descendants which is amazing as only about 16 of the 32 passengers had children born.

    • @jimmytiler5522
      @jimmytiler5522 Před 2 měsíci +2

      They drank Mead which was a healthy substitute for bad water. It wasnt like a pub today.

  • @OllyO-gt8pg
    @OllyO-gt8pg Před 4 měsíci +13

    oh how its fallen 2024

  • @robalexander7348
    @robalexander7348 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Excellent colored video Thank You... London UK in its wonderful Glory days 🤔 Au

  • @user-sy5du1nn8k
    @user-sy5du1nn8k Před 3 měsíci +4

    An excellent presentation. All the photographs capture the ambiance of London life as it was. long ago. The varied range of characters, some rich, others poor add to the interest. The colourisation process is beautifully restrained and well executed.

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Thank you so much, I really appreciate it

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 Před 2 měsíci +1

      "Ambience"

  • @mooncakerabbithender7203
    @mooncakerabbithender7203 Před 2 měsíci +4

    I loved this video. Its wonderful to see these beautiful photo's and to see how much has been added to these London streets that once were where my family lived and owned shops and now its where I call home. Thankyou so much for putting this together

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 2 měsíci

      Thank you for your comment, I sincerely appreciate it.

  • @MarkCW
    @MarkCW Před měsícem +2

    Very interesting photos. In 1890 the US had just overtaken the British Empire as the most productive economy. Britain today compared to 1890 - No more small shops for the middle class (now large corporations such as Amazon, eBay, Tescos, Sainsburys, Waitrose, Audi & Lidl), people don't wear hats anymore (top hats for upper class and caps for working class) and back to electric cars again.

  • @dr.stuartcantor9325
    @dr.stuartcantor9325 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Great job, streets & buidings were clean. Bad things were child labor, no safety laws, folks didnt know that smoking & drinking every day will catch up w/them later on. Those people from 1890 never could imagine all the technology we have today, most never ventured far from home. Medicine was primitive. People still had their prejudices etc. against others, that wont ever change.

  • @carlgrove8793
    @carlgrove8793 Před 4 měsíci +6

    Without doubt the best such video I have seen -- everything was perfect, the selection of photos (many of them new to me), the colorising, and the musical background. Sheer excellence!

  • @kokoeteantigha389
    @kokoeteantigha389 Před 2 měsíci +6

    No Abdools anywhere in sight. How beautiful!

  • @davechapman7735
    @davechapman7735 Před 3 měsíci +4

    what an amazing trip back in time. a fantastic job you have done to show us all this history, cheers for sharing it. best wishes from NZ

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 3 měsíci

      Thank you so much, I really appreciate it

  • @jimclarke1108
    @jimclarke1108 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Excellent, much better in colour👌

  • @Cazgirl-hq4hi
    @Cazgirl-hq4hi Před 2 měsíci +2

    To think all theses people have now gone..they’re brief lives..some had plain hell on earth,others something that resembled a happy life..they all go the same way..nice epic pictures of a bygone era in a once genuine London…sadly doesn’t resemble the home breds anymore.

  • @tornadosimon1570
    @tornadosimon1570 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Thanks for the video.
    We often look at the Victorian Era with a kind of romantic sense but there were many dark shadows beyond it, expecially for the women and for the working class and for the poorest.
    In one of the pic is mentioned Dorset Street: this name is known very well to whom venture in the studies of the Whitechapel Murders due to the connection of the killings of Jack the Ripper, for Dorset Street was the street where stood Miller's Court, the location of the murder scene of Mary Jane Kelly.
    Another one pic, titled "JEWISH EAST END OF LONDON" we can see on the right the corner of Duval Street (formerly Dorset Street); the view of the photo was taken from Crispin Street not in 1893 but in 1912.

  • @tigerteff015
    @tigerteff015 Před 4 měsíci +6

    Great collection.

  • @RoderickFernandez-ps5ci
    @RoderickFernandez-ps5ci Před 3 měsíci +2

    These are the most beautiful pictures of Victorian London I've ever seen I wonder if any of those buildings still exist

  • @Sacred_Fire
    @Sacred_Fire Před 4 měsíci +6

    Interesting how all of the women and girls in the wedding photo wore white just like the bride. @5:14

  • @Daniel-deMerrivale
    @Daniel-deMerrivale Před 4 měsíci +3

    Thank you very much, these are just wonderful. My paternal Grandfather (Alfred), was born 1897 East End, Maternal (Charles) born in the 1880’s (not sure of exact date) in Chelsea. One poor, one posh😂 It was really interesting to see London in colour. Thank you very much again. Have subscribed for more of these.

  • @jamesjackson7844
    @jamesjackson7844 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Must say you have done a remarkable job of “air-brushing” out all the people of colour !

    • @claireseyeviewdotcom
      @claireseyeviewdotcom Před 2 měsíci +4

      I don't think there weren't any in those time periods. I think it was about 1950 onwards when people of colour arrived.

  • @silvia9066
    @silvia9066 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Thank you for this impressive collection. I wish for a time machine to be there for a day. But life was not easy for the poor people and was anything but romantik.

  • @jackiewolter3500
    @jackiewolter3500 Před 5 dny +1

    back in time how amazing

  • @iao69
    @iao69 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Fantastic job. I love seeing history and in color. Being 84, I could not help thinking how glad I did not live back then. Of course, they did not know what was to come.

    • @laserbeam002
      @laserbeam002 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Because we have better medicine, medical treatments and better technology...internet, CZcams, I am glad I live today and not back then BUT during all the progress we as a society have lost so much. For example...people today go out dressed like they just crawled out of bed, or from under a rock. Parents no longer discipline their kids and they don't want the school or police doing it either. I could go on and on but you get my meaning.

  • @carmencornelianastase1240
    @carmencornelianastase1240 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Thank You for this video intersting & beautiful !
    Peace & Love!❤🍀🏰

  • @user-cj6yw5fu4l
    @user-cj6yw5fu4l Před 4 měsíci +1

    Lovely photo's,coloured so well, very very enjoyable, keep on doing it,look forward to seeing more👍

  • @charlesmassie2061
    @charlesmassie2061 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Small point - the Coldstream Guardsman should have a red tunic

  • @stanjenkinson4520
    @stanjenkinson4520 Před 4 měsíci +7

    The country started to go " down the drain" whe they removed two words from the " English dictionary " , those two words being respect and discipline 😢

    • @gweilospur5877
      @gweilospur5877 Před 4 měsíci

      And cholera and typhoid.

    • @dantelovesbeatrice
      @dantelovesbeatrice Před 3 měsíci

      And nationalism & segregation. // Every country was ruined - once those ended!

    • @catiemo7635
      @catiemo7635 Před 2 měsíci

      Compassion and generosity

  • @user-kb3hp2qu8k
    @user-kb3hp2qu8k Před měsícem +1

    Thanks.
    貴重な写真です。

  • @alinapostelnicu2242
    @alinapostelnicu2242 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Thank you very much for sharing.

  • @RM-zo2nh
    @RM-zo2nh Před 4 měsíci +5

    Churchill looked like he was going to whack the photographer with his cane !

    • @mikerandall7571
      @mikerandall7571 Před 2 měsíci +1

      He was famous even then, what a great man he was. We need someone like that now

  • @elbuggo
    @elbuggo Před 4 měsíci +20

    When London was an English city!

    • @MilanNedicSerbia
      @MilanNedicSerbia Před 3 měsíci

      @@ThomasPercy45 According to a 2021 survey, only 37% of people in London are White British 🤣

  • @peopleskarmasquad1042
    @peopleskarmasquad1042 Před 2 měsíci +1

    1896 and see Coleman's Mustard and Nestle's. Wow! Still around.

  • @sharonhyde7735
    @sharonhyde7735 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I love the photo's and films, it's a complete education and love the insight and history x

  • @Jack-pu4rf
    @Jack-pu4rf Před 4 měsíci +3

    Thank you this collection of photo's was fascinating and the quality of some of them was incredible, if I happen to have a time machine I would travel back in time, I absolutely love old things, I have a collection of almost everything I have managed to lay my hands on, thanks

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 4 měsíci

      Thank you so much, I really appreciate it

  • @NormanAllen-ps9ju
    @NormanAllen-ps9ju Před 4 dny

    Your video is very good ;and I like the way you talk as well as your nice voice !

  • @zurcherzurich213
    @zurcherzurich213 Před 3 měsíci +1

    What a great job you've done! Thank you very much from Switzerland 🎉

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 3 měsíci

      Thank you so much, I really appreciate it

  • @paulukjames7799
    @paulukjames7799 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Great colourisation maybe a little less saturation would look more realistic

  • @MetalMania3DTV-TAS-AUS
    @MetalMania3DTV-TAS-AUS Před 3 měsíci +3

    Absolutely fantastic work, we subscribed to your channel and are watching from Cradle Mountain Tasmania Australia🇦🇺 we bought a house that was built in 1903, so 121 yrs old, and restoration has begun, so these videos and photos help us a lot, we enjoyed full watch cheers KC & CC Tasmania Australia🇦🇺🇳🇿 The Real Down Under 😊

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 Před 2 měsíci +1

      The Victorian era was over by 1903.

    • @MetalMania3DTV-TAS-AUS
      @MetalMania3DTV-TAS-AUS Před 2 měsíci +1

      @mjh5437 Yes, it was, but all the houses before then are our era. Understand what you're saying. Cheers 🍻

  • @Lola-Blue
    @Lola-Blue Před 4 měsíci +3

    I absolutely love seeing all the colorized pics of the Victorian era, as a New Yorker, I would love to see some from there BUT...Everytime I look at photos such as these, it makes me think that most of the men, and some women too, had terrible personal hygiene😂

    • @user-yr1bv4jd2k
      @user-yr1bv4jd2k Před 3 měsíci +1

      so is that all you can comment ,as if new york was any different😐

  • @haroldrupert4957
    @haroldrupert4957 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Thanks for sharing this great video:old pictures tribute .

  • @davids6194
    @davids6194 Před měsícem +1

    Wonderful pictures, and well presented, thank you.
    I enjoy it.
    But it hasn't gotten better its going down the swane and fast.

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před měsícem

      Thank you so much, I really appreciate it

  • @susieflanders6045
    @susieflanders6045 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Fantastic photographs of a bygone age - though the streets are mostly very recognisable. I also wonder about the people, their lives and aspirations. Thank you.

  • @B-fb1pt
    @B-fb1pt Před měsícem +2

    Thank you so very much! What a joy to watch.

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před měsícem

      Thank you, I sincerely appreciate it !

  • @LM-fn6qb
    @LM-fn6qb Před 2 měsíci +2

    At 1:20, 'Real Victorian Couple, 1874' the gentleman has made sure his war medal is visible over his coat lapel. Proud of his service. He looks to be in his sixties. It may have been the Crimean War 1854 (Russia fighting Great Britain) or Britain's wars in South Africa, or China, in the 1830s.

  • @johnhenderson131
    @johnhenderson131 Před 4 měsíci +5

    1:08 In the picture of Queen Victoria, entitled “Queen Victoria and her family, 1887”. I would be interested to know if the gentleman standing on her right is John Brown. Judging by the dour look on Queen Vicky face, she could do with a couple of drams of scotch whisky in her Earl Grey!
    Marvelous photographs, I find old photos historically fascinating. I always look at the photographs and try to imagine what their voices sounded like and did they use different words in a way I couldn’t understand, accents, inflection even slang of the time!
    Regardless, great and interesting photos.

    • @markshrimpton3138
      @markshrimpton3138 Před 4 měsíci +4

      No, the gentleman to whom you refer was Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. He was Queen Victoria’s grandson, the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). He was second in line to the throne after his father, but died in 1892 at Sandringham House, Norfolk aged 28 of pneumonia following a bout of influenza. He was possibly of low intelligence and was involved in various scandals including the Cleveland Street scandal of 1889. It was even alleged that he was Jack the Ripper no less. At the time of his death he was officially engaged to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck. She would go on to marry Prince Albert’s younger brother, Prince George, who in 1910 ascended the British throne to reign as George V.

    • @johnhenderson131
      @johnhenderson131 Před 4 měsíci

      @@markshrimpton3138 Thank you very much, please forgive my ignorance. I’m ashamed to admit my knowledge of the British Monarchy is not as good as it should be. I appreciate it when someone with knowledge takes the time to share their knowledge with me. You have decreased my ignorance and I thank you for that.
      Take care,
      Doc.
      PS. Your knowledge in this area is extensive, far above most. I can only begin to imagine how much historical reading you have done on the subject. I should have realized that John Brown would not be in a picture titled “Family Photograph”!…..as he wasn’t family related.

    • @markshrimpton3138
      @markshrimpton3138 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@johnhenderson131 I’m glad that I’ve been of some help. We’re all ignorant about something, but when it comes to European history I have a slight advantage in that I have a degree in that subject and also one in archaeology. For nearly 20 years I was a school teacher in that subject too. Prince Eddy wasn’t the sharpest tool in the box but I don’t, as some people believe, think he was bumped off to prevent him ascending to the throne. Nor do I think he was Jack the Ripper. Kind regards.

  • @briannord950
    @briannord950 Před 3 měsíci +1

    That was amazing! Really enjoyed it

  • @barrythomson899
    @barrythomson899 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Enjoyable and informative. Thank you.

    • @BrightStyle
      @BrightStyle  Před 3 měsíci

      Thank you so much, I really appreciate it

  • @iansherwood5236
    @iansherwood5236 Před 4 měsíci +3

    I do believe that the old couple near the beginning featured the last surviving soldier from the Battle of Waterloo.

  • @bernardedwards8461
    @bernardedwards8461 Před 4 měsíci +1

    This is London 40 years earlier than I remember it. When i was a young boy I used to think Tower Bridge was a medieval bascule bridge, only later did I learn it was only 40 years older than I was!

  • @user-ws1ly6zv9k
    @user-ws1ly6zv9k Před 4 měsíci

    Amazing job ! I walked through Oxford street from the East to the West 45 years ago and it was fantastic . I wish I could see London again .

    • @carolewynn9407
      @carolewynn9407 Před 17 dny

      Keep your memories, you'd be very disappointed if you went back now.

  • @nicholasforman1195
    @nicholasforman1195 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Amazing shots! facinating to see parts of the London Bridge area quite unchanged!

  • @marctremblay8087
    @marctremblay8087 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Fantastic photos and really well done work , only snag was the Guardsman at 17:10 should have had a Red Tunic, other than that fabulous.

  • @mrmods7912
    @mrmods7912 Před 2 měsíci +1

    The one thing I noticed the most is the lack of litter!! No discarded take away boxes like we see today!