A Day in Old London in 1920 in colour! [AI enhanced HD]
A Day in Old London in 1920 in colour! [AI enhanced HD]
A wonderful A.I. enhanced and colourized film about old London a century ago.
The duration of this film is 10 minutes. All the famous points of interest come into focus in this very old film. Here is the time line:
00:00 Victoria station
00:20 Old St Andrew Church down Ashby Place
00:30 Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral
00:50 Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral
00:55 Imperial Institute
01:15 Westminster Abbey
01:45 Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
02:02 Statue of Abraham Lincoln in Little George Street.
02:10 Foreign Office
02:42 Downing Street10
02:50 Cenotaph War memorial
03:07 Changing of the guards at Horse Guards
03:35 Cleopatra’s needle, Thames Embankment
03:46 Thames Embankment
04:08 Temple Church, followed by Fountain Court
04:40 Fleet Street at Temple Bar
05:05 Entrance to Lincoln’s Inn in Chancery Lane
05:21 Courtyard off Chancery Lane Station
06:12 British Museum
06:28 Lovely lady selling flowers *)
06:46 Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market
07:00 The Garden of Allah, A play in four parts at Theater Royal in Drury Lane
07:10 Admiralty Arch, The Mall
07:23 St. James’ Park
07:38 The Pelicans were already there a century ago!
07:58 Victoria Monument, The Mall
08:18 Chelsea pensioners, might have fought in the Crimean war
08:28 Buckingham Palace
09:00 Trafalgar Square
09:38 Nelson’s Column
09:45 The four famous lions statues and fountains
09:58 King George V salutes you goodbye.
The music is by Harry Davidson & his Orchestra:
– Chinatown My Chinatown
– Yoo Hoo
– I’m Looking over a Four Leaf Clover
– Baby Face.
– When You and I Were Seventeen
– The Naughty Waltz
– Lovely Lady *)
– Wonderful One
– In Apple Blossom Time
– On the Mississippi
– Swanee
– Waiting for the Robert E. Lee.
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NOTE: Please DO NOT comment about the influx of foreign nationals into the UK! The aim is to keep this channel free from hatred and inflamable debate and in stead to be a joy to watch, friendly and respectful. So just enjoy this old footage! Hatred comments will be removed.
By all means DO share your own or your (grand) parent’s experiences of how life was in London in the 1920’s!
*) It is a big mystery to me why the song “Lovely Lady” coïncides with the exact moment when the lovely flowerseller appears in this film. I definitely did not chose the music for this reason, didn’t even know this song, was not aware that it was part of the medley, chose the description “Lovely Lady selling flowers” in the timeline out of the blue, and did not edit anything to make this coincidence happen.
Out of the billion of songs on Earth there are only half a dozen with “Lovely Lady” in the title. ‘Something’ made me chose this song by Harry Davidson & His Orchestra. There is more between heaven and earth….
Furthermore, out of all the scenes in this film, the Google algorithm chose this moment to generate the default thumbnail. I still can’t get over these two events. Coïncidence ?? What do you think?
Source: BFI – Free.
Is it only me who’s seen Ms. Patmore on the thumbnail?
A very good effort! The film can’t show you the awful coal fire pollution, the fog and the terrible smogs in the autumn/winter. The Horsehair on the helmets of the Blues and Royals shold be scarley.
I love the young woman who appears in nearly every scene; we usually see her from the back, she is always dressed the same. She acts as a focal point for the camera (plus solving the potential privacy issue of filming passersby without their consent.) I’m taking a guess that she is the photographer’s wife. Such a sweet personal touch in this film.
BTW this is the London my Australian grandfather saw in 1919. He was there with the Aussie troops who fought in WWI. He was thrilled to see the city he had heard so much about; if the war had not happened, he would never have travelled to the UK, as the ocean voyage from Australia was only for the rich. His family back in Sydney and his fiancee (my grandmother), who had never been to London and weren’t likely to, were thrilled to read his first-hand accounts in his letters home.
Music reminds me of Mary Poppins
Back when London used to be a glamorous city.
Hasn’t changed apart from stupid traffic lights and making the roads smaller to increase fake traffic jams of today.Great vid cheers.
Its sad that people just can’t enjoy this video without spouting their bigotry about london not being white enough nowadays
LONDON🌟 looks amazing 🌟🌟🌟
Really makes you realise how the world never stops , people come and go but the world stays
aaaaahhhh Yes, my country is Europe
London bridge is falling
4.03. The lady is sporting a mask much like today’s COVID ones
The people looks so much happier then the people today.
When Great Britain was really Great but now its not more
*There are currently about a dozen films about old London on my channel* . Here is the playlist:
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*I have many more nice, A.I. enhanced films about London during and before World War-II (and even from the 1900s) in colour* : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP_6hUsQRi8sOgzj80XqJ5nUUTxL_KDWb
it looks way developed and clean than india today
Hätte ich sehr gerne mal einen Tag verbracht. Aber leider leider können wir ja nicht durch die Zeit reisen. (Noch nicht). Die Musikuntermalung ist auch toll !!! DANKE.
When London was Beautiful and white.
My grandmother was 20 then and lived in London Rotherhithe
What I’ll give just to go back in time and walk around the place
Thanks for that footage. I have London in my heart. I lived in that beautiful city a few decades ago as a student but I haven’t been able to go back and visit. Good bless you all. 🙏
When you only see white people in London…ahhhhh❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Very distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen
very cool @ 5;22 you can look at the reflection in the glass of the lamp… wonder what they are talking about, seeing the old world is such an honor and so clean, happy people, today this ugly, fake dirty world.. wonder who really built these huge buildings.. so awesome, like all the cities in the world when it was refounded.. just amazing.. thank you for the clues..
Can tell it was not long after WWI , there’s hardly anyone about, not like today, maybe another ones needed 1st building would make a luverly miranet?
How beautifully dressed they were
6:43 check guy carrying basket
That’s a lot of cars for 1920
i feel so peacfull watching this i think i lived those time in anothe rbody
I only wonder how 1920s it is really if the movie in theater is from 1936 (The garden of Allah)
Mint. 05:45 Virginia Woolf??
la bella vita era per pochi gli altri erano shiavi e se ti ribellavi cera la forca
The year my great grandad was born I miss him ❤️
i just discover this video. great job Rik. I love old cities because i live in Marrakech chich was founded in 1062 .
At’s awful good, a’ watchin’ ghosts. Awful good.
was there colorful videos in 1920’s? maybe
ДОБРОГО ВРЕМЕНИ СУТОК.ПРОШЛОЕ НЕРАЗРЫВНО СВЯЗАНО С БУДУЮЩИЕМ.СПАСИБО КАДРАМ И АВТОРУ.ПУСТЬ ПОТОМКИ ВИДЯТ И ЦЕНЯТ ВРЕМЯ,НЕЗАВИСИМО В КАКОЙ СТРАНЕ ОНИ ЖИВУТ.ВСЕМ ЗДОРОВЬЯ И СЧАСТЬЯ ПО ПОКОЛЕНИЯМ.💖
Yes London is more civilized than NY in the same era. I think the women in NY were more fashionable though and the men were more entrepreneurial.
😁😁😁
Qué bonito… ahora no hay quien lo conozca
Preparing for another bloody war
If u ask me, 1820 to 1920 there were some serious inventions! Electricity, (light bulb), automobile, the telephone….. airplane.
AMAZING!
Class, respect, integrity, responsibility and bloody hard work, which created a city to be proud of. Not today – a glass multicultural mess.
Ah, back when London was an English city
Literally no one in this comment section was alive and lived in London during the 1920s and yet they are acting like life was better back then just because there were less non white faces. The delusion and bigotry is laughable. Its amazing the amount of people desperate to live in a post world war 1 impoverished and depressed society where there were major class divides more than today.
Thankfully the cretins with this mindset are the vast minority.
It just seems like people had leisure time back then in their life feeding the ducks reading papers
How well everyone is dressed…
Just two years after the end of the Great War…but London seems to be getting back on its feet. I noticed the same girl appears in several shots! The photographer’s girlfriend, perhaps?
everything the left touches turns to shit