A 1977 interview with 108 year old Mrs Florence Pannel who was born in 1868. She shares her memories and speaks about life for women in Victorian times. Born before the aeroplane and 101 when man landed on the moon. Her accent is remarkable.
The English countryside in 1910 and a rare example of a clapper stile gate. The horizontal beams are attached at the centre and normally kept in place by weights, so you can create a low point by pushing down on the other end.
I love this film from England, 1901. We’re close enough that it’s not just a crowd of people. You can see all the individual personalities of the children showing off, jostling their friends and pulling faces to the camera. It’s worth watching twice.
The great British tradition of the local pub, where men in flat caps and tweed suits like to have a pint and put the world to rights. Filmed in the 1950s.
This beautiful remastered footage was captured by an off duty policeman on 8th May 1945 after Churchill officially declared Victory in Europe. Flags are strung between terraces during the street celebrations in Gateshead. 🇬🇧
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Waterloo Station in the 1930s. Note the porters hurrying to the first class coaches as the train arrives. Posters on the ticket barriers advertise summer tickets and day trips so this is probably pre-1939 as non-essential rail travel was restricted during the war.
The single greatest shot filmed in television history. In 1978, James Burke had one chance to film this perfectly timed launch of Voyager 2. If he missed, there would have been no chance to re shoot it.
A timeline of every English and British Monarch from Alfred the Great in 971 to Queen Elizabeth II in 2022.
The maps show the territory controlled by the ruler at the end of their reign.
Pope Leo XIII, born in 1810, is the earliest born person ever filmed. Born in the same year as Chopin, he was a year younger than Lincoln and two years old when the War of 1812 started. Filmed in 1896.
The same street, 70 years apart. Hale Road, Walton, Liverpool. It looked immaculate in the 1950s compared to today. Why did people stop caring about their communities?
Stunning footage of New York on Easter Sunday, 31st March 1929. Glamorously dressed ladies and gentlemen stroll down Fifth Avenue for the Easter Parade and queue outside St Patrick's Cathedral.
England, 1901. Each person, each child, has lived their life and had their own story to tell. Perhaps we pass their ancestors on the street today. So many wonderful personalities looking at us from the other side of the lens, it’s worth watching twice.
One of the funniest short stories of Rock ‘n’ Roll history. David Bowie doing an impression of Mick Jagger. This always makes me laugh!
David Bowie, born 8th January 1947.
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After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington attended a party in Vienna in which French guests turned their backs to him in anger. When the hostess apologised, the Duke replied: “It’s alright Madam, I’ve seen their backs before.”
Preston, 1901, charmingly introduced to us by a striking man in a top hat. Little did these people know that over 120 years later we would be looking at them smiling and waving their hats towards us from the other side of the lens.
Sunday morning in rural Britain and the village still hasn’t woken up, but as it gets nearer to midday there’s a stir in the air - for noon is the time the pubs open. The Sunday pint in the village pub is part of the English way of life. Filmed in 1959.
Filmed more than a century ago, this is a snippet of Cornwall in 1916. A simple yet beautifully nostalgic scene of children making their way home after school.
The magnificent Penn Station in New York. Filmed in 1945, demolished in 1963.
Ada Louise Huxtable, wrote in The New York Times in 1963: "The tragedy is that our own times not only could not produce such a building, but cannot even maintain it."
Beautiful 1940s colour footage of the Cenotaph in London. Built just 20 years earlier replacing a temporary memorial created at the end of the Great War. Sir Edwin Lutyens waived his fee for its design.