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Saturday 25 October 2008

London 1904.....



Borrowed from Powerline


H/Ts Mark H & Canis 61

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

While watching this film, Theo, I did something really dumb....

I turned the sound up on my computer.

1904 - sound - Doh!

Anonymous said...

Folks were awful quiet back then.

The thought that went through my noggin while watching that vid was...

Eww. That was in the days before bathing became a regular practice and before deodorant was invented.

James Higham said...

I love this type of thing. That was brilliant.

Mr. Bingley said...

What I find inexorably sad about films like this is that every single person we see, without exception, is dead.

Oswald Bastable said...

Told the young fellow that this was how it was in his mothers day.

He showed her and then the day turned to custard....

Lex said...

Couldn't help wondering how many of those ten year old lads splashing in the lake were crouching in trenches a dozen years on. Fin de siecle indeed.