Amazing video footage of London in 1927
 

Just saw this video made in 1927! Amazing how little has changed, they had so many open top buses then too!

http://vimeo.com/7638752

Great video -- thanks for sharing.

One change -- the number of horses (and the hats!). Fewer of both now.

And so much commercial traffic on the Thames

Oh - that is marvelous! Thanks jamikins.

Must have been a wonderful time to be in London - so much would change for everyone in just a few years.

How incredible is that? Thanks for sharing...great to see how people were dressed also...all those hats!

Dan Cruickshank (who else?)did a whole TV series on Friese-Greene a few years back, think it was on BBC2.
BFI also have some DVDs called Electric Edwardians, also fascinating.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electric-Edw.../dp/B00092ZE5U

Wow, how cool was that ! Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

The two ladies walking across the screen in the Hyde Park segment look decidedly stylish.

And traffic cops are not so long ago. In fact they're still to be found in many small island nations, or when traffic lights breakdown. Kind of nice that one can still see that sometimes.

Thanks for sharing Jamikins.

Thanks!

As I just saw The Great Gatsby, so I am thinking about the 1920's (anybody else see it yet--oops, this is a TRAVEL Forum!), and am headed to London in about a month for the 5th time, so I am looking forward to returning to many of the sites in the video, it was wonderful to see this piece of film history.

One of the biggest differences - how many people wore hats then.

we were trying to work out why they disappeared - perhaps because in the 1970s women stopped wearing the same clothes as their mothers and mothers wore hats!

Great video, Jamie! Thank you.
Annhig: Wasn't JFK blamed for men in the US not wearing hats? A shame though, isn't it? I have the prettiest fascinator that I bought in London and no where at all to wear it until I'm invited to a formal British wedding.

I have the prettiest fascinator that I bought in London and no where at all to wear it until I'm invited to a formal British wedding.>>

we went on a lovely walk yesterday from St. Mawes to St. Just in Roseland Church with our german guest, and it turned out that there was a quite posh wedding about to start - tailcoats, posh frocks, fascinators.

http://stjust.roselandchurches.co.uk...s-celebrations

i hope that they'll be very happy, and that you get an opportunity to wear yours soon, ChgoGal.

I've been in London and elsewhere in UK many times since the 1970's and noted both the "sameness" and the "improvements" over the years, so seeing the video of London in 1927 was a special treat. Also visited St. Just Church just a year ago. Another special treat to see those photos. Thanks!
K

>>mothers wore hats!<<

annhig, I remember my mother (b. 1905) frequently saying in a slightly sarcastic tone something she'd obviously been lectured on in the 20s: "No lady <i>ever</i> goes out without hat and gloves" - even as she put on her Sunday best (which she'd do for an ordinary day trip to the seaside).

I also noticed how multicultural London is today compared with 1927!

Very good video, nice to see in the past in colour.
I do like this video also, goes back a bit further but unfortunately it's in black and white.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-5Ts_i164c

From 2:43 onward, looks like absolute chaos!!

How wonderful! Thank you for posting!

From 2:43 onward, looks like absolute chaos!!>>

and imagine all that lot in the fog, and all the 'deposits" from the horses.

Jamikims, great video - merci!

Beautiful. Thank you.

"and all the 'deposits" from the horses."

Yes, don't see anyone in the road with a spade and bucket (for the roses), far too dangerous, don't think that they'd last more than 5 minutes.

I'm not joking about the deposits - before the advent of the internal combustion engine, they were a real problem.


of course the engine brought its own problems.