1900 Victorian Time Machine

[pjcnet]

When I was searching Youtube I came across this video from 1900 which is amazingly good quality. I suspect it's been digitally enhanced while ambient sound has also been added and the speed corrected. It's absolutely fascinating to see everyday people and also children of the UK just going about their normal daily lives 118 years ago, but it's also in a way really sad to know that every single person we see in this movie is no longer with us, yet back then individual lives would have seemed just as important to them as ours are now. Also take a look at some of the Ads on the other trams, the first one is for the Dean Chemist which advertises "teeth carefully extracted", imagine what having your teeth extracted would have been like back then.

Description copied from Youtube:

"Camera mounted at the front of a streetcar tram riding through Rochdale, UK in the year 1900. A haunting/evocative look at a day in the life 115 years ago! Added some sound for ambience. This film is from the Mitchell and Kenyon collection."

Finally imagine what it would be like to be autistic living in 1900 in the UK, obviously there would be no support and if you weren't careful you could even up in a pauper lunatic asylum as they'd probably still be called back then, imagine how you'd be treated there and what treatment you'd be subjected to.

 

[Beguiling Orbit]

Very, very cool, but I had to mute the audio, which obviously had nothing to do with what I was watching. There were more than 100 people in the video. I wonder how many of them were on the spectrum? Statistically speaking, at least one of them had to be.

 

[Judge]

Tracks and rails. Old school, but quaint.

Must have been before the Tardis. But then I suppose time is relative.

Seriously though, the sounds of so much industrialization in Britain couldn't have been kind to autistic people. Especially at its beginning, when there would have been those who could recall the peace and quiet of a pre-industrial era gone for good.

When on rare occasion I look up at a star-filled sky at night, I wonder what it all must have looked like before electricity lit up so much of the sky and obscured so much of the natural wonder of so many stars.

Equally when watching shows like "Vikings" or "Knightfall" I can't help but wonder what life back then must have smelled like as well. Sensory concerns...

 

[FreeDiver]

but it's also in a way really sad to know that every single person we see in this movie is no longer with us,

Try watching "The wizard of oz". Not a single person in that movie is still alive today.

Finally imagine what it would be like to be autistic living in 1900 in the UK, obviously there would be no support and if you weren't careful you could even up in a pauper lunatic asylum as they'd probably still be called back then, imagine how you'd be treated there and what treatment you'd be subjected to.

Imagine what it was like for anyone with disabilities back then. Imagine being a paraplegic and not having a wheelchair to get around with. Industrial workers would get hurt and mamed all the time and if that happened, it was the end of ya. Imagine what it was like just getting the flu back then. I'll end it here.

 

[Major Tom]

That was pretty radical I especially like the part where a man is teaching his son to ride a bike. There was a lot of charming shots. I really love the horse drawn carts as well. Photos and videos have an excellent way of capturing moments of time, perfectly. Thanks for posting this.

We've come a long ways since then. Some things positive, some negative.

 

[Progster]

Very, very cool, but I had to mute the audio, which obviously had nothing to do with what I was watching. There were more than 100 people in the video. I wonder how many of them were on the spectrum? Statistically speaking, at least one of them had to be.

Probably not many if any at all, if it was as noisy as it is in the video, or the clothes as uncomfortable as they look.