Barge film

[Homer Simpson's Lovechild]

What a lovely glimpse at the last embers of a lost world. It seems when looking at these clips to have been a more gentle place and , for some communities in Merry England, a tranquil life.
It's probably worth remembering though that for every resident of Camberwick Green , there were thousands of people sweating in dark satanic mills, hacking coal from two foot seams, gutting cod on a ice lashed Arctic Trawler deck, getting mown down in wars, or generally leading lives of graft and squaller.
A bit of nostalgia is nice though when viewed through rose tinted specs!

 

[dylanwinter]

What a lovely glimpse at the last embers of a lost world. It seems when looking at these clips to have been a more gentle place and , for some communities in Merry England, a tranquil life.
It's probably worth remembering though that for every resident of Camberwick Green , there were thousands of people sweating in dark satanic mills, hacking coal from two foot seams, gutting cod on a ice lashed Arctic Trawler deck, getting mown down in wars, or generally leading lives of graft and squaller.
A bit of nostalgia is nice though when viewed through rose tinted specs!

you are so right

there are times I wish that I had been around after the invention of trains and steam ships but before the internal combustion engine took over the world

imagine the peace and quiet

D

D

 

[lazyguy]

you are so right

there are times I wish that I had been around after the invention of trains and steam ships but before the internal combustion engine took over the world

imagine the peace and quiet

D

D

Be careful what you wish for:

“In New York City alone at the turn of the century, horses deposited on the streets every day an estimated 2.5 million pounds of manure and 60,000 gallons of urine, accounting for about two-thirds of the filth that littered the city’s streets. Excreta from horses in the form of dried dust irritated nasal passages and lungs, then became a syrupy mass to wade through and track into the home whenever it rained. ...
Medical authorities stated that tetanus was introduced into cities in horse fodder and that an important cause of diarrhea, a serious health problem among children at the time, was ‘street dust’ consisting in the main of germ-laden dried horse dung. The flies that bred on the ever present manure heaps carried more than thirty communicable diseases, and the unsightliness and stench of the stable meant that most urban owners of horses ‘boarded and baited’ them at public facilities at inconvenient distance from their residences. In addition, traffic was often clogged by the carcasses of overworked dray horses that dropped in their tracks during summer heat waves or had to be destroyed after stumbling on slippery pavements and breaking their legs. About 15,000 dead horses were removed from the streets of New York each year. . . . These conditions were characteristic in varying degree of all of our large and medium-sized cities. -

-James Flink, The Automobile Age (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1993), p. 136.

Jay

 

[dylanwinter]

no problem

Be careful what you wish for:

“In New York City alone at the turn of the century, horses deposited on the streets every day an estimated 2.5 million pounds of manure and 60,000 gallons of urine, accounting for about two-thirds of the filth that littered the city’s streets. Excreta from horses in the form of dried dust irritated nasal passages and lungs, then became a syrupy mass to wade through and track into the home whenever it rained. ...
Medical authorities stated that tetanus was introduced into cities in horse fodder and that an important cause of diarrhea, a serious health problem among children at the time, was ‘street dust’ consisting in the main of germ-laden dried horse dung. The flies that bred on the ever present manure heaps carried more than thirty communicable diseases, and the unsightliness and stench of the stable meant that most urban owners of horses ‘boarded and baited’ them at public facilities at inconvenient distance from their residences. In addition, traffic was often clogged by the carcasses of overworked dray horses that dropped in their tracks during summer heat waves or had to be destroyed after stumbling on slippery pavements and breaking their legs. About 15,000 dead horses were removed from the streets of New York each year. . . . These conditions were characteristic in varying degree of all of our large and medium-sized cities. -

-James Flink, The Automobile Age (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1993), p. 136.

Jay

no problem

 

[prv]

Love the comment
" you don't want one of them radio telephones. It'll just be some tart in the office telling you to hurry up"

Fairly sure it was "clerk" rather than "tart", I'm afraid

Pete