Incoming Tide
- Worthing
- 1898
Beach Scene
A charming image of children paddling on a pebbly beach on a hot summer's day
There is something comfortingly familiar about the way these Victorian children are playing on the beach. It's a carefree summer's day, with the only things to worry about garments unrolling and getting wet. A pier in the background suggests this might be one of a number of films shot by Arthur Cheetham in Rhyl, north Wales.
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The Victorian World
Vivid portraits of everyday Victorian life, thanks to the first generation of filmmakers to take to Britain’s streets.
Some of the most fascinating of early films are those which are content to watch the world go by. Numerous filmmakers parked their cameras on street corners, in parks, on seaside promenades or outside workplaces or churches to capture fleeting moments of everyday life.
In their own day, these films held a mirror up to Victorian society. Today, these images of our ancestors – relaxed, smiling and laughing, gazing at us through the camera lens - are a gift of moving history. The offer us extraordinary insights into a lost world, more vivid than any still photograph or written account.
21 videos in this collection
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Incoming Tide
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Crowd Entering St George's Hall, Bradford (1901)
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Preston Egg Rolling (c.1901)
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Feeding the Tigers
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Beach Scene
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Beagles
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Manchester Street Scenes (1901)
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Darwen Street Scenes (1901)
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Jamaica Street Glasgow (1901)
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Liverpool Street Scenes (1901)
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Buxton Skyline (1901)
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Scenes of Carlisle (1901)
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Workpeople and Girls on Stoney Street, Nottingham (1900)
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Scenes of Ashton under Lyne (1901)
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Co-operative Wholesale Society Clothing Factory in Manchester (c.1900)
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Congregation Leaving St Mary's Church, Dumfries (c.1901)
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Congregation Leaving St Mary's Dominican Church in Cork (1902)
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Demolition of a Mill Chimney in Leeds (1901)
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Employees Leaving Brown's Atlas Works, Sheffield (1901)
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Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery (1901)
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