A Look Back At A Britain Long Gone.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3204308/The-way-colour-Glorious-photographs-1920s-30s-Britain-using-state-art-Autochrome-technology-enhance-original-black-white-pictures.html

Great photos of a long forgotten idyllic Britain, noticing that in today's Britain these two photos would be classed as far-right patriotism.

Oh how we have changed.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/20/05/288D1AE600000578-0-image-a-166_1440046064207.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/20/05/288D19FE00000578-0-image-a-261_1440046495873.jpg

[douglas9401]

Subliminal advertising by Royal Mail. :-)

[Sqad]

LOL....brings back memories AOG.

I knew Crowland well and in the centre there is a medieval triangular bridge.

In 1947, the Wash "broke it's bank" and East Anglia was flooded up to 10 miles from Crowland. As kids we cycled out to see the authorities trying to hold back the North Sea with sandbags.

Thanks for the memories.

[ummmm]

What's idyllic about it? We still have beaches, post boxes and phone boxes....

[andy-hughes]

It is, as you say, a link with a long-ago Britain.

Not sure about the 'idyllic' bit though - they were ten years past one World War, and eleven years before another one, so it was a brief respite.

I thought about the Chelsea Pensioners, who may have been too old to fight in the Great War, but probably saw service in the Crimea - a link with living history.

[Retrochic]

Lovely pics taken with rose tinted lenses. The same year, pics taken in the East End of London would have looked very different.

[whiskeryron]

Thanks AOG lovely to see those nostalgic pics in these somewhat troubled times & I do not regard Britishness as far right, we should proudly be showing our union flag more openly in public flying from government & municipal buildings.

[-Talbot-]

In the first photo, is the Indian lady dressed in red holding an Ipad?

[Gromit]

The reason that both photos contain flags is so that the colourists can know what colour to substitute the monochrome for. Nothing at all to do with patriotism.

[Sqad]

Although AOG's photographs were of the 20's and 30's, they are no different as far as I am concerned than the 30's and 40's....despite World War 2.

I can't see any problem with the word "idyllic"....beauty being in the eyes of the beholder.

Retrochic: yes, the East End of London did have it's share of poverty. live all major European Cities and i knew it in the early 50's, but i must say that i always felt safe walking through the East End backstreets at night, despite the Kray's...........but i would n't feel safe today.

[Retrochic]

The video was lovely of the children on a day trip to Edinburgh -not a smart phone in sight and they all looked so excited.

[237SJ]

Clovelly still looks the same today.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// What's idyllic about it? We still have beaches, post boxes and phone boxes.... ///

They are not just photos of beaches, post boxes and phone boxes.

But to take you up on the last two, how many Victorian and Edwardian post boxes are around today?

And the same could be said regarding the phone boxes how many K2 post boxes do you see today?

[mccfluff]

There are around 115,500 pillar, wall, and lamp boxes across
the UK. Some post boxes are rarer than others and some
have very special places in our heritage. Some boxes have
deep connections to prominent people and places. Each has
a story to tell and many have particular meaning for local
communities. They are also an icon of the UK’s postal system
recognised around the world.

http://www.royalmailgroup.com/sites/default/files/Royal%20Mail%20Post%20Boxes%20Heritage%20Agreement.pdf


I've been driving myself mad on google maps trying to find the same view as the pic in clovelly

[-Talbot-]

Bet you didn't see many mail coaches in the 1920's AOG.

Progress eh?

[237SJ]

That first pic isn`t actually in Clovelly. It`s the road from Clovelly Cross (I expect the roof looks a bit better these days)

[mccfluff]

thanks 237sj, will go back to my hunting :-)

[ummmm]

One at the end of my street, AOG.

[mccfluff]

do you think this is it?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9940989,-4.4084784,3a,75y,343.91h,76.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxzuY3ICUdWGCtPmEUJ2dqw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[237SJ]

Yes, that`s the road that leads to Clovelly

[stuey]

I love those "quaint" old cottages. Imagine, cups and saucers used on a lunch break in a hay field. Great photos...Nothing to argue about at all.