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

[Zacs-Master]

Very interesting AOG. All those people in the photographs will probably be dead. We're not here long.......get on with it!

[jackthehat]

"Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?"

Lovely pictures which are representative of nothing but themselves....

And trying to crow-bar in any notion of 'far-right patriotism' is a wee bit desperate.

[retrocop]

We got phone booths all over the place. :-)

http://www.allposters.co.uk/-sp/Red-Telephone-Box-Sculpture-Entitled-Out-of-Order-by-David-Mach-Kingston-Upon-Thames-Surrey-Posters_i6226080_.htm

Many years ago I knew a chap who spent most of his annual leave travelling round the UK photographing old post boxes.

[Sqad]

^^^ LOL^^

Oh! dear.

[Sqad]

My comment was for the post of our JTH.

[RandyMarsh]

Come on AOG, you will see 50 or more people dressed like the last photo at the cricket this weekend.

[Peter Pedant]

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

The American Hotel 1917 which was a R and R in Trafalgar Sq as maintained by sub by confederate veterans! They lasted until 1936
( same year as the last person to hear Chopin play, died and the same year when there was a spare job at the Palace )

I notice that Ireland /Northen Ireland doesnt feature but Kernow - Cornwall does - people re writing history even then

[Sqad]

JTH...my post was a bit harsh on you........I have re-read the "far right patriotism " again. It didn't register on my first reading.

[RandyMarsh]

Look at all the advertising on the bus, is that more or less than you see today?

[Peter Pedant]

// And trying to crow-bar in any notion of 'far-right patriotism' is a wee bit desperate.//

I agree I can see no black and white minstrels standing on natives in loincloths

tyre lever I would say

[Mosaic]

Fantastic photographs!
'Everything looks worse in black and white'.....

[stuey]

Although, obviously, they didn't realize it, I imagine some of those boy scouts only had a a little over eleven more year to live.

[tonyav]

Great pics aog. I enjoyed looking at those.