A firefighter demonstration in Dublin, 1897.

A firefighter demonstration in Dublin, 1897. from ireland

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  1. What I always find interesting about these videos is how little colour there is in the clothing of the crowds. Imagine how zapped someone from back then’s brain would be if you dropped them in the city centre now with just how much colour there is, comparatively.

  2. Most of the children here lived and probably died horrifically in WW1, weird to think about given how normal things look here and how peaceful of a time we’re living in now

  3. After a quick google, it appears that the shop on the left “A. Betts” number 140, was an umbrella manufacturer with an Alice Betts listed on the voting register as resident in 140 St Stephens green. This is now where the Stephens green shopping centre is. The fire brigade looks like it comes from Grafton street. The buildings in the background on the right are still standing and correspond to google maps.

    Cool clip.

    [https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3396417,-6.2610152,3a,75y,5.83h,91.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2Dy4Q9QvbMAfPI6ak5Ka9g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192](https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3396417,-6.2610152,3a,75y,5.83h,91.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2Dy4Q9QvbMAfPI6ak5Ka9g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)

    God knows where the ladder raising clip was taken. Probably an old fire station, as that appears to be a purpose built climbing / building frame.

  4. Is that horseshit on the roads. My God.

    One thing period pieces never get right is the amount of horse poo there was back then.

  5. probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen on this sub. it’s pretty nice to see something else on here that isn’t the usual paragraph about some guy complaining about his wife. I’m a history buff so this stuff is like a drug to me.

    it’s so cool seeing this footage. at that point, the British empire had become the largest empire to ever exist in human history and we were close to the heart of it and seeing this footage of this time which is one of the most important periods not only in our history but global history and seeing how life was back then, how people dressed, acted and how the street looked. it’s all so cool

  6. Absolutely everything was done in a 3-piece suit back then. I can only imagine how smell people were as there was no way of reasonably washing clothes and the whole world was a giant pile of horse manure.

  7. Hard to imagine that everybody in that video is now dead. I wonder what each of their lives were like.

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