They’d never have thought that people would be watching them 121 years later on devices, small enough to fit in the pocket

Fantastic view into the past. To see buildings we've grown up with and know so well, used a lifetime before we were born. Gives you the feeling that this great city doesn't belong to us, we're just passing through. Thank you.

It's crazy that we still have footage like this so many years later. Amazing to look into the past, so to speak, and I love that you can still see little human moments. Much has changed, but much remains the same, too.

I really cannot put into words how amazing watching this nor can I fully express my gratitude and appreciation for all the effort that went into this film . Truly astonishing and amazing. Thank you to all involved

So much of Liverpool has been destroyed, my area 100 yrs ago had gardens , ornate lighting, 3 and four storey Georgian houses all been replaced by cardboard council estates, Now they have destroyed Islington and London Rd it really is a crime.

Imagine having a Time Machine and we could travel there for a while. I couldn't think of anything better.

I love the way sound as been added, obviously the sound wouldn’t be accurate to that time, all film would’ve been silent, they would’ve had to guess maybe what the sound would’ve been like, but it’s brilliant how it has been done with new sound and colour👍🏻

What a brilliant video compilation and so expertly done showing old Liverpool and the people who lived there. As a boy I remember going on the overhead railway and also going to see with my dad the Empress of Canada sunk and on its side in the Gladstone Dock in 1953. Liverpool was such a big, bustling and prosperous international port but many of its citizens lived lives of poverty and lack of opportunity. Thank you for this video filmed during the days of my parents and grandparents. It is both fascinating and educational.

Totally mesmerising well done to you

Beautiful. I wish city centres would look like they did back then! It’s incredible to think those places we walk past have so many stories behind them, and have witnessed so much.

My gt grandparents lived in Liverpool for 8 years during the late 1890's. They could have been among the people walking past!

Astoundingly stunning, having grown up in a pub in Liverpool City centre in the 70's (Old Fort) myself & my brothers know every inch of the city, in the 70's the whole place was closed on a Sunday, what a playground for us! How funny, the 1st ever Crimewatch reconstruction was about a scouser stealing.🧐😜

Really enjoyed this video. Thanks. I grew up in Liverpool and my grandparents were around 20 in 1901 - Interesting to see the city they lived in and to match the pictures with the stories I was told as a child. As someone said in the comments 'We are all just passing through'

Amazing, so atmospheric. Well done!

Its amazing to see everyone so smartly dressed in a suit or dress, it makes them look so much more civilised and respectable.

If you haven’t got a moustache your not coming in , and that’s just the woman . I love these clips well done and thanks for letting us see this .

Trafalgar Day sure was a big deal back in 1901. How times change. I love the two policemen "in hot pursuit" ie strolling leisurely, in the final film. They look just like the Thompson Twins from The Adventures of Tintin!

Absolutely brilliant and brought to life with the sounds and colour. Spotted a young Steven Gerrard lookalike at 9: 40 bottom right hand side .

My amazing hometown! Thank you for this.

Wonderfull footage of a bustling city. pedestrians seem to walk in every direction amongst the traffic, how sad to see thall those young cadets knowing that many of them would be killed during WW1.

This is brilliant! Thanks for posting x

A beautiful historical document!!!

my Grandad was an old Scouse with Parkinson's. I tried so hard to understand him but he sounded like he was speaking gibberish. Love ya Grandad, maybe we'll talk someday

Absolutely wonderful. Thank you!

Stellar Channel.Stellar production .thanks.

Absolutely brilliant love watching that . Thank you.

this is an incredible video - thank you for sharing

Fantastic job on the sound! If I didn't know better I would think it had been filmed with the sound.

Absolute gold this.. Thank you so much for putting this up. I'm from Bootle and found the ending hilarious!!!

Oh my goodness what a find, this is amazing how can I thank you enough awesome!!

What amazing footage. Thanks for sharing 👍

Loved this thanks for all your hard work. 😉👍

So clever are your sound effects and very effective and evocative. This is is one of the best presentations on YT. Brilliant. Riveted and subscribed. Thankyou.

Wonderful labour of love. Every second, appreciated. Thank You.

wow love it ,great footage thanks for sharing

This is am amazing!!!Thankyou

What a wonderful collection of images from the Victorian period in Liverpool and the marvellous legacy of buildings you can still walk past today. At 7.38 North Castle Street that ran into South Castle Street to join Canning Place. I walked this route many times when I worked in Liverpool City Centre in the mid 1960s. Sadly many of Liverpool's main thoroughfares like Scotland Road, Great Homer Street, Netherfield Road and Park Road were lost by the 1970s, while there were Court houses that were overcrowded and unhealthy, a lot of large Victorian houses some with gardens were lost. If only a mix could have been included in new developments. in recent years those marketing refer to the 3 major buildings at the waterfront, as the 3 graces. Seldom is it mentioned they were a legacy of the Victorian Society in Liverpool all those years ago. What would those people make of these areas today.? Victoria Street in the 60s 70s, 80s was a thriving place for business commerce restaurants and small business today it seems soulless.

Thanks for doing this. 🇬🇧👍

Truly wonderful! Thank you for sharing 😄

Can't help but notice how much taller the policemen were, compared to the general public.

Amazing. Thanks so much.

Fantastic film,well done👍thanks for sharing👋👍

Hard times mate,,,great video

I’ve stood in places where those people stood, it feels eerie! Amazing footage

These are the folk who fought WWI!

Absolutely 💯 Amazing I'm from Preston but I have always had a love for Liverpool and I am currently working there a city taxi 🚕 driver Proud to work in the city I love Liverpool

this film archive is a real gem 👍👏👏

Brilliant video

That was fun, thank you!

brilliant video

Love these films of way back when Liverpool was a big city in them days 1890s great to see the city as it was then,, im a Middlesbrough lad born n bred i love watching these films i would of loved to be born in the victorian era,, things were so different back then hard life but not like today,, nice to see old liverpool.

Thank you for this. Closest to a time machine we'll get.

Magnificent colourisation, I predict the next big advance in old film restoration will be to make them pin-sharp instead of blurry. It can currently be done very easily with still photos by using enhancement software but doing it with moving images is in the future.

Very impressive!

Great job! As a reference point, these folks are from 120 years ago and would be like them observing folks from the American Revolution period.

Find it fascinating watching all these people going about their daily routines and wondering where they're going and what they did for a living. To think that these people were part of our history and the evolution of technology/money/policing etc etc is just crazy. I wonder what they'd make of the world they helped build the foundations of.

It all looks so different now. Its upsetting really.how.much has been changed

Brilliant, a step back in time 👌

Fantastic footage, my great grand father was a customs officer in Liverpool at the time.

That was brilliant, the 2 plods in hot pursuit , made me laugh. The days of the hat and the tache.

A couple things noticeable right away; no really old or overweight people.

I was expecting the thief to be wearing a black and white stripey jumper, an eye mask and carrying a sack with 'swag' written on it.

Imagine traveling back in time and showing them your iPad

Love spotting the little human moments like 6:20 where the young maid is transfixed by the camera and doesn’t depart with her group until nudged by her colleague 😄

Fascinating! I know Liverpool well and this is the nearest I'll get to going into a Time Machine. The colour and sound make it very vivid. It's very noticeable how much shorter the men in this time period were compared with men today ( who generally range between 5'10 to 6'). Most of the men in this film look to be in the range of 5'5-5'8. Not tiny ( medium height) but I only noticed one six footer here. Interestingly the women don't look much shorter than women today ( although some of the young uns in their 20s can be 5'8 or above, but mostly they are 5'3-5'7).

I love how they all notice and are encapsulated by the camera, I’m not surprised though, probably a Titan of a machine compared to how tiny you can get them today!

Walk around Liverpool or any where else in England and tell me we've made 'progress'.

Really great video, with such a weird and wonderful feeling to it. Btw is this the same Lee Rymill who taught at West Derby School in 2018?

Fabulous ty

The wonderful technology of film where we can look back into the distant past thanks to the pioneers of film back in the day and the marvelous modern day restoration of these wonderful films

How times change but it's funny even back then people were suspicious of the greedier media.

This is year 1901! 2 Years before my great grandad was born

Brilliant .. so many moustaches obvs men didn’t like their top lip in those days 😂

I was brought up in Bootle and know the Goudie arrest locations well. The pub at the bottom of the stone stairway was known as Mick Healeys in the late 50`s early 60`s presumably after the landlord of the time. Just under the bridge to the left was my infant school. known as the huts a temporary set up for buildings damaged during the war.

My aunt and hubby emigrated to Australia from here in 1926

Here is an article about this footage from the Liverpool Echo: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/stunning-colour-footage-shows-life-20120312

My dogs ears pricked up when the cat sound came on lol

I have a photo taken of my old nan in 1896 in Exchange flags where my great grandfather had a printing business. This film has brought it all to life for me thanks. Just as an aside, did you know Derrick Guyler’s family owned Bunny’s?

Everyone was so slim!

Grandad worked on the trams, got thrown off for drinkin. Think I have one of the last tram tickets to run in Liverpool.

It’s crazy to think that every single person on these films is now dead, 😞

Apparently Goudie got 10 years although he died in 1907 before completing his sentence. I have lived in Liverpool all my life having recently retired. Amazing to see places I know still exist today. They are currently building a 52,000 seat football stadium on Bramley Moore Dock site.

Totally fascinating, and every single person not with us anymore.

i just spotted Paul McCartney's grandfather ...he was the guy with the hat.

The very first episode of Crimewatch. And remember, don't have nightmares.

The "Dockers Umbrella". Did you know Liverpool had the only underground station for an overhead railway. Head out of the city centre on Sefton St. Carry on until you get to the roundabout with Hatfields Jaguar on it. Go left into Nuffield Health car par and you'll see the archway up in the wall with "L.O.Ry Southern Extension" on it.

Fantasic video well done. but I know we didnt have engines but those poor horses must have had a hard time.

Very Impressive restoration.......Just thought All those boys in the band would be Perfect Gun Fodder a few years later in 1914 !!

2:31 "If I pick that fiver off the floor no one will ever know"😁

Bramley Moor Dock! Where our new ground is going to be!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

Maybe the Federal Reserve wasn't such a good idea.

Brilliant

Fabulous stuff. Lumiere bros no less, very impressive.

It was certainly different and life must have been tough compared to all the mod cons and services we have today.

How smartly dressed the people were wonder what they would think of the people now ?????

I need help to go back to this my favourite time.

I swear people looked more stylish than today.

I have done restoration work on liverpool court house i had to reset a gasoline chandalire to electric and restored the old horse tying rails..

Fantastic, if you enjoy this you should watch "Of time and the city" by Terence Davis.

Comments section "It all look so wonderful, everyone in suits, they look great" Reality - Most people working from the age of 8, many in factories or down mines until they eventually die at the ripe of age of 45, if you weren't "lucky" enough to be sent off to fight wars on the other side of the planet.