vintage everyday: Early Footage Captured English Traffic Scenes …

According to British Path ¹ this film may include the world’s earliest moving image of a steam powered road vehicle. The footage captured early English traffic scenes in various locations and various dates from between 1896-1903.
A full breakdown of the film is below:

• Sunderland Bridge (1896) – Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

• Boar Lane, Leeds (1903) – Pedestrians, horse carts wagons and electric tram cross large open cross roads near Boar Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire.

• Outside The Bank of England, London (1897) – Dense horse drawn traffic in front of the Bank, a few pedestrians try to pick their way between the buses and carriages.

• Hyde Park Corner, London (1897) – Hyde Park corner looking towards the park gates, pedestrians crowd the pavements, carriages and horse buses pass by.

• Newcastle Street, Tyne and Wear (1903) – Motor wagon, motor car, and horse drawn wagon pass along street, pavement is lined with onlookers.

• Westminster Bridge, London – View across bridge to House of Parliament and Big Ben. Traffic passes in foreground.

• Tower Bridge, London – Views of horse drawn buses and traffic crossing Bridge.

• Empire Theatre – Ext of cinema showing Lumiere films.

  Handsome cabs draw up.

• Piccadilly Circus, London – Statue of Eros.

  People walk in foreground.

  Buses carry adverts for Cadbury’s and Lipton’s. (Some shots repeated).

• Horseguard’s Parade, London – Short bleak shot of cavalry soldiers riding.

• Bradford Square, Yorkshire (1903) – Square at Bradford crowded with pedestrians, civilian band crosses square watched by small crowd a steam tram also crosses the square.

• London Bridge, London (1896) – View across the bridge with horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians crossing the bridge.

• Street Entertainers (Minstrels) – Blacked up entertainers sing and dance to a small crowd in the open street.

References

1. ^{^} British Path (www.youtube.com)

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