These two videos show people going around their everyday lives in London. The Open Road London 1920 takes us on a fascinating tour of London, with Petticoat Lane between 6' and 6'30. Petticoat Lane 1903 shows how busy the market has always been, and also how much has changed over the last century.
Whilst watching it I've been singing the well known lines from O God our help in ages past to myself.
Time, like an ever rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly, forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
The people on these videos were going about their everyday, modern lives. Our lives are fleeting, our time precious.
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