Devon and Cornwall in 1950s or 60s in wonderful 16mm Kodachrome
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2016
- a truly lovely film of a holiday in the innocent and uncomplicated post war decade. Looe, Plymouth, Dartmoor, the Yealm, Brixham, Torquay, Fowey, Mevagissey - they are all here, and Plymouth. Lovely beach scenes and those ladies dresses!!
Everyone is dressed so smart and beautifully. No track suits, no cheap toot from Topman, no religious garbs.
There's something deeply moving about watching people busy at work that you know are no longer here
I wish those days would come back. Back then Britain was known as GREAT !
Enjoy it while you can, films like this will be deleted for crimes against diversity.
@@tractorhead971exactly the pakis have migrated 😢
Takes me back to my first Cornwall visit in 1957. Never thought I would live here but now been here for nearly 40 years and have three Cornish born grandchildren.
How can anyone not like this? There are some very sad individuals about.
Totally agree. Delightful filming of what looked like a lovely holiday for that family.
Makes you wonder what on earth they expected to find when clicking on something named "Devon and Cornwall in 1950s or 60s in wonderful 16mm Kodachrome" that left them feeling disappointment. :)
Wow, I live in Torquay. So sad to see how it once looked compared to now.
Budget cuts, cutting the grounds budgets has decimated the beautiful gardens we had. falling moral standards, have allowed low lives to live here at our expense.
Still has beauty, but very rough round the edges now.
I agree. My daughter lives there and it's a shadow of its former self.
My God, why the hell is Castle Circus allowed to be a social club for all those junkies/petty criminals? Torquay was in my youth wonderful , but corrupt local politicians pulled down the old town and allowed The Willows to be built and having ruined the town made it a magnet for scuzzers. Sorry, rant over!
@@andrewhoward7200 Exactly. Was working in Torquay yesterday morning. At 7am the Junkies were out in full force, down Factory Row, smoking spice and looking smacked out in doorways, then when I was driving out past Castle Circus, there was a couple of hookers clearly trying to sell themselves. This was all in broad daylight on a Tuesday morning.
You're also hard pressed to actually find someone from Torquay, in Torquay. They're all Scousers, Romanians and Albanians.
@@masterbeethoven8209 Bang on. Send them all back.
@@andrewhoward7200 Have to agree with most of that - Apart from the bit about the willows. Although since the arrival of Amazon I don't shop there either.
Heartbreaking in its innocent, powerful reminder of the simple, undemanding world of family holidays; lost forever!
Oh England, my dear England. ...what has become of you?
What a great Dad you had who's ever he is 😁 playing on the beach, sandcastles, model boats,real boats,fishing trips! I was born in 76 so a bit after that but i still remember Cornwall like that. The smell of fishermans pipe smoke, fish and chips, the smell of the boats and the beer as you walked passed a pub haha!
We used to spend all the school holidays up to 1973 at my Nana and Grandpa's house in Praa Sands. Looking at this film seems like a peek at a lost world.
What a lovely film, really cheering. So glad to see a family really enjoy themselves. I am going to watch again.
Great to see this well filmed piece and on 16mm film. I still have shots of my two girls launching and sailing a Cadet dinghy in Torquay Harbour. And the people are so well dressed long before ISC (international scruff costume) took over. This is the most competent amateur 16mm I have seen, all shots well framed and held long enough for you to take in the scene ,but not too long. Good work for hand held filming.
Oh! For a time machine! 🙂 one that only goes backwards
^This comment above makes all the sense in the world!^
nah everyone says this on these kinds of videos. And you can bet the people in them were saying this about a bygone era before them also. Each generation has it better than the previous one, we work less and get more. We can't complain about what choices of food we can eat nor the medicines that allow us to live much longer. The only thing I wish for was the better dress sense and how no one seems to be hell bent on copying each other with tattoos and material wealth.
@@oo0Spyder0oo ...uh, no! (Rejoinder not necessary)
@@rockyzrockyx917 Took some effort to pull that out of your head eh?
@M B Well it is always better, even if some things seem worse. Technology improves, medicines, longevity increases, and so on. No one is lining up in soup kitchens or dying from diseases that have cures now. And if you don't work, you still get money. Yeah, things are better.
Kodachrome..apart from an S&G song defined a whole generation..Great stuff!!!
How wonderful to see Beautiful Devon & Cornwall from days gone by, And lovely to see SIDMOUTH
I was in `Johnny Frenchman` filmed in Mevagissy in 1944, the whole village was conscripted as extras.
What is a real shame is no one knows their names, I guess all long gone. What a great snap shot in time. No yellow lines and everyone happy.
Travelled back to the UK two year ago and visited Dawlish where I spent many summer holidays in the late 50's . What a sad relic of the town I recall , most of the old B&B's gone and now turned into run down flats . I guess everybody goes to Spain these days !
Yeah Dawlish used to be lush, The Exeter inn Gays Creamery.
A pint of "rough" from a wooden barrel .. Heard the latest incumbents are eating the black swans!!
Brings back many childhood memories thank you.....70 and retired in New Zealand now...2020
Thank you so much for posting this. I spent all my childhood summer holidays at my Nans in Merrymeet 63-66 and Stenalees 67-69. The film of the Mackerel fishing at Mevagissy really made me smile, those big booms, heavy weights and single Mackerel spinners would catch a fish every time the Cornish seas were full of them then and because we went with locals we kept all our catch. Glad to say the sharks at Looe are released alive today, in the 60s there was always one hanging on the big weighing
scales along the harbour wall. Steaming hot Cornish pasties (Oggies) bright yellow Cornish ice cream and Nan's bed time stories of smugglers, wreckers and Cornish 'Piskies' who threw gravel at the car as it drove along a recently surfaced Cornish lanes lol are memories that will stay with me forever. Thank you once again for sharing this excellent film.
What a beautiful country we had back then, a country I was proud to call my home. Now look at the state of it! Just awful.😢
An England largely now long gone I'm sorry to say.
Can't believe how less built up torquay was in those days
It is still lovely here in Devon. Come one April or May, not at the height of the season.
Change is innevitable.
@@paulgilson2347 yeah not for the better I'm afraid
@@chucky2316 In your opinion. I think some things are better, some not, but that's irrelevant. Change will happen one way or another.
Beautiful film, exactly how I remember Pentewan in the 1960's
The sort of thing that makes CZcams so valuable and enjoyable. Devon born and bred, I still visit Torbay where
family still live. I recall so well the scene outside Radio Rentals in Torquay the day England won the World Cup
and the sight of all those hats of the crowd watching the TV sets on show suddenly flying up in the air. A great
day in so many great days back then.
Am I alone in thinking...." What has happened to our country"?!!
The curse of the dinghy.
Definitely not.
Guys get over it I prefer the new modern Britain which is a doner kebab and chips x 2 with 3 bottles of coke all for a fiver!! Modern Britain at its very best that’s what happens when you invent the industrial revolution.
@M B
Cheers bro!
Bill Wellington
. No your not. There's thousands of you pricks on CZcams, spoiling these enjoyable videos with your negative comments.
The navy vessel in Fowey ( 10:45 ) is HMS Virago - she was laid up in Chatham 1955-60 but was part of the Dartmouth training squadron in 1962-63 so this scene is probably from that time.
Thank you.
The large white open launch speeding out of Torquay harbour past the sign reading ,"Dead Slow " is the " Margaret Anne." Owned and skippered by Dickie Cord, she was built in Brixham by Uphams to carry passengers in the summer and trawl for sprats and mackerel in the winter.
The open launch in the scenes of Oddicombe beach is the " Belle", and the speedboat is "Apollo."
The summer passenger trade now is a shadow of the halcyon days up to the early 1970's where most boats were full or nearly full for each trip. We used to run a morning cruise to view Teignmouth, an afternoon cruise to the River Dart and a cruise around Torbay to view the evening illuminations. We also ran all day cruises to Dartmouth landing passengers for lunch, then cruising up to Dittisham and then into Stsrt Bay viewing Torcross and Slapton sands then back to Torquay at 5.00pm.
Interesting stuff "Roy" all first hand knowledge no doubt.....👍
I spent a whole summer, 1971 in Mevagissey. I had a week before arriving, been to the Bardney pop festival. Whist there I met friends who were going back to Mevagissey. We squatted in Cheesewarne Farm. You could walk through Heligan woods to Heligan house, which was unoccupied at the time. I recall a chap called Hilary, who lived in a house in the woods, on the way to Heligan House. I recall Mevagissey was very popular with students during that summer. A roadie with Ian Dury. An chap called Bunnie. I worked as washer upper at a cafe on the front. I forget the name but the owner was very good to us "hippies".
cool . .
1971 was a bit early for Ian Dury?
I grew up near by and turned 13 that summer. I've since met others who were hippies in the area but I was oblivious at the time despite being into the music.
Thank you lots of happy childhood memories now in my 60s
I couldn’t agree more with you Martyn, You can’t beat the GOOD OLD DAYS
What an amazing film of days gone by, when Britain was Great, with full employment, and traditional crafts still being used before the "asset strippers" and the politicians got their claws into it.. Brought back memories of my family holidays in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We stayed in Torquay a few years ago, and visited Babbacombe and the beach, which is sadly a victim of cliff erosion nowadays. With the rest of the world cut off from us at the moment, perhaps holidays like this will come back into fashion.
As a kid growing up in the 50's and 60's this brings back many memories of camping trips to the south west and Wales in granddads 3 wheeler Reliant van. Lol.simpler times. You can still find that charm in the off season.
Thank you very much, great to see how things were around here, with a little sadness though, the older couple wont be with us now
And the kids will be eligible for retirement any time soon! The march of time.
A friend of mine - now well into his 70's - saw himself and his baby sister and parents walking along in one of these Devon/Cornwall videos. It hasn't happened to me yet, but l live in hope.
It never pays to go back and revisit these places.
Beautiful film, I bet it was a lovely time to be alive
Thank you uploading this, a real trip down memory lane. My first visit to Polperro was around the time this was filmed (circa 1959). The quality is amazing considering age and technology.
A beautiful film. Time well spent and safer than flying to Tunisia.
And now Tunisia just comes to us, & stays!
Happy memories of visiting Torguay with my parents in the late 1950s early 60s. we stayed at a guest house owned by Mrs Greenslade in Park Hill road. My father had served in the war with her son Dennis. lovely to see it all as I remember it. Thank you.
The Mayflower replica was begun in 1956 and launched in September '57, so that segment is certainly the 50s. The Torquay film matches my memories of the early 60s (61-63), but could easily be earlier as the 60s didn't really get going until the Beatles came along!
The mini in the final clip puts it no earlier than 1959.
I remember visiting Upham's shipyard and watching the Mayflower II being built. We lived in Torquay and a trip to Brixham often meant a nice crab to take home and prepare for tea! And there was Berry Head, with the fort and lighthouse - I saw an adder there once. Another very early memory is of standing on Corbyn's Head (Down, Jeremy!) watching the Home Fleet sail into Torbay to anchor and wait for the Royal Yacht, carrying the Queen back from her post-Coronation tour of the Commonwealth - the next day, my mother took me on the Western Lady ferry to Brixham and we went through the lines of warships and circled the battleship Vanguard.
The scenes of Babbacombe Down and the cliff railway to Oddicombe Beach also brought back happy memories.
I was born (in 1948) in a nursing home on St Luke's Road, overlooking the Princess Pier and Abbey Sands in Torquay, and I see that the shots looking up at this hill were taken before the 'modern' (now rather faded!) flats were built.
Many thanks to the poster for this lovely set of films!
As the theme song for that lovely sit come "Big Jim and the Figero Club" put it "....before the World turned sour"
2:37-2:50 Duke of Edinburgh's Dragon-class racing yacht 'Bluebottle'. She's still sailing, and came fifth in the World Championships in 2022.
Excellent film . It brought back many happy memories of holidays in Devon and Cornwall , starting as a child in the 1950s , a teenager in the 1960s then married with children in the 1970s.Now holidays in Devon to visit the Grandchildren..
Great film! The reference to 'Verryn' is of course Veryan (in Roseland) but before that is Portloe showing the Lugger Hotel.
Looked a bit run down then ( the hotel) - rather nice now with great food.
What a lovely film. St. Austell is where I was brought up and still live. But when I see films of the fifties, sixties and seventies it looked so much nicer than today. The people looked so pleasant as well, I wonder what the children did in later life?
I grew up in St Austell in the 1970's. Yes it was nicer than it is now although far from perfect. Most of us moved away for work or study when we were 18 and stayed away. Some of us returned later in life when our parents were elderly and needed our care.
@@cornishhh how come most moved away, same reasons as now? - ie no jobs and wanting the city life where there's more going on? Asking bc I'm Cornish and moving away after uni
@@manvesh97 Pretty much. Also there was no higher education except for Plymouth Polytechnic which was too far away for most Cornish kids to live at home whilst still getting a student social experience.
Same places we go to today but different people. I was a little boy when this was filmed now I’m a grandfather. Few could go to Spain for holiday in those days that’s why the beaches were packed tight.
Thank you for sharing. This is gorgeous!
Amazing footage, beautiful memories 👏
Lovely film, and such lovely quality images. Thanks for up loading.
This wasn't filmed it was painted, magical and beautiful, stayed for 6 months in Burnt Oaks in Devon with an aunt, she worked as a WREN during the war, as a child I was fascinated by a bagful of cap badges the soldiers she had treated had given her, regards Ireland!
The scene in Torquay just after the cliff railway.
The house all that way back from the cliff edge, it fell into the sea around 5 years ago.
RandR ......damn that’s some serious cliff face erosion over a relatively short time!
I live in Babbacombe, and yes England has been seriously eroded in many ways. But, the world's population has increased (from 1950), more than three-fold, finite resources spread-out yet further. World populous searching for better pickings moving about the planet no longer respecting boundaries, all the while our little island is physically shrinking. And, this is just the beginning! Nature though will address the imbalance and reset the system, its pendulum is also - always moving.
I am a Texan by birth and come from a long line of native Texans. I say the same about my state . I have to call it a " state " because it is connected to the united states by treaty . at one time , Texas was it's own country with its own laws , army , and navy . the governments of Britain , and France recognized it as an independent country and had ambassadorships there .the united states wanted Texas tied yo it as a bulwark against Mexico and Spain as the states were a protestant country and Mexico and Spain as is well known is heavily Catholic . my Texas , my " country " has fallen to the depravity of America because ots
Been to most off them places in the 70 s. With my family. And out west highland terror. Got quite emotional.
Beautiful films and lovely memories. Thank you for posting.
The real England, sadly no more.
Fuck the years to come. I want to go back and be born around the 40s. No pride,no self respect,no honour and no morals in people these days. Everything looked so beautiful back then,everything kept prim+proper.
superb filming for its age
What an absolutely charming film, beautiful!
Thank you. I really enjoyed this. How things have changed😊
Absolute Magic...
West Country... Vibrant... Beautiful. Thank You for sharing.
The Mayflower II is shown at ( 9:02 ) to ( 9:13 )
The date of filming in Brixham is probably after July 1955 through September 1956. There are ships in this film that have known dates in ports, which can further narrow the dates of filming at those given ports.
Name: Mayflower II
Namesake: Mayflower
Owner: Plimoth Plantation
Builder: Upham Shipyard, Brixham, Devon
Laid down: July 27, 1955
Launched: September 22, 1956
Happy Days, life was getting better after the war and the seaside towns were clean and had beautiful parks and gardens.
Amazing footage. Thanks!!
Simple thank you for sharing, made my day.
Wonderful footage, a 16 mm camera would have been very expensive and likewise colurs film stock and processing, thanks for the upload, remember Looe in 61, Weymouth in 63 and Torquay in 65 as a kid.
Lovely film to how life was once in the UK, but it also shows the short span of ones life with all the stresses along the way, not been to Cornwall for some 25 years and for sure the modern buildings would have changed the original old world character and charm that was the attraction, as modern buildings seem to sterilize beauty.
Many,,thanks,,for,,this,,wee,gem,,,,happy,,happy,,,memories
I am Irish but remember holidays with my parents in that part of the world in the sixties ....great to see a varnished Cadet dinghy like those I learned to sail in and splendid wooden Dragons ...no fiberglass boats then
Fabulous footage, I certainly echo all the positive comments. Also great to hear some relevant anecdotes. I can’t help thinking it would be helpful, especially for some of us younger CZcamsrs (I’m only 66), to add a version with a suitable soundtrack and/or maybe some relevant commentary.
Thanks so much for sharing this!
Brilliantly done!
This is why we’re in the top 3 favourite counties
Great video, I'll bet they watched that many a time on their projector and screen at home.
I would at least say the last few minutes of the video would be no earlier than 1959 onwards. Because the red Mini they came out in that year. The Austin A40 parked next to a Ford Prefect or Anglia or Poplar i believe the Austin A40 came out in the early 1960's. Lovely video some of those places shown of Cornwall bring back many happy memories for me with my family 👍
I agree with your 1959 onwards assessment- the Ford next to the A40 (1958 - ) was a Popular (distinguishable from Prefects and Anglias by its different rear light units), which came out in 1959. I really must get a life........!
The ship “Compton Castle”, visible from approx 7:06, ended up moored at Lemon Quay, Truro, Cornwall.
Used to see it every day, had a business in Truro Pannier Market.
@@Thursdaym2 used to catch the bus back to Aggie from the bus park by the toilets...
What an endearing family holiday film recording. A rural landscape during an idyllic period. I feel nostalgic when I watch this. By the way, at 22:17 there appears to be a Mini Mark I (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini#Mark_I_Mini:_1959%E2%80%931967) for an identical model; therefore we are looking at Summer 1959 at the very earliest. I wish England could be like this again!
To date this film, I can only go by the two cars towards the end.
The blue Austin A40 was launched towards the end of 1958, at a guess this is circa 1959 or very early 1960s, I'd say the latter.
Excellent!
Brilliant
Sensational!
Daphne du Maurier's house (Ferryside) in Fowey, far right of picture, at 11:07
That film of the Mayflower replica must have been taken circa 1957-8 as I remember seeing it as a very young lad on holiday in Brixham . I was looking out for my parents and me ! :0)
Wonderful looking place...what wonderful days they must have been. A little music in the background would be nice
Wow. Interesting.
The Compton Castle paddle steamer as seen on the Dart River is now land-locked in Truro as a cafe, looking very sad too.
Live in Torquay so this is nice
The paddle steamer Compton Castle (7:06) still exists, in a much altered form. It's stuck in a blocked off part of Lemon Quay in Truro. Last time I saw it, it was a florists shop and cafe.
Still there.....restaurant......at least was a few weeks ago! Didn’t know it was the Compton Castle!
This was filmed in 1955, the Mayflower II is being built filmed in Brixham. Ahh thisw as filmed over a number of years, later there is a blue Austin A40 Farina launched in 1958.
hi Steve, I'm makign a small non for profdit documentary on my mother and need a couple shots from a 1960s beach. Would it be possible to use about 5-8 seconds from this video?
16mins in video looks like my dad and grandad 👍
I wonder if the ladder is still on the rock at looe?
Wonderful piece of footage. It makes me feel so nostalgic for the days when you could put a CZcams video up and not find the comment section full of people moaning about immigrants.
I would like to know what make of 16mm movie camera produced such sharp images?
Kodachrome stock was extremely slow, but also extremely sharp. Most 16mm cameras of that time had good lenses.
Great film. What is the property at 20:48 and does it still exist? Cheers,
Yeeey I’m a Mevagissey maid x
What a wonderful film! Anyone got a time machine?
Before it all became New Surrey.
22:37 is the house of shells in Polperro
23:53 Between late August 1959 when mini first came out - and August 1962 when a suffix letter was added to registration numbers as part of national scheme. I'd guess 1960/61. Watch out for the talented Mr Ripley at 14:48
At 9:16 purportedly shows the Mayflower Ii being built. That would roughly date this segment of the film between July 1955 and September 1956. Source en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_II
August 63 added suffix in some licensing authorities, but not all, think it became compulsory in Jan 65, C suffix.
Thanks Steve - much better quality cine film than I used to take in the 1960s! Is this from your own family archives and, if so, are you the boy in the later scenes, or are you a generation later than that?
It's 1960's as there are Mirror Dingy's, which were first sold in 1962.
Where are the Mirror dinghies?
Not sure about that, it shows the Mayflower II being constructed which dates it to 1955 or 1956, the general clothing looks more fifties too.
@@tree267
Agreed.
It looks very 1950s.
Those dinghies with the letter C on the sail are Cadets. Mirror dinghies have red sails.
The Mini towards the end has a 1960 Cornish plate. I didn't see any Mirror dinghies. That BOB catamaran at Polperro would have been pretty new.
I'd say it was filmed on different holidays from the mid fifties to the very early sixties.
filmed '59 onwards due to the Mini that appears at the end??
The Mini had a 1960 Cornish plate. I'd guess it was filmed at different times, but the last was very early sixties.
It’s filmed over 3 or 4 years