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Great to watch a classic medium pace bowler in action.They are master craftsmen,much more so than the speed merchants.Others of this type that I was privileged to see were Tom Cartwright,Tony Nicholson and David R.Smith of Gloucestershire.Sadly,I don't think they would have done so well,in the horrible t20 or even worse hundred slogget forms,which are heavily weighted in favour of the batsman.

Hello Pete could we make contact again please regarding the TITLARK and other Hartnell films

Indeed, but most of the captions are incorrect !

I enjoyed the insane end of the pier organ music. What's that piece of music called?

Pretty much unchanged today:-))

One of the game's great characters!😊

Thanks for this. Can almost hear the screech of wheels on rails around that tight curve. The Bulleids formed a big part of my childhood. Grandad was a relief stationmaster living at Southampton (St Denys) and then Hamworthy. He popped up everywhere between Weymouth and Eastleigh. We’d take the train to Poole or Hamworthy Junction from Southampton Central and were always a bit disappointed if a West Country, BoB or Merchant Navy wasn’t in charge. Grandad didn’t like wearing his stationmaster’s cap, he liked the later BR one even less. So we got to wear the original with its gold wire and blow his BR(S) Acme Thunderer whistle. He preferred a trilby to top his suit and waistcoat. The one time we saw Grandad wear ‘our’ cap was when he met Miss World off the train at Bournemouth when she returned to her home-town. There was never a shortage of coal for the stove in the stationmasters’ offices and the heat was as ferocious as the footplate of some of the engines Grandad got us the occasional ride on when shunting in the yard at Bournemouth or Poole. The best visits were to signal boxes to pay the signalman and the magic of bells and gleaming brass. Best ever trip was the Ford Zodiac taxi from Romsey that took us with Grandad to pay the signalmen and crossing keepers on the Salisbury line. Second best was walking the boat train with the flagman through the streets of Weymouth to meet the S.S. Caesarea at the quayside. Third was a visit to the new electronic signal box at Eastleigh (early 70s?) and see the train movements up to and down from Basingstoke. That seemed to signal the end of an era almost as much the scrapping of steam on the Southern in the previous decade.

Not that I don't like it, but a very odd bit of background music - 'Aces High', the Luftwaffe March from the 'Battle of Britain' film rearranged to be played on the organ.

Shame about the careless miss spelling of Bournmouth.

im related to derek through my mums nan so my great nan.

Great film.Whos the organist?and which organ?

Great pictures of a wonderful cricket ground (tree included)

Greg Lake's(ELP, King Crimson) hometown. Cheers!

great compilation of southern steam including foreign power

ohh thats so different from today

Thanks for posting. My Father was an evacuee in Poole during WWII, looked after by the family of the Gasworks Manager. The Manager was very upset, said my Father, to hear news that a collier bringing supplies to the gasworks had been sunk by enemy action enroute (I think) from Newcastle. If anyone has any information about the vessel involved and I hope, news too of any survivors of the attack that would be appreciated.

may he rest in peace

I think Shack was less likely to bowl a beamer than almost any other bowler

Roy Marshall has to be one of the most entertaining batsmen of all time...And Shack is without doubt the best line and length bowler the game's ever seen.

I suspect that even if the area hadn'r have been filled in, the caves would have been blocked off for safety reasons. It was a bit of a rite of passage when we were boys and it definitely wasn't an activity you told your parents about.

I remember those caves too, was just Googling to see if there was any mention of them. Even at under 10 years old I barely fit through them. Yes there were 3 entrances and they did join up. It was fairly scary crawling through there, and it had to be very dangerous too.

Watching Sainsbury bat...YAWN!!!

Tell me... Have HCCC stopped collecting for David Turner's benefit year yet??

Cricket from back in the days when players played for their County Cap - not their County "baseball-styled" Cap...!

Cricket from back in the day when, when a batsman reached his century, he duly held his bat aloft to acknowledge the applause of the spectators present... Nowadays, however, he does same mainly for the benefit of his team mates who emerge from their dressing room clapping wiidly with their hands above their heads in apparent wonderment at his "achievment"!

Have you got any footage of the infamous Gentlemen v Players game of July 1864...??

the man was a bowling machine; I haven't seen a better line & length bowler

excellent stuff! thanks very much for uploading :)

Not much changed here until the late 1960s

And the smell of the gasworks! Lovely piece of film on an activity never to be repeated

Very nice to see; I'd like to see more pics / vids of Bournemouth West as it's an interesting example of a small terminus.

Any chance she can be brought back to Blighty, for restoration like the Medway Queen, or will she be left to rot like the paddle steamer "Ryde? I saw her yesterday looking very forlorn in a dock in Dunkirk. I note she no longer has her steam engine, unlike Ryde or Medway queen. Johnnie b

Looks like he just bowled a beamer or at least a high-pitched full toss.....at that trajectory !!!!

She would be beautiful on the Ohio River!

Nice footage.

Gosh, I could have been on that train (probably wasn't, but not impossible though!)

Lovely clip of film, never seen this one before. Good stuff

Further to my post below.... Google {Bourne Valley Tramway} to see an article written by Alan Wilson in 1962.

Fascinating video. My friend moved to Branksome from Twickenham four years ago and when I visit we always go to Poole Quay to have a drink and watch some live music. We watched the World cup game England Vs Germany in The Jolly Sailor Inn at 0:34. It's great to see what it used to be like as a working quay. One thing I would love to see is some footage of the old Bourne Valley Pottery and it's tramway to local clay pits...The Bourne Valley tramway. I don't suppose anyone knows of any old movie?

nice little layout....good stuff

Yes, Up until the late 1960s tourists were not encouraged, as it was intended to be a "working quay". Interesting seeing the coal transporter again - my Grandfather (1896-1977) worked for the Bournemouth Gas Undertaking, and I gather that once while working on the "gantry", he slipped and almost fell, but was saved by hanging on by one foot until he was pulled back up- a very near miss

at 26 is that the train track now that there driving over?

How could anyone give this less than 5 stars? Thanks mate.....wish the council would put out a compilation dvd of all this stuff-cheers!

What a shame they didn't film more of the town instead of the street names.

Always good to see archive footage, keep uploading!

Wonderful stuff. Brings back 50 year old memories when I had a Hornby Dublo 3-rail set for Christmas. One N2 with some goods wagons, and my grandparents bought a couple of carriages. What you have there must be worth a small fortune.

priceless

Incredible film which includes unque view of J Bolson's TITLARK pleasure boat entering Poole Harbour on a cruise starting from Bournemouth East Beach Jetty...From The Curator of the Bolson/Croson Archive...Do you have any more Nooypete?

that's fantastic, Noodypete - you keep coming up with these gems, brilliant :)