Great to see King George V. We went on that trip around Mull visiting Iona too, must have been about 1969 as I was 10 years old. It was a fantastic holiday and sunny all the time!
Wonderful to see Waverley, Columba, etc here. So many memories. I especially enjoyed seeing KGV on the Sacred Isles tour, which I did on her from Oban with my parents and brother. How lucky are we to still have Waverley to sail on? Thanks so much for posting this. I was a teenager again, not an OAP!
Sailed to Inner Hebridees (Coll) many times on MV Columba in the 70s. Me and my dad we drive up through the night from Glasgow to Oban and she would sail about 6.00 am. She's no longer a car ferry but she's doing tours for the well heeled! They renamed her Hebridean Princess.
I was in Oban High School at the time, and the old King George had finished her season for tourists to cruise. We could hear her blowing her horn all the way down the Sound of Kerrera, as she left for Greenock till next year's tourists arrived. She was a lovely ship, and had gone to Dunkirk during the WW2, to take the troops back to England, with the German army hard on their heels.
There is something magnificent about steam ships. They came from a way of life that has disappeared sadly. I presume those cattle belonged to crofters, do they still carry on this practice today? Amazing that the Waverley is still going after a long refit and hopefully will be in the Bristol Channel again in the summer.
Seems a very high quality conversin to digital, how did you do it? I have the Cardiff queen picking up and dropping pilots on the way to the isles of Scilly. The commercial company I used had too many blocky artifacts. Yours doesn't.
I went on holiday as a boy in the 1960s to Rothesay with my parents, grandparents, brothers & sister on the Waverley, which made a stopover at Wemyss Bay! (It's to bad the boat didn't fly a SCOTTISH flag instead of that English red rag.)
Great to see King George V. We went on that trip around Mull visiting Iona too, must have been about 1969 as I was 10 years old. It was a fantastic holiday and sunny all the time!
Me too done same trip with my wee grandmother same year I was 12 .
Wonderful to see Waverley, Columba, etc here. So many memories. I especially enjoyed seeing KGV on the Sacred Isles tour, which I did on her from Oban with my parents and brother. How lucky are we to still have Waverley to sail on? Thanks so much for posting this. I was a teenager again, not an OAP!
Excellent quality footage and a very good camera man/woman. Thanks for posting.
I like the way you've added sound to silent footage - the music is quiet compared to the gulls, but that only serves to give it a wistful effect.
Not all things have changed for the better. A wonderful slower life.
Sailed to Inner Hebridees (Coll) many times on MV Columba in the 70s. Me and my dad we drive up through the night from Glasgow to Oban and she would sail about 6.00 am. She's no longer a car ferry but she's doing tours for the well heeled! They renamed her Hebridean Princess.
I was in Oban High School at the time, and the old King George had finished her season for tourists to cruise. We could hear her blowing her horn all the way down the Sound of Kerrera, as she left for Greenock till next year's tourists arrived. She was a lovely ship, and had gone to Dunkirk during the WW2, to take the troops back to England, with the German army hard on their heels.
There is something magnificent about steam ships. They came from a way of life that has disappeared sadly. I presume those cattle belonged to crofters, do they still carry on this practice today?
Amazing that the Waverley is still going after a long refit and hopefully will be in the Bristol Channel again in the summer.
I remember climbing into small boats to visit Iona from the kgv. Must have been about 6, scary. Lovely reminder.
Seems a very high quality conversin to digital, how did you do it? I have the Cardiff queen picking up and dropping pilots on the way to the isles of Scilly. The commercial company I used had too many blocky artifacts. Yours doesn't.
Nice video but a shame that it doesn’t highlight place names, steamer names, years etc
I went on holiday as a boy in the 1960s to Rothesay with my parents, grandparents, brothers & sister on the Waverley, which made a stopover at Wemyss Bay! (It's to bad the boat didn't fly a SCOTTISH flag instead of that English red rag.)