I was a 19 year old St Ives beatnik in 1969 and I was sitting here tearing up watching this and remembering how it was and what has gone. I now live high on the west Penwith hills. Thank you so much for posting this.
Am 71 yrs of age and consider myself fortunate to have lived through this technological revolution. However I'm not nostalgic and live very much in the now. Am definitely happier then I was back then and as for feeling safer? Personally I have less fear and if you reflect on the state of the world there was threat of nuclear war in 1962, wars going on in general including the cold war and apartheid being practised, so not a lot has changed in that sense. Yes there's more crime but then there's 4 times the amount of so called humans on the planet, crime has always been around. Thanks for this upload Nigel, great to see the technology available being put to good use.
At 2 minutes 42 secs , to the right of the church , a yellow building with a red roof , Towan Blystra children's home , i spent about 4 years there as a youngster , many happy memories .
Love this ,the days when Cornwall seemed like a different country and a long way away ,no modernisation ,extensions, pvc and both ,love the music as background from 1969.
This is how I remember it and I was 2.5 when this film was made. We used to holiday in Mother Ivy's Bay and now I am lucky enough to live in Cornwall. To be honest, lots of this footage depicts the reality today, in North Cornwall. I live in the Clays, and things have changed a bit in 55 years but not as much as some might think. 😊
Thank you for theses lovely time traveling films..times of good decent hard working people and such nicer times .I'll never get bored of these..good for making us smile again.😊
My first visit to Newquay and St Ives was as an 8 year old in the summer of 69. Kept an eye open to look for my family in the film. Sadly no sign of us!!
Nigel, thanks so much for taking the time to restore and upload these gems. We all think we'll live forever and believe we'll never be forgotten, but within two or three generations, nobody will remember us. I was born in Cornwall and still live here. Days out to St Ives were very special, and these were in the '60s and '70s, so it's great to see how it used to look. I always thought Camborne was quite a pretty town, but seeing this footage of it has proved me wrong. It's a dump now, it was a little less of a dump back then. Dad used to take us out in the Ford Anglia. Mum, dad, three kids and the dog. It was a tight squeeze! Parks today are generally just grass and a few shrubs, but until the 1980s full-time gardeners would do a wonderful job of maintaining the flower beds, which would be full of scented roses, red hot pokers and tulips. Was everyone happier then? I'm not so sure, but the past sure as hell seems an attractive place compared to now.
Nice seeing one of my favourite parts of the world in 1969, 4 years before I was born and 19 years before I was first aquainted with this beautiful county, (Aug. 1988) Newquay area, rented caravan on a family holiday. College field trip to St Ives, May 1993 and from the late 2000s periodicaly since. Still a special knda place for me. Cornwall has a certain 'magic' about it.
I first remember being in Cornwall on holiday with my family in 1978, as a fourteen year old. I thought it was beautiful. I went again in 1985 as a 21 year old. Such wonderful memories. 🥰
Amazing to see how in 1969 the older generation were still wearing collared shirt and tie on holiday. I live in Cornwall and it's extremely rare to see that now - so rare that you do a double-take when you see it. I know from my own early holidays in Cornwall (probably 1972/3 was the first) that getting down here by car was like an obstacle course - the road went though the middle of every little town and village -none were by-passed - and from where we lived in Hertfordshire it could easily take 12 hours to get to Penzance. We do that same route now to visit relatives remaining in Herts and It seldom takes more than 4-5 hours sometimes 6-7 at peak summer or if there is some issue on the motorways. In short Cornwall is a LOT more easily accessible now than it was - and that has changed its character a lot. Cornwall used to be a decidely "other" land where many of the locals seemed convinced it was still 1955! One very funny memory was that at St Just we found a chipshop which - I kid you not - closed for lunch - but that difference made the holiday something special and different. BUT that "otherness" also had a dark side - very few people, especially youngsters, could make a decent living in Cornwall from tourism which was the only mass employer. Consequently a lot of people - esp younger people - left. Decades of that meant that hoards of retirees and 2nd homers poured into Cornwall - powered by nostaligia for the days we see here and because housing was far cheaper than in many other places. However the effect of that has been to push up house prices in most places to a point around (or above) the national average - which again is disadvantaging the younger people. In places like Padstow (or Padstein as it is known now due to the Rick Stein connection) houses with asking prices in the millions are not at all rare. Despite all that, until the early 2000s there were few non-seasonal jobs available and even fewer jobs that offered a good salary and a career path. Since about 2004 the EU had put a lot of grant money into Cornwall (more than Westminster had put into the Cornwall since WW2 in fact). That money was used to upgrade the A30 and to provide seed money for numerous new small businesses in growth sectors like robotics, 3d printing, design agencies, logistics and finance specialties. Nonetheless - Cornwall voted to leave the EU - statistically this was because the incomers voted "leave" and a lot of the indigenous younger people did not vote. It remains to be seen whether the London government will put as much regeneration grant money money into Cornwall as was scheduled to come from the EU - the signs so far are not good. Cornwall remains an "Other" land in some senses - but not like it was. It is unique in several ways - for example within the county the furthest you can get from the sea is 17.5 miles. Because the country is surrounded by sea most places are a lot closer. Although Cornwall is just about 70 miles from when you cross over the River Tamar at Launceston to when you roll into the car park at Lands End - the hugely irregular shape of the coastline means that we have over 400 miles of actual coastline and beaches. Also Cornwall gets some wild weather since a lot of Atlantic storms come ashore in Cornwall first. Add to that the huge varieties of landscape from the high slate hills of the north to the granite harbours and lush valleys of the south there is still a lot of peace and tranquility to be had from a holiday here if you avoid the major hotspots such as Newquay, St Ives, and St Austell areas - and of course Padstein which is a really good place to get royally ripped off! A day out in the city of Truro is always lovely and exploring the many harbours and inlets of the north coast and places like Bude and Perranporth are a joy on the right day.
Hello neighbour! Wosson? I was born in Redruth and lived there until I was 18. You're right about a day out in Truro. In the 1960s a trip to Truro was unbelievably exciting for me. It was NINE miles away! And it seemed like another world, with its cathedral, which somehow has always looked ancient but was only finished in 1910, so in the 1960s it was barely 50 years old. Mum and dad would always take us to one of the department stores for our lunch - mushrooms on toast for me. We never ate mushrooms at home, so this was a proper treat and we thought it was posh. Dreckley.
One the most fantastic pieces of film I’ve ever seen . Pure English history right there . Thank god for a history lesson that I really enjoyed . So kind of you to share
Thank you Nigel. A measure of patience ! My first visit to Cornwall was 1975 with a group of friends aged 19 to 34. The few in their 30s had children between 7 & 11. We camped & (static) caravanned at Kennack Sands. Hayle, Helston, St Mawes et al were superb.What A wonderful life we enjoyed.
Thanks for taking the time and effort of uploading this. At 5:21 I caught a glimpse of the awning of my late uncle’s shop, William A. Vage, jewellers located in New Bridge Street in Truro. The Rising Sun pub in St Mawes shown at about 6:20 is still there.
This feels raher special watching this, thank you. I was two, was born in Truro, but we left when I was four. Returned to see friends of parents now and then and alway felt very at home!
i wouldnt swap my childhood in the 60s and 70s for the present horrible place we live in , safer , decent music , pubs , railways , you could get a get a bus , neighbours actually spoke to you , grateful for a weeks holiday in bridlington , nothing banned from school ( marbles , conkers , piggyback fighting allowed then ) , christ knows how we have descended into the shambles of a society we live in now
Noticed the clip ,travelling through Carbis Bay the road was amazing with new tarmac 😊 not a pothole in sight. Oh and the sea looked a nicer shade of blue in 69😂
yes the colour puts real life into it, you cannot describe to anyone that did not live in those times how nice this country actually was, now, seemingly overloaded and saturated with too much of everything. Been in Cornwall since'90 and the amount of change I've seen, and not one thing has changed for the better. Most of the cars I know and all made in this country, coming from Brum we made everything up there, the only thing this country makes now is a mess of itself. Used to have milk-bars in those days, little bus tickets from a conductor, ten bob notes... I could go on
My First of Many Cornish Experiences was a Week of Sandy Sunny Bliss on Fistral Beach 🏝️ In the Sea So much I Nearly developed Flippers 😁 I remember Body Boarding on a peice of Plywood and watching the Experts waxing up their Boards Around their V Dub Vans/Micro Busses parked at the back of the Beach before those current Buildings Appeared, in the 70’s, also the Drama involving Wasps in the Fanta 🥤🍊😂🏄🏻♂️🥟🏴☠️ Appy Dayz - Thanks Mom n Dad 💛🙏🏻
Those Turkish barbers are invading every high street in this country ! These people are coming to this country on the daily dinghy crossings every day !!! & Get everything !!!!
From the cars, I would date this rather to 1966 or 1967. I can't think that the gentlefolk pictured (the subject of the film) would have approved of your "Top of the Pops" music choice - they are the same age as my grandmother, and she went more in the direction of Maurice Chevalier or Bing Crosby. The last place "Curlews" was clearly their accommodation in St. Ives, and they went everywhere in a double decker bus, how cute.
Born 1970, went to Devon, Cornwall a few times in 70's cannot remember much but drove from Southend-on-Sea , been living in NZ 40 yrs now. No cellphones no idiots making stupid dik toks videos, good times.
In cornwall now. The coastal areas are really nice but the little villages in between are a bit run down and neglected. Especially the old mining areas.
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Lovely film. It reminds me of what we have lost.
Very much so
I was a 19 year old St Ives beatnik in 1969 and I was sitting here tearing up watching
this and remembering how it was and what has gone. I now live high on the west Penwith
hills. Thank you so much for posting this.
Does any one else want to go back to that time? Happier and safer times.
Yes, and we could all go and see The Beatles.
Hasn't anyone built that time machine yet
Am 71 yrs of age and consider myself fortunate to have lived through this technological revolution. However I'm not nostalgic and live very much in the now. Am definitely happier then I was back then and as for feeling safer? Personally I have less fear and if you reflect on the state of the world there was threat of nuclear war in 1962, wars going on in general including the cold war and apartheid being practised, so not a lot has changed in that sense. Yes there's more crime but then there's 4 times the amount of so called humans on the planet, crime has always been around. Thanks for this upload Nigel, great to see the technology available being put to good use.
Yes please 🙏 1969...I'd be 7.....Elvis singing in the Ghetto.....parents Alive...alls good
@71_OnTheUp love this comment. Too many rose tinted spectacles online!
At 2 minutes 42 secs , to the right of the church , a yellow building with a red roof , Towan Blystra children's home , i spent about 4 years there as a youngster , many happy memories .
Love this ,the days when Cornwall seemed like a different country and a long way away ,no modernisation ,extensions, pvc and both ,love the music as background from 1969.
Thank you
Absolutely spot on...how I remember it aged 7
This is how I remember it and I was 2.5 when this film was made. We used to holiday in Mother Ivy's Bay and now I am lucky enough to live in Cornwall. To be honest, lots of this footage depicts the reality today, in North Cornwall. I live in the Clays, and things have changed a bit in 55 years but not as much as some might think. 😊
I would go back in a heart ♥️ beat Great video 👍
Thank you for theses lovely time traveling films..times of good decent hard working people and such nicer times .I'll never get bored of these..good for making us smile again.😊
Thank you
My first visit to Newquay and St Ives was as an 8 year old in the summer of 69.
Kept an eye open to look for my family in the film. Sadly no sign of us!!
Nigel, thanks so much for taking the time to restore and upload these gems. We all think we'll live forever and believe we'll never be forgotten, but within two or three generations, nobody will remember us. I was born in Cornwall and still live here. Days out to St Ives were very special, and these were in the '60s and '70s, so it's great to see how it used to look. I always thought Camborne was quite a pretty town, but seeing this footage of it has proved me wrong. It's a dump now, it was a little less of a dump back then.
Dad used to take us out in the Ford Anglia. Mum, dad, three kids and the dog. It was a tight squeeze! Parks today are generally just grass and a few shrubs, but until the 1980s full-time gardeners would do a wonderful job of maintaining the flower beds, which would be full of scented roses, red hot pokers and tulips. Was everyone happier then? I'm not so sure, but the past sure as hell seems an attractive place compared to now.
Many thanks for the comment.
Nice seeing one of my favourite parts of the world in 1969, 4 years before I was born and 19 years before I was first aquainted with this beautiful county, (Aug. 1988) Newquay area, rented caravan on a family holiday. College field trip to St Ives, May 1993 and from the late 2000s periodicaly since. Still a special knda place for me. Cornwall has a certain 'magic' about it.
Newquay was my fave holiday destination as a child.
I first remember being in Cornwall on holiday with my family in 1978, as a fourteen year old. I thought it was beautiful. I went again in 1985 as a 21 year old. Such wonderful memories. 🥰
Amazing to see how in 1969 the older generation were still wearing collared shirt and tie on holiday. I live in Cornwall and it's extremely rare to see that now - so rare that you do a double-take when you see it.
I know from my own early holidays in Cornwall (probably 1972/3 was the first) that getting down here by car was like an obstacle course - the road went though the middle of every little town and village -none were by-passed - and from where we lived in Hertfordshire it could easily take 12 hours to get to Penzance. We do that same route now to visit relatives remaining in Herts and It seldom takes more than 4-5 hours sometimes 6-7 at peak summer or if there is some issue on the motorways. In short Cornwall is a LOT more easily accessible now than it was - and that has changed its character a lot.
Cornwall used to be a decidely "other" land where many of the locals seemed convinced it was still 1955! One very funny memory was that at St Just we found a chipshop which - I kid you not - closed for lunch - but that difference made the holiday something special and different. BUT that "otherness" also had a dark side - very few people, especially youngsters, could make a decent living in Cornwall from tourism which was the only mass employer. Consequently a lot of people - esp younger people - left. Decades of that meant that hoards of retirees and 2nd homers poured into Cornwall - powered by nostaligia for the days we see here and because housing was far cheaper than in many other places. However the effect of that has been to push up house prices in most places to a point around (or above) the national average - which again is disadvantaging the younger people. In places like Padstow (or Padstein as it is known now due to the Rick Stein connection) houses with asking prices in the millions are not at all rare. Despite all that, until the early 2000s there were few non-seasonal jobs available and even fewer jobs that offered a good salary and a career path. Since about 2004 the EU had put a lot of grant money into Cornwall (more than Westminster had put into the Cornwall since WW2 in fact). That money was used to upgrade the A30 and to provide seed money for numerous new small businesses in growth sectors like robotics, 3d printing, design agencies, logistics and finance specialties. Nonetheless - Cornwall voted to leave the EU - statistically this was because the incomers voted "leave" and a lot of the indigenous younger people did not vote. It remains to be seen whether the London government will put as much regeneration grant money money into Cornwall as was scheduled to come from the EU - the signs so far are not good.
Cornwall remains an "Other" land in some senses - but not like it was. It is unique in several ways - for example within the county the furthest you can get from the sea is 17.5 miles. Because the country is surrounded by sea most places are a lot closer. Although Cornwall is just about 70 miles from when you cross over the River Tamar at Launceston to when you roll into the car park at Lands End - the hugely irregular shape of the coastline means that we have over 400 miles of actual coastline and beaches. Also Cornwall gets some wild weather since a lot of Atlantic storms come ashore in Cornwall first. Add to that the huge varieties of landscape from the high slate hills of the north to the granite harbours and lush valleys of the south there is still a lot of peace and tranquility to be had from a holiday here if you avoid the major hotspots such as Newquay, St Ives, and St Austell areas - and of course Padstein which is a really good place to get royally ripped off! A day out in the city of Truro is always lovely and exploring the many harbours and inlets of the north coast and places like Bude and Perranporth are a joy on the right day.
Wow! Thank you for the time and effort you have put into this. I certainly learnt a lot from reading your comments.
Hello neighbour! Wosson? I was born in Redruth and lived there until I was 18. You're right about a day out in Truro. In the 1960s a trip to Truro was unbelievably exciting for me. It was NINE miles away! And it seemed like another world, with its cathedral, which somehow has always looked ancient but was only finished in 1910, so in the 1960s it was barely 50 years old. Mum and dad would always take us to one of the department stores for our lunch - mushrooms on toast for me. We never ate mushrooms at home, so this was a proper treat and we thought it was posh. Dreckley.
One the most fantastic pieces of film I’ve ever seen . Pure English history right there . Thank god for a history lesson that I really enjoyed . So kind of you to share
Thank you Nigel. A measure of patience ! My first visit to Cornwall was 1975 with a group of friends aged 19 to 34. The few in their 30s had children between 7 & 11. We camped & (static) caravanned at Kennack Sands. Hayle, Helston, St Mawes et al were superb.What A wonderful life we enjoyed.
Thanks for showing this. Many happy memories of Cornwall. Lived and worked there for 16 years. Wish I'd never left. ❤
Wow banks that are open and serve customers 😊
Thank you for taking the time to upload. Great to watch. Music makes it even better!
Thanks for taking the time and effort of uploading this. At 5:21 I caught a glimpse of the awning of my late uncle’s shop, William A. Vage, jewellers located in New Bridge Street in Truro. The Rising Sun pub in St Mawes shown at about 6:20 is still there.
This feels raher special watching this, thank you. I was two, was born in Truro, but we left when I was four. Returned to see friends of parents now and then and alway felt very at home!
Fantastic thanks 😊😊😊😊😊
😊Great film. Brilliant soundtrack! X
Absolutely brilliant film, what a great find. Thanks for sharing.
That's a bit cheeky - Sneaking on the bus while the driver's gone for a slash ! :D
I stayed here in 2000 , looks very similar in 69.
Not a chunky monkey to be seen. All slim and healthy.
Thank you so much for sharing ❤🙏🌹
Absolutely great - particularly loved the St Mawes piece - thank you
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Fantastic ❤
Thankyou Nigel Lovely view of times past. Great music too.
Thankyou for uploading these
9:31 is Camborne btw 😀
Not a pair of trainers in sight 😅😅
We had two weeks at Constantine Bay in July 1969
You don’t know what you got till it’s gone
i wouldnt swap my childhood in the 60s and 70s for the present horrible place we live in , safer , decent music , pubs , railways , you could get a get a bus , neighbours actually spoke to you , grateful for a weeks holiday in bridlington , nothing banned from school ( marbles , conkers , piggyback fighting allowed then ) , christ knows how we have descended into the shambles of a society we live in now
For its age the colours are incredible
Yes, the films were in great condition. Obviously well cared for.
Noticed the clip ,travelling through Carbis Bay the road was amazing with new tarmac 😊 not a pothole in sight. Oh and the sea looked a nicer shade of blue in 69😂
Before the onset of 70s architecture that blighted so much of coastal Cornwall.
Take me back 🙏🏻 simpler happier times 🙏🏻
Back in the good old days when Britain was still Britain. Not the hellscape of thieves, rapists and scoundrels we have now.
yes the colour puts real life into it, you cannot describe to anyone that did not live in those times how nice this country actually was, now, seemingly overloaded and saturated with too much of everything. Been in Cornwall since'90 and the amount of change I've seen, and not one thing has changed for the better.
Most of the cars I know and all made in this country, coming from Brum we made everything up there, the only thing this country makes now is a mess of itself. Used to have milk-bars in those days, little bus tickets from a conductor, ten bob notes... I could go on
My First of Many Cornish Experiences was a Week of Sandy Sunny Bliss on Fistral Beach 🏝️ In the Sea So much I Nearly developed Flippers 😁 I remember Body Boarding on a peice of Plywood and watching the Experts waxing up their Boards Around their V Dub Vans/Micro Busses parked at the back of the Beach before those current Buildings Appeared, in the 70’s, also the Drama involving Wasps in the Fanta 🥤🍊😂🏄🏻♂️🥟🏴☠️ Appy Dayz - Thanks Mom n Dad 💛🙏🏻
Mevagissey was on there too. Hasn't changed much at all .
Wow !!!! Not a Kurdish hand car wash in site !!! ?
Or a Turkish barber, never mind a Vietnamese nail bar.
Those Turkish barbers are invading every high street in this country !
These people are coming to this country on the daily dinghy crossings every day !!! & Get everything !!!!
Is that Padstow when Neil Diamond's song comes on? Great video, real nostalgia.
Yep, looks like Padstow, before STEIN ruined it.
No it wasn't Padstow it was St Ives! ....lovely to see this I've lived in Padstow area for 37 years!! ( Not now though too far away from family! )
Oh god yes please!!
Lovely, and not a Turkish barbers anywhere
From the cars, I would date this rather to 1966 or 1967. I can't think that the gentlefolk pictured (the subject of the film) would have approved of your "Top of the Pops" music choice - they are the same age as my grandmother, and she went more in the direction of Maurice Chevalier or Bing Crosby. The last place "Curlews" was clearly their accommodation in St. Ives, and they went everywhere in a double decker bus, how cute.
❤
Born 1970, went to Devon, Cornwall a few times in 70's cannot remember much but drove from Southend-on-Sea , been living in NZ 40 yrs now. No cellphones no idiots making stupid dik toks videos, good times.
I assume some this film was shot from a double decker bus ?
In cornwall now. The coastal areas are really nice but the little villages in between are a bit run down and neglected. Especially the old mining areas.
Jesus christ whats happened to our country
Was Merlin's cave there maybe.
Great video. Boring comments about "the Good Old Days".
Great video pictures but just a tip, you don't need accompanying music to every yucking thing. It stinks.
Thanks for the tip, but others may disagree. You could always use your mute button.
@@nigelsmale6294 That's what I did. Still don't need the music.
@@michaelcollins6976 As I said, others might disagree.
@@nigelsmale6294 As you said.