Stornoway 1964

8mm colour film without sound (13 mins) of Stornoway in 1964. Scenes of No 1 and 2 piers, South Beach, Inner Harbour, North Beach. Point Street, Town Hall and the Carnival Parade.
Copyright - Ken Holgate. Used with Permission.

[@iVenge]

Our people, our culture, our history. God bless them all.

[@mikecole6184]

Great to see this film. I was working on the airfield from April 1963 to August 1964 aged 19 and married in August 1963 in Windsor and took my wife to Stornoway two days after we married. We lived in one of the staff caravans on the corner of the road up to the airport buildings at Melbost. This film brings back a lot of happy memories and thoughts of all of the local people that whose company we greatly enjoyed.
Mike Cole

[@sarahmacleod3841]

I'm only 10 nearly 11 but it's really interesting to see what Lewis looked like over 50 years ago, I've always wondered the history of Lewis and just realising there are videos on the internet to show me that is amazing

[@johnkennedy8795]

A special place and people,, Love going back as often as I can, x

[@1crofter]

Brilliant footage

[@balachmor1]

Fantastic !!

[@mairianncullen8753]

That was a treat! Thank you for sharing it.

[@calum66]

Thanks! This is really great . I was eight then , tearing through the castle grounds, fishing for cuddies and leaping on the bails round the quay.

[@johnmacritchie2273]

The quality of the pictures are amazing 😉 for 1963-64. Pity I wasn’t born then so I might recognise some people. Wonderful to see Stornoway at that time and to see all the changes and still see some places that remain since then. Wonderful to see the Carnival hasn’t changed much.🤣 The amount of young children on floats that would never be allowed today for health and safety reasons.🙈 The Town Hall looks amazing 😉 back then and the amazing 😉 costumes people wore.👍🤣🤣

[@deand04games57]

This is great I have to show my dad

[@lewis1936]

As a tall well built schoolboy remember working as casual labour on the Loch Dunvegan on the barrows as a docker.Sixty years ago You could gain employment if they could not find sufficient dockers

[@jdrichardson6865]

great footage here - how weird that this was in colour at that time, pretty unusual, expensive too. Many thanks, as I found useful for research. JD

[@Camberwell86]

I know right? The 1966 World Cup Final was broadcast in black & white two years later lmao!!

[@jac0804]

Waw that's amazing to see! Thanks

[@murdomaclean1406]

They made good float`s these days, also the sheep`s skin on the pier, and the cal mac crane.... I remember the crane

[@biliwili662]

Espero volver a Stornoway algún día!
❤️

[@francos_dad]

Shown this is to me Dad, he’d have been 25 then

[@moghan7002]

Well the videos are really old there ;) My mum wasn't even born then

[@alanaschneider1496]

The floats were brilliant back then, and just when I was thinking that the floats nowadays could take some notes...I saw the red Indians lol...oops, that would not be so acceptable nowadays lol but was acceptable back then!

[@davey9955]

Who are the ladies in their uniforms near a large cooking pot

[@kengalloway7070]

The ladies are serving soup during a carnival day in Stornoway. The uniforms are from the WVS (Women's Voluntary Services)

[@lewis1936]

Loads of fence posts supplied by EU.Used to say if you went to sleep over in the country, there was a fence around your bed when you awoke in the morning.

[@theestimator]

Sadly they’re aw deed or 70 or older, silent footstep’s from the past, my heart break’s knowing your World didn’t last, a voracious greed spawned in the far south, spread its grasping strangulation in your direction. Luckily, the sea crossing aided and abetted by a completely pitiful Cal-Mac/Government Ferry system, is just about preventing the eventual demise of your wonderful Island. RIP good Soul’s of yesteryear, know that your goodness still foster’s devotee’s and pupil’s, trying to hold back corruption and tyranny. It is doubtful however that today 2024 would see so many Union flag’s waving so merrily !!!!!! 😢🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@yogirecords4726]

I wonder how many people got stabbed that year?

[@adminsroserobertson]

☺

[@cityzens634]

Those fishing boats are mostly African workers these days

[@karriemackenzie1528]

I burped and I just wanted to let you know that I burped

[@theestimator]

aye but can you fart at the same time ehh ? 😂😂😂