Yes priceless! These filns are such a valuable record. Thank goodness someone had the foresight ;-) And thanks Peter also for all your time spent producing thse. All the best!
Thank you for that, I just wish that more Keepers would have agreed to being interviewed or even in the movies instead of running a mile! Lol, stay safe.
hello peter thank you for the memory of seeing my dad been away for a week got a shock seeing my dad face when i put your you tube link on keep the good work up, like andy bluer lovely man to work with lots of storys
Thanks Peter for preserving this way of life. Found your vids on You Tube recently. Part of me wants to be a lighthouse keeper....Part of me doesn’t! Wow talk about the unsung heroes of the sea. Have you got an email? Kind regards, I’d love to ask you more. Cheers
What an interesting recount of the career as a keeper, and eventually a PK, and a most _impressive_ memory! - These interviews are pure gold! - The effort you've laid down is nothing short of inestimable Peter! . . . . ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you very much Eric, much appreciated. Several more videos to come. There is even one interview with a chap with an amazing memory, who was well into his 80's!, was even on a Lighthouse when they were strafed by an enemy fighter plane during World War 2, thanks again, take care.
@@PeterHalil Thanks for the heads-up Peter! (To be quite frank: As time & circumstance allows, I'm on a regular ''Lighthouse binge-watching'' right now, and, if you _are_ really committed to lighthouses and everything connected to them [my late dad was a keeper], and you've grown up around them, well, they'll _always_ hold a very special meaning for you!...) Again: Thanks for being the purveyor of this unique footage! . . . . 🏆😉👍
@@PeterHalil My dad was an lighthouse assistant the last 16 years of his career, this was at a ('smalish') station on the coast of Norway by the name ''Terningen', which translates to ''The Dice'' in english, you know the small cubes you throw in playing games! [Btw, you can see it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terningen_Lighthouse ] They worked the same shifts you operated, until the lighouse was automated in '91. And, as a 'jack of all trades' (he was a whaler back in the day, down in South Georgia, Antarctica, and a certified ships electrician in the Nor. merchant fleet around the world among other things), he later said that the years spent as a lighthouse keeper, was the best years of his working life! . . . (On that note, I can only attest to your statement re, 'getting saltwater into your system': I had a career plowing the seven seas nearly all my adult life, and what all those years thought me, no other place could....)
Used to spend a lot of time in Weston Super Mare and Brean as a kid looking out over flat Holm and Steep Holm. You used to be able to get boat trips out to one of them from Weston, I remember my Grandparents taking me out there once.
That will be nice. I remember it was always a good place to see Concorde heading out to America as it heads for the Bristol Channel after taking of from London. Its the nearest stretch of water for it to go supersonic. Heard the double booms from it breaking the sound barrier a few times.
I’d like to say a big thank you for posting all of these fascinating videos. I have always been intrigued by lighthouses and wondered what it was like to live in them. The individuals you have interviewed are such great storytellers, and they remind me of my grandfather retelling events from his past. Cheers from the U.S.
Hi Peter, What a great interview and what a great person Des was. I never got to serve with him but I am sure it would have been a pleasure. I wonder Pete, why you took so long before you put these video's out? They are great. Keep up the good work. Robbie.
Hi Robbie, yes Des seemed a great guy to me too. Why it took so long for me to start putting these out? Well I guess I didn't have the cash or the way with it all to do it. I had to scrape a fair bit of cash together to get the videos digitized. Then I had to get an editing programme and a decent lap top to handle it all...then I had a very long learning curve to try and learn to do it, which is where I am now. Now I'm spending an awful lot of my retirement, all day in front of the computer editing and researching before I can produce. This takes anything from one to two weeks on the shorter movies, all the way upwards of a month for the longer ones! Hope that answers it ok, take care, stay safe.
@@PeterHalil Hi Peter, Fair enough I never thought about the costs etc. You have certainly done a great job and are to be congratulated for all the time and effort you have put into making these video's. I hope like me you are enjoying your retirement. Take care. Robbie.
@@robbiegoldsmith8727 Yes Robbie I'm enjoying my retirement. Also when I finally got my act together so I wasn't scared of the editing bits anymore, I wasn't prepared for the re living my Lighthouse Keeping wave of nostalgia to come rushing in, emotional at times, happy days, stay safe Robbie. Oh, yes, don't know if you ever knew Bill O Brian PK, well I'm going to his funeral this Wednesday.
Yes I agree with you Robbie nice gentleman Des, and Peter is doing a great job. I am sure I would have enjoyed working with yourself or Des had I got chance to be a keeper, Alas to young by a out 10 years but it is wonderful to hear your stories and get to know you all this way. So a massive thank you to all of you from a serving Merchant Navy officer who still uses lighthouses and makes a point in doing so, as part of my navigation work everyday.
Thanks for that, especially the bit about your house getting lit up! Yes the soul seems to have gone from the Lighthouses now, shame. Stay safe and take care
Interesting storytelling. The bit about the donkey in the field at night made me laugh. What was that sound of water continually running in the background, was it rain outside?
I believe that Des has gone to that great big lighthouse in the sky. A really nice guy, one of those people that you meet, and instantly like their company. Cheers and stay safe.
these stories are priceless! so amazing thanks for recording Peter :)
You are welcome, so glad you like them, cheers
Yes priceless! These filns are such a valuable record. Thank goodness someone had the foresight ;-) And thanks Peter also for all your time spent producing thse. All the best!
Thank you for that, I just wish that more Keepers would have agreed to being interviewed or even in the movies instead of running a mile! Lol, stay safe.
hello peter
thank you for the memory of seeing my dad been away for a week got a shock seeing my dad
face when i put your you tube link on keep the good work up, like andy bluer lovely man to work with lots of storys
Cheers Mark, thanks for your comments, I enjoyed your dads talk as well.
What a small world. How was your dad seems like a hard working gentleman. What did you learn from his services and lifestyle!
Thank you Peter, cried all the way through it xx
Thank you, I really enjoyed my visit with Des, a "Special" man, take care, stay safe
Absolutely priceless historical account. Thank you Peter.
Thank you very much, much appreciated. Cheers and take care.
Thanks Peter for preserving this way of life. Found your vids on You Tube recently. Part of me wants to be a lighthouse keeper....Part of me doesn’t! Wow talk about the unsung heroes of the sea. Have you got an email? Kind regards, I’d love to ask you more. Cheers
Thank you, so glad you liked it, just ask away here or find me on facebook, stay safe.
Excellent Peter,thanks😁👍👏👏👏
What an interesting recount of the career as a keeper, and eventually a PK, and a most _impressive_ memory! - These interviews are pure gold! - The effort you've laid down is nothing short of inestimable Peter! . . . . ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you very much Eric, much appreciated. Several more videos to come. There is even one interview with a chap with an amazing memory, who was well into his 80's!, was even on a Lighthouse when they were strafed by an enemy fighter plane during World War 2, thanks again, take care.
@@PeterHalil Thanks for the heads-up Peter! (To be quite frank: As time & circumstance allows, I'm on a regular ''Lighthouse binge-watching'' right now, and, if you _are_ really committed to lighthouses and everything connected to them [my late dad was a keeper], and you've grown up around them, well, they'll _always_ hold a very special meaning for you!...) Again: Thanks for being the purveyor of this unique footage! . . . . 🏆😉👍
@@sharkamov Where and when was your Dad a Keeper? and yes Lighthouses are special and once salt water gets into your system, there is no turning back.
@@PeterHalil My dad was an lighthouse assistant the last 16 years of his career, this was at a ('smalish') station on the coast of Norway by the name ''Terningen', which translates to ''The Dice'' in english, you know the small cubes you throw in playing games! [Btw, you can see it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terningen_Lighthouse ] They worked the same shifts you operated, until the lighouse was automated in '91. And, as a 'jack of all trades' (he was a whaler back in the day, down in South Georgia, Antarctica, and a certified ships electrician in the Nor. merchant fleet around the world among other things), he later said that the years spent as a lighthouse keeper, was the best years of his working life! . . . (On that note, I can only attest to your statement re, 'getting saltwater into your system': I had a career plowing the seven seas nearly all my adult life, and what all those years thought me, no other place could....)
Amazing memory for things & names from 50 years before.
Fascinating channel you’ve got here. I was led here from ‘Look at life - lighthouse keeping’.
Thanks for that Randy, glad you liked it and found my channel. Take care and stay safe.
Used to spend a lot of time in Weston Super Mare and Brean as a kid looking out over flat Holm and Steep Holm. You used to be able to get boat trips out to one of them from Weston, I remember my Grandparents taking me out there once.
Hi, I'm still trying to get out to Flatholm myself, hopefully next year, stay safe.
That will be nice. I remember it was always a good place to see Concorde heading out to America as it heads for the Bristol Channel after taking of from London. Its the nearest stretch of water for it to go supersonic. Heard the double booms from it breaking the sound barrier a few times.
have a chat with bay island voyages Cardiff as they run trips out there, they are the safest company to run them in the bay.
I’d like to say a big thank you for posting all of these fascinating videos. I have always been intrigued by lighthouses and wondered what it was like to live in them. The individuals you have interviewed are such great storytellers, and they remind me of my grandfather retelling events from his past. Cheers from the U.S.
Hi Peter,
What a great interview and what a great person Des was.
I never got to serve with him but I am sure it would have been a pleasure.
I wonder Pete, why you took so long before you put these video's out?
They are great.
Keep up the good work.
Robbie.
Hi Robbie, yes Des seemed a great guy to me too. Why it took so long for me to start putting these out? Well I guess I didn't have the cash or the way with it all to do it. I had to scrape a fair bit of cash together to get the videos digitized. Then I had to get an editing programme and a decent lap top to handle it all...then I had a very long learning curve to try and learn to do it, which is where I am now. Now I'm spending an awful lot of my retirement, all day in front of the computer editing and researching before I can produce. This takes anything from one to two weeks on the shorter movies, all the way upwards of a month for the longer ones! Hope that answers it ok, take care, stay safe.
@@PeterHalil Hi Peter, Fair enough I never thought about the costs etc.
You have certainly done a great job and are to be congratulated for all the time and effort you have put into making these video's.
I hope like me you are enjoying your retirement.
Take care.
Robbie.
@@robbiegoldsmith8727 Yes Robbie I'm enjoying my retirement. Also when I finally got my act together so I wasn't scared of the editing bits anymore, I wasn't prepared for the re living my Lighthouse Keeping wave of nostalgia to come rushing in, emotional at times, happy days, stay safe Robbie. Oh, yes, don't know if you ever knew Bill O Brian PK, well I'm going to his funeral this Wednesday.
@@PeterHalil Hi Peter, No I never met Bill, but heard a lot about him, another nice guy from what I heard.
Yes I agree with you Robbie nice gentleman Des, and Peter is doing a great job. I am sure I would have enjoyed working with yourself or Des had I got chance to be a keeper, Alas to young by a out 10 years but it is wonderful to hear your stories and get to know you all this way. So a massive thank you to all of you from a serving Merchant Navy officer who still uses lighthouses and makes a point in doing so, as part of my navigation work everyday.
History brilliant job Peter
I live in Pembrokeshire Strumble Head light house shins on the side of our house 😃🌍sadly empty of life now. Thank you
Thanks for that, especially the bit about your house getting lit up! Yes the soul seems to have gone from the Lighthouses now, shame. Stay safe and take care
Peter. I hope you don't mind but I have shared a link to The Landmark Trust who now run and manage the island of Lundy.
No, I don't mind. I will be putting a video out sometime in the future on Lundy, and it's 3 Lighthouses.
Interesting storytelling. The bit about the donkey in the field at night made me laugh. What was that sound of water continually running in the background, was it rain outside?
Hi Sirron, If my memory is up to speed, I think they had one of those indoor water features in their conservatory.
Great stories especially Lundy.
Glad you liked our efforts. Yes, Des had some great stories.
Is Les still alive?; he's got to be in his 90's if he still is.....
I believe that Des has gone to that great big lighthouse in the sky. A really nice guy, one of those people that you meet, and instantly like their company. Cheers and stay safe.
40 years and he didnt get a pension?