feelings such sad feelings my friend is a local and he says how much change and how he misses st ives before it was a hoiliday village i can totally understand and its so painful everything changes and i miss the past when life was so simple and beautiful this makes me miss that feeling that used to be in the air and i feel it when i see any old footage even older than 50s I WANNA GO HOME
I agree with you. Money - a combination of 'get rich quick' tourism and middle class second home colonization has destroyed almost every seaside village in the West Country
I spent a season working at the St Ives Bay Hotel in 1954, 4.07 on film., busy time as hotel always full. The hotel had a 1920’s Rolls Royce which we sometimes used for an outing. On the beach I met the film star Linden Travers and her daughters, lovely lady.
I was born in St Erme, between Truro & Mitchell, in 72. My parents moved us up to Essex in 1979 to find work.. I try to visit Cornwall every year it feels like real home to me. Finances & health prevent me from moving back but it is a long term goal... Due to my ‘Estuary accent’ its not uncommon or particularly nice to get called grockle, Emmet or cockney & receive funny looks as I did several times this year in St Ives when in shops or restaurants.
Hello Mark. Places like St.Ives, Rock, Port Isaac, Fowey, etc have been swamped with tourism and second, or holiday homes. The only option left for most local people is to move to a nearby council estate, or to the nearest town with affordable rent/house prices. Some days in St.Ives, there aren't any local people at all to be found there, so if you've been getting any funny looks its most likely from other tourists, or up country people who have retired, or have a second homes there. I've lived all my life only a few miles away, and I detest going to any of these places in summer. Not because of St.Ives people, but because of the God-awful unfriendly middle class these places they've morphed into.
Great footage which shows that the town hardly ever changes which is so great to see. But the 'music'...dear God. Just watch it with the sound off - if you value your sanity.
Hi Tom, could I please use this footage to accompany a beautiful piece of music I've written called 'Porthia' There will be a link to your page in the credits, many thanks, Gerry.
No the harbour hasn’t but the rest has flats second homes popping up all over the place no where to park when you come home from work as holiday makers are parking down back streets for days and weeks on end it’s a joke
@@AlisonBryen thanks for putting me straight on that. Maybe because I’m getting older I can never understand why thinking it will sound “cool”, people use an already existing word for an expression that means something else and most people don’t have a cotton pickin’ clue what it means. Even Googling the word “emit” only has the version that we all know about, for example “cars emit carbon dioxide.”
Spot on Warren! A trip to St.Ives feels more like a trip to Brighton these days. As a 'born and bred' local, it's not a place I ever visit any more - or feel very welcome in these days
@@TomRelubbus filled with toffs and upper class. Its been ruined, they dont care about the windows and/or the granite and fire places inside, they just white wash, plaster and modernize the interior destroying all the timeless features. You were lucky to grow up there!
No, I didn't grow up there, or ever live there. As kids we used to go there for Sunday School outings and to the Guildhall, after the 50 mile walks etc. I grew up - and still live - about 10 miles away, over on the other coast.
feelings such sad feelings my friend is a local and he says how much change and how he misses st ives before it was a hoiliday village i can totally understand and its so painful everything changes and i miss the past when life was so simple and beautiful this makes me miss that feeling that used to be in the air and i feel it when i see any old footage even older than 50s I WANNA GO HOME
I agree with you. Money - a combination of 'get rich quick' tourism and middle class second home colonization has destroyed almost every seaside village in the West Country
Meur ras / thank you for posting this gem.
Good to see Woolworths and a Western National bus!!
And the most modern car was an Austin A30.
I spent a season working at the St Ives Bay Hotel in 1954, 4.07 on film., busy time as hotel always full. The hotel had a 1920’s Rolls Royce which we sometimes used for an outing. On the beach I met the film star Linden Travers and her daughters, lovely lady.
I was born in St Erme, between Truro & Mitchell, in 72.
My parents moved us up to Essex in 1979 to find work..
I try to visit Cornwall every year it feels like real home to me. Finances & health prevent me from moving back but it is a long term goal...
Due to my ‘Estuary accent’ its not uncommon or particularly nice to get called grockle, Emmet or cockney & receive funny looks as I did several times this year in St Ives when in shops or restaurants.
Hello Mark.
Places like St.Ives, Rock, Port Isaac, Fowey, etc have been swamped with tourism and second, or holiday homes.
The only option left for most local people is to move to a nearby council estate, or to the nearest town with affordable rent/house prices.
Some days in St.Ives, there aren't any local people at all to be found there, so if you've been getting any funny looks its most likely from other tourists, or up country people who have retired, or have a second homes there.
I've lived all my life only a few miles away, and I detest going to any of these places in summer.
Not because of St.Ives people, but because of the God-awful unfriendly middle class these places they've morphed into.
@@TomRelubbus snap Tom from St Just sadly St Ives is a ghost town no local youngsters, no real jobs and deas in the winter.
Instantly recognizable in 2020.
I was there in 1957 on my bike with the Janus Road Club from Stockport. Luckily still visit from my home near Padstow but go in winter.
Great coast line ,even today
Great footage which shows that the town hardly ever changes which is so great to see. But the 'music'...dear God. Just watch it with the sound off - if you value your sanity.
No changes!!! No local youngsters, no local people now ghost town
The houses would have been affordable back then.
Hi Tom, could I please use this footage to accompany a beautiful piece of music I've written called 'Porthia' There will be a link to your page in the credits, many thanks, Gerry.
Could have bought st Ives then with today's house prices. 🙄
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GREAT...hasn't changed much has it?
Is it impossible to keep the camera still? I feel sick.
No the harbour hasn’t but the rest has flats second homes popping up all over the place no where to park when you come home from work as holiday makers are parking down back streets for days and weeks on end it’s a joke
Where's the traffic? Lol
Lovely, it’s been ‘modernised’ too much now.
I love St Ives dearly but have you seen what Carbis Bay hotel has done to Carbis Bay beach over the last decade? Heartbreaking.
love this film footage but why always the terrible piano music ?
Oh it was put over from 8mm cine to DVD and they added the music
Yes, I was born in St Ives and don't associate the music with the town. The film is nice to see though. Thanks.
It was some odd clips of film that I added together, but while doing it I had the sound muted and only discovered it afterwards!
I loved the first tune . I was born in Trenwith terrace 1954 , I think this is just before.
Hasn't changed much!
hi
The days where st ives was beautiful and not full of emits
What the hell is an emit??????
@@rogerauclair1670 that’s what I would like to know.
@@rogerauclair1670 A tourist.
@@AlisonBryen thanks for putting me straight on that. Maybe because I’m getting older I can never understand why thinking it will sound “cool”, people use an already existing word for an expression that means something else and most people don’t have a cotton pickin’ clue what it means. Even Googling the word “emit” only has the version that we all know about, for example “cars emit carbon dioxide.”
@@rogerauclair1670Believe the word is “emmet” but there are alternatives such as “emit”.
Fantastic footage. Shame all the locals have been forced out by the rich London w*ankers. R.I.P St Ives I love you.
Spot on Warren!
A trip to St.Ives feels more like a trip to Brighton these days.
As a 'born and bred' local, it's not a place I ever visit any more - or feel very welcome in these days
@@TomRelubbus filled with toffs and upper class. Its been ruined, they dont care about the windows and/or the granite and fire places inside, they just white wash, plaster and modernize the interior destroying all the timeless features. You were lucky to grow up there!
For example: th-cam.com/video/THuJ9pV6-oU/w-d-xo.html
No, I didn't grow up there, or ever live there.
As kids we used to go there for Sunday School outings and to the Guildhall, after the 50 mile walks etc.
I grew up - and still live - about 10 miles away, over on the other coast.
@@TomRelubbus your south coast then Tom? Lovely beaches around there like porthcurno
It’s a glorified theme park for several months a year, I prefer to be on the other side of the bay.