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
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.
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.
@@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.”
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
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.
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.
There was a power station in Hayle? The only town in the UK where you get to pass under the same bridge twice to travel through. Not a lotta people know that either.
A lovely old video, and mostly filmed in the middle of the road. And all those ladies looked so happy, and the dogs. Great days indeed, and proof that far less can be very much more. Thanks for posting it Tommy.
+judith henwood Yeah, I put some of the local stuff on there. There's some interesting old clips of local scenes, it was easier to stick them on here than writing DVDs and giving them out. I've got some 8mm clips that the 'Old Man' took as well - if I ever get around to sorting them out!
