1965 - Old Film of Derry City - Ireland ( 8mm Film ) 

Derry is in my soul, you see,I was born there,went to school there,I was a (home boy) ST JOSEPHS HOME TERMONBACCA, DERRY HAS NEVER LEFT ME, I'M NOW 77 AND THINK OF DERRY EVERY DAY,I CAN STILL SEE IN MY MIND THE FISHERMEN IN THE FOYLE GOING UP AND DOWN IN THE RIVER, IT WAS HAPPY DAYS THERE, AND THE BUSSES LINED UP FOR THE MAY PROSESSIONS,I EVEN PLAYED TROMBONE IN THE BOYS BAND IN THE STREETS OF DERRY, I OFTEN WONDER DO THEY STILL DO IT. J.C.

Fantastic. Thanks for posting. My dad is from the Creggan, left for England shortly after Bloody Sunday. An amazing snapshot; he would have been 16 when these films were taken.

Great, thanks, fair play to those people with the early cameras who took the time to record their neighbourhoods

My grandma grew up on Long Tower St. The McCarron family. She married and became a Kearney and lived in Ardmore where my Mum, Sarah Kearney was born. We played this song at Mum's funeral in 2020.

thank you,loved this,happy memories of the streets around where i was brought up.Born in Nailors Row at the foot of the Derry Walls in 1957.12 of us in a two bedroom house.happy days.Everybody had nothing,we were all in the same boat.St Vincent De Paul day trip to Moville for all us wains,anybody remember? Tea and cream bun at the beach.Christmas party at their house in Bridge St. Happy memories,thank you Lee so very much for posting.

I was born in the Wells ( 105 St Columb St.) in 1956, baptized in the Long Tower, and ordained a priest in the same Long Tower Church in the "Town I will always Love."

We were Bogsiders and a proud community,times were tough but so were we .The resilience we had has been passed down to our children and that's what matters,we have never been beaten,never bowed,never broken and as my 85 year old mother used to say when faced with adversity as she shook her fist "I will fight with anybody" that is what makes us Bogsiders,we didn't ask for trouble but we never shrank from it when it came our way either and when you make friends with us you have friends for life.

Mr.crawford you made me cry there yes Derry never leaves you.ive been away 30 years and no matter what we know where we from.i wish you and all belonging to the very best of luck and a very very happy new year

I GREW UP IN Nailors Row, 12 of us in a two bedroom house,loved it very much.The people were so friendly, everyone was broke but we all got on with it.I was eight at the time this was filmed and i remember the construction happening in the Bog.It was to happen to Naiors Row as well, we left to go to Creggan in 1970.Lovely friends and neighbours in the Long Tower area,i was so glad to come home 14 years later.

a brilliant snapshot of the Derry i remember as a schoolboy

More people should watch this, the pictures and the song are amazing, the older lady at the start, with a big smile. They didn’t really know what was coming “The Armoured cars” “the soldiers by the wall” as the song says. Really touched me. I hope and pray that Derry and all of the north stays at peace and we get some of those smiles back again

I remember the Wells especially the Star snooker hall and the wee card school room at the back where they also kept the coal for the big wood burner , Johnny Boy who owned it would give me the key to open it and I’d go in , clean the tables and light the fire when I should have been in class at St Columbs but I was working on my masters on dobbing, how to raise greyhounds ( used to look after O’Hara’s many greyhounds in his big yard on the old Bogside street) and being a successful punter in Grahams bookies . 😉. Being an entrepreneur of sorts I made a few bob taking lead off the chimneys when the old Bog was being knocked down, copper was also a good price then too and £3 for a load of copper wire and lead was a good afternoon’s return back then for a 15 year old , many happy days spent around the Bogside area, PJ Kelly’s fish n chips was a tasty treat , Jimmy Macari’s on William street was a great place to hang out and play the juke box and one lad was nicknamed Sugar Sugar , a song by the Archies because that’s all he played , 😂. I remember Anton Rogers , everyone said he took the finger off the Gov Walker statue with a slate as he was a deadly thrower , obviously long before it was toppled unceremoniously, great times and of course some very sad times but our common experiences made us proud and resilient Bogsiders always 💪🏻🇮🇪.

Great oul footage there hi 👍🏼

I remember my Granny house like this funny to see in video roads are not busy NOW forget about it!! I go back every year

I used to sell the newspaper 'Ireland's Saturday Night'. We'd go into the Elephant Bar, Bishop Street near Bishop's Gate. Edit - We would wait as late as possible before going into the bars to sell our papers. We reasoned that the more bottles of stout they'd consumed the more tips we'd get !

Lovely.Thanks.

,I remember the old Bogside well,McDaid's bakery,Morgans rag store,the old RUC barracks that was always ringed with barbed wire and sand bags,McFeely the exRIC cop that lived up the road,the Star snooker hall owned by Johnnny Boy and his brother always walking the greyhounds.Dinny Harley fish and chips on Rossville st where he also had a hardware store.Mrs Shield ,a good republican lived on Union St where she always displayed a pic of Roger Casement on the window.Anton Rogers at Fox's corner.

I don’t recognise anywhere here at all there’s tons of big apartment buildings we don’t have nowadays I suppose it was over 50 years ago but it’s so different.

My mom grew up on Bishop St:)

bellissimo

little did the people building the rossville flats at that time know that the worse massacre of the troubles would happen there. great video btw.

My great-grandfather lived on Wellington St. but I've no idea where that would have been as it was knocked down. Anyone know?

Hi my name is Ciaran Davis, I work for the Coventry Irish Society. We are putting together a short film about the Irish in Coventry and I was wondering if I could borrow some of this footage? Are you the copyright holder? Ciaran

The British have a lot to answer for around this world of ours

Bit of a depressing place was Londonderry in the 1960s

Lovely....Go raibh maith agat mo chara

The Phoenix continues to rise from the ashes.

I am seeking some old pictures of the original Orchard Row. Can anyone tell me where to look?

Why is everyone walking backwards at the beginning? They must've been really drunk!

Up the bogside

Londonderry.