Cornish-Voices Fishing Looe Cornwall 1960s 

It was a pleasure to see my late grandfather Bill Pengelly skipper of the Our Boys from a time before I was born.

An era never to be repeated, unfortunately. One can't but help think that to have been young and living in the 60's must have been quite amazing.

My home town! My family are an old Looe family. My Grandparents used to have the only chip shop in west Looe - Hamiltons. It isn't the same no more as when I was growing up there. Still...home is home, and Looe is the home of my family. Love it.

OMG, I was 14 in '59 and what a summer, endless sunshine, we had rented a house (Lucastes) at Lerryn some 10 miles or so from Looe. I used to cycle to Looe and fish, swim, etc. Thanks CornishVoices, such memories.

Having lived in Looe all my life, this is awesome!

Lots of fond childhood memories and familiar voices. Thanks.

The people, the landscape and the accent reminds me of Bro-Dreger in Brittany when the people still commonly spoke Breton. I used to go fishing with the fishermen of Ploumanac'h years ago and the Tregorese Breton dialect is very reminiscent of these chaps accent in English. Moreover, I went to a Cornish Language Revival get togther in 1984 and I could understand and make myself understood so much the Tregorese Breton and Cornish are similar despite certain consonnant and vowel changes as well as some vocabulary.

This video portrays the days of my father,,,,,,,,,,,,,how i wish we could return to them. We have definitely past the pinnacle of our time, and are all on the way down the other side...................god help us in this protracted slide into oblivion. RJ

Person who put the music to this needs to be banned from the internet forever.

I was a six year old living in Salcombe back in 1955 and my dearest wish would be to return to those halcyon days which have been forever lost.

Modern music adds an artistic tone to it. Love the combo of music and visuals. Absolutely beautiful.

What the hell is the thinking behind the decision to have this unnecessary music in the foreground (not background) thus drowning out the sound of these cool accents, which is the purpose behind this video, isn't it? Truly baffling!

I am a pengelly from Looe and this video means alot to me as my great grandfather is in this video (A J Pengelly) thanks for the great video :D

speaking as a Cornish descendant, this video could do with a little less of the Trip-Hop.

The music doesn't sound 60's. Sounds like 90s ambiance.

My great great grandfather, Richard Pengelly or I think his nickname was 'Dick Clubs' owned a few of the boats shown, Eileen, Our boys, Our Daddy and Our Girls. I don't have any relations that I know of in the Looe area anymore so I find this video fascinating. Great video:)

Bluddy beautiful.......well done boys......made my eyes water.....

Great video. Love Cornwall and it's nice to see it in a time I wasn't alive.

This great filmmaker Steward Armfield which goes all my admiration for his talent.

Thanks for this clip, liked the voice overs! from a Cornishman

I don’t hate the music - gives the footage a dreamy, sunny ☀️ quality

Great old film thanks.

Before smart phones destroyed our cultures 😢😢😢😢😢 i love looe just returned today been down there 8 days

Great film. How things have changed 😩

Cornwall, what a fantastic place to be born and grow up as I did,singalongs,and Cornish Voices, brilliant and we took it all for granted!pubs packed to the gunwhales,singing the old songs, sunday lunchtimes were the best,most pubs in Penzance were good for a singsong,,,where has it all gone? why dont we see it today? how our lifestyles have changed, and not for the better I fear!! Folk,Hymns,sea shanty,Traditional you name it we sang it!but sadly no more, very rare these days. Kernow Bys Vyken

all in the days before holiday lets , perhaps most of these people could actualy afford to live here! oh the days! superb vid as well.

Real good video. Hope to see more 5/5.

Hi c v . My father owned Our Girls in the late 60s. kept her in the Hamble river near Southampton. Briliant to see her in this video. We have cine 8 film of her in the atic. Nice film .Thanks

I met Dick Butters, one of the names he mentions at 2.04. Really excited me hearing that, it's safe to say this is totally legit.

Does anybody remember the man hiring out motor boats? I think it was in the eighties?. I remember hiring one out and going out to looe island with friends and swimming off there, only to find out that a large short fin mako shark had been caught off there recently. I don't think that we would have swum there if we'd have known that !

stunning.

brilliant video, reminds of the basque country in northern spain

Beautiful

Think we've all done crab fishing XXX

I love the accents. Oh, dear.

Check out the youtube video on the Tangier Island, VA, accent. The island was settled in the late 1600s and there's a definite Cornish influence in the local accent. Fascinating.

was told many years ago that the Cornish man is the finest fisherman in the world

Romantic!

Hey Cornish Voices, Do you have a link to the musician on this video. Loved it. It says the music was by Rob Congdon. I could only find one link to a guitar player in a band called C-Force. Would love to have a link to where this music came from.

It was!

For the same reason they play "music" in restaurants when one is trying to have a quiet meal with friends.

Yes all the family homes are now holiday homes and the "Cornish" live up out the town on the council estates, in most villages priced out of it

This seems like a Life Time ago - sigh ........

What is the name of the background track/who is the artist?

@WELLBRAN . Yes and it lives in the Tide water area of Virgina USA

I CAN'T HEAR WHAT THEY ARE SAYING! CAN YOU NOT RE-PROCESS IT WITHOUT THAT MUSIC. I CAME ON HERE TO STUDY THE ACCENT AND ALL I CAN HEAR IS THAT MUSIC!

What a great piece of film, makes me want to be there again. Anyone know the music? now thats not from the 60's surley

Cornish forever!

I miss it down there:( I grew up there but i've been banned from going down cos of family probs. I LUV it down there, there's nm to do for teenagers though which is the only problem that I've had.

@rheghead @rheghead Does barn mean boy or just child? Some of us here in Scotland say bairn (pronounced with an "a" like that in the word "snare") to mean child. I think bairn's just an archaic English word - people in the North of England used to say it. Maybe Anglo Saxon. I don't know about barn myself.

@robsargent4 Bairn / Barn meaning 'child' is from Old Norse, in other words, it's a Viking word.

jesus christ, that was amazing

Interesting video. Not really a fan of the background music myself, but I didn't mind too much, because of the interesting film and the voices. Don't have any Cornish heritage myself, but plenty of fishing. Just anxious that people's culture is going to be sacrificed to ease communication in an increasingly globalised world, although I know this is already happening and has been happening for a long time.

English politics out of cornwall. Kernow bys vyken! Long live the Cornish and our history!

@WELLBRAN please tell me cornish communities contiuing i want to visit :)

Back when there were fish to be caught

I suppose Desirée (Stuart. He was related to Desirée Armfeld, so we teased him about it) is dead by now.

Accents are similar to the Chesapeake Bay Waterman; Tangier Island and Smith Island, accent is rarely heard unless the locals are speaking to one another.

@rheghead i would love to have been able to grow up like that.

Think my dad worked on "Our Daddy" at some poing over the years, in the 70's i think

I could hear every word spoken over the music and I really like the music, I have a lot of Cornish heritage, so this was really lovely to see.

@Boingusboingus Not only does allowing people to live where they like cause damage to local cultures, but it places unforeseen strain on some areas, while other areas lose labour. On the other hand, people need jobs and often they need to move house because of this. Then again in many rural parts of the UK, house prices are driven up by rich people from the cities buying up or renting all the cottages as holiday homes. They have that problem in the area where my Dad was brought up (the NE of...

@TheLizardKing1967 Sorry I do not know what you are eferring to "what" lives in the tide areas of Virginia?

@Boingusboingus ...Scotland where the fishermen and their families can't afford to live anywhere near the harbour!) I suppose the problem in Cornwall is similar.

i live near looe!

@USERNAMEfieldempty Interesting. Not surprising really - it sounded fairly Germanic to me, but then again the word "chimney" sounds pretty Germanic to me and apparently it's an Old French word! Languages are interesting things (to me at least).

everyone is complaining about the music, sort it out bwy.

Because the Cornish community now is the minority, each town / village has changed, non Cornish everywhere and a culture dies, but there are still pockets of resistance!

Great film, dreadful music

@rheghead That explains it then.

@kaydeeinsaudi Not to mention the T word that gave half of the UK a "coup the grace " in terms of economic viability ....

bgm :(

I wonder what accent the Cornish had when they spoke their own language

One of the many English accents.

This was the 1960's..

Beautiful. Meur ras :-)

Then those colonists were Cornish and Irish, not actually English were they? In actually fact, probably trying to escape said English for an independent life?

@kaydeeinsaudi yeah but the english government never help our cornish fisheries out and we actually got funding from the EU,,,,,,,live here and you know that england hasnt been the beat of friends

sounds like canadians in newfoundland, nova scotia. also fishermen.

RUBBISH!!! The loud background music ruins it. we cannot hear the tiny bit of spoken language.

@kaydeeinsaudi You are right. Countries which enter EU loose greatly their culture and customs!

... but you're not different to us, we're all from England. What are you on about?

Weird music for this video😄

Don't some people till speak Cornish, or is it a dead language?

get rid of the shite music and justice will be done!!

Looe is not like that anymore

There is a solution to the housing crisis for native Cornish people, but the government will never institute it because they are wedded to the ridiculous, liberal, free-market notion that people should be allowed to live where they like. To protect local and regional cultures, only people born in an area, or with a parent born in an area, or who have lived in an area for twenty years and, if appropriate, have learned its language, should be allowed to buy property there. They do it on Jersey!

Intrusive music detracts from the films purpose. A' cocaine' decision?

Talking of white and nonn white is comical really as English white people despise us Cornish when we tell them we are different to them...so funny.

terrible soundtrack!!!

yeah as if there was no crime in London before Africans and Jamaicans started immigrating there, get a life really. Have you ever read or seen Oliver Twist? That story takes place in Nineteenth Century London by the way

Cornish, not english.

WTF is with the music , it has totally spoilt a good video !!...You can't hear those lovely Cornish tones because of the crap music .Will these video posters never learn ! .

No, British, not English. Separate kingdoms.