Cornwall 1916 in Colour! UNSEEN | 4K | Over 100 Years Ago! 

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The days of no holiday makers..LUSH

And it's shown at the correct speed. Thank you for this

So Clever I'd watched on the TV .. Awesome Thanks For Sharing ..

My father was born in Helston in 1916 and never stopped talking about his wonderful childhood in the area. Such a great film, thanks.

I'm a Cornishman and I live in Cornwall and this is so fascinating you've done an incredible job thank you.

I found this film fascinating and beautiful , 😁👏

Brightening up old black and white images in color is the trend and then immediately adding appropriate music. But these film images are only accompanied by natural sounds of seagulls. That is a relief, thanks! As if we were entering a time capsule. To know that none of those children is alive is saddening...

A wonderful piece of history. I have never lived there only had yearly holidays since the early 1960's. It is amazing so much of what one sees now is still there just magical. thank you

This is fantastic. Thank you.

Awesome footage ..⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Falmouth the birth place of my Great grand Mother,now buried in New Zealand and today my children and Grand children live back in Falmouth.Looking forward to visiting in 2022.

The good old days.

That’s really awesome. Thank you. My grandmothers family were from Cornwall

Cornwall is a magical place!!!

Outstanding

Historic film that needs a wider audience

That seagull follows you everywhere

My mother was born in Cornwall 1910

Look at all those lovely Cornish Luggers!

Meanwhile just across the water, thousands of boys from these same villages were being cut to ribbons by German machine guns... I bet their last thoughts were of a different din. Not of cries and bombs, but of Gulls and crashing waves... and whispers in a lovers ear. Final moments spent longing for this sweet yet salty serenity. RIP My Great Grandfather Cpl William Barrows 13126 6th Bn Oxford and Bucks Light infantry. Killed on the 2nd of June of the same year this was filmed, on the first day of The Battle of Mont Sorrel, whilst trying to get a line to a pocket of stranded Canadians. He now lies next to his friend Arthur Coke Thomas, and the brave Canadians at The Bedford House Cemetery Belgium. Rest in peace all these brave lions of men... We shall not forget, nor shall we ever surrender the freedoms they died for. ⚔️

Interesting to think how very unlikely that generation never ventured up north probably never left Cornwall. How time changes. Fascinating piece of film. Wonder what future generations will think when they view our generation with our little phones to our ears ignoring one and other.

Both my grandparents were born in Truro around this time and lived in Falmouth then moved to South Africa. I always heard about Cornwall and my Gran always made Cornish Pastries. A 100 years later I have return to UK and will be visiting Cornwall for the 1st time in July. I cant wait to go back to my roots and see beautiful Cornwall. This video shows how they would have remembered it.

This is fantastic!

Fascinating to have this. You'd never know of the battles going on just over the Channel with the lady water-colourist dabbing away.

Thank you so much. This is the Cornwall I would loved to have seen. Nowadays it has been over manicured and sanitized. Still though it is one of the most beautiful places.

May 14th 1916, the Battle of Jutland was fought.

Wow loved it

Never thought I'd say this but those seagull noises make me miss home.

Thank you for this! Beautifully done! Thank you!

Bring back the simple life

Very interesting thank you, you might have overdone the sea bird noises a bit!

Wow 1916 my grandfather was somewhere in the mud & blood of the somme or verdun. Lovely footage.

The speed correction is perfect. People moved so naturally.

Thank you so much. . Give You a little window into days gone bye . Wonderful

Amazing work. At 2:28 can be seen Cox and Co, Engineers and Shipbuilders. They built tugs and trawlers among other types, including several paddle steamers for use on the Amazon.

Oh to be a time traveler

Such a happier time.

And now? Jammed packed with 'refugee' dinghy people no doubt! So glad I was able to visit St Ives and Newquey when they both were 'genuine' places.

All these people have passed on, kinda sad 😥

if only i could go back in time...i would be in bliss

Absolutely amazing footage - loved seeing the two fountains in Morrab Gardens and the two ladies walking by in their long dresses. Thank you so much for sharing.

Although’s houses are now second homes for Londoners

Do you have any footage of St Eval ? I live in Cornwall ,I loved the lady painting and all the men giving her daggers it's really funny, if only we could turn the clock back .

I have no idea how you managed to colour it, but it's an excellent job.

Really good colorization and you haven't added some naff music soundtrack.

This is beautiful. Thank you for colouring the footage for us.

A labour of love. Thank you, and well done.

Wow!

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC

Amazing wow 😮 at my age my grandparents would of lived in these times and my parents just a new born , . Great to see how it used to be . Thankyou for taking the time to put this together . I love it . ❤️👍

Thank you so much for uploading this. It is so brilliant to see the County of old.

Fascinating...wonder what Abdulla was selling at 0:13 ?

Wonderful work , thank you very much .

Is that the Headland Hotel?

Anyone else notice the cameraman filming as the Cornish luggers were heading out to fish? Incredible to think how being the second most exposed piece of coastline in britain and with our renowned winter and spring storms battering out coast and how the seas around our cornwall can change so fast, how brave our ancestors were as they rowed out from out harbours! No motors to quickly head in again....

Polperro sounds quite Anglo-Roman.

Fabulous footage. Wonderful to think that my grandparents who were children at that time may have been amongst those on the film. This would have been half way through the Great War, and people were just going about their business whilst their loved ones were being killed in their thousands abroad.

Wow what amazing film.......thankyou ..

Fantastic footage nice to see good old Great Britain the way it use to be

We use to go to Polperro as a kid in the 60s . The family would stayed up on the hill at Killigarth Manor caravan site and every day for two weeks I would walk down to the village via a back dirt rd only stopping on the way back to drink from the most refreshing clearest water I have every had in my life! Beauty at its best!

Excellent really enjoyed and appreciated these videos. People seem a lot happier then even though life must have been very hard. Would love to see more of these great videos please. 😊😊😊😊🐱🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I love Cornwall this was so well done thank you from New Zealand

Imagine how cheap those fisherman's cottages were then. They'd be flabbergasted to know they go for more than a million quid apiece nowadays.

Just brilliant....what a jewel. You did a great job. Thanks

How wonderful that you have shared this with us.

Fascinating. In the St.Ives section I used to lease the right hand part of the White Hart Hotel (behind the fisherman's hut) as a bakery shop circa 1977. Fish Street has been widened since those days as well.

Wow ! Brilliant footage. If you freeze / pause the video at 1:24, you would think it's the 1960's / 1970's - not 104 years ago !!

Brilliant. That really brings things to life. And I guess the dubbing took quite some time. Gobsmacked at the footage.

Tremendous footage. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Thank you.

Sehr interessant - wir sind gerne dort und lieben Cornwall.

Incredible jump back in time 👌🏻😎

Great. Same rocks and sea. Some things are timeless.

Bloody seagulls as annoying today as they were back then , great work.

Wow that was fascinating, thank you!

I bet Cornish was spoken by most then, and was alive and well. Sad it died out, but glad it's making a recovery slowly.

I liked the rowing-boats headding out to fish and meeting the sea, which will always win! Someone said above that this was made when all manner of horrors was occuring in Flanders Fields. Some things havent changed in the film.

What an exceptional and vital part of Cornish heritage , really beautiful , loved the little boy holding dearly onto his equally little dog friend , very poignant ;D

Jacker's Land. T'other side of Tamar belongs to Cousin Jack. Bliddy grockels. Tin mining scat, China clay scat, fishing scat- it's back to wreckin' me 'andsomes!

The bird sounds are a bit too loud, overwhelming and very distracting.

Amazing and beautiful. Brilliant to see the people! 💖

Amazing to see favourite places over 100 years ago

Brilliant work. So vivid and shows that some things change. But, the sea and landscape are a constant. The gull soundtrack is a little annoying though. Must admit. Sorry.

I'm a little dubious about all of this being in 1916. The Battle of Jutland was on 31st' May 1916 and though it took place in the North Sea you show Falmouth, a key port, without a single Royal Navy vessel in sight; not one!

I can't tell the difference

on the newquay scene, was that the rock beforw the house was built on it?

What dialect would these Cornwall people most likely have spoken? How did they sound?

I think the seagull sounds are overdubbed, they didn't have noisy gulls in those days 😄

Not an overweight person in sight......

Amazing 👍👍👍👍👍

Such a pity the people back then couldn't have experienced this in glorious colour. And why was that wreck of a sunken boat chained up, I don't think it was going anywhere.

When i hear the seagulls inland around where i live, their song doesn't seem to hold the same mystic call as when they are by the sea. Great video thanks.

Beautiful and treasured film so amazing that it has become colour,my father was born in 1913,so I can get a picture of what life was like whilst he was growing up

Thank you very much, amazing

This is where many of my ancestors are from, I would love to return to live there.

Cornwall is a victim of its own success, ruined by all the tourists, but out of season most sign on the dole as there's no work

Brilliant - some places are still very recognisable

How the **** can there be three dislikes on this wonderful old footage? OK, I can understand someone not being too interested, moving on without leaving a like, but to take the time to leave a thumbs down just mystifies me. Could the seagulls have annoyed three folk that much?😁 I can't be certain but I'm pretty sure these were not 1916 seagulls. If they are a later addition, maybe they should be sent to whereever seagulls get sent.😁 Other than the gulls, this was some fantastic footage and was probably some cutting edge stuff at the time. The camera was getting some mighty suspicious looks. Of course, filming a load of kids in a Cornish village today would probably get you 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 than looks. Great piece of film; thanks for sharing it.👍👌😁 Cheers for now, Dougie. P.S. Good work with the colour too.

I wonder when and why hat wearing went out of fashion. It seems back in those days your outfit wasn't complete without a hat or cap of some sort.

So many young lads in this video, why aren't they over fighting the French with the other brave lads?