From my father Roy Wilson's 8mm cine film. Billy Smarts Circus passing along West Blackhall Street and Grey Place Greenock towards the Battery Park and arriving at the park viewed from the Lyle Hill. I understand that the circus alighted a train at Greenock Central and made its way to the park nearly 3 miles away.
*I wasn't sure initially but settled on 1966 as the year having seen some photo's being shared online by Eric Webster which were from the Greenock Telegraph of 1st August 1966 and it showed the same two lead performers with same headdresses etc on the front two elephants leaving Greenock Central Station the day before.
Music: Entrance of the Gladiators. Desford Colliery Band and Eric Crees
Video: Robert M Wilson 2020.
29 сен 2024