Trades & Crafts of Maiden Street, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick Filmed in 1978 Photographer - Mike Mulcahy Filmed by John Lynch Project organised by Sean Kelly
I'm from latinamerica and I watch videos like this for learning english. This job here is known as 'hojalatero', and belong to those lost in time jobs. I loved how the video ends with the verses of 'the village blacksmith'. Thanks for sharing, regards from chile!
I was a coppersmith in the dockyard, I can relate to this craftsmanship, sadly these are days long gone, modern rubbish is just that, rubbish. This was a craftsman, hand made with years of skills. I would gladly swap todays rubbish to go back to the craftsman days.
Wow, to know that this is my great Grandfather Roche. I never met him but watching this video now, I know that he was a bloody good tinsmith. I wish I got to meet my Grandfather Roche. And thank you to the people who posted nice comments 💖💗
meggy _weggy it's surprising that we remember our fathers and our grandfathers but never our great grand fathers. The third generation is always lost. If we could go back 7 generations, we could discuss matters with a relation from the Great Plague!
meggy_weggy you and your family should be rightly proud. A nice little film, it would have been nice to have heard him speak on it or to hear him work with the tools. I really enjoyed watching it.
Ignore the negative comments and the thumbs down, this man was a craftsman in his time. I worked in the aircraft industry all my life and knew many tinsmiths , it was always regarded as a specialist trade and we would not have survived two world wars without them, aircraft would not have evolved to what they are today. I would have loved to have met this man and talked about his craft. Today this skill is sadly not required any more, plastics and composites have replaced this trade, that's progress...sad but we progress.
It's great to see what a tinsmith actually did, Both my Grandfather and Great Grandfather were tinsmiths and a video like this makes you appreciate the work they did, thank you for posting this video.
My friend Mike made a copper lantern by following this video exactly. It came out beautiful, and is now displayed with honor in the Sheet Metal Worker's Local 105 Union training facility..
Delightful - such a change to modern videos where workshops are full of expensive machinery! Reminds me of a trip to India some years ago where there was an all purpose tinsmith/blacksmith/mechanic in one village we visited. When our guide asked what he didn't make the reply was "If I can't make it then you probably don't need it!" That was forty years ago too, bet he's gone and somebody will sell you a plastic what-not instead.
A true gentleman of quiet disposition.Friendly and courteous to all. Repaired many a hurley for me and my generation when he could have been more profitably engaged. Delighted to have come across this little snatch of a byegone era.John McGuire
I love to be able to see where the hands that made something have been. Nice video takes me back to my apprentice days helping an old boy make mud guards for old motorcycles. I’m the old boy now!
Ive spent my life collecting skills like those. Really good video. Especially liked the brief look at the soldering. Skills like those made a house a home.
As a professional blacksmith for 20 years now I can sure appreciate the craftsmanship. These skills are not gone but do require the public to at least occasional support such works. Though they may seem expensive you will never regret purchasing locally made items.
In my role as a 'coach maker' i find this sort of film quite satisfying to watch, people like him, me, are fast going the same way as the 'wheel wright', the cart-wright, the cooper, draper etc etc.Soon to be totally lost skills.
@@tacticalpossum7090 That's good to hear, we haven't seen any new blood come into our trade for years now, even the colleges are struggling to fill classrooms.
Those skills are being lost along with the skills of manual machining, lots of these so called machinist don't have a clue they can only program CNC machines, a similar thing is happening in many areas including professional engineering jobs, the modern day reliance on software is obscene
@@alanpartridge2140 You got that right, some of my friends are fellow engineering types and can use any machine presented to them, one guy in particular is a wizard with all types of lathe, vertical mill and his stainless steel tig welding is an art form.However, even these guys are complaining about the lack of newbies wanting to follow their footsteps, dying breed sadly.
i really love handmade things like this lantern. mostly handmade things are not quit finished or equal from all sides but actually that is the beauty of handmade products. great job.
I used Tomlin a Maserati made like that, an absolute nightmare to work on as no parts were available and you had to make all the bits you needed yourself or out of a part for another car. Who on earth mills crankshafts from billets anymore?
Trades & Crafts of Maiden Street, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick Photographer - Mike Mulcahy Filmed by John Lynch Project organised by Sean Kelly. thanks you all so much Great story !
Now that's old school techniques...loved watching it....I feel for him, because age does catch up and it makes things harder to do. Thanks for this as I love watching the old ways of producing items that will last for generations to come. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺
An ancient lantern was found buried in the stables of my great grandfather's house- he was a corn chandler. It is bigger and the glass is like a lens- like very old circular bottle bottom glass . The whole lantern is decorated by piercings- almost like perforations made with different sized nails, I imagine. Sadly, the cone has disintegrated at the top but I assume it once had a big circular ring so it could be hung up or carried about- checking the premises- and I hope not burning the place down! Well, the old house is still there. I need a man with Tom's skills to remake that cone- and I may know just the fellow- but he's busy making and mending guitars- although he can make anything, be it wood or metal. He once had a big old Ford V8 Pilot car and he made the whole exhaust system for that! I am in complete awe of these folk that have all these skills- they are getting mighty rare now, I am afraid.
I made a lamp not too dissimilar to this one as a test piece when I came out of my apprenticeship. It was for the managers wife and if she liked it I got to keep my job 😂. I visited them last year as I was visiting the area and the lamp is still hung on the fireplace some 43 years later.
Interesting of how things were made by hand. Spirits of Salts in small milk bottle and using a chicken feather to apply it, was a reminder of my Dad soldering. Good memories of times past.
Thanks for uploading! These people actually have skills to make things...really nice watching how a genuine worker hand-crafts things versus modern machines/presses that someone just shoves a piece of metal into them, pushes a button, and done. Before long the industries won't have any laborers who actually make the products but will just be all robots and machines with only a skeleton crew to do maintenance on them...heck, already have that in many factories today
Fantastic!!! I always wanted to see how the lanterns are made and I am glad that some people took the time to document this craftsman's work and pass it to other generations.
I have two copper navigation lights very similar design which was from a 1939 Scottish Trawler, great video to see how they were made ..thanks for posting.......... and the fools complaining about the Flute, mute your sound then watch a craftsman at work......
thank you for the education have always been fascinated by copper in Cincinnati I do a lot with old soup cans has made oil lamps out of a half gallon chicken stock can the king is laying on its side it is a hanger you can I set it down on the table unless you fold the handle back as a tripod. thank you again for the Old World teaching
Bloody hell Tom! That is a beautiful lantern! Your protruding windows are marvellous, I might have to borrow that idea the next time I make a lantern for myself, and I will call that my 'Roche' pattern lamp! I bought 90% of my tools from a bucket-maker in Leeds, and I have identical stakes and five HUGE and one identical tiny Jenny/swager/crank as yours. I was about to declare you a 'One hammer guy until I saw you switch to the homemade mallett... then a Crosspein. Not one specialist hammer!!! Awesome 🏆 Also, your piercing method with the knife was a joy to behold. So... I have to ask... What became of your tools? I hope they are not gathering rust somewhere... I hope they live on, continuing to collect nicks and scratches all born of honest toil? and the lantern... Where does it shine this Christmas? This whole video has me quite emotional, bless your memory Mr Roche from an English armour maker, now working in secret in a French forest. Best wishes and Merry Christmas fellow metal-botherers from me and all the mice in the workshop. 🧐⚒️🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁
