Apparently, for our own good, we are not allowed to do this anymore...... don't think for yourselves, don't ask questions, listen to the 'science', stay at home, blah blah blah. All based on fear and all so wrong!
So much has changed in the life time of one human. In the 1950s my grandfather owned a farm just outside Maghera and while sitting on the wall outside the house a guy walked past and he told me that he was walking to Belfast . He did this every week. Sometimes twice a week. The roads were narrow then with beautiful over hanging trees . No footpaths after he walked past our house. Storms ,rain , snow , sunshine he walked to Belfast and then back.
Indeed Francis! Electric light, the motor car and constant updating methods of communcation were the big game changers in my lifetime Francis. Today the internet has revolutionised everything for good and sadly for bad too. That was some walk! But if you had time and were fit and there was no other way to go. A bit mad though.
@@TomMcClean Some said there was a sandwich short in his picnic basket . He was about 30 yrs old . He must have wore out a lot of boots. There was another who came back from Australia who was always out walking. He was about 60 yrs old.
It does indeed sound like that there was something wrong mentally about that guy. I have heard about other mentally unstabel people doing this kind of thing too.
IMany thanks Mike. It is a wonderful 'living' outdoor museum but most peope who come to Belfast just want to see Titanic and the giant's Causeway. There is so much more to see than them!
Thank you very much, Tom, for this insight into the way of life and livelihood of the people at those times. I love the old sweetie shop on the corner, and I thought I saw sticks of Barley Sugar at the counter; I just loved them. I believe the museum has expanded since I was there with my parents in 1978. Lovely presentation. Again, thank you!😊.
No problem John. Yes it has expanded a lot since 1978. They are always doing something to improve it. Yes those were barley sugar sticks. I had almost forgotten them until you said. I reckon this has to be one of the best outdoor museums of its type in the whole UK. Yes cruise ship passengers are not directed here because it would take too long going round it. You need a full day to do it justice. I found it difficult to do the folk and then the transport sections on the same day. It is too big. That was my fathers old Ballydown primary school rebuilt stone by stone where he first taught in 1934 or so. So it is a special place for me. Best wishes from the Belfast Castlereagh hills of Northern Ireland.
LOL FF. That house was probably, cold, damp drafty etc but still it was very good for its time. Most rectors were on the, 'pig's back'. Unfortunately many of their parishioners did not have it so good.
WOW Tom really enjoyed this video so glad you have put it all together, Anne & I are going to watch it again on tv. It's very similar to Beamish museum up in the North East and it's right up our street. My elder brother Lez would love this too especially the farming side and it does bring back childhood memories especially the old forge we used to live next door to the forge at Bempton when all 7 of us lived with mum & dad (I will e-mail you some photos) and the school dry toilets Oh Boy no flushing in those day's lol.Do you know if some of the old timber roofs were constructed out of ship's timbers? it was common practise over here,and I have never seen a thatched roof roped down in that fashion,going back to the forge I noticed a lot of the metal was just left outside probably there was no room for it inside and it was just the same at our forge and none got stolen ever those were the day's.Great stuff Tom thanks for sharing it'a real special.
Many thanks Chris. I've heard of Beamish Museum. Yes when I look back on many of my early videos I realize how very much they fall short. Back then I thought that no one would be bothered to watch anything longer that a few minutes so I mostly put out only short videos. Now I realize how stupid I was thinking this, so I'm going back over old videos and where appropriate piecing them all together. lol I do this mostly on rainy days when I can't get out and about.Wow! You had school dry toilets! Yes there is a big house outside comber near Scrabo Tower that has a lot of internals saved from ships timbers. Good timber was at a premium in those days. Our DIY stores are now telling us that it is going that way today. They ca't get timber and brickies are telling us they can't source good brick either. Glad you enjoyed that. People at home used to leave their back doors open all the time. Nobody bothered. Now you have to 'tie things down' and lock everything up!
Wasn't all that long ago in Northern Ireland some people lived in white washed cottages with no mains water and an outside toilet. My father was born in one in the mid 40's until he was about 7, he often quips that the only time they had running water was when it rained and ran down the inside walls.
Mu uncles and aunts on both sides lived like this when I was a boy visiting, CP! Watr ran down the inside walls! Wow! I well remember venturing into my uncle's bedroom in Rathfriland. I couldn't believe it. There was hoar frost on the top of his bed clothes! People back then never thought very much about these things.
