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PastPresented
Добавлен 2 июл 2010
I make videos about the past, but also about present events which might be worth another look in the future.
Hyperactive Whitehaven Squirrels, September 2024
A sudden fall in temperature on 9 September 2024 caused the squirrels in Arrowthwaite Wood, Whitehaven, Cumberland, to think that Winter is Coming. The resulting hyperactivity pretty much defeated my ability to keep them in frame, but here are some of the moments when the view was not a total blur.
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Another unexpected Whitehaven connoisseur #snorts
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5 September 2024. Another wide-open door day at the PastPresented gallery in Whitehaven market Place; another unusual visitor (for once, not a gull, or even a squirrel or a rabbit); about 3-4cm long if you're interested in stats.
Whitehaven Connoisseur Gull #snorts
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Improved weather has allowed me to keep the door of the PastPresented gallery in Whitehaven Market Place open for much of the day. Entry is free, as this visitor demonstrates
Whitehaven Bank Holiday Gull Bonus #snorts
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Bank Holiday Sunday, 25 August 2024, in Whitehaven Market Place, Cumbria- shot through the glass of the shop door, because I had no intention of letting the cold swirl in.
Whitehaven Backyard Gulls 2024: The Finale!
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22 August 2024. There are now no gull fledglings using the backyard of my shop in Whitehaven Market Place; apparently my hospitality isn't good enough for them. Until next year, therefore, this bumper instalment covering the steady progress over the past week will have to suffice
Whitehaven Backyard Gulls Make Progress (a bit)
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The remaining pair of fledgling gulls in the back-yard of my shop in Whitehaven Market place seem finally to be figuring out that they are birds! My apologies for the slightly truncated captions.
Whitehaven Pride '24- Katherine Ellis comedy #snorts
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Katherine Ellis performed at Pride by the Harbourside in Whitehaven, Cumbria, on the afternoon of 3 August 2024, and revealed her contributions to the art of the Jingle ...
Whitehaven Gulls: It's Bad News Week #snorts
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End of July 2024: bad news from the gulls in the backyard of my shop in the Market Place of Whitehaven, Cumbria. Turns out that light-touch parenting may be a serious mistake.
Whitehaven Gulls 2024. Lots of Whitehaven Gulls 2024, in fact
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2024's early batch of gulls in Whitehaven are starting to take flight and make their own way in the world- which is making the parents of later arrivals, such as the ones in my shop's back-yard, extra-vigilant.
Whitehaven fledgling gulls- DRAMA!
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There's bad news, exciting news and silly news from the fledgling gulls in Whitehaven Market Place, mid-July 2024.
Scary Whitehaven gulls update, 11 July 2024 #snorts
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The three sets of gull chicks I've been monitoring from my shop in Whitehaven Market Place have been leading uneventful lives- until today, 11 July 2024 ....
Whitehaven Gull Chicks Update, 3 July 2024
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Here's a quick start-of-July progress report on the gull chicks in the backyard of my shop, across the road etc. Plus a lonely rabbit.
Whitehaven Gull Chicks Update, 25 June 2024
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After witnessing a slightly tedious goalless draw, I felt the need for some excitement. Here's an update on the gull chicks in my shop back-yard and on a not-very-opposite roof.
Whitehaven: Spring Into Summer 2024
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A month of random observations of the transition from spring to summer in Whitehaven, Cumberland, May to June 2024
Orange Parade, Whitehaven Market Place, 25 May 2024
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The local Orange Lodge paraded through Whitehaven, Cumberland, on the traditional date in 2024. Here they are seen passing my shop in the Market Place.
A couple of Whitehaven gulls #snorts
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A couple of Whitehaven gulls #snorts
Spring in Whitehaven: My gull-friend's back #snorts
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Spring in Whitehaven: My gull-friend's back #snorts
Whitehaven red squirrel brunch #snorts
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Whitehaven red squirrel brunch #snorts
Some opposite-loitering seagulls #snorts
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Some opposite-loitering seagulls #snorts
Arrowthwaite Wood downdate, Easter 2024 #snorts
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Arrowthwaite Wood downdate, Easter 2024 #snorts
Seagulls Loitering With Intent #snorts
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Seagulls Loitering With Intent #snorts
The Greatest Hoax That Was Actually True- My over-reaction (The Vinland Map Story)
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The Greatest Hoax That Was Actually True- My over-reaction (The Vinland Map Story)
The Map That Showed the Way To Vinland #snorts
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The Map That Showed the Way To Vinland #snorts
Seagull Darwin Award contender? #snorts
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Seagull Darwin Award contender? #snorts
Socialising Seagulls in Whitehaven Harbour #snorts
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Socialising Seagulls in Whitehaven Harbour #snorts
Two brilliant teams there is only one winner.
I remember this theme tune and opening
Where is this please
Several sites throughout the length of Arrowthwaite Wood
Great video! I remember visiting here well out of season about 8 years ago, walked up to the house and a kind man came out, it was raining, he opened the water gates and turned on the lights and said "help yourself around and be careful, there is no flour demos as its out of season" me and my friend spent an hour in there and left a generous donation, such an amazing historical place, I am from Hastings, so a few miles away!
Piss on that flag!
Tell us you're a bigot without telling us you're a bigot.
Cecil Korer - the man who knew so many beutey queens, that he made them hostesses on other quiz shows like Beverley Isherwood on Countdown
After becoming one of Channel 4's first executives, in 1982 Korer also brought us _Minipops_
Watching it now the actual program is like a spoof of itself :-) Still marvellous tho
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This was before I was born, but I am fascinated by this kind of old school stuff.
This is a place called Whitehaven in the county of Cumbria in the northwest of England 🏴. It’s a small chick 🐥 🐣 🐤 is with the mother 👩 seagull. The seagulls visit the shops 🏬 everyday is because they want to pinch 🤏 the food 🥘 🍱 🍲 as they are hungry 🤤 😋 . I like 👍 ❤️ seagulls is because they have lovely 😻🥰 ☺️ feathers 🪶. The seagulls knock ✊ on the windows 🪟 outside people’s houses 🏘️ 🏠 🏡 everyday is because they want food 🥘 🍱 🍲. They must be millions and billions of seagulls around the world 🗺️ 🌏 🌍 🌎 that they are in plenty of countries. 👍 😁 😃
Robert Robinson comb-over was a National Monument. 🤣🤣
I was one week old 😂
Nice stuff to see! Pretty sure some of the red squirrels scurrying around in there these days are kittens, as they're very energetic and seem to enjoy play fighting each other too! 🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️👍👍👍👍
I still get the feeling the squirrels are a bit more furtive this year- getting videos was much easier last spring!
Such pretty birdies ❤😍
So much intolerance, still so much anger! About time we on the Mainland put an absolute stop to this, for the sake of our children! Otherwise, they will also grow up with similar low mentality attitudes, intolerance of one human to another!
It wasn't an angry parade, just an expression of communal pride
Muppets
More marching morons and blind bigots.
Everybody's entitled to their opinion
IT'S A CRACKER OF A VIDEO 📸 💯💯💯💯📸📸😊
No Hamas or BLM supporter's here......Not like Sinn Feiners Ideology Diversity Racial Enforcers Sinn Fein Black Lives Matter supporter's.
Many thanks for uploading your recordings. It is shocking the BBC destroyed almost all of the series with only around 12 episodes existing and half of those were recorded privately. Call it a conspiracy theory but I can't help thinking this series suffered a worse fate than others because some people don't want to preserve how intelligent Mr and Mrs average were compared to todays dumbed down population caused by lower education standards over the years !
It's not surprising though, if you replace the word "destroyed" with "wiped" and bear in mind that as a broadcaster funded largely by compulsory payments from TV viewers the BBC has always had to be seen to avoid waste.* Re-using magnetic tape, particularly in the days before home video gave old programmes a second life, was an obvious cost-saving measure. * "Being seen to avoid waste" can, unfortunately, lead to sunk cost fallacy issues, such as the disaster of the new EastEnders set.
@@PastPresented Many thanks for the kind reply. I agree with all of your points and I apologise for slipping into the vernacular using "destroyed" instead of "wiped". I recently rewatched Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game 1972-77 which the BBC retain intact on the original video tapes including the compilation shows that were made at the end of each year including an extra compilation show for 1978. Why did the BBC retain these compilation shows at the expense of wiping the entire first 1971 series ? It does seem illogical. If I could wish to see one show again it would be It's A Knockout broadcast on BBC1 on 15/6/73 Ashington vs Blyth. My parents took me to see event but I only have a faint memory trace. Halcyon days !
@@sirsamfay99 _"Why did the BBC retain these compilation shows at the expense of wiping the entire first 1971 series ?"_ Again, I'm not sure that "at the expense of" is the best phrasing. _Generation Game_ was a cost-saving exercise, an off-the-peg format for a glitzy, fun but forgettable show using a single block-booked studio. The BBC would not have envisaged any longevity for it until they saw that the Brucie mojo had spun gold from straw.
@@PastPresented I still cannot see the reasoning why shows of compilations of Generation Game clips are retained by the BBC on their original video spools and not the 1971 series. I can only guess the BBC decided to wipe tapes that reach a certain age rather than deciding a tapes value of its contents. This is confirmed that the BBC retain the entire run of It's A Knockout from 1975 onwards bar one from 1980. All pre 1975 episodes were wiped except for one from 1973 and one from 1971.
@@PastPresented The compilation Bruce Forsyth Generation Game Show which was broadcast in late 1975 contains a portion of the pilot 1971 show in colour. Bruce says before the clip starts "We will now show you the first game of the Generation Game from 1971". As the show was extremely popular by late 1975 leaving ITV far behind in the ratings why did the BBC wipe this and the other episodes from 1971?
If this is a domestic VCR recording then it's a bloody rare find.
VTR! A Sony reel-to-reel machine at the college where my dad worked. Sadly, they couldn't afford colour.
@@PastPresented Ah well, still a good find.
Gutted you got knocked out, that means no more recordings! Very bad form from The Taylors not to record their apperances.
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These questions make University Challenge look easy. No ordinary game show could possibly be like this today.
So why do I find so many University Challenge questions really difficult?
It's a different kind of knowledge; UC is more about knowing a subject to a depth that most viewers can't obtain, ATF was quite lateral, it's spiritual successor is Only Connect
Probably want to set up a nest. I love seagulls, they are so droll. If they just could stop crapping on my roof windows...
The permanently middle aged Robert Robinson was known as 'Smuggins' in Private Eye.
These days I'm an avid Eye reader, but back then I couldn't afford it ...
@@PastPresented There's also this hilarious take off of Smuggins by Fry and Laurie. ruclips.net/video/npvQ3M3WaPA/видео.html
I remember when Not the Nine O'Clock News took this off. Both families were all quantity surveyors, including the kids.
Absolute mad lads.
I think it's the seagull equivalent of putting your towel on a beach deckchair. 🙃
Your mum is really good at Maths!
Ashton under lyne. I'm in the same town as the Whitehead family.
Black & white? In 1973?. Weird
It was broadcast in colour, but recorded in monochrome (this being years before the invention of cheap colour video recorders)!
@@PastPresented Even if the Beeb had kept a copy in the first place, it probably would've been archived in black & white anyway!
Yes, I remember this as being very middle class 50 years ago. The fathers were either lecturers, teachers or accountants, the mothers (if they worked) were teachers or librarians and the kids all seemed extremely repressed. Robert Robinson was the snob who held it all together.
Associating knowledge with "middle class" and "repressed" is a sign of an unhealthy society. Knowledge is power.
@@PastPresented I am talking about the general mindset of a half century ago. It would not be until the 80s, when 'ordinary' people like Fred Housego and Chris Hughes would win Mastermind.
@@stephenguppy7882 That's not quite comparing like with like. A quiz team of two parents and two low-teenage children is much harder to find than a single contestant. Unfortunately I have only the vaguest memories of earlier single-contestant shows like _Criss Cross Quiz._
Robinson was known as 'Smuggins' in Private Eye.
Very enjoyable upload.
Believe it or not but I actually remember seeing this at the time. That's because of the question about Blue Mink and Pink Floyd. It's amazing the things that stick with you.
I've used the script from my deleted video pointing out the many mistakes in Paul Whitewick's video as the basis for a crude web page: www.pastpresented.ukart.com/vinland-whitewick.htm
Is the "original video" not still available for viewing, so that one may examine any possible mis-understandings?
Sadly, no. The instruction from RUclips was that it had to be deleted. I've been wondering if I should reconstruct the video without directly using any of Paul's material, but in the meantime, if there are particular differences between Paul's narrative and mine which baffle you, I'll be happy to clarify.
@@PastPresented Thank you. I was merely curious to see some of the issues arising from what is clearly a complex topic.
@@sawyerhja Yes, and the irony is that most of the complexity has stemmed from attempts to resolve the authenticity problem, which turned out to be absurdly easy once the relevant resources (e.g. relating to the 1893 Madrid exhibition) became discoverable online. Another funny thing is that Paul obviously tried to avoid simply basing his video on the Wikipedia entry, and has researched a number of background sources- but the list in his video description only contains a single post-breakthrough item (a 2021 press release). To see what a difference the 2011-13 breakthrough made, compare this video with my confused 2004 pdf essay on the topic: www.pastpresented.ukart.com/vinland/vinlite.pdf
@@PastPresented Clearly, it is a very complex subject. On a quite different matter, are you a student of Latin? I ask, because I had to read Cicero's "In Catilinam" for my A-Level (many years ago, when God was a boy). The question is, where do ancient texts now reside? Where is the original text of Cicero's works, or are most such texts merely copies that have been made over the centuries, and therefore just a litle unreliable?
@@sawyerhja Therein lies a peculiar paradox. There are whole libraries of Mesopotamian texts from 4,000 years ago, because they used clay tablets, but thin media like parchment, paper and palm leaves are much more vulnerable. There is increasing hope that the volcano-charred scrolls found in a buried library at Herculaneum may be read with modern scanning technology, but generally, really old originals survive only if they are kept dry, and out of reach of all living things. Where possible, editors of old texts compile "family trees" of copies with variations to work out which are most likely to be accurate renditions of the original. There are gazillions of manuscript copies of "In Catilinam" but none from Cicero's own time.
How did you get hold of the copy?
Recorded off-air on a reel-to-reel recorder at Dad's work, later transferred to VHS.
Enjoyed that.
wtf
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@@PastPresented i love you
@@dustinthedecorateddustbin2889 🗼
@@PastPresented isnt life odd (you can send another emoji now)
People have been wondering why Whitehaven Pride happens in September while the main celebration takes place in June. I think it's pretty obvious... I mean, as the old saying goes: Pride always cometh before the Fall! (Sorry (hashtag not sorry etc...) 🤗🥳🌈)
💚 There's no way I could just click the normal heart button for that!
That feeling when you slowly begin realise that modern-day overprotective parents could _literally_ learn something from seagulls.... 🥺😳😲🤯 #RejectModernityEtc 🤗
Thanks for uploading these as always, but are you aware that your hashtag says "#snorts" rather than '#shorts'? Not sure why you'd want to use the former as the latter would probably get you a slight algorithm boost from RUclips, but if so I'd be interested to know the reasoning behind it. Cheers!
Cheers Uncle J. The reasoning is sad but simple; RUclips wants shorts to use vertical format (best for phones) whereas I want to make short videos which also look good on horizontal format TV-type screens- so I snort at RUclips.
@@PastPresented *Nods head* I totally support this. The insipid and relentlessly ongoing TikToksification of Society must be fought against at *all* costs!! ✊😉😊 (Also, I'm pretty sure those are lesser black-backed gulls. If the adults have yellow legs then that pretty much confims it.)
I used to love this programme. It's more probable than not that I watched this episode. I was 11 at the time
Great to see your behind-the-scenes photos of life at BBC tv! Always loved the theme music of Ask the Family too!
Would that it were, ah would that it were!
and an extra point for being so clever!
Arrowthwaite Wood's water voles are best spotted on rainy days. They like the apples that are sometimes in the bird feeders, so if you see something on them that has a brown body and a long rat-like tail then that's probably one of them. 👍☺️🤗
"Professor Rupert Smith is a particle physicist. And with him is his wife, Prudence. And their children are Sebastian and Letitia." Presumably, all the wives were confined to the domestic setting or were (if lucky) let out to toil as a a school teacher!!
Yup, failure to say a right thing can often be as bad as saying a wrong thing.
I loved this show and was nine at the time of your appearances. I had no hope of following in your wake as I was the only child of a single parent. Nuclear? No thanks lol
Yes, the format would have been problematic for both my mum and my dad if it had existed when they were children!
How stupid we have become !Horrifying.
There's a fundamental problem. Until about the 17th century there was a very small common core of learning, which an individual could grasp. Once the idea of printing periodicals to share the latest information and thinking took root, the common core started to become increasingly fictitious. Now even what might be called the "lifeskills core" changes from year to year (or in the case of the classic waking-from-concussion question "Who is the current Prime Minister?" even more frequently).
@@PastPresented And they are all Quantity Surveyors!
@@anonUK Did a Quantity Surveyor kill your favourite pet or something?
@@PastPresented No, I had a pet aardvark called Ethel who tried it once... It was a Not the Nine O'clock News sketch done about this show a few years later than this recording, in which everyone, including the kids, was a Quantity Surveyor. ruclips.net/video/ZYlOV7K-xOU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/fSykGSUqnKk/видео.html
@@anonUK Thanks! That raises the question "Why can I remember _Monty Python_ sketches better than I can remember _Not_ ... sketches?"
"I've mastered the ability of moving so incredibly slow, that I am invisible to the *rabbit eye."
What I need now is a proper stabilised camera rig so I can film as I sneak!
Just want to say I fucking love this sort of stuff!