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Looks and sounds wonderful doesn't it, except I had an uncle went down to work in a Cornish Granite quarry came home with silicosis, died gasping for breath as his lungs were turned to stone. Horrendous death. Not quite the idyllic scenes portrayed here.

👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic! What a great guy, I'm really impressed! He's resting in himself and has created a perfect balance between the rough, hard quarry work, the bee keeping and the very delicate repair of watches. He likes all 4 seasons and everything that nature has to give. He is talking about it like a poet. All of that makes him a really good role model and I hope, that his children see this too. 2) The quarry and the granite is impressive too of course. I was happy to read in the descriptions, the the De Lank quarry still works. It should still be quite economic because of the free energy delivered by water power. Thanks a lot for uploading and sharing this great documentary. Best regards, luck and especially health to all involved.

We have lost this closeness to our environment and the tools which worked it. Heidegger would describe it as Dasein, and its loss explains much of the mental and physical ills of modernity and societal dysfunction.

Reminds me of the horrors of, Pale Rider.

The music was noisome. Simply unnecessary. I would rather listen to the sound of the river or the machinery.

why is the quarrymans audio so quiet whilst the music is earbendingly loud, so annoying.

I don't see any hearing protection or breathing protection! or eye protection

I worked in an old Maine factory, doing maintenance, located on the Saco River. The original power concept was an underground aqueduct system of tunnels and diversion gates that could send river water tthrough various ducts. The water naturally turned water wheels that then drove a belt system to eventually send power to the textile machines located on several different floors of the building above. Simply amazing to see the underbelly of arched brick laid tunnels and ducts. Unseen to the average person. I feel priviledged.

I enjoyed this very much. It's a shame that everything has become so much more complicated. Thank you so much for sharing this.

I nearly saw him without a cigarette in his mouth!

Hard working men I tip my hat to them may they rest in peace

I am most impressed by the lack of work safety measures. 😮

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Old Timer from Maine, USA. Many of my forbesrs worked granite quarries and transported by sloop to growing cities along Eastern seaboard.

Straight, hard working men, tough as the rock they were working with. If anyone was wondering, the De Lank Quarry, is still in business today.

Gentlemen reminds me of my grandfather (farm mechanic) and great grandfathers (machinist/miner). Cornish disposition seem to be very similar to theirs.

Fantastic piece. Thanks for sharing

Stone nothing easy about it true art all aspects of

For those interested, that opening aerial shot shows the site as viewed from just north of east. If you go to Google Earth and punch in "De Lank quarry," you need to spin the north marker round to about the 4 o'clock position and tilt the view backwards in order to get the same features in view. The quarry is pretty much unchanged, and looks very well looked after. Not a great deal of environmental impact or expansion at all.

It's a shame there was some AI video filter used on this, because it kinda ruins some aspects. The audio being mucked with is a shame as well.

Lovely film. Thank you for sharing it

Ora tutti figettimi!

Riveting ,a lifestyle gone now

i live here

@ 22:54 wtf

Bravo......stone people ......hard work.......those guy look like they drink and work......then drink more........only one bottle wine at lunch....cheers

All that cable noise is creepy

Let's consider those stone workers who did the Greek stuff! !!!

Thank you for sharing this video! Watching this is 10x better than trying to stomach the CRAP coming out of Hollywood.

fantastic documentary, I love to see the work being done so many years ago. Hard work still counts in this world just as in years past. thanks for sharing

Great documentary of a simple lifestyle that we have lost in Britain. It can be said though, it still is very quiet deep in the Cornwall countryside of a night time.

The music from that era is awful. Deafening blaring trumpets and other assorted brass, totally inappropriate and unnecessary. 🤮

Love how they put the bird sounds in there to make it look appealing... The birds would have been long gone with all that noise

Those nubs when lifting the block with the chain and hook Remind me of those found on Egytian quaries and some on the walls built by incas.

Good lord, I know this place having lived just around the corner! 🤯

There's a bit of cheating going on throughout this video....but most especially at 19:25, where the 1928 Edison disc of the Schubert Trio is introduced. The music we hear is exquisite -- but NOT played on the phonograph we see! It is electronically reproduced, and superimposed over the acoustic player. One hopes the BBC is doing more honest productions nowadays!!

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FYI - The Quarrymen was the Beatles first band name before they became The Beatles.

Not an earmufler in sight. I recon their ears were ringing good. And their wives developet a strong voice. Great documentary of a time gone by. Simpler times. Perhaps better times.

Including fine jazz of its time.

Dedication, pride, and purpose. A man/men of the land. A pace of life and skills that are sadly now belong to a bygone age. We live in a throwaway era now that knows nothing of apprenticeship and skilled trades.

Dangerous work not helped by the ever present risk of silicosis

What an honest man.....legend by todays standard

I love the jazz........compliments the soul of the scenes

What a sweet video!!! It would be fun to get an update on the couple and the town.

Thank you for showing it i knew the late Joe Pengelly what a lovely man he was and my dear late laminated friend Paul Collenette r.i.p thankyou again. 😊

If she was any later they'd have Carried on with the wedding without her?😂

Strangest of weddings, the wedding march is played randomly followed by a hymm to which the bride enters. That's a shabby ceremony and an extremely disorganised vicar.

So the stream creates air pressure that is tapped for the breakers? Wow that's clever

so good. thank you!