A Stroll Round Seahouses Town & Harbour 1969
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- This is a nice eight minute long piece of footage that my grandad has taken on one afternoon's stroll around Seahouses, both the town and the harbour, in 1969.
It's amazing to see some of the old shops and buildings that don't exist anymore, such as Mole's the fish & chip shop, and Hunter's the florist. Some old staples of Seahouses never change however - Coxons and the Farne Island Gift Shop there in 69, and still here today...
Near the end of my grandads stroll, the weather takes a turn for the worse. The black & red warning flags are flying from the end of the harbour, and the sea is breaking big waves over the harbour walls.
Many thanks to the good folk on the Facebook groups "Seahouses Fishing Boats & Harbour" and "Seahouses Local Area & History" for their help with these videos. Phil Hanvey was able to tell me this video was shot in 1969, as the white boat at 9m3s, FR168 Providence was only painted white that particular year!
The original footage from 1969, although being in colour, was of a pretty low quality. The resolution was only 720 x 576, there was a lot of grain and noise, and the entire footage had a pink/purple colour cast throughout.
After getting the original footage digitized, I have edited and enhanced it using modern software. I have upscaled it, denoised, sharpened, and removed the colour cast as best I can, rebalancing the colours and contrast closer to how my grandad no doubt saw it on that day in 1969.
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This cine footage is from the personal archive of T.S Henderson, formerly of George Henderson & Co, Kelso.
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Lovely, thank you
Great footage. Thanks for posting.
I was 9 then , my grandad had a caravan on the Seaview with a fantastic look over towards the sea . It was all open then , lovely putting green and room to play on hot balmy summer nights . Now , completely ruined looks awful , the whole front is terrible !
Great memories, I agree about all the building and ruined views, unfortunately happening in many places. The dreadful thing is, a lot are holiday homes or for rent - the poor local workforce get priced out of living near their place of work.
@@TSHendersonCineFilmArchive Yes , i was a young boy at the time but it did look and feel a lot better in the 60's and early 70's , when i went there every summer holiday for 6 weeks . Its just not the same anymore and will never be again ! . . . .
Cheers Mr Henderson for the great memories of my favourite place. I was 2 years old in 1969 but spent all my childhood holidays there . Cheers 👍🏆🇬🇧
Glad it brought back some happy memories!
Just come across this absolutely fantastic footage, does John, Pauline, Hazel, Clare and Andrew Swallow ring a bell, l have a special relationship with that whole lovely family and their history, too much to put on here.
Hi Glenn, thanks your kind comments, glad you enjoyed the video - I have actually had all my grandfathers footage redigitized by a company that uses modern techniques and equipment, so I will eventually be uploading a better version of this video. The surname Swallow does ring a bell - I'll ask my mum if she knows, she would know better than I would, she and my grandparents holidayed on Northumberland 40's to 80's...I was born in early 60's, so maybe the wrong decade.
@@TSHendersonCineFilmArchive thank you for the quick reply, John Swallow’s mum and dad were residents of Seahouses, quite posh as well, my new wife and l had the pleasure of staying at Johns mum on our honeymoon for a week, Pauline’s dad, Andrew Robinson farmed at l believe Tughall, to this day Pauline’s youngest daughter Judy and her husband are still farming that very same farm, just a quick explanation on how we became acquainted with the Swallow family, back in 1963, Andrew Robinson ventured out to purchase another farm on which he purchased 110 acres Westfield Farm, North Kelsey, Lincs, Westfield Farm was only 1/4 mile next to my mum and dads farm (Minnitts Farm) which was situated along side the river ancholme, Westfield farm was to be run by John and Pauline along with an acquaintance Neil Scott and his wife Fiona to be their held as a farm worker, the enterprise was to be a barley beef farm, new buildings and one tower silo was erected, after a couple of years trying to make this farm profitable, it was decided by Andrew that beef farming wasn’t viable so he then decided in 1965 to start milking cows, (80 cows) they then added on another building and a second tower silo, this worked up to a point but was still struggling, so after three years, John and Pauline asked my mum and dad if they would consider being partners and join the two farm together making the acreage to 170 acres, this proved to be a success, I’ll leave it there because there’s a lot more to this story but at the end of the day, we were fortunate to get to know and be involved with the Swallows and the Robinson’s, very happy memories, on another quick note, the fish shop in Seahouses called Swallow Fish is of course once John Swallows enterprise but l think you’ll already know this?
Really enjoyed watching this. My family are from Seahouses and I've often heard tale of Mole's chippy and how there were that many boats in the harbour you could walk from one side to the other without getting your feet wet.
Glad you enjoyed the video - plenty more Seahouses/Northumberland related vintage footage to come, just never enough hours in the day! :-)
there is a charm to these old films, just something that I love about them, something that you can't fully recreate now. Even if it is really hard to use it, and you have to put in a lot of things for these camera's to work.
I agree, there is something special about them. More to come 👍🏻
The year I graduated from H S
Tustin California. 69 was a good year.
End of the swinging sixties!
farne gift shop still goin strong.
Aye, I bought myself a Beadnell tea mug when I was in the Farne Island Gift Shop three months ago! 👍🏻☕️
We call it "the shop that sells everything" as it just about does!