My Dad .uncle and grandfather and great grandfather worked in the docks in Ardrossan happy days ..more so when the bannana boats came in .was eating bannanas for weeks LOL
I enjoyed watching this! Cine film makes even recently (to me!) filmed events seem very old. I never tire of watching archive film of the 3 towns. Thanks for posting.
Good to see and remember the Harbour when it was still a working Harbour and not a Marina as it is now. My Friend's Dad was a Crane Driver there (Pat O'Hare). We need to preserve these old recordings so the likes of my Son's can be shown what it used to be like not so long ago.
That brings back memories! I remember the dockyard cranes and the sulphur!! I haope you have more film footage of Ayrshire especially around the Ardrossan/Saltcoats/Ardeer/Stevenston and Kilwinning area in the 1970's/1980's! Fantastic film!
I appreciate your kind comment Photohunter. These shots were extracted from an 8mm film I shot several years ago. Pity in those early days film wasn't as cheap as video now is and probably more footage would have been taken. I've transferred most of my films to digital now so I'll see if I can find more Ayrshire material--Kind regards.
Are you sure about this being filmed in the 80's, cos i remember the sulphur well, yellow talk like powder coated everything . But you see i left Ardrossan in 1979 to join the Royal Navy, and am sure this was earlier than that .
Ardrossan in it's hey days. It has changed now. Some still remain the same as it used to be. It's a tremendous shame the cranes in Ardrossan are gone. I think they were taken down in 1985.
if this was at that time it is so wrong. I was born in Ardrossan in 1948 and joined the Navy in 1964 served in various ships . As a kid in the prefabs in Kirkhall Gdns we were always down the harbour
My Dad .uncle and grandfather and great grandfather worked in the docks in Ardrossan happy days ..more so when the bannana boats came in .was eating bannanas for weeks LOL
First ship in the Navy HMS Droxford arrived Ardrossan 1965 Awesome
I enjoyed watching this! Cine film makes even recently (to me!) filmed events seem very old. I never tire of watching archive film of the 3 towns. Thanks for posting.
Good to see and remember the Harbour when it was still a working Harbour and not a Marina as it is now. My Friend's Dad was a Crane Driver there (Pat O'Hare). We need to preserve these old recordings so the likes of my Son's can be shown what it used to be like not so long ago.
That brings back memories! I remember the dockyard cranes and the sulphur!! I haope you have more film footage of Ayrshire especially around the Ardrossan/Saltcoats/Ardeer/Stevenston and Kilwinning area in the 1970's/1980's! Fantastic film!
I appreciate your kind comment Photohunter. These shots were extracted from an 8mm film I shot several years ago. Pity in those early days film wasn't as cheap as video now is and probably more footage would have been taken. I've transferred most of my films to digital now so I'll see if I can find more Ayrshire material--Kind regards.
Are you sure about this being filmed in the 80's, cos i remember the sulphur well, yellow talk like powder coated everything .
But you see i left Ardrossan in 1979 to join the Royal Navy, and am sure this was earlier than that .
Hi
Loved the harbour film - any more wee gems in the cupboard.
Ardrossan in it's hey days. It has changed now. Some still remain the same as it used to be. It's a tremendous shame the cranes in Ardrossan are gone. I think they were taken down in 1985.
if this was at that time it is so wrong. I was born in Ardrossan in 1948 and joined the Navy in 1964 served in various ships . As a kid in the prefabs in Kirkhall Gdns we were always down the harbour
was that sulphur being unloaded ,I walk through the stuff going to school regularly.
my favevorite ferry ever the clansman
think i could spell back then to lmaoooo