Phil Cunningham

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@bonehill100 Жыл бұрын

I walked through that tunnel with pals from the age of 12 - theres places to hide every 50 yds if trains come - part of growing up!

@stormyweather7011 2 жыл бұрын

me father Eddie every voice kerr lived in foxes corner when he was a wee boy Happy days

@philcunningham2247 2 жыл бұрын

I remember your father Eddie, He sang with Pat and his Saddle Pals on of them also was Paddy Harkin and Also Henry Edward Doherty who was married to Nancy Carson.

@jaydenjn8006 3 жыл бұрын

Love this place! I’ve cycled around it 100s of times!🇮🇪

@daniellecanning7142 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Phil thank you for the lovely trip down round Donegal I miss my weekly trips to Donegal and this was just lovely as we can't go there because of situation we are in can you say hello to your lovely wife Rosetta from mina from the sewing class

@drsnoopsdr4083 5 жыл бұрын

That's my home beach thank you for filming we move to Dublin though but we have a holiday house there

@dermotmcglinchey282 5 жыл бұрын

Like so many others I’ve Derry blood and grew up in Creggan and went to school in the Long tower...That was some walk and as all Derry people know it’s all up and down hills’ , While I live now mostly in the Canary Islands I love coming back to my wee town..Thanks for putting together this wonderful mix...

@philcunningham2247 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it Dermott, There were two McGlinchey familys in Nailors Row, in the 1950s, Lorny and Kitty.

@BatTaz19 5 жыл бұрын

"At the back of Hawkers' Square, twenty five thousand gathered there, all over a wing (a penny), the very least thing, the Battle of Fox's corner". "Holy moley what a crew, some of them black and some of them blue, some of them fought and some of them flew, from the Battle of Fox's corner". "Come me man said Patsy Dan, down the road to the Bogside man......"

@bythesea49 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Phil..beautiful music to accompany a beautiful video of beautiful Derry and most of all there beautiful people,..l never lived there but visited relatives several times , always love going to Derry.

@philcunningham2247 2 жыл бұрын

Happy that you liked it Peter, and Derry as well.

@alansimpson596 5 жыл бұрын

Such memories! I was born in Derry in 1947 and many of the photos bring back memories of days gone by. Phil Coulter is a little older than me and he passed our house most days on his way from Abercorn Place to St Columb's College on Bishop Steet. Also, in my teens and even younger, I spent a lot of time down at the docks. I was fascinated by where many of the ships had come from. I remember well Kelly's coal boats coming in about twice a week and the men loading those large buckets. At the end of their working day, their shovels were shiny due to the hard work. A couple of times a year seed potatoes were loaded onto ships for Cyprus. I recall as many as twenty lorries laden with sacks of seed "tatties" lining up waiting to be unloaded. Also, huge ships from the shipping company The Headline arriving into port laden with wheat from Canada. All of their ships were named Malin Head etc from some headland in Ireland.

@philcunningham2247 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked the video. I had the same life when growing up in Nailor's Row just over the Derry Walls and going down the quay to see the boats and fish in the river and being chased away from the edge of the wharf by dockers, A very busy place in those days.

@michelle5042 5 жыл бұрын

Ah! my Aunt showed me a photo of Bishop St they are contest during Xmas decorated she said all the women cutting paper and such was something I would of loved to been a part of!

@michelle5042 5 жыл бұрын

PS still remember Bishop St.and the man with cart and donkey and my granda and I would walk his greyhounds he would take me to see the horses in field but when ya looked down there was like a junk yard below it

@philcunningham2247 2 жыл бұрын

Paddy Melaugh had the donkey and cart, He gathered brock to feed his pigs. Junk yars was in Quarry Street.

@andrewwright1885 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saving this for posterity. I admire the folk who make an effort to capture the past so it is not forgotten. I loved your book Derry Down the Days. My great great great grandfather lived in Nailors Row in the 1830s so a bit before the book but I imagine there were still similarities in their lives. Your sketch of Nailors Row with the walls behind on the back of your book is marvellous. You haven't created any prints that can be bought have you?

@philcunningham2247 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew, Glad you enjoyed it, Please share it if you wish. You can view my slideshow on there too, Phil Cunningham's Derry Down the Days.

@philcunningham2247 5 жыл бұрын

I haven't even thought of creating copies.

@philcunningham2247 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your generous comment Andrew, No, I haven't made any extra prints but maybe you can copy and download.

@LeeMcDaidDonegal 7 жыл бұрын

Great collection Phil.

@philcunningham2247 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lee,

@philcunningham2247 7 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh, walk along Stragil Strand on the shores of Lough Swilly and wind down

@stnicholas54 7 жыл бұрын

10.33 Paddy the brock man ! He'd trundle up Bishop Street with that auld donkey and cart.

@philcunningham2247 2 жыл бұрын

Paddy Melaugh with his donkey and cart in the Brandywell.

@preetithakur2807 7 жыл бұрын

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@SMSJ223 8 жыл бұрын

Strange how life was so much simpler back in them days, Everyone had nothing, But yet I wished these old places still stood, Fahan st & Pilots row, my mothers family lived. They would go to the store across from butchers gate, a second hand store. A blind man always sat outside with a cup for anything folk could give, my Aunt told me, my father had nothing, but gave all he could. Nowadays if you stood near any street corner, you'd be run over, and the driver would only stop to check the damage to the car. Funny how times have changed in Derry.

@philcunningham2247 7 жыл бұрын

Yes Paul, it was a much simpler life back then, I grew up in those times whenever money was very very hard to come by. Nothing was ever wasted. Papers, lengths of string, bottles, bent nails, all saved for when needed, Hens in the back yard and a greyhound or two, and of course the rats and pigeons all there together. If yo ever come across my first book, Derry Down the Days, you will read all about them in it along with over 80 photos of Derry gone by,

@quaredunt 8 жыл бұрын

great job Phil is Nailor Street now called Orchard Row? where could i get a copy of that William st photo (30 secs in) of City Cinema? any link?

@philcunningham2247 7 жыл бұрын

Quaredunt, No, Orchard Row was a little street off Ferguson's Lane, just above Foyle Road

@brendandevlin1034 8 жыл бұрын

lovely memories,nice photos, and beautiful music, very well put together, nice one phil.

@philcunningham2247 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brendan glad you enjoyed it

@sebsmc6469 8 жыл бұрын

thank u Phil! Beautiful music to accompany a beautiful video. Thanks for this..treasured memories for many.

@philcunningham2247 8 жыл бұрын

Good to know That many people enjoyed the photos of Derry gone by which has evoked a lot of lovely memories for them, Please feel free to share and to comment.

@seanpoland3297 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I was born at 105 In the Wells. Fr. Sean Poland

@sebsmc6469 8 жыл бұрын

whats the music on this called? thanks

@philcunningham2247 8 жыл бұрын

+sebs mc ..The Lonesome Boatman by Phil Coulter, Only Our Rivers Run Free by James Last Orchestra, Danny Boy by Phil Coulter

@tonyseymour6863 9 жыл бұрын

I just wish my dear Mother was still around to see this. She lived in Nailors row Sissy Bridge. I have found this piece of film so moving.it just brought back her tales of the very hard times after her Father was killed in 1918. her Sister Josie lived in Rosville st. Thank you for this ,its lovely .and I now know what Paddy Strain looked like ,she often talked of him.

@philcunningham2247 8 жыл бұрын

+Tony Seymour I remember your mother, Bridge Family, Fred and Ted, living at the old end of Nailors Row near Paddy Deans and O'Briens and O';donnells, I remember Ernie Simms/ Seamore too. .

@tonyseymour6863 8 жыл бұрын

+Phil Cunningham Hello Phil ,and thank you so much for your reply . I am so pleased you remember my mother and the family.from back then. Tonight I feel a little emotional. My mum passed away here in Queensland in 2005. The last time I was in Derry was approx 1960 when every one was still about..i shall be back there again in a few months. I shall never forget her talking about her days in Derry as a young girl.. Ernie came to live with us in Ipswich England ,he had stowed away on a ship and ended up in Scotland picking potatoes ,he was 15years old ,My mother got him down with us .I would have been about 10 at the time ,funny when you think about it now but my brothers Roy and Willie were at the bottom of the bed and Ernie and myself at the top ,bit of a squeeze but we were nice and warm ha ha .Brilliant it is and thank you very much

@philcunningham2247 7 жыл бұрын

Tony, I remember your mother, Sissy and Father, fred or ted living there, also a lad called Ernie Seymore.

@ItsJazztime 9 жыл бұрын

The picture taken of the guys working on the coal boat, the elderly gentleman on the left wearing a cap is my grandfather Tom Deehan from King Street Waterside who work on the Quayside all his life,

@philcunningham2247 2 жыл бұрын

Hard work then, I got a few casual days there myself working on the coal boats. That was enough for me, .Too gruelling.

@24tommy109 9 жыл бұрын

Some great photos. Whats the story with the one with the elephant?

@24tommy109 9 жыл бұрын

Tommy McLaughlin Also, what are the songs used in this?

@philcunningham2247 8 жыл бұрын

+Tommy McLaughlin . The elephant was one of two that were paraded down the Strand Rd, This was one of the photos I took. it was with a circus in Derry that was being publicised.

@philcunningham2247 8 жыл бұрын

+Tommy McLaughlin . The Lonesome Boatman by Phil Coulter, Only Our Rivers Run Free by James Last Orchestra, Danny Boy by Phil Coulter