1966: Falmouth, street scenes and a boat trip

Here we see Falmouth as it was over 50 years ago in 1966. The children are on their way to school, running down the steep steps of the town's alleys. There are steam ships in the port. On a boat trip out in the estuary, we see tugs pulling a ship out of port on its way overseas.
Technical info:
Shot by Dr Stanley Solomons on Kodak Standard 8 film,
using a Sekonic Elmatic II camera.
Digital transfer by on8mil in London
Post production in Adobe Premier Pro by Burl Solomons
Copyright © Burl Solomons 2019

[@ChangesOneTim]

"C'mon booay, git a move on!" up Jacob's Ladder. Plenty of trips on the St Gerrans and the New Roseland over to St Mawes in my childhood. Happy days. Falmouth hosted the Tall Ships races around that year too if I recall.

[@traceygriffiths1526]

Lovely video I remember running up and down Jacobs Ladder going to and from School. Happy times and Happy memories..

[@zelah2230]

Thank you ! I probably went to school with some of the Clare Terrace girls running down Jacobs Ladder !

[@Moonrakernathan]

Awesome to see, thank you for posting!!

[@TedCornish]

Awesome and the steep steps are called Jacobs ladder and I bet the boat skipper was Alistair Johns 👍👍

[@cornishmaid9138]

Could also possibly have been, either the Martin brothers or the Pill brothers.

[@TedCornish]

@@cornishmaid9138 yes that’s true or could have been captain kenny 👍👍

[@cornishmaid9138]

@@TedCornish - Spent most of my childhood on those pleasure boats, the Flushing ferry, and St. Mawes ferry. My father and uncles were skippers. Took many an emit for trips up the Fal or Helford for cream teas or fishing for mackerel. Best childhood days, ever.

[@TedCornish]

@@cornishmaid9138 I bet I know you then 😊

[@KernowekTim]

Mylor boy. I was six in '66. Went to Falmouth Grammar School until that damned Thatcher did to our Grammar schools what she afterwards did to our mines. Kernow was Kernow back then. Not like the over- Anglicized place it has since become.

[@Britonbear]

I went to Falmouth Grammar School but it closed after I had been there only two years. What you say is not true; it was Shirley Williams of Labour who closed the grammars. The Tories opposed it.