Beautiful Cornwall in 1916 in colour! [HD restored and AI colorized]

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@richardcummins5465 3 ай бұрын

Incredible. All that footage and not one motor vehicle to be seen anywhere, except boats. And to the beautiful girl walking by the river, I will remember you girl, whoever you were. You're gone but not forgotten. ❤Thanks for this experience.

@chestersakamoto6843 4 ай бұрын

It's funny because even though the footage is silent, you can still "hear" the ambient noise in your head. The crashing of the surf, the squawking of the seagulls, children's laughter...it's all there if you "listen" closely. Beautiful footage of an equally beautiful place. I'd imagine things have changed a lot since then, while simultaneously not having changed all that much. Life seems simpler in Cornwall. I'd very much like to go there one day. Greetings from an American cousin across the pond!

@NotesOfBoredom 3 ай бұрын

That footage is no idyll - how naive can you be with children being shot in the head daily at schools, multiple mass shootings every week in your country. Those people were so poor - subjugated - living hand-to-mouth - their children dying at their mother's breast (as my great grandmother had to suffer - two died of Spanish flu in 1918 as she was breast-feeding them). Love the silence tbh - lived there for seven years and it's a nightmare on every level.. Quality of life, unless you're wealthy - terrible..no jobs - unless rich and start a company/many can't be bothered to work and want to sponge off the government and there are low wages/few jobs/crime and drug-taking - endemic.. Many people smoking weed or taking other drugs daily as they can't be bothered to work - you can smell weed (cannabis) everywhere....many underage pregnancies as they take no precautions (even though contraception is free from a family planning clinic) but if you get pregnant at 15 - you can escape your mother who was 15 when she had you and your dad who is in prison and the government will give you a council flat/apartment and benefits - free - you just sit around complain/take drugs/drink go on holiday abroad and have seven kids with different fathers and take more money without doing a thing... Little work as a poor county and so many rich people retire there and are willing to volunteer - no wages are paid as they're willing to work for nothing - so real jobs disappear...then this other idyl dies as they retire and their spouse dies early, not unexpectedly as they arrived in Cornwall aged 70...now they are completely alone - and need benefits..from the government. People begging outside of supermarkets...they own properties, don't need the money - but they beg as they can. Lived there seven years - hell... and no way to escape - the road infrastructure is appalling - takes 2 hours to get out of Cornwall and near to Exeter...you really don't find life again until Bristol - a fantastic city.. I'd never go back, and so glad to have escaped as are most..

@alankingwell 2 ай бұрын

Hi mate ,,,speaking as a Cornishman , i would not want to live anywhere else And you are spot on with the way your imagination can add sound for you.

@Mark-cw2vg 2 ай бұрын

I honestly thought I heard something . That split second I saw your text

@alankingwell 2 ай бұрын

@@Mark-cw2vg 😂😂😂 sod all wrong with your ears then

@Sebpz8342 22 сағат бұрын

@@NotesOfBoredomdamn bro. Lighten up a little

@wessmith7787 Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Texas! Thank you for these wonderful films!

@joconnor9256 Жыл бұрын

Just beautiful , and so very different from what I’m used to in the Australian bush

@NotesOfBoredom 3 ай бұрын

@paulfolan69 2 ай бұрын

@@NotesOfBoredom Jesus! Who escaped who !

@michaelcollins6976 3 ай бұрын

What an incredible video, and no irritating music blasting all over it.

@haroldofcardboard Ай бұрын

beautiful. ive vsited cornwall many times. just so lovely to see all the traditional localks and guests vilages people animals lifestyle buildings landscapes seascapes and everything. i love cornwall. its been pretty pillaged. bless that county. bless cornwall. thank you.

@makennamccleery 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this video! My great-grandfather, William Hosken, was from Penzance and emigrated to America after World War 1. He would have been 35 when these scenes were filmed. Thank you for showing my great-granddaddy's world to me.

@rprodgers1 2 жыл бұрын

I think 8:56 is Wadebridge, there is a Francis Frith postcard of a similar view looking at the old bridge that crosses the Camel. As in the description 5:27- about 5:59 is Padstow, S Quay.

@garyeaton6172 3 ай бұрын

Yes definitely Wadebridge

@johnmesser3278 Жыл бұрын

William Scantlebury and Kathleen Penter were my Great Grandparents both in Truro and Looe at the time of this film.

@MattRead13 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff!

@Diamonddog2801 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! A couple of additions... pretty sure the segment at 5.27 is Sennen Cove and the bridge at 8.56 is Looe?

@Казанскийтелеграф 2 жыл бұрын

Thank You

@merlin8514 3 ай бұрын

Timeless beauty 👌

@alankingwell 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing mate 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍wish I could do more thumbs up

@CarlStJohn-x9w 3 ай бұрын

Haunting ❤

@leematthews1600 7 ай бұрын

And then came the outsiders !!!!!

@MikeRamscar 2 ай бұрын

Yes, buy to let 🙄

@DrCrabfingers 2 ай бұрын

Virtually everyone in this film is an outsider. The original people of Cornwall were themselves colonised by Celts and Anglo Saxons. I'm sure the colonisation will continue in the form of Asians....and so it goes on.

@DerekLangdon-w9e Ай бұрын

@@DrCrabfingers The Cornish are still Cornish! They are the heirs to a Celtic tradition, and language!! ….Daily we see the insidious English colonial attitude trying to crush the last vestiges of Cornish culture!!

@jondu-sud274 3 ай бұрын

Well done. Thanks for sharing. The airborne section at lands end must have taken some logistics to perform in 1916.

@HangOnAMinute1 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video 😊

@Bob-Horse 3 ай бұрын

Hard to think we as a country were at war during this time, I guess these beautiful lands and people were what they were fighting for. My own grandfather would be soon going off to war with the Devonshire regiment.

@js2749 2 ай бұрын

That is simply not true

@HaakonOdinsson 17 күн бұрын

No cars! No emmets! Pz looking great, and Morrab gardens

@garyeaton6172 3 ай бұрын

Someone lovely drone footage at 8:02

@rocky5755 3 ай бұрын

Those kids on the wrecked boat. Health and Safety would go nuts!

@jondu-sud274 3 ай бұрын

😂

@LostwaveObsession 3 ай бұрын

Do you remember a time when footage like this could not be slowed down! :D

@melaniephippen9563 3 ай бұрын

All the horror overseas while this was filmed

@Arhuco 3 ай бұрын

Exactly what was on my mind 😢. .. Guess life went on back then, just as it does now away from the actual theatre of destruction and death.

@burtonfootballer5408 2 ай бұрын

Blimey. Loads of Cornish people live there. Are there any left or all holiday lets now

@michaelwilkinson2928 2 ай бұрын

Women, children and old men - a picture of a country at war.

@jer_e4806 2 жыл бұрын

Hiraeth.

@colvinator1611 2 ай бұрын

From a time when ladies knew what modest dress meant.

@MrAndyS 3 ай бұрын

if the dog was at least 2 years old he’s about 110 today prob dead though

@londo776 3 ай бұрын

Your point is

@MrAndyS 3 ай бұрын

@@londo776 your mum likes my jokes before we have sex

@oldboy5001 3 ай бұрын

@@londo776 That the dog, were he living, would be about 110 ;)

@londo776 3 ай бұрын

@@oldboy5001 and?

@timcarnell5133 2 ай бұрын

He would be quite an old dog. I think I’m correct in saying that.

@EllieMaes-Grandad Жыл бұрын

Not much 'diversity' to be seen . . .

@ricksfilmrestoration5163 Жыл бұрын

Boring contemporary comment, made far too often by others too. How about commenting about Cornwall ??!

@EllieMaes-Grandad Жыл бұрын

@@ricksfilmrestoration5163 The comment was intended as a compliment, although inherent virtue-signalling fails to recognise it. It's a beautiful part of England. I used to go there on holiday with parents back in the 1950s, on my own over the succeeding years as well. I lived in Plymouth for a year and explored the area extensively. Of course, like all from 'up country', I was referred to as "a grockle". Their 'welcome' is superficial . . .

@Britonbear 9 ай бұрын

@@EllieMaes-Grandad You might get called a 'grockle' in parts of south west England but not in Cornwall; there you'd be an emmet.

@EllieMaes-Grandad 9 ай бұрын

@@Britonbear My colleagues at work (some living west of the Tamar) advised me of the term. Along with many others recruited with me that year, we were unappreciated in Plymouth too. However, walking home one evening, a young boy called me a "yardie" so I did feel some sense of accomplishment!

@steve-r-collier 4 ай бұрын

diversity is such a woke word but i understand what you mean

@alecgurney9305 2 жыл бұрын

Cornwall needs to be an independent country

@kernow9324 2 жыл бұрын

Woddee on about, pard

@peterperfect6015 Жыл бұрын

Why?

@offshoretomorrow3346 Жыл бұрын

Or not.

@jakej2256 Жыл бұрын

⁠@@peterperfect6015 Because it has a language and culture of its own, so therefore it does deserve to be independent

@ThufirHarrison 6 ай бұрын

It has no industry or income. It’s funded by everyone else while you enjoy the untouched isolation. Just because the Cornish don’t like the rest of up the country and are spoilt and entitled doesn’t mean they should be independent. There’s no argue ing that Cornwall has its own language and is beautiful but so what? It’s still in the real world and the rest of the country have been destroyed ground up into dust and left to squalor while we graft in industry contributing. Cornish people sit on a beach and say they deserve more lol. You’ve all had it easy.