Images Of Old Wicklow Part 1

[@MR.SKANDAL0121]

I've recently been tracing my family history on my Dad's side who was Irish I've found relatives dating back to 1860 who were born in Country Wicklow, I love all the old pictures of the place I'd love to go back in time & see it all with my own eyes

[@JohnBreenFolk]

Wow! Absolutely amazing. I'll be back to watch part 2 as soon as I get a chance

[@morningstar1423]

Very moving Sparkey...the musical atmosphere created and your focusing on subject matter..brilliant!!

[@Sparkey]

Cheers, Pt. 2 coming soon! :)

[@davtravwicklow]

Beautiful job Sparkey. A trip back in time. Well done..

[@Sparkey]

Thanks Dave.

[@davtravwicklow]

@@Sparkey Great work my friend

[@briandevitt6903]

Fantastic video, an edit with photographs taken from the same location now would make an excellent video.

[@Sparkey]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Vent330]

So much of this was unchanged when I grew up there in the 60's , hardly recognise it now !

[@aliyacoubi9810]

nice town i was living in there for a year in 2001 ah relax

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

What very tall well-built buildings in the town and a little further out, This beautiful statue on the plinth is a stunner, someone said that the monument to Billy Byrne was unveiled in 1900, the seashore with its fishing boats big and small., Bicycles and men in rolled-up socks and clips over their trousers. Horses and carts and Jaunting Cars. Almost not a motor car in sight If I was rich and lucky then I would love to live in this town, I will come and visit this place when I have served my full time for mutiny on the high seas, only seven more years to go

[@clf8668]

My Goodison family lived from (from England) 1650's till 1850's then left and went to Canada. Theses pictures would be about 50 years later but found very interesting.Im in Michigan, USA

[@jlcrproductions301]

It's changed a lot now

[@clf8668]

Any Goodison”s still there? Or Wexford?

[@Sparkey]

Part 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKW8knh8iLlrr5I :)

[@Lookluuk]

So beautiful back then to what it is now a kip!

[@kinsellamags1316]

Was my beautiful Wicklow town.

[@sbrg2240]

Is that Marine House there at the beginning by the bridge between the 3 to 4 minute mark? That was my grandfathers childhood home. It is visible from the 3:25 mark.

[@Sparkey]

Yes it is, well spotted. Here's another angle. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKW8knh8iLlrr5I

[@sbrg2240]

Thanks very much! I've never been to Wicklow Town, but I would love to go someday. There's a lot about my family that I don't know, and I'm really enjoying researching my Wicklow roots of late. Nice work with these videos, the choice of music suits it brilliantly, and is very thought provoking. Wicklow looks so beautiful in them, and it's cool to get an insight into what it would have been like in my ancestors time. 👍

[@Sparkey]

​@@sbrg2240 I ran a search for McCarroll on Wicklow Past Facebook : 1931: New Solicitor, Mr. Joseph H. McCarroll, son of Mrs. McCarroll, Marine House, Wicklow and the late Mr. J. H. McCarroll. 'He must be the youngest Solicitor in Ireland today and has probably created a record for speed and youth in qualifying."

[@sbrg2240]

@@Sparkey Thank you for your response, I have actually joined that particular group recently, and am hoping to find out some more information soon. That particular man was my grandfathers older brother and I was intrigued to discover this about him!

[@jlcrproductions301]

@@Sparkey I'm glad you want to come because of your roots but don't get too excited it's not a very exciting town

[@barbarawhite4355]

I'm in Wicklow town now for st Patrick's day parade

[@Sparkey]

It's a cold one! Enjoy! :)

[@barbarawhite4355]

We're you there

[@Sparkey]

Yeah!

[@rubytuesday2913]

I like this.

[@Sparkey]

Thank you:)

[@ilikechocolatealot6355]

Rubytuesday miss the days of being on the lash in Phil’s years ago.!👍👍 good memories of Wicklow.

[@joedonnelly6721]

Monument to Billy Byrne was unveiled in 1900.

[@TrueBlueEG8]

Hows my Wickla brother? Summer is here at last :)

[@Sparkey]

:)

[@Sparkey]

Here today gone tomorrow, enjoy while it lasts! :)

[@peternolan5632]

No phones back then

[@AnimaVilis]

❤

[@trex4025]

amazing street lighting in a time with no gas or electricity, people with horses and carts so who built all of this in every town and city time to wake up to the lies we have been fed.

[@paulcunningham9081]

It looks like a real boom town. More life in a cemetery. Just saying. I have no idea how people were able to endure living like that ? The mind numbing 24/7 boredom, poverty, zero life comforts, nothing to do and just the general squalor of the entire place and doom and gloom that was the norm then ? Everyone must have been depressed out of their minds. No meds available though ? Just an observation.

[@ilikechocolatealot6355]

Paul Cunningham yea Paul. Kinds like now.!

[@litchimatcha1933]

People weren't artificially hyper back then. Good times.

[@Lookluuk]

They weren't brainwashed either like now!

[@paulcunningham9081]

In a great many ways things are much better now life comforts wise, with cars and public transport and the ability to travel easily. Life expectancy has also massively improved. But there are also a great many downsides like major stress, total brainwashing and hate speech laws to ensure that we remain silent so they can continue to do exactly as they please which is to serve the best interests of the EU globalists and the U.S. who are the ones actually running EVERYTHING here now. We are being governed by traitorous puppets and a total DICTATORSHIP who care nothing about the needs, wishes and desires of the IRISH people who elect them and pay their outrageous salaries ? Who they actually totally despise. Plus they have poisoned everything for maximum profit. Our highly processed sugar and salt laden diet which is the cause of most modern day diseases that the medical profession and big pharma are making billions from. Most of their meds are actually poison also and designed to KEEP us sick. Because there is no PROFIT in curing anything.. They have also poisoned our drinking water. And are now killing us with totally unnecessary lockdowns, lethal Covid vaccinations and mass emmigration of totally unvetted foreigners who are murdering us ??? Plus various addictions and overspending with 24/7 advertising bombardment, mobile phone addiction of the masses, to keep them totally distracted to how they are totally controlling and enslaving us, plus alcohol addiction, sedentary work from home lifestyles so lives of over eating highly processed junk food, zero exercise and smoking and drinking to excess. Massive over indulgence in ALL THINGS and the stress of zero affordable housing for the low paid working class who are second class citizens in our own country now to foreign immigrants for housing which is all heavily promoted are the BIG killer now.@@Lookluuk

[@mwilson7842]

There was work, family life, cooking, cleaning, stories around the fire, music, dancing, poetry, drink, love, nature, history, beauty, pride, honor, what more do you need you modern twit.

[@arctrader]

Beautiful Ireland before multiculturalism and diversity