St Helena a time gone by

Film of St Helena Island taken in 2012

[@janey2562]

I love the narration and the soft background music. I love the music of the stone. Outstanding documentary.

[@Pippins666]

A real memory jerker - I was there in 1970 when HMS Minerva anchored off Jamestown for a few days. Napoleon's house was then largely empty, and my main memory is of the continual drizzle, although the coastline only a few miles away was dry and barren. Presumably the green walls shown in the film are not the original wallpaper - the arsenic used to colour it green leeched out in the continual damp, and contributed to Bonaparte's death. The French later thought the Brits had poisoned him, but after a programme on BBC radio a listener came forward with a section of the actual paper, collected by an ancestor who had been one of Bonaparte's jailers, and analysis showed it was laced with arsenic. At one time my photo of Jamestown from the sea was the only picture of St Helena on Wikipedia, but long since replaced with a better pic. Truly a great place to visit - but I don't suppose I'll get there again. (NB Ascension Island was interesting, too)

[@ceciliaadrio1462]

My mother was born in St.Helena I certainly hope to visit 1 day..my mother lived in Half tree hallow 😊

[@jimschuman9926]

Love these videos of the different islands. Makes me want to live there.

[@MI6.007]

🌍😀👍

[@bryannaanderson6664]

Im from Namibia, and have always been amazed by the beauty of St. Helena, I am Planning to visit St. Helena in the start o 2018...

[@russellloomis4376]

Bryan N A Anderson Did you make it there?

[@kaizepatjondu8709]

I am a Namibian as, now living in Canada and I would like visit too xx

[@fernandoagra6426]

I'm borned im Angola, exactly in Porto Alexandre, until the time of the Colonization, 1975! I was twice in Walvis Bay in the year 1967.

[@rmc2001]

Now 2020. Did you manage to get there

[@moniquedefranca5759]

@@kaizepatjondu8709 why leave Nam? I would love yo stay there.

[@stephensmith4480]

This is a place I have always had on my list to visit and that video, was the best one I have seen. I am British, born and bred and this is the place where my Father was born. He joined the Merchant Navy during the war were he served on the North Atlantic Convoys up to Murmansk and Archangel, in Russia. After the war, he stayed at sea, were he worked for Cable and Wireless. When I saw that, on the Map that was shown, it brought all sorts of memories back of my childhood. My father Died here in mainland Britain, never to return to his place of Birth. It looks like a true paradise and I hope to find out for myself one day,before it`s too late.

[@garypreston3590]

Great film of a lovely place with wonderful people too

[@Urdalibertine]

That turtle remembers Napoleon.

[@ibtsamelahi5175]

hahaahahah...lol

[@mrmouse7642]

Probably not - they reckon he arrived in the 1880s but nobody's sure

[@Urdalibertine]

@Thomas Boushier Bloody Turtle

[@markbeale7390]

It's a totuotu

[@markbeale7390]

A toituse

[@hmdshokri]

watching this was so mind easing for me, thanks........and that "singing stone" was amazing!

[@ryanbruh752]

Wasn't it called bellstone

[@jeanluc1404]

A wonderful place to go to escape from the chaos of so much of today's World. The ship is perfect, fairly small, unassuming yet providing nice amenities. Many perfect venues to spend time in prayer and reflection, one could easily converse with the Lord unencumbered by distractions. Interesting, informative narration without endless superlatives or boasting. A really pleasing account.

[@nickbarton3191]

In the 80s, I had a work colleague from there. One year, he saved up all his holiday to visit his mother. He didn't show up at work when expected but we had a message to say he'd missed the boat back. He was known as an "expert" drinker. Needless to say he got the sack.

[@PiperTMTotalWar]

Excellent film. Seems a beautiful place to visit!

[@sueandrews85]

My dad is from st Helena and a lot of our family still live there he used to climb Jacobs ladder as a young boy

[@chinablue135]

My family live here too

[@viviennehart14]

I did two trips to St Helena - not Centalina, ha, ha - back in 1998 & 2002 (the 500th anniversary of the discovery in 1502 by a Portuguese ship heading for Brazil) Super old-fashioned service on board, top cuisine. My first visit I stayed with a local lady, Peggy, up on Red Hill, her sister drove me around, the 2nd visit I stayed in Jamestown, had a whole flat to myself, and explored the small town on foot. Also took a trip with Corker's Charabanc, plus a Land Rover trip into the wilder parts. It is called An Emerald in a ring of Bronze, as the outer areas are barren volcanic rock, while it is almost subtropical in the interior. Loved their accent, almost Caribbean, and all are so friendly, even the teenagers greet you - 'Hello, how are you?' even though they don't know you. I'm so hoping that the airport doesn't change this.

[@talldarkstranger1829]

Vivienne hart Hi. so glad you liked my little island .I left in 1992 now live in new York city .my family still live in Longwood and half tree hollow area..

[@mikes3827]

+Vivienne hart I think the airport is a necessary "evil" in order to sustain/bolster the limited economy. I too hope the island doesn't lose its old-world ways and charm, but I suspect with limited accommodations--and making sure no McDonald's-type cookie-cutter establishments ever get there--then I think the old-world charm will remain. It's on my bucket list of places I will visit, and as I'm from Boston/USA, it'll be a LONG trip...but hopefully worth it.

[@jackyblue67same10]

I have to say Ms.Vivienne Hart you are 1 lucky lady I would love to go there it is beautiful ! Do you live in america & then go there ? I live in america the state of tennessee.

[@tada869]

I am soooooo jealous. I wish, one day, I could visit St. Helena and Falklands Islands. Oh well, dreams come true. I know.

[@johnstark7559]

Vivienne hart

[@dmdm8018]

I wish I could visit and even live there. Hope the oldest animal is doing well.

[@operamaven1662]

Very nice! Thank you for helping us explore this rather unknown island! There is so much more than I anticipated!

[@theadventurebiker]

wow....amazing, fantastic, superb, breathtaking. ...any more words??? I love this. Wish I could visit there.

[@Tigerland1962]

spoilt fat twats living of the backs of English tax payers , let them starve,

[@KneeoGeeo]

The Adventure Biker the police are peados.

[@KneeoGeeo]

19331937100 I agree

[@skalamgirhossain8239]

The Adventure Biker thanks

[@PillSharks]

She used to come into Avonmouth and then Cardiff.. I worked for a small company who used to export stuff to St Helena and when we used to take the supplies over to Cardiff we always used to have dinner on the ship and end up in the cabin drinking Castle Larger if I remember correctly..I do remember one of the crews seconded name was Young but as I discovered later in Life the name is big within St Helena! In the film there’s a little old Green Land Rover which could have been one they exported and I serviced up ready!

[@GCStalker]

RMS St Helena was last ship built in Aberdeen, Scotland.

[@donaldphilley8467]

Gordon Stalker checkers

[@donaldphilley8467]

Play checker game

[@donaldphilley8467]

Play checkers now

[@donaldphilley8467]

Now

[@gordongoldie5288]

And I worked on her in 1990 at Hall Russell shipyard.

[@thomas.silvano]

Is a very beautifull and interesting place, thanks for share this informacion

[@Declare57]

This is superior to all other videos I have seen about St. Helena on KZbin! I feel I have virtually toured the island!

[@azazali]

very well narrated. Thank you. now St helena is on my list of places to visit before i die

[@TomGTARec]

St Helena South Africa and Tristan Da Cunha is where my ancestors are from. I'd love to visit but i think I'd end up wanting to stay lol.

[@Asimicrete]

beatiful island! Greetings from Greece!

[@RichieRouge206]

Great video - an enchanting island and so peaceful

[@garystefan3995]

My grandmother is from St Helena, she is the sister of ex Bishop James Johnson.

[@lincolnpaul1814]

Beautiful video

[@Mercmad]

one of my ggg grandmothers,Maria Mittens was born on the Island ,into Slavery as were her parents and grandparents. William Wilberforce is to be thanked for his efforts in ending British Slavery. One of GGG grandfathers was stone mason on the island and i wonder how much of his work is in the Forttress and houses on the island.

[@judybarcenas530]

BEAUTIFUL , THANKS FOR SHARING

[@NordicStadiums]

What an amazing place. I would love to go there!

[@johnson-gb1ns]

............oh what a short film ..................wish it was 30 mins long..

[@deuteronomylandgrabbing1440]

Very good Atlantic Ocean Climate, much, much better than usual in London, Paris or Berlin, New York City! Quiet, Birds and Atlantic Ocean are my best Music, no people!!!

[@xotan]

Try Kerguelen.

[@fernandoagra6426]

I have the same opinion and taste too! «I love Peacefull.»

[@Mrbobinge]

Climbed Jacob's Ladder in 1953 (passenger aboard Braemar Castle, headed for Rhodesia). Local lads would, for a few pennies, lie across the two ladder rails and slide down its length. Imagine those poor little "hand"-brakes! Returned there aboard Warwick Castle 1958 back to London - while at anchor some large fish took my hook-line-sinker, nearly the whole rod. Back there again in '61/2 on HMS Jaguar. I'm wondering if a shoreline artist is still selling images of ships anchored in the Bay. Thanks for this pleasant video footage of the place and very decent commentary - I learned a lot more.

[@QED_]

Nice life you've had . . . to look back on.

[@geiryvindeskeland7208]

Sorry for my inadequate English. Thank you so much that you mute the music while someone is speaking.

[@Pellysoccer]

Your English is literally perfect

[@suresh1957]

Du skriver uten feil min gode venn !

[@melvinbattle1915]

Your English is fine 👍😊

[@xyzabc3610]

beautiful voice and accent

[@dannyboywhaa3146]

xyz abc it's a north western English accent... I'd say just north of Manchester... Bury, Oldham, Rochdale way perhaps... could be a little further north maybe... just in case you didn't know and wondered ;)

[@dannyboywhaa3146]

Actually it's Huddersfield area... and, yes lovely accent!

[@madhurangshukla3266]

Looks so good, St. helena island,, peaceful and close to nature..

[@xotan]

Roll on the airpoert and then... It'll be cheaper than post brexit Europe. The Canaries will be out of financial reach, so lots of British pubs and chippies along the front. They'll make a mint.

[@susudarake]

Very informative work. Thanks.

[@madhusudanmamtora6279]

Most beautiful island thanks for video.i used to collect postage stamp as aPhylatelist before 75 years.

[@OliverMillin]

Great video. Thanks for taking the time to make it! Would love to go there sometime in the future.

[@PaulHipToBeSquareAllen]

Great video. Thanks.

[@suresh1957]

You have convinced me to make a trip to the island. !

[@johnnewton3335]

very nice film, well done

[@Abdalillahi]

Wow if i were rich i would travel to places like this and Tristan da Cunha-

[@smvanwers6300]

Except that Tristan da Cunha is not open for visitors. Zero encouragement for 'tourism'. Good: let them preserve their very own culture. The islanders are however open to sending their small boats to passing passenger ships, to interact in a small way with 'outsiders'. That's how I remember it (1999).

[@perthsaint66]

@@smvanwers6300 yes it is open to visitors

[@smvanwers6300]

@@perthsaint66 But without visitor amenities, especially lodging and dining. And it is tiny, hardly any room for such. And the sea wave action makes it often unreachable. I was there.... (offshore).

[@melvinbattle1915]

Me too!

[@moniquedefranca5759]

Its small with nothing much to do. If you blink you miss the pub, which is also the post office and every thing else. They get their supplies from South Africa just like St Helena.

[@scottkerrison2913]

I visited ST Helena onboard HMS Campbeltown in the 90s fantastic place wonderful people

[@sylviakoziarski4912]

I really like the a compliment music. .

[@Outandaboutwithpoggy]

Nice video, thanks for sharing...Mike

[@malcolmclarke3033]

What a lovely video. That is a place I would love to visit.

[@chriswhizz3050]

I am the richer for watching this video clip.

[@josephnakale7343]

What is UK using this place for? This keeping it as her overseas territory. Better give it to Namibia the nearest land.

[@lilbigg3581]

@@josephnakale7343 lol

[@feckoff]

@@josephnakale7343 why would Namibia want this island?

[@MifazEM]

They got better standard of living than in Namibia..

[@alekpap-trailers]

Magnificent roaming!

[@bharatshetty9560]

Fantastic!

[@audreydominy8839]

Most interesting video, thoroughly enjoyed viewing.

[@deuteronomylandgrabbing1440]

ANY ISLAND THE WORLD IS VERY NICE, WITH FEW PEOPLE, AND NO TRASH!!!

[@xyzabc3610]

loved the narration 😊

[@condorseven7968]

Nice work, thanks

[@dullsearake]

Cool video, thanks for making it.

[@vicsaul5459]

very cool insight and well produced film,thankyou

[@RS_235]

I've got some vivid Helena memories mate. Thats all I've got.

[@lieutenantkettch]

The RMS St. Helena is like a mullet haircut: all business up front, party in the back.

[@ruskinyruskiny1611]

Very good video, thanks.

[@darwinvickers9171]

Excellent !

[@toddtomaszewski6820]

beautiful, I would love to visit some day. I would certainly do some fishing and share my catch 🙂

[@davidfoster8172]

for so isolated incredible roads and other areas

[@rubendominguez7299]

Saint Helena looks so British!

[@jammycjj]

because it is...

[@xotan]

Even more so than Shetland.

[@mankin49]

Visited there in 93, on the MV Kareliya. Left Nosy Be in Namibia then on to Cape Town. Good memories. Remember climbing Jacobs ladder.

[@PauloFerreira-wp2it]

Beautiful. Greetings from Brazil

[@rinacraig7307]

What an exellent video, & narrator, loved the tropical scenery and the absolute concocaphy of birds. Looks a wonderful place to not just visit but stay, .... far from the maddening crowd

[@phil-zz5hk]

you can fly here now , but it is one of the hardest airports in the world to land , 15 knot tailwinds . the first commercial flight to land was a british airways , 3 attempts

[@Mr91495osh]

I would love to take this cruise. Thank you.

[@Teguvas]

I visited there on the way back to England on the Castle line. The local kids were sliding down Jacobs Ladder on a piece of carpet.

[@lauren9373]

Is that the royal mail ship?

[@samvue9219]

wow I would like to visit this before I die ,added to the bucket list

[@gavinlamborghini783]

ladybug Vue you will love it out there .so peaceful.i live in nyc now but i was born there and left 22 yrs ago. miss the simple life.

[@samvue9219]

Gavin Lamborghini how wonderful that you use to live there , yeah now that I'm older and always live in the crazy, busy city, and so many people in my life time , I prefer quite life in smaller town for sure when I retired some day lol, it's different from NYC for sure for you, do you still have families there, and if so, you can always visit the island when ever you missed it. how it would be wonderful to escape sometimes from big city. thank you for sharing your video it was so beautiful .

[@samvue9219]

beautiful thank you

[@nedaCFilms]

Amazing

[@klaus-jurgenstrohmeier9398]

Thank you much for fantastic and amazing information about St.Helena. One question: Where can I find this music, it fits good to your island documentation, it inspires me to go for a visit to St. Helena. Thank you much in advance for music information.

[@1220b]

Nice video. Thank you

[@krollpeter]

Cars on an island of 15 x 10 km?

[@sanangelo1651]

Very interesting place

[@patriley9449]

Beautiful and peaceful place in 2012. I wonder if the airport was completed and what affect it has had on the island .Usually when access to a place is improved too many people come there and ruin the place by their presence.

[@rogergrandify]

that bell stone sounds like a meteor!could it be!! well i guest it's a dumb question after all these years one would know.

[@bee7549]

Look up Michael Tellinger's website. He has researched and writes alot about ringing stones and free energy sources.

[@richbright540]

Beautiful island oh how I'd love to be able to visit an stay with thee

[@rext8949]

They should call it Napoleony and then watch the tourists flock. After all St Helena's strongest claim to fame is the memory of its former guest.If you love peace and natural beauty than St Helena is certainly a good choice .

[@johnwood1948]

Remember being hoisted ashore on the derrick of the old St Helena ( subsequently the “St Helena Island”)

[@Tararsupport]

Beautiful love to be there one day from Pakistan

[@lesliebrenner963]

Excellent film. Very interesting and inviting. I am 86 years old and St.Helena is now definitely on my bucket list.As we say here in New York,USA, “ you done good “

[@deuteronomylandgrabbing1440]

THE ISLAND ST HELENA IS MY BIGGEST DREAM OF LIFE!!! But a Life on Island, I Think, is very, very expensive, because is UK-Terotory!!!

[@davidmehnert6206]

Does anyone know the name of the bird that sings at 5:20? I just realized that Messiaen uses that song in a section of his opera about St. Francis, but I don’t believe the composer ever visited St. Helena. A little Napoleonic nod, perhaps, to a visitor in solitary? Any insight appreciated. Thanks!

[@jamesdean3569]

Thank you _ enormously enjoyable

[@gibinbabu27]

What's the ticket fare for the Cruise from Cape Town....??

[@bobjackson4720]

First class travel video.

[@tibbydudeza]

St Helena is finally getting a connection to the Internet via a undersea cable - think I will retire there one day.

[@BBob1]

Well the Airport didn't work did it? I applied for the job of running the airport fuelling facilities but sadly I was too near retirement. Good job I didn't get it, but it would have been a beautiful place to live out the rest of my life.

[@arkofimagination]

@Billy Bob There is an airport at St Helena now.

[@docholiday6421]

2017 no airport to much wind makes hard for the planes to land..the ship ride would be nice to do ..lov to go ...*

[@arkofimagination]

@Doc Holiday There is a regular flight to St Helena now, but only certain airplanes can land there.

[@docholiday6421]

@@arkofimagination good trip on you. Just send tickets and motel money thanks I am ready!!!

[@devanirgarciateixeira6569]

Very well

[@eng.khalidahmedsheikmadobe9072]

I just wanna go to this place to avoid the Covid-19

[@reecedrkae3833]

It's there now

[@Wilhelm5381]

No mention of the Boer POW camp from the Anglo-Boer or South African War (1899-1902)

[@fixbyfilms537]

There is nothing left to see I am afraid. Only a reference to where it was

[@setanta108]

There are two granite gravestones commemorating those who passed away in the camp, in Deadwood Plain.

[@mrmouse7642]

As I understand it, some of the Boers survived and made St Helena their home and are still represented there.

[@bee7549]

I came across St Helena island when looking into the history of the Cape Lemon, which was brought to the Cape of Good Hope by Jan van Riebeeck for his gardens which supplied sailors with fresh fruit. It is so exquisitely beautiful and serene and the islanders are so welcoming and charming

[@chinablue135]

My family live here ;)

[@dianeschultz3229]

It is beautiful, but can you imagine the price of groceries when everything is shipped from other countries, way too much for me!

[@sabinereynaudsf]

Why don't they use wind turbines to generate electricity? So much wind

[@moniquedefranca5759]

Its very expensive and have to be shipped in.

[@markbeale7390]

So is fuel!!!!

[@jackyblue67same10]

Wish I could go there 1 day as soon as I win that lottery lol.

[@jackyblue67same10]

How many people live on that island ?

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

Put an airport there and within 10yrs the place will be as much of a tourist trap\dump as Venice or the Caribbean. For your own sakes, don't put an airport there

[@exia7684]

i know its late but I watched a video where there's an airport there but it is hardly used due to strong winds.