Old home movies

That’s like watching an episode of Endeavour!

Great home movie Hugh. A real treat for your family and you to look back on. Very few folk had such technology then. You’ve very lucky to have these. Thanks for sharing them.
 
Excellent Hugh :thumbsup:
 
Loved the signal mans cat!...also nice to see the good old Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra playing at the County Pavillion.
 
Amazing how you forget stuff until something like this jogs your memory. Watching and remembering the two handed churn lift and all the local churn stands which were all over then. When they're gone you forget they were ever there. I used to fetch a local farmers cows in for milking after school and carry the buckets of milk off the milking machines across the yard to the "dairy" (clean shed) and ran the milk through paper filters and then into the churns. In the mornings I took the cows out to pasture on my way to school. The local Pikeys used to like "borrowing" the odd churn as they made ideal water carriers for travelling folk, they also used to call and help themselves to water from the dairy shed too.

Thank you for sharing and jogging my memory Hugh.

Tony.
 
t-tony said:
Amazing how you forget stuff until something like this jogs your memory. Watching and remembering the two handed churn lift and all the local churn stands which were all over then. When they're gone you forget they were ever there. I used to fetch a local farmers cows in for milking after school and carry the buckets of milk off the milking machines across the yard to the "dairy" (clean shed) and ran the milk through paper filters and then into the churns. In the mornings I took the cows out to pasture on my way to school. The local Pikeys used to like "borrowing" the odd churn as they made ideal water carriers for travelling folk, they also used to call and help themselves to water from the dairy shed too.

Thank you for sharing and jogging my memory Hugh.

Tony.
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Here’s another of our local town on a market day.il try and get one more of bank holiday traffic in 1962 it great to see the old cars.
https://www.facebook.com/100000246045300/posts/3947763168575179
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Nice images of a world long gone.
While it is family and personal, am sure there will be some local historians that would love to see these. Wonder how many of the buildings still exist.
 
Redline said:
Nice images of a world long gone.
While it is family and personal, am sure there will be some local historians that would love to see these. Wonder how many of the buildings still exist.
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Yes the station box has long gone and the street in Newtown is very different .The guy in the brown coat still lives next door and I see him every day almost like an older brother lol. I learned to ride a horse at a very early age as our sheep spent the summer on the mountain and that was our means of shepherding. Things were a lot more manual then no wonder my body thinks it’s 10 years older than it is ;)
 
Defo brings back my teen days Hugh, (1962-65) on the local village farm, 2yrs after school/ every W/E and holidays 1yr full time farm labourer. 42 cow dairy/wheat barley farm, two Fordson tractors, one yearly hired threshing machine run with old steam engine.
Hard work for skinny runt that I was but mum needed the extra wages ( plus free eggs/ gold top) for family of ten.
Mucking out calf pens was harder than anything the army ever threw at me.lol
No pics or films, so thanks Hugh.:thumbsup:

Roy. ;)
 
Lol it was a very different life then there wasn’t electricity in the village when I was born and they had to milk the cows by hand that took some doing but you had wrists like popeye.Our kids have no idea and that fine,I enjoyed it but it took its toll,like mining, steel works or any of those short lifespan jobs.Heres one of bank holiday traffic in Machynlleth
https://www.facebook.com/100000246045300/posts/3949779985040164
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Just seen a Vauxhall Wyvern in your last film, my father taught me to drive in that car, column gear change.yuk!!!

Got my initiation in the milking shed Hugh being taught how to wash the udders before milking. They said your not a proper dairy farmer untill you have washed twelve udders. Well they forgot to tell me to hold the tail curled up around cows rear so it can't swish you or take a dump whilst your in the firing line, so by the law of averages 12 cows should be enough to guarantee at least one requires a dump. No;4 if memory serves me well. Sent home for bath and given rest of evening milking off. So even though it was so long ago I still have the qualifications to at least assist. LMAO.

Roy. :highfive:
 
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