When I was a young lad there was in Blackpool may be in the front window of Woolworths a similar man making magic out of glass what skill still fascinates me today
That's why alchemists, who transform a solid, liquid or gas (especially the most difficult, a solid) from one natural form to another, generally using fire, were considered to be magical. :)
@@amyamy1897 People like you just ruin everything, you've always got to over analyse everything. Sand is worthless until it is processed. No one pays the same for a bag of sand as they do a light bulb do they ? 😐😐
@@jac9301 sand bags are useful stopping flood water any way theres different types of sand take an egg 🥚 timer that's not prossed but if you turn it around it it can mark time point proven
I have several pieces by him, an elephant a cobalt blue horse, and owl, a pair of black cat earrings, and snow drops as an ornament. I am so sad he passed, but what memories i have if him, one of the best i have i am still interested in watching glass working. I now watch larger scale pieces made at Corning museum of glass in the US, but the glass animal man set the passion, maybe i should try the small stuff out too.
i remember seeing this when this aired originally, i was all about rupert the bear, the tomorrow people, and the goodies. remarkable subject. i remember these types of glass animals were popular the next few years, i suppose to buy at seaside resorts and things.
I still have my 45 years old blue glass horse earrings made by him!
Wow!!! That is wonderful to hear. 👍 I'm glad you have this video too!
A lovely film. It's nice to think that that modest, talented man will live in the memories of all those children who were entranced by his magic.
We were entranced.😊
The looks on kid's faces at the beginning was priceless.
I hope this wonderful man's family see this video. Especially his children. How fortunate to have a father like him!
Very cool man. Love that he tried to make designs the girl thought of and his approach to teaching his own children. And that dragon, wow
Pure talent. He comes across as a genuine, kind gentleman who is a lovely father who wants the best for his children. A really nice piece of footage.
This was wonderful to watch. He has such modesty over the glass sculptures he is shown creating which are each stunningly beautiful.
When I was a young lad there was in Blackpool may be in the front window of Woolworths a similar man making magic out of glass what skill still fascinates me today
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This was too beautiful for words 🤗
What a fantastic guy and what a talent..I loved the Carousel and the Dragon....the 70s really were the best decade!!
You are absolutely right.
Absolutely (for me) the best decade indeed.
I remember him sitting in his shop in the late 1980s!
Did you buy anything from him?
@@choncord no, I was a penniless student at the time. I remember the shop closing down in the early 90s.
Wow did you see that dragon! What a beautiful story. I live near Brighton and will try and work out where his shop used to be out of curiosity.
It used to be down Queens Road, Probably about half way up towards the station on the left hand side...
@@Radimus2000 It looks like where the Brighton Burger House is now.
Fantastic British video
These skills are of a forgotten time sadly
Lovely, lovely video. Beautiful. And I absolutely remember being dressed like that as a kid, too 😂
Wouldn't have the same feel nowadays as all the kids will be looking through their phone cameras instead of watching it like this.
Brilliant!
Still have my Saint George and the Dragon that Bill made me in the late 1970s. It’s a wonderful memory of a beloved man 🐉🏴
I used to watch him through that window!
amazing
He died in 1991, aged 63.
Too young!
He had his first stroke at age 46. I believe that's what he died of, ultimately.
Does that shop still exists?
To take something worthless like sand and to shape it into beautiful art like that is just magical.
That's why alchemists, who transform a solid, liquid or gas (especially the most difficult, a solid) from one natural form to another, generally using fire, were considered to be magical. :)
Light bulbs tv 📺 screens windows ect beaches deserts all from sand the list goes on hardly worthless ?
@@amyamy1897 People like you just ruin everything, you've always got to over analyse everything. Sand is worthless until it is processed. No one pays the same for a bag of sand as they do a light bulb do they ? 😐😐
@@jac9301 sand bags are useful stopping flood water any way theres different types of sand take an egg 🥚 timer that's not prossed but if you turn it around it it can mark time point proven
@@amyamy1897 You're not proving a point at all because you clearly misinterpreted mine. 😐😐😐
I remember him well, many a nose print left. Just down from the railway station.
I have several pieces by him, an elephant a cobalt blue horse, and owl, a pair of black cat earrings, and snow drops as an ornament. I am so sad he passed, but what memories i have if him, one of the best i have i am still interested in watching glass working. I now watch larger scale pieces made at Corning museum of glass in the US, but the glass animal man set the passion, maybe i should try the small stuff out too.
So wholesome. Love it.
i remember seeing this when this aired originally, i was all about rupert the bear, the tomorrow people, and the goodies.
remarkable subject. i remember these types of glass animals were popular the next few years, i suppose to buy at seaside resorts and things.
I love the creations so much and unique 😊
The same man also features in a British Pathe video from 1964 uploaded to YT several years ago.
Statto!
I remember as a kid looking into the window watching him create his magic, good old days, that's when Brighton was Brighton.Not nothing like it today.
1:50 Mary Whitehouse banned this video because of what the sign read at this timestamp.
🤣 well spotted!
"It was a very fat cow". Wow, you'd never hear that today.
Wow, you'd never see a kid do that today. They'd just be glued to Fortnite.
😎
Probably a few snotty windows there 🙄🙄