INDEX : 0.34 The importance of the Parish Church 1.39 The harbour 4.50 The Court Cocking Inferno 5.24 The Wesleyan Chapel/Kidz R Us Theatre 6.25 Lifeboats & Lifeboat men 8.35 Porthminster Beach 11.41 HMS Wave 12.20 In and around the town centre 14.17 The War Memorial 14.56 In and around 'Downalong' 15.40 Alfred Wallis 16.19 The Leach Pottery at Higher Stennack 17.03 Titanic disaster 18.16 Porthmeor Beach/The Island 19.00 The wreck of SS Alba 20.25 Acknowledgements
Just back from St Ives with the girlfriend. Stayed in Airbnb near Leach pottery. We were blessed with beautiful sunny weather. Great sunbathing on Porthmeor beach. Cornish pasties 😋. Best holiday so far, fallen in love with Cornwall and it's people.
I am from Vienna and spent four holidays in Cornwall and every time we spent a lot of time in St Ives. Even more because we lived the last two vacations in Angarrack. (my father was born in Falmouth and has to leave because of love in 1961) This wonderful video confirmed my love for this Duchy more Thank you very much for uploading & Greetings from Vienna
Thanks for the update on this-really wonderful piece with great additions. The fire, Kidz R Us, Titanic, War Memorial...and nice pics of the Leach studios as well. I think the Alba is still my "favorite" story in some ways. Thanks for index too. I am looking forward to more of these longer videos! And to seeing all these places. The Trewyn Gardens are beautiful. I just love these videos.
Hello To all the people involved in the making of this fantastic video , and many thanks to you for sharing all the information with myself and my family . We have travelled to St Ives every year since 1964 . But now l know more about the place than ever .Here's to another 50 years plus !!!!l I wish ******ha ha
I had to look at this again with a whole different perspective now that I've been there-I am surprised I never have commented on this before, but it really is a great video. So many things I didn't do even in St Ives-hope I have the chance again. Having long term withdrawal! I love the history in here combined with the town now. Belated thanks in making this - and love the music.
What a fantastic compilation of moments in St.Ives history. Enjoyable to watch and to learn so much that I would never had known about in and around our favourite holiday destination, St.Ives.
+VespaLoon Thanks. This was intended to be a one-off but St Ives has so many facets and such a rich heritage that I started doing other 'Slices', which can be found from the link in this one's description. All our ceremonies and weathers (except snow) are featured, along with as much history as I can cover in this simple way. There are well over 250 'Slices' to date and I still have a few more in mind.....
At last an informative film of St.Ives that doesn't include driving-into-St.Ives-yet-again, kamikaze seagulls or endless art shops. Neatly shot with short, meaningful text, this is THE film of the town. The only thing it lacks is the heavenly taste and smell of a Ferrells pasty!...you'll have to visit the town for that pleasure!
Hi... this is the video that we first saw about the Alba! You might remember I managed to see it for.the first time myself just over a week ago! We love watching your videos and learning more about the history of St Ives!
Thank you for a great history of my favourite place (I grew up there during WW11). The slices are a little bit small. I recommend playing it back at half speed.
Hi Dave, yes it's not the best but was what I did back then. Sine that time I've made over 400 smaller 'slices', trying to show as much of the town and its history as I can.
The music is by the acclaimed St Ives band Bagas Porthia, taken from the CD 'A Cornish Life'. They don't have a website but you can find them on Facebook.
On 28 July 2011 Coxswain/Mechanic Tommy Cocking retired having been a part of the St Ives Lifeboat Station since enrolling as a crewman in 1973. Over the next 38 years Tommy helped rescue countless lives at sea as part of a long-standing and continuing family tradition of Lifeboat men, taking on the role of Coxswain in 2000. During his time at the station he received a number of awards, including Vellums for his part in the rescues of the yacht Ladybird and the coaster Lady Kamilla during which the lifeboat capsized, and a Medal Service Certificate for his part in the rescue of the tug Fairway X. Tommy was succeeded as St Ives Coxswain by Paul Whiston.
In the crew of the lifeboat Exeter II (6.43) were Robbie Welch "Hallelujah Robbie", James Murphy, William Mason, Harry Paynter & Paul Curnow. James Murphy (1873) & Paul Curnow (1871) were awarded Silver Medals. In 1880 2nd Coxswain Murphy was awarded the Sliver Second-Service Clasp. In 1889 Coxswain Curnow was awarded the Silver Second-Service Clasp after holding the post for 20 years having previously been 2nd Coxswain for 6 and a half years. In all this time he helped save 52 lives.
In June 2012 Phillip Barnett was awarded the British Empire medal (BEM) for his work as a founder and director of the St Ives children's theatre company Kidz R Us (see at 5.24 in the video). Congratulations Phil, this is richly deserved.
Thanks Carole. I look back and this one and cringe - cheap camera, titles on moving images... Anyway it was the first of what is currently about 160 'Slices', all of which are much better shot than that one. I won't stop until I've covered every aspect of the town - and I'm nowhere near finished yet !
Wonderful indeed My favourite place and a fascinating montage of words and images Hain walk is my most loved stretch of path too Going to watch this every time I need a mental lift Brilliant Sir, thank ye mightily
+paul Thanks Paul. This was the first 'Slice' and I thought it would be the only one, but we are now up to beyond a 100 of them. I must be coming towards the end, as I try not repeat any topic (with the exception on NYE where there are always new costumes to see) but I still have at least half a dozen subject to cover, maybe more.
As a kid we use to go to st ives for summer holidays. I remember the diving board in the late 60s also so was some kind of floating platform tied up just off the beach in front of the diving board that use ti sit on the sand at low water. Does anybody remember it. . Great video lots of memories for me. Stewart
Ah the raft :-) It is greatly missed by so many of us. It was anchored in line with the Porthminster Cafe, got damaged one year and was never put back.
Beautiful - so many memories of a Cornish childhood - nobody makes a tiddy oggy like my mother did! Thank you so much. Wonderful music too, so moving - but where's the link?
Barnoon Cemetery (featured at 15.40 & 17.08) was the location for several scenes in the 1980 film 'Raise the Titanic'. It was both a critical and box-office failure, losing so much money that Lew Grade, one of its major backers, is famously said to have remarked that it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic Ocean.
Westcott's Quay (at 11.54) was named after Arthur Westcott, who was for many years a member of the Portreeve's Council and later of the Borough Council, and became a Warden of the Quay in 1636.
Thanks. By sheer chance I was drinking a pint of Doombar when I got this notification ! There are over 140 more (and counting) 'Slices' in the link in the description, which are also split into more manageable blocks for ease of reference and viewing.
I hope so too but it's not looking good. Unless there’s a miracle there will be no summer season or even New Year’s Eve party. Social distancing is incompatible with tourism and will be with us for a long time, so what would people be coming to or for ? No beach, surf school, pubs/restaurants, Kidz, cinema, September Festival, any other type of live entertainment, shops other than food shops, Wednesday lifeboat launches, St Michael's Mount, Paradise Park etc. And if the area could be staffed and supplied how can accommodations be made safe ? If someone fell ill the rest of the party would surely follow, and the cleaners would be in the unenviable and unfair position of entering such an environment and being expected to leave it not just clean but clinically clean. And we will still have just the one relatively small hospital. Which leaves a ‘holiday’ with no accommodation, queuing for supermarket entry - there are often long queues at the moment, and hoping to avoid Treliske. But economies can recover, the dead can’t. Stay safe, CPM
Cornishpastyman I agree, wishful thinking on our part to get down this year .Stay safe down there and hopefully we’ll see St Ives at some point next season 👍🏼.We are just going to satisfy ourselves with the webcams 😩
The fine granite cross that is St Ives' War Memorial, unveiled when the Memorial Gardens were opened on 2 November 1922, cost £800 and was paid for by the people of St Ives.
Constable James Bennetts was the first policeman in St Ives. His responsibilities included the market, the jail and the brothels. (Thanks to his great grandson Keith Parnell for this information).
ERRATUM - At 18.00 it states that William Berriman was William Carbines' brother-in-law, information taken from sources which suggested that he was married to Carbine's sister Annie Richards Carbines. However William was unmarried and Annie Carbines was only 15 years old in 1912.
Lovely film many thanks. Do you know of any film/video that mentions Maurice sumray and the surfers grill on porthminsterbeach. I worked there in late sixties, staying in at Ives and zennior for two and a half years
WILLIAM FREEMAN was the sole survivor of the John and Sarah Eliza Stych lifeboat disaster (see at 7.20). He never went to sea again and died on the 39th anniversary of the tragedy (23 January 1978) aged 75. In accord with tradition the wrecked boat was burned where she foundered, on the rocks at Gwithian in front of Godrevy Lighthouse.
superb thank you , we been coming to st ives for so long ( we can remember pre parking charges ) and finding parking easy ( i guess that puts us in the sixties then) ps we were not part of the hippie problem .
Thanks. That was going to be the only video I made of St Ives, but now there are well over 200. To be honest, that one shows its age (fuzzy camera, titles on moving footage) so check out some of the others, made in HD, from the playlist links in the description.
Those tracks were by St Ives-based Dee and Dave Brotherton. Back then they were known as Bagas Porthia (St Ives band) but now go by the name of Tir ha Tavas (land and language). Dee and Dave have been made Cornish bards in recognition of their work in promoting Cornish culture and music.
When you where going to saint Ives you met a man with seven wives,each wife has seven bags each bag has seven cats, each cat has seven kittens, how many where going to saint Ives?
INDEX : 0.34 The importance of the Parish Church 1.39 The harbour 4.50 The Court Cocking Inferno 5.24 The Wesleyan Chapel/Kidz R Us Theatre 6.25 Lifeboats & Lifeboat men 8.35 Porthminster Beach 11.41 HMS Wave 12.20 In and around the town centre 14.17 The War Memorial 14.56 In and around 'Downalong' 15.40 Alfred Wallis 16.19 The Leach Pottery at Higher Stennack 17.03 Titanic disaster 18.16 Porthmeor Beach/The Island 19.00 The wreck of SS Alba 20.25 Acknowledgements
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This excellent film is a crystal clear window on the history and present day wonder that is St Ives - a truly world class location.
Just back from St Ives with the girlfriend. Stayed in Airbnb near Leach pottery. We were blessed with beautiful sunny weather. Great sunbathing on Porthmeor beach. Cornish pasties 😋. Best holiday so far, fallen in love with Cornwall and it's people.
Good to hear, come back soon, bring the same weather :-)
I am from Vienna and spent four holidays in Cornwall and every time we spent a lot of time in St Ives. Even more because we lived the last two vacations in Angarrack.
(my father was born in Falmouth and has to leave because of love in 1961)
This wonderful video confirmed my love for this Duchy more
Thank you very much for uploading &
Greetings from Vienna
Thanks for the update on this-really wonderful piece with great additions. The fire, Kidz R Us, Titanic, War Memorial...and nice pics of the Leach studios as well. I think the Alba is still my "favorite" story in some ways. Thanks for index too. I am looking forward to more of these longer videos! And to seeing all these places. The Trewyn Gardens are beautiful. I just love these videos.
Polmanter camping views of site
Hello To all the people involved in the making of this fantastic video , and many thanks to you for sharing all the information with myself and my
family . We have travelled to St Ives every year since 1964 . But now l know more about the place than ever .Here's to another 50 years plus !!!!l
I wish ******ha ha
I had to look at this again with a whole different perspective now that I've been there-I am surprised I never have commented on this before, but it really is a great video. So many things I didn't do even in St Ives-hope I have the chance again. Having long term withdrawal! I love the history in here combined with the town now. Belated thanks in making this - and love the music.
Absolutely wonderful place to visit, I have many happy memories of St Ives, especially sitting by the anchor and looking into the clear sea.
What a fantastic compilation of moments in St.Ives history. Enjoyable to watch and to learn so much that I would never had known about in and around our favourite holiday destination, St.Ives.
+VespaLoon Thanks. This was intended to be a one-off but St Ives has so many facets and such a rich heritage that I started doing other 'Slices', which can be found from the link in this one's description. All our ceremonies and weathers (except snow) are featured, along with as much history as I can cover in this simple way. There are well over 250 'Slices' to date and I still have a few more in mind.....
At last an informative film of St.Ives that doesn't include driving-into-St.Ives-yet-again, kamikaze seagulls or endless art shops.
Neatly shot with short, meaningful text, this is THE film of the town.
The only thing it lacks is the heavenly taste and smell of a Ferrells pasty!...you'll have to visit the town for that pleasure!
Hi... this is the video that we first saw about the Alba! You might remember I managed to see it for.the first time myself just over a week ago! We love watching your videos and learning more about the history of St Ives!
Oh yes, my first video of St Ives. With a cheap camcorder and titles on moving pictures ! Ah well :-)
That was beautiful. I’m returning to St Ives in September. Fond memories.
11 years now...and a million other SI films have been shot; but none measure up to this gem...... THE Holy Grail film of St. Ives!
I really enjoyed this video! So informative and interesting! I didn't want it to end, thank you for posting!
Thank you for a great history of my favourite place (I grew up there during WW11). The slices are a little bit small. I recommend playing it back at half speed.
Hi Dave, yes it's not the best but was what I did back then. Sine that time I've made over 400 smaller 'slices', trying to show as much of the town and its history as I can.
Absolutely fantastic, thank you
The music is by the acclaimed St Ives band Bagas Porthia, taken from the CD 'A Cornish Life'. They don't have a website but you can find them on Facebook.
A meaningful and beautiful video. I can't wait to see St. Ives very soon.
Great upload, love this beautiful place. Thank you so much for making & posting this
Amazing video, thanks. Has told me lots of things I never knew about St Ives even though I've been visiting there for the last 18 years.
On 28 July 2011 Coxswain/Mechanic Tommy Cocking retired having been a part of the St Ives Lifeboat Station since enrolling as a crewman in 1973. Over the next 38 years Tommy helped rescue countless lives at sea as part of a long-standing and continuing family tradition of Lifeboat men, taking on the role of Coxswain in 2000. During his time at the station he received a number of awards, including Vellums for his part in the rescues of the yacht Ladybird and the coaster Lady Kamilla during which the lifeboat capsized, and a Medal Service Certificate for his part in the rescue of the tug Fairway X. Tommy was succeeded as St Ives Coxswain by Paul Whiston.
Thanks for putting this together. Informative, enjoyable, and I loved the music too.
Beautiful videos, bro'. Total respect.
In the crew of the lifeboat Exeter II (6.43) were Robbie Welch "Hallelujah Robbie", James Murphy, William Mason, Harry Paynter & Paul Curnow.
James Murphy (1873) & Paul Curnow (1871) were awarded Silver Medals.
In 1880 2nd Coxswain Murphy was awarded the Sliver Second-Service Clasp.
In 1889 Coxswain Curnow was awarded the Silver Second-Service Clasp after holding the post for 20 years having previously been 2nd Coxswain for 6 and a half years. In all this time he helped save 52 lives.
Brilliant. Thank you
In June 2012 Phillip Barnett was awarded the British Empire medal (BEM) for his work as a founder and director of the St Ives children's theatre company Kidz R Us (see at 5.24 in the video). Congratulations Phil, this is richly deserved.
that was a fantastic video, really interesting, I find it really interesting how St Ives has developed over the years....well done, 10/10!!
Facinating,I been contemplating going think I will now.lovely film
Thanks Carole. I look back and this one and cringe - cheap camera, titles on moving images... Anyway it was the first of what is currently about 160 'Slices', all of which are much better shot than that one. I won't stop until I've covered every aspect of the town - and I'm nowhere near finished yet !
I really enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing it, after watching it I have learn a lot about St Ives :)
Parabéns pelo vídeo, um belo trabalho com lugares encantadores
Wonderful indeed
My favourite place and a fascinating montage of words and images
Hain walk is my most loved stretch of path too
Going to watch this every time I need a mental lift
Brilliant Sir, thank ye mightily
+paul Thanks Paul. This was the first 'Slice' and I thought it would be the only one, but we are now up to beyond a 100 of them. I must be coming towards the end, as I try not repeat any topic (with the exception on NYE where there are always new costumes to see) but I still have at least half a dozen subject to cover, maybe more.
I've been going to st Ives all of my life and I love vid thank you
As a kid we use to go to st ives for summer holidays. I remember the diving board in the late 60s also so was some kind of floating platform tied up just off the beach in front of the diving board that use ti sit on the sand at low water. Does anybody remember it. . Great video lots of memories for me. Stewart
Ah the raft :-) It is greatly missed by so many of us. It was anchored in line with the Porthminster Cafe, got damaged one year and was never put back.
I adore this video! x
Beautiful - so many memories of a Cornish childhood - nobody makes a tiddy oggy like my mother did! Thank you so much. Wonderful music too, so moving - but where's the link?
Use to stay at a BandB called colours cottage. Its been turned back into a private house again. went to have a look in 2006.
Stewart
Very enjoyable and informative.
Barnoon Cemetery (featured at 15.40 & 17.08) was the location for several scenes in the 1980 film 'Raise the Titanic'. It was both a critical and box-office failure, losing so much money that Lew Grade, one of its major backers, is famously said to have remarked that it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic Ocean.
Westcott's Quay (at 11.54) was named after Arthur Westcott, who was for many years a member of the Portreeve's Council and later of the Borough Council, and became a Warden of the Quay in 1636.
Lovely video, made me homesick as we live stateside now. I really miss a pint of Doombar in the Union. LOL
Thanks. By sheer chance I was drinking a pint of Doombar when I got this notification ! There are over 140 more (and counting) 'Slices' in the link in the description, which are also split into more manageable blocks for ease of reference and viewing.
Thanks for the heads up, and I hope you enjoyed your pint( he said green with envy).
Hopefully get down there at some point this year 😁.We go down at least once a year and should of been down last week 😩
I hope so too but it's not looking good. Unless there’s a miracle there will be no summer season or even New Year’s Eve party. Social distancing is incompatible with tourism and will be with us for a long time, so what would people be coming to or for ? No beach, surf school, pubs/restaurants, Kidz, cinema, September Festival, any other type of live entertainment, shops other than food shops, Wednesday lifeboat launches, St Michael's Mount, Paradise Park etc.
And if the area could be staffed and supplied how can accommodations be made safe ? If someone fell ill the rest of the party would surely follow, and the cleaners would be in the unenviable and unfair position of entering such an environment and being expected to leave it not just clean but clinically clean.
And we will still have just the one relatively small hospital. Which leaves a ‘holiday’ with no accommodation, queuing for supermarket entry - there are often long queues at the moment, and hoping to avoid Treliske. But economies can recover, the dead can’t. Stay safe, CPM
Cornishpastyman I agree, wishful thinking on our part to get down this year .Stay safe down there and hopefully we’ll see St Ives at some point next season 👍🏼.We are just going to satisfy ourselves with the webcams 😩
A very moist slice of St Ives!
The fine granite cross that is St Ives' War Memorial, unveiled when the Memorial Gardens were opened on 2 November 1922, cost £800 and was paid for by the people of St Ives.
Constable James Bennetts was the first policeman in St Ives. His responsibilities included the market, the jail and the brothels. (Thanks to his great grandson Keith Parnell for this information).
ERRATUM - At 18.00 it states that William Berriman was William Carbines' brother-in-law, information taken from sources which suggested that he was married to Carbine's sister Annie Richards Carbines. However William was unmarried and Annie Carbines was only 15 years old in 1912.
Lovely film many thanks. Do you know of any film/video that mentions Maurice sumray and the surfers grill on porthminsterbeach. I worked there in late sixties, staying in at Ives and zennior for two and a half years
WILLIAM FREEMAN was the sole survivor of the John and Sarah Eliza Stych lifeboat disaster (see at 7.20). He never went to sea again and died on the 39th anniversary of the tragedy (23 January 1978) aged 75.
In accord with tradition the wrecked boat was burned where she foundered, on the rocks at Gwithian in front of Godrevy Lighthouse.
Still the best Tony!
Not so sure about that - very cheap camcoder, titles on moving footage. But that was then and we're stuck with it :-)
superb thank you , we been coming to st ives for so long ( we can remember pre parking charges ) and finding parking easy ( i guess that puts us in the sixties then) ps we were not part of the hippie problem .
Thanks. That was going to be the only video I made of St Ives, but now there are well over 200. To be honest, that one shows its age (fuzzy camera, titles on moving footage) so check out some of the others, made in HD, from the playlist links in the description.
I would love to be there now!
For enjoyment---turn the sound off.
Go on GOOGLE EARTH , type in ST IVES and see if you can spot what someone wrote on the sand on the smaller beach.
Can anyone tell me the music?
Those tracks were by St Ives-based Dee and Dave Brotherton. Back then they were known as Bagas Porthia (St Ives band) but now go by the name of Tir ha Tavas (land and language). Dee and Dave have been made Cornish bards in recognition of their work in promoting Cornish culture and music.
@@Cornishpastyman thank you. Your videos are beautiful and the music compliments them so well
Great video, had some great times there. Check out my take on Cornwall on my channel.
Check out my vid of my holiday there!
When you where going to saint Ives you met a man with seven wives,each wife has seven bags each bag has seven cats, each cat has seven kittens, how many where going to saint Ives?
:)))