A Portrait of St Ives - by John Rickard (1976)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2019
- A Portrait of St. Ives
This film, made in 1976 by Burnley film maker John Rickard, looks at another of his passions, painting. John enjoyed travelling in his motor home and where better to sit and paint than in St. Ives, Cornwall during the glorious summer of 1976.
Runtime: 9 min 23 s
John Rickard
John Rickard was a self-taught film maker who was born in Wigan in 1939 before his family moved to Burnley when he was eleven years old. After completing his National Service, John became a printer in Burnley. John’s interest in film making began in the 1950s when he began working with an 8mm cine film camera and later 16mm before graduating to video in the late 1990s.
John produced a number of films from the late 1950s onwards, about Burnley and the surrounding area that were in colour with sound and narration. John became a member of Burnley Cine Club in 1959 and continued making films until he died aged 79 in February 2018. Thank you John.
That was a hot summer . Good old 76 👍😎
The year we had a swarm of ladybirds if I'm not mistaken good decade the 70s every decade now is the same none stand out and remembered at all sad but true 😢
I feel sad looking back at these times with fond memories. Oh to own a time machine.
What a fantastic video of St Ives brings back so many memories of life in the 70s when life was so much simpler. I’m 58 now and have visited Cornwall every year for my holidays from the age of 2 and will continue just love it and wish life now was like it was then.
God so do I
Great memories of my childhood holidays in lovely Cornwall in the 60,s and 70,s 😄 RIP Dad x
Same here! Used to stay at no.13 Street an Garrow for 2 weeks every summer.R.I.P mum & dad xx
Great film. I visited St Ives and the West Country for the first time when I was 21 years old. I, and my mate were camping. It was red hot and the shower water was being rationed because of the drought the weather caused. Fantastic memories.
I live in St. Ives now and it’s still beautiful!
This is excellent. I have been searching for a way to describe people then. Times were far less lurid and crass, and in general, people of all ages more sincere, upright, and calm. Sigh. I loved watching this. Thank you
And what a summer 1976 was 🌞🌞 . St Ives is lovely ♥️
I used to holiday in St Ives when I was a kid in the late 70s. I still have great memories and even now when I hear seagulls it transports me back in time to early morning sunrises over Porthmeor beach.
Porthmeor beach and the sea seem to cleanse my soul. I love the place.
No mobile phones, love it. Great video.
No cliched comments in the video either. Only in the comments.
Oh to go back to those beautiful decent times
What a wonderful time capsule....That awsome summer of '76....three months of blue skies and scorching heat. My dad and sisters holidayed in Carbis bay in 76 and i was hoping they may have been caught on film, but alas not....
Very well edited and narrated.
Cheers John.
For a second with the narrators accent, I thought we were going on a trip tut Yorkshire Dales. I grew up in Cornwall and in the seventies Cornish accents abounded. Then, in the eighties when property prices were low compared to elsewhere in the country, folk would abandon their Brummie estates in favour of a slice of paradise. The older Cornish generation died out and the younger locals couldn’t afford to live there, sadly having to move into the Brummie estates. Nowadays, hearing a Cornish accent is like finding a unicorn horn…..virtually impossible. Identity is being lost in favour of second homes and celebrity chefs restaurants. Someone mentioned in the comments how good it would be to have a Time Machine. I couldn’t agree more.
Had a family holiday in St Ives in May 1976, right at the start of that hot summer. Stunning place. Lovely well made film.
our family moved to carbis bay in July 76... it was like paradise having moved from a city .... we are still there ..... it’s changed so much ... like everything.. it moves on. Great to see it as it was .
The only difference is there’s less painters
Many thanks for putting this little film on,because I've seen boats and fishermen I haven't seen in years but all bring back precious memories thank you
Lovely, especially the glimpse of Beaky.
I spend bits of the summers of 1967 and 68 in St Ives and it was heaving with cars, young people and tents and alternative living.
By 1976 it seems to have quietened down.
My mother has been coming down to St Ives since the 1960s as we had family that used to live in the Treloyhan area of town towards Carbis Bay (I've been visiting since the 1980s). My mother remembers the hippies that used to camp out in the woods.
This is brilliant, thanks for uploading it.👍
Beautiful film. Very well done.
Fab memories with my mum and dad in the 70s. Both gone now xxx im going back for 10 days next summer. Cant wait x
My spiritual home.
Lovely little film of my favourite haunt...Discovered it in 1974 and been nearly every year since.
Fond memories that prompted a yearning to return to that era.
Lovely, Lots of memories
Ooh for the happy days of the 60’s & 70’s.
There’s a St Ives near Huntingdon. When I first saw the sign I had to cross check google maps to make sure I wasn’t going crazy 😂
I remember the dolphin in the harbour. Our first Holliday in Cornwall then in 86 took my future wife for our first Holliday together and saw a dolphin in Newquay harbour. Now with a brain disease. And covid around. I hope to visit just one more time. Warm sun double ice cream with clotted cream on top. What lovely memories you have given me Cornwall
My first Cornish (St Ives) holiday was also in 1986 as a child. My next one is in a fortnight's time.
I really hope you get to visit again.
Best wishes
Alison
miss you St Ives
What a beautiful film. I visited St Ives for the first time that year, 76 was a really hot summer. Whatever happened to the Fishermen, were they a casualty of the common fisheries policy.
Lovely memories of my holidays in St Ives staying at Courtyard cottage opposite the Bakers, 1976 was my last holiday with my parents. I actually swam with beaky the dolphin in the harbour, returning to Polmanter camp site for many years of lovely holidays again. I now live in the Algsrve Portugal the southern tip of the Algarve reminds me so much of lands end with the rough sea and sheer cliffs.
I was there in the summer of 1976. There used to be a quaint restaurant overlooking the harbour called the Hobblers. I first went there in 1976 and many times through the 90's and into the 2000's. It survived until a couple of years back but now its flats.
I loved the plants and flowers on the steps leading up to Hobblers. Beautiful. I tried to get a reservation on several occasions but alas I was never successful. Too late now of course.
@@AlisonBryen I miss it, on a warm summers evening with the windows overlooking the harbour open eating fish there made for a magical experience.
@@jameskrell4392 we do the same at The Beach Restaurant. I love people watching out of the window in the evening or watching the Pilot Gig team training in the bay. We're booked in for a meal there later this month! I can't wait!
@@AlisonBryen Enjoy
Thank you for the memory. Reminded me of when I was in St.Ives during the 2nd world war for 6 months to get away from the London bombs (aged about 7 years ) Not much had changed by 1976 but oh my it does not look like that now. Such a shame.
Back in the days when locals could buy a home in St Ives and referendums on second homes were 40 years into the future
It's almost impossible to visit now
Thanks, I love these random vintage clips.
1976 was the only year I was ever in St. Ives. One of my all time favorite places. Amazing place it was, I still miss it
Superb thank you . I was born just after that
My dad like to caption the photos he took - He captioned a photo of himself emerging from the sea at St Ives "You too could have a body like mine !" :D
Was there also in 76. Carbis Bay , Gwelanmor Road. Sailaway Guest House. Beautiful holiday fond memories.
A great video.
Wonderful voice over by a true Cornishman😆
My home 😍
Smashing video, proper bit of nostalgia. Interesting to see how popular it was even all those years ago. People were nicer back then as well compared to today.
And a lot slimmer! I was there two years ago and many were so spherical they waddle instead of walk.
@@TheVickersDoorter ;D))) Good observation , we are all more spoilt now , me included
Great vid ..We always went on porthminster beach and the dolphin would swim around the raft that was anchored 😁👍🏼
A beautiful place
This is great. Lot of things haven't changed - except now it is this busy on a February week day! Just out of interest my mother used to run the Burnley Writers Circle back in the 1970s.
Nice to hear about your mum. I think the Burnley writers group still meet at the Zion church. John Rickard who made this film was an excellent film maker and a member of Burnley Film Makers. Have a look at his 'Express Story' film (on our channel) about the Burnley Express (1974).
@@burnleyfilmmakers1582 Just watched it. Amazing that someone could put a film together so well all those years ago. Must have involved an unimaginable amount of work before the digital age...
As I remember it in the 70s.
I have to say, I much prefer it as it was.
Wonderful film, I suspect the place is a bit different now. For one minute I thought the narrator was Allan Bennett !
My childhood.
my aunt took me on holiday there a few times as she had four boys
Its 19th October and I have just come back from a few days in St Ives again. I go when I can. Very busy but social distancing measures in place. Most places open and again social distancing in place. I don't want to be face to face with anyone but I'm not too concerned about Covid but thats another story.
@8:30 - I think that is the pub that was featured in the movie "RAISE THE TITANIC" .
The Sloop - £4.50 a pint....
What a beautiful presentation. Sadly England has changed a great deal since this. And while it still holds it charm. Let’s say it’s less English in parts now.
There's many English in Cornwall. Let's say its less Cornish in parts. All those fisherman's cottages overpriced holiday homes
The wife and I holidayed there a lot too in the early 00's. I was born just after the summer of 76 and my parents went there a lot. Other than the crowds of people, which have clearly increased since then but evidentally it has always had a big draw, the place looks very much unchanged. The main stretch at least, harbour etc. I took a really nice nighttime photo of one of the back streets near the fishermans harbour using film (Fuji Velvia) which I still show on my website tedsmithphotography.co.uk/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/img_0011.jpg
Beautiful shot
people look at that, everyone slim, no fat people at alll !
even the seagulls were well behaved then!
There’s no noticeable chances today except some railings added on the pier haha, like a time capsule.
(And the chavs)
The chavs are largely contained to The Hain Line (Wetherspoons). You dont get too many of them in the finer establishments in the town...or maybe I'm just lucky enough to miss them.
0:58 They look like cabbage trees en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyline_australis from New Zealand, not palm trees. They're well suited to temperate climates.
Thanks. That makes more sense.
Lovely footage of St lves. before mass tourism ,over priced holiday let's and creme teas ,when it was still largely a fishing port ,nowadays many original panel doors and windows replaced with pvc and botch ,sadly the guts of ye old St lves have been ripped out
The beaches looked just as packed back then as they do now haha
Is this good place to visit in winter (December)?
Yes, but this year who knows what will be open. I have stayed here at Christmas before and was due to stay there this Christmas but have cancelled. I live 90 mile away and have stayed there in February, March and April. It can be very warm in the sun but turn cold just as it can elsewhere in Britain. I have know torrential rain in August but have had fantastic weather in April. Hope this helps.
@@jameskrell4392 thanks for the reply. Very helpful. 👍🏼
@Brian Gower thank you. Still deciding because of lockdown effect!
@Brian Gower let's hope everything is open in December too:)
Shame that all people born and raised don't live there any more it's all holiday let's. Now like us nr Rhyl North Wales ant the same cos the Irish Sea is black full off arcades ect like blackpool. But Cornwall has a class of its own and streets are clean no litter ect people are quit and is blissfull. Unlike Rhyl North Wales 🏴 stabbings ect you people are so so so very lucky to live where you live and keep the fishing like once ya grandads and his grandson fathers done keep it in the family St Ives Cornwall love North Wales where its grim
I missed the cornish pasties
John Rickard would hate the St Ives of today - the salt in the air has changed to Donuts and Chips ! I first went to St Ives in 1958 and it was delightful - went in 1998 and it was awful, such a shame.
Back when locals could afford a home in the town and the affluent Londoners only came to visit.
England! you wish.
Still a ton of places like this in the UK. In fact, most of the UK is countryside still with native people but you never see that in the news.
No foreigners....😏when Britain was Great Britain....😏
Nice place for sure, but well overrated nowadays.
English mainland? Argh!
Yep and another place ruined by over population, holiday makers and over development