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Reliving Summer ’62: Journey Through Cornwall & Devon on a Caravan Holiday
This film was a cine film digitised with a Winait Film Scanner.
The film shows friends from Norfolk who have appeared in other films I have uploaded and features several well known locations in Cornwall & Devon.
Some of the locations are: Launceston, Cornwall Tin Mines, Carhayes, Kennack Sands, Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose near Helston, Port Navas, Helford Oysters, Helford Passage, Goonhilly Radio Station, Coverack, Cadgwith, Mullion Harbour, Gunwalloe Towans, Portleven, Exeter, Teignmouth, Coffinswell, The Linny of Coffinswell.
Some of the locations are shown by way of Signposts during the film.
Timeline of the various locations:
Launceston – 00:32
Cornwall Tin Mines – 00:39
Carhayes – 01:13
Kennack Sands – 01:46
Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose near Helston – 02:10
Port Navas – 02:37
Helford Oysters – 02:42
Helford Passage – 02:52
Goonhilly Radio Station – 04:30
Coverack – 04:53
Cadgwith – 05:22
Mullion Harbour – 05:57
Gunwalloe Towans – 06:29
Portleven – 07:07
Exeter – 09:29
Teignmouth – 09:52
Coffinswell – 10:20
The Linny of Coffinswell – 10:26
Kennack Sands is a beach & sand-dune system on the east coast of the Lizard Peninsula.
Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose is a Royal Navy airbase near Helston on the Lizard Peninsula, & is one of the largest helicopter bases in Europe.
Porth Navas is a small village in Cornwall. The village was called “Cove” until the 19th century development as a granite port & is at the head of a short creek running off the main limb which runs north from the Helford River.
The Helford River, is one of the finest rivers for the growing & fattening of native oysters.
Helford Passage is a village in west Cornwall. It is situated on the north bank of the Helford River opposite Helford approximately 5 miles SSW of Falmouth.
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is a large radiocommunication site located on Goonhilly Downs near Helston on the Lizard peninsula. Owned by Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd under a 999-year lease from BT Group plc.
Its first dish, Antenna One (dubbed “Arthur”), was built in 1962 to link with Telstar. It was the first open parabolic design & is 85 feet in diameter and weighs 1,118 tonnes. After Pleumeur-Bodou Ground Station (Brittany) which received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the United States via the Telstar satellite at 0H47 GMT on 11 July 1962, Arthur received his first video in the middle of the same day. It is now a Grade II listed structure & is therefore protected.
Coverack is a coastal village & fishing port. It lies in the parish of St Keverne, on the east side of the Lizard peninsula about 9 miles south of Falmouth. Coverack has several hotels & a youth hostel. The area is a centre for watersports, particularly wind surfing, sailing & diving.
Cadgwith is a village & fishing port. It is on the Lizard Peninsula between The Lizard & Coverack. It is in the civil parish of Grade Ruan.
Mullion Cove, or Porth Mellin, is a small community on the West Coast of the Lizard Peninsula, & on the eastern side of Mount’s Bay.
Gunwalloe is a coastal civil parish. It is situated on the Lizard Peninsula three miles south of Helston.
Porthleven is a town, civil parish & fishing port near Helston. The most southerly port in GB, it was a harbour of refuge when this part of the Cornish coastline was infamous for wrecks in the days of sail.
The Ship Inn is a 17th century pub overlooking one of the most picturesque harbours in the country; come here in the summer to watch seabirds & fishermen go about their business in the sunshine, or brave the storms in winter to sip a perfectly poured pint by the large open fire.
Exeter is an ancient city on the River Exe in Devon. Dating back to the Roman era, the Exeter City Walls surround its centre & Gothic Exeter Cathedral. Exeter Castle, a Norman landmark, overlooks leafy Northernhay & Rougemont Gardens.
Teignmouth is a seaside town, fishing port & civil parish in Devon. It is on the north bank of the estuary mouth of the River Teign, about 12 miles south of Exeter.
Coffinswell is a small village in South Devon, just off the A380, the busy Newton Abbot to Torquay road.
The Linny of Coffinswell is situated at the heart of Coffinswell & is a much-loved 14th century thatched inn with original exposed beams.
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3 Comments
This is nice cine but, I do have to say I think you went a little heavy on the post processing.
There is an unnatural look to this.
I'm 64 so this was 61 years ago when I was three, and that's quite sobering. Great time capsule of memories from a time which is long gone. Thanks for sharing. Great to see the Westland Whirlwinds and if my aircraft recognition is up to snuff it looked like a brief glimpse of a Fairey Gannet running in to land.
Most enjoyable Chris, the way we were in a nutshell, lovely locations, relaxed and sedate pace and great classic cars. I wonder if that couple are still with us today? They would be in their nineties now…The seagulls certainly done well for themselves, says a lot for the chippy eh? Australian ties with colonial Britain…Cornish Pasties and Devon and pickle/chutney sandwiches still with us today.ππ