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My father was born in Helston in 1916 and never stopped talking about his wonderful childhood in the area. Such a great film, thanks.

I'm a Cornishman and I live in Cornwall and this is so fascinating you've done an incredible job thank you.

Historic film that needs a wider audience

Cornwall is a magical place!!!

Fascinating to have this. You'd never know of the battles going on just over the Channel with the lady water-colourist dabbing away.

Interesting to think how very unlikely that generation never ventured up north probably never left Cornwall. How time changes. Fascinating piece of film. Wonder what future generations will think when they view our generation with our little phones to our ears ignoring one and other.

Thank you so much. This is the Cornwall I would loved to have seen. Nowadays it has been over manicured and sanitized. Still though it is one of the most beautiful places.

Both my grandparents were born in Truro around this time and lived in Falmouth then moved to South Africa. I always heard about Cornwall and my Gran always made Cornish Pastries. A 100 years later I have return to UK and will be visiting Cornwall for the 1st time in July. I cant wait to go back to my roots and see beautiful Cornwall. This video shows how they would have remembered it.

Absolutely amazing footage - loved seeing the two fountains in Morrab Gardens and the two ladies walking by in their long dresses. Thank you so much for sharing.

Wow ! Brilliant footage. If you freeze / pause the video at 1:24, you would think it's the 1960's / 1970's - not 104 years ago !!

I have no idea how you managed to colour it, but it's an excellent job.

Fabulous footage. Wonderful to think that my grandparents who were children at that time may have been amongst those on the film. This would have been half way through the Great War, and people were just going about their business whilst their loved ones were being killed in their thousands abroad.

Thank you so much. . Give You a little window into days gone bye . Wonderful

Never thought I'd say this but those seagull noises make me miss home.

Amazing wow 😮 at my age my grandparents would of lived in these times and my parents just a new born , . Great to see how it used to be . Thankyou for taking the time to put this together . I love it . ❤️👍

The speed correction is perfect. People moved so naturally.

Fascinating. In the St.Ives section I used to lease the right hand part of the White Hart Hotel (behind the fisherman's hut) as a bakery shop circa 1977. Fish Street has been widened since those days as well.

Thank you for this! Beautifully done! Thank you!

Excellent really enjoyed and appreciated these videos. People seem a lot happier then even though life must have been very hard. Would love to see more of these great videos please. 😊😊😊😊🐱🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

We use to go to Polperro as a kid in the 60s . The family would stayed up on the hill at Killigarth Manor caravan site and every day for two weeks I would walk down to the village via a back dirt rd only stopping on the way back to drink from the most refreshing clearest water I have every had in my life! Beauty at its best!

Brilliant. That really brings things to life. And I guess the dubbing took quite some time. Gobsmacked at the footage.

Thank you so much for uploading this. It is so brilliant to see the County of old.

Bring back the simple life

And it's shown at the correct speed. Thank you for this

Fantastic footage nice to see good old Great Britain the way it use to be

This is beautiful. Thank you for colouring the footage for us.

A labour of love. Thank you, and well done.

Such a happier time.

I love Cornwall this was so well done thank you from New Zealand

A wonderful piece of history. I have never lived there only had yearly holidays since the early 1960's. It is amazing so much of what one sees now is still there just magical. thank you

How wonderful that you have shared this with us.

Wow that was fascinating, thank you!

Wonderful work , thank you very much .

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC

Anyone else notice the cameraman filming as the Cornish luggers were heading out to fish? Incredible to think how being the second most exposed piece of coastline in britain and with our renowned winter and spring storms battering out coast and how the seas around our cornwall can change so fast, how brave our ancestors were as they rowed out from out harbours! No motors to quickly head in again....

This is fantastic!

Tremendous footage. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Thank you.

Just brilliant....what a jewel. You did a great job. Thanks

This is fantastic. Thank you.

This is great!,love it!..Thankyou !

Amazing and beautiful. Brilliant to see the people! 💖

Wow 1916 my grandfather was somewhere in the mud & blood of the somme or verdun. Lovely footage.

Brightening up old black and white images in color is the trend and then immediately adding appropriate music. But these film images are only accompanied by natural sounds of seagulls. That is a relief, thanks! As if we were entering a time capsule. To know that none of those children is alive is saddening...

Really interesting thank you for sharing this fabulous footage,👏👏👏🙂❤️

One word amazing footage thank you.

Thank you very much, amazing

So Clever I'd watched on the TV .. Awesome Thanks For Sharing ..

That’s really awesome. Thank you. My grandmothers family were from Cornwall

Wow what amazing film.......thankyou ..

amazing loved it thank u

That's is fantastic to see thanks

This is just beautiful I have subscribed ❤️

Great. Same rocks and sea. Some things are timeless.

When i hear the seagulls inland around where i live, their song doesn't seem to hold the same mystic call as when they are by the sea. Great video thanks.

Wonderful footage! Thank you....

What an exceptional and vital part of Cornish heritage , really beautiful , loved the little boy holding dearly onto his equally little dog friend , very poignant ;D

Awesome footage ..⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Falmouth the birth place of my Great grand Mother,now buried in New Zealand and today my children and Grand children live back in Falmouth.Looking forward to visiting in 2022.

How the **** can there be three dislikes on this wonderful old footage? OK, I can understand someone not being too interested, moving on without leaving a like, but to take the time to leave a thumbs down just mystifies me. Could the seagulls have annoyed three folk that much?😁 I can't be certain but I'm pretty sure these were not 1916 seagulls. If they are a later addition, maybe they should be sent to whereever seagulls get sent.😁 Other than the gulls, this was some fantastic footage and was probably some cutting edge stuff at the time. The camera was getting some mighty suspicious looks. Of course, filming a load of kids in a Cornish village today would probably get you 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 than looks. Great piece of film; thanks for sharing it.👍👌😁 Cheers for now, Dougie. P.S. Good work with the colour too.

Incredible jump back in time 👌🏻😎

Amazing to see favourite places over 100 years ago

Outstanding

Amazing 👍👍👍👍👍

The Enys Dodman arch at the end is amazing to see, it's still there today although you can see it's been eroded a fair amount, great job!

Wow loved it

These films should be shown in schools, so kids could go to these villages on day trips to measure and observe first hand that sea levels haven't risen a single inch in over 100 years.

I liked the rowing-boats headding out to fish and meeting the sea, which will always win! Someone said above that this was made when all manner of horrors was occuring in Flanders Fields. Some things havent changed in the film.

Great video. My ancestors came from there. Thankyou!

Fascinating

Brilliant - some places are still very recognisable

Imagine how cheap those fisherman's cottages were then. They'd be flabbergasted to know they go for more than a million quid apiece nowadays.

Beautiful and treasured film so amazing that it has become colour,my father was born in 1913,so I can get a picture of what life was like whilst he was growing up

Wow!

Wonderful an excellent job. Have these places changed much, I wonder?

if only i could go back in time...i would be in bliss

Amazing work. At 2:28 can be seen Cox and Co, Engineers and Shipbuilders. They built tugs and trawlers among other types, including several paddle steamers for use on the Amazon.

The first scene of Looe with the boy sitting on 'little pier'; I have sat there many times and jumped off that pier many more. Thanks for the memories. The second scene is not Looe.

Amazing

I found this film fascinating and beautiful , 😁👏

Lovely to see.I am fairly sure the group of fishing sailing boats will have (& still do) dull red/ maroon sails. I think they can only fish the inshore water by sailboat

I bet Cornish was spoken by most then, and was alive and well. Sad it died out, but glad it's making a recovery slowly.

Do you have any footage of St Eval ? I live in Cornwall ,I loved the lady painting and all the men giving her daggers it's really funny, if only we could turn the clock back .

Look at all those lovely Cornish Luggers!

I think the seagull sounds are overdubbed, they didn't have noisy gulls in those days 😄

The days of no holiday makers..LUSH

The colouring is First class, movie is far to damage to clean up of all the print damage. Only way to increase resolution would be to scan the original print, beyond that it's just upscaling.. eg you can't add much to what isn't there from the source file. This looks good, I lived here and recognise many of the places, You'd be surprised how little some of it has changed, you can easily tell where it is, if you're familiar with the area

Homesick now. Great video

nice job

Meanwhile just across the water, thousands of boys from these same villages were being cut to ribbons by German machine guns... I bet their last thoughts were of a different din. Not of cries and bombs, but of Gulls and crashing waves... and whispers in a lovers ear. Final moments spent longing for this sweet yet salty serenity. RIP My Great Grandfather Cpl William Barrows 13126 6th Bn Oxford and Bucks Light infantry. Killed on the 2nd of June of the same year this was filmed, on the first day of The Battle of Mont Sorrel, whilst trying to get a line to a pocket of stranded Canadians. He now lies next to his friend Arthur Coke Thomas, and the brave Canadians at The Bedford House Cemetery Belgium. Rest in peace all these brave lions of men... We shall not forget, nor shall we ever surrender the freedoms they died for. ⚔️

This is fantastic I was born in Redruth Ty must say I did laugh at the Cornish man wearing a bowler hat.

Really good colorization and you haven't added some naff music soundtrack.

This is where many of my ancestors are from, I would love to return to live there.

Such a pity the people back then couldn't have experienced this in glorious colour. And why was that wreck of a sunken boat chained up, I don't think it was going anywhere.

Looked like a steam powered crane around the two minute thirty second mark

Wow

The good old days.

Fascinating...wonder what Abdulla was selling at 0:13 ?

Is that the Headland Hotel?

The sea and the rocks don't appear to have changed all that much.