Oh how i wish ALL my heart we could go back to then 🙏🙏🙏

I’ve had a holiday in this wonderful town at least once every decade - in the early 70s as a toddler, in the 80s as a teenager and twice in the 90s with my fiancée. I love the place and it draws me like a magnet - I’ll be 50 next year and I cannot think of a way I’d rather mark my half-century than returning to my spiritual home. Can’t wait to see how much or how little it’s changed ...

Being born in St Ives and spending over 45 years here now I was chuffed to bits watching this little gem of times gone by. A great little piece of history of a little seaside town, I'm proud to say I love to bits. Thank you very much sharing your video :)

Holds some special memories of the last holiday with my dad who died the next year , fingers crossed we were caught on film

The timeless quality of St Ives. Things do change over 27 years, but not much.

I just love st ives , it’s my happy place to visit. Wish I could live here. 💞💞💞💞💞

I've always loved Cornwall.As a kid with my mum and dad, and now as a dad myself, I take my wife and kids here.Lovely pasties shop down that cobblestone shopping mall,and sweets shop. X

@hazetwood - i know what you mean. Life back then did have an innocence about it, yet it is so hard to explain why. I'm 45 and life just seemed so much better in those days.

I was there May 1990 for my mom's 30th birthday!

I have a picture of my dad at St Ives taken many, many years ago. In it, he is emerging triumphantly from the sea, and it is captioned "YOU, TOO, COULD HAVE A BODY LIKE MINE!" :D

Awwww ; ) What a beautiful retro film Henry , thank you for sharing this little piece of heaven, makes me feel happy just watching this and love the gorgeous evocative sound track ,wonderful : ) x

Brilliant record of my favourite place I was there in 1990 and remember these images very well

I lived and worked there in 1990. We lived above the shop in the middle of the main Street, (I won't say which one!) and from about April through to November ish we worked from 10am to 10pm 7 days a week. We had 4 months off, when the shop was closed, but I really, really loved it. (,Oh and sometimes we'd get an hour off for tea, and maybe and hour off at lunch times but that was it!!!) No days off. That was our choice as my partner owned the shop. Brilliant, happy times! I live in St.Just now but it was lovely looking at the fashion! And the shops that were there then. It hasn't changed much. Nicely filmed. Thank you!

Standing outside the sloop inn in those day's was the best job ever .

1990 was my first time in st ives, I remember watching the 90 World Cup in our Smokey b&b bar with a couple of Germans who were also staying there, loved it & been back so many times since, I now take my kids, great video

Lovely video that, they knew how to use the video camera, they were expensive back then, so it's great to see it used properly, no motion sickness and swingling the camera around wildly haha seems like only yesterday I was 26 then 1990 34 years ago blimey. The great thing about St Ives is it doesn't change ❤

Great video of my hometown, back in the golden days

Could hardly believe it when I saw the date at the end!! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it that quiet even out of season. Great video.

Not one person on a mobile phone! those were the days.

My late grandma Laura Ramsden at 4.13 with white shirt and blue jeans with a red top on her knee. Sat with her also late husband John Ramsden. I used to love visiting them both in the holidays during the early 90s when I was a young girl. What a cracking place. The Cornish pasties and the polystyrene surf boards. Great memories.

What a fantastic video, sat down and watched it with my Wife after getting home from St Ives today (roads must be better these days!). We spent a good thirty minutes spotting all the changes and the similarities.

Absolutely love Cornwall, especially St Ives. Been going since the 1970's first time was in mid 70's with my friend Janet and her family. Hope to be going again end of June 2021. Loved the Mr Peggoty's video wow that brings some great memories back and the Sloop Inn (we were only 16/17 yrs old, wish I could go back in time.

I can barely believe that I was there not only in 1990 but was in a pram in 1950 with my Dad showing me the automaton on the harbour wall near the current life boat station which fascinated me. In 1960 it was very crowded but still much as pre war and then 1963 the hippies started arriving...yes that early! By 1966 they were well established at the far end of Portmeor and 1967 worried us. However St Ives was it’s wonderful self and I have visited hundreds of times since. In fact I should be there today but the latest “lockdown” killed that. My best memories though are of 1966...sparkling weather in the last week of June/early July...many memories and I still see it like that to this day. I wish those I knew then were with me now...I have pictures...I will go back very soon.

I lived in carbis bay for 6 months in 1990 and it was a half decent summer from memory. Seems like yesterday.

Just came back from cornwall and spent a day in St Ives (01/06/23) hasn't changed much at all. Beautiful place!!!

When Cornwall wasn't so hip and cool, perfect. Haha The sloop full of tables and chairs outside now. Imagine sitting on the floor with a pint these days. Council would be on your back..

Sat now in St Ives watching this in St Bridget’s court looking over the harbour (4.40 on the vid)…Love this place been coming down since I was a nipper. 😁

Memories of 90s holidays with family. The best days x

Very nice footage, Henry. Thank you for posting this gem.

This video now plays on a screen in the window of the amusement arcade featured in this video...how cool is that?!!!

Brings back memories, was 18 back then and visited St Ives every year and have done ever since, used to have a relative living there, actually the very start of this video shows bunkers hill, my grandad lived at the top of that hill.

30 years ago.. Just wow! I went there in August 2020 and its not really changed much

Sad to think all these old folks are gone now they lived the best time 🙏🏼❤️ this video needs thousands of views make people realise what we had, no boats with people destroying our great country

My wife and I with our eldest daughter went on holiday to Cornwall in 1991 staying nearby at campsite in St Agnes Bay we visited St Ives great to see the classic seaside town from then . Recently my Eldest daughter took her family and like we did thoroughly enjoyed there stay thanks for sharing this video

What a lovely gentle film, skilfully shot. I have always wanted to visit St Ives to pay homage to Bernard Leach, however now less so , or at least I am a bit more prepared for it!

Nineties fashions; I saw a shell suite in the shop window, Brings back memories. Lovely place though. It's good to have an old film from holiday.

wow.... some things are exactly the same, just so peaceful and it was only 23 years ago but although the scenery is the same the innocence has gone :-(

Lots of changes since then ,original.features ripped out ,pannelled doors ,windows replaced cv by pvc and botch ,massively over developed by wealthy Londoners and second home owners who care little about the character of this little town .Pvc botch and Contemporary are the order of the day now .

Very nice, and a reminder how some things have changed a lot and others not at all in the last 21 years. And how I miss Harts ice cream parlour by The Sloop !

This jumps about from place to place and each shot starts or ends just short of something you want to see. The new slipway and lifeboat house hadn't been built and Woolworths still existed.

I use to go to st ives on family holidays in the late 60s early 70s . Great memories .Have been a handful of times since and still love the place.

I just wanted to say, I have watched your St Ives and Falmouth Videos many times, I moved to Cornwall in 1987 and they capture that era and memories for me, great stuff ! And I still live in Falmouth, but it feels very different these days.

Some of the people in this video will no longer be here sadly. But I hope family get a wonderful surprise to see their Relatives ❤️

Holidayed there over 30 times! Stayed at Chy an Albany, St Denis Guest House, Porthminster view, Toby Cottage, Richards song, Tansy Cottage, Longships, Talland House etc. We stay away in school holidays now as it now gets very busy. Beautiful place, good beaches.

Thank you for sharing this. It brings back beautiful memories of my visit there a few years ago.

fantastic video i was there that year

Wow! Harts ice-cream parlour - the best ice-cream ever. The old tea rooms in Tregenna Place, the Market Place chemist, the Boathouse that's now The Hub ... Amazing, though, how so little essentially has changed. That's a lovely bit of documentation. Thanks for your lovely video..

2018 and it’s barely changed! Fashion isn’t far off either. :)

11.04 There you are, in lovely 1990s St Ives

Amazing wish we could go back to then

Used to do multi drop around St Ives and West Cornwall then. The traffic warden moved the traffic on to make room for delivery drivers in St Ives back then!😊

Pasties for 85p? Prices have tripled since then.

those were the days no phones, no social distancing no face masks just chilled out summer days

I love St Ives, only downside its always packed

Did you know The Sloop Inn pub shown here featured in the movie RAISE THE TITANIC? Also Dustin Hoffman stayed at the Treganna Castle Hotel while he was filming STRAW DOGS in 1971.

anyone for a pint in the sloop?!!!!!!

Made me cry tbh

I was there in June 1990 - but it looks like it was just a week after this, or you might have accidentally filmed me! :)

42 i managed to park in st just last year !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhh....home, I was there wandering around somewhere, I left in the mid 90s not realising that id need a lottery win to return😟 can I ask if you have a full unedited version?

Great to see. I was a kid there then. Here's a more recent look I filmed this year- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j91mhc2pqrXTpKc.html

The Sloop didn't have picnic tables out front at that time?

Old buildings,old people... What an exciting place. I could only imagine.

Now everyone has a phone in hand filming, taking selfies, not talking The the people around them...you don’t see peopl..families out like this anymore and if you do they are each looking at their phones. Sucks.

You didn't film Woolworths :(

Sad to think a lot of those people will have passed away now :(

The place was much better thirty plus years ago,when more original locals were there and still alive,now it’s full of foreigners all wanting to open a shop full of rubbish or sell crappy fast food.....shops used to be quality 👌🏻same with the art galleries....could go as far as the standard of people was much higher too......ohh well......🤷🏼‍♂️😏

treasure film the good old days

Is anyone watching this in 2038?

Prices are quite the same as today !!

magnifico paese della cornovaglia sembra di esse re attore di di un romanzo della pilker mio figlio abita dal 2011 a st ives

It was only 1990, but strangely looks like the 50's or 60's!

so that wat it looked like in 1990 i was born in 2004!

Fangirl, that does make sense!

And the seagulls as usual 😒

Plenty of fat people but no-one obese!

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