I agree with you. Money - a combination of 'get rich quick' tourism and middle class second home colonization has destroyed almost every seaside village in the West Country

I love St Ives dearly but have you seen what Carbis Bay hotel has done to Carbis Bay beach over the last decade? Heartbreaking.

I was the 7-year old boy stood with the people in the road - I'm 70 now!

Hello Mark. Places like St.Ives, Rock, Port Isaac, Fowey, etc have been swamped with tourism and second, or holiday homes. The only option left for most local people is to move to a nearby council estate, or to the nearest town with affordable rent/house prices. Some days in St.Ives, there aren't any local people at all to be found there, so if you've been getting any funny looks its most likely from other tourists, or up country people who have retired, or have a second homes there. I've lived all my life only a few miles away, and I detest going to any of these places in summer. Not because of St.Ives people, but because of the God-awful unfriendly middle class these places they've morphed into.

​@@TomRelubbus snap Tom from St Just sadly St Ives is a ghost town no local youngsters, no real jobs and deas in the winter.

What the hell is an emit??????

@@rogerauclair1670 that’s what I would like to know.

@@rogerauclair1670 A tourist.

@@AlisonBryen thanks for putting me straight on that. Maybe because I’m getting older I can never understand why thinking it will sound “cool”, people use an already existing word for an expression that means something else and most people don’t have a cotton pickin’ clue what it means. Even Googling the word “emit” only has the version that we all know about, for example “cars emit carbon dioxide.”

@@rogerauclair1670Believe the word is “emmet” but there are alternatives such as “emit”.

Spot on Warren! A trip to St.Ives feels more like a trip to Brighton these days. As a 'born and bred' local, it's not a place I ever visit any more - or feel very welcome in these days

@@TomRelubbus filled with toffs and upper class. Its been ruined, they dont care about the windows and/or the granite and fire places inside, they just white wash, plaster and modernize the interior destroying all the timeless features. You were lucky to grow up there!

For example: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iq6lfZyhu5yRn4k.html

No, I didn't grow up there, or ever live there. As kids we used to go there for Sunday School outings and to the Guildhall, after the 50 mile walks etc. I grew up - and still live - about 10 miles away, over on the other coast.

@@TomRelubbus your south coast then Tom? Lovely beaches around there like porthcurno

No changes!!! No local youngsters, no local people now ghost town

Oh it was put over from 8mm cine to DVD and they added the music

Yes, I was born in St Ives and don't associate the music with the town. The film is nice to see though. Thanks.

It was some odd clips of film that I added together, but while doing it I had the sound muted and only discovered it afterwards!

I loved the first tune . I was born in Trenwith terrace 1954 , I think this is just before.

+judith henwood Yeah, I put some of the local stuff on there. There's some interesting old clips of local scenes, it was easier to stick them on here than writing DVDs and giving them out. I've got some 8mm clips that the 'Old Man' took as well - if I ever get around to sorting them out!