0:00:02 > 0:00:06The Travelling Picture Show is giving four Northern Ireland towns
0:00:06 > 0:00:10the chance to celebrate their past, their stories and their characters,
0:00:10 > 0:00:14as captured by local amateur filmmakers and television crews.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16Now, some of the films
0:00:16 > 0:00:19have lain hidden in attics and archives for decades.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Now we're bringing them back
0:00:21 > 0:00:23to the heart of the community they came from.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26We're going to meet some of the people who made the films,
0:00:26 > 0:00:30those who appear in them, and those with a story to tell.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32We've invited them to come
0:00:32 > 0:00:35and see the past flicker into life on the silver screen,
0:00:35 > 0:00:40and get a rare glimpse of their town and its people in days gone by.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43We're on the road in Enniskillen,
0:00:43 > 0:00:48a glorious location to showcase wonderful films from a golden age.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50I can hardly believe we done it!
0:00:51 > 0:00:55And the original Top Gear, 1950s style.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58I would say there never was as many in Clogher since!
0:00:59 > 0:01:03There's even a chance to see the sun in the 1940s.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17To Enniskillen now in the West,
0:01:17 > 0:01:20the charming and romantic island town on Lough Erne.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24The town which, in the Stuart days, laid the foundations...
0:01:24 > 0:01:28Welcome to Enniskillen, with this beautiful old castle
0:01:28 > 0:01:30standing on the banks of the River Erne.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32And just for the record,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34the river actually links the upper and lower loughs,
0:01:34 > 0:01:38all 52 miles of it, so pretty impressive.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Now, for me, this is something of a poignant return,
0:01:40 > 0:01:42because when I was a child,
0:01:42 > 0:01:44I used to come here every summer for my holidays,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46and I stayed with some relatives who lived in the town.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49I must say, they were very happy days.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59Our Travelling Picture Show tent has drawn an excited crowd,
0:01:59 > 0:02:01eagerly anticipating a matinee screening
0:02:01 > 0:02:05in a beautiful location, so let's get the party started.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07# For goodness sake
0:02:07 > 0:02:11# I got the hippy hippy shakes
0:02:11 > 0:02:14# Yeah, I got the shakes
0:02:14 > 0:02:17# I got the hippy hippy shakes
0:02:17 > 0:02:19# Ooh! I can't sit still... #
0:02:19 > 0:02:22The Girls' Friendly Society trip to Lough Erne
0:02:22 > 0:02:26was filmed by the Reverend Taylor in about 1960,
0:02:26 > 0:02:28and our audience loved it.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30In fact, some were actually there.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34# Yeah, it's in the bag
0:02:34 > 0:02:37# Ooh! The hippy hippy shakes
0:02:37 > 0:02:41# Well now, you shake it to the left... #
0:02:41 > 0:02:43I was playing the accordion!
0:02:43 > 0:02:45I was mortified when I saw it,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48but it is lovely to look back and see the fun we had.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Out of nothing, really.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54# Oh, it's in the bag
0:02:54 > 0:02:57# Ooh, the hippy hippy shake
0:02:57 > 0:03:00# Ooh, the hippy hippy shake
0:03:00 > 0:03:04# Ooh, the hippy hippy shake. #
0:03:04 > 0:03:07APPLAUSE
0:03:07 > 0:03:11MUSIC: "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller
0:03:23 > 0:03:27There are many, many more lovely old films about Enniskillen to be seen,
0:03:27 > 0:03:29starting right here at a very famous pub
0:03:29 > 0:03:32in the middle of the high street, it's known as Blakes of the Hollow.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Now, back during the Second World War,
0:03:34 > 0:03:38William Blake, who owned the pub, he used to make many home movies,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41and I have to tell you, they have really stood the test of time.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42But now three of his sons
0:03:42 > 0:03:45have come back to the pub where they were raised
0:03:45 > 0:03:48to reminisce about their lives, so beautifully captured on film.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55When we went to the seaside, he always had the camera with him then.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00We took a house in Bundoran for two months of the summer,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04so that's when all this photography was done, you know?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10The war years were on,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13and we were able to get a lot of things, like butter.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16It wasn't so scarce down there as it was up here.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Food rationing in the UK meant that the Blakes
0:04:21 > 0:04:23and indeed many others across Enniskillen
0:04:23 > 0:04:26were rearing pigs in the backyard to feed the family.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30But just a few miles up the road in the Republic, life was a breeze.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36We were such a big family that we hired a local bus,
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Cassidy's Erne Bus Service to bring us down.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49We had a great time in Bundoran, we had a towel around our necks,
0:04:49 > 0:04:51we were in our bare feet, we had the togs swinging,
0:04:51 > 0:04:54and we went wherever we wanted to go.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Whenever we got away from Mammy and Daddy!
0:05:02 > 0:05:04We used to go to a place called Rougey,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07which is about 20 foot deep when the tide's in,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10and about four foot deep when the tide's very far out!
0:05:14 > 0:05:16There was a diving board there that you could jump off,
0:05:16 > 0:05:18or if you were very brave,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21you might attempt to jump off the high rock in Rougey,
0:05:21 > 0:05:23which only was for very special people.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Swimming in the horse pool was great.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29Once you got to the horse pool,
0:05:29 > 0:05:33you felt you were big then, you were getting into the deeper water.
0:05:39 > 0:05:40You'd come out of the water,
0:05:40 > 0:05:42and you'd be shivering like nobody's business,
0:05:42 > 0:05:45and Mammy would wrap round the big towel
0:05:45 > 0:05:48and get us quickly into our short trousers.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50And your knees were really knocking together,
0:05:50 > 0:05:53and she'd say, "Go and run around there and get warm."
0:05:53 > 0:05:56It wasn't that bad during the summer, it was lovely.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59I just remember that Dad did make the film
0:05:59 > 0:06:02of you and I sparring, but it was harmless.
0:06:02 > 0:06:06Showing off our boxing skills, whatever skills we had!
0:06:07 > 0:06:09We'd have our spats, don't get us wrong.
0:06:09 > 0:06:14- We had our little rows.- Did we? - We'd still be thick for each other
0:06:14 > 0:06:16when it would come to a difference with somebody else,
0:06:16 > 0:06:18we'd stand by each other.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24My mother wore a turban, which was a kind of tradition.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27- She wore a tie and a turban. - And a jacket.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29- I can still see her in that. - Quite fashionable.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34There's somewhere else that you can see she's counting the children,
0:06:34 > 0:06:38- you know, to make sure that they're all around.- All the chickens.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40The hen with the chickens, you know.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43She was watching to see accountability, you know.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59I think they are very important
0:06:59 > 0:07:02as a sort of a social history nearly, you know,
0:07:02 > 0:07:04in that you do get shots of people,
0:07:04 > 0:07:07and they're people from all levels of society in them.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11- I mean, you probably remember one man taking off Churchill and so on.- Yeah.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14And there was another fellow walked past the door,
0:07:14 > 0:07:18- a fellow called Micky Ward who was a cattle drover.- Cattle drover.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21- Isobel Topping.- There's Isobel.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25Her husband had the garage, Topping's Garage, down at the end.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28- TP Topping. - And she ran the pharmacy over there.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32- My father...- He was very camera-shy, you don't see him.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36There's only one or two pieces in his own movies where he appears.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39And sometimes it was done surreptitiously
0:07:39 > 0:07:42- and he didn't know about it but... - And he usually had the pipe.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45He might have the pipe or he might have a cigarette.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50And the modest man who loved filming his family
0:07:50 > 0:07:53scored a major royal exclusive right on his own doorstep.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58This was 1946, just after the war.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03The occasion was a visit to Enniskillen by Princess Elizabeth,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06as she was then, probably in her early 20s at the most.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13The film picks her up coming from the Imperial Hotel,
0:08:13 > 0:08:16which is now Boots, up to the town hall.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22She went inside and then appeared on the balcony,
0:08:22 > 0:08:24just directly opposite where my father was.
0:08:26 > 0:08:31I don't think anybody from the media recorded that visit in Enniskillen.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36So I said, "Dad, where did you get colour at that time?"
0:08:36 > 0:08:38And he said that he got it
0:08:38 > 0:08:42from American troops that were stationed here in Enniskillen.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46Because you couldn't get Kodak colour in the British Isles...
0:08:46 > 0:08:48- For years. - ..until about 1949 or '50.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54My dad's cine camera was a little 16mm camera,
0:08:54 > 0:08:57but there was no big focusing lenses
0:08:57 > 0:08:59or anything else on it like you have today,
0:08:59 > 0:09:02and I would think that if dad was alive today,
0:09:02 > 0:09:05he would be really enjoying the technology.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14The film of Princess Elizabeth, as was,
0:09:14 > 0:09:18on the balcony of the town hall in Enniskillen
0:09:18 > 0:09:20is absolutely beautiful
0:09:20 > 0:09:22and captures a time when we can see the shops,
0:09:22 > 0:09:26we can see the streets, the people, those poor policemen struggling,
0:09:26 > 0:09:29you know, crowd control as it was in 1947.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34There you have it, the power of old films to take us right back in time.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Now, in rural Fermanagh,
0:09:36 > 0:09:39where farming has long been the way to make ends meet,
0:09:39 > 0:09:42the methods and machinery have changed a lot over the years.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Harry Dunlop was a fresh-faced apprentice mechanic
0:09:47 > 0:09:51when the latest Ferguson tractor was unveiled in Clogher,
0:09:51 > 0:09:55and he's come along to see his brief film debut at the tender age of 15.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59The farmer was excited to see this tractor,
0:09:59 > 0:10:02because that was the first time he was going to see her,
0:10:02 > 0:10:06and they were all there to see this box opened, see what was in it.
0:10:10 > 0:10:15Everybody was dressed up, and at that time there was a lot of...
0:10:15 > 0:10:17The men wore a lot of hats, you know,
0:10:17 > 0:10:19and there was another fella I remember who was there,
0:10:19 > 0:10:22who was Sammy Lyons, who was a great tractor man, you know,
0:10:22 > 0:10:24and he had a big bow tie and all on.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29I would say there never was as many in Clogher since!
0:10:34 > 0:10:36The tractor colours did stand out.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38I can remember the tractor colours, the golds,
0:10:38 > 0:10:40the gold belly, as they called her, you know,
0:10:40 > 0:10:42and then she had the grey bonnet, like.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51Aye, I appeared at the right-hand side of the tractor here.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54I had my back to the camera there, yes.
0:10:54 > 0:10:59Oh, I used to have the boiler suit all natty.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02The farmer, you see, would have been asking me several questions about it,
0:11:02 > 0:11:05about what this done and what done and you know.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10When you see the head of hair, like,
0:11:10 > 0:11:13I just can't believe it, that's the truth.
0:11:13 > 0:11:18I'd like to get it back again, but it's not possible!
0:11:19 > 0:11:22What a great record of a bygone era in Clogher,
0:11:22 > 0:11:25filmed by a local gentleman called Colonel Tracey.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27And it's thanks to Gordon McLaren
0:11:27 > 0:11:29that we've managed to get hold of it.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33Tell me your interest, originally, in collecting this old film.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Well, in my younger days, Colonel Tracey,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40who lived in Augher Castle, started the Cinema Trust in Augher,
0:11:40 > 0:11:43and as well as that, he had a camera, and he used to take weddings,
0:11:43 > 0:11:47old school photographs, anything of interest.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55He used to film the local shopkeepers and my father was one of them,
0:11:55 > 0:11:57and there's a very good picture
0:11:57 > 0:12:00of him coming out and speaking to one of his customers.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Our shop was right on the corner, and we sold everything.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Willie Ramsay, the cycle man, a very good picture of him now.
0:12:10 > 0:12:11He missed nobody.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18The Colonel took all the local films and used them to draw the crowd.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Now there's nothing that pleases people more
0:12:20 > 0:12:23than seeing themselves on the big screen.
0:12:26 > 0:12:31This is a...a programme of the cinema 1959, this one is.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35We have two colour films, they were two shillings to get in.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38I see The Caine Mutiny with Humphrey Bogart.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41The black and white films, they were just one and six.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46We had just this big screen up in front of the church hall
0:12:46 > 0:12:47and hard chairs,
0:12:47 > 0:12:51and you used to set the chairs out every Saturday afternoon for the film
0:12:51 > 0:12:53and take them away again after the picture,
0:12:53 > 0:12:57so keep the hall for Sunday school the next day.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00They come from near and far to the films, it was very well supported.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06The creamery, of course, was a focal point of the village.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12The farmers all, at that stage, brought their milk in themselves.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15And they used to line up, you know, right down the village,
0:13:15 > 0:13:19and they got all the news, talking to each other and shouting across.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23I remember the milk coming by horse and cart,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26and wee grey Fergies, everything.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35One of the highlights at our primary school
0:13:35 > 0:13:38was the Colonel coming down to film us pupils working in the garden.
0:13:41 > 0:13:45Mr Hamill was the headmaster there, and we had vegetable plots,
0:13:45 > 0:13:49and I was there myself and my sister as well.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55Miss Hadden was the assistant teacher and she's in the film as well.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59You can pick yourself out, you know, that's the part.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02I was somewhere in the middle not doing too much, you can be sure!
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Well, well done, you, for hanging onto the film.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Aye, it's well done indeed, and I'm terribly glad I did do it, you know?
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Now, because it rains so much,
0:14:20 > 0:14:24they say that the lakes are in Fermanagh for half the year,
0:14:24 > 0:14:27and the rest of the time Fermanagh is in the lakes.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30Now, nobody knows that better than John Reihill.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32He's spent a lifetime on his own island,
0:14:32 > 0:14:34a place where ancient boats called cots
0:14:34 > 0:14:37were the only way to travel when he was a boy.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43I was born and raised on Inniscorkish Island,
0:14:43 > 0:14:48and my family had lived there from 1882 when my grandparents married.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54My father was born there, and then I was born and raised there
0:14:54 > 0:14:57and lived there until seven years ago.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02I was 73 when I left the island.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11There was quite a community living around and we socialised together.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15The cut was our highway.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18We couldn't move even ourselves because we couldn't swim.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20We couldn't even get across to the mainland
0:15:20 > 0:15:23without a vessel of some description.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27This is a replica of the old cots.
0:15:27 > 0:15:32You can see that it's flat-bottomed and that it tapers up at either end.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35And that it's square-ended.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39And these are the oars which would have been used in the old times
0:15:39 > 0:15:42to propel it along. And on the big cots, it took two men.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Actually, it could have maybe four men.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Two men sitting on each oar.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52The cot was the traditional Lough Erne vessel.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56It is said that it had been in use on Lough Erne for about 2,000 years,
0:15:56 > 0:15:59with very little change in its structure.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05We had a big cot which would be capable of carrying horses
0:16:05 > 0:16:07and cows and machinery.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11And then there was a lump of a cot, an in-between size.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13We often heard the phrase,
0:16:13 > 0:16:16"a lump of a codger" I suppose, a half-grown boy.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21A wee cot then would be for passenger traffic.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25Maybe a pig on it, but no bigger animals.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30You'd have to have a man on the cot that would keep control
0:16:30 > 0:16:34of the animals and the man in the tow boat in front, towing it.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38And then you had to have somebody behind on the tail end
0:16:38 > 0:16:41of the cot, with one of the big oars out to act as a rudder.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49It makes me feel sad, in a sense.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54I was the last islander for to leave.
0:16:56 > 0:17:02Things like that are very, very important. To keep the image alive.
0:17:02 > 0:17:07Because in another generation, certainly, nobody will realise
0:17:07 > 0:17:12that there was such a thing as a community life on the islands.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Good memories there of a life that's gone, but not forgotten.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Thanks for those lovely images of the cattle cot.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28They were filmed by a clergyman in Derrygonnelly,
0:17:28 > 0:17:30the Reverend Leonard Skuce.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33His family have come along to the Travelling Picture Show
0:17:33 > 0:17:34to see his films on the big screen.
0:17:36 > 0:17:37Michael, your dad was a vicar.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41So explain to me his total passion about taking movies?
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Yes, he took a variety of films of community events, parish events.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48And also of the family as well. And they really are treasured moments.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Whenever my father passed away, I showed the films to the parish.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53I had to show them a couple of times, because people said,
0:17:53 > 0:17:56"Michael, show that again. I want to see who was in that film."
0:17:56 > 0:17:59And every time you see them, we see somebody else who we hadn't seen before
0:17:59 > 0:18:02and it's just like a time capsule being opened up to the public.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07My father came here in 1953.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11He had been a curate in Warrenpoint and this was his first
0:18:11 > 0:18:14appointment as the rector of Inishmacsaint Parish Church.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18He spent his whole ministry here at Inishmacsaint
0:18:18 > 0:18:20and he never really ever wanted to leave it.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23I remember speaking to him about the love he had for the parish
0:18:23 > 0:18:25and for the people. And for the wider community as well.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29So he had 30 very, very happy years
0:18:29 > 0:18:31and unfortunately he died in ministry here.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42He was taking films of various events.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44There was the great storm here which caused
0:18:44 > 0:18:46so much damage in the early 1960s.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50There were massive oak trees that had fallen.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Thankfully, none of them actually hit the church.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Everybody got involved, if something needed to be done,
0:18:59 > 0:19:00the whole parish were there.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Whenever the work had to be done inside the church,
0:19:05 > 0:19:08the painting, old Willie Gotts, who's now long gone dead,
0:19:08 > 0:19:11who could do very specialised painting of wood effects.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14And there's footage of Willie painting the doors.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27The festival was a very, very important event in the calendar.
0:19:35 > 0:19:36It was great. Great fun.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40- Three-legged race, and the sack-race.- Aye.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46- And tug-of-war! - And tug-of-war!- That was great!
0:19:48 > 0:19:54- I can hardly believe we done it! - True enough!- True enough!- Yeah.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58- No, we were young then, we were fit for anything!- Yeah!- Weren't we?
0:19:58 > 0:20:01- True!- We were.- True, true.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04I didn't look that well, because my backside stuck out!
0:20:04 > 0:20:06THEY LAUGH
0:20:09 > 0:20:12- But I kept smiling!- Yes. - I kept pulling!
0:20:15 > 0:20:17I was behind Mabel.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Mabel was in front, you see, and I was behind her.
0:20:20 > 0:20:25I wore a pinkish top, it was made of wool and I knit that myself.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27And a pair of trousers.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31- Because we all had to wear trousers, pulling the tug-of-war.- Aye.- Yes.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Mabel kept shouting at me, "Go on, pull a bit more!"
0:20:34 > 0:20:36But I couldn't do any more!
0:20:36 > 0:20:39That would have been all I remember about it.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43- And there was somebody shouting at us.- Tommy Baillie.- Yes.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47- Basil was about, too.- Yes.
0:20:50 > 0:20:56It was all about a bit of fun and there were all ages and shapes
0:20:56 > 0:20:58and sizes of ladies, really!
0:20:58 > 0:21:00They had to have a bit of weight about them,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02to be any good at tug-of-war.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05So I'd better not mention any names!
0:21:05 > 0:21:12- True, we had weight, now.- We had. But we won!- We did.- We won.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15- Aye, we didn't even get a medal!- No!
0:21:16 > 0:21:19- And now they're firing medals out to everybody!- They are!
0:21:23 > 0:21:27It was a time where people were willing to participate.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30People could entertain themselves.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36People sometimes feel a bit shy about being photographed.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38I think my mother was very comfortable in front
0:21:38 > 0:21:42of a camera where her husband was taking photographs with the family.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47My recollection of my mother was always being there.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Whenever I came home from school, you were always guaranteed Mum was at home.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55You see loved ones who have now passed away.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58I think it makes it ever more precious, as well.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01You know, it means much more to us
0:22:01 > 0:22:03now to see that they really had good, enjoyable times.
0:22:07 > 0:22:12The Reverend Skuce's legacy will long be remembered because when
0:22:12 > 0:22:17his films are shown locally, the amount of interest is phenomenal.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23I heard people, you know, talking to themselves in whispers, you know?
0:22:23 > 0:22:25"There's so-and-so. There's so-and-so."
0:22:25 > 0:22:28And, you know, trying to recognise people.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32My grandfather, Tommy, was the man that organised the tug-of-war team,
0:22:32 > 0:22:34the women's tug-of-war team in the Fun Day for the parish.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36This was the heart of the countryside,
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Enniskillen was a very long distance away for entertainment.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41The parish came together for a day out and a day's craic
0:22:41 > 0:22:43and this was the way it was done.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51Now, I have to admit that until today, I didn't know that there
0:22:51 > 0:22:54was such a big tradition of home movie-making in Enniskillen.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57And even if you've never heard of the name Raymond McCartney,
0:22:57 > 0:23:00I promise you, you will have seen one of his films.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Raymond was a very successful businessman and hotelier
0:23:03 > 0:23:08in Enniskillen and he spent a lifetime filming local people and events.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12And it was an ironic twist of fate that sent his film
0:23:12 > 0:23:13right around the world.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Dad was going down just to video the parade, as he did every year
0:23:24 > 0:23:28then, because he loved the colour, he loved the music, he loved the bands.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Those video images went all across the world.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Dad went into automatic pilot and just moved with the camera
0:23:37 > 0:23:41and went towards where the smoke was.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44And he didn't realise at the time what he was actually doing.
0:23:44 > 0:23:45It affected him deeply.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Deeply.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52When I think of Dad and the camera,
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Poppy Day is the last thing I think of.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57I think of the fun things.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03As we grew up, there was a camera there always.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06No matter where you saw Dad, there was a camera.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09He either had a camera bag or he had the camera on his shoulders.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Thank goodness, over the years, the cameras got smaller,
0:24:11 > 0:24:13so they weren't as obvious.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15But at the start, the cameras were massive.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Through Terry and I's life, the video was there.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26It's all documented, from birthday parties and christenings,
0:24:26 > 0:24:29right up to confirmations.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Everything.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Dad loved horses.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44He knew how to ride, he could gallop, he could do all of that then.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48And if he didn't, he made it look as if he did!
0:24:52 > 0:24:55They would have scared me, now, they were always big,
0:24:55 > 0:24:58but Dad would get on and then put me on in front or whatever, then.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00And I always felt safe then, when he was there.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11At one stage, Mum was running Lough Erne Hotel
0:25:11 > 0:25:13and dad had bought Killyhevlin.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20So, Mum was running one, and Dad was running the other.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25Dad was not a fisherman,
0:25:25 > 0:25:29but recognised the potential that was there and would have gone out
0:25:29 > 0:25:31of his way to organise competitions
0:25:31 > 0:25:34and things to have fishermen come down.
0:25:34 > 0:25:39They would have fished all day. Videos then, you can see their catch.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41They're hauling fish in left, right and centre.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43There seemed to be no end of fish those days.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47Again, they would come back in and weigh the fish,
0:25:47 > 0:25:49and there was a whole fun made out of that.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53Some of the fisherman might have been from England,
0:25:53 > 0:25:58a lot of them were and they would have come and had a great time.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Of course the Irish hospitality was there too, don't forget.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Then they would have gone back to England
0:26:02 > 0:26:04or wherever they were from and said,
0:26:04 > 0:26:07"You've got to come to Fermanagh because it's brilliant."
0:26:10 > 0:26:14Every August as part of the Vintage Car Club weekend
0:26:14 > 0:26:16we chose a charity.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20Dad loved the community and wanted to be involved in that.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24On the Friday night everybody got all dressed up,
0:26:24 > 0:26:28especially the line dancers then at Jail Square we all took in.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32We danced, we had our boots on,
0:26:32 > 0:26:34we had our hats on, you'd the skirts on.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37You would have had maybe 80 to 100 people all line dancing.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Everybody doing the same thing,
0:26:39 > 0:26:42all trying to outdo each other and it was fabulous.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49The atmosphere in Enniskillen was electric.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55When we were young, Dad would have filmed anything.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57It didn't have to be a special occasion,
0:26:57 > 0:27:00it didn't have to be a special day.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Those memories, if it wasn't on video, it's lost for ever.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Caroline, you and I met at the Killyhevlin Hotel
0:27:12 > 0:27:15many, many moons ago. I actually knew your husband Raymond.
0:27:15 > 0:27:16Why do you think Raymond was
0:27:16 > 0:27:18so passionate about taking all of these movies?
0:27:18 > 0:27:22He was out all over the place taking pictures and then, of course,
0:27:22 > 0:27:24bringing them home to us, the family,
0:27:24 > 0:27:26and saying, "Come here and sit down.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30"You have to see this. This is history in the making."
0:27:30 > 0:27:33I think he was into tourism in a great way.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36He felt by taking the videos and the footage,
0:27:36 > 0:27:40that it might go further afield and bring more people to Fermanagh.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44He would say, "Someday you'll all look at these
0:27:44 > 0:27:49"and other people will too." And now, as we see, it's happening.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51People are watching, just like today.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54And he'll be sitting smiling.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59And that's just about it from Enniskillen on a day
0:27:59 > 0:28:01when we've had the privilege
0:28:01 > 0:28:03of watching some really precious family films
0:28:03 > 0:28:07made by men who had a joy in placing all those memories on celluloid.
0:28:07 > 0:28:12So, it's time to pack up our tent and hit the highway again.
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