0:00:02 > 0:00:04The Travelling Picture Show is out on the road again,
0:00:04 > 0:00:07visiting towns and villages right across Northern Ireland
0:00:07 > 0:00:10and reliving our past through home movies.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19In those days, the place was quite famous as a tourist centre.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23I can still remember the excitement
0:00:23 > 0:00:27when you used to see the frost beginning to sparkle
0:00:27 > 0:00:31on the footpath outside and you knew it was a good night for ice.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36Today we're going to meet the people who took the films,
0:00:36 > 0:00:40those who appeared in them, and anyone with a story to tell.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45It does bring back very many happy memories of a younger time in life
0:00:45 > 0:00:46when maybe you were more supple
0:00:46 > 0:00:49and could do things that perhaps are not available to you
0:00:49 > 0:00:53just at the moment, and it reminds you of those happy times
0:00:53 > 0:00:57and brings back memories of better days for yourself
0:00:57 > 0:01:00and a better... Well, it appears a better time in life.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06It was stopped and started every so often, and frozen,
0:01:06 > 0:01:08because people would say, "Look, there's so-and-so
0:01:08 > 0:01:10"and there's such-and-such a place."
0:01:13 > 0:01:15It will bring back some great memories
0:01:15 > 0:01:18and I think it will also help the younger generation identify
0:01:18 > 0:01:22with what was, and also allow us all to see
0:01:22 > 0:01:26the things that have changed, things that haven't changed.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29I think there will be a bit of buzz in the village itself.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Hello, and a very special welcome to The Travelling Picture Show
0:01:34 > 0:01:35and Rostrevor -
0:01:35 > 0:01:38an extremely pretty village that nestles very neatly
0:01:38 > 0:01:40at the base of the Mountains of Mourne
0:01:40 > 0:01:43and, of course, on the shores of Carlingford Lough.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45As you can see, I've parked my tent.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47I've got my lovely bell tent,
0:01:47 > 0:01:50and I'm in the grounds of An Cuan, which used to be
0:01:50 > 0:01:53the old Glenmore Hotel, which indeed played host to royalty, no less,
0:01:53 > 0:01:55but I have to say, I think
0:01:55 > 0:01:58the audience we've invited today are just as important,
0:01:58 > 0:02:02all with a film to show, a story to tell, and a memory to share.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42There's a timelessness about Rostrevor.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44It's changed very little over the years,
0:02:44 > 0:02:46and it's still very peaceful and tranquil.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Our films today reflect just that.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02There's a gentle pace of life here,
0:03:02 > 0:03:04a place where people took time out
0:03:04 > 0:03:06to make memories of the simple stuff -
0:03:06 > 0:03:10good conversations with friends and neighbours, making music,
0:03:10 > 0:03:12playing games and walking in the park.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20In Rostrevor, there's a lovely quality of life.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23It's determined by, I think, the actual place itself -
0:03:23 > 0:03:28the scenery, the hills, the whole ambience of the lough.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39The village hasn't changed
0:03:39 > 0:03:42but you would need to take all of the cars away,
0:03:42 > 0:03:46and if you took all the cars away, we'd be back to where we were.
0:03:52 > 0:03:56Smyth's Mineral Waters was a family who ran a bottling plant
0:03:56 > 0:04:01in Warrenpoint and supplied minerals and kegs of beer and barrels of beer
0:04:01 > 0:04:03to local hostelries.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Joe Smyth was a guy who was into filming,
0:04:06 > 0:04:10and this film shows the lorry leaving Warrenpoint
0:04:10 > 0:04:12and coming out to Rostrevor.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18The street I grew up in, there used to be about ten families.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22I think there's one family with a child now in it.
0:04:22 > 0:04:27There were about five shops. There are three shops now.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35If you stand outside the Church of Ireland
0:04:35 > 0:04:39and look down the square, it'll be the same as it was.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01Now, though I'm standing here on Rostrevor Harbour,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04but just down the road is Warrenpoint,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07and then across the lough is a place called Omeath, and all
0:05:07 > 0:05:11of this area brings back really, really special memories to me.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14I know a lot of you are too young to remember rationing after the war,
0:05:14 > 0:05:15but when I was a child,
0:05:15 > 0:05:18everything was rationed - food, clothing, etc.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21But nearly every weekend, we were driven down to Warrenpoint
0:05:21 > 0:05:24and then we'd be rowed across to Omeath, and of course there was
0:05:24 > 0:05:27no rationing there because it was the South of Ireland.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28So can you imagine?
0:05:28 > 0:05:32My mother bought butter, bacon, eggs, etc, but as a child,
0:05:32 > 0:05:34it was the chocolates and sweets, and I promise you,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37the shops in Omeath were just like fairyland to me,
0:05:37 > 0:05:41so I'm really glad to be back, but these days I'm trying not to eat the chocolate.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52And I'm not the only one to think of it as a magical land.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57CS Lewis said, "I have seen landscapes in the Mourne Mountains
0:05:57 > 0:06:00"which, under a particular light, made me feel
0:06:00 > 0:06:05"that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge."
0:06:08 > 0:06:11The CS Lewis connection is that he has said
0:06:11 > 0:06:16that this area inspired him in terms of the Chronicles Of Narnia.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21He would have walked up the old way
0:06:21 > 0:06:24to Cloughmore, and down the Cloughmore Glen.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33And, certainly, that would inspire anyone.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Beautiful places bring visitors,
0:06:45 > 0:06:47who need somewhere to stay.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Rostrevor was inundated with hotels.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54You had the Woodside, you had Great Northern Hotel,
0:06:54 > 0:06:56and then you had Ballyedmund Hotel.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00You had the Roxboro Hotel, which was opposite the Fairy Glen,
0:07:00 > 0:07:04and in the village itself,
0:07:04 > 0:07:08you had the Central Hotel, we had the Cloughmore hotel,
0:07:08 > 0:07:12and we had the hotel which was originally the Rostrevor Hotel.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17And where you had hotels, you had celebrations.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28The wedding was of Peter Clarke and his wife,
0:07:28 > 0:07:31which I believe was about 1946.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35It was taken up on the square, coming out of the Central Hotel,
0:07:35 > 0:07:36now the Cloughmore Inn.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42There was also a lot of locals standing about.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46One of them in particular, James Woods, who was the local cobbler,
0:07:46 > 0:07:49but he was a local character who was fond of a drink,
0:07:49 > 0:07:52was fond of a smoke, and that trip of the film just depicts him
0:07:52 > 0:07:54as he was, you know?
0:08:07 > 0:08:11Patsy, I loved watching that film. I particularly loved all the faces.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14There was one craggy old man, really, but the face was brilliant.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16James Woods, a local cobbler.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18He lived there beside where the boys' school is now.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21He had a hut there, and they called the hut Fort Belvedere.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26But one of one of his fortes, when there would be a wedding,
0:08:26 > 0:08:28he would dance in front of the bride down the straight.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30- All the way?- Yes.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Had his hard hat on, dancing in front of the bride, like this.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36- And did he sing?- A great character. Oh, he did.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39And I tell you, his hut would serve two purposes, too.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41If you missed school, it was a great place to go to.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43GLORIA LAUGHS
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Now, we don't know where these local kids were going to,
0:08:53 > 0:08:57but they were off by bus and they were filmed by Kevin Hanna
0:09:08 > 0:09:10My father was always big into photography and
0:09:10 > 0:09:14I maybe got the interest from him, and I was keen enough
0:09:14 > 0:09:17to get into the cine camera.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23The very first one, went over to a neighbour's
0:09:23 > 0:09:28who wasn't long married, and the first child had been born,
0:09:28 > 0:09:30and we took the child out in the back yard,
0:09:30 > 0:09:32and we started off doing that.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39We had recorded all our own family growing up, the children
0:09:39 > 0:09:41coming home from hospital
0:09:41 > 0:09:43and first birthdays and first communions
0:09:43 > 0:09:46and that type of thing.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49And then I was quite involved in the local GAA scene
0:09:49 > 0:09:53and we took different competitions that they had, up in Pettit Park.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03Another park, this time Kilbroney, but the fun continues.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13The first festival that started in Rostrevor, in '76, I think,
0:10:13 > 0:10:17and, to my surprise when I saw it recently,
0:10:17 > 0:10:21I discovered I was there at the beginning of it, eating crisps.
0:10:21 > 0:10:26And my daughters and husband as well. And, again, it can show you
0:10:26 > 0:10:27a slight change in Rostrevor,
0:10:27 > 0:10:32because I noticed it was taking place, part of it, in Kilbroney Park
0:10:32 > 0:10:37and you could see how rough and uncultivated the ground was then.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41And equally, of course, if you look now, you can see how well-groomed
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Kilbroney Park is.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49FROM LOUDSPEAKER: 'Rostrevor's Irish dancers!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51'Ulster score finalists!
0:10:51 > 0:10:54'Tonight at eight o'clock in the square.'
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Making the moves instead of the movies is our man, Kevin.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24It does bring back very many happy memories of a younger time
0:11:24 > 0:11:27in life when maybe you were more supple and could do things
0:11:27 > 0:11:31that perhaps are not available to you just at the moment,
0:11:31 > 0:11:33and it reminds you of those happy times
0:11:33 > 0:11:36and memories of better days for yourself and a better...
0:11:36 > 0:11:41Well, it appears a better time in life, but it does explain to you
0:11:41 > 0:11:45a lot of the changes that have taken place, mostly among people.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05BELL TOLLS
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Oh, for the days when we could dance the night away
0:12:16 > 0:12:18and be up at the crack of dawn ready for more!
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Sean Cooper and myself would have run wee trips, where you'd line up
0:12:32 > 0:12:36with Belfast people and sometimes people from Dublin,
0:12:36 > 0:12:39and go for weekend trips with local people to youth hostels, and go
0:12:39 > 0:12:44for a weekend walk, so we recorded a number of those on the cine.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55And what better way to enjoy wide open spaces
0:12:55 > 0:12:57than a bit of an impromptu ceilidh?
0:13:09 > 0:13:12I absolutely love this footage of Kevin's.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Playing music and dancing on the open road
0:13:15 > 0:13:17with that carefree abandon.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35CHEERING
0:13:41 > 0:13:44And from one form of merriment to another.
0:13:46 > 0:13:51This is the Great Northern Hotel, once the hub of village life.
0:13:51 > 0:13:57In the '60s especially, and the early '70s, the Great Northern Hotel
0:13:57 > 0:14:00became the hub for the village community, very much so.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03And there was an awful lot of weddings.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07My sister was married there on 1st March, 1965.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11I had my wedding reception there in 1972.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14And my older brother had his wedding reception there.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17And it would be the same with an awful lot of local families.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45My eldest brother, Colum,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48he borrowed the camera to take our wedding.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50The wedding was in Ballymartin
0:14:50 > 0:14:53and the reception was in the Great Northern Hotel in Rostrevor,
0:14:53 > 0:14:55and Colum done that job for us.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57I was otherwise engaged on that day.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Mary, I was sitting beside your husband Kevin
0:15:13 > 0:15:15while he was watching the film, and he kept nudging me to say,
0:15:15 > 0:15:18"That's my wedding, that's our wedding, that's my Mary."
0:15:18 > 0:15:19What was it like watching your wedding?
0:15:19 > 0:15:21A big surprise that it was even out of the house.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24- Didn't know it was coming on. - How many years ago was that?
0:15:24 > 0:15:25- 42 years.- 42 years!
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Easter Monday, and it was near as cold as this.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32And what was your reaction seeing yourself 42 years ago?
0:15:32 > 0:15:36Surprise, I can tell you! Couldn't go over quick enough.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Beautiful wedding, though.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41I loved all of those sorts of little bits down in your headdress.
0:15:41 > 0:15:42- Petals, yes.- Where did you get it?
0:15:42 > 0:15:44I bought it all in Newry.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47The whole lot, the dress and all in Newry, yeah.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50- And did you enjoy seeing your family in that group?- Oh, I did, yes.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53My sisters in it, and all the neighbours were in it.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56You could pick them all out, in all their hats.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58What have you thought over the years about Kevin having kept
0:15:58 > 0:16:01all this film and his interest in cine?
0:16:01 > 0:16:04He has loads of them in the house, loads of them, bits and pieces.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07Sometimes, we'd take them out and we'd go through them all.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10It's all catalogued, and different people come and ask,
0:16:10 > 0:16:12and he'd go through maybe 100 of them
0:16:12 > 0:16:14to look for a wee bit that he wanted and send it off.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17And why do you think he's loved it so much over the years?
0:16:17 > 0:16:20Well, his father liked it, and now our son's in it,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22and my daughter likes it as well.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24They all video, and they're very fond of the cameras.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Well, I have to say, the film has been fantastic for our programme,
0:16:27 > 0:16:31- so thanks very much. - So old, though.- Well, I don't know.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34- You looked gorgeous on your wedding, so well done, Mary.- Thank you.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40The Great Northern Hotel was very much part and parcel of life
0:16:40 > 0:16:45in Rostrevor, and a lot of local people got employment there,
0:16:45 > 0:16:48and most of the social entertainment and whatnot
0:16:48 > 0:16:50would have taken place there.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53My father in his time ran some old Irish dramas,
0:16:53 > 0:16:56and there's a bit of a concert hall come ballroom,
0:16:56 > 0:16:59and that would have been the venue for all of those dances
0:16:59 > 0:17:04run by the GAA Club, and even the Knights of Columbanus.
0:17:04 > 0:17:09They had their annual New Year's Eve function there for many, many years.
0:17:17 > 0:17:22In 1978, it was firebombed and never reopened.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26And it's just one of these desperate tragedies of
0:17:26 > 0:17:28the 30 years of Troubles
0:17:28 > 0:17:31that this whole area was kind of laid waste in terms of hotels,
0:17:31 > 0:17:33with firebombs, etc, you know?
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Robert, everybody tells me you are the best local historian,
0:17:49 > 0:17:50so I'm very pleased to meet you.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53You've been listening to fairy stories!
0:17:53 > 0:17:54Well, there you go. I like them, though.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57- What did you think of what you've seen today?- Excellent.
0:17:57 > 0:18:02Of course, being a local, it has to be excellent, you know,
0:18:02 > 0:18:06when someone highlights the place, because we've got everything here.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Well, we think so anyway.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11- You're very proud of the area, aren't you?- Yes.- And rightly so.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Now, we're in, it's known as An Cuan now,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16which used to be the old Glenmore Hotel, which, indeed,
0:18:16 > 0:18:18played host to royalty, no less.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22Lord Kilmorey built this in the mid-1870s,
0:18:22 > 0:18:26and he built it as a holiday home.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29He called it his marine residence, and needless to say,
0:18:29 > 0:18:31this is where he entertained
0:18:31 > 0:18:34his friends and associates from near and far.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36So it was a glamorous period?
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Yes, and that included Prince Albert.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44He was friendly with him, who later became Edward VII.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46There was Sir Thomas Lipton.
0:18:46 > 0:18:51He came as well, and indeed, they were known, the pair of them,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54to have come in and shot here.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58This is where they were entertained, you know, one way or another.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00THEY LAUGH
0:19:00 > 0:19:03- You're being a bit ambiguous about the one or another here!- Well, yes.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05So really, for quite a small area,
0:19:05 > 0:19:08you were well served for hotels and a bit of glamour?
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Rostrevor, of course, was a fashionable place.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14A lot of very beautiful houses along the coastline, aren't there?
0:19:14 > 0:19:16- Yes.- I mean, large houses by today's standard, even.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26One of the most substantial is Studley.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30Hilary remembers the house and the people who lived and worked there.
0:19:34 > 0:19:40In the 1940s and '50s, my mother worked for Roaches in Studley.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48Now, Roaches were a family who came from Cork in the 1930s,
0:19:48 > 0:19:51along with another guy from Cork called Nolan.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53They founded the creamery in Newry,
0:19:53 > 0:19:55which later became Armaghdown Creamery.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03After Mr Roach died, Mrs Roach stayed here for a number of years,
0:20:03 > 0:20:07but she became quite frail and she went to London to live,
0:20:07 > 0:20:10but the Roaches kept in contact with my mother over the years,
0:20:10 > 0:20:13every year sending her a present for Christmas.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19In the mid-1980s, this package arrived one day,
0:20:19 > 0:20:23and it was a video, and the video was a whole conglomeration
0:20:23 > 0:20:27of all this 8mm film that they took during the '40s and '50s.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33The films would be the family,
0:20:33 > 0:20:37Adair Roach and his wife, and Jim Roach.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Jim was a classical pianist,
0:20:39 > 0:20:42who was a full-time classical pianist in London.
0:20:42 > 0:20:43And Adair was an architect.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49The gardener Ned is in films, Ned Donnell.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56Mummy's not in the films, but when I was born,
0:20:56 > 0:20:59she was taking me over, whenever she was working.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01There were no creches in those days,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04but my creche was being out with Ned Donnell in the garden,
0:21:04 > 0:21:05and they were very happy times.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15People looking at this film will say, that is Studley,
0:21:15 > 0:21:17the Roaches, yeah, I remember them,
0:21:17 > 0:21:20and certainly the house is there and it is as it was.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24People can identify with it right to this day.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33Now, Freddie, I really loved watching the film of that
0:21:33 > 0:21:36beautiful big house where the Roach family lived originally,
0:21:36 > 0:21:38and you are the lucky man who lives in it now,
0:21:38 > 0:21:40so, did you enjoy looking at that?
0:21:40 > 0:21:42I thoroughly enjoyed that, and particularly
0:21:42 > 0:21:45the antiquity of Rostrevor.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49We haven't any of the history of that time.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52All we have seen is what we have seen today.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54But the house must be wonderful to live in,
0:21:54 > 0:21:57because as we saw today, a very glamorous house in its own way.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Well, I don't quite know about the glamour part of it,
0:22:00 > 0:22:02but it's a very practical house.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04But did you get that feeling today,
0:22:04 > 0:22:06to watch the film, that it was a glamorous period?
0:22:06 > 0:22:10Oh, of course it was, yes, and there's similar architecture
0:22:10 > 0:22:14in Rostrevor of the same period, 1859.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Well, you're a lucky man being able to live in this one,
0:22:16 > 0:22:18so many years of happiness left.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20- Thank you very much indeed. - Thank you very much.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30Studley, still glamorous in the snow.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Rostrevor, still beautiful in the snow.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44My mother owned a shop in Rostrevor.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47She was part of a large family who had different businesses
0:22:47 > 0:22:51right through Rostrevor, and my father was what I called a farmer,
0:22:51 > 0:22:53but I think it was about five or six fields he owned,
0:22:53 > 0:22:58and he kept pigs and sheep, and the occasional cow,
0:22:58 > 0:23:00and we lived in Church Street,
0:23:00 > 0:23:04which is now one of the main thoroughfares, but at that time,
0:23:04 > 0:23:07it was our place for playing.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18I can still remember the excitement when you used to see the frost
0:23:18 > 0:23:21beginning to sparkle on the footpath outside,
0:23:21 > 0:23:25and you knew it was a good night for ice,
0:23:25 > 0:23:27and then one of us would get a large bucket,
0:23:27 > 0:23:32and we would go out and simply throw the water down on the road,
0:23:32 > 0:23:35and you would check it as the evening wore on
0:23:35 > 0:23:40to see had it hardened, and finally, when it reached a certain point,
0:23:40 > 0:23:44the boys passed it and sliding would commence,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47and before you did start sliding, of course,
0:23:47 > 0:23:48your shoes had to be checked out,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51because you weren't allowed to slide if you had rubber soles on,
0:23:51 > 0:23:54because that would spoil the texture of the ice.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59We had sliding from the Church of Ireland right down the hill.
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Sometimes it was destroyed,
0:24:07 > 0:24:11because certain adults would come out with salt
0:24:11 > 0:24:15to destroy our pleasure, and I can still remember
0:24:15 > 0:24:18seeing one woman coming down the street.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20I think she might have been all of 16 or 17,
0:24:20 > 0:24:23and in our children's eyes, she was a grown-up.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26But we asked her did she want to join us, and she said, "No,"
0:24:26 > 0:24:29and I thought, "How awful to reach the stage
0:24:29 > 0:24:31"where you didn't want to slide!"
0:24:37 > 0:24:40So, Patricia, there we were in the front row watching it together.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42- I know! So exciting. - How do you react to seeing yourself?
0:24:42 > 0:24:46I loved it, especially seeing Church Street, as I said.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49I'm in the middle of the snow, and all the children milling around,
0:24:49 > 0:24:51and I saw my mother's house,
0:24:51 > 0:24:56- and I didn't see myself very closely, but...- Close enough, eh?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Of course, I have to pretend I was a tiny baby that was somewhere there.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01- Of course, of course. - Rather than a slightly older person.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- But how about that slide down the street?- Oh, it was brilliant.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06It brought back memories!
0:25:06 > 0:25:08And the thick snow on the ground as well, you know?
0:25:08 > 0:25:11And the feeling that no traffic, and it was a different world.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13So how often would you have made your slide?
0:25:13 > 0:25:16- You would have poured water down the street to make it.- Oh, yes.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17Well, you had to check it.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20It depended on what the temperature outside was,
0:25:20 > 0:25:22and once the glitter came on the footpath,
0:25:22 > 0:25:25you knew the slide was going to be possible,
0:25:25 > 0:25:28and then the buckets were taken from the house full of water,
0:25:28 > 0:25:31and just poured down, and then checked afterwards.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34There was a ripple of laughter went around when you said on the film,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37"And a spoilsport would come and ruin it."
0:25:37 > 0:25:39- Are you going to give it away as to who it was?- Oh, no!
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Even though he's dead, I don't think we could.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44I think everybody seemed to remember him.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Yes, he would come after we had gone in to bed,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50and then you'd wake up in the morning and the ice was melted.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Parts of it. And of course,
0:25:52 > 0:25:54it was no longer able to be slid on, you know?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56At least you loved it today, anyway, Patricia.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58- Oh, I did. I enjoyed it. - Great to see you.- Thanks.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00- Thank you for your company in the front row. - It was lovely having you.
0:26:08 > 0:26:13It is important to recall the past and, if you can at all,
0:26:13 > 0:26:15to keep records of the past,
0:26:15 > 0:26:18because it does bring back very many happy memories.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24I think I'd be very much in favour of the past being kept available
0:26:24 > 0:26:26to as many people as possible.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31I know that so many of us think about these things
0:26:31 > 0:26:33when it's too late. We talk to our parents,
0:26:33 > 0:26:36and we ignore them when they talk about "When I was young",
0:26:36 > 0:26:39and then suddenly, one day we stop being young
0:26:39 > 0:26:42and realise we should have spoken to our parents or our grandparents,
0:26:42 > 0:26:45because at a certain age in your life, you don't listen,
0:26:45 > 0:26:47you don't know, you don't care,
0:26:47 > 0:26:50and then suddenly, when it's too late, you wake up.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59I must say, I have really enjoyed my visit
0:26:59 > 0:27:01to this stunning part of the world.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04George Bernard Shaw said of Rostrevor and Carlingford Lough
0:27:04 > 0:27:07that nature had smiled kindly on this area.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09You know what? I can only agree.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26And that's just about it from The Travelling Picture Show.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29I hope you've really enjoyed our snapshot of Rostrevor,
0:27:29 > 0:27:30as captured on cine film.
0:27:30 > 0:27:34Memories, perhaps, of an era gone, but never to be forgotten,
0:27:34 > 0:27:37so as we leave you, can I just say thank you very much
0:27:37 > 0:27:39for travelling with us, and from all of us, bye-bye.
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