0:00:05 > 0:00:08The Travelling Picture Show is out on the road again visiting
0:00:08 > 0:00:11towns and villages right across Northern Ireland
0:00:11 > 0:00:14and reliving our past through home movies.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20Today we are going to meet the people who took the films,
0:00:20 > 0:00:24those who appeared in them and anyone with a story to tell.
0:00:26 > 0:00:30Dad always had a cine camera in his hand. No matter where we went,
0:00:30 > 0:00:32the cine camera was always with us.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36It didn't matter who you were, you were filmed.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43It was a lovely time to live in Portrush in the 1950s.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48That's the time I remember best.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55I saw my mother lying on the beach and she was very glamorous.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59It was wonderful to see people that I haven't seen for a long time,
0:00:59 > 0:01:02people who are no longer with us.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09There are no replacements for these men, these men were all icons.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12They were great ambassadors for the town.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Hello and welcome to the very popular seaside resort
0:01:24 > 0:01:29of Portstewart where I have to say the views are absolutely stunning.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32And of course at the height of the season, this entire area is
0:01:32 > 0:01:36a complete hive of activity with a lot of enjoyment to be had.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Now, some come for the views, others come for the good old fresh air
0:01:39 > 0:01:42but today, I have to tell you they have come for
0:01:42 > 0:01:44The Travelling Picture Show,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46so I hope you're going to be able to stay with us.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28The North Coast is there to be enjoyed in all its glory
0:02:28 > 0:02:31and with panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean,
0:02:31 > 0:02:34generations of holiday-makers have been doing just that.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38This is the bustling seaside town of Portrush.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13This rare footage was taken back in 1932
0:03:13 > 0:03:16and it was advertised as A Day Of Delight.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20Taking up this offer from organiser MP Joe Devlin was this
0:03:20 > 0:03:23group of excited day trippers from Belfast.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Portrush was a lovely town to grow up in.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44It was a lot smaller than it is today.
0:03:44 > 0:03:49I lived in the centre of the town, the harbour end.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Everybody knew everybody.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03When I was a youngster Portrush was,
0:04:03 > 0:04:07if you like, the centre of the universe as far as we were concerned.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10People were not going to Spain, the holidays hadn't started
0:04:10 > 0:04:13in the way that they had, so everybody came to Portrush.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17You felt you were somewhere where it was all happening.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28My father was a pharmacist in the town
0:04:28 > 0:04:31and he was really interested in taking cine.
0:04:31 > 0:04:36In those days you got three minutes of a reel.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41We used to sell lots and lots of cine film to American tourists
0:04:41 > 0:04:43coming into Portrush to the hotels.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58He always had a good camera.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02Every couple of years he would upgrade it to a better one.
0:05:10 > 0:05:16My father took cine of us as a family growing up. As kids,
0:05:16 > 0:05:18we would have gone to the beach
0:05:18 > 0:05:21or Portstewart to the paddling area over there.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25He would have put it together with credits and things which was a nice
0:05:25 > 0:05:26touch back in the '60s.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42In winter evenings we would have a cine show in the house.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Everybody enjoyed it because in those days
0:05:44 > 0:05:47there wasn't that many people with cine cameras.
0:05:52 > 0:05:57We ran over the rocks, climbed the cliffs, we walked the beaches.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01At that time, it was great. It was a lovely place to grow up.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09Nobody ever looked for us or wondered about us, whereas nowadays,
0:06:09 > 0:06:10kids are in cars all the time
0:06:10 > 0:06:14and, you know, it was totally different in those days.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Ian, you looked great on screen. You did that very well!
0:06:22 > 0:06:24But I was interested in Dorothy's reaction,
0:06:24 > 0:06:28because you were going, "That's me, that's Ian, that's so-and-so."
0:06:28 > 0:06:30- Yes.- What's your reaction to having seen the film?
0:06:30 > 0:06:32I saw my mother lying on the beach
0:06:32 > 0:06:36- and she was very glamorous with her sunglasses.- Loved her sunglasses!
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Wonderful to see people that I have not seen for a long time,
0:06:39 > 0:06:41people who are no longer with us.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43And it is lovely to see them on film and see Ian
0:06:43 > 0:06:46with his little wheelbarrow going down to the beach.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49- You gave that wheelbarrow a lot of action, didn't you?- I did indeed.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51I always was very fond of the wheelbarrow.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53- I don't remember it now. - It was so sweet.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56When you were walking along the street you said, that's our
0:06:56 > 0:06:58- whole family and my cousin. - That's right.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00We were always a group walking down the street.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03My father really loved to take us on film all the time
0:07:03 > 0:07:07and we used to sit around and he would show it to us every now
0:07:07 > 0:07:10and again and it was lovely to see us all together.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13We'd have been taken to the beach every day in the summertime,
0:07:13 > 0:07:16mostly because we had a local pharmacy
0:07:16 > 0:07:19and my father was very busy, so Mum entertained us.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23There were three of us within three years and she entertained us
0:07:23 > 0:07:25by taking us to the beach in the afternoon.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37The international Northwest 200 Motorcycle Road Race
0:07:37 > 0:07:39was filmed back in the 1950s.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52And this is Albert Mayers who shot footage of his father
0:07:52 > 0:07:54right outside their cycle shop.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Now maybe it's not an event to match the international status
0:08:02 > 0:08:03of the North West 200,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06but it's just as important to the people of Portrush -
0:08:06 > 0:08:08the annual Easter horse races.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26I remember very well the people who shot the film.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30I remember Jim McMillan very well, the local chemist.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Jim was a very keen movie man.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37There weren't many film cameras in those days
0:08:37 > 0:08:40because it was the days of the old film, before the days of digital.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46I used to work for a local photographer
0:08:46 > 0:08:49during my summer holidays developing films.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52He actually once gave me his camera for the day and said,
0:08:52 > 0:08:57"Hugh, go round the town and shoot whatever you see."
0:08:57 > 0:09:00And he gave me a couple of films which were a tenner each
0:09:00 > 0:09:02in those days and I remember going around the town,
0:09:02 > 0:09:07shooting on film, just to have a day recorded and some of the film
0:09:07 > 0:09:09you have was actually shot by me!
0:09:14 > 0:09:17The town has changed so much
0:09:17 > 0:09:20in the 75 years since I first appeared.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24I have to say that the changes are to the better.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29In those days, we had just emerged from the war,
0:09:29 > 0:09:32there was a lot of rationing going on, a lot of restrictions
0:09:32 > 0:09:36and by the time we got to the 1950s, things were starting to get better
0:09:36 > 0:09:42and improve and it was a lovely time to live in Portrush in the 1950s.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44That's the time I remember best.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Willie Gregg is a well-known figure around Portrush
0:09:51 > 0:09:54and a larger-than-life character.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59I am basically fifth-generation Portrush.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01My whole life is in this harbour.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03It was the Queen Elizabeth,
0:10:03 > 0:10:07the very famous sightseeing boat which was run by the Doherty family.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12My family, we had Gregg's boats, they were hire boats.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17You know that, come in number six, your time is up. We ran those.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21We had the bathing boxes
0:10:21 > 0:10:26and the diving board which is all in bits at the moment.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28It's not cool at the moment to go swimming
0:10:28 > 0:10:31and diving any more and rowing,
0:10:31 > 0:10:35it just doesn't do anything for the children, but this is very important.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38I remember when you saw the train coming in from Belfast,
0:10:38 > 0:10:40the day-trippers, they poured into Barry's
0:10:40 > 0:10:44and after they spent what they had in Barry's, they poured out of Barry's,
0:10:44 > 0:10:48straight down to the pier and this harbour was black with people
0:10:48 > 0:10:51and they went out, maybe four or five people per rowing boat,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53out rowing for half an hour.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56I think it was two and six or something for the boat
0:10:56 > 0:10:59for half an hour. Something like that.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09My father was a keen photographer. He had all sorts of cameras.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11The season in Portrush always started around Easter
0:11:11 > 0:11:13and went until September.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14In the winter,
0:11:14 > 0:11:19then he would have had more time to go out and about and take things.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24And it was a good thing that Ian's dad, Jimmy, did have
0:11:24 > 0:11:28a bit of downtime because he was on hand to film this exclusive.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Much excitement all round.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34There was an air sea rescue event, where the guy was
0:11:34 > 0:11:37brought in on a helicopter and landed and that was, I think,
0:11:37 > 0:11:41the first helicopter landing in Portrush at that time
0:11:41 > 0:11:43which was quite an event in the town,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46so people dropped everything and went down to see it.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06And a somewhat more sedate way to arrive.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09This is Lord Wakehurst, Governor of Northern Ireland.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13Now, he's in town to lay the first brick of Portrush Primary School.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34And of course no trip to the seaside would be complete
0:12:34 > 0:12:35without a boat trip.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59Lying four miles east of Portrush is Portstewart.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01It, too, has spectacular views across the sea.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05It's no wonder that Jimmy Kennedy was inspired to write the lyrics of
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Red Sails In The Sunset.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Hugh Kane took to the air
0:13:18 > 0:13:22and provided this bird's-eye view of the magnificent coastline.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26And Robert Anderson put pen to paper about the historical links
0:13:26 > 0:13:28of the area.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Well, one of the reasons for the development of Portstewart
0:13:30 > 0:13:33was the fact that there were two major landowners here,
0:13:33 > 0:13:38the O'Haras who built the castle, now used as a Dominican College
0:13:38 > 0:13:40and there was also the Cromie family,
0:13:40 > 0:13:43very much involved with the building of the harbour behind me.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47They had a large house on the other side of the town and these
0:13:47 > 0:13:51were Victorian entrepreneurs, if you like, the families
0:13:51 > 0:13:54developed the town and encouraged people to come and settle here.
0:13:57 > 0:14:02Like all seaside towns, the harbour was the focal point for fishermen.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05They cleaned and sold their catch
0:14:05 > 0:14:08and chatted, no doubt, about the one that got away!
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Marnie, we have to thank you and your family for really
0:14:28 > 0:14:31a lot of the footage that we have in the programme today.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34Tell me about your dad who shot a lot of this footage.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38Dad always had a cine camera in his hand. No matter where we went,
0:14:38 > 0:14:40the cine camera was always with us.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44With my dad, it didn't matter who you were, you were filmed.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Everybody was included in Dad's films.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05- If you moved at all, he shot you. - Exactly.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18I gather he had a great sense of humour.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21With the binmen, for example, he used to bring them in, didn't he?
0:15:21 > 0:15:24I don't know whether anybody will get into trouble for this!
0:15:24 > 0:15:27When the binmen came round, Dad used to have some home brew,
0:15:27 > 0:15:30and if they got a wee bit thirsty,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33they were able to have a wee bottle of beer on their rounds.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36And then off they went again - but all totally innocent.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Nobody got into any trouble, I hope.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53INAUDIBLE
0:15:53 > 0:15:56There's some footage of me in my little yellow car
0:15:56 > 0:15:58and our house.
0:16:09 > 0:16:10Was he a fun man, your dad?
0:16:10 > 0:16:14He was lovely - he was good fun and knew everybody in the town.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18At that stage, Portstewart would have been a lot smaller,
0:16:18 > 0:16:20but I think Dad nearly knew everybody that was here.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Uh-oh - note the date.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Had somebody overindulged in Christmas cheer?
0:16:29 > 0:16:30You know what? No harm done -
0:16:30 > 0:16:34just a bit of spilled milk, and nobody's going to cry over that one.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46Why do you think he was just so keen on taking this?
0:16:46 > 0:16:50Because it was quite a new form of filming for the average person.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53I think his father was a journalist at one stage,
0:16:53 > 0:16:55so I think it was partly in the blood -
0:16:55 > 0:16:57he just carried on doing this
0:16:57 > 0:17:01and wanted to record the social history round the area.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04If there were any buildings of note in the town
0:17:04 > 0:17:06that were being knocked down,
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Dad would've been there with the camera to film them.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11For example, Prospect House - that was a big occasion
0:17:11 > 0:17:13when that house was knocked down.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22Of course, Hugh knew the importance of filming disappearing landmarks,
0:17:22 > 0:17:23but he also recognised
0:17:23 > 0:17:26the significance of capturing restoration work as well.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14How do you feel, seeing your dad? Sadly, he's passed away,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16but how do you feel, seeing him in the film?
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Oh, it's brilliant, it's just brilliant.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21And Dad would have adored this today -
0:18:21 > 0:18:23to think that all the hours he spent filming
0:18:23 > 0:18:28all the things that we looked at, he would have loved this.
0:18:37 > 0:18:38Although he wasn't born here,
0:18:38 > 0:18:41Robert Anderson fell in love with Portstewart -
0:18:41 > 0:18:43after all, who could blame him?
0:18:45 > 0:18:48I was born in Coleraine, son of a seafarer.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50I was interested in the sea myself.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52I eventually moved to Portstewart
0:18:52 > 0:18:55after I became the pilot for the River Bann.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Took ships from here into the port of Coleraine.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08The film was taken in 1974
0:19:08 > 0:19:10at a time when I decided
0:19:10 > 0:19:11that we should have this on record,
0:19:11 > 0:19:14because it hadn't been recorded before.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21I had access to a movie camera
0:19:21 > 0:19:24and I decided to make a film of the voyage of a ship
0:19:24 > 0:19:27from Portstewart Bay here into Coleraine.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35The film was done over a period of time,
0:19:35 > 0:19:37cos I couldn't do everything in one day, obviously.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40And it worked out well.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48The film shows John Linton, the boatman.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53It shows Tommy Laggan, the previous pilot.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07It shows some of the people working on the ship,
0:20:07 > 0:20:10it shows some of the people working at the docks at Coleraine.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39It was a record of the events as they occurred at that time.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54My son, in the 1990s,
0:20:54 > 0:20:58he was a student at the time and he used a video camera
0:20:58 > 0:21:02and more or less duplicated the movie I had made,
0:21:02 > 0:21:05only this time, I was in the film.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09He recorded me doing the job as pilot.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15So there is a 20-odd year gap
0:21:15 > 0:21:18between the old cine film and the new video film.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26I think, again, it was well worth recording.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28It's something that maybe won't be done again.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33It was something that I felt should be recorded for posterity.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35I knew possibly, in the future,
0:21:35 > 0:21:37the port of Coleraine wouldn't exist,
0:21:37 > 0:21:39and this was something which was fairly important
0:21:39 > 0:21:42to the development of Coleraine - and indeed to Portstewart -
0:21:42 > 0:21:43over the years.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52Willie Gregg's father often took boat trips to the Skerries -
0:21:52 > 0:21:55a group of small islands close to Portrush.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03The late Jimmy McMillan, an incredible local photographer,
0:22:03 > 0:22:06many's a time he went out on The Islander,
0:22:06 > 0:22:09which was a boat my father built - a beautiful clinker-built boat.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18He always has a wind-up camera and he had a cine camera with him.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23And I was only a little kid at the time and we used to go out.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25We didn't call them boat trips - they were voyages.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28We went to the Skerry Islands
0:22:28 > 0:22:31and they pretended there was treasure on the islands and things like that.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42We even collected duck eggs and seagull eggs for cooking.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48We collected dulse and looked out for the seals
0:22:48 > 0:22:50and we'd always fish and go onto the Skerries
0:22:50 > 0:22:53and maybe set a lobster pot or two and lift them on the way back,
0:22:53 > 0:22:56and we'd have the fish we caught for tea that night
0:22:56 > 0:22:58and the lobsters and crabs the next day for salad.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10They were all big men
0:23:10 > 0:23:13and they were always speaking to strangers and visitors -
0:23:13 > 0:23:16they were great ambassadors for the town.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19If they wanted to go and show you a basking shark or seals,
0:23:19 > 0:23:22it was only three or four minutes out to sea we could find them,
0:23:22 > 0:23:24and it was like an adventure.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28There haven't been any replacements for these incredible men -
0:23:28 > 0:23:31unfortunately, there's nobody taken their places.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42I don't know whether I'm safe talking to you two boys, two brothers -
0:23:42 > 0:23:44you seem to know the entire area.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46I was sitting beside you, Willie, watching the film,
0:23:46 > 0:23:50and I felt you were very emotional when you saw your dad.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52It blew me away, it blew the socks off me.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54It was the first time I'd seen my father...
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Do you ever remember him without a beard?
0:23:58 > 0:24:02- No. No, he had a beard. - He had a beard for forever.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Some old photographs of Dad without the beard,
0:24:04 > 0:24:07but that was the first time I'd ever seen him in a movie, as such.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10- He was a handsome man. - Yeah, he was.- He was a handsome man.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12The pair of you were just thrilled when you saw the boat -
0:24:12 > 0:24:14you kept saying, "There's Dad's boat."
0:24:14 > 0:24:17That was The Silver Scales, a salmon fishing boat.
0:24:17 > 0:24:18What do you remember about your dad,
0:24:18 > 0:24:21in terms of being out in the boat and all that stuff?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24- Oh...on television, really? - Not so sure we can say!
0:24:24 > 0:24:27No, he was...he was very good at what he did,
0:24:27 > 0:24:30he was an expert boat builder and he knew his craft,
0:24:30 > 0:24:32he was good about the sea.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34He always made sure that William and I were safe in the boat -
0:24:34 > 0:24:36- that was probably his priority.- Yeah.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40- Made sure we knew how to swim from a very early age.- Throwing us in!
0:24:40 > 0:24:42- He did, actually. - Is that what he did?- He did.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44- Threw you in to learn... - Into the harbour.- Into the harbour.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Then as you got closer to the boat, he rowed away from it,
0:24:47 > 0:24:50- so you had to learn quick. - Fast!- You had to learn.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52But it was OK - it was only up to your knees,
0:24:52 > 0:24:53you weren't going to drown.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57What did you like looking at today in the film?
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Well, it was lovely to see the harbour
0:24:59 > 0:25:03and lovely to see Dad and my mum down at the fish shop at the harbour.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09And Florence is here as well today - Florence was selling the fish
0:25:09 > 0:25:12and her husband was one of the fishermen.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16He fished out of the harbour - he fished for a number of years
0:25:16 > 0:25:18and he caught all sorts of fish.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Then he went into the lobster fishing,
0:25:20 > 0:25:22and into the salmon fishing...
0:25:22 > 0:25:25- So he was doing that professionally? - Yes.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27We sold the fish from the harbour yard
0:25:27 > 0:25:32and supplied the local shops and restaurants and further afield.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37I really enjoyed it, now - I really enjoyed it, it took me back
0:25:37 > 0:25:43and let me realise just how good life was in those years, yes.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50How important do you feel it is for all of what we've seen today
0:25:50 > 0:25:52to be captured for posterity?
0:25:52 > 0:25:53- Very important indeed. - Very important.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57I think...everybody's got TVs and mobile phones and things,
0:25:57 > 0:25:59and...it's not the same.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02That old black and white brings it out to you.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04It's terrific just to see,
0:26:04 > 0:26:06and there's various people and things around Portrush
0:26:06 > 0:26:08that I can remember and...
0:26:09 > 0:26:12The cars were coming the wrong way down Main Street.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Wee things like that - "Wait a minute, that car's the wrong..."
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Nowadays, they go the other way, but this was going towards you.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22OK, it's a small thing, but if you don't see those sort of things,
0:26:22 > 0:26:24it would be lost and forgotten about.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27It was a more innocent time - there wasn't iPads...you know,
0:26:27 > 0:26:29things like that.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31We just made our own entertainment. We had the beach.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35We lived on the beach - we had shorts and literally no shoes
0:26:35 > 0:26:37from June to September.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39And we were like berries.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43You were - you always took a tan. I never took a tan, but he did.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Do you still enjoy living in the area?
0:26:45 > 0:26:47- Oh, very much so.- Very much so.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48I've been lucky enough -
0:26:48 > 0:26:52I was all over the world, I was in the Merchant Navy, still am.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56And I still call Portrush my home. It's wonderful.
0:26:56 > 0:26:57Well, boys, thank you very much indeed.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00- Thank you, Gloria.- Thank you. - Thanks for showing us that today.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03- It was lovely, I enjoyed it. - Thoroughly enjoyed it.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Gobsmacked - just overwhelmed, I was overwhelmed, definitely.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10It takes a lot for him to be overwhelmed.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16What will you take away from today, having watched the old footage?
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- What will you remember most? - I will remember, first of all,
0:27:19 > 0:27:22meeting lots of people that I haven't seen for years
0:27:22 > 0:27:24and who knew my mum and dad so well,
0:27:24 > 0:27:27it's lovely to be able to chat to them.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30And just the fun that we used to have as children in Portstewart,
0:27:30 > 0:27:33on the beach, innocent fun -
0:27:33 > 0:27:37paddling in the rock pools, digging in the sand...brilliant fun.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41- Life seemed a lot more simple then. - It did indeed. It did indeed.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Well, I'm afraid that's where we have to leave it for today.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48But you know, I was just reflecting on the series -
0:27:48 > 0:27:52we have visited some really beautiful towns and villages,
0:27:52 > 0:27:55magnificent castles, wonderful landscapes
0:27:55 > 0:27:58and great beaches, like this one at Portstewart.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59But as for the local filmmakers,
0:27:59 > 0:28:02they've ignored all of that, and instead of that,
0:28:02 > 0:28:06they've recorded digging sandcastles on the beach, donkey derbies,
0:28:06 > 0:28:08those faltering first steps, birthday parties...
0:28:08 > 0:28:11In other words, the really important things in life.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14As for the series, I thank you very much indeed for your company,
0:28:14 > 0:28:17and until the next time, from all of us, bye-bye.
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