0:00:05 > 0:00:06The Antrim Coast Road,
0:00:06 > 0:00:10the most impressive civil engineering project undertaken in
0:00:10 > 0:00:1519th-century Ireland. Innovative in both its design and construction,
0:00:15 > 0:00:20this is a road that defines not only the geography of north-east Ulster,
0:00:20 > 0:00:21but its people.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28The people of the Glens of Antrim and the people of
0:00:28 > 0:00:32the Mull of Kintyre just over there, they're basically the same people.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35It's not as if the Irish moved to Scotland or the Scottish moved
0:00:35 > 0:00:40to Ireland, we were, and in many ways, are the same people.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43The Scotti went across and established the Kingdom of Dalriada,
0:00:43 > 0:00:46here in the Glens, and in the Western Isles of Scotland.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Before the Coast Road, travel between the Glens
0:00:49 > 0:00:53and the Western Islands and the West of Scotland was all by boat.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56The Sea of Moyle was how we travelled around.
0:00:59 > 0:01:04In 1832, a remarkable Scotsman changed everything.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07William Bald, a cartographer and engineer,
0:01:07 > 0:01:11blasted the cliffs into the sea and over ten years built a road
0:01:11 > 0:01:14that connected the Glens to the rest of Ireland.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18He just fits the character of a Scot -
0:01:18 > 0:01:25at the time, a man of parts, a man of "pairts", as we say.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28It's quite mind-boggling, how these men, the Glens, and the engineers,
0:01:28 > 0:01:34William Bald and his colleagues, how they even dreamt up this idea.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37And the legacy of William Bald continues to this day.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58Scottish engineer William Bald completed construction of
0:01:58 > 0:02:01the Antrim Coast Road in 1842.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04And since then, there have been significant lifestyle changes
0:02:04 > 0:02:06for the community.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08People are commuting to work,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11passing trade is helping local business,
0:02:11 > 0:02:15and there is an increased emphasis on tourism.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18But do the traditional industries of farming and fishing
0:02:18 > 0:02:20still have a place?
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Davy Smyth is a third-generation fishermen who relies on the sea
0:02:24 > 0:02:25to make a living.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40110mm they need to be, across the shell.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Under that size they are illegal, you need to put them back again.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48You never know, there is...
0:02:50 > 0:02:53The fish are obviously coming out any time,
0:02:53 > 0:02:57and if it was any smaller than that, they're not much use anyway.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02There, I've got the sole of a shoe, if you're looking for it.
0:03:02 > 0:03:03Oh, it's no good.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07To be breaking even, I need to get a basket or two.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09So, I don't know what's there, there is nearly half a basket.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10Ah, that's all right.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16No, you need a basket or two to be breaking even, like, but...
0:03:21 > 0:03:24No, you're just hoping you get back in with enough to cover the diesel
0:03:24 > 0:03:26and something for yourself.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33It's just this bit down here has been hit quite hard
0:03:33 > 0:03:34by the bigger boats.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37All winter it's been all westerly wind,
0:03:37 > 0:03:40so the bigger boats are able to work away, but this wee boat here,
0:03:40 > 0:03:44it has to be quite good or its nae use.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48So... I need to just keep going to try and find a wee bit that they
0:03:48 > 0:03:51haven't been on. Now, that's just ground that's been fished.
0:03:54 > 0:03:58By law, any scallops Davy catches must be treated
0:03:58 > 0:04:01at a processing plant over 60 miles away.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05For Davy, having spent £60 on diesel and having only caught
0:04:05 > 0:04:10£15 worth of scallops, the numbers are not adding up.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14If they would let us catch the fish that's here.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Carnlough Bay is, at the minute, it's full of herring and Red Bay's
0:04:17 > 0:04:19full of herring, but we're not allowed to catch them.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23I'm allowed 25kg of herring a month.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26So, I mean, that's only a couple of bucketfuls, like.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Nae use.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38They're really trying to stop all fishing.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42I think they're wanting any fish you buy has got to be farmed.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45They don't want you catching wild stuff at all, I think.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53If you were relying on the fishing you'd be hungry.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Well, no' hungry, but you'd...
0:04:56 > 0:05:01It's just, this winter here, there's been no weather to get out, it's...
0:05:01 > 0:05:03You only get a couple of days a week and you can't make a living
0:05:03 > 0:05:05two days a week.
0:05:09 > 0:05:10But...
0:05:10 > 0:05:14on a day like that, how can you beat it, like?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17You don't need much to live, really, it's just a matter of
0:05:17 > 0:05:20enough to keep yourself fed.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Depending on what kind of life you want, isn't it?
0:05:30 > 0:05:32You set off in the morning with great ideas
0:05:32 > 0:05:35and where you're going to go and what you're going to catch,
0:05:35 > 0:05:38but it doesn't often work out.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44But if it does work out for you, it's a great feeling, like.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Then you're watching... If you find a bit of ground then you're watching
0:05:47 > 0:05:50the horizon all day to see if there's another boat on the horizon
0:05:50 > 0:05:52homing in on you,
0:05:52 > 0:05:53go over and shoo it away.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55So if you see another boat coming,
0:05:55 > 0:05:58you're up with the gear and you're away somewhere else to try and
0:05:58 > 0:06:01let on you're not fishing there, as such, but...
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Och, it never often works out that way, but...
0:06:05 > 0:06:09It's great finding a wee bit of ground, so it is.
0:06:09 > 0:06:14Glenarm Castle is the ancestral home of the Earls of Antrim.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17A dynasty tracing its pedigree through the Lords of the Isles,
0:06:17 > 0:06:21right back to the great Scottish clan MacDonald.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25Glenarm man Adrian Morrow is the estate manager,
0:06:25 > 0:06:28a mantle he took over from his father.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31My father started working here as a chauffeur in about 1958
0:06:31 > 0:06:34and he told me he was just walking up the road one day and His Lordship
0:06:34 > 0:06:37pulled up beside him and asked him, "Are you the man Morrow?"
0:06:37 > 0:06:39And he said, "Would you come to work to me?"
0:06:39 > 0:06:44He was allowed to come to work to His Lordship on a trial for a week
0:06:44 > 0:06:47and the Lord at that time said to be at the house at six o'clock
0:06:47 > 0:06:51on a Monday morning and my father went there and he said to him,
0:06:51 > 0:06:53"What am I going to do?" and His Lordship said,
0:06:53 > 0:06:55"Robert, we're going to Dublin today."
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Me father nearly collapsed because he had never drove a car outside
0:06:58 > 0:07:01of the village of Glenarm in his life, so he had to say to His Lordship,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04"I'm sorry, there is no way I could drive to Dublin,
0:07:04 > 0:07:05"I've never driven out of the village."
0:07:05 > 0:07:08He said, "Oh, Robert, you're not going to do the driving,
0:07:08 > 0:07:10"I'm doing the driving. You're just for the company."
0:07:10 > 0:07:13So he took him off to Dublin, he booked him into a hotel.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16His Lordship went to New York for ten days and then left my father
0:07:16 > 0:07:20with a Rolls-Royce car and £10 I think or something
0:07:20 > 0:07:21and booked in a hotel in Dublin
0:07:21 > 0:07:25for a week or ten days and when he came back up to Glenarm
0:07:25 > 0:07:26he looked at me father and said,
0:07:26 > 0:07:29"Well, Robert, do you think you could come to work to me?"
0:07:29 > 0:07:32And me father said, "Well, if it was like this, I couldn't refuse."
0:07:34 > 0:07:39He started as a chauffeur and then later in his lifetime
0:07:39 > 0:07:42he became the estate manager.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45So I grew up, since I was a wee nipper,
0:07:45 > 0:07:50and when I got my first trip to Glenarm I was completely
0:07:50 > 0:07:54bowled over by so many things to see and it was the biggest playground
0:07:54 > 0:07:56I'd ever saw in my life
0:07:56 > 0:07:59and I completely fell in love with the place.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02I know nothing outside these four walls -
0:08:02 > 0:08:06I've lived, ate, slept and breathed Glenarm,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09I've been here since I was probably five.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15So, if you just pull in behind him and then as soon as we get him off,
0:08:15 > 0:08:18then we can roll you forward then to wherever you're...
0:08:18 > 0:08:20You should be sitting in that hollow there, somewhere.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23- That's OK.- All right.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Adrian is busy preparing for the Dalriada Festival.
0:08:27 > 0:08:28Now in its 20th year,
0:08:28 > 0:08:32the festival celebrates Ulster-Scots culture and has become a key fixture
0:08:32 > 0:08:34in the calendar of the Glens.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37With large numbers expected for the weekend,
0:08:37 > 0:08:40good weather is key to a successful event.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42We are constantly looking at the weather forecast to try and get
0:08:42 > 0:08:46a handle on actually how many people will turn up.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50We know that there is going to be at least 10,000 turning up
0:08:50 > 0:08:52because of the presale tickets.
0:08:52 > 0:08:57So, we sold about, you know, 10,000 tickets online for the event,
0:08:57 > 0:09:00so they're going to come, it doesn't matter what the weather is like.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03If the weather's good, you could multiply that by another ten,
0:09:03 > 0:09:07so we could have 20,000 people in the field if it's a good day.
0:09:07 > 0:09:13So that's a lot of chips and burgers and food and cups of tea and coffee.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Are you going to the car park?
0:09:15 > 0:09:17- Aye.- Aye, just straight up there,
0:09:17 > 0:09:19up to the thon blue van and white vans and stuff.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21The higher up the hill you go, the drier it is.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23- All right, thank you.- All right.
0:09:25 > 0:09:30We've got 100 loos and six disabled loos
0:09:30 > 0:09:36and four Portakabin flushing toilets for the VVIPs!
0:09:36 > 0:09:39And I'm not one of them, really.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41And when you have visitors coming,
0:09:41 > 0:09:46you want to try and have a nice green grass for them to walk on.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49It doesn't look good when you take money off them at the gate
0:09:49 > 0:09:51and put them into a muck hole.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53It depends how much more rain we get.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58See where...
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Tracks already there, so...
0:10:00 > 0:10:03There's not an awful lot we can do with that, but we'll try and
0:10:03 > 0:10:07woodchip it and straw it before the visitors get here in the morning.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11I said me prayers last night. The man above, he's probably...
0:10:11 > 0:10:13He doesn't really know who I am,
0:10:13 > 0:10:15but he knows every July I'll be saying a wee word...
0:10:18 > 0:10:19..for dry weather.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23So him and me is a wee sort of once-in-a-year relationship.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26I hope it's enough to get us out the other side.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Well, we'll get out of here maybe at one or two in the morning,
0:10:31 > 0:10:34it depends if it's still dry.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38I'll go home, I'll have myself a wee dram!
0:10:38 > 0:10:43I'll be back up and out again at six tomorrow morning again
0:10:43 > 0:10:45and that's us, that's us, we're going.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47It doesn't matter what happens,
0:10:47 > 0:10:49we've got to deal with it on the days.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59The construction of the Antrim Coast Road in the 19th century
0:10:59 > 0:11:03improved access to the Glens and opened up new opportunities,
0:11:03 > 0:11:06with many travelling to work in the nearby larger towns of Ballymena
0:11:06 > 0:11:07and Belfast.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14For some, however, the draw of the sea that has existed for centuries
0:11:14 > 0:11:16remains in their DNA.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Struggling to earn a living as a fisherman,
0:11:18 > 0:11:22Davy Smyth has decided to diversify into tourism.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Trying to get a wee boat passed as a passenger boat.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31I'm hoping to run passengers round the bay in the summertime.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34It would be easier than fishing, I'm getting too old.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42I'm just trying to get a pipe that'll fit inside this one.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44That's it there now.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47I'm just hoping it's another wee project that...
0:11:49 > 0:11:52..gets me still in the sea but an easier job than fishing.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56But whether it works or not is another thing.
0:11:58 > 0:12:03But hopefully it will work.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06After countless hours working on the new venture,
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Davy is faced with the precarious task of navigating the Coast Road
0:12:09 > 0:12:13through Carnlough and launching his boat into the bay.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
0:12:30 > 0:12:33It's got a wee bit tight on the top of that pillar.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Run it back a bit?
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Just ease her forward slowly.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Whoa!
0:12:39 > 0:12:41- Back?- Back a wee bit, aye.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Try and go that way, John, if you can a wee bit.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Right, whoa!
0:12:52 > 0:12:54It's always... Putting them in and taking them out,
0:12:54 > 0:12:57your heart's in your mouth in case something goes wrong.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01Cos so much can happen, they can break the strap and fall off, or...
0:13:09 > 0:13:11I'll be glad to see her in the water
0:13:11 > 0:13:13and that'll be it over and done with.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34If we can get her fired up and get her away.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36I enjoy being out in the boats.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39If you're out and making a bit of shillings, that's all that matters.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43If you're enjoying it, that's all that matters, aye.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45That's us, on the water.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Ah, she's all dry.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53It's quite busy round the harbour here during the day.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54And there's nothing really to do,
0:13:54 > 0:13:58so hopefully they want to be going round the bay and back in again.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Just wee half-hour tours, I think, or...
0:14:01 > 0:14:05If they want to charter for a bit longer, aye, no bother, like.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08I think most people are just wanting to get out and get back in again,
0:14:08 > 0:14:11kind of thing, just to say they've been in a boat, like.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20One of William Bald's biggest obstacles was the headland
0:14:20 > 0:14:23at Garron Point, home to Garron Tower.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27This impressive building is one of a number of stately homes and summer
0:14:27 > 0:14:31hunting retreats built by the aristocracy in the 19th century.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37Retired history teacher and author Paul Magill explains
0:14:37 > 0:14:40how a new class of visitor arrived in the Glens.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44It was built in 1850,
0:14:44 > 0:14:50a castle built as a summer house for the Marchioness of Londonderry,
0:14:50 > 0:14:52who had inherited a big estate here.
0:14:55 > 0:15:01This was the most wealthy person who had ever set foot
0:15:01 > 0:15:03in this part of the world.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07She had come from a different world than the world of the Glens.
0:15:09 > 0:15:15The world that she had lived in was the world of European monarchs
0:15:15 > 0:15:17and statesmen.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19She was reputed to have had a relationship
0:15:19 > 0:15:22with Tsar Alexander of Russia.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26She had mixed with the crowned heads of Europe,
0:15:26 > 0:15:29so it was a different world that she inhabited
0:15:29 > 0:15:32from the world of the Glens.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36She would come once a year once she had built Garron Tower
0:15:36 > 0:15:39and spend several weeks here
0:15:39 > 0:15:42until she died, 1865.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45It became a hotel then,
0:15:45 > 0:15:52rented by the famous Henry McNeill from Glenarm and Larne, who became,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55really, the father of tourism in the north of Ireland.
0:15:57 > 0:16:02And for much of the first half of the 20th century it was as a hotel
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Garron Tower was known as,
0:16:04 > 0:16:09and visitors came from not only all over Ireland, but from Scotland,
0:16:09 > 0:16:10from England.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Up until the Coast Road was built,
0:16:15 > 0:16:19there were major problem areas coming up the coast
0:16:19 > 0:16:24with the hills, and the horses were unable to make the heavy slopes,
0:16:24 > 0:16:26particularly in bad weather.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30So the Coast Road made this whole thing accessible.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33It probably made it even accessible for the Marchioness of Londonderry
0:16:33 > 0:16:35to build in the first place.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Before the Coast Road was built,
0:16:38 > 0:16:43communications with the rest of this country, to Belfast and beyond,
0:16:43 > 0:16:45were much more difficult.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48The journey from Belfast to Cushendall,
0:16:48 > 0:16:52it's been documented in the 18th century, could take two days.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56Now we can say an hour.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59It was much easier to travel by water, obviously,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02and the seafaring population on this coast,
0:17:02 > 0:17:07who made their living on the coast, sailing and fishing,
0:17:07 > 0:17:09they could make the journey to Scotland quicker than they could
0:17:09 > 0:17:11make it to Belfast.
0:17:12 > 0:17:17Historically, the connection between Scotland and this part of Ireland
0:17:17 > 0:17:19is well documented.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23Look across and we can see it on a clear day.
0:17:29 > 0:17:34Back at Glenarm Castle, the Dalriada Festival is well under way.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36For estate manager Adrian Morrow,
0:17:36 > 0:17:40the name Dalriada signifies everything special to him
0:17:40 > 0:17:44about his local history and culture.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Well, we call it the Dalriada Festival because of our links
0:17:47 > 0:17:50with Scotland here. And originally, this used to be
0:17:50 > 0:17:53the Kingdom of Dalriada, which was the east coast of County Antrim
0:17:53 > 0:17:55and the west coast of Scotland.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58So we had great bonds with our neighbours just across the water -
0:17:58 > 0:18:01they're only about 13 miles apart there.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04My family probably would have rowed over there to get their groceries,
0:18:04 > 0:18:07it was much easier to go to Scotland to trade
0:18:07 > 0:18:09than it was to get out of Glenarm.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12There were no roads leading to Belfast at that time.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16So, we have a strong affiliation with our neighbours over there.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19And what we wanted to do with this festival was try and reach out
0:18:19 > 0:18:21to our neighbours and get them, you know,
0:18:21 > 0:18:24to come over and enjoy the Irish craic as such
0:18:24 > 0:18:27and interact with each other,
0:18:27 > 0:18:30to just share each other's wee bit of culture, really.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38I'm guessing now, looking at the way they are coming in there,
0:18:38 > 0:18:41and I've just got radio through to say we've got a wee bit of a tailback
0:18:41 > 0:18:45which is probably about two miles in the north coast direction and a mile
0:18:45 > 0:18:47heading back down the coast there,
0:18:47 > 0:18:51so I think we're going to be looking at at least 25,000 people, plus,
0:18:51 > 0:18:53through Glenarm today.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58We're blessed with dry weather and we're going to be blessed
0:18:58 > 0:19:00with the crowds, and hopefully everybody will have a nice,
0:19:00 > 0:19:03enjoyable day and that they're not stuck too long in their car
0:19:03 > 0:19:05and the kids will be saying, "Are we nearly there yet, Dad?!"
0:19:11 > 0:19:14This is the wife, by the way, so...
0:19:14 > 0:19:17She hasn't seen me in about four weeks, you know?!
0:19:17 > 0:19:19We'll get a quick chat. I'll talk to her on Monday.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Right, see you later.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Right, bye.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30You know, it does build tension into your family life.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33You know, you don't get home till 11 or 12 o'clock at night.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37There's all sorts of issues can arise from that.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40I have a son coming up and he's not in the slightest bit interested
0:19:40 > 0:19:43in this and I think it's because he can see
0:19:43 > 0:19:46what doing something like this can do to a family.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50It can put stresses and strains on it.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Me wife said to me, you know,
0:19:52 > 0:19:56last year, I don't think I'd spoke to her for four days or five days,
0:19:56 > 0:19:59so I said, "Look, dear, there's nothing wrong between you and me,
0:19:59 > 0:20:01"it's all rosy, just let's, you know...
0:20:01 > 0:20:03"I'll talk to you next week sort of thing."
0:20:03 > 0:20:06But it does take a toll on your home life.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Yes!
0:20:09 > 0:20:10Lovely.
0:20:12 > 0:20:13Lovely. Beautiful, Michael.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Keep it going like that.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16Yes!
0:20:16 > 0:20:20We decided it would be great to introduce the Highland Games because
0:20:20 > 0:20:24there wasn't really any Highland Games done in Northern Ireland
0:20:24 > 0:20:27until we started to do them a few years ago and they've just proven
0:20:27 > 0:20:28so successful.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31People love it and a lot of people from here would have went to the
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Highland Games in Scotland, so it's a bit strange and a weird thing to do,
0:20:35 > 0:20:38but tossing the caber in Glenarm has now become part of our tradition.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Yes!
0:20:42 > 0:20:45With the numbers now growing every year,
0:20:45 > 0:20:49the Dalriada Festival is of great importance to Adrian
0:20:49 > 0:20:51and the people of Glenarm.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53I mean, there's people come to this event today that didn't even know
0:20:53 > 0:20:56where Glenarm was, but they're down in, they're using the shops,
0:20:56 > 0:21:00they're in the pubs. It's great for the Glen,
0:21:00 > 0:21:03It's great for people to come and they'll come back, hopefully,
0:21:03 > 0:21:04in the summertime again, you know,
0:21:04 > 0:21:07later on they'll come back and that's what it's all about,
0:21:07 > 0:21:10it's about that repeat business.
0:21:10 > 0:21:11They'll use the hotels again,
0:21:11 > 0:21:14they'll come back some other day and spend money in the economy.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26It's so important now to the whole of the area and it's
0:21:26 > 0:21:31important to even a place like this, a big stately home.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34It can't function without these sorts of things.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37My father thought when we done this away at the first,
0:21:37 > 0:21:40he thought we were crazy, absolutely crazy.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Because all we knew was cattle and sheep and I was reared here
0:21:45 > 0:21:48chasing sheep and cattle through these fields.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52We'd this stupid idea, you know...
0:21:52 > 0:21:54We needed to diversify in some way
0:21:54 > 0:21:57and we looked back and the answer's always in the past.
0:21:57 > 0:22:04I was in the office one day and I saw a newspaper cutting from 1929,
0:22:04 > 0:22:07I think it was, and they had a goat show in the field
0:22:07 > 0:22:11at the front of the house and that was the first I'd ever knew
0:22:11 > 0:22:13they'd ever had a show at Glenarm.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16So, you could have brought your prize milking goat and your
0:22:16 > 0:22:19milking cow and there was a great wee clipping in there and I thought,
0:22:19 > 0:22:21"Well, there's something maybe, you know.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24"They've done that before, so."
0:22:24 > 0:22:28The answer's behind you sometimes for these things.
0:22:28 > 0:22:36So that was where the idea came from originally, the goat show in 1929.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12It's a busy Saturday in Carnlough and Davy is determined
0:23:12 > 0:23:14to make the most of his new venture.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24I need to get something more permanent made up.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26With the rain, it's no' much good, that.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Everybody that takes it out they're saying,
0:23:30 > 0:23:33"You're far too cheap," but I'm not getting many on at the price
0:23:33 > 0:23:35I'm charging at the minute, so if I put the prices up,
0:23:35 > 0:23:39I don't think I'll get anyone on at all, but we'll see.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46It's a lang wait.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50Come on, now.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54You wonder why folks wouldn't want to go away out on that there nice calm day, wouldn't you?
0:23:54 > 0:23:57I think I'll need to get myself a bouncy castle for next year,
0:23:57 > 0:24:01that seems to be doing more business than me.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Davy's initiative has entered a highly competitive market,
0:24:04 > 0:24:08with many businesses along the Coast Road vying for passing trade.
0:24:10 > 0:24:11After a slow morning,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14punters are starting to take an interest in Davy's boat trips.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18However, engine trouble is threatening any chance of success.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28The engine's seized.
0:24:28 > 0:24:29Whatever's wrong.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Just ain't going to turn over.
0:24:40 > 0:24:41No' a thing.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43It doesnae make sense.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47The engine has jammed.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Davy's new venture may be over before it begins.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54No.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01I think the show's over for the day, boys.
0:25:01 > 0:25:02Show's over.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15I'll go up and see if I can get a bolt into this Stillson and then...
0:25:15 > 0:25:19But I think it'll be end of season for me.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22I won't be able to get it up and running again this year now if that
0:25:22 > 0:25:23engine's seized, that'll be...
0:25:26 > 0:25:29..back to the drawing board.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31The fact that I won't have enough money to put it right,
0:25:31 > 0:25:34I'll just need to get rid of her the way she is, I think.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36I would think now.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40I thought this was going to be the busiest day of the year
0:25:40 > 0:25:43and there you are.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Doesn't happen at all now.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47I think it's...
0:25:47 > 0:25:48bad news.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50I have to get the engine sorted.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53- OK.- But if I don't get the engine sorted,
0:25:53 > 0:25:55it'll not be fit to go.
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Oh. But we have to go, man,
0:25:56 > 0:25:59we have just come in especially for this boat from London.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01- From London, aye? - Yeah, we have seen in the videos,
0:26:01 > 0:26:03especially we have come from London to...
0:26:03 > 0:26:05- Did you?!- Yeah, yeah!
0:26:05 > 0:26:06Did you see the dolphins in the videos?
0:26:06 > 0:26:08- Yes, yes!- All the ships and...
0:26:08 > 0:26:10We have seen somebody else put the nice video on about this boat.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- Hmm, well, hopefully.- Yeah.
0:26:12 > 0:26:13- Hopefully.- So, half an hour.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15No bother. Righto.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17With plenty of business on offer,
0:26:17 > 0:26:21Davy makes one last-ditch attempt to get the engine running.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25So, I've just got to try and get her to turn over a wee bit now
0:26:25 > 0:26:28with a Stillson. Hopefully she'll be up and running, but...
0:26:29 > 0:26:31..it's not looking good, like.
0:26:46 > 0:26:47Oh!
0:26:48 > 0:26:50There we are now.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55ENGINE STARTS
0:26:55 > 0:26:57# Yippie-aye-yay.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01# Yippie-aye-oh.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04# Ghost riders... #
0:27:05 > 0:27:07A bit happier now.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14It's early yet, but I think it's going to work all right.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Aye, I hope it works.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18If I could get a living out of it, that's all I need, like,
0:27:18 > 0:27:21for the summer, like. But, no, I'll never be rich.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23I never was aiming to be rich, no.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39When you take folk out and you hear them laughing and squealing
0:27:39 > 0:27:42and yelling, you know they're enjoying themselves,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45you're hoping that they are getting fun out of it
0:27:45 > 0:27:48and I'm getting fun in taking them out and showing them too, like.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11It is difficult to imagine what life would be like today for the people
0:28:11 > 0:28:16of the Glens if William Bald hadn't blasted the cliffs into the sea
0:28:16 > 0:28:19and built the Antrim Coast Road.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23His is a hidden story, a forgotten history,
0:28:23 > 0:28:27yet his amazing achievement has left a legacy that has survived
0:28:27 > 0:28:30for nearly 200 years.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33William Bald has certainly changed the shape
0:28:33 > 0:28:35of the Antrim coast forever,
0:28:35 > 0:28:39but the people of the Glens have always shaped their own story,
0:28:39 > 0:28:41and they always will.