Cornish-Voices Fishing Looe Cornwall 1960s

[kaliause67]

There is nothing permanent, but change...

[madbiker55]

Think my dad worked on "Our Daddy" at some poing over the years, in the 70's i think

[FillionDollarSmile]

So sad this Accent is Dying out... ! ! !

[clairekelly12]

Great video. Lovely to watch/

[SageOfTheSouth]

What is the name of the background track/who is the artist?

[deantallhat]

Great recording of the real Cornish accent, but who plastered it with the terribly played musak?

[xfrangellicax]

I LOVE LOOE! Im going there on friday for like the 10000000 time to celebrate my 21st birthday.

Btw, thanks for putting this shit music on top of a good video. -.-

[CornishNeverEnglish]

We are circulating a petition calling on the government to recognise the Cornish as a National minority. It has been created by a Cornish person who is not a member of any political party or organisation but who is very concerned at what is happening in Cornwall. Please sign it and pass it on to your friends. We want to protect what there is left before all is lost !:

h t tp ://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/pe­titions/2835

[be8nice]

Check out the youtube video on the Tangier Island, VA, accent. The island was settled in the late 1600s and there's a definite Cornish influence in the local accent. Fascinating.

[Lamashtar]

@be8nice Someone said the Tangiers are mostly East Anglian sounding, with only a bit of Cornwall. It's strange but I hear a faint 'tone' in the Cornish accent--not the words so much--that reminds me of American, even though linguists say the American southern accent owes more to Irish accents somehow. I dunno, maybe American is just what you get when you mix all the accents together and they flatten out.

[TwoTube2]

I'm from Gloucestershire, and I always get muddled up between Gloucestershire, Bristolian and Cornish accents. It's all a blur of West Country. Does anyone else find it difficult or is it just me?

[alpino22]

The music's inappropriate.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

was told many years ago that the Cornish man is the finest fisherman in the world

[IMaggiKGaming]

Im from plymouth!;)

[robsargent4]

Interesting video. Not really a fan of the background music myself, but I didn't mind too much, because of the interesting film and the voices. Don't have any Cornish heritage myself, but plenty of fishing. Just anxious that people's culture is going to be sacrificed to ease communication in an increasingly globalised world, although I know this is already happening and has been happening for a long time.

[1967jakjak]

Uncle Bill's on the front pic....what a great bloke he was

[robsargent4]

@1967jakjak I had a great Uncle Bill, but he was from the East End of Glasgow!

[moelman100]

What a great piece of film, makes me want to be there again. Anyone know the music? now thats not from the 60's surley

[ROSSYBYE]

i live near looe!

[BawztaeyerMaw]

Beautiful

[birdsofbalt]

Sounds a lot like the Baltimore Accent

[TheLizardKing1967]

@birdsofbalt . Ball Morrrrrrrrrrrrrrre. LOL

[scoutchuck]

Accents are similar to the Chesapeake Bay Waterman; Tangier Island and Smith Island, accent is rarely heard unless the locals are speaking to one another.

[Boingusboingus]

There is a solution to the housing crisis for native Cornish people, but the government will never institute it because they are wedded to the ridiculous, liberal, free-market notion that people should be allowed to live where they like. To protect local and regional cultures, only people born in an area, or with a parent born in an area, or who have lived in an area for twenty years and, if appropriate, have learned its language, should be allowed to buy property there. They do it on Jersey!

[robsargent4]

@Boingusboingus Not only does allowing people to live where they like cause damage to local cultures, but it places unforeseen strain on some areas, while other areas lose labour. On the other hand, people need jobs and often they need to move house because of this. Then again in many rural parts of the UK, house prices are driven up by rich people from the cities buying up or renting all the cottages as holiday homes. They have that problem in the area where my Dad was brought up (the NE of...

[robsargent4]

@Boingusboingus ...Scotland where the fishermen and their families can't afford to live anywhere near the harbour!) I suppose the problem in Cornwall is similar.

[rheghead]

It was quite interesting to see the young barns fishing on the quayside. Nowadays we would be too busy keeping them well away from the edge, how times have changed?

[seanyroche]

@rheghead i would love to have been able to grow up like that.

[robsargent4]

@rheghead @rheghead Does barn mean boy or just child? Some of us here in Scotland say bairn (pronounced with an "a" like that in the word "snare") to mean child. I think bairn's just an archaic English word - people in the North of England used to say it. Maybe Anglo Saxon. I don't know about barn myself.

[USERNAMEfieldempty]

@robsargent4

Bairn / Barn meaning 'child' is from Old Norse, in other words, it's a Viking word.

[robsargent4]

@USERNAMEfieldempty Interesting. Not surprising really - it sounded fairly Germanic to me, but then again the word "chimney" sounds pretty Germanic to me and apparently it's an Old French word! Languages are interesting things (to me at least).

[rheghead]

@robsargent4 typo

[robsargent4]

@rheghead That explains it then.

[rrritalin]

When I were a kid I went fishing with Frank Pengelly. R.I.P!

[atraherne]

I like there accent

[SaucyAussie1982]

Do they eat jellied eel there? I would like to try that.

[icollins69]

@SaucyAussie1982 Jellied eel's are a London delicacy, not Cornish!

[W1N50M3T3RR0R]

FAKE AND GAY!

[NP1D305]

@W1N50M3T3RR0R HUH???? What the hell are you on about? "Fake"? "Gay"? Huh? What planet are you on? Prat.

[WELLBRAN]

@W1N50M3T3RR0R LOL if you called those guy GAy you would be flattened!

[Nostrinian]

A long gone world. Well done Robert.

[WELLBRAN]

Yes all the family homes are now holiday homes and the "Cornish" live up out the town on the council estates, in most villages priced out of it

[fannybaba]

@WELLBRAN Not only in Cornwall mate, all over the south uk local people have been displaced by rich incomers.

[cornwallgeezer]

Cornish forever!

[decodeify]

"us Cornish" it's called progress and being 'British' as opposed to xenaphobic. Who cares anyway, Cornwall is a beautiful place - just come back from Looe and will be posting some videos soon!

[WELLBRAN]

Talking of white and nonn white is comical really as English white people despise us Cornish when we tell them we are different to them...so funny.

[dan892k7]

... but you're not different to us, we're all from England. What are you on about?

[crowder211]

Cornwall was not party to the Act of Union in 1707. Cornwall's right to its own sovereign Parliament, and the powers it processes under the Charter of Pardon were confirmed as valid in British law by the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Elwyn Jones in 1977.

[cornwallgeezer]

English politics out of cornwall.

Kernow bys vyken!

Long live the Cornish and our history!

[22poopoo]

Are ur independance party popular?

[astralbastad]

I think it sad that saudi is full of ghosts, foreign workers... ie no jobs for the local's very sad.

[bluebus270]

Does that include me - a Yorkshireman living in Aberdeen, you racist bastard?

[LaLaManfr0]

I love the accents. Oh, dear. <3.

[Bonzibuddy4ever]

lol @ the Obama emblem

[kaydeeinsaudi]

Great video and makes me nostalgic for saner times! This was filmed before the UK joined the EU. Since then, Cornwall and other parts of the UK have lost most of their fishing ports and the EU dictates where and when they can fish, and how much. You're more likely to see Spanish and French trawlers fishing round Cornwall now. Life as seen in this video has almost gone forever. Some people may not care, but I think it's very sad.

[3tangle3]

@kaydeeinsaudi don't delude yourself cornwall was being ignored under english rule let alone the EU on top with its huge fishing fleets.......cornwall is still poor for no good reason

[GenyoSevdaliya]

@kaydeeinsaudi You are right. Countries which enter EU loose greatly their culture and customs!

[Bavanai]

@kaydeeinsaudi oh, you don't like to be colonized? how ironic

[3tangle3]

@kaydeeinsaudi yeah but the english government never help our cornish fisheries out and we actually got funding from the EU,,,,,,,live here and you know that england hasnt been the beat of friends

[MrDarudin]

@kaydeeinsaudi Not to mention the T word that gave half of the UK a "coup the grace " in terms of economic viability ....

[charlystarly24]

I miss it down there:( I grew up there but i've been banned from going down cos of family probs. I LUV it down there, there's nm to do for teenagers though which is the only problem that I've had.

[CornishNeverEnglish]

For the truth about Kernow/Cornwall google search 'CornishNotEnglish'

Kernow yw konna tyr orth penn Breten Veur. Kernow yw bro geltek na Sowsnek. Kernow bys vyken !

[skippyisirish32]

i want to see cornwall it looks so pretty

[823260]

wot a great vid,such a beautiful place, anyone who hasnt been must go to looe

[WELLBRAN]

Looe is not like that anymore

[KelvinsCornwall]

Nice Video :-)

[Beachloaf]

Cornwall, what a fantastic place to be born and grow up as I did,singalongs,and Cornish Voices, brilliant and we took it all for granted!pubs packed to the gunwhales,singing the old songs, sunday lunchtimes were the best,most pubs in Penzance were good for a singsong,,,where has it all gone? why dont we see it today? how our lifestyles have changed, and not for the better I fear!! Folk,Hymns,sea shanty,Traditional you name it we sang it!but sadly no more, very rare these days.

Kernow Bys Vyken

[WELLBRAN]

Because the Cornish community now is the minority, each town / village has changed, non Cornish everywhere and a culture dies, but there are still pockets of resistance!

[TheLizardKing1967]

@WELLBRAN . Yes and it lives in the Tide water area of Virgina USA

[WELLBRAN]

@TheLizardKing1967 Sorry I do not know what you are eferring to "what" lives in the tide areas of Virginia?

[3tangle3]

@WELLBRAN please tell me cornish communities contiuing i want to visit :)

[gonzostew]

OMG, I was 14 in '59 and what a summer, endless sunshine, we had rented a house (Lucastes) at Lerryn some 10 miles or so from Looe. I used to cycle to Looe and fish, swim, etc. Thanks CornishVoices, such memories.

[tvfilmglamdirector]

The background music shreds this film, way too intrusive, find something more mellow maybe even traditional Cornish. The films worth its weight in gold though, just for the undiluted regional accents.

[wayne205stevens]

I wish this country was still like this! I wish I could go back in time!! :)

[14Words4Life]

Hard to find that many White Faces today, due to the Liberal Race Traitors!

[ChauncyProductions]

cornwall is full of whites you muppet 99.9% of all people to be exact

[bazilisginger]

lol you tell him boss :) gooooooooo cornwall lol i speak like they do sometimes when i have had a few drinks :), im cornish ftfw xD

[Joe7946]

that would be true in london as i visited my local old park in london - full of non british - but in looe 99% white

[RustedBovine]

I remember a few years back nobody wanted to live in a cottage, they were considered to be damp, cold, and difficult to maintain. How different it is now with all the holiday lets. I can remember there being an old cob cottage on my street that was demolished because nobody wanted it. I've often wondered how different my fortunes would've been if I'd restored it and let it out to the emmets!

[quickerthanyou]

This video portrays the days of my father,,,,,,,,,,,,,how i wish we could return to them.

We have definitely past the pinnacle of our time, and are all on the way down the other side...................god help us in this protracted slide into oblivion.

RJ

[trevellick]

well said

[DegenerateSmoker]

lose the background music...

it spoils it.......

[bazilisginger]

wow thanks for posting this awesome video :) love it i used ti live in cornwall for 20 years and loved every second of it :)..... now i have moved to new zealand and found this video it sounds so good to hear a cornish voice again yay hehe .... and waderm810 cornwall still rocks even in none holiday seson its a awesome place really pretty to best days of my life there it ruleeeessssss yeah CORNWALL

[fluffsta]

Real good video. Hope to see more 5/5.

[hayzilubsgee]

I have been there loads. Cornwall rocks... except from none holidays then it sucks lol. But be jealous lol... us cornish people live in tourist world lol. Anyway great clip and it amazing to see how much people have changed.

[waderm810]

all in the days before holiday lets , perhaps most of these people could actualy afford to live here! oh the days! superb vid as well.

[trevellick]

more,marpleg

[SisGrim]

fuckin taters

[ThePeoplesPalace]

Great footage - not sure about the music though...

[jexplink]

Beautiful. Meur ras :-)

[wogahumf]

Brilliant! My favourite place on earth & the friendliest people on earth after Yorkshire folk of course

[xxMissJenxx]

wooohooo! i live here! it totally rules!

[WELLBRAN]

Thanks for this clip, liked the voice overs! from a Cornishman