Fantastic!... in the days when David MacBrayne Ltd had their own bus service to meet the boats. The skippers were master mariners who knew their boats and how to coax them along... no bow thruster technology in those days.
@acquiesce100 This was filmed about 1965 because the small boy getting in the way of the mooring rope being tied up is around 9 (the same age as me) and we used to play football together. So, give or take a year, it's 1965.
Fantastic! What memories - Captain Smith on the bridge, and George climbing into his crane to work the cargo. Other faces I recognise but can't put a name to - takes me back in time to a gentler age when life was lived at a slower pace.
This brings back happy childhood memories. My mother took my sister and me to Lewis every year on her, between 1956 and 1967, to spend the summer with my grandparents in Ranish. Thanks for posting.
Fantastic!... in the days when David MacBrayne Ltd had their own bus service to meet the boats. The skippers were master mariners who knew their boats and how to coax them along... no bow thruster technology in those days.
clydeferries 6 months ago
My grandfather is the man catching the rope on the pier. Fantastic!!!
infohost 8 months ago
someone plaese tell me what year is this? Michael Palin took the station sign which is shown at the start of the clip.
acquiesce100 1 year ago
@acquiesce100 This was filmed about 1965 because the small boy getting in the way of the mooring rope being tied up is around 9 (the same age as me) and we used to play football together. So, give or take a year, it's 1965.
raymanccc 1 year ago
@raymanccc - thanks. Have you seen kyle of Lochalsh in 1980 when it was featured in Great Railway Journeys of the world starring Michael palin?
acquiesce100 1 year ago
Fantastic! What memories - Captain Smith on the bridge, and George climbing into his crane to work the cargo. Other faces I recognise but can't put a name to - takes me back in time to a gentler age when life was lived at a slower pace.
iain789 1 year ago
Absolutely brilliant - I have travelled on the old Loch Seaforth on many occasions - enjoyed the Macbraynes buses.
How nostalgic!!
racampbell6 2 years ago
This brings back happy childhood memories. My mother took my sister and me to Lewis every year on her, between 1956 and 1967, to spend the summer with my grandparents in Ranish. Thanks for posting.
johnypebs 2 years ago