Calstock - A Video Essay

Come and spend 10 minutes in Calstock, a beautiful English village in Cornwall (SW England) built on the banks of the River Tamar.

Calstock is historically a mining location in the 19th century, and is dominated by a mighty railway viaduct that used to take tin ore and lime from the hills down to Plymouth harbour on the coast.

Nowadays the village is home to fishing and tourism, and the most friendly people live and work there. You'll meet them in the video messing about on or besides the river throughout the day!

You'll also take a railway trip across the viaduct looking down on the village, then listen in to the great sounds from the strangest instruments (like pipes and shopping trollies) coming from the village's youth percusison club who meet outside the village hall just next to the river.

You'll also see the "Monarch", the world's smallest paddle steamer which was being used for filming by a TV company when we stayed in Calstock.

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Occasionally I depart from London landscapes when I take the HD camera on a holiday or work trip and find the location so beautiful and picturesque that it's worth adding non-London content to this channel.

Filmed between 24-28 May 2010 in HD1080; edited in iMovie'09 in HD1080 end exported at 18Mbps H.264 video/192Kbps AAC audio retaining that resolution except for slight image stabilisation during the train journey, and severe stabilisation (with strange visual effects!) during the percussion club sequence, when the resulting image details are softer.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• calstock
• train
• viaduct
• 2010
• cornwall
• percussion

[jabs32]

"Nowadays the village is home to fishing and tourism" - are you serious? You put this as a joke, right? FISHING??? I've lived in the village since 1973, and ok there were a couple of Salmon fishermen years ago, but I've not seen so much as one slimy old Eel pulled from the Tamar in years!!

And as for tourism, well we do get a few Emmets down here in summer, but it's not exactly a tourist Mecca now, is it!!??

[ThePlymouthgirl]

Greetings and thanks from Wisconsin, USA.

My grandmother grew up in Calstock; I grew up in Plymouth. Visited Calstock a couple of times in the fifties on the tourist boat (unfortunately, not the paddle steamer), though it could only go the full distance if the tide was in. The last visit was about 35 years ago, by train, with a few family members. Love your views from the viaduct. Have some photos as a fond memory.

[andywagoner]

liked it. as usual.