Grantchester Meadows - the real one!

Pink Floyd's "Grantchester Meadows" set to a video of the real Grantchester Meadows in Cambridge. The original and genuine! Accept no substitute! Video shot summer 2007.

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• Grantchester
• Pink
• Floyd

[TIMOTHYSAARINEN]

It amazes me how people post videos and manage to not put the name of the artist in the headline. That, and how they also put the name of the song first, before the name of the artist. It just irks me, that's all.

[MaxGentle]

@TIMOTHYSAARINEN

Well, the video is of Grantchester Meadows, which is a real place, not just a Pink Floyd song. I live quite near Grantchester Meadows and I know the Pink Floyd song, so I thought people who've never seen the real Grantchester Meadows might be interested to see it. It's not a video about the Pink Floyd song, it's about the place that inspired the song: the Meadows came first! It's a great song and it's a beautiful place.

[silvia8alex]

@MaxGentle Hi Max, thanks a lot for the video :). I drove passed Grantchester Meadows (the street) on a sat afternoon on the disperate attempt of finding a non-resident car park... Do you happen to know at which numer D. Gilmour grew up?

[MaxGentle]

@silvia8alex

It was 106, apparently. I didn't know that but I found it uusing Google.

If you drive along Grantchester Meadows to the end, where it turns into a footpath, there's a rough area of unadopted road where you may be able to park.

[peaceandbeads]

Is it just me or does that tree root look a lot like a gash?

[MaxGentle]

@peaceandbeads

You mean the tree at around 4:40-4:50. Yes, I noticed that similarity, of course. I didn't plan it, it just happened to be there. It's an interesting image - Mother Earth, the Celtic belief that rivers & lakes are a border between this world and the otherworld, Alice Through the Looking Glass...

[rockimpetuoso]

ei!

[Pepelaputr]

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.

All around me golden sun flakes covering the ground.

Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon

Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room.

Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox

Gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees,

Laughing as it passes through the endless summer making for the sea.

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[Pepelaputr]

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.

All around me golden sun flakes settle on the ground.

Basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon

Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room.

Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox

Gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees.

[Pepelaputr]

"Icy wind of night be gone this is not your domain"

In the sky a bird was heard to cry.

Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds

Belied the deathly silence that lay all around.

Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox

Gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees

Laughing as it passes through the endless summer

Making for the sea.

[ThePhilosopherKing00]

good tripping music

[Staffleberry]

@RatherLargeAllan Absolutley man it could have fit into Brooke's 'Oh Grantchester'. This song was the first to turn me onto pastoral music and from there poetry of the likes of Keats et al. Waters was part of the long linkage. What a song.