Reno & Sheila McCormick at Pickin' in the Pines Bluegrass and Acoustic Music Festival, Flagstaff, AZ September 14, 2008. A Bill Monroe song... Memories of Mother & Dad (sorry for the jiggly camera... a bee thought I was a flower er somthin')
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A mixture of scenes on the Corris Railway over ten years. The editing is done by an automatic process - hence the jerky effect. The guard with the long beard is the late Bryn Phillips. Bryn Morgan is alive and well and still working on the railway.
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A '78' produced 18/6/1949 58 years ago! Bob Barclay and his band were seen performing in Leeds in the fifties. Unusually, the leader played a brass bass. Here we play both sides of the record - St. Louis Blues and Weary Blues. Personnel:- Dickie Hawdon (Tpt) Alan Cooper (Clt) Tommy Durn (Pno) Diz Disley (Bjo) Eddie O'Donnel (Tbn) Tiny Lancaster (Dms) Bob Barclay (Tuba) Recorded in London 18/6/1949. The music is accompanied by a PC-generated series of pictures showing my visit with the local pub quiz team, to compete in the Eggheads show on BBC TV. Better than watching the wind-up gramophone?
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Taken from a '78' bought at the time. "Rock Island Line" is an American blues/folk song, which was performed and first recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s. Versions of the song have been recorded by many other artists. While the song is ostensibly about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, from the lyrics there is evidence to suggest that the "railroad" referred-to is actually the Underground Railroad, a slave escape route
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Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band. Another '78' from my youth. ie from the 1947 Swing Music series. The '78' was rather scratchy - so - sorry about the knife & forks effect! The flip-side is One Sweet Letter From You - to be uploaded soon. Can anyone tell us the personnel on this record? Courtesy of a viewer [Robegre] it was:- Bunk Johnson trumpet George Lewis clarinet Jim Robinson trombone Alton Purnell piano Lawrence Marrero banjo Alcide Slow Drag Pavageau bass Baby Dodds drums
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I bought the '78' around 1954 and liked it so much I bought the trumpet! This video is for my son and daughter to remember me by when I've gone!
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"You're Driving Me Crazy" / "Charley My Boy" (1961: 7" Parlophone R4757) I remember this being played a lot on TV and the Wireless around the time when Kruschev and Kennedy were arguing about nuclear armed rockets. The Temperance Seven - Vocal refrain by Mr. Paul McDowell. The three founder members were Paul McDowell who originally played trombone, Philip Harrison (originally played banjo) and Brian Innes. The trams video was shot in 1985 at Crich, Derbyshire.
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A Darjeeling Loco to music. DHR 19 B has travelled far. It was acquired for private use on a family estate in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA, in 1960, and then transferred to the Hesston Steam Museum, Indiana, USA, in 1982. It was damaged by fire in 1985, repaired, but then taken out of commission in 1987. In 2003 it was purchased by Adrian Shooter for the private 2' Beeches Light Railway in Oxfordshire, England, and underwent a complete restoration to working order at the Tyseley Locomotive Works in 2004. I'll be there again 19th September 2009 - I'll be there!
"John Henry was a steel-driver, an' he died with his hammer in his hand..." - a powerful one from Lonnie, taken from a '78' from the mid-fifties. The video material was randomly selected by the PC programme from stuff taken at Cleethorpes when they slewed the old track to meet the new, from the new station. I also filmed the last train on the old track and the first on the new but by that time it was pitch dark!
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A piece of nostalgia from the past... From 1992 to 1994 I assisted Alan Turner with his Lincolnshire Railway Museum at Burgh-le-Marsh near Skegness. Besides showing visitors round the large collection of railway items, including a full-size Hudswell Clarke saddle tank, I drove the two steam-outline locos. The loco seen here is Goth, modelled on Dolgoch of the Talyllyn, The other was based on Prince of the Festiniog. The railway can be seen at work in a video - Little Trains of Lincolnshire - Vol. 1 from PM Video.
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PART 1 - HELMSLEY TO RIEVAULX Back in the eighties my friends and I did a lot of long distance walks like the Coast to Coast, Pennine Way, Dales Way etc. In May 1984 I made a video of the Cleveland Way, carrying round a large Panasonic VHS camera outfit. This is the beginning of the walk - we started at 1:00 pm from Helmsley. My companions were: Gordon Simey who died in 1993 from the asbestos he had absorbed in the York Carriage Shops of BR, and Bill Brown, whom we don't see these days since he left home. We all worked for British Telecom at the time and usually took a week's leave in May each year to follow our hobby. This walk took several days... Al. nb This complete video of the Cleveland Way was filmed and edited on VHS tape in 1984, 23 years ago! nb Part 2 - Rievaulx to Osmotherley has been removed due to copyright claims by Warner Bros.
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I found this on the 'B' side of an old '78' - "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". A recording by Jimmy Boyd (aged 12) reached No. 1 on the US Billboard charts in 1952, and on the Cash Box magazine chart at the beginning of the following year. I thought it might appeal to fans of the narrow gauge and miniature railway. The record was bought at an open air jumble sale in Tenterden near the station. Of course the railway seen is the Bala Lake Railway of which I am a member.
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A look at some of the more interesting locos in the huge collection. Note the new fence to hold back the crowds on the public footpath. The mine was open to visitors and a superb bacon sandwich was enjoyed on arrival at 10.30 am. Each loco had a numbered label which could be checked against the stock-list available. Music - Cornet Chop Suey - Louis Armstrong Hot Five. 1926
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CAVATINA - York Railway Institute Band My friend Ted Pratt played solo cornet with me in the RASC 103 Transport Column Band in the sixties. This came from an LP he and the RI Band produced some of which had a railway theme. Last time I spoke to him the band were appearing in the turntable pit in the National Railway Museum.
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GLORY OF LOVE - Humphrey Lyttelton 1921-2008 and his band. The 1955 Super Rythm-Style Series taken from the '78' of the day.
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What would have been the 45th Wedding Anniversary of my late wife, Sally and me - 18th May 2008 I took my new trainee assistant/partner to visit David and Colleen Colley on their fifteen inch gauge railway near Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire. I discovered the new extension with a terminal running-round loop known as Weldale station. Later I drove the small 'Kerr-Stuart' 'Pet' on this undulating line with gradients up to 1 in 86, an interesting ride. Thanks David!
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The final part of the late George Melly's programme about jazz...
The third part of Gordon's last walks. RED PIKE-HIGH STILE RIDGE Leaving the YH at Buttermere we climb up to Red Pike in the rain. Following the ridge we cross High Stile and High Crag before descending onto Haystacks. Haystacks etc will be continued in the next video.
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The Annual meeting of Narrow Gauge modellers and enthusiasts, again at Benton Park School, Rawdon, near Leeds. Probably the last attendance of the PM Video stand. Music by the local Yorkshire Post Jazz Band - leader Denis Armstrong. 'After You've Gone'
From a BELTONA '78' from the fifties. (BL2670) Not so much a skiffle group as a trad band! [I can't find any reference to Charlie McNair on t'internet. Does anyone know anything please?] The Olympian and the successor Olympian Hiawatha was a named passenger train operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (The Milwaukee Road) as train Nos. 15 and 16 from 1911 to 1961. Its route traversed the Milwaukee Road main line from Chicago, Illinois west to Seattle/Tacoma, Washington. The streamlined Olympian Hiawatha replaced the Milwaukee's heavyweight Olympian train in 1947. The train was designed by industrial designer Brooks Stevens and included the destinctive glassed-in "Skytop" observation-sleeping cars. In 1952 the Milwaukee Road added full-length "Super Dome" cars to the train.
GREAT GABLE After the Fairfield Horseshoe in May,when Gordon had a bad fall onto his chest, he was subsequently diagnosed as having lung Cancer, caused by working among asbestos in the York Carriage Works of British Railways. I spite of the pain he was undergoing, he joined us for what was to be his last outing to the Lakes, in July 1993, when we did a couple more mountain walks. In this video the three 'mountain men' accompanied by Ken Chinner, Gordon's old boss at BT, climb Great Gable, from Honister Pass.
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PART 3 - SUTTON BANK TO JENNY BREWSTERS MOOR The following day, the 6th of May, we continue our walk, starting from the Hambleton Inn, where we had spent the night. Returning to Roulston Scar we followed the western edge of the Hambleton Hills towards Osmotherley. nb This complete video of the Cleveland Way was filmed and edited on VHS tape in 1984, 23 years ago!
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A short excerpt from a new DVD - Corris the Movie - now available. This shows three steam locos on the line over the past ten years. It will be available at the Corris shop and via www.pmvideo.co.uk
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(Version 2 with correct spelling) Humphrey Lyttelton - 1921-2008 Humph died peacefully with his family and friends around him on April 25th at 7.00pm following surgery. This is an excerpt from George Melly's story of British Jazz. Recorded from Thames TV documentary "Whatever happened to Bill Brunskill"? in 1984. For an obituary of Humph see news.bbc.co.uk
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The river Tees separates Yorkshire from County Durham. We begin at Cow Green reservoir which holds back the infant Tees. In rainy weather the longest waterfall in England approaches its former glory of the days before the Dam.
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PART 4 - JENNY BREWSTER'S MOOR TO SCARTH NICK Day Two continued - after coming over Black Hambleton we drop into the village of Osmotherley where we were to stay the night, continuing onto the route of the Lyke Wake Walk, through Scugdale, onto Live Moor and over Carlton Moor, to return to our lodgings at Osmotherley. nb This complete video of the Cleveland Way was filmed and edited on VHS tape in 1984, 23 years ago!
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PART 5 - SCARTH NICK TO CARLTON BANK The culmination of Day Two of the walk from Helmsley to Filey. After the climb from Osmotherley, onto the Lyke Wake Walk, we continued up onto Live Moor and across to Carlton Bank via the glider station. nb This complete video of the Cleveland Way was filmed and edited on VHS tape in 1984, 23 years ago!
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A very short movie, showing Moorbarrow finally in steam on the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway 29/3/2009. At the end we look back at the loco when it had just arrived on the North Yorkshire Moors railway and was waiting in Pickering Station for restoration, which was to take almost forty years!
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LINCOLNSHIRE LIGHT RAILWAY - Spring 1994 After retiring from forty years toil in 1992, I used to spend a couple of days a week helping Alan Turner with his Lincolnshire Railway Museum which was situated in the old goods yard adjacent to Burgh-le-Marsh station on the Boston-Grimsby line. The museum was housed inside the former GNR goods-shed, while Alan had built a 10.25 gauge railway around the shed and down to the end of the yard. Shortly before the site was sold off I built a brake van from mostly scrap material, before taking it to the railway, about thirty miles away. There are a couple more episodes to come.,
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A ride round the village on my mountain bike. Accompanied by The Delta Jazzmen in the way of Bix Beiderbecke - Clarinet Marmalade and Margie - two of my favourites. Recorded in the INL Club, York in 1966. The camera was mounted on a monopod, fixed to the bike at two points with insulating tape. This was the first and last attempt. Seen briefly is the barmaid, Sue from the Fox & Hounds. She always says "Tiger?" when I walk in. I was flattered till I realised that was the name of the beer!
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Back in 1992 a group of enthusiasts from Lincoln headed north by train and travelled on the Metro. This short video was taken at the time and shows our ride as far as Whitley Bay, where we stopped for lunch. [My last trip on this line had been in the 1940s on one of the blue electrics, as far as Whitley Bay to see Uncle Dick and family.] Stations passed through were:- Central-Manors-Haymarket-Jesmond-West Jesmond-Ilford Road-South Gosforth-Long Benton-Four Lane Ends-Benton-Palmersville-Northumberland Park-Shiremoor-West Monkseaton-Monkseaton & Whitley Bay. nb the original music to this video was was 'Why Aye Man' a Geordie song by Dire Straits - it was removed by Warner Bros. due to Copyright problems.
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