Charlie Witherspoon takes his famous bike for a cycle to the picturesque Co Down village of Crawfordsburn. There he meets Ballygowan man Bob Douglas who shows him the ancient art of roof thatching on the village’s famous Old Inn, which dates back to the Seventeenth Century and which once hosted the notorious English highwayman, Dick Turpin.

This report was shot for a series called 7 Degrees West, a kind of early forerunner of Lesser Spotted Ulster, which saw features on old traditions and off-the-beaten-track places. Although the complete programmes, which included studio material, have gone from the archives, a number of these filmed location shoots featuring Charlie on his bike have survived. Look out for others in the Digital Film Archive.