7 Degrees West - Thatching in Crawfordsburn

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7 Degrees West - Thatching in Crawfordsburn

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Details

Location

Crawfordsburn

Year

1969

Date

Production 02/04/1969

Length

05min 54sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

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.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.
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