About Britain: Lammas Fair Part 1

About Britain: Lammas Fair Part 1

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Details

Location

Ballycastle, Strangford Lough

Year

1974

Date

Production 01/08/1974

Length

10min 04sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

colour

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 Whiterspoon explores the history and unique offers of the Auld Lammas Fair in Ballycastle for the programme About Britain.

A local man, Barney, explains the edible dulse seaweed for sale and we hear from Gabriel Rogers about how dulse is collected from the shores of Strangford Lough.

Charlie speaks to a woman about the process of making one of the fair's favourites: "yellaman". She explains the long family traditions behind making this chewy honeycomb treat.

This clip also features a performance of "Ould Lammas Fair", a ballad about the fair written by Ballycastle resident John Henry Macauley.

The Auld Lammas Fair is held every year on the last Monday and Tuesday of August and began in the 17th century. Part 2 of this programme is also available to view on the Digital Film Archive.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.
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