Ballynahinch Spa Water

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Ballynahinch Spa Water

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Location

Ballynahinch

Year

1964

Date

Production 01/01/1964

Length

07min 15sec

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, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

The Elmwood Spa Hotel was built in the nineteenth century in the village of Spa, Co Down, near Ballynahinch. When two pumps were placed above a mineral spring, a tourist boom began and the Ker family from the nearby Montalto estate built a fine hotel with an elegant ballroom.

Beloved UTV roving reporter Charlie Witherspoon visited the site during the 1960s when the attraction had closed and fallen into disrepair and speaks to John McHarry, an elderly gentleman who remembers helping ferry the tourists from the train station in the 1920s. Charlie also visits the remaining pump house and tries the rejuvenating waters himself – with unexpected results.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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