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Location

Carrick-a-Rede

Year

1965

Date

Production 04/05/1965

Length

41sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

It’s springtime and time for the Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge to be rigged for the summer. The island was traditionally used for salmon fishing and this temporary structure was used for generations. The bridge is now owned by the National Trust and a permanent crossing for tourists was erected in 2000.

Among the men working here is a young Paddy McCambridge, This was Paddy's first paying job and he learnt how to last the planks together from men who had been doing the job for years. Here we see the demands of this dangerous job, where one slip could prove fatal. The bridge was taken from storage in Ballintoy every year and carefully erected by hand. The fishermen would then use it to transport their salmon catch over to the mainland for storage.

Notes

Many thanks to Paddy and Jonny McCambridge for information supplied for this film. 

'Unravelling the rope bridge mystery' parts one and two, written by Jonny McCambridge and published in the Newsletter 8.6.22 and 15.6.22.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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