The Nelsons Get Around

The Nelsons Get Around

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Details

Location

Ballywalter, Castlerock, Cork, Dublin, Rostrevor, wicklow

Year

1956-1959

Date

Length

08min 36sec

Audio

silent

Format

black and white

Source

Courtesy

Alastair Nelson

Rights Holder

Alastair Nelson

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Description

 A film by Havelock Nelson, showing family adventures around Ireland 1956-1959.

Around County Wicklow, waterfalls and streams and playing on the beach. 

They visit Rostrevor and Castlerock 1957.

Back at home in the garden, they play on swings and in  a paddling pool. 

In Cork they see a castle, lighthouse and an ancient fort. 

In Ballywalter, they play cricket on the beach

Notes

Havelock Nelson was a composer and conductor, born in Cork in 1917. He studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He cofounded the Dublin Orchestral Players in 1939. He joined the BBC in Belfast in 1947, and conducted the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra, the Studio Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Singers. He died in Belfast in 1996. A Blue Plaque was added to his former home in Rosetta in 2017.

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