Unrecognisable video shows sleepy Cornwall fishing village in its heyday

Cornwall has changed a lot over the years and some places are completely unrecognisable from their historic heydey, so can you guess where this ancient footage was filmed? The shaky black and white film shows a Cornish life that we can only dream of, as the sleepy fishing village is positively calm.

Just one artist is standing on the harbour wall in the undated clip - slowly painting a ship that is moored nearby. Seagulls can be heard throughout though, so not everything is different from today.

The beach is eerily quiet, with a lone fisherman untangling a net as a swarm of herring gulls descend on a pipe discharging onto the shingle beach. Finally, the camera pans around and shows a group of 12 leaning on the railing overlooking the beach, before finally zooming in on a pub's sign - which reads Ship Inn, above the familiar named 'St Austell Ales'.

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Previously, we shared a video from the 1970s that showed Newquay Harbour that demonstrated how much things have changed - from the bright and colourful fashion sense to the drastically different harbour front of today.

The video begins showing South Quay Hill and what appears to be an ice cream van parked just on the edge of the harbour wall. Below children dig in the sand and adults watch on as two youngsters to the right try to cover each other in sand before collapsing onto the beach.

The onlookers are dressed in a mix of '70s chic with an array of bright blues and yellows - they would have looked out of place five years ago but now they'd probably fit in fine. The cameraman then pans over to the right where there's a long promenade with a huge boathouse, home to the Newquay Rowing Club - which has since been moved.

The rowing club is now located on the other side of the beach, nearer the ice cream van at the start of the clip. The promenade is now home to street food hangout The Boathouse, which has also replaced the beach huts shown in the last few seconds of the clip.

As the video comes to a close, seagulls can be seen swooping in to rest on the water - showing that even 50 years ago the winged menace was always nearby, ready to swoop on any unsuspecting alfresco diner. And most notably of all, throughout the clip every person is walking around with their head up or engaged in what they're doing, not a phone in sight, and while in the water there are people enjoying a swim or paddling in the shallows, none of them are interrupted by an influencer filming a TikTok video.

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