We have another wonderful clip from from our friends at Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive.
This clip is from The Ulster Way, which was part of ITV's travelogue series, About Britain from 1985 and courtesy of UTV © ITV.
In this programme we find Michael Duffy strolling through the countryside, meeting local people and hearing their stories. His aim, to see the "countryside through the eyes of the people who live the Ulster way". This part of the tour of the Ulster Way takes a closer look at the land of Roe, bog and Sperrin Mountains.
He starts this clip by saying: “We all know about the crock of gold at the bottom of the rainbow, I for one don't believe it. A much more creditable way of searching for gold in these parts, it seems to me, is to catch a leprechaun and get him to tell you where the gold is. You tie him to a reed, for isn't always in bog land that you find the gold, by the beard. The trouble is he usually escapes when you are away to fetch your spade.”
The full piece can be viewed at https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/the-ulster-way-roe-bog-and-2699.
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This clip is from The Ulster Way, which was part of ITV's travelogue series, About Britain from 1985 and courtesy of UTV © ITV.
In this programme we find Michael Duffy strolling through the countryside, meeting local people and hearing their stories. His aim, to see the "countryside through the eyes of the people who live the Ulster way". This part of the tour of the Ulster Way takes a closer look at the land of Roe, bog and Sperrin Mountains.
He starts this clip by saying: “We all know about the crock of gold at the bottom of the rainbow, I for one don't believe it. A much more creditable way of searching for gold in these parts, it seems to me, is to catch a leprechaun and get him to tell you where the gold is. You tie him to a reed, for isn't always in bog land that you find the gold, by the beard. The trouble is he usually escapes when you are away to fetch your spade.”
The full piece can be viewed at https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/the-ulster-way-roe-bog-and-2699.
See more films at www.digitalfilmarchive.net.
Twitter – @NIScreen
Facebook – @northernirelandscreen
Instagram – @northernirelandscreen
#DigitalFilmArchive #NorthernIrelandScreen
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00:00 We all know about the crock of gold at the bottom of the rainbow,
00:03 and I, for one, don't believe it.
00:06 A much more credible means of searching for gold in these parts, it seems to me,
00:10 is to catch a leprechaun and let him tell you where it's buried.
00:13 Then you tie him to a reed, for isn't it always in bogland?
00:17 By the beard.
00:19 Or else you tie some cotton to the reed.
00:21 The trouble is that he usually escapes while you've gone to fetch your spade.
00:25 Or else by the time you get back, the bog cotton is out,
00:29 and there's cotton on every reed.
00:32 John Clifford has been seriously searching for gold in the Sperns.
00:37 One of the nice things about gold is it comes out in a pure form.
00:41 It's very easy to separate.
00:43 I like gold. It's one of the nice four-letter words.
00:47 There is gold in the Sperns.
00:49 This has been reported down through the centuries.
00:53 We have confirmed this.
00:55 We are still at the exploration stage.
00:58 However, we hope that we will be in production in the future.
01:04 The first stage of an exploration program
01:07 is generally a rapid reconnaissance activity over a large piece of ground.
01:15 However, as your programs intensify and continue,
01:20 you will tend to focus on individual areas within your exploration program.
01:26 And this is the stage that we are currently at.
01:31 We have found gold in the stream gravels.
01:35 We have found gold in bedrock.
01:39 Now we are seeking to determine the quantity of mineral which is present there.
01:46 This particular instance here,
01:49 we have, as you can see, located a vein here in a stream channel.
01:56 And then we have sought to determine the lateral, horizontal continuity of that structure
02:06 by digging a trench across it.
02:09 And then finally, we would seek to determine how deep into the earth
02:14 that goes by using a drilling machine such as this.
02:19 This here is one of the veins which we found in the course of our exploration activity.
02:31 You can see the mineral glistening in there in the sunlight.
02:36 We are now establishing the extent of these veins using a variety of methods.
02:44 As you can see, the vein is not particularly obvious,
02:49 which is one reason why they have not been found up to now.
02:53 However, with proper methods and good people, I think you can do it.
02:59 [Sound of a drilling machine]