Hail Smiling Morn!

[SheilaG]

Hi Everyone,

I've been looking at some of my older sequences and re-discovered this one. I made it in early 2008, I think.

It was made before I discovered animations (just one panning slide!) but I still like it because it's about a place close to my own heart.

I hope that you find it enjoyable and that it nudges some memories for some people!

The file is 41 MB

It has 104 images

Run time is 8mins 13secs

Aspect ratio is 4:3

You can download it from Dropbox HERE

[Lin Evans]

Hi Sheila,

Most enjoyable and very well presented! It's a shame you never had the chance to participate with your little white ribbons and sporty outfit as a child.... It looks like great fun was had by all and a really nice sense of community - something rare today in the hectic world we live in. Thank you for sharing this with us!!

Best regards,

Lin

[SheilaG]

Hi Lin,

Thanks for the kind words! It's always good to know that someone else has enjoyed what you've made.

The Whitsuntide Walks were, I think, mainly found in the North West and were a statement of Christian belief. Around my area, the Catholics would walk on one day and the Protestants on another, there were just so many it wouldn't have been possible for us all to walk on the same day! The Catholic walks were amazing to see, though, as they included many communities who originated in Europe, such as the Poles and Ukrainians who walked in colourful traditional dress.

It was a big day in every child's year as it meant new clothes! At Whitsun we had our new shoes, coat and dress for the coming year and we'd run round to the homes of neighbours and relatives, to show them and, in return, we'd get a copper coin to put in our purse! I always walked in the procession, with my basket of flowers, just never on a banner ribbon! They say the past is 'another country', and it is!

Regards,

Sheila

[trailertrash]

Sheila, I do love the trips done the lane shows. We must never loose sight of our heritage whatever it may be.

Sorry also you never got to hold the banner. Love the bands and their colours.

I also enjoyed the voice over, something I think is very difficult to do. Well done on that.

Andrew

[rick235]

Hi Sheila,

Great show and a fantastic trip down memory lane, i was born in Dukinfield and my first courting days was in Oldham so i am familiar with the area.

I remember as a kid getting new cloths and walking in the Whit-walks with the different brass bands leading different churches and if it was a windy day watching the men struggling to hold up the huge church banners.

Thank you

Rick

[coecolin]

Hi Sheila,

I enjoyed you sequence very much. What I also liked was the commentary, we get so many sequences to music (not that there is any wrong with that) but it does make a nice change to have a commentary with a sequence.

Regards,

Colin.

[SheilaG]

Hi,

Thanks for the kind comments that have been posted. They're appreciated.

Narrative .......... most of my completed AVs tend to have a narrative as I usually want to tell something of a 'story'. Having just made that statement, the AV that I'm working on at the moment doesn't have a spoken narrative!

Thanks again,

Sheila

[Tellycare2003]

Sheila, that's a fantastic show. I know nothing of Yorkshire (or indeed Lancashire), being a Londoner born and bred, but it certainly made me feel I had missed out on something. Well done.

I particularly likes the sequence with the horses where you had changed the background into a 'drawing'. I hope you won't mind if I pinch that idea to maybe use in one of mine (Thay say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!!)

Many thanks

John

[SheilaG]

Hi John,

I'm glad you enjoyed the sequence.

Feel free to take any ideas, from my AVs, that appeal to you ............ nothing is ever completely new!!

Regards,

Sheila