Old TV programme about Shetland (with footage of my parents).

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My Mam sent me a YouTube link to an old TV programme from Grampian TV filmed in 1973 - a couple of years before the oil industry hit Shetland. There is footage of my Mam and Dad knitting on machines in what was our spare room at the time (footage is from 16.50 to 17.10). I can vaguely remember being shooed out of the house at the time because "The people from the telly were coming" - I would have been 8 years old.

I never thought I'd get to see this programme as ITV didn't reach Shetland until December 1976 - 3 years after the programme was released. My parents contacted them when VCRs came on the go a few years later to see if they could get a copy but they couldn't or wouldn't let them have it (I forget which).

To be honest the programme is a bit dull (understatement) but it was worth watching to see some old footage from my home and also see my folks on the tellybox.

On the off chance anybody is interested, here it is:



If you do watch it, the croft house shown immediately before the footage of my parents was not our house - we lived in a council house in Lerwick I can only assume the whitewashed croft house looked considerably better on the telly than the outside of a 1940s council house.