| Description | Date | |
![]() | Super 8 Stories: Chicago Emigration The Mallon family decide to leave Newry and 1970s strife-torn Northern Ireland behind for a new life in Chicago, USA. They find a whole new quailty of life and witness one of Elvis Presley's last concerts but finally discovering that their longing to return home to their native country is too strong to resist. Husband and wife, Eddie and Anne, share their memories along with those of their son, Paul. This clip appeared in Series 1, Programme 1 of Super 8 Stories. | 1979 |
![]() | Super 8 Stories: Spanish Holidays Stanley Matchett and his two daughters, Karen Emerson and Joanne Watson, remember their holidays in the early 1970s - a time when people from Northern Ireland were beginning to forsake holidays at home and branch out to new destinations such as Spain. This clip appeared in Series 2, Programme 1 of Super 8 Stories. | 1979 |
![]() | Super 8 Stories: Missionaries in Japan The Farrell family took the life-changing decision to leave Northern Ireland in the 1960s and head to Japan for new lives as missionaries. Here, their children, David and Stephen Farrell and Eileen Hamilton remember their early childhoods spent growing up in Japan, as well as their eventual return to Northern Ireland. This clip appeared in Series 2, Programme 1 of Super 8 Stories. | 1970 |
![]() | Super 8 Stories: Farewell Voyage of the Queen Mary Travel agent Richard Bryson and his wife Sophy tell us the story of how they came to be on the final transatlantic passenger service of the Queen Mary liner as it sailed to New York and back again for the last time with scenes from their stay in 1960s New York. This clip appeared in Series 2, Programme 2 of Super 8 Stories. | 1969 |
![]() | Super 8 Stories: Teaching in Zambia Patrick and Anne Murphy share their experience of leaving behind all they knew in Northern Ireland to go out and work as teachers in Zambia during the 1970s, shortly after their marriage. They are joined by their daughter, Eileen (who was born while they were out there), and their footage shows them working at the rural African school as well as showing off a wealth of wildlife and their ultimate return to Northern Ireland. This clip appeared in Series 2, Programme 3 of Super 8 Stories. | 1979 |
![]() | Super 8 Stories: BB Trip to the Isle of Man In the harsh world of post-war Belfast, with rationing stretching into the 1950s, the Boy's Brigade offered a welcome chance for local working class boys to escape to, what seemed like then, the far-off shores of the Isle of Man on a summer camp. Ex-members Ernie Whitte, Bob Torrens and Joe Culbert share their experiences of these trips. This clip appeared in Series 2, Programme 4 of Super 8 Stories. | 1959 |
![]() | Super 8 Stories: Canadian Holiday Ben Marshall was a shipyard worker from Ballybeen in East Belfast when he decided to buy a cine camera to record his young family growing up. Here, Ben and his wife Edna share their memories of the early 1970s and of their trip of a lifetime as they went on holiday to Canada. This clip appeared in Series 3, Programme 2 of 'Super 8 Stories'. | 1973 |
![]() | Super 8 Stories: Nigerian Railroad Tony and Meriel Grant share their memories of leaving Northern Ireland for the then-colony of Nigeria when Tony was offered an important job in expanding Nigeria's rail newtwork. They were married in Nigeria and their son, David, spent his early years there with them and all three of them recount these long-gone days of Empire and steam trains through the home movie footage they shot. This clip appeared in Series 3, Programme 3 of 'Super 8 Stories'. | 1959 |
![]() | Super 8 Stories: USA Road Trip Newlyweds Geoff and Irene Hewitt bravely decided to take time out from their lives in Northern Ireland during the 1980s and tour the world on motorbike. They managed to record on film the American leg of this tour as they rode through Monument Valley, the streets of San Francisco and stopped off to admire the view of the Grand Canyon. Geoff and Irene both share their memories of this life-changing experience and of their ultimate return to Northern Ireland to begin a family. This clip appeared in Series 3, Programme 4 of 'Super 8 Stories'. | 1988 |
![]() | Super 8 Stories: Hong Kong Teaching Gordon Partridge shares his memories of his time spent in Hong Kong teaching at a British armed forces children's school in the days when Hong Kong was a far flung British colony. His children, Karl Partridge and Norma Perceval-Price also reminisce of their time spent there when they would be allowed a holiday each year by the government to leave Northern Ireland and visit their father at his place of work. the family's amateur footage of their time in Hong Kong captures it before a time of great change for the former colony. This clip appeared in Series 3, Programme 4 of 'Super 8 Stories'. | 1969 |