Hall’s Pictorial Weekly in Mallow, Co. Cork, Ireland 1975

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The people of Mallow in Cork are the stars of this opening sequence to ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’.

Mallow (in Irish Mala) is busy on a winter’s afternoon with cyclists, cars and pedestrians. The town’s young people make their way home from school, mixing with shoppers and those going about other business.

Saint Mary’s Catholic church can be seen, as can the Clock House which dates from 1855 and was designed by Sir Charles Denham Orlando Jephson-Norreys of Mallow Castle. An amateur architect, he is said to have designed this half-timbered mock Tudor building upon his return from an alpine holiday.

This episode of ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ was broadcast on 29 January 1975.

Once a week, from June to September, the ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ film crew would arrive at a town or village in any county in Ireland. They would film the people and the place and return to RTÉ where the footage was edited and put to music.

This short film of around one minute’s duration formed part of the opening sequence for that week’s episode. No one knew which location had been chosen, and it was not advertised as part of the programme billings in the RTÉ Guide or newspapers.

So with this in mind, people the length and breadth of the country tuned in religiously, in case it was the turn of their town or village to have its few minutes of fame.
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  • @2learn4ever
    A shop called 'Housewives Delight', brilliant!! Wonder if it's still in business!
  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    It look like something big was about to happen, a lone old man cycled into town, followed shortly after by a young boy and his chopper bike, a woman walking down the town waving a head of cabbage with a determined smile, followed by nun who was praying hard, a stallion trotting down the road, a dog so lazy it refused to walk and was carried to his owner's car and placed gently on the seat and secured with safety belt, 3 boys hunting for a sweet shop makes their way across the road during heavy traffic, Later in the afternoon there was a robbery at the Mallow Credit Union Bank, it was claimed that the old man and the young boy on their bicycles along the nun and the cabbage waving women got away with over £15 million and were never seen again.