Скачать или смотреть Amalfi Coast, 1963, filmed by Fred Pedley

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Fred and Nellie Pedley took a trip in 1963 with their Rotary Club of Middleton friends, Jack Sharp and Arthur Horridge and their wives to the Amalfi coast in Italy and Fred filmed a lot of the holiday on cine film.

The film begins with the ferry crossing from Dover and then the car sleeper express from Ostend, through the cities of Northern Europe, the Alps and Italian lakes, possibly disembarking at Milan. On the car journey down the length of Italy, Fred and Nellie visit Italian Rotary Club members, and passes through Pisa and Rome.

They appear to have stayed at the prestigious Santa Caterina hotel between Positano and Amalfi, with it's iconic elevator down the cliffside to the pool at sea level. Just two years earlier, the hotel played host to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton after they met on the set of Antony & Cleopatra.

On the trip, they take boat trips along the coast, visit Amalfi, Positano, journey up by mule drawn carriage to the hillside town of Ravello, where they watch one of the annual concerts held at the Villa Rufolo in Wagner's name and we see the musicians sat on the wooden stage built out over the precipitous drop down to the coast below! They also travelled across to the island of Capri and took the chairlift up Monte Solaro in Anacapri, where Fred's Youtube profile photo is from, take a guided tour up Vesuvius and visit Pompeii.

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