Despite it being made some 30 years before I first went to the TT there were still plenty of things in the film that were still going on when I made my first visit in 1964. Bikes being craned on & off the old tall stacked steamers - I first went on the old Lady of Mann which was decomissioned in the early '70s.

Every building on the sea front was a hotel and the huge crowds. And the sun always shone