Royal Navy sailor disembarks on shore leave in Plymouth

I've been trawling the BBC's creative archive site and came across this gem of a clip.

It shows HMS Carisbrooke Castle (K379) a Castle class corvette entering Plymouth and tying up alongside in Devonport dockyard. A couple of matelots go ashore and one of them takes a bus ride into Plymouth via Union Street. As far as I can make out the year is 1954 when Carisbrooke was part of the 2nd Training Squadron, based in Portland.

Evocative stuff, if just a little before my time!

Tim

 

Long long before my time, but still a pleasure to watch.

The lads would be off for a different type of sharking nowadays though :lol:

 

OH for a run ashore in union st again WITH ALL RR people WHAT A RUN ASHORE ?????

 

Ah!!! Those were the days when matlots were a proud bunch and the BBC turned out serious programmes. None of this fly on the wall shite.

Makes me wonder just how the modern generation of matlot would cope with RN life like this.

SF

 

quote="Harry_off_the_Hermes"]I've been trawling the BBC's creative archive site and came across this gem of a clip.

It shows HMS Carisbrooke Castle (K379) a Castle class corvette entering Plymouth and tying up alongside in Devonport dockyard. A couple of matelots go ashore and one of them takes a bus ride into Plymouth via Union Street. As far as I can make out the year is 1954 when Carisbrooke was part of the 2nd Training Squadron, based in Portland.

Evocative stuff, if just a little before my time!

Tim[/quote]


Well before my time :wink: But it was a pleasure to watch. Plymouth (Guzz) was a bloody good run-ashore at anytime :wink:

 

Very nice indeed. The link has appeared in out video links before actually, but it's nice seeing it again. The clip below might be of interest, seemingly following on from the film above, and following one of the sailor's on a train journey...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/calc/aip.shtml?id=1005#

 

Here's one from the Falklands in 1982 - matelots returning home

http://www.bbc.co.uk/calc/aip.shtml?id=1016#

 

Thanks, that was good.
I`m a sucker for all these archives. A time when England was a good country.

 

Liked that also - the Falklands return

 

I've noticed that Blue Peter are putting old video clips on their website (a colleague at work pointed it out to me today) so I have asked them if they'll put up the one of John Noakes going up the Mast at the G-Place - the one where he was too knackered to shin up the pole to the button. If they do I'll add a link.

 

I did wonder whether the link had been posted before, had a quick look but didn't find anything.

I didn't connect the train journey clip to the first one so thanks for that. North Road station was never as empty as that when I was going on leave!

There are a few clips relating to the events 'down south'. Here are all the clips from 1982

Tim

 

Thanks for that --the early ones in Guzz. Real memory jerker and as I remembered it ---in 1958-60 not much changed anyway . Was on a Daring class and I see in the clip the frigate came past one--no pennant numbers though. I was on Delight .


The oilskin instead of the old burberry :lol: :lol: The white hats looked like the plastic ones--- never got them in St Vincent till late 1956 .

The brown case --never used mine for going ashore wiv --the holdall had started to be available in 1957

Yep that was when we had a Navy --lots of it!!

 

I've still got my brown case, use it for keeping all the family papers in.

 

Also a useful place to stash your porn in.

SF

 

There's sad - heaved mine over the side as soon as I could - typical useless bit of brown cardboard, relic from the yearas of oversupply (oversupply? did that really happen? only at times of war deary!)