Treasured video <3

I’ve met Kermit Weeks. It went to a good home

Lancashire had a thriving cricket league before WW2 and each club would have a professional player and the majority were from the West Indies. There's a good documentary about it on KZbin. So I'm thinking the Lancashire folk who were in awe of the size strength and skills of the professional players and made lifelong friends with them quite rightly saw the black GI's for what they were. Men that had travelled half way round the world to help us keep the Angry painter out.

Shirley looks same as it was nothing so much change.

This was my beautifull home town, it is ruined now, it is called “Progress”. 😢☹️

very interesting

So nice to see footage of one on the original line!

I really don't like that opening text. How exactly was "the greed that built the Titanic" different to the "greed" that built any other transatlantic ocean liner? If Titanic is such a symbol of capitalistic greed, why why aren't larger ocean liners like Majestic, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Normandie, United States, France, Queen Elizabeth 2 and Queen Mary 2 looked upon with the same disdain? The fact that it ended in disaster is not the fact that the ship was built in the first place. The odds were stacked against Titanic, which exasperated the poor understanding of how a liner of her size was to be evacuated in a disaster. It's arrogance to an extent, yes, there was some feeling of being too big to fail. But equally, you can only learn through experience. Like every piece of health and safety legislation under the sun, unfortunately, it's written in blood.

US Navy should have maintained the ship. It's a national embarrassment the state the ship has fallen into.

It was a dump then,and it's a dump now

Never forget!

I’m sure my grandad was on one of these boats. He was in India and Burma

Memories… the Hamble canteen was fantastic. As hungry apprentices we would race up there for lunch every day. 40p went a long way in 1979.

Wow so interesting!!

Around about the time of this film, I had just moved to the general area. And was invited onto the original Queen Elizabeth to wish bon voyage to someone or other. (From where I am now, I have not the slightest idea who they were or anything about why.) Had a lot of walking round the ship - seeing inside a cabin, a gym, past a sick bay, outside decks, ending up in a large lounge area - eating pretzels which were in a knot shape. And then off, and hanging around the Ocean Terminal for a while. Also remember the boat trains. We'd see some of them going towards Southampton, and the railway track embedded in a few bits of road. Just missed the steam-hauled ones. For the rest of my years in the area, everything seemed to be about containerisation and increasing oil capacity (and ship sizes) to be refined down Southampton Water at Fawley.

this changed my life

I lived at Netley and was in the choir at the hospital Chapel late 50s

A round bilged boat can be every bit as fully planing as a hard chined boat. Moreover there are full displacement boats that are hard chined as well. The planing or full displacement characteristics rely on other design aspects than whether their bilges are round or hard chined.

I had a long lost friend whom I am trying to contact and trying to find the family who lived in Twyford avenue in the name of the Wilton family in the late eighties and early ninety’s is their anyone would know the family name and any idea where my have moved to I would like to correspond with them once again does anybody remember this family who could help me

Interesting and informative. Thanks!

This was the first year of my apprenticeship at Vosper Thornycroft as a model maker. Mr Jack Rhodes was my boss. Good Times.

Thank you for posting, my wife was Christened onboard at the launch

my mother worked there making wings for the spitfire she was only 17 years old unfortunately one night she was hit by shrapnel when a mine hit the tram lines in burgess rd her boyfriend with her was killed his name was fred wallace they carried the killed and injured and placed them in the stile inn they thought my mother was dead fortunately someone saw her move she never spoke of this incidence till she over 75 years old when she told me about it? god bless her she passed away in 2010 my name is barry her eldest son now aged 79 this year.

Excellent video - However, one minor misunderstanding - The AW Ensign was not meant to replace the Empire Flying boats but to supplement them. The flying boats were supposed to take passengers over the Mediterranean and then hand them over to the Ensigns for the overland bit over the Middle East and India before they transferred back to flying boats for the rest of the trip out to Australia. However, the original AS Tiger engines could not give the Ensigns the performance for the hot and high conditions in the Middle East. Later, during WW2, after they had been fitted with Wright Cyclone engines they ended up covering that same route quite successfully. It was always meant that some of the Ensigns, fitted out for more passengers, would do European routes, linking capital cities, and before the war they operated between Croydon and Paris briefly.

Awesome Plane’s, Biggest rotary engines!! Cool.

Emigrated to SA on her in 1973. A lot of memories…

I wonder what month this was taken. My wife's great-grandmother repatriated back to the UK on Aquitania (from New York), arriving in So'ton on the 2nd of July 1935.

what happened to them????

My dad was a pharmacist on the ship during WWII. He spoke about some of the things discussed in this video. Turning the lights out on the entire ship, , coming back to New York when the war was over, etc. Thank you for posting! Really puts the things he told us into perspective.

I’m currently researching this at the moment and have an ink pot I believe to be inscribed with E.M does anyone know what this means

😅 happy memories Southampton is nothing like it. Now

2023 Very happy memories Southampton had everything right in those days

Would love to see some photos or video of MTB 344, aka “little pisser” used by the Small scale raiding forces in the Channel Islands by Gus march-Phillips and company

Remember it well We were all at the Shirley terminus bottom of Angelsy Rd waiting for last one.and when the conductress placed the trolley first time we all cheered. Good old days.😎

Where is this. My family are from thorney hill.

It’s harsh to describe somebody who didn’t get a scholarship to Winchester via the Election (academic) scholarship exams as having ‘failed’ them. Most boys who sit them don’t get either a scholarship into the scholars’ house (College), or an exhibition (where they choose to join another house but still get (less) money off). The exams are very competitive indeed and I can’t imagine many of the people who come in right at the top would be good fits for politics anyway.

The Avro factory with the square tower was destroyed by fire in 1973. It was part of the Petter’s site with only the Social Club and Canteen building remaining (originally the Drawing Office and Control Tower).

Get rid of that music.

Do you have any info on poplar house 1840 my great great grandparents ran Everitts classical, mathematical and commercial boarding and day school. Cheers

As I child in the 1960s old MTBs and MGBs were a common enough sight even on rivers such as the Thames; sold as military surplus and bought with the intention of converting them into houseboats.

Nothing lasts forever.

I was on this flight! Amazing! 😊😊

My dad worked on Sunderlands in the far East During the latter stages of WW2.

Nice to find this.

I enjoyed this brief video with its well written and well delivered commentary, so I thank you for it. Have you considered doing something similar about the rest of the airfield at Hamble? I know about the period when it was the base for the Armstrong Siddeley (AWA's sister company) subsidiary Air Service Training and also that during the Second World war it was a major centre for the repair of damaged Supermarine (another video?) Spitfires, and after the war its use as a scrapyard/recycling centre for Spitfires and many other aircraft, but I am a lot less well informed about Folland Gnat production.

mayoress mrs dibben? wasn't there a builder's merchant's called dibben?

lol, given the quality of the commentary no wonder they stopped service. "limpid water" "not charming but it is charming" har har. and isn't that "queen mary" queen elizabeth, i've been on the mary.

"not for their beauty, but for their appearance" english has changed so much since i were a lad.

pity these clips can't be restored.

This is wonderful! I remember making blueprints for1-3 person mono or dual-hulled sailboat with wings. Core memory unlocked. Cheers