Fun related fact: The Romney, Hythe, and Dymchurch Railway (the ones thats used for some shots in this video) actually had an armoured train during WW2. It was the smallest one in the world, which is kind of what you get when you use a 15-inch gauge railway primarily built for tourists for defence…
@EErail266 ай бұрын
Excellent! Please post more full length programmes like this on the Archive section of iPlayer.
@bardo00076 ай бұрын
They used a video camera here outside instead of the traditional film camera , quite unusual for 1976.
@davem92046 ай бұрын
I read the title as Rodney Marsh! I thought he was a bit young to be in the Battle of Britain 😂
@stephenspence11926 ай бұрын
If he had he would have been transferred to Submarines as I recall he was rather good at diving.
@Baz-Ten6 ай бұрын
@@stephenspence1192 Nein, nie, das war Jürgen Klinsmann
@stephenspence11926 ай бұрын
@@Baz-Ten Lol!
@cricketbatguitar6 ай бұрын
@@stephenspence1192He probably wouldn't have made the RAF then either.....😅
@FrankFalcon-ey9gw6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for thus❤❤😊😊
@Slarti6 ай бұрын
We can see the 1976 heatwave here with all the brown grass throughout Dungeness,
@duncanpoundcake6 ай бұрын
No heatwave in April 1976.
@londo7766 ай бұрын
Still the same now I got out to Eastbourne
@nknguyen28776 ай бұрын
It must have been quite an investment to use videotape back then for a pre-recorded outdoor programme.
@mpf65146 ай бұрын
I thought that as well! The picture quality is great for the era - it looks much more like a late 80s broadcast.
@Plumduff33036 ай бұрын
We had a boggy marsh in our class at school
@Mick_Ts_Chick6 ай бұрын
My daughter had a girl in her class named Holly Wood. Her parents had a weird sense of humor evidently.
@stephfoxwell46206 ай бұрын
We had a lad called Mozam Beak.
@Mick_Ts_Chick6 ай бұрын
@@stephfoxwell4620 Ha! 😂
@fredo10706 ай бұрын
I wish BBC presenters could speak like that today, a cut glass accent. Today they all have nasally voices.
@analogueman1234567876 ай бұрын
In media today, everything HAS to be regionally diverse, or some smart alec will claim discrimination. Innit bro...
@RolandoRatas6 ай бұрын
1:51 that's the very same Spitfire that went down that Valerie Singleton OBE piloted in WW II.
@grrfy6 ай бұрын
Do you mean her father Dennis?
@mrlotusmic6 ай бұрын
Now those little sheds go for for several hundreds of thousands of pounds. Nice place to visit though.
@stevestannard60046 ай бұрын
Lifeboat men way back then weren't bringing in men of fighting age who hate our way of life.
@wimgid6 ай бұрын
Lovely music. Largo from the new world by Dvorak
@john079736 ай бұрын
I wish the BBC produced decent programmes nowadays rather than diverse tripe
@squire76186 ай бұрын
I thought this was going to be about a footballer..
@MartinAhlman6 ай бұрын
Is it true that the rescue service isn't payed by the government? If it isn't, that's a disgrace...
@londo7766 ай бұрын
You have got two coast guard rescue helicopters based at lydd airport which is in the middle of Dungeness and also at the moment coast guard fixed wing assets if I was you I do some research into national lifeboat institution
@analogueman1234567876 ай бұрын
@MartinAhlman - There's more than one way of looking at it. In the UK, the RNLI is a respected, professional and well-supported charitable organisation staffed largely by brave volunteers, who can call upon the assistance of the Royal Navy or RAF as circumstances dictate. If required, the rescue victim will subsequently be treated by the NHS, which is government funded. In other countries however, it's often the opposite, where coastguard and marine rescue is state funded as part of the military or law enforcement, but if the victim requires medical treatment, they'll be presented with a bill if they're uninsured. It's all just a different way of doing things.
@stephfoxwell46206 ай бұрын
Didn't he play for QPR?
@herbz2hot26 ай бұрын
sexy voice
@johnberry52966 ай бұрын
Really disappointed as I thought it said Rodney Marsh
@thankyouforyourcompliance73866 ай бұрын
They were not really fond of bright colours, weren't they. And the guy who showed all the treasures he found over years were not very enthusiastic and looked quite depressed when she cut him off. Strange times. Educated, but somehow melancholic.
@tonys16366 ай бұрын
British stoicism, something that seems to have vanished from the younger generations today.
@analogueman1234567876 ай бұрын
@@tonys1636 - Indeed, and most obvious with the national restrictions as a result of C*v*d in 2020. Older generations were both pragmatic and stoic. The young however took to social media en-mass, bleating how hard done by they were and that they couldn't cope. God help us if a third world war ever kicks off, and we're in dire need of a bit of Dunkirk spirit. 😞