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Great story, great production. I really love this look at the George III statue, which was part of my childhood and youth. Enjoyed the final comments:-)) Will share this with my son in the U.S., especially on July 4. Thank you so much.

Fabulous I'm so glad you did this Stuart as I couldn't get there! I hadn't thought of them being the only ones in Dorset but of course they are!

It would be nice if they had sails & generated power.

Amazing filming Stuart!

You really do some fine work 👍

I make a point of visiting the castle whenever I come to Weymouth. Beautiful memories there with the love of my life 💏

Fabulous, nice touch with Greensleeves!

Beautifully done Stuart and the narration is excellent. I can't imagine how long this must have taken to put everything together. So much has changed since I left in 1973, but the charm of the town has remained.

Nicely done Stuart. Brings back memories of the old Castle Cove Sailing club and moorings.

Stayed in the heights hotel only a few weeks back great views

Great video share the love of Weymouth , king George was obviously a great king ! 👍 Hope the statue stays bright and colourful forever 🥰

Red sunset sky delight.

Super impressive I love how the drum sounds great job young ladies keep it up warriors 👍🏻💖💯💖👍🏻

Served on HMS Verulam based at Portland. Enjoyed this deployment. Did work up at Portland when serving on HMS Kent.

Could have given them a choice. Evacuate or go and help the disposal people, Would have helped their decisions.

Thank you for this Stuart 😊

I was born and brought up in Weymouth, living there 1955 till 1979. I’ve now learnt a lot more about my home town. Brilliant bit of work Stuart, thank you.

I really enjoyed this fascinating video, thank you. It should be mandated for all visitors to Weymouth!

A great documentary. So much information in part 1 and 2. I've just got back from a week in Weymouth and spent a good part of it walking and exploring Portland. A beautiful place.

I remember 1978 ,what a mess 😮i was working on a crab boat owned by colin horne ,he ran the kings arms in weymouth and i used to play in the folk band called ARISH MELL and we played in the kings arms a lot and supported our life boat ,i now live in the virgin isles getting old now but happy memories 😊😊😊

Weymouth has lost its soul no condor no events all there is to do is drink and eat no entertainment

So lovely, but I’m afraid the earth didn’t move for me!

We are gathered here today to honour & remember the 649 or so US sailors & soldiers who lost their lives whilst involved in the DDay - Utah beach practice landings named Exercise Tiger whilst aboard Convoy T4 which included 8 US Landing Ship Tanks, escorted by a solitary British Corvette HMS Azealia. The tragedy took place 12 - 16 miles off Portland Bill 80 years ago during the early hours of April 28th 1944. 9 fast German E boats armed with torpedo's attacked the convoy quickly sinking LST's 507 & 531 causing great loss of life. LST 239 was also torpedoed & badly damaged, suffering more dead & wounded but stayed afloat. LST 511 was mistakenly hit by so called friendly fire, fired from her sister ship LST 496 resulting in even more men being wounded. Surviving LST's 511, 496, 499 & 58 quickly sought shelter & moored up as instructed in Chesil Cove. Due to flat calm sea conditions, this offered the opportunity to unload recovered dead & wounded onto small landing craft which the LST's carried & transfer onto the beach before being transported to the Portland Military Hospital located in the Naval dock yard. It is worth noting these men would have passed along the very road alongside this beautiful park where you stand today. The relevent LST war diaries & post attack official reports reveal survivors received their debrief & triage within a large red brick building nearby to Portland Castle. I believe this could possibly be the very same building which is currently being used by the Castletown DDay Centre. LST 515 travelled around the island & entered the Portland Naval Dock yard where she unloaded many more recovered dead to join more dead who over several days were being washed up onto Chesil beach in Chesil cove. Those requiring further medical care were sent to military hospitals elsewhere whilst the dead were transported to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. Here they would be joined by those who had lost their lives on LST 239 which on conclusion of the attack had been escorted by HMS Azealia to Dartmouth. On conclusion of the war, those being requested by the NOK would be reinterred in the US. All others would eventually be reinterred within the US National Cemetery at Cambridge. Those who went down with their ships to this day remain on eternal watch in Portland's home waters. It is just & correct that we honour & remember them all today. I have named this résumé 'Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day'. This being in tribute & recognition of the incredible dark humour that we humans are able to call upon when faced with near certain death or adversity. Please allow me to explain: Eye witness account: William Holland, survivor of the doomed LST 531 reported that whilst sharing a life raft with a dead man as dawn broke, he listened in disbelief as another group of survivors in the distance were singing, 'Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day'...... Typical of we US people he wrote later in his memoirs. In 1985 during a survivors reunion held at the Continental Hotel in Chicago, 'Oklahoma' which included 'Oh what a beautiful morning Oh what a beautiful day' was deliberately placed onto the hotel gramophone, As it played out, Wendall Hopper flashbacked to the moment he had witnessed that spontaneous outbreak of singing against such a backdrop of death & destruction during that morning of April 28th 1944. For 41 years he had heard it whilst travelling down the Illinois & Mississippi rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic & of course in the English Channel. For 41 years he had been unable to listen to this song without breaking into smiles & tears. Now he and all present during that particular reunion did likewise but this time they smiled & cried together as one!! Lest they forget. Sources Declassified Exercise Convoy T4 LST's, Commanders & ships war diary reports. Channel Firing by Nigel Lewis. Chris Lock BEM Royal Tank Regiment Association Bournemouth Poole & District Branch. .............................................

Brilliant video Stuart. Well done & thank you!! 👍💪🍻

I like this place as a kid i did find the cat in the first bit scary as a child.

Great to see a more indepth video of the rotor bunker. Have visited a few of these now museums. Thoroughly enjoyed 👍

I remember the wasps in the 70's when they flew over our caravans at Blue Waters Park

I was an Airfield Firefighter 🧑‍🚒 at RNAS Portland in the 70s and would train every Monday morning in full firefighting gear running out hoses . It was always hard going 2 steps forward n 3 back on the pebbles. Getting the waters edge was always hard going as the sea seemed to know what we was trying to accomplish and come in very slowly . The only actual Crash Off The Airfield was a Wasp Helicopter close to the airfield. I was a Crash Driver and when we got to recorded Crash Site there was no helicopter. The wasp 🐝 managed to get limp back to the Airfield. This was in 1976.

Thanks 4 this podcast; straight out of le Carre's George Smiley

Wow amazing, even the fact that they can stay stood like that is brilliant never mind drum as well, these are so good, I wonder how many still play the drums all these years later x

Sad to see the Lighthouses being de-staffed and in some cases, torn down.

Wow that was a trip down memory lane. My parents used to take me and my brother there everytime we went to Weymouth on holiday back in the 90’s. Shame it’s closed as my kids would have absolutely loved that

Fascinating thank you for posting. I was on HMS Hampshire for her first posting abroad although I left the ship 1 day before she sailed. We did a work up in Portland. Then in civilian life I frequently visited the port representng a company supplying hoses and fittngs to the telecom ships. I have learned a lot that I didn't know. The shots of Prince Andrew are particularly interesting. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Such a stupid individual

I'm now 92 but was stationed here from winter 1955 to april 1957.RAF JT Ground radar engineer. Have one or two photoa from the top of the tower.

My parents owned a holiday cottage in Brandy Row they purchased it very cheap as it used to flood before the sea defence wall was built so we had nothing like that then but looking at this video it probably did suffer from a flood..

The Low Head Lighthouse in Australia still has their Diaphone Foghorn Type G set to sound once a week at noon

Fabulous thanks Stuart, a mystery (to many of us) solved!

Superb, well done indeed.

Great vid Stuart

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Went there back in the dark ages and it still stay in my mind today, just amazing models 👍

The storm in late 1989 did a lot more damage to the Cove house Inn. I know because myself and my mate spent nearly 4 months there repairing the damage to the inside top floor down to the cellar 😮

Years later, I'm back to this video as a fellow taiko player and the group I train with plays the song at 5:39. It's called Kenka Yatai! 😍

Thanks for uploading! Loved the whole of Brewers Quay and was so happy to see the bike with the train, seemed to have spent hours on that thing over the years

Good old,bakers Ground …gone now . I used to work with wynns fair when I was a kid … I remember that bloke on the cyclone… near by there was the eggs and space .😂

What a fantastic documentary. Thank you for uploading 👍🏻

Thank you for sharing this with us, I live in Suffolk and regularly come down fishing Chesil beach and especially the cove, amazing footage when you consider the difference between a flat calm sea and the storms. Having been there you can appreciate how BIG the waves were to overtop, I’ve been there in a force 7-8 SW but nowhere near those shown. Once again thank you 👏👏👏

Thank you for uploading this. I sadly lost my grandad and have lots of fond memories here with him when I was a little girl 🤍❤️

Thankyou for filming this, I am not sure I am brave enough to try it so nice to live it vicariously x