A very interesting episodre Alan.. well put together and the sound effects and voice overs really gave it a an authentic feel. Enjoyable watch. atb Alan
This is a wonderful documentary of a very interesting time in History. The Western approaches museum is impressive to say the least. The addition of the applicable sound effects / audio clips make one feel the drama of what it must have been like to be there. It brings back memories of my time served as a signaler in the army. Really enjoyable to watch, very well done. Hello from South Africa.
Hello South Africa! Thank you for the kind words, it was my intention to try and communicate the wartime atmosphere, so I hope it serves just a little to thank those who gave everything during wartime.
what a fantastic video Alan - and so professionally well made. If there's any YT justice it'll get many many more views. In common with Liverpool, my home city of Swansea was subject to a 3-night blitz in February 1941. My mother (who was 15 at the time - I was a very late surprise in their lives!)) told me that how being severely claustrophobic she point-blank refused to go into the Anderson shelter in the garden, preferring instead to watch the searchlights from the ack-ack emplacement about 100 yards from their home and witnessing the bombers overhead and the fires from the docks and town centre 5 miles away. My father, who had just joined the South Wales Borderers was stationed in Swansea centre temporarily, and had to obviously help during the bombings. He told me on one of the nights he returned to their HQ (which was unbelievably above FW Woolworth's) only to find it not there any more! Sliding doors there - I might not have been here had things gone differently! In 1944 my mother (who also had polio from a young age) then went to work in a factory in Birmingham, while my father was fighting in Burma. "Brave" doesn't come close in my opinion. It's so, so important that we remember our history and where we come from. It sickens today to have to watch that farce in Westminster yesterday. Can you really imagine that lot in a war?
Your comments are really appreciated Nick! For such a short film, it took me ages to compile it all so if it captured the atmosphere then I regard it as a success. As for your own family history, well - your father was a South Wales Borderer (the unit involved at Rorke's Drift , not that your dad was there!), an amazing regiment. Burma is known as the forgotten war and I personally knew someone who was captured at the fall of Singapore. Bravery doesn't cover it IMO.
Not sure if you had any relatives serving there Pauline? If so maybe contact the Imperial War Museum as I'm sure they will have records of personnel who were stationed there.
The photo on the steps of the Cathedral is of great significance in my opinion, showing them all together, in one group photograph.
Excellent
I totally agree, people whose efforts went untold during the conflict brought together for that ceremony and captured in that image.
Great video in every sense of the word, excellent job.
Much appreciated!
A very interesting episodre Alan.. well put together and the sound effects and voice overs really gave it a an authentic feel. Enjoyable watch. atb Alan
Thank you Alan, it was a lot of work for such a short film!
This is a wonderful documentary of a very interesting time in History. The Western approaches museum is impressive to say the least. The addition of the applicable sound effects / audio clips make one feel the drama of what it must have been like to be there. It brings back memories of my time served as a signaler in the army. Really enjoyable to watch, very well done. Hello from South Africa.
Hello South Africa! Thank you for the kind words, it was my intention to try and communicate the wartime atmosphere, so I hope it serves just a little to thank those who gave everything during wartime.
what a fantastic video Alan - and so professionally well made. If there's any YT justice it'll get many many more views.
In common with Liverpool, my home city of Swansea was subject to a 3-night blitz in February 1941. My mother (who was 15 at the time - I was a very late surprise in their lives!)) told me that how being severely claustrophobic she point-blank refused to go into the Anderson shelter in the garden, preferring instead to watch the searchlights from the ack-ack emplacement about 100 yards from their home and witnessing the bombers overhead and the fires from the docks and town centre 5 miles away.
My father, who had just joined the South Wales Borderers was stationed in Swansea centre temporarily, and had to obviously help during the bombings. He told me on one of the nights he returned to their HQ (which was unbelievably above FW Woolworth's) only to find it not there any more!
Sliding doors there - I might not have been here had things gone differently!
In 1944 my mother (who also had polio from a young age) then went to work in a factory in Birmingham, while my father was fighting in Burma. "Brave" doesn't come close in my opinion.
It's so, so important that we remember our history and where we come from.
It sickens today to have to watch that farce in Westminster yesterday. Can you really imagine that lot in a war?
Your comments are really appreciated Nick! For such a short film, it took me ages to compile it all so if it captured the atmosphere then I regard it as a success. As for your own family history, well - your father was a South Wales Borderer (the unit involved at Rorke's Drift , not that your dad was there!), an amazing regiment. Burma is known as the forgotten war and I personally knew someone who was captured at the fall of Singapore. Bravery doesn't cover it IMO.
@@photographyforenjoyment I used to visit the regiment's museum in Brecon regularly. It's a fantastic place laced with history and pride.
Can anyone name their relative on the photo on the steps of the Cathedral please?
Hi Pauline, thank you for watching and posing the question. I will put a notice up on the channel and see if it generates a response for you
Many of the personnel who served at Derby House would have come from all over the country
Not sure if you had any relatives serving there Pauline? If so maybe contact the Imperial War Museum as I'm sure they will have records of personnel who were stationed there.