Clearing Up At Plymouth (1941)

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10 жыл бұрын

Plymouth, Devon.
Various shots of the rescue action after a heavy raid on Plymouth. Mobile kitchens go into action for refugees, rescue workers are aided by naval ratings as they dig through the ruins and try to get the town straight. Several shots of the people leaving the city on foot and in cars, bringing what is left of their belongings with them. A large bus garage is hit, the twisted wreckage of buses seen.
Note - date found in the old record 01/03/1941.
FILM ID:1663.13
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Пікірлер: 23

@rubbishsignup 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing footage and stoic decent people. The damage to Plymouth was immense and sometimes overlooked by commentators. I couldn't recognise any particular area.

@daydays12 2 ай бұрын

Yes. both my parents were in the Royal Navy based in Plymouth during the war

@jaykaye7025 2 жыл бұрын

The British people are a brave nation, people who don't like the British are simply envious

@daydays12 2 ай бұрын

The Ukrainians are too. My heart goes out to them.

@jaywalker3087 7 ай бұрын

During one Armed Forces Day I got talking to an elderly Plymothian woman... She told me of her brother, who at 15 years old , helped dig bodies from the rubble .. 15 !!😮

@daydays12 2 ай бұрын

Yes

@beamboy07 8 ай бұрын

some of those kids our probably the senior residents here in plymouth

@ultimatemagic2125 3 ай бұрын

My grandparents, who are both currently 89, were 6/7 years old then.

@daydays12 2 ай бұрын

Certainly . I hope they are living a happy old age.

@daydays12 2 ай бұрын

A very moving film. My home town of origin..both my parents were in the Royal Navy based in Plymouth during the war. What a disaster for the city. How brave the people were, as the Ukrainians are being now against an evil enemy. What the poor people went through back then. 😞 As children we had no idea what our parents had been through and we played happily on the 'bomb sites' as we called them!

@jimanstey9174 Ай бұрын

You cant be young?

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

@@jimanstey9174 no 😞 I'm 77 now.

@rockabilly375 2 жыл бұрын

We don't know how lucky we are today

@daydays12 2 ай бұрын

We are also lucky not to live in Ukraine...who are bravely defending their country too as my parents helped to defend the UK

@jimanstey9174 Ай бұрын

@@daydays12 What part of Plymouth did you live in during the war?

@daydays12 Ай бұрын

@@jimanstey9174 I was born in 1946. My parents were in the Royal Navy based in Plymouth during the second world war, and I was brought up in Plymouth after the war.

@DrowningInTea 9 жыл бұрын

Amazing footage.

@daydays12 2 ай бұрын

Yes, and very moving...the stoicism and decency

@thebishopmj Жыл бұрын

It looks like North Prospect from the style of the houses

@adrianjewell5995 8 ай бұрын

Swilly, as it was called then!

@chrism7395 3 ай бұрын

1:40 looks like the Devonport end of Keyham with the straight road leading to three story houses on the opposite hill, possibly halfway up Barton Avenue?

@daydays12 2 ай бұрын

@@adrianjewell5995 🙂 Apparently the residents crossed out the 'rth' of North Prospect! Janner humour!