🎬BBC South 50 years: Episode 7 The Mary Rose. A series of 19 mini-features made by BBC South at Southampton in 2011 to celebrate the station's 50 year history.

Episode 7 The Mary Rose. One of a series of features which celebrate BBC South's 50 years of broadcasting. Sally Taylor recalls the raising of Henry VIII's flagship from The Solent in 1982.

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🎬British Movietone - SHORT VERSION - Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were bridesmaids at the wedding of Patricia Mountbatten to Lord Brabourne. The streets of Romsey were crowded with onlookers trying to catch a glimpse of the various members of the Royal Family who attended the wedding of Earl Mountbatten's eldest daughter.


British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬British Movietone - GV Beaulieu House (key). MS old Renault car brings bride. Photographers. MS bride steps from car. CU pan - bride being led to church. GV church MS to CU Lord Montagu & bride. SCU sweep kisses bride. MS onlookers. MS bride & groom look out of car window. SGV Beaulieu seen through archway. SCU bride & groom toast with champagne.

🎬British Movietone - This was Romsey on the day of the wedding: Winter had come to Hampshire. But in spite of the snow, the people of Romsey wanted to see everybody and everything! Seen arriving was Kenneth More, one of the many guests. Then, the arrival of the Royal Family at the station. It was an exciting event for the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne who was to be a bridesmaid for the first time. Next, the arrival at Romsey Abbey: the bridegroom, Mr David Hicks, came with Lord Brabourne, his best man, and the bride, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, with her father, Earl Mountbatten of Burma. After the marriage service, "Broadlands", the Mountbatten home, was the scene of the first reception. There had to be two, so many people wanted to wish the happy pair good luck!

British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.

🎬British Pathé – The Beaulieu Jazz Festival and Old Time Dancing competition in London. Full title reads: "Beaulieu. Youth Has A Fling". Beaulieu House, Hampshire. The Last Beaulieu Jazz Festival. GV Beaulieu Palace. Various good shots of beatniks - the young people in odd clothes waiting for music. Shots of bands playing. Shots of Lord Montagu watching music and crowds. Intertitle reads: "London" London. Lyceum Ballroom. Interior shots of young people performing Old Time Dancing in a competition. Various shots of old time dancing. Winners are presented with cup by Nellie Warren

🎬British Pathé – A look at the exterior of Fawley oil refinery in Southampton, Hampshire. Fawley refinery. Southampton, Hampshire. Various shots of oil tanker in dock with pipes running from it, camera pans across to oil refinery where the crude oil goes. C/U pipes. Various good exterior shots of the refinery. M/S steam rising out of pipe. L/S flare stack which burns off excess gases