MrT

Anyone who knows this film with David Thomlinson and Brian Reece may be interested to know that the external shots of the "Harbour Hotel" were filmed in Portsmouth in an area of the old town known as "Spice Island". The scene is very similar today, the "Hotel" is now a trendy bar and the view out towards the water now looks over "Gunwharf Quays" a fairly new shopping and leisure complex which has been built on parts of the old Naval dockyard.

Best wishes
Mike (MrT)

spinalman

Thanks Mr T..I know that area well from years ago..but have not seen the film. I guess this is the bit near the Still and West? It reminds me of a strange co-incidence - 3 months ago I was editing a video for a military museum and was sitting in the edit suite mixing some archive photos that had previously been cut together on tape. One shot came up from the Falklands War, a shot of the Norland Ferry leaving Portsmouth with the Marines on board. The shot did a slow zoom out to reveal a crowd gathered near the still and West in the foreground - I piped up "ah I recognise this - I was near there" and then the shot promptly slowed to a halt with me perfectly framed in the foreground. I had never seen this press photo before.

Paul

Rob Compton

When my wife and I were first married we lived in Southsea (off Albert Road) and we know this area very well - many's the pint drunk in the Still and West!:rolleyes:

rgds
Rob

MrT

The "Harbour Hotel" is diagonally opposite to the "Still and West" which is still thriving and doing well

Best wishes
Mike

spinalman

ah Albert Road...I too lived thereabouts. Festing Road and Waverley Road, drinking at the Fawcett Inn..well actually loads of pubs..students!

Paul

Ady

You bunch of drunks !!!!!

Ady

TO ALL PREVIOUS POSTERS on this topic ;
SMUDGE has sent me a Private Message :-

MY REPLY to Smudge follows :-
Sorry Smudge, but I don't understand. - I am not a 'moderator' (so I can't be pushing it ! ), and I did NOT put a smilie on the comment that I'd typed.
The exact comment was :-
You bunch of drunks !!!!!
- I'd actually forgotten what I'd put, so had to go and read again - and there's no smilie, just five exclaimation marks. If you've seen a smilie on it , then it must have been edited by someone else somehow. ? (- wouldn't someone need my password for that ? ).
I usually try only to use text when typing in forums, for just that reason - sometimes people use ambiguous smilies to infer some vague meaning , instead of precise words!
I agree with you; smilies can often be misinterpreted and, hence, could be called inappropriate . - so I'll post an appology on the thread , incase anyone else receives it with a smilie and is insulted.
Ady. ps - what made you think I was a moderator ?
END of reply

I did some of my Navy training in Portsmouth, and can clearly remember going into the 'Still' on many occasions - but my memories of leaving it are little hazy !!

ANYWAY ! - I think it unlikely that any of you would have been insulted by my "You bunch of drunks !!!!!" comment, especially when the thread is navigating portsmouth by the pubs! - some might even take it as a compliment ! However - if anyone was offended - I sincerely apologise. - perhaps we could have a pint sometime !!! - must dash - I've an appointment with my therapist <- smilie!

JamesM

Ady, I think Smudge meant to type 'Don't you think' not 'Do you think' and wanted to suggest the use of a smilie.

I thought the comment was funny, and it did show Ady had taken an interest in the subject. I cannot imagine it being taken as an insult. Ady was probably amused, as I was, with how the subject of locations quickly became a subject of pubs in the area.

I do not think posting a PM is neccessarily good etiquette though, sorry.

Ady, did you get my PM about the crew of the Miss Marple?

John Llewellyn Moxey

A storm in a pint pot perhaps? John

Ady

AH !! - Making slightly more sense now ! ( well, it was about 2am when I read it )
Nothing that another round won't cure , eh ? 'same again ? lol

Thankyou JamesM for your info on the crew - all good stuff ! ( sorry - I should have thanked you sooner. )

Anyhow, g.t.g. now as I'm ringing for a wedding at 1pm - and that's another excuse for a booze-up - ask any bellringer !

spinalman

I took no offence from the comment, as it was fairly accurate-we were a bunch of drunks! There were always student pubs, and Navy pubs..and never the twain should meet. there were also US Navy pubs..enter at your peril.

Paul

SteveA

I'm interested in the location of the quayside shot with a band playing and passengers disembarking from a coach and two buses. The Southdown Leyland Tiger Cub coach led me to the wildly wrong conclusion that it was Portsmouth, but closer inspection shows the two 'deckers as Maidstone and District, therefore - Chatham?

Steve
Buses on Screen