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PADDLE PARADE
VOLUME ONE
A review of the Paddle-Steamer in service from still photographic archives
featuring Bournemouth Pier.
Introduction from Film-Maker BERNARD COX on Paddle-Steamer RYDE
beached on the Isle of Wight.
Colour Films by Bernard Cox 1960 - 1963
(including last voyage of Medway Queen)VOLUME TWO
Colour Films by Bernard Cox filmed 1964 - 1980
Demise of some of the Paddlers
Paddlers moored on the Thames -- 1980
Soliloquy from Ryde
Grande Finale Kingswear Castle and Waverley (from air and sea)
1960
- PRINCESS ELIZABETH on trials
- MONARCH special excursion
- RYDE, SANDOWN
- WHIPPINGHAM in service
- CARDIFF QUEEN excursion
1961
- MONARCH at Weymouth
- RYDE leaving Southampton
- SWANAGE QUEEN during relaunch
- SWANAGE QUEEN excursion
- EMBASSY Golden Jubilee Cruise
- RYDE, WHIPPINGHAM
- SANDOWN in service
1962
- TOTNES CASTLE in service
- PRINCESS ELIZABETH excursion
- SANDOWN,
- BRISTOL QUEEN at Weymouth
1963
- BRISTOL QUEEN, EMBASSY,
- CONSUL laid-up for winter
- CONSUL at Poole
- KINGSWEAR CASTLE in service
- PRINCESS ELIZABETH in service
- MEDWAY QUEEN final excursion
1964
- CONSUL excursion
- EMBASSY Charter Cruise
- PRINCESS ELIZABETH in service
- EMBASSY prior to lay-up
1965
- CONSUL final departure from Weymouth
- KINGSWEAR CASTLE in service
- RYDE, SANDOWN in service
- PRINCESS ELIZABETH excursion
- CARDIFF QUEEN in service
- MEDWAY QUEEN arrives Cowes
1966
- MEDWAY QUEEN as restaurant
- EMBASSY arriving at Bournemouth
1968
- RYDE in service
- DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE during scrapping
- CARDIFF QUEEN during demolition
- EMBASSY,
- PRINCESS ELIZABETH at Weymouth
1969
- TATTERSHALL CASTLE, LINCOLN
- CASTLE, WINGFlELD CASTLE
- In service on the Humber
- RYDE on charter
- PRINCESS ELIZABETH on mud flats
1980
- WAVERLEY, WINGFIELD CASTLE,
- PRINCESS ELIZABETH,
- TATTERSHALL CASTLE,
- CALEDONIA on Thames
1980
- WAVERLEY, WINGFIELD CASTLE,
- PRINCESS ELIZABETH,
- TATTERSHALL CASTLE,
- CALEDONIA on Thame
1997
- EMBASSY,
- PRINCESS ELIZABETH at Weymouth
- EMBASSY leaving Weymouth under tow
- COMPTON CASTLE in service
- DARTMOUTH Paddle-Ferry,
- DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE,
- TOTNES CASTLE in River Dart
1990
- SOLILOQUY, BERNARD COX
From paddle-steamer HYDE Grande Finale KINGSWEAR CASTLE and WAVERLEY in service together near Chatham (spotting Paddle-tug Jonn H. Amos) and Waverley at sea
The unique archive 8mm colour films featured in these videos are part of the extensive collection of shipping and transport films of Bernard Cox, author and founder member of the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, Bernard Cox has written a number of authoritative books on passenger shipping. inciuding: "Paddle Steamers" and "Pleasure Steamers". He has appeared in television and radio interviews on this subject which has been his main hobby for the last 40 years.
Plato Video have combed through Bernard's prolific film output and edited together the very best sequences to bring you two videos which form a tribute to over a century of regular paddle steamer excursions around the coast of Britain.
To put the wnole chronicle in perspective the production commences with a look at the Waverley, the last seagoing passenger paddle steamer in tne UK. The production ends with a celebration of Waverley and Kingswear Castle, the last river-going paddle steamer, with sequences filmed inside the ships, ship to ship and from above by helicopter.
