Don’t miss Britain Afloat on BBC1
A surprisingly good programme on BBC1 about the Thames sailing barge, featuring Nick Ardley and other experts. Many of the beautifully shot scenes are local to the Medway and Swale.
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A surprisingly good programme on BBC1 about the Thames sailing barge, featuring Nick Ardley and other experts. Many of the beautifully shot scenes are local to the Medway and Swale.
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 14th October 2015
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Yes, thanks for advertising. I was a little ‘concerned’ as to how it would come out for all trailers seemed to side with the ‘rosy’ aspects ad racing. This was a little different to the picture I was given when asked to work with them … spent a day aboard the Ardwina doing numerous takes and such in early June. I saw most of it last night but plan to watch on BBC2 (Saturday eve) and was generally impressed.
Mary Ann got me talking about our patch and they did one take on me getting quite choked about my thoughts in comparison to Britain’s so called spots … the Medway Messenger and Gravesend paper had a quote from that…
Most of you know how I feel and I’m sure you all share that view…