Howards Way

Scubadoo said:
FYI, mine has the option to Auto or manually adjust aspect ratio, a dedicated button on the remote, maybe you have one or it is more convoluted through the menu.
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You were right. It was buried in an advanced setting in an illogical place. It was set to auto. Now set to 16:9 it displays properly broadcast 4:3 shows properly (with the black bars) rather than knowing better and mucking it up!
 
I was a young child when this first aired and I used to watch it with my parents.

I grew up near Hythe Marina and remember it being built. Also Christopher Cockerell’s house was just round the corner from it. It’s slowly being demolished now sadly.

Have started to re-watch it(weirdly I wasvisiting my parents when we saw it was on so it was strange watching it in the same room as we did originally but decades later!).

Only seen the first few episodes again so far.

Nostalgia!
 
chrishscorp said:
The Floating restaurant in the Elephant boat yard has at the back of the seating area the original sign for the Mermaid Boat yard if your ever passing and the food was good the last time we were there.
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I moved that restaurant (which was the old Itchen ferry) from deacons to elephant a few years back. I was in Deacons with Nick the yard manager and he asked for a hand. Used a little workboat with an outboard. Lots and lots of revs, slack tide and furious pushing from various angles! It was huge compared with our little boat.
 
st599 said:
A COVID casualty I'm afraid.
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Thats a shame quite quirky and good food :(

Elessar said:
I moved that restaurant (which was the old Itchen ferry) from deacons to elephant a few years back. I was in Deacons with Nick the yard manager and he asked for a hand. Used a little workboat with an outboard. Lots and lots of revs, slack tide and furious pushing from various angles! It was huge compared with our little boat.
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Yes it wasnt small, So what has happened to it since its closed, do you know ?
 
It also features a very young Antony Head as a cad!
(Prime Minister in Little Britain, "Giles" in Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
 
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Elessar said:
I moved that restaurant (which was the old Itchen ferry) from deacons to elephant a few years back. I was in Deacons with Nick the yard manager and he asked for a hand. Used a little workboat with an outboard. Lots and lots of revs, slack tide and furious pushing from various angles! It was huge compared with our little boat.
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Perhaps Nick and his outboard could get a contract to run the Cowes chain ferry? Sounds like would do a much better job
 
Time Out said:
Chris Coleman who owned Quay Marine at the time was not a million miles off Ken !

There was a recent Twitter appreciation club for the series last time it ran. Ken and his wife Jan ( married in true life!) contributed here and there.
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I was an apprentice for Chris Coleman at Quay Marine at the time. Filming was always done on a Sunday at the yard and the traffic was stopped on the A27 on evey take. Ken masters character was based on Chris Collman . Chris's Sealine dealership made him alot of money, as Sealine were selling like hot cakes from the publicity of the series.
 
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