Description:"Sir Francis Drake and a considerable chunk of the armada was so good…with a very tall mast. The thing was it didn’t have any means of going under the bridge….so….seeing the bridge coming she said to the not terribly well organised crew “whoops bridge coming” and we lowered the mast.
I do remember the capstan, super capstan, which Paul Stocking built and he built for reality. It was huge but unfortunately it wasn’t attached to a bit of the lorry and so the not very large sailors were racing round the back of the lorry following the capstan and trying to keep it on the lorry while at the same time lowering the mast under the bridge. It was quite realistic though, we only need a few pirates boarding and we would have been away."
ANITA HALLIDAY