Mary Rose 41st Anniversary
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00:00 I'm Dominic Jones, I'm the Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust
00:03 and you're here outside the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
00:08 Excellent, and what's happening today? I understand it's the anniversary?
00:12 Today is the 41st anniversary of the Mary Rose being raised from the sown.
00:17 It was an incredible spectacle, watched by over 60 million people on TV,
00:22 the first ever underwater broadcast.
00:25 And today we're celebrating that, we've invited anyone with the name of Mary or Rose
00:29 to come in the museum for free, but also we're giving it a chance to tell the story
00:33 about the raising, finding and excavating of the Mary Rose,
00:36 one of the biggest Tudor collections in the world and biggest maritime salvations ever.
00:41 It's such an incredible story.
00:44 It's been so incredible to invite people with the name Mary or Rose to come to the Mary Rose,
00:48 we even had one Rosemary, but what we had was people who've never been to the museum before,
00:53 people who hadn't been to the museum since they were a child,
00:56 people who remember going to the Mary Rose with their parents who are no longer with us.
01:00 And it's been a nice emotional moment of sharing today with so many Mary's and Roses.
01:05 We were overwhelmed. We had a queue at one point, half the side of the museum
01:09 with Mary's and Roses waiting to get in on this amazing 41st anniversary of the raising.
01:14 OK, so my name's Beverly Mary Rose and I'm down at the historic dockyard at the Mary Rose exhibition.
01:21 I've been invited down today as a special chemical renovation co-author of the raising of the Mary Rose from 21 years ago.
01:29 I saw it advertised and thought, "Great, why don't I come down and have a look around
01:34 and take most of the opportunities?" So here I am.
01:37 Absolutely, so it's a free ticket for anybody who called Mary Rose as well, so all the best.
01:41 It is a free ticket because they were clearly looking for Mary Roses to come for, and Mary's and Roses.
01:47 And so is it your first time here or have you been here before?
01:52 I came here before this museum, when they first raised the Mary Rose, when they had a show
01:58 and you could look over the balcony and there was still spray.
02:01 It was quite a few years ago now, and I haven't been here since it's been renovated to look 20 years today.
02:08 I became a Rose when I married in 1984. That was two years after they had raised the Mary Rose in the seabed.
02:16 So as you can imagine, I got a lot of quips when I was just getting married about becoming an old wreck
02:22 and whether or not I'd be renovated. So here I am.
02:26 My wife.
02:29 Yeah.
02:30 And I'm Rose's mum.
02:31 And guys, what brings you to the Mary Rose today?
02:34 Because I'm a Rose.
02:36 It's my first time here as well. We came today, I think it's 41 years since the ship was raised.
02:43 So they're doing the offer where Rose can come for free and have her photo taken.
02:47 And you really wanted to come, didn't you?
02:49 Yes.
02:50 Excellent. And so how has it been for you so far?
02:53 Is there anything about particularly today that you enjoyed?
02:56 We've not looked around much yet, but I did like the ship's dock. I thought that was really cool.
03:02 I like the ship.
03:04 You like the ship.
03:06 Yeah.
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