... of documentary. A series of films portraying issues, institutions and individuals. Union Street
It is the thoroughfare that links sober, respectable
Plymouth with Royal Naval Devonport, and it is known with affection all over the world. Even in Hong Kong or San Francisco mention of Union Street will ignite a twinkle in a sailor's eye.
For Union Street represents the older traditions of Plymouth. Before naval ratings got caught up in 0- and A-levels, it was where Jack went for his run ashore, and it was where the pubs and clubs and girls of the town were waiting to part him from his money. There used to be a railway bridge over Union Street just where it meets Plymouth proper.
Respectable people never went under that bridge.
Today the bridge has been demolished - and buried in the dust and rubble went much of the street's lurid past. But a flavour of the old days still remains - enough to glimpse a fleeting shadow of what was once the Reeperbahn of the Devon Riviera. Film cameramen
JOHN WARWICK , ALEX HANSEN Film recordists
ERIC WOODWARD, GRAHAM RODGER Film editor PHIL WILKINSON
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Producer DAVID PRITCHARD