40 years ago today the Mary Rose was raised

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I skived off school to watch them raise the Mary Rose.

I've name changed because I've been talking about this in real life.

maryrose.org/recovering-the-mary-rose/

I remember it being a very big deal (I grew up in the area too) it doesnt seem that long ago.

I did a history project on it as well and visiting the Victory.

Not been though since it is in its new spot and the water jets arent on anymore

I couldn't believe it was 40 years.

I've never been I'd love to go.

Crikey, I feel old now 😁

I was off sick from school so watched it - and then when it opened to the public we visited and some minimum wage in pirate suits made the kids walk the plank a plank of wood across the jetty lest you fall 3” to your death.

This is the first thing I remember watching on TV, apart from the royal wedding. I thought that yellow grid thing was the ship! I was very confused.

We’ve been twice, once ages ago and much more recently. Incredibly interesting but also so sad - those poor men, and the pathetic remains of some of their belongings.
To me a must-see, though.

I remember it too. The exhibition is excellent! It looks completely different now to how I remember it on Blue Peter! Thoroughly recommend visiting it.

I remember school setting up a TV we could see through a window from the playground and being glued to it as it lifted.

I remember seeing it on Blue Peter and being very disappointed that it didn't look much like a ship!

Nooo! How old am I to remember it so well.

I remember being really excited at the time - and still excited 15 or so years ago to take DC to see it.

Unfortunately, it was a little disappointing and the DC were hugely underwhelmed. Still remains an incredible project though.

We went down to the seafront after school to see it on its barge. The new visitor centre is amazing, when we went they were in the last stages of spraying it and it was still covered in black tubes, I want to go back and see it again now that has all been removed.

Ex H and I were watching and both went 'oh no, shit,' when the frame slipped.

Haha same. I actually only realised my mistake as an adult 🤣

Should you ever find yourself in Stockholm they might be more impressed with this

www.vasamuseet.se/en

I think what impresses me so much about the Mary Rose is not so much the ship itself (although still amazing) but the sheer amount of preservation and investigation they have done about the crew and the wider society they lived in.

I don't remember it being raised, not quite old enough but I do remember it being a massive deal on Blue Peter, fundraising I think? It was a load of rotten looking wood being sprayed with showers.

I was lucky enough to work on the new museum a few years ago, it was fascinating, and well worth a visit.

They wheeled the TV (one of those in a wooden cabinet on a trolley) into the assembly hall at my Junior school so the whole school could watch it!

@AnApparitionQuipped I was going to say that! They rolled the big old television into the hall and whole junior school sat and watched it together

Wonder if a lot of schools did this - it was a major event as I recall. I also remember the heavy coverage on Blue Peter.

I'm another one who remembers being at primary school and being taken with my class to the school house to watch it.
Best part though, which made me laugh, is that my grandson's class are doing a project on the Mary Rose and when I explained to him that I had watched it being raised live on the TV he replied "so are you as old as the Mary Rose Nanna?".🤣🤣🤔
Darling grandson went to school the next day and I gave him some of the old news papers that my dad had kept in the loft along with my school project on the Mary Rose.
I've now been invited to his class on Friday to join his class to watch it being raised again and to share my/their experience with them.
My grandson and his class will be the same age I was when it was first raised.

You should go back. The new exhibition is much better.

I was 5 and my mum & dad kept me home to watch it because it was such a historic event. I was fascinated by it.

We went to the museum this past summer holidays. It is simply incredible. Now also you can walk out onto a balcony above the Mary Rose. You go through a set of doors that has an airlock arrangement (because it is in a controlled atmosphere) and you can stand there in the same room and really look at it. It's a terrific museum. The DCs loved it (plus they loved their cute little soft toy Hatch dogs they both bought).

Ooh interesting that its differently presented now. Before you just had to look through small windows. Sounds much better now.

I wasn't alive when it was raised, but one of my first school trips was to the Mary Rose... I seem to remember actually being able to go part of the way into the dry dock where it was continually being sprayed, and being quite unhappy as it was noisy/cold/damp/didn't look much like a ship - I would only have been about 5 years old!

Thankfully I've been able to go a few more times over the years and my appreciation for it has grown significantly. It's a marvel of archeology and an amazing Tudor time capsule, I was there a few weeks ago with my youngest.

Omg memories I vividly remember seeing it on John Craven's Newsround!!