Colin Clarke – Sadness of the state of disrepair

Then there’s also the sadness of HMS Dolphin, the spiritual home of Submarine Flotilla, in the state of disrepair it’s in today.

I used to love, sitting on the sea walls in the summer, just walking down the sea wall, you know, to the Fort area from the Submarine School area at the top. Just a great place to walk around and the little Yacht Pool in the middle of it where people have got a few boats moored up, just great fun.

A very homely, comforting kind of Establishment, very much a place to belong, you know, without a shadow of doubt, but now, and it’s been like it for many years since the Submariners moved out, it’s all just left and decaying and yeah, it’s sad.

But everything changes, so.