Colin Clarke – Early memories of Gosport

Well, I wouldn’t have left the Base that much in those early days ‘cos it would have all been a lot of training, even on Saturday mornings and things like that.

The initial Basic Training was 6 weeks in the Submarine School back then, so I didn’t probably go in to Gosport that much in those early days.

Occasionally one of the things I used to do, they used to have some recreation equipment, some canoes, and at the weekends, you could take those out and go canoeing round what is Fareham Lake and Creek as it were, so that was quite nice, but actually I didn’t really use the Town at all in those early days to my recollection.

Simon: You’re focused on training.

Colin: It was yeah, and of course at that time, I’m still a Junior, so Pubs were kind of out of bounds’ish as it were.