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Bombay To Elwick Bay
 | Price: £7.95 Supplier: Bellavista Publications |
Captain Bill Dennison was owner and master of the coaster Elwick Bay and his wife Sylvia was the cook. They were also gifted story-tellers, who wrote two books of very entertaining stories of life on the Elwick Bay and Bill Dennison's earlier experiences in the Royal Navy. The excerpt below is from Sylvia's account of what happened when the Elwick Bay was featured in the BBC2 documentary series, Look Stranger. She remarked that the title amused their friends and family, who said nothing could look stranger than 'this caravanseri clumping up and down the North Sea'.
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These film people do things backwards. Having gone into Boots, Kirkness & Gorie’s, J & W Tait’s and finishing off at the library (which they drooled over), I was told to start at the end and do it again. Unfortunately, as I had tried to warn the film team, the folk in Orkney do not thrust themselves forward to be televised. On the contrary, the streets cleared like magic. There was not a single soul I could stop and speak to. Eventually I met an ex-member of the crew and forced him to stop and exchange a few words. He shot off from that encounter as if he was on an elastic tether.
I went back into Boots’ and came out again. Glancing over my shoulder, I flinched at the sight of a large truck about to run me down.
“Never mind about the traffic,” shouted Bob. “Just walk on casually.” Dedicated lads, these film people.
Into Kirkness and Gorie’s, give order - remember to mention Orkney cheese, and the hell with the advertising - and out again. Up again to J & W Tait’s, more orders, and finally back to the library where the entire film crew fell in love with the beautiful scene of a young mother sitting in the sunlit children’s room, reading to an exquisitely photogenic child. We insisted on this visit to the library because they supplied the ship with a box of books. These are worth their weight in gold to the crew of a coaster. Something to read during the tedious waits to get into a tidal port, the long dreary watches at anchor sheltering from a storm, and especially in port with no money to go ashore.
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