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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: GROWLER on September 21, 2007, 09:40:39 AM
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That's boss mayte.
http://www.wirralcam.org/waterfront.shtml
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We built that...
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What do you mean?
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That's boss mayte.
http://www.wirralcam.org/waterfront.shtml
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How come you can post "On Bricks" threads and the rest of us get a telling off for stereotyping the good people of Scallypool?
There is just no justice. sad32:
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What do you mean?
Made in the UK? latest one built in France? shows what a sad state the country is in? noooo:
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Oh, I thought you meant you and Landlady.
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That's boss mayte.
http://www.wirralcam.org/waterfront.shtml
::)
How come you can post "On Bricks" threads and the rest of us get a telling off for stereotyping the good people of Scallypool?
There is just no justice. sad32:
Just thought I'd get in first before you maurauding vultures swooped on the opportunity.
I agreee though. The place has it's fair share of scallies.
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Never mind all that, The fact remains that the Liverpool docks area is a fascinating place to visit. They didnt make it a world heritage site for no reason.
Banghead
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Never mind all that, The fact remains that the Liverpool docks area is a fascinating place to visit. They didnt make it a world heritage site for no reason.
Banghead
Used to be, when all the big ships were comin' and goin', but personally speaking like, I think it's a bit of a shit hole now tbh.
Full of tat shops and fancy apartments now. ::)
Great history though.
I used to werk in the Royal Liver Buildings when i left scool. Now that was ace! happy088
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Friggin' windy as well.
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have you been in the re-done city museum Growler? I went on the first day. Bloody heaving it was.
I hear it's become a bit of a suicide attraction though?
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have you been in the re-done city museum Growler? I went on the first day. Bloody heaving it was.
I hear it's become a bit of a suicide attraction though?
Nah. I very very rarely go over there tbh. Can't stand the smell of the 'burgers' everywhere. evil:
Been to most cathederals in the country, but never set foot in the 'Pools one for example. confused:
I think werkin' over there back in ther 90's with B.G. having to deal with the werst of the scumbags around Kirby and Toxteth put me off the place for life tbh.
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Never mind all that, The fact remains that the Liverpool docks area is a fascinating place to visit. They didnt make it a world heritage site for no reason.
Banghead
Used to be, when all the big ships were comin' and goin', but personally speaking like, I think it's a bit of a shit hole now tbh.
Full of tat shops and fancy apartments now. ::)
Great history though.
They did the same to Southampton ~ that's why I left and will not go back.
And that is not a digression ~ very much on topic as Southampton was the Home Port of the QEII
I was on the Weston Shore when she first arrived and again when she sailed. I'll see if I can find a pic.
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QEII In Southampton
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fc%2Fcb%2FQe2.750pix.jpg&hash=45f4800253ac25d30de1c2e86e056bd523c894aa)
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Great beast, but destined for Dubai for good after this visit apparently. sad32:
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'Fraid so .... Still better that than the breakers yard I suppose.
I lived in Southampton from 1949 ~ saw all the great liners come and go. My Grandad had served on many of them as an AB. (His cousin was a Titanic survivor) but all good things come to an end and so it was with the docks. I watched the slow conversion to container ships, then all the warehouses being poncified into flats for the yuppies, then the rest of the docks into a marina for gin palaces and I got out. I wouldn't give you two pence for the place now. From a cosmopolitan, vibrant and exciting pace to live to a nasty, spiteful housing estate full of "managers" in executive homes all "managing" pieces of paper around their desks and doing nothing of any worth.
I tried living there and working in London but gave up and moved to the smoke in the end. Not because of the travel but because of the spite and envy that turned Southampton into the sh*thole it now is.
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'Fraid so .... Still better that than the breakers yard I suppose.
I lived in Southampton from 1949 ~ saw all the great liners come and go.
Do you remember any of the Castle line?
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'Fraid so .... Still better that than the breakers yard I suppose.
I lived in Southampton from 1949 ~ saw all the great liners come and go.
Do you remember any of the Castle line?
Went to South Africa on Fridays?
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Went to South Africa on Fridays?
That's the jobbie. I still have a "Captains Table" menu somewhere. whistle:
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'Fraid so .... Still better that than the breakers yard I suppose.
I lived in Southampton from 1949 ~ saw all the great liners come and go.
Do you remember any of the Castle line?
Yes ~ their hulls were painted Pink. I have pictures of some of them on my wall.
Both the Stirling Castle and the Edinburgh Castle
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Went to South Africa on Fridays?
That's the jobbie. I still have a "Captains Table" menu somewhere. whistle:
Cool...
We had family that emigrated on one... Can't remember which Castle it was tho.
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We had family that emigrated on one... Can't remember which Castle it was tho.
Fairly sure mine is the Windsor Castle, here were lots and I have been over a fair few of them.
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Went to South Africa on Fridays?
That's the jobbie. I still have a "Captains Table" menu somewhere. whistle:
Cool...
We had family that emigrated on one... Can't remember which Castle it was tho.
If it is painted pink, probably the Barbara Castle.
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Went to South Africa on Fridays?
That's the jobbie. I still have a "Captains Table" menu somewhere. whistle:
Cool...
We had family that emigrated on one... Can't remember which Castle it was tho.
If it is painted pink, probably the Barbara Castle.
drumroll:
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'Fraid so .... Still better that than the breakers yard I suppose.
I lived in Southampton from 1949 ~ saw all the great liners come and go.
Do you remember any of the Castle line?
Yes ~ their hulls were painted Pink. I have pictures of some of them on my wall.
Both the Stirling Castle and the Edinburgh Castle
I had forgotten that. Found mine The Windsor Castle.
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.simplonpc.co.uk%2FUnionCastle%2FWindsorCastleMcNally02.jpg&hash=4b734c7fa18453f78222013c4a813f5d2dfbadfb)
and yours:
The Sterling Castle
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.simplonpc.co.uk%2FUnionCastle%2FStirlingCastle-04.jpg&hash=4e147d6ac37a4ba982ae58af12c4d8ccbd3a4b63)
The Edinburgh Castle
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.simplonpc.co.uk%2FUnionCastle%2FEdinburghCastleMcNally01.jpg&hash=0e007c119cb22e0a0d569ed8cf2dd7e73f25a337)
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Amazing isn?t it? Such a short time ago yet nobody would think of going by ship now. noooo: