On bricks before the day's out?

[Snoopy]

'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.

[Sour Puss]

'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?

[Barman]

'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?

[Sour Puss]

Went to South Africa on Fridays?

That's the jobbie. I still have a "Captains Table" menu somewhere. 

[Snoopy]

'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

[Barman]

Went to South Africa on Fridays?

That's the jobbie. I still have a "Captains Table" menu somewhere. 

Cool...

We had family that emigrated on one... Can't remember which Castle it was tho.

[Sour Puss]

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.

[Darwins Selection]

Went to South Africa on Fridays?

That's the jobbie. I still have a "Captains Table" menu somewhere. 

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.

[Barman]

Went to South Africa on Fridays?

That's the jobbie. I still have a "Captains Table" menu somewhere. 

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.

[Sour Puss]

'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.


and yours:
The Sterling Castle




The Edinburgh Castle

[Barman]

Amazing isn?t it? Such a short time ago yet nobody would think of going by ship now.