The good old days
 

Shipbuilding like it used to be

Could we have some limitation and indication as to time frame? I have a flint axe...

Methinks that Tmac has come up with a Corten steel version of the Northumbrian spoke shavers coracle???

Ah yes … the good old days …. :jump:

Whatever you deleted worked.

Could be a friendly discussion about ye weather or who won ye annual cheese rolling contest on ye olde village greene.

A very astute person once said; "It is impossible to re-create the past. People, places and attitudes are so different now. It is best, just to bask in the pleasures of our own nostalgic memories of what once was".


JJ.

When wearing my rose tinted hindsight specs, today's world gets a bit fuzzy round the edges (especially if helped with a glass of something sensible).



Seems just about right to me.:big_tongue:

(Or even something seriously un-sensible … :supercool: … )

"It is impossible to re-create the past".


You could make a bloody good stab at it by;


Put a case of Tennants in the hot press,
Draw the curtains in your bedroom,
Put the heating up to max,
Strip down to your skiddies,
Wrap a towel around your midriff,
Play a cassette of Demis Rousis or Nana on your Akai which was bought in Change Alley,
Invite a few friends in,
Talk about Bill Shankley, Alex Young and Billy Bremner,
Drink warm Tennants,
Let the beer bubbles come down your nose,
Turn -in at 23.45 because you are on Watch at midnight.

What about EBAY. Most of what you need is available to reassemble without the need to recreate. A bit strange to have a Citizen slave running from a Seko master that won't go backwards and so far only one end of a telegraph (with no standby or FWE marked). I did idly look for a Hokushin data logger and am still looking for a Marconi Seaguard. My black museum could probably provide most of a thyripart excitation system.

I am sure between us we could probably do most of the outfit leaving the only problem a hull and perhaps the main engine (sorry could only help there with MIG can't do the real thing).

apologies, I thought I had added the details to the photograph. Harland and Wolff shipyard, stopped on the Queens Road on the way to the Musgrave Shipyard. Photo dated March 1962 probably a bottom section for Regent Liverpool

Who needs all of that stuff when you've got one of these ….. :sweat:

I'm not the brightest socket in the set but I cannot find any photograph on #1. And no drink since Thursday evening!

Neither can I.
We are obviously either missing something or perhaps just 'on the outer'! :jester:

When Texaco and Regent combined the Regent Liverpool changed name to the Texaco Bristol ( I think). Never knew it was built in Belfast. And why should I, in 1962 I had only one qualification, 11 Plus (Failed). Condemned to a secondary school and a life of toil and misery, sweat of my brow etc. I regard Charles deGaul as being responsible.

ES
Your posts are always spot on. That last one could have been applied to me!
Take care

This can't be the first time,over either of the Forums,where we have managed to get so far on what we all thought was a deleted thread,surely??

Geoff ( not the Yardmaster)

First the post

Second the caption

Third time pays for all, the photo perhaps?

Tmac your spelling is poor, there is no F' in photograph.

This is getting a bit like an Agatha Christie novel. We're all gathered around seeking the hidden picture.... but …. who shall reveal it ?
(If it turns out to be Sergei … I'm gonna shoot the little f***er.) :big_tongue:

As in "Fotograph"?

No - got to be "fotograffer". (Take me to the dark room, Brunhilda! :supercool:)

Geoff (not the YM)
:wave:
Geoff (YM)

I thought Mr Mundrabilla sailed with Yang Ming line. What a silly-Billy I am.

Of course. Smith and Wesson make a fine range of cameras. :sweat:

I don't Leica.

The Fotograph...is in the gallery section. ES there is no F in bananas...lol

T, your foto should be attached to your post as a thumnail.


What makes you think I've time to go rooting through hunners of fotos of ships built in Cammel Lairds or Swan Hunter to find an Arroll Gantry?

Tried that ES but perhaps I'm not as good an injuneer as I thought I was so posted it in the gallery.:huh:

I know you haven't the time to go rooting although it depends on the actual type of rooting I suppose, as you have plenty of work to do down the pit, assuming you want paid this week.:shock:

Anyhoo I hope you lot appreciated the photo or foto, I won't bother my arse in future :mad:

I just assumed the aforementioned attached photograph had been taken on one of Belfast's foggier days.

FFS lads youse have gone and put Tmac in a huff, he will sulk for a week, wear his Foreman's bowler hat down the engine room and make our lives a misery. BB and Mr V I'm relying on youse to humour him and fill him with something distilled on board which has been filtered thro a piece of Lingere preferably of the female kind. Nought queer abart Mr T.

Is this the one ??? …. this sort of tension could kill half the posters on here given their age ….:sweat::big_tongue:

https://www.shippinghistory.com/gall...r&imageuser=18

Full marks Bob, I started to think I was going to have to get GCHQ to find Tmac's snap. All that climbing up poles in Staffordshire was not in vein.

Mr mcCloggie, breakfast in bed for Tmac, please.
A large Bloody Mary and 2 soft boiled eggs. A nice tray with one of them wee roundy lacy things to please him.
Any supplementary fee to my account please.

No water for sailing at Mundrabilla - not even water to drink!
Plenty sand upon which to run aground also lots of scrap metal.:jester:
Tmac and some of you other fearless Engineers (note the capital 'E' which is intended as a compliment!) could spend some leisure hours straightening the axle rather than getting into trouble ashore.

I think to relieve the tension of a 37 post thread to find a missing piccy I'll go down to the bookshop and when they're not looking, rip out the last four pages of all the Agatha Christie books. :egg:

:big_tongue:

Everybody will be asking "whodunnit."

That old … old question, much beloved of philosophers …. "Who ? Where ? What ? and Why ?" :big_tongue:

(Sometimes shortened in this day of text to "WTF") :p