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Old 29th November 2018, 15:31
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The good old days

Shipbuilding like it used to be
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Old 29th November 2018, 18:29
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Shipbuilding like it used to be
Could we have some limitation and indication as to time frame? I have a flint axe...
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Old 30th November 2018, 08:13
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Methinks that Tmac has come up with a Corten steel version of the Northumbrian spoke shavers coracle???
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Old 30th November 2018, 09:55
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Ah yes … the good old days ….
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Old 30th November 2018, 18:30
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Whatever you deleted worked.
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Ah yes … the good old days ….
Could be a friendly discussion about ye weather or who won ye annual cheese rolling contest on ye olde village greene.
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Old 1st December 2018, 10:58
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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".


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Old 1st December 2018, 13:44
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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".


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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.
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Old 1st December 2018, 14:03
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(Or even something seriously un-sensible … … )
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"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.
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Old 1st December 2018, 18:34
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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).
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Could we have some limitation and indication as to time frame? I have a flint axe...
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
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Who needs all of that stuff when you've got one of these …..
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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


I'm not the brightest socket in the set but I cannot find any photograph on #1. And no drink since Thursday evening!
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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'!
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Old 2nd December 2018, 07:30
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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.
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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??

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First the post

Second the caption

Third time pays for all, the photo perhaps?
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Tmac your spelling is poor, there is no F' in photograph.
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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.)
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If it turns out to be Sergei … I'm gonna shoot the little f***er.)
As in "Fotograph"?
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As in "Fotograph"?
No - got to be "fotograffer". (Take me to the dark room, Brunhilda! )
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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??

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