What did we call what the dockers nicked

[Keith at Tregenna]

Was that not a reference to Sunderland shipbuilding?

Not my words but, you asked:

National Mackem Day is celebrated on 12 August. A Mackem, in case you are wondering, is a noun used to describe someone born in, or around, the city of Sunderland. Granted a Charter in 1179 when a small fishing village, Sunderland is situated at the mouth of the River Wear in the North East of England. We are often known as Wearsiders because of this, but Mackem is the more familiar, though some would say derogatory, term.

Where does the term Mackem originate? One explanation is that it stems from “mackem and tackem” with mackem an interpretation of the local pronunciation of “make them” (roughly “mack ’em”) and tackem from “take them.” The expressions date back to the height of Sunderland’s shipbuilding history (one of the largest and most prolific in its heyday) as the shipwright’s built the ships that sailed down the River Wear which would sail up the North Sea to Tyneside to be outfitted, hence the origin of the phrase of someone from Sunderland: “We make ’em and they take ’em.” Someone once asked what the real difference was between a Mackem and a Geordie, and the reply was: A Geordie is a Mackem without brains!

Certain someone will correct anything necessary.

K.

[j.sabourn]

Think the Glasgow dockers banging liquor down hard and standing by with their tin mugs used to call their salvage as collecting the weepers. As elsewhere the same. JWS...

[j.sabourn]

Keith a Geordie from south of the river is called a sand dancer , ask Cappy he still clesns the sand out from between his toes every night. the posh Geordies all come from north of the river. We have as vaunted not so long back a big statue of Lord Collingwood looking south to see that only the desirable get off the Tynesider , the ferry, they have Rusty Rita in Gateshead looking south to keep the Makems and Takems at Bay. When you visit Tyneside how many borders do you go through ? If you go a bit further north you come into the kingdom of Northumbria where they again speak a different language, only these days it To is getting different Swahili words into its vocabulary. JS

[Keith at Tregenna]

I know true Geordies, they say anyone South of the Tyne is a Cockney.

Had many a pint in the Strawberry with the lads before a match.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news...ublic-10079019

K.


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[Keith at Tregenna]

Keith a Geordie from south of the river is called a sand dancer , ask Cappy he still clesns the sand out from between his toes every night. If you go a bit further north you come into the kingdom of Northumbria where they again speak a different language, only these days it To is getting different Swahili words into its vocabulary. JS

Lost to us Southerners, always told anyone North of Watford was a Monkey Hanger ?

K.

[j.sabourn]

North of Watford Junction was a Scotsman or even an eskimo. A monkey hanger to a true northerner was considered a Southerner. to a scotsman a Geordie was a scotsman with his brains bashed out, out here if you ask someone if they have had the operation, meaning have you become a citizen, and are daft enough to ask what operation, you will be told having your brain removed. When asked if I was a 10 pound pom, I say no, but it would have been better than being a 20 pound Aussie, when they say what do you mean. I say 10 pounds on each ankle. JWS

[Doc Vernon]

What did we call what the dockers nicked

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A knickerDocker @ not a knickerbocker! Lol

Sorry just had to !

[j.sabourn]

A knickerbocker today is what one gets in an ice cream parlour, only they have added Glory to its end. They could have called any self inflicted seepage from damaged cargo a knickerDocker Glory. Maybe too busy getting the first part down their neck. Cheers here’s to General Haig and mayhe make many more. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

I suppose knicking the Scotch that way was no different to taking a pen from work, or stealing a few envelopes or writing paper.

Most considered that to be perks of the job.

[Keith Tindell]

Maybe it was in the wrong context, and not dockers, but the word *spidge * comes to mind , kt