Barbary Coasters

[cappy]

also had rellies in cullercoats john...coble fishermen ....never met any think they were surname henry .....perhaps .....cappy

[j.sabourn]

That’s another good song Cappy Henry the Eighth I am I am, Henry the Eighth I am. 0n my maternal grandmothers side their name was Chandler from Blyth , they were all into the catering side having cafes in Whitley Bay , so often think they may also have been in the ship chandlery business side also, but was never keen to find out. Someone on that side of the family was supposed to have been a windjammer skipper so I was told. There are two other J.W. Sabourns on the monuments , one on the links in Whitley Bay of the Second World War. And one in Tynemouth of the First World War. There has as far as I know always been one in the family. When our son was born I wanted him called the same but the wife wouldn’t have it and only believed in one name which was Peter I had to fight like hell to get John as his middle name. Cheers JS

[cappy]

strange john but on holiday in perth a few years ago i was in i think was it kingston park or a similar name ....there was a roll of honour on it was my fathers brother ...my uncle ray ....as lost ie RAYMOND CAPPS....which was a interesting thing ...as ray was at dunkirk in the northumberland fusiliers then taken in the fall of singapore .....he told me the regiment were bivouaced on a large field and told by the officers to lay down there arms ...which caused some bad humour as they had not beeen in the fighting at all ....he was a prisoner of war till 45 .....his best buddy died in the camp in thailand he was about 6 stone on returning .....sad times cappy R683532

[j.sabourn]

Something similar Cappy already posted elsewhere but the other JWS on cenotaph in W.B.was in the RASC on the fall of Singapore and was MIA until confirmed dead in 1946 .My cousin out here was returning to England on retiring from the Nautical College and went to Canberra to the war memorial and the offices there before coming over to Perth and spending 3 months here whilst the trouble in the Middle East settled down after a few passenger aircraft had been molested on their fly overs. He discovered that the Australian authority’s had much more info. Than the British war office , so was able to send such to another cousin about how his dad died , the son is another John William. Cheers JS

[Tony Taylor]

#15 Tony wasn’t Vickers where all the armaments were manufactured e.g. the Churchill tank ? Where is such made now , or are they manufactured in China like most other things ? JS
Harry was that first pint served by a monkey behind the bar ? Just joking of course was probably a beautiful barmaid and poured a good top to the beer . JS

Vickers did make tanks, the last one being the Challenger, when the government cut the order they transferred the remaining work to a factory in Leeds and the building was idle for time but now owned by a company called Pearson engineering who do make or modify armoured vehicles, but as far as i know they are producing specialist vehicles but there is very little publicity about what they do.