Was anyone a Cunard Yank??

[John Gill]

i was on cunard from 1960 till 69 from the Maure - Mary -Lizzie - franc - corona asst butcher, company contract so jumped about quite a bit ,Attachment 20403 altho not exactly in catering thought of myself a cunard yank on the left in the pic

Interesting to note the 'No Smoking' sign on the bulkhead and at least two of the Cunard Yanks puffing away on what looked like Players cigarettes being smoked from the packet perched atop a ketchup bottle. No health and safety rules in Cunard's butchers departments in the 60's.

[Dennis McGuckin]

Of course my previous post should have read The Clews Pub, Salford.Some on site must remember that place.
Their was a woman who frequented the pub.
We called her the shore bosun.
Built like a brick karzi.
Used to work the docks in the war years.
Heard one story where a cadet beat up her son.
She waited for him.
Picked him up, stuck his legs between some railings, and pulled.
Don't think he ever walked again without a bad limp. I got along with her well.
Always made sure she had a pint.
Salford in the 50ies-60ies was one tough place.

[j.sabourn]

#52 Think it must be the same pub was in, in the 50"s Dennis. When I came to in the morning was thankful had passed out the night before. My companion wanted two half crowns for her grandchildren she said. Think I was 3 mate at time so must have been about 1957, or it could have been before that, but cant see me having two half crowns to give away then. There used to be a granary there and think we were discharging part grain cargo. Cheers JS

[John Arton]

Looking at the pictures of passengers on the Queens, in a number of shots they appear to be lounging on deck by huge intake fans. I assume those grills behind them were for the force draft fans for the boiler rooms. Would they not be terribly noisy? Remember on the Canada all the boiler room fan intakes were situated around the funnel and the deck there was not accessible to the passengers.
rgds
JA
p.s. for those of you with vivid imagination, my reference to "force draft fans" has nothing to do with the occupants of fluff alleyway. LOL

[cappy]

We should all give thanks Brian to our mighty Lord for giving us the priviledge of getting rat arsed globally, frequenting every dive under the sun to get a drink and getting to know the local females (in other words bagging off) being able to virtually pick which ship you wanted to sail on and get paid at the same time. And then coming home on leave, flushed if you had a good pay off when everyday was like Christmas until the money ran out and then back to sea. Christ what days they were. As you say nobody will ever see the likes of again.
Regards
John C

tears in me eyes thinking about it .....and i thinkhow sad that life is not there for young men today.......cappy

[Jim Brady]

I was talking to a guy once and he refered to this big woman as a four strap job,I said it's what you call a forced draft job.No he said her bust was that big that she had to have four straps on her bra,never heard of that one myself.
Regards.
Jim.b.

[Leonard Hotchkiss]

it will never change

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Of course my previous post should have read The Clews Pub, Salford.Some on site must remember that place.
Their was a woman who frequented the pub.
We called her the shore bosun.
Built like a brick karzi.

Used to work the docks in the war years.
Heard one story where a cadet beat up her son.
She waited for him.
Picked him up, stuck his legs between some railings, and pulled.
Don't think he ever walked again without a bad limp. I got along with her well.
Always made sure she had a pint.
Salford in the 50ies-60ies was one tough place.

Hi Dennis.
Brought back some memories, the Clews in Manchester 1951, We were all having a drink in the Clews; our second cook a very big handsome bastward chatting up a couple of nice looking girls in there, the barman warned him to forget about them, but he persisted and went off with one of them, next day no second cook, he was in hospital not looking handsome anymore, had his faced slashed with a razor, was all prepared to go looking for the bloke's, but the cops put him on a train for London his home port, told him if he joined a ship coming to Manchester to jump it. Went for a drink there later and the girls were there with some big tough looking blokes, no acknowledgement from us. I think that big shore bosun was in there everytime we went.
Cheers Des

[Brian Charles Williams]

How right you are Brian....regards BW.

[Ron Kendall]

My Rolex Oyster perpetual day and date genuine fake watch, was in a drawer for about 15 years. No one could get the back off to change the battery. A chap I know, prised the back off, It does not unscrew!. It is now going strong, and cost £6 in Las Palmas about 18years ago