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that is a good little maritime museum in freemantle john ......quite interesting for ships etc......didnt see any gnashers there though.......and also in shields is a good seamans museum with interesting artefacts of years gone by worth a visit...regards cappyQuote:
Originally Posted by j.sabourn
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that is definately not a mouth ivan ...a gob is much more suitable or even a sour gob........cappyQuote:
Originally Posted by Ivan Cloherty
Your probably thinking of the old museum Cappy. This one has been built since I came out here, there was only the small one when we first arrived. They even have a submarine in this one, outside the building of course, but the building is in the harbour confines in any case. Anyone coming out here with memories of 30 and 40 years ago would get a shock. I can remember flying into Perth yonks ago and was only a field with a transit hut on it. Today they are going to start non stop flights direct to London next year. When we arrived there were less than a million people living here today believe there are over 2 million. The largest amounts of people however are over in the Eastern States. To get the title of City in WA had to have a population over 20,000. Don't know if they still cling to that ruling or not. There was more than twice that amount in Whitley Bay when I left. The old English rule of having to have a Cathedral to be called a city does not apply here Cheers JS
I went into the new Museum on the Quayside two years ago, very interesting.
Brian.
When we were sitting in the Fishing Boat harbour Brian, the old museum was a couple of hundred yards away. Think they still use it for something or other. Don't know if you noticed the blue line on the curbstones around the shoreline of Fremantle, but that is all reclaimed land from the sea. The Biggies ( Passenger ships ) are starting to come in now, the World came in today people live on her permanently, most dont even bother coming ashore, the passengers all well off and own the ship. Permanent apartments on her. Cheers JS
The Captain loves his job on her, met him in Goa a few years ago,
He said he was the Master of the World,
What a wonderful title.
Some of the residents have been complaining as some owners rent out their apartments to holiday makers and the usual standards of behaviour have fallen.
Brian
Lots of interesting jobs shown in these posts but methinks you townies were overpaid. At 12 & 13 years my Saturday job was cleaning and tyre pumping the 12 bikes at my village Land Army hostel in Herefordshire. Payment was Dad gained the kitchen slops for our pigs, which I had to wheelbarrow to home (the slops not the pigs). At 13 I did have a 6-pence per week paid job of taking about 6 cows to their grazing some one-and-a-half miles from their home farmlet before school. Job didn't last as cows have no idea of speed which made me late for school too often, with a Headmaster who had no appreciation of a pupil's financial initiative. Also had a 3d per time job briefly in filling an elderly villager's water tank of unknown though large gallonage. Tank was in the roof of her two-storey house and filled by a manual pump from a well. Never did manage to fill the tank so got the sack. Left school at 14 and went to a full-time job at 10/4d weekly with the 4d deducted for insurance. So began my waged life. Somewhere along the line I did receive the dole of 10/- weekly while at the Vindi - in 1948. All seems not so long ago.
KenT
Well Ken me hearty, this townie, well nearly a townie, as bombed out of three towns previously, then on the Yorkshire Dales before moving back to Hull and becoming a townie again, went deep water trawling to Iceland at 13 years old with no pay as owners not allowed to put us on pay until 15 years old, away just over 3 weeks on first trip and earned £12 in tips, but for 12 to 16 hour days, was that being overpaid, certainly beat pumping up tyres as an experience!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken Trehearne
You don't know your born Ivan , Don't know your born, I say.
eeh Brian lad, it were luvely, really luvely, I would do it all again and yes with no pay, don't suppose it would do my back any good though, but what the hell, you're only young twiceQuote:
Originally Posted by Captain Kong
#26,
John I believe that Blair went to Durham University Also Mr Been. Roylan Atkison.
Maybe they should have swapped jobs!