A Memory of Mine

[Jim Brady]

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Sorry chaps having trouble putting picture on,I didn't mean to show you a picture of me,The other picture many on here will remember it for it's good times or very bad times,where is it,just a bit of nostalgia really,not a quiz but you are welcome to have a guess if you so wish.
Regards.
Jim.B.

Vernon maybe that could be moved to quiz or somewhere else.

[Doc Vernon]

Attachment a wee bit hazy Jim but the other good ,Oh where did those days go!
Cheers

[Jim Brady]

Sorry chaps having trouble putting picture on,I didn't mean to show you a picture of me,The other picture many on here will remember it for it's good times or very bad times,where is it,just a bit of nostalgia really,not a quiz but you are welcome to have a guess if you so wish.
Regards.
Jim.B.

Vernon maybe that could be moved to quiz or somewhere else.

This is all that was left of Gravesend sea school on a visit I paid there about 20 years ago.Last I heard there were some guys trying to get these davits preserved if the were successful I don't know.
Regards.
Jim.b.

[robpage]

I read that restoration was £50,000 after a survey done over 10 years ago , someone was trying to drum up RN interest as it had been commissioned twice , don't know if it happened though

[Doc Vernon]

As I know very little about the old Gravesend Sea School Jim ,however as you mention it so that place must then be close to the School??
Cheers

[cappy]

This is all that was left of Gravesend sea school on a visit I paid there about 20 years ago.Last I heard there were some guys trying to get these davits preserved if the were successful I don't know.
Regards.
Jim.b.

###like the whale bones at whitby jim....cappy

[Jim Brady]

This was at the front of the school Vernon which was right on the Thames opposite Tilbury I believe.
Regards.
Jim.b.

[Keith Tindell]

Remember that well Jim, i,ve sweated and been sworn at by the instructors at those davits many times, then out into the Thames and rowing against the tide for hours. I remember the accommodation there was a death trap in the event of fire, 3 decks?, all with a large open decks through the centre of the floors. would love to say happy days, but not all days were happy. Did you ever do the door duty below McKellors rooms to let the shore crews in at night??,I have never been back to Gravesend since, but obviously passed it many times inbound and outbound when i shipped out of London kt