Food

[cappy]

always liked: Cushie butterfield

sting - cushie butterfield (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrxp6gn2gzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuvtwihfc8


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aye she wer a big lass

[j.sabourn]

#62.. Finish it Cappy,..and she had one leg and she had her cobbles done at half a pence. JS

[Keith at Tregenna]

Ye'll oft see hor doon at Sangit when the fresh harrin cims in,
She's like a bagfull o'saadust tied roond wiv a string;
She weers big galoshes tee, an' hor stockins once was white,
An' hor bedgoon it's laelock, but hor hat's nivver strite.

K.

[j.sabourn]

Sangit = Sandgate
Harring= Herring
Saadust = Sawdust
Strite = straight .. For those scousers who don’t read the queens english. JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Keith.
Sounds like someone I picked up in a pub in Shields.

[Keith at Tregenna]

"Cushie Butterfield" is a famous Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by Geordie Ridley, in the style of the music hall popular in the day. It is regarded by many as the second unofficial anthem of Tyneside after Blaydon Races.

K.

[j.sabourn]

#66. The pub wasn’t the Mechanics was it Des , and the someone you met two ladies of dubious character. I was working by a ship in Hawthorne Leslie’s many years ago , and the chief engineer came up. For engine trials outside the dock in a river berth. That night he wanted to see shields so took him to that pub and these two harlots quickly became attachéd. Finished up with a carry out and back to their flat where all they could talk about was the various allotments they had from numerous seamen, a bit too close to home for my tastes , don’t know about the C/E, but he seemed to enjoy the experience. JS.

[j.sabourn]

Not sure Cappy if it was the Avonmoor or later the Hazelmoor, if it was the Avon would have been about 1958, Is that about the time you left her there in such a disgraceful condition. Cheers JS

[cappy]

Not sure Cappy if it was the Avonmoor or later the Hazelmoor, if it was the Avon would have been about 1958, Is that about the time you left her there in such a disgraceful condition. Cheers JS

Paid off may 1959 john in south shields ......the second mate asked me if i would stay as there was to be lots of work ....i believe the spare prop was to be taken of her and there was a couple of hands or so needed till the riggers came aboard .....but i had been and seen enough by then and had ben away some 11 months.....again one of my lifes great memories .....i believe you joined her then if i recall.......regards cappy

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Paid off may 1959 john in south shields ......the second mate asked me if i would stay as there was to be lots of work ....i believe the spare prop was to be taken of her and there was a couple of hands or so needed till the riggers came aboard .....but i had been and seen enough by then and had ben away some 11 months.....again one of my lifes great memories .....i believe you joined her then if i recall.......regards cappy

she was of course then after a good clean up sold to the chinese...and ran for a good few years...cappy

[j.sabourn]

Think I said once before the 2/mate when you were there may have been called Nash . He was 2 years ahead of me at council school , I nicknamed him Nasher , then used to shout Nasher smokes Pasha , he used to chase me , as much smaller than him.we were doing 3 days each on a dead ship .he was invariably late for doing his 3 days on. Always had some valid excuse. Billy Tennent and his riggers were there if had to call on for any shifts etc. The local pub outside the gate was the lunch cafe a pie and a pint. This as you say would have been about 1959 thinking back. Don’t know what happened last week , but go back 60 years and have flashes of inspiration. JS