The Jungle. North Shields

[cappy]

while tryingto make a good impression on my father in law to be he asked me were iwent drinking .......I did not mention the eagle or the mechanics;;;two well known seamans bars in south shields.......I said the chi which was away from the town center but a more quiet sailors bar......lets have a pint there ses he so off we go .......walking in the bar I spot a well known hardcase seamanwith two mates.....one who I had saled with he shouted across allright cappy to which I replied ....the future father in law said you know him ........yes said I hes a good lad .......the fire in the bar was going out the hardcase shouted very loudly hoy put some effin coal on the fire .......the manager took no notice ,,,,3or 4 minutes later hi c..t put some coal on the fire ......the manager im to busy .....the hardcase picks up a stool and tears off the legs and chucks them on the fire ....the other twopick up bar stools rip the legs off and cstuff them in the fire the manager rings the police.....the future father in law looks stunned .......within two minutes 2 coppers come the hardcase dropped one with one right on the button .......the lad ihad sailed with and the other guy gave the other cop a good braying ........the father in law to be looked ready to get under the table I was laughing my head off this really wasn't what I needed ...as the three ran out the door the onei had saled with said you should have joined in and off they went.......the father in law to besaid wot a wot a dump don't tell my wife where we have been ........I did eventually marry his lovely daughter but never took her to that pub....cappy

[Captain Kong]

I remember the Victoria in North Shields, I was with a Mad woman who was going to burn down her boarding House in Whitley Bay with all my Sailors in if I didnt take her to the Vic.
3 am, She gets out of my car climbs over the back yard wall , gets hooked up with her knickers on a nail in the gate , I have to climb over, she Screaming, scared someone will come. Get her free, we went out into the back street, she finds a car silencer and leggs it round to the front and chucks it through the big plate glass windows, I skid round the corner in my car and drag her in and do a ton all the way to Whitley Bay. Next day the Polioce are round, All the stock had vanished out of the bar Spirits, ciggies and money out of the bandit.
Fortunately they found a couple of guys who walking past later had seen the pub windows open , went in and cleared the stock.
I was a bundle of nerves with that mad woman. I wrote about it a couple of years ago, Brian

[robpage]

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[Captain Kong]

That is the VICTORIA, the one I have just been talking about. Those big windows went in when she threw the car silencer in. She told me her husband was shacking up with the Landlady of the Vic and was in bed with her at the time
Could write a book about it.
I didnt know it was called the Jungle.
Cheers
Brian.

[robpage]

No that is the Victoria , put it up to remind you Geordie women are not easy

This is the Jungle

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[robpage]

And this is what Cappy thinks is posh pub

the Chichester Arms or the Chi .

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[Captain Kong]

Thanks Rob,
I havent been in that Jungle. The Vic was bad enough
Cheers
Brian.

[robpage]

You would not have liked it Brian , it was full of Women ? wanting sex with sailors , and wanting to take your pay off and invest it for you , some worked for the pool , so you had top sign back on again having got 200 yards from the ship before the pay off vanished for ever

[Captain Kong]

Sounds just like the REX Hotel in Whitley Bay, full of preditors, the women were always on the rampage, dragging us up stairs against our wishes, when we stayed in there during dry docks.
I remember our second Engineer, he was in bed with one when his wife from Southampton arrived deciding to surprise him. The Reception gave her the key to the room and she walked in on him while he was on the vinegar strokes. End of marriage.
Cheers
Brian

[Neil Mant]

was there on one of Cunards fruit boats for drydock, got threatened badly with a knife off a woman for dancing with her girlfriend if I didn't leave she would cut my b**** off so I left straight away and never went back.