Alexander McGowan

[j.sabourn]

# 9 13 and 15 And a joiner was the alternative to a leaver. JS
What does google tell you about a carpenter, a joiner, a shopfitter, a cabinet maker. A roofer, I’m sure most people are aware of most trades today and their descriptions. JS

[Alan Blyth]

As said by Marian there seems to be no Records for him in the Merchant Navy, i have looked and nothing!
Even the RN there is no listing, tried the Apprentices in that era as well but Zilc! So seems he was just Shore based Employee!
Cheers

Thank you for looking.

[Alan Blyth]

If the same area as used to be there, used to be a pub there called I think the Old Oak. That as on the corner of Richmond Park Road. That’s about par for the course as regards the general public and their knowledge of shipping , for an island nation they most have an education sadly lacking in their own nautical past. Cheers JS.
PS Thinking back the pub May of been the British Oak and getting mixed up with the old Oak rum of Trinidad .JS

Now called The Oak, still there, dropped the ‘old’ if that’s what it used to be called.

[j.sabourn]

That’s what I keep telling the wife , whenever she calls me a dirty old man . JS

[cappy]

that’s what i keep telling the wife , whenever she calls me a dirty old man . Js

well i would give the benefit of the doubt to gwen .....note i am shouting ....cappy

[j.sabourn]

I knew you would so took my hearing aids out. JS

[cappy]

I knew you would so took my hearing aids out. JS

Well i bet if i whisperd extemely quietly and said whats yours ....YOU WOULD HEAR ME THEN lol

[j.sabourn]

#22 As long as I didn’t get a bill for 3/9d. JS.
Told you that true story about my old man didn’t I ? Used to go for a pint with him often before I got married. As a youngster about 13 he had what he called TB of the leg was the first operation of its kind in those days, and to save the leg they took the whole tibia bone out which left a scar minus of course the weight he lost as nothing was put in its place. However in the late 50s whenever home on leave and in the pub with him . He used to get in conversation with strangers and steer the conversation around to his time in Burma. Out would come his speciality and would roll his trouser leg up and show this scar, and of course the reason on how he got it. “ I was walking along this jungle track in Burma when I met this tiger going the opposite way . He snarled and jumped towards me, so I picked up this handful of yaws and threw it in his face ,so he let go of my leg, so he turned tail and ran” .Whats yaws would be the inevitable question, and the answer was I”ll have a rum and pep , and a pint for my son.
I didn’t have to pay 3/9d either. Cheers JS.....

[happy daze john in oz]

3/9 for a pint, you were done.

Cappy told me he could have got one for 1/6, complete with a DIY kit to brew your own.
Said he got it from Mary.

[j.sabourn]

The only thing he ever got from Mary was woodworm. Had to see a forestry expert for years. JS