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7th June 2021, 11:45 AM
#11
Re: Caradoc Hotel
Originally Posted by
Louis the fly
Changed a lot since I last saw it. This is where we would meet up after picketing the Gladstone dock during the 66 strike. Had just enough money for half of lager. The Bootle Arms was on the opposite side of the road, but no dual carriageway there then.
The boozer across the road Lou, Known as the Winifred, These days called the Gateway is also going strong Regards Terry. No duel carriageway Lou, You will probably remember a few shops that where along the road on the same side as the caradoc on the other side going back longer was the wooden steps leading down from the overhead Railway {Dockers Umbrella} Happy days indeed Regards Lou Terry.
{terry scouse}
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7th June 2021, 12:20 PM
#12
Re: Caradoc Hotel
Ahh the caradoc, when the chocolate soldiers on the gates to seaforth container terminal stopped all the stevedores taking their cars down to park alongside the ship, as well as any stores truck or taxi bringing any joining crew members from going down to the ship meaning all stores or crew had to carry their luggage from the gate to the ship, did they not build another gate and car park at the head of the container dock?
Half the stevedores would spend half their shift in the caradoc swopping with the other half midway through the shift.
My Watchman on the old C.P. Ambassador, a smashing Scouser whose last words to me at the end of the evening watch were always "well 3rd mate I'm off to wash my skiddies in the cabin basin before next watch". He was loaded, never drew any subs, never worked more than 3 feet off the deck but was champion soogeur of bulkheads. He dropped dead of a heart attack in the caradoc with his big pay off wedge in his pocket untouched.
Rgds
J.A.
Last edited by John Arton; 7th June 2021 at 12:22 PM.
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7th June 2021, 02:16 PM
#13
Re: Caradoc Hotel
hi john sabourn #10
good afternoon, sorry about the delayed response, but i had to pop out to my doctor this morning. seems i have a chest infection, most likely the result of activities on my boat,( not like the ones in the old days, ) but possibly something ive licked or picked up somwhere.
as for your lost youth, i believe it must have been 1965/66 as that was also about the time when the lot of us ended up locked up and the time corresponds with when i saw your fair maiden wrapped in a blanket and bleeding
profusely from a ugly gash, and being led into the ambulance.
tom
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7th June 2021, 02:26 PM
#14
Re: Caradoc Hotel
Maybe she didnt get married then , prior to the strike she was engaged to a shore worker I heard an Irishman ,
Poor Cindy who knows what sort of life she finished up with then . Cheers JS
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7th June 2021, 02:34 PM
#15
Re: Caradoc Hotel
hi john sabourn#14
i dont believe there would be many girls like her, whom lived that life would ever have a loving satisfactory lifestyle, away from their old haunts,its sad but most likely true.
tom
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7th June 2021, 06:35 PM
#16
Re: Caradoc Hotel
Caradoc was the name of a mythological Welsh King.
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8th June 2021, 08:59 AM
#17
Re: Caradoc Hotel
got barred out a few times for giving the parrot whiskey in its water joe delaney was manager for years there?jp
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9th June 2021, 06:07 AM
#18
Re: Caradoc Hotel
Originally Posted by
john gill
Caradoc was the name of a mythological Welsh King.
That could well apply to some of the beers sold by Watneys years ago, very mythical to call them beers.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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9th June 2021, 07:49 AM
#19
Re: Caradoc Hotel
The Bootle Arms and the Elm House are a couple more, good memories.
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9th June 2021, 11:45 AM
#20
Re: Caradoc Hotel
Originally Posted by
Alan Briggs
The Bootle Arms and the Elm House are a couple more, good memories.
Hi AL, The Elm House was situated on Derby road Bootle, I suspect you would remember a few more along there it was a 5 minute walk from the dock road itself, There was a boozer on every corner when Liverpool was a a port with all the docks working, All gone including the Elm House Regards Alan Terry.
{terry scouse}
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