The Lamp Lighter

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Richard.
Thanks for that, I had a look after I had posted and thought it could be enlarged by clicking, so your effort was well recieved, thanks again.
Cheers Des


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Hers a poser Richard. When I'm on Google the web site is different than on Moz Firefox, the manage attachments is different, odd that.

[Richard Quartermaine]

Hi Des,
I use Firefox exclusively because it not only is an 'Open Source' browser run by volunteers (I understand) but is (hopefully) less invasive. I do have Google but mainly for when I am on Firefox and want to browse the web for information at the same time without having to leave Firefox and this MN site , for example.
I use 'paint.net' and 'IrfanView' for cutting out and re-sizing after copy and save desk top.
Cheers Richard

[Fouro]

Does anyone remember the Nissen Huts which were erected as a temporary measure to house unfortunate families who had lost their houses during the "Blitz". Members of my family tell me there were still people living in these makeshift homes in the East End of London in the 1960's.

FOURO.

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes they were around until about 63 in part sof London. They were very big, large enough for a family but would have been very cold in the winter and roasting in the summer. Wee had a couple of them on the pig farm and they made great storage barns.

[Captain Kong]

When I was on GEORGIC in 1955 we took 3,000 British immigrants to Australia, in 1956 I went to visit Sheila who I had met on the Ship. she and her family lived in a Nissen Hut, two families separated by a breeze block wall and just a cold water tap outside. that was in the Brooklyn Hostel outside Melbourne. They had to stay for 12 months. surrounded by high fences and a big iron gate. I think it was an ex military camp or more like PoW camp.
Brian

[John F Collier]

#63 I can remember seeing them here and there but I think they were on allotments and not lived in, I did read a lovely story of two old lady's who lived in a Nissen hut they were lifelong friends. They were Land Girls together in the war and bought their Nissen hut that stood in 1 acre of land after the war to live in together. They had an old Ferguson tractor a Bedford van and a motorbike. They kept pigs and chickens, they were well known about the local community and washed dishes at the local hospital and had an egg round to earn money. Vera Barlow and Edith Hooper lived in the Nissen hut from 1956 for 56 years until 2012 when they passed away within months of each other, aged 87 and 92. cheers JC

[gray_marian]

#63, Fouro, I'm sure you'll know of this site: Secret Scotland - Corrugated Iron Buildings
http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/ind...dIronBuildings

Ivan posted a while ago about some in England, unfortunately cannot remember the thread name.


#66, Johnf,
Three-bedroom WWII Nissen hut that was home to two ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Three...hut-home-warti...

[happy daze john in oz]

Brian #65, the immigration camp in Maribyrnong is still there today. A group of Nissan huts ant big at that. On arrival in the 50's men in one lot, women and kids in another no living together. They could be there for up to 12 months. The camp is still there but now used as a student hostel and jointly owned by two universities.

[Fouro]

Re #57.
I note you were a fireman on a coalburner Brian. I was wondering how you would have reacted to taking orders from a Junior Engineer who had just completed an engineering apprenticeship on land and who was boarding a ship (say yours) for the first time in his life. Young Junior Engineers were ill prepared for instant officer status and they experienced difficulties adjusting to having authority over relationships with the engine room staff involved. Experienced engine room staff such as yourself must have found taking orders from these (first tripper) Junior Engineesr a bit hard to swallow.
I enjoyed watching the William Bendix film (thankyou).

FOURO.

[Captain Kong]

Hi Fouro,
I think many a Second was fed into the fires over the years, problem solved. and no trace, and the ashes already dumped over the wall,
Most Coal Burners, the Second Engineer was in overall charge of the Stoke Hold. Usually a big man with a big iron fist.
So that is why some got a VNC , a banjo on the back of the head and feet first into the fires,

Cheers
Brian