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12th November 2020, 02:22 PM
#31
Re: Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)
June 1959. Homeward bound from Calcutta and half-way across Arabian Sea. 2nd r/o on Brocks SS Mawana. Aden and Port Sudan to look forward to. I'd have been counting the days to my wedding on 4th July and trying to not increase my bar bill overmuch.
Harry Nicholson
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13th November 2020, 05:01 AM
#32
Re: Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)
Originally Posted by
Harry Nicholson
June 1959. Homeward bound from Calcutta and half-way across Arabian Sea. 2nd r/o on Brocks SS Mawana. Aden and Port Sudan to look forward to. I'd have been counting the days to my wedding on 4th July and trying to not increase my bar bill overmuch.
4th of July, indipendance day, but not for you mate.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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10th January 2021, 10:33 PM
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Re: Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)
#1. I'd just started at the College of International Marine Radio Telegraphic Telecommunications (A bit of a mouthful) Brooks Bar Manchester. Remembering fellow students; John Burch, John Hunt, Ronnie Mills and Richard Michael Todd. can't remember any more at the moment. Mum and Dad cashed in a policy and bought me my first car - a £100 sit up and beg Ford Anglia, no heater, no radio, 3-speed gearbox, no trafficators (Stick your arm out the window to signal) windscreen wipers that ran off compressed air, the wiper blades flapping like the clappers going downhill, hardly moving while car climbing uphill, no power-assisted steering. A bit different the all singing all dancing Jag XE I drive now. But I loved the car until a former girlfriend of mine wrote it off crashing it over Myhtholme Steeps when she could not steer around a hairpin bend. At reaching the age of consent (then 21) I gave blood for the first time. that's all I can remember now it was so long ago.
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11th January 2021, 05:13 AM
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Re: Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)
21st Birthday second edition?
How many bloody 21st do you get, I only got one, that I know of.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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11th January 2021, 05:25 AM
#35
Re: Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)
Will stick with my original, Ma Carroll’s Belfast. Finished up with someone’s carry out, someone’s girlfriend , and woke up with someone’s headache. JS.
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11th January 2021, 06:36 PM
#36
Re: Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)
Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
Will stick with my original, Ma Carroll’s Belfast. Finished up with someone’s carry out, someone’s girlfriend , and woke up with someone’s headache. JS.
hi john sabourn
so not only guilty of mine sweeping but stealing someones girlfriend, watch out for them kerbs coming back to bite you,
tom
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Originally Posted by
Peter Copley
#1. I'd just started at the College of International Marine Radio Telegraphic Telecommunications (A bit of a mouthful) Brooks Bar Manchester. Remembering fellow students; John Burch, John Hunt, Ronnie Mills and Richard Michael Todd. can't remember any more at the moment. Mum and Dad cashed in a policy and bought me my first car - a £100 sit up and beg Ford Anglia, no heater, no radio, 3-speed gearbox, no trafficators (Stick your arm out the window to signal) windscreen wipers that ran off compressed air, the wiper blades flapping like the clappers going downhill, hardly moving while car climbing uphill, no power-assisted steering. A bit different the all singing all dancing Jag XE I drive now. But I loved the car until a former girlfriend of mine wrote it off crashing it over Myhtholme Steeps when she could not steer around a hairpin bend. At reaching the age of consent (then 21) I gave blood for the first time. that's all I can remember now it was so long ago.
hi peter copely
i can only say you where spoiled.
tom
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16th January 2021, 11:51 AM
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Re: Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)
MV Torr Head of Head Line Belfast.In the middle of the Atlantic homeward bound from a run up the great lakes 1971.
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17th January 2021, 08:00 PM
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Re: Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)
Europort My first day on my first ship 1974
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26th January 2021, 10:50 AM
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Re: Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)
Just listening to a stones C.D. and reminiscing.
21st birthday in Melbourne and an extended stay thanks to usual strikes.
Getting legless in the Pier hotel,- Stones, Beatles, playing on the juke box. About 20 of us there, jugs of beer everywhere, surrounded by the girls, providing for our spiritual needs.
Nirvana!! The very best of times. Forget the hangovers, the loggings, they were the best days ever .
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27th January 2021, 05:09 AM
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Re: Where were you on your 21st birthday (Second Ediition)
Originally Posted by
Trevor Bodiam
Just listening to a stones C.D. and reminiscing.
21st birthday in Melbourne and an extended stay thanks to usual strikes.
Getting legless in the Pier hotel,- Stones, Beatles, playing on the juke box. About 20 of us there, jugs of beer everywhere, surrounded by the girls, providing for our spiritual needs.
Nirvana!! The very best of times. Forget the hangovers, the loggings, they were the best days ever .
Oh yes mate the strikes, and of course the six o'clock swill. Think the Pier hotel is now no more.
Something we never saw any where else in the world
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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