Days gone by

[James Curry]

I am sure sevral will have seen this movie clip before but if not enjoy.
I wonder was filmed at Fergusons

https://youtu.be/Qp5D4iNF4xA

[Doc Vernon]

Nice old Movie Reel that. Gee things sure changed through the Years.
Not sure on where that is though?
As you say could it be Fergusons ??
Cheers

[vic mcclymont]

Definately not Fergusons.
Probably upper reaches
Vic

[Des Jenkins]

Hi Vic
Brought back some memories of riveting bridge spans in Christchurch NZ back in the late 60s, ll those blokes who worked on shipbuilding during the War deserved a medal struck for them.
Des

[James Curry]

Some may find this an interesting read. https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/u...-8-Grieves.pdf

Here is page 1 of the article I am referring to.


THE LIVERPOOL DOCK BATTALION:
MILITARY INTERVENTION IN THE
MERSEY DOCKS, 1915-1918
K.R. Grieves, B.Ed.

THE Liverpool Dock Battalion' was both a response to
the particularly disorganised conditions that existed in
the Port of Liverpool in the first year of the First World War,
and an experiment in the military organisation of a vital war
industry. It was an organisation formed to relieve congestion
in the port of Liverpool, and a 'model' of a disciplined
industrial work force, intended by its founder Lord Derby to
illustrate the benefit to industry of military units directly con-
trolled by a government department. In reviewing the
formation of the Battalion, the Adjutant wrote in August
1915 that, 'the whole object of the battalion is to provide for
the Naval and Military authorities a labour supply upon
whose continuous labour they can rely at any time of the day
or night.'2
Alongside the particular problems at Liverpool which
prompted the formation of the Dock Battalion was the belief
that similar military units could be organised in other spheres
which would alleviate worsening conditions in industry,
alleged to have been heightened by an inability to control
civilian labour. Lord Derby wrote to the Secretary of State
for War, Lord Kitchener, in April 1915, 'I would guarantee
in this country to get you 10,000 men for your workshops . . .
what I would really like to take on now would be the
formation of industrial battalions.'3 The establishment of the
Liverpool Dock Battalion was greeted with much enthusiasm
by Unionists who strongly favoured the conscription of
labour, and who supported military service in the munition
and transport industries. For this reason the battalion was
viewed with deep distrust by labour leaders strongly opposed
to
'martial law' in industry, who favoured instead the
organisation of industry for the war effort by a partnership of
the government and the trade unions

[Des Jenkins]

Prime minister Howard tried that in Aus in the 80s , had troops sent to the Middle East to learn how to operate the big cranes in use in Aus ports, they where to be used as scabs during any strike, it didn't work as every port would have been out.
Des
PS I wondered where hr had got the idea from .