Shark Attack

[j.sabourn]

That would be outside the Mechanics before it came out of the closet. To think I used to take guests there to show them the best of South Shields. Wondered why the last time there was getting queer looks or should say gay looks. Cheers JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Dear sweet Chloe, now behind a glass shield in Young and Jacksons but still going strong. Far better looking than any shark, but beware of the shore side sharks, real estate, used cars etc. They are not satisfied with just a bit of you, they want the bloody lot.

[cappy]

[QUOTE=j.sabourn;221485]That would be outside the Mechanics before it came out of the closet. To think I used to take guests there to show them the best of South Shields. Wondered why the last time there was getting queer looks or should say gay looks. Cheers JS###in the 50s the mechanics was a seamans bar .....last beers before she sailed many young apprentices sent up to bring crew aboard ....often met with a hail of bottle and glasses ......it was a proper honky .......in a shell tanker the ST hemiplecta ....the mate eventually came.....and an agrrement was made with the whole crowd we would come down to brighams dock at 10 ..30 which we did .....happy days ....a different time to todays seamen and a different frame of mind......those times are long gone ....but we were there and the world was our oyster....cappy

[John Arton]

You get yourself down to the Ferryboat Inn Cappy and get among all those ruffy tuffy ferry boat crews. You know the ones who put the eye on the bitts. Tell them you started off life just like them working the River traffic. Cheers JS

J.S.
The ferry inn is long gone. Along with my mate from N. Shields (a Bank Line lad) we took a cadet from the East End of London who reckoned that his locals had the "hardest" people in the U.K. as clientele. He rapidly changed his mind when standing at the juke box choosing what record to play, he was approached by one of the "ladies" who asked him to put a Rod Stewert record on. He said he did not like Rod Stewert and so he he would not choose that on. He rapidly changed his mind when she pulled a knife on him and told him, she liked rod stewert so he was going choose it....which he did.
rgds
JA

[cappy]

J.S.
The ferry inn is long gone. Along with my mate from N. Shields (a Bank Line lad) we took a cadet from the East End of London who reckoned that his locals had the "hardest" people in the U.K. as clientele. He rapidly changed his mind when standing at the juke box choosing what record to play, he was approached by one of the "ladies" who asked him to put a Rod Stewert record on. He said he did not like Rod Stewert and so he he would not choose that on. He rapidly changed his mind when she pulled a knife on him and told him, she liked rod stewert so he was going choose it....which he did.
rgds
JA

####well i cant see anything wrong with what the shields lass did ....she gave him an offer he coudnt refuse .....but he got a choice ....lol...cappy