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Post by accykeef on Oct 10, 2012 10:58:29 GMT
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Post by trevnhil on Oct 10, 2012 18:08:58 GMT
Well Keith, you certainly have had a busy time, And you certainly know how to make a guy jealous.
I can assure you that I have looked at every single one of your pictures, and grand sets they are too.
I certainly agree that barrow is not the gloomiest place that it is made out to be. I used to go there regularly to deliver stores to the 'Nuclear' boats that went to Japan. But I liked the place and went back in my own time at weekends to visit just a few of the places that you have shown us.
Regarding your second set of photos, I have also been to many of the places that you visited. However I have never seen the cable cars as they were installed since my last visit.
But I have certainly visited more than once, the tramway museum at Crich. Again it was a good few years ago, and it has certainly been added to and improved since then.
I do feel privileged in my life to have been in or on certain things in everyday life, that are now considered to be worthy of Museum status.
I have certainly been on everyday working trams but only in the Blackpool area. Of course years ago it was a much larger system and covered many inland street as well as the promenade.
In the Leigh and Bolton area I regularly travelled on Trolley buses. I remember that upstairs on some of the Ribble buses they had the gangway down the right hand side and bench seats for about 5 people.
In the past I have had a motor bike, a scooter and then a Reliant REGAL three wheeler. I then progressed to a East German Wartburg estate car, which was a two stroke engine.
I have of course had many more modern vehicles since then, including an Orange VW Caravanette. But the Wartburg was the only NEW car that I have ever owned.
I have also been in the mills in Lancashire when my mother and her sisters were working there. You really and truly could not hear your self speak, and lip reading was used regularly by the workers.
I also remember being shown round a metal works in Motherwell, Scotland. They were making very large rolls of wire which were then cut to the length of a particular nail and a very large automatic hammer formed the head of the nail.
Happy days indeed. Thanks for the pictures and I hope you enjoyed being there to take them.
Regards. Trev..
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Post by baybird on Oct 10, 2012 22:24:40 GMT
Hi Keith, you certainly have been busy taking all these pictures, I have enjoyed looking at them.
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Post by mpprh on Oct 11, 2012 14:03:30 GMT
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Post by accykeef on Oct 11, 2012 14:28:35 GMT
Great videos but I feel sea sick now  Will there be time for beer, in Morecambe, or is the trip for pleasure? |
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Post by accykeef on Oct 11, 2012 14:46:09 GMT
Did you sail that boat back on your own Peter or did you sit back while the crew did all the sheet work?
Some of the old Aunts in our family were mill girls and they all used to lip read and mumble to each other. I am glad to say I missed the main era of the mill although I had a couple of realtives who worked at Howard and Bulloughs, in Accrington who supplied India and the far East with much of their machinery.
Masson Mill was interesting but we got the feeling that the place was a retail outlet first and the museum was it's poor brother. The experience at the Science Museum in Manchester was far more interesting as the guides were very knowledgeable and fascinating to listen to.
I think the best mill type place I went to visit was the lace museum in Nottingham (now closed down). The intricate machinery was fantastic to watch and I stayed in there all day. It helps in these places when the guides are really enthusiastic too.
Going down a real coal mine, in Nottingham, was a great experience too. They were in the process of creating a visitor attraction involving a mine which the public could go down. As I was the only visitor at the museum, the curator asked if I wanted to go down the main shaft. I jumped at the chance and enjoyed every minute of it but would not like to venture too far into the main mine.
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Post by mpprh on Oct 12, 2012 5:43:48 GMT
This boat belongs to a friend who keeps his boat in the same Marina mine was (I've sold mine). Each year he does a longish Med cruise with different friends and crew flying in for different legs. I've always been on standby in case people have to go back to work and weather causes the boat to be in the wrong place for the next arrivals. This year he was worried about the long stretch across the sea and I was there to add weight to the crew. Someone else asked about the trip and I wrote this : Spent the first 36 hrs in various Fornells bars and restaurants waiting for the weather. I checked into this hotel - www.hostallapalma.com/ - because the boat was rather full (not everyone sleeps at the same time at sea).
On Wednesday am we had a possible window between storms so did initial preparation - stopped drinking just in case !
We got away at 16.30 and sailed into the very rough seas left by the previous storm. Tuesday night had been rather pissy so we were not totally ready for the voyage. Two could not function at all due being totally incapacitated by sea sickness. Another could only provide light assistance if he remained vertical, outside, wasn't required to move and kept his eyes on the horizon. Another had a mini sized Milky Way as the sole food of the day and promptly cleared his throat with it but was functioning. The fifth was OK.
We gained our sea legs through the night watches and were able to take a light soup by Thursday lunchtime.
The wind started almost astern at force 6 ish but diminished until we were only making 1knot. We started to motor sail on Thursday pm as the wind came around to head us.
By 02.00 Friday morning we were becalmed - flat oily seas, full moon, no clouds, no wind. Boat speed increased to 7.5 knots and crew caught up with sleep.
We arrived at Port Camargue at 06.30 Friday morning tired and hungry.
We did 4hrs on - 4hrs off watches except for two around mid day which were two hours so that we took the 22.00 - 02.00 watch in turns. |
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I had been telling my hubby about the time I was in Morecombe when the Moby Dick and Hotel was hit by lightening and burnt down. My parents, sister and myself had just come off the Moby Dick when lightening stuck