Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 September 2010
21:5072512see the Bks at the top they were there when I was a young man.
26 September 2010
21:0972651I would guess at the early end of that as the married quarters were still up on the top.
I really cant remember exactly how the ship got in there but I have a memory of sitting on a plank scraping the sides of the Shep here before those with more skill slapped paint on the sides. That was when even the catering staff had to do such work if the ship wasn't at sea. Of course you wouldn't get away with that nowadays as you would get a "thats not my job description" - one of my favourite hates is when people would prefer to sit on their hands rather than do any job.
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29 September 2010
02:3572892Almost inconceivable that catering staff would be over the side chipping rust in this day and age. There would have to be a mountain of paperwork before that would be approved - a Safe Job Analysis, a Risk Assessment, a Permit to Work, and a Toolbox Talk. All inherited from the oil industry and the rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico shows why these procedures have evolved. Not that it would happen anyway in today's frenetic environment. The ferries run continuously, four round trips to Dunkerque or five to Calais, with less than an hour to turn round in port each end. Downtime is minimal and what few catering staff there are have their hands fully occupied doing their own job let alone anybody elses. There is hardly any painting done over the side, paint is much improved these days and the paintwork on the hull lasts for at least the period between annual drydocks. The deck crew touch up the internal paint by roping off the areas to be done. Lovely to think that there was once a time when schedules were so leisurely and manning levels so much higher than today that such esoteric pursuits could be countenanced but regrettably that sort of thing belongs to a distant past that the overstretched ferrymen of today can only marvel at.
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29 September 2010
11:0372923Wellington Dock, Gun Wharf viewed from the tea gardens around 1900:
and viewed from the other side, circa 1950:
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29 September 2010
11:2072926That's an interesting one Kath - I assume post war clearance of the terraces/Esplanade Hotel ?
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1 October 2010
17:3073321Moving back to the Granville Dock again, here is a photo I have just acquired of a diver going about his business.
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1 October 2010
19:1273329annoying ebay these days - we must have been bidding against each other but you cannot tell now :(
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27 October 2010
12:5376843 No seal spotted in the dock today, but did spot this small vessel, looking like it has a bit of history to it. I haven`t noticed it before, at least not moored there. Any info` on it anyone? Great picture`s above on those recent posting`s, I missed them somehow. Is that diver in the Granville standing on the bottom Ed? Also, I remember seeing in the Dover express some years back of the Wellington dock being devoid of water from the outgoing tide, and wondered why that was and does it still happen?
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27 October 2010
13:0276847Years ago we had avery sad event in the Granville dock when the Diver got his pipe under the lockgate and he died, I did know the familey and his wife came from Westbury Rd. My mate still with us today was a DIVER to at the time and was in the boat at that time but did not have his diving suit on and no one could help the diver very sad indeed.
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9 January 2011
20:2888357Here's a couple more Wellington Dock
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10 January 2011
07:3888382Thanks Paul - do you have any dates on those photos.
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10 January 2011
10:0088386Brill stuff there Paul again..gosh there's that pier again right down where I live. Wish it was here now. I could get me deck chair out there in the summer months and sell homemade ice cream to passers by, and make a killing!
We could even have had guitar and banjo twanglers appearing nightly...oh the possibilities!...
Interesting too there are no docks as we know em today.
Yes would be interested in dates too as Roger mentions there.
all those pictures above are fab to see.
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10 January 2011
12:0988393I think the last one is in my life time all what you see there I have seen.
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10 January 2011
12:5588403The top photo of Paul's shows the Promenade Pier, which was demolished in 1927 so must be before then.
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10 January 2011
12:5888405The top one looks very likely to be not long after the opening of the harbour and around the start of WW1 as 'The Fleet' are in force.
The colour one would be early 60s at a guess
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10 January 2011
13:0288406Yes that sounds about right with the colour one.Just to add to that there is the outline of a yacht on the otherside and that lookes like Lord and Ladys Astor yacht and I worked for them as a boy cleaning their yacht and that was in the 1950s
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10 January 2011
18:5188476If you were around in those days Vic (1927/WW1) - you must be much older than the 67 years you told us about.
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10 January 2011
20:3188507Surprisingly the lower one is postmarked 1975
Here is a portion of another showing "The Fleet"
It could include these that were in Dover at the time:
HMS Africa
HMS Duke of Edinburgh
Hindustan
Irrestistable
King Edward VII
New Zealand
Britannia
HMS Skirmisher
Hibernia
Illustrius
Triumph
Swiftsure
Argyle
Roxburg
Good Hope
Hampshire
Leon Gambetta (French)
Talbot
Diamond
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10 January 2011
21:2788517Thank you Paul for the dating of the postcard I said the 1960s It was infact later 1975 I had been in and out of the army by then and working at the Ashford Railways work.
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10 January 2011
23:0888538T2 is only a plan-surely? I notice that it includes the destruction of certain listed features in the harbour area.
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