liverpool docks

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Thank you Chris I was worried that I might have gone a little over the top. :laughing: :laughing:

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in the early seventies my old man was tipping liverpool docks and at the time it was a cirtain amount of tips a day so my old man ques up and waits and waits and waits some more,then it was his turn in the que docker asks for his ticket so dad gives him his notes,no drive i need you tip ticket,what ticket says dad?the one for the que,no ticket no tip,so dad tries the gentle aproach but to no avail in the end he blocks the gates so no-one else gets in and says to the dockers if i dont get tipped no-one gets tipped also mentioning that the dockers mom must have been ■■■■■■ by the devil to have had him jeeeeez the place went mental and they called the old bill who dulley escorted papa from the docks ho hum :laughing:

Whoops, reckon the auto censor must have been a docker, he didn’t like that at all. :unamused: :wink: :laughing: D

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charlie one:
Thank you Chris I was worried that I might have gone a little over the top. :laughing: :laughing:

No mate,I thought your diplomacy was spot on. :laughing:
I may have posted this before but when there was a bulk order for stainless steel for shipment through Liverpool and the drivers couldn’t get tipped that day they would run back to Arthurs cafe on the East Lancs and all go home to Sheffield in one unit and back again next morning.
The drivers that did regular dock work must have been a different breed from me,bless 'em. :unamused:

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Hi “Curnock”

Stewart Camerons and Molyneux,s of Tarleton near Southport (or Preston if you prefer) are long gone in the pages of history mate as the Camerons you were asking about also had a depot at Drymen as well. :cry: :cry: :cry:

Ask “Marky” on this site as he knows more about them than I do as they both shared the same yard at Tarleton. :wink: :wink: :wink:

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charlie one:
Thank you Chris I was worried that I might have gone a little over the top. :laughing: :laughing:

On the contrary, remarkably restrained, I would have thought, given the subject under discussion.

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At Davies’ we loaded 25T (handballed) a time of groundnut, fishmeal, ■■■■, and god knows what else in hessian sacks from Liverpool docks for BOCM (or bocum as we called it).
We would get to Wharf Rd, Trafford Park, reverse down the side of the chute, then literaly (with the aid of a sharpened to a knife edge hacksaw blade) rip and tip the contents down the chute…we used to be covered in the ■■■■■ (as well as the poxy weevils that were sometimes in the contents) it was the dirtiest, smelliest job I have ever had to do and no dirt money for it either…far worse than the carbon black we sometimes carried which we did get a shilling (5p) a ton dirt money for. :open_mouth:

Sorry mate if you disguise a forbidden word while leaving it obvious (which is the only point really) the auto censor gets all upset. :unamused: D.

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NEJ:
Hi “Curnock”

Stewart Camerons and Molyneux,s of Tarleton near Southport (or Preston if you prefer) are long gone in the pages of history mate as the Camerons you were asking about also had a depot at Drymen as well. :cry: :cry: :cry:

Ask “Marky” on this site as he knows more about them than I do as they both shared the same yard at Tarleton. :wink: :wink: :wink:

He’s right - Stewart Cameron were a partner company to Wm Molyneux, who latterly ran his motors in the same colours.

Bill Molyneux had his yard right at the bottom of Station Rd at Hesketh Bank and it was (as were most of that era) a yard full of ramshackle old tackle. In the seventies there were the ubiquitous F86s which were never still, along with several SA 400s and ERF B Series. He had one B Series with a Gardner 240 in it which (IMHO) was definitely doctored - I’ve never seen one shift like it.

All evidence of Molyneux’s is now gone - in fact, a friend (and Chairman of my Angling Association) now lives in a house built on the very spot where the offices were in the yard.

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I remember BOCM “Viking” as we used to go there fom the “Soya” Plant @ Seaforth and we used to take grain from Coburg and Birkenhead Grain stores to Trafford Pk and to Port Sunlight where they had a brilliant canteen and at Trafford Pk as well. :wink: :wink: :wink:

They used to tip all night or so our boss used to say and we would say “we don,t work all night though” :exclamation: :exclamation: :exclamation:

Happy days as 2 loads out of Seaforth or Birkenhead to Trafford Pk was your days work in them “Good Old Days” with an Atki Borderer and 180 Gardner with a David Brown 6 speed box “Good Old Days” or not I certainly don,t want them back :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :wink: :wink: :wink:

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charlie one:
Can anyone remember the proposal put forward by the dockers regarding driving of lorries within the dock areas.It went like this.All lorries having any work in the dock area would report to a central area.A docker who had been trained up would then drive the vehicule into the dock area with the driver sitting at his side.i was asked by a delegate what I thought of the idea. I said “Youv’e worked yourself out of a job and now you want mine.Go away in short jerky movements.” Did I reply correctly? :laughing: :laughing:

When containers first started to be used,this is before they directly affected the dock workers,but the writing was on the wall,what was our local big exporter back then was Wedgwood,and they had containers in every day loading stuff for export.The dockers tried to get the job of travelling down here every day to do the container loading!They considered as it was export work,it belonged to them!They were making a last ditch effort to save their jobs.That turned out to be a damp squib and came to nowt.
When I was driving for the Wild Group in the early '70’s,we used to deliver Michlin tyres to Liverpool docks,all handball.I never had a counter that could keep count!
I always used to smile at the big sign inside the docks that said,"Liverpool,the gateway to Britain!"I think it resembled more the ■■■■■■■■ of Britain.
The best thing to ever happen was getting shut of the bone idle dock workers.

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I went there once with my 8 wheeler and trailer with a full load of frozen food for birds eye and they refused to unload it saying i was doing a bloke out of a job by pulling a trailer, that was in the days when you had to have a trailer mate as well , no wonder the place is a wasteland now with that attitude.

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hiya,
when i worked for harwood meggitt of darwen in the 60s a job we used to get was china clay to the paper mills in darwen from preston dock 2 cwt bags from the shed on the dock up a couple of planks onto the trailer now that was graft you used to resemble a a homepride flour grader and no extras for doing it.
thanks harry long retired

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Spardo:
Can’t even remember who won the match :open_mouth:

I think you did :smiley:

When I was working as a body builder we also had a warehousing company who did groupage for ICI. It was during or just after the National Dock Strikes and eventually we had to employ 2 dockers from Goole Docks because we were within 10 miles of an inland port or something like that. So we employed these 2 plus a checker yet the drivers still had to unload themselves most of the time,

The dockers spent most of the time wandering round the site gathering scrap and offcuts of timber for firewood :confused:

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Wheel Nut:

Spardo:
Can’t even remember who won the match :open_mouth:

When I was working as a body builder…

Wheelnut, were you one of those strange chaps who shave off all their body hair, paint themselves with Cuprinol and go around talking in a dodgy german accent!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Takes all sorts I suppose… but if it floats your boat…!!! :smiley: :smiley:

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bullitt:

Wheel Nut:

Spardo:
Can’t even remember who won the match :open_mouth:

When I was working as a body builder…

Wheelnut, were you one of those strange chaps who shave off all their body hair, paint themselves with Cuprinol and go around talking in a dodgy german accent!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Takes all sorts I suppose… but if it floats your boat…!!! :smiley: :smiley:

If you saw me now, you would realise that was not the case :smiley: Although the cuprinol would save me money with Mr’s Wheelnut and her spray tan :stuck_out_tongue:

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I remember getting a load of bonemeal refused at Cornbrook in Manchester. He must have bought it off a dodgy dealer as it was literally crawling with maggots.I got as many as I could for some fishing mates,but there were millions of fat juicy maggots in that load,talk about a walking floor.eukkk I washed the wagon for about an hour when I got back

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bestbooties:
The best thing to ever happen was getting shut of the bone idle dock workers.

Ignorance is bliss !!

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Mike-C:

bestbooties:
The best thing to ever happen was getting shut of the bone idle dock workers.

Ignorance is bliss !!

That is a terrible thing to say.Just for the sake of revenge on a good union,the government of the day effectively closed the Gate to America. Not all the dockers were lazy and a lot of them lived through the hard times standing at the Pier Head with a hook over their shoulders and not getting any work if their faces didn’t fit. Just think about that before you slag them off

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bigpeter53:

Mike-C:

bestbooties:
The best thing to ever happen was getting shut of the bone idle dock workers.

Ignorance is bliss !!

That is a terrible thing to say.Just for the sake of revenge on a good union,the government of the day effectively closed the Gate to America. Not all the dockers were lazy and a lot of them lived through the hard times standing at the Pier Head with a hook over their shoulders and not getting any work if their faces didn’t fit. Just think about that before you slag them off

You must have visited a different dock to the rest of us :open_mouth:

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Wheel Nut:

bigpeter53:

Mike-C:

bestbooties:
The best thing to ever happen was getting shut of the bone idle dock workers.

Ignorance is bliss !!

That is a terrible thing to say.Just for the sake of revenge on a good union,the government of the day effectively closed the Gate to America. Not all the dockers were lazy and a lot of them lived through the hard times standing at the Pier Head with a hook over their shoulders and not getting any work if their faces didn’t fit. Just think about that before you slag them off

You must have visited a different dock to the rest of us :open_mouth:

I’d have said a different city myself! :wink:

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Viking:

Wheel Nut:

bigpeter53:

Mike-C:

bestbooties:
The best thing to ever happen was getting shut of the bone idle dock workers.

Ignorance is bliss !!

That is a terrible thing to say.Just for the sake of revenge on a good union,the government of the day effectively closed the Gate to America. Not all the dockers were lazy and a lot of them lived through the hard times standing at the Pier Head with a hook over their shoulders and not getting any work if their faces didn’t fit. Just think about that before you slag them off

You must have visited a different dock to the rest of us :open_mouth:

I’d have said a different city myself! :wink:

And a different union :smiling_imp: , and even if they were treated like crap that was no excuse to treat us, fellow workers and union members, the same way.