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Chat Area => Omega Gallery => Topic started by: annihilator on 05 May 2020, 13:01:38
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Took the elite saloon for a spin,might not have it much longer. :'(
((https://i.postimg.cc/WpKDSP7m/20200505-115851.jpg)
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I spent many a happy day out out there during school holidays. When the big fair was there with the old, wooden roller coaster. My dad used to say he was "going on a message" and tell us to watch out for the toucan coming out of the Guinness clock. He'd be "on his message" for about an hour and come back smelling of booze ::)
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Why are you getting shut, thought you liked it?
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I thought you meant Gibraltar.
I do not recognise the location in Gibraltar, so is there another 'Rock'? ??? ??? :D ;)
It looks like Portsmouth from a certain angle. :)
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https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g528777-d3592140-Reviews-Fort_Perch_Rock-New_Brighton_Wirral_Merseyside_England.html
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https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g528777-d3592140-Reviews-Fort_Perch_Rock-New_Brighton_Wirral_Merseyside_England.html
Many thanks Steve! :-* :y :y
We learn something new everyday :D :D ;)
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Why are you getting shut
will probably regret it but just not getting enough use as I need the estate because of this guy
(https://i.postimg.cc/ht6kCzRS/IMG-20200212-110239.jpg)
:D
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F**k me, he's a big lad. Transit van size I would have thought ;D
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Akita German Shepherd cross ;D
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If of any interest check a film out called "The Magnet" has some scenes set on the beach in front of the fort ,by the pier before it was demolished ,in the funfair and a ride on the dockers umbrella. Stars Edward Fox in his first film aged 7 I think. :y
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Lizzie is going to ask what the dockers umbrella is/was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Overhead_Railway
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;D
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Lizzie is going to ask what the dockers umbrella is/was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Overhead_Railway
It may surprise you Steve, but when I visited the Museum of Liverpool the other year I learnt all about that, and how dockers used that overhead system to shelter from the rain between jobs. ;D ;D ;D ;)
When the railway went, the dockers had no shelter..............but, hang on............with containers taking over, there were no dockers of the old type, just those sheltering in the cabs of container movement machines! :D :D ;)
No more 'dockers perks' either! ::) ::) ;D ;D :)
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Schooled :)
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Lizzie is going to ask what the dockers umbrella is/was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Overhead_Railway
It may surprise you Steve, but when I visited the Museum of Liverpool the other year I learnt all about that, and how dockers used that overhead system to shelter from the rain between jobs. ;D ;D ;D ;)
When the railway went, the dockers had no shelter..............but, hang on............with containers taking over, there were no dockers of the old type, just those sheltering in the cabs of container movement machines! :D :D ;)
No more 'dockers perks' either! ::) ::) ;D ;D :)
There's always perks in Liverpool. Instead of small perks, it's container loads of perks now. ;D
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Lizzie is going to ask what the dockers umbrella is/was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Overhead_Railway
It may surprise you Steve, but when I visited the Museum of Liverpool the other year I learnt all about that, and how dockers used that overhead system to shelter from the rain between jobs. ;D ;D ;D ;)
When the railway went, the dockers had no shelter..............but, hang on............with containers taking over, there were no dockers of the old type, just those sheltering in the cabs of container movement machines! :D :D ;)
No more 'dockers perks' either! ::) ::) ;D ;D :)
There's always perks in Liverpool. Instead of small perks, it's container loads of perks now. ;D
Now why do I believe that? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_McLean&ved=2ahUKEwjK6-XPh6HpAhXwSxUIHddtDFUQFjADegQIDhAM&usg=AOvVaw38kuXBZ-PxAhd9LMTi4Qo1
Whilst I like to blame Thatcher for societies ills, the reason we have no Dockers is one man's invention, allowing shipping to be largely automated.
The docks employed 1000s of people in Liverpool, but once the container terminal was built, they had no need for them.
The view across the Misery from.the Rock to the docks North of Liverpool, shows mountains of scrap iron. Waiting for the Chinese to increase demand...