Mad old river by the barrier there, you'd be catching flattys as the tide came in and there'd be roach and frogs as the tide went out. Must've been right on the point where salt water went to fresh
My uncles had rowing boats they'd built themselves moored in front of the Yacht pub. As 9/10 year olds we borrowed them and rowed down to the barges and played on them.
Up towards Greenwich from where you are, there used to be an old wooden pier with a big old rusty crane on it, caked in pigeon shit. We used shimmy up the jib, dangle off and drop into the water from it. Never done us no harm
Up towards Greenwich from where you are, there used to be an old wooden pier with a big old rusty crane on it, caked in pigeon shit. We used shimmy up the jib, dangle off and drop into the water from it. Never done us no harm
Kids now would never be allowed to do anything like what we used to do.
Would love to have got a start somewhere down there. Sent letters to Cory every year for about 5 years after leaving school, but never heard back
I’m a contractor so just visiting. Like yourself i tried to get on the river when i left school but no luck. Until recently it was father to son but even now it’s who you know..
Would love to have got a start somewhere down there. Sent letters to Cory every year for about 5 years after leaving school, but never heard back
I’m a contractor so just visiting. Like yourself i tried to get on the river when i left school but no luck. Until recently it was father to son but even now it’s who you know..
There was a well known family who passed it down. They were into the Lighterman / Waterman rowing race thing. I think they are more pleasure boats though. And there was a ginger lad I used to have mutual friends with, he was the youngest to get his Thames licence apparently. That's all changed too, the EU brought in different rules and the quality of people has gone down hill, so I've been told
Would love to have got a start somewhere down there. Sent letters to Cory every year for about 5 years after leaving school, but never heard back
I’m a contractor so just visiting. Like yourself i tried to get on the river when i left school but no luck. Until recently it was father to son but even now it’s who you know..
There was a well known family who passed it down. They were into the Lighterman / Waterman rowing race thing. I think they are more pleasure boats though. And there was a ginger lad I used to have mutual friends with, he was the youngest to get his Thames licence apparently. That's all changed too, the EU brought in different rules and the quality of people has gone down hill, so I've been told
If i’m correct the ginger lad is still here and i’ve just been talking to him
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and we won promotion since he has been in the camper
He also said you’d often see dead animals floating by (amongst other things)
ahem.
tho i did slip myself.
Why on earth would I want to click and collect. I'm in the shop!