Hard, honest men doing a tough job. All good mates watching out for each other.
@SCCFORUM3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic film. Would be amazing to see a follow up today of these guys if they are still around.
@MileneMartines-e1d2 ай бұрын
40 years ago is doubtful
@DaysOfDarknessUK3 ай бұрын
Brilliant. Loved the fact there was no narration and nobody talking to the camera. Good stuff.
@michaelmcneil41683 ай бұрын
What can thy say economies of scale is strting to mix with eurotax fraud? There won't be many following in the honourable worshipfull of bullshit.
@davidantill69493 ай бұрын
That old steel jetty they went under just near Canvey is still there 40 years later and is still not being used
@mozdickson7 ай бұрын
Absolutely superb. Loved seeing so much detail of the actual manual work, the banter, the lack of H&S! I'm from New Zealand and was in and around London last Summer - walked the Thames Path, including Thamesmead to Purfleet/Dartford Creek. Ugly industrial fly-tipping wasteland? Not on your life - history, graft, Estuary, birdlife, the out of sight stuff a city needs, like building waste sorting. God bless em all. Madness, the Jam, The Smiths...would've been on the radio on them lighters
@davidantill69493 ай бұрын
Dr Feelgood too
@mozdickson3 ай бұрын
@@davidantill6949 🔥 I payed due homage at the Kurstal in Southend! Thst full live show filmed there, 🔥
@davidantill69493 ай бұрын
@mozdickson sad that Wilko died not that long ago. I occasionally used to see him out shopping. I believe Lee Brilleaux was so inspired by the Blues that he liked to refer to the Thames Delta rather than the Thames Estuary
@chidon74653 жыл бұрын
I'm American and I love videos about docklands
@PillSharks3 жыл бұрын
Nice to hear the deckhand mentioned the Golthic, a few men from my village sailed on her and a couple of men I worked with over the years, my father also sailed on some of the shaw saville boats, in fact it was the Majestic which sailed my father back from Australia as a distressed british seaman in the 60s. I was surprised how they did the tow, I thought it would have been easier to put a bowline in, anyway I’m sure they had a good reason!
@boyfromblackstuff78594 ай бұрын
Excellent,many thanks for posting.
@zerofox73473 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed that I just wish it was longer!
@Aminutetomidnight3 ай бұрын
That's what the wife said!
@seanoconnor57379 ай бұрын
My dad was a lighterman working on a tug also called the General, They moored up and worked out of Charlton.
@wforrest0013 ай бұрын
The General VI? That is the focus of a 1963 documentary.
@freddypflugbeil6 Жыл бұрын
What wonderful times Looks like
@NewfoundBrewing3 ай бұрын
Great film. Thanks for posting.
@johnadams37303 жыл бұрын
I am 71 my grandfather was a skipper on a tug called the Gnat his name was Charles Morris Brown wish I new more.
@headsup2433 Жыл бұрын
The refuse from these barges was never dumped on Canvey Island but at Pitsea land reclamation and land fill site. Which now days is nearly full.
@mozdickson7 ай бұрын
thanks for that detail
@johnadams37303 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was a skipper on the Tug the Gnat before the war his name was Morris Charles Brown i wish I could find out more.
@rodericfindlay4147 Жыл бұрын
The Gnat was a Gaselee tug (yellow funnel with three red rings). It was broken up in the early 70s. There is quite a lot of information on the internet about the Gaselee tugs. I used to go on the Tayra when I was a boy. The crew were highly skilled and real gentlemen. The skipper had strong views about washing your face before you went ashore. At the age of 12 I couldn't see the point of it. We went up to Hammersmith and down to the Medway on various trips. I slept on bard once. Very happy days.
@johnadams3730 Жыл бұрын
@@rodericfindlay4147 Thanks.
@philipblick8887 Жыл бұрын
Great movie very interesting thanks for sharing cheers 😂
@no.75938 ай бұрын
Lost, lost! The old working class, salt of the earth, backbone of the nation.
@michaelmcneil41683 ай бұрын
All slaves for having a day off.
@adrianharper1535 Жыл бұрын
5.07 that’s my dad. I’m older now than he was then.
@Mike-tu7uw Жыл бұрын
I hope you’re dad is doing well
@zerofox73473 ай бұрын
It must be wonderful seeing him in these old videos.
@Jcozz3 ай бұрын
Seems a fine bloke!
@MileneMartines-e1d2 ай бұрын
I am finding it hard to believe that this was filmed in 1984, surely it would have been in colour. As the man says 'history' is still repeating itself.
@liquidhighway2 ай бұрын
@@MileneMartines-e1d it was filmed in 1984. But chosen to be filmed in black and white.
@butzee3 жыл бұрын
Any idea what church he's on about with the yew tree?
@brian.79662 жыл бұрын
now all gone, not to be seen again,
@vandalsavage61522 ай бұрын
Christ, one wrong step on a rainy day and it's over, not a life jacket in sight.. But it all worked, those were the days...
@mechanick10003 жыл бұрын
got a few names wrong and i think about a year or less later the tug general v11 which this was not the merit sunk in northfleet taking a lot of the hands with her then she was scraped
@liquidhighway3 жыл бұрын
The crew of the merit are working on general vii on the day the video was made here
@ianfiddes98714 ай бұрын
Really saddened that all these highly skilled jobs no longer exists and people thrown on the scrap heap 😢
@TheMrgaztop4 ай бұрын
Lightermen are still on the River. Tough men. Grafters. My uncles were rivermen. I was raised on the Thames.
@ianfiddes98714 ай бұрын
@@TheMrgaztop really pleased to hear that there are still some Lightermen on the river; was brought up on the banks of the river forth in Scotland, still some dock works ongoing but nothing like it was when I was a child over 60+ years past. Best regards.
@fellspoint93644 ай бұрын
I was interested to see the name McAlister in the crew. I wonder if they are related to the McAlister family in the States who run one of the largest companies here. I work on an ocean tugboat that’s coupled to a petroleum barge. The routine of life on the water remains the same.
@andrewsundell25022 ай бұрын
That were the days when men were men & women were grateful.
@nigelc60382 жыл бұрын
When men where men 👍
@jeffsmith500019 ай бұрын
Anyone remember Bill Lester ? fell off a ladder ! deed !.