Friday 22 January 2010

Spuds, spuds, spuds!







Malcolm Hurst.












Left: Bobby Addis. Right: Sid Soloman
Another disaster for Peter Horwood







Stephen Williams.


Terry Hourihan and Peter Horwood.
Peter Ahmed

Mike Ryan & Terry Hourihan











Two action shots of timekeeper Viv Harrison.
Reg Roles, Jim Finney and Terry Hourihan

Thursday 21 January 2010

Carl Lyons and Norman Hunter.
Tony Curtis, Patrick McHugh and Johnny Stone.

Terry Cartwright on right.
Billets.

Vic Deane, Paul Adams, Alan Dean and Peter Curtis.
Johnny O'Brian takes the strain.



Wednesday 20 January 2010

A 'do' (probably Outspan), sometime in the seventies......Arthur & Thelma Hackman, Dennis Herbert, Graham Robertson, Terry Ivins, Linda Robertson, George Roan & wife, Danny House & wife.

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Mac Williams & Dick North.

Monday 18 January 2010

RMS St.Helena at berth in the Queen Alexandra dock.
Alan Deane & Martin Mears in the 70's
Ken Hicks
Wreckage from a storm in 1990 which stripped all the covering off this shed on the south side of the Queen Alexander dock.
This portacabin was lifted by the wind and tossed onto the road....the other side of a fence!





'Canmar' Canadian softwood vessel also hit by the storm.
More wreckage....

Sunday 17 January 2010

Jim Couper, Richard 'Dick' North, Mac Williams and Arthur Hackman. Jim was the representative for 'Outspan' fruit, which came through Cardiff. Mac Williams needs no introduction to the boxing fraternity, and Richard North and Arthur Hackman both shed foremen at Cardiff dock.
Billy Bowden & Graham Maidment.




Peter Horwood, Joe Barry and Robert Lester........resting.
Paul Hurst

Johnny Long
Paul Narusberg, Graham Robertson, Ray Giovanelli and Billy Bowden.






Arthur Hackman (seated) and Danny House.
Behind the tall ships can be seen the 'Empire' warehouse, another building that is just a memory.
Local boy Lee Ah-mun testing a new shipment of 'cumfy chairs'.