wishbone
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Re: Here\'s something I never knew
Being a Docker in the early fifties & sixties wasn’t easy work, I can remember my dad coming home on his push bike soaked through smelling of fish meal that he had been unloading at West India Dock East London. My Dads brothers were also Dockers, getting a job in the docks was a closed shop they looked after each other.
The Union new what was in store once container ships started up, lost jobs, a lot of cockneys were employed in the docks. One of his brothers was a stevedore at East India Docks. It did have its perks! Sometimes, transistor radios etc didn’t always fall off the backs of lorries……
Wishbone
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Being a Docker in the early fifties & sixties wasn’t easy work, I can remember my dad coming home on his push bike soaked through smelling of fish meal that he had been unloading at West India Dock East London. My Dads brothers were also Dockers, getting a job in the docks was a closed shop they looked after each other.
The Union new what was in store once container ships started up, lost jobs, a lot of cockneys were employed in the docks. One of his brothers was a stevedore at East India Docks. It did have its perks! Sometimes, transistor radios etc didn’t always fall off the backs of lorries……
Wishbone
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