My Auntie Brenda, uncle Ron. My mum, my nan Lucy Allcott also spotted. Great to see this, brought back some great memories of Ron and Brenda doing what they love x
What a lovely video it reminds of the boats when we lived at brentford we lived at Brent meadow Wharf i the 1940's my Father worked for Thomas Clayton and would go down to Purfleet load up with Gas oil back up the river behind the steam tug'then up the canal behind the horse under Bull's bridge to Southall gas works.Or we would continue up the thames to Laleham 'Windsor I would spend all of my summer Holidays on his Barge TRENT.
Do you know Mike, I'd forgotten about this footage until I found it a few days ago. Filled in lots of memories even though I was there all the way through. Love Nickolasses cameo observations yet still can't remember why Ron was doubling the towline? I was only 15 so must've asked but can't remember the answer. You obviously miseed loads as Ron, Leslie, Steve Powell and I were the fulltime crew on the job. After we unloaded on the Tuesday we took the motor to paddingtonuneaton, got fish and chips, went round the island at little Venice (well I did as I was steering the trip - no cameras so Ron let go of the tiller - but the concrete knew about the attempt :-/) and then each night on the way back as we were sharing a cabin as we got ready for bed each night Ron would talk me through his scars. "This is where I fell on the clutch, this is where we were using running blocks and the line went round my leg and I got dragged up and out of the butties cabin along the top planks" etc... A few weeks later Ron turned up at my door with an envelope. Contained a cheque. £50 I think it was. It was a commercial job and was a paying job and it was shared among the four of us although I wouldn't have known any different!
That's cool Drew. I think it was doubled as he'd snapped it earlier and the line that was left on the boat wasn't thick enough I'm guessing. It wasn't me filming, so it's only what Brenda or Nick had managed to film. The only bits I cut out were unwatchable or duplicated by the other so some times you get a two camera shoot.
My Auntie Brenda, uncle Ron. My mum, my nan Lucy Allcott also spotted. Great to see this, brought back some great memories of Ron and Brenda doing what they love x
Thanks Mike, great compilation of Ron & Captain Cargo at work - Happy days!
What a lovely video it reminds of the boats when we lived at brentford we lived at Brent meadow Wharf i the 1940's my Father worked for Thomas Clayton and would go down to Purfleet load up with Gas oil back up the river behind the steam tug'then up the canal behind the horse under Bull's bridge to Southall gas works.Or we would continue up the thames to Laleham 'Windsor I would spend all of my summer Holidays on his Barge TRENT.
Do you know Mike, I'd forgotten about this footage until I found it a few days ago. Filled in lots of memories even though I was there all the way through. Love Nickolasses cameo observations yet still can't remember why Ron was doubling the towline? I was only 15 so must've asked but can't remember the answer. You obviously miseed loads as Ron, Leslie, Steve Powell and I were the fulltime crew on the job. After we unloaded on the Tuesday we took the motor to paddingtonuneaton, got fish and chips, went round the island at little Venice (well I did as I was steering the trip - no cameras so Ron let go of the tiller - but the concrete knew about the attempt :-/) and then each night on the way back as we were sharing a cabin as we got ready for bed each night Ron would talk me through his scars. "This is where I fell on the clutch, this is where we were using running blocks and the line went round my leg and I got dragged up and out of the butties cabin along the top planks" etc... A few weeks later Ron turned up at my door with an envelope. Contained a cheque. £50 I think it was. It was a commercial job and was a paying job and it was shared among the four of us although I wouldn't have known any different!
That's cool Drew. I think it was doubled as he'd snapped it earlier and the line that was left on the boat wasn't thick enough I'm guessing. It wasn't me filming, so it's only what Brenda or Nick had managed to film. The only bits I cut out were unwatchable or duplicated by the other so some times you get a two camera shoot.
Nice to see Trevor and Corona in action! Thanks for getting this up.
Fabulous!,a pity the video quality is so poor, but many thanks for this
brilliant, thanks for uploading!
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Music sound.