Im sure it was your idea in the first place!That just about covers my H&S consultancy fees, what are you folk going to do?
Expert money making scamIm sure it was your idea in the first place!
Don’t know about you but I’m going to strip every bit of brass I can find and load it into a floating transit with greedy boards.That just about covers my H&S consultancy fees, what are you folk going to do?
now thats a good planDon’t know about you but I’m going to strip every bit of brass I can find and load it into a floating transit with greedy boards.
All those brass fuse housings……
My dad told me that in his early years in the RAF he was stationed at some base in southern England and watched as hundreds of Lancaster bombers and similar were ripped apart by big JCB style diggers, on the runway, wings ripped off, engines torn out, and he said he thinks he remembered being told they were taken and buried somewhere. The rest was carted off as scrap.Ex FiL used to work at Woolwich Arsenal doing development work. Went out on the range at Shoeburyness with him a couple of times. He and colleagues at the time did not think SSRM was much of a threat.
A LOT of ordnance and weaponry was dumped out at sea, thrown off of ships, literally millions of artillery shells and bullets, and a few hundred thousand bombs dropped out to sea by bomber aircraft, every day for months. Such a waste of materials, but salvaging and recycling them was not viable.
My grandmother had a twisted piece of steel that appeared in their garden (she lived at Chatham) they say came from the Princess Irene.
At Woodlands cemetery in Gillingham, there are many graves of the victims of HMS Bulwark.
Bet he does!The local scrapyard owner , is in his late seventies, second generation, his father, was buying, Spitfires, for £5, to cut up. He wishes , that they had kept one or two.
I have some large stillsons you can borrow & a large hammer or two, I will watch from here its about 8 miles away, should be far enough away!Don’t know about you but I’m going to strip every bit of brass I can find and load it into a floating transit with greedy boards.
All those brass fuse housings……
They did some of that at Manston. Still do in a small way (not Lancasters though). The USAF had a base at Headcorn, and allegedly crushed about thirty P47s and buried them there, along with vehicles and other equipment.My dad told me that in his early years in the RAF he was stationed at some base in southern England and watched as hundreds of Lancaster bombers and similar were ripped apart by big JCB style diggers, on the runway, wings ripped off, engines torn out, and he said he thinks he remembered being told they were taken and buried somewhere. The rest was carted off as scrap.
Obviously we had no use for thousands of war machines, during the post war dream, so something had to be done. pity they couldn’t have saved just a few more of them than they did….
I have seen the video of the Barham explosion. Terrifying. you can see the poor sailors flying.A friend of mine was on the battleship Barham when she was torpedoed in the med in WW2, he was invalided out of the navy with burns to his arms.
Just post war he bought a lot of war surplus boats from Chatham & Sheerness dockyards. One was a 73ft vosper mtb, when he bought her the three packard merlins had been torn out & there was a heap of those engines on the dockside 60ft high.
When he got the MTB back to Benfleet he found the fuel tanks were still 3/4 full of 100 octane av gas. At the time petrol rationing was still in place & he made a killing selling the av gas to the local lads for their motorbikes & cars.
Many similar ex navy boats were run onto Canvey point & simply burned. the ashes were then sifted out for the copper nails & brass screws.
Parts of them are still there if you know where to look.
Same thing with furniture, mid century is all the rage now. In the 80's and 90's you couldn't give it away.I guess at the time, most people had had enough of it all, bad memories etc, and just wanted to forget. There was just too much of it all to deal with.
Its only later generations who want the nostalgia thing, and those who have an eye on money to be made.
Theres one here , well 15 miles away , its a favorite shore dive site ,,, its in two halves they were scrapping it when half of it slipped back into the water in a mighty storm . its a great dive site.I have a big interest in machines of ww2
Earlier I was reading online about liberty ships
Each ship was built in just a few days
What would have caused cracking in the structure of some ships
Some ships broke in half and sank
But a lot of ships were unaffected
What could be reason?
Poor quality steel in wartime?
Poor quality welding?
Thanks
The other famous dive site is the liberty ship James Egan Layne off Whitsand bay, near Plymouth.Theres one here , well 15 miles away , its a favorite shore dive site ,,, its in two halves they were scrapping it when half of it slipped back into the water in a mighty storm . its a great dive site.
https://www.dive-ni.com/s-s-empire-tana-inner-lees/
This is exactly how I started in furniture, late 1990s. We were on Victorian and older pine though. Lot of work collecting stripping and restoring. No one interested in 50s and 60s stuff then.Same thing with furniture, mid century is all the rage now. In the 80's and 90's you couldn't give it away.