The Night Mail

[Chris Snowdon]

Also relevant to port, and back to poetry, or doggerell.  I learnt this at school a million years ago:

"If two lights you see ahead/ Then Port your helm and show your red" (ie, turn to starboard).

We read Masefield's "Cargoes" as well, and I have a happy memory of walking down Bamburgh beach with my parents, about 25m apart, shouting lines from this at each other above the sound of the wind and surf.

That same week, I was too slow with my camera to capture a photo of a Sea King from RAF Boulmer heading down the beach at about 150ft, with Bamburgh Castle in the background.  Then I accidentally walked through some jellyfish corpses and I don't recommend that for fun.

[AndyID]

26 minutes ago, Chris Snowdon said:

"Port to port" - Back to the COLREGs

"Pass the Duchy 'pon the left-hand side" - Back to music, even if in this case, back in the day, some producer thought it better to have teenagers singing about a stoneware demijohn of proof-strength rum rather than a huge spliff...

 

My children and grand-children have just re-discovered that vinyl recordings are a load of cr.... 😄

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

Navel gazing?

 

Hello sailor.

[J. S. Bach]

3 hours ago, Chris Snowdon said:

I only have two green panniers but still I apologise.  Please don't hate me.  In mitigation, I also have an LT red one.

I liked the 0 scale GWR one enough to get a used one from Hatton's mostly though just to brag about it! BTW, I need to put a "&" between the G and the W as it really operates on the Greenville & Winnsboro Railroad! Now, my real preference for small locomotives is this one:

Baltimore & Ohio "Docksider"; they had two for use in street trackage in the port area of Baltimore.

 

EDIT: I will have to put the two (GWR & B&O) side-by-side one day for a comparison photo shoot.

 

Edited 4 hours ago by J. S. Bach

[J. S. Bach]

9 hours ago, DenysW said:

That can't be a proper paneer - it hasn't got any ridiculously polishable copper on the chimney.

I can add some, maybe??

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[SM42]

10 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

I liked the 0 scale GWR one enough to get a used one from Hatton's mostly though just to brag about it! BTW, I need to put a "&" between the G and the W as it really operates on the Greenville & Winnsboro Railroad! Now, my real preference for small locomotives is this one:

Baltimore & Ohio "Docksider"; they had two for use in street trackage in the port area of Baltimore.

 

 

Typical isn't it.

 

You take a photo, post it and then notice it's derailed. 

 

Back to friction and F = mrN

( I haven't got a mu on my keyboard, sorry)

 

If friction is independent of area, why are truck brake pads so much bigger than cars and why aren't those on your car much smaller and thus cheaper to replace?

 

 

 

Andy

[BR60103]

27 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

I liked the 0 scale GWR one enough to get a used one from Hatton's mostly though just to brag about it! BTW, I need to put a "&" between the G and the W as it really operates on the Greenville & Winnsboro Railroad! Now, my real preference for small locomotives is this one:

Baltimore & Ohio "Docksider"; they had two for use in street trackage in the port area of Baltimore.

 

EDIT: I will have to put the two (GWR & B&O) side-by-side one day for a comparison photo shoot.

 

I even have one of those. (in HO)

It's one of my candidates for the lead in the models to prototype high ratio.

 

[TheQ]

4 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Is that some sort of new bow for one of those floaty things we discussed?

 

Interested of land locked Manutopea.

Surely not..

Seaport Town of Manchester or "Prosperity to the Ship Canal

 

"Oh dear! Oh dear! this a curious age is,

Alterations all the rage is,

Old and young in the stream are moving,

All in the general cry improving,

To Manchester there's news come down, sirs,

They're going to make it a seaport town, sir,

Nought you'll see but ships and sailors.

 

Chorus:

Thus t'will be I'll bet you a crown, sir,

When Manchester's a sea-port town, sir.

 

When the first ship appears in sight,

The town will be all joy and delight;

Eating, drinking, dancing, singing,

And th' old church bells will crack with ringing,

They'll cover the bridge with touts and prigs sir,

Aldermen too in their gowns and wigs sir,

The heads of the town with all their forces,

The Manchester Mayor too drawn by horses.

 

They'll crowd the river with boats and barges,

Man-o-war ships that never so large is;

Steamers back and forwards towing,

You may ride for nought,and they'll pay you for going.

Sailors swearing, spars a battering, 

Heave yo ho-ing, hand-spikes chattering,

Strange sails crowding every day, sir,

Anchoring in Victoria Bay, sir.

 

The Liverpool gents they'll all be undone,

Here there will be nought but fun done,

Pats, half wild, running their rigs sir,

Landing butter there, bullocks and pigs, sir,

Then to make us jolly and frisky,

Mally potatoes and barrels of whiskey,

New laid eggs a twelve month taken,

Then all will feed on eggs and bacon.

 

Such lots of goods the ports will bring up,

Store rooms will like mushrooms spring up;

To hold the wares of every nation,

The town must have a transformation,

They'd make the town hall into a store-house,

Cotton and corn rooms out of the poor-house,,

One for grocers to put their figs by,

And the Royal Exchange they'll make in a pigsty.

 

In a short time you'll have trade enough, sir,

Over the world you'll send your stuff, sir,

Goods of every clime and nation,

Will come here for embarkation,

Oldham canals, cabbage and carrots,

And in return receive poll parrots,

Baboons, raccoons and Spanish donkeys,

Jays, cockatoos, and ring tail'd monkeys,

 

In a few years, say perhaps twenty,

Man o'war ships will arrive in plenty,

Then as the tide of time encroaches,

They'll run 'em about the street like coaches,

Over the marshes, stones or gorses,

Tars for jarves, whales for horses;

But I'll be off, - first make my bow sir,

 

 

'jarvies' are hackney coachmen

Text is from the broadside printed by Jack Harkness, Printer, Church Street, Preston. The ballad was probably printed between 1847 and 1849, though it may date from earlier. Other versions feature Birmingham and Leeds and J.O Bebbington issued a version which left the singer to insert a town of their choice.'On Leeds Becoming a Seaport Town' can be found on this web-site. Recorded on :and 'Victorian Ballads' by Strawhead (Dragon Records, DRGNCD941, 1994)

Edited 3 hours ago by TheQ