Did the yards work night shift?

[Dave Herbal]

I have memories of lying in bed as a kid in seaburn dene, with the window open, and hearing distant industrial clanging noises. Would it have been the yards, or the maybe the railways?

 

[monkeytassle]

I'm sure there'll be lads that know better but I suspect depends on the contrsct/job

 

[Town End Farmer Giles]

I have memories of lying in bed as a kid in seaburn dene, with the window open, and hearing distant industrial clanging noises. Would it have been the yards, or the maybe the railways?

They did, and I can remember the noise as well.

 

[Roaring Chubby]

Fuck sake

 

[Roman maroni]

Of course they did

 

[Sam Handwich]

They attended

 

[Dave Herbal]

They did, and I can remember the noise as well.

Thank you. Thought it was just my memory.

 

[muggboots]

I'm sure there'll be lads that know better but I suspect depends on the contrsct/job

From what I've heard it'll have been the one in every three lads who stopped to loudly bang metal while the other two went into the town clubbing.

They attended most of the time.

Tidied.

 

[Big Sharp Teeth]

I have memories of lying in bed as a kid in seaburn dene, with the window open, and hearing distant industrial clanging noises. Would it have been the yards, or the maybe the railways?

Yeah, Austin and Pickersgill’s was at the bottom of my street and used to like the fact as a nipper that no matter how late it was during the night I could hear the fellas working.

 

[cornish mackem]

My memories growing up of the noises was the whistle of the Woodward in the morning and the fog horns from the pier and souter.

 

[Gillythedilf]

Ah yes ..,the good old days of lying in bed in the leafy middle class suburbs listening to common folk making a noise .

 

[Gala]

Ah yes ..,the good old days of lying in bed in the leafy middle class suburbs listening to common folk making a noise .

f***ing hell.

 

[Gillythedilf]

f***ing hell.

What ?

 

[Gala]

What ?

Leafy suburbs of Seaburn Dene. The same place loads of people from the yards, pit, glass works, Coles and Vaux lived?

 

[Bob Fleming]

Surprised there was much noise with all the sleeping they allegedly did.

 

[Cheesy Feet]

There was a night shift on when I worked at Pallion Shipyard..we used to find the odd beer can lying about on a Friday morning after they'd ordered fish and chips in on a Thursday night..the lads used to throw fishing nets out at the start of night shift then go and check them during the night..if they caught a salmon they used to take them to the Mowbray Hotel and sell them to the manager in the morning.

 

[Dave Herbal]

There was a night shift on when I worked at Pallion Shipyard..we used to find the odd beer can lying about on a Friday morning after they'd ordered fish and chips in on a Thursday night..the lads used to throw fishing nets out at the start of night shift then go and check them during the night..if they caught a salmon they used to take them to the Mowbray Hotel and sell them to the manager in the morning.

Salmon in the wear like??

 

[Cheesy Feet]

Salmon in the wear like??

That's what the night shift lads were telling us they were..you'd go in the bait cabin on the morning and there'd be a git fish with it's head and tail missing,,they'd gutted it and had it wrapped up in newspaper..they would take them to the Mowbray..knock on the backdoor and the manager would come out and give them cash in hand for them.

 

[Tuono]

Salmon and Sea Trout. I heard sometimes when blokes were working on a cradle over the side of a ship they would gaff salmon/trout with bent welding rods. The fish used to swim next to the ship and could be easily seen under the floodlights. A crane driver down our street used to work at Pickies and he'd take a portable telly to work on the nightshift. I think he'd watch late night telly before getting his head down.
When the wind was in the right direction you could hear the yards all the way to RedHouse.

 

[Tommasi]

In the Tyne yards (me dad never worked on the Wear) he reckons it was mainly job a knock on night shift so they would all graft to fuck to finish all the work they had to do within a couple hours, then they'd just get their head down for the rest of the night.