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Post by bargemast on Apr 17, 2019 15:52:31 GMT
Here is a lovely video of boat-based travelling salesman with their small boats supplying barges in the canals and harbours of Amsterdam of everything they needed around halfway 1900, this trade stopped around the late 60's and very early 70's I still do remember their activities from my childhood days and always liked their job. Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2019 16:13:35 GMT
Just the thing for when traveling at 280kmh on Eurostar Thanks for that
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Post by bargemast on Apr 17, 2019 16:35:17 GMT
Just the thing for when traveling at 280kmh on Eurostar Thanks for that In the days of that video fast trains like that didn't exist, and in general people weren't as much in a hurry. I'm wondering if people will ever understand that there's no real reason for wanting to go faster and faster, and completely forget the time to live. You see it with all these very fast cars, you can buy them (if you can afford that) but there are more and more speed limits, so their owners will be unhappy that they can't show all other road users that their cars are faster than all the others. Our world is getting crazier by the day. Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2019 16:51:28 GMT
Agreed. I only do fast travel for family commitments. Have not been on a fast continental train or plane for 25 years other than for family (visiting kids grandparents). I was born in the wrong century This is also why I drive very fast on motorways when safe to do so. I have no need for a car so the sooner I get banned (speeding rather than accident) the better and in the meantime I minimise my time spent travelling at speed. Its all a scam this high speed travel. Another scam. It will result in negative outcomes.
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Post by kris on Apr 17, 2019 17:16:27 GMT
Here is a lovely video of boat-based travelling salesman with their small boats supplying barges in the canals and harbours of Amsterdam of everything they needed around halfway 1900, this trade stopped around the late 60's and very early 70's I still do remember their activities from my childhood days and always liked their job. Peter. What a great little film, thanks very much for sharing it with us Peter.
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Post by JohnV on Apr 17, 2019 18:07:08 GMT
delightful film Peter, I thoroughly enjoyed watching that ..... thank you
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Post by phil70 on Apr 17, 2019 18:44:38 GMT
Ditto as John said. Reminded me of Horning on the Broads. Back in the 20s and 30s there was a large community of houseboat live aboard and they were on the wrong side of the river with no road access, moorings backed onto marsh. These houseboat were served by floating shops, have seen photos of my mates aunt buying provisions from one of the boats. There is a floating shop now in the Museum of the Broads. The mate in question was and may well still be living on a 30s houseboat "Heather" which he has been having a long running battle with the Broads Authority over mooring. Stig found a historic free houseboat mooring and the BA were not happy. Stig enlisted the help of the Sultan of Brunei as he is a great fan of houseboat. Stig is one of those people who knows a lot, could gaurantee that if an unusual boat passed, Sting would be at the helm be it a Wherry or a steam launch. Lovely fella, pity we lost touch. Phil
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Post by bargemast on Apr 17, 2019 18:59:37 GMT
Ditto as John said. Reminded me of Horning on the Broads. Back in the 20s and 30s there was a large community of houseboat live aboard and they were on the wrong side of the river with no road access, moorings backed onto marsh. These houseboat were served by floating shops, have seen photos of my mates aunt buying provisions from one of the boats. There is a floating shop now in the Museum of the Broads. The mate in question was and may well still be living on a 30s houseboat "Heather" which he has been having a long running battle with the Broads Authority over mooring. Stig found a historic free houseboat mooring and the BA were not happy. Stig enlisted the help of the Sultan of Brunei as he is a great fan of houseboat. Stig is one of those people who knows a lot, could gaurantee that if an unusual boat passed, Sting would be at the helm be it a Wherry or a steam launch. Lovely fella, pity we lost touch.Phil Sounds like a very interesting fella, if you really think that it's a pity you've lost touch, why don't you look him up ? By doing that, you may make his day, if he's still alive. Peter.
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Post by phil70 on Apr 17, 2019 19:52:00 GMT
Sadly Stig was always elusive and very careless with mobile phones, even when we lived there often had to wait till I bumped into him to get his new PAYG phone number, sometimes he would call on a borrowed phone. Sometimes saw his mum who occasionally had his number I will try to find him again as he was a good meet to Chris and I.
Phil
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Post by bargemast on Apr 18, 2019 13:58:56 GMT
Sadly Stig was always elusive and very careless with mobile phones, even when we lived there often had to wait till I bumped into him to get his new PAYG phone number, sometimes he would call on a borrowed phone. Sometimes saw his mum who occasionally had his number I will try to find him again as he was a good meet to Chris and I.
Phil Without knowing Stig, I'm sure by what you wrote about him that he was a good man, and a nice person to know. Over the years I've found out that there aren't all that many "good and nice" people around, and often people only behave as being nice because that could be useful to them. As soon as there's no real use for them to be friends with you, you'll be forgotten. He may be as happy as you and Chris will be meeting up again. Bring him a PAYG phone with a piece of string attached to make it less likely he'll lose it, and getting in touch will then be much easier in the future . Peter.
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Post by airedaleman on Apr 18, 2019 15:56:27 GMT
There were never floating shops in the working boat days but there was a lot of bartering between the boatmen and canal side shops. Arther bray told me that they used to get big cans of jam and marmalade from the “jam ol” when they unloaded and then swap them at the shop next to Buckby top lock for grocery. Coal also evaporated a bit on route. When I went to sea my first trip was to the gulf and the antics of the bum boat men on the suez canal where great fun especially when they threw their grappling hooks onto the ship. On the way back loaded the deck was only a few feet above the water so it was easy for them to get aboard but most captains would not have them on loaded tankers so we ran fire hoses over the side. Learnt some new swear words!
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Post by JohnV on Apr 18, 2019 16:47:46 GMT
There were never floating shops in the working boat days but there was a lot of batering between the boatmen and canal side shops. Arther bray told me that they used to get big cans of jam and marmalade from the “jam ol” when they unloaded and then swap them at the shop next to Buckby top lock for grocery. Coal also evaporated a bit on route. When I went to sea my first trip was to the gulf and the antics of the bum boat men on the suez canal where great fun especially when they threw their grappling hooks onto the ship. On the way back loaded the deck was only a few feet above the water so it was easy for them to get aboard but most captains would have them on loaded tankers so we ran fire hoses over the side. Learnt some new swear words! brings back memories .... my first trip as well
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