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Post by Jim on Apr 28, 2023 8:23:05 GMT
Inspired by No Boats Travel Anywhere and the remembrance of the Boaters Strike 100 years ago, perhaps TonyDunkley should mobilise the masses (in a polite manner*) in support of the campaign against CRT. *as you are well aware boaters are an uppity disagreeing rabble and don't take kindly to dictatorial statements. nbtalondon.co.uk/2023/04/21/remembering-the-great-canal-strike-a-century-on/?fbclid=IwAR2gUfH1RSVnUUqcxuQp8GGC3yNo8P262aazwB6wQmUspTBe3ajB9cwR8tI"This summer will mark 100 years since the Great Canal Strike when boaters brought England’s canals to a standstill in a dispute over pay and conditions. The action centred around Braunston in the Midlands where the Grand Union and Oxford Canals meet and where one of the country’s largest canal carrying companies was based at the time. In August 1923, Fellows Morton & Clayton (FMC) announced they would be cutting boatmen’s wages by an average of 6.47% from the following Monday, the 13th. Within days, up to 60 boats moored up along both sides of the two canals blocking FMC’s wharf. For 14 long, hard weeks, canal workers and their families took over the busiest junction on the network in one of the inland waterway’s first strikes." |
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Post by on Apr 28, 2023 8:25:13 GMT
It is amusing to think how easy it is to use narrow boats to block canals.
I think it'd be great but I can't be arsed with the ditches any more so won't be organising a wabble of wowdy webbels.
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Post by fi on Apr 28, 2023 8:31:54 GMT
Don't CRT bring the canals to a standstill often enough.......
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Post by on Apr 28, 2023 8:32:42 GMT
I think Mr Stabby might be able to arrange for a bridge strike. |
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Post by kris on Apr 28, 2023 8:38:27 GMT
It is amusing to think how easy it is to use narrow boats to block canals. I think it'd be great but I can't be arsed with the ditches any more so won't be organising a wabble of wowdy webbels. You work for the man, so wowdy Webbels wouldn’t want anything to do with you. |
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Post by Aloysius on Apr 28, 2023 8:43:14 GMT
One such blockade occurred in Oxford in about 1993; there were two hire boat stations at the time, College Cruisers and Orchard Cruisers; the latter was run by a bunch of folks hostile to houseboaters and who frequently moored their idle boats four abreast, and sometimes even five, blocking the canal, and were rather unpleasant when asked to not do this.
In response, during a busy week in summer, all Orchard Cruiser boats were prevented from going further north than about a mile for a day; all College Cruiser boats were let through, since the then owner of that boatyard was held in somewhat higher regard. Much fun was had by all. Orchard Cruisers were declared bankrupt about a year later, but it probably wasn't related...
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Post by on Apr 28, 2023 8:46:07 GMT
It is amusing to think how easy it is to use narrow boats to block canals. I think it'd be great but I can't be arsed with the ditches any more so won't be organising a wabble of wowdy webbels. You work for the man, so wowdy Webbels wouldn’t want anything to do with you.
What man is that then? Last time I had a job was in 1988. Paper round in Hampton Wick. Suthar Brothers shop opposite the station. 6am start.
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Post by on Apr 28, 2023 8:47:54 GMT
One such blockade occurred in Oxford in about 1993; there were two hire boat stations at the time, College Cruisers and Orchard Cruisers; the latter was run by a bunch of folks hostile to houseboaters and who frequently moored their idle boats four abreast, and sometimes even five, blocking the canal, and were rather unpleasant when asked to not do this. In response, during a busy week in summer, all Orchard Cruiser boats were prevented from going further north than about a mile for a day; all College Cruiser boats were let through, since the then owner of that boatyard was held in somewhat higher regard. Much fun was had by all. Orchard Cruisers were declared bankrupt about a year later, but it probably wasn't related...
I think they are out of Eynsham on the Thames but I always found the branding "Oxfordshire Cruisers" clever. It can be three words. Or was it Aynho. Oxfords Hire Cruisers.
One could do similar cleverness with Leicester, or Nottingham.
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Post by kris on Apr 28, 2023 8:50:58 GMT
You work for the man, so wowdy Webbels wouldn’t want anything to do with you.
What man is that then? Last time I had a job was in 1988. Paper round in Hampton Wick. Suthar Brothers shop opposite the station. 6am start.
so you’ve given up working for mi6 then. ( or maybe you never worked for them?) |
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Post by Jim on Apr 28, 2023 8:53:46 GMT
What man is that then? Last time I had a job was in 1988. Paper round in Hampton Wick. Suthar Brothers shop opposite the station. 6am start.
so you’ve given up working for mi6 then. ( or maybe you never worked for them?) If he confirmed that he would have to kill you, in a bloodless non messy non heart rending manner as per his training obvs. He keeps his fingernails clean, hence the avoidance of work. |
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Post by kris on Apr 28, 2023 9:01:23 GMT
Just think how widebeam owners could block the network if crt annoys them much more.
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Post by on Apr 28, 2023 9:02:38 GMT
Oh shit did I post on here I worked for the service?
They'll clap me in irons. Lucky its all rather anonymous.
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Post by Jim on Apr 28, 2023 9:14:43 GMT
Just think how widebeam owners could block the network if crt annoys them much more. Right on, just stay in one spot for a couple of years, Piston Broke. |
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Post by kris on Apr 28, 2023 9:20:02 GMT
Just think how widebeam owners could block the network if crt annoys them much more. Right on, just stay in one spot for a couple of years, Piston Broke. Twat. |
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