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Thread #132390 Message #3005116
Posted By: Jim Carroll
12-Oct-10 - 08:31 AM
Thread Name: Launch of Len Graham's book on Joe Holmes
Subject: RE: Launch of Len Graham's book on Joe Holmes
Hi Mathew,
The only other version recorded of Dick The Dasher was from the Labrador Coast - no mention of Paddy's Market.
Roud doesn't even give a broadside reference.
Thread drift:
I was a little bemused last time I was in Liverpool when my sisters took me around the Maritime Museum, wonderfully constructed in the warehouses I used to work in as an apprentice electrician on the ship repairs.
One of the first things I noticed when I started my apprenticeship was the constant warfare between tradesmen and apprentices.
Cammell Lairds lads entered into folklore with a stunt they pulled one Monday morning in the toilets, which were somewhat primitive - a long gutter divided up into twelve cubicles and mecahnically flushed at regular intervals by a cistern which gradually filled and sent a stream of water along the line (something similar to those in my school)
The lads locked themselves in the first cubicle and waited till the rest were all occupied, then, as the mechanism flushed and sent a stream of water down the gutter, they floated a wad of burning oil soaked cotton waste (used for cleaning motors) on a piece of wood, through all the occupied cubicles, burning the arses of all those therin.
Happy days
Jim Carroll