The waverley

Hangem · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:49 pm

Anyone have any memories of going on this paddle ship. Think its sister ship balmoral is in town this weekend. Hartlepool docks to the transporter bridge and back was the cruise.

Great for sightseeing. Not. :roll:

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:59 pm

I remember the cafe of the same name?? :wink:

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:11 pm

Pooliekev wrote:

I remember the cafe of the same name?? :wink:

You old bugger so do I. Mason's Waverley cafe in Stockton Street. Wasn't there a Waverley Hotel somewhere too?

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:23 pm

It was where Jaks is now, before the Claggy Mat was built I think. I can't remember the Waverley Hotel though it does ring a bell.

Basil Fawlty · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:07 pm

The Waverley sails past our place (next to Loch Fyne) every Wednesday in the summer. At the risk of ridicule, it's a pretty spectacular sight at full speed. If anyone's ever in our neck of the woods then I've got two free passes for a sail on it which we're never likely to use 'cos of too many 'inconvenient' guests in the Summer forcing us to work etc Bloody cheek of it....

John the Baptist · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:04 am **Posts:** 634

Where's your neck of the woods like?

bahrainpoolie · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:20 am

was in the square were the camerons club is apoprox where the flats are now in stockton road and i think the last people to have it were the stanilands ???????????, any body else remember!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:56 am

H99 wrote:

Anyone have any memories of going on this paddle ship. Think its sister ship balmoral is in town this weekend. Hartlepool docks to the transporter bridge and back was the cruise.

Great for sightseeing. Not. :roll:

The Balmoral is in town in September and I'm going on a Cruise!!!! :sweeeet:

Going to the Farne Islands on it!!!! :grin:

John the Baptist · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:04 am **Posts:** 634

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

ADG wrote:

Cornelius Atweasle wrote:

If so, then it got me into trouble. Well, a gay rights group who hired it, got me into Bed :uhoh:

All of them? Just how many were there? :shock:

I was on the Daily Star, and made up, I mean put a bit of top spin on this bunch of puffs who were hiring for the day. I photoshoped the boat into a pink colour, got a few quotes from the usual Mr Angry, and called their leader the Rear Admiral.

They reported me to the Press Complaints Committee. :evil:

Some puffs are no fun at all! rage

Poolsrme · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:43 pm

richard head wrote:

Pooliekev wrote:

I remember the cafe of the same name?? :wink:

You old bugger so do I. Mason's Waverley cafe in Stockton Street. Wasn't there a Waverley Hotel somewhere too?

The Waverley Hotel was by the old steelworks bridge. Used to be open at 6 in the morning for the workers coming off shift.
The place in Stockton Road near the Camerons club was the Burn Hotel........that was rough in the 70's
:shock:

poolpower · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:32 pm

if you are going on the Waverly then take your oil skins
a friend of mine did a trip from the pool to the tyne and back in the middle of summer
he was soaked to the skin and freezing cold and the weather was good
those paddles certainly throw some spray about
he said the decks were awash

Spender · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:24 am

Poolsrme wrote:

The place in Stockton Road near the Camerons club was the Burn Hotel........that was rough in the 70's
:shock:

We used to go for a pint in the Burn Hotel in the 70's. At dinnertime while we were doing our O Levels. :roll:

I passed maths as pissed as a cricket. yawn2

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37161

As the Waverly is not going to be sailing, there won't be a problem. As Mutts rightly points out, it's the Balmoral which is a turbine driven vessel with screw propulsion ( cue the Cat for inuendo and slightly smutty remark) and that's a propellor to you..... much more efficient, quicker and smoother.

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