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gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

in these two pics
ok i will give you the bus a soft banana for the winner

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37146

It's called ...'industry'.... does this country make anything at all now?
Both my grandfathers worked there and my dad and all my uncles served their time there.... I remeber as a bairn going the re with my granda...it was overwhelming inside and terrifying. happy days. :laugh:

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

that is the present tense it is now the past tense "WAS INDUSTRY"

Mister Ed · **Posted:** Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:50 pm

they said the same in the 1700's when they started modernising the cotton mills, and destroyed the machines that modernised manual labour, come on old boys move with the times, we are a forward thinkin, world leading economy, if we stand still the world stangnates, and the third world has nothing to aspire to.....................................

god my head hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

IT WILL IF YOU CALL ME OLD BOY AGAIN :evil:

AND YOU ARE ONLY SAYING THAT BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE THE DIFFEREANCE

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

the houses in the background look like the central estate

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

what houses you blind bus driver you :uhoh:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37146

Mister Ed wrote:

they said the same in the 1700's when they started modernising the cotton mills, and destroyed the machines that modernised manual labour, come on old boys move with the times,

YES, EXACTLY, THEY MODERNISED.... that would be great, but we don't modernise now, do we?...we just move the the jobs somewhere cheaper, while the workers are retrained as sun bed engineers and climate change outreach workers..... Moving with the times mean the only exports we do now are of our jobs and machinery.....how long a country can survive on a burger flipping service industry is a puzzle to me.

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

it looks like houses in the left hand centre of the picture old man :roll:

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

like i said take a vision test
i dont want you to crash into throston bridge

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

Mister Ed wrote:

they said the same in the 1700's when they started modernising the cotton mills, and destroyed the machines that modernised manual labour, come on old boys move with the times, we are a forward thinkin, world leading economy, if we stand still the world stangnates, and the third world has nothing to aspire to.....................................

god my head hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok mr edd CLEVER CLOGS DIBBLE BUDDY I WILL BUY YOU A DRINK MATE HAVE A PIE SIR]
seeing as how you like nostalgia
answer me this it should be right up your intellectual street
when was the first BURGER FLIPPING JOINT OPENED IN THE POOL"

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:56 am

gremmlin wrote:

when was the first BURGER FLIPPING JOINT OPENED IN THE POOL"

Wimpy on York Road about 1980.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22635

Mr Ripper wrote:

gremmlin wrote:

when was the first BURGER FLIPPING JOINT OPENED IN THE POOL"

Wimpy on York Road about 1980.

1980! Nah, I remember it being there as a kid in the mid seventies

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:59 am

Mr I wrote:

Mr Ripper wrote:

gremmlin wrote:

when was the first BURGER FLIPPING JOINT OPENED IN THE POOL"

Wimpy on York Road about 1980.

1980! Nah, I remember it being there as a kid in the mid seventies

You old get. :laugh:

Maybe about 1977/8 then?

gremmlin · **Joined:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:23 am **Posts:** 3141

stop giving his Eddiness clues :evil:

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:15 pm

It was way before 1977 too!

JohnnyMars · **Joined:** Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:24 am **Posts:** 2471

I served my time there - although it was mainly over the other side of Ferry Road - when it was part of George Clark & NEM and was there until it closed in 1981. Most of the older boys who worked there had been there since it was Richardsons & Westgarth, some of the best tradesmen I ever worked with clappp

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:10 pm

JohnnyMars wrote:

I served my time there - although it was mainly over the other side of Ferry Road - when it was part of George Clark & NEM and was there until it closed in 1981. Most of the older boys who worked there had been there since it was Richardsons & Westgarth, some of the best tradesmen I ever worked with clappp

Give over there was never a Wimpy bar in Ferry Road!

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:17 pm

Snowy wrote:

Mister Ed wrote:

they said the same in the 1700's when they started modernising the cotton mills, and destroyed the machines that modernised manual labour, come on old boys move with the times,

YES, EXACTLY, THEY MODERNISED.... that would be great, but we don't modernise now, do we?...we just move the the jobs somewhere cheaper, while the workers are retrained as sun bed engineers and climate change outreach workers..... Moving with the times mean the only exports we do now are of our jobs and machinery.....how long a country can survive on a burger flipping service industry is a puzzle to me.

one day, when we don't manufacture anything any more, the countries which do manufacture goods (i.e. the commodities which generate all wealth) may well ask - what are these middle men, known as the parent companies in the UK, doing controlling our manufacturing industry???
They will then pay off the UK's controlling interests, making a few people very rich, and turn our country into a third world economy overnight.

If anyone thinks it won't happen, remember what the Russians did to the powerful western oil corporations a couple of years ago. Venezuela is another country which has taken control of the oil industry there. Once the manufacturing process is outside of your own country's jurisdiction, what control do you have over those industries in the future?

Spender · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:21 pm

parmopooly wrote:

Snowy wrote:

Mister Ed wrote:

they said the same in the 1700's when they started modernising the cotton mills, and destroyed the machines that modernised manual labour, come on old boys move with the times,

YES, EXACTLY, THEY MODERNISED.... that would be great, but we don't modernise now, do we?...we just move the the jobs somewhere cheaper, while the workers are retrained as sun bed engineers and climate change outreach workers..... Moving with the times mean the only exports we do now are of our jobs and machinery.....how long a country can survive on a burger flipping service industry is a puzzle to me.

one day, when we don't manufacture anything any more, the countries which do manufacture goods (i.e. the commodities which generate all wealth) may well ask - what are these middle men, known as the parent companies in the UK, doing controlling our manufacturing industry???
They will then pay off the UK's controlling interests, making a few people very rich, and turn our country into a third world economy overnight.

If anyone thinks it won't happen, remember what the Russians did to the powerful western oil corporations a couple of years ago. Venezuela is another country which has taken control of the oil industry there. Once the manufacturing process is outside of your own country's jurisdiction, what control do you have over those industries in the future?

I've got news for you!! :grin:

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

JohnnyMars wrote:

I served my time there - although it was mainly over the other side of Ferry Road - when it was part of George Clark & NEM and was there until it closed in 1981. Most of the older boys who worked there had been there since it was Richardsons & Westgarth, some of the best tradesmen I ever worked with clappp

my old fella worked there for years as a fitter/turner when it closed down he went to marbourn on the trading estate until he retired
they then took him back on as nobody could do the work he had been doing so he went back and trained someone up
he was 86 on jan 8th and still going strong :laugh:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:27 pm

don't tell me, our plant will be moving to Mongolia in 2009!!!!

JohnnyMars · **Joined:** Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:24 am **Posts:** 2471

Well I was in manufacturing when I worked there, but now i'm in the service industry which is why I can spend most of my day looking at this message board. Sometimes I do hanker after getting the big hammer out again though :wink:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37146

Anyone with half a brain can see what's going on, it's turning into an Arfur Daley economy where we actually make nothing at all. Once the bean counters start employing cheaper solicitors, teachers and the like then we'll hear all about it. Until then, the average worker will be told that exporting their job is for the good of the economy and efficiency. SOME CONSOLATION. :roll:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:42 pm

well, it's one sure-fire way to see the brain drain become a canyon!!!!!

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