Baz posted:Yogi19 posted:Baz posted:My great , great grandfather was a navvy on the railways ...
A tough life
Yes ....but better than starving in Ireland ....they came from County Mayo
true bazzy
Baz posted:My great , great grandfather was a navvy on the railways ...
Mine was an engineer,and my great grandad ....my dad was an engineer too but not on railways, his was precision stuff
Baz posted:Wonder what was wrong with him
Googled. He had a stroke.
Yogi19 posted:Baz posted:Wonder what was wrong with him
Googled. He had a stroke.
awwww poor thing
Baz posted:Kaytee posted:Baz posted:My great , great grandfather was a navvy on the railways ...
Mine was an engineer,and my great grandad ....my dad was an engineer too but not on railways, his was precision stuff
You iz well posh then ....me Iâm peasant stock
I'm from smuggling stock in Suffolkð
Kaytee posted:Baz posted:Kaytee posted:Baz posted:My great , great grandfather was a navvy on the railways ...
Mine was an engineer,and my great grandad ....my dad was an engineer too but not on railways, his was precision stuff
You iz well posh then ....me Iâm peasant stock
I'm from smuggling stock in Suffolkð
Baz posted:Tower bridge is stunning
Love it
Baz posted:They really were amazing engineers
Baz posted:Tower bridge is stunning
fantastic
Baz posted:Tower bridge is stunning
I love it,lovely views from it
Yogi19 posted:Baz posted:They really were amazing engineers
very clever and intelligent
Thanks for the company, ladies 
Off to get some sleep 
Thanks for the company ladies, night night
night - two interesting programmes
Evening all
Evening Baz
Baz posted:Good grief
Yesðą
hi bazzy and kaytee
Baz posted:Built them hardy in those days
Kids and bomb sites were a match way into the early 60s up northð
Evening Ros
Baz posted:I remember my mum still having a ration book in the 1950s
Mine was living it up in India, but she told me her brother who owned a grocer and off licence shop was doing a fair old trade in black market stuffðð