Cammell Laird. Whats it like over them walls.

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ธ.ค. 2024

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  • @mactheweld
    @mactheweld ปีที่แล้ว +4

    cracking aerial vid paul . i have some wonderful memories of lairds where i served my time as a welder back in the late 70s and 80s . Its just a shame theres so little of what's left of a thriving industry that once was the mainstay of employment in birkenhead

    • @veryhighguy
      @veryhighguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      thanx

    • @Stewpot-p5l
      @Stewpot-p5l 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thatcher was to blame for the loss of our industry! Especially up north . I was a welder too but in the plumbers yard on the pipework so I don’t know if you worked in the dry docks too , I only worked there for a couple o years as I am a pipe welder

    • @mactheweld
      @mactheweld 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hi stewpot . I was there from 1977-85 then again for 18 months when the sovereign explorer rig was being built .

    • @Stewpot-p5l
      @Stewpot-p5l 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mactheweld alright mate ! I was there later when the Lord Raglan was taken over by the Greeks and the con hall was empty

    • @mactheweld
      @mactheweld 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I remember that being there

  • @marksmith1944
    @marksmith1944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow 😳🤩👍 Paul, extremely interesting area. Imagine in the past I bet it was extremely busy and you would find it difficult to move around. Nice 1 and keep warm 🥃🥃

  • @roderickfairley7458
    @roderickfairley7458 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you Paul, a great view "over the wall". My Grandfather worked "over there". He worked on The Ark Royal. Great stuff!

    • @veryhighguy
      @veryhighguy  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nice 1, that would of been a sight watching that launched

    • @Stewpot-p5l
      @Stewpot-p5l 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cammell Laird invented most carrier technology especially on the Ark Royal ! Laird’s were first to weld a carrier instead of using rivets and first to build one with an angled deck and armoured deck

  • @patkennedy7095
    @patkennedy7095 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was a crane driver in Laird's for many years between 1964 and 1980.
    It's sad to think that nowadays the yard doesn't have a single outside crane. They use hired mobile cranes as and when required.

    • @veryhighguy
      @veryhighguy  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree. Here is the last being dismantled Dismantling 60 year old Cranes ( Extended )
      th-cam.com/video/ih8DvUTHqq8/w-d-xo.html

  • @AllSeeingEyeDavey
    @AllSeeingEyeDavey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had a little fly down there this afternoon, was only there 10 mins just for a quick nosey 😂

    • @veryhighguy
      @veryhighguy  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      good view from the tower

  • @kayned47
    @kayned47 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    My dad worked in HR, gerry daly, u might of known him?

    • @veryhighguy
      @veryhighguy  วันที่ผ่านมา

      i have never actually worked there

  • @ChrisVaughan-gj7ve
    @ChrisVaughan-gj7ve 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Not a proper shipyard with no cranes