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Yes Peggy, think I go past your road every day when walking the dogs into Devonport park.

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Chemical Ali wrote:

Yes Peggy, think I go past your road every day when walking the dogs into Devonport park.

It's ok. The curtains usually stay closed until I've finished my naked tai chi.

Born and lived for a while in Portsmouth.

It's not funny Al. The shame of it!!

i still want my flag back

Peggy wrote:

Chemical Ali wrote:

Yes Peggy, think I go past your road every day when walking the dogs into Devonport park.

It's ok. The curtains usually stay closed until I've finished my naked tai chi.

Are you very noisy during it Peggy?

Perhaps you are the dockyard siren?

Peggy wrote:

Hugh Watt wrote:

So none of you was born within the sound of the dockyard siren then. For shame

I was. Born in the Alex, grew up in Budo. And it sounds as if Chem and Mrs Chem now live quite near me.

Praaaaaaper Janners.

I was born in Devonport, I do not class myself as a janner.

depends if a pigs there with her

When the pontoon is replace at Cornwall Beach you may have seadog making fast, nice pub there.

Tgwu wrote:

When the pontoon is replace at Cornwall Beach you may have seadog making fast, nice pub there.

Ahhh the floating pontoon. Had many a night session down there catching Thornies and getting pelted with marbles/stones/rocks etc by the local youth. (Actually, most of them hadn't even reached 'youthdom')

I would like that.

Czarcasm wrote:

Tgwu wrote:

When the pontoon is replace at Cornwall Beach you may have seadog making fast, nice pub there.

Ahhh the floating pontoon. Had many a night session down there catching Thornies and getting pelted with marbles/stones/rocks etc by the local youth. (Actually, most of them hadn't even reached 'youthdom')

Those were the days. Council dragging their feet over the repair or replacement

Shorely you mean Boodo?

lawnmowerman wrote:

The woodford cabal is taking over this place coz i grew up around there too

hele run from ridgeway !

Is that the Pontoon adjacent to the Swan Pub that is sadly no longer there? I used to love it down there on a thursday night watching live bands.

Elias wrote:

lawnmowerman wrote:

The woodford cabal is taking over this place coz i grew up around there too

hele run from ridgeway !

Whats at Ridgeway these days? Used to be a small shopping precinct like Broadway.

Cornish Rebel wrote:

Is that the Pontoon adjacent to the Swan Pub that is sadly no longer there? I used to love it down there on a thursday night watching live bands.

The Swan! Just after i started working in the docky,some of the lads took me down to that hostelry to celebrate my 19th birthday.I thought i was a reasonably accomplished drinker but the Swan served only real ale and one draught lager,namely Holsten.Having been reared on lagers such as Skol,Hofmeister etc,naively i thought that all draught lagers were the same and started drinking pints of Holsten in the same manner as usual.I was soon put right as to the fact that some lagers were stronger than others when after my third pint went down the hatch,my legs gave way at the same time and i was lying on the floor listening to howls of derisive laughter and shouts of "geddon bhey" from my colleagues and the regulars.Strange thing was that i didn't even feel pissed but had to beat a hasty retreat after that,so embarrassing.All part of growing up i suppose,sad that the Swan isn't still there to catch out others in a similar way.

seadog wrote:

Peggy wrote:

Chemical Ali wrote:

Yes Peggy, think I go past your road every day when walking the dogs into Devonport park.

It's ok. The curtains usually stay closed until I've finished my naked tai chi.

Are you very noisy during it Peggy?

Perhaps you are the dockyard siren?

Arn't these the noises you heard outside Peggy's house
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Peggy wrote:

Hugh Watt wrote:

So none of you was born within the sound of the dockyard siren then. For shame

I was. Born in the Alex, grew up in Budo. And it sounds as if Chem and Mrs Chem now live quite near me.

Praaaaaaper Janners.

Alexandra Maternity Nursing Home .....Devonport....March 1939....used by military families I'm told (father at RAF Mountbatten).

Greenskin wrote:

Cornish Rebel wrote:

Is that the Pontoon adjacent to the Swan Pub that is sadly no longer there? I used to love it down there on a thursday night watching live bands.

The Swan! Just after i started working in the docky,some of the lads took me down to that hostelry to celebrate my 19th birthday.I thought i was a reasonably accomplished drinker but the Swan served only real ale and one draught lager,namely Holsten.Having been reared on lagers such as Skol,Hofmeister etc,naively i thought that all draught lagers were the same and started drinking pints of Holsten in the same manner as usual.I was soon put right as to the fact that some lagers were stronger than others when after my third pint went down the hatch,my legs gave way at the same time and i was lying on the floor listening to howls of derisive laughter and shouts of "geddon bhey" from my colleagues and the regulars.Strange thing was that i didn't even feel pissed but had to beat a hasty retreat after that,so embarrassing.All part of growing up i suppose,sad that the Swan isn't still there to catch out others in a similar way.

The Swan that was my growing up pub, Mrs Jay the owner used to give us a tab until pay day. That was in 1965. A farmer family from Cornwall took over and started to change the pub.  The Steam Packet is still going strong, I know the owner very well. We used to go to Argyle with our girl friends when we were teenagers.

As we all know Plymouth is made up of 3 towns, Plymouth,  Stonehouse and Plymouth Dock (Devonport).

Stonehouse and Devonport became part of Plymouth in 1914 and we became a city in 1928.

I wonder when the siren was first used in the dockyard? And was it audible in Plymouth (not Stonehouse or Devonport)?

Frank Bullitt wrote:

As we all know Plymouth is made up of 3 towns, Plymouth,  Stonehouse and Plymouth Dock (Devonport).

Stonehouse and Devonport became part of Plymouth in 1914 and we became a city in 1928.

I wonder when the siren was first used in the dockyard? And was it audible in Plymouth (not Stonehouse or Devonport)?

Good question.

I live pretty close to Plymuff railway station and can hear the siren every Monday morning at 11.30, however i consider the term 'Janner' to be derogatory.........