Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Back In The Day.....

 

 

 

 H/T to Dave...

 

 

 

 

15 comments:

  1. Heroic defenders of israel.

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  2. Does one spells Balls with a capital B? Days of yore, when men were men, without question.

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    1. 😂 “child abuse” F-off pu55y .. no wonder UK is being taken over. Pathetic.

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  4. Just no way, not even on the bottom rung. The Button Boy - never ever

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  5. HMS Ganges at Shotley. This is one of several training facilities.
    As ships at sea became more expensive, training was moved to shore though retaining the name of the original training ship. These shore facilities retaining ship's names were called stone ships.

    Established 1865, so this video would be of the 1925 training class. Button boy Gwin Charlton, age 15, would have been born around 1910. The same year as my grandfather who also went to sea. Gwin went in to be an instructor at Ganges.

    Ganges decommissioned 1976.

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    1. Young 'salts' Man The Mast (1965)! D'OH!

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  6. I would hate to see that attempted today. How many 300lb guys in dresses would participate?

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  7. None of today's wimpified youth could even dream of doing that, much less attempt it; their parents would wail in opposition!

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  8. Excellent write up on the whole thing.

    https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21940386.button-boy-gwyn-made-parents-proud/

    Look at how far we have fallen.

    I did my time 10 years later, 74-78.

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  9. I have an app on my phone where I climb the mast. I'm so good that I've collected 5,000 tokens.

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  10. My Uncle Thomas was also the ‘button boy’ on his HMS Ganges ‘Pass Out Parade.’ He manned a .303 Bren Gun on a landing craft on D Day aged 18. The greatest generation, so very proud of them all.

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