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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: bezzabsa on January 23, 2007, 20:05:40

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: bezzabsa on January 23, 2007, 20:05:40

going there in the morning to deliver some HUGE chain links (approx 4" thick - 24" long ) so keep an eye out for me - leaving here at 4am  :shock:  so hope to be there around 8:30, so anyone on route please supply coffee - lol

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: strapping young lad on January 23, 2007, 20:23:59

u been that way before?

prepare to get bored of main roads once past st clears ;)

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: laser_jock99 on January 23, 2007, 20:32:36

Like this?
(http://www.bernd-nebel.de/bruecken/2_pioniere/brunel/bilder/brunel_4.jpg)

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: Boggert on January 23, 2007, 20:41:37

someone re building the "Great Eastern"?? have a good drive mate.

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: bezzabsa on January 23, 2007, 20:42:22

Quote from: "laser_jock99"

Like this?
(http://www.bernd-nebel.de/bruecken/2_pioniere/brunel/bilder/brunel_4.jpg)

close to that size actually!!
and Strapping - been to Tenby 'once or twice' ;) so used to that road - lol

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: muddyjames on January 23, 2007, 20:46:13

Quote from: "laser_jock99"

Like this?
(http://www.bernd-nebel.de/bruecken/2_pioniere/brunel/bilder/brunel_4.jpg)

One of the best people in Britian. IKB (Isembard Kingdom Brunel) :wink: one of my heros.

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: bezzabsa on January 23, 2007, 21:00:49

well the company that i am delivering on behalf of actually supplied the chain for the TITANIC ;)
must remember to look for icebergs ;)

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: Berliner Beer on January 24, 2007, 12:04:42

Thats a cheat he's only 4 inches tall!

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: mmgemini on January 24, 2007, 14:02:57

Who made the chain I wonder.
Hingley ???

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: old joe on January 24, 2007, 14:23:08

i'm trying to figure out how all this links togther

Dazza

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: muddyjames on January 24, 2007, 15:42:29

Quote from: "old joe"

i'm trying to figure out how all this links togther

Dazza

and the tumble weed passes by!!! poor joke im affraid dazza :wink:

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: bezzabsa on January 24, 2007, 15:56:03

well 630 kms, totally knackered saw some nice boats too ;) and the chain I took got loaded straight onto one to be dumped somewhere in the irish sea attatched to something large!!!!

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: old joe on January 24, 2007, 16:50:03

i know i tryed to inject a little humour into this club and all i get is tumble weed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97BiKW0ZD38

Dazza

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: mmgemini on January 24, 2007, 17:08:30

Hingley is my surname.
It comes fram Nail and Chain making.
A West midland company that was.
Yes Hingley made the anchors for the Titanic.

There's some uselass information for you all  :roll:

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: muddyjames on January 24, 2007, 18:51:31

Quote from: "old joe"

i know i tryed to inject a little humour into this club and all i get is tumble weed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97BiKW0ZD38

Dazza

PMSL  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: pembroke dock
Post by: johnniep on January 24, 2007, 20:17:52

ikb had the chains made for the great britan in hayle- cornwall, which was one of the biggest harbours in cornwall which had the foundry righ tnext to it!
well thats what my history teach told me, and i think he's almost old enough to have been around when it happened!
j.p