Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal

Chester it much depends on you come put your shoulders to the wheel of whether your own condo array then for the hip canal bridge here's my boys for you Mookie roasting them you love your neighbor as yourself' dosing while sailing food [Music] I must have been about I should say between between nine and ten because I remember them fetching a silver bar on the word for gentlemen and they caught something after doubtedly ground for the English pirate that was when they first caught the shot I saw I remember they started in 1887 and it finished in 1893 it took six years to build it well I was born in 79 1879 and I just want to give you my little career is regard ship now I started when I was 12 but I started on the false pretences they said I hadn't to start without I was 14 and I row Norman told my own mother that I could have a job in another one and if I was 14 she says well you should I be a brother certificate he was two years older than me so I started on the false Betances and the wages then was took more than an hour ten and four was for a week of 56 hours I was born there in 1876 that's my wall I worked on the canal from I was 13 at various jobs wagon grating point turning dipping for gangs and all that I went out there than our Timmy's name was Tom Richard good job yes he said I'll give it your bloody said you who go into the crippled yard berries and grease them wagons up to the police no hello Ron so I went there I was fat and wagons all the time God I say for 18 months or two years where do a box of wagon grease I always remember when I started the bus tour mrs. go to the joiner shop and tell him you want a fat box well they made us a square box I just say about nine inches square and handle on it and we had to go to a barrel of grease fill that box open and we had what they call a fat stick a bit of wood improvised out sort of a good dive in a way to crawl underneath there was no axle boxes outside like there are on the web and today there was all yet to get underneath and prostrating on mother pedestals and you crawling about in sludge or anything that was part in working there was every county in England represented on the canal every county in Scotland every County in Ireland but there were very few Welshman I don't remember only one Welshman on the job and a Cornishmen Konishi give me all the way I don't deserve Iseman on the canal yeah God will curse or no oh that the world can us get out or we bled the Irishman from one end to the other there wasn't like our people there was no look she speaks it was more she'd a you never eat them swell once in a blue moon no our book is called good dog working mods there's no doubt about it well my Navigon de I was fighting for the account he died I don't think he had about some nice man out weekend in the gun because it worked out at the dinner response so all robust you know start blinking lines lots of people have the impression that all the work was done with big spades and borrow well that is not true because even though there they had what was then modern plant there were the German Ljubica London dredger there was also a French model but the bulk of the work was carried out of course by the Labour there were well over 16,000 men and boys employed on digging the canal there was a mighty lot done by and what they call graft barrel rods and the chaps these from Lincoln they used to be a proper gang of them about 13 or 14 of them there to take a job beasts work you know and they used to do it all by arm till eventually well anywhere where they could get one of those excavators well lay down one but there was places where they couldn't get them but wonderful yes pick and shovel and we what they call good money but not much of it yeah yes there was a guardian till it they were different prices they were peaceful so they got one and aprons of working somebody got one integrants but if it was bad stuff on wet you got a half a crown there was for gambling doing that in the bucket Charlie Plus free radical in ginger there was one gang there they were linking chichi ups and Cambridge in notebooks they didn't have a gang they were a leading man a great big powerful fellas and these bill boys always loaded up a 9 gallon barrel of beer and paid for it in their turn easy boys come on we love a hole are you and the you should make it out of a cow's all with the bottom in that one Ian they were men I said they were meant they were so good elephants and there was one man work there he was a tall fellow the 70 beers he used to call him salvation hurry you know salvation it was the best paid mom ever I saw in me life all the before all things he was automation well men that always could say they could put that much on a bar you know these to brag that was Lincoln she a man that it was impossible to we a little way without there are no break-in and they give them a nickname they used to always call them Stoughton's Stoughton's I don't know why but there was a big act a lot of men more lifetime laborers and all on the bottom picture of now lacking in them days roll up of a morning six o'clock strip off and perhaps some of them are down fired a little bit like about pulling enough often the young Amanat say to him now then my lad what are you going to do if they let the Sun burn not jacket off you know we take it off without a mother no that's as near slavery as we can go back to you know I had to do what they were told they do what they like today don't they yes yes the dark a belief they swore every and they never listened to you they were men you up and go from now we enter world it's never been don't send motion took don't be any arm house I won't have any order I'm nearly ninety to few more moves I'll be 92 never they were like they all now be in a thousand years they'll now be a do two days while they were thinking of one no and they never stopped it used to be what we call blinding Jane is it never stop no no no they got hurt never bother them well I'd better beer that's why I am today because I never let much food when yeah Emma Stone is alive now can't get them I'll be 90 in a couple of months to the Fiddler's I say in essence that's mr. bear play yes well it's true tough they may have been but this didn't stop a great many being injured or worse unfortunately like other schemes there was loss of life um the construction will have a high accident rate this was anticipated by the chief engineer that is why he was instrumental in getting mr. Robert Jones as a surgeon in charge of the accident and indeed medical service for the construction years oh yes there were a lot of people killed a lot of people injured a man for life he was a man cooking to be a parent there I think 139 people killed during the summer six years as it were being constructed yes yes and of course it was an organised accident service strategically the placing of the three base hospitals of the dressing stations the first aid stations and of the use of the railway which ran the overland the right way as they called it which ran along with canal which could bring the seriously injured man with very little delay till a base hospital so that it did not depend on chance it really was an organized scheme and organized excellent service in at one time you had quite a lot of talk in all going about an accident that happened in English cooking I think a train fell into the grate cut and indescribable scenes they had to get them out of the use of steam cranes and they are probably there will be a lot of amputations and have got many of those injured men would not were not there would not survive there was an old gentleman named of mr. Antipas and he remembers me for others accident he used to tell me about it now men pull the shirts often Oh called in to help to tie him up and get him away to Latchford hospital and he said he was a very brave man the injured man will be picked up by the first-aid people put on stretcher and into a truck of the little railway and dispatched to the nearest place hospital where there was a medical officer acting under Robert Jones who became pretty skillful in combating shock and giving the immediate first aid until Robert Jones arrived to carry out the major surgical treatment he was described as a son man irradiated I've seen him go round hospitals and men with shattered limbs who barely gone through it a few words a smile a little hint the man no lies looking at this man there's a be where God floods and severe winters also delayed the work and increase the cost learns from the Manchester City Council enabled the project to continue and at long last they left the water in this out he was floated nuclear when did you learn to make it a normal Saturday night all that land over the other side the canal right away hope the room can highway was flooded all look that laying on the other side there past that farmhouse the lip to the sluice is that I am Lansford Wendy come to try to get them down the volume of water under the gate the cutter was standing up to their ballot in water the three old men who recalled how they worked on the construction of the canal were Charlie Williams of Fallowfield John Dobson of Moore and Charles chambers of hepped install

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Keywords: Manchester ship canal, ships, 1894, canal, onstruction, John Dobson

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Length: 15min 33sec (933 seconds)

Published: Fri May 31 2019