Posted by Paul Mackness on January 09, 2014 at 11:55:37 user PaulM.
In Reply to: Re: I didn't mean to be a lurker posted by Adam Quinan on January 08, 2014 at 13:38:00:
Thank'ee Adam......oops, slipping into PoB speak.
When I was small we lived at Shotley, my father was at Ganges like Cdr Walker, and Harwich was largely unchanged from AR's day except that the steamers no longer went to Flushing; but there were still yellow-funnelled night boats and Dutch day steamers with striped funnels and the white-hulled Danish boats, and of course the little harbour ferry scuttling back and forth. Felixstowe Dock was still the same quiet place where Jim left Imp, before the container port got under way. The trouble was that I was too young, hadn't read AR, and didn't appreciate it.........