Russell: "All the catering side of Cunard, CPR, PS&C, all used to drink there; not the down below engineers or the deck crowd, just the catering, it was just known as their pub for some re...

The reason the Seamen's Dispensary was horrendous to go to at any time; right opposite there was a bag warehouse where all rough women worked making sacking bags. As people were going in, they...

Pat: "It was a huge huge social contributor to the life of the city, enormous." Interviewer: "What do you mean ‘social contributor’?" Pat: "Well, it moved all the people around dirt cheap. As ...

I was with my father and we travelled on the Overhead Railway and at the time it was affectionately known as the Dockers Umbrella. I remember going along it all the way up to Gladstone Dock an...

The Overhead Railway was known by the people, walking civilians, as the Dockers Umbrella, but the people that used it day and night called it the Pneumonia Express, for the simple reason that ...

There was no such this as a pen, like today, it was word of mouth. You'd be in the pub having a pint and someone would say "You want to get down tomorrow morning, such and such a ship's coming...

Sometimes you’d be working there and you’d cut it and a snake or something would fall off the, what do you call it, the stem. One day, one fell off and me and the other cutter, no I was cuttin...

We used to get the bananas from the Canary Islands on the South One Kings then, and they were called the Monty Boats. They used to come in wrapped in straw, then wrapped with brown paper and t...

When I first started there, in those days there were different types of lifting equipment for lifting all the different articles. There were timber grabs, stone grabs, car lifters, tobacco gra...