We did a lot of Shipping for James Troop on Sefton Street in the early 1980s, Bob Cain was the man who gave us the work, nice chap he was but I suspect your time there will have been before that John.
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We did a lot of Shipping for James Troop on Sefton Street in the early 1980s, Bob Cain was the man who gave us the work, nice chap he was but I suspect your time there will have been before that John.
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I had a classmate at Heath Rd.,a boy called Roy Pendleton, when his Dad died ,Roy inherited his fishing boat and I often wondered what happened to him. The last time I saw him he was sweeping St.Mary's Rd. and a more contented young person you would'nt find. Any of you Garston folk recall him? He was hard to miss being of a "generous " build and always had the time of day for anyone.
Troops tended to do ships services: plumbing, electrics, engines, sheet metal. They would make the parts for engines, engine room equipment like steam (steam was used to start the engines), etc, if the part was not available. If a Japanese ship was in and needed a part, because they engiens were totally alien, they would make it.
They were Rolls Royce engine agents.
He couldn`t have been the last ,my brother carried on long after Mr Oxton lost his boat.
BBC TV did a series of programmes called "Through one pair of eyes" featuring our kid and the late Arthur Dooley,the famous sculptor,who our kid was friendly with,on board his fishing nobby. I remember our kid saying to him his sculptures were rubbish and Arthur replying, I know but people are buying them. The old Mersey Mirror ran an article on our kid as Liverpool`s last Fisherman with the whole front page a photo of him.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1413/...a75a6afa_o.jpg
Here he is at 80 still fishing with me outside the Cocklehole only using rods now instead of trawling
Still trying to find out info some one gave me some web sites which were good but as i don't know if he was on a ship i am lost again any ideas?
Jo