FAO Kitey and Corky

[pfclassof61]

Did you come over on a paddle steamer and go below to watch the engines pounding away? Used tolove that when I was a nipper.

Yep... sometimes went to Southsea rather than Portsmouth harbour.[/quote] And Clarence Pier! That voyage could be interminable!

[Scoular1]

Did you come over on a paddle steamer and go below to watch the engines pounding away? Used tolove that when I was a nipper.

The engines were an engineering work of art - gleaming brass pipes as was the design details in the little drinking snugs below decks. Beautifully etched windows and carved mahogany. Remember the boat? ship? floated with a permanent list.

Check out this broadcast and you will see the paddle steamer Ryde.[/quote]

Ahh John Betjeman...beats Ade Edmundson and Caroline Quinten into cocked hat

[Scoular1]

Just witnessed from Scully Towers,a paddle steamer with 2 red chimneys going out of the harbour.
Will attempt to get a photo if it returns.

[Corkhead]

Two red chimberleys hmmm...

That could be the Good Ship Venus.

[Scoular1]

The chimley thing was a bit of fishing for LDB or Gun

[lovedeanblue]

It'll be the Waverley which sails down from Scotland for Solent and Dorset coast day cruises at this time of the year.

[Corkhead]

What's this 'un called then LoveDean you old Jolly Jack Tar you.

[lovedeanblue]

It's not the Isle of Wight ferry for sure