Snap Shots Of Churchill's Funeral.

[stuey]

Sort of carrying on from AOG'S thread of yesterday. Anyway, look at the B/W picture of people in 1965 standing on a building in the process of being demolished. That man on the left in the boiler-suit, doesn't he look like Churchill observing his own funeral?! http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31041370

[tonyav]

Looks like the Germans did the demolishing there, stuey. Looks like a bomb site to me.

[stuey]

That thought crossed my mind, Tony. But then I thought surely there wouldn't still be remnants of the bombing 20 years later.

[tonyav]

I dunno stuey, it just looks like a bomb site to me. But perhaps it is in the process of being demolished.

[stuey]

I think you could be correct. It's not "tidy" enough to be a planned demolition site. What would your H and S gaffers today have to say about people clambering all over such a site?:)

[tonyav]

Gawd, they'd have a fit, stuey. Wot no hard hats !.

[stuey]

But what do you think of that guy: doesn't he look like Churchill when he was younger?

[tonyav]

Yes stuey, there are similarities.

[tonyav]

stuey, just found out that the dockers only did that crane lowering thing because they were paid overtime to work Saturday afternoon.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/magazine/churchill-the-nation%E2%80%99s-farewell-of-course-the-dockworkers-were-paid-to-dip-cranes-in-tribute-to-winston-it-was-a-saturday/ar-AA8Iilv

[Samuraisan]

But I wonder if we would have won the war without him, dockers liked him or not.

[stuey]

I imagine that to most of the crane operators in the Port of London, if it's still called that, this Churchill bloke is just another dead old politician from way back. So yes, they'd demand overtime...Well. it's work innit?

[tonyav]

Would have been more expensive if the state funeral had been on a Sunday, double time !.

[stuey]

Oops, I do believe I'm a little confused about the crane operator thing...Time to scarper across the frozen field in search of wobbly-pops...Cheers:)

[tonyav]

Cheers, stuey.

[Hopkirk]

I'm sure the soldiers and police were paid to be there, the pipers in the gallery would have been paid, the train driver etc etc.

So why wouldn't the dockers be paid to operate their machinery?

[retrocop]

Because like most dockers and Steverdores they were good Unionists and followed the Marxist doctrine. Churchill was no friend of the unions. Like most lefties they had no allegiance to this country or gratitude for the man who saved it from Fascism. It was overtime for this >>>> and only money would get them to work for their filthy lucre and not gratitude that they were not marching to the Horst Wessel.