Five minutes to go

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10 жыл бұрын

Two huge cranes once stood majestically next to the River
Tyne in Swan Hunter’s shipyard - like huge dinosaurs.
FIVE MINUTES TO GO describes the final thoughts
of one of these dinosaurs as it awaits extinction.

Пікірлер: 13

@Mod-rw9cw 4 жыл бұрын

We will never see a ship on the stocks again on the Tyne.

@jennytalia226 7 жыл бұрын

Great song, and seeing the footage of the streets next to Swans takes me back to when I lived there. They might have been considered slums, but to me it was home and I would move back at the drop of a hat, great memories of a bygone era, many thanks Dr. Socrates, you've made an old ( ish ) man very happy.

@jean2740 Жыл бұрын

Music should be Jimmy Nail Big River most fitting for this video.

@jamesrickerby2756 3 жыл бұрын

I am 75 my grandfather worked at Vickers naval yard till 1929. He was a boiler maker., then got a job in 1932 at vickers Armstrong Elswick works , he retired when he was 64.5 got 7shillings and sixpence a week pension, they only took his time working from 1932, generous people ship yard owners. He made some runners for me to make a sledge, him and his mates brought them out hidden in their macks. He grew leeks had a allotment and was the greatest bloke who lived. His pub was the Black Bull, or occasionally the Darnell. We Don't produce men like them nowadays.

@revol148 Жыл бұрын

@JAMES RICKERBY your grandfather grew up in an incredibly tough era: most people were dead by 40 (especially in Manchester), there was no NHS, most people weren't allowed to vote, had 1 weeks holiday a year (if at all), enjoyed years of mass unemployment especially in the 1930's.I appreciate in the UK there is a tendency to look back to some mythological past golden age but please count me out - give me 2022 anyday !

@jean2740 Жыл бұрын

Real men today are a rare gem to find REAL MEN !!!!

@JohannusFandangulus 10 жыл бұрын

Lovin the upbeatness

@gordoncarter348 5 жыл бұрын

Great song sad day for swans tho end of an era

@rosewhite--- 6 жыл бұрын

0:46 what is that little thing on wheeels bbeing pushed about? Are any of those great iron bending slabs still surviving?

@rosewhite--- 6 жыл бұрын

so many workers looked so old thanks to booze, tobacco, white bread and fat.

@revol148 Жыл бұрын

@Rose White men pretty much worked to their death and not helped by atrocious lifestyle choices. Ah well the so-called "good old days" - and don't get me started on the work place death rates before the health and Safety act.

@jean2740 Жыл бұрын

But they where grafters if not they starved