Of Gods & Kings… Galliano

Children abduction leading to unspeakable acts of suffering require adults to protect our children. Period.

Steam ships are agents of change in the 19th c in Clydesdale Scotland

Booze cruises steaming drinking

The Genie Deans

The Queen Mary would pass Cunard being made

King George fifth

The Caledonian Queen Mary second

Requisition adult steamers floating over mind sweeping kits

Over the stern

The wire would cut the mines rising high

May 26th 1940 Dunkirk rescuers needed

Bully Beef & biscuits

Paddle steaming crosses carrying over 3,000 soldiers-off the beaches

The shilling tips

Pork pies and pepper pot

Foolish worlds defining bombs torpedos magnetic bombs sweeping on to victory after excusions to hell and back again

After the war new builds of steamers

Diesel motor propeller ships

The Clyde & Bristol paddle ships

White funnel Bristol Queen was a first class passenger ship such as a swan

A beautiful sound of powers going somewhere

and Cardiff Queen

Drinking on below decks euphoniums for seeing the kit

Sailing with the bar open and the whole of South Wales descended upon those Sunday ships singing

Some hairy Mary drunkards

Variety of life on board

Boozy boisterous bars booming and steaming on the halcyon days on the Clyde

Main fortnights holiday to Rothesay

Continuing on to Arran (middle class)

Classes

Utilitarians-team ships carrying waste and discharge (sewage )

Plus poorer people and community groups such as women’s institutions

1959 mini cars and the beginning of the car ferries and motorways casting a long shadow over the steam ships in 1966 – Bristol to Cardiff

Destinations and distractions were the in thing today as steamers fell out of fashion

Ships were looking shabby and clanking and banging to Ilfracoombe

Lundy island

1968 Bristol Queen was towed away & scrapped blowing her hooter paddling sounds

The Waverley the last steam paddle ship on the waves

2015 The Balmoral is back with coastal cruising