One of my first loads to Liverpool (Gladstone) dock was in 1968.I had an Albion Reiver and was loaded with circular saw blanks from Spear and Jackson in Sheffield.
I arrived in L'pool at 0400 having left Sheffield about 0130 and joined the queue!It was middday when I got tipped and apart from the Scottish wagons loaded with whisky for the bonded w/house the dockers only tipped four wagons from 0830 till 1130.when I came out of the gate you couldn't see the end of the queue.What a poxy hole!And Liverpool wasn't the only place with a reputation,the London docks,Hull and Birkenhead were just as bad.
Bad memories of dockwork.Our gaffer stopped doing it,just wasn't worth it he said.
Rant over,feel better now.
