Fancy monikers but usually the same job.  Shipwright was a good respectable & solid calling then.
My old man set me up to work here at The SA Harbours Board as a Shipwright but something happened & I never did.
I reckon I would have loved that job on Work Boats, Launches etc.
Ah that's right, I met a sheila & that was that. 

  Can't even recall her name now maybe she really was forgettable after all?    Margaret or summat ???   So I became a Fridgie instead after I had tried making Big Royal Show Fruit Displays & Sign writing.   Nearly tripped up to be a Firie in the SAFB but chickened out beforehand after watching blokes jumping off of the Hose Tower into a canvas Mat a million feet down.  Thought, "That is deffo not for you Dessie boy."

  **** no".
Of course this was well before the Aerial Ladders of today & I believe the Rescue Mat was made obsolete years ago.   'elf & Safety I suppose. I guess too many fellers were missing the target on the mat.   Arms folded across the chest & legs out in front &  not a pretty sight to clean up off the concrete in that pose.  How the hell they believed that "Civvies" could be rescued in an Emergency was beyond me.
Ok for a Qualified Firey to get down quickly though.
Then there was the Hook Ladder Race up the Tower.   No not today .
I could have been my Son in Law's Chief Officer by now.  Or he mine?
Ah Happy Days.
 
			
		
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