- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Harland & Wolff, the thieving and wastage out of that place was legendary. Half the terraced houses in Belfast were undercoated with red lead. Of an afternoon the welders used to lower full Oxygen bottles into the Lagan on their sides in lifting slings just below the surface. They would then take bets on how far out the lough it would go before pointing it seaward and knocking the Brass end off with a swipe of a lump hammer. Bloody things went like torpedoes, bottom of lough is littered with thousands of them.Mate worked in the shipyard & this fella worked with him always took a pint of milk in with him, then someone noticed he always took it home with him again. So one night he got stopped at the gate & turned out to be full of white paint....had been going on years & everything at home was painted white.