The Bluebird Project

A whole weekend of us lot talking bo'ocks.......that's 'normal for Norfolk' or as we like to say (quickly) we're 'Norfolk and Good', and as I obviously slept through the last 15 years, being blissfully unaware of your project until recently I'm looking forward to bringing myself up to speed as best ...

The Albion - now that does ring a bell. Had a look on Google maps and I reckon that's the one, unless of course someone says that it never had any pictures on the wall!! I think I can die happy now that it's cleared up ! Must get back to catching up with the diary, still a few years to go. Also orde...

I see I've got you thinking about that one ! I remember that we would walk out of one of the gates from the Hadrian yard to the pub, have a pint and a sandwich or something and then back to the yard and could just about do that in the lunch hour, that's why I thought it might have been where the Had...

Debaucherous sounds about right for the Ship In The Hole; glad I didn't forget that part of my stay although the Turbinia doesn't ring a bell. Glad to see from the link Mike sent that the yard could get going again and without any toilets that need seats fitting on those wind thingys, hopefully it w...

Since I realised that your workshop is in North Shields, I've been reminiscing about a cracking 6 months I spent there in 1992 whilst working on commissioning two rigs being built in the Hadrian Yard, so I thought I would Google to see how things have changed. Stayed in the Highpoint Hotel in Whitle...

Hi Fred

Thanks for that. I have sent an email to you but not through this forum as I cannot send PMs yet, as I am new member.

Martin

Many thanks for making the archived diaries accessible again. So much interesting and at times amusing information ! Just to be a complete pain, any chance of seeing Sept to Dec 2001, I did see somewhere on one of the threads that it had disappeared before sometime in the past! Also 2009 diaries see...

Hi Mike You've finally pushed me into the modern world of multi media communication. This is the first time ever I have written anything other than an email so if I get the etiquette all wrong l offer my apologies. To explain.... I am a newbee observer of the project and started off by watching vide...