FAO Redblood re Sydney Harbour bridge
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Zoophonic
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Dorman Long: The Teesside firm that bridged the world https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-34389873
Anton_Berg
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Imperial measurement and not a hard hat to be seen. Mallard's recollection is fantastic but when he said Mr 'Ennis (DL)and Dr Bradfield got on well' , was he just being diplomatic? Iirc another account, there was some tension between them. Could be a movie in it.
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still to this day, hard hats are not worn anywhere on the bridge.
we must have been the only site that were exempt from wearing them due to the safety of all below including
pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and the ferries that sailed beneath.
And you're right there was many a confrontation between the two men.
I was never to know that after residing in Ennis square in Dormanstown immediately prior to our sailing to
Oz that I would end up working on that bridge within twenty years of our arrival. Not that I knew who Ennis was at that time.
Thank you for that Borobarmy.
I had seen a shortened version of the film during my induction process and really enjoyed your find.
Of course it brought back many fine memories for me as well as some awful ones.
On my very first day on the job as a rigger, I witnessed a young boy place his schoolbag at his feet and climbed the safety fence and jump.
It was a horrific introduction for me and there were many more to follow over the years.
One morning in the riggers loft as we were preparing for our daily team talk and the decision making of who was to go where and with whom ,our
engineer came upstairs and told us not to make any plans as yet as we were all required to go to the railway deck and try and locate a head.
Another young man had thrown himself in front of a train and the body was visible but the head wasn't.
More than happy to say that it wasn't I that found it.
Many years later my teacher wife found out that the schoolboy that I saw jump on that first day was the son of a colleague of hers.
Both his parents were teachers and the poor kid must've been under enormous pressure to do well in his final year.
This only came out because my wife had innocently told this lady that her husband was a crane driver on the S H Bridge and she broke
down in tears when being told.
She told my wife what had happened and when, my wife knew straight away that that was her son that I saw on my first day.
Naturally, my wife didn't tell her that I witnessed it, but, for a long time I have wondered if we should have or did do the right thing.
Many stories to tell if you're interested ?
Cheers once again.