The apprenticeship at Chatham Dockyard is the finest in the world -
if you stick to it, the world's your oyster' Robert Smith's dad
told his teenage son. When young Robert started there in 1958, the
docks employed 6000 people on a two-mile- long site encompassing
hundreds of workshops, offices and storehouses as well as its own
police station, fire service, medical centre, technical college and
telephone exchange. There were three ship-refitting basins and
eight main docks. Yet less than 30 years later Chatham Dockyard had
effectively closed, with catastrophic consequences to the local
economy. Robert did stick to his apprenticeship, and he has never
regretted it. Along with the studying and the hard work there were
plenty of good times, with laughter and practical jokes, scrapes
with motorbikes and cars, encounters with extraordinary characters
and moments of excitement - and frustration - with the opposite
sex.
General
| Imprint: |
Memoirs Publishing
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
December 2012 |
| First published: |
December 2012 |
| Authors: |
Robert Smith
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 6mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
120 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-909304-80-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-909304-80-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781909304802 |
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