Last of the Watermen - Documentary (2013) 

All the breast.

Thanks for sharing.

Very sad, it seems that even the Cockney accent is also under threat ?? Technically you can’t have any more Cockneys because Bo Bells are no more and seems with all the influx of other entities … the accents are being whittled away… very sad… there needs to be some sort of way of preserving the culture … I can’t imagine London without all the different accents … I’m from the Wirral and I just couldn’t imagine the Scouse accent being threatened … hopefully I’ve heard wrong??

Why is that? People lived in colour.

Hope you are keeping well steve

Great thanks, keep up the good work, hope to see you all at TC soon 👍

Peter retired a couple of years ago and his yard is now part of the new silvertown tunnel. 😞😞

Most of that takes place outside of london now on the Thames estuary and in the medway river. It is still possible to dock in the 'royal Albert dock' and 'king George v dock' which are both in Greater London.

I agree. Im not much of a fan of the music choice

Gives it quite a sad, desolate feel I think.

Agreed as mentioned great docu' but totally ruined by the soundtrack, so not worth keeping as a rewatch shame.

I think the music pulls the thing together. It reminds me of the penetrating dampness that comes with early morning on the boat. Everything is saturated, your outside in the elements for what seems like hours at a time waiting for the maneuver your job entails to start. Once your into it, you warm up a bit, but in the meantime your thinking about what a miserable job you have until your away from it. Then you miss it! On small day tugs like you see here, there’s not much in creature comforts, so out on deck, and not hanging about getting on each other’s goat cause it’s a long day. It’s definitely not Hi Ho, a sailors life for me, unless it’s at the boozer. Nice work on the doc. I can smell the exhaust smoke, and diesel, the whine of the turbocharger, the splashing of the murky water against the hull. When your in a city environment you look to shore at people going about their daily routine. They on the other hand look at you, and think, well it’s a good thing that brute of a man is out on that boat, or he’d probably be in jail. I’m 71 and have always been in transportation related work, marine, and road. Don’t judge a book by its cover. Jobs like these, you’ve got to have each others back. ….then you go home and the Mrs gives ya a good kickin. 😂

Thats right Alfie. I worked with John a few times when he worked with peter on new years fireworks tows. Sadly he passed away this year.

@liquidhighway yeah sad news nice we go way back to when he was in Southend, Is Peter still about, Never met the guy but what a character he is.

@alfieturnbull yes peter is still doing well . Now retired in his 80s and more frail than in the video but what a character😃

@liquidhighway pleased to hear that Peter is still marching on, Proper old school, bermondsey boy. I remember John doing the fireworks around 2000 had some good times over the years with him, The good old days long gone but lovely memories 😊

@liquidhighway did you ever come across Brain banks he was at battersea for awhile