Yes, I saw it. Got a buzz from the modern day tugman talking about Rotherhithe and Bermondsey of old which is where my ancestry family were from, then later the other side of the river near Wapping.
Loved all the old film of the pool of London (I have a Pathe news film of the last river letter carrier Herbert - my first cousin twice removed) and the Tower Bridge which wasn't there when the first watermen and lightermen were on the river. There were many changes in the almost 150 years that my family were first on the river until the job was disbanded when Herbert retired in 1962. My icon is my great great uncle Henry George Evans in his boat delivering letters with the fairly new Tower Bridge in the background.
I have the full sized photo framed along with this little Wills cigarette card of a river postman (found and bought for me by Ben) which was based on the photo (the icon is a bit small to see that he is wearing a straw boater and he has the beard).
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Date: 2019-10-21 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-10-21 05:53 pm (UTC)Have you been watching the TV programme about the Thames? I think it's called The Thames, Then and Now; something like that. Some good old film clips.
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Date: 2019-10-21 07:57 pm (UTC)Loved all the old film of the pool of London (I have a Pathe news film of the last river letter carrier Herbert - my first cousin twice removed) and the Tower Bridge which wasn't there when the first watermen and lightermen were on the river. There were many changes in the almost 150 years that my family were first on the river until the job was disbanded when Herbert retired in 1962. My icon is my great great uncle Henry George Evans in his boat delivering letters with the fairly new Tower Bridge in the background.
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Date: 2019-10-22 06:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-10-22 02:53 pm (UTC)