LL-L "History" 2009.08.20 (04) [EN]

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From: tighe <tighe at sympatico.ca>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2009.08.120 (01) [EN]

Hi Fowk:

FYI

• *Bunnets n Bowlers* – A Clydeside Odyssey is published by Luath Press.

Glasgow's famous shipyards built great battleships and cruise-liners, they
employed thousands of men and created a unique community. In a job that was
always dangerous and physically demanding the 'bunnets' (skilled workers)
found ways to keep cheerful, whether it was performing magic tricks, playing
football, making fun of the 'bowlers' (bureaucratic foremen) or starting
their weekend drinking early. Life in the shipyards was hard but ex-workers,
including *poet Brian Whittingham,* look back on those times of camaraderie
with nostalgia. 'Bunnets 'n' Bowlers' is an entertaining, uplifting and, at
times painfully, realistic poetic description of a way of life that is now
gone.

Threy o yon makar's poems ur quotit et linket:
http://living.scotsman.com/people/-Brian-Whittingham-started-as.5156138.jp

kind regards

Gerald Tighe

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