Collier And Timber Brigs
A Memory of Folkestone.
JULY 19TH 2012
JOHN MAY
VANCOUVER
CANADA
Father family name - May.
Mothers family name - Pay.
Grandfather and his four brothers (on fathers side) - fishermen
All born on the Stade in the harbour.
Grandfather and his brothers (on mother's side) - seamen working the colliers brigs from the Tyne and Hartelpool bringing coal to the Folkestone gas works, timber brigs brought timber from the Baltic for Tolputts timber yard located on the tram road. My father worked discharging them as he worked at Tolputts - with my wife's father - (Alfred Ives).
Eventually we all worked on the ferries including me.
Folkestone was a great place to grow up in.
John May
Vancouver, Canada
E-mail eurocdn@aol.com
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