Trigger words: ladder
Indicator sentences: What do you mean by the ladder ?
Negotiation parts: The ladder is where the buckets er er run on you see [UNCLEAR] that 's the ladder like that from what they call the top tumbler what used to be the top tumbler used to have five sides
Trigger words: tumbler
Indicator sentences: What do you mean by tumbler ?
Negotiation parts: Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise [UNCLEAR] you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths [UNCLEAR] so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it .
Trigger words: spunyarn
Indicator sentences: What 's spunyarn ?
Negotiation parts: Well that 's like er tarred rope that 's what it was and er used to put a piece through the wire every foot and when you come to six feet there 'd be a piece of leather , cut in cut [UNCLEAR] one piece of leather . Then you had this next fathom , the second fathom had the leather [UNCLEAR] cut in two and then have different colours at every feet as well .And this , so these were attached to what ?Just a bit of wire .Just a piece of wire ?And of course he used have it in his hand in a loop and he used to top it over the side with a big lead weight on and that [UNCLEAR] and he , he 'd know how much deep the er river was .
Trigger words: villages
Indicator sentences: What are the villages ?
Negotiation parts: The villages are at the bottom of the ship . Cos then you come to your floor and then your sides used to go up [UNCLEAR] villages on a ship .And was the water there to go down into the villages ?Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up [UNCLEAR] the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a [UNCLEAR] a piece of er copper [UNCLEAR] off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it .
Trigger words: dumb hoppers
Indicator sentences: What do y what do you mean by dumb hopper ?
Negotiation parts: Dumb hoppers well they ai n't got any part , everything was hand .And why did you have them ?Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get [UNCLEAR] what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd [UNCLEAR] that and that 's how we rotate , day to day .By the hopper you mean carrying the soil ?Carrying , carrying all the soil to sea .
Trigger words: waterman
Indicator sentences: Waterman ?
Negotiation parts: The waterman , and he had , he had a clock on top of his hydrant , to say how much water the the the boat taken . Soon did they soon take up enough he used to go on board with his book and get it signed by the mate or the er captain of the ship .
Trigger words: go harvesting
Indicator sentences: Go harvesting ?
Negotiation parts: Yeah catching rabbits [UNCLEAR] a hedge and cut down a stick you know [UNCLEAR] at the corn on the old [UNCLEAR] and if we were lucky we used to get erm we used to er seat the old fella on the boiler and have a ride round on one of the horses .
Trigger words: docksill
Indicator sentences: What 's a docksill ?
Negotiation parts: A docksill is what that [UNCLEAR] takes . Whatever the tide states at the lock gates , the ri the channel is [UNCLEAR] dredged ten feet below that . [UNCLEAR] ten feet deeper .
Trigger words: green oar
Indicator sentences: What 's that ?
Negotiation parts: Well that 's a he very heavy stuff , that 's a er is er like er erm , oh a heavy little lead .Is it a metal ?Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that [ANONYMIZATION] used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites