George Cruickshanks
George belongs to: The Doxford Engine Friends Association
George was born in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland. His name changed to Geordie Beard when he joined Doxfords in 1957. George describes his time at Doxford's as a pleasure.
George was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 11 January 2006. The interview took place at Beamish Regional Resource Centre and lasted 50 minutes and 52 seconds.
25 Years’ Service Watch
"The watch. Rumour went round the yards, I was down in the North Sands shipyard at the time, rumour went out that a gold watch was going to be dished out"
The watch. Rumour went round the yards, I was down in the North Sands shipyard at the time, rumour went out that a gold watch was going to be dished out to anyone having 25 years’ service. And they never turned out to be gold watches, they were very good quality Seamaster watches, but they were stainless steel. They found that there were that many people that had served much more than 25 years, I mean, 25 years- they were newcomers, They just couldn’t afford the amount of gold watches they would need, so we all got stainless steel.
They were very good watches, mind, I’m still wearing one after, 1987 when I, 1985 when I got the watch and it’s now, how many’s that, that’s, that’s 30, 20 years. Anyway, it’s still going strong.
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