‘The apprenticeship at Chatham Dockyard is the finest in the world - if you stick to it, the world’s your oyster’ Robert Smith’s dad told his teenage son. When young Robert started there in 1958, the docks employed 6000 people on a two-mile long site encompassing hundreds of workshops, offices and storehouses as well as its own police station, fire service, medical centre, technical college and telephone exchange. There were three ship-refitting basins and eight main docks. Yet less than 30 years later Chatham Dockyard had effectively closed, with catastrophic consequences to the local economy. Robert did stick.
A Dockyard Apprentice's Story: Hard graft, scrapes and japes on the long road to becoming a trained engineer free ebook pdf epub
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