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Thanks Bearsie, Can't find that one but came across a few built in the 1980's but none that could be said to be the one in question, Charley

Charley, where would North Bank be? its clearly UK but I never heard of it...

There are lots of North Banks, we even have one here inside the Lighthouse. Have you any other clues as to where it might have been ? Charley

took a bit of digging around...
There was a J. Blumer & Co., Sunderland, so they must have had a north bank there too This is all assuming I have the correct ship of course...

Robert,
Can you remember the score when Ipswich played Leeds, was it 3, 0 to ipswich ??lol,as a kid I used to sell programmes at Portman Road, maybe I sold you one.
Bye the way where was your father from in Germany, mine was from Ludwigshafen and my mother from Oldenburg in Holstein..
Peter

Peter my father was from Borgholzhausen a small town with a population of around 35,000 on the Nordreihn -Wesfalen border. Ipswich won 3-2 that day as far as I can remember and I think the match was actually at
Filbert St because it was a cup match. Im actually quite surprised you and him never met as you seemed to have moved in the same circles so to speak but then again when I worked on a ship that my old man wasnt on even on the same charter we seldom met just the odd wave across the water. Actually looking at the map of germany now Borgholzhausen is just n the border of Niedersachsen and not far from Oldenburg.

Is the flag on the pole in the background at halfmast?

well spotted Irvingman, it would appear to beeither tha or smoke from the Chimney. That building was the Coastguard Station long since leveled and now a car park com net working area and I believe there is now plans to develope it into an industrial complex. Charley

Iwas at Portman Road too Peter . In them times we used to beat the Town. Then after i go to the Blue Coat Boy for a drink .... and anything that was on offer!! or maybe the Coach and Horses . Great ould Town Ipswich ,
John