mark99 Posted March 28, 2022 Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 😐 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted March 31, 2022 Report Share Posted March 31, 2022 Clearly busy as tug owners and lightermen in the twentieth century In June 1933 The Liverpool Screw Towing and Lighterage Co clamied to have the most powerful tugs in the world Black Cock, East Cock, Fighting Cock, Flying Cock Heather Cock, Marsh Cock, May Cock,North Cock, Peacock, Parie Cock, Sea Cock, South Cock, Storm Cock,Thistle Cock, Weather CockWest Cock and Wood Cock It is of interest to know why the "cock" suffix was used Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree monkey Posted March 31, 2022 Report Share Posted March 31, 2022 14 minutes ago, Heartland said: Clearly busy as tug owners and lightermen in the twentieth century In June 1933 The Liverpool Screw Towing and Lighterage Co clamied to have the most powerful tugs in the world Black Cock, East Cock, Fighting Cock, Flying Cock Heather Cock, Marsh Cock, May Cock,North Cock, Peacock, Parie Cock, Sea Cock, South Cock, Storm Cock,Thistle Cock, Weather CockWest Cock and Wood Cock It is of interest to know why the "cock" suffix was used A surname of the founder maybe? I did check and it is a surname sometimes derived from Dutch de Cook or de Kok, it also used to be a nickname for red hair or rosy hair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 They missed out 'Watch'ya Cock'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 17 hours ago, tree monkey said: it is a surname sometimes derived from Dutch de Cook or de Kok, There is a current African international cricketer called Divan le Cock. I shudder to think how he spends his spare time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree monkey Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 23 minutes ago, Athy said: There is a current African international cricketer called Divan le Cock. I shudder to think how he spends his spare time. On a sofa cuddling a chicken? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 41 minutes ago, tree monkey said: On a sofa cuddling a chicken? As The Shangri-La's memorably put it, "You get the picture?....Yes, we see". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBiscuits Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 23 minutes ago, Athy said: As The Shangri-La's memorably put it, "You get the picture?....Yes, we see". I prefer the later cover ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 A new one on me, thanks for posting. Also parodied as 'Leader Of The Laundromat' by The Detergents, perhaps more appropriate to today's date! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 Derek, I gather you have some knowledge of traction engines, were any named with "Cock" in the name If I recall there was a steam locomotive Cock of the North There was definitely an industrial locomotive Blackcock that was used by the Cannock Chase Colliery to bring coals to the South Staffordshire Railway and BCN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J R ALSOP Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 I saw in the mid 1960's a traction engine at Beeston on the way to Chester called "Cock of The North" it looked out of control ( to me anyway) going hell for leather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted April 2, 2022 Report Share Posted April 2, 2022 (edited) 21 hours ago, Heartland said: Derek, I gather you have some knowledge of traction engines, were any named with "Cock" in the name If I recall there was a steam locomotive Cock of the North There was definitely an industrial locomotive Blackcock that was used by the Cannock Chase Colliery to bring coals to the South Staffordshire Railway and BCN. "Some" knowledge, but not a lot! In my teens I bought 'A Century of Traction Engines' by W. J. Hughes and still have it, but can find no traction engine within named with 'Cock' in the title. As Roger says and witnessed, 'Cock of the North' is the most likely, but most were given names such as; Simplicity; Lord Roberts; Her Majesty; Clyde; Little Giant; Invincible; Old Nick; Fred; and so on. 'Woodcock' comes to mind, but more likely from my trains spotting days. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/traction-engine-name-plate.html As I lived on the Piccadilly line in my childhood, a trip to the northern terminus at Cockfosters was always a welcomed excursion into the 'countryside', and where one met the buffers! End of the line. Looking through my Ian Allan, 'ABC of British Railways Locomotives' combined volume (Summer 1958, 10/6d), there were only three locos with the word cock in them; 'Adam Woodcock' an 4-4-0 class D30 of 1914; 'Cock O' the North' an A2 Pacific 1943 numbered 60501; and 'Woodcock' a Gresely A4 Pacific 1935 numbered 60029 - one of the 'Streaks'. Edited to add: It can be read on some websites that Woodcock (the A4) was renamed Dominion of Canada. Yet in my 1958 ABC BOTH locos are listed, Dominion of Canada numbered 60010. and Woodcock as 60029! And as I have them 'underlined', it is clear that I 'copped' them both in either 1958 or '59. Edited April 2, 2022 by Derek R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted April 2, 2022 Report Share Posted April 2, 2022 23 hours ago, Athy said: A new one on me, thanks for posting. Also parodied as 'Leader Of The Laundromat' by The Detergents, perhaps more appropriate to today's date! Think I prefer the original . . . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted April 2, 2022 Report Share Posted April 2, 2022 56 minutes ago, Derek R. said: Think I prefer the original . . . I think you're supposed to! The lead singer Ron Dante went on to sing with The Archies who inflicted 'Sugar Sugar' on an unsuspecting world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanD Posted April 2, 2022 Report Share Posted April 2, 2022 On 01/04/2022 at 11:13, Heartland said: Derek, I gather you have some knowledge of traction engines, were any named with "Cock" in the name If I recall there was a steam locomotive Cock of the North There was definitely an industrial locomotive Blackcock that was used by the Cannock Chase Colliery to bring coals to the South Staffordshire Railway and BCN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted April 2, 2022 Report Share Posted April 2, 2022 That long link leads me to a Google account, which despite me having been logged into my Google account, will not show whatever is in the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanD Posted April 4, 2022 Report Share Posted April 4, 2022 On 02/04/2022 at 18:41, Derek R. said: That long link leads me to a Google account, which despite me having been logged into my Google account, will not show whatever is in the link. Oops, sorry about that -- it just showed up as a photo when I added it, like this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted April 4, 2022 Report Share Posted April 4, 2022 Aah! I thought it might be an image of the Industrial loco BLACKCOCK. Chasewater Railway Museum: https://chasewaterrailwaymuseum.blog/tag/industrial-locomotives/ Nice image of tug and tow: https://chasewaterrailwaymuseum.blog/2017/09/29/chasewater-railway-museum-catalogue-album-2-more-local-pit-locomotives/05384-cannock-extension-canal-s-cartwright/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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