A Piper's Tale: Memories of an Apprenticeship at Barrow Shipyard 1965 to 1970

Based on a memoir plucked from his family history A Pipers Tale records the impressions made on a teenager as he makes his way into the thorny world of shipbuilding. A world in which the author during the 1960s witnessed the change from traditional shipbuilding - where vessels were constructed with a minimum but adequate level of technical support via long established trade practices and skills - to the cutting-edge of science-based projects as the Shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness became a Leader in Marine Technology with the making of sophisticated warships and first-of-class vessels.Also covered whilst saluting the Yards Plumbing Fraternity is the writers amazement at the wealth of characters and personalities. With a dramatis personae of which any Dickens aficionado would be proud the book dips into levels of humanity never before explored in a local industrial history.