A PIPERS TALE

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 &lsquo,Leader in Marine Technology&rsquo, with the making of sophisticated warships and first-of-class vessels.Also covered, whilst saluting the Yard&rsquo,s Plumbing Fraternity, is the writer&rsquo,s 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._,