Glasgow's famous shipyards built great battleships and cruise-liners, they employed thousands of men and created a unique community. In a job that was always dangerous and physically demanding the 'bunnets' (skilled workers) found ways to keep cheerful, whether it was performing magic tricks, playing football, making fun of the 'bowlers' (bureaucratic foremen) or starting their weekend drinking early. Life in the shipyards was hard but ex-workers, including poet Brian Whittingham, look back on those times of camaraderie with nostalgia. 'Bunnets 'n' Bowlers' is an entertaining, uplifting and, at times painfully, realistic poetic description of a way of life that is now gone.
- ISBN10 1906307946
- ISBN13 9781906307943
- Publish Date 1 March 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 April 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Luath Press Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 128
- Language English