View Full Version : An introduction...or "Who am I? Where am I?" :-)
cissystar650
01-02-2008, 05:49
Hello all,
I have been around here for a week or so now, and wanted to say a proper hello and let you know my motives for being here....
Originally, I signed up because, yep, Granddad, Great Granddad, and assorted Uncles were all members of the Royal Navy, spanning from the 1870's through to WW2. My own Father was probably the first who didn't enter the Navy, choosing instead to follow his brother into the Police Force (I carried on the family tradition!)
That said, I didn't just pop along here to pick your brains and expect you all to solve my family history problems. I came here to LEARN about how life was for them, and what they took part in. I am doing that already, by reading the wonderfully informative posts here. I also have a large collection of photographs left by Granddad, and yes, of course it would be great to identify some of the people, but also there may be someone out there who would love to see their relative in a photograph.
Just so's you know, 'Granddad' is: Frank Samuel Bulley 96734 (1904 - 1979) I am awaiting his WW2 records, but from the attached picture, I know he was Gunnery Warrant Officer onboard HMS Emperor in 1945
Great Granddad is Joseph Richard Bulley 97276 (1861 - 1920)
Great Granddad 2 is William Ernest Taylor 304748 (1885 - 1938)
Cissy
Photo shows Captain of HMS Emperor, Sir Charles Edward Madden, inspecting the crew with Gunnery Warrant Officer Frank Bulley accompanying him (1945).
herakles
01-02-2008, 06:29
I am glad you are enjoying the posts here. Long may that continue.
I guess many families had a long tradition in something or other - navy, army, medicine etc. Mine was all navy until my father broke from the ranks and joined the army.
My family has a long association with the navy and the sea. As best I can work out now, one of them took part in the Spanish Armada battle. Guess that's what happens if your family hails from Devon!
cissystar650
01-02-2008, 07:05
Aaah yes... as mine all do. Granddad ended up in Portsmouth, but my father broke tradition and moved up to London to join the Met...apparently because he was an inch too short to join the Hampshire Constabulary!
herakles
01-02-2008, 07:39
One of the moderators is ex police I understand. There's a picture of him here somewhere. I forget which thread.
cissystar650
01-02-2008, 07:45
Well, here's me with my Father, taken way back in the 80's.... another life, another place!
herakles
01-02-2008, 07:58
Oh! He looks a bit like that nice Sergeant in the Bill!
Batstiger
01-02-2008, 11:06
Hello again Cissy.
I too was with the Fuzz way back in the sixties where we still had capes and wore high necked tunics on night duty. It was the good old Borough force of Wolverhampton which, alas is no more and has been gobbled up by the West Mercia. Things 'aint what they used to be!
Enough of that, I see your family have done their bit for the crown and thought I would put this link up for the forum to peruse.
I have also changed your pics to B/W.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/034.htm
Bob.
cissystar650
01-02-2008, 11:38
Bob,
I swear you are a genius when it comes to cleaning up photos! Sooo much clearer now, thankyou.
I have just found out that my Great Uncle was also Chief Petty Officer. I am about to track down his records too.
cissy
Batstiger
01-02-2008, 14:40
I couldn't help having a go at a couple of pics off the HMS Emperor link.
Frank Samuel Bulley 1904-79.
HMS Roebuck. Would you say she is getting ready to fuel astern or what?
A good one of HMS Tumult.
I like this one taken from the Emperor of the Khedive, Searcher, Pursuer and Attacker.
Bob.
cissystar650
03-02-2008, 12:14
Thankyou Bob... great pics. Mum always said Frank looked like a film star...not wrong judging by that photo!
The sea going tradition didn't quite die out with Frank, I was a member of Tobermory Lifeboat Crew, RNLI in 2000 for a few years. For a remote place, we had the most female crew members on any Lifeboat!
I have a pic somewhere....gawd knows where!
herakles
03-02-2008, 12:43
Tobermoray! Ah. A place I know. And been to. Quite a reasonable scotch made there. And quite a few reasonable Scots too!
cissystar650
03-02-2008, 21:13
Tobermoray! Ah. A place I know. And been to. Quite a reasonable scotch made there. And quite a few reasonable Scots too!
Did ya go in the Mishnish though?? One of only two pubs in Tobermory! If you went in one, you weren't welcome in the other!!! I of course rarely frequent any pubs!!!!!!! :D:rolleyes:
herakles
03-02-2008, 22:08
I did in fact. And it was the first time I asked for a particular scotch and was knocked back. All the more surprising as there were no less than 5 rows of scotch behind the counter!
It was at Tobermoray that I saw my first golden eagle.
And just down the road is where a man very famous in Australian history lived - Lachlan Macquarie.
cissystar650
06-02-2008, 14:05
After much searching...finally found the attached pic, taken with two other of Tobermory Lifeboat's Finest... in Tobermory Harbour. (me on the right)
herakles
06-02-2008, 18:48
After much searching...finally found the attached pic, taken with two other of Tobermory Lifeboat's Finest... in Tobermory Harbour. (me on the right)
A worthy addition to this thread!
The Sailor
08-02-2008, 22:54
You can save me any day Cissy.
cissystar650
09-02-2008, 07:46
You can save me any day Cissy.
Alas, my Lifeboat days are over and these days I am too busy trying to save meself :p:D
Well, here's me with my Father, taken way back in the 80's.... another life, another place!
Well Cissystar,
Nothing wrong with that time or place. I was a Sergeant Instructor at Ryton-on-Dunsmore for the first half of the eighties, having joined the Police Service in 1965. Small world innit?
So that's enough about the Poliss from me. There are other Fora for that field!
Had some times though, that's for sure!
John :):)
You can save me any day Cissy.
Somebody had to say it...
And is that your guitar too? I suppose a duet is out of the question! :D
Look I am getting off thread here!
John :)
I couldn't help having a go at a couple of pics off the HMS Emperor link.
Bob.
I have a tenuous link with the 'Tiger', pictured here.
At that time I was serving in HMS Ashton, (108th M.S.S.) Malta. The 'Tiger', spent a short time in Grand Harbour and that was when I met up with a shipmate from Ganges and Ulysses, John (Beri-Beri) Burden, who was I believe an A/B at the time, in HMS Tiger. I wasn't to meet him again until 2004, when he arrived by chance, at a club meet in Sutton Coldfield.
I wonder if anyone knew John Burden perchance?
Just for coincidence's sake.
Regards
John :)
Oh! He looks a bit like that nice Sergeant in the Bill!
Is there anything nice about 'The Bill'? (The TV Programme that is?) :D
herakles
11-02-2008, 20:28
I think there is Hookie.
It paints a positive picture of Mr. Plod, something they need a lot of these days. I never thought I'd see the day when the British public's faith in the Peelers would degenerate as badly as it has.
That aside, The Bill has gone on too long. It's become just another tedious soap now. In its early days, I feel it was ground-breaking TV. (hand held cameras etc)
cissystar650
12-02-2008, 06:29
Yup, that is one of my Guitars...the pink acoustic bass being my favourite at the moment! There is also a short scale Fender Squire and a couple of normal acoustics!
I agree about the Bill... I remember it starting and a lost of filming was done at the nick I was working at. These days its more than tedious!
The Sailor
12-02-2008, 06:46
I have watched the Bill for years. I still do and wallow in the political correctness of it all. The station being run by women. A black homosexual constable. Every race represented in the force.
The greatest crime that can be committed seems to be racial.
herakles
12-02-2008, 08:32
Does it matter that he's black? Homosexuals do amount to about 6% of the population. Quite a few of them are white. I've been watching a series on the ABC that features an Aboriginal one.
That aside, the English are rather beset by the racial question. In fact I think it's the biggest crisis that country has faced since WW2. The recent to do over the Archbishop's strange comments demonstrated the feelings most have about this matter. So it's understandable that a program like The Bill would reflect this.
Australians have a racial problem but it pales into insignificance compared to the situation in England.
Sorry folks...
I didn't intend to start a debate!
I just watched one or two episodes of 'The Bill' years ago and decided it wasn't for me. It got my blood pressure rising, because obviously research was lacking.
I'd rather watch the Documentaries, except they have the same effect on me.
I don't think I could be so amiable as officers have to be these days. I would have been reaching for the cuffs aeons before they do now! :D
In fact we didn't carry cuffs when I joined!
Hookie
cissystar650
12-02-2008, 10:05
In the dark ages, when I joined, Women didn't have truncheons and we wore soft hats... all the girls used to weight their handbags down with a brick... great weapon:D
In the dark ages, when I joined, Women didn't have truncheons and we wore soft hats... all the girls used to weight their handbags down with a brick... great weapon:D
Great way of building rapport then Cissystar?
Thinking about it, my wife's handbag feels like it has a brick inside it!
As to the truncheons Cissy, I used to make them for officers who had lost theirs and who didn't want to write out a report! Yes, I made them for WPC's (As they were called then) but that was because our WPC's weren't issued with truncheons either. :)
Regards
Hookie
The Sailor
12-02-2008, 10:23
Does it matter that he's black? Homosexuals do amount to about 6% of the population. Quite a few of them are white. I've been watching a series on the ABC that features an Aboriginal one.
That aside, the English are rather beset by the racial question. In fact I think it's the biggest crisis that country has faced since WW2. The recent to do over the Archbishop's strange comments demonstrated the feelings most have about this matter. So it's understandable that a program like The Bill would reflect this.
Australians have a racial problem but it pales into insignificance compared to the situation in England.
Hahaha, let me roll with mirth. Herk gets into the race problem but insulates himself first by picking on me about black coppers.
This way he can offload the prejudicial blame onto me whilst he holds the floor.
herakles
12-02-2008, 10:37
I've no idea what you are saying Sailor. I hope you are not saying that I hold racist views.
Me, who lives amongst the Thai people.
Help!!!
All I said was, I didn't find the TV programme 'The Bill', entertaining!
The last episode I watched was around 20 years ago.
Hookie.
Hi Cissy. New avatar, I Told you your child was vanishing. She went from full size to half size and now she's turned into a guitar LOLOL, what camouflage. :confused:But I know your secret,your other guitar is really your son.
God I get fed up and start to ramble after staying on this computer far too long.Must go and do some work.
Regards
Tomsam
cissystar650
12-02-2008, 20:21
Hah! I am a woman who likes change! (ask my three ex husbands lololol)... I get easily bored, and the Bass is a huge part of my life, had no ego and no hangups!
Kids may return sooner than you think!
The Sailor
12-02-2008, 21:13
Three husbands? You just wear them out and trade them in? Is there any milage left in them once discarded?
cissystar650
13-02-2008, 05:53
Three husbands? You just wear them out and trade them in? Is there any milage left in them once discarded?
Plenty!
It's been a road well travelled as they say :o
Batstiger
13-02-2008, 10:30
Talking about threads wandering, where the "Hell" is this one going?
It started off as an introduction to Cissy, who, at the time was a new Member.
cissystar650
13-02-2008, 11:12
Talking about threads wandering, where the "Hell" is this one going?
It started off as an introduction to Cissy, who, at the time was a new Member.
ooooooooops ... sowwy Bob :p
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