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no he didnt as a matter of fact but he was in a wee mood as we had also skipped him in the quew(is that how you spell that)
i also done a grandstand that moved along an old crane line track in an old shipyard shed in glasgow to do with a play about thr trenches.there was an actor Ian Maccoll i think he was called ex alchy and scaff who was in it.
i walked past him and said alright big yin(glaswegian for hello old chap)and the ignorant **** blanked me.
i informed him, never to forget were you came from wasnt that long ago you were pissing yerself and scrounging for a drink ;)
a few years later he was in the papers back on the swally and had battered his wife,once a scaff always a scaff :eek:
 
I was asked to price a job at the Rulers Court in Dubai. I turned up and was shown a huge chandelier which they said had to be scaffolded so it could be removed and cleaned. I immediately thought of Only Fools and Horses and burst into uncontrollable laughter. The senior Arab asked me what was so funny. I could only answer with a lame "something I saw on tv once you wouldnt understand". Needless to say we didnt win the job.
 
nope try again lol

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who are you i wonder hmmmmmm lol
 
Goldsmiths Hall London - complete birdcage
Broadmore prison - Main wall rebuild
Pentonville prison - maintenance work
Gary Glitters flats - just before he ran to Thailand , we got thrown of the job for telling him what we thought of him :laugh:
Crockfords casino park lane - minimum £5K bet on roulette tables :eek:
Aspinals club park lane
Canary wharf -
Billingates fish market - the original one
A Brothel in Watford - couldnt even get a discount
American Marine base - at Grovsner square
Sultan of Brunis house - of high st Kensignton
Richmond Palace
The Roman London wall - Nearly got arrested for wanting to put Hilti ties in it
 
ken barlow?? what about betty and her hot pots then....

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I took a **** on the Emir of Qatars karzy Hmm sorry your highness i mean throan.
 
aye fkn loads now, they've all started to come in from all over the gulf and further afield with all the money these guys have it's bursting at the seems with scaff companys. The prices are silly now and it's getting harder to win the work with all the brown envelope mob buying up contracts left and right centre. You cannot win a job fare and square any more, there is no such thing as legit scaff company winnig jobs on merit, it's all about the lowest price and the fattest brown envelope. it knocks the cu nt in when youv'e spent weeks trying to win a job and some fkr buys it. i suppose it is the way of the world now though eh, i was talking to a client only the other day and he said CAPE & APPOLLO tried to buy him in the very first meeting, nuff said.
 
The old brown envelope is alive and well in the ME.
I know what you mean when you have worked long and hard putting a tender together only to see the job go to some johnnycomelately company. You know whats going on but theres f all you can do about it.
One good thing cape might be struggling to fill a brown envelope after the loss they have suffered.
 
They will always find ways to fill the envolope HSWT, infact they have just took a $70 mill slice of Barzan for the fireproofing and that only come around because of the envelope.
 
not really many round here to name only local famous people lol but have scaffolded m sport the ford rally team manufacture in cumbria 100 of the rally cars from the shell to the tyre stage in and out rallyign up the road malcom wilson did come the 1's in his helicopter with the shopping and then popped out again in it he forgot the milk lol
 
Also when working on Black & Edgingtons ( AKA Tubular Barriers )
Wimbledon Tennis championships ( saw most tennis players practice )
Henley Reggata
Chelsea Flower Show
Opening of the Channel Tunnell
Staples Corner ( when the IRA blew it up )
Farnborough Airshow
Army show at Aldershot
London Marathon
Lord Mayors Show

Sreet work

Cambridge Theatre internal ( Twice ) Birdcage. last time we done it, we had to stop taking down and put back up as Andrew Lloyd Webber was not happy with the colour
Buck House
Kensington Palace
Marlborough House
BBC Broadcasting house ( saw Norman Wisdom here ..funny bloke, Lorraine Chase..sort )
Scaffold Colnel James Hewit ( was knocking off Princess Di ( God Bless Her ) house in Kensington
Unis Stubbs house ( Sally Ann out of Worzord Gummage )
Brixton Prison
Wandsworth Prison
MOD ( as mentioned before )
 
No scaffolding involved, they took on a the scaff contract from a firm called Descon which was labour supply only and went in at peanuts and got the job. THATS WHEN THEY WERE TOLD TO GET AN EX PAT oops no budget available lol, they advertised 2.5k pm & couldn't get any one then they finally took it up to 4k and got a guy called Ray Hammond who i was telling you about last week or so, needless to say Ray Hammond has been told by the client JGC TO LEAVE THE PROJECT. He put his foot in it immediately and didn't make any friends just enemies in the space of 4 weeks so he is off and CAPE will be looking again for fresh meat to take over. Accomodaton is in the camp and travelling to site is with the men on the bus to (how about that?) The Op Manager is needless to say an Indian and a proper lying curry stinkin c u n t. Another kid who will remane nameless or you can maybe guess? has banged in his CV TO JGC for scaff superintendent position (a Brit) the same kid married an egyptian bird some time ago and changed his name to Yousef AND HAS A BEARD DOWN TO HIS KNEES he has told the client the only way he will take the job is if he only works 6hrs a day in ramadan and the client calls him by his muslim nameYousef and not by his christian name (first initial B AND SECOND IS C. NEEDLESS TO SAY HE AINT GETTING THE JOB. FOR SOME REASON QATAR IS CHURNING UP SOME PROPER NUMPTIES EXCEPT FOR YOURS TRULY OF COURSE ha ha
 
Pat Butcher off Eastenders house. She made us a cup of tea and was really nice. I laughed my head off when she asked us as it was just like watching the telly.
Patrick Stewart (xmen, star trek, etc)
Princess Anne's house Gatcombe park a long time ago. Her daughter Zara was only about 5,one morning I said hello to her and she ignored me, she got a tap on the legs by the nanny for being rude. My labourer said 'alright' to this female walking past, who turned out to be princess Anne. She replied 'very well thank you '. We cried with laughter.
 
Sir Ben Kingsleys house. However, it didn't go well. He now dislikes me.

This is because before all of this, I had no idea who he was. So when I saw him leaving the mansion I very friendly said "Alright mate how are you?"

He replied "mate?"

I then very confused just went "yeah, just asking how you are".

He then went on a rant about how rude it is to call someone mate, it then dawned on him I had no idea who he was. "Do you know who I am?"

"Er, no"

I swear, he took a step backwards and declared

"I, am Sir Ben Kingsley."

To which I nodded and went "Oh... Im Flinty. Hi."

Apparently calling a 'sir', 'mate' can really "P!SS THEM OFF!!" Angry fella.
 
Feck him, never liked him anyway. They should learn to show the scaffs a bit more respect they feckers.:cool:
 
Wish you would have said yes,,,,Ghandi !,Fuckin great these stories mate,just goes to show that one thing most of us have is a fuckin great sense of humour,bad hips and a criminal record,but a good sense of humour:laugh:
 
I've heard Kingsley can be an ass. Patrick Stewart was walking around his house in a xmen tshirt with crew on the back, and he had star trek baseball caps around the place. Someone told us he lived talking about himself, so we never mentioned any of the films he'd been in. I did take a pic of his toilet and put it on Facebook with the title 'Captains Log, '
 
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