Greenwich, a home for Naval Pensioners?

[rufus]

The Army have long enjoyed RHS Chelsea, the Pensioers in their smart red coats still having a strong affinity to their service.
So doesn’t the Senior Service deserve equal merit, long overdue and would no doubt be welcomed?

Perhaps a grateful nation would allow the old Naval college at Greenwich to be used as the site?
Often wondered......

Thoughts?

 

[WreckerL]

I'm thinking 7 posts in 10 years smacks of Norman.

 

[BreathingOutOnTheWayUp]

^aye, and back in the day when the RN vets started to receive a cash pension in lieu of G they soon thinned out of that option and thus became independent.

Besides that, trying to count the endless array of bared breasts daubed all over the ceiling at every mealtime was guaranteed to give the poor old salts a stiff .........



























...neck.

Lest you dirty-minded lurkers thought otherwise!

 

[BreathingOutOnTheWayUp]

OP: "Pensioers! WT?

BTW - Rufus/Norman is confusing his RHS Chelsea with the RH Chelsea.

(Best not confuddle him even further by mentioning the real RHS at Greenwich/Holbrook...)

 

[Sumo]

Could old sailors get respite from other half, pushers Scran and CSB, with huckers and mess games?

 

[BreathingOutOnTheWayUp]

^ Applicants need to be un-attached, start preparing your patio now ...

 

[slim]

I think that it is a magnificent idea.
It would need dress regulations of course.
Perhaps all residents should be required to sport a pigtail tarred in the traditional fashion.
Holystoning the decks would be carried out daily.
Mast manning and divisions every Friday.
More ideas welcomed of course!

 

[BreathingOutOnTheWayUp]

@slim Dining table tops to be made with a shiny mirrored finish - To prevent the problems alluded to in Post #3,.

Alternatively: Topless Waitresses, that would confuse the poor residents!

 

[Sumo]

^ Applicants need to be un-attached, start preparing your patio now ...

Bugger just finished laying it, I'll have to dig it up, well at least 6'x3' a few feet deep?
aLso during respite, one would be unattached?

 

[FlagWagger]

The Army have long enjoyed RHS Chelsea, the Pensioers in their smart red coats still having a strong affinity to their service.
So doesn’t the Senior Service deserve equal merit, long overdue and would no doubt be welcomed?

Perhaps a grateful nation would allow the old Naval college at Greenwich to be used as the site?
Often wondered......

Thoughts?

Old news... this was thought about over three hundred years ago, and a Hospital was established at Greenwich. A short while later, a school was added called the Greenwich Hospital School.. this became the Royal Hospital School in 1933 when it moved from Greenwich to Holbrook. The school and a number of homes for Greenwich pensioners are still operated today by the Greenwich Hospital Trust which is a Royal charity.

 

[Salty-Dog]

Old news... this was thought about over three hundred years ago, and a Hospital was established at Greenwich. A short while later, a school was added called the Greenwich Hospital School.. this became the Royal Hospital School in 1933 when it moved from Greenwich to Holbrook. The school and a number of homes for Greenwich pensioners are still operated today by the Greenwich Hospital Trust which is a Royal charity.

https://www.grenhosp.org.uk/about/greenwich-hospital-history/

 

[BreathingOutOnTheWayUp]

I think that it is a magnificent idea.
It would need dress regulations of course.
Perhaps all residents should be required to sport a pigtail tarred in the traditional fashion.
Holystoning the decks would be carried out daily.
Mast manning and divisions every Friday.
More ideas welcomed of course!

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@Seadog interrupts with: "I can black-cat that buzzard - I was punished for a similar offence regarding the name of that Welsh town which was once tattooed all along my ******.

@MrsPlum (In a whisper): "Come away now, your wee sister needs a feed but I'm NO baring my breasties in front of this lot!



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[Seadog]

Seadog interrupts with: "I can black-cat that buzzard - I was punished for a similar offence regarding the name of that Welsh town which was once tattooed all along my ******.

That Welsh town being Rhyl.

 

[BreathingOutOnTheWayUp]

That Welsh town being Rhyl.

"Rhyl" might be apparent on the residue,

OTOH forensic results have established that your original tattoo was once "Rhypholophus-Giganticus"

 

[witsend]

More ideas welcomed of course!

Monthly Captains rounds............The punishment for any pish stained mattresses is a flogging.

 

[barny006]

Wax the floor tiles, oldest gets to ride the Bumper polisher,Kai and sticky stale buns at 1030.cake and apple sarnies at 1600. Pot mess at 2359.

 

[Seaweed]

[QUOTE="BreathingOutOnTheWayUp, post: 1415798, member: 9162Besides that, trying to count the endless array of bared breasts daubed all over the ceiling at every mealtime was guaranteed to give the poor old salts a stiff .........
...neck.

Lest you dirty-minded lurkers thought otherwise![/QUOTE]

343 1/2 brace I believe.

 

[barny006]

And big chinese laundry bills from food spilt down ones fronts/shirts, clean shirt for all meals.

 

[huwshpis]

Lash up and stow at 0630 rather than 0530!

 

[barny006]

And spend your time between meals sewing buttons back on after No1 has smashed them to bits.