Only Fools and Horses....1981
Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter:
Running away from home at your age?
Uncle Albert Trotter:
Lot of things been going through my mind lately, Del. I didn't know if I was coming or going. I feel I let the family down... I let you two down.
Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter:
No, don't be so bloody daft.
Rodney Trotter:
You didn't let anybody down.
Uncle Albert Trotter:
I needed to be alone for a while.
Rodney Trotter:
But where were you gonna go?
Uncle Albert Trotter:
I hadn't given it much thought, Rodney. I didn't realise things had changed so much, I... when I first left home, I was about 15, I just come down here and got a job on a tram steamer. Life seemed easier then.
Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter:
Well, things ain't all that much different now, Albert. You can always come home. To your family.
Uncle Albert Trotter:
Thanks son.
Rodney Trotter:
Come on then, let's go.
Uncle Albert Trotter:
You know... once upon a time ships from all over the world used to sail in here. The water used to be covered with a film of oil and when the sun shone on it, it sparkled, all different colours. When I was a kid, I used to think rainbows lived in the water.
Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter:
So you was a bit of a divvy in them days an' all were you?
Rodney Trotter:
Oi.
Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter:
Alright, alright, I'm sorry.
Uncle Albert Trotter:
There were tugs nudging freighters into position. Cranes lifting out timber from Canada, bananas from Jamaica. The pubs and the cafes, they were filled with sailors from a hundred countries. By the time I was seven, I could swear in ten different languages. There were streets all around here, loads of two up and two down houses. "Dockers mansions" they called them. Yeah, ragamuffins kicking footballs up against the wall, women used to come out and chase us away with their brooms. Ha ha. They were rough people... but they was good people. During the Blitz some of the men painted a sign on the roof of a warehouse so that the Luftwaffe pilots could see it. It said "Dear Adolf, you can break our windows but not our hearts". Look at what they done to it now.
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