2 Plant domestic pets

[Jeremy Dixon]

I can remember working night shift at two plant and seeing domestic cats running around in the store rooms and workshops anyone know how they got up there.Its a pretty far walk from check point!

[Cherry (Alcock)]

I do know that in the 70s & 80s quite a few of the guys in the single quarters in the mine took cats, dogs, birds and even a baboon into the mining area as pets - probably some offspring.

[bobbysmith]

WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN THE SINGLE QUARTERS CHERRIE

[Jeremy Dixon]

Yeah thats understandable! But amazing how animals adapt and become self suficient eating anything they can to survive!

[Cherry (Alcock)]

@ Bobby - Cheeky devil -wouldn't you like to know!!!! image20

[bobbysmith]

yes as it happens cherry,only joking,still havent had any word from coral,hope she is keeping well,take good care

[SandyB]

Myself and Johan Di Paola  set up fishtanks  in the  4 plant  tea room  ..  every trip to CT I would buy a few more specimens  from  the  then OK bazaars   pet  section , drive  them  all  the  way  up  to OM .. My  fishtank had  two  huge  angelfish in  it .. also in the  4 plant office block  .. Ethel Holmes was the  secretary/receptionist  and I  waould  always  be  called  to  tend  the  tank  in  the reception area if it  leaked or fish  were  looking  distressed ..  Wonder what happened  to  those  tanks and their occupants ??

[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

Myself and Johan Di Paola  set up fishtanks  in the  4 plant  tea room  ..  every trip to CT I would buy a few more specimens  from  the  then OK bazaars   pet  section , drive  them  all  the  way  up  to OM .. My  fishtank had  two  huge  angelfish in  it .. also in the  4 plant office block  .. Ethel Holmes was the  secretary/receptionist  and I  waould  always  be  called  to  tend  the  tank  in  the reception area if it  leaked or fish  were  looking  distressed ..  Wonder what happened  to  those  tanks and their occupants ??

After you left there was no more fish food.
people started to feed them bread, water went green and the tanks were turfed out.

[SandyB]

Uugh!  nobody with an ounce of care in their veins left behind ??

[bobbysmith]

ive asked this before,can anyone remember the fish pond between the pool and the cafe,it had a bridge over it,those goldfish were fed a variety of stuff,ice cream,chips chocolate logs,tex bars,starrs,pepermint chrisps,you name it xx

[SandyB]

Yup  .. remember  that  pond with the  bridge over it ..   and  yes   goldfish are like  pigs  they can eat anything  and  live ...

[Carl Wrbka]

There was a fishpond at OPS as well, in the courtyard outside the main hall. Same story, bread, pies, cake. The fish had a ball.

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Here we go Bobby. Posted others under Mini Gardens in anything goes.

[Bertie Horak]

I wonder if the number of fish ponds at North hostel still exists.  I remember huge fish there.

[bobbysmith]

thanks diana,wonderfull memories,do you know who the peple are in that picture