[1]12 boats, 10 canoes, 100 members or so, at the Pirate Club on Rosedale at Gilbeys Wharf [2]Way before elven safety was invented, you didn't have to have a lifejacket as long as you could swim ok in your clothes, or something like that [3]Voluntary work on the canal means you also get out of it what other people put in [4]Before the towpath had road access to Oval Road [5]Before the flats were built opposite us [6]A Skipper aboard Pirate Queen [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]The Lord Mayor let us lock him in our dungeon and his ransom helped pay for the Pirate Castle [25]As Charles will be our king one day, they didn't let us ransom him, even just for fun [26] [27] [28]