Workmate Carl Simpson said “Frank the pump man he was in charge of the pump room at the Clarence. Frank often helped out with other trades that's what he is doing in the picture changing the gas for one of the burners in the dock to save them coming up out of the dock. Frank had a varied career he was stone deaf due to working on a blacksmith's hammer machine for Harland and Wolf ship repair's in Liverpool down the road from the Clarence. He came from Kirby rain hail or snow every morning on his moped to operate the pump's in Clarence dry docks which is a fair trek”.