If I could run away

Hide away

Forget the way I feel

But your memory keeps haunting me

Convincing me it's real

Now you're not here

Now you're not here

Love and hate

Left up to fate

A life we took for granted

We couldn't stop our running from the things we always wanted

No long goodbyes

No tears to cry

And nothing to believe in

But now you're gone

We'll never know a love that's grown

Time took away

All that it gave to the two of us

If I could run away

Hide away

Forget the way I feel

But your memory keeps haunting me

Convincing me it's real

Now you're not here

Now you're not here

When our hearts were young and nights were long

We'd let the morning sun kiss our eyes open

Precious dreams that we had now they are dead and gone

The promises we made have all been broken

If I could run away

Hide away

Forget the way I feel

But your memory keeps haunting me

Convincing me it's real

Now you're not here

Now you're not here

In my arms

In my life

Lovin' you, is just a memory

Now you're not here

Now you're not here

Origin: Antwerp

Already for ages long cranes for loading and unloading ships were put into use, powered by hands, men or horses treadmills. The hydraulic water pressure crane was developed by W.G. Armstrong at New Castle upon Tune (England). The first 'water crane' was plaxced there in 1847. Short after, in 1851, the first steam powered crane was put into use in England.

The advance of water cranes was that a series of cranes could be powered through a water pipe by one steam engine, whereas each steam crane had to rely on its 'own steam'. When in 1872 the 'Nieuwe Waterweg' (note: widened part of the river Meuse ending in the North sea) was finished and Rotterdam went through a period of a turbulent expansion, the harbour area Feijenoord (...) was developed by Pincoffs and the Rotterdamse Handels Vereniging NV (Rotterdam Trade Association plc). The Poortgebouw (Gate Building) en the Entepotgebouw (Entrepot building) recalls to it.

In 1879 the RHV placed the, in those days ultramodern water crane, together with a high pression water pipe which was kept under pressure of 55 atmosphere by a steamengine and a accumulator.

The water cranes of Rotterdam were of the same type as the here shown cranes of Antwerp, though without portal. They were build here by Figee in Harlem, under licence of Armstrong.

At the same time hydraulic coal dischargers were build, which could tumble coal waggons above the ship.

In 1882 hundreds of water cranes were placed in Antwerp. The RHV, in which entire Rotterdam had invested, became bankrupt in 1879, was taken over by the Gemeentelijke Handelsinrichtingen (Local authority Trade Institution), the now a days Gemeentelijk Havenbedrijf (Port of Rotterdam Authority).

It was an enormous scandal and Pincoffs escaped with his family to AAmerica.

In the very severe winter of 1890 all water cranes become frozen over so that the whole harbour in Antwerp were out of order. For the Rotterdam city council this the reason to decide to build the first electrical power station and then the harbour switched to electical cranes.