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1 month ago
Rivets Aylesbury Mandeville Road Before It Was Bulldozed
Rivets Aylesbury Mandeville Road Before It Was Bulldozed. Taken 5th June 1997
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5 months ago
Thirty Days - Strawbs
From 1971's From the Witchwood
Lyrics:
I have people to free, they're depending on me
So I can't afford to die
Get them safely back, then I won't...
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Heard this for the 1st time when we crashed the staffroom one evening at a 6th form field centre in N Yorks. Fell in the love with the Strawbs then and, incidentally, a lovely half Danish lass.
Ah, the giddy memories of youth! Still one of my top 5 albums tho'.
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5 months ago
Strawbs - 12 the Journey's End
music
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Coming after "Is it today, Lord?", this has me in tears; everytime.
A lovely song indeed.
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9 months ago
GWR Churchward 2-8-0 2807 on Llangollen Railway,14th July 2010.
Last day in steam on the Ll R before returning to Toddington. On a cloudy day which gave nice flat light and lovely exhaust, the elegant old lady a...
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A beautiful locomotive restoration. Much as I love Castles, a GWR 8-coupled is something else. 2807 in steam makes up for the fact that Didcot's 38 is going to be out of traffic for a long time.
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1 year ago
Mid-Hants Big Four Steam Gala: Part Two
Part Two of my video, shot on Saturday 13 September.
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Nice couple of videos. Very much captures the feel of a "proper" working railway. I'm rather fond of the MHR - stiff gradients for the locomotives to work at.
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1 year ago
Leicester & Swannington Railway
A walk up the line from WestBridge, Leicester covering what was left of the L&SR up to Desford Junction in 1964 just before the track was lifted.
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@LancastrianScot - My great-great-grandfather (Thomas Dumelow) was a Leicester & Swannington driver. I've photos of him on his locomotive @ West Bridge & of the Glenfield portal & crossing keeper's house. If you think these would be useful, please contact me - tho' I've no idea how you do that vi...
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1 year ago
Archive Steam around Leicester GC
Great Central steam in the 'sixties around Leicester. There is no sound on this video.
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@ 4.10: West Bridge. Oh my goodness, the memories. I caught the bus to here & walked to school along the cut. Left Leicester, came back >20yrs later; nearly crashed car - GCR all gone! Moored our narrowboat @ Castle Gardens last summer & spent a long time looking & dreaming & trying to hear A3s i...
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Aylesbury was once a fascinating manufacturing town: my father, a printer, spoke of Hazel, Watson & Viney (the town's bookbinders) in almost hallowed tones. A girlfriend's Dad was a shopsteward at Rivets, proud to call himself an Aylesbury man. I came to live here in the 70's; the planners had do...