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Post by Patrick on Jan 15, 2011 23:45:11 GMT
Welcome to the board - Anything you want to know - just ask and we'll ask everything about you!  Got any cake?  |
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Post by housesparrow on Jan 16, 2011 16:49:08 GMT
Pegs! How very nice to see you, especially on such a wonderful drying day.
Are you dolly pegs, jumbo sized or the old fashined wooden sort that leaves brown marks on the sheets?
Seriously, tis good to see new members. Sesley provides the cake and the rest of us just turn up with corn.
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Post by Patrick on Jan 16, 2011 16:54:49 GMT
Seriously, tis good to see new members. Sesley provides the cake and the rest of us just turn up with corn. ....not to mention a bit of "cheese"(iness) Drying day? DRYING DAY? 36 hours and about four inches of rain only just desisted a couple of hours ago here in the Armpit of Britain. The only drying that takes place here (esp. with our North Facing Garden) is the small spare bedroom! |
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Post by Weyland on Jan 16, 2011 17:02:25 GMT
Pegs! How very nice to see you, especially on such a wonderful drying day. I second that, Pegs. Welcome. [Drying day? It's a miserable, damp, misty, miserable, Welsh January day here in Wales. The Severn is occupying the nearby fields, and it's just a matter of time until I won't be able to get to the "local" shop (4 miles). Have a good day.]Slip me a fiver, and I'll hang all the scandalous SC-member gossip on the dirty-washing line.~ ~ ~ When I were a lad -- last week -- all this were fields . . .  Within sight of my house, about an hour ago. The usual course of the River Severn can't be seen, somewhere in the middle. |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 16, 2011 23:37:32 GMT
When I were a lad -- last week -- all this were fields . . . Old Railway Bridge?  |
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Post by Weyland on Jan 17, 2011 9:52:59 GMT
When I were a lad -- last week -- all this were fields . . . Old Railway Bridge? <stands back in admiration> Yes indeed, Patrick. The old Shropshire & Montgomery Railway. Now a single-track road. What colour is your anorak? |
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Post by Patrick on Jan 17, 2011 16:34:45 GMT
Old Railway Bridge? <stands back in admiration> Yes indeed, Patrick. The old Shropshire & Montgomery Railway. Now a single-track road. What colour is your anorak? I'd recognise those bolts anywhere! ;D Just a fan of old lines - It was a short lived little line wasn't it!? Originally constructed as part of a grand Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales railway (known as "the Potts") which was built and opened from Shrewsbury to Llanymynech in 1866 with a branch from Kinnerley to Criggion. Penury followed and services were suspended in 1880. It slept on until 1907 when Holman Stephens promoted a light railway to take over. It was reconstructed and reopened as the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light in 1911. Passenger services ceased in 1933 and the railway began to fade away again only to be resurrected as a military railway in Word War II. It finally closed in 1962. |
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Post by ladylinda on Jan 29, 2011 20:42:45 GMT
Welcome, Pegs!
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Post by Weyland on Feb 6, 2011 15:21:51 GMT
I'd recognise those bolts anywhere! ;D Just a fan of old lines - It was a short lived little line wasn't it!? This is that Severn bridge today. The water is almost up to the roadway, and still rising, say the locals. There's a place a few miles away where the fire-brigade had to rescue people from their houses, their cars engulfed. Makes my little burst-pipe drama look a bit . . . wait for it . . . wet.  |
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Post by Patrick on Feb 6, 2011 16:17:37 GMT
 Snapped this on the phone quickly when I popped into town yesterday. Luckily the rain had eased off for a bit - this was about four hours after high tide at about twenty past four. That bridge was once part of the Morecambe to Leeds line that brought the many mill workers to the coast on their Wakes Weeks. We'd stocked up on everything (so we thought) to avoid going out this weekend only to discover a distinct lack of mince for the Spagbol - hence the trip into that great unknown that is Sainsbury's on a Saturday. Wasn't too bad in the end. Lunchtime weather said there'd been around four inches of rain over and around Snowdon! |
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36 hours and about four inches of rain only just desisted a couple of hours ago here in the Armpit of Britain. The only drying that takes place here (esp. with our North Facing Garden) is the small spare bedroom!
