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RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 Scotland Yard have released further details of their joint surveillance operation with MI7, amid concerns that tensions within the RMWeb community may be in danger of spilling over into wider public disorder, as evidenced by today's events in Barnard Castle. A spokesman said that for many years an uneasy truce had been maintained between two dominant factions, the "Reds" and the "Blues"*, both of which boasted of being "ready to run". In the last few years, the dominance of these two factions has been challenged by regional groups known as "Retailers", leading to savage reprisals. While MI7 has successfully infiltrated these organisations, Scotland Yard warns of an even darker underworld of "Kitbuilders" and "Scratchbuilders" who operate in fear of a nebulous organisation known as the "Finescale Police" - a band of thugs devoted to upholding their tribal standards. It is said that adherents of this extreme faction can be identified by the cyphers "P4" or "S7" branded on their left buttock. Many confess to having become addicted to "The Hobby" when still minors. *Also known as "The M---- Mob" and "The B---- Boys". 1 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham108 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Reports are coming in of a bank robbery in Barnard Castle. Durham Constabulary say they are looking for a suspect in full evening dress and top hat, last seen heading down The Sills with £250 in bagged new 2p coins in carrier bags marked "Rails of Sheffield". Well I grew up in Barnard Castle and have never heard of The Sills - when I left school I had a summer job as a Postman and used to deliver mail to all of Startforth as well. You live & learn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 9 minutes ago, bartram108 said: Well I grew up in Barnard Castle and have never heard of The Sills - when I left school I had a summer job as a Postman and used to deliver mail to all of Startforth as well. You live & learn. Well, my neighbour's a Barney postman, so I'll ask him if he knows where it is! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham108 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Just now, Edwardian said: Well, my neighbour's a Barney postman, so I'll ask him if he knows where it is! Well he may do - IIRC there were only a couple of properties along that stretch of road back in the 70's - I think it was just known as Boldon Lane. A Postman colleague used to live in the detached house just over the bridge (to the right) - it was known then as 'Museum View' - had about as much view of the Bowes Museum as I do from here (50 miles North-East). Looking at google now, there's no sign of a house name any more. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 2 hours ago, bartram108 said: Well I grew up in Barnard Castle and have never heard of The Sills - when I left school I had a summer job as a Postman and used to deliver mail to all of Startforth as well. You live & learn. Well, that's what it says on the map I was using. I can only claim a nodding acquaintance with Barnard Castle having visited the Bowes Museum several times and driven through a few more. I'm really overdue to visit the castle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 8, 2020 4 hours ago, Compound2632 said: joint surveillance operation with MI7 Surely M7? (Due in part to a lack of any sign of intelligence.) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 6 hours ago, Hroth said: Or as might be "sung" on the Last Night of the Proms, "Rule Brittannia, Brittannia waives the rules..." It used to be : "Britannia rules the waves, America waives the rules" Adrian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Well, that's what it says on the map I was using. I can only claim a nodding acquaintance with Barnard Castle having visited the Bowes Museum several times and driven through a few more. I'm really overdue to visit the castle. Or Bowes Castle .... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 8, 2020 (edited) We did in fact visit Bowes Castle last summer, along with Brough Castle, on our way back from Appleby. Appleby is always visited roughly half-way through our fortnight near Sedbergh, as it has the nearest known launderette. Our holiday in the North didn't happen this year, alas. Edited September 8, 2020 by Compound2632 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 4 hours ago, Edwardian said: Or Bowes Castle .... Is that the one that the local real estate agent is offering as a renovator's delight? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Looks perfect for conversion to a coin-in-the-slot laundry to me. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 9, 2020 Author Share Posted September 9, 2020 9 hours ago, Compound2632 said: We did in fact visit Bowes Castle last summer, along with Brough Castle, on our way back from Appleby. Appleby is always visited roughly half-way through our fortnight near Sedbergh, as it has the nearest known launderette. Our holiday in the North didn't happen this year, alas. I thought you were going to say because of the parallel, but not connected, NE and MR stations. 4 hours ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said: Is that the one that the local real estate agent is offering as a renovator's delight? Fine views, convenient for the A66 major east-west trunk route. Surprisingly light and airy interior. In need of modernisation. Actually it occupies the NW corner of an old Roman fort. Bleak though it is (see Snow Drift at Bleath Gill, 1955), the Stainmore Gap is the only way through to the west at this point. The Romans, having marched up the A1(M) from York, would come to a fork at Scotch Corner Services. Continue north, after jinking a little to the left of the present road, you would travel up Dere Street to intersect the Stanegate Line at Corbridge and then on to the Wall and through to the outposts to the north of it. If your mission required travel to the western part of the Wall, then you took instead the left fork, and travel north-west from Scotch Corner to Carlisle. This involved travelling through the pass in the hills we know as the Stainmore Gap, guarded at its south east by the fort at Bowes Castle. 6 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 9, 2020 5 hours ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said: Is that the one that the local real estate agent is offering as a renovator's delight? Lady Anne Clifford had the choice of Bowes and Brough (also on the site of a Roman fort) and chose to renovate Brough. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 24 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Lady Anne Clifford had the choice of Bowes and Brough (also on the site of a Roman fort) and chose to renovate Brough. I can understand why ........ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Edwardian said: The Romans, having marched up the A1(M) from York, would come to a fork at Scotch Corner Services. An old established family business then ...... 2 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said: Is that the one that the local real estate agent is offering as a renovator's delight? One of the reasons we knock off the "real". Estate Agents deal in complete and utter fantasies. I know, I'm trying to buy a house... Quote Fine views, convenient for the A66 major east-west trunk route. Surprisingly light and airy interior. In need of modernisation. Mr Ed has the patter to a T! Edited September 9, 2020 by Hroth 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 RIP Diana Rigg 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) And who could forget this? Nice to see that the villain thought to pad the rails for her... The BBC had this shot in their news item, but changed it for a more dodgy one of Steed hooking his umberella in her top... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54106509 Edited September 10, 2020 by Hroth there's a news report and an obit... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) Took the morning off ... Edited September 10, 2020 by Edwardian 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 10, 2020 Beatrice? Many years ago, when our sons were just turned five and nearly three, we had a week in Embsay staying in a terraced house just opposite the station. It became a pre-bedtime ritual with our younger son to walk over to the station to see the Green Percy quietly simmering away. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: Beatrice? Ruddy camera-hog! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 14, 2020 Author Share Posted September 14, 2020 How is everyone? Having listened to self-appointed Wowser-in-Chief, Baroness Finlay, condemning, in increasingly hysterical tones, it seemed to me, the evils of Demon Alcohol on the wireless this lunchtime, I need a drink. I was reminded of my late pledge-signing Methodist Yorkshire Grandmother. I raise a glass to her. It seems we are in danger of being caught between the Devil of latter-day prohibitionists and the Deep Blue Sea of the libertarian politicians defending our right to get infected with Covid. Is it just me, or does the World get madder by the day? 2 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted September 14, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 14, 2020 (edited) In response to your kind all round enquiry, I went into a pub for the first time this year, I myself personally this morning. So I’m able to report the demon drink was really very good, just complete the trick or treat form, glug, glug, glug, aaahhhh. Edited September 14, 2020 by Northroader 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 14, 2020 Author Share Posted September 14, 2020 3 minutes ago, Northroader said: I went into a pub for the first time this year, I myself personally this morning. As opposed to in your official capacity, as HM Inspector of the Bottom of Empty Pint Glasses? 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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