A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[Limpley Stoker]

Dr Creasy has made an appearance in his Austin attending to the booking clerk Miss Jasper this afternoon.

 

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Do we know Miss Jasper? Perhaps she too has been overcome by the appearance of an APT last week hence Dr Creasy's visit.

 

That Austin 7 looks suitably ill kempt for a busy GP!

 

It seems Mr Warburton has finally caught a train or perhaps he is bending over to tie his shoelaces!

Edited March 11, 2017 by Limpley Stoker

[Captain Kernow]

Here you go mes enfants -

 

http://www.ribblevalleyrail.co.uk/Horrocksford/Horrocksford%20Branch.htm

 

http://spellerweb.net/rhindex/UKRH/LNWR/Horrocksford.html

 

https://www.railscot.co.uk/locationnew.php?loc=Horrocksford

Excellent.

 

Horrocksford is the new Horrocksford.

[St Enodoc]

The station garden's looking good Rob. Very spring-like.

 

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz,

I wonder where them birdies is,

The little birds is on the wing,

Ain't that absurd?

The little wing is on the bird

 

With thanks to Spike Milligan for the poetry and for his part in my downfall.

 

A Hitler

Or...

 

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz.

I wonder where the lawnmower is.

[chrisf]

Or...

 

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz.

I wonder where the lawnmower is.

 

I think that if you use your head

You'll find the mower in the shed.

 

Chris

[Stubby47]

It's faster if you use the mower,

Scissors can be so much slower.

[Limpley Stoker]

 

 

 

Too many cutting jokes.......

 

 

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Edited March 11, 2017 by Limpley Stoker

[colin penfold]

Thats a snip at five shillings.

 

You're right though, we need to cut out the jokes

 

Now, where is that filthy mogul???????

[Clearwater]

Thats a snip at five shillings.

 

You're right though, we need to cut out the jokes

 

Now, where is that filthy mogul???????

Surely "mow gul"?

[Limpley Stoker]

Thats a snip at five shillings.

You're right though, we need to cut out the jokes

Now, where is that filthy mogul???????

I was on the verge of saying that!

[St Enodoc]

Too many cutting jokes.......

 

 

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Brilliant! I never had one of those, although I did have a Britain's Floral Miniature Garden set about 50 years ago, which included a mower and a roller. Dave Howsam (I think) built an N gauge layout to represent a ride-on miniature railway using the Britain's parts. It would be fun to do something similar with T gauge - a model of an LGB garden line perhaps?

[phil_sutters]

Do we know Miss Jasper? Perhaps she too has been overcome by the appearance of an APT last week hence Dr Creasy's visit.

 

That Austin 7 looks suitably ill kempt for a busy GP!

 

It seems Mr Warburton has finally caught a train or perhaps he is bending over to tie his shoelaces!

Our GP up on Mendip, in the late 1950s, had an Alvis with a dicky seat, with the original Bath numberplate FB1. It was very well maintained. Before you all jump in with ribald comments, it was the car that had the dicky seat, not the good doctor.

Edited March 11, 2017 by phil_sutters

[gwrrob]

Thats a snip at five shillings.

You're right though, we need to cut out the jokes

Now, where is that filthy mogul???????

Not much interest in a filthy mogul shoot then Col.

[NHY 581]

That's a trim little craft.....

[Limpley Stoker]

Not much interest in a filthy mogul shoot then Col.

Oh yes there is!

[2ManySpams]

Why on earth would anyone want a dinky model of a lawn mower? Cars, trains, trucks, boats, tanks yes, but a lawn mower?

[Oldddudders]

Why on earth would anyone want a dinky model of a lawn mower? Cars, trains, trucks, boats, tanks yes, but a lawn mower?

 

Nostalgia/envy by flat-dwellers?

[ian]

Why on earth would anyone want a dinky model of a lawn mower? Cars, trains, trucks, boats, tanks yes, but a lawn mower?

 

Well, if it was in British Racing Green...

 

Edited March 12, 2017 by ian

[Dr Gerbil-Fritters]

Why on earth would anyone want a dinky model of a lawn mower? 

 

To mow their dinky grass?  

[gwrrob]

Filth,pure filth...

 

 

[The Stationmaster]

I'm a bit concerned about needing a Doctor to attend to the good lady Booking Clerk.  A chap i used to work with had some good few years previously paid a visit to an old friend who by then happened to be the Stationmaster at Blaengwynfi and arrived to find the place seemingly deserted (it was during opening hours).  However after some searching around the station building and various offices he duly came across the Stationmaster in the process of 'attending to' the lady(?) Booking Clerk - across his desk.

[nigel newling]

 

Filth,pure filth...

 

... but, no matter how filthy they got, the slide bars and piston rods always gleamed ...

[gwrrob]

I'm a bit concerned about needing a Doctor to attend to the good lady Booking Clerk.  A chap i used to work with had some good few years previously paid a visit to an old friend who by then happened to be the Stationmaster at Blaengwynfi and arrived to find the place seemingly deserted (it was during opening hours).  However after some searching around the station building and various offices he duly came across the Stationmaster in the process of 'attending to' the lady(?) Booking Clerk - across his desk.

 

Yes,we've all been there Mike.....

[2ManySpams]

Yes,we've all been there Mike.....

What, a station master seeing to you across his desk??

[Limpley Stoker]

Filth,pure filth...

 

Colins's filthy mogul.jpeg

 

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Mogulomania - and getting down and dirty, in the bonking office....

[Oldddudders]

And it wasn't restricted to the Welsh Marches, either. The SM at Dorking was definitely busy with the chief clerk - a war widow - on more than checking accounts. At Margate the desk in the parcels office once collapsed, mainly because the lady clerk there and the SM had been giving it a hard time over some years. At Sole Street, every few Thursdays the Ganger's wife would come down for some quality time with the Leading Railman, for which purpose they borrowed the former SM's office. One RDR SM was believed to have a lady-friend near every station he relieved at. He was also passionate about Blackpool trams!

 

Where there's a will(y) there's a way, as they say.