hi all,
i found these comments really interesting. i used to live at 4 railway cottages, kempston hardwick, between 1966 & 1977. it's the row of cottages between the brickworks and the elstow munitions dump, just before the railway bridge. my dad was james wilson, a popular man in his day. my dad was a railwayman and used to operate the signalbox opposite coronation works. i used to play in the brickworks, but i was only 7 in 1973 when it closed, so i hardly remember it being open. i do however, remember the siding off the lms mainline as my dad and i used to play on the clay trucks that were parked there. i was never allowed into elstow storage depot and now i realise why! i can agree the smell of sulphur when the wind was in the wrong direction was pretty bad! happy days!!!
