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  1. Welchester
    Some boulangeries even sell a 'batard complet', of which I have known a few.
  2. Welchester
    I grew up near that junction and know it well. It was fun going around it on the top deck of a Bristol double-decker. It lies parallel to the alignment of the rope worked incline of the old Gloucester and Cheltenham Tramroad.
  3. Welchester
    He was already Sir Felix when he left the Great Western. Incidentally, it's always worth adding the title when you google him unless you want some, er, curious results.
  4. Welchester
    That rather looks as though it's been mounted on a (not greatly) modified Bachmann chassis.
  5. Welchester
    No. My liber-t tag, which I used in France last month, definitely doesn't work on the M6 Toll, which I travelled both there and back.
  6. Welchester
    SWALK - sealed with a loving kiss NORWICH - Knickers off ready when I come home.
  7. Welchester
    Claiming, I believe, that they were the equivalent of other companies' eight-coupled locomotives.
  8. Welchester
    This photograph taken in GWR days (before your period, I know) shows an ex-MSWJR locomotive in the bay at Cheltenham Lansdown Station with a train of GWR stock, which may be suggestive. The Gloucester Railway Memories website has a page on the Cheltenham to Southampton service in the late 50s/early 60s with some photographs..
  9. Welchester
    Indeed. My late father was Area Sales Manager in Gloucester in the 1970s, and he spoke of Kay’s of Worcester as a major customer of the Railway. By then, he was the only person in sales who had actually seen the inside of a goods shed.
  10. Welchester
    I saw one in France.
  11. Welchester
    I had RTR version from Mr Dean Sidings (Dave Slater). One problem is that because an 0-4-2 chassis is used, the brake linkage is back to front. The wrong number is entirely my fault (3561 was a large metro). It ran nicely, but I sold it with my other OO stuff when I moved to 7mm.
  12. Welchester
    West Gloucester and Wye Valley Lines. There are some excellent colour photographs of Tintern c. 1938.
  13. Welchester
    Have you seen the colour photographs in Neil Parkhouse’s book?
  14. Welchester
    This wikipedia article suggests that Armitage Ware was described as 'sanitary pottery manufacture', which has a rather pleasant Edwardian ring.
  15. Welchester
    Nice Pontnewynydd brake van.
  16. Welchester
    Norton Canes is probably a corruption of 'Norton under Cannock'. It has no royal connection.
  17. Welchester
    I second the captain.
  18. Welchester
    I thought that belonged to an earlier period of Spain’s history.
  19. Welchester
    I believe he was disappointed that he couldn't play himself in The Longest Day, but by then he was far too big a star to play a mere lieutenant.
  20. Welchester
    I don't think so. The school was founded by a beneficiary of Henry VIII's landgrab of monastic property.
  21. Welchester
    No, Cheltenham Grammar. Now called 'Pate's', which in my day was the girls' school.
  22. Welchester
    His son, Shaun Fenton, has had a distinguished career in education, including at one point the headship of my old skool.
  23. Welchester
    Undergraduates were frequently accused of lacking Morrells, or was it morals?
  24. Welchester
    Oddly enough, Cheltenham in the 1970s was one such place, although brewing didn't happen every day. I noticed the smell if I decided not to go straight home from school, but wander around the town centre. The school had been next to the brewery, which would have been much worse, but moved to the outskirts in the mid 60s.
  25. Welchester
    Green top was raw milk. One of my biology teachers used to recommend it.
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