On The Road - show us what interested you on your travels
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Gilhooligan said:
Edit: lol either I've misread this thread or the OP changed it since I initially read it earlier? Either way, enjoy a cool AA phone box and mx5 
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Love the old AA phone boxes. Spotted two so far. This one is near Ambleside. One of 19 left and a listed building.
There's another one here. Not too far from Ambleside, in fact.. Love the old AA phone boxes. Spotted two so far. This one is near Ambleside. One of 19 left and a listed building.
Edited by Gilhooligan on Monday 19th September 20:55
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I definitely have too much time on my hands 
Just completed a 160 round trip to take a look
Planet Claire said:
Gilhooligan said:
Edit: lol either I've misread this thread or the OP changed it since I initially read it earlier? Either way, enjoy a cool AA phone box and mx5 .
Love the old AA phone boxes. Spotted two so far. This one is near Ambleside. One of 19 left and a listed building.
There's another one here. Not too far from Ambleside, in fact.. Love the old AA phone boxes. Spotted two so far. This one is near Ambleside. One of 19 left and a listed building.
Edited by Gilhooligan on Monday 19th September 20:55
This has appeared several times in these hallowed pages. It's a mere box. It's merely a box. You get the idea. It's in Mere in Cheshire. We see it visiting folk in Manchester; it's on the road from the M6 towards Manchester Airport.
Driving from Newbury to Haslemere earlier, I was caught in a rainstorm of biblical proportions and stopped for a cuppa at the first café I could find. The establishment was a pet feed wholesaler and boot fair venue north of Andover who have a fine line in objet d'art. I'm fairly certain the village was called Dummer.
The thing is, I didn't know Basingstoke ever had heavy manufacturing, I've never heard of Wallis and Steevens and never seen the surname Steevens spelled with so many Es.
The thing is, I didn't know Basingstoke ever had heavy manufacturing, I've never heard of Wallis and Steevens and never seen the surname Steevens spelled with so many Es.
DickyC said:
Driving from Newbury to Haslemere earlier, I was caught in a rainstorm of biblical proportions and stopped for a cuppa at the first café I could find. The establishment was a pet feed wholesaler and boot fair venue north of Andover who have a fine line in objet d'art. I'm fairly certain the village was called Dummer.
The thing is, I didn't know Basingstoke ever had heavy manufacturing, I've never heard of Wallis and Steevens and never seen the surname Steevens spelled with so many Es.
Basingstoke had quite a bit of manufacturing and the like. For example Thornycroft (Maker of trucks and buses) were based there.The thing is, I didn't know Basingstoke ever had heavy manufacturing, I've never heard of Wallis and Steevens and never seen the surname Steevens spelled with so many Es.
I was out running a few errands in my ole F150 this lunchtime - lovely early fall day here in FL - it's Friday and not having to fly home from up north for a change, so feeling chilled.
Encountered this beauty on South Orange Ave, Orlando - a pristine 66 Bonneville convertible - totally huge, totally cool. Made me smile and give the dude a big 'thumbs-up', which he seemed to appreciate.
Encountered this beauty on South Orange Ave, Orlando - a pristine 66 Bonneville convertible - totally huge, totally cool. Made me smile and give the dude a big 'thumbs-up', which he seemed to appreciate.
The A421 links Oxford and Cambridge. It could therefore be classed as quite an important road. Yet, until comparatively recently, the road passed over the single track Thornborough Bridge in Buckinghamshire. I had passed it many times - you can see it quite clearly from the revised route of the road - but last week I decided to stop and have a closer look.
It was built on the 14th Century and wasn't replaced until 1974! It never ceases to amaze me how woefully unprepared the world was for mass mechanised personal transport.
The surrounding area is now largely farm land but in Roman times was an important settlement.
The bridge builders used the V shape of the cutwaters to form pedestrian refuges in the road over the bridge.
It's hard to imagine what a bottleneck it must have been in the Sixties and Seventies.
It was built on the 14th Century and wasn't replaced until 1974! It never ceases to amaze me how woefully unprepared the world was for mass mechanised personal transport.
The surrounding area is now largely farm land but in Roman times was an important settlement.
The bridge builders used the V shape of the cutwaters to form pedestrian refuges in the road over the bridge.
It's hard to imagine what a bottleneck it must have been in the Sixties and Seventies.
To the east of Hungerford.
Guarding a road bridge, a canal lock and the railway.
Until I read the plaque I had always believed pill boxes were sited randomly at crossings and other places that needed defending against the feared German invasion. It turns out there were lines of defence east to west across the country designed to slow an invasion. The Kennet and Avon canal that runs through Hungerford was part of the Blue Line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHQ_Line
Guarding a road bridge, a canal lock and the railway.
Until I read the plaque I had always believed pill boxes were sited randomly at crossings and other places that needed defending against the feared German invasion. It turns out there were lines of defence east to west across the country designed to slow an invasion. The Kennet and Avon canal that runs through Hungerford was part of the Blue Line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHQ_Line
Drummond Baize said:
Visited a site in Hilsea near Portsmouth last week and saw these:
A Google search brings up nothing on their history. Any locals know anything?
Anything subterranean nearby for which these might be vents? Longer railway tunnels often have vents and there are probably underground military goings on in and around Portsmouth.A Google search brings up nothing on their history. Any locals know anything?
DickyC said:
A thread for vehicles you see that interest you that are not necessarily either cool, classic or super, and roadside ephemera you think we might like to see.
Having concluded a deal for a Lexus 600 in the car park of Mill Hill Underground Station, I set off in search of a petrol station and saw this:
As I turned the car round I stumbled upon a scene from the nineteen twenties:
that wasn't:
Near Pewsey during the week I saw this road sign, still in use, that appears to have made by a local confectioners but is mostly cast iron:
One from my home town of Newbury, a notice on the side of the Town Hall:
Bizarrely I'm sure I saw that 32 whatever it is car on the Wirral the other night , clocked it down the road outside an off licence then it drove past me in the street I live Having concluded a deal for a Lexus 600 in the car park of Mill Hill Underground Station, I set off in search of a petrol station and saw this:
As I turned the car round I stumbled upon a scene from the nineteen twenties:
that wasn't:
Near Pewsey during the week I saw this road sign, still in use, that appears to have made by a local confectioners but is mostly cast iron:
One from my home town of Newbury, a notice on the side of the Town Hall:
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