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Don said:
Out on a walk in Arlesford.
http://www.alresford.org/displayed/displayed_13_3....
The piece about the dog is towards the end.
On Monday I went to the chocolate box village of East Hagbourne in Oxfordshire. They have an annual scarecrow building competition. The competition was some time ago but a few were still standing, like these scary creatures:
The theme this year was Shakespeare and they are the Three Witches from Macbeth.
Even when I'd found out what was going on they were still scary.
The theme this year was Shakespeare and they are the Three Witches from Macbeth.
Even when I'd found out what was going on they were still scary.
This, looking rather sorry for its self in a pub car park in south Wales on Monday.
Not been on the road for six years, needs saving ! Was thinking about enquiring as to the whereabouts of the owner and making a cheeky offer,
The huge potential bork factor put me off and I don't think the misses would have been too happy
Excuse the crap phone pic
I live really near the Ford Dunton testing facility, so see loads lf prototypes
Note- most of these are from a few years ago so have already been released. Have seen the new focus mule but not parked only moving, also have seen some Chinese badged EcoSports around.![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/785FcWmv.jpg[/img]</a> <a href="http://thumbsnap.com/RYNflGm0" Target="_blank" rel="nofollow">[img]http://thumbsnap.com/sc/RYNflGm0.jpg)
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It's up in the hills to the west of Belfast; 7.2 miles of fast, flowing roads between narrow hedges, over blind brows, down the amazing Deer Leap and later on the corner/downhill run to that hairpin...
Motor races here were run on closed public roads, which was still allowed to happen in Northern Ireland whereas the rest of the UK banned such activity in about 1920 after the car/spectator accident at the Kop Hill-climb in Buckinghamshire.
They stopped car racing at Dundrod in 1955 after a scarcely-believable three driver fatalities in the RAC TT race that year. Also hard to comprehend is the fact that the motor bike crowd still continue to use Dundrod competitively to this day.
I drove us round twice at "sensible-quick" road speeds and marveled that Fangio, Moss, Hawthorn et al were getting a lap in here at an average speed of 126 mph. This in cars with cross-ply tyres, live, cart-spring rear axles and drum brakes... Oh - and no seat belts.
It still looks much as it did in the 50's and it shows how different those times were. Highly recommended if you find yourself in Belfast.
Try and get hold of a copy of Motor Sport magazine for October 2000. The "Track Tests" article therein by Paul Fearnley provides the history, the period pictures and an invaluable map of the circuit.
It's up in the hills to the west of Belfast; 7.2 miles of fast, flowing roads between narrow hedges, over blind brows, down the amazing Deer Leap and later on the corner/downhill run to that hairpin...
Motor races here were run on closed public roads, which was still allowed to happen in Northern Ireland whereas the rest of the UK banned such activity in about 1920 after the car/spectator accident at the Kop Hill-climb in Buckinghamshire.
They stopped car racing at Dundrod in 1955 after a scarcely-believable three driver fatalities in the RAC TT race that year. Also hard to comprehend is the fact that the motor bike crowd still continue to use Dundrod competitively to this day.
I drove us round twice at "sensible-quick" road speeds and marveled that Fangio, Moss, Hawthorn et al were getting a lap in here at an average speed of 126 mph. This in cars with cross-ply tyres, live, cart-spring rear axles and drum brakes... Oh - and no seat belts.
It still looks much as it did in the 50's and it shows how different those times were. Highly recommended if you find yourself in Belfast.
Try and get hold of a copy of Motor Sport magazine for October 2000. The "Track Tests" article therein by Paul Fearnley provides the history, the period pictures and an invaluable map of the circuit.
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