Picture(s) of the day....

Unread post by **Peter.N.** » 26 Mar 2018, 22:48

I was going to say the same Jim but there are lots of videos on YouTube.

Peter

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 27 Mar 2018, 04:23

Pug_XUD_KeenAmateur wrote: 26 Mar 2018, 20:41
CitroJim wrote: 26 Mar 2018, 08:57 I've really got to go to Beamish... Shame it's so bloody far away from me...

This year I'm going to try though...
happy to share old pix of a couple of my visits there if you like Jim, might inspire you further. Absolute doddle to get there, straight up the A1. Make a few days of it and take in Lindisfarne and the Angel of the North while you're at it; in the same area. Use the Bus if you can't face the drive

Yes please Puxa

That would be appreciated!

I'd be keen to see if I can train it part-way and combine it with cycling...

Unread post by **Peter.N.** » 27 Mar 2018, 10:54

I reckon you could cycle it in a couple of hours Jim.

Peter

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 27 Mar 2018, 11:41

Peter.N. wrote: 27 Mar 2018, 10:54 I reckon you could cycle it in a couple of hours Jim.

From a handy railway station perhaps!

Gibbo2286 · Unread post by **Gibbo2286** » 27 Mar 2018, 12:40

There's a National Express coach service from MK to Chester le Street Jim, six hours on the coach though and then a nice pedal for the rest of the way.

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 27 Mar 2018, 13:19

Gibbo2286 wrote: 27 Mar 2018, 12:40 There's a National Express coach service from MK to Chester le Street Jim, six hours on the coach though and then a nice pedal for the rest of the way.

I didn't appreciate just how much you hate me Gibbo

I promise you I'd be dead from terror and fright before we'd even left MK if I tried that method of travel

I'm not a good passenger at the best of times and a bus ride is my definition of hell on wheels... Only one thing is worse for me - an aircraft...

No, if I go at all I'll either drive there very slowly or take the train. Oddly, I have no great problem with trains (or boats for that matter)...

Now maybe if Zel or Davie was driving the bus I may just be able to cope with it

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 31 Mar 2018, 18:34

I have now mastered the art of levitation

: Barnaby Norman - Linford Wood parkrun

I'm also well on the way to mastering the art of being a rain-god

Got some more practice in today when I started a 33 mile cycle ride in the sunshine... It ended in torrential rain

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 01 Apr 2018, 17:42

April 1st 2018

100 years ago today this was the location of?

This Off-topic tangent from "Tartan Travel Rugs and other Nostalgic Motoring accessories" reveals all.

Regards Neil

Unread post by **myglaren** » 01 Apr 2018, 18:17

^ Unless I am mistaken, the Hotel Cecil was also the scene of the murder of an heroic British spy, based in France.
The day before she left for a position abroad.
Google is hot returning any useful results, will have to dig elsewhere to confirm.

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 02 Apr 2018, 19:02

myglaren wrote: 01 Apr 2018, 18:17 ^ Unless I am mistaken, the Hotel Cecil was also the scene of the murder of an heroic British spy, based in France.
The day before she left for a position abroad.
Google is hot returning any useful results, will have to dig elsewhere to confirm.

Can't help you with your spy Steve. The Los Angeles Hotel Cecil was infamous for mysterious deaths, but the only espionage link I could find for the London Cecil related to Ace of Spies, Sidney George Reilly as reported here in the Sussex Express!

Regards Neil

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 02 Apr 2018, 19:05

Today's POTD offering from me, comes on a roundabout link, from a short article in Commercial Motor 15th January 1954, to an Eddy Grant hit record.

This is the Brixton street he was refering to, the first market street to be lit by electricity.

Electric Avenue by Baron Corvo, The Sketch, 1895 [Public domain], by Frederick Rolfe (The Sketch, 1895), from Wikimedia Commons
Regards Neil

Unread post by **myglaren** » 02 Apr 2018, 21:48

NewcastleFalcon wrote: 02 Apr 2018, 19:02
myglaren wrote: 01 Apr 2018, 18:17 ^ Unless I am mistaken, the Hotel Cecil was also the scene of the murder of an heroic British spy, based in France.
The day before she left for a position abroad.
Google is hot returning any useful results, will have to dig elsewhere to confirm.
Can't help you with your spy Steve. The Los Angeles Hotel Cecil was infamous for mysterious deaths, but the only espionage link I could find for the London Cecil related to Ace of Spies, Sidney George Reilly as reported here in the Sussex Express!

Regards Neil

I was wrong about the Hotel Cecil - it was the Shelbourn.
The woman was Polish, Krystyna Skarbek. Inducted into the SOE and knew Ian Fleming, who based some of his 'Bond' girls on her.
Her accomplishments in France were nothing short of incredible.

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 05 Apr 2018, 16:38

Nice place to stop off at? Not if you are Alf Roberts from Coronation Street.....but what is that rather obscure link?

It is of course Trinity Square Carpark in all its glory, otherwise known as the.....?

Should really have been dismantled slab by slab and re-erected at Beamish as a 1960's icon, gone for ever now

..and for the car spotter...plenty of material there

See plenty to enjoy

Regards Neil

Unread post by **Peter.N.** » 05 Apr 2018, 17:16

If that was at Beamish I don't think I would go

I like the cars though, they are from my era - or a bit later.

Peter

Unread post by **myglaren** » 05 Apr 2018, 17:17

Famous for:

Parked there many a time. Carter wasn't there.

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