Front cover of a guidebook to Yorkshire published in 1969, bought from a charity shop for 50p
Charity shop holiday read 1: Yorkshire c.1969. Seems I’m now too late for the Hull-Grimsby hovercraft or a ride on a train Darlington-Richmond and Skipton-Colne.
I can confirm all the towns’ and cities’ half-day/early closing days and which day the local/regional newspapers are published!
I struggle with a short sleeve shirt! 😂
Without stating your age, post your favourite film released the year you turned 18.
Oh blimey… probably one out of: Let Him Have It, The Silence of the Lambs, and Boyz n the Hood.
A Harry Stevens painting for British Rail, a Modernist depiction of a train going over a viaduct in rolling downs - to the right a chalk cliff and sea.
Good morning - I hope you slept like a bird's-foot-trefoil-stuffed dingy skipper - I'm starting with 'Spirit of the Southern', Harry Stevens, acrylic on canvas, 1969. Have a splendid day.
Two stewards in livery serve a couple in suits a restaurant- grade meal in a train dining carriage
The modern world in old Ladybird books.
Eating on trains, 1974.
Artist: Frank Humphris
My ‘home’ city… I enjoyed this a lot!
Consistently the best ‘Letters’ pages in the business!
Buxton?
A steam train is rushing over a viaduct, offering a long view towards a cathedral. The image seems to be a stylised impression of a historic city such as Lincoln.
On this day 27th March 1963 Beeching announced that the railway network was to be cut by a quarter & named over 2,000 stations destined for closure
Artist: WC Watson
Stumbled across this utter delight of a documentary from 1994 on the iPlayer tonight - “Three Salons at the Seaside”. My mum, who would have celebrated her birthday today, loved her visits to the hair salon. I wished we still made documentaries like this!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
On a snowy winter night, a British Rail diesel train rushes through a blue-tinged moonlit landscape
The modern world in old Ladybird books.
"The newspaper train speeds through the night" (1969)
Artist: Ron Embleton
Looking forward to this (the book and the talk)!
Not sure if it’s a blessing or a curse having my office above an M&S Simply Food! 😂
Love those eggs 🥰
Did you buy anything in the end John? I think my last purchase from there was a set of Babycham glasses from the ‘70s!
Too much free wine? 😂🤪
There’s a good article in this weekend’s Yorkshire Post about the Rhubarb Triangle!
Thriving!
You sound like my other half (we are having this as part of our tea, and he’s not a great fan)!
And we had fun celebrating the fact on the 09:50 ex-EBN to AFK and 11:24 return!
What a great collection!
You do this too? 😊
Still got it tho! 😂😉
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An aerial view looking down on the 1960s station as if it were a Hornby set - with level crossing, taxi, porters and pedestrian bridge
The railway station in Ladybird Land - captured in Treasure magazine, 1963
(Artist: Don Harley)
Fun?
I’d be worried about those wine bottles! 👀😂
And with the reactor dome of Sizewell B power station seen in the distance!
HNY! Thanks for what you do! 😊
That’s later than 1990, there’s a Virgin Trains logo and reference to Connex South Central on the station name board on the left.