Looks like it , Fantastic station , used to go from theer on club trips to Blackee , we used to gerra 10 bob noort, a bag of crisps and a bottle of seven up pop, and the badge you ed to wear forrif ya got lost
Is that it rising over the back of the bus station
Looks like it , Fantastic station , used to go from theer on club trips to Blackee , we used to gerra 10 bob noort, a bag of crisps and a bottle of seven up pop, and the badge you ed to wear forrif ya got lost
Aye, that's it. Steam trains ed to climb a steady gradient from a long way away to get the height to be on the "roof" level of the bus station. Av seen a picture sumweear from above of the track running alongside Midland Rooad at it's elevated level as it approached the Cooartarse.
Last edited by SBRed48; 24-11-2016 at 05:26 PM.
The central bitta the bus station is theear with the charras parked alongside. A lot used the threpenny bit as a place to meet lasses fo a date. I always sed meet me on that central stand so the wor enough time and hiding places to leg it if she wor a ruff bugga and they had to chance to do the same to me.
Towd thripnibit , it's seensumbrokunhearts , skooal bus fo St Micks wa artside them lavs they ed ont middle island, nivva gorronit on time so Nottun bus wa next ! 20 mins late ed t run frum lathes lane (why ) wi still got caned or Barbers strap rarnd legs !! Evil eardmaster Oswald Liversey his name
Tha shud claim compo Roma. It's child abuse. Gladstone Brookes. they're good people who will only keep a third of thi payart.
Some excellent pictures there East Stand cheers. Cant help thinking it was better before all modernisation. Although I wasn't born prefer all older buildings to prefab crap they build now. Alot of places lost their character in sixties.