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Wish we had gone before.
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 17:18 |
I didn't ever go up north until I was twenty and just caught it looking like it had been through an industrial revolution. |
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Gee | Report | 15 Aug 2015 18:28 |
Maybe because the media seem apt at showing the footage from the days of the industrial north |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 18:56 |
But, some time in the seventies, the grime of the industrial revolution was removed from the buildings and it's underlying beauty was revealed. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 15 Aug 2015 19:26 |
Bedford is not in the north of England !!! |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 19:38 |
That's right. |
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Gee | Report | 15 Aug 2015 20:05 |
Somewhere is north of Bedford! |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 20:54 |
I'm just south of Bedford :-D :-D :-D. And Stewartby Brickworks still looks the same |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 20:56 |
Is it still working? |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 20:58 |
Part of it is I believe, There are not many brickworks still in production around here now. My nearest one was Arlesey where they made the famous white clay bricks but that went long ago. |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:06 |
I think they must have a different way of heating the brick ovens because the sulphurous smell is certainly not there now. |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:10 |
I detest the smell of Sulphur. It does tend to hang in the air doesn't it. |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:30 |
I expect it was just one of those smells you didn't notice if it was there all the time. |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:32 |
:-D :-D :-D :-D. Sharron, one of the pleasures of living in the countryside where I do now. Didn't have the problem before 1969 when I moved up country from North London. Lots of different smells there and some of those were not very pleasant. ;-) :-D :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:36 |
My greatest memory of the hot summer of 1976 is of the smell of pig s*it. |
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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:36 |
Sharron have you visited Big Pit? |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:40 |
We have a large field of cows just a few yards down the road and when it is warm and the wind is in the right direction it don't half pen and ink :-D :-D :-D :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:55 |
Oh no indeed! I haven't been to Big Pit. |
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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:59 |
Sharron you can look around without going down the mine! It's not that far from Ebbw,; you should stop for a while on your next trip |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:01 |
I left the UK in 1967, Lancashire was full of black buildings, grimy and awful. |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:06 |
I tried to goin adrift mine at Beamish once and that was pretty shameful. |