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Stonehenge
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Caroline | Report | 8 Feb 2018 12:21 |
The proposed tunnel....I'm in two minds over this one. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 8 Feb 2018 12:28 |
I'm guessing you live near enough to it to be affected by either extra traffic and/or building work, Caroline? |
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Caroline | Report | 8 Feb 2018 12:31 |
No I just think seeing it with no traffic near it would be nice but then it's always so crowded with people so not exactly isolated. Don't you ever visit somewhere and wonder what it was like hundreds of years ago? Most tourist areas without all the ice cream stands and coffee shops for instance :) |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Feb 2018 12:43 |
There are known to be preserved hoof prints of wild cattle, known as aurochs, near to where the proposed flyover would be built - and goodness knows what they don't know is there. |
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Caroline | Report | 8 Feb 2018 12:51 |
See that's the trouble what would be destroyed, lots we can assume. |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Feb 2018 13:00 |
I knew somebody who used to play on Stonehenge when he was a boy. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Feb 2018 13:01 |
I've passed it many a time, or, in times of Gridlock, the driver has 'rat-runned' through Larkhill, but haven't been there since English Heritage got their hands on it. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 8 Feb 2018 13:38 |
Sharon, I walked around it in the 1960s before it was 'taken over', I was surprised to see that it was out of bounds when I was next along there. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 8 Feb 2018 13:41 |
Just re-read ... Stonehenge has a gift shop!!! |
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Caroline | Report | 8 Feb 2018 13:56 |
I also found woodhenge just down the road not much to look at compare to Stonehenge but still no one else there! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Feb 2018 14:06 |
Woodhenge is pretty boring - but Avebury has a museum, and a couple of pubs nearby :-D :-D :-D |
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Caroline | Report | 8 Feb 2018 15:03 |
LOL didn't say it wasn't blink and you'd miss it. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 8 Feb 2018 15:23 |
I too visited it before it was commercialised, I remember touching the stones. I actually don't remember when I went there but it was before 1960. |
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Dermot | Report | 8 Feb 2018 15:28 |
Bad planning allowed the structure to be built so close to a busy road. |
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Caroline | Report | 8 Feb 2018 15:35 |
:-D |
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JoyLouise | Report | 8 Feb 2018 15:38 |
Get on wiv yer, Dermie, we know you won't. :-D |
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JoyLouise | Report | 8 Feb 2018 15:40 |
Caroline, Costa is Costa Coffee. You must not frequent them as much as I do. :-D |
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Caroline | Report | 8 Feb 2018 15:42 |
Nope too cheap to buy coffee outside....don't want all this fancy stuff just give me good strong black coffee from home LOL |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 8 Feb 2018 15:45 |
Dermot!! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D |
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Caroline | Report | 8 Feb 2018 15:47 |
or an ice cream from the van :-) |