I love Lincolnshire

Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 11:52 AM

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Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 11:55 AM

Cocked up my instructions Shimrod. So her is the correct version.

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Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 02:54 PM

Mingulay me lad (or Lass!) - alas and alack, Tony's is no more. Your comment re 'The Lot' and chips brought back many happy memories of early-morning feasts on the way home from gigs with the band (or 'goup' as they were called in the good old days), frozen and stiff from sitting on the floor in the back of a Ford 15cwt van (later a tranny, when they'd been invented!). It was a great meeting-place for group-lads (and lasses) traipsing up and down the A1. Seen some good food-wars there. :-)

It's a 'MacHorribles' or 'Burger-Kingdom' or 'Little Chuff' or summats now, with a feckin' great furniture store and garden centre right next door. Shite!

Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 02:55 PM

'group'!

Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 04:25 PM

Strangely enough Shimrod (I used to work in the spares dept of Aveling Barford - that sort of Shim? the names of the components had a certain poetry - I was particularly fond of the concept of 'sliding dogs'!) the main feeling within Lincolnshire is that its not developed enough.

Take Old Bolingbroke with its castle where a King of England used to hang out who Skakespeare wrote three plays about (Richard 2 and Henry 4 part one and two).. All there is, is some sheep munching away at the grass. If the Yanks had a place like that - they'd have a theme park at least. You can sneer at stuff like that, but by and large if people have jobs selling tickets and ice creams, and little houses and big mortgages - by and large they're too busy with their little hopes and ambitions to become heroin addicts.

And in answer to someone else, yes there was a pop festival at Bardney and John Chambers who runs the 2nd time around folk club in Beeston got the gig. he met loads of people - Jimi, The Stones, Rod Stewart, Fairport - he'll tell you all about it. He was there.

Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: gnomad
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 05:44 AM

I lived in Lincolnshire for about 6 years, in the bit they were trying to call Humberside at the time.

Having moved there from the bit of Yorkshire they were also trying to call Humberside I was quite cautious, expecting the traditional rivalry between north and south banks to make me an outsider at best. I also expected a dull prairie-like landscape.

To my surprise I found a beautiful county, bigger than I expected, with a wide variety of landscape, and retaining the best features that my old East Riding landscape was quickly losing at the time. My concerns about being accepted were also unfounded, the natives proving extremely hospitable, talented, and interesting.

It is 20 years since I moved out. I still have more, and closer, friends there than in the area I moved to, where I got stuck for 18 years. In fact if I hadn't found my way to where I am now (Whitby) I would return like a shot. I don't "belong" anywhere, but if I got to choose where I "belonged" then I reckon north Lincolnshire would be running this place a close second.

Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 06:10 AM

Backwoodsman, thanks for that info on Tony's (I think), at least it saves me going on a wasted pilgrimage, although if I did it wouldn't be in the back of a Ford Thames 15cwt, a Morris J4 or a Morris 8 ex GPO van (both of the latter with matresses in the back). I wonder if the ghosts of the ERF's, Fodens, Atkinsons and Scammells etc still roam the old lorry park?

Bye the way, the 15cwt was slightly warmer than the tranny due to the mid-mounted engine, if somewhat noisier.

Mingulay (lad)

Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 07:06 AM

Yep, the luckiest guy was the one who got to sit on the engine cover! I reckon that was the inspiration for the old song "Ring of Fire"! LOL!
Cheers lad!
S:0)

Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 08:35 AM

Thanks again, 'The Villan' - but it still doesn't work - I'm just going to have to contact Mr Offer.

Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: Rasener
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 09:16 AM

Thats real starnge Shimrod

Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 01:47 PM

"starnge"??
Is that Brummesian for 'strange' Les? :-) :-)

Subject: RE: I love Lincolnshire
From: Rasener
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 03:48 PM

No its my dyslexic brummie fingers LOL