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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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1096 of 1116  Thu 25th Jul 2024 8:34am  

Hello, What a contrast to my last post. A couple of complex duties yesterday, yet every train on time & no platform changes. I am volunteering (I'm reimbursed if needed) but my delight of looking out of a carriage window, it's like being paid to do a hobby. Finance & accounting wasn't a hobby, but I often sat back to embrace the fact in amazement, that I was being paid to do something that I loved doing. My home life I'm sure so shaped me. I've shared on here how I was fascinated with some of mum's accounting machinery when several times a month our Sewall Highway front room was turned into an office. My dad took me into his office once at Humber, in the chassis experimental & development department. No accounting machinery, but his slide rule, drawings and bits of odd looking car engine parts. I was in Paybody orthopaedic hospital during a Christmas period when mum & dad received the letter that I had been granted scholarship for my senior school. When I returned home, what had been my small bedroom in Sewall Highway, had been turned into a study, complete with a new Abbess office desk. I was Little Lord Fauntleroy. I've an early turn this morning in the Nuneaton direction, where my fried-bread tentacles keep popping up. It's not been a week yet. Let me count the days again since last Saturday to make sure I've not mis-counted since my last English Breaky.
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Annewiggy
1097 of 1116  Thu 25th Jul 2024 10:35am  
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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1098 of 1116  Thu 25th Jul 2024 1:09pm  
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1099 of 1116  Thu 25th Jul 2024 9:38pm  
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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1100 of 1116  Sat 3rd Aug 2024 7:59am  

Hello Some picture postcards from my awayday yesterday. The last picture as I leave Coventry station, with a view that takes me back nearly 73 years.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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1101 of 1116  Sun 4th Aug 2024 3:06pm  

Hello, I've just enjoyed a Greggs lunch deal whilst travelling at 70mph. Is that called fast food?
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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1102 of 1116  Tue 6th Aug 2024 3:28pm  

Hello, Well, have I got some pics for later. Well have I? I'm returning home from my venture into the wilderness, where all that is pork isn't pie & all that is pie isn't pork, but where a whisp of steam is accompanied by proper porkpie, a bit of sunshine plus my food, drink & travel expenses are less than £10, it only deserves a repeat as soon as possible.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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1103 of 1116  Tue 6th Aug 2024 5:28pm  

Hello, I didn't need mustard or the knife & fork. It was beautiful. Only my teeth marks paid testimony.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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1104 of 1116  Tue 6th Aug 2024 5:43pm  

Hello, I'm not blind to the civil unrest that is causing havoc currently, so I'm avoiding evening's & non essential travel at weekends.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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1105 of 1116  Fri 16th Aug 2024 4:04pm  

Hello, I hope to post some pictures of my treasure hunt day out today when I eventually get home. Hope everyone is ok. Then the treasure!
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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1106 of 1116  Fri 6th Sep 2024 7:11pm  

Hello, An interiors picture of brand new open commuter trains, limited luggage space, but much wider gangways, plus doing away with sections adds a lot more seats. There are full sized tables through the train, I sat at one this afternoon.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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1107 of 1116  Fri 6th Sep 2024 7:37pm  

Hello, Following from my DMU conversation on my model railway, here's the Severn Valley fish & chip restored DMU. In there day, there were several designs, with production from various manufacturers.
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stpauls
norfolk
1108 of 1116  Tue 24th Sep 2024 4:00pm  

On 3rd Aug 2024 7:59am, PhiliPamInCoventry said: Hello Some picture postcards from my awayday yesterday. The last picture as I leave Coventry station, with a view that takes me back nearly 73 years.
Hello. Have you by any chance got any photos of the old Foleshill Station. We lived in Churchill Ave. so just a five minute+ walk away. Dad got posted to Elgin in Scotland in wartime and my mum unbelievably (on reflection) took myself & sister all the way up to see him, starting at Foleshill to Nuneaton on to Crewe up Shap Hill (2 engines) on to Edinburgh where I think Dad was there to meet us. I remember I was just tall enough to see out of the door window, and mum always recalled me jumping up & down shouting ' he's here he's here. Mum certainly had determination. The lady where Dad was billited' kindly agreed to let us stay for a few days. My first taste of porage with SALT on !! Scotland you see.
tillyt

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NeilsYard
Coventry
1109 of 1116  Tue 24th Sep 2024 4:10pm  

Several on Coventry Digital stpauls Big grin
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NeilsYard
Coventry
1110 of 1116  Tue 24th Sep 2024 4:11pm  

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