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Urchin spotters
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:05 pm
by 52D
I thought id post this pic showing 4 lucky Berwick spotters after having had a tour round 52D. Note the attire not an anorak or binoculars in sight but check out the school boy caps and the gas mask haversack for egg and tomato sandwiches. Year is 1958 not sure what No.9 was doing in Tweedmouth unless it had brought in an Edinburgh Berwick local.
Re: Urchin spotters
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:09 pm
by Blink Bonny
Ay up!
Lovely piccie. Wonder if they're reading this 'ere Forum? If you are, pls own up!
Re: Urchin spotters
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:14 pm
by 52D
I have their names and they still maintain an interest in railways.
Re: Urchin spotters
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:16 pm
by Postman Prat
I had to look twice to check if one was me!! For me though, would be year 1960, location 52A. Mind you, I never had an escorted tour - several times I was escorted off the premises, which was slightly different. Routine for bunking 52A was West end, up the ash-heap, East end from Gateshead East station and if there was a lot of locos on the scrap lines - over the wall in Askew Road. Oh, happy days!!
Re: Urchin spotters
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:18 pm
by Blink Bonny
52D wrote:I have their names and they still maintain an interest in railways.
PP, I have the unenviable record of having been forcibly ejected from every railway installation in West Yorkshire in the early 1980s!
Re: Urchin spotters
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:57 pm
by Postman Prat
Only West Yorkshire.................?
Re: Urchin spotters
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 7:43 pm
by 52D
Postman Prat wrote:Only West Yorkshire.................?
Been talking to BB today hes still waiting for a parcel.
Re: Urchin spotters
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 7:57 pm
by 60800
Nice to see a piccie of 60009 with single chimney, she lost it later that year.
Re: Urchin spotters
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:16 pm
by Postman Prat
52D wrote:Postman Prat wrote:Only West Yorkshire.................?
Been talking to BB today hes still waiting for a parcel.
As I told Blackout the other day "You'll have to wait!!! I'm still on the sick" (7 weeks now - Sciatica)
Anyway, if it's the parcel you were on about the other day I told you "It's too big for the van, I'll leave a card and he'll have to go to the office to collect it". I'm not putting myself out - He's from Yorkshire and you don't get xmas tips from Yorkshiremen!!! The only tip they'll give you is the name of a 3 legged donkey, running(?) at Thirsk or Wetherby!!!!
Re: Urchin spotters
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:23 am
by 52D
Im trying to persuade my friend to try to recreare this pic (with the original cast) when No9. stops at Berwick for water on her next outing.
Re: Urchin spotters
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:27 pm
by Blink Bonny
Postman Prat wrote:52D wrote:Postman Prat wrote:Only West Yorkshire.................?
Been talking to BB today hes still waiting for a parcel.
As I told Blackout the other day "You'll have to wait!!! I'm still on the sick" (7 weeks now - Sciatica)
Anyway, if it's the parcel you were on about the other day I told you "It's too big for the van, I'll leave a card and he'll have to go to the office to collect it". I'm not putting myself out - He's from Yorkshire and you don't get xmas tips from Yorkshiremen!!! The only tip they'll give you is the name of a 3 legged donkey, running(?) at Thirsk or Wetherby!!!!
Oi!!! Oi!!!!
My tip - "Never back 'osses!"
Currently arranging trailer but the "midnight requisitions" may present a problem....