I take it you have never met those children that know 200 species of dinosaur? I used to spend hours pouring over a good illustration!It’s a children’s book illustration, does not need to be factual, just entertaining!
I take it you have never met those children that know 200 species of dinosaur? I used to spend hours pouring over a good illustration!It’s a children’s book illustration, does not need to be factual, just entertaining!
Would you like to elaborate on that? I thought I was the only person alive who remembered Egbert the engine!Egbert seems to still be around.
I remember that, it was at the Ideal Home Exhibition, I think.Would you like to elaborate on that? I thought I was the only person alive who remembered Egbert the engine!
Speaking of Sammy the Shunter, does anyone remember a smashing old boy called Harold Elliott. He had a magnificent model railway which I had the joy of seeing at Bingley Hall in the early 50s. One of the attractions was that he had a model of Sammy the shunter which caused all kinds of mischief, getting in the way of express trains and the like, and Harold used to punish him by batting him with a rolled up newspaper.
I understand that this superb railway finished up as a permanent exhibit in Scarborough, with Harold operating it in his retirement.
Naah! He was an LBSCR E2.I resolutely stand by the first post. Thomas was Cadbury 1
How might I work out where 65 Westhill Road would have been? I’m trying to ascertain where Awdry would have lived but I’m having no luck!He does not appear to be listed in the 1945 online electoral rolls, but the 1943 Kellys lists his address as 65 West Hill road. there seems to have been some renumbering since then, and it looks likely the house is no longer there, but then it was one of the first few houses on the west side north of wychall lane, probably the 4th from Wychall lane. Wychall lane does not appear to be on the Birmingham electoral roll then,
Wilbert Awdry - Wikipedia
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i think 65 was were the block of flats/Apartment areHow might I work out where 65 Westhill Road would have been? I’m trying to ascertain where Awdry would have lived but I’m having no luck!
Thanks,
Ben - new to this parish.
I agree Pete, the house on the right is No. 73 so that would make sensei think 65 was were the block of flats/Apartment are