paul stacey

Me too. I can still smell the oil and sulphur from trainspotting days...

Loved to hate the punch machine ( the thin strip with holes on each end), it seems that I always either misspelled or misplaced a letter...

So many memories Pete, so true, I remember that old punch machine too, I left to join the army at 15 years old, my dad said he wouldn't...

you hang onto your memories paul...they cant take them away from you :) lyn

It's fascinating what might have been built. WW2 changed a lot of things, including the fact that I would have been a lot older if my...

Maybe sentimental, but I loved the old smokey, dark, and eerie, Snow Hill, maybe because I went so much, as a child, lad, and youth, I...

Again - great set of photos! It's surprising the amount of spare ground that we can't normally see around the area, another world really.

Thought the same thing! I also wondered why the ground like this and other sites stay idle for so long before being built on or...

Could it be something to do with land ownership ?

It could be but even at that it is an unemployed asset that has a cost associated with it that will be passed along in price or taxes...

I used to work across the road from a Council depot and when it closed down it was years before they built on it. The reason I heard was...

I don’t know when that was but here back in early 90’s we were required to conduct what is called a phase 1 environmental ground study...

Yes, it's the same with any area that's had a petrol station on it but I think maybe that's just 7 years?

The remediation depends upon phase1, or first phase findings are. There are some fairy tales regarding time. It depends on what the...

Here is a view from 1939 of a suggested plan to rebuild the station. Much prefer the old one.