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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Where have I been?
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on: May 23, 2021, 08:18:38
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15 incline from one of the quarries in Portland which joined the Merchant’s Railway you can see on the slope beyond. That then ran down another incline to the quays below for shipping the stone to London and elsewhere.
Further east was the Admiralty incline which took stone to build the breakwaters using broad gauge track built out from the shore on trestles. Steam engines were used to move the trains of bottom-door wagons.
Incidentally, I wrote the submission for the listing of the station and box at Maiden Newton some years ago. Spent many evenings in the box until it closed in 1988
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All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: HOT places to live / move to - escape to the country
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on: May 21, 2021, 08:00:38
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As we move toward our later life Marion and I have looked at moving from the village into Bridport. The estate agent, in his monthly contact, advised us that currently houses in that town were selling in under a week, mainly as second homes for those escaping the city. Another estate agent had a notice in their window likewise saying that houses were selling rapidly.
I would expect that, if this continues, West Dorset will see the same problems in finding housing for the local population that other western counties have found.
However, it should bode well for the SWR» lines through Dorchester and Crewkerne.
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Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: Remember Rural Bus Services?
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on: May 10, 2021, 16:19:59
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We lived in Crewkerne in the 1950s and were reliant on both train and bus. The latter in the main getting us to exotic places such as Yeovil, Lyme Regis and Bridport Harbour (West Bay). The train we also used to Lyme and once the Bridport branch. This was a time before we had a car and with my father in the RAF▸ until 1960 we had no access to a car on a regular basis until then.
The Southern and Western National maps of c1964 show a similar density to Bristol
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