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« Reply #45 on: December 31, 2018, 18:48:05 » |
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Was the inventor born in Looe?
Not known, but believe it was sir john Harrington in 1596, But the bog was built by Thomas Crapper, I suppose that is where the saying, -- WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP -- Came from. EDIT: Wrong name. |
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« Reply #46 on: January 02, 2019, 11:43:02 » |
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Many years ago I read a slim monograph on the life of Thomas Crapper. It was entitled "Flushed with Pride"...
Added a a few seconds later having googled the title...
...I see that a second, updated, edition has just been published <https://www.polperropress.co.uk/page/book/flushed_with_pride/>
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« Reply #47 on: January 02, 2019, 12:18:26 » |
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Start up a shoe and trainer shop, looks as though it needs one.
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« Reply #48 on: January 02, 2019, 12:21:50 » |
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Start up a shoe and trainer shop, looks as though it needs one.
On recent history that might need to be "third time lucky". Mind you, I can (with the benefit of hindsight) clearly see the weaknesses in the business models of the previous two. Certain stores do work well in Melksham as a local shopfront and as a pretty major national online supply point too; you would be amazed what comes from Melksham! |
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« Reply #49 on: January 02, 2019, 13:07:32 » |
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Start up a shoe and trainer shop, looks as though it needs one.
On recent history that might need to be "third time lucky". Mind you, I can (with the benefit of hindsight) clearly see the weaknesses in the business models of the previous two. Certain stores do work well in Melksham as a local shopfront and as a pretty major national online supply point too; you would be amazed what comes from Melksham! So you need a -- FREEMAN-HARDY-WILLIS- Now. |
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« Reply #50 on: January 02, 2019, 14:29:54 » |
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So you need a -- FREEMAN-HARDY-WILLIS- Now.
Funnily enough, it had never occurred to me that the forum needed a thread (or a board) on heritage shoe retailers ... |
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« Reply #51 on: January 02, 2019, 14:48:58 » |
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The fun to be had with FHW's name above the shop.
Take the Y off HARDY and put it in place of the second I in WILLIS.
Some scamp in Taunton did just that in the early 1990s. No, it wasn't me.
I was holding the ladder.
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« Reply #52 on: January 02, 2019, 18:11:39 » |
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The fun to be had with FHW's name above the shop.
Take the Y off HARDY and put it in place of the second I in WILLIS.
Some scamp in Taunton did just that in the early 1990s. No, it wasn't me.
I was holding the ladder.
Crikey, how rude!!. Anyway we had a train the 17:54 from Gloucester today terminating at Melksham, Over the last two weeks we,ve had unusual places that I have never seen on our screens before, Trains to Chepstow and also today to Bradford-on-Avon. and now one that normally goes to Southampton central at Melksham. Thought someone on this forum said trains cannot terminate in Melksham due to lack of signalling, did it in Chepstow no signal on upside. |
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« Reply #53 on: January 02, 2019, 18:27:57 » |
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Thought someone on this forum said trains cannot terminate in Melksham due to lack of signalling, did it in Chepstow no signal on upside.
Trains cannot be turned back at Melksham but there is nothing to stop them terminating there.
Let me clarify that. The first arrival at about 06:36 in the morning terminate at Melksham and carried on empty to Bradford Junction, where it can (and did) turn back, starting a new service at Melksham headed back up to Swindon and I think Cheltenham Spa. This evening, train are terminating at Melksham and carrying on empty to Bradford Junction. They turn back there up to Bradford-on-Avon from where they are forming services into Bristol. The same is happening in reverse - two services in each direction? |
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« Reply #54 on: January 02, 2019, 18:32:24 » |
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Thought someone on this forum said trains cannot terminate in Melksham due to lack of signalling, did it in Chepstow no signal on upside.
Trains cannot be turned back at Melksham but there is nothing to stop them terminating there.
Let me clarify that. The first arrival at about 06:36 in the morning terminate at Melksham and carried on empty to Bradford Junction, where it can (and did) turn back, starting a new service at Melksham headed back up to Swindon and I think Cheltenham Spa. This evening, train are terminating at Melksham and carrying on empty to Bradford Junction. They turn back there up to Bradford-on-Avon from where they are forming services into Bristol. The same is happening in reverse - two services in each direction? Today as I said a lot of ours from Gloucester today seem to be going to Bradford-on-Avon, instead of terminating at Swindon, like they did over Christmas, how odd. |
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« Reply #55 on: January 03, 2019, 20:35:55 » |
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Trains cannot be turned back at Melksham but there is nothing to stop them terminating there.
From this evening  Nice to see a proper connection onwards too ... far too used to 40 minute waits at Chippenham ... |
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« Reply #56 on: January 03, 2019, 23:55:53 » |
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Trains cannot be turned back at Melksham but there is nothing to stop them terminating there.
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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« Reply #57 on: January 10, 2019, 19:29:53 » |
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That's a funny looking monitor, where about's is this thing at Melksham.
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« Reply #58 on: January 10, 2019, 21:48:41 » |
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Looks like this Sunday, there will be no trains through Melksham, looks like buses according to GWR▸ timetable.
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« Reply #59 on: January 10, 2019, 21:55:25 » |
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Looks like this Sunday, there will be no trains through Melksham, looks like buses according to GWR▸ timetable.
Looks like Westbury is shut down again. Wasn't the 12 days of Christmas long enough to do the works, or are there things to finish? Rail Industry source from last November suggested only one more weaken stoppage in the first half of this year between Salisbury and Bath Spa, and that to be in the Spring. |
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