Out and about - first week in March, 2022

[whole diary]

[grahame]

By the way, please can I have no. 3 back? Then I can leave it to PrestburyRoad to argue the toss with you about how far Bath's mystical "Town Centre" is from Manvers Street.

I have corrected No.3.   Bath is a City, so perhaps it doesn't have a TOWN centre?   I would suggest that the city centre starts a short  distance to the West of Manvers Street.

Complete answer set

1 Sea Mills - bradshaw
2 Salisbury - MVR S&T^▸ (Signalling and Telegraph) and Western Pathfinder
3 Bath Bus Station - stuving
4 Bedminster - eXPassenger
5 Trowbridge - RA
6 Melksham (Spa Road) - Reginald25
7 Clifton Down - johnneyw
8 Shirehampton - johnneyw
9 Melksham (station) - eightonedee
10 Stapleton Road - bradshaw
* 11 Worle - brooklea
12 Oldfield Park - Timmer
* 13 Holy Trinity Gyratory, Trowbridge - Trowres
14 Parson Steet - brooklea
15 Bath Spa - Timmer
16 Bath "Town Centre" (not quite - Manvers Street)
17 Redland - Western Pathfinder
18 Hotwells "branch" from Sea Mills - Mark A
19 Melksham Assembly Hall - Reginald25
20 Yatton - TonyN
21 Bristol Temple Meads - ellendune
22 Weston-super-mare - eightonedee
23 Montpelier - Red Squirrel
* 24 Melksham Town Centre - Prestbury Road, stuving, confirmed by Reginald25
25 Bridgwater - AMLAG

[PrestburyRoad]

Bath is a City, so perhaps it doesn't have a TOWN centre?   I would suggest that the city centre starts a short  distance to the West of Manvers Street.

In defence of use of the word "town", m'lud, I submit that in common parlance someone living in the suburbs might have asked a neighbour "I'm going into town today - is there anything you want me to get from Debenhams?".  Rather than use the word "city".  (Other department stores are now available.)

[Red Squirrel]

Bath is a City, so perhaps it doesn't have a TOWN centre?   I would suggest that the city centre starts a short  distance to the West of Manvers Street.

In defence of use of the word "town", m'lud, I submit that in common parlance someone living in the suburbs might have asked a neighbour "I'm going into town today - is there anything you want me to get from Debenhams?".  Rather than use the word "city".  (Other department stores are now available.)

Quite so. Didn't Dire Straits go way on down south to London Town? As did Dick Whittington and his cat, though they were going the other way at first. Ewan McColl was referring to Salford is his song Dirty Old Town, which to my surprise I find is also a city.

When I was a kid, we'd get the No.3 bus 'into town' to visit Fairfax House, Jones's, Lewis's or maybe even pop into Victor Value. Later on, when Dad had acquired a rather elderly Austin A50, we'd park on a bombsite somewhere round Newfoundland Road and Mum would drag us into C&A. But whatever we did, and however we got there, it was always 'town'.

[grahame]

Bath is a City, so perhaps it doesn't have a TOWN centre?   I would suggest that the city centre starts a short  distance to the West of Manvers Street.

In defence of use of the word "town", m'lud, I submit that in common parlance someone living in the suburbs might have asked a neighbour "I'm going into town today - is there anything you want me to get from Debenhams?".  Rather than use the word "city".  (Other department stores are now available.)

I must give you that one.  Petts Wood to Victoria or Charing Cross was into town (city of Westminster).  Mind you, into Cannon Street and Holborn Viaduct was into the City (London). To Sydenham Hill was in to school and Sevenoaks was just to school

[PrestburyRoad]

Bath is a City, so perhaps it doesn't have a TOWN centre?   I would suggest that the city centre starts a short  distance to the West of Manvers Street.

In defence of use of the word "town", m'lud, I submit that in common parlance someone living in the suburbs might have asked a neighbour "I'm going into town today - is there anything you want me to get from Debenhams?".  Rather than use the word "city".  (Other department stores are now available.)

I must give you that one.  Petts Wood to Victoria or Charing Cross was into town (city of Westminster).  Mind you, into Cannon Street and Holborn Viaduct was into the City (London). To Sydenham Hill was in to school and Sevenoaks was just to school

Thank you for your generosity.  These terms are all strangely familiar - and nostalgic - from when I lived in Catford back in the 1960s.  Now that I live in Gloucestershire I look back on London as somewhere for the young, who have the energy to enjoy the attractions and the resilience to cope with commuting and pollution.

And many thanks for the quizzes which I for one always enjoy.

[grahame]

And many thanks for the quizzes which I for one always enjoy.

My pleasure ... enjoy putting them together too.   Other members very welcome to post quizzes, remember!