Journaling4Me · 56-60, F
@Journaling4Me Thank you for best comment. :-)
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
No NHS, a strict class system, men and boys down mines diggng out coal by hand, farm workers paid a pittance living in tied cottages, women in noisy cotton mills causing deafness, steam trains and factory chimneys belching life reducing smoke,..it's easy to be selective with memory and nothing you say is wrong, but is an incomplete picture.
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FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@Avectoijesuismoi Remember how the seats all had dust coming out of them? I enjoy thinking about the wonder I had as a small baoy seeing those legendary engines on actual service trains.
Avectoijesuismoi · 36-40
@FreddieUK Not old enough to have seen that, but have been behind them in Pullman especially Clan Line on many occasions and a good few others as well usually having a very fine dinner or lunch.
Sad thing is they restrict them speed wise. But I think it is so that the big old Express engines don't embarrass the modern ones.
Sir Nigel Gresley and many others must be turning over in their graves to see the mess that has become of the railways They gave Britain a railway system that was the envy of the world and also a high speed railway.
Back to the belching smoke, steam engines actually don't belch smoke if they are properly maintained and the correct coal is used. It is when they aren't maintained and rubbish coal is used. But on that note while the electric and diesel are supposedly cleaner they aren't the dirt and pollution has just been relocated to a different place.
Sad thing is they restrict them speed wise. But I think it is so that the big old Express engines don't embarrass the modern ones.
Sir Nigel Gresley and many others must be turning over in their graves to see the mess that has become of the railways They gave Britain a railway system that was the envy of the world and also a high speed railway.
Back to the belching smoke, steam engines actually don't belch smoke if they are properly maintained and the correct coal is used. It is when they aren't maintained and rubbish coal is used. But on that note while the electric and diesel are supposedly cleaner they aren't the dirt and pollution has just been relocated to a different place.
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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
Very nice, but please complete the whole picture:
Most elderly people lived in poverty . .
Children died of diseases that we barely recognise today . .
Criminal families blighted the lives of the urban poor . .
No aspect of a person's private life was considered to be beyond public debate and prurient speculation . .
Child sexual abuse was endemic . .
Most elderly people lived in poverty . .
Children died of diseases that we barely recognise today . .
Criminal families blighted the lives of the urban poor . .
No aspect of a person's private life was considered to be beyond public debate and prurient speculation . .
Child sexual abuse was endemic . .
Rickichickie · 61-69, F
peterlee · M
@Rickichickie But that was not the UK.
skimpyboy · 56-60, M
That is an old pic and I have been to the racecourse at Newton Abbot around eight years ago
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MrDavidson · M
Grew up around the Newton Abbott area.
peterlee · M
@MrDavidson Devon though, not the slums of Nottingham or rural East Anglia
Northerner · 70-79, M
@RedBaron just a pity we can't