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I was cycling alongside the Railword the other day and noticed it was in a rather poor shape... Why is the donation page disabled?! Eric Laithwaite's dream should be preserved.
The campaign only had the support of 2 out of 7 Railworld trustees (which I was only told after having generated publicity and donations). I made the decision to stop further donations until they can decide unanimously what they want to do. It does seem all but certain at the moment that RTV 31 will be cut up in the very near future. I did try to save her but I can only do so much on my own.
@@FenlandOnFilm I naively thought that institutions like Museum of Technology or Museum of Transport would be interested... Pity, If I had money and some room, I would gladly take it, restore it, and even put it in my garden!
We farmed in the ancholme valley with the river running right next to our farm, before the ancholme internal drainage board did the “drainage scheme” back in the late sixties early seventies we were subject to flooding in summer with lost crops etc, was devastating!
Crikey the BMC van only just stopped in time before it hit the back of the Morris Minor estate waiting at the crossing ! The driver more interested in the camera there filming!? There used to be a grotty Pub just there to the right of the camera ! I forget the name . The Station Inn most probably or the Railway Tavern . It got gottier and grottier as the years past! March East Box is still there and working !
There's a bunker at Sutton too, I've not been down it, but it could be another one of the network. It would seem likely that they were on higher ground where possible, to lessen potential problems with ground water, particularly in the fens.
I grew up in Sutton, my grandparents told me about this I think the concrete pillars are still there, if I remember correctly they said we sold the plans to china 👍🏻
It's not just the lifestyle that's gone, that lovely fen accent, that my grandparents had is all but gone too now, we've become a diverse mix of people out here in the fens.
Yes I used to take the mick out of my late dad , he was from Guyhirn and left the fens in 1945 to knock down air raid shelters for Drrek Crouch but never lost his thwang . He would have been 100 today
Not so much an edit but a glitch present on the original unfortunately. Both sources I've seen have had this defect. Looks like a dropout when the film was digitally transfered.
In the 1930s and 1940s Windmills still worked oft in Holland, and even after the war, for they had lots of work to do. The standard internationally tied industry was devastated from the war, but to my knowledge, the windmills were untouched. This made many windmills in need of great use by the farmers who needed their grain processed, and the sadly starving local population needed that grain. For a short while, the countryside was back as if it were the 1600s again; windmills, farms, and stores were the only places of great use by the common folk.
If you took this footage, and watched it without context, anyone could think it was Holland. My grandparents came from Netherlands (Zuid Holland), and I have hundreds of years of ancestry from there. I honestly didn't know that Britain had a section of land so similar to Holland.
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