The Quest For England - In Which I Discover the Magic of the Daddy Long Legs Railway 

Those Victorians - they were brilliant and crazy.

@@RichardVobes they were indeed!😁

Yes...our favourite winkling spot buried under millions of tons of concrete...and all we got out of it was a Marina Pass that wiped our Credit/Debit Cards clean! (Soon did away with even that, didn't they?)...When I was a kiddie in Brighton the Sunday walk along the Undercliff to Rottingdean and back was a regular feature in our household - that is when my mother didn't take it into her head to go further afield...Lewes and back (about a 15 or 16 mile round trip from our house) was another of her favourites.

Those amazing Victorians, eh?

We are destroying our heritage. So sad.

Thanks very much :)

You were greatly missed, look forward to meeting you soon.

Fabulous... I'm loving your poetic verses! There was a viewer a while ago who did similar but not to such lengths. Thank you!

Wow, thanks 'the lovely Julia', there's a bottomless pit of the stuff way into the future!! J

@@johnbyrne2756 Fantastic, do keep them coming!

Try stopping me !

It is a wonder!

I bet it was.

So pleased you enjoyed it.

Hi Susan! I see that Thurston is under high alert for evacuation. Just checking in to see if you are doing ok?

@@ramibu239 Hello, yes we are fine except for the choking smoke! My niece lives on south 68th, up on the hill. A few weeks ago they had blm riots roaming the neighborhood, now they have level 3 evac notice. So far their home is safe. 🙏 My sister and aunt& uncle live in the mohawk valley 1/2 way to Marcola and also have had to evacuate! Their homes also have so far escaped the wildfires. Every parking lot in Springfield is full of RVs and cars with people who have escaped the fire up the Mckenzie valley. Most of them have lost everything. The towns of Blue River and Vida are burned to the ground and many small neighborhoods along the river are destroyed. 😥 It's all so heartbreaking. But you know, the people around here are amazing! The Red Cross set up a collection station at Springfield High school and everyone is donating huge amounts of food and supplies, almost anything newly homeless people might need. Their kindness gives me hope.

@@susanolson3611 o my! How nerve racking for your niece. They marched a block from us about a month ago. We were glad they didnt come down our street!😱 You could hear the way they were screaming & pounding drums, but the guy on the bullhorn in particular was so frightening! He just sounded so full of hate, we thought he was gonna invoke a riot in our neighborhood!😞 Glad your family has made it out all unscathed!!!🙏💗 So so sad! We heard about Blue River & Vida!😢 My Mom & I said we will have to take a drive up there when it is all clear. Its just going to be so saddening to see!!! Has to be so sad & traumatizing to loose your home, but your whole community/town!? Feel so sorry for them all!😞 Yesterday I had an apt set to go get an epidural in my neck for pain management. The air was just so horrible to be in. That ash & soot creeps into every nook & cranny! As soon as we got in the car & turned it on we both got a face full of it from the AC!🤭🤧 Didn't think I'd ever get it out of my eyes!😭😩😅 And of course cause we were leaving the house & at home neither of us had our mask on!😬 We certainly did after that!!! At least they are predicting a West wind tonight so hopefully it will blow it back out of here. And more so, that it will blow the the fire back onto itself and to where it had already burned so it will die!!!!🤞🙏

@@ramibu239 I didn't know the blm rioters came so close to your home! You must have been terrified! They have destroyed, hurt and killed. I can't believe this is being allowed. I hope people will vote our government officials out and vote in some with sense! I'm sorry to hear that pain is still a part of your life. Your comments are always so cheery and friendly, that it's easy to believe that you have a charmed life. We use to take drives up river and stop at the Vida cafe for pie, I think we will also go and look. 😞 Stay safe.

@@susanolson3611 yeah they started at Peterson Barn, which is just one block over, then marched up Royal at the end of our street. Not sure where they went then, but they came back around 11ish & left. Several of them drove up our street as they did, I counted over a 100 cars on our security cams when they did - it was nuts! I couldn't believe so many. Luckily we didn't hear where any damages had been done in our area when they came though, so thay was good! Agree w/ you on the politics! I just can't believe our government officials allow this to continue. I know our constitutional rights say we have the right to peacefully protest, but there is nothing peaceful about any of this! Yes, we liked to stop at Vida Cafe too. I wonder of that Christmas Shop made it through?! Probably not!☹ We bought many a Village piece there thru the years! It was just always such a lovely drive over to bend w/ all the pretty old farm houses, & tall evergreens!!! Its gonna be so strange next time we take that drive. I have a feeling it'll take the landscape a long time to recover from this one! I was wondering how all of the Covered Bridges made it through? Both up Mackenzie & Mohawk? The drive to Bend from Salem around Detroit Lake was another gorgeous drive, especially in the Fall. The colors against the lake was stunning! Wow - its all gonna be so different!

We are there at 6.30am :)

There was storm damage from time to time, but the local corporation had a real down on Magnus too - it's amazing the conventional railway survived - they lopped off the Palace Pier end first, then later on the Black Rock end (to build the Swimming Pool)...then later still made life very difficult at points between...

The carriage weighed 40 tons Nigel and relied on its slender legs not putting up enough resistance to the waves to knock it over, although the big storm of December 1896 did knock it over, I think this was the only time, cheers Dumpman.

Hi Hazel, email address is dumpman1@hotmail.co.uk and if you look on ebay under the username dumpman1 you should find me. Beyond that, put in the name of the railway you're interested in with "dvd" and you will find me soon enough. For example, "Volks daddy long legs dvd" will take you straight to my original film on this topic.

I am sure somewhere there must be better photos.

I bet you can, they must have taken their shot at low tide, luckily!

Oh wow - sounds awesome.

There was a generator at the east end.

Not on this one.

Chopper doesn't get up at that ungodly hour.