Massive thanks for having us along. Always a pleasure.

@@pwhitewick Not far from Haddon there is a millstone graveyard with quarry railway incline + winding house partially intact. Its a bit of a walk but easy enough. Want to do an explore with me one day? Maybe another collab with Martin...

Quiet this week

Yeah, sadly she had a bit of thing against the railway for some reason, so the promises of reversing Beeching went by the wayside and she closed much of the lines and stations laid out in the report and many others beyond it. That said, MacMillan should never have been elected Prime Minister, him and Marples have a lot to answer for!

@@Zentron Marples fled abroad, said to be evading a tax bill. He also was on becoming Transport Minister had to sell his shares in his haulage empire, which he did, to his wife!

Yes - Beeching gets blamed for a lot of line closures but it was Minister of Transport Marples (a Managing Director of a road construction organisation) who directed him to force through the recommendations almost entirely without any independent review. Barbara Castle then added to the pain, nearly always in favour of roads.

@@SteamRoller605 Yup, he did that to get around the laws governing taking public office, sadly the loophole he used to skirt this law is still in place today! The company he had shares in built a few of the M roads near me, and the rail line that went through my town was sacrificed in order to justify its construction, this sacrifice pretty much killed off every bit of industry for all the towns the line went through for which none have recovered. Unfortunately this scenario is repeated up and down the country, plus from checking some financial info, the cuts by laid out by Beeching and after, when the railways began being dismantled, our industry took a nosedive, so in effect, the rail cuts destroyed our worth in the world.

@@Zentron Politics has a lot to answer for.

Thank you much appreciated

Surely, given the time frame, the cost depends on availability? Locally sourced stone would be preferable to long travelling delivered brick in that case, I would think,

I agree with you, I've just sub'd to her you tube channel to get more of her intelligent idiocyncracy. Should be fun.

There again, from certain angles Martin…

Ahh yes, glad you noticed that 😄

Thanks Olin

Thanks Dian much appreciated. I do think these places have a story to tell

Thanks Peter

They were on the pavement.

Thanks Martin

Thank you 👍

Happy Mardi Gras!

Imagine the steam train coming through and then the smoke popping up through that break in the tunnel. That would've been youtube worthy.

I disagree,. It's an example of, let's have it here, let's just change the design a bit please. If more folks were focussed on on solutions rather than protests moderns projects wouldn't struggle so much and we would have better infrastructure. Great Video....

@@martindooley4439 I think I phrased it wrong

Cheers Nick

Yeah the lake was a hidden surprise 😀

Yes

Poor James at home out of the rain and cold 😀

Thanks Jim

Thank you sir, hope your well 👍

I had a massive Bee in my house. What was that about in mid February

@@MartinZero queen bumble bee they can wake early.

@@Wedgedoow Really? It was very big. Does it sound like a queen ? How on earth she get in my house ? What should I have done with her ?

@@MartinZero they are noisy but quite gentle, they hibernate in all sorts of nooks and crannies, Nothing you can do but leave her find a way out

Yeah queen bumbles wake up first because they need to find a place for a nest, excavate it if it needs it, and lay the eggs, and raise the young that will become the first generation of this years colony. A bumble bee colony dies off each year, and they’re carried on by hibernating Queens, that will wake up next year and repeat the whole process

Thank you Sue