tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17895698556962054972024-03-13T18:34:46.703-07:00Spuds Rural ExplorationsThe blog is more of an in depth version of my other blog Spuds Daily Photo. I am a bit of a Rural Explorer or as someone on a forum I visit called himself once “Wandering Picture Taker". There is so much out there in the countryside that is over looked and I would like to share with you what is around many from places my wife & I visit. Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789569855696205497.post-31578002572726921202020-12-11T08:29:00.014-08:002021-12-04T10:35:11.582-08:00The Cholsey & Wallingford Railway<p><br /> The <a href="https://www.cholsey-wallingford-railway.com/">Cholsey to Wallingford Railway</a> started live in 1866 originally meaning to go as far as Watlington then onto Chinnor where it would meet the main line again. It stopped at Wallingford due to financial problems and was sold to the GWR. In the end there was a railway to Watlington from Chinnor but that closed in 1960. The Cholsey to Wallingford section closed to passenger traffic in 1959 and finally closed for goods in 1981. A preservation society was formed and took the line over in 1986 when the first trains were run. I thought it would be a good idea to show how the line looks the present day.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmIGA7JyXrN2DMNIqrRhaYrF3mmVMfPHmM0dBlv7S8DVcLFgUWMBG4G5U-5ZGvsMocmUrcO4l7KqKSkG3gyX1OpTXZc2jNrdBjaTc_73IQrHJAzc0UkwOlNGDHTgnatQj5viNct4J66VV/s2048/IMG_1979.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmIGA7JyXrN2DMNIqrRhaYrF3mmVMfPHmM0dBlv7S8DVcLFgUWMBG4G5U-5ZGvsMocmUrcO4l7KqKSkG3gyX1OpTXZc2jNrdBjaTc_73IQrHJAzc0UkwOlNGDHTgnatQj5viNct4J66VV/w640-h426/IMG_1979.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-iXazt1VZf3mku7n52U30eaFrHNX-U593Mjrc9xG6UyK5eZnLLXWv6qPBsozvEIL7zUXlrDYhAYzOzqKRQvAcu6i-5ZiVtJipaAiROijrxVb9L-IwJ0m8dMJHcZIReENytgEHZvlPQlq/s2048/IMG_1984+%25282%2529.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-iXazt1VZf3mku7n52U30eaFrHNX-U593Mjrc9xG6UyK5eZnLLXWv6qPBsozvEIL7zUXlrDYhAYzOzqKRQvAcu6i-5ZiVtJipaAiROijrxVb9L-IwJ0m8dMJHcZIReENytgEHZvlPQlq/w400-h266/IMG_1984+%25282%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Bay Platform at Cholsey Station is where you find the start of the line. From memory it has changed little in all the years I have been going to the station<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyUlRn4c88rK-HrohN6c9WQmPvtk46gCJx83EZ3HJ8v7SlmzeDCro2YdeBdpIf4L-NSd57f9T3_FMeahzDu1DfuBy1-KfqIS6lPjsOfk3yJEFkulCNv8KoWMXNfli8oWNIf2djJO7c7Nrl/s2048/IMG_1981.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyUlRn4c88rK-HrohN6c9WQmPvtk46gCJx83EZ3HJ8v7SlmzeDCro2YdeBdpIf4L-NSd57f9T3_FMeahzDu1DfuBy1-KfqIS6lPjsOfk3yJEFkulCNv8KoWMXNfli8oWNIf2djJO7c7Nrl/w426-h640/IMG_1981.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The line runs out West direction before turning off to the right</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuH68sUONbyHEHztWqCbpkdYmycukbOlGxkTwl8yETkjBvr3Y2uav7oDse9HsY4l7wHJWSJr5W-PLQMWveoznzom_KGh6UDlHEWCqQORdAasZvtDbTvQ6KVE7wCd-AgXAVULaRSznkB9qf/s2048/IMG_2636.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuH68sUONbyHEHztWqCbpkdYmycukbOlGxkTwl8yETkjBvr3Y2uav7oDse9HsY4l7wHJWSJr5W-PLQMWveoznzom_KGh6UDlHEWCqQORdAasZvtDbTvQ6KVE7wCd-AgXAVULaRSznkB9qf/w400-h300/IMG_2636.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">As you can see from the train coming into the station here</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokV_OZhZpjpIUXxXVN-ylr0_ZLsTYHnxfJevh8JfF-gErasC7T3mNB__Kd-xfH6MZjFV1CYPGLyydmPtTO9OXh0Bpb8cpT5Sm-hBxybgrDl6FJzCtxB9bc7JG4jDSWI0Mco454Ch_Wyjo/s2048/IMG_2634.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokV_OZhZpjpIUXxXVN-ylr0_ZLsTYHnxfJevh8JfF-gErasC7T3mNB__Kd-xfH6MZjFV1CYPGLyydmPtTO9OXh0Bpb8cpT5Sm-hBxybgrDl6FJzCtxB9bc7JG4jDSWI0Mco454Ch_Wyjo/w480-h640/IMG_2634.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Around the area where the bend is there used to be points that connected the branch to the main line<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZvxmuhycKLFiOVwe3xTn7AeA5KsSCb_SKmysgvb_ipwM_xFEeelb0z5cbNFqjh3hIilZFl0IaSWAwC8_GZOnMlSsDu552xIEt1mRJGEmPSMDBInWHOW6FK73s_FZzsE0neCEBtaffOaa/s877/wallingford-branch-bls-last-br-trip-down-the-bunk-1981-no-1a-dave-ward_orig+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="877" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZvxmuhycKLFiOVwe3xTn7AeA5KsSCb_SKmysgvb_ipwM_xFEeelb0z5cbNFqjh3hIilZFl0IaSWAwC8_GZOnMlSsDu552xIEt1mRJGEmPSMDBInWHOW6FK73s_FZzsE0neCEBtaffOaa/w400-h290/wallingford-branch-bls-last-br-trip-down-the-bunk-1981-no-1a-dave-ward_orig+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This old photo I sourced from the <a href="http://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/">Cornwall Railway Society</a> the photo was taken by David Ward. It was the last time a BR train would use the branch line.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTZkmfThSNwGW0NDWRnyCI7qvRpvUl4oN76qE39-L00gmeheIbpUJcM6fg9eGajj1jkWupAkPwtarseJJJ9_lUCNHYXa5wX11g371aiwliKVJ06pCol5danRewyFbxHA76KspOQY1mVGA/s1806/Cholsey+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="1806" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTZkmfThSNwGW0NDWRnyCI7qvRpvUl4oN76qE39-L00gmeheIbpUJcM6fg9eGajj1jkWupAkPwtarseJJJ9_lUCNHYXa5wX11g371aiwliKVJ06pCol5danRewyFbxHA76KspOQY1mVGA/w400-h265/Cholsey+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This photo is by Roger Joanes and was taken on 17-04-1959. You can see the old signal box that was on platforms 2&3 over on the far right. The carriage in the bay is having boxes loaded on <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ewGcXyN2q6KGxOv9yVrn3CtkyHQlxPYDLSUIHPf8_P3TgDE1P-bVbets8eSDCpnjhDQtdC15etnd5atmCBQCYj-tKWMY7oK7YDWKKFP_dwG3Y2PlazSSH2oxyLGzODmzvlQEFrVsowfd/s1969/Cholsey_%2526_Moulsford_Station_geograph-2591538-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="1969" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ewGcXyN2q6KGxOv9yVrn3CtkyHQlxPYDLSUIHPf8_P3TgDE1P-bVbets8eSDCpnjhDQtdC15etnd5atmCBQCYj-tKWMY7oK7YDWKKFP_dwG3Y2PlazSSH2oxyLGzODmzvlQEFrVsowfd/w400-h295/Cholsey_%2526_Moulsford_Station_geograph-2591538-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This photo was taken by the Late Ben Brooksbank of a engine at the bay with passengers getting on, it was taken in the late 1950's<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQrBEaEIdG2YNvRBgG7yTGrsK7vzXnt3_c7Wbf7qCvDKOBzL_2QdnZUS4q9mLb3U_4Sf50DKDbLLSdQy8axsp-h6EDgn5W5IdqvfUcCwq0lFpM_DMZ053CslIk5-7eoJPmW_C2FTBqaySq/s2048/IMG_9847+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQrBEaEIdG2YNvRBgG7yTGrsK7vzXnt3_c7Wbf7qCvDKOBzL_2QdnZUS4q9mLb3U_4Sf50DKDbLLSdQy8axsp-h6EDgn5W5IdqvfUcCwq0lFpM_DMZ053CslIk5-7eoJPmW_C2FTBqaySq/w640-h426/IMG_9847+%25282%2529.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> I took this photo in June 2012 at the time I was getting a shot of the engine and carriages in the Bay when this Intercity train came past a lot slower than they normally do on the local side of the track like it was paying homage to the steam train</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UF-ct773hxnhJ2o3FCf_l-gK4RQ3kTxU2QtS7mBNqsKSWnlTjydUm7-lzu5nAvPKPjYwGwlSw_ck18CCrL4CQFTCKu7XwxNYS8sA7OpYjc-CYMx2FjrEATUEBrdYB7M1cIYRaQ-k7O8z/s2048/IMG_3234.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UF-ct773hxnhJ2o3FCf_l-gK4RQ3kTxU2QtS7mBNqsKSWnlTjydUm7-lzu5nAvPKPjYwGwlSw_ck18CCrL4CQFTCKu7XwxNYS8sA7OpYjc-CYMx2FjrEATUEBrdYB7M1cIYRaQ-k7O8z/w426-h640/IMG_3234.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Excitement with the City of Truro visiting<br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuiNqI8arRzhuMYkoVehDT-ZQ1IwQMG5Na6fVT6LdNMlAYUd8zfr9wWXrab0iEJGFqfZnLjwhAy3rBZly7d9AAY3tb0U-K7cjQcmEfe_dU7-tYQYaXkMtGjFZIQFVVKCxTfR2Kq2iSrxuY/s2048/IMG_3358.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuiNqI8arRzhuMYkoVehDT-ZQ1IwQMG5Na6fVT6LdNMlAYUd8zfr9wWXrab0iEJGFqfZnLjwhAy3rBZly7d9AAY3tb0U-K7cjQcmEfe_dU7-tYQYaXkMtGjFZIQFVVKCxTfR2Kq2iSrxuY/w640-h426/IMG_3358.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">City of Truro on it's way to Wallingford<br /></div><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VBsyyD5uR7GC4PBLGQbrKl54ojIcO8ZV7CD2Yp0-yAdxsTP10qpCv7elTfbJlMi49QI3osEZY16kGAZNEYH2D2L9lavGlXvzLV6bm8hXx3DNbiLrh-ca3BVw0506euqMTpCWSbev0ill/s2048/IMG_1774.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VBsyyD5uR7GC4PBLGQbrKl54ojIcO8ZV7CD2Yp0-yAdxsTP10qpCv7elTfbJlMi49QI3osEZY16kGAZNEYH2D2L9lavGlXvzLV6bm8hXx3DNbiLrh-ca3BVw0506euqMTpCWSbev0ill/w400-h266/IMG_1774.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">This is where the line turns right from the station on it's way to Wallingford, the main line can be seen in the distance</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs0JtYxsDcQdyuVG5WiXSm9p18LhyPApd-q-SXuGHP88Nc3-IOkfimh00od-j4-9Temnb80YTQVUGmF1KNSH-qxrVkitcdHa9Omqnva-IAhWgd07nINEJ6aGU3z63RL2yulsqjXvDCasoW/s2048/IMG_1770.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs0JtYxsDcQdyuVG5WiXSm9p18LhyPApd-q-SXuGHP88Nc3-IOkfimh00od-j4-9Temnb80YTQVUGmF1KNSH-qxrVkitcdHa9Omqnva-IAhWgd07nINEJ6aGU3z63RL2yulsqjXvDCasoW/w400-h266/IMG_1770.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The last photo was zoomed in from a good distance from the main line. The photos were taken in 2008 and it is not something I would do but as kids we did go up here all the time and no doubt they still do.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Gd9SsPB8bBeSPFAtfN46Zr3vQU1ksfq0poyeTu6xZDPZ3BOBjTS1GLIBLjzmV3MkORV06JDiTBrRp7DZ1wIcaK65G3G485MO_LUQEPgb3HzSbNfBULVliGlb0MLtynPdkICi3X6Uf470/s1024/geograph-6787571-by-Martin-Tester.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1024" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Gd9SsPB8bBeSPFAtfN46Zr3vQU1ksfq0poyeTu6xZDPZ3BOBjTS1GLIBLjzmV3MkORV06JDiTBrRp7DZ1wIcaK65G3G485MO_LUQEPgb3HzSbNfBULVliGlb0MLtynPdkICi3X6Uf470/w640-h432/geograph-6787571-by-Martin-Tester.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is a nice view of the bunk taken in 1968 by Martin Tester off Geograph, it was taken from the entrance of the Bullshole tunnel towards the Bullshole. The gate is still there but very deteriorated and the view is obscured by shrubbery and trees</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTT26voh0VO8XHvey-miH3sJmIoHDATEnAq6jNGR2UYo0cLhn2Wt_yrM8w7VfXeRxJGi5r_ZpIAHWJ-YmFQS_Td-VmIk8ZzhE6gqzlnFpf3qGOAAqRNgz4fZd05Cf8V5vinthP5ZttH1x7/s2048/Wallingford+branch+September+1968+2400+px%255B3139%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTT26voh0VO8XHvey-miH3sJmIoHDATEnAq6jNGR2UYo0cLhn2Wt_yrM8w7VfXeRxJGi5r_ZpIAHWJ-YmFQS_Td-VmIk8ZzhE6gqzlnFpf3qGOAAqRNgz4fZd05Cf8V5vinthP5ZttH1x7/w640-h426/Wallingford+branch+September+1968+2400+px%255B3139%255D.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Another view taken by Frank Dumbleton showing the train on the bend with St Mary just to the left<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVgr8ZgDjhWVLImU_GdJBIWRcIa6B9NJXZ_jYD98JgDoi3MdxEDlAAbvY4B0hv7S0ajHDipsF87SuEqlBtwRFtFnyo-a6yAsQSY6r2labbcSSjN2RISLAargHJRu6DiT4wLarTUNU6hwoa/s2048/IMG_1771.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVgr8ZgDjhWVLImU_GdJBIWRcIa6B9NJXZ_jYD98JgDoi3MdxEDlAAbvY4B0hv7S0ajHDipsF87SuEqlBtwRFtFnyo-a6yAsQSY6r2labbcSSjN2RISLAargHJRu6DiT4wLarTUNU6hwoa/w400-h266/IMG_1771.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Walking North a little you can see where the line turns a little more right around the village.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmRB82Yc6_nC8ClUL7KsCg8aoFdkuxFCmspOGpKb063n53tmxB6zQSeMJ_FyxFgyCYSio29SBT4Psvou0Z-HqMNEfoWo0_pV0f4sRoFDiLL0sgcS2eSpnpjQbgRe__YO5gCjXl8Lz2MeoD/s2048/img_0021_4095337417_o+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1384" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmRB82Yc6_nC8ClUL7KsCg8aoFdkuxFCmspOGpKb063n53tmxB6zQSeMJ_FyxFgyCYSio29SBT4Psvou0Z-HqMNEfoWo0_pV0f4sRoFDiLL0sgcS2eSpnpjQbgRe__YO5gCjXl8Lz2MeoD/w432-h640/img_0021_4095337417_o+%25282%2529.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">As you come around the bend onto the straight near the church the next thing you will see is Bunk Arch which you will go under. The photo was taken a long time ago and on the left you will see a gate with another on the opposite side on the right. This was to allow the farmer to take the animals across the track to the field on the other side. Part was sold off to allow the New school to be built the other part of the field was given to the village for the Queens Jubilee and is known now as Jubilee Field. Not much remains to tell you there were gates there now. This section of the line is where the Royal Train was stabled overnight on occasions. To my right out of sight were two Electrical boxes, one was put in by the GPO for a telephone connection. There were no mobiles back then. <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOTj40WkQksWPkdcfi3fkajYqPTt_R9cqwROyNiarYmMpUaEZALovn5UMFU0ASpPbnek1Rw-nc9odTanDsOV8ZAQc8R84imfF6E8X73IjRtAu8lm1mb8EhwjhjP8iTJRxfNjXxjkFfAS0Y/s2048/IMG_1780.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOTj40WkQksWPkdcfi3fkajYqPTt_R9cqwROyNiarYmMpUaEZALovn5UMFU0ASpPbnek1Rw-nc9odTanDsOV8ZAQc8R84imfF6E8X73IjRtAu8lm1mb8EhwjhjP8iTJRxfNjXxjkFfAS0Y/w640-h426/IMG_1780.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is the gate you can see with Jubilee on the far side, the school is over to the left<br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYnWAUhf8Zcf29MbrXJVxxt-JciDWY8BE_8_Gdhqi01r9ZBY62G6zTsYSB5XDJb5oPx70EF1shMumotvUToZDNO17hB8DToglJRh9tUjuuJATsdN9R01QxAZKVYLjm2RPrhUpo-I8Wn1N/s2048/IMG_1781.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYnWAUhf8Zcf29MbrXJVxxt-JciDWY8BE_8_Gdhqi01r9ZBY62G6zTsYSB5XDJb5oPx70EF1shMumotvUToZDNO17hB8DToglJRh9tUjuuJATsdN9R01QxAZKVYLjm2RPrhUpo-I8Wn1N/w400-h266/IMG_1781.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Bunk Arch from the church field, there school nature reserve is over right hand side</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu37OCmrhNJjrNe32cI57PTI5OXzCBYgTL8uxRN9A0slCo1x2raBxSdkCAMXJoWGa6NN9p-UtF7OBg6zjOvPE17gUWounz3m60TLTySmZBfLM3ihgYeq8WEjG5VedfIH5Fb9UHdSgvZetz/s2048/IMG_5882.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu37OCmrhNJjrNe32cI57PTI5OXzCBYgTL8uxRN9A0slCo1x2raBxSdkCAMXJoWGa6NN9p-UtF7OBg6zjOvPE17gUWounz3m60TLTySmZBfLM3ihgYeq8WEjG5VedfIH5Fb9UHdSgvZetz/w426-h640/IMG_5882.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixSgPlIUTvklhqplsxMw-YHTqWYAiSaIGRBXcZCsjnxfbzNX6mF5O9-YsXEUN5fsMcLQPOVNSA4GkR4XJJdzv1YVJyG2gOBIe-omt_Nt8vx9PC_YNq3ZpcVsWC36ZsUGFDrxX08d7kzMIG/s2048/IMG_5879.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixSgPlIUTvklhqplsxMw-YHTqWYAiSaIGRBXcZCsjnxfbzNX6mF5O9-YsXEUN5fsMcLQPOVNSA4GkR4XJJdzv1YVJyG2gOBIe-omt_Nt8vx9PC_YNq3ZpcVsWC36ZsUGFDrxX08d7kzMIG/w400-h266/IMG_5879.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The school allowed me to go in there to get a few photo's and is where you can see this Great Western Boundary Marker Boundary. There is another on the main line where the old Moulsford Station used to be <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6o2_7XbNCQR6S97IvBZ_6JGg-njVw_zq6MZ111VfhL6B-CATpFbBk7kxoODvKUnbgjGcDsADgOMDKKWThzxHfLBjZ_YOseP3bZsGsy7bYRiUkQk1MAwNREvK50cbYLb_CNbufspIyojBF/s1024/geograph-6787552-by-Martin-Tester.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="1024" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6o2_7XbNCQR6S97IvBZ_6JGg-njVw_zq6MZ111VfhL6B-CATpFbBk7kxoODvKUnbgjGcDsADgOMDKKWThzxHfLBjZ_YOseP3bZsGsy7bYRiUkQk1MAwNREvK50cbYLb_CNbufspIyojBF/w640-h434/geograph-6787552-by-Martin-Tester.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>This photo of an Auto train coming from the arch was taken by Martin Tester on Geograph </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQcg0ZvZo3HE0-inBEvdFMcBbXG8ryLU6N1OxgIbv3a9YODp_u8VdYj1SwucJqmrmroJsOo03LZEUiF-Wep2qhQBwA2wmGW7I-GTPs2OWYqLNTIzG_-L6iecpooSF65JNDVmSA5U8OHj2_/s1024/geograph-6787558-by-Martin-Tester.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="1024" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQcg0ZvZo3HE0-inBEvdFMcBbXG8ryLU6N1OxgIbv3a9YODp_u8VdYj1SwucJqmrmroJsOo03LZEUiF-Wep2qhQBwA2wmGW7I-GTPs2OWYqLNTIzG_-L6iecpooSF65JNDVmSA5U8OHj2_/w640-h434/geograph-6787558-by-Martin-Tester.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He must have turned to the left after to get this shot with St Mary in the background. Back in 1968 when the photos were taken this was a field but a few years later the school was built nearby and this area became the playing fields </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNYvaJX83dPIKBnd80ZxxENK7ToqcnHS2IiODqC7PesAVhpGh4TFjlsVW8wJE7Uv4kMiNyHe4Nz_oIdwN_1qYYehr1rqzmJQvD1zdko3LGvtgNXGcsJNLlUFE1Mnh3imuLQcQqe19JP_Mu/s2048/Auto-train+Cholsey+1968+2400+px%255B3138%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1448" data-original-width="2048" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNYvaJX83dPIKBnd80ZxxENK7ToqcnHS2IiODqC7PesAVhpGh4TFjlsVW8wJE7Uv4kMiNyHe4Nz_oIdwN_1qYYehr1rqzmJQvD1zdko3LGvtgNXGcsJNLlUFE1Mnh3imuLQcQqe19JP_Mu/w640-h452/Auto-train+Cholsey+1968+2400+px%255B3138%255D.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A different view of the train in Colour taken by Frank Dumbleton from St Mary's church tower. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr9QmpsoY0KAcNB_OfRxEZj5irisuXBl4RaU9VieP4D-8XK3rBlJfPIJSEjDmrcQm3vDR7vwHkwDhy0AkWStVVmTjBAh8PdzbiK_qiM9065LCzKjRtLdx8sgiF1jzmTXyqL5SkqrvZjKOY/s800/008A0396.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="533" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr9QmpsoY0KAcNB_OfRxEZj5irisuXBl4RaU9VieP4D-8XK3rBlJfPIJSEjDmrcQm3vDR7vwHkwDhy0AkWStVVmTjBAh8PdzbiK_qiM9065LCzKjRtLdx8sgiF1jzmTXyqL5SkqrvZjKOY/w426-h640/008A0396.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">This view of the line is taken from the bridge we call Bunk arch the last two photos were taken out of sight to the left. From the bridge you
can see all the way to where the bed is which is a little past the
hedge line across the centre of the photo. Many years ago I was told a story by an old fireman who worked on steam trains. He told me that the Royal train had been stabled up the Bunk one day in 1953. At first I thought this a tail but then I found a reference to this in the history on Cholsey with a photo that shows the Royal train with two engines pulling away towards the main line. Around 50 people were stood on this bridge to witness the train which was stabled around here, if you look at the colour photo by Frank Dumbleton you will notice a white box to the left of the tree, that was the GPO connection point for the phone on the Royal Train so they could keep in touch with the Government. It happened quite a few times after that though getting on the station to see them would have been a problem with all the police around.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie3X_0YAOpe8Hir7WPFcxzK2ID8I9GdaUCGxJvHsmnzKdZKaCowq4RJ05qdH6UpKUiyyjoPT7HtsGua5UmrWL9h5ub28gXB4txy8Cxl6Ls5zMdtxGE0ZsHA4TuHDdylZb7RVlRmTCdDH5w/s1200/008A0395.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie3X_0YAOpe8Hir7WPFcxzK2ID8I9GdaUCGxJvHsmnzKdZKaCowq4RJ05qdH6UpKUiyyjoPT7HtsGua5UmrWL9h5ub28gXB4txy8Cxl6Ls5zMdtxGE0ZsHA4TuHDdylZb7RVlRmTCdDH5w/w640-h426/008A0395.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Looking the opposite way towards Wallingford the line bends a little to the right past the sewage works</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjijUkNNhcK6HEc7gdC9QgDK8Kdv-GVatafck5mwg7B8hyFGj_FMUrI7H338ZA9ruUYbCo-RLyv9FOzD_Qf2JAmrt-upJI7VYcyKev5eyb6Mci7NF-7nu1wewHLjgeFGFSQM9Cl-0B130b_/s2048/IMG_1072.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjijUkNNhcK6HEc7gdC9QgDK8Kdv-GVatafck5mwg7B8hyFGj_FMUrI7H338ZA9ruUYbCo-RLyv9FOzD_Qf2JAmrt-upJI7VYcyKev5eyb6Mci7NF-7nu1wewHLjgeFGFSQM9Cl-0B130b_/w426-h640/IMG_1072.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is what it looks like from the other side with a steam train coming through</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEice786hoPdkdoQdvZ2jG5BEicSGSqRrfXMT6pwQNIQ0xvlT5aBEaCuUe1ycY807tIKp2ZQrRXtery2v0JL81ESFGaACyCEFq-DuDhLdGdBScwOsC3an9GgpeJ6ujc3DugtTsGsORUSY6Um/s2048/IMG_1073.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEice786hoPdkdoQdvZ2jG5BEicSGSqRrfXMT6pwQNIQ0xvlT5aBEaCuUe1ycY807tIKp2ZQrRXtery2v0JL81ESFGaACyCEFq-DuDhLdGdBScwOsC3an9GgpeJ6ujc3DugtTsGsORUSY6Um/w640-h426/IMG_1073.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Quite imposing when your close to the fence</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAJzBozGijwpXsbfu_-rQyA8m0QBudDbqbkdNeCjEx4QUW4ajmFYeDyBB74kGltQUrDq2GMorsAyXekirpH6_Qsc-_yQUsvf8PamCiYjH2CxlPk7LL-Gj7UBF5j4COVChQ-S2JzJNIqZus/s1067/IMG_2948.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1067" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAJzBozGijwpXsbfu_-rQyA8m0QBudDbqbkdNeCjEx4QUW4ajmFYeDyBB74kGltQUrDq2GMorsAyXekirpH6_Qsc-_yQUsvf8PamCiYjH2CxlPk7LL-Gj7UBF5j4COVChQ-S2JzJNIqZus/w400-h300/IMG_2948.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">This is a crossing that is still in use in the field along from the bridge<br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5OmdZCGjTp9CLYZDZG9EQChma6KEDOUOvEPeFNsud6MFRgnJtjTOyY7_AsEMl3I0W17r-Tv-HS6SWpMlz_hLCkWsC_F8oo7WTVmOlIgrhLEfg_IRGFPCf0DLLHwjlcv4SNNCPsCGHny_x/s1067/IMG_0574.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1067" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5OmdZCGjTp9CLYZDZG9EQChma6KEDOUOvEPeFNsud6MFRgnJtjTOyY7_AsEMl3I0W17r-Tv-HS6SWpMlz_hLCkWsC_F8oo7WTVmOlIgrhLEfg_IRGFPCf0DLLHwjlcv4SNNCPsCGHny_x/w400-h300/IMG_0574.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The next place you will come to along the line is this old level crossing</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc3QAr2a8kpdYZzXZ1Bs9APv9I-ANM7_Tnx01AcwKZnxIhoKbnEuGPenF9LznK1Q-Qjk7jMxPO0anfAQLu4o_2s8f2xiJS4dWXdZAubBcc9r9IKNMMMOFZhqJKOCTjN4AcO-8n-izvqq7t/s800/IMG_0575.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc3QAr2a8kpdYZzXZ1Bs9APv9I-ANM7_Tnx01AcwKZnxIhoKbnEuGPenF9LznK1Q-Qjk7jMxPO0anfAQLu4o_2s8f2xiJS4dWXdZAubBcc9r9IKNMMMOFZhqJKOCTjN4AcO-8n-izvqq7t/w480-h640/IMG_0575.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> The bottom sign is an old British Rail warning telling you that you could be fined £200 pounds, Now if you did on the main line you are looking at been lighter of £1000 for your trouble</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggS41UROBfotSJEi64xEBuGzij2_nh2DLYxO5sciiFeTG3A4VqPTuR-3qW5C-PwHZHyVd-WQOxZxnHrtPAdLSGCRirpvcOVigw2KxpsoQJ16WG6rOAelCN_6UjXhjlQftVSHbR29764KST/s1067/IMG_0576.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1067" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggS41UROBfotSJEi64xEBuGzij2_nh2DLYxO5sciiFeTG3A4VqPTuR-3qW5C-PwHZHyVd-WQOxZxnHrtPAdLSGCRirpvcOVigw2KxpsoQJ16WG6rOAelCN_6UjXhjlQftVSHbR29764KST/w400-h300/IMG_0576.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">List along from the crossing are some end buffers stored for later use</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0DhS9u9R6l6R5AbLdaXLqWCHaKc-dv3v_-ifSag377EkFAm7Jn7r7GD4j6jzsdtumIMv2yQfljSOej1e63oeZ54WvQlE6GG9B5nEvOCkj9JnvWA5k8SQn26jY4ilG8gE9ZNb2b_dcWNT/w640-h480/IMG_0588.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Bogey wheels lay beside it forgotten about and becoming covered in weeds</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBInGnsh-PWfTTQM1lbu-ZO2j2HGu1UpE6szk3hHOcG75eane-MSoTEBQt6AC9MCZJEwjsWjJwD4EGxUziHrqRNZfckgT7iuOuopBqCziaMJEm_b5lUzne6j-hsAl66tFzInCaxjhOfp8/s5184/IMG_0599.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBInGnsh-PWfTTQM1lbu-ZO2j2HGu1UpE6szk3hHOcG75eane-MSoTEBQt6AC9MCZJEwjsWjJwD4EGxUziHrqRNZfckgT7iuOuopBqCziaMJEm_b5lUzne6j-hsAl66tFzInCaxjhOfp8/w400-h300/IMG_0599.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm not saying you should go wandering around along the railway but the fence is broke in a lot of places and it there are not trains running it is normally safe enough if you take care, you can see some really old railway ties <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><p><br /></p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLjmBszprOlcdUMTo_oG76OWEvUs-xUFw3Sp9CZ8S9h5fM7j2tu1O1eL4kJ1UfeqgCdlqLCJAhbmZa5OIQ75EpN5OjyFtUuKcaGWwZH_H2H7-oGT9Jx3y3YYBOduQ2sE3MSOEEgVuVbkL/s5184/IMG_0598.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLjmBszprOlcdUMTo_oG76OWEvUs-xUFw3Sp9CZ8S9h5fM7j2tu1O1eL4kJ1UfeqgCdlqLCJAhbmZa5OIQ75EpN5OjyFtUuKcaGWwZH_H2H7-oGT9Jx3y3YYBOduQ2sE3MSOEEgVuVbkL/w400-h300/IMG_0598.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The oldest one I spotted was 1903</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguN2cXuV595jO20zuANOBTHxx22hHQ70FlwxWXnuxjsWH37jC9n5DQchywu4PDXMvPT90z04PNtnB-02WDo0VpgWWUJfCBDJqIPowQohYhCMqoE_cJFxplawoNxNH3Tnhlgq51qYd-qmR-/s1067/IMG_2972.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1067" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguN2cXuV595jO20zuANOBTHxx22hHQ70FlwxWXnuxjsWH37jC9n5DQchywu4PDXMvPT90z04PNtnB-02WDo0VpgWWUJfCBDJqIPowQohYhCMqoE_cJFxplawoNxNH3Tnhlgq51qYd-qmR-/w640-h480/IMG_2972.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Further along you can see another workman's hut in better condition </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid8DcZVVnyUYe7omCF5ogWJjeAoDsQ9ivAjBLfi1i8zHpzg7tMh6236Ntc6oWSyGsd-WTgr58SfOQtBKqFDN73T2J4OdQ2IPgwrLDuv-3RK9sIUEcNAZxR7UN51SGTf1ooEp1hOT4xETNq/s1067/IMG_2984.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1067" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid8DcZVVnyUYe7omCF5ogWJjeAoDsQ9ivAjBLfi1i8zHpzg7tMh6236Ntc6oWSyGsd-WTgr58SfOQtBKqFDN73T2J4OdQ2IPgwrLDuv-3RK9sIUEcNAZxR7UN51SGTf1ooEp1hOT4xETNq/w400-h300/IMG_2984.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A little way along the track after the hut you will come to the level crossing near Hithercroft Farm</div><div style="text-align: center;">This was the lever crossing for farm traffic and still is for the private residence there now though the track is cut short due to the By-Pass in the distance, it used to go all the way to Winterbrook. That part now is a footpath</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHEBVr4olfErSZAKjCx-HhnAQmPfsFKvT9Fugq01xYNM6LcL2hmpw6qBENz-sVbfzQReo848DR9QkWzrBeLKrsQxoOCz-Y5b0E-UC1i0DOo1NDCr-NDc-BMslc_TLi4rqKElNrMcZgvUQS/s1067/IMG_2984.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1067" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHEBVr4olfErSZAKjCx-HhnAQmPfsFKvT9Fugq01xYNM6LcL2hmpw6qBENz-sVbfzQReo848DR9QkWzrBeLKrsQxoOCz-Y5b0E-UC1i0DOo1NDCr-NDc-BMslc_TLi4rqKElNrMcZgvUQS/w400-h300/IMG_2984.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p> </p><p> </p><p>The old warning signs are still there and the gates left open</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPUDlMkhY7bx-CM1GuulNZ2oQvggVX8QVI_RrCVpOqiBxj8GzrLEpjwFI3WYI8_9R-7WtgLDFUaZfHmPmL6hZIIQ5GbHH_GgJmnX-l85LRdY4z8poZNgOJ_g-UDrLuKpMsToklJlHqHQIc/s1067/IMG_2985.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1067" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPUDlMkhY7bx-CM1GuulNZ2oQvggVX8QVI_RrCVpOqiBxj8GzrLEpjwFI3WYI8_9R-7WtgLDFUaZfHmPmL6hZIIQ5GbHH_GgJmnX-l85LRdY4z8poZNgOJ_g-UDrLuKpMsToklJlHqHQIc/w400-h300/IMG_2985.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The line looking back to Cholsey</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgtXASH9B8mO2qzsXC_6-dtCJ_QjIUAbxJZzoXtNpRz2HVtaoR8JCMZwfF9UBM9iFAXy4cxld5yYVKylxhOy1YsDzlY5BVNshS-kIMFoSDutp6mC8dY_L_Jhr30-nRvaWn5NB1D0_rYopE/s1067/IMG_2986.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1067" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgtXASH9B8mO2qzsXC_6-dtCJ_QjIUAbxJZzoXtNpRz2HVtaoR8JCMZwfF9UBM9iFAXy4cxld5yYVKylxhOy1YsDzlY5BVNshS-kIMFoSDutp6mC8dY_L_Jhr30-nRvaWn5NB1D0_rYopE/w400-h300/IMG_2986.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>and towards Wallingford with the farm track on the right, the By-Pass in the distance</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilommpS9q90DyQfgZCgkwbgxNpeKB-eTcmwH-CcjSg2KqM_7RKYF2ZmwIdoBSVlDWWkIV65YbS1vcu0PuuTmb63wGg2_kAv9394Rz_eou5CL8ZyoJtcJgBEk6awcVIcJmj6jl3ufnBCv_e/s1067/IMG_2987.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1067" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilommpS9q90DyQfgZCgkwbgxNpeKB-eTcmwH-CcjSg2KqM_7RKYF2ZmwIdoBSVlDWWkIV65YbS1vcu0PuuTmb63wGg2_kAv9394Rz_eou5CL8ZyoJtcJgBEk6awcVIcJmj6jl3ufnBCv_e/w400-h300/IMG_2987.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Zoomed in you can see a van going across it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDesPdR8JiCPU1rtED8BW3GwZnmZr6SDkDtJQv89jj_URQI4mYGo7WPMQcf5FCO1_F8B5I1FN9dyBWkwLXPVdy_b42TiFmcX8AsYp-jKPj0VhEn7oiRZGsj7T-ZvDqCTgKGpUnKKUCu8kZ/s1168/road15a.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="1168" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDesPdR8JiCPU1rtED8BW3GwZnmZr6SDkDtJQv89jj_URQI4mYGo7WPMQcf5FCO1_F8B5I1FN9dyBWkwLXPVdy_b42TiFmcX8AsYp-jKPj0VhEn7oiRZGsj7T-ZvDqCTgKGpUnKKUCu8kZ/w400-h272/road15a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><p>Now this photo was taken in 1993 when the By-Pass had opened, the gates are closing</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbz7_59KHytdVVWOKC-vTAsl259L_58WoYIzQ49FssC31nHcSlu2R7P0K2mjK69aGhHaJTTsjXgoSafhPEAmCy0pNfnynGl-vA-it4Gk-tegtbKib-0HK2FVFz6hPWr_Zak-goCFXq_wxE/s1168/road16a+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1168" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbz7_59KHytdVVWOKC-vTAsl259L_58WoYIzQ49FssC31nHcSlu2R7P0K2mjK69aGhHaJTTsjXgoSafhPEAmCy0pNfnynGl-vA-it4Gk-tegtbKib-0HK2FVFz6hPWr_Zak-goCFXq_wxE/w400-h269/road16a+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p>Because one of the first trains was coming through</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPIYas-evM_pOo6YNNncM-G3AUgtSnndrUniy6a_JlAyCyz2Gbe875ak4mT0xd9om6jLPHwmfFQHqCzRtJMI8Y4_75i27TIZIti8LmglfFZkKLKSfpHHm9UIzzWflhbR7TQDhz9XrYPp7U/s884/road1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="884" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPIYas-evM_pOo6YNNncM-G3AUgtSnndrUniy6a_JlAyCyz2Gbe875ak4mT0xd9om6jLPHwmfFQHqCzRtJMI8Y4_75i27TIZIti8LmglfFZkKLKSfpHHm9UIzzWflhbR7TQDhz9XrYPp7U/w640-h428/road1.JPG" width="640" /></a>This was looking down from the road cutting back in 1992 towards where the crossing would be<br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMOe7mVOxC-HSBYVzCeuJL-nem0gb5IVANuRQL9ZsGPSJkgAXPc5RUtgYKCshhnYyHLAzFzZm2tCyiOxvltAkj3JH6IM_u-q5UJaa_7QCijxNspON3MICx3oFXpb6HNskIkG4Ek-TAvZu-/s1168/road13a+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1168" data-original-width="797" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMOe7mVOxC-HSBYVzCeuJL-nem0gb5IVANuRQL9ZsGPSJkgAXPc5RUtgYKCshhnYyHLAzFzZm2tCyiOxvltAkj3JH6IM_u-q5UJaa_7QCijxNspON3MICx3oFXpb6HNskIkG4Ek-TAvZu-/w436-h640/road13a+%25282%2529.jpg" width="436" /></a></div> Just before the road and crossing were opened in 1993<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4YYAtCqTIfRPNSnv4-k1wDAAueU0pyd2LHoel3Q3BFQ8STmTXHDkP7OaIG5OIm8vbvzakxKr_zDB3IIWf8oU1u_rA_jvNGvghqF6NdLOyZJgqvCD_PMjPBKouFX3Qsi48Mu6zDTw7S3rG/s2048/IMG_3210.JPG" style="clear: left; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBqO4m6f9fSGfABqCDLevQ2-kBd0ApQyf-M0VenqXQme3tikLNWEh6P2kSyGBEMOdcAoZW90HmdkhRnQcF5-gF5oI9RKz7hfCDSEdwRSIByKE8lfEn6xNJmlN9NvZ7gyre7WExovqU_FR9/s2048/IMG_3212.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBqO4m6f9fSGfABqCDLevQ2-kBd0ApQyf-M0VenqXQme3tikLNWEh6P2kSyGBEMOdcAoZW90HmdkhRnQcF5-gF5oI9RKz7hfCDSEdwRSIByKE8lfEn6xNJmlN9NvZ7gyre7WExovqU_FR9/w426-h640/IMG_3212.JPG" width="426" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">This way looks towards Wallingford. The footpath does not follow the line on this section but it is less than a mile to the station that is there now. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AKc6Z7IRAtnqDo1ugDjF9mRXbMF__Um5ruPBFCh-mi4P5zbNk0n0cZktNxzJFrTj1rn8JmBgq69bx22Z7pULghIIR_GQuuMad4bxMAYhhCUE9Hi3AlcRey-p7aaHhIEFNHkUzBofWZm-/s1200/IMG_3523.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AKc6Z7IRAtnqDo1ugDjF9mRXbMF__Um5ruPBFCh-mi4P5zbNk0n0cZktNxzJFrTj1rn8JmBgq69bx22Z7pULghIIR_GQuuMad4bxMAYhhCUE9Hi3AlcRey-p7aaHhIEFNHkUzBofWZm-/w400-h266/IMG_3523.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Zooming in you can see the tracks bend to the left</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg66EUcLtrPfdyzABezPbUGAIM1gPEOFDIkHnF6Phru8-J8IdwAi0LbzsdVBTAGUdmNSUWILYPDEl0gcA8zg_SnhdM1_faohUDB9wYIizSEIKsyLmVehgleIh9yg16b3Z4T-k0l_zjxpUXl/s1024/geograph-6787611-by-Martin-Tester.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1024" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg66EUcLtrPfdyzABezPbUGAIM1gPEOFDIkHnF6Phru8-J8IdwAi0LbzsdVBTAGUdmNSUWILYPDEl0gcA8zg_SnhdM1_faohUDB9wYIizSEIKsyLmVehgleIh9yg16b3Z4T-k0l_zjxpUXl/w640-h392/geograph-6787611-by-Martin-Tester.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Another photo taken in 1968 by Martin Tester was most likely taken near where the station is now</div><div style="text-align: center;">Old Moor bridge would be behind him.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The station as you see is more or less just a platform they have built along side the end of the railway. the intention to built a more substation place in the future.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYh-qLrHmOQ6KtH3BgiFc3gQIfOVyraoVga0C82CyVFJOkqkIqInGjvytj-9hqt-h0L1mF7AqYnfI-VBoLziUyFts-wrcxzrAn26QrJMV7ZgVJCvn5N_tgP-N7yBop_HRgUeMyiFyCMnb3/s810/WallingfordStationShunting+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="810" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYh-qLrHmOQ6KtH3BgiFc3gQIfOVyraoVga0C82CyVFJOkqkIqInGjvytj-9hqt-h0L1mF7AqYnfI-VBoLziUyFts-wrcxzrAn26QrJMV7ZgVJCvn5N_tgP-N7yBop_HRgUeMyiFyCMnb3/w640-h366/WallingfordStationShunting+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> This is what the station used to look like and was about half a mile further along the track I found the on the <a href="http://bwtas.blogspot.com/2009/02/wallingford-research-request.html">British Water Towers Appreciation Society </a> blog and do not have a photographers name.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfjBVGJY4dgzVnkyeCJLMiLG_xFDJm4OWAja50IA0JLmM4IpOZJx01ssitQquvevprkBTXT_zawcSk097FrV5M1QQdVEXkkmQWOrUCZCkdjSG1xydtrEbkpD51rHFP5j4Sn3dLt9GM9wW/w640-h426/IMG_3514.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> It will make a welcome addition to the facilities they have</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQKG985Pv6zlzUQNgaew01POIQMN81H-Me5FsLOw_6a2fqr8L8Oj73YOeGPaUAP4yEFO4ftZkT0pv7AglPyWjqT1euXtdFWuhgVI4hGPCXbt4jxr1ZiKd1cydEXooysx3ucrrFxxxgdV_d/s1200/IMG_3517.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQKG985Pv6zlzUQNgaew01POIQMN81H-Me5FsLOw_6a2fqr8L8Oj73YOeGPaUAP4yEFO4ftZkT0pv7AglPyWjqT1euXtdFWuhgVI4hGPCXbt4jxr1ZiKd1cydEXooysx3ucrrFxxxgdV_d/w400-h266/IMG_3517.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is where you start on your visit</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcCaw8D16UviUPi-XOx559rNTNZMZwCpIQh0U7BQUrvimNXmh131R-jXPXWJc9VC6_xs2Vsl0EHuxD8P0Vuccq096YGcq2yQof19U4c7CRaiA6SP17jAD8XfZYJYzwP9zrcJP2eMHz7F4g/s2048/IMG_7570+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1510" data-original-width="2048" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcCaw8D16UviUPi-XOx559rNTNZMZwCpIQh0U7BQUrvimNXmh131R-jXPXWJc9VC6_xs2Vsl0EHuxD8P0Vuccq096YGcq2yQof19U4c7CRaiA6SP17jAD8XfZYJYzwP9zrcJP2eMHz7F4g/w400-h295/IMG_7570+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> Before you got there you would have gone under this bridge called Old Moor Bridge, your looking towards the Creamery the current station is around the area of the photgrapher who is R.M.Cassery the photo was scanned from the book The Wallingford Branch<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfWy7fid4JtNmY1C6xPNg_Fm0EX1o1CN07Rc3LeFKJrqHNhtiWYgd5KeAtiHekuD9fvZmn0eKdMnl2K_pT6kjjL99gCHWcqhATUL9pYaTej8WOfdqsE1YUnSi4qYyPpVqOrAas9MSRo0X/s734/Hithercroft.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="623" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfWy7fid4JtNmY1C6xPNg_Fm0EX1o1CN07Rc3LeFKJrqHNhtiWYgd5KeAtiHekuD9fvZmn0eKdMnl2K_pT6kjjL99gCHWcqhATUL9pYaTej8WOfdqsE1YUnSi4qYyPpVqOrAas9MSRo0X/w544-h640/Hithercroft.jpg" width="544" /></a></div>First of all the new station is where the track runs off the map the road you see ran over the bridge shown, the part over to the left of it was a creamery which the railway served as well</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtuseY0e-jBin4SH7WfK8UY4NMRRkDRnrIkpUsVu8I0BV3aCnJ1Id6YV2Pp0r0bHgrd_H62mLCZW-5UmjTVbtRbqReFv3Uu3-2cFdTC8LTBEnG_0f9KAlEPNQh3X0AAIf-DtCnZu9w-Kd/s640/geograph-1016196-by-Antony-Ewart-Smith.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="640" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGtuseY0e-jBin4SH7WfK8UY4NMRRkDRnrIkpUsVu8I0BV3aCnJ1Id6YV2Pp0r0bHgrd_H62mLCZW-5UmjTVbtRbqReFv3Uu3-2cFdTC8LTBEnG_0f9KAlEPNQh3X0AAIf-DtCnZu9w-Kd/w640-h328/geograph-1016196-by-Antony-Ewart-Smith.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>This place taken in the 1960's by Anthony Eward Smilth. Now I suspect the bridge had gone by then as the windows in the building are broken and there is a road sign telling you it is Borough Avenue which is built on the old railway. The bridge would have been somewhere around near or behind the photographer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCqPEbO3w24y4XWvnp2g-idTSwFnj_zjWPCMEuM9gGcBR_Hdg76o7tnSZU08cNL7IO_B8q89QLJ0c43rpM7aTBb7fQpvu7ZuvTM6FWaG0yLV3Sd1RJ-nnbemc6lz0KbAD7_Y5La4L7Vc4d/s1182/Station.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="1182" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCqPEbO3w24y4XWvnp2g-idTSwFnj_zjWPCMEuM9gGcBR_Hdg76o7tnSZU08cNL7IO_B8q89QLJ0c43rpM7aTBb7fQpvu7ZuvTM6FWaG0yLV3Sd1RJ-nnbemc6lz0KbAD7_Y5La4L7Vc4d/w640-h456/Station.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This map shows the station layout/ The allotment gardens are now a housing estate and Mill Brook runs under it all as a culvert. Not sure they would get away with that now but back the greedy developers and councils did not have any rules so ran riot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikBRWQmbCjd1WRixoTK22iZEORcpeUKm-LKpTLhaXWpXFrwZvNNUJOAA6_Z5vC-YcPb9_gWWRQ42TFRLuhkWBLhd8Gv7eZJokbHy37ZoZHWydBeZcO5J3M6zFIizdQCSTGL7Westl6-yiU/s500/Wallingford+Station.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="500" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikBRWQmbCjd1WRixoTK22iZEORcpeUKm-LKpTLhaXWpXFrwZvNNUJOAA6_Z5vC-YcPb9_gWWRQ42TFRLuhkWBLhd8Gv7eZJokbHy37ZoZHWydBeZcO5J3M6zFIizdQCSTGL7Westl6-yiU/w640-h412/Wallingford+Station.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Wallingford station you can see a Victorian water tower that is no longer there nor are the gas tanks all you can see is a concrete water tower now. Now I would think the brick tower would have had a preservation order slapped on it. The photo was sourced off the internet but may have been M.E.J.Deane taken around the 1950's<br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEiM6m3e3biXKHsmb3FXJBDlG5RYag6_pjasOS2yCQjlfcDMCshD8pA0Vf6yM3XaPsSoBNLXMm8O-YR1BrZOwd_V73UvlyWPoAAc0DuB-rmY9DXnuxNBtY_kpQDOplX_KElz5ZCbqsS1S8/s1634/Wallingford_Station%252C_with_auto-train_and_%2528detached%2529_0-4-2T_geograph-2591518-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1634" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEiM6m3e3biXKHsmb3FXJBDlG5RYag6_pjasOS2yCQjlfcDMCshD8pA0Vf6yM3XaPsSoBNLXMm8O-YR1BrZOwd_V73UvlyWPoAAc0DuB-rmY9DXnuxNBtY_kpQDOplX_KElz5ZCbqsS1S8/w640-h424/Wallingford_Station%252C_with_auto-train_and_%2528detached%2529_0-4-2T_geograph-2591518-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This one at Wallingford was taken by the late Ben Brooksbank on Geograph</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCrLpIoxmpq_xKiK8lohQRv9NHjUZ124S3DM1IE5KikMfbHvlAV9K1fU0CNncGeW_6ARQIp8vUnE4F5cweNAcjqmyT5EO6ucjFPj9OQEEVgrMHWJ9ccG9jy9JzB3TEoroZPGSUpKKbrKi/s1806/Wallingford+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="1806" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCrLpIoxmpq_xKiK8lohQRv9NHjUZ124S3DM1IE5KikMfbHvlAV9K1fU0CNncGeW_6ARQIp8vUnE4F5cweNAcjqmyT5EO6ucjFPj9OQEEVgrMHWJ9ccG9jy9JzB3TEoroZPGSUpKKbrKi/w640-h418/Wallingford+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>This photo by Roger Joanes was taken in 1959 </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlNsAMbibBoTLnZiNkIosfvAK6KLK4NAiqQZuWbLvmfoId-c559HspyRRUQjXCiyYnice_m4AMxsNAaAt_T2iuRIvo5wDqvTel235BrIJikTaFEFHay42qd-GrPHLQ2FCyM1DV2AHlViJq/s1024/Wallingford_railway_station_%25281960s%2529B%2526W.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="1024" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlNsAMbibBoTLnZiNkIosfvAK6KLK4NAiqQZuWbLvmfoId-c559HspyRRUQjXCiyYnice_m4AMxsNAaAt_T2iuRIvo5wDqvTel235BrIJikTaFEFHay42qd-GrPHLQ2FCyM1DV2AHlViJq/w640-h428/Wallingford_railway_station_%25281960s%2529B%2526W.jpg" width="640" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A few years later it was closed this photo was taken in the 1960's, I thing a few years after closing <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizsPzqbF4PD3UfB09kJUfdGeUNGOlumuUxDPWq9jfxe04LCsnCFhEUddvRdLb0CU6rY-5HxRorLlGRcfDeMWnejaa66-QxR2FzuBKevdab-HaBNi4QCp5xTry_HHkuzcoLYoQGL-Au9GSq/s2048/IMG_2569.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizsPzqbF4PD3UfB09kJUfdGeUNGOlumuUxDPWq9jfxe04LCsnCFhEUddvRdLb0CU6rY-5HxRorLlGRcfDeMWnejaa66-QxR2FzuBKevdab-HaBNi4QCp5xTry_HHkuzcoLYoQGL-Au9GSq/w400-h266/IMG_2569.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Some time during the between the 1960 to 1970 the station site was built on and is now a housing estate.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The road over to the right is called Old Moor Close named after the bridge which was where I am standing<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVmLzZW9Cgrlnr_bM7Zm8uI2JGGBBGR4H7PZ59J4xxO8XbRRAnVxlwZ2oEh5EptpaMGqlLBDiZy5Y3XmsFnI2BMJKHUV_CmYXL6D2PmsSe6wbCIZUq9nZPaUkhjx37rzd-lQDcEKbk9dgX/s2048/IMG_1351+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVmLzZW9Cgrlnr_bM7Zm8uI2JGGBBGR4H7PZ59J4xxO8XbRRAnVxlwZ2oEh5EptpaMGqlLBDiZy5Y3XmsFnI2BMJKHUV_CmYXL6D2PmsSe6wbCIZUq9nZPaUkhjx37rzd-lQDcEKbk9dgX/w640-h480/IMG_1351+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The station today with the Polar Express at the buffers</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">In the past the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway has been through some rough times and I think financially they struggle at times but credit to them they still keep going even though they are small in comparison to other preserved railways like <a href="https://www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/">Didcot Railway Centre</a> In some ways I feel it is a shame they were not affiliated together the Didcot could run some of the trains they have there along the line. I feel Wallingford Station and sidings should never have been sold off the whole lot could have been run as a heritage railway. Instead BR just wanted to off load it and greedy town council where only too happy to have a new housing estate built on the site and allotments. Old Moor Bridge and the station were quickly demolished in 1969 and the result is what is around us now. This year it must have been a real struggle with the pandemic we are going through as no trains have run but I notice a canopy now being built that was saved from Madenhead, this will make the station quite an attraction. I will be getting some more photos to finish this blog off and some of the station as it is now.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Before I go you will notice some of the photos were taken on the
track these were taken for reference to show how the line looks, it is
not some thing I advocate anyone to do especially on the main like where
you be given a hefty fine for doing so. The fence along the footpath
following the railway is broken in many places and there are a couple of
crossings you can look along the line from but all I say is take great
care especially when the trains run at weekends and holidays.</div><div style="text-align: center;">That's the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway. Just over two miles of track with some in my mind uninspiring views around the local countryside spoiled now by a gravel works near the bypass and housing estates springing up all over the place and no doubt some greedy developer would like to build on the part the station stands now, lets hope it never happens.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Youtube video shows what it was like to ride the train back in 1968</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RE6YF5mRTfw" width="320" youtube-src-id="RE6YF5mRTfw"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789569855696205497.post-32141857772084315422020-11-26T04:45:00.000-08:002020-11-30T04:01:35.666-08:00The Wallingford Bypass<div><br />
It's now over 20 years since the bypass round Wallingford was built. It took the over stressed road which went through the town and over Wallingford Bridge. The bypass started between Brightwell and Wallingford heading towards Hithercroft, Winterbrook and crossing the river to go through Mongewell before joining with the Reading road.<br />
It cut through three roads and has five roundabouts to negotiate. When I first noticed that work was about to start I decided to take photo's of the work and follow the progress. I took photo's every week from various vantage points though failed to take any of the start and end parts of the bypass.</div><div>The photos were taken during 1992-93 though the winter. It was before H&S really came into being and fencing would have screened the place off. I could freely walk around the whole site and did so with many other local people </div><div> <br /></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><br />
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This was the first I knew the bypass was going to be built, Posts going up along with a fence. <br />
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Across over on the Reading road cabins had gone up and construction machines arrived.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6dFM5xekSwHexaPtgMTYXtLrkA0d4pf9ScZqRWj7K7RbeVXw_219vMvyhftAwGwHqrtJ4_Un7dA_sJq1Z9trWogArjC01fn4SVkp5Qw9K9nEhRCtbrZxnshkLbqtH1UPOh536K8G5M-5x/s876/win1.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="876" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6dFM5xekSwHexaPtgMTYXtLrkA0d4pf9ScZqRWj7K7RbeVXw_219vMvyhftAwGwHqrtJ4_Un7dA_sJq1Z9trWogArjC01fn4SVkp5Qw9K9nEhRCtbrZxnshkLbqtH1UPOh536K8G5M-5x/w400-h264/win1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p> </p><p>It was not long before that you could see the ground had been scraped up</p><p><br />
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One of the first things that was done was the forming of two roundabouts ab the bottom of the Wallingford road at Winterbrook, they were to become the Winterbrook Roundabouts.<br />
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It was not long before the roundabouts were in place and the Wallingford road was 400 yards shorter. The mini was what I used to drive around in <br />
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The completed roundabout on the Wallingford road with the new road of the bypass to the right. <br />
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The first cut of the new road to be.<br /></div><div>
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Piles being sunk deep into the ground for the bridge </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVREMBS6ywMeJY3Q-1mf763fhkloXHvn4zC2gf2uQSSsLgP6qyOU1Q6VhtP4y_lGOi4Zt9quJMawSPNFgWTi_3ClI6baJnHd1V3p0SnASGJ5NjlUc0LT0QqbdvLPc-B5k7CsoPvsmztUD4/s868/br9.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="868" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVREMBS6ywMeJY3Q-1mf763fhkloXHvn4zC2gf2uQSSsLgP6qyOU1Q6VhtP4y_lGOi4Zt9quJMawSPNFgWTi_3ClI6baJnHd1V3p0SnASGJ5NjlUc0LT0QqbdvLPc-B5k7CsoPvsmztUD4/w640-h440/br9.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">These were the foundations for the flood relief sections of the ramp .</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5adriKDHJWzUlR3LJbyiog2aAZKmixNGiOBukkAX4KY0edoUGiW6o-FrPuBZwXfB4YblApzILw-uttCB26cN9i7uLmKJ-K65v_0ytjn4GKYkEKtJQ93gqXh357oZFOOR-oocj7sxUDq8b/s1157/br15.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1157" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5adriKDHJWzUlR3LJbyiog2aAZKmixNGiOBukkAX4KY0edoUGiW6o-FrPuBZwXfB4YblApzILw-uttCB26cN9i7uLmKJ-K65v_0ytjn4GKYkEKtJQ93gqXh357oZFOOR-oocj7sxUDq8b/w400-h269/br15.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>
They ended up looking like this with the concrete road deck<br /> </div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVzk-IX3-0jfG-CNldDDvUPxgkQJgTSWk3VC1cZqShznMZ_G5-6VyCilkx_HFFzP4hmqOJrIcaR6ueR3qWkvS3CWERXNHXVX0ce4bfWabDzJN1ubaEryfZTjV651DmnC-Qohi-Oflz7j9/s1165/br48.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1165" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVzk-IX3-0jfG-CNldDDvUPxgkQJgTSWk3VC1cZqShznMZ_G5-6VyCilkx_HFFzP4hmqOJrIcaR6ueR3qWkvS3CWERXNHXVX0ce4bfWabDzJN1ubaEryfZTjV651DmnC-Qohi-Oflz7j9/w400-h278/br48.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Filling in the ramp between the two flood relief's , I was told this was the ash from Didcot Power Station that was used here.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGe-6AFGyO2id_tqmouEpu_lTb674jcsVmmdtdEdHXnwmV_app5myJ1PXSr3tBdD75hCPV_WsEsZO93d70dq5eXBgb1dRxkn4Hm0FEv9RI0HwicPE0-fYAsDnA_g2awmNqJYBtzgg3YSg7/s1168/br49.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="1168" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGe-6AFGyO2id_tqmouEpu_lTb674jcsVmmdtdEdHXnwmV_app5myJ1PXSr3tBdD75hCPV_WsEsZO93d70dq5eXBgb1dRxkn4Hm0FEv9RI0HwicPE0-fYAsDnA_g2awmNqJYBtzgg3YSg7/w400-h272/br49.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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The Cages were backed with stones and straw </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaTJmukTSmVQ_Ly0BVBa6IRNfJmbmxm3r_RYNHdKgcRyfGFBwP-z1BAN3DNlFX6g7WshlqEcYgRY1Gd8E8cZp3CSNOrNJRzN2EzObhn_HGq-SDU3m5Zj3ixGbzaPZxwFPZwvHidZ0uXVek/s1168/br33.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1168" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaTJmukTSmVQ_Ly0BVBa6IRNfJmbmxm3r_RYNHdKgcRyfGFBwP-z1BAN3DNlFX6g7WshlqEcYgRY1Gd8E8cZp3CSNOrNJRzN2EzObhn_HGq-SDU3m5Zj3ixGbzaPZxwFPZwvHidZ0uXVek/w400-h269/br33.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">
This is what it ended up looking like and it does flood through both of them.</div>
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While all that was going on preparation work for the bridge itself was happening on both sides of the River Thames.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I went home after that for my tea but was told they were supposed to be lowering the bridge in </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxRxmWyYKQAXyog5KxHF7ZjqkTjeXwzifXTakJu86Ib1jyEwgvoC0L2Hfv9X9ZlQCk43xg_O6Z9yTDk0JJCjfB4ycRImXpyogsp-RGmKlRPVL6przSgciazoByLg6NT99pmq6Lxjo0wFn/s1173/br55a.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="1173" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQxRxmWyYKQAXyog5KxHF7ZjqkTjeXwzifXTakJu86Ib1jyEwgvoC0L2Hfv9X9ZlQCk43xg_O6Z9yTDk0JJCjfB4ycRImXpyogsp-RGmKlRPVL6przSgciazoByLg6NT99pmq6Lxjo0wFn/w400-h270/br55a.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>They got the crane there eventually <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheVKgv-x1TNv1rKKLQKaFWfnxI7n0YK1ud0JHXhiDJZMWAPqP3xeHO_K6lFUCo0Ft0Njq6GQLeU4-RqnAqGDWKW2uKrEAw9WcnGH4_j0BbvmPgvEzzfrwtAZZJFsqFsDHxLAUoAkIgT4EZ/s1173/br56.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1173" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheVKgv-x1TNv1rKKLQKaFWfnxI7n0YK1ud0JHXhiDJZMWAPqP3xeHO_K6lFUCo0Ft0Njq6GQLeU4-RqnAqGDWKW2uKrEAw9WcnGH4_j0BbvmPgvEzzfrwtAZZJFsqFsDHxLAUoAkIgT4EZ/w400-h268/br56.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The lowered the rear section in place as I saw the next day. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_7aq0yQwJd1B8L0o9Xx88_XCRiJtYg0hbOa-uBZ4p2qu1gPVkfYEX10e6wBlZ_ydzww100ZBwCk8QsUUc43mH7aNNk8JNa64cXkhwmfsR4C5RVKTle7FZlRFt40v1JeWoD_gecKvmrVQD/s2016/br59.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1344" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_7aq0yQwJd1B8L0o9Xx88_XCRiJtYg0hbOa-uBZ4p2qu1gPVkfYEX10e6wBlZ_ydzww100ZBwCk8QsUUc43mH7aNNk8JNa64cXkhwmfsR4C5RVKTle7FZlRFt40v1JeWoD_gecKvmrVQD/w426-h640/br59.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I missed the last section going in but I did not miss them lowering the Mongewell side in place</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJU9YMSZ2GzERXILm0Zz3Wolc4ITIb7NQZej5weKROANQOvlR4o6vR1EIpNxAgPY-CWqd-FUh8zupxRg1NO2XrxpHIihjrtiD2i0Zp9T9AV4OzeCnH9ISsbuLfoapYD36GrvQGihtdg3IF/s2016/br58.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1344" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJU9YMSZ2GzERXILm0Zz3Wolc4ITIb7NQZej5weKROANQOvlR4o6vR1EIpNxAgPY-CWqd-FUh8zupxRg1NO2XrxpHIihjrtiD2i0Zp9T9AV4OzeCnH9ISsbuLfoapYD36GrvQGihtdg3IF/w426-h640/br58.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I had a ringside seat with the managers </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOWFYg2rH2PzWmbPitRHYixP6EjfU_ugRJHEYFsFWqHYRVOfIsVhvBxLPnsZXP8eb6LzipCYmdkbvHQXLli4Z_anHUcSAZr3NGqwRKdzzygJ8zCkCeJ-1wd0CDS0subqieFijtc89jHz_x/s2016/br60.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1344" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOWFYg2rH2PzWmbPitRHYixP6EjfU_ugRJHEYFsFWqHYRVOfIsVhvBxLPnsZXP8eb6LzipCYmdkbvHQXLli4Z_anHUcSAZr3NGqwRKdzzygJ8zCkCeJ-1wd0CDS0subqieFijtc89jHz_x/w426-h640/br60.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I even got a photo on the Oxford Mail though they did not pay me a penny</div>
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I might admit it did not do me a lot of good being out that night as I had to take a couple of days off after with a heavy cold</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0h_9dt4LmOSB8BU-9TJbap_JhXTuZVz6Ev6BnPim4Sc-y1Bp4pRNQV88WjpveM1I9iTgC74uEOxPUxznbhtaopwxBvZrKbJk6RuX2xb3E8ZM_PoHfFiEMzehu7qeWTZjJT5grvTu5Ln2F/s1165/br71b+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1165" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0h_9dt4LmOSB8BU-9TJbap_JhXTuZVz6Ev6BnPim4Sc-y1Bp4pRNQV88WjpveM1I9iTgC74uEOxPUxznbhtaopwxBvZrKbJk6RuX2xb3E8ZM_PoHfFiEMzehu7qeWTZjJT5grvTu5Ln2F/w640-h444/br71b+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a> In the cold light of day it looked like this</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: right;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWD7IE-1owelhLF2tqTzVfGzAIlA5jXgriKTZM6lDh7YvrpqNPuwk5eHZOP7kqYh1u7T1eoTZXykBfDRzn9UmxIz6jjIW6qju-ghx2JSVhPMfRs_1c-Yc4cFNe7oABaTwtt8BPes8_P13J/s1168/br110+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="1168" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWD7IE-1owelhLF2tqTzVfGzAIlA5jXgriKTZM6lDh7YvrpqNPuwk5eHZOP7kqYh1u7T1eoTZXykBfDRzn9UmxIz6jjIW6qju-ghx2JSVhPMfRs_1c-Yc4cFNe7oABaTwtt8BPes8_P13J/w640-h428/br110+%25282%2529.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Soon enough the road was laid to tarmac</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was not the only bridge I watch taking shape </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYMahczVFrEkQF5_eUUVeQsUdOIw4SpQl-rNT2RMKMHxyI3wsuvZ_jfPW7z__lU_legf63ohhT6v5KPj640xtYj6uL0-aJ9V67Lsi5KFIydWLk1BgkxMQ2ummPwJ_c_-3A9fGNx2h8cin/s1168/hcb2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1168" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOYMahczVFrEkQF5_eUUVeQsUdOIw4SpQl-rNT2RMKMHxyI3wsuvZ_jfPW7z__lU_legf63ohhT6v5KPj640xtYj6uL0-aJ9V67Lsi5KFIydWLk1BgkxMQ2ummPwJ_c_-3A9fGNx2h8cin/w640-h430/hcb2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For some reason at the time I called this Hithercroft Bridge. It was in fact Bradfield Brook which was diverted</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YvufAR63yhLTFsjWraT3oavD9E_QcjgXsp3QCmEayAWVBXk8zToqDiNKyvM1R9O-XgpZ8Zcl_hC7JNa3l8WRU0M3XlPUIDciqzKFoSZbz4Y1v-j_koFOsTe2ydgOqGr7lw457Fx3BjQV/s1168/hcb1a.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="1168" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YvufAR63yhLTFsjWraT3oavD9E_QcjgXsp3QCmEayAWVBXk8zToqDiNKyvM1R9O-XgpZ8Zcl_hC7JNa3l8WRU0M3XlPUIDciqzKFoSZbz4Y1v-j_koFOsTe2ydgOqGr7lw457Fx3BjQV/w640-h434/hcb1a.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can see here the brook on the left coming out of the culvert the made </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6naz3p0-Cey6OsXibjt6L_5sDshFtTk0v21qT30NtQVJmwghhWnyvTvXTcOw0aj23ogU9SxjStzR2Hy3ZahxftsoRv-YMjr7Q-ro2WXXM8GaMZ-VGFM0J5a6Opoi9KhyphenhyphengUXVgr5TAAQbz/s1168/hcb6a.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1168" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6naz3p0-Cey6OsXibjt6L_5sDshFtTk0v21qT30NtQVJmwghhWnyvTvXTcOw0aj23ogU9SxjStzR2Hy3ZahxftsoRv-YMjr7Q-ro2WXXM8GaMZ-VGFM0J5a6Opoi9KhyphenhyphengUXVgr5TAAQbz/w640-h430/hcb6a.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The road here running past the bridge and deck , That is my little lad in the photo<br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOnOaDMsyD-DvNurqu6ywCyHkngn7SBNYkmH9LxkvBznHMA0DmBcPNV3LxxNko-rPUCMq48mzfzDD0fMhE45U8VrxOLvYt-YX5xZ7zOJNdzi78-M6DveV1K8cv51mHqOuDMHCbDY16v8JA/s1168/hcb1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1168" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOnOaDMsyD-DvNurqu6ywCyHkngn7SBNYkmH9LxkvBznHMA0DmBcPNV3LxxNko-rPUCMq48mzfzDD0fMhE45U8VrxOLvYt-YX5xZ7zOJNdzi78-M6DveV1K8cv51mHqOuDMHCbDY16v8JA/w640-h430/hcb1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The bridge is nearly done with and they are filliong in the old culvert</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4VgbR9Q_wytu1YuN1WuZFTjTB0iDWyQDpn8arRVHnVxtFVw_JbnVz_aMmGIcaNVybb2KIQjZzF9jqq3saTWG6UqIIdzYMKxxqENKxdDV5_qb4nrgUh1VhMxDPfSFvE4hIy1Ifb8yvR0jq/s1168/hcb8+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="1168" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4VgbR9Q_wytu1YuN1WuZFTjTB0iDWyQDpn8arRVHnVxtFVw_JbnVz_aMmGIcaNVybb2KIQjZzF9jqq3saTWG6UqIIdzYMKxxqENKxdDV5_qb4nrgUh1VhMxDPfSFvE4hIy1Ifb8yvR0jq/w640-h435/hcb8+%25282%2529.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>This is the finished bridge and brook<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGkfj0tK2RXvHl-wdYixZAbMCfuBqp5dJloYDSiO5n-RECsD6kKJ1AbEn0ksJ41lBACiDbDcsvlEhJ9_zvJ0fCT-kofuLMSxYAHoBfla0M1u2YimhlwAdVPI3orp_jQQKL2KAcxRG9JFPJ/s1168/hcb4+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="1168" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGkfj0tK2RXvHl-wdYixZAbMCfuBqp5dJloYDSiO5n-RECsD6kKJ1AbEn0ksJ41lBACiDbDcsvlEhJ9_zvJ0fCT-kofuLMSxYAHoBfla0M1u2YimhlwAdVPI3orp_jQQKL2KAcxRG9JFPJ/w640-h434/hcb4+%25282%2529.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The road now being formed across the bridge</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKa2r8UgCx96F0BvHST8finQkDr4dXPp_-crHqHNKUiXmPZY_i0kUxf5WavBR5yhBOsEtnhKEAS71RN1c28HAagb9VI_8tLSGaMd33FzVHjRpvsCZWbn3-dP4J7-GMZEsBJ0DffpLWjxM7/s884/hc1+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="884" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKa2r8UgCx96F0BvHST8finQkDr4dXPp_-crHqHNKUiXmPZY_i0kUxf5WavBR5yhBOsEtnhKEAS71RN1c28HAagb9VI_8tLSGaMd33FzVHjRpvsCZWbn3-dP4J7-GMZEsBJ0DffpLWjxM7/w400-h256/hc1+%25282%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>I was lucky to notice where they were going to build the road from Hithercroft, this is looking towards where the bridge will be in the distance<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ny61-zNXW6pyB-wjy8EOE7ny7HyQNQvDM5YKSL1UHyGSx-ewQEsX6Y_pj0T6Z8Mf1vmIyuiUOMxwqW1j0ZDwhTBEW6PyYDoyzROHs_ZFyQ7XwSe3WWD4Gunq-reN9Plh_Bk0synx02vG/s888/hc3a+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>This is the new road back to winter brook, you can see work beginning on Bradfield Book where the crane is<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLChui_QnRlf0t3V_rNvUxWqDXWipnFCzKoyvd1OQvNtKRqJyXbCLmVQLKGEpmB0MnRIviH3exR0W15Gg3JdPG-5_6p3M7BptOHv486s4rkwy7bQUglOoxGwY_aNOz_q0o-y2UMkJJfif3/s880/hc4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="880" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLChui_QnRlf0t3V_rNvUxWqDXWipnFCzKoyvd1OQvNtKRqJyXbCLmVQLKGEpmB0MnRIviH3exR0W15Gg3JdPG-5_6p3M7BptOHv486s4rkwy7bQUglOoxGwY_aNOz_q0o-y2UMkJJfif3/w400-h265/hc4.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Here construction is well under way</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Above the finished roundabout. Yep I drove along the road before it opened.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyogdST3voWrzMtdB6VvN5SBmvKsj4MJOuKYV6M_y_fFzmlB_13KkMdeHgOzg5X2USdBeKhSNMlU77Hp6PNlylqOctheYiaJkGsh0zclByIvCvSSbAnMQWrRXLZuLfp27pxbedffCooddu/s1168/road12+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1168" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyogdST3voWrzMtdB6VvN5SBmvKsj4MJOuKYV6M_y_fFzmlB_13KkMdeHgOzg5X2USdBeKhSNMlU77Hp6PNlylqOctheYiaJkGsh0zclByIvCvSSbAnMQWrRXLZuLfp27pxbedffCooddu/w640-h430/road12+%25282%2529.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Not some thing you get a chance to do everyday but there was nothing to stop you, this is looking to Winterbrook Roundabouts</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMVhyphenhyphenG2QzNX4yYT13Go7QEHOHX-ZvoUzNXVSxTAQLB1nqhZfXDIpHMebhkOWFClIw02FOqytZwPOwaARAEH7BNb2bneYZPfMgTln9JLofqWrtWHU9z2Sj5Dlsd2elzCHWgr62M3OJbR_r/s1168/road13a+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1168" data-original-width="797" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMVhyphenhyphenG2QzNX4yYT13Go7QEHOHX-ZvoUzNXVSxTAQLB1nqhZfXDIpHMebhkOWFClIw02FOqytZwPOwaARAEH7BNb2bneYZPfMgTln9JLofqWrtWHU9z2Sj5Dlsd2elzCHWgr62M3OJbR_r/w436-h640/road13a+%25282%2529.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">One thing I missed recording was this cutting and the level crossing</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNUVZsPaK13QUDX8lNlOm15oJbHHlEYZZGdHJtGwl7i-oTVvmqxwPe2O7H5XKI4j8Y8HdnqpUNW-fGURdWqn5xWqzyMuJs4ax5nqkmdUpFDNRInErn7ar2qmKVeTMB1zSYWDdbZJ-_2xG4/s1168/road14a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1168" data-original-width="792" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNUVZsPaK13QUDX8lNlOm15oJbHHlEYZZGdHJtGwl7i-oTVvmqxwPe2O7H5XKI4j8Y8HdnqpUNW-fGURdWqn5xWqzyMuJs4ax5nqkmdUpFDNRInErn7ar2qmKVeTMB1zSYWDdbZJ-_2xG4/w434-h640/road14a.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Looking towards Winterbrook</div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUdD0SkojC__Mfyu6g8TWU8mke7CmxbOTC_TtsM48VniOaFRtDYc5zcWmZcylxCK6a6nGDBaI535ct3Brj-4ABtkN-PEyWFGWFAC93zIsmy8vKrHEMVkXyK-ErZvCaMpIOVQUDyvy-r8OR/s1168/road15a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="1168" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUdD0SkojC__Mfyu6g8TWU8mke7CmxbOTC_TtsM48VniOaFRtDYc5zcWmZcylxCK6a6nGDBaI535ct3Brj-4ABtkN-PEyWFGWFAC93zIsmy8vKrHEMVkXyK-ErZvCaMpIOVQUDyvy-r8OR/w400-h272/road15a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The lever crossing on the first weekend the road was opened,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6n2GjhqDhJ-k76WAvJxpIfhYkPjIuglytR-VjZ5ks3DTqzK49LuMs2rH9erRHsW4Kfs53uTOtWyus59ja6bRIsvbNcz6pO392Yuhk6I5He4jhUVHxE6luliEUf62M_4c2XM7h1ZsuiKq/s1168/road16a+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1168" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6n2GjhqDhJ-k76WAvJxpIfhYkPjIuglytR-VjZ5ks3DTqzK49LuMs2rH9erRHsW4Kfs53uTOtWyus59ja6bRIsvbNcz6pO392Yuhk6I5He4jhUVHxE6luliEUf62M_4c2XM7h1ZsuiKq/w640-h430/road16a+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Closing for the train on the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway to go through</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Today the bypass is used by thousands of cars,vans and lorries the drivers who probably never give it a thought as to what the countryside used to look like</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The bypass looking towards Winterbrook Bridge, no trace of the service road exists now<br />
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The Winterbrook Roundabouts, this one is at the bottom of the Wallingford road where it cut through it. It was one of my reference points <br />
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The bypass looking towards Hithercroft where it crosses the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway<br />
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and the bridge looks like this now blended into the landscape. The Thames Path runs under it & I doubt anyone spares the bridge a thought.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The photos used in the blog were taken back in 1992-3 with an Pentax ME Super, I was a total beginner in trying to learn how to use an SLR. It was also the first project I had tried to document so did not really have any sort of idea as to how to go about it, (not sure I'm any better now) If I had digital like we do now I could have taken more detail and not worry about how much film I had left.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I will go back for a few updated photos of the bridge which I have not really looked at since I took these.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The bridge is in constant use by traffic with the roads jammed on occasions like the rush hour and the constant flow. The road has collapsed between the flood relief and had to be repaired once in the times I have used it. Wallingford bridge is still as busy and the council is considering closing it to traffic because of the damage and strain it is under. What with all the housing being built in the area Winterbrook bridge will be in use for years to come. I have to wonder how long before they consider another bridge over the Thames<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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This line was one I had noticed on my Way to Builth Wells while going along the A44. I had noticed old bits of railway but wondered where that went, the one day while driving through New Radnor I noticed the Station Campsite just off the road. I started checking my OS maps and saw that there was a old railway shown so I started to check what was left.<br />
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Following a road to the next station you go past the remains of Jerrys Bridge<br /><br />
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The Bullshole is an area in Cholsey that is situated between the Main Great Western rail line and the old single track railway to Wallingford. It was a place where countless children spent their childhood paddling and looking for sticklebacks in the stream that ran through it. Many happy summers were spent there buy myself and others like me. Now it is a shadow of it's former self. I have visited it many times over the years but I feel I should write a blog on my memories of it. <br />
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This is Sandy Lane in Cholsey, the estate was built back in the 1960's on a field that used to grow crops. The Lane is named after the footpath that went across the field coming out on West End a road that ran around the outside which gave access to a houses along there.<br />
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On the other side of the path you saw a footpath that continued on it has changed little over the years. In my younger days this was more a muddy track in the winter with dogs mess to dodge. Now it is a little better though you still get the odd mess that dogs leave and people who thing it is beneath then cannot be bothered picking up<br />
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The two photos show the path the one on the left is by a drainage ditch the right is looking back to the entrance from that spot. The drainage ditch was always full of water and reeds when I was a kid. The sides were slippery and if you were not careful you would end up the the ditch. Years ago the repaired the sides using concrete filled sacks which you can still see but over the years the ditch has filled with silt and leaves which filled it up and now there is hardly ever any water in it. </div>
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You will find the brook running by the path. Looking right which is downstream you can see a muddy section to the left that is where the stream that came form the bullshole joined. Looking left you can see a culvert in the distance.</div>
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The culvert is under the tunnel that runs under the old bunk line (local name for the railway) to Wallingford to the right you can see a wooden footbridge. This is something which was built in the in recent times because when I was a kid it did not exist, the only way to get to the island as we called it was to scramble yo the embankment wall and jump the fence at the bottom. It was an overgrown area of shrubs and stinging nettles.<br />
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Now you just walk across the bridge and look down at the brook, The sides were concreted back in the 1960's and form a channel that the brook runs though, before the bridge was built we just jumped over the channel<br />
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Looking downstream you can see the bank has been eroded away more by kids working their way along, it never was like that when it was first repaired.<br />
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Walk on a little further through the woods and you come to another footbridge </div>
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This crosses the dried up stream bed that comes out of another culvert that is under the Bunk Line. The stream bed is overgrown with weeds saplings and debris from fallen leaves and branches. On the other side of the bridge is Millennium Woods that is at the South end of Jubilee Meadow. When I as a kit the woods were not there and the meadow was full of cattle grazing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCoVWZu-mnv-1k1tzSI_nUMy4t_Wl_8LNjuTp9cTMcQbMrhbrxmxSH20Y_LSNgndPJkVkizMmb4ApKbMn59g47AqNYhCFxiVJO_UM0G-KdZzbCEiIwCfrefOZHQoFKSJza9eMeG3q4fhyphenhyphen-/s800/008A0377.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="533" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCoVWZu-mnv-1k1tzSI_nUMy4t_Wl_8LNjuTp9cTMcQbMrhbrxmxSH20Y_LSNgndPJkVkizMmb4ApKbMn59g47AqNYhCFxiVJO_UM0G-KdZzbCEiIwCfrefOZHQoFKSJza9eMeG3q4fhyphenhyphen-/w426-h640/008A0377.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">November saw water running through the stream bed again<br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Walk under the bridge and you come to railings that stop you walking in to the brook. You can go either way, the right will take yo on a footpath that goes past the Bullshole and onto St Mary's Church<br />
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Looking down at the brook the only thing that has changed is it has become overgrown. The little cut to the right is an old concrete slipway that was built for cattle to go don to the brook and brink. It has become very overgrown and covered in soil. As a kid I remember it just been a trampled down back where the cattle walked down to drink in the brook.<br />
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Before we go in the Bullshole I will take you on the left hand footpath to show what you can see. The first think you notice is the wooded area on the left. This used to be just a grass triangle between the Main and Bunk lines, over the years it has become over grown and the footpath widened. It was quite muddy back in my time and a haven for wildlife where you could see lizards and grass snakes<br />
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At the end you come to the long tunnel under the main railway. By the tunnel to the right you might see it is overgrown and notice an old gate. This used to allow them to herd the cattle out of and through the long tunnel to fields on the other side. The tunnel floor is uneven and is formed from years a build up of mud an cattle dung that had dried. IT my time you had to dodge the cow pates in the mud. The cows hooves are the reason the floor is so uneven after all these years <br />
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This is where you come out at another barrier and again you can go one of two ways. <br />
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Go left and you will cross this field to a bridge that goes over the brook and on across another field where you come to a track. You can go across the track and on to Lollingdon or turn left and head back to the village via West end <br />
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Go right and you will follow a footpath that takes you to the Lees and if you want to St Marys Church and the village or onto Aston Tirrold.<br />
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Going back to the junction to the Bullshole and take the right path where you come out here. In the past there was a kissing gate you went through but now it has gone <br />
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The meadow beyond is now over grown with grass the trees you see in the near distance were not there when I was young maybe the odd small shrub but all this was short cropped grass and if you were lucky the cows were on the other side of the field<br />
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The footpath will cross this bridge that need some repair on the other side you will now find a fence and gate to go through before taking the footpath to the church<br />
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Over to the left you can find an opening where you can access the Bullshole pool. as you can see it is full of debris and has no water willows grow on one side<br />
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The bed was muddy but you could walk along it where you could see old dead leaves and branches from the willow. As a child this was always full or water which was quiet deep at lead for a kid it was coming over your wellies or up to you knees. I wondered why it got like this<br />
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Part of the reason is this, the exit form the culvert is blocked with debris and stones that come off the rail embankment partly through erosion and part through kids scrambling up. I wonder that Network rail have not fenced it off to stop trespass like other places.<br />
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I looked back up the pool and went back home wondering if I would ever see the stream flow back through here again.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgg8bYXnYKimImbnJwC8oKsr26yfSzKWYyzlOCKRZ2jrZU36XtwYnTKY3m7oPp0k9fWacceVCO5SqS_YWQGcQn1Q1ajaevmvjt5SHrtRTzlpTKBmCJdetOOxiCTF22btkovgJu-3PlWnRH/s1200/008A0378.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgg8bYXnYKimImbnJwC8oKsr26yfSzKWYyzlOCKRZ2jrZU36XtwYnTKY3m7oPp0k9fWacceVCO5SqS_YWQGcQn1Q1ajaevmvjt5SHrtRTzlpTKBmCJdetOOxiCTF22btkovgJu-3PlWnRH/w400-h266/008A0378.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>In November I happen to be walking past and noticed the was water in the pond<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGSQp1otXxYW0XQGkqMW0azLUa8aNFWK2G2T-awMwIVOgn7y8wON8bvIXNpfQIJ40gTcQb8UV65zjm0qeVFaZ2ihgCASWO5CsGkxM_GzxDFpS3lrpygH043bxK4Ae26PdsUKTkbyvPOhAl/s1200/008A0379.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGSQp1otXxYW0XQGkqMW0azLUa8aNFWK2G2T-awMwIVOgn7y8wON8bvIXNpfQIJ40gTcQb8UV65zjm0qeVFaZ2ihgCASWO5CsGkxM_GzxDFpS3lrpygH043bxK4Ae26PdsUKTkbyvPOhAl/w400-h266/008A0379.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">The rain we had in the last few weeks had filled the bullshole and it was flowing again for a while</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Before I go I will show you where the stream came from. Believe it or not it runs along over by the right where the fence is and turns left by the row of trees you see in the distance. The stream then joins back up with the brook over to the left about half a mile away. The stream bed is mostly blocked up over the years and if it was to flow again would need the land owner to help clear the debris from the stream and network rail to clear the section at the bottom of the embankment before you started on the Bullshole itself. Water does flow in times when the brook floods after winter rains but not for long. I'd like to think it will happen but I will not hole my breath.<br />
The Map below shows where I have taken you and I have marked the footpaths in charcoal. the red lines show the culverts under the railway North is at the top in the two maps I show<br />
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This second map is from the Ordnance Survey maps of the area in question. The Church can just be seen in the top Right had corner<br />
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</div>Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789569855696205497.post-29303506156123619662020-06-16T10:06:00.000-07:002020-06-16T10:06:48.403-07:00Didcot Power Station<br />
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They began building Didcot Power Station in 1964, I remember seeing the pylons being constructed either side of the Road as I went to school on the bus to Reading. In the distance from our village you could see the building being constructed. The one thing people from the area will remember is the fact you could see the stack for miles around, a sure sign that you were not far from home if you were travelling from your holiday </div>
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The photo above from 1966 looks like it is taken of the place where the South Towers are going and built on where the old POW camp was from the Second World War<br />
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This photo was sourced of the internet and shows the cooling towers being built.<br />
They could be the North towers<br />
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The towers in 1968 with the stack over on the right, one of the things I remember as a kid seeing built.</div>
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A year later the Turbine Hall was well on the way to being built</div>
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A year Later it looked like this </div>
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The turbine hall in 2013 just before it closed. This is how I remember seeing it around 1972 when I went on an open day to look around. One thing I remember is going past the Milling Machines that ground up the coal to dust so it could be injected in the boiler. We were told the sprinkler system that was they to extinguish fires would drown you if you were unfortunate to got caught in it. </div>
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When I left school the option for an apprenticeship at Didcot Power station was not on the cards but when I finished it was one of the places I could have gone to work, in fact years later I did go for a job there but noting came of it, too many people after the same job.<br />
Over the years I took many photos of the power station though none from the time it was being build during the 20th century.<br />
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You passed by it on the way to Bristol and it looked powerful with all the steam coming off the cooling towers.<br />
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The power station from Upton in December 2008 during the winter<br />
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On the way down Hagbourn Hill by the junction with Upton road you could not help see the it in the distance across the plain.<br />
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The power lines as you passed them on the way from Appleford to Sutton Cortenay November 2011</div>
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A different view from opposite on Haddon Hill in October 2010 <br />
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Nearby on Great Western Park the the cooling towers and stack look enormous in November 2011<br />
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You got a good view from a local landmark Wittenham Clumps in 2013. when this photo was taken it had been closed for three months<br />
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A year later the first three cooling towers were due to be demolished, this would be the last photo of them from Hagbourn Hill<br />
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I went around to the power station to get one last look at the huge towers, the next tome I came here they would be gone<br />
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A week or so before the even I went to the top of Cholsey Hill to get a photo of the power station with the sun going down.<br />
It would be one of the last sunsets it would see<br />
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A few days before the demolition I took a last photo of the towers in the sunset<br />
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Two days later the cooling towers were coming down, the time we were told was about 3am.my sons and I arrives around two where I took this photo. The police had told people to stay away but but I do not think that the hundreds of People who had come along to watch where I was along the London Road outside Harwell were concerned at what they said nor the people on the hillside behind<br />
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3am came and still no news even though people with phone were constantly updated everyone else <br />
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The just before 4 am we noticed one of the towers move, the glow you see is the explosion. The other two towers quickly followed the first<br />
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in the space of less than a minute they were all collapsing <br />
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and by the end of the minute all three were just dust rising in the air. <br />
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A few hours later I went back to the same place and took this shot of the stack & boiler house<br />
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I even went down to the site and took a photo through the fence <br />
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All that remained was rubble of the towers that had been there.<br />
That was it the view had change a little for the first time in over forty years, noting changed with the scene for a few years then a tragedy happened at 16:00 hours on the 23rd part of the boiler house which was being demolished collapsed killing three contractors who were inside<br />
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I remember seeing the place like the photo above on my way to work in the morning, going home that day and seeing part was missing and thought I did not think they were demolishing part today. It was not till I saw the news that I found out what happened <br />
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You can see part of the collapsed building poking out beside the stack<br />
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A couple of weeks later T took this from a path outside Appleford, the damage was clear to see <br />
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Under all this steelwork lay the bodies of the men who had been trapped in the collapse, Five months later in July the brought the rest down by explosive, I saw the dust as it came down while we were diving home from Henley on Gangsdown hill. The relatives had wanted the bodies retrieved but the contractors could not justify placing more men in danger. The end of August the found the first body, the second a eight days later in September, the third was found a week later. Each time the person was taken away form the site a guard of honour stood in science as they went by.<br />
In August 2019 the reaming three towers were due to be demolished. <br />
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I took one last shot of the towers a couple of evenings before<br />
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The morning of the demolition the sun was just rising when I got there<br />
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It shone on the towers one last time<br />
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On the way down the first and second could be seen distorting as they fell<br />
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The third looked to come straight down while dust came out the middle of the others<br />
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As the third neared the ground dust was rising from the others<br />
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Then all that was left was rising dust, the landscape changed again<br />
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Across on Wittenham clumps you could see the crowd watching there<br />
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The sun came out and shone on the graves of the towers while the last of the dust settled<br />
All that was left was the stack.<br />
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In February 2020 we had gales with some really strong winds, the stack was due to come down and I thought it would be cancelled but at 7:30 in the morning it was bought down. I did not go to watch I felt it was too dangerous in the high winds as it was later in the day I was nearly blown over getting this photo.<br />
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Days later I went back for another photo and this time it was not so windy <br />
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The Stack had once stood a little to the left of the stack you see the old cooling towers right & left with the boiler house just to the right of the stack. One of the tallest landmarks in the UK was gone what is there now is not noticed. What will become of the land where the old power station once stood no doubt will become a housing estate with I hope a memorial to the poor souls who lost their lives while demolishing the building. <br />
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A last look at the power station from Cholsey Hill<br />
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From Hagbourne Hill to where the Power Station once stood<br />
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I visited Hughenden Manor back in back in 2014 but for some reason forgot to write a blog on it so I think it is time I did so.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughenden_Manor">Hughenden Manor</a> was the home of Benjamin Disraeli who was prime minister
under Queen Victoria. It had an interesting History which you can read about if you follow the link above. During the Second World War, the basement at Hughenden Manor was used as a secret intelligence base code-named "Hillside". The UK Air Ministry staff at the manor analysed aerial photography of Germany and created maps for bombing missions, including the famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise" title="Operation Chastise">"Dambusters" raid</a>. It is now owned by the National Trust</div>
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The entrance to Hughenden Manor which is very stately looking<br />
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On the way in you pass these two statues</div>
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This book which looks old is on Disraeli desks I could not tell you what it is</div>
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Above Disraliis desk where he worked at the Manor </div>
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I liked this floral display on the desk</div>
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A small statue of Disraeli </div>
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Looking out of the window at the garden <br />
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Another statue you can see in the house</div>
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One of the sitting rooms for entertaining guests </div>
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Disraeli's despatch box, I do not think they have ever changed<br />
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A bust of Disraeli looking as though he had the weight of the world on his shoulders</div>
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From the window you get a great view of the formal garden at Hughenden</div>
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After going outside and walking down the path I took a few photo's back towards the house</div>
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A little further back</div>
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And a view from the end to the house taking in the whole garden</div>
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This was probably a fountain at one time now planted up to match the garden</div>
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A last look of the house from by the planter.</div>
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The one thing I did not do was take more photo's inside the house nor did I take any of the WWII display beneath the house which also showed where and how the family lived in the war beside the cellar where the RAF developed the photos taken by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Benson">RAF Benson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Mount_Farm">RAF Mount Farm</a> and no one knew it was there. You can also go and visit <a href="https://thechurchexporer.blogspot.com/2014/05/st-michael-all-angels-hughenden.html">St Michael & all Angels Church</a> which is at the bottom of the hill from the manor and see where Disraeli is buried along with other items in the church.</div>
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You can get more information on how to visit the manor by going to the <a href="https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hughenden">National Trust</a> web site.</div>
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<br />Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789569855696205497.post-51939756926034532772020-01-06T04:29:00.002-08:002023-10-06T07:44:14.307-07:00The Agatha Christie Trail<br />
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Agatha Christie lived in Winterbrook from 1934 -1976 which at the time was in the bounds of Cholsey. After when she died in 1976 Agatha was buried in the local church at Cholsey over in the far corner near a footpath that runs through the churchyard. Some years ago Wallingford Town Council and Wallingford Museum came up with the idea of the <a href="https://www.wallingfordtowncouncil.gov.uk/files/agatha_walks.pdf">Agatha Christie Trail</a> no doubt to try and increase the interest in the town trough tourism and to give some publicity to the Museum. The Trail which officially starts at the Town Hall because nearby is the Theater is home to the Sinodun Players where Agatha was the President from 1951 -1976. The trail then heads towards her home in Winterbrook then on from there along Winterbrook Lake where it joins a footpath leading to St Mary's Church in Cholsey. The footpath is a feature that has been around since people travelled between villages and to allowing local communities to get to church or to markets. The OS map show the footpath as far back as 1876. How may People start in Wallingford I would not know but I do see a fare number walking from the Railway Station in Cholsey going to the church to visit the grave asking the direction of local people if they are unsure. There are even some local people who will be a guide around the church for you and tell you about the grave.<br />
Being a local I ad never walked the trail even though I had been along parts of it over the years. A while ago I walked part of it and decided it was time to walk the whole trail and write a blog on it showing photos of the places you can see. I will start at Cholsey Church and show the way from there as I think a lot of visitors will walk from the church to Agatha's house in Winterbrook.<br />
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If you have travelled on the train and walked through the village the first sight of St Marys church will be from Bunk Arch <br />
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This was the old railway that run from Cholsey to Wallingford and I have no doubt she would have taken the train and seen the countryside as she travelled along it. I doubt it has change very much <br />
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Your next view will be this one as you walk towards the church <br />
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You will find a worn path at the end that takes you around the West end of the church where in the distance you can see Agatha's headstone </div>
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If you start your walk there you will retrace your steps to the carpark at the front of the church</div>
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Looking back towards St Mary's Church. If you come from Winterbrook this is what you will see<br />
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I noticed this snowmen along the field, no doubt for the children taking the Santa special train from Wallingford to spot<br />
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Looking across the bridge in the Winterbrook direction<br />
Turn around looking back towards Cholsey over to the right you can see Hillgreen Farm <br />
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It's privately owned now the farm being sold off many years ago <br />
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The view further along the footpath in the Cholsey Direction, the railway will be on your left coming from Winterbrook <br />
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You walk through a tunnel of shrubbery on your way to Winterbrook and on the right across the railway you will see a field <br />
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You should look both ways, this way is to Cholsey <br />
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This one to Wallingford <br />
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The crossing you see in the distance is the Wallingford Bypass <br />
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Looking across the field you now see this sight <br />
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You could call it greed, because greedy developers put up more housing needing sand and gravel, the land owners greed lead them to sell it to the greedy gravel pit owners and the Greedy South Oxfordshire District Council passed the application because they get more money from the rates levelled on the new housing. Yest it makes me mad. Mind you I did hear a story that a German Bomber in WWII drops it's load in the field before landing and they were not found, not sure i'd want to find that lot<br />
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They are well on the way to finishing the elevators<br />
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At the end by the bypass you can see the next stage across the road <br />
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But you need a clear space to cross the road <br />
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The do not hang about driving along the bypass <br />
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On the other side you see a stile and sign post <br />
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It points to Wallingford and Winterbrook <br />
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On the right is a filed though I do not give it long before some greedy developer snaps it up, they have already done archaeology on it <br />
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On the other side another part in the waiting <br />
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At the end of the field you come into Winterbrook <br />
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If you look left at the end you will see your destination of Agatha Christies house <br />
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and you can walk along the road till you see this front door<br />
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beside which you will see this plaque.<br />
If you want to walk this trail then you can download the route from the link at the top. It will take you about 45 minuets depending on conditions or you can go by bus as the bust stop is nearby<br />
If you are in Wallingford the start at the Town hall or catch a bus from there to Winterbrook.<br />
I hope this gives you a little more of an idea whet to expect if you do walk the route and hopefully it will be a nice day for you.<br />
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These are some of the pillboxes I have come across while in Wales. I had not gone out intentionally to find them but for the fact I kept a caravan in Built Wells so thought I'd see what was round there defence wise. What I found surprised me. I checked out the Defence of Britain site and saw there were some defences left.<br />
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This one an Allen Williams Turret can be found by the War memorial though it's not it's original position and and I doubt was from the area it was restored by the local cadet force .</div>
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Outside town and over near the golf course you can see this pillbox.<br />
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Looking at the embrasures which are larger that the ones I have normally seen<br />
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Entrance is down the steps</div>
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Inside you find tree tables which show it was a Vickers Machine Gun Position.</div>
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The view out of an embrasure<br />
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Not something that is easy to spot and does flood a times. Not sure who to ask now as it is a small holding but is worth visiting</div>
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This pillbox I came across while looking at an old dismantled railway on
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Entrance was beside the railway line.<br />
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Going inside this corrugated iron shuttering is coming away and nearly took my scalp off.<br />
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The ricochet wall was odd in that it was raised.<br />
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Looking from the top of the pillbox towards the River Wye where the railway used to cross on the left of the photo.</div>
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The last one is overlooking a bridge on the Elan Reservoir. The area looks to have been cleared at the time and I took the photo from the opposite side of the bridge. I have never been in this one as it was not that accessible to get to. There are more pillboxes to be found it Wales and I will post more when I come across them.</div>
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<br /><a href="https://spuduka.blogspot.com/2018/12/building-diamond.html">In my previous four blogs </a>I covered how <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Light_Source">Diamond Light Source</a> was built. I was lucky to be part of a team that was in the heart of the all the work that was being done. I was always on hand to see what was going on and always had a camera at hand even though at first it was the Vacuum groups digital camera. Over the years I took my own camera around with me taking photos of some of the interesting things I happened to see. This blog will show you how Diamond looks today and a lot of the photos were taken in the months before I retired.<br />
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Diamond House the first place you visit before your tour around the facility, the front here is due to be extended in 2020</div>
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The atrium in Diamond House where you will start your tour<br />
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Going along this bridge to the Experimental hall<br />
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You pass by the control room where the look after the running of the storage ring<br />
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Welcome to the Experimental Hall, the was the view that I saw each day I went to work in the centre of the building </div>
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Walking around the outside of the hall you come to Zone 5 where there is another bridge that would take you to the centre and the stores where I worked from<br />
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This is the view from the walkway by the office I worked from that I would see everyday<br />
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If you go on a tour of Diamond on an open day you most likely will be shown this part of the storage ring, if memory serves me right this was the first area populated with girders.<br />
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If you keep walking along you will come to this cell which is called DDBA or the Double-Double Bend Achromat (DDBA) Project It was a few years in the making and one of the last areas that was changed. The beamline through here is a lot smaller in section than the rest of the storage ring, it also has more bending magnets (the big green ones you see) the idea to give a much more powerful insertion device beamline<br />
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Further on along the ring you will come across another type ID this one is an Out Vac version meaning that there is no vacuum around the magnets. It is also one of the biggest being around 5 metres long<br />
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This is a closer view of the magnets top and bottom. The vessel between is a narrow Aluminium one specially manufactured to use for this purpose<br />
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This is the second one. Both were made in Russia and it one of the few things most people never see<br />
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Above an invac Insertion Device (ID) on pump after being installed<br />
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Another place the public rarely seen is the RF cavity these are superconducting and cooled by Liquid Helium They have their own Liquifier<br />
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A view people see from time to time is the roof off the storage ring<br />
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It was installed in place after I left<br />
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And just over a year later I returned as a Guide and took this photo of it in place <br />
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The my old team had done an impressive job placing it where it needed to go<br />
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Another place you will be shown is the Linac <br />
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The Linac Gun where the light beam is fired off<br />
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And travels along this copper tube <br />
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Long till it goes through the wall at the end to the Booster ring <br />
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This looks back the to the Linac Gun<br />
This is probably the one place I was most proud being a part of building<br />
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Above getting ready to lift out a girder it weighs in the region of 14+ tons<br />
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The Storage ring is in a constant process of evolving with new beamlines being added or upgraded<br />
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Walk along the ground floor on the experimental hall and you pass by the hutches where the experiments are done <br />
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During shutdown many are open and you can see inside <br />
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The building was also extended outside<br />
The first extension was this one which was started in March 2008<br />
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It was right by our office <br />
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Followed by I13 you see in the distance<br />
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This the the beamlines under the slabs you see <br />
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This is what is under the slabs you see, funny we also put this together in January as well<br />
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The last part that was added was I21 a blister on the side of the experimental hall <br />
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The beamline runs across the Experimental hall coming out inside here, the whole beamline can rotate through an arc on an air bearing and be raised up and down. <br />
That is a little taster of Diamond Light Source and lets you see some of the place. There are open days every so often and you have to book on the <a href="https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home.html">Diamond website</a><br />
You will be shown around by people who work there (even a few who have retired) and shown around the storage ring and beamlines and told how it works by the scientists and technicians <br />
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I will take you leave with this photo taken back in May 2008 a year or so after the place was up and running it is more or how it looks today. I hope have enjoyed this tour of Diamond Light Source and if you get the chance go along on a open day for a visit.</div><div style="text-align: center;">On 6th September 2023 Diamond Light Source got the 500million pounds it needs to upgrade to Diamond 2<br /></div>
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789569855696205497.post-40440188164455104682019-12-14T04:19:00.005-08:002023-10-11T03:11:08.667-07:00RAF Harwell<br />
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I have updated this blog with some new photos now it is not linked to Flickr<br />
<b>RAF Harwell</b> was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfield" title="Airfield">airfield</a> in former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, near the village of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwell,_Oxfordshire" title="Harwell, Oxfordshire">Harwell</a>, later the site of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Energy_Research_Establishment" title="Atomic Energy Research Establishment">Atomic Energy Research Establishment</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_Appleton_Laboratory" title="Rutherford Appleton Laboratory">Rutherford Appleton Laboratory</a>. The site is now in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>. (taken from Wikipedia<br />
When I started working at Diamond which is on the Ruterford site and I always wondered how much of the old RAF site was still left, some parts I could see like the old Hangers and runways but when on Hanger was demolished I thought I should record what could be seen. The site is vast and at first you could not see much beyond security fence of Harwell but then it was moved so it was time to find out what was there.<br />
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The Harwell site taken in 1944 with the A34 running from left to right at the top. Using this photo I was able to locate a lot of the old RAF site</div>
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A short Sterling towing a Horsa Glider at Harwell in 1944 from Wikipedia<br />
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This was the longest runway and most likely the one the previous photo. Diamond Light source was built across part of it.<br />
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I suspect that is is part of the end of the runway at Harwell now used as storage, the photo was taken by Des Blenkinsopp off Geograph<br />
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This is now called Fermi Avenue which was the second of the runways at RAF Harwell, during the 1950;s a US air force jet made an emergency landing here. Diamond Light Source is over to the right<br />
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Old photo of the crash I sourced off the internet, in the background you can see one of the hangers that was demolished some time after 2005<br />
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This was the Third runway which bisected the other two again Diamond in the distance was built on part of it which prior to that was used for a car park by Rutherford.<br />
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One of the taxiways which lead off to the dispersal points which still exist. The bomb store was the area you see around the centre it was cleared away a few years ago when it was found to be full of contaminated waste near the school you can see in the photo The cleared are you see was part of an archaeological dig where a roman villa and iron age roundhouse were discovered. This area is now being built on. The photo was taken from the Mound at Rutherford.<br />
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Track leading to the old bomb store<br />
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Part of the perimeter road that will lead to a dispersal site<br />
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In this photo you can see two dispersal points to the right out of photo are another two of them<br />
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This photo is to show a relic of RAF Harwells beginning were they were helping develop a catapult system for Grass airfields only instead of stem it was worked by air pressure. They used Merlin engines as compressors which did not work too well being as that was not what they were designed for. This photo show one of the legs the lighter coloured grass are mid photo. If you look in the first photo about mid picture just by the road and runway you can make the shape out. You can read more about it in the link <a href="http://www.research-sites.com/UserFiles/File/Archive/Project%20Information/Harwell-Catapult-pit.pdf" target="_blank">Harwell-Catapult-pit</a><br />
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In the screen shot above off Google Earth you can see the outline of the catapult where it lays under the ground</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjId5wfKipuMWmIYUzWN1IHj8rmIjKesHk-zA9xU7Ouuxi3rUtmeTwFajaSEp3nEc9zX_xMkJj6j0KYGbcdreC7AWnHPAVeEwsKQY09FHHkGpt0Rzt4iamNYvTIhbqsU0ldBBHKQKmnKg0nu5h_VfHpFmD8rTPpwCpMg2hSMUxyYgK35nnsXFDIo7ONMA/s1067/Catapult3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1067" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjId5wfKipuMWmIYUzWN1IHj8rmIjKesHk-zA9xU7Ouuxi3rUtmeTwFajaSEp3nEc9zX_xMkJj6j0KYGbcdreC7AWnHPAVeEwsKQY09FHHkGpt0Rzt4iamNYvTIhbqsU0ldBBHKQKmnKg0nu5h_VfHpFmD8rTPpwCpMg2hSMUxyYgK35nnsXFDIo7ONMA/w640-h442/Catapult3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">2022 had a dry summer and the catapult showed up even better<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwm3tTLOeBaM9AfgKu1cGB6PDyWeG9RaGre65aL0ujHpthcPyCTC0jfx5fQXdTFrC7pcoQ9QxR0sBFH385tgvpzqh5C9BJUZXIC3pYLc2xgfnGnCUosO9woydKQ4KfI7SEb466djPn3voe9njz16gUrlkSq2OTOr-MXMONFY4iSrb1PQjp8SNkGXGJJw/s1149/IMG_6825.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="1149" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwm3tTLOeBaM9AfgKu1cGB6PDyWeG9RaGre65aL0ujHpthcPyCTC0jfx5fQXdTFrC7pcoQ9QxR0sBFH385tgvpzqh5C9BJUZXIC3pYLc2xgfnGnCUosO9woydKQ4KfI7SEb466djPn3voe9njz16gUrlkSq2OTOr-MXMONFY4iSrb1PQjp8SNkGXGJJw/w640-h514/IMG_6825.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Another screen capture of my iphone </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-3cKfEv9KfkRNtScUMi81bVJ3GInpCLHsIMxFZq4-dzd2jpjxwdzn_ffJ4FT1PbPMrT7MmzdCAdM6RWIcskRo4TrPQ1jLC3pblxgxCPXI1GCa6rn6jLfp8pMMmzZyFjISipGvSv2dAmvZ8QGEDae2g3zSLUnop_FBVRhh0a8YXqQh6CaN-ZbLzgQp8U5u/s1600/Bird's%20eye%20view%20of%20excavated%20Harwell%20catapult%20with%20emplacement%20%C2%A9%20MOLA%5B6728%5D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1600" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-3cKfEv9KfkRNtScUMi81bVJ3GInpCLHsIMxFZq4-dzd2jpjxwdzn_ffJ4FT1PbPMrT7MmzdCAdM6RWIcskRo4TrPQ1jLC3pblxgxCPXI1GCa6rn6jLfp8pMMmzZyFjISipGvSv2dAmvZ8QGEDae2g3zSLUnop_FBVRhh0a8YXqQh6CaN-ZbLzgQp8U5u/w640-h352/Bird's%20eye%20view%20of%20excavated%20Harwell%20catapult%20with%20emplacement%20%C2%A9%20MOLA%5B6728%5D.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>Photo was taken by <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #000001; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">MOLA </span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #000001; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(Museum of London Archaeology)</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #000001; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><br />This was the pit after it was excavated before removal. The one thing I did not realise is that part went under the old runway on the right and also had part of the concrete runway either side of the pit for the aircraft wheels to run along. The blue circle bottom left is a gun pit that was uncovered during excavations. You can read about the <a href="https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/excavations-harwell-investigate-experimental-ww2-catapult">excavation here</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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In the background of this photo you can see a Hangar this was demolished not long after this photo was taken. The people in the photo are waiting for explosion that will bring down the building in the foreground, it failed to fall due to a couple of bits of one inch rebar which was later removed with pecker on an excavator<br />
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This is the remaining hangar at Harwell and at the present time the reactor inside is being decommissioned, I think after the the building will be demolished.<br />
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The old entrance to Harwell which would have been the entrance to the RAF base though the buildings (Guard House) may have been a little different<br />
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Once the Security fence moved I was able to get some photos of the old RAF Buildings, this is the Station HQ where the CO would have had his office.<br />
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The Airman's Mess which became the AERE Restaurant. <br />
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This is not on the RAF site but in Harwell Cemetery and has 93 war graves most of which are RAF personnel whom I presume lost their lives during service at Harwell<br />
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The Plaque you will find at the end of the main runway, each year there is a service held by Harwell and Rutherford and wreaths laid.<br />
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In the fourth part of this blog I will show how we put all the parts together to form the machine itself. After most of the girders were in place we had to bring in the ID (insertion device) makeup pieces and then connect them to the girders which by now were populating the storage ring tunnel<br />
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The roof was place back , the covering on the machine is to stop dust and small bits of rubbish falling on it and causing damage.<br />
Next we built a Lamina Flow cabinet over the area we were working on and prepped up the part we needed to install<br />
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This is the finished thing, an inter girder bellows in place connecting two of the girders<br />
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The whole lot end up looking like this, The parts you see on the end of the elbows are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_pump_(physics)">Ion pumps</a><br />
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The Booster ring was the next on the cards, The stands were already installed <br />
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Contractors from Germany assembled the first part of the gun<br />
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It was very impressive when you see all the magnets<br />
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They were surveying in these Magnets<br />
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This is the Linac Gun before a cage was put in place<br />
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Above looking along the copper section<br />
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Left looking back to the Linac Gun<br />
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Another view to the Gun end<br />
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The Manet's near the Linac Gun<br />
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This photo shows the RF tubes and more ION pumps<br />
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That is how we built the storage ring at Diamond Light Source. It took around a year to do, that was just our part other sections had to add their parts and the whole thing tested. I started in March 2004 and by the end of 2007 the first users were taking beam. The whole project came in on time and to budget.</div>
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789569855696205497.post-51023300561897515922019-02-28T04:46:00.000-08:002019-02-28T04:46:15.903-08:00Building Diamond Pt 2<br />
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I the last blog I showed how the building was built and hinted at the work which was happening in R79. In this blog I will show you the work that went into building the machine itself. To start with R79 had to be filled with the infrastructure that we were going to use on building it. That meant ordering up tools, benches, fixtures, jigs, cleaning equipment and lifting equipment plus a whole lot more.<br />
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So where do you start, and empty building needed filling with equipment <br />
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The tripod was part of the survey equipment they world need to mark out where some of the heavy stuff was going, the benches were supposed to be for use but no use to when we were doing. The are still around over in the main building and used there<br />
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We had a kitchen but no tables yet <br />
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An office, not that I used it <br />
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That made up the two ovens you see either side of the build trolley that had been delivered <br />
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The trolley was placed in the clean room <br />
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Test equipment came in like the pump cart you see in the centre along with leak detectors. We ended up with thirty pumping carts, they cost 20k each and over 16 leak detectors at around 14k each and this was for only the first stage of building the machine<br />
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While this was going on my job was being over in the main building taking charge of these which were being delivered from Germany. They are what we called ID makeups<br />
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Th ID stands for Insertion Device, it was something that would go between sections of the storage ring. These were late in coming so this section would be going in so we could run<br />
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They were put in storage tents to keep clean because the building was still a dusty construction site. I had to make sure that they still held a vacuum and fix a small pump controller to it so the ION pumps could run. I had to check the pressures twice a day & write the readings. It only took around twenty minuets with the first ones but by the time we had all of them I was spending a couple of hours checking them<br />
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We also took delivery of this second hand container to store equipment and tools. Eventually this container was moved outside and only replaced with a new one last year<br />
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This was another thing I sourced, a Lamina Flow Tent, the idea was to blow clean air though it and over the equipment we were assembling keeping it clean. By the time we finished we has seven of them and six smaller ones. I took ages working out the size to go through the labyrinth, after they were ordered I was about to go in through one of the labyrinths and noticed they had fitted pipes along both sides of the walls, I was not best please finding this out. The cabinets had to be quickly modified so I could get them in. <br />
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This was quite a process as a lifting from had to be lowered onto the string <br />
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Once this was done tie rods were connected to lifting points on the string <br />
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where it was lowered back down in place to be baked out <br />
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The String was baked under vacuum to get the optimum vacuum which is around 10x10-10 mbar it was baked in the over for around 72 hours and controlled by computer over this time<br />
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First the finished string was brought through the workshop <br />
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When it was finished it looked like this, all 14 odd tons of it now all that was left was to build 71 more. The green magnet you see was fitted last and slid sideways into place.<br />
<a href="https://spuduka.blogspot.com/2019/02/building-diamond-pt-3.html">In the next blog </a>I will show you how they were lifted in place over in the storage ring the connected up along with the other work that was done to make the machine work<br />
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789569855696205497.post-867647230977650702019-02-28T04:44:00.003-08:002019-03-29T01:11:49.588-07:00Building Diamond Pt 3<br />
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In the last blog I left you looking at one of the finished girders awaiting installation in the storage ring. The next stage required a lot of people working together to make sure it all went together smoothly and hopefully with little problem. We had 72 girders to install then couple them all together and keep them under vacuum. On top of that we also had to build up the booster ring and Linac. Now all of what I said was no doubt going over your head so here is a drawing of what Diamond looks like which I borrowed from the Diamond Website<br />
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You can see what I mean by the storage ring, booster and linac. The beamlines on the outside are to be added later. The storage ring is where we star building </div>
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In the last blog you saw how the girders were transported to the storage ring and how they were lifted around. Now you get to see how they were installed for the fist time<br />
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This was the smaller of the three that are installed in to a segment. it is lowered through a gap in the roof<br />
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Then down to the place they are to sit, one complication was the elect rial cable trunking that was fitted pror to the first time we came to try them<br />
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The second one that went in was larger as it has an outlet on the side. You can see where it is from the large ion pump on the side. The outlet was to join on a front end that too the beams out to the experimental hutch outside the wall<br />
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These photos show the process of moving over 14 tons of girder through R79 to the trailer<br />
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This belive it of not is the number two girder, it goues in between the last tow that were installed, it is also the heaviest at over 14 ton. This is it being loaded in the trailer<br />
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and all three are in place. The plastic you see covering it is to stop dust and tiny bits of concrete falling on the parts as the roof is lowered back in place. <a href="https://spuduka.blogspot.com/2019/03/building-diamond-pt-4.html">The next blog </a>will show who we assembled them all together and the building of the linac & Booster rings.</div>
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I have written a series of blogs on How Diamond Light Source was built. It was done by various teams of people who cooperated together and make the finished project which came in on time and on budget. This is how I helped to create a little piece of history with a lot of other skilled people.<br />
March 2004 I started my new job at Diamond Light Source. My Friends and I had been told we would be making the equipment that would be used for the running the strange ring. We would be the ones building it. When we got there the place was still a construction site, we would be working out of a new building called R79. What we found out was the building was not finished and we ended up working out of a portacabin. After being given a desk with a PC we were told to get quotes for the tools and equipment we were going to use. After three months my two friends Doug & Wolfie moved into R79, I was left in the portacabin and informed my workplace would be the storage ring which was still in the process of being built. While my friends were building the girders that would be used. I would be keeping an eye on the finished equipment that was being stored in the building on top of helping back in R79 along with looking after all the lifting equipment that we were purchasing.<br />
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The portacabin where I worked for the first six months<br />
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R79 where the girders were to be built, the Vacuum office is next to the black car<br />
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This is what the place looked like when we started, the building you see is Diamond House, the storage ring building is behind<br />
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This shows the the storage ring tunnel being built, the rebar is part of the ratchet wall and you can see the outlets to what will be the experimental hall<br />
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One of the finished concrete walls with the outlets in place<br />
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Above the tunnel is the storage ring being built. Tons of special concrete were poured here, at one stage 1200 cubic meters of concrete was poured each day<br />
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One of the things I did see what the partly finished roof of Diamond, if you look on Google earth you will see the circle, this is what it looked like from the side<br />
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This is what the floor looked like when it is poured and polished<br />
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As the months went more and more of the place was finished, this is the Linac where the light beam is fired off, the pipes you see poking out of the floor are where the cables come through<br />
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In the courtyard more of the equipment was being fitted in place<br />
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More was stored outside on the perimeter road<br />
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The three cranes were lifted in through the roof , they can lift 20 tons each<br />
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One of the two bridges in place, this one is at Zone 5<br />
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This wooden frame will form part of a CIA this is where the electronics equipment that would control the vacuum is stored<br />
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This is one of the three loading doors you can see beside what became known as a pod most were used as kitchens and rest areas for the staff<br />
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Not far away from the loading bay the walkway that would bring you from Diamond House to the main Hall, the pod you see will be the control room that runs the light beam.<br />
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Looking across from by R79 you can see a crane lifting equipment into Diamond House<br />
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Above the perimeter road in winter, in a few more months we will be bringing the girders that will make up the storage ring along here<br />
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Left the linac now fully painted and with survey monuments on the wall<br />
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The booster ring looking towards the break out wall, eventually this will be filled in when the equipment is in place<br />
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An empty storage ring, the steel plates on the floor cover the cable run from the CIA outside<br />
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The storage ring was nearly finished with the roof beams in place<br />
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I doubt many people saw this other than the guys working on it. This was the last part to be done on the storage ring , it closed up the part where they had access to the courtyard in the centre<br />
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The walls on the far side were being built closing off the building, when the concrete was poured the ring would be finished<br />
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Once the ring was closed equipment was being brought in like these stands for the linac<br />
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The booster ring was the same with a curtain over the breakout wall<br />
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These were the cradles for the girders that will be brought in place an form the storage ring itself.<br />
Things were beginning to happen and it would not belong before we started to install the equipment itself. I will show you how that happened in <a href="https://spuduka.blogspot.com/2019/01/building-diamond-pt-2.html">the next blog</a>. <br />
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789569855696205497.post-76581692429588147982017-12-14T07:02:00.000-08:002017-12-14T07:02:06.388-08:00Visit to Pompeii<br />
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Many years ago I was sent to the university of Salerno to install a magnet system by Oxford Instruments who I was working for at the time. I spent a couple of weeks there and on the weekend I had the chance to visit Pompeii because it was not that far away from the place. So I took my life in my hands and hopped on a local bus to go there which was only a few Lire back then (Before Euro's).<br />
Any way after some hair raising experiences on the roads I carried there and took a few photos with my Canon Powershot 35mm compact. If I'd have had a digital camera then i would have come back with hundreds of photos rather that the couple of rolls I took. You can read about the history of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii">Pompeii</a> in the link. All the photos were scanned up so the quality is not as good a a digital camera you get now. When I visited which was on a weekend there were a distinct lack of tourists around and rather that go on a guided tour I just wandered around freely <br />
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Sure this was the way I went in, all I remember was that the gate used to face the sea port below<br />
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The outer walls beside the road<br />
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Another view of the are and the road over to the right<br />
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Inside the city you can see the roads people used to walk on<br />
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There ware some beautiful areas, this one is near the Amphitheatre <br />
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Think this was a temple once<br />
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view across one part to mount Vesuvius <br />
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Typical garden of a wealthy person <br />
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Not sure if this was a shop or part of the public baths<br />
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This is the outside of the Amphitheatre </div>
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The skeleton behind the fence is that of a horse & I think this was the blacksmiths <br />
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The saddest part of my walk around was seeing the remains of the people who lived here in the throws of dying</div>
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Fifty odd years ago I spent my summer whiling away my days at the local swimming pool or just messing around on the river. I had left school and did not know if I had got a job or not. I had been turned down by AERE Harwell and was waiting to see if I had gotten apprenticeship at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulics_Research_Station">Hyraulics Research Station. </a>Sometime during the holidays I received a letter telling me I had been accepted so on the 26th of August 1968 I got on my bike and rode to work for the first time.<br />
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Which went through Wallingford and ended up going along this road which at the time was the main road to Oxford (now it's just access)<br />
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The following photos were taken at <a href="http://www.hrwallingford.com/">HR Wllingford</a> as it is known now back in 2009 when I went to watch the start of the Thames run and show how the place looks now. It was here I met the other apprentice Trevor</div>
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This end was where the Heavy Gang were the side where all the welding was done. I spent two wonderful months working with this crew towards the end of my apprenticeship learning to weld, at one stage I had Arc eye after welding which was painful. I was also one for playing tricks on one of them called Tom Sanderson. He smoked rollups and I would nail the tin to his bench , tip it upside-down so it looked like the lid was on and when he picked it up the contents would fall out. <br />
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And this was where Trev and myself ended up. The Apprentice workshop where we would spend out first year learning our trade. The workshop was equipment with a lathe, milling machine, shaper and pillar drill along with a couple of benches and a small soldering hearth. By the time we left we knew how to use all the machines use a file and hacksaw correctly and had an idea how to solder. After finishing we were supposed to go into the main workshop and be placed with a craftsman. We stayed with him for six months before moving on to another. Problem was we were kept in the workshop a little longer that we expected and given jobs from the main workshop. This all stopped when my mate Trevor ended up being dragged into the lathe he was working on (no guards then) . By the time I hit the emergency stop he had pulled away leaving his cloths torn off my. I ran to get the first aid officer. Lucky he was ok apart from a a few scratches but we were soon moved in to the main workshop<br />
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The product of a years training and work in the Apprentice shop, I still have a few of the items I made though they are not as pristine as you see them there</div>
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Above is a view over the boundary hedge towards the main workshop</div>
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The workshop is the tall building with the high glass which at the time had a smashed window caused by another apprentice who had fixed a counterbalance weight on a lathe faceplate forgetting to tighten it up. He also forgot to lower the speed. The result was the lathe started up and the weight shot off the faceplate and out of the top most window through the glass landing in the grass beyond. That happened before I started my time there. In the next three years I spent my time working in different parts of the workshop learning different disciplines and perfecting my trade though I admit to having some moments like braking a lathe and milling machine which had to be fixed.</div>
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Some of it took me to the main hall which was in the above photo. When it was demolished I could not tell you but the place was huge and the road in the foreground was the perimeter road</div>
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Above I found this photo on the internet and managed to save it. It was taken after I left as the building you see on the right was not there at the time The rest was and shows the size of the hall, You can make out the manor house near the bottom. The building nearby is the office block and beyond is hall where all the models were made to replicate the work that needed doing. A couple that come to mind was the Morecambe Bay project and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier">Thames Barrie</a>r both of which I did bits of work on <br />
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Above a clipping I found on the net which shows the inside of the Hall</div>
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This used to be the second entrance & exit and over on the left used to be a row of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissen_hut">Nissen Huts</a> </div>
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So this was where the Main Hall was</div>
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The Back of the manor house built by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Seymour_Blackstone">William Setmour Blackstone</a><br />
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The transport section was situated here in the old carriage buildings<br />
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This was the car park though admittedly I parked outside the workshop. Over to the right were some tennis courts we used <br />
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Looking towards what was the transport section<br />
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This used to be the electronics building near the workshop where they made all the electronic equipment used in the place <br />
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<span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-author">Photo taken off Wikipedia HR Wallingford Ltd</span> - <span class="mw-mmv-source">HR Wallingford Ltd. The extension on the right is where the canteen was, and every day one of the apprentices used to go on the bun run collecting the rolls & cakes for the craftsmen in the workshop. Need less to say two of us used to give the ladies the run around and were always happy to help make the rolls, the fact we never paid for ours as we slipped them in the box went unknown. We also made the tea at tea brake on occasion and came away with a profit, what a bunch of rouges. </span></span><br />
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<span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source">The Main House from the road as it is today. After four years of learning my trade I became a craftsman as they were known then though never took up the position electing to take the advice of the older craftsmen and go out in the world and make my own way, so </span></span><span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source"><span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source"> </span></span><span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source"><span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source">after I received my apprenticeship deeds </span></span></span></span>in August 1972 I left</span></span><span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source"><span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source"> </span></span>to go and work at Oxford Instruments were I spent the next 31 years but that is another story.</span></span><br />
<span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source">50 years after starting at HRS I retired from work, I felt I had enough</span></span><br />
<span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source">Dedicated to the Former Apprentices and Craftsmen of HRS where ever you are now. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="mw-mmv-source-author"><span class="mw-mmv-source">For Paul who died in 2023 and whom I worked with for many years after finishing here. RIP Bro </span></span><br />
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The planning for the electrification of the GWR was in the offing for a long time in fact back in 2009 preparation started started with the bridges that were too low being replaced.The low bridges were at Purley, Lower Basildon, South Stoke, South Moreton Didcot & Oxford. The bridges at Purley were held up due to a local group objecting saying they were Brunell bridges and needed preserving and it was taken to court. When I found out about the bridges were to be demolished I set about recording the old bridges before they were gone</div>
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One that is only see if you walk up the track is the one over the Moreton Cutting only used for farm traffic<br />
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I visited the day they were surveying it for the work that was going to be done<br />
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The bridge looking from the Sands road bridge along the line, the Moreton sidings can be seen on the other side</div>
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Further up the line the Sands Road bridge crossing the line between North & South Moreton<br />
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The bridge looks quite new in the photo that is because a few years previous they upgraded it by straightening the bridge approach. The old copping stones which had graffiti on them I'm told ended up at the local school </div>
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The bridge along the side and on the right you can see how low the arches are<br />
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One thing you noticed was the sign waring you of children around<br />
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You can see the blackening on the arches from the old steam trains that ran through years ago<br />
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The bridge deck for the sands Road bridge was built a couple of months before in the field nearby and was ready by the 23rd of December <br />
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Christmas Eve the crane was being assembled and the bridge made ready for the lift <br />
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They had closed the bridge in the middle of December 2009 and work on the bridge at Moreton and work started<br />
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Over to the right is footbridge to keep the two communities of North & South Moreton connected<br />
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below on the bridge you could see lines cut deep in the Victorian brickwork<br />
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Just before midnight on Christmas Eve work was supposed to start after the last train had gone through<br />
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Down below men were moving around<br />
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A huge crane was erected to move the new bridge in place<br />
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You can see the new bridge in the floodlights where it was built in the field<br />
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The whole area was floodlit<br />
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Next morning on Christmas day <br />
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Little seem to have changed<br />
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But on the opposite side a crusher waited<br />
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Under the bridge an excavator moved huge pieces of wood in place to stop the track getting damaged<br />
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The peckers went across the bridge removing the parapet<br />
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Down below another pecked the bridge was well<br />
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I must admit it seem to take a long time<br />
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and eventually the bridge was gone by the next day<br />
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The large crane waited<br />
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Men prepared the base for the new supports that were to go in<br />
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The huge crane<br />
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Up the line you could see the new bridge in place near the Moreton cutting, this was taken from the Fulscot bridge near Didcot<br />
The Bridge supports were in place for the Sands Road Deck<br />
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They looked very sturdy and heavy<br />
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The precision used to fit them amazed me<br />
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There seemed to be very little left to do to finish the abutment off<br />
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You could see the bridge bearings on the top that supported the deck <br />
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It would be another two to three months before it opened.<br />
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A year later work was due to start on this bridge at Spring Farm near
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So again I took some photos of the old bridge before it got demolished. <br />
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Even the graffiti I found <br />
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The bridge itself with the wider arch that used to be for the wide gauge rails that the GWR used to run on when first built <br />
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The bridge itself was gone and they were removing the spoil from it<br />
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It was a hive of activity though I was spotted taking photos and was taken to the managers office who kindly took me to a place I could get some photos of the work going on the other side<br />
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The bridge had stood for over a hundred years <br />
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and in the space of a short time was removed. The two excavators here have wagons on the back and move to the bridge fill them up and back up where they are emptied and then the cycle continuses<br />
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They looked like a lad of insects devouring some remains <br />
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a couple of days later it was all gone and the foam was piled back up<br />
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All that remained was the stump in the middle and the bridge sides, the rest had gone<br />
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All you could see of the old bridge was some neatly cut off brickwork<br />
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I wondered when the new decks would be installed<br />
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Turned out over Easter <br />
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As I found out by chance<br />
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butthe new decks were in<br />
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though it looked a little odd seeing a square arch<br />
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Spring Farm after it was finished<br />
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Near platform one a pylon was being erected <br />
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March and gantries could be seen in the station<br />
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Towards the Lees Bridge work could be seen going on along the railway<br />
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Even silly Bridge was being worked on<br />
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Platform Four above and another Pylon in place and platform two I felt times have changed<br />
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How long before I would see cables running through the station<br />
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Weeks later in March some workmen could be seen on the railway<br />
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Bringing equipment down from Cholsey Station<br />
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On the station one of the pylons had been bolted down<br />
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Work loading the wagons<br />
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In April a gantry was laying between the slow and fast lines<br />
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even from the Westfield Road the skyline looked different<br />
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In May at Moulsford Bridge it was just gantry's <br />
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Even the view to Silly Bridge was gone<br />
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Looking down to the Lees Bridge<br />
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Closer shot sowing the jumble of insulators <br />
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This is on of the cables used to take the power and the clamp that holds it in place<br />
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The mirror is used by the train driver to look back along the platform<br />
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Above the reach lifts reminded be of caged monsters waiting to be let out.<br />
Left one of the service trains parked up along the line<br />
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August and an update of Silly Bridge which now is finished. to give an idea to the height when I take photos over the top I have to reach, the parapet top is over six foot. Right looking through the railings to the cutting<br />
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This looks to Moulsford Bridge<br />
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the opposite side to the station at Cholsey<br />
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Closer look to Mouslford Bridge<br />
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From the side of Moulsford Bridge looking to Silly Bridge as a train passes<br />
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From a once unobstructed view of Silly Bridge now you see gantries.<br />
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Looking towards Moulsford Viaduct<br />
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Closer shot of the gantries<br />
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An amazing amount of work has gone into powering the lines<br />
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Some are still on temporary supports <br />
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But everything looked in place<br />
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The last few were taken lately in 2017<br />
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Above looking along Platform 3 and left platform two<br />
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Platform two again the opposite way<br />
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One reference point was the canopy on Platform four. The Cables are all now in place and test runs have been done though as yet I have not seen any electric trains running through the village<br />
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The next thing to happen will be an extension to the platform for longer trains<br />
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That is the story of the Electrification of the railway at Cholsey, I have still yet to see a train run through powered by the cables but that will come. I'm not impressed with how Network Rail organised the work as there was no set pater as to how it was done. Why they could not start one end and work to the other is past me though the section from Reading to Didcot was supposed to finished first so they could test the trains. The whole project is running late and costing millions due to the way it has been organised.<br />
South Stoke along the line near the Moulsford Viaduct started a campaign called the<a href="http://www.savegoringgap.org.uk/"> Railway Action Group</a> after Network Rail appeared to have breached the law of Section 85 Countryside Rights of Way Act 2000. I must admit that I was sceptical at first because I could not see network rail taking any notice but as it was they got Network Rail to admit they had got it wrong. Network Rail said they would change the design of the Gantries to one of a more sympathetic design in keeping with the area. I await to see this happen but will record it when it does<br />
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789569855696205497.post-57136945840014331802017-07-20T04:02:00.000-07:002017-08-17T04:02:55.921-07:00Electrifiation of the GWR at Cholsey <br />
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The Great Western Railway has run through Cholsey since it was first put in back in 1840. Very little has changed apart from the change over from Steam to Diesel trains. In recent years the Signal box in the station was removed along with the engine shed and sidings. The Branch line to Wallingford closed in 1961and became a Preserved Railway. The station and line never changed until 2015. Then things started to Happen like loud banging noises in the night. They had started work on Electrifying he GWR.<br />
A couple of years previous I came across some planning applications which covered this but did not take a lot of notice, realisation hit home it was happening. I decided to record what happened with the process and this blog covers the work in progress. Some info on the process of <a href="http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/sitedocuments/Planning-and-Building-Control/Planning/nr_a_guide_to_overhead_electrification.pdf" target="_blank">Electrification </a><br />
I have written an article on <a href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/GWR-Electrification">Geograph Called GWR Electrification at Cholsey</a> which shows the progress over the time I followed the work. For this blog I will show it in two parts which takes you though 2015 and 2016 when most of the work was finished.<br />
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I'll start here with a photo of Silly Bridge looking from Moulsford Bridge. Could not tell you how the name came. The most likely reason is that the villagers used to graze there livestock on the common land which was to the left of the bridge. They complained to Brunel the needed access and got it. The the land was enclosed and they lost it. So a bridge in a silly place now its a track used by the Farmer <br />
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You can see railings on the bridge which were put there to stop patients from the local asylum jumping off (favourite place) so another reason for calling silly Bridge. On the left is the site of the original Moulsford station before it moves a mile down the line to Chosley. you can see the new station in the photo above. What you notice about the photos which were taken around 2008 is that the line is clear pylons<br />
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These were the areas I would be concentrating on with my Photos though the main area was Cholsey Station with the view out to Silly Bridge <br />
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and through the station. I remember the signal box over on platforms 2&3 along with the canopies long gone<br />
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Think I was lucky the day I managed to take this photo of an Intercity train at Platform four with Ivor the Engine<br />
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Another view I was interested in was looking towards the Lees Bridge<br />
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Above Cholsey Station not changed a lot since it was built, I had to wonder how this would change with electrification. Well I soon found out as in 2015 you started hearing a hammering overnight and I noticed these bases had gone in beside the line<br />
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Going up onto the station I looked towards Lees Bridge and low and behold a line of pylons had appeared<br />
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The other way to Silly Bridge the first pylon appeared there<br />
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This is looking towards the bridge on the fast line from Platform one<br />
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Same to the Lees Bridge on Platform one. Not a good place to go when a fast train come through<br />
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Cholsey Station looking little changed. At this stage I wondered how it would look with pylons<br />
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Below Silly Bridge you could see new electrical cabinets<br />
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Nearby the bridge was this transformer setup of the powering of the cables when they went in<br />
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By October more pylons were going up along with the gantry's<br />
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The View to the Lees bridge had changed as well <br />
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In November things had moved on more with shuttering in place on the station<br />
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By new years eve all had changed again parts were on the ground near a base at Cholsey Station and gantry's were going in place on the slow line <br />
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That was it for 2015 The next blog will bring 2016 and the finishing of the work in the area which you can <a href="http://spuduka.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/electrifiation-of-gwr-at-cholsey-pt-2.html">read here</a>. <br />
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This is the follow on from the last <a href="http://spuduka.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/raf-duxford-return.html">blog on Duxford</a> and the second part of our trip to where we checked out two more of the hangers, this one was of interest it was where the maintenance was done of the flying legends you see at shows<br />
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another I'm unsure about other than seeing it is in US Navy colours<br />
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This is a biplane could well be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Gladiator">Gloster Gladiator </a><br />
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Waling around for me is like being in a sweet shop and if I lived in the area I would be volunteering my work seeing the planes that are bing rebuilt <br />
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The green one you see looks like it could be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Beaufighter">Bristol Beaufighter</a><br />
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More planes in various states of repair <br />
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Left the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Nimrod">Hawker Nimrod</a> <br />
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Think this one is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Sea_Fury">Hawker Sea Fury</a><br />
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Spitfire and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F4U_Corsair">Vought F4U Corsair</a> <br />
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One plane I recognise and have seen flying is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_B">Sally B</a><br />
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Who you might also know as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Belle_(aircraft)">Memphis Bell</a> from the film of the same name</div>
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A Flying Fortress and a plane I think looks amazing<br />
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Not sure but could be a Hawker Typhoon<br />
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Another View of the Memphis Bell side of the Flying Fort<br />
Left a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Dragon_Rapide">De Havilland Rapide </a><br />
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A view of the repair hangar<br />
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After leaving that hangar we went to the new aerospace one was were greeted by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-27_Polaris">Polaris Missile</a>. The UKs nuclear deterrent from the Cold War I remember of the 1960's<br />
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Above the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland">Short Sunderland Flying Boat</a> this thing is huge but one of the most beautiful planes around. Right the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Lysander">Westland Lysander</a><br />
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Going further along the ground floor of the hangar<br />
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Spotted this lurking under the wing of the Lancaster, the bouncing bomb from the famous Dambuster raid<br />
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Ah and old favourite and one I can have bragging rights on as I have flown on the plane, not this one as its the original test plane which was flown in just before the built the M11 and cut the runway down <br />
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I love this plane and use to listen out for it flying pat our village on the way to the USA every evening. Sad to say it's no longer in use and I miss seeing it fly past and the noise it made<br />
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster">Avro Lancaster</a> it has to be mu favourite plane <br />
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Tail end Charlie the end turret on the Lancaster</div>
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This is one amazing plane and I always love seeing it fly. It came over our Village a few years ago at tree top height and I can honestly say it make the hair on the back of you head stand on end <br />
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito">De Havilland Mosquito</a> one beautiful plane <br />
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When I first saw this plane I had thought it a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Heron"> De Havilland Heron</a><br />
from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_transport_of_the_British_royal_family_and_government">Queens Flight.</a> I have since found out is a <a href="http://das.org.uk/de-havilland-dh104-dove-g-alfu/">De Havilland Dove</a> Used by the Civil aviation Flying Unit <br />
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Above the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan">Avro Vulcan </a>which is one of the nosiest planes I've heard when it flew down the runway at RAF Benson and stood on its tail and opened the throttle.<br />
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Looking across to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland">Short Sunderland</a> which gives and idea as to how big it is.<br />
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View of the mid upper turret of the Lancaster<br />
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Above the ejector seat, Taking a guess this is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin-Baker">Martin Baker</a> as we are in the UK. They test them at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalgrove_Airfield">Chalgrove Airfield </a>near where I live and I've seen them tested out of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor">Meteor</a> they had </div>
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Stitch View of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster">Avro Lancaster</a> </div>
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and another of a plane that never reached service the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2">TSR2</a></div>
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That was it with photos useing my DSLR but I took a few with mu iPhone and the hall from the landing<br />
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View of the Lancaster<br />
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and one above looking down on the Sunderland's cockpit & front turret</div>
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Finally a panoramic of the exhibition hall. That was it for our trip to Duxford. We missed seeing the Land Warfare Museum and the American one with all the US Air Force planes in but we hope to return for another look in the future.</div>
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If you want to know how come I did not have the time to visit the last two parts well it was because I went for a flight in one of these and if you look you will see a Tiger Moth in the background</div>
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My return to RAF Duxford took place around <a href="http://spuduka.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/raf-duxford.html">20 years after the last</a>, it was a day out for my Wife & I where we took a flight in a classic plane. The first thing you see when getting to the carpark is this Hawker Hurricane Gate Guardian. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duxford_Aerodrome">RAF Duxford</a> was involved with the Battle of Britain before being handed to the USAF. It is now in the hands of the Imperial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum_Duxford">War Museum</a> and well worth a visit. After starting this blog I have decided to show it in two parts as there is so much to see</div>
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One of the first planes I spotted was this two seater spitfire taxing out near the old WWII Ops tower<br />
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The tail of the Spitfire with a tiger Moth taking off<br />
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We were there for a reason and while we waited we went into a nearby Hangar to look at the planes <br />
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Above the tail fin with the makers name on it<br />
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On the left Ferocious Frankie a World War II Mustang <br />
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Couple of Battle of Britain planes, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane">Hawker Hurricane</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire">Supermarine Spitfire</a> two of mu all time favourite planes<br />
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One of two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Fury">Hawker Fury's</a> in the Hanger<br />
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The second Hawker Fury in the hanger at Duxford<br />
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Though this was an interesting one I think its a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_TBF_Avenger">Grumman Avenger</a><br />
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It has the name <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_TBF_Avenger">Lt George Bush</a> on the side <br />
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On the left a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet_AEW.3">Fairey Gannet</a> from the Royal Navy<br />
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Sure this is an old Navy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Sea_Vixen">Sea Vixen</a><br />
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Recognised this as a one man submarine but was lost on make <br />
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A restored <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Coastal_Motor_Boat_4">Coastal Motor Boat</a><br />
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This if I remember is part of a Mitsubishi Zero<br />
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and part of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Blenheim">Bristol Blenheim</a> that is being restored at Duxford<br />
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I came out of the Hangar and had to get a photo of this PBY or<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina"> Consolidated PBY Catalina</a><br />
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We came in a side door and saw this spotlight and Anti Aircraft first <br />
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Then this <a href="https://www.aircraftrestorationcompany.com/mk1s/">Spitfire Mk1A </a>which was based at RAF Duxford in 1939 before the battle of Britain. While on patrol over Dunkirk it shot down a Junkers JU67 Stuka and then got shot down. The pilot crash landed near Calis and was captured. The Spitfire gradually sunk in the sand and recovered in 1986 being returned to the UK in 2007 and restored by the Recanati-Kaplin Family in memory of Simon Jeremy Marsh. The spitfire was gifted to Duxford<br />
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Left a German <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109">Messerschmitt BF 109</a> that had been shot down and crashed in the fields of Kent <br />
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This truck is what was used to launch the Barrage Balloons <br />
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Above and Anti Aircraft Gun <br />
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Hawker Hurricane with Captain Winko <br />
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Another view of the <a href="http://aircrashsites.co.uk/aviation-history/messerschmitt-bf-109e-1190/">crashed 109</a><br />
This one ended up being sent around on display going to the us and eventaly ending up in a scrap yard in Canada where it was decovered and bought for restoration. it is now on perminat display in Duxford <br />
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Not sure why this World War 0ne plane is in the Battle of Britain Hangar but I'll find out next time <br />
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This was a bit of a passion for me searching out remaining pillboxes. The one on the left is a Pop up one from an airfield the right is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_hardened_field_defences_of_World_War_II#Allan_Williams_Turret">Allen Williams Turret</a> the second is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickett-Hamilton_fort">Pickett-Hamilton fort</a><br />
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That was the first two hangars we visited. We went in another two after this but I will bring them in the next instalment with <a href="http://spuduka.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/raf-duxford-return-pt-2.html">Part 2</a><br />
I'll finish this part with another view of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina">PBY Catalina </a><br />
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This was a revisit to Cotswold Wildlife park, one place my Wife & I like to visit every so often</div>
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One of the first places to go was the ring tailed Lemur enclosure </div>
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They were not the only ones using the enclosure either<br />
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Above my favourite Otters, I wrote a <a href="http://spudsdailyphoto.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/some-otters.html">blog on them</a> a few weeks back. <br /><br /><br />
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On the right Prairie Dogs<br />
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He was quite happy in his home<br />
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While this one looked out of the burrow <br />
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The porcupine another <a href="http://spudsdailyphoto.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-porcupine.html">blog I wrote</a> recently <br />
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It was bigger than I thought, around the size of a small dog<br />
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Bonus was it had young who came out for a look around as well<br />
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One of my wife's favourite animals to see was the Giraffe <br />
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But this one stuck out it's tongue<br />
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The Lion watching over his pride <br />
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Humpty back Camels, other one on the right was very young when we last came here<br />
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Watching the visitors<br />
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The White Rhino <br />
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Above adult Rhino while below you can see the other rhino that has grown up<br />
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Another photo featured was these turtles on a log<br />
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This Egyptian duck was having a great time splashing <br />
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The Peahen or Guinean Foul, has to be the nosiest critter I know of. A local farmer used to keep they and you could hear them all over the village<br />
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Sleeping Wallaby<br />
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These were being fed but some one who paid for a day with a keeper<br />
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In the pet area and a flop eared Buny<br />
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above a goat who looks not too pleased, On the right one of the cows in the pet area<br />
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I'll leave you with this shot of a red panda asleep, I've not been able to get a good shot of them for the last two visits I had. Maybe next time. </div>
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If you want to see my last visit and the Small Rhinos then check out the <a href="http://spuduka.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/cotswold-wildlife-park.html">link</a></div>
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These photos were taken a long time ago when I used an SLR film camera. My wife the kids and myself had a weekend away and ended up at Duxford which suited me to the ground. Duxford is an ex RAF base now in the hands of the Imperial War Museum and they fly many old planes there<br />
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This is an old Junkers JU52/3m which I found has it's own Wikipedia page though it is in German <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_52/3m_D-AQUI">D-DQUI </a><br />
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Took me a while to find out the name of this plane after I realised it was not what I thought it was. It's a<br />
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Two planes I recognise the near white one is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2">TSR2</a> the one on the left is the Victor V Bomber<br />
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Line up of WWII planes with two of my favourite Spitfires </div>
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A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress">B52 Stratofortress </a> now when you see this up close it is huge <br />
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This is one of the many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displayed_Boeing_B-52_Stratofortresses">displayed B52's</a> around the world and one of the biggest planes beside Concorde to have landed at Duxford. I might add they will never take off here as the M11 went through part of the Runway<br />
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On the right one of my favourite planes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina">PBY Catalina </a><br />
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This is one of the surviving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Consolidated_PBY_Catalinas">PBY Catalina's </a>around the world<br />
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More Nose art on this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang">P51 Mustang </a>called Moose on the right a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Vought_F4U_Corsairs"> F4U Corsair</a> with its wings up <br />
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View through the planes to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109">Messerschmitt BF109 </a><br />
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One of the WWI planes you can see at Duxford which may be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_F.2_Fighter">Bristol F.2 Fighter</a><br />
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Above the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress">B17 Flying Fortress</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortresses">Mary Alice</a> and another <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F4U_Corsair"> F4U Corsair</a> in beautiful condition <br />
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Very nice Spitfire with Hurricane behind and Thunderbolt to the right<br />
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More nose art on this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_B-25_Mitchell">B25 Mitchell Bomber</a> One of the surviving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_North_American_B-25_Mitchells">B25's from WWII</a><br />
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A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland">Sunderland Flying Boat</a>, this is huge<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito">The De Havilland Mosquito </a><br />
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All these photos were taken about 25 years ago and have bee scanned up. Since then I have revisited and taken new photos which will be featured in another blog. A lot of the planes are now in new hangers and display areas which I hope to revisit again this year.</div>
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1789569855696205497.post-86068416816889296162017-04-26T04:54:00.005-07:002019-03-15T14:03:54.672-07:00Yūshūkan Shrine<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yasukuni Shrine Tokyo</span></div>
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Back in the late 1980's I was fortunate enough to have to go to Japan a couple of times for work. on one occasion I was there for nearly four weeks and when I was left one weekend I wandered off around Tokyo and ended up at Daini Tori where after looking around I found the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABsh%C5%ABkan">Yūshūkan</a> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja">遊就館</span><sup class="t_nihongo_help noprint"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets"><span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #0000ee; font: bold 80% sans-serif; padding: 0 0.1em; text-decoration: none;">?</span></a></sup>)</span> is a Japanese military and war museum located within <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasukuni_Shrine">Yasukuni Shrine</a> in Chiyoda, Tokyo. I noticed some WWII exhibits on show so went to look around the museum as well, these are some of the photos I took there,<br />
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Part of the musium the frist time I visited</div>
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One of the items on show outside was this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_96_15_cm_howitzer" title="Type 89 15 cm Cannon">Type 96-15 Howitzer </a><br />
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Not far away was this one manned Torpedo Called <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Kaiten </a><br />
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This was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_D4Y" target="_blank">Yokosuka D4Y Bomber</a> that was recovered from Yap Island<br />
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Type 97 Chi-Ha Medium Tank recovered from Yap Island as well<br />
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This is A 14-cm 3rd Year Type naval gun from the Battleship <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mutsu" target="_blank"><i>Mutsu</i></a></div>
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Class 56 Setam locomotive from the Burma Railway number <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C56_31" target="_blank">C56-31</a> which is on display beside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_89_15_cm_Cannon" title="Type 89 15 cm Cannon">Type 89 15 cm Cannon</a><br />
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The information plate on the C56-31 Locomotive at Yūshūkan. Those were my photos from my visit to the museum It was the second time I had visited and the time I took my camera with me. I came away from the place with mixed views and felt it was a museum dedicated to those who gave their lives in defence of their country. The museum had only been open a short time and the exhibits you see outside in my photos are now inside and I'm glad they are looked after better now. I felt humbled to have visited the shrine and museum especially after going round the Mementos of deceased Japanese soldiers and airmen. Reading some of the letters they wrote and the ones from their loved ones brought home how they felt for their country and Emperor. If you are in Tokyo then visit if you can </div>
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The interest in writing about this battle was all started when I came across this mural in a tunnel under the A34 along the Ridgeway Path I had heard of the battle before and realised it must have taken place locally if they had painted the mural where it was. After reading some of the history I realised I know were most of this took place and set out to show how the areas looked now. Some of the history in here comes from sources in books of on the internet and could be myth or fact, the places are real and are shown in the photos I took and the maps I have shown. The words I have written are my thoughts on what happened using the history I have read. I welcome comments on your thoughts about it </div>
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The Battle of Ashdown took place on 8 January 871 in Berkshire. Alfred the Great (A local lad from Wantage), then a prince of only 21, led the army of his brother, King Ethelred of Wessex, in a victorious battle against the invading Danes.</div>
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Now there are various accounts as to where it all took place and you can read different history's but the one I am going to use is the <a href="http://www.berkshirehistory.com/legends/alfred01.html" target="_blank">Royal Berkshire History</a> account of what happened.</div>
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As I said King Alfred was a local lad being brought up in the Royal Palace that was around Wantage and by the time he was 22 his brother King Ethelred 1st who had been holding the country together against the Danes. By that time the Danes had been marching across the country from East Anglia and had sailed up the Thames to Reading where they had made a stronghold between the River Thames and Kennet. From there they had made a raiding party towards Aldermaston & Englefield only to be defeated by one of the local Earls Aethelwolf. The Saxons Aethelwolf was joined by Ethlered pushed them back to their stronghold in Reading were they tried to overcome the defences. In the fighting Aethelwolf was killed and the Saxons only escaped across the twin fords at Tyford when the Danes got lost in the marshes. </div>
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A few days later flushed with the victory the Danes Marched out to attack the Saxons at Wallingford which is where we start. If you were in Wallingford now you would find Saxon defences which were built after Alfred was made King. There was a church in the town from that time which had been lost and many years ago a burial site was found that was thought to be from the church.</div>
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The Saxons had gathered outside Cholsey on Kingstanding Hill and must have watched the fires burning in the distance</div>
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This is Kingstanding Hill you see in the Distance which is part of the Cholsey Downs</div>
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This panoramic shot was taken like the last from by Lollingdon Hill and shows Kingstanding hill again with the downs extending right towards Astons. (The Astons are Aston Upthorp and Aston Tyrold) The account I read made me think the Saxons would have had a good view of the area from the hill. I used to play on the downs as a child but never took much notice of what was there.</div>
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So I went to the downs and found a spot along the hedge like I could get to the fence from and this is what I saw from Kingstanding Hill. Quite a view. The place I took the hill photo from is over to the left and Cholsey is in the distance with Wallingford just beyond so like I said the Saxon would have seen the smoke rising from the fires </div>
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Here we look towards the Village now, to the left you can make out a spire which is St Peters in Wallingford. So as you can see you get a good view from the place. </div>
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In the Account Alfred had wanted to attack the Danes but his brother King Ethelred wanted to pray for guidance and went to a local church in the Astons<br />
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The above map gives an idea to how the land lies now but the villages are around where they would have been in Alfred's time The Red is the Danes, Blue is Alfred and Black is King Ethelred<br />
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There are two churches in the villages but I would not be surprised if it was this one he went to, the reason is because the church dates back to Norman times & I have no doubt was built on the site of the old one. The track you see to the right will take you past Blewberton Hill and on to the Downs. The hill is an old Hillfort and gives a good view of the surrounding area and from the top you can see all the way to Cholsey and Wallingford. No doubt he and his entourage were camped there while he prayed.<br />
All this left Alfred with a dilemma about attacking the Danes. He rode back to the Blowing Stone at Kingstone Lisle, the village taking its name from King's Stone from Kinstanding hill which is the best part of 20 miles <br />
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This is the Blowing Stone, it used to be at the top of Blowingstone Hill probably nearer Rams Hill and when blown gives a sound like a calf bellowing. Alfred was supposed to have blown it and and called the local Militia to arms. You can make it sound but you have to try hard. I wonder if the Saxon Horns sounded to call the troops as he blew in the stone and a legend was born.<br />
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Alfred amassed his men at a castle that now bares his name near Ashbury while his brother camped at Comptom Baeuchamp below Uffinton Castle where the Danes had amassed. Now if you look at the map you can see all these places are within a stones throw of each other so to speak. The Danes would have seen the Kings Camp and he would have been glaring back at them. Alfred on the other had was out of sight over a hill.<br />
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The Kings camp would have been over to the left of the picture behind the woods on the left down the hill <br />
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Alfreds camp was over the other side of the line of trees you see and well out of sight of the Danes<br />
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" <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">O</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">n the morning of 8th January 871, the two sides met on the plain known as 'Aschendune' or Ashdown, where a single stunted thorn-tree grew: a tree worshipped by the ancient druids. They drew up their troops in two columns each. The Danish divisions were commanded by their Kings, Bagsecg and Halfdan, and five Earls; the English by Ethelred and Alfred. There they waited, jeering and shouting at one another. Alfred was keen to get to grips with the enemy, but Ethelred decided to spend the ensuing lull in prayer for victory. He left the battlefield for the little church at Aston, and, despite Alfred’s insistence, he would not return until the priest had finished!</span>"</span> </i><br />
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This meant Ethelred had to ride nigh on twenty miles to say his prayers and he would have had to get past the Danes<br />
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"<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">S</span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">o the young Prince had
to make a decision: should he wait for his brother or fight the battle
without him? He could not keep his troops on edge for long. The Danes had
already deployed themselves on the higher ground, and to let them charge
first would mean certain defeat. So despite his brother’s orders to the
contrary, Alfred rode forth and gave the cry for his own men to attack first
and the battle to begin. Never had Berkshire seen such carnage, and never
would it again. The bravery of the English warriors overcame all
disadvantages, and after a long and arduous conflict, the invaders were no
longer able to withstand the Saxon attacks. They were chased from the field
across Berkshire to Whistley Marsh where their previous conflict had ended.
Thousands of bodies covered the plain, amongst them, King Bagsecg and the
five Danish Earls. Victory was Alfred’s.</span>"</i></span></span><br />
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I think accounts get out of hand when told from one person to another
and things get elaborated. I have no doubt Alfred & his Brother
King Ethelred did watch the Danes from Kingstanding Hill and Alfred
raced back to gather the troops together. The King came after with his retinue and camped at Comptom Baeuchamp, the Danes would have seen them
leaving and followed trying to finish what had started and the night the
camped at Uffington could only see the Kings camp. If the King had left
for Aston Alfred would have had a real dilemma so in the morning
there was a lot of jeering and fist waving from both sides and when the
King forces lined up to face with the Danes and started to move up hill the
Danes would be ready to fight thinking they could just roll them back
down again. Once the two forces met the Danes would have been to busy
fightings the Kings force and they would have been surprised to see
Alfred's force coming along the ridgeway with his men and then realising they were outflanked retreated back along the Ridgeway to go
back to Reading. It was probably a running fight with stragglers being
picked off by Alfreds men who had more of an advantage being on the
Ridgeway. Could the Danes have gotten lost when they got to Blewbury Down and turned right towards Compton?<br />
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morning the Danes found themselves in a boggy bottom at Compton and
Alfred just dropped down on them from High with the King following along
a little later to mop up. The bottom of Thorn Hill is where the river
Pang flows and would have been most likely flooded and boggy from the
winter rain & snow so would have been hard work trying to slog through there<br />
"<i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">They were chased from the field across Berkshire to Whistley Marsh where their previous conflict had ended"</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Whistley Green is by Twyford and right back in the Danes area which brings us back to it being a running battle, it's also another 20 odd miles</span><br />
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The map shows Thorn Hill ringed in Black is around where the battle is thought to have taken place.<br />
All of the stories are legend and in reality it is unsure where the battle took place<br />
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I have read an account which is more plausible. The Ashdown hills are what is know as the Berkshire downs and where the battle took place. For the life of me I cannot see the battle have happened at Whitehorse hill, it's too far away for the king to travel back & forth and logistics don't hold up, why would the Danes want to hike 20 odd miles across the downs to
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This account is to me more believable in the battle took place round Lowbury Hill. If you look at the map above you can see what I am talking about. This time Black marks the Danes, Blue King Ethlered , Red Alfred and Yellow where the battle took place. The green circle I will come to in a bit. Much as in the first account I wrote you have the Danes coming after the Kings forces along the Thames most likely. Now if the King & Alfred were local they would have had some one watching from Lough Down in the Green Circle as you can see all the way up the Goring Gap well on the way to Reading and the other way towards Wallingford.<br />
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So someone could have been watching the Danes go past. Alfred and the King were watching from Kingstanding Hill (Red) this meant it was all covered. The Danes would not had marched so far to go to meet up with the Saxons. The Account mentions the Planes of Ashendune or Ashdown. The ridge that is known as the Berkshire downs was know as Ashdown or<br />
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What you see here is the Fair Mile looking towards Kingstanding Hill from where I'm stood on Lowbury Hill, as you can see quite easy going to come along here that direction is no doubt where Price Alfred came<br />
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One suggetion I read was the Danes came up along the Ridgeway by Thurl Down at Streatley<br />
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Thurl down is on the left and current Ridgeway splits the valley <br />
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This the other side with Lough Down in the distance (green Circle) to the right<br />
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While the Danes trekked up to Streatley Warren at the top the Alfred's scouts could have been watching from the top<br />
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Once at the top they would have just walked around this way <br />
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and over to Lowbury Hill which is in the distance<br />
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My personal view is that if they were in Cholsey one way was out of the village was along the old Roman road that is assuming the were unfamiliar with the area and took the quickest route which would have brought them to Moulsford where they could have gone along Mousford Bottom below<br />
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where a slight incline brought them to Unhill Bottom Below<br />
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If you walked on along here the valley bends past Starveall Farm<br />
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Now this is a good place to catch you enemy from up on the hillside and the Ridgeway is just over to the right of the picture<br />
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Arthur and the King only had to come from this direction to catch the Danes to where I'm stood on Lowbury Hill<br />
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The trig pillar on Lowbury Hill where we look in the direction of the vale of the White Horse and Wantage.<br />
Reading the last account I found on the supposed location was backed up by the various archaeological finds of Dane origin like swords shields and such like, they have been few but nothing like that has been found around Whitehorse Hill. Were the battle was is only known to History but historians uncover more each year, who knows what they will find tomorrow. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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