towerman
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Post by towerman on Mar 6, 2015 16:18:29 GMT
Only seems like yesterday that I started as a callow youth at Hainault Depot as a trainee car examiner.Can still remember the date 15th August 1966 & England had just won the World Cup!It's now so long ago that there were 3 guys working there who had opted to go with LT when Loughton steam shed closed in 1948.Can it really be 49 years ago?
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Post by theblackferret on Mar 6, 2015 17:50:55 GMT
At which date, actress Haile Berry was one day old, genius Eric Cantona was less than three months old.
Absolutely nothing to do with the price of fish, Tube fares or the age of Central Line stock, but just to let you know you were not alone in remembering what happened in 1966. In my case, I'd recently discovered girls, smoking & Double Diamond earlier that summer.
And would have been riding the Central Line in pursuit/indulgence of two of those in August 1966, very possibly on the day you started, though not necessarily as far afield as Hainault.
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Post by towerman on Mar 13, 2015 13:27:03 GMT
Yeah,just before starting work,had a week away at my uncle's caravan on Sheppy.Got wasted on bitter at the site's club & spewed all over the caravan floor when I got back.
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Post by nickf on Mar 13, 2015 14:46:29 GMT
A pint of bitter was two bob then.
...and of course we had to work 28 hours a day, come home to a dish of ice cold poison and go to sleep at the bottom of a lake. Wonderful times.
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Post by stapler on Mar 13, 2015 14:56:52 GMT
Towerman, think your memory is playing up. There wasn't a steam shed at Loughton in 1948 -- that was at Epping! On 15-8-66, I got my O level results
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Post by towerman on Mar 13, 2015 16:23:23 GMT
My mistake the guys in question told me they worked at Loughton for LNER and assumed that there was a shed there.One of the guys,Tug Wilson always wore a steam driver's hat.
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