Here she is (below) as Mary Anning (above), effectively the "inventor" of popular paleontology way back in the early 19th Century.
Here, Mary has eschewed a delicious Kelly's ice cream and as nipping across the road to the public conveniences opposite.
On Saturday last the fbbs travelled by motor omnibus from Seaton Harbour Bridge to Lyme Regis to partake of luncheon at Lyme's Fish Bar (highly recommended, high quality nosh).
The strange plywood excrescence surrounding the bus shelter ...
... was a fake stone wall to hide the very non 19th Century Cobb Gate car park from the cameras.
Just above the fudge and ice cream shop ...
... another falsehood has appeared.
This blocks the camera's view up the main street.
Meanwhile the little Fossils gift shop that overlooks car park and the sea ...
... had been decked out as the very first fossil shop in Lyme ...
... with its railings turned into a very solid stone wall.
After a brief explore of the "set" the fbb's boarded their Stagecoach 9a for a pleasant ride back to Seaton.
The film is called "Ammonite" and brings with it local angst and furore as it "reveals", with no historical evidence whatsoever, a lesbian relationship between Mary and a "friend". Not only that, but fbb can find no reference to an important character in the true Mary's life, namely ...
... the dog.
Buses to Lyme Regis operate from Seaton, Sidmouth and Exeter from the west (Stagecoach) and from Weymouth, Dorchester and Bridport (First Bus) to the east. The easiest connection from rail is at Axminster station with an hourly X51/X53 service ...
... but fbb cannot tell you when the "dressed" Lyme Regis will return to normal.
Snippets
Two splendid pictures from Northampton correspondent Alan. First this superb mini post office!
It combines phone box with posting box and stamp machine plus an external light. Only 50 were ever made and very few remain.
fbb remembers one at Abington Park in Northampton.
It used to sit beside this rather splendid public convenience, police box and bus shelter at the junction of Park Avenue and Wellingborough Road.
And then last Tuesday ...
... unit number 230005 looking very smart as it passed through Woburn Sands station. Ex London Underground trains, rebuilt by Vivarail, were due to start work on the line between Bletchley and Bedford last December.
After the obligatory delays, testing is now under way. No date has yet been formally announced for their introduction into revenue-earning service, but an evens bet might be on the May timetable change date.
First At Kings Cross
This "artist's impression" is of the new Hitachi trains that First will soon (?) be running between London and Edinburgh, five times a day and in competition with nationalised LNER.
More Capacity at Edinburgh
New platforms 5 and 6 have been created to provide extra platform capacity for the new 10 coach Azuma service from London.
The platforms were last used by Motorail services; the main booking office area is on the left.
All we need is the trains!
Apparently the clever technology in the trains causes the clever technology in the signals to have a wobbly turn (apologies for the high level of scientific detail here)!
Talyllyn Twits!
Quite how (or why) stuff finds its way into fbb's in-box is something of a mystery - but two emanations from the world of the Twitterati cough your author's attention. First is this gorgweous picture of the Talyllyn's "heritage" train.
Four four-wheeled carriages plus the guards van-cum-ticket office that was used in the very early days of this, the world's first preserved railway. Wonderful.
And a less attractive piece of rolling stock.
A splendid tool for cutting back the ever-encroaching undergowth that impairs visibility and damages the carriages. When fbb worked as a coach/bus driver it was called "hedge rash"!!
Tomorrow we ask a pertinent question.
Snippets
Two splendid pictures from Northampton correspondent Alan. First this superb mini post office!
fbb remembers one at Abington Park in Northampton.
And then last Tuesday ...
After the obligatory delays, testing is now under way. No date has yet been formally announced for their introduction into revenue-earning service, but an evens bet might be on the May timetable change date.
First At Kings Cross
This "artist's impression" is of the new Hitachi trains that First will soon (?) be running between London and Edinburgh, five times a day and in competition with nationalised LNER.
More Capacity at Edinburgh
Talyllyn Twits!
Quite how (or why) stuff finds its way into fbb's in-box is something of a mystery - but two emanations from the world of the Twitterati cough your author's attention. First is this gorgweous picture of the Talyllyn's "heritage" train.
And a less attractive piece of rolling stock.
Tomorrow we ask a pertinent question.
Next missing bus stop blog : Tuesday 26th March
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