Puzzle Picture
The driver, in Hi-Viz tabard, is doing essential maintenance to a train which has cost millions of smackers. He has cadged a jug of boiling water from the Buffet and is using it to melt the compacted snow in his hooters (horns?). Without this they would not hoot. Good design, eh?
A Few Recent Snow Scenes.
Lynx with traditional AA box
Delaine at Stamford bus station
And fbb apologises for pressing the wrong button yesterday afternoon. The Freesat dish had failed, so it was a quick hook-up to the laptop. Stubby fingers again.
Hulleys somewhere atop The Snake Pass
Go Ahead East Yorkshire in a blizzard
Lynx in a mild East Anglian dusting
The AA box is in a layby on the A149 at Brancaster Staithe. It is, as you can see, on Lynx's route 36.
The box is "listed",
That's according to Delaine's twittering. But someone must have stuck a spire on for artistic effect!
Above is the real Stamford bus station!
CORRECTION!
All together now, "Oh yes it is; but it's the wrong angle!" Another fbb failure with a wrong angle destined to mangle a blog and tangle the old man's brain as he mis-used the new-fangled technology in a failed wangle. Correspondent David discovered today's blog erroneously posted on-line yesterday afternoon which made his nerves jangle. Maybe fbb should dangle from the spire by way of punishment, a sentence which fbb should not be allowed to wrangle to his ultimate benefit.
Here is Google Streetview swung a bit further to the left.
Stamford is well blessed with ecclesiastical edifices; there are four in the central area:-
Hearty congrats to those companies that did their best to keep going in the bad weather, and, more importantly, to their drivers. They did not have many passengers, but the few they did have needed to get there. Chocolate peanuts all round!
Departure Delight
On 8 July 1939, the Duchess of Kent, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, accompanied by the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain ...
... officiated at the opening of Elmdon Airport. Its terminal, which incorporated the airport's air traffic control tower, was designed by Norman and Dawbarn in an Art Deco style; this facility would continue to be used as a terminal until 1984 and subsequently as staff offices and for private flights.
Of course, readers may well be familiar with the present Birmingham International Airport and its terminal.
But on the opposite side of the runway, at the almost extinct village of Elmdon ...
... you will find the original airport buildings.
The (new) control tower is there ...
... but so is the old, part of the original 1930s terminal.
It looks better from the other side.
Now used by private flights and their pilots ...
... it is accessible from Terminal Road, off the A45.
Its former facilities do illustrate the days when air travel was far less stressful than it is today.
Above is check-in and the caff! When expansion came in the 70s, it was not received with too much enthusiasm by the locals.
The good news, however, is that the Elmdon terminal now has a preservation order to its name. The Art Deco glory will now be preserved.
Savouring Superb Stations - Leeds
City station has gained a southern entrance (pedestrian only) if you can find it ...
... and the rest of the station has, over the years, been extended and fettled up several times.
It used to have a magnificent Art Deco booking hall ...
... which, criminally in the 1960s, became a car park. fbb was passing through as a student and explored briefly, and even he was appalled.
Thankfully it is now back in use and wonderfully magnificent.
If you are up there meeting up with your Leodensian (or Loiner) chums, it is well worth a look.
Next Sunday Variety blog : Sunday 14th February
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