Thus blog has been curtailed due to a very busy domestic day! Church prayer meeting; preparation for our April leaflet for our Fellowship groups.
The quiz questions will also feature in fbb's much anticipated (?) Easter "Daily Thought" blog appendages.
Then there was making a huge pot of tomato and vegetable soup followed by preparing and cooking a complex evening meal. [Jacket spud, grated cheese, cold roast chicken, baked beans and adequate butter!]
Mrs fbb unpacked the mini choc icee on a stick as pud!
First's Forties At Fishponds Part 1
There is a pond at Fishponds. There used to be three, the remains of a quarry. One was dveloped as a Lido which was hugely popular.
It closed in the 1960s ...
... and it is now Ridgway Pond.
Fishponds had trams ...
... and a railway station.
This was on the Midland Railway route into the city, a line that was closed in the 1960s. Trains now travel via Bristol Parway station and Filton Bank.
This map extract may help.
One delight is the footpath and cycleway that now replaces the trains, with Staple Hill tunnel fully fettled and illuminated.
Although Fishponds is now a busy suburb and shopping area, there are many okder buildings still very much extant, here us the Cross Hands pub way back then ...
... and still a sentinel at the road junction today!
The Cross Hands is now called The All Inn and looks awful like this:-
No 1 son, wife and No 1 grandson lived for a while at Fishponds, often visited by the fbbs.
The main city bus services via Fishponds are numbered from 46 to 49 and are fiendishly complicated.
So here is fbb's version of "fastest finger first".
As Jeremy Clarkson might say ...
... put these bus pictures in the correct order, starting with the earliest.
Routes 48, 48A and 49
City Line 49
Route 48x
Barbie 47
A Mystery 49
Yes, fbb does know that there should be four for fastest finger First Bus, but ....
fbb will try to sort things out in tomorrow's blog!
Yikes!
But there is one (former) First Bus that is different but easy to understand.
The above is the best that can be found. It's sister vehicle used to look like this.
The 'Fishponds' bus now has a different purposr.
It is a mobile art gallery.
More bus stuff tomorrow including a full and frank feast of First's Fishponds forties - fantastic!
Next Bewildered blog : Weds 25 March
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