FLY2 10,108 Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 I've visited his former home at Chartwell in Kent. A fascinating place and well worth a visit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Ohhhh Yes!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,535 Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Did a delivery up to York today so just had to go in the Railway Museum. This was there: 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 the Battle of Britain loco 'Winston Churchill'...It ended up at the NRM in York, resplendent in it's original paintwork. It then some how ended up in the repair shop there where I last saw it, the paintwork ensured it was the last BR steam locomotive to be wearing it's original colour scheme applied in 1963/64, everything else has subsequently been repainted, they may look right but certainly not carrying original paintwork. According to a letter in this month's Railway Magazine the engine was repainted at Derby Works sometime between 1977 and 1981 as an apprentice project, so it seems it lost its 1960s paintwork at that time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 My Mam hated him " bed wetter" or " fat guts" she called him.Still I think he was the only man for the job. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Many working class people hated him, he wasn't liked by my fellow workers when I was serving my apprenticeship in the mining industry in the 60's. In fact he was hated by men who had been in the 1926 strike. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 I had forgotten about that connection Ayeup...the general strike was a tough time. If my memory is correct did the Jarrow March pass through Nottm during the month of October? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 The Jarrow march was in 1936. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Correct Bubble, I was enquiring was it October that it reached Nottingham? I know it was ten years later...Alan Price ' an all that!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 21st October 1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrow_March Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 He's still THE greatest Briton we've ever had. Thanks to him, I'm alive now !!!!! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Maybe: But what about Nelson & Wellington. It depends how you look(and where you start) at history. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 They've all save us at various turning points in history, but I think Churchill had the most significant effect upon the population. He inspired everyone, and I'm certain they would have followed him to the ends of the earth. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 #137 By the way Wellington was born in Ireland. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,163 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 When it was part of Great Britain. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Yes Ian, he said "I'll see the miners eat grass before I give in to them" Miners back then did a backbreaking crippling job, the strike was over the owners slashing their pay and increasing their work hours. Those were when a six day working week was the norm, and a ten hour day underground was the norm. I suppose they could have thrown the towel in and gone to work elsewhere, but how?? Hewers hands were crippled with handling a pick all shift, and most were housed in company housing with a family. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 In times of dire need, EVERYONE must pull together. If there are signs of dissent, then civilisation will disintegrate. This has been proven over many centuries. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 #141 they had them over a barrel Ayeup,Stanley Wallace an old mate ( now gone) was a Bevan boy.." he said I'd rather have been at the front" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Wasn't a pleasant occupation Ian, I can only imagine, and I worked on low coal faces for a few years, but all mechanised. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJBrenton 738 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 When it was part of Great Britain. Pedantic, but Ireland has never been part of Great Britain. It was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1923. Great Britain is not the same as The British Isles or the United Kingdom. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,163 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Quite correct DJB. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Same as Ulster & Northern are not the same Ulster consists of Nine counties. Northern Ireland is only six counties the remaining three counties are in the republic Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,163 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Again quite correct Bubble'..........this sort of crap really fascinates me lol....like Country and County borders......such as parts of Notts being further North than parts of Yorkshire, and a part of Spain being completly surrounded by France......there are many what are known as Exclaves and Enclaves around the World. Sorry nowt to do with Winston. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 I don't know about that benjamin. Churchill was around when the boundaries of countries in the middle east were drawn up just after the first world war. It was all about "Divide & rule" & what a mess was created. Just a line in the desert but creating conflict by forcing people to live together who despise each other.(it happened in colonial Africa too) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,163 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Again quite right Bubble,........he more than likely had a hand in drawing up the boundaries of much of the Middle East,..........and re-doing them today might help the current situation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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