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Post by Craig72 on Nov 25, 2013 17:06:33 GMT
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Post by nob on Nov 25, 2013 17:16:53 GMT
Filmed in Doncaster Craig. The shop is actually a house in Balby near the Peglers works. David Jason looks like a kid in them now. Good series still entertaining.
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Post by Craig72 on Nov 25, 2013 17:22:51 GMT
Filmed in Doncaster Craig. The shop is actually a house in Balby near the Peglers works. David Jason looks like a kid in them now. Good series still entertaining. Yes and in the past it has been used as a hairdresser's. (or was that one of the houses in Last of the Summer wine). I hope they bring it as a series, but it'll be strange with out Ronnie Baker in it. I've also been watching Steptoe & son and On the Buses on Youtube, can't beat the classics. Craig. |
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Post by Ratae on Nov 25, 2013 19:45:56 GMT
Filmed in Doncaster Craig. The shop is actually a house in Balby near the Peglers works. David Jason looks like a kid in them now. Good series still entertaining. Yes and in the past it has been used as a hairdresser's. (or was that one of the houses in Last of the Summer wine). I hope they bring it as a series, but it'll be strange with out Ronnie Baker in it. I've also been watching Steptoe & son and On the Buses on Youtube, can't beat the classics. Craig. Or even Ronnie Barker!  |
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Post by jal on Nov 25, 2013 21:33:12 GMT
I lodged in Balby for 6 months at No.10 Westholme Road in 1960.
With a widow who's husband used to work on the railway before he died.
At Lincoln they used to send all their apprentices on the fitting staff to Donny Plant for 6 months.
Marvellous works, worked on most of the steam locomotives you used to rush to see as kids, a dream come true.
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Post by uncleub on Nov 25, 2013 22:30:27 GMT
Filmed in Doncaster Craig. The shop is actually a house in Balby near the Peglers works. David Jason looks like a kid in them now. Good series still entertaining. Yes and in the past it has been used as a hairdresser's. (or was that one of the houses in Last of the Summer wine). I hope they bring it as a series, but it'll be strange with out Ronnie Baker in it. I've also been watching Steptoe & son and On the Buses on Youtube, can't beat the classics. Craig. Yes it was a hairdressers shop. A great series,sadly nothing much made as good these days...Dads Army,Are you being served,Hi De Hi,Allo,Allo.All great comedy shows. Talking of filming local..A lot of the Full Monty was filmed in the part of Sheffield I was born and grew up it,great memories for me.  |
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Post by Anne on Nov 26, 2013 8:15:06 GMT
we've just spent a week in Benidorm and stayed at the hotel the series was filmed in. Kept expecting to see the cast around the pool  |
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Post by Ratae on Nov 26, 2013 9:28:09 GMT
Y'know, I don't believe that I've ever seen a single episode of the program. Don't know what night of the week it was on, or what time of the evening, I can only assume that it was at a time that I was always out. Of course, if it was a Friday or Saturday evening, then I was deffo out and about. Just googled and it premiered in 1976. That was it then, that year of the long hot summer and when myself, my fishing kit and a few clothes left the family home. Ducking and diving doesn't even begin to describe the few years that followed.  But what memories!  |
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Post by nob on Nov 26, 2013 13:29:29 GMT
I lodged in Balby for 6 months at No.10 Westholme Road in 1960. With a widow who's husband used to work on the railway before he died. At Lincoln they used to send all their apprentices on the fitting staff to Donny Plant for 6 months. Marvellous works, worked on most of the steam locomotives you used to rush to see as kids, a dream come true. The Plant JJ, they would set apprentice fitters on then finish them as soon as they came out of their time.  One I know the last time I heard had developed asbestosis from the blue asbestos they used to insulate the carriages. They would make balls out of it and throw them at each other. As for watching them , it was the Deltics at my time. Have a watch of this going through Donny on the middle rail. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2013 15:54:05 GMT
Thanks for that link Nob, I haven't seen it before. The 'Centre Road' or 'Middle road' should, more correctly be called The Down Fast Line. The 'Middle Road' at Doncaster is actually a siding between Bay Platforms 6 and 7. I had many cab rides in Deltics, HSTs (High Speed Trains) and, latterly, the Electrics. But nothing came close to the feeling of power that riding in the cab of a Deltic gave. If you watch the vid again, a couple of things to look out for, apart from the fact that my signalmen gave her all greens  Rossington LC at 0.54, and the sidings leading to Ross Colly immediately beyond on the left side. M18 overbridge at 1.23 What was Bessacarr LC at 1.35, now replaced by a massive footbridge, after a lady and 2 children were knocked down and killed there some years ago. As it was a 'bridleway' level crossing, the footbridge had to be constructed so that it was capable of a horse and rider using it. Bessacarr flyover (the lattice girder bridge) at 1.52, where the up and down Lincoln lines cross the East Coast Main Lines. Peglers Chimney, dead centre at 3.05 My signalling Centre (known as The Kremlin) at 3.35 on right hand side, with the Plant Works directly opposite on the left. Happy days, thanks for the memories. |
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Post by nob on Nov 26, 2013 16:14:34 GMT
Alan, Ive crossed there before the bridge was built many times. Always an eye out and ears pealed. I believe one of the girls bike got caught in the line and they were trying to release it and crouched down when they saw the train coming and got hit, an eye witness said they exploded. It wasn't a safe crossing far too fast trains, an accident waiting to happen. Pity it took lives for it to be realised something needed to be done. They lived in Bessacarr.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2013 16:33:36 GMT
Absolutely right Nob.
I was on duty, in charge of Doncaster signalling Centre, when it happened and called everyone out, including the emergency services. One of my Area Inspectors was first on the scene and it almost reduced him to tears, even though he'd dealt with many fatalities. An off-duty signalman who lived in the level crossing house at Bessacarr LC, on the Lincoln line,who had been alerted by all the activity, had a young lad come up to him and said his mummy, his sister and the girl next door were on the railway line and he couldn't wake them up. It was only later in the evening that I found out they were neighbours of mine (I lived in Bessacarr at the time). It was a terrible time for all concerned, not least the driver of the northbound 'Hull Executive', the train that actually hit them. The driver never drove main line trains again.
I kept in touch with my neighbour, who lost his wife and daughter, and eventually, after about a year he accepted an invitation to visit the Signalling Centre and thanked us all for our actions, and especially for looking after his son, until the emergency services took over. Ironically, the mother of their next door neighbours little girl, tragically died from cancer about a year later. So we had two families in the road who continued to live with these tragic events for a long, long time.
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Post by Ratae on Nov 26, 2013 16:45:06 GMT
my signalmen gave her all greens My signalling Centre (known as The Kremlin) at 3.35 on right hand side, with the Plant Works directly opposite on the left. Happy days, thanks for the memories. See! I told yer, it's MY this and MY that, our Al sodding well owned the whole shooting match.  Pfffftt...no wonder he's largeing it a spanking new top of the range beemer and flying everywhere business class. Just an ordinary old railwayman my arse!  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2013 17:58:36 GMT
my signalmen gave her all greens My signalling Centre (known as The Kremlin) at 3.35 on right hand side, with the Plant Works directly opposite on the left. Happy days, thanks for the memories. See! I told yer, it's MY this and MY that, our Al sodding well owned the whole shooting match. Pfffftt...no wonder he's largeing it a spanking new top of the range beemer and flying everywhere business class. Just an ordinary old railwayman my arse! Haha . . bloody . .ha ! OK, I loved my 41 years on the railway and managed to climb up the ranks, from the lowest clerical grade to my retirement post of 'Duty Shift Operations Manager' at Doncaster Signalling Centre. I always considered that I was fortunate to work with the best team in the land, but was, as my pal 'Coggy' always described himself, 'just a bloody small cog, in a bloody big wheel'. A figure of speech, if you like, but the 400 miles of railway we looked after, was my railway, when I was on duty. But only that bit of it. Signed - an ex-railwayman  |
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Post by uncleub on Nov 26, 2013 18:21:21 GMT
 Alan the smiley engine...
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One I know the last time I heard had developed asbestosis from the blue asbestos they used to insulate the carriages. They would make balls out of it and throw them at each other.
