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Title: A Blast from the past Post by: STFC_Gazza on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 20:22:18 This wonderful noise brings back some memories..............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb7FVHsnEEc My Grandad worked at Swindon Railway Works until it closed in 1986. Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: leefer on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 20:44:35 http://www.kenwhitemurals.co.uk/paintings.html
Hi Gazza....brilliant early morning memories...some of these paintings are brill...i want to get the HOOTIE pic one day. This guy does all the murals round Swindon but his paintings on the Swindon Works are quality too...if a little expensive! Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: STFC_Gazza on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 20:55:58 I used to remember going to a bakery down Cheney Manor Road with my Mum and hearing the hooter go off. Used to scare the hell out of me, I was only about 4 or 5 at the time mind. Some cracking paintings on that website!
Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: BANGKOK RED on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 21:00:06 I remember that hooter now.
I hadn't thought about it for years until Gazza just mentioned it. Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: Ginginho on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 21:01:59 Some great old photos here (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4228602602_9f39bb0fb8.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/4228602602/&usg=__6-qhlTcEGa89BBhC6XjUE7C8sK4=&h=320&w=500&sz=105&hl=en&start=3&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=Ce7riT2CKcj3LM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dswindon%2Bgwr%2Bphotos%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rlz%3D1T4GZAZ_enGB354GB354%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1)
All the men leaving the factory in suits! Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: leefer on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 21:08:12 Straight to the County Ground waring them after the saturday morning shift.
Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: 4D on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 21:16:36 What does that say on the green thing on the left? ???
Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: Ginginho on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 21:21:10 Looks like GINGER & BILL
Could be GINGER BALLS? Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: Peter Venkman on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 21:24:06 I worked there for 2 years when I left school in 82, great memories.
I was the 4th generation Railways Worker and the last in the family line. Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: Samdy Gray on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 21:25:17 My old man did his engineering apprenticeship in the railways when he left school. That was before my parents had me mind, so I don't know too much about it.
Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: nochee on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 06:56:54 There were (maybe still is?) a collection of old photos of the railway works in the Link library a few years back. I remember there was an advertisment board in the background of one pic advertising cigarettes with the slogan saying something like "smoke these fags they are great!"
I had'nt smoked for years but it made me want one Title: Re: A Blast from the past Post by: LucienSanchez on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 10:46:42 My dad and gramp worked in the railways, and they look back on it fondly. Think my gramp also worked at Pressed Steel, like loads of people seemed to!
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