herthab
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« on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 08:49:59 » |
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Really want to make it to today's game, but after the fun I had driving yesterday thought I'd ask if anyone knew what the road conditions are like around Marlborough, particularly on the fucking big hill that ends near Tesco.
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« Reply #1 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 08:54:24 » |
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I'm sure Reg posted a decent walking route from Marlborough to Old Town on here once.
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #2 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 08:58:31 » |
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Easy walk along the old railway path from Marlborough all the way to Coate, then just a short stroll down Queens Drive to the CG.
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« Reply #3 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:02:20 » |
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Marlborough has a Tesco now?? What's the world coming to  |
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« Reply #4 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:04:24 » |
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How the actual fuck did this turn into a thread about walking?
F that!
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« Reply #5 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:06:29 » |
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Park at the bottom of the hill, walk up to Tesco, buy a shit load of value table salt, salt the hill on the way down, wait, job done.
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« Reply #6 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:07:10 » |
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Marlborough has a Tesco now?? What's the world coming to Dont get me started! |
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« Reply #7 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:09:00 » |
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Dont get me started!
I suppose even Marlborough has a few token poor people who can't afford Waitrose  |
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« Reply #8 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:09:56 » |
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How the actual fuck did this turn into a thread about walking?
F that!
So then...what is the furthest that anyone has walked to a game at the County Ground? Used to walk all the time when I lived in Old Town, but nothing impressive about that. Also used to walk sometimes from Freshbrook when my parents lived there - best part of an hour from there. And I cycled from Oxford to buy Wembley tickets in 1993. |
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« Reply #9 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:17:32 » |
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So then...what is the furthest that anyone has walked to a game at the County Ground?
Used to walk all the time when I lived in Old Town, but nothing impressive about that. Also used to walk sometimes from Freshbrook when my parents lived there - best part of an hour from there. And I cycled from Oxford to buy Wembley tickets in 1993.
I remember reading somewhere about how Harold Fleming would finish work on a Thursday afternoon on the farm where he worked near Andover, Andover FFS (probably ploughing the fields by hand or something) and set out to walk the God-knows-how-many miles to Swindon for the game on a Saturday, score a hat trick and then walk back again. CHECK.....MATE  |
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« Reply #10 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:22:53 » |
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Folk used to do things like that. So impressive. I'm sure John Arlott, who supported Reading, used to routinely cycle to Elm Park from Basingstoke for home games.
I think Harold Fleming's in the lead, though. According to Google Maps, Andover to the County Ground on foot is 32.3 miles and would take nearly 11 hours. Don't expect he would have been able to do that regularly, but don't doubt he did it at some point.
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« Reply #11 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:27:55 » |
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Not much help but people from Malbrough managed to make it into work last night and we sent the driver out to Malbrough DO.
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« Reply #12 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:30:01 » |
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Folk used to do things like that. So impressive. I'm sure John Arlott, who supported Reading, used to routinely cycle to Elm Park from Basingstoke for home games.
I think Harold Fleming's in the lead, though. According to Google Maps, Andover to the County Ground on foot is 32.3 miles and would take nearly 11 hours. Don't expect he would have been able to do that regularly, but don't doubt he did it at some point.
Did he walk to away games too? |
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« Reply #13 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:53:46 » |
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A very brief investigation would suggest that the 'walking from Andover to Swindon' thing may have been an urban myth. Fleming's parents it would appear, moved from Andover to Swindon when he was a kid and he went to school in Swindon and worked at the GWR works whilst the parents owned a butcher's shop in Market Street.
I'm still going to choose to believe it nonetheless.
What do you reckon Reg?
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« Reply #14 on: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 10:00:15 » |
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I suppose even Marlborough has a few token poor people who can't afford Waitrose No one in Marlborough is poor....but hang on in my opinion the Town is a lot poorer for building this monstrosity. Just my opinion let me make that clear......oh and they are building a Waitrose at Wichelstowe,so it cannot be that bad to shop at. |
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