please empty your brain below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jericho

RogerW | 23.05.16 - 7:25 a.m. | #

The Heron may have had a teeny aisle, but what lovely big windows !

Petras409 | 23.05.16 - 8:23 a.m. | #

Volunteers seem to be quite forthcoming in Bushey...is this one of the 'signs' of there being a certain amount of 'civic pride' in the area? Something that may be lacking or in short supply in other London boroughs? Also note the use of VHS at the Bushey Museum...wonder how many places still use that as a media presention format?!

Grumpy Anon | 23.05.16 - 8:32 a.m. | #

The aisle on the Heron aircraft is positively spacious compared with the Islanders and Trislanders used on the flights to Scilly and Alderney
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rX--l9YAfZ8/maxresdefault.jpg

From Herons to Mallards. It is probably a canard (sorry!) that Gresley, albeit a keen ornithologist, was particularly fond of ducks in general or mallards in particular. The 35 "A4" Pacifics had various naming themes including a "Silver Jubilee" theme, an "Empire" theme, and LNER directors, but 23 of them were named after birds, many with more speed-evocative names such as Kestrel, Golden Eagle, and Sparrowhawk. However, by the time the 28th rolled off the production line, all the interesting bird of prey names had already been used, along with a few waders and seabirds (e.g Bittern, Guillemot), and they had started on the ducks. It so happened that the last eight locomotives were fitted with a modified exhaust system allowing freer steaming, and it was this modification that led one of this batch to be chosen for the speed record attempt. It could just as easily have been Pochard, Garganey, Gannet, Capercaillie, Seagull, or Peregrine. (Gadwall had not entered service at the time)

timbo | 23.05.16 - 10:27 a.m. | #

Not entirely on your own... I walked through there at that time. One of my favourite places ever. Mainly because you hardly see anyone there.

Uncle Audrey | 23.05.16 - 10:44 a.m. | #

And I was at the Aircraft museum the weekend before. Spooky.

Uncle Audrey | 23.05.16 - 10:44 a.m. | #

Wot? How can anyone fail to be impressed with cutesy animal pictures!

I occasionally travel on the 258 from South Harrow to Watford for almost door to door service, but I think I'll make a special trip in order to alight at Bushey instead! A delightful destination at the end of a delightful bus ride!

Cornish Cockney | 23.05.16 - 11:47 a.m. | #

Also I had no idea London buses went all the way out to St Albans! But not on an Oyster I presume?

Cornish Cockney | 23.05.16 - 11:51 a.m. | #

They don't. TfL services go as far as Watford Junction.

Uncle Audrey | 23.05.16 - 11:57 a.m. | #

Like many people living in the UK, the 84 bus route is an ex-Londoner. I think it still tends to be a bit red on the outside, but it doesn't take Oyster, or refuse cash, or do any other London-like things.

Malcolm (of Kent) | 23.05.16 - 12:03 p.m. | #

Yes, it stopped accepting TfL tickets in 2012. It used to run all the way to Golders Green, cut back to New Barnet in 1969 and has been run by Metrolink since 1982.

Uncle Audrey | 23.05.16 - 12:05 p.m. | #

Now, now people...you starting to go OFF-TOPIC

Grumpy Anon | 23.05.16 - 12:21 p.m. | #

Never mind Golders Green, from 1940 until 1969 the 84 was very much a "central" (red) Londoin route, running St Albans all the way to Walthamstow. Beyond New Barnet it was replaced in 1969 by an extension of the 34.

http://www.londonbuses.co.uk/_routes/current/084.html

timbo | 23.05.16 - 12:23 p.m. | #

Sadly Denham isn't mentioned in this here series of posts, because it was the filming location for several scenes in Carry On Matron which features a wonderful scene about the arguments that can develop over the history of London bus routes. And that's what this thread is beginning to look like!

Uncle Audrey | 23.05.16 - 12:36 p.m. | #

Making me old seeing that a BAe 146 is now a museum piece! Regarding that Heron plane, how do you even get into the seats?

The Islanders/Trislanders someone else mentioned have doors on the side so you can get into the rows of seats (though you have to fold the front of the two rows down). But the photo of the Heron does now show any doors beside the seat bays. So did the seats fold down or were passengers expected to squeeze through that narrow aisle?

Jon Combe | 23.05.16 - 12:37 p.m. | #

It must be ten years since I last visited the de Havilland Museum. Nice to see that the "outside" exhibits are going to get some cover.
You think the Heron aisle is narrow?
Try a Rapide. You have to fold the seat arms inwards over the cushions in order to make enough space and even then I got caught up......and I'm a ten stone weakling!

baldrick | 23.05.16 - 1:38 p.m. | #

Last year, at Northolt's Centenary, you would have seen a Dragon Rapide in the air.

Didn't know about the de Havilland Museum, thanks dg.

HoosierSands | Homepage | 23.05.16 - 1:44 p.m. | #

Salisbury Hall and the adjoining 1960s annexe is now offices. I worked there for a computer firm from 2002 to 2006.

Stephen Bird | 23.05.16 - 4:25 p.m. | #











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