please empty your brain below
Sounds better than yesterday ...

Debster | Homepage | 09.06.08 - 8:11 a.m. | #

I live about a mile off the Biggin Hill flightpath and always enjoy the display in my garden with a few beers. As you point out there are hundreds of better vantage points - and cheaper - than the airfield.

What looked like the Lancaster flew home a few minutes ago.

Invicta | 09.06.08 - 11:29 a.m. | #

I remember doing the last ever conductor-operated RT-type double deck journey on 21/4/78. The buses only ran to Downe then and conductors had been retained to supervise an awkward 3-point turn at the terminus. What had normally been empty, or near empty, last bus was instead packed, to the consternation of drinkers at the Keston 'Fox' pub, none of whom were able to board and no doubt faced a long walk home through the country lanes. Scheduling errors 1978-style maybe?

Bowroad | 09.06.08 - 11:51 a.m. | #

Thanks for this. I'm sorry you had such a nightmare journey. Chartwell is on our list of Possible Places to Visit

Gert | Homepage | 09.06.08 - 2:06 p.m. | #

I reckon the heat on that bus must have been Scorchio.

Amused | 09.06.08 - 6:13 p.m. | #

Heh. I've done the 246 to Chartwell before, and to Westerham a few times - it's usually a lovely ride, and the views are spectacular.

Inspector Sands | Homepage | 09.06.08 - 6:32 p.m. | #

sad as it is, there is a reason why us drivers are 'jobsworths' when it comes to opening the doors - we will loose our jobs if the passenger trips up on a pavement which is not at a bus stop. if you want to get off, just push the buttons. it makes our lives easier.

el director | Homepage | 10.06.08 - 2:35 a.m. | #

Random Chartwell-related trivia: I had some music lessons at university with Chartwell Dutiro*, who is from Zimbabwe. He was named by a Salvation Army missionary, and I remember him once saying, "I liked my name for years because I thought it meant, you know, to chart something well. Then I came to England and found out I had been named after Winston Churchill's home. It is not a bad place, but as a name it seems not as good now."




* http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/
worl...hartwell1.shtml

Tom | Homepage | 10.06.08 - 6:18 a.m. | #











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