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The full size Stig reminded me of a small shop just outside St Neots that sold pine furniture and, for some reason, full size fibreglass film character sculptures. The one that stood outside the shop was a 7' Arnie Terminator with the robot face and eye showing through the damaged skin.
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Remember it well from my childhood. I used to use the Katherine Road Bridge as part of the walk from home to Upton Park to see the Hammers in the early to mid 1960's.
I last walked through the area just before the end of the 2015/16 season, the last at the Boleyn ground. In spite of the intervening 50 years, there was much that was still familiar about it, apart from the Stig that is. |
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It was good to swee 'proper' homes again instead of the dreadful boxes in your photos yesterday. I couldn't live in one of those little boxes (and probably couldn't afford to either!
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You have gladdened my heart with your picture of half a Renault 12.
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Very enjoyable quick trawl through Trebor history thanks to this. (How have I never heard of Sir Kreemy Knut?). Google's 2019 street view shows developer hoardings opposite the old factory spanning a gap perhaps caused by WW2 bombing - the factory's garage doors blew off hitting houses opposite. (200 people sheltering in the factory basement were unharmed.) Would give me something to think about while waiting for the bus there.
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One wonders how the confectioner Frys took to Trebor muscling in on their cousins' turf. Quakers are notoriously non-violent, or it could have got rough.
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I was so focussed upon the sweets that when I scrolled down and glimpsed a link to Elizabeth Fry, I (momentarily) thought we had got there.
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As you may have intended I went off to seek Trebor factory history elsewhere on the web. It turned out to be well covered by many others, even if lacking the exact tone which you could have brought to it if you had wished.
I know you don't need my encouragement to keep making your own very personal choice of which subjects to blog. But you have it anyway. |
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Sincerely, DG, you never fail to delight.
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I'm glad the developers left the Trebor name on the loft apartments. It shows an appreciation of local history that unfortunately other developers lack. Helps to keep an area alive even when all the building are unappealing.
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It's amazing how buildings, factories etc can be found in the most unexpected places. Nearby Dagenham, for example, as well as its well-known Ford Motor Company factories was once home to the world's largest popcorn factory (Butterkist), which was tucked away in a relatively minor back street (Blackborne Road).
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Agree, Percy Daltons nuts were just down the road from yesterday's subject.
dg writes: disagree. |
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I am very much looking forward to your northern England section tour of the B roads. I have 5 near me and a new Co-Op has just opened on one. Also a new bin.
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What amused me, moving back into the area after a 30 year absence, is that all of my east London relatives call it KathRine Rd, with the emphasis on the "Rine"
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