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On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:47:53 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Lowestoft, houses jammed together and insufficient
parking. Parts of it look like Basingstoke.

How dreadful.

It is, I'm very disturbed to discover I live in a town that resembles
Lowestoft.

At least Basingstoke doesn't smell of rotten fish.

Do you know that for a fact?

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:47:53 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Lowestoft, houses jammed together and insufficient
parking. Parts of it look like Basingstoke.
How dreadful.
It is, I'm very disturbed to discover I live in a town that resembles
Lowestoft.

At least Basingstoke doesn't smell of rotten fish.

Do you know that for a fact?
Yes, I've spent some time there. The only time I smelt fish was when I
was sitting next to an unkempt woman in a disreputable town centre pub,
when we were on a fact-finding mission. The woman, I hasten to add, was
not one of our party.

Bill

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:47:53 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Mark Carver wrote:
On 12/04/2011 15:34, Bill Wright wrote:
Albert Ross wrote:

Lowestoft, houses jammed together and insufficient
parking. Parts of it look like Basingstoke.

How dreadful.

It is, I'm very disturbed to discover I live in a town that resembles
Lowestoft.


At least Basingstoke doesn't smell of rotten fish.

And Lowestoft doesn't (yet) have so many roundabouts.

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:45:58 GMT, Paul Ratcliffe
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:58:50 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

If they'd really wanted to give the airport (ex RAF Finningley) an
apposite local name with some real historical clout they could have
called it Wellington Bomber Airport. We don't get many Germans round
here so it wouldn't have upset anybody.

Gosh, they could even have called it Finningley as a tribute to the
fighters.

I guess the locals call might call it Finningley anyway?
Like we call Bristol "Lulsgate", or when I lived in: Manchester it was called
Ringway; Leeds it was called Yeadon; Nottingham it was called Castle
Donnington.

Ah yes, Lulsgate, where the runway goes uphill and then down a bit

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:04:34 +0100, Alan
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:58:50 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

I'm pretty sure there was a Robin Hood Roundabout on the A3 south of
London.

Was it on the Kingston By-Pass?

Yes you're right. Any idea why? Did he go there on his days off?

In message on Fri, 15 Apr 2011
12:26:44 +0100
Albert Ross wrote:

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:04:34 +0100, Alan
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:58:50 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

I'm pretty sure there was a Robin Hood Roundabout on the A3 south of
London.

Was it on the Kingston By-Pass?

Yes you're right. Any idea why? Did he go there on his days off?

Was there a Robin Hood pub there - or was the pub demolished to make way for
the roundabout?

--

Terry

On 15/04/2011 12:24, Albert Ross wrote:


At least Basingstoke doesn't smell of rotten fish.

And Lowestoft doesn't (yet) have so many roundabouts.

Oh yes, we were 'Doughnut City' during the peak of CB Radio's popularity.


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Mark
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In message ,
Terry Casey writes
In message on Fri, 15 Apr 2011
12:26:44 +0100
Albert Ross wrote:

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:04:34 +0100, Alan
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:58:50 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

I'm pretty sure there was a Robin Hood Roundabout on the A3 south of
London.

Was it on the Kingston By-Pass?

Yes you're right. Any idea why? Did he go there on his days off?

Was there a Robin Hood pub there - or was the pub demolished to make way for
the roundabout?

There's a Robin Hood roundabout on the Newbury - Reading road, named
after the pub.

Mind you I haven't been there for a while, so it may be gone.
--
Ian

Mark Carver wrote:
On 15/04/2011 12:24, Albert Ross wrote:


At least Basingstoke doesn't smell of rotten fish.

And Lowestoft doesn't (yet) have so many roundabouts.

Oh yes, we were 'Doughnut City' during the peak of CB Radio's popularity.


Wickersley near here was Shakeytown because of the frequent earth
tremors. Then of course there was Penistone.

Bill

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:26:11 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

Ah yes, Lulsgate, where the runway goes uphill and then down a bit

It does that at Filton as well, where I was earlier. Sadly not for that
much longer now they're shutting it. Concorde 216 looked very sad shrouded
in what looked like some sort of scaffolding as far as I could make out
from the road across the other side of the airfield...