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I used to love going down to London Road station for a spot of spotting. I think I did it for about a year before discovering planes and cycling to Bruntingthorpe or Stoughton with Bobby Andrews, whenever the weather was nice and we had spare time.

We'd always come back late and ride through clouds of midges backlit by the setting sun.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Aug 5th, 2007 at 02:58:02 PM EST
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Bruntingthorpe's a memory. Cycle out of Fleckney on the Arnesby Road, go through Shearsby... Stare in amazement at the empty bottles in the ditches the closer you get. Even the blue Dodge run off the road and left with a door half-open... More amazing to ten-year-olds than the planes...

An American base put a lot of stuff in local circuits. I still wish I could have those white Sea-Island cotton shirts from Saks of Fifth Avenue again, best shirts I ever had, found their way out of the back of the PX somehow...

It seems Bruntingthorpe's a museum now.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Aug 5th, 2007 at 03:56:59 PM EST
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Lol, when I was stationed at an (American occupied) base in the UK, it was King Edddie cigars and cigarettes that everyone sold or gave away to you Brits.  I didn't know those shirts were that popular.  HM Customs & Excise didn't either!

I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears
by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Sun Aug 5th, 2007 at 11:17:53 PM EST
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