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[Marks DTM Calib]

Memorable images from your youth.

Following a discussion elsewhere, I started to think of things I remember from my youth which no longer exist:

Corby Dragline (Sundew)



The old trains.





The old football ground

[Marks DTM Calib]

Corby Steel works



Harborough Rubber Company (Danite - demolished recently and replaced by some very high and very ugly flats!)

[Marks DTM Calib]

A10's were always flying along the Welland valley

[Debs.]

.......courteous and knowledgeable shop staff.

.......when folks took time to speak and be kind to strangers.  

.......when a marriage was expected to be for a for lifetime.  

.......when children accepted that hearing 'NO' is normal.  

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

.......courteous and knowledgeable shop staff.

.......when folks took time to speak and be kind to strangers.  

.......when a marriage was expected to be for a for lifetime.  

.......when children accepted that hearing 'NO' is normal.  

Ah yes Debs ...........But not in my lifetime. :-/

[Richie London]

.......courteous and knowledgeable shop staff.

.......when folks took time to speak and be kind to strangers.  

.......when a marriage was expected to be for a for lifetime.  

.......when children accepted that hearing 'NO' is normal.  

never to be again deb. very sad way of life now.  

[Olympia5776]

Ravenscraig Steel Works Motherwell.
I trained as an Instrument Engineer there and as a young naive man thought it was so large it would be there for ever, It's now a an open field.

[Martin_1962]

Seen Vic Berries there!!!!

Actually I didn't think I would see the day when most locos on the national railway network were American.

Plenty of Rats in preservation Mark

[Marks DTM Calib]

My days at Alsthom - Stafford



The Rickerscote rail crash (1996)



I had been at a party about 100m from here when it happened and remember arguing with the Police as to why I could not go over the railway bridge to get home!

[Martin_1962]

Seen Vic Berries there!!!!

Actually I didn't think I would see the day when most locos on the national railway network were American.

Plenty of Rats in preservation Mark

Apart of course for 40 to 50 year old shunters and the HST power cars.

[Kevin Wood]

No photos to hand at the moment but I got a tour round the former Farnborough RAE before it all got demolished. Rows and rows of buildings which housed specialists in practically every engineering discipline on the planet. The tanks Barnes Wallis used to develop the bouncing bomb. The wind tunnels that were instrumental in the development of the Fairey Delta, the Comet, Concorde,...

Expertise and facilities that, if we needed them today, we'd have to buy in from overseas.

Now it's a site containing (largely empty) swanky office buildings. The airfield is now operated as an upper class taxi rank with learjets coming and going. No more of the wierd and wonderful projects that I remember seeing talking to the air there as a kid.  

Last one out... turn the lights off (don't you know they raise CO₂ emissions).  

Kevin

[Elite Pete]

Must be the time of year. I've just spent the morning on Facebook (i've only just found out about it ) catching up with old friends and places I used to visit as a boy. I find it makes me quite sad as I sound like my Mum "its not like it used to be" and wish I could turn back the clock

[jerry]

All this nostalgia-must be our ages guys!! . Anyone else finding themselves slipping into Victor Meldrew guise, getting misty eyed over finding clips from old favourite tv shows you used to watch as a kid, catching themselves saying the same things that your mum and dad did that used to make you cringe, finding that the more leftwing views of your youth have moved slowly to the right or asking yourself, more than once, "Is it me?" Yep, we might still think were still 20/30 but were really fully paid up members of the Grumpy Old Men/ladies club. But, as someone once said, every generation thinks they invented oral sex! Age-and hopefully a little bit of wisdom-comes to us all,
                                                                           jerry

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

All this nostalgia-must be our ages guys!! . Anyone else finding themselves slipping into Victor Meldrew guise, getting misty eyed over finding clips from old favourite tv shows you used to watch as a kid, catching themselves saying the same things that your mum and dad did that used to make you cringe, finding that the more leftwing views of your youth have moved slowly to the right or asking yourself, more than once, "Is it me?" Yep, we might still think were still 20/30 but were really fully paid up members of the Grumpy Old Men/ladies club. But, as someone once said, every generation thinks they invented oral sex! Age-and hopefully a little bit of wisdom-comes to us all,
                                                                           jerry

Invented in 1963...........Was only 3 years old then......so I did'nt take it up immediately  

[cem_devecioglu]

Interesting piccies..