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One For The Train Lovers , SE7

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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,351
    One of our own
    He's one of our o-o-own
    William Henry Barlow
    He's one of our own!

  • There are better people, though. You are setting the bar low.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    There are better people, though. You are setting the bar low.
    Such as?
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    edited May 2024
    There are better people, though. You are setting the bar low.
    Such as?
    Pun on bar low
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    Comes on as sub for Isambard and scores the winner .

  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,183
    fadgadget said:
    Comes on as sub for Isambard and scores the winner .

    No he came on for Stephenson , who run out of puff, despite his first half rocket 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    I was born on 10th of May in Charlton, well at the BHMB, just over the border in Woolwich 
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,977
    "One For The Train Lovers...." all of the Charltonlife then?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    There are better people, though. You are setting the bar low.
    Such as?
    Arguably this bloke who saved the city from The Great Stink of 1858 (Sadly Thames Water now trying to recreate this).

    If I've got this story right, Bazalgette indirectly helped help the development of London's trains (I couldn't find a reference to it on the internet though, so it may be a fiction).  The cost of Bazalgett's sewer system was so great that most other development projects in London had to be cancelled. One of those projects was to build a huge circular covered arcade which would allow people to walk around the city unhindered by traffic or bad weather. Several years later when the Circle Line was built, much of its route followed the sites of properties which had been compulsory purchased to enable the building of the doomed covered walkway.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    If he was born in 1812, he would probably have been a Palace fan 

    :(
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  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,621
    Chizz said:
    If he was born in 1812, he would probably have been a Palace fan 

    :(
    Make that 1512