tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post6842023236799302439..comments2024-03-28T16:19:56.009+00:00Comments on North Stoke: 25th September 2021thelmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-48227193828962988692021-09-26T07:56:46.064+01:002021-09-26T07:56:46.064+01:00They are sad place with echoes of the past in the ...They are sad place with echoes of the past in the walls. The children grew up and became adults of course. Though as children we had a large garden to play in would often play on 'the tip', riding our bicycles over the dumps of goodness knows what, scraping our knees on sharp gravels.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-7402067944173396162021-09-25T22:14:15.087+01:002021-09-25T22:14:15.087+01:00Whenever I come across ruins I wonder about childr...Whenever I come across ruins I wonder about children who might have played and grown up there. Tasker Dunhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634612033217902946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-8678896155072932852021-09-25T20:03:27.489+01:002021-09-25T20:03:27.489+01:00Wales holds on to its history Pat because it doesn...Wales holds on to its history Pat because it doesn't have as much money spent on it as in England. Nostalgia for the 'old ways' can be somewhat shortsighted I feel. Read an article today about a farmer, who twenty years back or so went for the American way of farming. Then suddenly realised how from being a mixed farm all they had was large machinery and one or two crops. He is now in the process of returning things back so flora and fauna will return, and farm animals will get a better life.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-16669873764560747042021-09-25T19:56:44.428+01:002021-09-25T19:56:44.428+01:00I suspect Jennie that it has the same forlorn air ...I suspect Jennie that it has the same forlorn air as some of the derelict buildings here in the North and on the coast. The physical effort in all this heavy work must have taken its toil though.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-72741263317801402021-09-25T17:44:45.315+01:002021-09-25T17:44:45.315+01:00Not somewhere we've ever been Thelma, but very...Not somewhere we've ever been Thelma, but very interesting to read about. The workers there must have had a heck of a shock when it closed completely and I daresay may have ended up looking for work down the mines. The buildings certainly look lost and abandoned.Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-89064487832483483582021-09-25T16:21:36.053+01:002021-09-25T16:21:36.053+01:00Interesting photographs Thelma and such a link wit...Interesting photographs Thelma and such a link with the past. Wales seens to hold on toits history more than we do in England - so much so that it is easy to view suh sites with anostalgia which forgets the harshnes of the conditions in which the people lived.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.com