That's a very nice analogy.

What a fool hey, fancy eh, while i was writing i was saying beeching in me mind, and everytime i've written beecham, mind you took along while before it was noticed, well done Bubblewrap, mind you theres no prize...

Beechams made some nice powders
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/100000245.html

But if you are doing string quartets you dont keep paying the wages of a dozen musicians when eight of them will have nothing to do ;)

Well I have just found this thread in the Archive, it makes you sick when good old buildings like these, which were an important part of the community for many a long year and they are left to decay and rot away like that, but an absolutely Awful, disgusting modern structure like the Shopping centre building in Milton Keynes which has no history and no atmosphere recently became a Grade two listed building.

This country has got things wrong somewhere !!!!

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Of course Tumby Woodside was immortalised in the song "Slow Train"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Train

Miller's Dale for Tideswell ...
Kirby Muxloe ...
Mow Cop and Scholar Green ...

No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road.
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street.
We won't be meeting again
On the Slow Train.

I'll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw.
At Long Stanton I'll stand well clear of the doors no more.
No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town.
I won't be going again
On the Slow Train.

On the Main Line and the Goods Siding
The grass grows high
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside
And Trouble House Halt.

The Sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate.
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay.
No one departs, no one arrives
From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives.
They've all passed out of our lives
On the Slow Train, on the Slow Train.

Cockermouth for Buttermere ... on the Slow Train,
Armley Moor Arram ...
Pye Hill and Somercotes ... on the Slow Train,
Windmill End.

This one is situated in my locale.

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/m...ld/index.shtml

Here's a whole bunch of stuff I've thrown together about my local stations in Gosport (long closed, sadly).
http://daverowland.fotopic.net/c1668655.html

Nice gallery John and equally well presented.

Curtis.

Who's John ?:D