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This was the scene a few minutes earlier...
and from Google Maps about 50 years later:
and from Google Maps about 50 years later:
This was the scene a few minutes earlier...
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and from Google Maps about 50 years later:
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That's very close. Strictly speaking it was then the A34, but you have the right roundabout and you're looking in the right direction (North). The first of my dad's pictures shows the vehicle exiting the roundabout - roughly here:A339, Newbury, roughly here?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3...EIjEhw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?authuser=0&hl=en-GB
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Not sure I can claim this one as I didn't actually get the right road! Had a brain fade about which direction "earlier" was and was looking for the road the load was on before the roundabout not after it. (I found the roundabout by wasting most of an afternoon googling every single KFC in the south of the country) But as you've given the game away it would be hard for anyone else to claim it either... if that is your wish, I will post another picture tomorrow. Coast, mountain pass, or tree-line, featureless hill?That's very close. Strictly speaking it was then the A34, but you have the right roundabout and you're looking in the right direction (North). The first of my dad's pictures shows the vehicle exiting the roundabout - roughly here:
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This event created a lot of excitement but I find no mention of it online. @Dogtrousers' diagram* is illuminating as it shows where all the sections were manufactured. It partly answers the question of when did all the other bits pass by, something I'd been wondering ever since. I have some copies of Newbury Weekly News from around that time. It's possible one of my dad's pictures was used, but if I can find that I will have been seriously lucky.
I see there's a thread on Concorde from about 11 years ago, so I think I might post the fully story there.
* and kudos for finding the link to Southampton.
Spot on.https://tinyurl.com/y6sk95hv
Hardknott Pass, about a kilometre before the summit on the west side.
Edit: good call, having that scheduled photo stop just there ;-) Did you manage to get going again on that 30% section?!
A year before that picture, I'd done it with my then-skinny nephew on a tandem
Hardknott Pass on a tandem with micro-stoker: impressive stuff !
Matching this to Streetview will be easy since I've run out of photos, hence this is a Streetview capture. It's not a terribly large clue to say ..... Hmmm.... actually, it was still too much of a clue, so no clues at all for the time being :-)
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I see what you mean, but it's not Fleet Moss, no.Reminds me of Fleet Moss, south from Hawes?
I see what you mean, but it's not Fleet Moss, no.