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[nickyboy]

[QUOTE 5050021, member: 43827"]Tastes change, not always for the better.


As an aside, Stephanie Flanders, the former BBC Economics Editor, is the daughter of Michael Flanders and I always hoped she would use some of his lyrics in one of her talks about the economy.[/QUOTE]

I'm sure you're right, it's just that their songs seem to be redolent of a particular era. Reminds me of my Dad playing Spike Jones And His City Slickers

 

[mybike]

Flanders and Swann. How much influence did they have on your childhood?



(Or a thinly disguised attempt to find out what is and isn't acceptable as a thread title.)

That I immediately knew what the thread was about might give you the answer.

 

[Tim Hall]

Spurred on by @User13710 saying some of the stations mentioned in "The Slow Train", which is a song about cuts to the rail network, are still open, I thought I'd google the lyrics. The first hit took me to a page at flashlyrics which renders them thus, complete with asterisks:

No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Moretehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-c**-Hardy or Chester-le-Street
We won"t be meeting again
On the slow train.

Won't someone think of the childrun?

 

[Tim Hall]

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If so, did it answer the mystery of who Martin was and, more importantly, why anybody would want a heron?

It's part of a list of slightly out of the ordinary things that people called Martin have failed to notice. Martin's windmill and Martin's castle are other entries.

 

[Bromptonaut]

If so, did it answer the mystery of who Martin was and, more importantly, why anybody would want a heron?

As ever, Wiki is your friend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martins_Heron

Of Flanders and Swan's stations mentioned above Chester le Street was reprieved and IIRC Chorlton cum Hardy re-opened.