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Offline Rog

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Re: Derelicts
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2015, 09:07:57 pm »
It'll be a sad day when the last derelict is hoovered-up from the landscape. As much as when the last Dales barn has been converted into a holiday home, and the last grounded van body weighed-in.

What will the landscape be without chancing across a rotten car from a previous generation, a token reminder of how things once were? A broken-backed leafer languishing amongst briars and nettles is more a part of our heritage than a show-room fresh facsimile in a lottery-funded air-conditioned motor museum.

They're as important as the tin mines, the mills, the garden villages, crash-sites and Stonehenge. It's not for the woolly liberals to decide which bits of history to keep and which to erase, try as the National Trust might!
Every mile's an adventure (and that's just the Vivaro).

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Re: Derelicts
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2015, 09:19:30 pm »
It'll be a sad day when the last derelict is hoovered-up from the landscape. As much as when the last Dales barn has been converted into a holiday home, and the last grounded van body weighed-in.

What will the landscape be without chancing across a rotten car from a previous generation, a token reminder of how things once were? A broken-backed leafer languishing amongst briars and nettles is more a part of our heritage than a show-room fresh facsimile in a lottery-funded air-conditioned motor museum.

They're as important as the tin mines, the mills, the garden villages, crash-sites and Stonehenge. It's not for the woolly liberals to decide which bits of history to keep and which to erase, try as the National Trust might!

Thing is Rog .....

It'll also have a huge impact on folks "Getting into" Old Landrovers etc too .....

When i was but a toddler I spent many happy housrs sat playing in the mortal remains of a couple of series landrovers on Shell Island ....Twirling the steering wheel madly (Just like driving one of mine now ) and exploring the wonders of the rusty seat box lockers .....

As for the derelict Drott Dozer next to them .....MMMMmmmmmm

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Re: Derelicts
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2015, 09:21:32 pm »
Yes. And those old JCBs with the red star wheels and the white cabs...
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Re: Derelicts
« Reply #18 on: February 13, 2015, 05:46:58 am »
Icy, you were allowed to play on your own? In a derelict motor vehicle? Who knows where it might have bee or what might be lurking withinn? But yeah, that's a whole other conversation.......

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Re: Derelicts
« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2015, 11:24:30 am »
What is with this word derelict

At first I thought it was just a description of the Forum members.  Pass the Meths will ya. 
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Re: Derelicts
« Reply #20 on: February 16, 2015, 04:26:40 pm »
I love my job; come across things like this;





Think it is an 86", lots of bits with it. Looks like someone has started to rebuild it around an ash tree...

Location; TOP SECRET in the interests of industrial/landscape heritage conservation, I'll be dancing round it naked on the solstice and campaigning for a tunnel to be built beneath it. Oh and the newts!
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Re: Derelicts
« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2015, 09:11:39 pm »
I love my job; come across things like this;





Think it is an 86", lots of bits with it. Looks like someone has started to rebuild it around an ash tree...

Location; TOP SECRET in the interests of industrial/landscape heritage conservation, I'll be dancing round it naked on the solstice and campaigning for a tunnel to be built beneath it. Oh and the newts!
Do you think that's been there for a while then?