Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Kids love trains!!!

SILLY!!

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MORE SILLY!!

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EVEN MORE SILLY!!

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Today was stream train ridingxxcx 038 day!!

 

 

 

 

It was a lovely ride through  forests.xxcx 054 xxcx 056

Everyone loves to wave at trains

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xxcx 094 This was a great trip and at one end of the journey we visited a train Museum.xxcx 104 xxcx 106

I come from a family background of train workers.  My Dad started his working life as a firemanxxcx 110 shovelling the coalxxcx 112

 

 

 

 

into the boilersxxcx 111 this is a very famous train my Dad used to fire up!!xxcx 119 Then my Dad’s Dad, my Grand Dad also worked on the railways he was a guard.xxcx 101 So as you can imagine the whole experience was just wonderful.

We also had a walk through another typical county villagexxcx 008 xxcx 019

Check out the thatched roof!!xxcx 020

xxcx 006 Some one more knowledgeable than my brother or me will be able to tell if this church is Saxon or Norman.  One group built churches with spires and one group without???xxcx 026

 

 

 

 

See who has his beady eye on you??

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Those of you who watch the TV show Heartbeat will recognize this Police car and the following photographsxxcx 088 xxcx 089 This is the village of Goathland where the series is made and when we were there they were actually shooting a scene!!

 

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I leave you with the working men of England!!xxcx 001 xxcx 002 xxcx 016

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Yet another wonderful day in the old country…get ready for tomorrow,  meeting someone in my family I have never met before!!!!   Have a great evening..

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