Beautiful Lancashire

[Mathos]

Mentioning the White Lion Pub, we called in as I think I mentioned a couple of posts or more back, it was nice too.




It appeared to be having problems with the roof and the heavy rain though.



You can see from the blackboard menu's there was really good food on offer.



A really nice old fashioned original bar, how it should be of course.



I've mentioned before, you don't come across many of this calibre nowadays.

Or this:-



It was really nice to walk in late in the afternoon and find a live fire burning away.

Beautiful.



A good bit of interesting information on the pamphlet as well.




Grand isn't it.

[Mathos]

There are some basic parts of country living which never really change at all though and progress is a method strangely suited to a farmer/cattleman moving his milking herds whilst sat astride a quad nowadays as opposed to a long foot slog.




They were certainly heavy with milk too, I've no idea how much a single cow produces, the thought of knowing has never entered my head before. Must be an age thing of some description.




I checked out on the milk production one full grown cow produces between five and eight gallons of milk per day.

That's a hell of a lot of milk for one animal to create.

Farms are much different now as well if you look to modern build.

Personally I much prefer the old brick or stone type farms with the cobbled yards. These modern build units with concrete yards and fancy milking systems are probably far better for production purposes and may allow the farmer to have an extra hour in bed {Those guys know what work is} but they don't look or feel as good as the old type.




I had a quick look to see if I had a photograph or two of an old original farm yard and buildings. I didn't notice one and cannot recall ever taking one. I'll put that right in the future.

One of these days they will all be gone I suppose.

This next photograph, whilst going off subject is interesting and a really nice photograph in general.

However, I noticed a large 'green type of pole' in the garden of the house by the river, and I have no idea what it is.

Can anybody help?

These homes are in a really beautiful location too.



This might be a slightly better photograph as well.



It's a very peculiar looking pole or whatever.


These were taken in the Bainbridge area as well, it's a spectacular village indeed.

Note this one:-



This one as well with the old Q8 {Kuwait if you were not aware of the significance regarding petroleum spirit} petrol station, I don't think there are many of those sites left in The UK either.

It would never have been built there in todays world.

The old underground storage tanks in thousands of these old stations have caused so many environmental problems over the last thirty years especially or so. Old five hundred gallon tanks which were replaced with larger tanks as motoring increased and sites got busier. The old ones were not always removed or filled with concrete as they should have been. Dealer owners especially used them to store waste oil and other such products. The tanks were corroding and leaking all sorts into the ground. Imagine that, seeping oil, diesel or petrol into the river.

I hope not.

[who]

Is the green pole for cell phones ?

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by who

Is the green pole for cell phones ?

Don't know who, I suppose it could be, but I think I would have come across others like or similar to it.

However, if you put the picture to your photograph manager and enlarge it screen size, there is a black cable (possibly cable) going off the top into the trees and the cable runs down the side of the pole halfway uncovered and then in the protective metal tube down below.

So I doubt it being a phone mast very much, obviously it cannot be ruled out though.

It could have something to do with the river, perhaps a flood early warning advice.

Then again, it may be his own personal fishing line..

No, I think it's something quite special or unique.

I have never seen one like that.

Thanks for your input though who.

[Mathos]

Just watching Last Night at The Proms,

"Land of Hope and Glory"


Spectacular, and I mean spectacular.

Proud to be British.

Land of Hope and Glory - An Anglo-American Tradition


the UK, it is set to lyrics (partly written by Elgar himself ...
1 min 40 sec -

YouTube - Land of Hope and Glory - Last Night of the ...


This is a video response to Land of Hope and Glory - Last ...
7 min -

www.yo

utube.com/watch?v=THYgeETrkPs


Land of Hope and Glory

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
Wider still, and wider, shall thy bounds be set;
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet!

Truth and Right and Freedom, each a holy gem,
Stars of solemn brightness, weave thy diadem.

Tho' thy way be darkened, still in splendour drest,
As the star that trembles o'er the liquid West.

Throned amid the billows, throned inviolate,
Thou hast reigned victorious, thou has smiled at fate.

Land of Hope and Glory, fortress of the Free,
How may we extol thee, praise thee, honour thee?

Hark, a mighty nation maketh glad reply;
Lo, our lips are thankful, lo, our hearts are high!

Hearts in hope uplifted, loyal lips that sing;
Strong in faith and freedom, we have crowned our
Queen

[Mathos]

These steps were really attractive as well.

It's brilliant that people are able to make use of such fantastic amenities to travel across parts of the countryside simply set aside for walking.



I'm pretty certain this was The River Rawthey as well.




The Rawthey then finds it's way into the River Lune.





We are indeed extremely fortunate in having such natural beauty in such a small country.

Amazing.




This was a beautiful spot too. I had to stop the car and catch this it was really nice.



Just talking with Flobo about some of these places, it's going to give us a busy few months during autumn and winter retracing our steps and going elsewhere too.

I'm going to have to shape up with my work load. I normally wind up mid December, but I'll be looking to get finished for mid November this year. That leaves me with a very busy few weeks ahead, I hope the weather improves somewhat.

[Happyman]

Originally Posted by Mathos

Don't know who, I suppose it could be, but I think I would have come across others like or similar to it.

However, if you put the picture to your photograph manager and enlarge it screen size, there is a black cable (possibly cable) going off the top into the trees and the cable runs down the side of the pole halfway uncovered and then in the protective metal tube down below.

So I doubt it being a phone mast very much, obviously it cannot be ruled out though.

It could have something to do with the river, perhaps a flood early warning advice.

Then again, it may be his own personal fishing line..

No, I think it's something quite special or unique.

I have never seen one like that.

Thanks for your input though who.

The only time I have seen similar things like that green pole is in the older streets of Wolverhampton !
There they are vents for communual cesspits or sewers
Can't imagine that there would be either so close to the river though !

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by Happyman

The only time I have seen similar things like that green pole is in the older streets of Wolverhampton !
There they are vents for communual cesspits or sewers
Can't imagine that there would be either so close to the river though !

Anything is possible Happyman, but I have enlarged it on my manager, there is no opening on top, and the cable which runs up the same through the protective tubing from ground level to a good ten foot high or so for safety reasons no doubt, has to be electric I would think.

I'm stumped for an answer though.



I've messed about with the photograph a little. You can see the cable better and the top etc with a quality fitting attached.

It's a peculiar set up though.

[Happyman]

Green pole mystery solved ( I think)

Sent the pic to a friend of mine who is a specialist in Victorian street furniture.

He came back almost straight away with this -

The pole is a typical early 20th C - pre- national grid - electricity pole !!
Before Nationalization every area had their own privately owned and operated generator serving a group of villages, and distribution was by a single main cable to each group of houses and, in the typical style of those times, they put decorative features on the pole to make the new-fangled thing more acceptable to the locals!

It seems that the National grid people re-used the existing pole - he reckons that somewhere in the little compound where it is , or on the wall of the building on the left , there will be a distribution panel for the surrounding houses !
In fact if the pic is maximized you can just about see the modern "Danger" sign on the side about 10ft up !

[Mathos]

Originally Posted by Happyman

Green pole mystery solved ( I think)

Sent the pic to a friend of mine who is a specialist in Victorian street furniture.

He came back almost straight away with this -

The pole is a typical early 20th C - pre- national grid - electricity pole !!
Before Nationalization every area had their own privately owned and operated generator serving a group of villages, and distribution was by a single main cable to each group of houses and, in the typical style of those times, they put decorative features on the pole to make the new-fangled thing more acceptable to the locals!

It seems that the National grid people re-used the existing pole - he reckons that somewhere in the little compound where it is , or on the wall of the building on the left , there will be a distribution panel for the surrounding houses !
In fact if the pic is maximized you can just about see the modern "Danger" sign on the side about 10ft up !

I'd concur with the above Happyman. Thanks a lot too, it had me baffled.

One of those days today, when one thing leads to another and everything ends up last minute rush, and then it's almost time for bed.

Thought I'd pop on for a couple of minutes though and place a couple of posts on line.

Looking at Churches again, and this one was a real beauty, but we couldn't gain access. There was some work going on around it, now either the weather had meant the men were laid off, or they had gone to pick up materials, what -ever, but it was all locked up.



Found some interesting pointers on The net though.

St Gregory's Church Vale of Lune.

It was built in the mid 1800's, and afforded preaching and prayer facilities for not only the locals, but the labour force working on the construction of the London and North Western Railway Line and Stations etc.

The Link below is worth clicking on.

1. Vale of Lune - St Gregory's Church

There was a really nice cottage next door as well. Possibly connected but nobody appeared to be home here either, pity, because the whole scenario looked really interesting, and there was a sign stating the Church was open.




The cottage was neat, well maintained and very attractive. It appeared that windows on the side road, gable end had been bricked up at some stage. Perhaps when, the combustion engine' became a nuisance as opposed to the landau's and coaches.

[Mathos]

The Railway passed over the bridge on the photograph below. A double carriage diesel unit passed by whilst we were heading towards the same, but we missed the photograph opportunity.






This was a really big house, it appeared to be empty and didn't really suit the landscape in my opinion.

Maybe it had been a hotel at some stage of it's existence.



We were looking up from the rear end of the the same, there was a type of service road, but time was against us and it didn't fall into the important category at the time.

Flobo said 'It looks eerie'

So we gave it a miss.



There was so much beauty in this particular view, that we again thought of how brilliant it was to be there. The farmhouse looked outstanding, the peacefulness was radiating from the live stock and everything environmentally looked perfect.

[Mathos]

Last one for tonight.

This was another of those 'Real Pubs'

Looked good, excellent in fact.

Can't say I have ever come across a pub with the same name before either. It's possibly quite unique.




The steps leading to the first floor on the exterior looked fantastic.

I also like the flag sitting area to the left of the porch.

Nice,

I thought this next bit from the Net was worth placing on here too. Makes for a nice bit of alternative reading.



Yorkshire Dales Coaching Inn accommodation and restaurant,
Street ...


Yorkshire Dales Inn accommodation near Aysgarth, Wensleydale

[Mathos]

We have some really fantastic places to visit and they demand a good bit of walking about, so it's quite important that the weathers up to scratch for the exercise. It's not been fit for much of late though.

I'm not having a moan, take things as they come is my motto, it's not going to make anything different or improve a climatic situation in any shape or form if you moan all day or more about it.

It's nice to be here. That's what really matters and counts.

There's always something good to see, different places to go just on a whim, no real planning and that's kind of how I prefer to do it.

My mate Joe, and his wife Ann were with us today, it was a pretty misty, drizzly, rainy day over most of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

We just made the most of it, guess what, it turned out OK and really interesting in any event?

Todmorden seemed a pretty good target area to make for!



I think this area will be of real interest to Happyman too. Which is a good point to raise, as his contribution when he spots something of interest in one of our photographs for instance, makes for additional good posts all round.

We were relating periods back in time, thousands of years back for instance when Homo Erectus was just really getting going.

As we were talking about the approach of winter, and voicing the obvious concerns, it was apparent that those men of old, would have had to have been aware of the importance of being prepared for the seasonal changes. They would know as the leaves began to fall the days began to shorten etc. that they should be building up winter stocks.

I don't know enough about how and, or what they really stored to survive the winters, it must have been difficult for those in a climate such as Europe has, perish the thoughts of surviving in an ice age. They must have been fantastic providers.

Their levels of understanding are responsible for the continued evolution of the human race.

Wooden spears, daggers of bones, hatchets made with timber shafts and stone heads. Lashed together with vine, sinew or animal skin.

Then they cut themselves, or get a large thorn stuck in their foot. Infection gangrene, pain, illness, others prodding the infection, doing what they thought might help recovery, but death would follow.

Enough of my meanderings.



It's just how my train of thought varies when I'm out and about. It's great to think and talk about such things.

I found this little lot on The Net. It's really interesting, especially when you have just returned from the area.

Cornholme, Cliviger Valley

© Craven & Pendle Geological Society

This is a view of Cornholme from Shore Road. Pudsey Clough, leading to Coal Clough and Paul Clough, lies in the steep valley in the bottom corner of the photograph.
This is an ideal part of the Cliviger Valley where you can see a variety of rocks from that part of the Carboniferous Period (Namurian & Westphalian) times.
Marine bands, coarse-grained feldspathic sandstones, interbedded and subordinate mudstones, siltstones, fine-grained sandstones and minor coal and seatearths are typical lithologies associated with Pudsey Clough. The localities follow the Chapter 8 in the Yorkshire Geological Society's Yorkshire Rocks and Landscape - A Field Guide. (NB. Localities 7 & 8 are not covered on the site).

After a short walk up Pudsey Road from the A646 (T) the prominent outcrop of Reddish Rocks will become apparent. Take the trackway towards this outcrop, keep left, then you will shortly arrive at the entrance to Paul Clough and Coal Clough. Permission to enter Coal Clough must be obtained from Coal Clough Farm. The Gastrioceras subcrenatum marine band can be found in the shale bank shown above.
NB: In Paul Clough you will in fact be going down the Carboniferous succession i.e. the rocks will get progressively older. In Coal Clough you will be climbing up the succession into younger rocks.

Woodhead Hill Rock

This is a Lower Coal Measures coarse current bedded sandstone exposed along the trackway to the left of the entrance to Coal Clough Farm.
The contorted shale bed below is probably a product of downslope movement of the sand body. Prior to arriving at this locality have a look in the shale for the Gastrioceras subcrenatum marine band. See also Beacon Rock on Dean Scout.

Ganister Rock

The basal contact of the sandstone with the underlying shale is erosive. The shale bed contains frequent siderite concretions.
To the right of the photograph the basal section of the Ganister Rock contains large rafts of coal. It is not easily accessible but can be seen clearly from the beck.

Coal Clough Shales
Coal Clough exposes a superb section through Namurian and Westphalian mud rock cyclothem. Access to the base of the cliff section is not easy as you can see by the scree debris in the photograph.

Lower Mountain Mine

(equivalent to Union Mine or Bullion Mine)

Key marine bands and coal seams are accessible in particular the Lower Mountain Mine and the Gastrioceras listeri marine band.
The Lower Mountain Mine outcrops at stream level as can be seen in the photograph. Above the coal seam, marine fossils can be found in the shales. They include the ubiquitous Dunbarella papyraceous and Gastrioceras listeri, the zonal goniatite for this section.
There is evidence of small scale coal mining in the Clough so care must be taken when visiting the locality. As always please check with the farmer at Coal Clough Farm for permission to enter the Clough.

Owd Bett's Marine Band

In the bottom left hand corner of the photo is Lower Haslingden Flagstones. Between the flagstones and the marine band are weathered siltstones.
To the right and above the marine band is the Cancelloceras cumbriense marine band.
The marine band was named Owd Bett's after a nearby public house that lies within walking distance of Cheesden Brook, near Bury, Greater Manchester.

Rough Rock
The Rough Rock is exposed in disused quarries on either side of the stream which incidentally forms the County Boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire. Notice the Old Pack Horse Bridge. Beyond the bridge are potholes in the stream bed - an unusual feature in the Rough Rock.
The Rough Rock outcrop in Paul Clough is a very coarse-grained multi-storey and multilateral fluvial sheet sandstone which is the most widespread Namurian sandstone in the Pennine Basin.

I took the next couple of photographs myself, the rock formations were peculiar to put it mildly, there must have been some amazing occurrences back in time to cause such formations.



There are some remarkable photographs we took today with such contrasting views and effects on the land, I think the next few days will be quite interesting on these pages.

I hope so anyhow.




There wouldn't be a lot left of those timber buildings if a rock or two decided to tumble down either.

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by Mathos

You know from some of my posts that the only thing that I miss from UK after 40 years away is the trout fishing .

Hi Happyman just to piss you off further I am building a house in Thailand ,its going to include a small lake about 1/3 acre, going to stock it with Rainbows! not the same as Brownies from the stream but it will do for me! That house in lived in at Higher Walton was set in 6 acres of woodland, the Darren ran around its limits, there was a 2 acre fresh water lake within containing Brown Trout, the lake was originally a water supply for the Dye Works Steam Engine that existed then.
Walter

[peterpan]

^ Hope you have a big refrigeration unit, trout will die in anything above 24 Deg C

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by peterpan

^ Hope you have a big refrigeration unit, trout will die in anything above 24 Deg C

Many thanks for the info, would be relevant at sea level but as it,s in the mountains fed by a natural stream the water temp is around 18/20C ,
NB thanks for the RED and calling me a wanker!! Typical reaction of the "usual suspects" open gob and engage"brain???"afterwards




Just wondering why your Avatar is Old Man Steptoe? he was dirty ,smelly, obnoxcious,false teeth and thoroughly nasty, in real life (Wilfred Brambell) was all of those things plus being a Bum Bandit!! Ah just answered my own question,

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by Mathos

The water from this river flowed over Malham Cove to form a huge water fall. When the climate warmed around 12000 years ago the ground thawed and the river ...

WHOA there baby!! climate warmed 12000 years ago!! did we/they have factory "chimlies" then plus polluting cars , suppose we /they must have!!!

[Mathos]

Wandering Walter Wrote:-


Hi Mathos, the house I lived in at Higher Walton was built on the remains of an old coaching house, my then girlfriend owner said it was haunted, well there was more than me living there at the time! When I first moved in things started to disappear and footsteps could be heard upstairs! On one particular night around 11.00am a bedroom door or several were slammed shut! , I raced upstairs only to find all the doors were open! I learned that previous tenants had complained of similar experiances, After some months it all went quiet, my friend said they had got used to me.

Anyway Mathos I thought that you disregarded such!!! Walter

PS as an illustration of UKs economic woes just bought a Jaguar soveriegn LWB 1999 FSH (jag).on Ebay for 2000 quid!! inc 1 years m.o.t +tax,

Hi Walter, it’s right nice to see you back on the thread mate. Your input has been missed by many I’m sure of that. Thanks for paying a visit.


I couldn't help but notice you are building up a selection of ‘Reds’ Walter. What on earth have you been up to?

Anyway Mathos I thought that you disregarded such!!! Walter

I do Walter. However, I also obtain levels of enjoyment from some of the unbelievable stories I hear from time to time. It’s quite amazing what the human mind is capable of creating you know. Just think of Bram Stoker as a brilliant example.


There’s some background and facts here with regards to Stoker, which in a manner illustrate the need for interest in such amazing thinking characters, who use their thoughts as skills, beneficial to the interests of mankind. Such creations on paper make their ways to the box offices and the producers along with their fraternity gross millions from such a man’s thoughts.


It’s clever.


But I totally disregard the actual existence of anything remotely like ‘vampires’ or other such phenomenon as ghosts, spacemen kidnapping folk who live in America and other such amazing wishful thinking anecdotes.



The following is taken from:- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

Stoker was bed-ridden until he started school at the age of seven — when he made a complete recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."


After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete (he was named University Athlete) at Trinity College, Dublin (1864 – 1870), from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society".





In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. On 31st December 1879, Bram and Florence's only child was born, a son that they christened Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables,


James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world. In the mid 1890s, Stoker is rumoured to have become a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, though there is no concrete evidence to support this claim.[5][6]. The Golden Dawn was a fraternal magical order that also included among its members author W.B.Yeats, occultist Aleister Crowley, author and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, Arthur Edward Waite, London stage actress and musician Florence Farr and others. Although there is no evidence that Stoker was actually a member of the order, one of his closest friends was J.W. Brodie-Innis, a major figure in the Order, and Stoker himself hired Pamela Coleman-Smith, the artist who created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, a major instrument in the Order, as an artist at the Lyceum Theatre.




Stoker supplemented his income by writing a number of novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which was published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers. Stoker's inspirations for the story were a visit to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, and a visit to the crypts under the church St. John the Baptist where Stoker was baptised



The short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories was published in 1914 by Stoker's widow Florence Stoker. The first film adaptation of Dracula was named Nosferatu. It was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and starred Max Schreck as Count Orlock. Nosferatu was produced while Florence Stoker, Bram Stoker's widow and literary executrix, was still alive. Represented by the attorneys of the British Incorporated Society of Authors, she eventually sued the filmmakers. Her chief legal complaint was that she had been neither asked for permission for the adaptation nor paid any royalty. The case dragged on for some years, with Mrs. Stoker demanding the destruction of the negative and all prints of the film. The suit was finally resolved in the widow's favour in July 1925. Some copies of the film survived, however and the film has become very common in current times

_____________________________________________

There is no doubt in my mind that ‘Stoker’ had a brilliant thought train, perhaps an unhealthy fascination with the dead, or maybe he fantasised with regards to finding a way to obtain eternal life. Who knows?

There are others of course.

The Invisible man, a novel written by Ralph Waldo Ellison.


Dennis Wheatley really got carried away with his meanderings. But he didn’t half sell some books.

These are simple examples, we must not rule out The Mid-West Preacher, who for a monthly Standing Order to his bank account can get you a guaranteed place in heaven. If you up the Standing Order and give him a decent motor car to use on a regular basis, you can have a guaranteed seat on the right hand side of Jesus for eternity.

Wow! I need some of that.

Then there are matters closer to the truth of our history in general.
One book well worth reading if you can handle it, has to be;


The Malleus Maleficarum by Kramer and Sprenger.

With regards to your experiences at Higher Walton though Walter, I would imagine there are some very logical reasons concerning sounds like footsteps and closing doors. Plus people connected with or living in such places with a bit of a history of ‘ghost like apparitions etc’ do have a tendency to ensure the tales loose nothing in their originality.

Walter wrote:-
PS as an illustration of UKs economic woes just bought a Jaguar soveriegn LWB 1999 FSH (jag).on Ebay for 2000 quid!! inc 1 years m.o.t +tax,

That sounds a real bargain Walter. Well done. I take it you will be having it shipped across to Thailand then?

They are a nice car. Heavy on the old juice of course but if you only do a low mileage and considering the cost of fuel in LOS it has to be a great deal for you.
I’m not sure what shipping costs will be, I once priced up a container for a load of furniture to be shipped from LOS to the UK (Liverpool) that was a little over a thousand pounds, but it was a few years back.

Walter wrote:-
Hi Happyman just to piss you off further I am building a house in Thailand ,its going to include a small lake about 1/3 acre, going to stock it with Rainbows! not the same as Brownies from the stream but it will do for me! That house in lived in at Higher Walton was set in 6 acres of woodland, the Darren ran around its limits, there was a 2 acre fresh water lake within containing Brown Trout, the lake was originally a water supply for the Dye Works Steam Engine that existed then.
Walter

Hope you don’t mind me making comment on your post to Happyman Walter.


Just wanted to wish you all the best with you’re ‘House-Build in Thailand.’ I hope you are going to do a thread on the same, you know land and everything before you start, then foundations and everything up to completion. Those threads can be spectacular at times Walter and with you having such a bonus as a 1/3rd of an acre lake to go with it, it will make great reading. Make sure you put plenty of photographs on the thread as well.


I really wish you well with your project, new house, lake and Jaguar.

They’ll be saluting you up there Walter.

Have you decided on the style of house you intend building, modern Thai, Traditional Thai or perhaps an English Cottage appearance?

Keep us all up to date with this project Walter, it's great.


Just thought I would mention for your benefit too Walter, Preston is about to undergo a massive transformation. Virtually the whole of the City is to be demolished and rebuilt.

There was only a snippet of information on the Granada News the other night, once they start printing information up in the LEP I'll put some info. on here.

Bus Station is apparently the first to go under the hammer.

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by wanderering walter

I take it you will be having it shipped across to Thailand then

Well I will try to. cost now for shipping 1500 GBP inc, fuel is down to 41 p per litre here, Gas is much cheaper, might be worth a conversion, Thai customs are going to be the prob, Page 1 states the duty applicable, page 2 states that you are not allowed to import a car!! so whats the point of page 1 then? Monty Python??

[wanderering walter]

Originally Posted by wanderering walter

I really wish you well with your project, new house, lake and Jaguar.

Yep I am taking photos of the project, its taken 4 months to gain permission to build a bridge over the canal, this bit alone deserves a chapter!! they are building as I write,
The ground water level is currently at 1 metre below surface, so I will have to wait until this extended Monsoon ceases! before the lake can be dug,
As to the style of the house,well! I think a mixture of English/Thai, 1.5 plus levels ,spacious /airy! 3/4 beds /3/4 baths/ games room (3/4 snooker table) the inevitable Pool which will never get used! extensive gardens /fruit/veg growing areas, bit of a creation before I kick me clogs away!,