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mike72903
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« on: July 19, 2016, 11:58:58 AM » |
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Cheaper than its been in decades thanks to the plummeting GBP. Thanks Brexit
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« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2016, 12:22:36 PM » |
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Yep, go on vacation and see some old stuff. It's worth it. The last home I owned in England was built in 1776. 2 bed, 1 bath upstairs and 3 rooms downstairs. Tile floor that used to sweat in summer cause it was laid directly on soil. The village of Belmesthorpe had one pub, The Blue Bell Inn, which I walked to across the field behind my home. A mail box built into a stone wall and one phone box. Also of note was Robin Hoods Stone. Situated on the side of the lane just down from the cottage I lived in. Reputed to be one of the "mail drops" used by Robin and his merry men  The local town Stamford, in the county of Lincolnshire, still has some section of Roman wall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford,_Lincolnshire#Education |
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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2016, 01:56:43 PM » |
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Spent some time over there when I was younger. Southwest of oxford. Little village called Milton.
*Whistles a few lines of "It's a Small World"* I lived in a little town called Woodstock, northwet of Oxford, for a few years when I was a wee lad. |
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« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2016, 02:31:07 PM » |
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 Look familiar? Just the kind of place we like to stop, find a B&B and eat at the local. Always good stouts and ales with what we thought was really good food and friendly crowds. We've seen a lot of Great Britain but not your particular area. I have had some close encounters of the wrong kind driving. Being on the left side of the road isn't the problem it's the completely different perspective from steering on the right approaching oncoming traffic.  Found pub names entertaining. Favorite name was "The Clackit Hen". |
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« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2016, 06:19:27 PM » |
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My sister, her husband, and their oldest daughter just got back from visiting there. The daughter just graduated high school... one hell of a senior trip!!! They were actually there WHILE the vote was being held.  |
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« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2016, 06:38:39 PM » |
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My mum is from there. From Milton. Shes there now and has been for last month. I would suspect some of us may have a military family/ That's why I was there when I was 40 pounds and not 240. LOL
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« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2016, 06:54:12 PM » |
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My mum is from there. From Milton. Shes there now and has been for last month. I would suspect some of us may have a military family/ That's why I was there when I was 40 pounds and not 240. LOL
Upper Heyford Air Force Base per chance? That's why I was there, from roughly '73 - '76ish... |
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« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2016, 07:07:40 PM » |
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Good question. I'll have to ask. My dad's name was Earl Rickel, Airforce ,worked in aircraft groung equipment
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« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2016, 07:14:36 PM » |
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Good question. I'll have to ask. My dad's name was Earl Rickel, Airforce ,worked in aircraft groung equipment
That'd be too funny... My dad was Captain George Ecton, was in charge of the folks that maintained the terrain following radar on the F111's... I'll ask him if he knew an Earl Rickel... |
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« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2016, 07:55:46 PM » |
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Spent some time over there when I was younger. Southwest of oxford. Little village called Milton.
*Whistles a few lines of "It's a Small World"* I lived in a little town called Woodstock, northwet of Oxford, for a few years when I was a wee lad. Smaller world still. Grew up in Cumbria in the northwest of England and met a girl from sutton courtenay which is the next village over from Milton. Spent many a drunken night in Woodstock though! After I moved to SoDak it all went south with oxfordshire girl..... She was crazy anyways!! |
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« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2016, 05:42:05 AM » |
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I was stationed in England from 1984 to 1987. Spent the first half of my tour living in the local community and then the last half on the base. I lived in a fairly large town compared to the rest called Ipswich. The way the rules were you could not bring your family over until you had a house. Well, its not that easy to find a house especially when you have a wife and two small children so you have to find something a tad nicer than a bachelor could live in and still be able to afford it.
Long story short, it took a couple weeks but when I found the house and moved in it took a couple months to get the family over and all our stuff delivered. So I lived in an empty house with a minimal of base furniture they loan you, a couch, a couple chairs and a fridge.
I ate at the local pub when I wasn't on the base to use the facilities there for meals. One evening I had just had dinner and was enjoying a bitter (ask Britman) when this biker gang came into the pub.
These guys were scary looking to non bikers, studded leather, tattoos, chains, the whole nine yards. Well, they started getting a little loud, (I laugh) the "loud" that the pub owner thought was loud was really just talking that the next table could hear, I was amazed that that was called "loud" at any rate they were asked to leave. When the last one of them left, you would have thought a band of ISIS had just taken the pub hostage and then changed their minds and left, that's how relieved them folks were that the big bad bikers left.
When they were gone everyone ran to the windows to watch them get on their bikes and actually leave. This is where I lost it, these big biker MC 1% looking dudes that none of them weighed less than 250lb all got on little tiny MOPEDS, stock ones with factory exhaust! I thought I would never stop laughing, Bitter foam isint as pleasant when its coming out of your nose!!!
Anyway, I do miss the pubs, I got good at darts and loved the atmosphere. Ill bet its different now because it seemed the older English folks were the ones that hung out in the quaint old fashioned pubs I liked. The kids went to modern bars, I suppose they called them pubs but I didn't they were just bars, no fireplaces, stone, quiet, good food. So now unless there are some older folks of the next generation that still hang out peacefully and tell good old stories it may not be as much fun.
I would like to go back and see though!!!!!
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« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2016, 07:45:10 AM » |
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Yep. If you walked SW from the pub to the junction of Main St/Shephers Walk and Newstead Lane my house was on the north side of the triangle. The small house set back from the road between the 2 larger houses. |
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« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2016, 07:54:11 AM » |
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« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2016, 08:20:50 AM » |
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