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Return to childhood, second hand.

April 26, 2020April 30, 2020 by Tony Steel, posted in Other stories

When I was a young boy, back in the 1960s, I had a train set, I’ve written about it before in this blog (Railways) but I’ll recap: I had a few locomotives and some carriages, wagons and track. I never had a permanent track layout, the track was just placed on the floor or on … Continue reading Return to childhood, second hand.

Railways

June 15, 2017March 20, 2022 by Tony Steel, posted in Other stories

I grew up in the Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted where for the early part of my life my parents and I lived with my mother's parents in George Street at number 130. There are two roads here, in this particular part of the town, not in the town itself, George Street and Ellesmere Road, both … Continue reading Railways