Pickies & things

Sunday, June 20, 2010

A week away in the Gower.

5 nights B&B 5*

Perfect weather, good food & drink, excellent digs & recaptured some of my past,.

My old house back in the 40's. Looks nicer now

I used to play here as a child. There used to be a drinking fountain here that had a big metal cup on a very heavy chain. I learned some time ago the cup had gone missing. Now it would seem the whole fountain has gone missing.

Terrace Road School, where I started out my education. My first day was a bit of a shock, when "Play time" came around, we all went out to the playground, I could not understand what the children were waiting for, didn't they know the way home? I did, so I went. Mum had a shock when I got in, she wanted to know why I was back so early, I told her we had all finished & the kids were waiting to be picked up. The Teachers had a shock when they could not find me, they searched high & low for me, as I might have gone to some other part of the School....I had a bigger shock when my Mum took me back, School did not finish until 3 in the afternoon. Dinner break was next & my Mum would pick me up feed me & take me back, then collect me at 3. It was that day, I decided I was not all that keen on School after all.

Here's a link to the Mumbles Train I used to love the days out to the Mumbles travelling on the "train" to the Mumbles pier. Blue leather seats, the backs of the seats could be swung one way or the other so passengers did not have to travel backwards. I understand that there is no surviving train left in the country. However there is part of an original near to the museums in Swansea.

This is the replacement, they call it the Mumbles Train...I call it a travesty. I have come across a rumour that a "Sky Train" is to take the old route from Rutland Street to the Pier....Mono rail I imagine, but with costs as they are in the present climate, I'll not hold my breath.