30-08-2019, 09:29 PM
Thanks Chris. Relatives kindly drove us past Slapton and the US tank fished from the sea. I spotted the storm damage in the news. Also read a book about the little known utterly disastrous pre D day exercise in the area which resulted in hundreds dead.
As a boy a favourite book was a Basset Lowke catalogue from the 1920s. All the parts to construct model railways and the scenes, most of which seemed idealised. Relatives had a photo of a 1950s? railway station near Gara Bridge (where they had lived in a house hundreds of years old and still there). I was amused that the station and buildings looked exactly like a photo from the catalogue.
As a boy a favourite book was a Basset Lowke catalogue from the 1920s. All the parts to construct model railways and the scenes, most of which seemed idealised. Relatives had a photo of a 1950s? railway station near Gara Bridge (where they had lived in a house hundreds of years old and still there). I was amused that the station and buildings looked exactly like a photo from the catalogue.