MatSav wrote:

Indeed they did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batters...ersea_fun_fair
explains. I was there just a week before the collapse of the
roller-coaster, and the very thought of that puts me off using
one ever again.

I was also at Lulworth Cove, Dorset, on a Geology field trip -
just a week before a land slip killed a teacher and pupils (also
on a field trip). I'm seeing a pattern :-(

Would you be kind enough to post a list of your movements for the next ten
years please. This is purely to give everyone else the chance to be
somewhere different. :-)

Christopher A. Lee wrote:

Part of the festival was the amusement park at Battersea - with the
Emmet Railway.


It was the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway designed by Rowland
Emett. Emett was so fed up of people mis-spelling his name that he no
longer corrected people, nor cared, and many references therefore have
it wrong.

On May 24, 1:06 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Marc wrote:
snip
Tom Anderson wrote:
snip
Cyclists back then must have been made of cast iron. Nobody had anything
more advanced than a Sturmey-Archer three-speed [1], and yet they still
tackled open roads, hills, whatever. Makes my 27-speed setup seem a bit
wimpish really.

Belay that! In part two, they have to get off and push up a hill!

tom

[1] Some, of course, would deny that any such thing exists.

--
Re-enacting the future

Unbelay that! Depsite a similarly unnecessary number of gears, I've
been reduced to walking a couple of times too.
Evidently I'm not made of cast-iron either. snif

bookieb.

Tom Anderson wrote

Cyclists back then must have been made of cast iron. Nobody had
anything
more advanced than a Sturmey-Archer three-speed [1], and yet they
still
tackled open roads, hills, whatever. Makes my 27-speed setup seem a
bit
wimpish really.

Belay that! In part two, they have to get off and push up a hill!

[1] Some, of course, would deny that any such thing exists.


Surely even those who incline that way would regard a Sturmey-Archer
four-speed as more advanced ?

--
Mike D

"Michael R N Dolbear" wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote

Cyclists back then must have been made of cast iron. Nobody had
anything
more advanced than a Sturmey-Archer three-speed [1], and yet they
still
tackled open roads, hills, whatever. Makes my 27-speed setup seem a
bit
wimpish really.

Belay that! In part two, they have to get off and push up a hill!

[1] Some, of course, would deny that any such thing exists.


Surely even those who incline that way would regard a Sturmey-Archer
four-speed as more advanced ?


More advanced, yes, but not in keeping with tradition. ;-)