Road Trip.

Laurie61

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A great read and photo's. :up: Although they have sold it now my Dads three sisters combined their resources, twenty years ago, and bought a holiday property in Hook Norton. It's a great base for touring the area, the Sun Inn in the village is also worth a look with local ale on tap. :pint:
 

joshua

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Gramaisc

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One of the Broadway skyscrapers still looks OK in daylight, with the neon lights off.

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If you do pop up there, check your brakes before the descent.

The escape road is quite overgrown now - perhaps nobody's used it for a while..?


Also, I believe that you can pop into the old ROC bunker at weekends and Bank Holidays these days.

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Gramaisc

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In the winter of '63, the snowfall was fairly dramatic and there is a well-known picture of the snow tunnel that was dug out to access the main entrance to the mess
Well, I found this picture of an Officers' Mess snow tunnel in '47, but the snowfall in '63 was perhaps a bit greater - we couldn't open the upstairs windows at the front of the house, much less use the front door....

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Gramaisc

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I had a multi-destination trip today, which gave me the opportunity to spend a few hours in BotW in the afternoon.

The river was flowing nicely.

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It's nice that the bridges are still without safety handrails.

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Gramaisc

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The trees were looking good in the winter Sun.

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The benches just in view in the distance are just off the Village Green, across the river from the Motor Museum.

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Gramaisc

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Having suffered people taking pictures, through the window, of me having my tea...

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... it was payback time, so I took a picture of people having their dinner in my bedroom.

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The Weird Hedges are still doing their bit.

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Gramaisc

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These sheep did look somewhat familiar...

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The river on its way out of the village.

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What I'm sure is a nuclear-hardened hedgehog shelter.

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