The classic 1960s stylings of the old Eye Library
A Wintry Trip Down South, Walkford, Dorset - 1st February 2019
Nosher's down in Walkford for the funeral of an old family friend. As the car is away having a water pump fixed, this means getting the train, which turns out to be probably a Good Thing as it starts snowing heavily from Southampton. This also turns the whole thing into something of a major nostalgia trip, as it's probably not been since around 1991 that the once-regular Diss to New Milton journey has even been done by train - back in the era of the cranky old Class 438 EMUs, and not the shiny but soul-less 444s that run on the southern network now. Whilst there, there's a chance to hang out with Sean and Hamish, where we spend some time aimlessly driving around the New Forest - again, just like old times - before a spot of late-lunch at the Cat and Fiddle on the A35 near Hinton Admiral. Later we meet up with Phil and Tania at the Globe in Highcliffe, even though this time Nosher's not even staying at the next-door Premier Inn. On the way back, there are plenty of engineering works, and so the train takes a slow route all the way out via Fareham, plus there's also the joy of bus replacement from Newbury Park up to Ingatestone. Before all of that, Eye Library closes down as it moves across town.
next album: A Night at the Fox Inn, Garboldisham, Norfolk - 9th February 2019
previous album: The G-Unit's Birthday, Brome, Suffolk - 20th January 2019
There's still a bit of stuff waiting to be cleared
The plot is up for sale for housing
The elephant is now in the car park
Snow comes down on the footbridge at New Milton
The station has not changed much since the 1980s
It's snowing in Sean's front garden
Mother's old pad - The Willows - in Bransgore
The road out of Bransgore
Messing around in the snow in the New Forest
Hamish and Sean head into the Cat and Fiddle
Sean pokes around with his cutlery
Sean and Hamish look like gangsters or something
Hamish is driving us around in the Green Machine
The Cat and Fiddle - well-known landmark on the A35
Hamish makes some sort of fancy coffee
Hamish and Sean chat in the kitchen
Hamish and Sean in the lounge
Hamish in the Globe at Highcliffe
The boys mess around with the camera
Hamish does the 'it's this big' thing
Tania, Phil and Hamish
Nosher's Class 444 train pulls in to New Milton
Brockenhurst College from the train
New Forest ponies in the snow
Graffiti on a bridge
More trackside graffiti
Some graffiti near Fareham
A snowy field, somewhere in Hampshire
Guildford railway station
The very thin core of new tower blocks in Guildford
The Seated Man by Sean Henry, at Woking station
More track-side graffiti
A massively-tagged graffiti building
Man! graffiti
Clapham Junction
Liverpool Street's Deam is active here too
Battersea Power station is a forest of cranes
Track-side tenements
The former international terminal at Waterloo
The train arrives at Waterloo
Ransomes and Rapier buffers at Waterloo
The concourse of Waterloo Station
A tube train pulls in at Bank station
Down on the underground at Bank station
Passengers head over to the rail-replacement buses
The concrete brutalism of Newbury Park tube station
There's a lot of drug paraphernalia for sale
The train waits at Ingatestone
A derelict building
More derelict track-side buildings near Chelmsford
Some sort of factory unit with silos
The mud flats of Brantham, near Manningtree
Boats on the mud
There's scaffolding on a derelict building
Derelict buildings at the Wardle-Storey site
A derelict factory building or warehouse
Derelict office block in Brantham
Flooded wasteland at the Xylotol factory
Pipes end in the middle of nowhere
There's some street-art by the river in Ipswich
A truly-ancient parcel van, near Freightliner
Isobel and the boys are coming back from Norwich
Diss railway station in a convex mirror
The upstairs landing
Fred's almost-empty room
The spare room
Boxes on the landing
Hint: you can use the left and right cursor keys to navigate between albums, and between photos when in the photo viewer
The classic 1960s stylings of the old Eye Library
The classic 1960s stylings of the old Eye Library
There's still a bit of stuff waiting to be cleared
The plot is up for sale for housing
The elephant is now in the car park
Snow comes down on the footbridge at New Milton
The station has not changed much since the 1980s
It's snowing in Sean's front garden
Mother's old pad - The Willows - in Bransgore
The road out of Bransgore
Messing around in the snow in the New Forest
Hamish and Sean head into the Cat and Fiddle
Sean pokes around with his cutlery
Sean and Hamish look like gangsters or something
Hamish is driving us around in the Green Machine
The Cat and Fiddle - well-known landmark on the A35
Hamish makes some sort of fancy coffee
Hamish and Sean chat in the kitchen
Hamish and Sean in the lounge
Hamish in the Globe at Highcliffe
The boys mess around with the camera
Hamish does the 'it's this big' thing
Tania, Phil and Hamish
Nosher's Class 444 train pulls in to New Milton
Brockenhurst College from the train
New Forest ponies in the snow
Graffiti on a bridge
More trackside graffiti
Some graffiti near Fareham
A snowy field, somewhere in Hampshire
Guildford railway station
The very thin core of new tower blocks in Guildford
The Seated Man by Sean Henry, at Woking station
More track-side graffiti
A massively-tagged graffiti building
Man! graffiti
Clapham Junction
Liverpool Street's Deam is active here too
Battersea Power station is a forest of cranes
Track-side tenements
The former international terminal at Waterloo
The train arrives at Waterloo
Ransomes and Rapier buffers at Waterloo
The concourse of Waterloo Station
A tube train pulls in at Bank station
Down on the underground at Bank station
Passengers head over to the rail-replacement buses
The concrete brutalism of Newbury Park tube station
There's a lot of drug paraphernalia for sale
The train waits at Ingatestone
A derelict building
More derelict track-side buildings near Chelmsford
Some sort of factory unit with silos
The mud flats of Brantham, near Manningtree
Boats on the mud
There's scaffolding on a derelict building
Derelict buildings at the Wardle-Storey site
A derelict factory building or warehouse
Derelict office block in Brantham
Flooded wasteland at the Xylotol factory
Pipes end in the middle of nowhere
There's some street-art by the river in Ipswich
A truly-ancient parcel van, near Freightliner
Isobel and the boys are coming back from Norwich
Diss railway station in a convex mirror
The upstairs landing
Fred's almost-empty room
The spare room
Boxes on the landing