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3 hours ago, MauriceMynah said:
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SPEED KILLS,this is why 20mph speed limits are beginning to gradually be introduced in urban areas.
A person hit by a vehicle at 30mph is 7 times more likely to be killed than at 20mph. At 20mph there is a 99 percent chance you won't kill them. The stopping distance at 20mph is twice that of 20mph.
SPEED KILLS.
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10 hours ago, Bound2Please said:
Read what i said
When i learnt to drive the national speed limit sign then meant NO SPEED LIMIT.
Charlie
Apologies Charlie, I misread your post.
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1 hour ago, Bound2Please said:
But on an open road i learnt to drive the national speed limit sign then meant NO SPEED LIMIT.
Charlie
There is no such sign in this country that means NO SPEED LIMIT.
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5 hours ago, Bound2Please said:
Have to disagree with you there Darlin, SPEED DONT KILL but some idiots that speed in the wrong places/times quite probably do!
Charlie xx xx
So you agree with speeding in the right place? Where pray is the right place? Speed limits aren't there for the hell of it.
Speed does kill FACT, in any accident, the higher the speed the more likelihood of a fatality, FACT.
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1 hour ago, w-album said:
They are living in Essex! That might seem a bit harsh but you only have to go into Roys out of season to realise that the Norfolk accent is no longer the local dialect! People move out of Essex and those living in London move to Essex which allows 'other' people to move into for use during the week.
I don't know when you last went into Roy's out of season Liz, Eastern European seems to be predominant nowadays.
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On 27/01/2016 at 0:05 PM, Soundings said:2 hours ago, Jonzo said:
Where are the speed cameras?
Who cares where the speed cameras are, drive at the LEGAL speed limit and it makes no problem. There a few members saying how much quicker they can get here to their boats, great, bugger us who live here and are going to have their lives disrupted.
If you think the NDR will make your journey quicker, forget it. When they start building the 10,000 houses by 2026 (only 10 years) they have to upgrade all the services, water, sewage etc. There will be years of roadworks. The existing services cannot cope, take the case of the paper shredding company on Rackheath industrial estate, that caught fire a few years ago highlights the problem. There was no water pressure, they had to pump water from the A1151 and bring in water tankers. The joke is they want build an eco town on the old Rackheath airfield of 4000 houses 'CAR FREE'. All totally Mickey mouse.
But never mind, if you can get to your boat ten minutes quicker, great, because the broads is a shadow of the local community it was.
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Going back to Windboats from the Dusseldorf boat show via Grimsby.
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Interesting article on Look East just now on the dredging on Hickling Broad
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Although my location has Wroxham, where I seem to spend most of my waking hours, I actually live in Rackheath. So my view will be very much blighted, country views will be a thing of the past before too long.
The actual impact on Woxham/Hoveton for the future will depend on how many more developments they keep tagging on
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7 minutes ago, Soundings said:
We all have our opinions Marshman and you and I won't agree own this one. If we really need the housing, why are there three perfectly reasonable houses close by that have not sold (there are other instances also). You make the point re price, but do you really believe this are going to drop. If house prices drop builders will stop building as the income stream will not be sufficient - and especially so as for every estate that is built it seems the builders have to provide the infrastructure the council cannot afford. And as someone pointed out elsewhere - new pads do seem to sell so clearly they are not completely unaffordable. The little estate in Potter could hardly be said to have been cheap and that sold out quick enough.
Norfolk unemployment might be low but the quality of the jobs is not necessarily high and as has rightly been pointed out nor are the wages. In any event I am not sure that employment being low is a measure of job availability.
Don't get me wrong I am all for providing housing for the locals, what I am against is wholesale building that is driven as much (probably more) by political ambition as it is by necessity. And building that is not in keeping with the area and has absolutely no "sole". You may love estates full of wooden boxes, Marshman, but I most certainly do not. My take is we are building the slums of tomorrow and as a Londoner I do know what they were like (although I was fortunate enough not to have to live on one).
There clearly has to be a balance but we have not found it and we need to before it is too late. You are right regrading the rental market and it is that that needs working on, for those who cannot afford to buy - well they need another workable and affordable solution so they do not have to buy what they cannot afford. On that point and referring to the new houses here - as I understand it the council waived the requirement for a proportion of the houses to be "affordable" (whatever that really means) so as to get the construction work started sooner.
I certainly agree with most of what you say, especially the part about political ambition, the same ambition that has pushed the NDR through irrespective of cost or impact.
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Hi Liz,
I find all this reminiscence all a bit bizarre at times, I see people like you as the same age we last met and keep thinking, how can you possibly remember back that far? Then I get up and realise it's the body that's going downhill, the minds still younger, thank god.
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Ahhh. Makes sense now, in the first picture it looked like a tall wooden mill like building. What looked a bit like windows are in fact slots in the walls for roof beams or suchlike. Or am I just senile?
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30 minutes ago, springsong said:
Vaughan you are quite right. Landamores sold some of the early Vestas to fund the building of more. They then sold even more to fund the building of Vestellas.
http://www.broads.org.uk/wiki/index.php5?title=Boat_Details&BoatId=1415&BoatHistory=1594
Although they had one port hole they always had the square (ish) windows until the later 1960s mods.
This photo Vesta 4 became I think the one that sank.It is difficult to be sure because after selling some they then renumbered the ones left behind, also they sometimes didn't put the right numbers back on the boat. Craig and I both have photos of the same boat in different years with different numbers.
Where was this taken, that large building in the left background looks interesting.
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Missed two more Strowager, a set on the corner of Station Road Salhouse and another set half way between Station Road and the Salhouse roundabout. Must be all this mild weather, they are breeding early!
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2 hours ago, NorfolkNog said:
This really is a fascinating thread. The thing that strikes me, and it's the case all over the country not just the Broads, is that landlords were such characters in those days and you don't seem to get that now. Very sad.
How true Howard. If this thread was posted forty odd years hence I doubt you would get the same nostalgia, affection for the present landlords.
2 hours ago, Vaughan said:Simon Whitmore sounding his positron?? That wasn't my starboard finger this time.
The spell-checker on this forum has a mind of it's own!
By, the way, Wilfred Hurrell had the Green Man at Rackheath.
Ahh the Green Man, Aubrey Hudson, wonderful landlord, miserable hugger, but knew his trade.
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Getting a bit devious on some of those Vaughan.
What about Gerry (Jerry?) Rubin's (Ruebins?)
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Blast, got Vaughan's finger trouble, should be LA LACONDA
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Right, the last three of my original list.
Tony Masala, Kings Head Wroxham. Went on to open Last Laconda in Blofield.
Peter Turner, Ferry Horning, before Ted and Sarah Shadbolt. Big chap 6' 8".
Harry Dace, Bell Salhouse.
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14 hours ago, CheshireCat said:
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14 hours ago, CheshireCat said:
Ray Norman what a landlord a one off I hope he is enjoying his retirement, there will never be another like him let me tell you , if you have not been to the White Horse Upton when Ray was on form well you have missed out he was so funny such a dry hummer and so natural, amazing , a pure comedian he should have been on stage , the old joke says there's one leaving in ten minutes haha hopefully he may read this ...
The Germans who went up to Winkles at lunch time. "Ve could like to have a meal tonight, do 've need to book?"
No, replies Winkle, just leave your towels on the chairs.
They found this highly amusing.
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7 minutes ago, springsong said:
Rising Sun Coltishall and The Bridge Inn Acle
Bill Speed was manager at both at one time or another.
Springing has been off my agenda for 10 years now other than warps, and that's only when I can get off the boat.
Wolffe and Andree Chater I don't have a clue but I may well kick myself when you tell us Vaughan.
Tony Sands's wife ended up at the Two Friends at Bloefield Heath, now an Indian restaurant.
I forgot Bill.
Is it the Two Friends or Terresa is now an Indian?
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4 hours ago, Vaughan said:
Well done Springing. Now how about Wolff and Andrée Chater?
Something at the back of my mind about the names, but can't for the life of me put my finger on it.
Think your starboard fingers playing up again, last time I saw Barry he wasn't exactly springing.
Speed cameras
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And how many pieces would be have been if he had been hit. If this was a police publicity video, I think it is disgusting advocating driving at that speed in urban areas.