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Some questions for the Brit's
dsquire:
--- Quote from: Fergus OMore on November 27, 2013, 12:56:27 PM ---Exactly! There are two rivers- actually there are more but heigh ho, called Derwent in England.
There are actually two river Tynes- one in Scotland and one in England-perhaps 50 miles apart.
The odd thing is that my family also came from the Cumbrian Cocker which flows into the Derwent and into the Durham Derwent- and flows into the Tyne- the south one- not the South Tyne which is part of the Tyne in England.
Now , kind sir, you must memorise this carefully as Newcastle is actually the old castle and the Roman Wall- there are two- again some 50 miles apart , was built-- by the French. Of course the bridge which spanned the Tyne had--piles.
You got all this? So what has this to do with model engineering, you may ask? Well, George Stephenson was born on the banks of the Tyne- the English one. So was Armstrong and quite a lot of engineers. Ryton where I was born was the place that Parsons played with his model turbines.
A bit before my time- I think!
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Norman
Regards my original reply to your post regarding "Derwent".
Being from Canada I don't know the names of many of the rivers, streams, brooks and puddles in the UK. Matter of fact I didn't know that Derwent was a river. I didn't know what your post meant. I even did a search on MadModder for "Derwent" and got a couple of hits on underwent and the one in your post.
With my luck, when the British crossed the pond they probably named a bunch of things Derwent. I just have not came accross any of them yet. :D :D
Cheers :beer:
Don
tom osselton:
With banger's an mash?
Pete.:
--- Quote from: tom osselton on November 27, 2013, 03:12:33 PM ---With banger's an mash?
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Bangers & Mash - yesterday's supper!
Swarfing:
Surely Bubble and Squeak was yesterdays supper?
doubleboost:
--- Quote from: tom osselton on November 27, 2013, 03:12:33 PM ---With banger's an mash?
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Sausages & mashed potato
John
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