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Posted by: George Fredrik on 22 January 2011
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This must be forty-seven years ago - about 1963 or '64. The car is a six cylinder Ford Consul, which replaced a Rover P4 75 [six cylinder 2.1 litres "F" head], because the Rover was involved in a head-one accident with a motor-cyclist, who died and no one wanted to drive the Rover after that ...
I had hair in those days!
No glasses either, though I was blind as a bat even then! The place is the Pool Farm, Acton Beauchamp, Herefordshire. But Acton itself is in Worcestershire, but the address is a historical nonsense! In the old days [c. 1700s] the owner wanted to be a Parish councillor in Acton, and so bought two acres the other side of the brook, so as to qualify, and so the farm had an address in Worcestershire even though the other 140 acres including the farmhouse and yard was in Herefordshire!
It was not even in a village, the nearest house was half a mile away, in Evesbatch, and the other way was a little more, on Hook's Lane in Cradley!
An amazing spot to grow up in!
Seeing as we have the facilityto use a real photo as our "identity" perhaps other may choose to post a complimentary picture of themselves ...
ATB from George
This must be forty-seven years ago - about 1963 or '64. The car is a six cylinder Ford Consul, which replaced a Rover P4 75 [six cylinder 2.1 litres "F" head], because the Rover was involved in a head-one accident with a motor-cyclist, who died and no one wanted to drive the Rover after that ...
I had hair in those days!
No glasses either, though I was blind as a bat even then! The place is the Pool Farm, Acton Beauchamp, Herefordshire. But Acton itself is in Worcestershire, but the address is a historical nonsense! In the old days [c. 1700s] the owner wanted to be a Parish councillor in Acton, and so bought two acres the other side of the brook, so as to qualify, and so the farm had an address in Worcestershire even though the other 140 acres including the farmhouse and yard was in Herefordshire!
It was not even in a village, the nearest house was half a mile away, in Evesbatch, and the other way was a little more, on Hook's Lane in Cradley!
An amazing spot to grow up in!
Seeing as we have the facilityto use a real photo as our "identity" perhaps other may choose to post a complimentary picture of themselves ...
ATB from George
Less the logo. A desktop background I made a couple of years ago, also lifted from my website by Swinging Pig records and used on one of their Led Zeppelin vinyl bootleg releases. One of a number of icons I have made for different forums over the years.
