mogish
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Post by mogish on Jun 21, 2024 10:49:08 GMT
😂😂😂 didn't think the survey team would be that daft to not control it .
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Post by mostlywrong on Jun 21, 2024 11:01:09 GMT
Lol like here a chapel on nearly every street, and if you have three churchgoing families in adjacent houses almost certainly 3 different chapels. and of course being Wales we still have quite a few tin tabernacles ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_tabernacle ) locally. being in one of those in heavy rain or hail is an experience "Quite a few locally" at one time perhaps. While I count 82 in England, your link suggests there are only 9 left in all of Wales now: 3 in the north, 3 in the west, 2 in the Valleys and one in the 'diff. If we ever find ourselves inside one of your Valleys pair, our odds of the heavy rain clouting on the tin experience are in our favour though!  A few months ago, I got lost trying to find Kemble International Airport, courtesy of a road closure and an unsigned diversion. And in a tiny village in the depths of the Cotswolds, there was a tin tabernacle!
Astonishing.
It brought back memories of school and the conversion of the tin tabernacle to a language laboratory teaching facility. It was all tape recorders and headsets with limited volume so that when it rained, you could not hear the lesson.
MW
Edited to add "laboratory" 'cos that it is what we called it!
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Post by bernythedolt on Jun 21, 2024 14:47:19 GMT
"Quite a few locally" at one time perhaps. While I count 82 in England, your link suggests there are only 9 left in all of Wales now: 3 in the north, 3 in the west, 2 in the Valleys and one in the 'diff. If we ever find ourselves inside one of your Valleys pair, our odds of the heavy rain clouting on the tin experience are in our favour though! A few months ago, I got lost trying to find Kemble International Airport, courtesy of a road closure and an unsigned diversion. And in a tiny village in the depths of the Cotswolds, there was a tin tabernacle!
Astonishing.
It brought back memories of school and the conversion of the tin tabernacle to a language teaching facility. It was all tape recorders and headsets with limited volume so that when it rained, you could not hear the lesson.
MW
In 2018, I had the honour of flying with a mate in his microlight aircraft into Kemble, with another friend flying in tandem. Kemble was presenting a little homage to the RAF Centenary, which we went to honour. We had no trouble locating the airfield, so it's obviously easier to find from above! I flew much of the return leg, including overhead the Severn Crossing, which was spectacular, then "feet wet" along the south Wales coastline, with ATC permission granted to cross the end of Cardiff airport. One of those special days, forever etched in my memory.
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