John Parsons grew up in East London with a strong interest in railways and train spotting. In Saving the West Somerset Railway he looks at how volunteers and groups tried to save their railway, leading to their success in 1976. As a tribute to the volunteers who fought so hard to save and re-open the [...]
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Saving the West Somerset Railway
Posted in Local History, Railways, tagged john parsons, railways, saving the west somerset railway, somerset, the history press, trains on September 9, 2011 |
Apprenticeship and Training in GWR’s Swindon Works
Posted in Railways, tagged the history press, Doing Time Inside, Swindon Works, GWR, GWR Swindon Works, Rosa Matheson on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From ‘Indentures’ to ‘Certificates’, from ‘thrown-in-head-first’ to ‘structured modules’ from ‘in-the-workshops’ to ‘in-the-training-school’, through world wars, depressions and recessions, at any one time there would be hundreds of young boys doing ‘their time’ to get that oh-so-necessary piece of paper. Love it or hate, and there were many on each side of that, all those [...]
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