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Improving Royston Topic: FAST PUBLIC tRANSPORT
kapitiga
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:10 am
Replies: 1 26
When I remember my youth, I recall just how wonderfully convenient it was to have a Railway Station in Royston. For the price of a 'cheap day return', I could travel quickly to Leeds or Sheffield. I might leave before 7.00 pm. and be back the same evening, - and no-one would suspect that I had been ...
Welcome to Royston Topic: Best 'welcome' in Royston from my point of view.
kapitiga
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:06 pm
Replies: 1 40
I had been away from the village for quite a time. I had returned to find old friends and to re-experience the places I knew so well as a youth. Royston had changed agreat deal in the time I had been away. There seemed some reluctance in the way folk greeted one another. There was a hesitancy in the...
Ex-Pats Topic: North West Pacific Coast - Alaskan Waters Part 2
kapitiga
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:51 pm
Replies: 1 42
There is not much fish caught, or work done, or money earned, in the beer parlour of a hotel. The day after our arrival in Prince Rupert, we started to ready our boat for fishing. We began work at a reasonable time, just before seven o'clock. There was some rigging to be done, there were stores to b...
Ex-Pats Topic: North West Pacific Coast - Alaskan Waters
kapitiga
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:45 pm
Replies: 0 47
I found myself in Sidney, British Columbia. I had flown from Hawaii to Seattle. From there I had traveled by bus to the ferry terminal at Anacortes, and thence by ferry to Sidney, on Vancouver Island. There, I was stuck. I had very little money remaining, and I had no propects of finding any kind of...
Memories Topic: can anybody help please?
kapitiga
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:57 pm
Replies: 4 74
Marshy - Dransfields Row, rings no bells with me, but I will search further than my memory. It is likely that Dransfields Row is not the name of a street, rather, it may be the name of a building or a terrace of cottages. Often such a name might be carved on a stone placed prominently on - or at the...
Memories Topic: Watching trains and riding bikes
kapitiga
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:44 pm
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By the time I was eight or nine years old I had become a 'consumer'. There were shops in the village that stored many of the desirable things, I wished I might own. There were certain shops that were like magnets for most small boys. My favourite shop window was that of the newsagent, Griffiths'. Th...
Memories Topic: Idyllic memories of Royston - Part 2
kapitiga
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:46 pm
Replies: 1 43
In remembering the first weeks and months of school, it seems we only had women teachers. Those women dressed themselves in a particular way. They wore tweed skirts and sensible shoes. A high necked blouse with a brooch, - perhaps a cameo - but to complete their uniform, they always wore a bright fl...
Memories Topic: Idyllic memories of Royston
kapitiga
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:53 pm
Replies: 4 99
Growing up at Royston is the source of many memories. Some were hateful, some were very tiresome and wearing, but for the most part my memory is filled with pleasant times and the exciting experience of discovering things. There was the immediate vicinity of the village to explore, there was the sur...
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