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(The redundant Fireman)
(From the frying pan of steam footplate to the humid heat of Africa)! A few years installing swimming pools and water treatment works in the UK! Then off to Africa to find Ghana and Nigeria was big and impressive? Nigeria 4 or 5 times the size of the UK! Steam imports from the UK were Hunslet to River class! North British, Many Pacific’s Nasmyth Wilson/ Robert Stephenson to Armstrong Whitworth? My mothers crowd at the Methodist Church would support the Biafran refugee’s! Whereas I would go to Doden Barracks the military headquarters when General Gowen had fled to London, and to have Murtala Muhamid (forgive spelling)? as the new military ruler! I was in keffi street Lagos with him when he was shot in a coup! So the Ikedja airport i landed at in the Boeing 707 is now named after him! I threw myself down like a sack of spuds when rapid fire from soldiers riddled his Merc’? Play dead! When strings of rapid bullets leave many rifles they may go anyway? I have a military pass! (Long expired)! Because life goes on! And i’ve written too much again and not started my story yet? But with earth laterite roads the rail to Kano might take 30 to 36 hours! This Island of ours is so tichy! ====== PS, All my pictures are in blue cloud? Do I have to pay to switch / download pictures from a computer?? Iv’e gone from Windows 10 to 11?
