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(The many changes)!
Your a kid out of school, With a bucket of oil and paraffin with a skane of cotton waste! Being what’s known as ‘Passed’ was the thing? Your paired with someone old enough to be your Father! Old, But knowledgeable, Never flap’s, Comes in on his old pushbike yet chucks Blackmore Vale or Clan Line sorts about faster than the modern BSA, or Norton ‘Ton Up’ boys motorbike! Television (Those that have it) Is black n white? You were kept pretty fit? Never a derailment! But in such unlikely event you might set off to stop an oncoming fast train! No phones! You set off like Chris Chatterway! Detonator tin in left hand, Securing their lead strips at guessable intervals? No stepper’s back then! 220 yards for an eighth, But steam can move the populace at over 100 MPH? So now you are in Roger Bannisters distance? Maybe not the magic 4 minute mile, But you are on your way and closer to the next signal box! You may find the odd Landline! And then there is always your very first diesel Hydraulic? You work away steam! To realise your going home diesel! ”Can you drive this thing Driver”? I ask? Looks like I am going to have to he replies! I done a course last week! The 800 Warship sort was like climbing into a tank? And sat up high on the likes of Western Prince, Huntsman or Cavalier was so daunting! And televised Billiard’s or Snooker was then to be in Colour? And many more years for a man on the moon! What changes less we all stand still? Its all the same objective but viewed differently from another era?
