If you can try to get up to Midford today (4 March 2012) to help out. I think there will be a big burning session and there're rumours of sausages for lunch!
If only sunny Folkestone was closer-I can smell the bonfire and the sausages now! Were the stps down to the platform an original staff or passenger access?
Not completely sure but I think this was the original passenger access though it also gives access (not directly) to the station master's house. The car park by the Hope and Anchor is a post closure development.
When i spoke to the last stationmaster last month, when cutting back the trees, he told me the steps did indeed go straight up to the stationmasters house....
Mr Cooper (the Stationmaster) clarified that the access to his house was via the first "landing" which he has now walled off with a dry stone wall. The main steps were public access. Regards, Stuart Seale
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If only sunny Folkestone was closer-I can smell the bonfire and the sausages now!
ReplyDeleteWere the stps down to the platform an original staff or passenger access?
Not completely sure but I think this was the original passenger access though it also gives access (not directly) to the station master's house. The car park by the Hope and Anchor is a post closure development.
ReplyDeleteWhen i spoke to the last stationmaster last month, when cutting back the trees, he told me the steps did indeed go straight up to the stationmasters house....
ReplyDeleteMr Cooper (the Stationmaster) clarified that the access to his house was via the first "landing" which he has now walled off with a dry stone wall. The main steps were public access.
ReplyDeleteRegards, Stuart Seale