Morris Minor Owners Club

Myself 20 minutes tops how about you ??

Maybe an hour. Depends how much time I devote to reading the branch reports.

I tend to read it when I am in cafe etc. I will skim through it when it hits the mat and then leave reading it until I am in a cafe or pub, waiting for my food to arrive. I haven't bought a regular classic car magazine in ages. I get Safety Fast, from the MG Car Club, the FBHVC newsletter and Minor Matters (Plus the Dean Forest Railway members magazine). I have to say I enjoy Minor Matters the most and I now scan the tech articles, which go into an indexed file. How long it takes me to read it is debatable but in total it has to be over an hour.

Depends how long I'm on the khazi...

TDV thanks for sharing..... quite put me off my supper!

Good comedy is about knowing where to draw the line...and then stepping over it - Jimmy Carr

Ah, so thats where he constantly goes wrong ! Laughing all the way to the offshore tax avoidance scheme !

I think it's pretty good. And worth keeping for future reference. Always chuffed when it comes through the door,

I've just had steak & chips, Christmas pudding and some Old Speckled Hen at my local (Railway Tavern, Sirhowy) and between eating and drinking, Minor Matters kept me interested for another 1 1/2 hours . I think I'm done with it now.

Time for a pot of tea and some Last of The Summer Wine on DVD.

SteveClem wrote:I think it's pretty good. And worth keeping for future reference. Always chuffed when it comes through the door,

I always look forward to a new issue. Always something of interest somewhere

Blaketon

The Sirhowy railway - a most famous railway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhowy_Railway

The Railway Tavern looks to be good at £25 for two steaks and a bottle of wine.

Sir Daniel Gooch lived at Sirhowy House in the 1831 1834.

Phil

I've a book somewhere on the railways in the valley. It's the only one of the Valleys, east of the Rhondda, to have no railway now. The Ebbw Valley now has a passenger service once more, as the line survived due to the (Now closed) steel works. Blaenavon has the steam railway. The Heads of the Valleys line disappeared under the A465 when it was made into a three lane road (Now being dualled) and I think the line would be valuable today; Beeching went too far.

There are, apparently, only two places in Tredegar, where the land is as it was way way back and the garden of the Railway is one of them. The remains of the Sirhowy Ironworks isn't far away.

There is a boundary marker of the Sirhowy Iron Works just a stones throw from the Railway Tavern & located up against the iron railings.
https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.u ... ihq1-SDPcs

I walked past it last night.

As it happens, when I started school, Trevithick's tram road (Or at least the one where he ran his loco) passed close to the school. It had been tarmaced but a mile or so up the valley, the stone sleepers were still to be seen.

Another well known figure, who lived in Tredegar (Aside from Nye Bevan), was A. J. Cronin, of Dr Finlay's Casebook fame. It is said that some of his story lines came from his time in Tredegar. With medicine in mind, the local pharmacist was known as Dai the Pill. He was friendly with the local bank manager, another great character, who had been known to help out when Hill's buses were short of drivers (He held a PSV licence); it must have been a surprise to get on to a bus and find the bank manager driving. I wonder did he ever tell someone "You can't afford this, you'll have to walk".

This is the book I mentioned - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Railways-Sirho ... 0853614156