Recent content by datdad

You are right here, we need a like button for this! You ask about 'Extra taxes required to pay for it' Generally, low-paid workers, who pay a much higher proportion of their wages as tax, will make money for public funds. Starting with more HMRC who bring in probably 4 times their wages. Then...

My mapping programme shows Bus 149 or Bus 388 4 stops from London Bridge to Camomile Street ( Stop W) then walk about 300 yards. If you have a smartphone suggest use Google Maps or Citymapper, if not suggest buy an A-Z street finder at London Bridge Station. Trust that helps.

Yes do that the ruins are much improved. The other attraction for me is the victorian Bayeux Tapestry replica in the Reading Museum. It was stitched by a group of ladies in the midlands (Staffordshire from memory) & is a delight in its own gallery. The ticket barriers (gate line?) at Reading...

Hi there, the advice above is great. In my one experience of this I waited for a day to see what turned up on my bank account online (having used my bank card to tap in I couldn't find the place to tap out @ Finsbury Park), I then called the TFL help line. The bloke there was very helpful and...

Can I endorse this route? I had a muddle over tapping out at Finsbury Park where I didn't see the Machine to do so, there wasn't a gateline & the corridor was unfamiliar and crowded. The young bloke on the TFL help line (working from home) couldn't have been nicer once we'd gone through what had...

Ticket offices at the London terminals are most useful to me. They seem to be the only places I can buy a ticket from the Freedom pass boundary (Zone 6?) to my destination. For example we went to Hastings & Brighton on separate journeys. We both have London 'Freedom' passes and Senior Railcards...

The Bus / Trolleybus to Cemetary Junction for Arthur Hills or the Cinema. We lived just up the Wokingham Road from the Junction.

Living outside Reading it was the Bristol Lowdekka from Woodley first and then when we moved into Reading the Reading Corporation Transport Trolleys buses (6 wheelers?)

In London N19 we are some 8 or so minutes from the northern Line station Tufnell Park, no doubt coming up from & going via Euston. We can hear the tube under the house on quiet nights & days . We used to think we heard the clickety clack over rail joins when we slept in the basement. What we do...

One does hope your other half doesn't mind you eating the kids after all that effort. Not normal for Norfolk ( or Sufolk) is it? I'll get me coat.

Yup Ive got a Freedom pass and before I retired I was using the pass on the Tube and DLR before 09:00 and 09:30 five days a week. Dont miss those nose to armpit Northern line trips then change at Bank. Ho ho .

Not at all doubting the 40 minutes with a King, but I thought I remembered commuting in the mid 1960s & the trip taking 35 minutes steam of course. My last season ticket was 1966 sometime.

I'm not sure that the FCO or indeed this Government is being sensible over its travel, it seems note like saving the Insurance industry some money. . It makes no sense to travel to continental Europe especially to Italy with its current situation.

Hi there, I had thought that the new state religion was set up by a king who wanted to marry another woman, which implies that something lower than his fingers motivated the man. Just a thought .

As a side note, how did Arnhem retain the Trolleybuses. I remember taking one from central Arnhem to the CWGC Airborne Cemetery in 1961 and last year when we were there the trolley buses were still going out to Oosterbeek. Very smart they look too.