{"id":8069,"date":"2024-08-06T07:58:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/some-tyme-in-lime-3-delayed\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T07:58:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:58:34","slug":"some-tyme-in-lime-3-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/some-tyme-in-lime-3-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Tyme In Lime (3) Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"
And So,<\/span>\u00a0Instead, This :-<\/span><\/p>\n Puzzle Picture Plus<\/span><\/p>\n So your rather overheated old bloke decided to see if recreating the picture\u00a0 in “North Woolwich” today might be feasible.<\/p>\n Well it is and it isn’t!<\/p>\n A comment posted on yesterday’s blog from an “Anonymous” AlanJS was very helpful and confirmed fbb’s early guesstimate but added some location detail.<\/p>\n And so to Google Earth.<\/p>\n Travelling further west …<\/p>\n Below is the church from the northern side looking across the HS2 boundary wall fom the road.<\/p>\n The ex-church spire is clearly visible, but the original picture is from a slightly different angle, presumably from a now-removed footbridge over the railway.<\/p><\/div>\n We cannot stand on the non existent footbridge but we can try a Streetview view from nearby. Contrast and compare!<\/p>\n And a bit nearer the church we see a different footbridge that spans HS2 further west.<\/p><\/div>\n … and another is approaching the North Woolwich terminus.<\/p>\n Note the vessel outbound on the Thames.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/div>\n Trolleybuses ran from 1937 to 1960.<\/p>\n The present bus equivalent is the 473 as you might have supposed from the present day picture above.<\/p>\n Its route is different in detail, including a nip to the\u00a0 airport,\u00a0 but similar in concept. The route used to be service 69.<\/p>\n But, on reflection, there was something odd about it. How would they get the burning coals up in the air? Or even “hide” a gas pipe up there. And what would happen if the pipe broke in a high wind?<\/p><\/div>\n And the torch bearers stood mighty close to the potentially explosive ignition point<\/p>\n But, like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the burning fiery furnace (Bible Book of Daniel) …<\/p>\n … the igniters were not ignited …<\/p>\n