Postcodes today. As usual, all my palns have fallen apart so I’m falling back on the old favourites.
IP 23, CT 17 and TS 25.
We’ll start with TS 25. I used to live in Middlesbrough (note the single “o”), though I was in TS3. It was not the most sought after location and from our ninth floor flat we were able to spend a year watching people dismantle the last vestiges of shipbuilding on the Tees. They replaced it with a retail park. We could see two nuclear plants from our flat – the private one at ICI a few miles down the road (though we had to stick our heads out of the kitchen window to do it) and the one at Hartlepool.
The one at Hartlepool is in the TS 25 postcode area. Normally they put nuclear power stations in desolate areas of the country, often surrounded by open country and beaches. In the case of Hartlepool they got the desolate bit right but put it within easy nuking distance of Middlesbrough and Hartlepool. If the whole thing had lit up it wouldn’t have made a lot of difference to the surrounding area, as a post-apocalyptic urban wasteland was basically the look the town planners had already achieved. The ability to glow in the dark would have been a positive step forward.
Like Heysham, Hartlepool was one of the later generation of nuclear power stations seen as being safe enough to build near towns. This means it is easier to get the electricity where it nweeds to be without damaging the environment with pylons. On the other hand…
IP 23 is in Sufflok and includes Brome, a village containing one of the 38 round-towered churches in Suffolk. I imagine this was because they couldn’t get the hang of corners. It’s probably good for strength or economy, but not much good for furniture. I’ve always wondered how you go about furnishing a windmill after converting one to living accommodation.
There are 185 of them in the UK. That’s out of a total of 16,000 churches.
CT 17 will have to wait as it’s time for a fix of junk TV.
Today’s photo is a large cast iron coat of arms – the state of Württemberg fro those of you who are interested. It’s up for auction and we are prepared to put it in the post if you feel the urge to pay for the stamps.
At first glance, I thought the coat of arms was chocolate. That’s the way my mind runs. 😉
It’s ffiteen pounds. You should be so lucky! 🙂
Be still my trembling heart.
🙂
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I do like this series. You can ramble all over the place with it. You had me trying to work out how much an entire ancient German state would cost in postage
If you could get back to the 1920s you could probably buy Württemburg for less than the cost of postage these days. The real question is not the postage, but where would you put it after it was delivered? Jackie is unlikely to be happy if you fill the garden with piles of German countryside and fill her new kitchen with German princelings and their lackeys.
Ah – I think I’ve just been hoisted
“The ability to glow in the dark would have been a positive step forward.” I see you are still looking on the bright side of life, Quercus… 🙂
🙂 One day I must tell you more about my year in Middlesbrough. It was more of an anthropological expedition than a visit.
Sounds like a good post coming up. 🙂
I will have to work on it.
A kind offer but I’ll have to pass I am afraid.
🙂 I suspect you are not alone. It’s been in the shop about five years waiting for the right person. I suspect they might live in Germany…
Good thinking.