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Garswood
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Photo: Lyndon Crompton
Item #: 16985
I think the driver's name was Ken Devonport from Springs Branch
Nice pics Lyndon
11 yr olds in the cab whilst shunting? What would Elf'n'Safety make of that today? Not to mention Childrens Services who would have been round like a shot. Simpler and more innocent times, but in many ways so much better, if not in material terms, than now.
their may have been a bobby watching Derek that you don't know about lol
Dougie, if one of the the bobbies of those days had been watching, he would probably have helped lift the lads onto the footplate1 Mind you, he wouldn't have had as many other things to cope with as the cops of today do!
I think that the then local flying squad was bobby Harrison who lived at Downall Green.He always used his common sense and turned a blind eye.