Thanks, LMcD. I am quite a fan of Ribblehead viaduct, having crossed it a few times, though I always tell people it's smaller than Stockport viaduct (the largest brick-built structure in Europe, believe it or not) .
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Originally posted by smittims View PostThanks, LMcD. I am quite a fan of Ribblehead viaduct, having crossed it a few times, though I always tell people it's smaller than Stockport viaduct (the largest brick-built structure in Europe, believe it or not) .
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
You want viaduct? This is IT. Believe me. All right, it was an aqueduct and no longer carries traffiic either but ... mon Dieu!
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
Seeing pictures of the Pont du Gard always re-awakens the gut churning fear of crossing the damn thing! Something like 60 years ago on a family camping holiday we stayed at a site on the riverbank adjacent to this amazing structure. My father decided that we should do the tourist thing and cross it over the top tier, as was allowed in those days. As a person who has always struggled with even minimal heights this was a problem, with my father refusing to let me wait until the family returned, or to go down and cross along the road and meet them the other side if, as he threatened, they carried on walking once across. Eventually a kind bystander pointed out there was a solution as I could walk inside the water channel and could stick my head up where there were missing capping stones to check where the family had got to. I couldn't bear to watch them so scurried through as quickly as possible. For some reason, when we all met up at the end they decided not to return the way they'd come(even going inside), so we walked back on the road instead. I doubt one is allowed to walk across the top outside now...
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostSeeing pictures of the Pont du Gard always re-awakens the gut churning fear of crossing the damn thing!It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by smittims View PostThanks, LMcD. I am quite a fan of Ribblehead viaduct, having crossed it a few times, though I always tell people it's smaller than Stockport viaduct (the largest brick-built structure in Europe, believe it or not) .
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
The whole organisation is now led by a former marketing bloke from Pepsi - a product which is complete fat inducing sxxx . I mean a seriously
evil product.
...and may be known as The Flat Controller!
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Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
Thr "big school" in Hexham is the High School. According to Wiki Sir Mark Elder went to primary school (unnamed, possibly in Hexham) but then went to Bryanston School near Blandford Forum in Dorset (which, coincidentally, is also where JEG went...
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
Cragside - the first house in the world to have electric lights - is well worth a visit. If you decide to visit Carlisle from the south, I would strongly recommend that you make sure to cross the wonderful Ribblehead Viaduct en route!
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
Not title you would find on a veggie/vegan playlist one assumes..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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