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Fish – A delicate fish dish calls

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Vegetarian food - There

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The best way to get started is to spend a couple of hours down at your nearest canal, or search for local fisheries and buy a ticket for the day. In this area of the country, we are very lucky to have some great canals and fishing complexes, right on our doorstep and all within a 20-30 minute drive.

Fishing is a nice way to get away from the stresses of everyday life and be surrounded with nature, time to unwind, chill out and relax. It’s also good for your mental wellbeing as it helps switch off and can improve your mood, self-esteem and help decrease your blood pressure.

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known locally as “Puffing Billy”. It made heavy weather climbing the gradient from Stanbridge Ford to Dunstable North. I was told that this gradient was the third steepest in England. Is that true? Does anyone know?

The other railway station, Dunstable Town, was a collecting point for scrap metal during WW2 and was taken away to be used for the war effort. After we had moved from Totternhoe and until I got married, I lived in St Peters Rd, This railway line also featured in my father’s life and work Dunstable, and this station was at the bottom of our road. because he was born and bred in Totternhoe and worked So far as we kids in the area were concerned, the station at the Lime and Stone Company in Lower End. Before and its mountain of scrap metal - plus a huge crane - was becoming Manager of the company, he’d had a variety of a real magnet and we wanted to get into the station yard jobs one of which was that of engine driver. This meant so as to examine the scrap metal to see if any of it would transporting truckloads of the finished lime (or whatever) enhance our shrapnel collections (every boy had one). The from the Lime Works along a small company line to Stan- scrap dump was part of Freddie Carter’s scrap metal busibridge Ford station where it would be collected and taken ness which used to be along the Luton Rd on the corner to wherever it was required. of Boscombe Rd. My family all came from Totternhoe - I lived the first years But the station master didn’t see it like we did and he and of my life there - and I used to spend a lot of my school we kids were constantly at war. But in spite of “Keep Out” holidays with my grandmother, aunts and uncles, cousin and “Trespassers will be Prosecuted” signs, we managed to and a host of friends who all lived at Lower End. Stangain access at weekends and climb all over this precarious bridge Ford station was just down the road from this end and dangerous scrap heap - and even climb up the crane of the village and we spent quite a lot of time mucking until one day when the police were called in to read the riot about the station (the station master was very tolerant!) and act. I remember that my mother was terrified I would be in the Litney Wood (since uprooted and demolished) and branded as a criminal! At the time, my father was away in the Litney brook which ran nearby. the Army and I almost ran wild.

I remember an old locomotive which used to to ply up Also as boys, we used to put a halfpenny on the railway and down from Leighton Buzzard to Dunstable North line and wait for a passing train to flatten it out and make it station. It was one of those really old fashioned locos with into a penny. We also tried to make a sixpenny piece into a a cylindrical boiler, a high stack and a tall steam dome fixed shilling but since neither of these mildly illegal entrepreto the boiler. It was very antiquated in appearance and was neurial exploits ever worked, we gave up that idea.

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rport Former Luton ai There used to be a fairly large expanse of spare land which was part of the station and which we boys used as a football or cricket pitch. But there was also an old windowless hut on this ground which railway workers used when they were skiving off their proper work. And they didn’t welcome our presence either and frequently shooed us away. We thought we’d get our own back on one occasion and cut a sod of turf and gingerly placed it over the top of the chimney. And waited. Soon these men emerged from the hut coughing and spluttering, saw us and put two and two together. But by then we’d scarpered.

On a sadder note, I recall a boy at school who, following something very serious, had been expelled. Rather than tell his parents, he put his head on the line as a train was passing and ended it all.

Somehow I survived boyhood and after leaving school, I went into the Merchant Navy. And, again, Dunstable Town station became a small part of my life. Voyages would start and finish at Tilbury, Birkenhead, Glasgow or Liverpool and I would send my luggage by train (these were the days when suitcases didn’t have wheels!) and I would either take my case to, or pick it up from the station at the bottom of the road. It was very convenient and saved me a lot of humping about.

But after I came out of the Merchant Navy and after I’d done my two years National Service in the RAF, I had to look for a “civvy” job. Thanks to the RAF, I’d learnt something about electronics so got a job with English Electric up at Luton Airport. The airport then was a grass covered field and the control tower was a glorified wooden shed how times have changed!

I was required to “clock in” by 8.30 so left home in St Peters Rd just before 8.00, ran down the road to the station and caught the 8 o’clock train which took me to Bute Street station in Luton in less than 10 minutes. I then ran to Park Square and caught a ‘bus outside the Technical College (now the University of Befordshire) and clocked in

The Departure Lo unge with about two minutes to spare. It worked a treat.

This was a daily event for some time and continued until I began to pick up my girl friend on a motorbike en route to work. She, of course, also worked at English Electric (and has been my wife for the last 60 years – Diamond wedding celebrated recently).

After this period, I used the railway to Luton infrequently but I must admit that I was very sad to witness its closure after “Vandal Beeching” had completed his work. Without my realising it, this little branch line had, in one way or another, quite an impact on my earlier life.

A little known tidbit of naval history This story is supposed to have come from the ship’s log of the USS “Constitution” as she set sail on July 27, 1798. But it is strongly disputed by many, however, so must be read with a large pinch of salt:The ship had a complement of 475 officers and men and before leaving, loaded up with 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7400 cannon shot, 11600 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum.

At Jamaica, 826 pounds of flour and 68,300 gallons of rum were added before arriving at the Azores where 550 pounds of beef and 64,300 gallons of Portuguese wine were also loaded.

They then sailed for England and scuttled 12 English merchant ships but only salvaged the rum on board. By January 1799, their powder and shot had been exhausted so they sailed to the firth of Clyde and raided a whisky distillery. The result was that 40,000 gallons of malt whisky were loaded.

After this they headed home arriving at Boston on 20th February 1799 with no cannon shot, no powder, no food, no rum, no wine, no whisky. But they still had 38,600 gallons of water!

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