What are you listening to?

slartibartfast said:
The annoying traffic lights have been bypassed now 🙂
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No traffic lights when I lived there - that's why the Dutch Lorry Driver ploughed into the old Angel pub coming down the A120 to the sharp S-bend. My brother, myself and our Father were first on the scene & helped everyone out, we lived opposite & used to listen to the band rehearsing in the pub's walled garden & that included with Nick Drake who I remember as very shy when we tried to talk with him (unlike the band members who were always friendly).....

"The Angel", a former pub once inhabited by the folk rock group Fairport Convention and after which their album Angel Delight was titled. Violinist Dave Swarbrick, guitarists Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol and Dave Pegg and drummer Dave Mattacks were resident in the building, along with their wives and the band's road crew. Nick Drake also visited the premises when making his first albums (Dave Pegg and Dave Mattacks of Fairport Convention played bass and drums respectively on these). The band's residence there ended in February 1971 when a lorry crashed into the Angel, severely damaging the property and destroying Swarbrick's bedroom. The lorry driver was killed in the accident, but nobody else was hurt."​

 
slartibartfast said:
What did they do before the traffic lights? That bridge is single file 😱
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Well, maybe we did have lights & I don't remember as I couldn't drive then!!? :eek:- it was before I got my license in '74 by which time we had moved to the other end of the village, Hadham Ford & I had left for Uni.

My best memory of that bridge was the day my brother & I dropped a £10 note into the water that my mother had given us for the butchers...we both stayed at our Uncles that night! The bridge is named in the Fairport song 'Bridge over the river Ash'
 
MrA said:
Well, maybe we did have lights & I don't remember as I couldn't drive then!!? :eek:- it was before I got my license in '74 by which time we had moved to the other end of the village, Hadham Ford & I had left for Uni.

My best memory of that bridge was the day my brother & I dropped a £10 note into the water that my mother had given us for the butchers...we both stayed at our Uncles that night! The bridge is named in the Fairport song 'Bridge over the river Ash'
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I remember passing my test 2nd time and being annoyed that it went up 50p to £2.25 😜
 
Skull said:
I remember passing my test 2nd time and being annoyed that it went up 50p to £2.25 😜
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The day the UK decimalised was also Feb 71 & an old lady got on the bus for Ware to be told the fare in 'new' money, looked puzzled and then said "I don't have to join that, I'm a pensioner"

Chips used to be a tanner & fish a few old pence more, how times have changed.
 
MrA said:
Well, maybe we did have lights & I don't remember as I couldn't drive then!!? :eek:- it was before I got my license in '74 by which time we had moved to the other end of the village, Hadham Ford & I had left for Uni.

My best memory of that bridge was the day my brother & I dropped a £10 note into the water that my mother had given us for the butchers...we both stayed at our Uncles that night! The bridge is named in the Fairport song 'Bridge over the river Ash'
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An article about the lorry crash said the lights were installed in the 1970s so they definitely weren't there in 1971. Cars were narrower then 😂
Lorries weren't though
 
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MrA said:
The day the UK decimalised was also Feb 71 & an old lady got on the bus for Ware to be told the fare in 'new' money, looked puzzled and then said "I don't have to join that, I'm a pensioner"

Chips used to be a tanner & fish a few old pence more, how times have changed.
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Yes indeed I miss pints for 12p 😜
 
I think our reminiscences have taken up enough of this thread by now, it's become "What on earth is everyone else having to listen to!" :oops:
 
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