Bramleyman
|
Unusual Garden OrnamentWhat is the most Unusual Garden Ornament you have ever seen? The reason I ask is that a couple in Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire and just 10 miles down the road from me, have just had installed a Garden Ornament with a difference. They have had delivered and placed on some old railway track, an Ex-Kent Coast First Class carriage.
Their house is built on the site of the original station that was once part of the M&GNJR and from what was said on the news today, the track where the coach stands, is as near as possible, on part of the original trackbed. Their grandchildren said that when they told schoolmates that is was going to be put there, they didn't believe them, but now it is a talking point.
|
David Doherty
|
A friend of ours has a stone snooker table (complete with grass 'cloth'!)
In the garden of Jeremy Clarkson's house is an English Electric Lightening (very fast aeroplane from the 60's / 70's for those of you who don't know).
|
Bramleyman
|
I can recall seeing an English Electric Lightning at Biggin Hill when first built. WOW, what an Aircraft? 
|
David Doherty
|
Max speed Mach 2.1 (1,390mph) at 40,000ft..... and it had an initial rate of climb was 50,000 ft per minute!
To put that into perspective; my cessna has an initial climb rate of 1800 ft per minute...a 737 has a 3000 ft per minute!
Maximum height of 87,300 feet (26 600 m) at which level "Earth curvature was visible and the sky was quite dark"!
As you said... what an aircraft!
|
yeapb
|
My neighbour has a wheelie bin with a pink lid permanently stationed in their front yard - does that count?! (it's the garden waste bin and they use it once a year).
|
Bramleyman
|
| yeapb wrote: | | My neighbour has a wheelie bin with a pink lid permanently stationed in their front yard - does that count?! (it's the garden waste bin and they use it once a year). |
That's unusual, so yes I feel it does! 
|
jo
|
I'd like to say I had a terracotta army of Dad's Army figurines marching across my dad's recently scarified lawn.
But I don't... so I won't.
|
Bramleyman
|
I realise this may be a touch of the topic, but it is a Great Pity some of my neighbours didn't have a full-sized, lifelike statue of Cpl. Jones with his bayonet attached on their property and early this morning. Some R. Sole set fire to their wheelie bin in an alleyway between 3 bungalows about 05.30. With Great thanks to another neighbour coming home from night-shift, spotted it and got everybody to safety after calling the fire brigade. I never heard a thing and live about 25 yards away. It is now being treated as arson.
|
|
|
