Unbecoming to behave like silly sods

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I met the other half in far Green, the Masons Arms.

[Fosse69]

All walking in those days, cant remember using the bus from Hanley, it was either main road to Smallthorne Baths via Sneyd Green, or if raining the train from by the Grand Hotel. Don't remember any rowdies though.

[CambridgeDon]

Best memory for me was walking with my Dad and brother through Hanley to the Railway Station next to the Grand, catching the train to Vale Park and walking the short way to the ground. Loved it. So much anticipation, good company, and from time to time a decent Vale win.

 

Talking about silly sods, whose brilliant idea was it to close down that Branch line? It would have saved so many traffic problems over the years.

[TheSage]

Very odd wasn't it how everyone walked everywhere in those days.

I lived at the top end of Tunstall but always walked through the town, down Scotia Road past all the pottery works (Johnsons? Alexandra? Pinnox? Can't quite recall all the exact names but there were lots of 'em.) Then past the PMT bus station and across the fields towards Bycars.

Tunstall had that useful loop line and a station by the Ryan Hall near the park(s) but we hardly ever used it. I suppose back then every penny counted and we had to watch what we spent.

Like you I often think how handy that loop line would have been today but it's long since gone - closed down in 1964. Blimey - how time flies.

[CambridgeDon]

Very odd wasn't it how everyone walked everywhere in those days.

I lived at the top end of Tunstall but always walked through the town, down Scotia Road past all the pottery works (Johnsons? Alexandra? Pinnox? Can't quite recall all the exact names but there were lots of 'em.) Then past the PMT bus station and across the fields towards Bycars.

Tunstall had that useful loop line and a station by the Ryan Hall near the park(s) but we hardly ever used it. I suppose back then every penny counted and we had to watch what we spent.

Like you I often think how handy that loop line would have been today but it's long since gone - closed down in 1964. Blimey - how time flies.

 

The only reason we took the train, Sage, was that I was too little then (only about 8 I think). On his own, I think my Dad would have walked. When he was over 70 living up Norton by that time, I would offer him a lift to the game but he'd never take it, walking down and then up Smothorne Bank to get there. The good old days

[ClntonBoulton]

Best memory for me was walking with my Dad and brother through Hanley to the Railway Station next to the Grand, catching the train to Vale Park and walking the short way to the ground. Loved it. So much anticipation, good company, and from time to time a decent Vale win.

 

Talking about silly sods, whose brilliant idea was it to close down that Branch line? It would have saved so many traffic problems over the years.

 

Being a little bit younger than you I do remember Cobridge station in operation but my main memory of the loop line is once it had gone. We used to walk across Cobridge Park get through a hole in the fence and then walk along the old railway line. Get off through a hole in the fence by Boslem Baths to get the Vale. Then they tarted it up and made it into an official walking area. Really good quick way to get to Vale Park.