http://mommascorner.com/2009/04/its_monday/ The Golden Years Suck! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:18:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mommascorner.com/2009/04/its_monday/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Marion at Liss England Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:12:16 +0000 http://mommascorner.com/2009/04/its_monday/#comment-297 <p>Wished to tell, after 3 days over Easter of rain and grey skies, Easter Monday dawned blue ky and lovely and by mid morning out came the sun, really warm.  Just as well since our local town was celebrating 150 years of the Railway coming through the town, plus our village of Liss, and on up to London.  To celebrate this a wonderful, green, steam engine pulling 11 carriages came down from London, called Oliver Cromwell, and thousands of people turned out to greet him, and see himn pulled up to take on water at our town of Petersfield.  The local Band played, and classic cars, old bicycles, my younger son’s traction engine, gleaming in the sun, amassed outside the Station, from where, after the train had passed through on it’s way down to our West Country, with loads of people on board, who had paid to travel the day on it, they formed up for a parade, and paraded down through our town, with thousands of happy people massing the pavements in order to watch the parade.  Lots of folk in the parade were dressed in Victorian dress, my son and his wife included everyone looked great!  It was a great day and the sun shone boldly down, almost too hot, trust us Brits to say!!  They paraded to our local Square, where they all parked up for the afternoon for folk to be able to walk around and view them all.  Friends and self watched some Morris Men, country dancing, in the streets, before re turning hot and content home to Liss.  I gather every station the train passed through, going down South, was packed with people who had turned out to see it rushing through!  We were so glad the weather was good for the day, so much organisation involved.  All best   Marion   Liss </p> Wished to tell, after 3 days over Easter of rain and grey skies, Easter Monday dawned blue ky and lovely and by mid morning out came the sun, really warm.  Just as well since our local town was celebrating 150 years of the Railway coming through the town, plus our village of Liss, and on up to London.  To celebrate this a wonderful, green, steam engine pulling 11 carriages came down from London, called Oliver Cromwell, and thousands of people turned out to greet him, and see himn pulled up to take on water at our town of Petersfield.  The local Band played, and classic cars, old bicycles, my younger son’s traction engine, gleaming in the sun, amassed outside the Station, from where, after the train had passed through on it’s way down to our West Country, with loads of people on board, who had paid to travel the day on it, they formed up for a parade, and paraded down through our town, with thousands of happy people massing the pavements in order to watch the parade.  Lots of folk in the parade were dressed in Victorian dress, my son and his wife included everyone looked great!  It was a great day and the sun shone boldly down, almost too hot, trust us Brits to say!!  They paraded to our local Square, where they all parked up for the afternoon for folk to be able to walk around and view them all.  Friends and self watched some Morris Men, country dancing, in the streets, before re turning hot and content home to Liss.  I gather every station the train passed through, going down South, was packed with people who had turned out to see it rushing through!  We were so glad the weather was good for the day, so much organisation involved.  All best   Marion   Liss

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