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Weston Dog
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:53 am
by jolly47roger
Just looking at the 2005 picture of the bay platform at Weston General. I remember that on that wall of the station was a memorial to a dog that used to collect money for charity. Does anyone know what has happened to it?
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:12 pm
by horace
Well, i would imagine the dog was dead other wise there would not of been a memorial, and if it is the memorial you are talking about, i would imagine it had gone as nobody could remember the dog as it died so long ago!!
sorry but i am an old cynic.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:11 am
by Agency_Scum
...and there's no such thing as Santa!
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:34 pm
by simon
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:43 pm
by jolly47roger
It was a carved marble stone, built into the wall facing the buffer stops of the bay. Dated from 1920-ish, I think
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:09 am
by Agency_Scum
Hang on a mo, I remember that. Isn't it in a museum somewhere?
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:07 pm
by keith.anthony
I think this has been moved now to the waiting room in the Station. I remember seeing this a few years ago, I think the Dog was called "Dandy"!
the orphans friend.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:10 pm
by Agency_Scum
I'll pop in for a nose next time I get a nightshift round there.
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:17 pm
by jolly47roger
While on the subject of Weston, I thought I'd share one of my memories from the fifties...
In the days before automatic door locking and in-train comms it took a team to get a long up train away. The guard (invisible from the footplate because of the curve) would whistle and a team of 3 or 4 porters spaced along the train would check the doors and turn to face back with their right arms up. The guard, seeing this 'all clear' would wave the green flag and the porters would pirouette in turn to relay the 'right-away' to the engine.
Another sight we won't see again.
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:09 am
by Agency_Scum
Ah, 13 coach specials to Barry Island. There goes me nostalgia gland!
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:31 pm
by Hobbler
jolly47roger wrote:While on the subject of Weston, I thought I'd share one of my memories from the fifties...
In the days before automatic door locking and in-train comms it took a team to get a long up train away. The guard (invisible from the footplate because of the curve) would whistle and a team of 3 or 4 porters spaced along the train would check the doors and turn to face back with their right arms up. The guard, seeing this 'all clear' would wave the green flag and the porters would pirouette in turn to relay the 'right-away' to the engine.
Another sight we won't see again.
I remember seeing a porter doing this on the old No 9 platform at Temple Meads and as he spun round he managed to knock off the hat of a passenger who was walking past .The gent was not well pleased !
