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By *imandHerNotts OP Couple over a year ago

North Notts

We've always wanted a thread that dies off after almost boring everyone to death lol

As you may have guess the title is a complete ruse. We figured the fastest way to failure is by creating disinterest.

Wish us luck x

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By *aturelover2016Man over a year ago

London

Was going to post but fell asl .... zzzzz

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Revolutioooooooooooon come on!

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By *inkySlinkyCouple over a year ago

Leeds

A 102 year period gives huge scope for discussion.

Sally

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Revolutioooooooooooon come on!"

You say you want a revolution

Well you know

We all wanna change the world

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Ha!

I have posted threads that ended up with no comments on at all!

How dull am I

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Do you have any idea how many single guys on here were train spotters before the discovered dogging?

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

steam-powered engines were very popular back then people even made steam cars.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Do you have any idea how many single guys on here were train spotters before the discovered dogging?

What did train spotters do before trains were invented?

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By *vbride1963TV/TS over a year ago

E.K . Glasgow

"A 102 year period gives huge scope for discussion.

Sally"

112 year period don't want to miss anything out .

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By *vbride1963TV/TS over a year ago

E.K . Glasgow

"Do you have any idea how many single guys on here were train spotters before the discovered dogging?

What did train spotters do before trains were invented?"

Horse and carriage spotters

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

OK where was the first passenger rail line?

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

"OK where was the first passenger rail line?

was it ran by southern rail?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"OK where was the first passenger rail line?

was it ran by southern rail?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Liverpool to Darlington was it.???

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Liverpool to Darlington was it.???"

Close but no

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Liverpool to Manchester...

But the Stockton Darlington line also carried passengers and was opened first..

...and before that there were the inclined planes often horse drawn used in industrial centres like around Ironbridge that were made to carry product but also transported workers... or some of the underground railways used in deep mining..

Nothing's ever simple is it

Off back to the man cave smiling ....

That should be the dullest post ever

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Darlington to Bishop Auckland?

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

"Liverpool to Darlington was it.???"

You might be right there

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Liverpool to Darlington was it.???

You might be right there"

But your not

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"OK where was the first passenger rail line?

It was completed in 1766 and was an ambitious project stretching from bidderford to Ilfracombe, unfortunately the popular rail line was closed by Dr beeching leaving only the line extention from Bideford to Bristol temple meads and a few bits of rusty track to mark this historic route

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Or of course thete was Trevithicks display line that ran a steam engine in a circle like an amusement ride...or indeed static steam engines used in mines and elsewhere that pulled carriages on a rope...again msunlt to move heavy goods but also carried workers...

Don't you just hate it when there's no simple definitive answer..

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Darlington to Bishop Auckland?"

No...but hire is correct.

A little unless fact...the oldest railway ticket office in the world is in Stockton. It is now a hostel for the homeless...not that I'm saying it is wrong but could you imagine that in any of the major cities?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"OK where was the first passenger rail line?

I made this up lol

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

"Liverpool to Darlington was it.???

You might be right there

But your not

Alright history boy

Nice pink tie by the way

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Not to be a stickler but... The agricultural revolution started way before 1700

To be more precise it came in waves from about 1550 onwards

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By *inchyorksMan over a year ago

huddersfield

"We've always wanted a thread that dies off after almost boring everyone to death lol

As you may have guess the title is a complete ruse. We figured the fastest way to failure is by creating disinterest.

Wish us luck x"

i was excited by the thread title as i ride up and down a field ploughing at 7mph on my case puma cvx 185 and 5 furrow plough!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Hine not hire doh

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By *rightonCheekyMan over a year ago

Brighton

"A 102 year period gives huge scope for discussion.

Sally"

My ex wife had one of those, which explained our lack of sex life

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By *thwalescplCouple over a year ago

brecon

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By *thwalescplCouple over a year ago

brecon

"OK where was the first passenger rail line?

600 BC - A basic form of the railway, the rutway,existed in ancient Greek and Roman times, the most important being the ship trackway Diolkos across the Isthmus of Corinth. Measuring between 6 and 8.5 km, remaining in regular and frequent service for at least 650 years, and being open to all on payment, it constituted even a public railway, a concept that, according to Lewis, did not recur until around 1800. The Diolkos was reportedly used until at least the middle of the 1st century AD, after which no more written references appear.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Liverpool to Darlington was it.???

You might be right there

But your not

Alright history boy

Nice pink tie by the way

Thank you. It's multi functional...unlike me

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"OK where was the first passenger rail line?

It's meant to be steam powered not slave powered

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Not to be a stickler but... The agricultural revolution started way before 1700

To be more precise it came in waves from about 1550 onwards

Luke most fixed dates in history they are onky fixed by reference to some singular event..

Evolution is a process sometimes helped by a major change event and the agricultural revolution was more a process designed to meet the increasing food needs of a growing population and gradual urbanisation of society..

FFS I need to get out of the man cave more often

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

"Not to be a stickler but... The agricultural revolution started way before 1700

To be more precise it came in waves from about 1550 onwards

Luke most fixed dates in history they are onky fixed by reference to some singular event..

FFS I need to get out of the man cave more often

Technically wouldn't domesticating animals and growing crops be classed as the first agricultural revolution. Which happened way way before.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

How's this thread idea working out for ya op

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I always remembered it was crop rotation in the mid 1600s... However my school was crap so they could have just made it up

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"How's this thread idea working out for ya op

Busier then that safe place we're no one speaks to me

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Not to be a stickler but... The agricultural revolution started way before 1700

To be more precise it came in waves from about 1550 onwards

Luke most fixed dates in history they are onky fixed by reference to some singular event..

FFS I need to get out of the man cave more often

Technically wouldn't domesticating animals and growing crops be classed as the first agricultural revolution. Which happened way way before.

As I said.... evolution

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By *mokes n MirrorsCouple over a year ago

Plymouth and Newcastle (sometimes)

"A 102 year period gives huge scope for discussion.

Sally

112 year period don't want to miss anything out .

I thought it was an hour and twelve minutes

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

"How's this thread idea working out for ya op

Busier then that safe place we're no one speaks to me

Lets see if we can get it to 175

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"How's this thread idea working out for ya op

Busier then that safe place we're no one speaks to me

Lets see if we can get it to 175

Will do my best

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Hine not hire doh"

It's crap being a smart arse trogladyte when you can't even remember my name

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

What an awesome subject i could really get into but typically i have to go now, bugger.

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By *unandbuckCouple over a year ago

Sheffield

Steam power is still here. Even the latest nuclear power stations just make steam to push a turbine around.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Hine not hire doh

It's crap being a smart arse trogladyte when you can't even remember my name

Smart arsed smartphone. ..second attempt and it was trying to post a email address I have

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

I wonder if they had fab back then what form it would have taken. Can just imagine the vellums flying about

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Hine not hire doh

It's crap being a smart arse trogladyte when you can't even remember my name

Smart arsed smartphone. ..second attempt and it was trying to post a email address I have

I hate auto carrot..

And I think if the collective wit and wisdom joins in we could really piss off OP and make him out up a part 2

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Hine not hire doh

It's crap being a smart arse trogladyte when you can't even remember my name

Smart arsed smartphone. ..second attempt and it was trying to post a email address I have

I hate auto carrot..

And I think if the collective wit and wisdom joins in we could really piss off OP and make him out up a part 2

Let's go for it...and piss off the kinky butler at the same time

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By *thwalescplCouple over a year ago

brecon

"OK where was the first passenger rail line?

It's meant to be steam powered not slave powered

Ah, see, you didn't say that, and, as it qualifies as a "railway", I win lol!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

First "passenger" to be killed by a steam train...

Sir William Husskinson President of the Board of Trade MP.

On the opening day of the Liverpool Manchester Railway..he was run over by Stephenson's Rocket near Eccles lost his legs and died later that day.

Bet that put a dampener on the celebrations...

Rocket was considered the unlucky after that and left to rot in sidings in Stockton..

I really really need to get out if the man cave more...

Where's the nice girl trogladytes

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"First "passenger" to be killed by a steam train...

Sir William Husskinson President of the Board of Trade MP.

On the opening day of the Liverpool Manchester Railway..he was run over by Stephenson's Rocket near Eccles lost his legs and died later that day.

Bet that put a dampener on the celebrations...

Rocket was considered the unlucky after that and left to rot in sidings in Stockton..

I really really need to get out if the man cave more...

Where's the nice girl trogladytes

Why oh why do people insist on getting legless at these kind of celebrations?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"OK where was the first passenger rail line?

It's meant to be steam powered not slave powered

Ah, see, you didn't say that, and, as it qualifies as a "railway", I win lol!

Thread title did...see ya loser

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"First "passenger" to be killed by a steam train...

Sir William Husskinson President of the Board of Trade MP.

On the opening day of the Liverpool Manchester Railway..he was run over by Stephenson's Rocket near Eccles lost his legs and died later that day.

Bet that put a dampener on the celebrations...

Rocket was considered the unlucky after that and left to rot in sidings in Stockton..

I really really need to get out if the man cave more...

Where's the nice girl trogladytes

When you find one let me know

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Piston Parsnips ?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Where are you all? I go for my tea and this is dropping like a lead balloon.

Come on get your fingers out

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Piston Parsnips ?"

Eh?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Piston Parsnips ?

Eh?"

Dont fuckin mention parsnips!!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Piston Parsnips ?

Eh?

Dont fuckin mention parsnips!!!"

I bet mozzies like em though

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Piston Parsnips ?

Eh?

Dont fuckin mention parsnips!!!

I bet mozzies like em though

Dont fuckin mention mozzies!!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Piston Parsnips ?

Eh?

Dont fuckin mention parsnips!!!

I bet mozzies like em though

Dont fuckin mention mozzies!!!"

Ok not much left to mention then...oh how's the honeymoon going?

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By *adyinred696969Couple over a year ago

Brecon

"OK where was the first passenger rail line?

It's meant to be steam powered not slave powered

Ah, see, you didn't say that, and, as it qualifies as a "railway", I win lol!

Thread title did...see ya loser

Well, I hate to do this, but I have to side with Mart meaning he will have an even bigger head, he was answering your question, which doesn't mention steam but he didn't know the answer he googled it lol, now I'm in trouble.

Jayne (Marts better half)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Piston Parsnips ?

Eh?

Dont fuckin mention parsnips!!!

I bet mozzies like em though

Dont fuckin mention mozzies!!!

Ok not much left to mention then...oh how's the honeymoon going?"

So good im sat chatting to you

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"OK where was the first passenger rail line?

It's meant to be steam powered not slave powered

Ah, see, you didn't say that, and, as it qualifies as a "railway", I win lol!

Thread title did...see ya loser

Jayne (Marts better half)

Ah but I forgot to add steam engines only....not fecking search engines like google

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Piston Parsnips ?

Eh?

Dont fuckin mention parsnips!!!

I bet mozzies like em though

Dont fuckin mention mozzies!!!

Ok not much left to mention then...oh how's the honeymoon going?

So good im sat chatting to you"

Phew! thank fuck I'm in man mode full of hair...get back to the wife mate

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Anyone for a chat on the CT600K and restitution tax?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Anyone for a chat on the CT600K and restitution tax?"

Feck I thought that was one of them cock cage devices

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Anyone for a chat on the CT600K and restitution tax?

Feck I thought that was one of them cock cage devices

Possibly feels like it

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By *witch4Fun24Couple over a year ago

Leicester

I am reading a very interesting book on the railway navvies and their development from agricultural workers and how they lived their lives. It is pretty cool, bands of navvies pretty much roamed around the uk to wherever paid best raping, pillaging and generally causing d*unken havoc nationwide. The police were all terrified of them and they pretty much did whatever they liked. Paid weekly, mainly in beer on some railways and spent the rest of the week buying things on tick.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I am reading a very interesting book on the railway navvies and their development from agricultural workers and how they lived their lives. It is pretty cool, bands of navvies pretty much roamed around the uk to wherever paid best raping, pillaging and generally causing d*unken havoc nationwide. The police were all terrified of them and they pretty much did whatever they liked. Paid weekly, mainly in beer on some railways and spent the rest of the week buying things on tick."

Not a lot has changed then eh

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Someone tell doc Martin he can't join this club....go on tell him

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Right let's get back on track...feck me that's not bad eh

Anyhow has anyone visited the north Yorkshire moors railway?

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By *lik and PaulCouple over a year ago

cahoots

"A 102 year period gives huge scope for discussion.

Sally

112 year period don't want to miss anything out .

That's one hell of a period

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

James watt, father of the factories

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By *imandHerNotts OP Couple over a year ago

North Notts

Thanks guys for helping us FAIL!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A 102 year period gives huge scope for discussion.

Sally

112 year period don't want to miss anything out .

That's one hell of a period

Must have been terrible as tampax hadn't been invented then

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Thanks guys for helping us FAIL!!"

Dispatches have mentioned part 2

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Right let's get back on track...feck me that's not bad eh

Anyhow has anyone visited the north Yorkshire moors railway?"

God your boring

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Right let's get back on track...feck me that's not bad eh

Anyhow has anyone visited the north Yorkshire moors railway?

God your boring"

Yty the east lancs railway

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Right let's get back on track...feck me that's not bad eh

Anyhow has anyone visited the north Yorkshire moors railway?

God your boring"

You got that qoute off the wife

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Right let's get back on track...feck me that's not bad eh

Anyhow has anyone visited the north Yorkshire moors railway?

God your boring

Yty the east lancs railway"

East fucking lancs they are still in the steam age there....oh yeah doh

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"James watt, father of the factories

Not really. Factories pre-date James Watt by a significant period most were water powered before steam engines and usually found near rivers...a number were urban but still relied on water power...and some often hundreds of years old were wind powered...mainly grain mills and the like...

James Watts steam engine was a lie output low pressure machine and it was only the change to closed cylinder high pressure steam engines that made steam power commercially and economically viable.

The adoption by industry along with other technology advances are what generated the major advances and effectively the development of Manchester as the world's first industrial society...

That should be a thread killer

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"James watt, father of the factories

James Watts steam engine was a lie output low pressure machine and it was only the change to closed cylinder high pressure steam engines that made steam power commercially and economically viable.

The adoption by industry along with other technology advances are what generated the major advances and effectively the development of Manchester as the world's first industrial society...

That should be a thread killer

Where the hell you been....I had to draft dash in off his honeymoon ffs

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"James watt, father of the factories

James Watts steam engine was a lie output low pressure machine and it was only the change to closed cylinder high pressure steam engines that made steam power commercially and economically viable.

The adoption by industry along with other technology advances are what generated the major advances and effectively the development of Manchester as the world's first industrial society...

That should be a thread killer

Where the hell you been....I had to draft dash in off his honeymoon ffs

The man cave needed a tidy the trogladyte a shower..

And typing without opposable thumbs is just too hard

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"James watt, father of the factories

James Watts steam engine was a lie output low pressure machine and it was only the change to closed cylinder high pressure steam engines that made steam power commercially and economically viable.

The adoption by industry along with other technology advances are what generated the major advances and effectively the development of Manchester as the world's first industrial society...

That should be a thread killer

Where the hell you been....I had to draft dash in off his honeymoon ffs

The man cave needed a tidy the trogladyte a shower..

And typing without opposable thumbs is just too hard

Thumbs! oh I wonder if that's were I'm going wrong...still using one finger.

That's why I'm slow

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By *allyandJonCouple over a year ago

manchester

Fab concept for a thread we've lost interest already, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Perhaps sequel threads could be:

The Anglo Saxon invasion years circa 1066

The Dark Ages 500 AD to 900 AD

Egyptian God's circa 1,000 BC

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Fab concept for a thread we've lost interest already, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Perhaps sequel threads could be:

The Anglo Saxon invasion years circa 1066

The Dark Ages 500 AD to 900 AD

Egyptian God's circa 1,000 BC"

Feck me I know I'm old but even if can't remember that far back

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"James watt, father of the factories

James Watts steam engine was a lie output low pressure machine and it was only the change to closed cylinder high pressure steam engines that made steam power commercially and economically viable.

The adoption by industry along with other technology advances are what generated the major advances and effectively the development of Manchester as the world's first industrial society...

That should be a thread killer

"
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To actually narrow it down even more, steam engines allowed one major change that "kicked off" the industrial Revolution, because the industrial Revolution wasn't really an industrial Revolution, it was a cheap energy Revolution.

Pre steam engine coal was expensive, the "eroei" or energy returned on energy invested was low just above 2-1 ....

After the introduction of the steam engine it rose rapidly to the point that donkeys could retire early (sshh that's what we told them).

We got coal upto an eroei of 6-1 tadaa... That's energy so cheap you could free your slaves and donkeys to retirement parks, with all this free time created we could make shit that folks didn't need and sell it to them (marketing).

Whooohoo Go Manchester

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Yep we were the Saudi Arabia of energy for 200 years, built the biggest God Damn empire the worlds ever seen of it and lived fat on that hog......

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Yep we were the Saudi Arabia of energy for 200 years, built the biggest God Damn empire the worlds ever seen of it and lived fat on that hog......

And now it's too fucking expensive to put the heating on

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Yep we were the Saudi Arabia of energy for 200 years, built the biggest God Damn empire the worlds ever seen of it and lived fat on that hog......

And now it's too fucking expensive to put the heating on

"
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It's September.... Man up

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Yep we were the Saudi Arabia of energy for 200 years, built the biggest God Damn empire the worlds ever seen of it and lived fat on that hog......

And now it's too fucking expensive to put the heating on

It's September.... Man up

I am letting all the hair growth to keep warm

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Yep we were the Saudi Arabia of energy for 200 years, built the biggest God Damn empire the worlds ever seen of it and lived fat on that hog......

And now it's too fucking expensive to put the heating on

It's September.... Man up

I am letting all the hair growth to keep warm

"
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A jumper would be sexier

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

"i was excited by the thread title as i ride up and down a field ploughing at 7mph on my case puma cvx 185 and 5 furrow plough!!!!!"

Ooo a Case IH driver

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

"Yep we were the Saudi Arabia of energy for 200 years, built the biggest God Damn empire the worlds ever seen of it and lived fat on that hog......

And now it's too fucking expensive to put the heating on

It's September.... Man up

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Yep we were the Saudi Arabia of energy for 200 years, built the biggest God Damn empire the worlds ever seen of it and lived fat on that hog......

And now it's too fucking expensive to put the heating on

It's September.... Man up

I am letting all the hair growth to keep warm

A jumper would be sexier

Cardigan and slippers here

Dont know why the fuck I've put the sunglasses on though...it's cold up north

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Yep we were the Saudi Arabia of energy for 200 years, built the biggest God Damn empire the worlds ever seen of it and lived fat on that hog......

And now it's too fucking expensive to put the heating on

It's September.... Man up

I am letting all the hair growth to keep warm

A jumper would be sexier

Cardigan and slippers here

Dont know why the fuck I've put the sunglasses on though...it's cold up north

Man mush to prove it

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

"Yep we were the Saudi Arabia of energy for 200 years, built the biggest God Damn empire the worlds ever seen of it and lived fat on that hog......

And now it's too fucking expensive to put the heating on

It's September.... Man up

I am letting all the hair growth to keep warm

A jumper would be sexier

Cardigan and slippers here

Dont know why the fuck I've put the sunglasses on though...it's cold up north

That's because all the soot from the industrial revolutions still blocking the sun, up there

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By *mnipotent_BehemothMan over a year ago

near Merry Hill shopping centre

"James watt, father of the factories

Sadly not Mathew Bolton was farther if the modern manufacturing, James Watt worked for him in paternship.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Hey a 100 posts op

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"We've always wanted a thread that dies off after almost boring everyone to death lol

As you may have guess the title is a complete ruse. We figured the fastest way to failure is by creating disinterest.

Wish us luck x"

Doomed to failure, guaranteed 175 posts.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"We've always wanted a thread that dies off after almost boring everyone to death lol

As you may have guess the title is a complete ruse. We figured the fastest way to failure is by creating disinterest.

Wish us luck x

Doomed to failure, guaranteed 175 posts.

Don't you go and put the mockers on it

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By *lan157Man over a year ago

a village near Haywards Heath in East Sussex

Fetch your anorak you have pulled.

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

"Fetch your anorak you have pulled.

I'll get me steam powered locomotive instead

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Fetch your anorak you have pulled.

I'll get me steam powered locomotive instead

"
A mass exodus eh...it's fucked btw

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

I blame the pharaohs

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"James watt, father of the factories

Sadly not Mathew Bolton was farther if the modern manufacturing, James Watt worked for him in paternship."

Or perhaps you mean Matthew Boulton...

Who was James Watts partner and finance provider... but the patent was held by Watt; and Boulton approached Watt originally.

And "modern manufacturing" existed long before Boulton and Watt.

In addition much of the achievements of many of these entrepreneurs would have been impossible without the work of Abraham Darby...all three of them his improvements in smelting and the pre-existing iron works at Coalbrookedake that was bought by the Darbys from a previous iron founder.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bump

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

A lot of people think the Luddites were against technology but that's not strictly true. They were just against it taking jobs.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A lot of people think the Luddites were against technology but that's not strictly true. They were just against it taking jobs."

Ah if only it had stopped with steam eh

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A lot of people think the Luddites were against technology but that's not strictly true. They were just against it taking jobs.

Ah if only it had stopped with steam eh

Quite. It's going to go exponential in the next 20 years. So much so that we can't rely on it bringing enough new jobs and the species is going to have to find a new way of living, or start thinning out the herd considerably.

I also do horoscopes.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A lot of people think the Luddites were against technology but that's not strictly true. They were just against it taking jobs.

Ah if only it had stopped with steam eh

I also do horoscopes."

I'd sooner not know....so you won't be getting my star sign

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

If the If it weren't for the Industrial Revolution we would not have cars, smartphones or the internet

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By *imandHerNotts OP Couple over a year ago

North Notts

Or cheese strings and sticklebricks

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I love watching the steam threshing machines work, fed one for an hour at a steam fair once... Much prefere sitting with a beer watching them

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I remember as a kid the local park had a small gauge railway...I could not get over how this tiny little steam engine could pull so many people

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bump....just in case anyone wants to escape the clique threads

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By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"steam-powered engines were very popular back then people even made steam cars.

Peter Gabriel - Steam

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt87bLX7m_o

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I like trains

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I like trains "

Is that Michael portillo?

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By *abioMan over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

Would steam engines work on the underground?

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By *abioMan over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

Would steam engines work on the underground?"

the first ones were steam based engines.....

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

Would steam engines work on the underground?

the first ones were steam based engines.....

Ah...see you learn something new everyday on here

No underground on Teesside. ..the overground ones arnt too good too

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Them historical types were so laid back about revolutions. These days its only a revolution for a few months before its out of fashion and the next new thing takes over...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Apparently Blackpool was no more than an inn and a couple of small crafts before the railway reached it. One of the pubs dates from that era and is said to be haunted by the original owner of the cottage.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Crofts

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

sounds like a mastermind category

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Them historical types were so laid back about revolutions. These days its only a revolution for a few months before its out of fashion and the next new thing takes over... "

Tell that to Nokia

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"sounds like a mastermind category"

Only for the clever types who can remember 100 years of world history.

My mastermind category would be more contained, e.g. yesterday in the pool room at my house.... Then I would cheat by not opening the door for 2 days before the quiz....

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By *ohnaronMan over a year ago

london

"A lot of people think the Luddites were against technology but that's not strictly true. They were just against it taking jobs.

Ah if only it had stopped with steam eh

I also do horoscopes."

Truly smart phones are soon going to be talking to each other. We may not be able to get a word in edgeways.

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By *ynecplCouple over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Luddite

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Them historical types were so laid back about revolutions. These days its only a revolution for a few months before its out of fashion and the next new thing takes over...

Tell that to Nokia

There will always be retro hippies who think tie-dye is fashionable

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Them historical types were so laid back about revolutions. These days its only a revolution for a few months before its out of fashion and the next new thing takes over...

Tell that to Nokia

There will always be retro hippies who think tie-dye is fashionable

Feck you telling me it's gone out off fashion?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Them historical types were so laid back about revolutions. These days its only a revolution for a few months before its out of fashion and the next new thing takes over...

Tell that to Nokia

There will always be retro hippies who think tie-dye is fashionable

Feck you telling me it's gone out off fashion?

Wow the colours, the pattern looks like the infinite cosmos of the.... back on topic was that t shirt woven on a steam loom

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Them historical types were so laid back about revolutions. These days its only a revolution for a few months before its out of fashion and the next new thing takes over...

Tell that to Nokia

There will always be retro hippies who think tie-dye is fashionable

Feck you telling me it's gone out off fashion?

Wow the colours, the pattern looks like the infinite cosmos of the.... back on topic was that t shirt woven on a steam loom

Pfft that t shirt is a corset made by hand with the finest materials that everything5pounds can supply I'll have you know

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I consider myself a state-of-the-art Luddite. I've worked with high end technology for much of my working life and it rarly delivers fulfillment. The built-in obsolescence, especially in computing, means we're never content.

I remember a tech CEO saying if cars were as unreliable as computers, people would be livid, yet we put up with blue screens of death and shrug when our hard drive dies, requiring us to reinstall everything, or some OS update means nothing works anymore, not to mention some spotty bastard in a Latvian basement breaking your password and stealing your stuff.

An ex had a Mac and was convinced, rather boastfully, that they never get viruses, then she got one and lost eveything. How I laughed inwardly.

I'd still be using Win 2K if I could. It was stable and did all I needed to do. But eventually the hardware would fail and the new hardware only worked with a new OS, which would only run the latest versions of software. It's a conveyor belt we have to run on just to keep up.

Best advice my dad ever gave me: "You have a car or you have money." There's always something they need. I got rid of my car and stopped commuting to a job that required a car. I took a job in town at half what I was earning and I saved more money.

And I don't own a smartphone. I worked with state-of-the-art comms and my phone cost me £3.95. It can barely txt. You might be surprised to find I'm still alive.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

There were underground railways used in mines principally for hundreds of years usually horse drawn ling before the tube and underground was developed.

They carried both coal or other product and the miners to and from the pit face.

Isn't it a bollucks when history is so poorly misrepresented

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

Would steam engines work on the underground?"

They did... but usually static engines pulling carriages by rope were in general piss poor in efficiency and often used them replaced by horses...they were cheaper... or by ground level steam engined and complex pully systems.

Trains are still used in mines....

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"A 102 year period gives huge scope for discussion.

Sally"

It would have started as revolution but quickly turned to evolution. Therefore the title of the thread is seriously flawed.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

Would steam engines work on the underground?

Trains are still used in mines...."

Yep the boulby potash mine near me goes miles out into the north Sea. .and for obvious reasons has a train but not steam

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

What does it take to kill this thread from boredom

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"What does it take to kill this thread from boredom

Cant give up on it now man...gone too far

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Anyone else get ready to geek out and then get really disappointed!?

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By *mnipotent_BehemothMan over a year ago

near Merry Hill shopping centre

"i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

Would steam engines work on the underground?

the first ones were steam based engines.....

Was told of a horrible incident with steam based underground, District, circle, Metropolitan etc, deep tube lines have never been steam btw.

Where the steam locos used to pass the exhaust steam through the water tanks to cut the steam in the tunnels down and condense it back to water, well after a bit the tanks get so hot that it boils and you can't effectively pump it back into the boiler so at strategic points drain pits were provided where the contense of the tanks could be dumped and the tanks filled with fresh water, unfortunately with no health and safety gods around these were open and on one occasion a driver oiling around his locomotive while this was going on fell in and was boiled alive, not nice and possibly something to put you of your Sunday roast.

No one has mentioned it yet but what about the application of steam to agriculture especially that of John Fowler and steam plowing?

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By *mnipotent_BehemothMan over a year ago

near Merry Hill shopping centre

"i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

There were underground railways used in mines principally for hundreds of years usually horse drawn ling before the tube and underground was developed.

Newcastle still has the remains of underground railway that was horse drawn for coal under the town moor I recall reading somewhere.

They carried both coal or other product and the miners to and from the pit face.

Isn't it a bollucks when history is so poorly misrepresented

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By *mnipotent_BehemothMan over a year ago

near Merry Hill shopping centre

"i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

Would steam engines work on the underground?

Trains are still used in mines...."

Not just stationary haulage engines on the surface but steam haulage engines down the pit including boilers, the boilers down the pits were often used to assist ventilation, the furnaces were in use on the Cannock Chase coal field until after the 2nd world war and were still in place at a pit I visited in Sunderland back in the early 90's but long out of use.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"i was going to talk about underground railways... but they didn't appear till 1863...

god damn you!!!!

Would steam engines work on the underground?

Trains are still used in mines....

I bet soxy knew this so well

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I directed the invention of electricity not as some suggest to improve the underground train experience, but simply because my steam powered mobile phone kept setting fire to my pocket.

I like my pain killers, they make the world weird

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Something about enclosure acts, where all the commoners got turfed off the land

Dredging up some history gcse

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Something about enclosure acts, where all the commoners got turfed off the land

Dredging up some history gcse "

Mainly done to replace the medieval strip system of agriculture which was goes my inefficient and where peasant farmers may have thief land split over multiple fields.

Main aim was to aggregate land into larger units big fields eye to take advantage of new machinery... Jethro Tull anyone... yeah he was real not just a band..

Requirement for it was multiple European Wars and the growing population industrialisation of food production for increasing urbanisation of society and to feed armies fighting in variuos conflicts.

Most of those displaced need up dead in the poor house or moved to towns and cities to secure crap work at low pay in the increasing numbers of factories as industry took over from agriculture as the main driver if economic growth

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

That should finally kill this thread

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Sorry about the typos...

Growing opposable thumbs is hard for us not quite human's

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

[Removed by poster at 10/09/17 18:27:34]

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Something about enclosure acts, where all the commoners got turfed off the land

Dredging up some history gcse

Mainly done to replace the medieval strip system of agriculture which was goes my inefficient and where peasant farmers may have thief land split over multiple fields.

Main aim was to aggregate land into larger units big fields eye to take advantage of new machinery... Jethro Tull anyone... yeah he was real not just a band..

Requirement for it was multiple European Wars and the growing population industrialisation of food production for increasing urbanisation of society and to feed armies fighting in variuos conflicts.

That's the one, it brings it all back when I see a ridge and furrow field lurking in a forgotten corner of the countryside

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Something about enclosure acts, where all the commoners got turfed off the land

Dredging up some history gcse

Mainly done to replace the medieval strip system of agriculture which was goes my inefficient and where peasant farmers may have thief land split over multiple fields.

Main aim was to aggregate land into larger units big fields eye to take advantage of new machinery... Jethro Tull anyone... yeah he was real not just a band..

Requirement for it was multiple European Wars and the growing population industrialisation of food production for increasing urbanisation of society and to feed armies fighting in variuos conflicts.

That's the one, it brings it all back when I see a ridge and furrow field lurking in a forgotten corner of the countryside

What? Do you live in the 17th century

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

You lot would not be spamming this fine thread I hope

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Something about enclosure acts, where all the commoners got turfed off the land

Dredging up some history gcse

Mainly done to replace the medieval strip system of agriculture which was goes my inefficient and where peasant farmers may have thief land split over multiple fields.

Main aim was to aggregate land into larger units big fields eye to take advantage of new machinery... Jethro Tull anyone... yeah he was real not just a band..

Requirement for it was multiple European Wars and the growing population industrialisation of food production for increasing urbanisation of society and to feed armies fighting in variuos conflicts.

That's the one, it brings it all back when I see a ridge and furrow field lurking in a forgotten corner of the countryside

What? Do you live in the 17th century

I've been up and down a few

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Something about enclosure acts, where all the commoners got turfed off the land

Dredging up some history gcse

Mainly done to replace the medieval strip system of agriculture which was goes my inefficient and where peasant farmers may have thief land split over multiple fields.

Main aim was to aggregate land into larger units big fields eye to take advantage of new machinery... Jethro Tull anyone... yeah he was real not just a band..

Requirement for it was multiple European Wars and the growing population industrialisation of food production for increasing urbanisation of society and to feed armies fighting in variuos conflicts.

That's the one, it brings it all back when I see a ridge and furrow field lurking in a forgotten corner of the countryside

What? Do you live in the 17th century

I've been up and down a few

A few centuries?... wonder if you have a reflection

Fields they're ok for keeping horses....

But the beach is the place to be

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Maybe this thread isn't so bad aftef all

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Maybe this thread isn't so bad aftef all

Well getting you back on track so to speak....bbc4 in a couple of minutes.

The joy of (train) sets

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Something about enclosure acts, where all the commoners got turfed off the land

Dredging up some history gcse

Mainly done to replace the medieval strip system of agriculture which was goes my inefficient and where peasant farmers may have thief land split over multiple fields.

Main aim was to aggregate land into larger units big fields eye to take advantage of new machinery... Jethro Tull anyone... yeah he was real not just a band..

Requirement for it was multiple European Wars and the growing population industrialisation of food production for increasing urbanisation of society and to feed armies fighting in variuos conflicts.

That's the one, it brings it all back when I see a ridge and furrow field lurking in a forgotten corner of the countryside

What? Do you live in the 17th century

I've been up and down a few

A few centuries?... wonder if you have a reflection

Fields they're ok for keeping horses....

But the beach is the place to be

There's a reason I like moonlight, and I come alive after dark

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Maybe this thread isn't so bad aftef all

Well getting you back on track so to speak....bbc4 in a couple of minutes.

The joy of (train) sets

We had Horny train sets as kids , fantastic!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Maybe this thread isn't so bad aftef all

Well getting you back on track so to speak....bbc4 in a couple of minutes.

The joy of (train) sets

We had Horny train sets as kids , fantastic! "

*Hornby

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Maybe this thread isn't so bad aftef all

Well getting you back on track so to speak....bbc4 in a couple of minutes.

The joy of (train) sets

We had Horny train sets as kids , fantastic!

*Hornby "

Your typing habits eh

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Maybe this thread isn't so bad aftef all

Well getting you back on track so to speak....bbc4 in a couple of minutes.

The joy of (train) sets

We had Horny train sets as kids , fantastic!

*Hornby "

I preferred it first time you said it

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Something about enclosure acts, where all the commoners got turfed off the land

Dredging up some history gcse

Mainly done to replace the medieval strip system of agriculture which was goes my inefficient and where peasant farmers may have thief land split over multiple fields.

Main aim was to aggregate land into larger units big fields eye to take advantage of new machinery... Jethro Tull anyone... yeah he was real not just a band..

Requirement for it was multiple European Wars and the growing population industrialisation of food production for increasing urbanisation of society and to feed armies fighting in variuos conflicts.

That's the one, it brings it all back when I see a ridge and furrow field lurking in a forgotten corner of the countryside

What? Do you live in the 17th century

I've been up and down a few

A few centuries?... wonder if you have a reflection

Fields they're ok for keeping horses....

But the beach is the place to be

There's a reason I like moonlight, and I come alive after dark

I dare not comment. It would be far too rude ...even for me

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"But the beach is the place to be

It isn't in Florida at the moment

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"But the beach is the place to be

It isn't in Florida at the moment

I'm in Redcar now and that's not the place to be either

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Well if this isn't the very apotheosis of banality

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By *loswingersCouple over a year ago

Gloucester

"We've always wanted a thread that dies off after almost boring everyone to death lol

As you may have guess the title is a complete ruse. We figured the fastest way to failure is by creating disinterest.

Wish us luck x"

It's a bloody sight more interesting than half the threads on here !

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By *HaRiFMan over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

Looks like we made it

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Well if this isn't the very apotheosis of banality

Yep we could all be talking about important things like KFC

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Who's up for doing part two....go on i dare you

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Well if this isn't the very apotheosis of banality

Yep we could all be talking about important things like KFC

Oh c'mon ..... like you knew what apotheosis meant .... pfft

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