Fred and the gang on the platform at Diss
The Humpty Dumpty Beer Festival, Reedham, Norfolk - 22nd July 2017
Nosher, Marc & Suey, The Boy Phil and Paul head off on the train to Reedham to the Humpty Dumpty Beer Festival. Isobel and the Boys are along for the ride too, at least as far as Norwich where they head off to the cinema. Meanwhile, we continue to Reedham on what is virtually a heritage railway line, where tiny Victorian stations are neatly kept, with flowers in baskets and everything, and where they actually still use semaphore signalling, just like the 1950s. After a few hours drinking beer at the festival, we head off to visit the Reedham Ferry, a popular pub on the nearby river Yare.
next album: Diss Fest, or Singin' in the Rain, Diss, Norfolk - 23rd July 2017
previous album: A BSCC Ride to Pulham Market and Seeing the Queen, Norfolk and London - 20th July 2017
The train stops at Reedham
Looking back up the line towards Norwich
The Class 153 heads off to Yarmouth
The leafiest beer-festival entrance ever
The 'Pedants' Revolt' Border Morris entertains
Suey holds up a glass
Morris dancing and marquees
Purple faces and pheasant feathers
The Morris dancers pose for a photo
Suey uses the beer list as a sun shade
More morris dancing from Pedants Revolt
Musical accompaniment
Nosher's pint glass
Marc roams around
There's more dancing
Suey has a doze in the sun
Paul watches stuff
The festival fills up towards the afternoon
A charity footbal match occurs nearby
Football action
We head off back down the leafy lane
Reedham Station buildings
A view from the road bridge
The winding tracks towards Yarmouth and Lowestoft
Entrance to Reedham Station
We head off on the road to the Reedham Ferry
A swan with three fluffy cygnets hide in the grass
Cows, and the Cantley sugar factory in the distance
More cows
Marc and Phil point at stuff
A topless wind pump
Some bullocks look over warily
Toby jugs in the Reedham Ferry
Loads of business cards from the 1980s
A dubious card for a 'versatile 18 year old beauty'
The quaint (actual) Reedham Ferry
Looking up the river towards Reedham
A yacht heads down wind
A lovely old yacht luffs its way up the river
A heterochromic dog
The other Reedham Ferry - the pub
Traditional beers, written in flint pebbles
A drainage ditch, and Cantley sugar factory
Reedham Station footbridge
Paul mills around
The Boy Phil and Suey by a flower pot
An ancient semaphore signal in stop position
A nice Victorian fireplace
The Victorian station waiting rooms
A view of the vintage signal through the bridge
Paul inspects the tracks
A view through the steps of the bridge
Top-and-tailed Class 37's rumble up from Lowestoft
Class 37 37419 from the 1960s thunders past Paul
The old train leaves a cloud of smoke in its wake
The Boy Phil on the newer train back to Norwich
Thorpe Maintenance Depot
A derelict-looking maintenance shed
The wilderness in Thorpe, Norwich
A Class 68 68005 at Norwich with a Mark 2 set
We bump into Isobel and the boys at the station
Fred's got a balloon
An East Midlands cross-country on platform 3
Norwich platforms
Derelict building in Thorpe
Mark 3 coaches at Thorpe depot in Norwich
Aggregate bulk wagons
Some sort of cement works near the Swing Bridge
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Fred and the gang on the platform at Diss
Fred and the gang on the platform at Diss
The train stops at Reedham
Looking back up the line towards Norwich
The Class 153 heads off to Yarmouth
The leafiest beer-festival entrance ever
The 'Pedants' Revolt' Border Morris entertains
Suey holds up a glass
Morris dancing and marquees
Purple faces and pheasant feathers
The Morris dancers pose for a photo
Suey uses the beer list as a sun shade
More morris dancing from Pedants Revolt
Musical accompaniment
Nosher's pint glass
Marc roams around
There's more dancing
Suey has a doze in the sun
Paul watches stuff
The festival fills up towards the afternoon
A charity footbal match occurs nearby
Football action
We head off back down the leafy lane
Reedham Station buildings
A view from the road bridge
The winding tracks towards Yarmouth and Lowestoft
Entrance to Reedham Station
We head off on the road to the Reedham Ferry
A swan with three fluffy cygnets hide in the grass
Cows, and the Cantley sugar factory in the distance
More cows
Marc and Phil point at stuff
A topless wind pump
Some bullocks look over warily
Toby jugs in the Reedham Ferry
Loads of business cards from the 1980s
A dubious card for a 'versatile 18 year old beauty'
The quaint (actual) Reedham Ferry
Looking up the river towards Reedham
A yacht heads down wind
A lovely old yacht luffs its way up the river
A heterochromic dog
The other Reedham Ferry - the pub
Traditional beers, written in flint pebbles
A drainage ditch, and Cantley sugar factory
Reedham Station footbridge
Paul mills around
The Boy Phil and Suey by a flower pot
An ancient semaphore signal in stop position
A nice Victorian fireplace
The Victorian station waiting rooms
A view of the vintage signal through the bridge
Paul inspects the tracks
A view through the steps of the bridge
Top-and-tailed Class 37's rumble up from Lowestoft
Class 37 37419 from the 1960s thunders past Paul
The old train leaves a cloud of smoke in its wake
The Boy Phil on the newer train back to Norwich
Thorpe Maintenance Depot
A derelict-looking maintenance shed
The wilderness in Thorpe, Norwich
A Class 68 68005 at Norwich with a Mark 2 set
We bump into Isobel and the boys at the station
Fred's got a balloon
An East Midlands cross-country on platform 3
Norwich platforms
Derelict building in Thorpe
Mark 3 coaches at Thorpe depot in Norwich
Aggregate bulk wagons
Some sort of cement works near the Swing Bridge