Harry pokes about near the van
A Day in New Milton, Hampshire - 3rd April 2023
Sean sends a tip-off that Phil's coming over from the US as it's his mother's birthday, so a rail trip is booked down to New Milton for a couple of days. Sean's off on the Monday, so we get a chance to hang out and go for a walk around Keyhaven, before dinner out with Phil and the gang at The Globe in Highcliffe. There are also a couple of soul-selling trips to the Conservative Club to play snooker, an evening at Bernice's for drinks and nibbles, and a visit to the Bournemouth Museum of Aviation whilst Phil, Olli and the rest do Adventure Wonderland. The museum's a bit like Flixton in that it's a bit chaotic and the exhibits have clearly been sitting outside for a while, but it's great because you can climb into most of them and use the controls to pretend to fly and shoot at stuff. Before all of that, we visit Weybread Boat Club for a very windy 20 minutes to have a shufti around and see what's about, then we're dropping Fred off at Framlingham College for his five-day music residential, prior to the Suffolk Youth Wind Orchestra's performance at Snape Maltings.
Soundtrack for this album:
next album: Fred and the Orchestra, Snape Maltings, Suffolk - 5th April
previous album: Dolphin House Fire and an Escape Room, Diss and Norwich - 26th March 2023
Fred flings stones into the lake
Fred stands on a pile of gravel near the gate
We head into Morrisons for supplies
The kittens are a ball of fur and cuteness
A view of Framlingham from the college
Framlingham College is very Hogwarts
Isobel roams around a bit
Fred hauls his suitcase to the meet-up point
The train to London rocks up at Diss Station
There's a bit of flooding near Stowmarket
The remains of Fison's North warehouse
There's a pair of Class 90 locos at Ipswich
The old Xylotol/Wardle-Storey site is for sale
Not much remains of the old factory site
The bus-replacement crowds pile into Ingatestone
Ingatestone station looks a bit like Diss
Graffiti by the trackside near Seven Sisters
More tags under a road bridge
A nice tag on a brick shed near Bethnal Green
Machine-gun graffiti near Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street Station's main concourse
On the tube at Oxford Circus
One of the last ancient tube trains comes in
Graffiti on the door of an old tube train
A dude in a hat on the escalator at Waterloo
Waterloo Station is busy as usual
A quiet platform 4 and 5 at Waterloo
Waterloo Station from up on the balcony
Platform 8 at Waterloo and the Bournemouth train
A cool Pogoe tag on a railway bridge
Sean cues up in New Milton Conservative Club
New Milton is slumming it with a Domino's
The old NatWest bank is now a KFC
Milford on Sea
The village green at Milford on Sea
The old-school Village News in Milford
A dude on the sea wall near Keyhaven
A view over the sea towards the Isle of Wight
Sean on the path along the sea wall
More walkers on the raised path
A small dinghy scuds about on the Solent
The salt marshes of Keyhaven
Sean looks well dodgy in shades and a hoody
Geese fly along the river
Keyhaven and its forest of boat masts
A safe is being hauled out of the Gun Inn
A platinum jubilee bench in New Milton
New Milton's high street - Station Road
New Forest Stationers lives on
Pads n Paws has been going since the 80s
Amuseum volunteer peers into a Gnat carcass
The flight deck of a BAe 146
A Westland Wessex, in RAF rescue livery
The cabin of another airliner
The cockpit of a BAC 1-11 of Empire Test School
Inside the Wessex helicopter
A view of the museum
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 taxis at Hurn Airport
A Sepecat Jaguar
The cockpit of an actual Vulcan Bomber, XH537
A late-model Gloster Meteor
A 737-229, repainted in the livery of PalmAir
A cool simulator cockpit of a Vickers Vanguard
Inside the wrecked Folland Gnat cockpit
We go out for dinner with Phil, Olli and Bernice
We walk the mean streets of Highcliffe
A Polski Sklep in New Milton
One of Nosher's old pads: 35 Vincent Road
Arnewood School's ROSLA building
The many gravestones of New Milton's cemetery
The trees in the playing field are still there
New Milton's church of St. Mary Magdalene
Stained glass in the Wheatsheaf pub
A nice tiled sign for Dorchester beers
The Wheatsheaf has been done up
The back of Arnewood School
The New Milton Advertiser's old shed
Another workshop shed on Old Milton Road
There's a train to Bournemouth at the station
Graffiti on the old Quaker Meeting House
Bright graffiti tags on signalling equipment
A massive pile of rusty tracks near Southampton
Bleeding silver tags outside Southampton
Heavily-graffitoed apartment buildings
Sky-blue graffiti near a train wash
More graffiti on some line-side boxes
The train rolls in to Waterloo Station
Curious goings on at the end of the line
The driver changes ends at Waterloo
Changing trains at Bank underground
Liverpool Street's Broad Street exit
The Norwich train waits on platform 9
Class 08 shunter 08691
08891, apparently famous enough for its own model
Another glimpse of the burned-down Fison's
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Harry pokes about near the van
Harry pokes about near the van
Fred flings stones into the lake
Fred stands on a pile of gravel near the gate
We head into Morrisons for supplies
The kittens are a ball of fur and cuteness
A view of Framlingham from the college
Framlingham College is very Hogwarts
Isobel roams around a bit
Fred hauls his suitcase to the meet-up point
The train to London rocks up at Diss Station
There's a bit of flooding near Stowmarket
The remains of Fison's North warehouse
There's a pair of Class 90 locos at Ipswich
The old Xylotol/Wardle-Storey site is for sale
Not much remains of the old factory site
The bus-replacement crowds pile into Ingatestone
Ingatestone station looks a bit like Diss
Graffiti by the trackside near Seven Sisters
More tags under a road bridge
A nice tag on a brick shed near Bethnal Green
Machine-gun graffiti near Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street Station's main concourse
On the tube at Oxford Circus
One of the last ancient tube trains comes in
Graffiti on the door of an old tube train
A dude in a hat on the escalator at Waterloo
Waterloo Station is busy as usual
A quiet platform 4 and 5 at Waterloo
Waterloo Station from up on the balcony
Platform 8 at Waterloo and the Bournemouth train
A cool Pogoe tag on a railway bridge
Sean cues up in New Milton Conservative Club
New Milton is slumming it with a Domino's
The old NatWest bank is now a KFC
Milford on Sea
The village green at Milford on Sea
The old-school Village News in Milford
A dude on the sea wall near Keyhaven
A view over the sea towards the Isle of Wight
Sean on the path along the sea wall
More walkers on the raised path
A small dinghy scuds about on the Solent
The salt marshes of Keyhaven
Sean looks well dodgy in shades and a hoody
Geese fly along the river
Keyhaven and its forest of boat masts
A safe is being hauled out of the Gun Inn
A platinum jubilee bench in New Milton
New Milton's high street - Station Road
New Forest Stationers lives on
Pads n Paws has been going since the 80s
Amuseum volunteer peers into a Gnat carcass
The flight deck of a BAe 146
A Westland Wessex, in RAF rescue livery
The cabin of another airliner
The cockpit of a BAC 1-11 of Empire Test School
Inside the Wessex helicopter
A view of the museum
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 taxis at Hurn Airport
A Sepecat Jaguar
The cockpit of an actual Vulcan Bomber, XH537
A late-model Gloster Meteor
A 737-229, repainted in the livery of PalmAir
A cool simulator cockpit of a Vickers Vanguard
Inside the wrecked Folland Gnat cockpit
We go out for dinner with Phil, Olli and Bernice
We walk the mean streets of Highcliffe
A Polski Sklep in New Milton
One of Nosher's old pads: 35 Vincent Road
Arnewood School's ROSLA building
The many gravestones of New Milton's cemetery
The trees in the playing field are still there
New Milton's church of St. Mary Magdalene
Stained glass in the Wheatsheaf pub
A nice tiled sign for Dorchester beers
The Wheatsheaf has been done up
The back of Arnewood School
The New Milton Advertiser's old shed
Another workshop shed on Old Milton Road
There's a train to Bournemouth at the station
Graffiti on the old Quaker Meeting House
Bright graffiti tags on signalling equipment
A massive pile of rusty tracks near Southampton
Bleeding silver tags outside Southampton
Heavily-graffitoed apartment buildings
Sky-blue graffiti near a train wash
More graffiti on some line-side boxes
The train rolls in to Waterloo Station
Curious goings on at the end of the line
The driver changes ends at Waterloo
Changing trains at Bank underground
Liverpool Street's Broad Street exit
The Norwich train waits on platform 9
Class 08 shunter 08691
08891, apparently famous enough for its own model
Another glimpse of the burned-down Fison's