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Mist lingering on the edge of Hope Valley

yesterday

RB BB Had fog on the way home late last night on my ride back from Worthing . I quite enjoy the quietness.

Rob Wormald biked 26.7 miles fun/fitness

yesterday

Rob Wormald Usual Hope Valley loop before post-Easter clearing and cleaning 🙄. Lovely sunny morning after a day and night of rain

RB BB Hope you had a pleasant Easter weekend Rob!

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At the top of the hill (once I’d got my breath back)

2 days ago

Rob Wormald biked 36.7 miles fun/fitness

3 days ago

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John Privett Hi Rob - it would have been the late 60s that I was at Park Junior School, opposite the Spanish City. The funfair (technically "The Pleasure Gardens" though nobody ever called it that - it was just, The Spanish City) was probably at its peak about then. Certainly when I visited in the 80s and 90s it seemed to be on something of a decline, and I believe the funfair shut down in 1998. Dire Straits is another story - I was fortunate enough to see them play in the Students Union at Durham where I was a student, just after Sultans of Swing hit the charts in 1978. The Students Union had booked them as a totally unknown band, and between being booked, and playing, they hit the big time!