A note from the administrator.
I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.
You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.
I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.
But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.
E. Selwood
I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.
You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.
I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.
But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.
E. Selwood
The buses up here are a disgrace
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Cherhill_Bill
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- Joined: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:46 pm
The buses up here are a disgrace
rant incoming. the bus. one a day now, not sundays, and they wonder why nobody under seventy lives in the village. my mother cant get to the doctors without it being a half day expedition and a favour off a neighbour. they cut the route and call it a consultation. country buses are how you tell whether anyone in charge can see us at all, and the answer is they cant.
born under Cherhill, never moved more than five mile from it.
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Marlborough_Nan
- Posts: 41
- Joined: Sat Sep 01, 2012 6:59 am
You are right Bill, and it is worse than the town folk understand. When the bus goes, the old people are stuck, simple as that. I gave up my car at seventy-nine and some weeks the bus is the only time I leave the village at all. They do not see us, you have it exactly. Out of sight is out of mind, and we are very out of sight up here.
just an old woman who remembers when the green had three shops.
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BromhamBrenda
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- Joined: Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:46 pm
Same our end, we lost the Tuesday service last year. It is the quiet way a village dies, you know. Not all at once: just the bus, then the shop, then the school, then the pub, and one day it is only weekend cottages and nobody left to put the bins out for the old folk. Sorry, that got bleak before lunchtime. But it does start with the bus.