Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Classic Traction Action


In the old days - well before young people began dancing with bottles of beer in their hands and older folk started walking through water at the baths instead of swimming through it – Chris went off to Keele University. The following year we got married and she got a transfer to Liverpool University.

Though she travelled home most weekends, I sometimes visited her at Keele during late 1971 and early 1972. I travelled by train to Crewe and on to Keele by bus. I remember that the bed in her halls bedroom was challengingly narrow, and that the Electric Light Orchestra provided the musical accompaniment to all halls activities – throughout the day and all along the corridor. On this occasion, in October 1971, I also took some monochrome photographs of the [now] classic traction action on Crewe station.






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