Iain, Edinburgh (with teddy in backpack)
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Some reflections on 1987 This is a summary of what we were doing in 1987, written as a reflection from thirtysix years later, and based on diaries and photographs from the time. |
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Peter: At work, the new project in Moorfoot created lots of trips around the country. On a train in a first-class compartment with some British Rail people who got on at Derby, there was talk of her and her reluctance to travel by train, and an extra carriage. Thought no more of this until we were on a Saturday go-anywhere teddy-ticket. This required a child to go with said teddy, and we arose early to go to Manchester, then Glasgow, then Edinburgh. The return East-coast train was extremely full, and an extra carriage was locked to the general public, with Mrs Thatcher aboard, while the rest of us sat on the floor. Home tired, and then off to Bristol for work on the next day, Sunday, on another, fairly empty, train. |
Iain, Edinburgh (with teddy in backpack) |
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Later in the year we moved out of Moorfoot to an outpost,
a rather downmarket office called Steel City House.
Left a jacket on the back of the chair for a meeting,
and returned to find it walletless. Sigh. Played the
occasional game of Chess for the Moorfoot team,
visited the World Snooker at the Crucible, and some
British Computer Society meetings.
Elaine: Continued with some engineering-related courses at the Polytechnic, with coursework to do at home. Walking Iain to and from Lydgate First School uses up lots of the day. Still time for Tatting and some work displayed at exhibition at local school. |
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Iain: First full calendar-year at school, all spent on the ground floor
at Lydgate First School: recalls discussing a globe of the world with a large
landmass coloured pink representing the U.S.S.R.
At home can fill the livingroom floor with a Duplo (double-sized Lego) electric-railway with switches to control trains and signals ... Can be persuaded to bed to listen to the day's recorded children's radio and still seemingly content with the family lack-of-television ... |
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Canalling: A total of about 289 miles and 221 locks from two one-week hireboat trips both from Middlewich, first around the Four-Counties Ring on Maple during the (cheaper) Sheffield-second-week-at-Whitsun holiday, and then to Llangollen on seventy-foot Beech. |
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Boatless visits:
to the IWA National Rally at Hawkesbury,
with a curry in Birmingham on the way home between trains,
to Ellesmere Port for another Bank Holiday boat gathering,
thrice to Huddersfield Narrow to view the prospects for some restoration.
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Ringing: Monday Lunchtime handbell practices continued and we ordered six further bells to expand to 19. Continued towerbell practices and Sunday ringing at Ranmoor, and there were Saturday outings to Market Harborough and Glossop; as usual attended Southampton University Guild of Change Ringers' Annual Dinner and helped with a training weekend at Whirlow Grange. |
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Other doings: Elaine's cousin married another Elaine; niece Sarah was christened; visited Manchester for the Industrial Museum and the canals. |
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