Nightjar wrote:

It sounds like Joan Sims' character name if Carry On had done a dustman film.

Wife to Sid Grubb, boss of Dirty Devils refuse management services.

...a company notorious for fly tipping, pursued relentlessly by local council health inspector Simon Tinker (played by Kenneth Williams).

Charles Hawtrey puts a wheelie bin on the tipper. 'Pooh!'

Bernie Bresslaw hoarsely addresses a headscarfed housewife. 'All right if we come up your back passage, missus?'

Coincidently, I was just reading about the actress Ann Way, who played one of the old ladies (with Joan Hickson) in the John Cleese film Clockwise, and she was also in Carry On Loving - playing the character of Aunt Victoria Grubb.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Way

Fangirl Three wrote:

Charles Hawtrey puts a wheelie bin on the tipper

Appalling anachronism. Wheelie bins not widely used for domestic rubbish till the 90s. Bad Fangirl.

I think he's giving the Google surveillance vehicle a thumbs-up for letting him cross the cemetery road.

Easter Island is on Street View.

I've yet to find a single stone head.

But I have found a giant Hallowe'en pumpkin house.

I've finally done it. I've found some stone heads.

Wow!

Driving on the A1 yesterday I spotted a sign for 'Bilby' as if it was an ordinary village name, but the actual exit was one of those sinister ones that leads only into a private estate.

The google surveillance of the area is very weird, with a couple of 'islands' not joined to the rest of the public road network. This one is just a point:



and this one seems to centre on the river. Maybe the Googleman came up from the towpath on a bike?



That second one is really odd, it's like a village, but private. A bit like dreams I have sometimes about secret road junctions, railway stations and churches near where I grew up.

Fangirl Three wrote:

That second one is really odd, it's like a village, but private. A bit like dreams I have sometimes about secret road junctions, railway stations and churches near where I grew up.

Looks like something from The Avengers. Where something strange & evïl is happening.

An 'Institute'.

The colour of the light, and the colour of the bricks are really unsettling.

A splendid and historic monkey puzzle tree in 2018!






And in 2022....





The chimneys and extended overhanging porch bit on the house have vanished too.

In fact, they have completely destroyed that house of any quaint appeal.

Oh that is sad.

Nice Parking.

In these parts it seems quite common to park on the central reservation, it perplexed me when I first came.

Happy memories of walking back that way after all the trains and buses had stopped. Well, I say happy…