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(When Britain led from the front)
And Fowler / Stanier brought us the Jubilee! Something clicked for me to find the Silver Jubilee of George the ‘V’, Fine Silver Crown coins including his Jubilee of 1935! The 5/- Crown, But my Southern railway brown envelope (pay packet) contains 1/2 crown, tanner’s, and pence? (15 shilling a fire turn)? This on top of my £3- 9 shilling a week! But King George V Silver Crown is for Christmas presentation to dignified people to be called Christmas or what I call Wreath crowns! Quite what that has to do with what I intended to write, I have no idea? And as I defrost my freezer there’s much banging n crashing going on? But the Jubilee of those brief years of King George’s death early in 1936 introduced a fine engine with a 6ft 9inch wheel! I would trudge all weathers over ‘busy lines’ in n out of Temple’mead’s! You needed eyes up your proverbial backside! And it was a fair long walk to Barrow Rd Midland shed! I do realise some of my engines had names? But I would hunt a number! I never readied the wrong engine! So with engines so dirty, I would wipe their cab number To see if mine! I think Leander n Trafalgar last to leave but I must see what else may of been! And even find Silver Jubilee for King George the 5th and reduce my yarn to two lines? Doh! And I’ve a full bowl of water from the Ice in my freezer! But them Silver Crown’s worth 200- 400 quid apiece this day!
