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| Does anyone
remember the time when we went to the Forestry
Commissions' woodlands at Low Dalby near
Pickering ?x It must have
been about March 1969, a brilliantly sunny day
for the time of year I recall and extremely warm
on the coach which was one of those modern (at
that time) twin front wheel steer jobs (God knows
how we got this as normally it was practically a
scrapper they'd send!) it had no opening windows,
instead it had sort of a directional tube
protruding from the luggage rack above each
passenger seat, a kind of primative air
conditioning I suppose also a personal reading
light, naturally we were in bother almost
straight away for messing with these "toys"
we'd only got 50yds before the mandatory clips
round the ear'ole were dished out and threats of
being made to walk back to school to do maths all
day were issued !x |
| Anyway
on arrival we were taken for a tour of the woods
etc, and then to do a bit of tree planting, a
Scot's pine I think it was, often wondered if it
survived to maturity,still if it did - it must
have been felled by now as it's 30 odd years ago
!..... |
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It's
not often we were allowed off the school premises
and taken on trips out, but I do recall there
were a few occasions when we managed the odd
excursion:-
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