Heljan Class 15

[Dave Rowland]

"Just to make you all laugh, this is what I looked like when the Type 15 photo was taken ! I was 14 or 15 !"

Here's another laugh (if the attachment works), it's me sometime around 1957/58.

[6678bjm]

Have you still got that hat Dave?
Regards

[Dave Rowland]

Originally Posted by 6678bjm

Have you still got that hat Dave?
Regards

Mentally, I never take it off! In actual fact, the photo was taken at my cousin's wedding reception, at the Roundabout hotel, Tilehurst - directly across the road from the exact spot I first trainspotted from!

[ccmmick]

Originally Posted by Dave Rowland

Mentally, I never take it off! In actual fact, the photo was taken at my cousin's wedding reception, at the Roundabout hotel, Tilehurst - directly across the road from the exact spot I first trainspotted from!

Well that will help me at Roche in a weeks time with the flood of people getting off the train .

ccmmick.

[Dave Rowland]

Originally Posted by ccmmick

Well that will help me at Roche in a weeks time with the flood of people getting off the train. ccmmick.

I DID say MENTALLY, Michael, so it won't be THAT easy to spot me - I've also got a few years older, with all that implies! Maybe I should wear a different hat - what about the one in this more recent photo?

[ccmmick]

Originally Posted by Dave Rowland

I DID say MENTALLY, Michael, so it won't be THAT easy to spot me - I've also got a few years older, with all that implies! Maybe I should wear a different hat - what about the one in this more recent photo?

I think if you wear that hat you wont get very far on the train you will be out at the next station.
At first i thought it was Lennon reincarnated

ccmmick.

[Dave Rowland]

Originally Posted by ccmmick

I think if you wear that hat you wont get very far on the train you will be out at the next station.
At first i thought it was Lennon reincarnated. ccmmick.

That's my Teletubbies hat! That was on one of several fruitless marches in 1998 to save our local hospital (Haslar) from closure. On a cramped, overcrowded, bottlenecked peninsula, they're going to convert it (it's huge) into flats. Common sense prevails yet again! I've gone grey since then...

[ccmmick]

I think i prefer the cone on your head

ccmmick.

[DSY011]

You can always borrow my hat from the 60's

[Dave Rowland]

Originally Posted by DSY011

You can always borrow my hat from the 60's

Good grief - that's a disturbing image. Not sure I'm gonna turn off the light tonight...
Actually, I've got a better hat from 1972:

It was taken at the Lincoln rock festival in 1972. Pity I didn't have a camera with me at the other festival I went to in that year at Bickershaw - there was an industrial J94-type 0-6-0ST puffing around right next to the campsite field!