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Post by mypyrex on Sept 26, 2023 18:14:23 GMT
On Sunday I drove down from North Wales in order to attend a family funeral on 25th September.
With time to spare in the morning I decided to walk along Memory Lane at Blackbushe{I have to say that I never thought - having been born and bred in Farnborough - that I thought I would need a satnav to get from the Premier Inn, Ively Road to Blackbushe. it ain't the Farnborough and Cove that I knew) Thankfully, despite changes, I did at least recognise Blackbushe. That said, on joining the A30 from Minley, it came as a surprise to see the one time roadside gorse bushes replaced by huge mature tree.
I enjoyed a coffee and lunch in the Pathfinder Cafe and again admire the mural that once graced one of the walls in Three Counties.
Sadly I can't say I recognised any faces either in the cafe or whilst wandering around. I stopped and spoke to a charming lady(HR Manager?) who said she hadn't seen PB that morning.
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Post by PB on Sept 27, 2023 8:29:25 GMT
Ahh, Memory Lane is a journey fraught with hazards...
Bit by bit, piece by piece, the places we once knew change and are lost except for the memories. No doubt, anyone who has not seen Blackbushe for some years will be shocked by the roadside growth where once just gorse bushes ruled supreme finding today an abundant woodland growing along the narrow margin of Airport and A30.. Casting an eye across Blackbushe east can only be an even greater shock to our visual receptors, the once perfectly flat east end is now a wilderness, nature has taken over and done what nature does. Install acres of tangled brambles where a great crop of berries might be the only benefit, add adders to the equation, a few tracks that are impassable after a drop of rain, oh and rubble that remains from when the local powers decided to obliterate Blackbushe's vital east end for all of time...
Memory Lane does not always provide the most comfortable of journeys..
PB
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Post by mypyrex on Sept 27, 2023 9:30:42 GMT
Ahh, Memory Lane is a journey fraught with hazards... Bit by bit, piece by piece, the places we once knew change and are lost except for the memories. No doubt, anyone who has not seen Blackbushe for some years will be shocked by the roadside growth where once just gorse bushes ruled supreme finding today an abundant woodland growing along the narrow margin of Airport and A30.. Casting an eye across Blackbushe east can only be an even greater shock to our visual receptors, the once perfectly flat east end is now a wilderness, nature has taken over and done what nature does. Install acres of tangled brambles where a great crop of berries might be the only benefit, add adders to the equation, a few tracks that are impassable after a drop of rain, oh and rubble that remains from when the local powers decided to obliterate Blackbushe's vital east end for all of time... Memory Lane does not always provide the most comfortable of journeys.. PB No, I can't say I was "shocked" by the tree growth on joining th A30. It's nature. I was more "SHOCKED" by the ghastly urbanisation of parts of Cove and Farnborough I used to know so well. Driving on the M3 yesterday there is now no apparent demarcation between such areas and the metropolis of London. Developers like to call it progress. I call it desecration. |
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