Thread: The way it was.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

In the longer term this thread will be moved, but short term a wider audience may be interested in the social history. Note the total lack of 'hi-viz', hard hats and yellow flashing lights on every second vehicle. Common sense dictated the PPE of the day, a wide brimmed hat.

Beyer Garratt Locomotives Round The World - Queensland. - YouTube

Brisbane hasn't changed much I see.

Haha, John the Jester. I can recall when the SGIO Building stole the crown of Brisbane's highest building from City Hall. Now both are dwarfed.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Haha, John the Jester. I can recall when the SGIO Building stole the crown of Brisbane's highest building from City Hall. Now both are dwarfed.

In the 80s i worked on a thing called the Riverside Centre, I think. It was the tallest then, now it's a pipsqueak, if indeed it is still there.

I lived just a few hundred meters away from the Beyer Peacock works in Manchester. Like most schoolboys in those days, we were avid train spotters.
Pickles.

[QUOTE=V8Ian;2761169 Note the total lack of 'hi-viz', hard hats and yellow flashing lights on every second vehicle. Common sense dictated the PPE of the day, a wide brimmed hat.

If anyone happens to see Dr Who whizzing by, ask him to call in and pick me up please...I want to go back to the days before Hi Viz.

Originally Posted by Gordie

If anyone happens to see Dr Who whizzing by, ask him to call in and pick me up please...I want to go back to the days before Hi Viz.

Buy a Delorean.

Originally Posted by johntins

Buy a Delorean.

If I polish my landy back to bare alloy...will that do??

John, it's still standing, despite your input; 123 Eagle St.. I doubt it would rank in the top ten highest now.