DAN BANK TO CLOSE!

[tina]

Looks like your April fool has come back and bit you on the bum Mark!  

[admin]

Check out the Stockport Times this week, page 12.

"£3.5M to stabilise the bank."

"Close to critical condition under certain seasonal climatic conditions"

"..the effects of climatic degradation and increased traffic has resulted in a substantial risk of the road slipping."

"The road is safe and will not be closed."

Nobody will believe that will they '>

I think interesting is not quite the word I would have used.

I did hear too that the road would close for some time - as it is currently busy collapsing into the vally.....  work does need to be done - but given the state of the road last time an attempt was made, it will cause chaos in and around marple.

But then we're used to that... aint we chaps......

Osdog

[Harry]

Now that is interesting.

If they get the funding then Dan Bank 'will be closed for a considerable period'.

So obviously the work needs doing.

Therefore, if they don't get the funding, I guess that Dan Bank could be closed for a considerable period.

Interesting times ahead.

I gather from an official source this is not so far from the truth. The Council has bid £3.5m for Government funding to stabilise the banking. If they get it this will mean the road will be closed for a considerable period in the not too distant future.

[admin]

No, not guilty there! For those who didn't see this, I understand it went something like this (thanks to Tony Jones who emailed these details):

I walked down to Brabyns on Saturday and near the junction of the roads in the woods there is a small underground stream which I think is a drain from the railway.

There was a sign fixed to the railing explaining that;

On 1st April 1651 there was a battle at the top of Brabyns brow between the English lead by John Bradshaw and the Scots lead by Mad Dougy Mac Brabyn.

The English were beaten and retired to the Jolly Sailor whilst the Victorious Scots went to a hostelry (?) on Town Street which was renamed some years later in honour of their victory.

Legend has it that Mad Dougy MacBrabyn consumed large amounts of ale and wandered off into the woods to sleep it off and was never seen again.

During the reconstruction of the road some ancient artifacts were found and archeaologists at Strathyarn university have found that these came from a whiskly still and that the site had been used for about 20 years to mash barley from behind the George Inn.

It is believed that on some nights the fire from the still can be seen and the smell of whisky hangs in the air.

Or something like that  

[Barbara]

Were you also responsible for the notice about McBrabyn's Spring on track down to the park?  If so, well done.  I shall have to have a few drams and see if I can see the kilted ghost, too!!

[admin]

Tremendous, it's even strengthened your marriage! So all my efforts were worthwhile. Peter's too of course - he dashed out and took the photos on Friday when I had the idea while I was at work - and when I sent him the text I was going to put with them he fell for it too (although technically it wasn't April Fools' Day yet).

I guess I'll have to try much harder to catch you next year though  

[Rachael]

Its probably the most in depth conversation we have had in weeks

Thanks Mark

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[Rachael]

Well, at first I thought, its got to be a joke, then I went on the main page and there was pictures of the little blue things, so I thought it must be true.  

Then I went on to have a deep discussion with my husband about  the topic, and he said its probably true because he heard a rumour about two months ago.

Then we went on to have a conversation about how the mortgage may be bigger than what we could sell the house for, because its bound to be true, that Marple could become that little place that you hear about in films, where people live another life, because its the town of the unknown

We then went onto have  a discussion about how my husband is going to have to leave home much earlier, and isnt going to get back untill really late because he will have to go the long way round.

Grrrrrr Grrrrrr Grrrrrrr Grrrrrrrr

Then as I mentioned previously, I was going into Stockport, so out we come of our road, and the roads were not heavy with traffic, I could not understand it.

so we then went onto have a discussion about has Mark got his days right, because the roads are not closed.

THEN we went onto have a conversation, that heaven help the drivers on Monday through rush hour, and we were going to Stockport, and we were bound to have to turn around if we get stuck at the bottom of Dan Bank.

Grrrrr Grrrrr Grrrrrrr

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[Howard]

Quote (Guest @ April 01 2006,12:29)

P.S  is the other one about handbury's an April fool too?  '>

Yes, I confess it was. Not as elaborate as Mark's, but worth a go...

[Rachael]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

 

[Peter]

Tee Hee!!!!

[Mike in Marple]

Swine!

Well Done, you got me.      

'>   funny!  I thought it was a joke but with you putting it on the main page too made me think that it could be true  '>  10/10 Mark!  
P.S  is the other one about handbury's an April fool too?  '>