In 1963, as Beecham's cost-cutting axe fell on railway branch lines across the country, Flanders and Swann mourned their loss in elegiac verse...
"No one departs, no one arrives,
from Selby to Goole,
from St Erth to St Ives.
They’ve all passed out of our lives”…
Licensed today: the Twelve Apostles, a row of fishermens’ cottages, in Catacol, on the Isle of Arran…
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