Time Travel

[Mad Doug Biker]

Inspire a recent comment by @Mad Doug Biker ...

If you had a time machine and a single 20p piece to make one journey, where would you go in time and what would you do or see? And no going back and shooting Hitler or getting next weeks lottery numbers, that's too obvious.

I think I'd go back to watch the North Sea floods of 1953.

As per the brief, I'd probably go back to 1960 and ride the first day, or days, of the 'Glasgow Bluetrains' (class 303) partly just to see it all, partly to take notes and find out little details that have been lost in time that would be handy to us at Summerlee with our restoration now!

Either that or go back to 1967 and do it for the later batch (Class 311, which we actually have). Also perhaps cadge a pot of genuine 'Caledonian Blue', which the '303s' carried originally.

Actually, there are so many points in their history I'd go back to ☺️

 

[classic33]

Inspire a recent comment by @Mad Doug Biker ...

If you had a time machine and a single 20p piece to make one journey, where would you go in time and what would you do or see? And no going back and shooting Hitler or getting next weeks lottery numbers, that's too obvious.

I think I'd go back to watch the North Sea floods of 1953.

This one trip, it'll be a one-way trip I presume, only through time so no location change.

In which case it'd be back to 25th April, 1510.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

This one trip, it'll be a one-way trip I presume, only through time so no location change.

In which case it'd be back to 25th April, 1510.

Why 1892?

EDIT: Oh, you changed that... Time travelling again? 😆

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Perhaps satisfy my curiosity with a trip to Roanoke island in the 1580's and see what happened to the lost colony.

https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-lost-colony-of-roanoke

 

[classic33]

Why 1892?

EDIT: Oh, you changed that... Time travelling again? 😆

There were two fairly large Roman coin finds locally in 1893 and 1894. The second on the back research done on the first.
Get there a year before the first one, remove most, not all, of both, and keep "my finds" safe.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I'd go back to 1959 and stop my brother going in the open air paddling pool in Dartford park - believed to be the source of his polio contraction.

 

[numbnuts]

Don’t think he visited the UK

The legend claims Jesus visited several places in the West Country, such as the Roseland peninsula and Glastonbury, with his uncle, Joseph of Arimathaea. In the film, Scottish researcher Dr Gordon Strachan said it is plausible Jesus may have visited Britain to further his learning.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I'd like to go back to when Isaac Newton invented gravity, to see if the apple really did fall on his head.

 

[Alex321]

I'd like to go back to when Isaac Newton invented gravity, to see if the apple really did fall on his head.

Isaac Newton went to the same grammar school I did. The building that was the whole of the school in his day was the library when I was there.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Isaac Newton went to the same grammar school I did. The building that was the whole of the school in his day was the library when I was there.

So if a book had fallen on his head, would he have invented gravity any earlier, do you think?

 

[FishFright]

I'd prevent the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 , if you're going to make a change then make it a big one.

 

[mustang1]

It's interesting everyone so far wants to go back in time except for on person who said 5000 years ahead. If I was younger, into would like to some time into the future but now being older, I have a slight preference to go back in time.

Not sure where I would go, there are so many. Relive my childhood, 5000 years to see the Egyptians, several million to see the pre-historic stuff. Idk, too difficult. Mind boggles.

I think the Babylonian era.

 

[Mo1959]

It's interesting everyone so far wants to go back in time except for on person who said 5000 years ahead.

I doubt very much if there will be anyone around then if our current way of life continues.

 

[tyred]

Go back to 1996 and persuade whoever bought my Peugeot 205 new to have it pumped full of Waxoyl so I wouldn't have to face welding the sills back together.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I think I'd go back to watch the North Sea floods of 1953.

Blimey. Bet you're fun at parties!

Would you not prefer the Storegga slide tsunami?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide