The Blackpool Highflyer
The Blackpool Highflyer
“When we were clear away from the shadow of the station, Reuben stood still for a while, nodding and saying over to himself, 'Gradely . .. gradely,' even though it was hardly the weather for old men in gold coats.
We were now on the Valley Road leading down to the South Shore: Italian gardens, lily ponds, rock pools, bamboos and all vegetation out of the common; white ladies with the smaller sort of parasols in the miniature zigzagging roads, laughing at all these corners they were made to t...urn in order to get nowhere at all. But it didn't matter because whatever way they faced gave postcard views: the Valley Bridge connecting fun with more fun, the mighty Grand Hotel high on its own cliff - a cliff all to itself! - with its stone starfish and dolphins all around the roof. I'd been born just along the coast at Baytown, and the one telegraphic address I knew as a boy was that of the 'Grandotel Scarborough'. Many messages under that head, it was said, were sent out in code for they were starting wars, or finishing wars, and all that kind of carry on.MoreLess
We were now on the Valley Road leading down to the South Shore: Italian gardens, lily ponds, rock pools, bamboos and all vegetation out of the common; white ladies with the smaller sort of parasols in the miniature zigzagging roads, laughing at all these corners they were made to t...urn in order to get nowhere at all. But it didn't matter because whatever way they faced gave postcard views: the Valley Bridge connecting fun with more fun, the mighty Grand Hotel high on its own cliff - a cliff all to itself! - with its stone starfish and dolphins all around the roof. I'd been born just along the coast at Baytown, and the one telegraphic address I knew as a boy was that of the 'Grandotel Scarborough'. Many messages under that head, it was said, were sent out in code for they were starting wars, or finishing wars, and all that kind of carry on.MoreLess
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