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    Quote Originally Posted by anthonykay View Post
    The train journey from Leuchars to Bedford involved changing at Edinburgh, Carlisle, Nottingham and Kettering.
    I was born in Flitwick when it was a sleepy village (and two of my uncles worked at Bedford shed for the LMS)

    Flitwick has changed a little.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
    I was born in Flitwick when it was a sleepy village (and two of my uncles worked at Bedford shed for the LMS)

    Flitwick has changed a little.
    Around the late 70's/early 80's I used to do the Henlow 10, which I think either went through or maybe finished in Flitwick. I managed to get under the hour on one occasion.

    I can't remember whether Flitwick was sleepy or not!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Llani Boy View Post
    Around the late 70's/early 80's I used to do the Henlow 10, which I think either went through or maybe finished in Flitwick. I managed to get under the hour on one occasion.

    I can't remember whether Flitwick was sleepy or not!
    Not by then I think!

    Flitwick is 40 miles from London and on the fast 4 track railway you can get there in 38 minutes. It has therefore developed from the idyllic backwater of my birthplace to commuter central.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Llani Boy View Post
    Around the late 70's/early 80's I used to do the Henlow 10, which I think either went through or maybe finished in Flitwick. I managed to get under the hour on one occasion.
    So you were based at RAF Chicksands?

    I was also living near an airfield. My father worked at what was then Cranfield Institute of Technology (previously RAF Cranfield, then Cranfield College of Aeronautics, and now Cranfield University).
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    Quote Originally Posted by anthonykay View Post
    So you were based at RAF Chicksands?

    I was also living near an airfield. My father worked at what was then Cranfield Institute of Technology (previously RAF Cranfield, then Cranfield College of Aeronautics, and now Cranfield University).
    No. Just used to visit RAF Henlow for the race.
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