At 11:05 AM 02/04/2002 -0600, Bullwinkle wrote:
>Clive:
>
>Way to go!
>
>Blake
>
>C Sherriff wrote:
>>
>> As we were reminded, today February 4th is the Anniversary of
>> the tragic accident at Kings Cross Station in which Cecil Kimber
>> lost his life.
>>
>> Today MG TB 0487 CUK 678 started up for the first time in 3
>> months on the first turn of the starting handle and drove with
>> windscreen flat and Aero screens awash through the pouring rain
>> just a couple miles down the road to Oxford where it paused
>> briefly outside 339 Woodstock Rd, then on to 1 Hernes Road, the
>> Houses where Cecil Kimber resided in Oxford before moving to
>> The Boundary House in Abingdon in 1933.
>>
>> Hope his spirit will have enjoyed being visited!
>>
>> Clive
Does anyone in the Oxford- Abingdon area know if the bronze plague we put
up in 1990 to mark Kimber's house is still there? It was a large octagon
near the entrance door. Is the Boundary House still a Morland Pub?
Thanks
Mike
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