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Title: Hooters - Swindon that is Post by: Electric train on March 22, 2016, 18:15:15 The Works hooters have been replaced (by replicas ) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-35862648
Title: Re: Hooters - Swindon that is Post by: JayMac on March 22, 2016, 18:42:05 There's me thinking a branch of the 'delightfully tacky' (their words) US restaurant chain was coming to Swindon.
Title: Re: Hooters - Swindon that is Post by: grahame on March 22, 2016, 19:06:15 There's me thinking a branch of the 'delightfully tacky' (their words) US restaurant chain was coming to Swindon. Oh goodness ... I remember going into Hooters in Birmingham - goodness - about 20 years ago just after it had opened. The BBC's Midland news channel was in their interviewing customers ... and I can imagine why they chose us. Perhaps 'cos Lisa was the only female customer in the place! Yes please - can we have a Hooters in Swindon? Love the wings - two customers guaranteed! Title: Re: Hooters - Swindon that is Post by: bobm on March 22, 2016, 21:25:01 I must admit I was disappointed. I live less than half a mile as the crow files from the old works and I could barely hear today's test.
Reading local histories it seems the original hooter was heard over a wide area. I'm pretty sure if I'd been indoors I wouldn't have heard it at all. Title: Re: Hooters - Swindon that is Post by: johoare on March 22, 2016, 21:44:10 I was born in Swindon and even though we left there when I was 4 we used to go back and stay at my Grandparents a lot after that and I got used to hearing the hooter and it was quite loud (that was in Ferndale road so quite close to the works relatively I believe)
Title: Re: Hooters - Swindon that is Post by: Chris from Nailsea on March 22, 2016, 22:50:46 I'm pretty sure if I'd been indoors I wouldn't have heard it at all. That's because you keep your front door shut at all times. ;) :D ;D Title: Re: Hooters - Swindon that is Post by: JayMac on March 22, 2016, 22:58:53 I'm pretty sure if I'd been indoors I wouldn't have heard it at all. That's because you keep your front door shut at all times. ;) :D ;D Not out of choice of course. Anywhoo... here's a nice set of hooters (SFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8OL0e_GLs This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |