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Ad for... would it be table 51 ... 1970s
Posted by Mark A at 16:48, 19th October 2025
 
Terrible quality image, especially as it's a deskewed clip from a street scene photo and is also short on pixels - this was a billboard on Julian Road, Bath, late sixties or early seventies.

Now, the hunt is on for a clearer copy.

Not sure if Bath *had* through train services to the north by that time, but then, in the early 1990s, Oldfield Park saw an 8:30am through train to... Stockport (and then Manchester) and after that ceased, Regional Railways instroduced through services to Manchester and to Liverpool. Much later still there was the ~6:15am Crosscountry Trains through service to Edinburgh. Perhaps in earlier years but after the demise of Green Park Station, there were others.

Mark


 
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