Seaton, Welland Viaduct c.1955
Photo ref:
S547001
Photo ref:
S547001
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Here we see the railway junction for the Uppingham branch, although little remains today to show that the railway passed through. In the distance is the former main line from London to Nottingham; it passes over the Welland Valley on the massive Harrington Viaduct, an engineering triumph of the 1880s.
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A Selection of Memories from Seaton
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Seaton
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I was born in Seaton next to the Geoge and Dragon in 1949. I still live in the village, in a house we moved into in 1952.
Seaton gave me a great childhood. In the 50's it was very much an agricultural village with 7 working farms. I began working on one of them at the age of 8yrs and when leaving school at the age of 14 I was employed by one of the village farmers. My memories of driving ...see more
As a youngster living in Great Easton along the Welland valley, my school holidays in the early 1960s were largely spent at Seaton Junction station in Rutland. My friend Colin and I would cycle there with a bottle of orange squash and a bag of sandwiches and spend our days watching the trains on the Rugby to Peterborough line and also the Kettering to Nottingham trains over the viaduct nearby.
We ...see more
I lived in Seaton from the very early 1950s to the very early 1970s.
My happy memories are: going down to the River Welland in Harringworth and fishing, going down to Seaton railway station and watching the trains go through. Seaton station in the 1950s and 1960s was a very important station, with trains running from Peterborough to Rugby, and single line tracks running to Uppingham and ...see more
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