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Hello Terry and a warm welcome to you.
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12-04-2013, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Mags ->
Is that Countisbury Hill, Karen? We have been up and down it a couple of times many years ago and well remember how frightening it could be.

Here's a video taken from a double decker bus going down the hill ..... it seems never ending!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7rQe4aPRbc
No, that wasn't it Mags but I spied a link off to the right of that video and it was Porlock Hill - scary stuff, especially with my Dad's exaggerating sounds as we careened down it
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12-04-2013, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by ben-varrey ->
No, that wasn't it Mags but I spied a link off to the right of that video and it was Porlock Hill - scary stuff, especially with my Dad's exaggerating sounds as we careened down it

Karen darlin' - there's a similar steep hill near me - one the 'beacons' on the South Downs. - this is Ditchling Beacon just outside Brighton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FueSBZhU7zo
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12-04-2013, 06:10 PM
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I remember this chap as I made a comment on his previous posting.
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12-04-2013, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ben-varrey ->
No, that wasn't it Mags but I spied a link off to the right of that video and it was Porlock Hill - scary stuff, especially with my Dad's exaggerating sounds as we careened down it
Porlock Hill is reputed to be the steepest hill in England goes up 1300ft in 2 miles and is 1 in 4. My Dad overturned our car at the top of it in 1973, it ended up on it's roof.
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Porlock Hill is reputed to be the steepest hill in England goes up 1300ft in 2 miles and is 1 in 4. My Dad overturned our car at the top of it in 1973, it ended up on it's roof.
Absolutely Hazel - it beat any fairground ride at that time!

Sorry Uncle Joe - there were no escape things (basically an area filled with sand) for cars to steer into once they went out of control on that road in your clip. Porlock Hill: once experienced, never forgotten!
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Thanks to all for the warm welcome and comments!
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Hello and a warm welcome

 
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