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Every night this week (then on BBC i-player) BBC 2 6.30pm - This week his Journey is from the North East via various bits of Yorkshire to Sheffield which I assume he will reach on Friday. What will he feature?

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Every night this week (then on BBC i-player) BBC 2 6.30pm - This week his Journey is from the North East via various bits of Yorkshire to Sheffield which I assume he will reach on Friday. What will he feature?

Tonights programme is Batley to Sheffield

Tomorrow Langley Mill to Melton Mowbray

Don't know what happen to the bit in between.

As a travel programme its not bad, worth the viewing just to count the continuity errors, like gets on 1 train and gets off a completely different one

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Every night this week (then on BBC i-player) BBC 2 6.30pm - This week his Journey is from the North East via various bits of Yorkshire to Sheffield which I assume he will reach on Friday. What will he feature?

It wasn't you I saw by any chance today was it Dunsby Owl, taking a photo of the railway bridge at the bottom of Herries road?

Lyn

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It wasn't you I saw by any chance today was it Dunsby Owl, taking a photo of the railway bridge at the bottom of Herries road?

Lyn

Are you stalking me? No Lyn I was work in London!

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Are you stalking me? No Lyn I was work in London!

No - just know you tend to photograph my neck of the woods and keep thinking one day............. I will bump into you.

Thank goodness I didn't go up to a strange man and ask if he was Dunsby Owl.

Lyn

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Just watched it on iPlayer.

Does anyone know who the knife makers are and contact details?

Missed the programme myself (another one for the i player list) but I think we are talking about Trevor Ablett (pocket knives) and Reg Cooper (bowie knives) who are now working from the Old Norfolk Barracks (drill hall) on Edmund Road, previously on Mowbray Street.

Found this address for them: UNIT 4, NORFOLK BARRACKS, EDMUND ROAD, SHEFFIELD

Couple of links below with videos and prices !

http://www.sheffield-cutlery.com/bowieknives.html

http://www.sheffield-cutlery.com/pocketknife.html

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Missed the programme myself (another one for the i player list) but I think we are talking about Trevor Ablett (pocket knives) and Reg Cooper (bowie knives) who are now working from the Old Norfolk Barracks (drill hall) on Edmund Road, previously on Mowbray Street.

Found this address for them: UNIT 4, NORFOLK BARRACKS, EDMUND ROAD, SHEFFIELD

Couple of links below with videos and prices !

http://www.sheffield...owieknives.html

http://www.sheffield...ocketknife.html

Yes they did show Michael Portilo outside Edmund Road Drill Hall, I could not work out why, this explains it

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Has anyone noticed that he gets on one train, which the other day was an engine powered train pulling several coaches, but the aerial shot showed a two coach DMU he he Once it was raining and the aerial shot again showed a different train in bright sunny weather! It makes it look like the trains are regular as buses too!

But a really good series apart from these.

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