We got a great deal of reaction to the original Restoration Man programme but nothing like the reaction to the follow-up episode. We have had many e-mails and a surprising number of letters and congratulations cards from total strangers as well as from long lost friends, former colleagues and relatives.
One such card arrived in todays post, together with a book containing a photograph of our water tower in 1978 with the Glasgow - Nottingham express in the foreground. There was a long letter from the sender - a widow from Manchester whose late husband had been a footplate man in steam days. She recalls him telling her that "The last shovel of coal was so heavy but shovel you must, to the end of the line". The S&C was for him "The best line ever".
She had watched the programme and seen Pat, trowel in hand, tackling some gardening. Please, she said, accept my small gift to plant there:
One such card arrived in todays post, together with a book containing a photograph of our water tower in 1978 with the Glasgow - Nottingham express in the foreground. There was a long letter from the sender - a widow from Manchester whose late husband had been a footplate man in steam days. She recalls him telling her that "The last shovel of coal was so heavy but shovel you must, to the end of the line". The S&C was for him "The best line ever".
She had watched the programme and seen Pat, trowel in hand, tackling some gardening. Please, she said, accept my small gift to plant there:
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