Knackered

We have had a number of visitors today.   One kind lady made us both feel good by telling us that we both looked twenty years younger than we did on TV.   We shall remember that when we next see a repeat!

Later, two men arrived and, tongue in cheek, I asked if either of them knew anything about wagons.   To my amazement, one replied that he started work as an apprentice at the Carr Hill wagon works in Doncaster.   He gave our wagon a thorough look over.   His overall assessment was that the wagon was 'knackered'!

Even so he admired what he saw and commented that the wheels were of particular interest and of an early type.

With acknowledgement to:
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/all/lib/aerofilms-images/zoomify/england/EPW012766/TileGroup0/2-0-0.jpg
this is a picture of the Carr Hill wagon repair works in 1925.   The image is not as clear as would be the case today but the scale of the works can be appreciated.   Note the strings of dots - looking a bit like zip fasteners.   They will have been goods wagons awaiting repair.   Repaired ones would not hang around the works for long - they would be out and about earning their keep.