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Monday 23 August 2021

Tim's Tandem and Russian Vine

 See          

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4704550027062614413/2362451362171990397

and

Tim's amazing Kew House in London

for the story of Tim Lucas - top London architect and engineer who designed the supporting steelwork below Terminal 2.  On Saturday he and his daughter Alex (12) stayed overnight in T2 as part of a coast-to-coast tandem ride between Bridlington and Morecambe.  Tim had not seen the finished Terminal 2 and pronounced himself delighted.  Head-on is the least impressive aspect of a tandem bicycle but here goes:





















Believe me, it is an impressive machine from sideways-on!  It actually folds in half so it can go on trains or in a car.  It was built in Holland where they know a thing or two about bikes.

The picture was taken in the open bay at the west end of the navvy hut which is quietly becoming covered in the much maligned Russian Vine, at its floriferous best just now:


















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