Weather forecast this morning said
fine and cool most of the day with rain by coming home time. And what did we
get? Fine and cool most of the day and it was raining when we left to come
home. Got to the station, and Hello,
only one down escalator was running. Now that can be because the thing has
malfunctioned. Generally though if that’s the case you can usually walk down
it, not tonight though. A temporary barrier was fixed across it. That means
that there is a crush down on the platform and this is a way to control the
flow of foot traffic. Oh-oh. Around the ticket barriers a family large crowd
was milling about. Also indicating that there was an enforced delay getting
down to the platform. Then an announcement comes on saying that there are long
delays on the Jubilee line because of a person under a train.
So we turned around and went back
up the escalator and walked along to the small ferry that goes across from
Canary Wharf. A short walk to the bus stop and after a ten minute wait caught
he bus to Canada Water then the oveground trim to crystal palace.
I’ve had a small win
genealogically speaking. You might remember me writing about going out to
Writtle to look in their archives. Well as a result I know the names of my
three times great grandparents, William Porter and Sophia Rollings. They
married on the 23rd of May 1823; I also found the names of several
of their children, and the deaths of two of them, aged just three years and
eleven years. William and Sophia were not destined to a long and happy marriage
as according to the Parish Register she was buried in 1845
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