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Old 21st Sep 2013, 19:05
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Chugalug2
 
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Danny, I'm afraid that the link is the closest that Google Street view can get you to Bembridge Drive now, for it cannot send its candid camera bicyclists exploring off public roads. Obviously your hiring was further along and out of sight, though maybe it can be picked out on the satellite view.
Of more interest is perhaps your place of work, Thorney Island. Very familiar to truckers of a certain age such as I, but for those unfamiliar with it Wikki as ever steps in to advise:-
RAF Thorney Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and on Google Maps here:-
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=50.8...hl=en&t=h&z=14
The satellite view shows how the road to East Thorney crossed the main runway, where Frosty Winterbottom nearly succeeded in running down his wife's mini with a Handley Page Hastings, due to finger trouble by the airman controlling the crossing gates!

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