Brooklands, 1937

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 05/02/2016 at 09:47 • Filed to: None

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Good morning, Oppo, and Happy Monday.

Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ > ttyymmnn 05/02/2016 at 09:58

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“What could go wrong”

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 05/02/2016 at 10:03

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I think that’s the section of the Wey near the Railway Start and not the Cobham Start, but I don’t know for sure. You can get close to where that bridge was, but it’s fenced off short of that point and has gotten very heavily overgrown.

Note that these two pictures are flipped relative to one another. The area of the Cobham Start bridge over the Wey is actually pretty open.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/02/2016 at 10:10

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I love how old place names are so literal. Weybridge is the bridge over the Wey. And you say Cobham, and the first thing that comes to my mind is War of the Worlds.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 05/02/2016 at 10:17

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Parking for the Brooklands park is along the Wey, or you could say it’s on the Wey in. ba-dum-tish. No, really, it’s in that little set-aside area on the north side of the river, sort of across from the giant round thing. You can see how they dropped an airstrip into the wide-open area inside the Brooklands loop, and how the Flying Village eventually became an industrial park way out of proportion to the original Vickers plant on-site. Almost everything on the north side of the Wey is Mercedes Benz UK these days, or at least the center and right end - they use the old runway and other parts for testing.

Crest > Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ 05/02/2016 at 10:19

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Yup back in the days when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. But combine both and you’ve found nirvana