Tuesday 10 October 2017
OLD WELLINGTON DINOSAUR BEING PUT OUT TO PASTURE
It seems to have been around for ever in Wellington. It's big, has been enduring, sometimes shy and retiring, prone to occasional pole failure and has held us all up at street corners. Over the years it has hardly changed its livery even though it sometimes got a bit grubby. It got in the way and created a bit of a nuisance occasionally but hey, we all love it and now it has been given ts marching orders:
Sorry, sorry. Not him!
He'll still be around for a while I'm afraid.
No, this is the one that's going:
a late century version:
And the latest version:
They will be missed.
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Wellington won't be the same. There again it might be.
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