did they still hunt? What did you call me?
Hunt!
forgive us for the intro that was completely rebecca's idea
we're local because we have to stay local obviously so we're doing our walk
doing our walk now the beauty is we've got so many different stories we can tell you um about
the area and this is one that we've been saving for quite a while but it's kind of quite funky
and something we've been trying to work out for a long time and we still haven't we still haven't
so you join us on uh the spratt and winkle line now the sprout and winkle line
was a line that connected andover to southampton and it's called the end of
redbridge railway and it laid its tracks on top of an old canal as many railways did
so you join us on a section of that line near fullerton now fullerton
just a random little village but it had two stations or it had
a station that was open in 1865 which is behind us then they dual tracks the line and made a
junction so they moved the station and made fullerton junction we told that story before
that's not exactly what we're here to do today what we are here to do today is try and unsolve
unsolved was that weird i don't know but it sounds good unsolved a mystery that nobody knows no solve
it's over mystery yes gonna solve for this or try and solve a mystery that nobody in this area knows
we'll come to that when we actually get to that section line but in the meantime
here is this beautiful old abandoned station now this is the second station this was built of
1885 when they doubled the line and they built a junction here so
the the line went north east up to andover and it also went off to a section up to the right here
as well that way they've got this huge junction here now bear in mind this is a little village
this is a classic over-engineered um station there's platforms all the way down behind us
here over there but that's not what we're here today we have a little little nose around because
i love those around here then we'll go and head on south to the mystery and unsolve it let's unsolve
that mystery which basically means it's solved already and we're going to make it unsolved
so solve it
here we are stood on we're stood on the edge of the platform
um and if we were here i'm guessing we would be we could be going to andover
but i think we could also be going up north if we took this um branch fine yeah i love this
rebecca come here really yeah come here okay this is really cool yeah i'm thinking
i'm gonna get down here and then you go ash you know we'll go back up there
that's a good idea actually i won't do that i won't have problems right look to your right
yeah so that there i think might be the perfect spot and it's a perfect spot because there's an
old picture of a steam train in the station and this is the exact spot oh that's cool i think
i love this i often wonder if it would be good to do a project in one of these areas presumably you
need the obviously you need the permission the person that owned it but do a clearance clear
the whole thing out make it look really yeah so we when we did spetsbury for example on the summers
in dorset all the local communities got together and they've done they've all done up and hat tips
the railway i wonder if that'd be possible here but then in some ways i also love the beauty of
what we're looking at now i love the fact that you can see that all the trees have taken over and
the wildlife has taken over it looks romantic it's difficult isn't it yeah it's really difficult do
you yeah so what do you do people do you a clear this area and make it into an old station as a big
hat tip to the heritage and the history here or do you leave it as is because it also looks beautiful
yeah maybe my knees don't work like they used to really you're an old lady
i've got quite enough pushing them bounce
so that's the river test which joins onto the tributaries is the anton and
it's very high we're just knowing it's a good high a foot also from breaching the
banks there isn't it i'm quite we're very close now to the whole point of this video
are we not you're going thank god now go for that you just start messing around
two years ago we made one of our earlier videos and it featured in it a fence and we didn't
even know it featured in the video just like in the background at some point and we got sent an
email from the local history society is at all do you know anything about the fence that was
in the background and the way it was built local history from this very area who didn't know about
this fence and i said of course no absolutely not it didn't look indicative of the railway it
didn't look indicative of anything that i'd seen before we thought we'd come and take another look
because someone else asked us recently as well yeah and really curious it's just here isn't
it
they've been moved that's a shame someone's piled them on top of each other
what's your thoughts remember how do i tackle this it might be easier if i put my camera away
yeah yeah two hands still okay
right so that should we try and have a look at some of them and then if we
can try and picture them that's my theory yeah we might be able to get something yeah
for those two over there i'm going to start with them gentlemen okay
so these were these have all been moved they were in a long line along this fence yeah
like an ornamental fence and that's why we thought it was a fence but they're actually individual
sections of symbols but on the face of it i have no clue what they mean but we're going to
maybe head back later and we'll try and decipher what they do kind of get print out the photos et
cetera uh so we're back home and um rebecca's kind of started downloading all the pictures
and trying to replicate them in terms of drawings right because yeah kind of so anyway so i'm gonna
leave rebecca in peace and get on the drawings and see what that can come up with because you've got
a bit more of an analytical mind than me kind of yeah one of the biggest problems rebecca's
having is so here is a letter for example or what we think is it could be a letter
and there's eight different ways of looking at it so one two three four and then it could be
that way around so one two three four so there could be eight different ways of looking at all
these symbols there's 13 symbols so 13 different ways of rearranging them there could be two of
them almost look like they're ends because their two particular ones are completely different we
found 13. 13 minus 2 is 11 how many letters are in one two three four five six seven eight nine
oh i don't know no it doesn't unless more than two ends right we're thinking fullerton because that
was an obvious place and where it is or pretty close to where it is it could be fullerton but
there's 13 symbols so fullerton's got nine letters in it so that would leave four which is possible
i think i'm finished you want rebecca i said i think we're finished you're finished well kind of
ish wow well okay give us a summary give us a conclusion what's happened i have six that
are pretty much the same right i would say six the same then i've got another three that are the same
yeah another two that are the same yeah one as a random one and one i can't see because with
the photograph we took it was right behind all the trees and bushes one of the three that was
still in place so to conclude it's a pattern i haven't drawn or reproduced all those symbols
yep we still no clue nope so the question is to you guys have you seen anything like that
we assume they're railway related they're on the fence line of the railway fence line over london
and southwestern railway so do you have any clue do you see anything like that before is it railway
indicative because we didn't think it was but maybe it is or is it just a random land owner
so pop a comment below what do you think they are we have no clue uh let us know help help
right in the meantime thanks for watching thanks for staying tuned during our lockdown
which is very difficult for us to make videos and get good views uh because we can't really travel
back and show you majorly fascinating stuff but hopefully we're still bringing you a few
interesting walks and stuff yes thank you thank you thank you yes so we'll see you next week
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