Clearing the Brushes

Timothy and Samuel grow up in Winchester round the turn of 1970 - the death of British Railways and steam locos and the heyday of Brush Type 4 diesels. They want to see all 510 of those, to clear them. But can this boyhood quest survive the competing attractions of football, pop and rock music, television, drugs and the Counter Culture?And girls.Now approaching 50, Timothy casts an eye over these events while struggling with a job and watching birds - feathered ones, these days. Something is missing. Can the past teach him what?