https://news.firstbus.co.uk/news/first-bus-to-launch-new-express-services-direct-to-north-west-london
"If you ask the Americans, they'll say that the #GT40 is an American car, designed and built in America - well, it wasn't," says #Slough historian Jaye Isherwood.
"It was built in the UK, it was built in Slough, and it was a Slough product."
It's 60 years since the #Ford GT40 finished in all top three places at the #LeMans 24 Hours
Map shows the best and worst councils for fixing potholes
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https://www.360cities.net/image/st-marys-library-england
Would you ever have thought that a remarkable early 17th century library is to be found in Slough?
More on the library and other ....
#KedermisterLibrary #Libraries #Slough #Panorama #Langley #StMarys
slough
noun (1)
1 a: a place of deep mud or mire
b (or less commonly slew or slue):
swamp
an inlet on a river
also: backwater
a creek in a marsh or tide flat
2: a state of moral degradation or spiritual dejection
(variants or less commonly sluff)
1: the cast-off skin of a snake
2: a mass of dead tissue separating from an ulcer
3: something that may be shed or cast off
verb
sloughed; sloughing; sloughs
intransitive verb
: to plod through or as if through mud : slog
(variants or less commonly sluff)
sloughed (also sluffed); sloughing (also sluffing); sloughs (also sluffs)
intransitive verb
1 a: to become shed or cast off
b: to cast off one's skin
c: to separate in the form of dead tissue from living tissue
2: to crumble slowly and fall away
transitive verb
1: to cast off
2 a: to get rid of or discard as irksome, objectionable, or disadvantageous
—usually used with off
b: to dispose of (a losing card in bridge) by discarding