Hey everyone and welcome to May!!!!! Bloody hell where has this year gone!!!
Currently the biggest project i'm working upon is......yep trains. The success of the industry between 1830 & 1914 to be exact. Its great and I'm just about getting there with it. Another 1,000 words to go and referencing and its all sorted. However i was having a chat with another history colleague and friend, James Cotton, and he came up with an interesting theory. What would Britain by like today if we hadn't of had two world wars???
Currently the biggest project i'm working upon is......yep trains. The success of the industry between 1830 & 1914 to be exact. Its great and I'm just about getting there with it. Another 1,000 words to go and referencing and its all sorted. However i was having a chat with another history colleague and friend, James Cotton, and he came up with an interesting theory. What would Britain by like today if we hadn't of had two world wars???
This actually really fascinates me. Just what could Britain have been like if we hadn't had two horrific world wars? Would we have a society very different from the one he have today, set within some elemental Edwardian backdrop perhaps??? Or maybe we could of had something set comfortably in a "Foyle's War" module but without the war or dodgy customers that Milner has to deal with in an according manner? OR......am i just thinking above the clouds and thinking in the realms of pure fantasy? Personally however much i don't want it to be, i think its the last one.
We can never be certain would could of been if we hadn't had the two major conflicts, but neither can properly judge what "could of been" if their wasn't. Could we have seen Lord Halifax be PM at some period? Would we seen advances in Aircraft technology (ie like the Spitfire & Comet) like we did as a product of the war? Would Brooklands have really held the first British Grand Prix instead of Silverstone in 1950? Like with most things conterfactual, their are a lot of "if''s", and the tragic fact is that something like this idea of what Britain could of been like if their were no world wars, it will always remain that way.
Shame.....what would i give just to see one race at Brooklands and see such racers like Cobb, Birkin & Campbell battle it out along the Weybridge banking. WWII ended all that & the track was but destroyed by Vickers. Oh well....we can all dream cant we.
The "good old days": John Cobb loses touch with the track in his legendary Naiper Railton whilst smashing the all time lap record, setting a speed of 143.44mph at Brooklands in 1935 . The record still stands today
The Brooklands banking today in 2010: Silent & derelict. A visionary tale of what could of been if WWII hadn't of taken place. Tragic 
