6/22/2023 0 Comments 720p f1 2019 image![]() Newport Pagnell, which opened soon after, 23 miles to the south (it was actually the first to open to all traffic Watford Gap was originally just for trucks), was posher. “Some families would have stopped – middle-class or upper-working-class families who either had cars through their jobs or were able to purchase one.”īut Watford Gap was never glamorous. “It would have been business travellers dining on expense accounts,” says Lawrence. It wasn’t the cross-section of British society it is today more a place for the upwardly mobile. “Grilled ham and other grilled meats, vegetables, fairly straightforward desserts, puddings and custards, fruit flans, ice-cream … that kind of thing,” says Lawrence. It was a stopover for bands on the road – the Beatles, the Stones, Pink Floyd, Dusty Springfield, the Eagles. It was a place for nocturnal motorcyclists to speed to as fast as their machines would carry them on three lanes free of traffic. And for their cars – more prone to breakdown than today’s – to have a rest, too. Originally run by a company called Blue Boar, it was a place for drivers to stop for the human necessities: tea and a pee. It also marks a moment between two eras, with the service station being a milestone in Harold Wilson’s vision of a journey to modernity (as well as a then-new 24-hour experience for the people who stopped there). It is the place where, traditionally, south-east England ends and the Midlands and the north begin (or vice versa, of course, depending on whether you are northbound or southbound) it is a gap between two hills where the road was squeezed in next to the canal and the railway. Watford Gap is significant for several reasons. Not terrible, but gloopy, unsurprising, uninteresting … OK, quite terrible. I opt for the red Thai vegetables with rice – £8 with prawn crackers and a ginger beer. “Does teriyaki stand for terrible, hahaha?” asks a businessman in front of me, who is on his way to the NEC in Birmingham. I choose Chozen because I have never had one before. The choice of food is: McDonald’s the Fresh Food Cafe, where there are more burgers, fish and chips or curry or Chozen Noodle. “A bit of rain never hurt anyone,” he says, cheerfully.Ī big part of Britain is here – not just car owners stopping to refuel, but all the people working. A man with a beard and a Maccy D’s meal sits down there anyway. Inside, water drips on to the floor an employee mops up, then deploys a “Caution: wet floor” sign. The building – designed by the Odeon cinemas architect Harry Weedon – looks tired, with tufts of insulation sprouting from the roof at the back. 0.06s gpulist v4.Today, Watford Gap services is operated by the Roadchef group. #10 got benchmark programm data, about to get FAL images +0s. #9 Created sortOrder for cached benchmark data +0s. #8 Loaded cached benchmark data tx_nbc2_gpugame_cache_values +0.01s. #7 found 6864 cached benchmark values +0.01s. #5 Cache table found with all needed fields in it! +0s. #4 Cache table for values found, checking fields. #2 cached gamecheck data found for bench uid 688 +0s. # started gpulist at took 0s on source +0s. Move your cursor over the value to see individual results. The value in the fields displays the average frame rate of all values in the database. ![]() Uncertain – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game and no reliable interpolation can be made based on the performances of surrounding cards of the same class or family. A slower card may be able to achieve better and more consistent frame rates than this particular GPU running the same benchmark scene. Uncertain – This graphics card experienced unexpected performance issues during testing for this game. ![]() Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, fluent frame rates are expected. May Run Fluently – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, stutters and poor frame rates are expected.įluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 25fpsįluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 35fpsįluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 58fps May Stutter – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, average frame rates are expected to fall below 25fps Stutters – This game is very likely to stutter and have poor frame rates. n123 Number of benchmarks for this median value / * Approximate position
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