Colourful tribute to a town's heritage

Full marks to the Eastleigh Railway Institute for this glorious display of floral colour in the heart of the Hampshire town.
A week ago we highlighted the impact on the town which had come about through brilliant and out-of-the-ordinary flower displays throughout the town centre, and today I needed to be back visiting the town again for an appointment.
The Railway Institute, a sports and social club, reflects the town’s railway heritage, which as well as being an important junction on the main line from Hampshire and Dorset to London, has been home to a railway works for well over a century.
In the heyday of the steam railway industry in the early part of the 20th century, Eastleigh was at the centre of the design, construction and upkeep of some of the most famous locomotives of the steam age.
Broadcaster, the late John Arlott once described Eastleigh as being synonymous with the rail industry:
BBC television archive reports from 1963 show him saying "The very name Eastleigh means railways ... Eastleigh has a heart - a huge firey, steam-pulsed, hammer-beating heart."
At its peak, the works employed 2,600 people, building and maintaining locos including the Maunsell SR Lord Nelson Class 4-6-0 which was also restored and returned to the tracks at the Eastleigh Works in 2006.
 

So with the town boasting such a magnificent heritage, I shouldn’t be surprised to find the Railway Institute giving off such a magnificent display like this.  The town is proud of its railway history, and visitors and townspeople, whether or not they have railway associations, are sure to gain pleasure from such firey colour which lives up to the firey heritage.