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Greenery Coming

Silver Sidelines

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I am taking a break from scribing the paving for my platforms. Just for a change the weather here in the south of Scotland might have been better than down in England. So, a chance to do some gardening!

 

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Yes, the greenery will be coming, but probably later in the year. (Well hopefully much later if we don't have a repeat of last year.) We have a square of lawn in mind plus a vegetable patch.

 

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Gardens do take a lot of time, especially when there are model railways to attend to. We had the greenhouse base above concreted at the same time as the foundations for the 'shed'.

 

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Time passes, years go by, and the greenhouse structure has still not been erected. There is not much between us and the Isle of Man and I have to admit that part of me says that any glass structure will get damaged by the winds (even with it bolted to the brick wall). We had cloches over the peas to start with but they got blown off and round the garden three or four weeks ago.

 

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Back to railway modeling and the Bachmann greenhouse. Nothing yet is cast in stone, although the greenhouse is cast in solid resin. The door frame on this one had to be glued back in place and repainted after being handled by Royal Mail.

 

Just a thought, when did the aluminium greenhouse arrive in the UK and were they around in 1960 to coincide with the period of my layout?

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scanman

Hi -

 

Casting in resin might be the answer to the 12"/ft problem! More realistic would be to drill through the base flange into the concrete base, cement bolts in place then when dry bolt the greenhouse down.

 

As to the question about 'ally' greenhouses - I seem to remember one of my mates buying one - we were ony kids so that would be in the early '60's.

 

Regs

 

Ian

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Silver Sidelines

Ian,

 

Thank you for those thoughts.

 

Yes the frame will be bolted down.

 

The problem as I see it will be keeping the glass in the frames.

 

Regards Ray

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reemgee

Hi There,

 

House is nicely done is it kit or scratch? long time since I built, starting again on building layout soon!! long absense from modelling scene, spent many holidays in south of scotland around stranraer as I lived for many years in the glasgow area, first railway clubs were in scotland !

 

Have you any other views of house or other pictures of the layout

 

Best of luck with the weather !

 

Reemgee

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Silver Sidelines

Reemgee

 

I have to admit that the house is straight out of the box, 'The Lock Keepers Cottage', from the Hornby Skaledale Range.

 

There are no other pictures, until it gets its garden.

 

There are more views of the layout in my other posts in the Blog.

 

Regards Ray

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