Porthpol harbour – a recent development. A suitable piece of sandpaper, about the right colour for wet sand will form the small beach. The white area (you can’t see it has been scribed) behind the beach is sloping masonry, and the small pier (Wills cobbles and embossed stonework of uncertain lineage) is on a composite polystyrene base with a piece of plywood on top to enforce rigidity. The stonework will receive some further "tidal" weathering at the bottom. The steps are cardboard. Nearby Porth
Here in the East Midlands it has been a very cold day, the frost not abating all day. 54 years ago, in the South West, was a very different cold day – a blizzard, during which the last rites of the Launceston Branch were enacted. A few photos of my part constructed WR BLT, which has been closed today in advance of yet another house move (the fourth in ten years) – that’s the excuse for slow progress.
Hopefully (now that I've reduced the filesize), the image shows a two foot wide baseboard wi
