Jim15B

Found one, only two years late! June 1990, I hope it helps. Apologies for the quality.

There are certainly some sturdy structures there.

I've been in Tussauds a couple of times in the course of my work (not as a paying guest) and I'm amazed that anyone would fork out the small fortune required to get in. Bizarrely my sister-in-law and family love it and visit regularly throughout the year. I doubt anything changes enough to warrant more than one visit in a lifetime.

The silhouette of a dodo maybe? Or a pyramid?

Many of the mansion flats were built on the sites of successive slum clearances in the early 1800s that systematically wiped out much of the early city that was still directly linked to the post Great Fire period. Thousands of people were moved out with the result that even more crowded slums were created on the fringes of the new developments. There was a building craze in the early 1800s akin to the railway mania later in the century, and many investors lost everything as projects floundered and developments stagnated.

I'll try them with that next time - I don't think they've seen it before (and I haven't for years). Girls at 8 and 13 are a surprisingly easy crowd to please.

Amazingly in this world of fast paced action and CGI they have. I'm supposed to be studying for professional exams, but I've sat and watched attentively too.

My children wanted to watch a film this evening. They could have had any one they wanted - they chose "The Railway Children", entirely of their own volition.

I collect horse brasses and recently saw an image of a MOY brass, but can't recall where. They presumably undertook local (horse drawn) delivery as well as wagon loads.

I know it's been said a couple of times before - amazing work on the drill hall.

H2O?

I think that may be Lord Halifax in the top hat bearing down on him with a small stick.

Slow progress, but progress all the same. The carcass for the ironworks building is done and the end walls are covered with plasticard. I realised too late that I was using the wrong brick bond, but if I don't mention it no-one will notice. The front wall is just resting in place at the moment awaiting the next stage.

BBC 6 Music for me, but no television other than Question Time that I quite enjoy getting annoyed at.

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