Quasimodo

A couple of pictures of a lead roof that I was able to take this morning. This is a church tower roof that was rebuild in the 1880s. I have included my foot (size 10) to give an indication of size. I hope that this may be of help.

In my younger days, I worked for a rose grower for several years. Roses were grown as a field crop for sale as bare root plants. It was long hours and very hard work in all weathers, but enjoyable all the same. When creating the climbing roses, for your arch, I would avoid using yellow roses, as this colour was not common for climbing roses, in England, until after WW2. You cannot go too far wrong with red, white and above all pink climbing roses. I hope this helps.

Hello Dave, I have been looking back at a few photographs of your wonderful layout, that I took at Telford last Autumn, and I have to say that, in my opinion, while your 3' addition may improve your ease of operation, I do not believe that it will either add or detract to the visual appeal of the layout. Your masterpiece, like any great novel, painting or motion picture, still requires the audience to use their little grey matter in order to interpret the overall image. We have to shut out or suspend our reality in order to enter the 'reality' of the model. I include two of my photographs which show the bridge as seen by an exhibition viewer, albeit one who is somewhat shorter than yourself, which show, I believe, that your extension is unnecessary visually especially compared to such things as the ceiling of the hall - about which you can do nothing. All that being said, if the extension improves operation then why not?

Ade, I have been following your blog with interest as I grew up in North Wiltshire. I have sent you a PM with digital copies of microphiche images from NRM. Duncan