RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted December 31, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) Hi, and thank you for visiting this thread, please feel free to add any pictures that you think that might give me and others some inspiration or detail to projects. Due to the Great Image Theft of 2022 you will find many gaps in the first 3 pages some of which had been posted by other RMweb members, I have deleted many pages of my own which had text but the images had gone which then didn't make any sense, I had no backup of these images, so going forward I will start adding more pictures as and when I take them. I hope these images will be of use or just interesting to look at. All the best Adrian. Edited January 3, 2023 by westerhamstation Explanation for restarting this thread 9 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted January 2, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2023 Small coal office and weighbridge, I wonder if part of the building would have been used for the horse. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted January 4, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2023 How the face of high street shops have changed and when people lived above the shop. Some old shop fronts and interiors. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Although it's no longer an off license (and hasn't been for over fifty years) this building has hardly changed. It's neighbor has suffered all the usual abuse. The entrance door can just be seen to the left of the hedge, there was no real shop front, just the pair of matching sash windows almost hidden by the hedge. The right hand of the pair was originally all brick with matching sills and lintels, the curious archway over the side alley was a double row brick soldier arch. It's not roofed over. Out back was the usual offshot wash house / scullery with a chimney and a small bedroom above making a T shape in plan form. The left hand chimney is basically original. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 I always though that Goulds book arcade in King Street Newtown in Sydney would make a nice model. I got as far as doing the facade in SketchUp ready to 3D print, just need to get the time to complete it. The underside of the awning was covered in posters from band tours, record releases and so on which would be a fun thing to model, though the chances of anyone seeing any of it would be none! Sadly since Goulds closed, the building is decaying in the hands of developers who not being allowed to knock it down to build their usual ugly crap are letting it fall apart from neglect. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 We get exactly the same thing over here and if the building gets listed status, it's often not long before the disastrous fire. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Originally IIRC an ironmongers and general store. Wouldn't take much imagination to backdate it. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 A couple of old photos I took. First ACE Supplies, Manor Park in 1980: Two years earlier, Upton Lane E.7: Now where can you get electric boots these days? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted January 4, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2023 This is from my favourite web site. You cannot see much of the shop front, but just look at the wall and see what the shop actually sold! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo666 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 1 hour ago, MrWolf said: Originally IIRC an ironmongers and general store. Wouldn't take much imagination to backdate it. Fascinating. If I saw this as a model I wouldn’t believe it was based on a real building. The 1st floor masonry, front and side coming to a corner and nothing below. Large span window and door opening, where are the loads taken down? And the door seems to be positioned below the corner of the 1st fl above, so there cannot be a column just inside the door. Then again, maybe it's not all that it seems, there may be some parallax going on. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 I suspect that behind the facade and under the upstairs window, there's some serious girder work going on and another flanged and bolted going back into the structure above the door. I'd never really thought about it until you brought it up! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Hopefully this link works, it's a strange building. 10 Edward St https://maps.app.goo.gl/kP1DJFcRpMx8o9DY9 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted January 5, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 5, 2023 These are a fairly random selection from my archives. There are many more in my ipernity website albums. Hastings http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/497371/@/page:3:18 Lewes http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/619289/@/page:3:18 Brighton & Rottingdean http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/1257002 A wider range of shops http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/1235856 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted January 5, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 5, 2023 Hi, and a big thank you to you all, for getting the ball rolling with your wonderful images, when these buildings are gone or left to fall into decrepitude by so called developers/money grabbing gits they are lost to us for ever, they also serve as great bits of detail and reference, so please keep them coming. All the best Adrian. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted January 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2023 One from the family archive - 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted January 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2023 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Congregational church, 1879, some very nice detailing in blue and cream brick and that fancy bracket once held a large hexagonal gas lamp. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted January 6, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2023 Following on from Phil and Mrwolf's excellent pictures, a mobile place of worship and a chapel. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted January 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2023 'Commit no nuisance' is a sign posted on the back wall of this Welsh Chapel in the very heart of London. It is where two walls meet and I suspect that there may have been a history of misuse of that spot, by people wandering home from the many pubs in the area. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted January 6, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2023 Hi Phil, I wonder what was considered a nuisance in those days 😀 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Probably like a corner behind an old chapel that is (or was) one of the off site parts of Loughborough Grammar School, which even in the early 1950s was known as "Grunter Corner"... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted January 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2023 (edited) 49 minutes ago, westerhamstation said: Hi Phil, I wonder what was considered a nuisance in those days 😀 I think that we should try to see how many layouts can find a suitable corner in which to post this sign. It needs to be clearly seen from the viewing side of the scene. The organisation that posted it needs to be one that would use that rather prim terminology. Whether one would want to actually have someone committing a nuisance is debateable. If 'yes' then this guy would do, although only for modern image layouts - https://www.scale3d.co.uk/products/mm118-large-drunk-male-urinating?variant=43054265598172 Edited January 6, 2023 by phil_sutters 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted January 6, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2023 Hi Phil, I think that this sign might discourage him. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 That makes me think of a certain country boy in his first year at university, got fed up with people pinching the cutlery from his allocated drawer in the communal kitchen and so replaced said cutlery with a rusty old 'gin trap.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovex Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 Hope this is allowed as it's not my image. Old corner shop in Seacroft, Leeds. Full of interest and character. The Methodist chapel is still standing, the shop has gone. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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