RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2017 I would guess they are large teardrop-shaped bottles with coloured liquids in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedders Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I thought Parsley was a lion, not a cow. And those animals in the photo aren't cows either. They look more like distant relatives of Dill. Cows don’t look like cows on film. You gotta use horses. http://eyeonspringfield.tumblr.com/post/19874930468/uh-sir-why-dont-you-just-use-real-cows-cows Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 I would guess they are large teardrop-shaped bottles with coloured liquids in. Precisely, though as they are the one thing you can see, I might have to up-grade them to 3D versions. Chris, I have answered your question, though you may need to scroll up to see it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 Oh, quick question while I remember - I have left room in the undergrowth in the angle between the houses (see post 3813)with the thought that I might raise chickens there. I have an idea what chicken sheds should look like, but I wonder what a chicken run might be fenced with in 1905? I'm guessing fairly conventional wooden fencing (probably patched with allsorts), rather than wire mesh. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Back to signals for a minute, if I may. What do PC members make of this? I think the red arm has nothing to do with it, but a blue arm?? This in the bar at Porthmadog station. Kevin 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted June 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2017 It probably means it time for you to get the round in..... Andy g 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 It's never that late. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 Back to signals for a minute, if I may. What do PC members make of this? I think the red arm has nothing to do with it, but a blue arm?? This in the bar at Porthmadog station. Kevin Wonderful bit of kit. I think you must be right, the red arm is surely either a later addition or just does not belong to what I take to be a slot in post signal? Great combination of the wooden slotted upper section with a cast iron column. But a blue signal arm?!? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Rixon Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Hmm. IIRC, the Cambrian used white and purple lights in its signals to avoid possible confusion with red and green lights on costal shipping. If that's accurate, maybe they also used odd colours for the signal arms? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2017 Back to signals for a minute, if I may. What do PC members make of this? I think the red arm has nothing to do with it, but a blue arm?? This in the bar at Porthmadog station. Kevin I don't think this was ever a railway signal as such. I suspect it's a bar semaphore for communication between the bar staff and the bouncer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 I don't think this was ever a railway signal as such. I suspect it's a bar semaphore for communication between the bar staff and the bouncer. As someone once explained to me, in Liverpool there were two types of clubs. Ones with bouncers to keep you out and others with Bouncers to drag you in! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted June 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2017 I fancy someone in the pub thought two red arms would look "boring" and painted one blue. No record of the Festiniog having blue arms, the only blue signals I've come across are disc signals on the continent. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Maybe it got cold, at the higher altitude! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted June 5, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2017 I think all signal arms are red on the front and white on the back so it only applied if you were facing the red side. I suspect in the 1920s the BOT may specify changing the colour of distant arms perhaps the blue is a suggestion I think yellow would be better as the blue would not show up well against the sky Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted June 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2017 Is it more likely to be a boat signal rather than a railway one? Something you might see near a swing bridge? Andy G 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 (edited) Given that the bar belongs to the FR, and is effectively a museum (it used to have a loco in it!), I think we can assume it to be accurate. Early FR semaphores were red and [white .... wrong!] black [correct!] striped, so I'm with the idea that it is something very specialised. There is the nautical possibility, and it struck me earlier that it might relate to the working of a balanced incline. Further information promised by a man who knows a man who almost certainly knows. K Edited June 5, 2017 by Nearholmer 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2017 I don't think this was ever a railway signal as such. I suspect it's a bar semaphore for communication between the bar staff and the bouncer. I realise I was quite wrong - it's very clearly not a cross-bar signal at all! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 I am of the school of thought that something is needed in interiors where you would expect something to be visible. If you wish to avoid the work net curtains in houses and those shop front which block the view of the interior (+notices adverts etc. on the door) will do the job. I do really like the scene you have created and though we may never get the chance to peer through the shop window we at least now have a picture of the inside. Nicely done. The choice of Chemist and Photographer is somewhat apt for although professionally an Insurance Broker John was a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and no doubt had some knowledge of the chemistry of photography at least. I have a copy of issue 75 of MRJ which featured him and Madder valley. It can be found on the internet I believe. As a boy I would regularly borrow his books from the library probably no longer on their shelves mores the pity. Don Indeed, Don, a photograph of the premises of Messrs Holman & Hunt may be found on p302 of MRH 75. I love the, to my mind somewhat scandalised, observation of the "simple, almost crude, methods of construction"! Maybe there's hope for me yet! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Having carefully teased cow parsley and nettle patches off the plastic card base, I have now planted some weeds around the lower slopes of the castle mound, which, I hope, will help bed the buildings into the scene. Also to be glimpsed is the ongoing road surfacing work on the part of the Castle Aching RDC. Before Mr. T. McAdam turns up to re-surface Bailey Street, I was wondering if the expanse of road in thee first image would be there? As I'm unable to find my A-Z of Norfolk I've used. Theo. O'Doolite's hand crafted map to highlight the area and was putting forward thee option of a small village green area. Possible with a CA village sign? Or a stocks, or even the Queen Vic coronation memorial! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 (edited) Just like this Also came across this gem of a small church at Feltwell Edited June 5, 2017 by Shadow 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I do wonder whether the average village green might have been a lot shaggier in 1900 than it is now, and I also wonder how common the fancy sign was. I honestly don't know. That church is "radical"! are you sure it's not actually the HQ of an architectural salvage company? K 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 5, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2017 or even the Queen Vic coronation memorial! A statue of the Queen Empress might be a bit too grand for CA but maybe a drinking fountain / watering trough marking the 1887 jubilee? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I do wonder whether the average village green might have been a lot shaggier in 1900 than it is now, and I also wonder how common the fancy sign was. I honestly don't know. That church is "radical"! are you sure it's not actually the HQ of an architectural salvage company? K If this site is correct then started by Edward VII (1901-1910) on the estates around Sandringham!!!!! http://greatbradley.weebly.com/1983-village-sign.html http://www.villagesignsociety.org.uk/village-signs/4590610818 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 Before Mr. T. McAdam turns up to re-surface Bailey Street, I was wondering if the expanse of road in thee first image would be there? As I'm unable to find my A-Z of Norfolk I've used. Theo. O'Doolite's hand crafted map to highlight the area and was putting forward thee option of a small village green area. Possible with a CA village sign? Or a stocks, or even the Queen Vic coronation memorial! ca_map.jpg ca_green.png Well anticipated. There are, indeed, plans for such a triangle. They involve both the Metropolitan Pyramid company and Her Sovereign Majesty! Loyal readers may need to back-track some way to - to the shop interior - to see earlier updates and responses. Just like this geograph-4571006-by-Adrian-S-Pye.jpg Also came across this gem of a small church at Feltwell geograph-376393-by-Bernd-Jatzwauk.jpg Gosh! A statue of the Queen Empress might be a bit too grand for CA but maybe a drinking fountain / watering trough marking the 1887 jubilee? And/or one marking the 1897 Jubilee! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 (edited) It was worth coming here today, just to learn that. And, having computed where Feltwell is, I'm feeling a tour coming on ...... Bury st Edmunds, to revisit the rather mad houses built into the old abbey walls; feltwell; and, Ely Cathedral, which never ceases to amaze me. Will the offsprings (and my good lady) stand for that much "old stuff" in one day, without lynching me, that is the question. PS: consider also the village pump. Not the village pimp, as the ever perspicacious Kippers would have you believe. Edited June 5, 2017 by Nearholmer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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