Popular Post KNP Posted December 12, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2022 Busy day at the farm, well somewhere!! 38 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benbow Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 7 hours ago, KNP said: Busy day at the farm, well somewhere!! Yep hive of activity! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Bit quiet three or four detonators on rail line would wake em up1! 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted December 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 12, 2022 Kevin must be homesick after posting all of those pictures of a green and pleasant England... 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted December 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 12, 2022 2 hours ago, Benbow said: Yep hive of activity! The only hive of activity would be the one the bees live in! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted December 13, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 13, 2022 Seems slightly busier at the Boot Factory! 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrWolf Posted December 13, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 13, 2022 That's a really atmospheric small industrial scene and takes me back to my childhood when this factory was still just about running. It's still there, just very expensive loft apartments now. The grey convertible with the black top is parked outside my grandfather's house and just visible on the right are the signs on the garage owned by my other grandfather's cousin. The garage buildings on my layout are inspired by that place. 21 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 He will be to busy shaking Mickys hand and going on its a small world much better than being here. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold brumtb Posted December 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2022 4 hours ago, MrWolf said: That's a really atmospheric small industrial scene and takes me back to my childhood when this factory was still just about running. It's still there, just very expensive loft apartments now. The grey convertible with the black top is parked outside my grandfather's house and just visible on the right are the signs on the garage owned by my other grandfather's cousin. The garage buildings on my layout are inspired by that place. Leicester or Northampton? Tony 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 58 minutes ago, brumtb said: Leicester or Northampton? Tony Leicestershire. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 1 hour ago, MrWolf said: Leicestershire. And Lancashire as well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted December 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2022 I’m liking the bay window set back under the sturdy balcony. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted December 14, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2022 Fancy a drink? 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted December 14, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 14, 2022 Yes please, but I’m not sitting outside in this weather. You’ve saved some excellent new viewpoints to keep us entertained in your absence! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted December 14, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 14, 2022 I think everyone from LM is away as well as Kevin.. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Just the one. It’s nearly Christmas I might have a few more. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 (edited) 17 hours ago, Limpley Stoker said: I’m liking the bay window set back under the sturdy balcony. I think that the balcony was added in the 20s or 30s, you would be able to see four or five miles from that vantage point. Of course it was modernised in the 1980s and has lost much of its character and the balcony, although the big doors for the vans have survived. Picture: Rightmove Edited December 14, 2022 by MrWolf Picture 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimboBrit Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 2 hours ago, KNP said: Fancy a drink? Love one. What have you got? 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 1 minute ago, LimboBrit said: Love one. What have you got? Got to be something warming if we're sitting outside, preferably several of them. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 97406 Posted December 14, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 14, 2022 I’ve been involved in putting the production IT systems at many of the surviving footwear manufacturers in Northamptonshire, so nice to see the pics and model above. I know all about clicking, gimping and skiving, though don’t tell anyone about it! 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Probably before your time and certainly before IT systems part of my mother's family that had moved out of Shropshire was the Wain of Pollard & Wain "Airborne" shoes, one of the many that was swallowed up by British Shoe Corporation in the mid 70s. 1947 ad found on Historyworld. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 Fancy a drink? 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted December 14, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2022 Talking of pubs. Currently outside this one at Epcot….! Warm though…….! No jumper needed……😀 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Mines a pint please ! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 97406 Posted December 14, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 14, 2022 Is there a grocer in the town opposite…? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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