RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted November 1, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 1, 2017 ...you tell em Uncle Purse...BTW do you have a drawing of a standard Durham County Council bus shelter...I was thinking of a new garden shed and looking for something a bit different... So, you want the windows smashed, seats broken, the floor covered with tab ends and it smelling of wee? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted November 1, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 1, 2017 Have you got that bathroom finished yet? "Fingers in ears" Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Sorry for the confusion: Blackgill isn't homeless - it's just being confined to its home in the future! It lives in my dad's loft most of the time, so will be residing there more permanently after next year. Just like North Shields Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Brit70053 Posted November 1, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 1, 2017 Windows ? Seats ? Open (to the elements) plan corrugated metal fabrications with S.R.O. were the norm in this fine county during the period under consideration. Floor decoration and atmospheric odours accurately described though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 So, you want the windows smashed, seats broken, the floor covered with tab ends and it smelling of wee? ...don't know where you lived Worsdy...in Bowburn our bus shelter doubled up as a news agents on a Sunday morning...and for the rest of the week you had to get in early to avoid the rush...thinking about it tho, yeah they did smell of wee... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 (edited) BTW do you have a drawing of a standard Durham County Council bus shelter... No; but you know there is one less than a mile from your old homestead (And nowhere near a bus stop) which we need to measure up. Funny how there used to be seven of the bl**dy things within a two minutes walk of your ma's. Now there are non! and I suspect there is a man on this forum that photographed some of them round our streets.... Via the time machine. From: https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=37872&search=Scarlet+band The only pleasant looking thing in the photograph is the lamposts. and there's this: https://flic.kr/p/dWGort Edited November 1, 2017 by Porcy Mane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
durham light infantry Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 ...you tell em Uncle Purse...BTW do you have a drawing of a standard Durham County Council bus shelter...I was thinking of a new garden shed and looking for something a bit different... Darlington had a good selection to choose from. I think Poursee might like the Trafford Tile and concrete block ones that used to be on Low Flags (not High Row) Mike 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted November 1, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 1, 2017 Darlington had a good selection to choose from. I think Poursee might like the Trafford Tile and concrete block ones that used to be on Low Flags (not High Row) 4340610e13168c73a36245e440f24e5b--bus-shelters-buses.jpg 7bf85c1135258f0be4ed19ae7f3031fd--bus-shelters-buses.jpg 14822076759_4960b79c11_b.jpg 13220143063_a8c6955664_b.jpg imgID114801282.jpg Mike Are you the lad in the first two photo's Mike? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
durham light infantry Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Are you the lad in the first two photo's Mike? Not me. I do remember standing in the front of a Guy Arab single decker watching those bridge girders being removed. Different times, they just stoped the traffic for about 10 minutes. No mess, no fuss, no health and safety, just common sense. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW031990 ...The view from above (in 1950) right beside the coal drops and open air wagon repair buisiness...which by the look of the rake of repaired wagons in the back ground, is doing good business. You have to sign up to the site to zoom right in (its free)!!! ...and if you spend the next six months exploring the towns of Britain street by street, then blame Poursee as he put me onto the site in the first place. A/box Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Darlington had a good selection to choose from. I think Poursee might like the Trafford Tile and concrete block ones that used to be on Low Flags (not High Row) 4340610e13168c73a36245e440f24e5b--bus-shelters-buses.jpg I have to admit to that Haughton Road shelter being a particular favorite. Proper design. Just look at the way the downspout is incorporated into the roof support. As a nipper I used to visit the BRS depot just behind the S&D railway line and the advertising hoarding. Yet another location that has been turned into a bl**dy roundabout! P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6892 Oakhill Grange Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 I have to admit to that Haughton Road shelter being a particular faveorite. Proper design. Just look at the way the downspout is incorporated into the roof support. As a nipper I used to visit the BRS depot just behind the S&D railway line and the advertising hoarding. Yet another location that has been turned into a bl**dy roundabout! P A rather confusing roundabout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted November 1, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 1, 2017 No; but you know there is one less than a mile from your old homestead (And nowhere near a bus stop) which we need to measure up. Funny how there used to be seven of the bl**dy things within a two minutes walk of your ma's. Now there are non! and I suspect there is a man on this forum that photographed some of them round our streets.... Via the time machine. From: https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=37872&search=Scarlet+band The only pleasant looking thing in the photograph is the lamposts. AN68 OVK165M in 1984.jpg and there's this: https://flic.kr/p/dWGort That Moggy is quite nice........ Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 (edited) A rather confusing roundabout. You bet! At least the planners retained a bit of the original S & D railway in their mad design. https://goo.gl/maps/R5kME2Yge3R2 ... and it looks like the original loco shed just along the road, for the Patons fire-less Barclay still survives. https://goo.gl/maps/6rqU9ooswXS2 That Moggy is quite nice........ Funny you should say that. I crashed mine (a Minor 1000,000) at a road junction not 30 yards from where from where that Minor is parked. Black Ice, turned steering wheel, motor straight on, sideways though a five foot high privet hedge leaving said Minor perfectly parked right outside residents front door. Privet had sprung back into position leaving very little evidence of how the car had arrived in garden and no means of escape with car being surrounded by said hedge on three of four sides and house on t'other. Householder (after hearing whooshing noise) opens front door to find me sitting in drivers seat of car, looking straight at him. I wound the widow down and thinking of nothing better to say, wished him a happy new year (It was January), then asked if he had a crane I could borrow? Oh how he laughed! P Edited November 1, 2017 by Porcy Mane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 (edited) ... and it looks like the original loco shed just along the road, for the Patons fire-less Barclay still survives. https://goo.gl/maps/6rqU9ooswXS2 ...and here she is sitting outside her brand new shed... https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW027449 I must get out more, I must get out more, I must get out... A/box PS don't forget the free zoom... Edited November 1, 2017 by Axlebox Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 ...and here she is sitting outside her brand new shed... A bit woolly, that one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 A bit woolly, that one. you picked up the thread tho... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Darn me. Can't beat that. Get Knitted! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Darn me. Can't beat that. Get Knitted! rollocks, you always did spin a good yarn... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Flax me! You can reel them off. Nobody else has cottoned on yet so i'd better be bobbin along. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlebox Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 (edited) Flax me! You can reel them off. Nobody else has cottoned on yet so i'd better be bobbin along. ...thats a pearler, time to cast off for sure ...anyone seen Blackgill lately? This is the work of Blackgill's youngest operator, Jessica, who would like to point out the NCB shunter is responsible for the brakevan lamp hanging on the bracket and NOT her...nice pic Jess, I like the Q6 being coaled in the background. Edited November 2, 2017 by Axlebox 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wright Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 I would have liked to have some taken more pictures of this lovely layout at West Hartlepool, but time, as usual, conspired against me. I took these at Glasgow last year, some of which might have been seen before. Still, worth looking at for the modelling atmosphere in my view. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted November 1, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 1, 2017 A bit woolly, that one. Thats the worst(ed) joke I've heard today......boom boom. I. Thankyou 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Eastern Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 I would have liked to have some taken more pictures of this lovely layout at West Hartlepool, but time, as usual, conspired against me. I took these at Glasgow last year, some of which might have been seen before. Still, worth looking at for the modelling atmosphere in my view. BlackGill 01.jpg BlackGill 02.jpg BlackGill 03.jpg BlackGill 04.jpg BlackGill 05.jpg BlackGill 06.jpg BlackGill 07.jpg BlackGill 08.jpg BlackGill 09.jpg You can see it again at RAILEX NE 2018 at John Spence Community High School, North Shields 28th & 29th June - Details at www.railexne.com Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpster Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 This weekend sees what might be Blackgill's last outing on the exhibition circuit (if the only man sticks to his guns). We'll be at Railex NE 2018 on Saturday and Sunday at John Spence Community High School in North Shields. Come along and say hello.Arp 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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