woodenhead Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 "Farqhar" "Yes, Rees-Mogg" "Check my grammar guidelines, I think that sign over there is missing a full stop" "Indeed it is, Rees-Mogg, here on page 116: Use of full stops, subsection 16.c" "Marksman, shoot a full stop into that sign" Bang! "Not there you fool, has your education not taught you anything?" "No Sir, I only went to a free school" 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 3 hours ago, CKPR said: Of course, this being Edwardian's thread, any anarchists ( 4 or 5 at most) are safely confined to the shabbier end of Whitechapel, where they are plotting an ineffectual attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Balfour. You underestimate their organisation: [from G. Waite and L. Knighton, Rowsley: a rural railway centre (Midland Railway Society, 2003).] 6 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 Only the English could make the idea revolution so polite and genteel. Tea at 4:30 prompt, stroll to Bakewell at 5, train to London at 6 first class, overthrow the goverment at 8am prompt the next morning. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 3 minutes ago, woodenhead said: first class, A proletarian Midland third was quite as good as many other companies' firsts. But clearly they didn't get their act together in 1905. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 Yes, but how many attended? Could most of the potential attendees afford the fare? Or did they have pensioners' bus passes? Or bicycles? And did the owner of said Hall have any say in the venue? I notice that it was the fourth time the venue had been used. Also that Chatsworth also features in the list. Another obvious Communist stronghold at that time? But the list of venues does sound very much like the timetable of the Midland Railway Manchester line. Or cue for a certain song about railways. Back to the first photos, the place they are all interested in is not the UBLU premises, but one beyond. Do any parishioners have any idea what those premises might be? Jonathan 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
webbcompound Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) .. Edited September 23, 2019 by webbcompound 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 17 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said: Back to the first photos, the place they are all interested in is not the UBLU premises, but one beyond. Do any parishioners have any idea what those premises might be? 100 Sidney Street, E1. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: You underestimate their organisation: [from G. Waite and L. Knighton, Rowsley: a rural railway centre (Midland Railway Society, 2003).] Quote But clearly they didn't get their act together in 1905. In 1905 the Anarchist-Communist Conference voted to leave Rowsley for a better picnic venue next year, or for the picnic to remain at Rowsley or to have a second vote on all possible venues. The Comrade-Chairman declared that he would be entirely neutral on the issue, so long as everyone did exactly what he wanted. He did so via a proxy in order to remain present but not involved. There was a vote of thanks for the jam. NB: Votes at conference will not count should the organising committee choose not to count them. Edited September 23, 2019 by Edwardian spelling! 3 1 2 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: A proletarian Midland third was quite as good as many other companies' firsts. A true anarchist would have been too busy rolling in filth... ...which might have come from a ditch, I suppose. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinT Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 Please forgive me intruding in this way but rumour has it that one or two of you may have a passing interest in pre-grouping railways. I've just received the GWSoc's new 2020 calendar - reproductions of 12 paintings by Sean Bolan. I've long been a fan of his so just had to get it. Of the 12 there are 8 pre-grouping scenes (inc. 2 BG), & the other 4 aren't bad! £13 (inc.P&P) from Didcot (tel: 01235 817200). Martin 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 Is August a Saint? - albeit depicted post-grouping (yellow distant). It has that alert sit-up-and-beg look that the big Collett engines lack - they always seem to me to be lumbering along. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 3 hours ago, corneliuslundie said: And did the owner of said Hall have any say in the venue? I notice that it was the fourth time the venue had been used. Also that Chatsworth also features in the list. Another obvious Communist stronghold at that time? History seems to have overlooked those two anarchist-communist fifth-columnists, Comrade Spencer Cavendish and Comrade John Manners (masquerading under the pseudonyms of Duke of Devonshire and Duke of Rutland). 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinT Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 42 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Is August a Saint? - albeit depicted post-grouping (yellow distant). It has that alert sit-up-and-beg look that the big Collett engines lack - they always seem to me to be lumbering along. It's a Star - 4015 Knight of St John - on a down milk train passing Westbury West in the 1930s (but pre-1937 - red headlamp bodies). 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 1 hour ago, martinT said: Please forgive me intruding in this way but rumour has it that one or two of you may have a passing interest in pre-grouping railways. I've just received the GWSoc's new 2020 calendar - reproductions of 12 paintings by Sean Bolan. I've long been a fan of his so just had to get it. Of the 12 there are 8 pre-grouping scenes (inc. 2 BG), & the other 4 aren't bad! £13 (inc.P&P) from Didcot (tel: 01235 817200). Martin I thought the council had agreed no smutty pictures Nick 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 Its not smut, its art dear boy... Andy G 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 11 minutes ago, uax6 said: Its not smut, its art dear boy... Andy G Quite so. 2904. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) 1357. (Tee hee,, that’s one the Midland didn’t get) Edited September 23, 2019 by Northroader 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 That one is presumably the Black 5 I saw the other day, not pre-grouping I am afraid. Jonathan PS Sherwood Forester in case the reference is too arcane even for parishioners 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 1 hour ago, nick_bastable said: I thought the council had agreed no smutty pictures Nick Smut is inseparable from steam traction! Anyhow, there's nothing there that a broad-minded maiden aunt would find objectionable. Well, not much, anyway.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 50 minutes ago, Northroader said: 1357. (Tee hee,, that’s one the Midland didn’t get) I must say she has the legs for tights! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 3 hours ago, martinT said: Please forgive me intruding in this way but rumour has it that one or two of you may have a passing interest in pre-grouping railways. I've just received the GWSoc's new 2020 calendar - reproductions of 12 paintings by Sean Bolan. I've long been a fan of his so just had to get it. Of the 12 there are 8 pre-grouping scenes (inc. 2 BG), & the other 4 aren't bad! £13 (inc.P&P) from Didcot (tel: 01235 817200). Martin Oooooooo very nice. I do like Miss April. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 4 minutes ago, Hroth said: Smut is inseparable from steam traction! Anyhow, there's nothing there that a broad-minded maiden aunt would find objectionable. Well, not much, anyway.... no silly thats soot Nick 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 5 minutes ago, nick_bastable said: no silly thats soot Nick Oxford Dictionaries Online: Smut n. a small flake of soot or other dirt or a mark left by one. ‘all those black smuts from the engine’. For 1905, not to be confused with Jan Smuts, much in the news. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2019 16 minutes ago, Hroth said: Anyhow, there's nothing there that a broad-minded maiden aunt would find objectionable. Well, not much, anyway.... Well I'm not a maiden aunt because I've got two children; - and I can't be an aunt of the regular kind since my siblings have proved to be either infertile or incapable so they don't have any children for me to 'Aunt'. BUT despite that I have to say there's nothing that gets posted here that would raise a blush as far as I'm concerned. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted September 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 23, 2019 3 hours ago, martinT said: I've just received the GWSoc's new 2020 calendar - reproductions of 12 paintings by Sean Bolan. I've long been a fan of his so just had to get it. Of the 12 there are 8 pre-grouping scenes (inc. 2 BG), & the other 4 aren't bad! Since GWR loco development became refinement/evolution rather than the massive strides taken by GJC in the Edwardian era, I suppose that even those other 4 might be considered as pre-grouping in origin... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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