As my oldest layout is about to head North after its next show at the Bluebell railway this July (2012), for an indefinite period of time I thought I might do the story of this 30 odd year old layout which has been rebuilt numerous times, so a few might find this interesting or even remember this layout from many years ago as an L shaped 9 ft by (I think) 9 ft one through its renaming as a 'modern' image oval layout in the 1990's, and back again to a 1960's one with newer stock DCC and sound.