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A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

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It was probably pulling a long rake of warflats too Sierd.

 

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All recognizable landscape features edited out by the wartime censor, but according to the unpublished wartime memoirs of a former tank commander of the 11th Armoured Division somewhere on route to a secret exercise near Aberdovey...

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All recognizable landscape features edited out by the wartime censor, but according to the unpublished wartime memoirs of a former tank commander of the 11th Armoured Division somewhere on route to a secret exercise near Aberdovey...

Come on my friend.You can do better than that.We have a photo of them at Brent after Operation Overlord.

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NHY 581

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Found this earlier.

 

Children were evacuated from cities across Britain. The children in this photograph are evacuees from Bristol, who have arrived at Brent railway station near Kingsbridge in Devon, 1940. 

 

Rob.

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Found this earlier.

Children were evacuated from cities across Britain. The children in this photograph are evacuees from Bristol, who have arrived at Brent railway station near Kingsbridge in Devon, 1940. 

Rob.

Yes, we've seen it before. Phil Mallard is on the photo carrying his spam sandwiches and gas mask.

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Does anyone produce GWR and Western Region poster boards in 4mm that are archival and not dreaded inkjet prints?

Dart Castings do the correct boards L36 and Sankey Scenics do good quality card signage.Available in glossy too.

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Yes, we've seen it before. Phil Mallard is on the photo carrying his spam sandwiches and gas mask.

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Yes, we've seen it before. Phil Mallard is on the photo carrying his spam sandwiches and gas mask.

 

Bu$$er....rumbled after all this time.

Ducky.

 

Yes, we've seen it before. Phil Mallard is on the photo carrying his spam sandwiches and gas mask.

 

Poor sods. I bet they were sent to work in the local abbatoir or something.

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Some excellent photos of the same taken in hard times.The original overbridge is seen here.

 

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Arriving at Kingsbridge with a nice Western National bus waiting.

 

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Come on my friend.You can do better than that.We have a photo of them at Brent after Operation Overlord.

It took some searching... But this is the one you mean, I think. Not Operation overlord though, but the same unit as in the earlier photo returning from Germany sometime after VE day....

 

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That is, indeed, a very dirty Toplight.  Superb photograph, and I am particularly pleased as it is only the second I have seen depicting the original bow-string bridge at the east end of the station.  This bridge in its earlier form seems particularly camera-shy.  The other shot is from the Middleton Press volume on the mainline:

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Smashing stuff.

 

I always wondered about Hornby painting the toilet windows on the Maunsell coaches white. On my BR versions I removed the white paint and left them frosted as per photos from that period.

 

Perhaps Muz will advise if the white wc windows are correct for Rob's earlier period?

 

(it's an easy fix and involves removing the body, some MEK, a small screwdriver and some paper kitchen towel.)

A few more shewing 1848 off well.Those white windows do stand out on the Maunsells but I think they are correct for '47.

 

I don't think it is as cut and dry as being period related. Certainly in the Maunsell lined green I have seen pictures with what appears to be frosted / grey windows. Some of the Bulleid designed emu and early coaching stock when in Malachite livery certainly appear to have had white painted windows but many of the pictures also show simply frosted / grey and also most malachite green Maunsell stock images I have seen are the same with only a very small number white.

So technically the Hornby version could be correct for some examples but probably not all. I am not sure how bright the white versions would have remained in service anyway, so perhaps some toning down of the white or a mix of the two colours between coaches would be a suggestion.

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I wonder how many of those kids are still with us (yes I know I am....sort of)? There are some really tiny ones too, poor little mites. 

 

I bet most of 'em got up to no good, exploring that secret railway tunnel deep in the South Hams, pesky kids getting in the way of some German spies dressed up in stripy shirts and berets...

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I wonder how many of those kids are still with us (yes I know I am....sort of)? There are some really tiny ones too, poor little mites. 

Aren't they the ones everyone complains about today as having good pensions, the cause of all the ills in the NHS and and driving too slowly etc etc.....  :smoke:

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Now there's a damn fine idea. Sin...Syn..Sink.. make watches the same time and then some could be found out for being closet zider drinkers. By the way, if anyone is ever in or near Hereford you must visit Sainsburys (on the old Barton Shed Site) and close by is the Cider Museum and shop.....and in that shop is a huge collection of Ziders, some of which I haz sampled.attachicon.gifdownload (4).jpg

Ummmmmmm......!

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Is that picture before or after partaking said cider? ;)

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