phil_sutters

If you want a Union view on horses per vehicle - from one of my wife's ancestors. I find the presence of angels around carmen an interesting touch. 

I don't know whether this would be of any interest, but my father had a notebook with details of locos absorbed by GWR. From the writing I think it was probably drawn up just before WW2.

This is a sample. If it would help anyone's research, they are welcome to it. It may well all be information that is well known. He had no railway connections apart from his keen amateur interest.

The choice of masonry for the house is a good one. This photo taken by Dad at Wells shows the same kind of stonework. 

That ain't super glue. You just haven't painted your version of this Sussex landmark

On 15/09/2023 at 20:21, jeff_p said:

I knew that I'd have to pick the right breed with care, now I know which. Thank you.  My current thought was to go down a single breeding Bull route which would make the dock look less tiny and give a good reason for a cattle wagon to move in and out.  Similarly a suitable horse does the same for the horse box.

Jeff

The Scale3D bull is a magnificent beast. He comes with 10 cows for £7.99. Some of the cows are lying down which ain't much good for cattle docks and loaded wagons, but even so I think that it is a good deal. I haven't currently got a photo of mine painted, as a South Devon Red, but here is one with him awaiting painting, along with other beasts and folk with somewhat painful looking painting supports!

https://www.scale3d.co.uk/products/cows?variant=43517378625756

I trust that you are going to fill it with Sussex Reds.

On 27/03/2023 at 14:53, Methuselah said:

Bromyard Downs....?

 

I now have my book on 'Flying for fun in the southern Marches'. The recently formed South Shropshire and North Herefordshire Gliding Club, in 1930, started operating in a large field by the River Lugg at the foot of Dinmore Hill. This is where the photo of my great-uncle, Percy Pritchard, was taken in October 1930. The book, by Tony Hobbs, has two other photos of the meeting and one of Percy's car towing the folded Dagling Primary glider to the site. The club had been disbanded by the Spring of 1931.

On 27/03/2023 at 14:53, Methuselah said:

Bromyard Downs....?

 

It may be. There is no location on that photo. There are a couple of photos taken when Percy and his family went to see the 'sailplane ace' Herr Krauss at Broadway, Worcestershire. So it could be there. I have taken down the photos as I realise that I was 'blog bombing' - putting my stuff into someone's blog. Taking a tangent off a public thread is one thing. Barging into a personal blog with big irrelevant photos is impolite. Apologies, Mikkel.

On 27/03/2023 at 11:38, MikeOxon said:

2nd hand book pricing is a nightmare.  I usually scan ABE books to get a feel for prices but descriptions of condition can be very variable too. On the plus side, I recently bought a facsimile edition of Measom's 1851 guide to the GWR for £3.04 including postage and it looks like new!!!  It' remarkable for its illustrations of many early stations.

 

Don't forget the Internet archive for free downloads of many out-of-copyright old books.

 

Mike

Thanks. I am familiar with Abe. I have just ordered a rather niche volume from them - Flying for Fun in the Southern Marches - £4.25 inc.p&p . My great uncle Percy was a gliding enthusiast in Herefordshire between the wars, having been a despatch rider with the RFC in Egypt, in the latter years of WW1. In the second world war he trained assault glider pilots. So I will be interested to see if he is mentioned.

The Archive is something I need to explore. So thanks for that.

On 14/01/2022 at 10:24, Bluemonkey presents.... said:

Mikkel this is lovely and some very nice additional touches. Love the lamps what part of a watch are those?

Have you seen the book by Janet Russell;

Great Western Horse Power 

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 086093425X

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0860934257

Some decent material here as well although what you have more than likely covers everything you require.

Thanks for drawing my attention to this excellent book. I have just bought a copy from World of Books - second-hand for £8.49 including p&p. While looking for a copy I saw some at massively unaffordable prices. 

1 hour ago, Methuselah said:

 

 At the moment, these are still rather expensive. 

 

Have you looked at the Scale3D range? They don't yet do any Edwardian or Victorian figures as such, but quite a number of their 30s,40s, 50s  figures can be used. They don't seem to advertise in the railway modelling press. They have a number of wargaming ranges, so perhaps that is where they are better known. Their figures start at £1.99. Some are at £2.49 and I can't quite see why they are different. Their website isn't the easiest to negotiate. Make sure, if you do order that you have clicked the correct scale, as they do a large number of different scales.

This will take you to their 30s, 40s & 50s range. Also check their new arrivals as there a some posher folk recently added, that might appeal.

https://www.scale3d.co.uk/collections/1930-40-50s-figures?page=1

I am a very satisfied customer - but not otherwise connected to the company.

1 hour ago, Methuselah said:

.....I think we need a ModelU horse in harness....!

 

I favour Dart castings for horses. The white metal makes them more - oh dear! - I was going to say stable. 

Sometimes it is hard to see the actual hotel? conveyance! My grandparents on their honeymoon, could help with dating Edwardian clothing & headgear, I suppose. Good detail of the horse harness.

There is another source of 1/76th carriage and cart wheels. They are very delicate 3D printed ones. There are three sizes. This website is not the easiest to negotiate, but using the search button can help. https://www.scale3d.co.uk/products/rf-0007-e-76-cartwheel-medium-set-of-4?_pos=5&_psq=cart&_ss=e&_v=1.0  4 for £1.99 or 12 (3x4) for £4.99

On 11/01/2023 at 18:29, Dave John said:

Well found Compound, I think it is the D 34. 

 

If it is 1905 then it has had a repaint, the load and the Caley mysterious mark are clearly visible. Looks like it has a new buffer beam too. 

 

Interesting to see those trolleys together like that , since neither has a handbrake.

 

I wonder where it is ? May have something to do with ;

 

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1901_Glasgow_International_Exhibition

 

 

 

Stirling Engineering are shown as exhibitors.

The Newhaven swing bridge - which delayed my bus this morning - can only be navigated by freighters at high tide. The width of the river and its curvature needs to suit the type of vessels that pass along it.

Its predecessor used to carry road and rail, but the current one only road.

Living close to Newhaven, we have a permanent memorial to a small group of the many Canadians who were lost in this raid.

It has to be said that the combination of speckled stone and gilded lettering made this a difficult memorial to photograph. I had to try hard as their Engineer Corps veterans association in Canada wanted pictures for their veterans' magazine and records.

Your buildings are excellent. This appears to be Dad's only photo taken at Cheddar and shows none of them! It is also well after your period, I guess, from the shirt button on 6421.

That Handbook has a huge range of mechanical products. I hadn't come across the Internet Archive before. It looks like a good place to spend/waste a lot of time!

Wouldn't they have said "the springs are inside the inner frames" ?

Best of luck with both the moving and static versions. I shall look out for your progress reports.

I found this by Image Googling Appleby Brothers Southwark. https://archive.org/details/ApplebyBros1876 . The detail they give in their specification would suggest that they were the manufacturers, although this design is the only loco in their catalogue. There are a number of steam cranes and other appliances, some of which seem to me quite sophisticated. 

Although the proximity may not have been relevant, the nearest locomotive works would have been George England's at New Cross, about four miles away. They turned out many narrow gauge locos for the welsh railways and others. 

In the details under the illustration of Edith in the Appleby Brothers' catalogue, it says that the springs are between the inner and outer frames. I was interested to see this firm's products, as I used to live and work in Southwark and hadn't come across any mention of them before. I also have an interest in steam cranes as Highbridge Wharf had several and I have tried to recreate three of them. These seem to have been one of their major product lines. Interestingly they say that although this loco is 2ft 8in gauge, they can produce similar locos up to standard gauge.

I wonder if this could have been their works

18 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

Mike, I'm only seeing the header image and last photo now. Strange that they have not come back as they were posted on Monday.

 

 

I can see all the photos. Very nice they are too! I hope you recover them soon.

43 minutes ago, Brassey said:

it baffles me how the railways would have organised charging for this advertising space.  What we see are national brands advertising on hoardings so to mount a national campaign would mean dealing with lots of different railway companies.  maybe there was something like the RCH managing this. 
 

i contacted the History of Advertising Trust a while back specifically about enamel signs but they have little if any information on this early period in the history of advertising. 

To have a national advertising campaign now, companies or their agents presumably have to deal with numerous TV and radio stations, a variety of magazine and newspaper publishing groups, the various bill board companies and now of course there are social media and other digital outlets to negotiate with. I suspect it may have been a lot simpler back then, although the communication methods were slower and more laborious.

A later version - with the horse-drawn van converted to a trailer for the steam lorry. Not as neat as yours, but I may rebuild the set when I have the time, but there are several other recent models which also don't seem up to scratch once photographed and blown-up on screen. So there is a queue and a load of new stuff to make as well.

16 minutes ago, ChrisN said:

 

Phil,

What an interesting picture.  I note the trilbies as well, my dad always wore a trilby but I do not think I have a photo of him in one.  Do you know the date?

 

It is interesting that when people see me in my flat cap I either get, "Eh by gun lad," or "Ah, farmer Giles," both with appropriate accents.

From other family photos of Uncle Walter I would say that it dates from about 1900 - 1905, certainly before 1910.