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Clearly a spelling mistake - now corrected

Clearly Party Gate is a pared down version of -

This more of a quirky juxtaposition - 'COOP Funeral Care' next to 'Window to the Womb'. No, I haven't Googled the latter. You can if you want. Poor quality snap. I was heading for my bus home having had a stimulating afternoon perusing the offerings of the four finalists of this year's Turner Prize. I followed the message of one but the others were beyond me. What I really liked was a winged Assyrian bull made out of date product tins, which sat majestically outside the Towner Gallery.

Another example of someone creating business for themselves

I thought that I had a photo of one of those signs, but it turned out to be this one. I am not sure how many 'engines' pass through Henley with trucks in tow now. Perhaps they were still doing it in 2015. That seems a long time ago now.

I was run into by a Dial-a-Ride disability minibus and fairly gently tipped over, landing astride my fallen bike. I did ask the driver if he was looking for more clients. Although I wasn't noticeably hurt at the time, I have since wondered if my inguinal hernia, which became apparent 20+ years later, was caused by the way my legs were forced apart. The driver did keep in touch to make sure I was still OK in the days after.

My god-father translated one of St Paul's letters to the Corinthians, for The New English Bible around 1955. I have a dedicated copy of NEB with his signature.

The younger 'us' had to do our own paint jobs. There were few options back in the 1960s.

Looking through my file of old prints, collected by my grandfather, to see if there were any trows in them, I came across this view of Gloucester Docks. I think that the Foster Brothers No.2 may be too small and un-named to be a trow. But it is an interesting scene.

Of course you are in the territory of the western end of the Dorset and Somerset Canal branch, which should have run from Vobster, through Coleford on the aqueduct, to Edford, had the funds not run out. https://www.dorandsomcanal.org/features.htm

Isn't that a brilliant family group, Granny & Grandad, Mum, Dad, boy in his school blazer, bucket in hand, spade over his shoulder, three toddlers and another in the push-chair probably. There could even be another boy in a blazer - between the grandparents. Grandad looks as if he has the lunch. Not sure what Dad has got in his shopping bag. All of them crossing within feet of the 4F.

Burnham didn't have an engine shed, as Highbridge was only a couple of miles away. Generally speaking local trains used the original platform, while excursions used the longer platform, built for that purpose. Illustrations are provided! I was interested to see your back-story and map. I lived at Wells, Coleford and Highbridge in the 1950s & 60s. My father started a layout, in the late 1960s, with the rather unlikely premise that the GWR built a branch from Mells Road to Coleford, via Vobster where there was a junction with an S&D branch from Radstock, I think. The GWR gave the S&D running powers from there to Coleford. I built most of the rolling stock from Triang clerestorys and Kenline wagon parts, with the locos part repaints, conversions (e.g. SR L1 to S&D 2P) and part scratch tops on HD and Triang chassis. Those still around are gradually being worked into a highly compressed version of Highbridge Wharf. Gathering additional rolling stock and building buildings is a fairly bonkers way of doing things, as I almost certainly will have too much of both when I actually get into baseboards and track! Although it has photos from way before your period, The Mendips in Old Photographs, compiled by Chris Howell, has a photo of the brewery's locos, Oakhill and Mendip, and lots of atmospheric scenes from the area. I shall look forward to seeing how Holcombe progresses. Best of luck with it.

Just a few from this year's London to Brighton - a couple of dozen more here - http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/1355718

Could do, but I wouldn't want to be underneath, when chunks of parapet balustrade crash down from a great height. I really like Hangleton as a destination, but I have never been out in that direction.

If you are modelling the current scene you need to get a good stock of greenery to plant on and around your infrastructure. I don't know whether this guy or his mates will actually move onto the more crucial Buddleia forest that is growing along the London Road Viaduct in Brighton. In my experience in premises management for a social services department, Buddleia is a chronic pest, which gets into paving and wall mortar and weakens structures if not removed. It can also be seen from ground level sprouting from the coping along the top of the parapets.

There are further views of London Road Station in my Brighton & Hove stations album -

Finally - no vans - no skips! On my way to the Brighton MRC show.

GWR 4-6-0 no.36 was a one-off heavy goods loco built, in 1896, to work the Severn tunnel line. It had a more conventional outline. 4-6-0 2601, shown above, was again a one-off, built in 1899 and a development of 36. The remaining nine Krugers were 2-6-0s built in 1902/3. This information is courtesy of Railway Magazine April 1928*, 'Modern Locomotive Practice on the GWR'. So maybe the Krugers reached wherever the Severn Tunnel coal trains went. That half-year volume is the only one I have, but I knew I had seen a Kruger somewhere and that seemed a likely place.

Even by 1950-52 there were still grimy locos about. But not all! I imagine 2793 was recently ex-works.

All the photos I have in Dad's collection of LNER photos that have L&NER are from very early in the post-grouping period. These are a couple of examples. You can probably find more in this album http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/494007

There are more photos of Alliance in the other, photo-sharing, website that I use. http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/499693/@/page:7:18

While captioning some photos of HMS Alliance, taken at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, I noticed the proliferation of cigarettes and matches in the messes. So I went to look up the regulations. I came across this Hansard report from 1951, in which Royal Navy officers are complaining about restrictions and lack of clear guidance in the regulations on the issue of tobacco products. One was a Surgeon Lieutenant Commander encouraging smoking. How times have changed! https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1951/jun/21/royal-navy-duty-free-goods

Current subscribers to Railway Modeller have access to the complete online archive of that magazine. If you can find a subscriber in your area may be they could access it for you. In 1985 Model Railway Constructor published a 'Model Drawings Reference Book' listing drawings up to that date, across all the four magazines in publication in that era. Whether there are any copies out there I don't know.

Subsequently found to have been from 1964

There's some really good stuff there. Have you tried looking on the backs to see if there is any information there? If they were mine I would want to see if they would come out from under the tacky film without removing any of the photographs' surfaces. When I inherited my Dad's photo collection, there was an album with similar film on it. It did not seem to have affected the prints, but the discolouration of the film did detract from their appearance, so I took them out and scanned them individually. You can see the result at http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/494007