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We got quite fond of the Colletts eventually!

Let's see if anyone has some more 000s - I haven't and I haven't any more 111s apart from the official Great Bear.

You could have had Great Bear in photographic grey but that would have been an official photo not one or mine or Dad's. or did you want more 000s

There is a model of the gun in Newhaven Fort, which is across the harbour from the site of the firing exercise in the photo.

There are a number of cycling related photos in the WW1 p.r. book Kitchener's Army, showing cycle scouts peering through hedgerows having dismounted, whole companies of cyclists including a large number of AA motorcycle scouts who volunteered to pedal rather than motor and there's one of two cycles with rifles across them being used to evacuate a wounded soldier - the bikes are being pushed rather than ridden, I hasten to add. My mother's family were keen cyclists. I think I have shown several of their photos already so I won't repeat them all here! This one is post-WW1 so may be a bit late for this forum.

It has to be another IOW tube train - this time it's not NSE

Given the generally flatish terrain of Norfolk I am surprised to find that there is no obvious provision for the regiment's bicycles. Obviously far too much had been spent on impressive portraits and not enough on new technology. https://cyclehistory.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/military-cycling-the-war-office-mark-bicycles/ Image was obviously more important than efficiency, especially if the cyclists that might be recruited had bad teeth! Was Gloucestershire particularly known for dental dereliction, one wonders?

My grand-daughter and I saw the original architects' model of that last year at Tate Modern

While we are rambling about with Edwardian ladies on strange mounts my grandfather snapped this while wiring up Abbassia Barracks in 1912-13. This print was dated on the back - 1912, but another copy of the print had 1913 on the back. Both were in the same hand-writing. Let that be a lesson to you - you can't always rely on the information on old photos.

More 006 ?

005s anyone - I haven't - have you?

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit that's all this forum does!

Sailing coasters still plied the Severn and Bristol Channel into the 1930s. Chris Handley's The Maritime Activities of the Somerset & Dorset Railway has pictures of them visiting Highbridge Wharf and Bridgwater. This is my conversion of a 1/87th HMS Beagle. There are numerous things I could have done better, but it gives an overall impression of the little ships that were the HGVs of the era. It is surprisingly hard to find a reasonably priced model sailing ship suitable to use with a small scale harbour scene in 4mm.

Thought of you as I passed by en route from St Magnus the Martyr to Southwark Cathedral, on a stained glass safari. I think I must have had the camera settings for the stained glass still on, as this isn't my finest snap. The file name is the location's coordinates

A lovely London landscape!

Mrs. May puts Brexit on ice.

A bit late for you - this one was on Railway Approach and backed onto Duke Street Hill - It still seems to be there according to G**gle maps http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/40529426

You could try a model boat accessories supplier - I have bought bits and pieces for my S&DJR coasters from Cornwall Model Boats - this page is a search result for pulleys. https://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?page=search&SS=pulley&PR=-1&TB=O&ACTION=Go%21 You can find thin chain in charity shop jewelry trays - but that is a rather hit and miss approach, but it is worth keeping an eye on such cheap resources. I got a load from a multi-strand necklace.

We see a lot of summer time layouts, some are clearly in hot weather showing parks or beaches with people sunning themselves or playing cricket. Does anyone model carriages with their windows open?

Any more 004s?

More 002s?

This started life as a 001! Better stay with 001s

This is from one of my mother's family's albums. I think it shows some of her aunts in the office of the family's men's outfitters business. The office equipment will have been state of the art as the Pritchard's of Hereford were great technophiles - cars, motorcycles, balloons using town gas, radio etc. It certainly seems to have more keys than a typewriter.

The way it is spaced the second letter does not exist. Each cell, of six, numbers down the first (left) side 1,2,3, then down the second 4,5,6. The second letter has a single dot at position 4. 'i' would have a dot at 2 and one at 4. The rest of the letters and contractions are correct. I checked this with my wife who used to teach Braille.'a' has one dot but it is at position 1.