Osgood

Maybe the model boat chandlers?

Many thanks for the kind words, Andy.

 

I can't speak for anyone else, of course, but as for my pictures going into a book, the only way that would happen is if I made my own, like this:

 

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Has anyone else made online photobooks? Mine was via the Jessops software, but lots of companies offer this service now.

 

 

 

Cheers

Trevor

Used Photobox for a few - can be good quality but expensive.

Is that just a mock-up, Trevor - or did you make a book?

Have you made it available for others to buy or was it just for your own use?

Tony

Looks like you've captured the ugliness of the real thing to a tee.......

Fascinating.

Looking at pictures on Alan George's web pages it looks like 77 (41 SANDYFORD), built GKN Dowlais, had one above the footplate - but in what looks like a later view only, not in early view.

Also 53 (25 GWERNLLYN), built Kitson, had one in same place as QM.

Keep us informed!

That can't be graffiti on the crane base - can it?

Have a look here for another image:

https://www.bristolferry.com/content/large/education/gcse_pack_low_res.pdf

(with a rear view of MR barge/lighter No.9!)

Hi Richard,

 

Several posts ago a photograph of the dockside ( uncertain of its origins? ) showed some cranes operating.

 

Would you, or any of the followers of this excellent thread know of the manufacturer of the crane ( see below )  which I have edited to show the one in question.

 

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It is of interest to me for various reasons and if and  GA drawings were available ? Long shot probably but I will ask.

 

Grahame

This crane bears remarkable similarities to some of those at the North London Railway's Poplar Docks.

So likely to have been worked by hydraulic power from an underground main supplied by a water pump and accumulator.

Tony

David,

 

..... I only went to Consett the once, on this RPPR railtour (the "County Durham Crusader"), in May 1979, and my memories are much hazier than my photography! ....

I'm jolly glad you went the once at any rate, because you managed to capture a rake of 16T minerals on ironstone duty!

I've been searching for evidence of this without a great deal of success (I think only one image in the Eric Tonks Ironstone series of books).  Thanks.

For livery see first block of text at top of first page of the link in post 1.

"Incontinence Helpline - please hold...."

Please, please tell me some of these images will feature in the forthcoming MN book......

My favourite was 'how many social workers....' - the answer being: 

'Just one - but the light bulb must want to change'.......

'e's fallen in the water..'

Why on earth have these wagons been tipped into the dock?

Pretty sure they were being stored here - probably due to a full yard.  It was a scrapyard and they have been fairly neatly craned into position by the look of it.

Wonder where the Pink Floyd Pig is now, would make a suitable companion

Looks like Algie is back home:  https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-music-pinkfloyd-pig/want-to-buy-pink-floyds-flying-pig-algie-too-late-idUKKCN0QX1NT20150829

Looking good, but the starter motor seems to be getting ideas above his station!

Only thing I can find from a quick online search is anecdotal reference to American boilermakers sometimes putting mashed potato, sawdust or corn starch into boilers to stop minor leaks until rust took over to seal the gaps better.

Looks like the boiler it was then!!

I wonder if it relates to packing piston and valve rod glands? Oh for a time machine!!

What I can't understand about that is how you 'fill her' - you'd have to apply the stuff from the inside to prevent leaks.

You wouldn't even seal the ends of a leaking tube. Surely stuffing it into leaking plate joints from outside would not hold either?

Just shoving it into the water space wouldn't work (like Radweld) as both materials would float.

Reasonable to assume we're not talking high pressure - maybe 80 to 100psi psi for an ancient engine set down a bit due to condition?

I guess you could well be right about 'tight' referring to not leaking, but I wonder how on earth they might have used it?

I took it to mean they'd stuffed some bearings with the mix.........but now I'm not so sure........

Well as you are on the subject of blockages -

3 old boys having a pint and discussing life:

1. 'I can't go 3 hours without having to visit the little room, it can be a right nuisance at times'

2. 'I'm the opposite - sometimes I go 3 days without passing anything'

3. ' Well I don't have any trouble in that respect - I'm regular as clockwork, 6.30 every morning. My trouble is I never wake up before quarter to seven...........'

Here's mine in action on Mynydd Mawr /(which is still VERY incomplete, hence the 'uprooted' trees, etc). Turn up the sound!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMNwprKvYDI

Thanks for posting, Don - very realistic driving!

Does this use the Minerva-supplied sound file?

Tony

There's an episode with all three in scenes together, I wonder if Brent Spiner got 3x pay?!

C6T.