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  1. Limpley Stoker
    Those figures are perfect as they are and indeed make Misty seem huge. I can almost smell the pipe smoke wafting up from the deck. Well worth the effort and the subtle painting makes the crew part of the ship!
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    Perhaps as a more affluent member of the LM community shirts were sent to the laundry in Encombe . Only bedlinen and towels needed drying at home .
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    I also wondered if the GWR crossing cottages were numbered, as was the practice on the LB&SR. This is at Plumpton , Sussex where the gates were removed a few years ago despite grade Ii listing.
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    That looks idyllic ! The signalman should get the scent of the roses from his signal box ! I wondered if the bushes on the veg plot the other side if the drive were blackcurrants .
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    Rule 1 certainly applicable here - we’re just grateful you had a photo for our breakfast delight ! Thank you Tony Wright for raising our awareness !
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    Mr Dean will be pulled over by the transport police for having no lights on his engine- we wouldn’t have worried about that ten years ago ! great view though
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    Living in suburban Surrey I had an operation for appendicitis in 1949 - it turned out to be bovine TB. I never needed vaccination against TB though. I wonder when pasteurisation became mandatory.
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    I have no excuse for not having one, having laid the trackwork for the bay platform at Limpley Stoke for the Camerton branch line. I have a few months to complete the platforms before it arrives !
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    You’ve just reminded me of ‘66 when a good friend who liked to get his hands dirty helped me remove and dismantle the gearbox of my Morris 1000 to replaced the damaged lay shaft . Unfortunately it was in his father’s garage and we managed to replace the gearbox oil before replacing the drain plug- the resulting oil slick was not appreciated! Your crossing keeper / signalman cottage cameo is lovely especially the domestic appliances - are those blackcurrant bushes in the front garden ?
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    These look wonderful. I’m glad I have delayed building the timber platforms for my version of Limpley Stoke, it looks as though the suspension on such a long carriage might need greater than normal platform clearances.
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    I see Henry is still reading the crane instruction manual, and we get a glimpse inside the engine shed: as so many images have evapourated could you recycle one of the interior? Great pic !
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    That’s a really convincing goods shed, open for business after breakfast tea .I still haven’t finished mine - awaiting a wheel for the crane.
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    We had horse drawn United Dairies milk floats in Cheam in the early ‘50s and the horses were pampered by customers on their round. A few days after our float and horse were made redundant and replaced by a shiny new electric float our horse managed to escape his new home and did his round alone to enjoy his usual attention - until caught.
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    Much better streamlining than the GWR did, but at least they didn’t hide the locomotive from view!
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    Another day ; but the chap in the lorry is annoyed that the newspaper headlines are the same as they were yesterday, it looks as though it’s going to de a quiet day in the goods yard too..
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    Picture no 3 for me - who doesn’t like a pannier like this. Thanks to the space between the trees it appears to be smoking too !
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    RIP indeed LP Referring to the picture ‘left hand down a bit ‘.
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    Too early for vegan milk !
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    That seems very long for the job in hand- could we see it in action.?
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    My eye was drawn, after admiring the Star, to the lovely cameo of the porter organising the cluster of milk churns.
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    Ah, I’ll cancel my order for gold top then.
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    A difficult picture to date , it shows urban milk deliveries in glass bottles in pre war Maida Vale ( Mirror.co.uk)
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    Beautifully painted figures - especially the yellow oilskins ! Does the milkman have any gold top milk on the float ( will we have a horse drawn milk float one day ?)
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    I much refer your version - I’ve never liked those concrete garden walls.
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    That rose arch makes the keepers cottage -turning it into a domestic haven, I wonder if crossing keepers were allowed to pop home for lunch if there were a big gap in the timetable ; he would hear the bell from the kitchen table. More likely Mrs Keeper would take his lunch over to the box.
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