eastglosmog

Yes, you have to be careful where you put the ampersand! This business of LHD or RHD is quite fascinating. I have been looking at my copies of Bradley again, and it appears the LSWR was RHD when Beattie and Adams were in charge (Adams T3 563 on the Swanage Railway is definitely RHD) but changed over to LHD when Dugald Drummond took over in 1895, a policy which continued with Urie. Not seen any reason given why Drummond went LHD. I suppose with his generally higher pitched bigger boilers, it could have been sighting of signals, but could just as well have been that is how it had been on the Caledonian and he wasn't going to change for a load of southerners! Neither Drummond nor Urie bothered to change the existing RHD stock to LHD, and the Southern did not either.

But was the G&SWR LHD? This photo of a G&SWR loco looks decidedly RHD. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/product/image-library/1290?field_sub_category_tid[0]=2023&page=11

Oh my god, said the great Primadonna My voice is a goner! But a cat in the wings said I know how she sings And finished the solo with honour

I am intrigued by the condition given as "For parts or not working". Who would pay £7.00 for a non-working nut and bolt? Also, what use is a scale without any indication of what the graduations are, could be marked in mm, 1/16", rods, poles or perches.

Only connection I have is that my mother got her 100th Birthday card from the Queen 21 months ago. (She was right chuffed with it.)

Had that trouble the first time I went round to feed next doors pair, Tay and Toto. I just put the food bag on the worktop. Empty with big holes in the side when I went round in the morning and neither cat wanting breakfast! Never have any trouble like that with Tilly.

Some little things that are essential for a spring river scene:

Saw this Scarlet Tiger Moth in my front garden yesterday:

Some way back up thread there was a request for pictures of gated roads. I provided one of a rather beaten up old gate. Here is another, with a more classy newish gate that has not been hit by a tractor yet.

Tilly don't need no camouflage 'cos these birds is stoopid!

There were 4 Crampton locomotives built by Hawthorn Leslie in 1856 some of which may (or may not) have worked in Britain before going to Denmark.

It was the death of the barge traffic as well, I believe the last hay barge from Essex to London was about 1938.

Thames barges carried a good deal hay for London, see here:https://isleofdogslife.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/hay-barges-on-the-thames/

I've posted this before, but it seams to have got lost with the great outage. The NCB coalfield map, showing what classes of coal could be had from various coalfields in the early 1970s.

Round here, we speak to each other nearly every day, chatting over the fence or in the street outside.

A Drinker Moth caterpillar by the roadside yesterday.

I am sure we have had an example of these wall mounted cranes before, but can't find it at the moment. So here is an example on a barn wall of a farm near Kingham. Not been used for over 30 years so far as I know.

I think we can match that. There is a 7.5t weight limit on the river bridge at the bottom of my hill . There is also a 7.5t weight limit in the town center. The diversion route for lorries to avoid the bridge is signed around the outskirts of the town until it reaches a cross roads, where it stops, with a final sign pointing down into the town center!

I believe they came into use with the Motor Car acts of 1896 and 1903 (see Riverciders's photo of a GWR one), so should have been plenty around by 1912. I remember seeing others with wording saying something like "insufficient to carry more than the normal traffic of the district". A bit vague and whilst true in 1910,probably inaccurate by the 70s and 80s!

Some pictures of decay from today's ramble: Rot starting on the top rail of a wooden footbridge, posts do not appear affected: Another footbridge, where the tops of the upright posts are so badly rotted new supports have had to be installed, but the rails are unaffected: And a picture of weathering of old brick in a covered alleyway:

But see Harold Gasson's tales of working the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton in the 1940s. They sometimes went a bit faster than that. One occasion at over 30mph when impressing a load of USA soldiers!

One of the side effects of Badgers untimely death is that the local hedges are much more straggly and overhanging of the pavements now. I used to prune them whilst looking for him, ostensibly as a matter of civic pride making the town look tidier - in reality as an excuse to look in the hedges to see if he was hiding there!

No it isn't. I have spent many hours out pounding the streets looking for errant cats (Badger in particular).

These modern Class 8xx things are far to quiet, only just had time to switch the camera on before it had nearly all passed!

Stoneycombe Quarry works neither the Old or New Red sandstone, nor the Carboniferous Limestone. It works the Middle Devonian East Ogwell Limestone (mainly pink and grey colored) see here: https://devoncc.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicDocs/Environment/_layouts/15/download.aspx?guestaccesstoken=ujxKBHbThqN5%2fxt4O%2fjIe0ERwVU%2bzgscC9bMKV4VKYM%3d&docid=065e696e81bd34a939be784afb957a9e5&rev=1