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... followed four days later by Empire Day (or Commonwealth Day in more recent times) being Queen Victoria's birthday.

Here the rail is not in the road but in the wall. This is a tramway rail seen repurposed in Guernsey. I imagine that this is a relic from the Guernsey Steam Tramway Company which operated from 1877 until its early electrification in 1892. This is now on its side but I think these rails were originally run along wooden baulks.

Never lend money to a country which has green in its flag.

Don't forget that today, the 20th of May, is Eliza Doolittle Day.

Right hand down a bit.

... and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwood_trolleybus_turntable

How can you get irradiated by a lump of concrete?

Barnard Castle

What a topic! I had a boss who emigrated for about ten years to Australia and during that period he needed to order some concrete for some foundations. Now by this time Australia had started to slide down the metrication slope and his order for X cubic yards of ready-mix got translated into X cubic metres. He had the deepest set of foundations in all Canberra by the time he'd finished. Seeing the whitemetal model horses made me think of the famous Silver, horse to the Lone Ranger, and that sent me down the YouTube rabbit-hole, reminding me that I am no intellectual when it comes to classical music. I was always cautioned that with horses you should always keep well clear of the moving parts.

I, II, III or IV?

Careful when you get to doing the livery. Apparently one member of the LYRS got to that stage and to his horror found it perfectly lettered for the Lancashire & Lancashire Railway. The only compensation must have been that the other side would have said Yorkshire & Yorkshire.

You can take this sort of thing too far though, especially if you have a cavalry background, Scatalogic Rites of All Nations cropped up in project Gutenberg the other day.

Quite shocking, really quite shocking.

That reminded me of my acquaintance (I wrote of him here a few months ago - he became a Chelsea pensioner) who by-passed his coin-in-the-slot electricity meter if it stopped before the landlady could empty it using a length of flex with a plug on each end. He wasn't picky about which end he plugged in first.

The one who really looked stupid was the unhelpful specimen who cackled and filmed the poor woman who was having trouble rather than offering any help.

Springwood Junction.

It's worth watching this BBC interview:

By Timothy!

Coloured with crayons, captioned with guesses.

I was recommended to read this by a retired (but post-Vietnam War era) USN helicopter pilot. I found it made for interesting comparisons with the numerous Great War, WWII and other aviation memoirs I've read. Incidentally, my acquaintance explained that flying helicopters is very easy: move the collective one way and the trees get smaller, move it the other way and they get bigger. I'm not sure how he managed to fly the things when he was at sea and out of sight of any trees though.

There is the legendary tale of the Gurkha who ran up and down Glamaig on the Isle of Skye setting a record which was not beaten for some eighty or ninety years despite several attempts. For an affectionate account of the Gurkhas it is worth reading John Masters' book 'Bugles and a Tiger' which was his account of becoming and being a Gurkha officer in the 1930s and in the Burma campaign as a Chindit. He later went on to become a highly acclaimed novelist writing such classics as 'Bhowani Junction' and 'Night Runners of Bengal'.

http://wikimapia.org/1998101/Quarry-Wood-Hall#/photo/1268926 I've often gone past the Cardboard Castle.

I assume you've seen:

The coats of arms in the cast iron spandrels are those of the North Eastern Railway. However they do include the arms for the city and the white rose of Yorkshire. Keep up the good work. Perhaps one day soon your client will be able to invest in some pre-grouping stock and roll back the clock to recreate the famous F Moore image. https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/painted-photograph-by-f-moore-showing-york-station-from-the-news-photo/90746189

Thomas Firbank in his book "I Bought a Mountain" refers to the brothers: Lloyd George Kitty Maud Jones, Vimy Ridge Kitty Maud Jones, Hill Sixty Kitty Maud Jones and Granville Cadwallader Kitty Maud Jones. Apparently their sister was quite something and all the brothers were proud to be known by her suffix. "This youth’s name is Lloyd George Kitty Maud Jones, Ffridd- y-Foel. He is tall, black-haired, with a hard, wiry body. He was christened Lloyd George Jones, and would ordinarily have been known as Lloyd George Ffridd-y- Foel in order to distinguish him from his namesake, the politician, who has a house at Criccieth. But in this case there is a famous sister, who quite outshines the politician. Rumour has it that she would have defeated Messalina in open competition, even as Messalina put Scylla to shame. There are three more brothers, proud to be known by the sister’s suffix. They are Vimy Ridge Kitty Maud Jones, Hill Sixty Kitty Maud Jones, and Granville Cadwallader Kitty Maud Jones."