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Class 37 and hoppers to Wood Green, one train daily in the 1980's, I've got some photographs somewhere.

Try this, Ignore the title it's Tony Wright and Ian Rathbone

Some of us are a lot younger...... I reckon she's older than my Great Grandmother........and she's been dead 50 years..

They've probably been hosted on a 3rd party provider such as 'photobucket' which has now pulled access unless you pay.

Is that because you're sitting down.......

It's from when BP merged with Amoco to become BPAmoco which then morphed into Beyond Petroleum

I know a little about 'Little Barford' Livery at Little Barford power station was blue along with 'Edmonson' it moved under its own power in the 60's from LB up the GN main line to Sandy, then through the transfer sidings to the Cambridge to Bedford line and along to Bedford where it worked at Goldington Power station before being moved to Acton. I often wondered why 'Edmonson' was left at LB but it turns out the power station was originally "The Edmonson Power company' I'm sure I remember a 4W diesel shuffling 16T coal wagons about when we used to pass by in the late 60's early 70's, again it was in Blue.

That is true, but the thread is in the specific section for Special interest/ Pre-grouping and so far it has nothing to do with either but has turned into a ramble. Not a problem but really for off topic/wheeltappers not a modelling thread.

Tremors http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/ Not my cup of tea

I should be able to pop over Les, I'll circulate this around EBMRS for you too.

Eeeerrrrr this was 3 years ago. I think at the time Gilbert disposed of all of Dave's stuff to various homes (I've got some items) and he and Julie (Dave's widow) presented a cheque for approx £5,000 to Cancer research.

Arlesey white bricks really are very 'white' whereas the B'wade ones have a yellow tone. It is possible they are from Arlesey but I haven't seen them weather like that. For info, The Arlesey brickworks didn't become part of London Brick until 1930(?) before that there were 4-5 private brickworks. One of them was "The Great Northern Brick Company" although I don't think it was a company one as it opened in 1852/3 and was possibly adopting the name from the recently opened ECML it was next to This is an example of Arlesey whites when clean. https://arcangelolombari.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/front-of-second-assylum-cottage-head-gardener-lived-here2.jpg This was part of Fairfield Hospital.

That's actually very unusual for beams for a loft conversion, the usual practise is to place the beams above the existing ceiling and them suspend the new floor from the beams between the ceiling joists or place it between the web of the beam. Regarding a lock, So long as the door is a fire door with the correct intumescent strip and fire stops, has a catch and pergo closure, that's enough to satisfy Building control

I thought Polo mints were round.....

For me it was "Armageddon Day"....I've still not recovered from that pile of shite and that must have been 15 years ago......never flew with the airline again.

Where?

Looks bloomin good to me. They weren't a London Brick but a yellow. A lot of Biggleswade was rebuilt so it's probable the supply of bricks had come from GN company brickworks some of which were still in Lincolnshire. I'm pretty sure they're not a local brick which would have a bit more 'pink' in it.

Sam here with a couple of copies, I put them on Ebay and got a few quid back (enough. for a wagon kit)

In this mornings post and a quick flick through shows some very interesting articles. We're away for a week from next Saturday so saving it to take with me.

First film I remember seeing at the Cinema...Magic Lantern house. Filmed between Bedford and Southill on the original Midland (pre-group so on topic) route into London. Terry Thomas ends up in Old Warden tunnel. Goldington Power station (Bedford) served by the former Bedford and Cambridge then LNWR Oxford-Cambridge

Which album are you thinking of ?........... I'll get my top hat and tailcoat Hansom cab..

This is excellent ! Some impressive work so far. I have some of Franks etches and met him at Ally pally when I manned the GNRS stand, they've moved up the list with just a few things to finish first and I'm looking forward to cracking on with them.

Just a quick story on a similar situation. In 1982 my father came home for his regular medical, the Dr picked up an anomaly which turned out to be an enormous 'shadow' on is right lung. He had very advanced and late stage lung cancer. He was taken into Papworth hospital and operated on and 90% of his lung removed, after a short recovery and discharging himself against Dr's orders he went back to work in the USA. He was also told that he had at the maximum just 3 years to live and to put his affairs in order as he was not going to enjoy good health and would be incapacitated.......He didn't tell me any of this until 1998 ! apparently he didn't want to worry us !! He worked until 1994 (aged 74), enjoyed good health apart from being a bit breathless if he walked a few miles and said "Doctors...don't know anything". I couldn't help but laugh.

It was 'Cornwall'. and looked nothing like that at all. I reckon it's a Chinese QJ

If you go back to Phils original question it was for articles that would fit in a magazine that sat between MRJ and the Mainstream not for the Mainstream. You were still having a dig.