Danemouth

Good article. As a boy at the end of the 1950s we had several caravan holidays at Wisemans Bridge. I remember the three tunnels when walking into Saunderfoot.

Dave

1 minute ago, iL Dottore said:

It’s another simple recipe: a steamer grid is placed inside the pressure cooker; white wine is poured underneath the steamer grid, roughly chopped cabbage and onion are mixed with juniper berries and black peppercorns, piled onto the steamer grid and a slab of bacon placed on top of the cabbage, the pressure cooker is closed and started, it’s cooked under pressure for about 30 minutes for al dente cabbage. 35 - 40 minutes for softer cabbage (it also depends on how roughly the cabbage was chopped)
 

Served with mustard and (for Mrs iD) buttered boiled potatoes. Very satisfying, very filling and very warming.

Can I have a large portion please? 😀

Cheers,

Dave

I wonder if @Happy Hippo and @The Johnster remember the truly awful smell that sometimes came from the Brains Brewery when it was in Cardiff City Centre?

In those days Brains was a really good pint.

Dave

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

I think EVs should be fitted with DCC sound so your car at least sounds like a gas guzzling V8.

If that happens put me down for one in GWR Green with a Pannier chip fitted

Dave

9 minutes ago, pH said:

Quite common around the end of the war, I think, though 1947 is a bit late. My dad wore his RAF uniform when he and my mum were married. Their best man, one of my uncles, was in RAF uniform too. However, their bridesmaid, an aunt of mine, did not wear her WAAF uniform!

When my parents married in 1943 my father, who was in the Navy wore his uniform. As my mother entered the church the air raid siren sounded, as they came out afterwards the all clear sounded.

Many years later my then young elder daughter saw their wedding picture and asked why her grandfather was wearing a pirate costume 😀

Dave

Saw Sheep Dip (and Rob) at the Cardiff Show today. It was even more impressive than the pictures on this tread 😀

I particularly like the fact that it is well lit - something that could not be said of all the layouts at the show.

Dave

I've now reloaded the later images, earlier ones can be reloaded if needs be.

Dave

Danemouth still gets a run from time to time and every now and again I think of rebuilding it - I can lengthen it by about 12 iches and would like aan additional siding in the goods yard.

I doubt I will exhibit it again - my back would be less than happy with lifting it and standing around for much of the day.

I am still really pleased with what I have given that I am not the best of modellers

Cheers,

Dave

When I first started work Wales Gas Board had a single holder in Bute Terrace Cardiff behind the offices that had been decommissioned some time. They decided to remove it so the steelwork was removed leaving a pit about 30 feet deep. Lorries started turning up dumping earth etc. into it. I was having lunch in the canteen one day which overlooked this pit when a lorry backed up to drop its load but was halted. A couple of men came from the cashiers office and emptied several bags of foreign coins, clipped halfpennies etc that had been accumulated from coin meters  over the years into the pit - the lorry was then allowed to tip its load on top of them.

One other story from an old hand I worked with. In the war there was a man who used to go on top of the holder at Vorlons in  Barry during air raids and kick off an incendaries that landed on top - how true this is I do not know.

Dave

When I started work in Wales Gas Board back in 1965 I was told the story of a gasometer in North Wales in the days before natural gas and transmission grids. A small town had a coal gas plant and single gasometer. Now their highest load was of a Sunday lunctime when the pressure on the district would drop. So the Manager and his wife would take deckchairs and sit on top of the holder - their weight would help keep the pressure on the district up.

That would be an unusual feature on a layout 😀

Dave

I was also reminded of another childrens TV series called "The old Pull 'N Push".

https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1960s/old-pull-n-push/

I did find the theme tune on Google but not the actual series

Strewth, I'm talking about 60+ years ago!

Dave

For those of us of a certain age!

When ITV started transmitting in Cardiff in 1958 this was on Wednesday afternoons at 5:25

This was in the days of TWW as I am sure @Happy Hippo and @The Johnster will remember 😀

Dave

17 minutes ago, jamieb said:

You can't go far wrong with the 3 part Great Western Branch line Modelling series by Stephen Williams 

There's a set of all three on eBay at the moment for £30

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295105619552?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338923635&customid=ea3-GB&toolid=10050

 

 

 

 

Agree with Jamie, the first volume is particularly helpful with track layouts etc.

Dave

3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

It's the last day of the Pembrokeshire break today. Tomorrow duty will call and we will trek east to see my mother for a few days.  The  TNM Cardiff contingent can breath easy as I have not made plans to visit either Aberflyarff or Danemouth.

Thank goodness, so I don't need to lock the Penderyn in the vault  to keep it safe from marauding Pachyderms😀

Dave

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Richard the Lion, not Spider the Web.

 

Father's day at last:  A bottle of Penderyn Legend has arrived, courtesy of daughter and family.  And just when my last bottle reaches the 3/4 empty stage.

 

SNAP!!! My daughter has just arrived with the same for me. I will force it down over the coming weeks days

Dave

1 hour ago, The Johnster said:

When god was in short trousers and so was I, and steam locos, trolleybuses, and paddle steamers brightened my life, one father’s favourite day trips (because there were no shows or ice cream stalls) was to Nash Point on what is now called the ‘Glamorgan Heritage Coast’

 

These images will bring back memories then John, I took them ~30 years  😀

Dave

32 minutes ago, RedgateModels said:

oy! Leave access alone, I’ve built entire document control systems based on it ;)

Access is fine with a very small number of concurrent users. Once had to sort out the mess of a user who deployed Access database which ended up with 20+ users - it wasn't pretty 😀

18 minutes ago, Phil Parker said:

 

Spot on. Let's hope the regulator closes RMweb down and good riddance to it.

 

 

And I'm sure your "small financial institution" mostly supplied it's services to people free of charge too, or perhaps RMweb should stop doing that. Sometimes I'd be all in favour of doing that.

Sorry Phil, perhaps I have been misunderstood.

The level of data security is dependent upon the nature of the business. This is a hobby website and the level of security put in place was proportionate for that purpose - you were let down by a third party.

What I was trying to say was that each situation rrquires a careful assessment and the needs of a financial institution are entirely different and cost a great deal more to implement.

As  I said no criticism of RMweb was implied.

Dave

2 hours ago, Danemouth said:

p.s. This is in no way a criticism of RMWeb - the issues are with a third party whose approach to backup was less than robust

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

Ever considered a career in the diplomatic service?  😀

 

Sub optimal would also have scored you points!

 

Having said that had RMWeb been a financial institution the regulator would descend on them like a ton of bricks. The regulators view rightly is that you cannot subcontract responsibility for data security.

I worked for a small financial institution until I retired and was quesioned more than once about backups, offsite storage and disaster recovery tests as part of their periodic checks.

I still find it incredible that the third party had the backup on the same disk array as the live data and apparently no offsite backup

1 hour ago, Gwiwer said:

Never rely solely on a third-party service for anything of critical importance unless you have no alternative. 

 

I always keep my images locally though many are also hosted commercially or by web sites such as this one.  Three 2TB remote drives act as master, slave* and back-up meaning I have three copies of everything except for very recent additions and changes as I don't back up instantly. 

 

 

Well said that man sound advice indeed 😀

As a retired Information Security Manager this is my approach - a cheap second laptop is used with a DOS script to back up each evening all of my personal files over the home WiFi network - just the files that have changed. In addition a UPS drive is connected once a week and Acronis True Image used to backup the complete laptop.

Never leave a backup drive permanently connected - all it takes is a virus or power surge to wipe out your backup and leave you up **** Creek without a paddle!

As Rick rightly says never rely on the cloud soley for your critical data

Dave

p.s. This is in no way a criticism of RMWeb - the issues are with a third party whose approach to backup was less than robust

53 minutes ago, Dungrange said:

 

Does that book cover the Diesel and Electric era?  My understanding was that it focussed primarily on the stream era (which is why I never bought it).

I've just had a quck look - covers steam only

Dave

I found this book useful

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Freight-Train-Operation-Railway-Modeller/dp/0711031428/ref=sr_1_8?crid=2L4DRREBK0V6K&keywords=freight+essery&qid=1651755238&s=books&sprefix=freight+essery%2Cstripbooks%2C42&sr=1-8

Dave