Welchester

Indeed.

The Bonzos were there first: https://youtu.be/5jrnfKe7rqU

Thanks; I didn't think it was the Vendée, having spent many summers there and not having come across it.

Whereabouts was that?

Is that what you call it?

Is that fellow urinating against the fence (or worse)?

A friend of mine served as chaplain on HMS Norfolk. Some of the crew had t-shirts printed that read: 'We don't drink We don't smoke Norfolk'

Oh no. Don't tell me Grayson's here as well. How did he escape from ANTB?

Not Mr Stay Puft, then? https://youtu.be/d-sALU_hveA

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but Hattons are showing delivery dates of April/June for the early GWR and July/September for the later GWR and BR versions. http://www.ehattons.com/173655/Oxford_Rail_OR76DG001_Class_2301_Dean_Goods_0_6_0_2309_in_Great_Western_green/StockDetail.aspx http://www.ehattons.com/173657/Oxford_Rail_OR76DG003_Class_2301_Dean_Goods_0_6_0_2475_in_Great_Western_green/StockDetail.aspx http://www.ehattons.com/173656/Oxford_Rail_OR76DG002_Class_2301_Dean_Goods_0_6_0_2409_in_BR_Black_with_early_emblem/StockDetail.aspx

Also in stock at Hereford Model Centre: http://herefordmodels.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=290&products_id=8099

Possibly taken from the roof of the swimming baths?

I'm glad you didn't post that before I went to the dentist this morning.

The frames are available rtr.

Another tip is always to remember the 'Sir' when you Google 'Felix Pole'.

I don't know the answer, but I know the reason (I'm from Gloucestershire); it's so they can be recognized by their own side, because 'The Glosters don't retreat'.

I'll have one of each please, Rob.

Not the Molesworths of st custards?

With a salt-caked smokestack.

No, but there is on Uranus.

I left about twenty-five years ago, but I worked with Ralph Bowden (the priest in the photo) when he was at Trevethin. All very different to-day; you used to be able to walk along Pontymoile Viaduct from Pontypool to Griffithstown.

You must have known 'Billy the Smoke', then?

Very tempted now; the earlier version, I think, had the partition walls raised above the level of the roof, which looked very 'London'.

A friend of mine kept asking for a pissoir instead of a pichet of water.

Neal, Have you thought of this motorising kit? It relies on visual alignment of the tracks with each use, which might be poblematic if the turntable is at the back of the layout. However it has proved better in use than the previous version, which used plastic gears which kept dropping out of alignment. http://locomotech.com/index.html