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Everything posted by cary hill
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Maybe, apart from the first coach, which seems to have large "Sunshine" windows, and from the window and door arrangement, might be a Diagram A22 1938 Corridor First. It looks a bit like :http://www.cometmodels.co.uk/modules/viewcatpic.php/8/623 and looks similar to a photo on p231 (fig 394) in Russell. Hope I'm wrong, as I've no idea why a Ist Class coach would be a strengthener coach, unless it was the nearest to hand or just being conveniently moved. The 2nd coach might have a guards ducket, which I didn't think were that common on GWR coaches - perhaps that's a foreigner?
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Days when you know why you live in the British Isles
cary hill replied to Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71's topic in Wheeltappers
Viking raiding party gets first sight of Dun Fhoithear (Dunnottar) through the mist in AD 900? -
Sorry! I should have been more careful it's "Britain from above" not "air", as per this website: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ Put "Leicester" in the search engine and several pics are available (after a bit of wading through),including a couple of "decent" ones (when fully magnified).The views are usually incidental to shots of the Power Station, which the GCR shed was next to.
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Have you tried "Britain from Air" there are a few "incidental" views of Leicester GCR shed, which might be useful if "zoomed in" on, if you haven't seen them already. I wasn't aware of the variations in the roof structure until today, so thanks for an interesting half hour anyway
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Days when you know why you live in the British Isles
cary hill replied to Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71's topic in Wheeltappers
Two from Pembrokeshire: Tenby Harbour and Lifeboat Station: Ramsey Island with the last of the sea mist just being burnt off in the early afternoon: -
Apparently Watford's new Manager/Head Coach of the Week is a bloke called Jok(e)anovic - you couldn't make it up: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29518405
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I thought your dislike of cordylines was bordering on the pathological, until I googled images of "4mm Scale Cordylines" It seems to be a niche that ANTB makes a great contribution to, and I couldn't help noticing that there are three plans showing what must be your proposed cordyline planting scheme so all is not lost.
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The last Rhino left Brent on the 6th April 1964*, shortly after the British Transport Police arrested the Directors of the Brent Rhino Rustling Ring (established 1947) in the Packhorse. I think I reported that the wrecking gang recovery crew had accidently destroyed and burnt the Finchings' bench much earlier in the thread (boo!), but it seems I was wrong and it was actually salvaged and moved to Willow House Residential Care Home, Hill Side, South Brent ,seen here: So the bench is there waiting for the Finchings, and it just needs Rob to persuade the Finchings to move into Willow House now Brent Station is closed.........(more boos) *6th April 1964 was the last day for Goods Traffic at Brent.
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Days when you know why you live in the British Isles
cary hill replied to Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71's topic in Wheeltappers
One in memory of the Late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire. Perhaps a mixture of the man-made and the natural but I like it. The Cascade at Chatsworth and looking across the valley. -
Days when you know why you live in the British Isles
cary hill replied to Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71's topic in Wheeltappers
Whilst we're on canals - "The Black Pearl" moored on the Ashby Canal in Leicestershire. No sign of Johnny Depp though. -
Well I didn't know that the Imperial German Navy had a secret U-boat pen near Padstow. Spookily the real U17 apparently accounted for SS Glitra, the first British merchant ship sunk by a U-boat, on 20 October 1914 see http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishBVLSMN1408.htm Meanwhile back to ANTB has it got one of these yet for variety:http://www.ehattons.com/69557/Hornby_R6682A_Extra_long_CCT_Van_B_in_LNER_livery/StockDetail.aspx
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Here's a better "Rex", produced whilst "Downton" was on, and which is more in keeping with Colin's original observation re the "Primeval" TV Series. T-Rex has used a time anomaly and arrived in Brent in the Summer of '47, eaten all the possibly anomalous Friesian cattle in the backscene and is now attracted to a snorting GWR beast. P.S Rob - I have taken a pledge on pain of death not to produce any more dino pics for ANTB.