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Film, it’s the New Vinyl
A few weeks ago for the price of a small round of drinks on FleaBay, I picked a late 1950s Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/16 from some chap reducing his collection of vintage cameras who lives on some remote...
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High-Vis & Traffic Cones.
A dull misty autumn morning at Fountain Colliery - it’s Front End Friday again!Harry the Hammer has eagerly awaited the arrival of the empty coal wagons and unreliable locomotive for hours. And of...
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‘Revitalising Tonic for the Anaemic Elderly’
A lovely summer Saturday morning in August at Catcott Burtle crossing, as Waving Willy, husband of crossing keeper Daphne Dando waves the Evercreech Junction to Highbridge goods through whilst she...
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Monochrome Monday
Monochrome Monday! There appears to be some kind of exchange in between The Pedant & Armchair and the colliery. Probably to do with the price of cod or why the beer in the pub is always awful....
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Ivan’s Bentley
A blustery November Tuesday down at the canal wharf sees average-photographer Ivan Locksmith and Barry Bullhead watch Bath shed’s LMS 2P rumble through. This is quite a rare occurrence, because 40564...
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Under Fiery Skies
In the south of the UK we had a quite spectacular sunrise this morning. Young hearts, Deidre from the butter blending department at the Bason Bridge creamery and farmer George are up bright at early to...
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Time Slip Saturday - Templecombe
Templecombe station back in March 1984. It was a bit of a murky day I recall. The reason for my visit was to take some photos of the closed Somerset & Dorset line which interchanged here. This...
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Not Monochrome Monday & Goldfish Ponds
In the land of the inch high at Moorewood Colliery, the management have been keen to introduce a little colour on Mondays to brighten up the dull autumn days. However Notebook Clive and Deliberation...
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Hot Tempers & Heatwaves
Back in the olden days, we’re led to believe it was always summery and because camera film was so slow, most only went out in good weather. Though as a kid, I remember that it was mostly overcast in...
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Mamiya C33
Another camera from my collection. A Mamiya C33 which was made sometime between 1965 and 69, here sporting a waist level and Porroflex finder - the latter for eye level viewing. The lens is somewhat...
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Regular Wednesday
A regular Wednesday at Combwich station. Featuring several of our regulars, that’s why today is ‘Regular Wednesday’, it also being a Wednesday. Clever eh? Barry Bullhead is striking a deal selling a...
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The Dusting of White Powder
In the flatlands of northeast Cambridgeshire at Windmill sidings there’s been a bit of snow overnight. Part time Morris dancers, Cyril and Edgar, enjoy the warmth of their engine as they potter about...
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Angry Hubert
Hubert the conversational Latin speaking shunting horse is normally a placid soul. But today he’s more than a little upset due to the dockland authorities wanting to pension him off and replace him...
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A Digital 1950s Zeiss Nettar!
On Mondays (and all other days as well), Driver Double Denim Dancing Dando, known to his pals as ‘DDDDD’ loves to have a shimmy. And being Mid-Somerset Tap Dancing Championships winner 1956-1964, he...
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Seized Brake Shoes & The Vegetarian Option
A murky November morning at the colliery. High-Vis Harold and Harry the Hammer are investigating a wagon with seized wheels which is straddling a point on the entry to the siding which serves the...
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Big Brother is Watching You
In Little England, much like the full sized one, they’re obsessed with camera surveillance and enforcement, mostly as a means of making money. The set up here being used to recorded trespassing on the...
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Fish Guts and Moonshine
Saturday morning on the wharf at Combwich and it’s the first day of the new tourist passenger service on the narrow gauge line which is usually used for transporting fish and winkles between the boats...
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Copper Slip & Cream Cheese
From the warmth of his cab, Peter Peckett gazes over at Milky Malcolm’s delivery van which appears to be stranded on the crossing after stalling it and failing to get it going again. Luckily it’s only...
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Bugger Bognor
It’s the winter solstice at Polbrook Gurney Colliery, though this year it’s actually 3.27am tomorrow in the UK, but we won’t let that spoil the yarn for the sake of a few hours. It’s another damp dull...
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‘20 Foot Deep Arctic Storm of Doom’
The 22nd of December in the land of the inch high, and there’s been a light dusting of snow overnight, the miniature media reporting it as a 20ft deep arctic storm of doom laced with plague spores and...
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