Clik here to view.
Not The Northern Lights
#notthenorthernlights Dizzy Lizzie calls across to Barry Bullhead “are those the Northern Lights?”, to which Nasal Nigel buts in with his irritating know-all voice and squeaks “No, that’s a stock...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Hygiene Police
Just a regular Sunday down the docks, with Nasal Nigel and Adenoidal Andrew hanging around the public lavatory showing each other their TT scale Flying Scotsman locos. Such innocent days with PC Rob...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WW2 Reenactment - Village at War
A handful of shots grabbed on Sunday at 'Village at War' at The Rural Life Living Museum near Farnham. I used Ilford Ortho 80 Plus which is an old style film not sensitive to red light, a type which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inspired by Titfield Thunderbolt Thursday
Inspired by Titfield Thunderbolt Thursday! Before the famous loco was called ‘Titfield’ and later on ‘Thunderbolt’ it was known an ‘Lion’. And here we see this mighty beast heading away from stormy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WW2 Reenactment - Village at War (part 2 of 2)
And here we we have my second roll of freshly processed film, from 'Village at War' reenactment at The Rural Life Living Museum from Sunday 12 May 2024Rolleicord Vb, Kodak Tri-X 400, dev'd in 510 Pyro....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cryptosporidium
In several parts of the West Country in Little England, the water supply is currently contaminated with cryptosporidium waterborne parasites. So the inch high have been advised not to drink the water,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thinking Cap
That familiar engine has escaped Shrewsbury engine shed again and is in dire need of having its water replenished. But alas things could be rather explosive, for the local moonshiners have recently...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Super Shiny Saturday!
It’s Super Shiny Saturday!At the little known Moorewood Colliery, high up in the Mendip Hills, it would appear that management have been out splashing the cash again with the arrival of a super shiny...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flangeway Clearances
Wednesday at Moorewood Colliery. The morning goods hauled by ex GWR Collett No. 3206 of Templecombe shed trundles along the mainline, which since the takeover of the line by the Western Region of BR...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dirty Old Town
Saturday morning down at the gasworks, young loves Farmer George & Deidre are dropping off a moonshine order disguised as milk bottles. We’ve not seen George & Deidre for a while, they’ve been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boom Boom!
Local businessman, ladies’ man, shifty charmer and cad Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe watches the morning Burnham on Sea to Evercreech Junction goods rumble past. He knows that the railway has limited...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thwack, Bing, Bong, Crack!
Nothing of note here, other than Shrewsbury shed’s missing ‘coal tank’ has again mysteriously turned up at Combwich under a magnificent sky. Officially these locos never ran on the ‘Somerset &...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Couple of Tools
Weekend engineering is underway, and Peter Pickaxe is performing some ‘technical work’ on the catch point. But Stan the Spanner suggests that a spanner might be better, because it can also be used as a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Railway to Stonehenge
It's 4.52 am and the little people celebrate finishing the 'Stone Henge' a day late after the Summer Solstice (some years it’s the 20th, others it’s the 21st of June), and as you can see, it's a bit of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ghost Lettering
Ghost LetteringIt’s an unusually quiet Saturday morning at Fountain Colliery deep in The Forest of Dean. The little people sometimes like to hide when a camera appears, so they’re probably here...
View ArticleClik here to view.
For Streetlight Fanciers
Wednesday morning at the terminus, and Derek & Clive are reflecting on last night’s wasp chewing competition at The Star which was rather dull, but that’s quite normal in the build up to the finals...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Return of the SS Canberra from the Falklands Conflict 11 July 1982
42 years ago today as a whippersnapper, I was standing with Dad’s camera on Weston Parade, Southampton witnessing the return of the troops from the Falklands conflict upon the SS Canberra. Whilst the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Canal Aged Moonshine
Sunday morning down at the wharf, and Clive has just arrived with a milk churn full of ’canal aged’ moonshine. Meanwhile Douglas, who was formerly known as Doug, because he no longer has a shovel to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Computer Glitch
Due to a computer malfunction, for even when computers were made of polished mahogany, brass, Welsh marble, lithium crystals and powered by pigeons, things could still go wrong. A computer controlled...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sunday Shine
It’s a lovely Sunday morning in late July, as the 5.32am Chilcompton to Frome goods snakes between the colliery and the rear of The Pedant & Armchair pub, hauled by Templecombe shed’s former GWR...
View Article