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Olympus mju ii
Another camera from the collection. A late 1990s 35mm Olympus mju ii. I’ve not run a film through it for years, but I popped a battery in the other day and everything appears to work okay running a...
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Collapsible Engine
Down at the wharf, a SR Q1 ‘Austerity’ 0-6-0 collapsible goods locomotive simmers next to an overhead water tank, which as usual in the land of the inch high is unlikely to contain water. These...
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Voightlander Vitomatic ii a
Another old camera from my collection. A Voightlander Vitomatic ii a. This German made 35mm rangefinder camera was originally my grandfather’s, and dates from between 1960 and 1963. It’s still fully...
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Christmas Tree!
Even in olden times signs of Christmas would manifest well and truly early. I remember as a whippersnapper getting on for 50 years ago seeing Xmas stuff in a shop just after the late august bank...
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Rail Replacement Bus
In Little England, shrined in law since 1883, all weekend trains have to be replaced with the dreaded rail replacement bus service. Only preserved railways are exempt from this diktat instigated by the...
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View Through the Back Passage
Here we are at Fountain Colliery and the view from up the back passage where the railway slips in between The Miners Arms and the lodge at the entrance of Barry Bullhead’s huge country estate financed...
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Midweek Monochrome
It’s a midweek miserable Wednesday at Fountain Colliery. And most usually one of Templecombe shed’s Midland 3F locos has made it deep into The Forest on the other side of the Bristol Channel. But in...
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Corte Mullen Junction 1986
I've just been scanning off some more of my negs and came across the set I took at Corfe Mullen Junction Crossing on a dull 9th of November 1986. This crossing was in the southernmost section of the...
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Skid Mark Monday
The morning goods slows to take the point at the entrance to the incline into Polbrook Gurney Colliery. Due to a very wet season, the trackbed is like a huge sponge and needs more attention that usual....
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Power to the Little People
Here we have a nice summer scene at Catcott before the little people moved in, the bus is driverless, there are no passengers, the engine has no crew, no animals, not even the omnipresent Bob Geeza...
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Jan Garbarek Quartet
With it being a fowlish day outside, so what better than another dip into the negative folder from 3 December 1990. Here we are during a sound check and rehearsal of the Jan Garbarek Quartet at the...
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Head Codes
Deep in The Forest, a view down the side passage next to The Miners Arms as old sad eyes number 6313 prepares to depart with a few wagons of freshly loaded coal. Deliberation Dave looks at the engine...
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Fibreglass Face Off
To combat trespass on the line, a couple of scary locomotives with terrifying fibreglass faces have been bought in to scare small children and probably some adults away from the line. As they patrol...
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Never Trust the Cat
As many will know, Bob Geeza Cat is a regular here, but there has never been a mention of Bob’s owner. Though as any cat owner will know, they actually own us. We are their loyal servants. Brat granny...
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Rubber Frying Pans & Bottled Daylight
As the sun tries its best to break through the low cloud cover, boatman Wilfred Windinghole chats to Doug and Double Denim Dancing Dando about the price of cod, the state of the cut, the madness at the...
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Horse Beer
Thursday morning and Hubert the conversational Latin speak horse has been given a crate of bottled moonshine laced brown ale for his birthday. Muttering in Latin he says to Clive, “Valde hoc genus...
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FED 3b
Another camera from the collection. A near mint FED 3b from the mid 1970s. These cameras were made in Kharkov, Ukraine between 1961 and 1979. The interchangeable 53mm f2.8 lens which dates from 1988 is...
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Vermin Infestation
Most of the inch high are terrified of mice for some reason. Though I suppose if they are 12 inches to the foot there would be good reason. Though a mouse is unlikely to be interested in a figure made...
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Time Warp Tuesday - Overcombe
Time warp Tuesday Almost 40 years separate the B&W and colour photographs here. Back in the 1980s when I was still a fetus and a member of the Southampton Model Model Railway Society, I...
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The Dreaded Office Party
It’s that time of year, the time of the dreaded office party when all the once-a-year-drinkers descend to the pub and generally make a nuisance of themselves - usually in front of the boss or ‘line...
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