Probably the last blog post I'll be able to squeeze out of last Wednesday's visit to Midford.
Even a sharp shower didn't put paid to the hard work being done last week. Tom and Stuart turn up whatever the weather (witness last December's photos and work in the snow!) and it'd take more than a shower (or even a hurricane) to stop Mick Knox in his tracks!
I'm hoping to get up to Midford in the next couple of weeks on a Saturday or Sunday, partly to cycle along the cyclepath, and also to salvage some of the firewood that will need to be cut up on site - for which of course I'll make a nice donation!
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Eye of Kraken winks at stamp flickshow
Steve may like this one being as is slightly into postage stamps, maybe other readers share that special area. Royal Mail's alphabetical landmark stamps series "has been started" and those shown here include three which immediately stood out, however tastes vary so the rest potentially attractive viewing.
Includes Forth Railwy Bridge, Glastonbury Tor, 1779 River Severn Iron bridge.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-15238575
Every time I went exploring the old S&D remains around Glastonbury, the odd little structure up on the Tor was just "there" so I forever associate it with those trips and the pictures I took of things seen, which since destroyed by "progress" or just faded into oblivion.
Some images from UK stamps were sold as postcards, too nice for sending I thought. My favourite was a broad gauge steam loco on a breakwater brought to life in a watercolour painting. Like so much "stuff" cluttering my lair, where is that now? Its terrible getting old and confused.
Meanwhile in the Bat Roost
Still, some hope for me in short term as managed to get further into Clift last night (memories of doing that in my youth). Even over massive roof fall to see some of entombed railway there. Spied much Brunel Bridge Rail holding up the next lot ready to go when a bat wing flutters. Cranes next time, maybe! Mad and Red are having their birthday party in Clift, how cool is that?
Box stone only went out by road or the GWR but Midford had a goods yard forwarding stone from Limpley Stoke quarry, also wartime munitions stored in there. Not yet seen any archive photos of either in the yard. Military may have officially recorded their bit however those pictures are indexed in a hopelessly unsearcheable way.
Holyhead Breakwater Railway - last outpost of broad gauge in the UK?
There was a description of that broad gauge loco, or the same sort, with scaled drawings in old issue of Loco & Carriage Review which photocopied and may be wherever that postcard resides. Possibly also features in Chronicles of Boultons Siding?? Its so much easier gathering such references on the pooter, but cannot input the pre-digital ones until or unless they are physically located in the strata, then laboriously scanned in !
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