Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

Devizes!!!

There's usually something to interest and surprise on a random search, and today's mystery object, in true "20 Questions" style is animal and mineral.....(more mineral than animal, but i bet it has a leather seat).

https://youtu.be/7aDFNydbgQ0?t=371

from a chap called John Girvan, who knows a great deal about the hidden history of Devizes

http://ngirvan.photobiz.com/videos

Regards Neil

and continuing "Devizes Day" , and linking seamlessly with the Robert Sinclair discussion previously, this tobacco tin from E & W Anstie Ltd Devizes (established 190 years!) looks like another story waiting to be discovered They did some very nice cigarette cards of horses and jockeys for one.

[CitroJim]

I really like Devizes - somewhere I could live very happily...

One thing worth visiting is the Caen Hill Lock Flight

And for the beer lovers amongst us, it's the home of Wadworth's Brewery. They still use horse-drawn drays around the town and have a training pub!!!

Their brewery buildings are absolutely gorgeous... Their visitor centre looks worth a visit.

Even the Wiltshire Police HQ buildings in the town are attractive...

In fact the whole town is most attractive - even down to the duck pond...

[Hell Razor5543]

Well, that flight would keep Mum, Alex or Jay busy for a while ! The last two are brothers of mine, and they also have a narrow boat each.

[CitroJim]

The last two are brothers of mine

Thought at first you were related to two of the locks James

[NewcastleFalcon]

Definitely plenty of interest in Devizes.....even the 1960's Library has a Nuclear bunker in its basement all revealed towards the end of the Devizes in wartime walk video linked too. Devizes POW camp, subject itself of a "great escape" plot in 1944, also featured with the last few remaining Romney corrugated iron huts. (Bit bigger than a Nissen)

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

Neil, see what you can find out about where Gabriel is seen parked in Somerset...



It's a truly gorgeous little town and the location does not do the place justice...

The town has a name that sounds very much like the county it's in...

Dad is resident there in a nursing home ...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Neil, see what you can find out about where Gabriel is seen parked in Somerset...

Stage 1...mission accomplished......that's Market Place Somerton.

Stage 2....find something obscure about it

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Neil, see what you can find out about where Gabriel is seen parked in Somerset...

Well in some sort of unlikely link to my recent posts on pictures of the day, Somerton is home to "The London Cigarette Card Company" est 1927. Sutton Road, Somerton.

I will do a delve and see if they have any E & W Anstie examples seeing as it's Devizes Day today

Or indeed any Robert Sinclairs from yesterday!

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Of course they do, including cigarette silks originals from the First World War period which were included with your packet of tabs like the more familiar cards. Here's Kitchener from Anstie

http://www.londoncigcard.co.uk/product.php?id=3265

They also have sets of sectional issues.....where a larger picture would be revealed when the full set of sections was collected....like this of Wells Cathedral.

http://www.get-collectables.co.uk/ekmps ... ekm%5D.jpg

Regards Neil

[bobins]

Definitely plenty of interest in Devizes.....even the 1960's Library has a Nuclear bunker in its basement all revealed towards the end of the Devizes in wartime walk video linked too.
Regards Neil

Nice to see the little bunker under the library I've been in many such places, but never visited the Devizes one before. Thanks for the link, Neil.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nice to see the little bunker under the library I've been in many such places, but never visited the Devizes one before. Thanks for the link, Neil.

My pleasure, thanks bobins . Just from the little link to Devizes, I turned up loads of interesting little trails to explore too many to mention them all. The P.O.W. Camp, and the great escape plot, had consequential links to a P.O.W. Camp in Comrie Scotland....interesting to dig out the story on that.

Regards Neil

[bobins]

My pleasure, thanks bobins . Just from the little link to Devizes, I turned up loads of interesting little trails to explore too many to mention them all. The P.O.W. Camp, and the great escape plot, had consequential links to a P.O.W. Camp in Comrie Scotland....interesting to dig out the story on that.

Regards Neil

......and the Comrie (Cultybraggan) camp also has a much larger bunker on it......

[CitroJim]

Neil, see what you can find out about where Gabriel is seen parked in Somerset...

Stage 1...mission accomplished......that's Market Place Somerton.

Stage 2....find something obscure about it

Regards Neil

Spot-on Neil

Despite growing up no more than 5 miles from Somerton I actually know nothing at all about the place... It was a foreign place to us kids - full of strange people whom we never spoke to

I found out more by running a couple of circuits of the town on Thursday than I ever knew as a kid so anything you find out is eagerly appreciated!

[NewcastleFalcon]

...so anything you find out is eagerly appreciated!

I enjoyed discovering the nation's leading cigarette card business tucked away in a corner of Somerton. The original examples of those sectional issues like the Wells Cathedral set of 20 from Ansties of Devizes are superb in my opinion.

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

Very much agreed Neil