Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

We had one where we lived at Platt, Sevenoaks with VR on it.
Peter

The VR post boxes around here were made by Smith and Hawkes of Birmingham....turned their hands to most things as this advert from Grace's Guide reveals



Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Peter, Here's a quest for you should you decide to accept it of course.

An unusual postbox in Dorset, here at Barnes Cross Cottage to be precise

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9046837 ... 2!1b1!2i50

A very early Hexagonal Post Box (1855) still there in 2011, made by Butt and Co of Gloucester



Regards Neil

[Peter.N.]

Never seen that one, wrong end of Dorset for me, we are on the Devon border.

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

Never seen that one, wrong end of Dorset for me, we are on the Devon border.

Peter

You will be closer to this then Peter.....Van has been but doesn't do pictures....so under the extremely strict rules of the AA Box challenge it remains unclaimed .

REgards Neil

[Peter.N.]

I will try and get that one sometime, I don't often get down there - having said that I think I will be in a couple of weeks, probably forget my camera though.

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

Anyone got any creative juices?

The OTCL hit the 71,000 posts mark tonight....Timmo supplied the coup de grace on the thread "Back to Black".

So while I look for my habitual locomotive...anyone else got any offerings for a 71000 POTD.

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

71000................In Steam locomotive circles that means only one thing...

The Duke

https://www.theduke.uk.com/the-duke/abo ... loucester/


and one of the best locations for railway photographs......Conwy North Wales

Regards Neil

[Pug_XUD_KeenAmateur]

...further afield the Great Southern Railway in Buenos Aires has this example of the Lion Foundry's work

with what appears to be a 504 passing by, good timing !

[NewcastleFalcon]

with what appears to be a 504 passing by, good timing !

Hers a lovely 405 coupe dug up from my archives last May very desirable!

This falls into the "other French Stuff" category sub-category gorgeous 1970's Coupes



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Regards Neil

Regards Neil

[harryp]

the tree guys wanted £198 to cut this tree back.

That's how I amassed all my various tools. Problem is that they take up an awful lot of space now.

[NewcastleFalcon]

You may or may not know there is a brick wall at Beamish Museum, made of bricks stamped with the yard name, from brickworks across the north east.


Brickworks wall, Beamish Museum, 20 October 2007
Richard Corfield [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

I discovered to day through Geograph, the story of Cowan's Brickworks, for me quite fascinating, all the links are there from this geograph image. The bricks stamped Cowan appear all over the world from Guadaloupe Oregon, Alcatraz, and Hobart, to a Sugar factory in Japan

Detail of former reservoir wall, Blaydon Burn

© Copyright Andrew Curtis and
licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Regrads Neil

[Peter.N.]

I will look out for that when we go in September, do you know where about's it is?

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

I will look out for that when we go in September, do you know where about's it is?

Peter

I think it forms a shelter for the Tram stop at Home Farm.

Learning what I have today, I feel a mooch around Blaydon, on a treasure hunt for those Cowan bricks is on the cards. It doesn’t take much to amuse me

Regards Neil

[Peter.N.]

Thanks for that Neil, is that the one opposite the farm entrance or is that the colliery?

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

Thanks for that Neil, is that the one opposite the farm entrance or is that the colliery?

Peter

On the images it is described as the Home Farm Tram stop Peter so looks like the one I have put the orange ring around..

Regards Neil